Irresponsible

A couple of days ago, I stopped by the Kelly household to drop off something to Jo. The boys and Jo were just arriving home so the boys got out of their car and ran up to mine. I was chit-chatting with Jo, you know, when I was interrupted by Noah, their youngest son who's five. "Umm Miss Caryn, Miss Caryn, excuse me, Miss Caryn" "Yes Noah?" "Uh Miss Caryn you are being really ir-rr-rr-responsible with your car, the back is a mess. You're very messy Miss Caryn," said totally seriously with an eyebrow raise like "right?" What could I say? It was true. The backseat of my car is a mess. I owned up and said, "You are right Noah, it is irresponsible of me. I'll clean it this weekend."

It's funny how you can let things build up. You ignore them. You try to forget you were too lazy to deal with it. You deny its existence. Leave it for another day because frankly it's not fun. You make one lazy, bad decision on top of another and pretty soon you have a mess.

We've been going over Genesis in Sunday School. Last week's discussion about God's strained relationship with Adam and Eve after the fall got me thinking of Noah's accusation. We let sin build up in our lives and interrupt our relationship with God the same way I've let Dunkin Donut bags and dry cleaning fill up my back seat. I've been irresponsible with my relationship with God. It requires maintenance and upkeep just like anything else.

Dinner Impossible

Check out everyone's favorite Baker-living-in-Conneticut (that's Chris Baker in case you were wondering) on The Food Network's "Dinner Impossible" television show. Every week Chef Robert Irvine is presented with another cooking challenge. This week involves a Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services truck and a construction crew of hungry hard-hatted men and women.

The program is scheduled to be first broadcast on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 10:00 P.M. ET/PT (see www.salvationarmy-ct-rt.org for complete schedule).

Katie Holmes stole my haircut!

Clean My Ride

I watched a video today on youtube of a girl screaming as a huge chunk of glacier hit the water. A massive tidal wave came rushing toward their boat. Luckily no one was harmed. At the end of the video she was laughing and saying it was so cool. Really? How about sad and devastating. She's witnessing the effects of global warming and thinking it's cool. I wasn't mad at her. I just realized how little we actually take in the world around us. We treat the war in Iraq and global warming like they are only found in Jarhead and The Day After Tomorrow. I'm just as much to blame. We Americans act like these things don't effect us. Who do you think is over there fighting? Whose houses got swept away in Katrina? The truth is we can't be voyeurs of our own lives. We've been couch potatos for too long. These things are really going on around us and are effecting our lives. You can choose to sit and watch or you can act. If you feel like acting, send a note to Congress asking for higher MPG and Flex Fuel options at the pump by clicking the "Clean Our Fuel" link to the right.

And no I did not just watch an Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore bothers me. And yes I thought Live Earth was a big sham to make money and for celebrities to feel like they were apart of something larger so that they wouldn't feel so bad about the 10,000 they just dropped on a pair of shoes.

The Power Team

Top 3

1. Ronnie ("incredible colors" "what you writing now? you ain't writing nothin'")
2. Chip: "You don't just get to look this way over night"
Jo(off-camera) "That's for sure"
3. Isaac rubbing his bum while stretching

I Scream for Ice Cream Trucks

Any one else think that Ice Cream trucks are eerily frightening? Every night an ice cream truck runs up and down my street. The pied piper blasts his creepy music luring the fat american children from their homes to buy a treat that will only inevitably make them fatter. Behind the counter (and I'm only speculating as I've been too scared to go) is some grumpy old man who sweats on your ice cream before the first sprinkle can run down the cone. I've seen it a hundred times. The only thing worse than that music is imagining there is a clown inside selling the ice cream. This would be the culmination of all my fears. Clowns aside, it really does make me uneasy. But then again ........................I do love ice cream.

The Name

Eric was good enough to transfer this for me so it fit on YouTube. The NJYB had the privilege of performing this past Friday night at Congress. Here is how we practiced for The Name.

Old Friends

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson