You might want to take your shoes off for this one

Do you feel awkward when you are asked to take off your shoes when entering someone’s home? I guess it depends on how well you know the person, but what about those times you DON’T know the person very well. Yep. That’s weird.

One thing I don’t like, no wait, one thing I reaalllyyy hate is when people tell me to take off my shoes when I enter their home. It doesn’t effect the way I feel towards them, but it just really effects the way I feel towards them.

I think asking someone to take their shoes off is one of the rudest things you can do. Who’s with me? I would rather vacuum or disinfect or scrub my house over and over again instead of asking someone to take off their shoes for my cleaning sake. I mean, I invited you over didn’t I?

I will NEVER tell people to take off there shoes when they come over. I’ve been invited into too many homes where I am greeted at the door with…

“Can you take off your shoes, please?”
or

The half smile and …“Um, do you think you could take off your shoes? I just vacuumed.”
or

“Good to see you!” then they look down at your feet and with their eyes they tell you to take your shoes off.
OOHH and my favorite is,

“Oh, you can leave them on if you want,” but you KNOW if you leave them on you‘re totally violating their shoe rules. Give me a break, you know I’m takin’ my shoes off. But I’ll give you an A for tricking me.

I remember this one time I was wearing my boots and my feet smelled really bad because they were shoved in my leather boots all day and I went to someone’s house and they asked me to take off my shoes.

Well they paid for it. My feet smelt wicked. (Haha that was actually pretty awesome).

And what about respect. This is my favorite part…no one respects you when your shoes are off. It’s like,

“Hey this guys doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he’s not even wearing shoes!”
It’s like you become so vulnerable. It’s basically standing naked in front of a stranger.

No shoes to hide behind.

Don’t you get that feeling? That you’re forced to feel so relaxed with these people it shouldn’t even occur to you that you HAVE NO SHOES!?

Sorry if you make people take off their shoes when they enter your home. This post is to encourage you to stop your evil ways. We like our shoes on. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t wear them.

Treasures and Traffic School

Hey everyone. I got a ticket a few weeks ago for speeding. It was really ridiculous. It shouldn’t have happened, the cop totally shouldn’t have been there clocking me. Eff. Anyway, I need to know a cheap, quick, and easy online traffic school. Any suggestions? PLEASE let me know…I have to get it done QUICK!

Also, do you or anyone you know have any old glassware, plates, flatware or old treasures of any kind? Anything you or your great aunt Sue, or your grams might have?? If you don’t want it…I’ll take it.

Thanks for helping me out my blog peeps.

"uhhh No"

On Saturday Chance and I both had to re-register to vote because of my name change and our address change. We were babysitting our friend, Jenny's baby, Phoenix. He's about 17 months and we LOVE him. We took him to a kiddy playground, farmers market, the pumpkin patch and Target. There was a vote registration booth in front of Target, so Chance and I re-registered.

The man working the booth was probably in his late 50s and was a friendly guy. He started making conversation with us and tried to persuade us to become a member of the 'better' party (I won't say which). He continued talking about certain propositions and then he stopped, pointed at my stomach and said,

"oh well you have your future in your belly there."

I looked down at his finger pointing directly to my stomach and I said,
"uhhh, No...I'm not pregnant."

He looked at me, then looked at Chance who was holding Phoenix and if his comment about me looking pregnant wasn't enough to make me depressed for the rest of my life and he said,

"Oh it's probably just some left over from that little guy" as he pointed to Phoenix who is 17 MONTHS OLD AND NOT MY SON!!!!

hahahahahaha

it was a bad bad bad day after that.

Mom Time

I feel like a mom sometimes because I baby-sit so much. Not that I don’t love the babies I watch, because I adore them, but when they go down for a nap, it’s like heaven. Now I know how real moms must feel, just getting a second of freedom calls for celebration. So I guess you could say this is good practice for me, and let me tell you, I don‘t think I‘ll plan on getting pregnant anytime soon.

Anyway, the baby is asleep right now and I am soooo tired. I didn’t really do much today either, but keeping a one year old entertained is enough to tire me out. And I thought my cat was attention hungry, that’s funny.

Since my ‘F word’ blog, I am happy to say that I’m feeling better. I’m getting really excited for the new things headed my way, and I couldn’t be more happy to see what the future holds. Chance just purchased my website for the new business and I can’t WAIT to start working on it. (Well, he’s actually the one that does all the graphic design, I just let him know my ideas). Haha. Wish me luck! :)

Oh, and I hope The Office is funny tonight, because last week’s episode was a little lame.

I'm asking for some help

Chance and I have been talking about this for awhile, and we still don't have an answer...and I don't even know if there is a black or white answer, but I’m going to ask anyway, so please give me your EDUCATED opinion. I don't want to hear a bunch of wish wash.

Missionaries.
Do you think that God wants ALL Christ followers to become missionaries? As in, go to Africa or some country overflowing with poverty?

Before you answer, consider a few things first...
Jesus' last command was...

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matthew 28:19-20).

Now I know that many people copy and paste verses from the bible and take them completely out of context, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Jesus just kinda meant what he said here.

Also, I know that many people are going to pull out the old "you can be a missionary anywhere" card and to be honest, that makes me a little uneasy. It's not that I don't believe you can share the love of Christ anywhere, but I think that MOST Christians, not all, but MOST say this because they don't want to stretch outside their comfort zone. I've been guilty of it too. I mean, so many people in America do the American thing. Most believers, get married, buy a house, have two kids, go to church on Sunday, fix up their house (as if that's their first priority) and don't think twice about the rest of the world. It's a hard slump to get out of.

Some people might argue and say, "Well if you feel CALLED to go be a missionary, then that means you should go, but if you don't feel CALLED then God has something else for you."

I have trouble with this too because so many people talk about God's calling in their life, but where in the bible does it say, "don't do anything until I call you to it."

I mean, sometimes I really don’t want to be nice...so should I wait for God to ‘call’ me to be nice? Or should I just do as he did and said. I think I should just obey his commands and be lead from there. Right?

And another thing, I’m not saying that everyone needs to go overseas either, but at least in America the majority of people have heard of Christ, some people in the world don’t even know his name. Is that my job? Or is it God job? Is it God’s job to just make himself known to those people?

Don’t get me wrong, I think community work is wonderful. I truly believe people are doing the work of Christ when they volunteer or reach out to a friend, but so many Christians just don’t do that. So, are we as believers just ignoring one of the most important commands Christ left us with? Or are we ok with just being friendly to people at work and calling that our ministry?

Sorry I'm so all over the place with this, I feel really scattered at the moment. All I want are some honest answers of what YOU think because I want to learn and understand God more everyday, and conversations with people about stuff like this helps me.

My head looked like a snow ball

Chance is working on designing our Christmas cards for this year, and I’m wide awake because I had WAAAY too much caffeine today. My eyes look like cat eyes. Anyway, since he’s up and I can’t fall asleep, I thought I would blog about my day.

I skipped the morning today. I wasn’t even up for it and I hate to admit it because it was such a BEAUTIFUL day today, but I got up at 12. Yep. Chance and I both slept in until noon. And that was a bummer because our day was already half gone. But, other than being a half day, this Saturday was very enjoyable. Chance and I went to the gym, went to a few open houses, went out to an early dinner, went to two malls, bought fake cigarettes for my Halloween costume, went to a movie, bought fake cigarettes to pretend we smoked and we decided what I am going to do with my life. It was refreshing. I really enjoy my husband, we have so much fun together and he truly is my soul mate and my best friend. I don’t know what I would do without him because I’ve been feeling so lonely lately and he is one of few that shows me honest commitment and undeserving patience and love.

It was a good day, but my favorite thing about today would be starring in a commercial. Yep, that’s right. I had a role in a commercial today. I usually have a role in a commercial about every other week. It’s not a real commercial of course, it’s a made up one that I role-play for Chance and Geronimo. Tonight Chance made a commercial too. In fact, we even took turns advertising our product of choice. Chance picked the shampoo ‘Head and Shoulders’ and this was his improv:

“Oh, hello everybody. I once had dandruff so bad my head looked like a snow ball, but after using Head and Shoulders everyday for 2 years my white head looks normal again. Don’t be the one with frosted flakes in your hair. So remember, it’s Head and Shoulders above the rest.”

I couldn’t stop laughing. That’s actually how those kinda things go. Chance laughs the whole time I’m acting and visa versa. Maybe when we become a little more professional I will record our commercials and let the whole world see the brilliance that we are.

Oh! And this is unrelated to anything, but Chance and I want to go to Hobbs Grove soon and want to get people together. Message me if you want to plan something.

Oh! And I am officially on the adventure of starting my own business, but it won’t be in progress until the first of the year. YAY! It’s gonna be wicked.

"Conlan's my new BFF"

Everyone needs to check out THIS blog.

I was recently inspired by the new show on MTV called "Paris Hilton's my new BFF." After watching that show for about one-fifth of a second, I decided to revaluate my life. I mean, why shouldn’t I have a BFF that worships me, listens to my every command, and let’s me play with their minds as if they were merely toys? Something had to change.

Then I found Conlan. He’s for sure my blog BFF. He doesn’t do any of the previous things though, I still need to find someone to let me boss them around, but Conlan’s blog keeps me entertained. And you’ll like it too.

Because we’re so best friends, he even wrote a blog about me for comment appreciation week. To Conlan…woot woot.

The Well at Maple Creek

My husband just posted a slideshow of the latest pictures we took. We took them for our Church called The Well because they just launched their new multi-site campus at Maple Creek Elementary school. Click HERE or visit http://chancejamesblog.com and let us know what you think. TGIF!

"Mary Moes, he's a vegetarian"

Chance and I have a cat we love. His name is Geronimo. Sometimes we call him Moes, (like Dwight’s cousin from ‘The Office’). And sometimes we sing "Mary Moes, Mary Moes, he's a vegetarian." It's just something we do and I don't expect anyone to understand it or like it, but we just sing it sometimes.

Anyway, today Moes got a hair cut. I've been wanting to shave Geronimo for a while now because he's an indoor Persian cat, and he sheds EVERYWHERE, so shaving him would be puuurfect (no pun intended, ok maybe) and it would save me a lot of clean up.

I was going to take him to the groomers. Really, I thought about it long and hard...then I saw Chance's clippers.

You can imagine what happened. My cat now looks like he was attacked by a pair of angry scissors. I still am going to take him to the groomer because well, I have to. It would just be mean NOT to take him.

Here are some pictures and believe me...it looks much worse in real life.
I had a lot to do today, but instead, I shaved my cat.
Well done Dominique, well done.









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The F word

I feel like typing the F word and other obscenities all over this post. I would, but I won't for your sake. I mean, you're probably thinking about the F word now since I’m talking about it so much, so I figure that typing it out would be a little overboard. And I can't stand overboard. Like when people use F*&% every other word. CANNOT stand it. At least use it in a clever way instead of robbing it of all the filth it is.

Anyway, F.

Nothing in my life right now seems fair. And I know "life's not fair" but I’m human and I can't get over some things that I’m dealing with. I really feel like this time for me is a season of new beginning. It's almost like I'm waking up and God is saying..."ok...well...I've given you another day, so what are you gonna do with it, are you gonna allow change in your life?"
I’ve been noticing A LOT of things in my life that need change, and I’m on a difficult journey so far, but I can recognize that this is for growth…even though it’s sucking.

I’ve got a lot of things weighing on me, some good…some not so good. But I can’t wait to see what is ahead. I've been entertaining the idea of starting a business. Of course, I don't really know what it might be exactly, but when i do...ohh it's gonna be good. Well, I kinda know, but not really. It’s hard to explain. Anyway, I’m turning to my blog because I want to be able to remember this, and what I was feeling at this point, because I hope I won’t be in this spot forever. And I don’t think I will.

If anyone has encouraging words…that would be great. Thanks for reading my soap box.

Hello you

Hey everyone, I just realized I had my comment setting on my blog set to register users only. I changed it, so noooowww anyone can comment, even if you want to remain anonymous. Maybe I can get more feedback from my readers now. Maybe? Yea?

Don't all come at once now. haha.

The Suzie

For an early anniversary gift Chance bought me this beauty. I've been begging for a computer because it KILLS me to share our broken one. I know, I'm a jerk. Anyway...being the best hubbs that he is...he bought me a Pink Sony Vaio and I'm obsessed. He got a super good deal too, which makes it even BETTER. I named her Suzie, in honor of one my favorite Seinfeld episodes, The Susie.

She goes by Suz though..



Also, Chance bought me a new car to go with my new computer. What a nice guy.

Art Hop-O-Anonymous

Come and support my man tomorrow night at Art Hop. It's gonna be wiiillllddd. Well, maybe not wild, but it will be fun. My Chance pants is participating in the Colour Blind Collection show.

Location- DeRouchey Creative Design Studio
1803 S. Van Ness Ave.
Fresno, CA 93721

Mapblast it!

When- October 2, 2008 (TOMORROW NIGHT!)
5-9pm
Reception at 6pm

Come and hang out and check out some rad art. See ya there! You have nothing to do, just come.