Back On!

G'day.....back on the blog after a lengthy absence. Short posting today to get myself reacquainted with this site an' stuff.....

Today I am promoting our church's "Run for the Rug" campaign. We are asking folks to participate in the Tallmadge Memorial Day 5K and Fun 1-Mile Run, as we are raising funds for carpet for our youth room and nursery areas. (Oh! Better tell the church's name! Tallmadge Alliance Church, Tallmadge Ohio!!)

Erica Smith and I are starting a get-ready class; this will begin the first Saturday in April. We'll go for one hour (I think it starts at 9:30 am) and this class will hopefully assist us in gaining confidence and endurance to run the 5K. (The class I took two years ago for this was called "Couch to 5K" if that tells you anything about me!!!)

Next posting, I'll tell you about my first 5K experience. What a joke!! I did survive it though.

p.s. If anyone needs a laugh (and I needed one last night), go to the library and pick up past issues of Consumer Reports. It's a good magazine but the reading can be tedious, especially all those rankings with the red dots. Whoa! Need my glasses for those! Anyway I'm not saying, read the magazine, (but read it if you so desire). Instead I'm saying...... go to the back page of the magazine as they have product "bloopers". People send in pictures of product packaging, advertisements, etc., with all kinds of errors and weird stuff. It had me in stitches last night. Tom said "you and I don't have exactly the same sense of humor" when I showed him what I was cackling about and he went, "huh".

Anyway one of my favorites is the picture of the "black hole award". This is when you buy a box of something in the store like pasta or healthy bars and you open up the package (good-sized box) and there lo and behold in the wayyyyy bottom is five small healthy bars or some pasta or something and the rest of the package is just......air.

My next favorite is the "complete salad" concept. The package will say "contains one complete meal" and it's some kind of big salad thing in a package, complete with bacon bits, cheese shred, croutons, dressing in a packet, plastic bowl, some chicken cut up for you........only read the fine print and it says "Add salad." Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The last one was touting the "Oregon Department of Educaton" ...."aren't you tired of incompetant educateors" or something like that. We were like, uh, yeah, we are tired of those.

More later......"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; new every morning; great is thy faithfulness, O Lord; great is thy faithfulness." Love, Lisa