tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206391802011-04-21T23:55:03.943-04:00My life is in a constant state of redefinition, as I strive to live more deliberately and be more true to myself & to God on a daily basis. I'm an information junkie who is constantly reassessing. ReDeFining is just part of that process....Jen.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00924790992018351144noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20639180.post-46554342769170620782008-09-13T09:08:00.003-04:002008-09-13T09:26:05.260-04:00

Well hey there!I've given this blog address to a few people recently, knowing full well that it hasn't been updated in over a year. So, here's a brief update. And while I can't promise that I'll update more frequently, at this point, I do at least intend to.So, since my last post, I not only have become vegetarian, I've become vegan. Luke is vegan, too, and Lauren is a lacto-vegetarian,

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Since school got out, I've had some time to educate myself about organic food/nutrition, as I was contemplating in my last post. I bought a few new cookbooks, read "Plenty", a book about eating local, began stocking my pantry with things I had previously never heard of (Bragg liquid aminos, agave nectar, etc.) & started doing weekly grocery shopping at a small farmer's market.We have the state

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Last time we went to Oriental, we stopped at a little store in New Bern called "Bear Essentials". They sell organic clothes & natural beauty products. One of the owners started telling me about this line of products that cured her rosacea - Dr. Hauschka's line of skin care. Since I have rosacea & the medicine I was using stung my face, I was interested and bought a few samples.Used to be, if I

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I've spoken with a few moms lately about homeschooling, and just read a comment on one of my favorite blogs, seeking information about unschooling. Since I've been meaning to write more in my blog again, this seemed like a good opportunity to do that.We have been homeschooling for 8 years now, and don't really unschool, but we aren't school-at-homers, either. We do what works for us at the time

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Again, I apologize for being such a blogslacker! The most recent post (Green Christians Unite) was written the day after Christmas. I think I didn't post it because I wanted to include a link to the article I mentioned.So - I have found in the past month since I wrote the last post that there are more Green Christians than I had thought, which is so reassuring! One of the ways I found that out is

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Well, I just discovered that not only am I in a minority, being a green Christian, but that my motives and effectiveness are in question because I don't believe in evolution.It was a bumpy road for me to arrive at this position, since I have a degree in biology from a public university, but it's true - I'm a Creationist.I never questioned evolution until the year we started homeschooling and

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I tried buying from a local organic farm today. Problem was, I guess, that they really aren't local enough. I ended up driving for almost an hour, then waiting for another hour for the delivery. Then I paid a small fortune for a few stewing hens. The sweet potatoes they were supposed to have didn't arrive. It's probably a good thing, though, since the hens about broke me, and sweet potatoes are

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Guess what?!!Fraidy came home tonight! After having been gone 4 days, she showed up on our front porch today in excellent shape! She looks better than ever! She just needed a retreat, I guess!

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Fraidy lived here before we did, or actually next door. Her owners kept her food in their crawl space, and she used to come get me to feed her when I was outside. I don't think the neighbors minded. They didn't pay much attention to her. When they moved, they left her. We started feeding her in our garage. She got stuck in the new neighbors' crawl space a few times before she realized that

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(Pulled this post out of my drafts - started it a long time ago & never finished - sorry!)Lately, as I've been decluttering, I've been getting inspiration from various blogs my sister sent to me as she clears her space. Recently, she sent me a link to a blog by a young woman in Iowa whose family has downsized from a lovely little home into an adorable apartment in town. Reading her post(Walk

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So, I was doing some online research, looking for library automation software. I decided to look on technorati & see if I could find any more personal opinions than the ones I was finding by searching Google. Page 2 of my search results led me to my own blog, which was quite, quite neglected.So, I have a few minutes before I go see "One Night With the King" with some ladies from my Sunday

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I couldn't remember my password, and the Blogger help on that was somewhat unhelpful, as it directed me to a link that didn't work, along with instructions as to how to reset my browser if the link didn't work! Well, fortunately, I have a fairly limited number of passwords that I recycle, and one of them worked before the program got suspicious of me for trying things out, and here I am.News item

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Wow - it has been a while since I wrote anything here! Sorry about that! So, I got accepted to UA, but not to their online program. They had over 300 applicants for 45 spots! I've turned in a new app to NCCU in Durham, which has a good public library program. I missed the deadline for fall admissions, but may still get in with rolling admissions. We'll see.Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out how

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Hey, life hasn't settled down much, but there's always hope! Summer's right around the corner & this year, I have another driver to help get everyone where they need to go.The good news is that my application in it's entirety has been presented to the Admissions committee at the School of Library & Information Studies. They hope to have made all their decisions for the online program by the

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Hi!After a long hiatus, here I am! Sorry about all the silence, this has been an extraordinarily busy few months! Things have settled down considerably now - I finished both corporate and personal taxes, finished a big reimbursement package for the state of Virginia, got everything submitted for my grad school application, and my class is almost over. R's spring break started Friday, and since

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I sure know how to have a good weekend! Most weekends lately have been spent completing assignments for my class. This weekend, though, we had a little reprieve from that, although next week we have two assignments due at once. So how did I spend my weekend off? Doing our corporate taxes, of course! With the help of previous years' returns, tax accounting software & my sister the CPA, I

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Well, I got some e-mails from SF & she had been looking at my Dreamweaver pages, not my original HTML coded pages. So she offered 'profound apologies', said I had done a 'wonderful job' and changed my grade to a 70/70.Whew!Thanks for all the support Roy, Patrick, Mom & especially Jenika (who had helped me figure out what to do about the problem before it rectified itself).OK, now I get to watch

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I am so, so SO SO angry right now!! I worked for an entire weekend making the websites I mentioned in the last post. They have now been edited in Dreamweaver, but the first time I submitted them, I did it ALL in HTML using NoteTab Pro. It took forever & I spent hours and hours and hours making the pages because I was having fun with it, and I wanted them to look good.So, my professor has

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Pandora.com is a "make your own radio station" site. You tell it a few songs or artists you like & it picks out similar stuff to play for you. You can refine your choices & tell it other artists to add, or tell it you don't like a song it picked. The more input you give it, the better the songs represent your tastes. The best thing, though, is that you can find a lot of new artists that have

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Life has been so full that I'm having trouble coming up with the time and the energy to post here! I realized over the weekend that since early January, I have picked up about 20 hours of new activities and only dropped about 3. The time that I do have free now is likely to be spent far from the computer, since that's where about 30 hours of my week are spent by necessity. I just read a post

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I always think there will be more later.I've thought that long enough that I'm beginning to think I'm wrong.I thought there would be more later 8 years ago when, embarking on an exciting but very brief career in real estate, I ran up enough debt on child care & an appropriate wardrobe that we actually lost money by my working.I thought there would be more later yesterday when I rushed out of my

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In honor of my nephews' visit, we got our blocks & Brio trains out of the attic & put them in the living room (where my dulcimer's supposed to be!). Since my sister & her kids left, though, my kids have continued playing with the toys. Big L (14) has been building tall towers & Little L (almost 10) has been knocking them down. Today, Big L made a huge elaborate structure & was obviously

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Assignment #2 is complete and submitted. Tomorrow, I will start Assignment #3 wherein we are to critique two web sites according to specified design and usability criteria. How will I ever choose which sites to use?! There are some amazing sites out there! The official JK Rowling site, for example, is very appealing. This site is also very well designed. Contrast those with this page, last

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My 16 year old daughter was trying to convince me to let her go to a concert at The Brewery with a bunch of friends. 'It's an indie show', she said, 'not metal or punk or anything'. Her 14 year old brother, trying to be supportive, said 'yeah, they wear sweaters'. So that settles it, don't ya think?

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I've been trying to figure out this procrastination thing. It's definitely gotten better since I discovered the root of it all, but it still needs improvement. I've discovered that I don't procrastinate when I am in charge. When I am doing what I want to do, even though it is difficult, I have no trouble at all getting started, or even finishing. It's when someone else's expectations are

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A few things I learned (or re-learned) this weekend:If you go to an indoor swim meet, do not wear a sweater. If possible, take ear plugs, and a towel for the bleachers.It is possible to beat your best swimming time even if your goggles fall off when you dive in. (Good job, V!)A four year old boy's legs may get tired from jumping on a trampoline, but that won't stop him from running around the

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Today I:did a 'medium' sudoku puzzle in record timepondered just intonationhelped Little L memorize John 3:16 (using index cards of course)worked a bunch of word problems involving kumquats and watermelonstook Little L to a caning class (that's polymer clay, not chairs)got a free 1 1/2 hour calligraphy lesson (and was told I had a gift!)got McD's drive through for my kids pulled hundreds of books

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Big L has bass guitar lessons, Little L has piano, and I have hammered dulcimer all in the same afternoon! Fortunately not all at the same time, although we have all played together. Not a good mix, really. Big L's learning the Nashville pattern method - a good way to pick out new tunes. His teacher is great - this young energetic AG worship leader. (You can hear him here) I think I'd pay him

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I got a phone call this morning from my mother-in-law in St. Croix. She said she's tired of having fun! She's ready to go back to Vermont (where they have an apple orchard) and do something productive. She's sitting on her balcony as we talk, looking at the blue waters of the Caribbean and longing for her trees.I, on the other hand, would love to have a bit more fun! I've been wanting a trip to

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I was so busy yesterday lamenting the deterioration of Christian credibility that I forgot to mention something. The entire time I was singing the special music (translate: solo) during the offeratory, my kneecaps were quivering. Jumping up and down. This has happened to me only once before. Unfortunately, it was recently enough that I'm wondering if this is a new trend, something I can just

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The things they are 'teaching' in college these days. Did you know that the Chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-CH describes himself as a "happy agnostic" and has written a book claiming that the Bible is full of mistakes and intentional alterations? This man is teaching "Introduction to New Testament" to kids fresh out of their parent's homes & churches.I ask you - if you want

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We can't even imagine such a place: over 2 million square miles fully illuminated at one time. no crime, no suffering, no evil. everyone is fully satisfied and wants for nothing. a place decorated by the hand of God. streets of gold, gates of pearl. all races and tongues unified. Holy.There we will worship God eternally; serve Him tirelessly with joy, gratitude and no possibility of failure;

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Seen today in the canned fruits aisle: pineapple rings sweetened with Splenda. Will people think they are diet pineapples?This is a strange place we live in, folks.

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Yesterday, I saw a pink crabapple tree blooming. It's closing in on 60 degrees again today. This has been a really warm January. Even with the sun shining and the sky a bright Carolina blue, though, it looks bleak in the woods behind our house. A downy woodpecker hops up a tree trunk & a squirrel runs down another, a slight breeze blows brown withered leaves still hanging on to their branches.

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Busy day, yesterday. I'll just give you some highlights...Little L & I started reading "The Tale of Despereaux" - she's enthralled! Interesting how she prefers stories with very small characters, just like I did when I was her age. "Twig" was one of my favorites when I was little. I shared that one with her last year & she loved it. She will only read chapter books on her own if they have

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I finally found some time when the downstairs is quiet & I can focus on UNIX. I've discovered I kinda like this creature - it reminds me of little L. For example. If you want UNIX to find a file named astroturf for you, you use a command like this: >find -name (astroturf) -print note -those should be arrow things, not parentheses, but blogger thought I was attempting html!If you don't include the

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This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it...or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order

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I have a really hard time reading lengthy articles online. I prefer to have them on paper so I can underline the important parts and make notes in the margins. So, I have to read several chapters in a book on UNIX via NetLibrary. NetLibrary is an amazing set-up! You can do a virtual check-out of all sorts of books and books-on-CD, and read/hear them online. The problem is copyright law won't let

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I just submitted my application to the graduate program at UA. They have an ALA- approved online MLIS program which just started last year. Despite my less than stellar undergraduate GPA, I think I have a decent shot at getting in. (Thanks in part to a really good question on the GRE analytical essay section - almost custom made for me!)I'm still debating whether to attempt admissions at UNC-CH.

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This should help matters a lot!Since NY Times is no longer allowing access to that link, I'll just tell you about it: Hamas is starting a children's television show on it's new network. They are going to be teaching children "the basics of militant Palestinian politics - without showing the violence that the pursuit of these goals entails". Isn't that just lovely! Imagine Barney working for

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I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say. I'm written out. My class' online discussion board has exhausted me. I'm still debating with myself over whether to point out that one of the articles required for discussion was largely the personal opinion of a high school biology teacher & maybe shouldn't be taken as gospel!OK, I guess I do have something to say. Should I say it, or say nothing?

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Popcorn. It makes me think of this woman I once lived with - well actually I lived with her and 4 other people in Utah for about a month. I can't remember her name, but she was from Vancouver. She made popcorn with soy sauce & ginger, and wanted to write a popcorn cookbook. So now, flavored popcorn always makes me think of her.I wonder if there are things that remind people of me. Pickled

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I compose better entries as I'm falling asleep. Unfortunately, they never survive the night. Or did I plan to write about a mass celebrity wedding taking place in the aisles at Eckerd's?

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With what, with whom? Does anyone have enough time to do everything they want/need to do? Or do you just jump from one extreme to the other, suddenly finding yourself in a place and time where you have nothing to do but sit home and watch TV? And keeping up with people is probably the hardest thing to do when life is swirling around you. There are all these people out there in the world that

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I graduated from UK with 160 credit hours, and have taken at least another 20 or so since then. Plus I got a paralegal certificate and a real estate license. The thing is, as you maybe can tell, I didn't have much direction! And who knows, maybe I don't now. (I recently read that one of the hallmarks of females with ADHD is that they no longer trust themselves. Yup.)But, OK, I'm going with the

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Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.In the second half of Chapter 12, Paul gives us some excellent words on how to love one another. The Ladies of Grace talked about them today. If only we could live by them. It's hard sometimes! As always, the timing on this was perfect. It's difficult to love people when they are angry, but often, that's when they need it the most.

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There was a trumpet in the attic, so I learned to play it when I was about 10. I played second chair in the school orchestra. Funny thing, though. I didn't much like the trumpet. I really wanted to learn the saxophone or the trombone, but, well, there was already a trumpet at our house. So. I didn't tell anyone what I wanted.Fast forward: My sweet husband kept wanting to get me something that was

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My folks & my oldest daughter 

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OK, I'm so hopelessly out of it that I didn't even know that Mom Jeans existed. But I have teenagers, so they graciously told me that my favorite jeans were not cool. I was perfectly happy with them until then, but once the concept of Mom Jeans existed in my mind, I couldn't shake it. My belly suddenly looked bigger, my wardrobe more - well, dull. And I could see my socks when I wore my BareTraps

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