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Soooo, today's post is the embarrassing/klutz moments post. I've had several this past week, and felt so inclined to share.

Last Sunday started my week like all weeks should start. I'm a master at falling up stairs. I have fallen down them, (Take the time at my brother's house and the wipe out that had me limping for a day), but most of the time I fall up stairs. Go figure;) Our church is finally in our new building, but the stairs are a bit dangerous. They have a dangerous lip on them. Anyhow, as I was walking into church last week, in my classy, (totally dumb) heels, I caught my toe in on of the lips and started to tumble. I managed to ungracefully catch myself and grab the handrail for dear life. It's at this moment I look up and note a man from our church trying to hold in a snicker. His consolation: "I did that same thing, too". hehe, well if I'd been him I would have laughed too. I seriously think I could have won an America's most klutzy home video competition if they had one.

The next two moments all happened in one day--yesterday.
I was playing "Bad Grandpa" with my charges. Bad Grandpa is game we invented which basically is me or a poor, unsuspecting babysitter chasing rowdy kids up and down stairs while accusing them, in a VERY bad accent of some kind, that they are bad grandchildren. Grandpa, (me) then catches and tickles them until they are rescued by another "grandchild". I have often asked how they came about calling me grandpa, and they have no explaination. Anyhow, I was trying to catch Justin who was running in circles around the table, and his little sister somehow ran into me and shoved me into the china cabinet--hard. I'm amazed that I don't have a purple jaw line this morning. It was a very ungraceful moment in my nanny career.

Lastly--Jeanette and I were dropping off my car last night, and while stopped at a light I started making faces at her in my rearview mirror. She was in her car behind me, and having had a bad day; naturally, I thought I should cheer her up. So, I started jamming to my music, laughing and being a general idiot. I thought she could see me, and was reacting, so I kept it up. It was then that I felt eyes on me. I looked to my right and what should I see, but a guy in the neighboring lane pointing, laughing and raising his eyebrows at me. I quickly grabbed my cell and called Jeanette up. She informed me that she had not seen me at all. I chose not to look back at the guy who seriously must have thought I was out of my mind, and drove, fast when the light changed.

So, there you have it. I'm such a unique creation, and so felt the need to share some of my strangeness with you. Have great day on this rather springlike January day. Let's just hope I don't have more things to share at the end of this day..

Later!

Julie

A night in DC

It's a lovely, lazy Saturday afternoon, and it's supposed to reach 65 degrees here today, yesss!
Last night Jeanette and I met in DC for a night out "on the town". We met at Ruby Tuesdays, (I'm on this liver detox diet right now and so needed a place with a salad bar.) Anyhow, it's in the heart of Chinatown DC, and it was packed with fans eating a bite before the game at the MCI center across the street.
As we waited I was able to observe the stark differences in people that God had the creativity to make.
We sat for 10 minutes, and no one came by our table. (Please note that every table around us had been attended to.) We decided that for time's sake we would get salad, but still no one came. At 15 minutes Jeanette asked another waiter if someone might be able to come by, so we could at least order drinks. He assured us that someone would be by. When 20 minutes had come and gone we decided to leave in order to make our movie in time.

I was cool just leaving and eating later. After all, in my reasoning, they were busy, and so we needed to just leave it be. Let it go!

Jeanette, on the other hand, wanted to make sure that they knew that we were leaving and why. I tried to talk her out of it, being the sometimes wimpish peacemaker that I can be, but she was not to be swayed. She ended up telling the manager about it before the night was over. Please note that, during this interchange, I was literally hoping that the door I was leaning against would swallow me up.
We finally left, and she being the astute one that she is, noted that I was uncomfortable. She explained her reasoning: "The manager needs to know that his staff is not doing their job. If I was a manager, I would want to know." Savy?

So many personalities are so different, but in truth with out each one working together, people like me would be walked on even more often than I am now, and people like Jeanette would rule the world, hehe;)

Oh, so another funny story before I tell you about the movie. We were walking to our theater, and somehow these two really tall guys got between Jeanette and I. She kept walking, and I literally could not get around them; they took up most of the hallway. I was behind them jumping up and down trying to watch Jeanette, and finally I took off at dead run to get around them at catch up to her. As I was running I yelped, "I can't get to you!!", as dramtically as I could. I didn't look back to see their faces, but I think I'm safe to say that they found my craziness rather amusing.

So, we went to see the movie, "End of the Spear". It's based on the story of Nate Saint and the other four men who took the gospel to a remote tribe in South America. They did lose there lives there, but that's where the story really began. It's a beautiful retelling that had me in tears at several points. The one "downside" is that the natives show a LOT of skin. Granted, these actors were more covered than the real natives were, but it's something to be aware of before going in:) It's an amazing story of forgiveness really. One of the final scenes took my breath away. A man chooses to forgive the native who took the life of his father some 40 years before. It makes you think, and I'll leave it at that;)
I encourage you to check it out.

I'll type at you soon.

back to the East

Hey. I'm back in Virginia, and life has settled into it's normal pace as it were. I had such a blast at home this past Christmas. It was tough to settle back into life as usual, but I think I'm all good.

K, I've been sitting here for 5 minutes looking at this screen, and I can think of nothing creative to say. sigh...so, rather than typing random thoughts, I will just leave it at that for now.

Talk to you soon.