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My husband is sarcastic...but i love him. Check out his "Going back to paper" video.

Monday, November 17, 2008
My husband is sarcastic...but I love him. IF you know anything about The Girardiers, you know our detest of paper and love of the digital world. Darrel makes a little joke of what some movers randomly placed in his office during moving week without his asking...and it spurs some sarcastic thinking which led to this video:
Going back to Paper from Darrel Girardier on Vimeo.

Today you could say I have a couple of screws loose and it wouldn't be wrong.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Here are the 3 screws that were in my foot holding my bones together
until they re-formed.  I had completely forgotten that it stinkin' hurt to have screws removed from your foot.  I think I blocked the pain.  I also had forgotten that i had to wear a surgical shoe again while I had stitches and swelling. How can someone forget all of this? I mean seriously why didn't I remember this.  I wasn't mentally prepared to be a lame person again.  So I have been kind of a big baby tonight.  Darrel is being very nice to endure my whining but I have whined.  I can't believe I have to wear this dumb surgical shoe over the weekend but at least I won't have screws in my foot because when it rains those things feel like they are heating up in my foot. Can't quite explain why that happened but I may have been a temporary mutant superhero for the last 3 months and never explored some secret powers...nonetheless---the screws are gone and now I just have a swollen foot with stitches.  I will be so glad when this whole foot ordeal is done with.

Staff meeting in the marketplace restaurant

It's True...Sara Groves Christmas album

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I haven't listened to all of Sara Grove's Christmas album but as I was doing some writing, I needed some new inspirational tunes so I downloaded the song "It's True" and I'm not sure if I was just in a sappy mood but to hear her little boy reading the christmas story to intro the song somehow just brought the gospel story alive to me in a fresh way I wasn't ready for. I am now mad at Sara because here I am not ready for all that bookends this song, and I started to just cry. I thought I was safe because Darrel had already gone to bed but he happened to come downstairs and caught me in my sappy moment. I explained I was fine and that this was my writing moment...my "me time" and he should just hush. He laughingly went upstairs but I suspect I will hear of this incident again.
So here I am: Guilty of tearing up over a sappy Christmas worship song but I don't care. It happened and so go download it and join me in my tearfest. :)

Getting ready for travel...

Monday, November 10, 2008

Got my visa pix today and rushed it off so that I can go to the places I'm preparing to go. I'm getting really excited. I tried not to look too excited in my visa picture as you can see at the picture to the left...but at the same time I wanted to communicate how friendly I was. You know...I want to make sure that when they are flipping through those visas that they see my face and think...now that is one friendly person. She should really be granted a univeral pass to visit anywhere her heart desires because she just has the look of coolness while at the same time the preciousness of a newborn baby rabbit. Well the kinko's guy didn't think my picture conveyed all of that but he said it was good enough.
I said, if it passed his careful assessment, then it was fine for me as well. Now it's just a couple of weeks before i am gone for 7 weeks. I'm really struggling with leaving and at the same time not being gone yet. But I am excited to share with you many things I see and experience. YAY for sabbaticals!

Recovering from lex-lag...

Sunday, November 09, 2008

It was a great weekend of hanging out with teenaged girls at the You and Your girl event which was held in Lexington,KY at Immanuel Baptist Church.  As you can see, both Diesel and I are still a little groggy from our travels. He has been toast all day today as I don't think he got much rest at the Pet Resort.  Darrel and I are still catching up on sleep as well as we both felt this phenomenon we have dubbed "lex-lag".  It feels like jet lag but we didn't get on a jet...we just travelled from one timezone to the next and back again. That is what is sucking the energy right out of us.  So we are hoping that tomorrow our bodies will be regulated from "lex-lag".


Connection center hall in the construction stages