November 2011
2 posts
“How many true friends do I really have?
How many friends would lay down their...”
– Father John Riccardo
“Our jobs as Christians is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the...”
– Father Larry Richards
August 2011
1 post
“God took the initiative and made peace with His enemies. Think about this:
The...”
– NGEN Radio
June 2011
2 posts
Women are so smart. The following quote is from a seventeen-year-old girl that called in to the show “The Doctor Is In” on Ave Maria Radio. May God bless her richly with more of Him for wanting Him most above all else.
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“The thing is that I want God to be number one in our relationship because I believe that … two people together is not a relationship unless...
A Prayer for Fathers
God our Father, we give you thanks and praise for fathers young and old.
We pray for young fathers, newly embracing their vocation;
May they find the courage and perseverance to balance work, family, and faith in joy and sacrifice.
We pray for our own fathers who have supported and challenged us;
May they continue to lead in strong and gentle ways.
We remember fathers around the world whose...
March 2011
2 posts
Coworker: You look like an Easter bunny.
Me: *Walks away*
Me: ... See? If you had just a bit more patience, we would've been able to do this without you yelling at me even once.
Coworker: But I like yelling at you - it's so fun!
February 2011
3 posts
“You see, the Cross unites not only the friends of our Lord, the Cross unites...”
– Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Don't use "reckon" in a sentence or you may lose...
[11: 11]
Me: Happy Friday Eve!
[11: 12]
Fellow small group member: happy friday man!
[11: 12]
Fellow small group member: eve*
[11: 13]
Me: Thanks, dude. How was small group?
[11: 13]
Fellow small group member: good man, sorry you couldnt be there
[11: 13]
Me: No need to be sorry, man.
[11: 15]
Me: I'm booked most Wednesdays throughout the year, but I'll definitely come by when the plan falls through.
Any neato conversations take place that I missed out on?
[11: 16]
Fellow small group member: we did chapter 5, talked about prayer and stuff
[11: 16]
Me: I love how "and stuff" captures the gist of most of almost everything in conversations.
[11: 17]
Fellow small group member: ha ha, of course
[11: 17]
Me: "So what'd y'all do?"
"Stuff."
[11: 19]
Fellow small group member: we talked about repeticious prayer and how its pointelss
[11: 19]
Fellow small group member: we were on that tangent for a while
[11: 19]
Me: Yeah ... repeating something for the sake of repeating has less than no value.
[11: 20]
Fellow small group member: but like praying for every meal, if you say the same thing you might as well not pray
[11: 21]
Me: Hm. I'm not sure if that's entirely true. I met someone that said they don't always say grace before meals because they don't want it to become a habitual thing.
What if the underlining question of repeating something is whether one's heart is in it or not?
[11: 22]
Me: Are we really grateful for the blessings God give us? Do we really want the food that we're about to eat to nourish our bodies and minds to do more for His glory and kingdom? Or is it just mindless babble to get to the first bite.
[11: 23]
Fellow small group member: but i think if your heart it truly in it youll say something new every time
[11: 23]
Fellow small group member: no matter how much your heart is in it, repetition looses feeling
[11: 24]
Me: Really? -_-
I've lost count (never had it in the first place, actually) of the number of times I've prayed the Our Father / Lord's Prayer, but the more I pray it nowadays, the deeper I get into the depths of how Jesus wanted us to approach it.
[11: 25]
Fellow small group member: im just saying i think there is a fine line
[11: 25]
Me: Yeah. Repeating for the sake of babbling really is pointless. But then again, wouldn't you say it's pointless to come up with something new for the sake of not wanting to be repetitive?
[11: 27]
Fellow small group member: its possible
[11: 31]
Me: I reckon it's much like expressing "I love you" or "Thank you." There's superlatives and synonyms to try to switch things a bit, but the majority of the time, it's the simplicity of the words uttered so often that tend to mean much more when you can hear the person's heart in their voice or words.
[11: 31]
Me: I totally ought to give myself cool points for using "reckon" in a sentence. ^_^
[11: 32]
Fellow small group member: i say negative points for using reckon
[11: 32]
Me: How darest thou!
[11: 32]
Fellow small group member: well hate to cut this short but i got a dentist appt
Me: Have fun!!!
[11: 35]
Meebo Message: Small group member is offline
A Question That Made My Brain Hurt.
16: 48 PM
Coworker: will BB ?' s bring you by?
16: 48 PM
Me: Rephrase?
I read that as "Will BlackBerry questions bring you by?" but that doesn't sound right.
16: 53 PM
Me: OhHhHhHh.
"Will a question about the BlackBerry be a reason enough for me to come by your cube?"
16: 53 PM
Coworker: :)
16: 53 PM
Me: Dang it, [coworker's name]. You made my brain hurt.
January 2011
8 posts
The Blue Pill That Wasn't For Me To Take.
Me sounding frantic: Um ... do you have any food or something I can hide that in to take it?? I'm not very good at swallowing pills.
LabCorp lady: This isn't for you — it's to dilute the water so people can't cheat the drug screen test. You'd turn blue if you ate it!
Me sounding relieved: Oh! Whew!
When I was still very young, a teacher asked me what I did on holidays when I was home. I answered timidly, “I often hide in a corner of my room, where I can shut myself in with bed curtains, and then I think.”
“But what do you think about?” she asked laughingly.
“I think about God, the shortness of life, about eternity — in a word, I think.” I know now...
Although it’s only echoes of Your reflections that I’ve caught glimpses of, there’s something about You that seems all so familiar to me - it’s like You’ve been my forever best friend whom I’ve always known. I feel my heart flutter like butterflies in my stomach when I think of You, and I want to leap for joy whenever I hear reflections of Your voice echoing...
For the chance, honor, opportunity, and privilege to be in the presence of and spending time with the lover of my soul, I’ll travel as far and keep going on for as long as he wants me to. Not even death will be able to keep me from the one that I heart because he loved us first.
Today, like most people, we realize our limits in hundreds of ways, yet somehow we are unlimited in our desire for higher life. We face an abundance of choices but cannot have them all. Painfully we do what we detest, and do not do what we should desire. We live with inner conflict and struggle.
- Alfred McBride, O.Praem.
I do not trust to my own merits for I have none, I trust in him who is virtue and holiness itself. It is he alone who, pleased with my poor efforts, will raise me to himself and by clothing me with his merits, make me a saint.
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“In our relationship with God we are very small children. We always will be. There is no need to be anything else. On the contrary it is essential that we never try to be anything else.”
You married yet?
Billy: hows your time with your folks going?
Billy: you married yet?
Me: Hahaha.
December 2010
1 post
Apparently I'm not the right person.
former coworker: give me a shout
me: Yo, person that drove straight through Georgia without stopping by Alpharetta.
former coworker: lol I was beat man
me: Ki Ku would've energized you!
former coworker: lol
me: I saw your IM from ...
me: ten minutes ago. What's up?
former coworker: wrong person
former coworker: lol
me: Oh. Man. Way to make me feel like the wrong person.
former coworker: lmao
former coworker: shut up
November 2010
1 post
Typical work IM conversation with yours truly.
Coworker: ack..
Me: Quack.
Coworker: i cant find the NG script you told me about
Coworker: to find table names by looking up a like %blah%
Me: information_schema.columns
Coworker: you rock
Me: I prefer paper or scissors - more useful.
Coworker: lol
October 2010
1 post
Yogli Mogli to the rescue!
Me: Something came up - can't make it to []'s last day luncheon thingamajig. She said she nor you would dock cool points from me if I'm a no-show whether I have any or not. ^_^
Coworker: i will not dock cool points since i saw you love yogli mogli which i also love
September 2010
4 posts
Innocence is a trait worth fighting for and...
Coworker to me in IM: its been nice working with you..stay innocent, dawg.
Modern Day Jonah: Free Will Versus God
Exhausted. Pooped. Wiped out. Worn out.
That’s how tired and weary my soul is feeling after wrestling with God for the past few days. I want to throw in the towel and call it quits and yield to him, but my free will is demonstrating to be far more persistent and stubborn than I am. Screaming out loud in exasperated frustration while listening to “Scream” by Thousand Foot...
In the context of trying to do the Almighty’s bidding and following him despite not knowing what’s around the next bend and corner, does expressing to him, “God, I really hope you know what you’re doing” question his omniscience, or can it be considered to be an expression of faith and a plea made in hope and trust that he knows best?
What's wrong with me? Why haven't I dived in...
What’s wrong with me? Learning to come to grips with the realization that some of the deepest desires of my heart and soul aren’t meant to be on this side of eternity and heaven’s door as hard as I may try and as much as I may want hurts much more than words can describe and makes me want to corner to curl up into a ball and cry. However, if the only cost and price that my...
August 2010
6 posts
Questions for my maker and the lover of my soul
God, why am I still here? I really thought you would have called me to come home by now. Have you forgotten that I am still here? Have you not noticed that I’m not there with you on the other side of eternity in heaven yet? How much longer must I wait to be with you, Jesus? Lover of my soul, when will it be my turn to spend forever with you?
God, I don’t understand. How can it be … how is it possible that someone like you can love me as much as you do and be as good to me like you are? I sometimes think you forget I’m a sinner that’s as worse they come and that I deserve no more than to be cast into and damned into hell forever. But yet you choose to love me still and shower me with your goodness, graces, and...
Trying to hide from God while playing...
God is extremely good at playing hide-and-seek and finding me apparently. What the heck … I can’t hide from him even in the deepest depths of my heart and soul! He’s good. He’s very good. He’s extremely good.
Jesus, all I ever really wanted has always been you. Won’t you become the sole desire and yearning of my entire existence once more that I pursue after with all that I have passionately?
All of my desires and dreams … each one of my hopes, longings, and passions … every one of my wants and yearnings from the deepest of depths of my heart … … …
Lord, please...
If Français is a romantic language, eighth grade...
Me: Oh no, I've been betrayed.
Me: I've been et tu Brutéd. What the heck.
Coworker: Eww, French.
Me: Latin!
Coworker: Good.
Coworker: French is gross.
Me: I heart Français! It's such a romantic language that I got a D in.
Coworker: Eww.
Coworker: French is an ugly language.
Me: Aw. You're being mean to the language Belle spoke in Disney's Beauty And The Beast.
Coworker: Spanish is way mo betta.
Me: That movie's like the primary reason why I decided to try out French. Then it was because I wanted to be a romantic. It turned out I wasn't the latter after the teacher let me pass with a D out of pity.
Coworker: I took a few years of Spanish and one of Latin.
Me: I'm tumblring the foreign language part about our IM conversation because I think it's amusing.
Coworker: Sweet.
1 tag
Starbucks == mean! ~_~
What in the world, man. I like free stuff and I like the smoothie thing they have, but this is just a mean and twisted way to go about offering a free drink! - I don’t think I like Starbucks very much - they aren’t very nice! They sent me this postcard thingamajig reminding me that I’m about to get older (why would anyone want to be mean like that?? T_T). On the same postcard...
July 2010
3 posts
I seriously lack that virtue thingamajig they call...
The emotion "(F)" mentioned below turns out to be an image of a rose when looking it up in Windows Messenger's Help section.
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me: - Login for: [removed] | -- Instance_name: [removed] | -- Username: [removed] | -- Password: [removed]
coworker says: thanks Hae your the best!:D
me: Thanks for the reminder!
coworker says: (F)
Coworker called me fat! T_T
coworker: How was your weekend?
me: It was fantabulously wicked-awesome; thank you very much. Yours?
coworker: It was good, finished up about 95% of the baby stuff.
me: Awesome. What else needs to be done?
me: Other than the little one arriving.
coworker: Put the car seat bases in the cars, wash the bottles, and wash/put a little bit more clothes away.
me: Neato.
me: Great job on the room. I'm hiring y'all to do mine.
coworker: Went on a shopping spree to gather the remainder of the stuff we needed.
coworker: LoL ok.
coworker: We will take finished pictures when it's done or you can swing by when it's finished.
me: Can I test out the bed?
coworker: LoL
coworker: No.
me: I'll do it for free - no charge!
coworker: You won't fit and it's not supposed to support that much weight.
coworker: So, no. =P
me: Are you trying to imply that I'm fat!? Hmph!
coworker: I'm implying you weigh more than a baby.
me: == fat!
coworker: LoL
coworker: W/e you say.
me: Heads up: This IM conversation excerpt will be my newest tumblr post.
coworker: If you insist.
me: I'm feeling Roaster.
coworker: hmm.
coworker: Possibly.
coworker: Lets revisit the topic in an hour.
coworker: Just finishing breakfast makes it tough to decide on lunch choices.
me: You may want to consider skipping breakfast to make such choices muchos easier then. ^_^
The IM conversation with a wickedly-awesome lady...
me: It'd be embarrassing if me giving a thumbs-up on a Taylor Swift song on Pandora in the past is the reason that it's playing another one by her now - "Forever & Always" this time. I like it, though. I think I'll thumbs-up this one.
coworker: HAHA yeah it's a good one
me: I promise I'm not paying attention to the lyrics though. I just like the sound of the instruments.
me: I even think it'd be corny for me to like it because of the lyrics. I think her songs are way too innocent for me. ~_~
coworker: haha i think they're perfect for u :)
me: Haha. There may be moments when they are, but I like being pretending to be a mature grown-up sometimes.
coworker: aw thats stupid. never do it :)
coworker: jk
me: I actually agree. I can tell you from personal experience that it's not very fun.
me: It's fun to make people think I'm twenty-eight sometimes though. But it's reeeally difficult at times. ~_~
coworker: yeah i bet it is
coworker: i thought u were sooooooooo young when i met u
me: Please say you thought I was younger than you - that'd so make my decade!
coworker: heck yeah i did
coworker: seriously thought u were like 21 or 22
me: w00t!!!
me: That follow-up comment made my century.
me: ... Wait ... am I really that immature!? Hmph!
coworker: no no
coworker: not immature
coworker: just look young and act so innocent is all
me: I shall strive to be the latter - hopefully the former also - when I grow up. ^_^
Like them, please use me for your glory, too.
It’s so easy to forget sometimes that I’m not qualified to be even the last person that should be considered to be in control of this life that I’ve been granted to live. However, it’s like second-nature sometimes when the first set of questions I want to ask God are “Why? How could you let this happen? Why did you let this happen?” when something bad or what...
June 2010
4 posts
I love the hearing God’s voice in the sounds of the gently rolling thunder. I heart the way it puts my soul at easeful peace, and sensing that he’s drawing even more closer and nearer as the sounds get louder bit by bit gives me the feeling of butterflies fluttering about in my stomach. <333
HaeMoment_20100621: New password requirement:...
This is actually the second HaeMoment of the day but I wanted to share it since I thought it’s way funnier than the other one that happened earlier. It’d have been more awesome if I sent the note without noticing the blunder, but thank goodness that God helped me catch the mistake and correct it! I think the client would’ve gotten a good laugh out of it, too, though. ^_^
I...
May 2010
3 posts
This particular soul-search is excruciatingly painful compared to the ones I’ve journeyed before. How did I let things get this bad? How did I miss things as though I’m blind … how did I not see this coming from miles out? I should have seen it coming! Oh well – I suppose it’s useless to wonder about such questions as I’m here and I should try to find a way out of here to get back on track...
20100512
I don’t understand. Really, I don’t. How is it that God would bless and love me so much more than my imagination can even begin to fathom, SO much more than I deserve?
He blessed me with the amazing gift of getting to meet and converse with a most amazing lady tonight when I stopped by the local Family Christian Store to pick up a copy of Tenth Avenue North’s newest release...
\ˈhāərk\
I didn’t realize how much it irked me when people flick off their cigarette ashes and toss out the bud outside the car windows while driving till I came up with a word for it: “Hae[i]rk”; pronunciation: \ˈhāərk\; function: noun; definition: someone or something that irks me.
Seriously though, I don’t think car manufacturers include ash trays in vehicles so the cigarette...
April 2010
3 posts
Getting Back To The Basics Of How To Live
Has your heart ever felt so alone and cold that it was as if you were on planet Pluto by yourself? (That’s right, I’m old-school and still consider Pluto as a planet in our solar system consisting of nine planets. ^_^) Unfortunately, this is familiar territory as I’ve been here a few times before, and time and time again I thought I left it for good. I must have been holding...
HaeMoment: 20100420 edition: Um ... how does Apple...
Nevermind - I figured it out! ^_^
Not that I’m bragging or anything like that (because I’m not - really!) but it took me like fifteen minutes to figure out how to open up the case housing an iPod nano (I didn’t see the peel sticker with the arrow till like ten minutes in) and pop it out of the thing holding it in place (I missed out on the illustration that shows how the thing...
A Plea From Amongst The Deepest Of Yearnings
Truth be told, I’ve been feeling an aching emptiness for quite some time. Attempting to describe it leaves nothing better than a mere “it’s almost like an empty void deep within the depths of my heart and soul’s caverns.” I know, and I agree that the description is quite a pitiful illustration from someone that claims to enjoy painting with words, but this...
March 2010
3 posts
HaeMoment: 20100326 - How did I not see this...
I picked up a TomTom so I wouldn’t get lost on the way to Georgia when I moved here in 2007. Close to having owned the thing for three years, I finally notice the selection “Postcode” to be able to look up addresses via zip code whether I couldn’t find the city in the city’s name in the “Street and house number” selection or what not. Talk about being...
Email thread excerpt from work. Would've been...
From: Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 15:08 PM To: Subject: RE: Microwave
The microwave tends to work better when it’s plugged in…. the microwave is fine.
From: Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:20 PM To: Subject: Microwave
Apparently the microwave just stopped working.
Rand0mness
I walk through the doors and down the long hall winding towards your majestic throne. Having only heard of you but not remembering if I’ve ever seen you face-to-face, my heart beats stutteringly as I draw closer to you since I don’t know what to expect - why have you summoned me? Have I done something so wrong that news of my wrongdoing have reached your ears?
Your glory shines so...
February 2010
4 posts
This is starting to get old, yo.
Among my responsibilities at work include initiating a monthly task for one of our clients like on the third weekend. When the task was transitioned to me, I was told it takes up to eighteen hours to complete, and this estimated duration proved true for the first year I did it. Fast-forward to late 2009 / 2010 and I’m still doing the thing, and mysteriously, the time it takes for the thing...
I promise this was an innocent typo and that my...
Me: "UPDATE glob_disputes SET amt_lust ..."
Coworker: Bad Hae!
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Pretty wicked typo to make as the second SQL statement I type to kick off the week though, no? ~_~