Ode to Macaroni

This is my Ode to Macaroni,
with some ham and cheese for a guard,
you're a protein and a carb...
-Wooten
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Both of the authors of this blog LOVE Macaroni and cheese. My personal favorite is fried macaroni and cheese balls from the Cheesecake Factory. I love them! (TJI Friday's have recently started to serve them, as well as Jack in the Box.) I wish I had the other words to Wooten's ode...but I think he made it quite clear that Macaroni and Cheese is the best food on the whole earth. Anyway you make it. Although in mine...please hold the meat!!!

Ode to Starbucks

Ode to Starbucks

I. Tall

O great logo of green and white, hated by many and loved by more,
First destination of early mornings, and harbinger of latest nights,
You are loved and hated not for your quality
(admittedly better than average) but for the ubiquity of your name.
Once you resided in malls, in airports, but now you swallow them whole:
Smaller shops tremble in fear of your popular mass-production
While longtime patrons resign themselves to your inevitable takeover.
Your odd vocabulary has permanently infixed itself in our tongues;
Your name has come to replace "coffee" as the label for our addiction.

(And so-- O Starbucks-- I have observed it!
From nothingness you rise.)

II. Grande

O great symbol, the world loves and hates you for what you represent.
Some throw stones or write angry editorials;
Others drink happily, surrounded by the constant hum of propaganda.

One bright summer morning in a small English town,
I wake to see a crowd shouting obscenities outside your window;
"Down with American capitalism," the placards say.
I walk through the line, deliberate and determined:
"For capitalism and America," I say, "Make it a venti."

Nevertheless, America is more than Starbucks uber alles;
It is freedom and choice and opportunity for all.
I pray that we do not one day lose this freedom
Under an oppressive banner of green and white.

It is true that we as a nation cannot break our addiction
To these wonderful beans, nor do we desire to do so.
We wish only some choice in where, and how, our bodies are mistreated.

(And yet-- O Starbucks-- I have foreseen it!
The rise of empire and the fall of man.)

III. Venti

O Starbucks, I cannot bring myself to love or hate you.
You are a force like the weather, your presence overwhelms.
Sometimes I seek the reassurance of your constant-chic decor;
Tonight I try to flee from your rich and omnipresent aroma.

I run for miles into the night, thinking myself wild and free-willed,
But when I stop to rest, I find myself leaning against your window.
I am surrounded: there is no escape.
I float with the tide, I follow the crowd:
I walk up to the counter and order a mocha,
Handing the cashier five dollars and my soul.

(And so-- O Starbucks-- I have lived it!
To nothingness we return.)

- Author Unknown

Ode To Erica's Computer Issues...

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,

and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,

then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,

and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,

and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash,

then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,

says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,

but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,

that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall......

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,

so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse;

then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,

'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.

When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk,

and the macro code instructions is causing unnecessary risk,

then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM,

and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

Well, that certainly clears things up for me. How about you?

-Author Unknown (I should have added this last night when I posted ;)

Spider!!!! Part 2

***Read Bekki's post first***

So, during church, really right at the beginning of the preaching, we had just sat down, and I notice this white thing is floating down onto the girls hair in front of me. I thought oh no, she has fuzz in her hair... then it moved... as in CREEPY CRAWLY I HAVE 8 LEGS kind of moved!!!! Omw... ok, if it had been black, that would have been reasonable, I wouldn't have noticed it but since it came straight down and landed onto her black hair and was pure white, then I noticed it. I KNOW I KNOW it probably was NOT poisonous, but come on, who isn't going to get all itchy when they see a spider? Do YOU want one crawling all over you??? I THINK NOT! So, of COURSE I had to let Bekki know, and as you have read from her post, it was not happy news, in fact I quote from her "That spider MUST DIE!". So it sat in the girl's hair for awhile and then decided it was time for a move (since spiders have short lives they relocate often I would assume! See the world in one day!) ANYWAY, it decided to kinda JUMP/FLY to the guy's hair next to the girl, who happened to be sitting right in front of Bekki.. Wrong place to move spider. Lol by that time I had told Jarron and Josh about the spider, so sad to say, none of us had our full attention on the Preacher. Bekki tried to get Josh to give the boy's mom a note, but Josh instead messes around with it and gives it back! Thanks for NOTHING! LOL. So I keep getting chills and all itchy everytime the spider moves.... omw I am getting chills and creepies NOW just thinking about it! So thankfully it moved out of MY view and Josh told us that it decided to jump ship and find new harbor by building a little spider parachute, and head their direction. Ever so thoughtful of those around him, Josh BLEW the spider up towards the front and new destinations to add to the spider's travel journal.. And that was the end of our spider tale, and the beginning of us listening to the service. Don't worry. The whole thing only lasted about half an hour, and he preached for about 2 hours so we still were able to hear what he had to say

*By the way, I seriously feel like I have bugs all over me right now... NOT a good feeling*

Spider!!!!

So last night we went to a youth summit in Lakeside, CA at Brother Bertram's church. Brother Shoemake preached a very awesome (and lengthy) message about revival. At the very beginning of the message Erica felt so inclined to tell me that there was a spider in the girls' hair in front of me. Anyone who knows me, knows my completely irrational and consuming fear of these little beasts. So of course, I am on the defensive immediately, looking around for the little buggers near me. Anywhere there is ONE spider, there are LOTS more!!!! Well. This spider wasn't happy in the girls hair...it had to FLY, yes FLY to this guys hair in front of me. Flip out time. That was all I could see. Nothing else existed other than the white dot on the black hair in front of me. There were four of us enthralled by this stupid beast and I couldn't concentrate on the service. So I wrote a note after about thirty minutes for Josh to hand to the kid's mom: "Sis, your son has a spider in his hair. -Bekki" Well, Josh wouldn't give it to her. So I am paralyzed once again by the white dot. (And it really was just a dot, not large at all). Finally, I pray that God kills the spider, it moves out of my line of sight and I concentrate on the preaching. After church, I am sitting in the seat where the kid was (completely not remembering the arachnid) and FLIPPED when I realized where I was. They failed to tell me that the beast had woven itself a parachute and flew away (away from us, thanks to Josh blowing on it) before altar call. Erica will post her take on this situation later, but I just had to write something about it. Creepy crawling spiders are not of God.

Erica and Bekki's Blog

So, this is the result of the commenting marathon this week. We decided to create a blog together...should be fun!!! (As soon as Erica accepts the invite) LOL. If you have any suggestions on clever names I am (and I think Erica would be too) open to suggestions...