So what happens when a church’s trailer gets stolen – with ALL their stuff in it?
Do they join the neighborhood watch and start fighting crime more than ever? Or do they forgive and invite the thieves to dinner? What do you think your church would have done?
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Got this from an e-mail… it’s a cool trick, but it’s basically just a simple math problem.
It takes less than a minute.
Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out.
This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to
go out to eat. (More than once but less than 10) or you can just pick any number between 1 and 9
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold). or to make the problem work 😉
3. Add 5.
4. Multiply it by 50.
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757. If you haven’t, add 1756.
6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number.
The first digit of this was your original number (How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week (or the random number you picked.)
The next two numbers are:
YOUR AGE (oh yes, it is!).
THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND!
a. I can’t remember much about Friday night. I know we did something but I don’t remember what… ah yes. Subway in Waxahachie and the “wonderful smiling faces of the employees whom you can just tell by watching them love to be there” – yeah right. There’s just something about many of the folks who work at local fast food places that annoys the heck out of me. You can obviously tell they don’t want to be there and they don’t want you to be there either. I do believe there are 3 exceptions though – Chick-Fil-A in Waxahachie, What-A-Burger in Red Oak and Subway in Glenn Heights.
b. Slept in on Saturday
c. Laurie went shopping with her mom for goodies for the house
d. I was worried when I got the text message, “I’m spending all your hard earned money” knowing we had just ordered three more pallets of sod for our backyard.
e. Luckily my life is a great shopper and purchased over $300 worth of stuff for around $50
f. I stayed home and watched UT loose to OU and listened to UMHB cream HSU
g. My sister Kara and her hubby Tim came for dinner
h. Our dogs enjoyed chasing each other around the living room over and over again
i. Some mysterious poo ended up on the kitchen tile while we were all playing a game at the kitchen table
j. Went to encounter Sunday morning – enjoyed Brian’s message about the masks we wear and how they keep us from Godlikeness
k. Went to Mesquite and enjoyed Olive Garden for lunch with family for Laurie’s brother’s birthday
l. Had brownies for dessert at Laurie’s parents
m. Came home and got really mad at the dog for not listening and constantly needing to run and jump and lick and claw
n. Feel like I took it out on Laurie not the dog
o. Left for entry and felt really bad for being short with Laurie – made sure to apologize via text messaging and when I came back home and will admit here publicly that I’m still sorry for taking anything out on her
p. Enjoyed entry, came home, blogged and went to bed
q. Woke up this morning, still frustrated with the dog but feeling better about the week ahead
r. Still madly in love with my life and that just becomes clearer and clearer everyday
Tami, Brian and Jen
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
Had the siblings/friends over for dinner tonight at Casa de Blundell. We had a great time. It was a random meal with everyone bringing some of their favorites.
The menu included spaghetti, taco soup, salad, Chick-Fil-A nuggets, a veggie tray, chips and dips and cookies.
Kathryn also went all the way to Russia and brought back some Russian chocolate and coffee (we haven’t opened the coffee yet).
To see all the photos, as well as a few older ones from this month click here.
We played some Boxers and Briefs, TV Scene It, & Apples to Apples before everyone headed home just before midnight.
49 minutes later, the dishes are done and Laurie and I are heading to bed. Good times.
We weren’t sure this month’s dinner club would come to fruition with the sudden horrible nasty swelling Poison Ivy rash I had this week (mmm that sounds appetizing) – but with the offensive steroids I took Friday evening and Saturday morning we figured what the heck – let’s do it.
We had a great time with friends from encounter.
Brian and Heather came, along with James and Mary and Jose and Sally.
We had a great meal full of Mediterranean flare.
Laurie and I made Fattouch and Kufta, as well as white rice to put under the Kufta.
Brian and Heather brought a Roasted Chicken with vegetables (I know it had a much fancier name than that but I’ll have to let Brian or Heather remind me of it).
Jose and Sally made a pasta dish with spinach and cheese.
And James and Mary made “Chocolatosophogus” with “Greek coco.”
We also had a great time after dinner with a rousing game of ImagineIf and “Big Bubba” aka “Big Booty.”
It’s amazing what you can find out about people through a game like ImagineIf and even Big Bubba – maybe even more so than a Myspace survey.
Heather took the win on the last round of ImagineIf and won the “Winners Sombrero.”
Oddly enough though, the sombrero is still sitting in our living room. I wonder what that means?
Of course all the photos are online at Flickr – so be sure and check them out. Although without Josh and Shalyn snapping so many photos this time we ended up with a few less than last time. But everyone got their moment to shine.
Next month we’re looking to do a cajun cuisine night and hoping for some really good gumbo so be on the lookout for a possible invite.
Anyone else doing a dinner club at their place – or at a friends? Let us know what theme’s you’ve used and how they turned out.
Well, if the new steroids I’m taking for poison ivy start kicking in as they’re expected, we’re still planning to host our 2nd monthly Casa de Blundell Dinner Club tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night’s theme is “My Big Fat Mediterranean Dinner.”
I’m looking forward to it. I’m a big fan of Greek, Lebanese and Mediterranean meals. It will be fun to see what everyone comes up with.
We’re planning to fix Fattoush (one of my favorite meals in Nigeria) as well as Kofta – another favorite while I was in Nigeria.
Funny how my favorite meals in the middle of Africa were Lebanese 😉 although I did love the red stew we had during several meals.
We’ll let you know how everything turns out – as long as the steroids kick in.