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Nora
10-27-2008, 10:34 PM
(Strictly for fun)

"I'm tired of dealing with numbers." She screamed out the words under her breath hoping no one would actually hear. Alright, so it wasn't actually a scream. But, she was tired of looking at the same old numbers entry after entry...6200, 6320, 1350, M33-111. It was getting tiresome. Her eyes wanted to close, her shoulders wanted to quit, and her brain was about to go off into never never land all by itself. Not a good day.

At first, when the phone rang, she felt sweet relief. Then, she saw the caller ID. Oh, no, not her, I do NOT want to deal with her today. She ignored it.

A few minutes later, her IM popped up. She knew that she should have turned the blamed thing off. It was hard to ignore an IM. Insistent little things IM's.

It read "I need your help."
She answered realizing that it was a good thing after all that emails and instant messages don't show your emotions. "Yes?"
It read "I can't do this expense report."
That's because you're an idiot she thought but wrote "What's the problem?"
On and on it went. That irritating lady asking her irritating questions that a monkey could answer and her giving polite little answers right back. Finally, it was over.
"Whew."

grateful
11-01-2008, 10:53 AM
Numbers 9:18 …they rested in their tents.

Rested. Yeah, right. Who rested, may I ask? Not the wives, that’s for sure. The mighty men of God, full of faith and power, rested quite comfortably, thank you very much. After all, their divine duty was to watch the cloud. And when the cloud moved? Oh boy. “Sarah, grab the kids, roll the kitchen stuff in the bedrolls and let’s move out. Hurry, hurry, woman!”

Well, next time the cloud moves, I’ll be ready. 11 children = 11 bedrolls, plus 2 for us, that makes 13, and don’t even talk to me about unlucky 13—I’m not ready to make it 14.

Kitchen equipment. Quite a trick without a kitchen, but there’s 1 basket for manna-gathering, 1 big pot for manna stews, and 1 flat board for bamanna bread. 3 items in all, unless you want to count the 4 sticks the boys whittled into instruments for stirring.

Clothing? Just what’s on our backs plus our sandals. That’s 13 pairs of sandals—26 sandals in all.

Our 6 girls will be responsible for their own hair ornaments. With reeds she gathered along the river, Hanna made 4 braid holders for each of her 5 sisters, plus 6 for herself. I’m glad I don’t need to gather all 26 of those silly things.

I might as well be cheerful about it. Staying behind didn’t work so well. We tried it and spent 2 nights in the desert without the pillar of fire to warm us. In the blazing sun, without the sheltering cloud, we pushed our 8 camels as hard as we could and caught up with the rest of them in only 17 hours.

I hear the shofar, and here comes Asher on a run. I’ll be ready in 15 minutes.