I was trying to help Michael get his neck so it wouldn't hurt. I pressed on a spot to try and ... encourage the pain to go away. Unfortunately, it was more of a Vulcan-death-grip spot. Oops. As Michael yelped (well, it it weren't so manly, it would have been a yelp), I apologized and told him I was trying to do the "power point thing."

What I meant was "PRESSURE point." So we joked about where the mouse clicks would be.

Also, when we were eating at his folks' yesterday (and his brother and sister-in-law and nieces were there), Dad C asked at one point, in response to my sister-in-law(-in-law)'s declaration of loving cookie dough in a tub, "What's better than cookie dough in a tub?"

Chris and I, from different sides of the room, declare in unintentional unison, "Cookie dough in my MOUTH!"

Yes, I found where I fit in. Or at least they've overlooked my idiosyncrancies this long that it's completely habit by now.

Michael likes the pictures I draw on the chalkboard for Sunday School.
We'll take the story we're teaching and make it like a comic of stick figures (since that's what I draw best). Michael especially enjoys the dialogue I write. For instance, in the sotry of Ester, here are some key lines:

Mordecai: Ester, YOU should marry the king! You're pretty! And righteous!"
Ester: "But will the king want to marry me?"
*Flash to the kind offering Ester a flower and holding a ring, a la 'The Bachelor'*
King Ahasuerus: Ester, you're the best gal in the kingdom!
Ester: Wow! I'm a Jewish Princess! (but the king doesn't know I'm Jewish!)

In a vignette of Mordecai exposing a plot to kill Ahasuerus, I have the assassin declaring "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling Mordecai!"
(If you don't get it, you obviously have not watched enough of the old-school Scooby-Doo.)

I especially like my drawing of Haman eating at the banquet thrown by Ester. His jaw is dislocated as he *gobbles* and *snurfs* and realizs that he's "BUSTED!"

Final score? JEWS - SAVED! HAMAN - DEAD-ED!!

One reason I don't give up my calling even though I could (understandably so) with two infants?

I get to draw things like this. And get away with dialogue like Haman's line, "I think Mordecai's a punk and I hate him!" (Yeah, so it's not going to get me into the screenwriter's guild, but it's fun).

Other (big) reason? I get to be with my husband all day at church.

The not-so-cool-bit? I don't really have any friends of my peers at church, since I'm not in the women's class at the last hour of church.

But i get to be with Michael and a pretty decent class of 10 year-olds. And write/draw fun things. So it's okay.

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My mood right now is:

In my dreams, I'm pretty hot ... if I do say so myself. - 2006-10-25
I'm gonna kick the croup outta you!! - 2006-10-23
All I have to do is dream, dream, dream ... - 2006-10-20
(In which I talk in parentheses a lot ... oh wait, I'm doing it again!) - 2006-10-19
"Bitter, bitter.
I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart."

Stephen Crane - 2006-10-17

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