May 2013
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Have you gone through the Gospel Classics collection yet?
jie-lin:
Does anyone have any favorite talks? Ones you think are absolute must-reads, especially for investigators? I’ve been trying to make my way through talks the internet tells me are particularly important and/or famous, but there are just so many!
This morning I read Jeffrey R. Holland’s “The Other Prodigal” and it sort of hit me...
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This is the time of year
When things get significantly more miserable for me. My tendon issues (in my hands/arms/shoulders) are acting up severely, I’m nauseous and my stomach is incredibly unhappy, and I’m having a huge increase in symptoms, particularly depressive agitation/insomnia/irritability. I’m also suffering from seasonal allergies, which, well, yay.
(This happens every year - my depression...
It is always OK to make this kind of decision. Your wellness matters to Heavenly Father, and he does not want us to put ourselves at risk to perform a service when know we can’t do it.
It’s also OK not to get into details with people. ”My health won’t let me go back out, so I’m looking for other ways to serve here at home” is a 1000% valid response when...
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The thing about Yahoo
Potential changes that would make me happier:
Having a paid version with better service and no ads/promoted content (sorry, guys, I work enough that I’m willing to buy nicer stuff, and paying Flickr has been beneficial,)
Enforcement of content filtering settings that users select themselves (I am ambivalent about your porn being on Tumblr, but I DO NOT want to see it.)
More admin...
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Best temple announcement ever
There is no more awesome in-my-lifetime temple announcement than the Rome Italy one, thanks to President Monson’s reaction to the reaction of the assembly (here’s the video.)
I say this, BTW, as someone who was actually at the announcement of the first temple to be built in Ohio since Kirtland (and that was my first-ever in-person talk from any general authority.)
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Good luck! If you have trouble concentrating or getting through it (which can definitely happen,) try reading along with the MP3s. (zip file link)
scriptures:
If I read 37 pages a day I will be able to read the Book of Mormon cover to cover by my birthday! Operation scripture study starts today (:
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Some companies Yahoo! ruined or killed (or both)...
AltaVista:
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In July 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo! AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but lost its ground with the rise of Google. In May 2011, Yahoo! shut down the site.
GeoCities:
In April 2009, approximately ten years after Yahoo! bought GeoCities, the company announced that it would...
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Alta Vista: tumblr/Yahoo - let me explain you a... →
This is all very true.
And I am about dying here giggling over the username “Alta Vista.” Heh.
alta-vista:
Anyone who thinks that we, as tumblr users, can influence this sale is delusional:
1. tumblr does not care about its users outside of data points. The many requests we’ve made for changes were ignored, changes the majority of users didn’t need or care about were implemented,...
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Back Up Your Tumblr Blog →
If Tumblr’s (nearly) day-long outage taught us anything, it’s that we should probably start backing up our content.
Just in case you need to bail out, you know.
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It’s about modesty, in the sense of “keeping your minds, hearts, and eyes on what’s actually important, rather than on showing off/drawing attention to yourself/etc.” There’s a bit of “respect the gifts your Father gave you” and some “conform to traditional lifestyle strictures” in there, but I definitely think this has more to do with the...
Calling
BEST CALLING OF ALL TIME.
Seriously, it is awesome. Just be ready to enforce the “no, you can’t sit on my lap in Sharing Time” thing (and for the occasional battle over who gets to sit next to you.)
Seriously, best calling ever. Congratulations!
shellylikescats:
I’m going to be teaching primary 6-7 year olds :) These kids are just adorable :) My calling is for teachers...
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Service - something I can't get out of my head
When I was in YW/YSA, people constantly had trouble coming up with ideas for activities. Based on posts here on Tumblr, on various blogs, on Facebook, and on email lists, I’m pretty sure this is still a problem.
At the same time, I promise you all that every ward and stake has desperately lonely, ill, unhappy, etc., members, who could really benefit from just a little bit of attention from...
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Peeking into my Perception of Life: I sort-of... →
Yep. Been playing about that long, too. :)
I’m a sucker for all kinds of simulation, RPG, and strategy games. Still mad at EA for messing up the Sim City thing this year (will purchase just as soon as they make it playable entirely offline sans hacking.)
Semi random but, YOU PLAY AGE OF EMPIRES?? :O You are awesome. Seriously. Anyone who can get lost in Age of Empires for a day...
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I sort-of accidentally spent the entire day...
The good news is that this documentary just finished, I’m really sick of AoE III at the moment, and it’s coincidentally a really really really good time for me to go to bed already right now.
(BTW, that documentary is awesome, and available on Netflix Instant, and features the daughter of the evil Nazi commandant from Schindler’s List, and also it’s really painful to watch...
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Taking the good, etc.
Good things that happened after work today: I picked up my prescription from the funky ancient 1950s-style pharmacy (the only compounding pharmacy on my insurance list, as far as I can find) and I bought important things, such as milk and fancy strawberry “spreadable fruit.”
Good thing which DID NOT happen after work today: Eating dinner, unless you count the four Oreo cookies I had...
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I would like to invite everyone who thinks "ADHD...
And then I would further like to invite them to BITE ME.
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“The journey from “things can’t go on this way” to “this...”
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Everything old is new again
Therapy assignment for the next two weeks: write down my achievements for each day.
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Celebrating Mother's Day doesn't say anything...
Mother’s Day is sometimes hard for me because of my lack-of-husband-and-kids and because of my complicated family situation. For a long time I’ve avoided church on Mother’s Day because whether they give roses to all the women in the ward (which seems condescending) or just to the mothers (which just hurts,) I find myself unhappy.
The “I have...
On the other hand
There’s hardly a person in this world who doesn’t agree I came by my passive-aggressive tendencies honestly.
(Truthfully, so did my dad. I like to think of it as a family heirloom; it tastefully matches the obesity, nerdiness, and incredibly poor visual acuity.)
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Be proud of me, denizens of the Tumblrstake
I totally was halfway through writing a sentence very much like “And, Daddy, the less you make snide and unsupportable cracks about my church being intolerant or unwelcoming to outsiders, the less I will respond to such cracks with three paragraphs of well-documented details about how welcoming and tolerant we really are.”
And then I deleted it before hitting “send” on the...
So very tired
I keep thinking I must have missed my meds, but I know I didn’t. I feel tired and achy and very unfocused; I’ve been wanting a nap since 11am.
Honestly, if I didn’t know it was going to go badly, I’d go to bed right now (and it’s not even 7pm.) Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow!
Teeeeeeeeeechnically, my homework was to give them...
But I couldn’t think of a way of being sure they’d be available on a particular date, and I just… couldn’t get myself to pick one. Sigh. Small steps.
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I totally did an assignment from my therapist...
The challenge: ask someone at church if I can hang out with them at some point.
(Yes, really, this was my homework. It was ALL of my homework. It took me from April 29th to today, to get myself up to actually doing it. This is the first time I’ve asked anyone to hang out, other than my sisters, in something like eight years.)
The third-funnest thing in genealogy is realizing...
“What city were they born in?”
“Oh, the city they lived in.”
NOT EVEN VAGUELY TRUE.
The second-funnest thing in genealogy is realizing...
What’s really hilarious that the other two of us (me and my uncle) are both totally fine with working with either of them.
It admittedly took me two and a half decades to discover my uncle and mom have absolutely no problem with each other, probably because I’ve just assumed based on my dad that that entire side of my family must want to murder the other side. My uncle likes my mom...
The funnest part of genealogy is getting...
Fun fact: the first time anyone in my family transmitted a computer virus to another computer happened when we shared a GEDCOM file between two different PCs. On 3.5” floppy disks, mind you.
(I’m currently trying to set up a Google Drive account on my mom’s PC, and put her GEDCOM files on it, and share it with myself. I’m 40 miles away and we don’t have GoToMyPC...
CES Devotional Tonight: Elder William R. Walker →
Elder William R. Walker, First Quorum of the Seventy
Elder William R. Walker was called as a General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2002. He served in the Second Quorum of the Seventy for six years. On April 6, 2008, he was named a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. He has served as the Executive Director of the Temple Department since 2007. As Executive...
dont blink: Every other Sunday →
Maybe you can have a backup ride? Someone in the ward who’s able to come get you with an hour’s notice? Then it’d be like “mom, dad, if you’re not SURE you’re going to go to church tomorrow, I’m calling the Smiths at 8am so they can take those of us who are ready.”
EDIT: I also recommend seeing if you can spend some time with someone churchy...
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If you find yourself trying to put the milk away...
Seriously.
The really sad part is that I still haven’t been able to train myself to put the cups away in that cupboard - I always try to put them away in the cupboard I moved them from in 2010.
(I caught myself after opening the door and lifting the milk up to the cup shelf; I think the reason I caught myself is that the milk is twice as tall as the shelf.)
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According to WinAmp, the scriptures take 127.5...
At least, at the speed the Church reader guy read them (which is kind of slow.)
Anyway, if you listened to them continuously during a regular 40-hour workweek, you’d be done in a month. I listened to the scriptures continuously at that job for maybe… three months? It’s sort of astounding how little I remember of the text of Psalms and Proverbs, given that.
(Admittedly, I only...
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This happens to me every single time I listen to the scriptures on MP3. There was a job I had where I listened to them 8 hours a day (HIGHLY recommended way to get through the Old Testament, BTW,) and I couldn’t say “no” to any question without trying to say “verily, I say unto you, nay.”
mbilmey:
okay, it’s late at night and for some reason my writing started to...
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It's official
Heather’s landlord and/or ISP is evil and needs to repent right away.
"It's natural" is quite possibly the stupidest...
Seriously, folks. Murder and vengeance and chaos and a thousand other terrible things are natural. What chimpanzees and dolphins do to competitors (as in, you know, beat them to death for the heck of it) is natural. Infidelity is natural. Dying off at the age of 17 because you lost a fight with a dude with a bigger club, or at 13 because your cervix wasn’t big enough to deliver the child...
April 2013
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This has not been the weekend of good...
And I’m deliberately (sort of) making it harder for myself today; I’m taking a “holiday” from my ADHD drugs, mainly because I didn’t get out of bed till after 2pm again, and I’m a little concerned that this may be because I didn’t take my ADHD meds the previous day until 2pm. Skipping them today should at least reduce that element.
Anyway, so I’ve...
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New deal
I cannot start watching the second half of the seventh series of New Who until:
I have done my laundry (including hand washables,) at least to the point where everything is either in the dryer or hanging up to dry.
I have emptied the dishwasher, reloaded it, and cleaned all the can’t-be-put-in-the-dishwasher stuff that needs cleaning.
I have purchased milk, bread, and other food stuff.
I...
Oh no
If I’m reading this right, it appears that the second half of the 7th series of the new Doctor Who is now free on Amazon Prime.
This means I have to go get a BUNCH of stuff that has to be done outside my house, done RIGHT NOW, if there is any hope at all of me getting it done before bedtime Monday. Heh.
Demeter: Arguments against “organized religion”... →
And that would be the reason I said that children need parents who really believe they should be at church, not just parents who think that church is an all right place to be if you’re a tiny person.
By “believe they should be at church” I mean “[the parents] believe that [the parents] should be at church” just as much as I mean “[the parents] believe that [the...
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Arguments against “organized religion” sometimes usually frustrate me. And generally speaking, you don’t have to be at church to be Mormon. It’s about faith and charity and good works and all that jazz, more than where you spend Sunday afternoons (or mornings.)
And I gotta say… children need parents who really believe they should be at church, not just parents who...
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Sometimes I realize I'm awake and it's like "why...
By the way, I forgot to take my meds on schedule. Weekends are much tougher in terms of the self-discipline thing.
Though I will say this: I took out the trash and recycling AND loaded and ran the dishwasher this evening. So it’s not a total loss.
Yes, it is after midnight, and I am still up, and that is very bad, and I’m going to go run away from bright lights that will keep me up...
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The truth is out there.: I'm thinking about... →
I think that your patriarchal blessing will probably help you more, in the long run, if you’re stable as far as the depression and stuff goes, first. I was depressed and young and in a very bad place when I got mine, and I really wish I had waited and gotten things more sorted out first.
(Also, I wish I had understood the gospel more, and had prepared for it a LOT more.)
cleancanvass:
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7 Ways You Could Tell That AP Tweet Was Fake
mentalflossr:
Grab your red pens and AP Style Guides and let’s do this.
Hah, awesome.
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No laundry again
Aiming for Friday night at this point (since tomorrow is my support group.) There was a spider by my keyboard and I have to pack my med boxes and there is just no way. Ugh.
(I do have clean not-work clothes, so I could do laundry on Saturday if necessary, too.)
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A watched garden never grows?
The trouble with taking on new projects, for me, is that it lets my impatience shine through like nothing else. I have lots of practice trying to be patient with things that I’ve seen happen a gazillion times, but this whole “I planted a seed and it should become a green thing probably” deal is new (in the sense that Reagan was President the last time I tried it.) The seeds...
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Oh, yeah, and that chick Diane
I just want to say, today I was listening to the radio and John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane” came on.
And I realized… Diane is only discussed in the context of how she relates to Jack. She’s sitting on his lap, they did stuff in his car, she responds to something he says… by contrast, Jack owns a car, is on the football team, does impressions of famous...
