Catching Up - Plus a Friday Funny

I am about half-way finished with my post about last weekend's Arizona visit. I know, it's taking me a lot longer than I expected, which should no longer surprise me.

Yesterday was just a whirlwind of a day: I started it with a rare face-to-face meeting over at the LexieGirl offices. My girls, Faith and Kim, who started this clothing company in Faith's garage, have grown so much that they just moved into a 3800-square foot office/warehouse -- and they are finally ready to ditch the amateurish website I put up for them for something that really befits their products. But even though they are enlisting professionals to create a new site for them, they still want me to maintain it for them. And as I need the money, I'm happy to continue working for them. (Actually, what I need is a whole new smaller sized wardrobe, so right now, we are bartering my time for the clothes.)

Anyway, I spent my morning writing time in a meeting with Faith, Kim and their new web designers.

Then, something REALLY unexpected happened: My husband called and asked me for a lunch date. Yep, he was offering to take time out from work, drive back to the Valley, and take me out to lunch for Valentine's Day. We used to have lunch together a lot, back in the days when we both worked downtown and didn't have a child's schedule to deal with.

Of course, I said yes -- even though I had planned to finish the Arizona post AND write a contribution for Health Care Day over at MOMocrats.

And after lunch, I had JUST enough time to pick up the ingredients for the Valentine's Day DINNER I had decided to make (because I can EAT again! within reason), put them away at home, pick up Megan from school, take her to Hebrew School, go to the gym (because I have lost all that weight and now I HAVE to go to the gym)... and THEN I wrote my piece while roasting the potatoes I can't eat. (See it here now).

So... Arizona will be delayed another day. In the meantime, here's another funny email I received (this one courtesy of my sister).

Atheist Sees Image of Big Bang in Slice of Toast

Huddlesfield, UK  |  Excitement is growing in this northern England town following news that a local man saw an image of the Big Bang in a piece of toast. Thirty-six year old atheist Donald Chapman was sitting down for breakfast when an unusual toast pattern caught his eye.

"I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring," Chapman told local newspaper The Huddlesfield Express. "However the direction and splatter patterns of the crumbs, as well as the changing shades emanating outwards from this black hole, were very clearly similar to the chaotic-dynamic non-linear patterns that one would expect following the Big Bang. It's the beginning of the world!" he added excitedly.

Ever since news of the discovery made national headlines, local hoteliers have been overwhelmed by an influx of atheists from all over the country who have flocked to Huddlesfield to catch a glimpse of the scientific relic. "I have always been an atheist and to see my life choices validated on a piece of toast is truly astounding," said one guest at the Huddlesfield Arms Hotel.

To the surprise of many, the U.K. Atheist Association has asked its members not to pay attention to the story despite its potential to inspire less faith. "Given what the religious believe already, this is an easy sell," said one disgruntled activist who said he was going to Huddlesfield anyway, noting that "seeing is not believing."

Comments

[linda]

HAHA. I have a friend writing a book about atheists . She just found out there is a camp they send their kids to, a parody of our Church camps...

[Comfort Addict]

Somehow, the toast story does not surprise me. After all, why should believers have a monopoly on overactive imagination?