1) Everyone is always complaining that they wish they had more time. Now you know where I’m going with this. Today is the 29th of February. Most years you don’t see today on the calendar. Yep, its a leap year where we have 366 days instead of just the measly 365 days. Therefore, today is a like a freebie. Take today to catch up on work or any of those other things that you just don’t have the time to-do normally. Heck, maybe you just need to catch up on your sleep. (Sounds good to me!). I guess unfortunately most of our bosses don’t see today as a “freebie” so in some ways its a bummer. I guess its really a “freebie” for the companies out there that get another day of work out of us (and for those on salary, no more pay). Sorry for bringing that up.
2) Today is Sadie Hawkins Day!!! So for all of my single friends out there, here’s your chance to change things up a bit. Ladies, feel free today to get your palms sweaty and rehearse in front of the mirror before calling up that special guy for a date tonight. Then you get to try and figure out how much money the night is going to cost and try to figure out (without asking mind you because you should just know) if he would prefer Mexican food or Chinese.
Guys, you get to sit by the phone all day and all night because she’s going to wimp out and not call. She’s decided its easier to go over to her friends place and rent a movie.
I’m on a little bit of a video thing here this week but this was a really cool prank done in Grand Central Station in NYC. Over 200 people just froze in place and stayed like that for 5 minutes. Beats the whole “What’s that on your shirt!” prank clear out of the water!!!
There is an innocence that one has when they are young. Alex, who is 7 years old now, has that innocence.
This morning while we were getting ready for church, Alex was asking about a letter opener that I have on my desk. Here was the conversation:
Alex: “Where did you get this?” (referring to the letter opener)
Me: “From my Grandfather.”
Alex: “Oh, yeah, the one who died when you were about my age.”
Me: “No, that was my other grandfather. This one died when I was younger.”
Alex: “You had two Grandfathers.”
Me: “Yep, just like you.”
Alex: “I have two grandfathers?!?!”
Me: “Yeah, you know red grandfather and blue grandfather.” (When he was younger, he differentiated his grandpas by the color of their cars) Alex: “No, I’m too young to have grandfathers. When I get old, I’ll have grandfathers but right now I just have Grandpas!”
While we are still doing full time work with eDOT, we are working on learning more and more German so that life is easier as we can talk to our neighbors, go to the store easier, etc.
Just wanted to share a couple of different online helps that might be good ways if you want to learn or work on your skills in a different language (and it doesn’t have to be German). Be sure to check out LiveMocha.com where you can learn, practice and share with others in this community of learning. It pretty neat how it works.
Also, check out MyHappyPlanet.com which is kinda like the “MySpace” for online language learning communities.
Ok, the title means two things:
There is an innocence that one has when they are young. Alex, who is 7 years old now, has that innocence.
