This made me giggle.

Dear Lord,

Help me to relax about insignificant details, beginning tomorrow at 7:41:23 a.m. EST.

Help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them are hypersensitive.

Help me to take responsibility for the consequences of my actions, even though they're usually not my fault.

Help me to not try to run everything - but, if you need some help, please feel free to ask me.

Help me to be more laid back, and help me to do it exactly right.

Help me to take things more seriously, especially laughter, parties, and dancing.

Give me patience, and I mean right now!

Help me not be a perfectionist. (Did I spell that correctly?)

Help me to finish everything I sta

Help me to keep my mind on one thing ... oh, look, a bird ... at a time.

Help me to do only what I can, and trust you for the rest. And would you mind putting that in writing?

Keep me open to others' ideas, misguided though they may be.

Help me follow established procedures. Hey, wait ... this is wrong ...

Help me slow down andnotrushthroughwhatido.

Thank you, Lord.

Amen

Your input requested:

Best movies you've seen lately? Anyone? I need some movie ideas.

(And go ahead and skip the foreign language artsy films. When it comes to movies I have shockingly bad taste...I actually think Will Ferrell is really funny)

Or, just share your favorite movies of all time and maybe there will be some I haven't seen.

(p.s. Mine are Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, and Thank You for Smoking, as a reference point)

What is Inspiring Me Today

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown

Glad I lost after all.

The Mister and I are in a book club. We get together once a month with friends and laugh and eat and drink wine and talk about a book. It's fun for people like us, who are dorky and yet social.

This month the book selected was A Prayer for Owen Meany. And boy, it is a big book. I mean, I don't usually get too intimidated by length but this is a VERY big book. With tiny font size and teensy margins.

I thought about lazing around and not reading it. Then The Mister read it, and proclaimed it AMAZING. That's how he said it, just like that - "this book is AMAZING".

But I still wasn't going to read it. Too long, and I have a book list as long as my arm that I want to get to.

Then, two weeks ago The Mister and I were having a spirited discussion about the word placement of a few lines from the TV show The Office. And we made a bet that we were each right about the exact quote. And we rewatched the episode, and of course I lost (was there any doubt?).

What did we bet? You guessed it - that I would have to read Owen Meany.

And you know what? It was seriously AMAZING.

This is why I live in Arizona

Yesterday morning: Flagstaff. 30 degrees. Irritatingly cold. Lots of dirty snow.

Yesterday afternoon (as pictured): Phoenix. The Valley of the Sun. 68 degrees. Sunny. Lots of time spent out by the pool.