another game

Okay so thanks to emails from friends and co-workers the last couple hours have been a waste of time. Here is reason #3. This is actually pretty fun for those who like logic games. It took me a couple tries but I got an A on easy. Now it is time for the big leagues or maybe actual work.

reaching the lost

Now this is what I call culturally relevant outreach. I love the small print on the bottom. I can see Christian daisy dukes sweeping the Religious Right.

i have a sickness

This game is seriously evil. Is there no end to ways the internet can suck away your time? And yet I am proud of my 22 score. Just see if you can beat that.

longing to run

I figured it is about time I blog again after taking over a month off. I have not had much to write about or at least I have not been able to turn my daily routine into something thoughtful or interesting. I decided I might as well give it another go and see what I can get down on the page.

This is the time of year where I want to be outside all day and I have fantasies of running off into the wilderness to live a simply, remote life. There are no phones, no emails and no tv. Something about the simplicity of it all calls to my soul and I long to run off to a life that lacks complexity. I want to hike through the woods, sleep in, drink coffee, write, read and talk with friends.

Then I pause, take a deep breath and remind myself that I have created my own complexity and that running away from it all is not a cure. Thanks to God given free will I am master of my own life in at least some ways and I am responsible for what I make of it. I am not a victim of a busy society but a full participant in it. I can turn off my phone, computer and tv and I can go out and walk in the woods.

I am blessed to live in a town and a country where I have easy access to the beauty of creation and the opportunity for quiet and solitude. I was just talking about God’s command to us to ‘be still’ and how that heals and restores our souls. Being still looks different for different people I know but for me it means turning off the many distractions and giving up another week of American Idol to get out of the apartment and walk in silence.

i hear planet hollywood pays good money to celeb lookalikes (by mary)

sorry, jon. i couldn't just sit by and watch a decent blog go to waste ...
this is just what happens when you share your password :)

so this post will just feature photos of jon and his celebrity look-alike according to the myheritage celebrity face recognition site:

first up at a 72% resemblance is film actor, director and oscar nominated producer sean astin, born in 1971. you may recognize him as the face of mikey in 1985's the goonies and most recently, the character of samwise gamgee in peter jackson's the lord of the rings movie. hmm ... creepy.

next up at a 70% resemblance is ian somerhalder. born december 8, 1978, ian is an american actor, model, and producer. he is of french, english, and native american descent - yep, sounds like jon to me. before jumping into his acting career, somerhalder was a model for guess? jeans. you can currently watch ian in episodes of "lost."

and in third place (prepare yourselves), it's ronald reagan himself. born in 1911, ronald "the great communicator" reagan was a sports broadcaster, a lifeguard, a newspaper columnist, motion picture actor, head of the screen actors guild, television actor, and a motivational speaker, not to mention 40th president of the united states from 1981-1989. he was also the only U.S. president to be struck by an assassin's bullet while in office as president and survive.

surprisingly enough, jon's resemblance at 62% with ronald reagan is also matched by two other celebrities: kate hudson and brad pitt. interesting. i guess when you're that hot, you're able to transcend gender.

i know you're just dying to figure out which celebrity YOU look alike. go ahead. and then comment. i'm curious ...