Thoughts keep flowing

Okay so this next paragraph was actually part of the last post, but I got carried away on another topic and felt that this no longer fit.

Yes I know I dont post all week and then I bombard you with posts. Those of you who have seen my busy schedule, understand why you dont hear from me very much all week. I am going to attempt to try to keep a better log of all those things I want to share so that when I do have time, I dont have to unwrap my mind to find what I wanted to talk about.

Tonight my mind is fully unwrapping itself. Two of the 5 posts tonight were not planned but developed as I was typing. So please dont stop reading here. There are 4 more new posts below this one.

Have a good week because I will most likely not post again til at least next weekend.

Parts of Life

Balance: A balanced life is key in a successful life. How do you find balance btwn church, work, personal life, and alone time? It is not easy and sometimes your life gets very full of a little bit of all of them. Hopefully, the first three do not take over the latter. It is very easily done.

Organized: Organization helps lead to a balanced life. Those, who know me, probably see me as a very organized person. But I look at my apartment today, and wonder where the heck the organization has gone to. I feel like everything is piling up around me. I do know where to find most things that I am looking for but some have been hidden in the small holes of the apt. I see part of my lack of having time to blog and do a few other things related to my lack of organization.

Time Management: Life without time management is living life by the seat of your pants. Today I find myself in a similar situation that I was in the end of my sophomore year and most of my junior year. Lots of free time to hang out with friends and have fun. But still responsibilities to accomplish that homework (Todays homework is not schoolwork but being a leader with responsibilites in extra curricular organizations.) The homework still gets done but not to its fullest potential. I am one who thrives on having a lot of responsibilities and time commitment. When I have too much free time, the management of time goes out the window and is lost.

New Solution for your Bad Build Code

Ever wanted a new way to find out that your code build was busted. Try this solution out that I found on the Pragmatic Programmer website: Bubble, Bubble, Build's In Trouble.

Quite creative use of Red and Green Lava lamps to enlighten you that something is busted or all is working just as expected.

Getting Older Faster and Faster

As I started in a comment on Ash's page, my youngest cousin, T, on my mother's side has now started his Freshman year of college. It seems not long ago that I was teaching him and several other youngsters at VBS. I was in middle/high school and they were in kindergarten. I actually moved year to year with them for several years. Now they are all grown up and in college. I think just recently I've realized that he is not the little kid in the family anymore. He is actually grown up, into a nice young man.

With him being so close now, I've also done a lot of thinking about calling him and seeing if he wants to get together for dinner or something. But then I think: Would he really want to be caught hanging out with his older cousin? Would he see me more as a adult figure in his life instead of just a cousin to hang with? On the flip-side, I would like to be in better connection with some of my cousins. It seems so hard sometimes because we are all very different and have different lives to leave. Plus we were not always that close back home, which makes it harder to be close later in life. Though we are a lot closer than most of the rest of the family.

On the flip-side to all of this, I am actually called the kid or the young one in my young adult group. I am one of the youngest ones though most of them are within 10 yrs of my age. There are a few older than that but not many. But still with the small difference in our ages, I am the kid or the little girl. Gives an interesting twist.

Time Flies and Where are we Going

Time flies by faster and faster everyday and every minute it seems like to me. 5 short years ago, I was beginning my final year of college, with a lot of unknowns and questions about the future. How have things changed today? I am really not sure that they have changed much.

Where is my future headed? - Still Unknown

What will I do upon graduation? - Okay, I do have a job and it is actually in my field of study, but is this where I am suppose to be? (Still somewhat unknown)
Who/where is that gentleman that God wants me to spend the rest of my life with? - Still as Unknown as it was 5 years ago. But God has given me a lot of patience in this area and constantly reminds me that I must prepare myself in Gods love. When we are both prepared in His Love, then the time will be right. (Relates to the books "Boy Meets Girl" and "When God writes your love story")

What is my purpose in life? - To live God's Word and share it with others (But how?)

The list could go on and on and on. These are all questions that we all face day in and day out. Some find the answers faster than others. We have to look to Him for those answers and ask for His guidance in our lives.

What to write

Okay this is the second or third time that I have attempted to write a new post. I am just not sure what I want to write about so this may be a bit random.

I have spent the last two nights at home with the fam watching a lot of olympics. Another reason why I am not succeeding at writing a new post. Every time I start to write something, the Olympics are back on and my eyes are glued to the TV. This is definitely not a hard task considering the tv is sitting up above the computer monitor.

Its hard to believe that once the Olympics are over, the start of the new tv seasons starts. This has been one of the fastest summers that I can ever remember. I guess thats what happens when you are busy and having a lot of fun. So I shall not complain. I will save more on this for the next post.

This has been a good relaxing weekend. Not had to worry about making sure a lot of thngs are getting down. Thoguh that will be a different story as I prepare to leave tomorrow and head back to the apt and the list of things that need to be done before starting the next week starts come to mind.

Well its now over 40 mins since I first started this post. The olympic mens 4*100 medley relay is complete and the US win again in World Record time. Though it is only about 11 here. It is way past my bedtime back home so I will signoff for now.

Wow Accomplishment!

It is very amazing what you can accomplish if you put your mind to it and stay on task. Saturday morning, I was writing to you about my total unproductivity. When I woke this morning, I still was not sure about my productivity, but I have quite amazed myself. It is now almost 9:30 on Sunday night.

Yesterday, I made a few modifications to this site. Added some additional links. The ODK Province X link is actually a new blog which I created in those 3 hrs yesterday before heading to Lex. Though I just realized that my comments section on that site are missing again, I guess I will have to go hunt down the culprit after making this post.

The Legends game was a lot of fun, even with only one other person joining me. Unfortunately the Legends lost, but there was quite a spectacular fireworks show afterwards, which made up for the bad game.

Today, I slept in after staying up til 1 last night. So that made it for a late start to any productivity. But I have accomplished, my goal of getting all the ODK documents ready to go for hand over to the new leaders at Georgetown and am ready to send out the first emails of the new year to the ODK Circles in Province X. Two big things can be checked off my list. Yeepeee!

So maybe after all of this you will actually hear from me more often now. At least I wont feel as guilty, typing posts and comments as I have been in the last few weeks. Granted I have created a new task for myself in keeping up with the ODK Province X blog :-).

Well I better see about packing a lunch and getting ready for a new week of work. Never thought I would be saying something like that.

Have a good week!

PS For those of you who have been gone all weekend, I have 5 new posts including this one :-) So keep on reading down the page.

How does your favorite city rank as a Sports City?

Sporting News Magazine has ranked the top 368 sports city's in the country. They reviewed all city's for the past year from July to July. Here is a synopsis of what they were looking for: "Taking into account not only the sheer quantity of courses in its year-round sports feast and the depth and breadth of fan fervor (OK, and often angst), but also the quality of the teams in the sports we cover, Boston is our Best Sports City for 2004."

So how did your city rank? Here are a few of the local city's of interest. I was quite amazed at how well some of our local cities faired.

27. Cincinnati
81. Louisville, KY
87. Lexington, KY
302. Georgetown, KY (GO Bengals! Go Tigers!)

Additional KY Cities Round 2: (Sorry to all those who I missed the first time)
134. Murray, KY
151. Bowling Green, KY (Go Hilltoppers!!! Go Hilltoppers!!! Go Hilltoppers!!!)
175. Morehead, KY
189. Richmond, KY

The rankings were also based mostly on cities with Professional or NCAA Div I teams.

Full Article: The List: How does your city rate?

Test your Math SAT skills vs the New SAT Format

Another fun math quiz SAT Quiz: Math Sampler by MSN Encarta. This test is apparently suppose to show you the new math section of the 2005 SAT. I was rather impressed out how much geometry and algebra I still new. Though as a high school student, I would definitely need to do some studying in order to do well. Actually, I am not sure that I even learned some of those things in the lower level math classes in HS. Maybe it's just been too long and I dont remember.

Career Buzzwords

Have you ever set in a presentation or on a conference call and wondered what they were talking about? Maybe this MSN article 25 Hot Buzzwords will help you understand. Some of the terminology is far fetched while others are quite interesting. I am not sure that I have heard the majority of them, but thought you guys might enjoy.

Still Alive and Kicking

Now that noone reads my blog. I thought I might put another post out here. Truthfully, I should not be working on this but working on some other things that need to be done, but I wanted to attempt to get some of my faithful readers back before they had no clue who I was anymore.

It has been a very crazy couple of weeks. I will say that driving 2+ hrs a day in a car does take a lot of time out of your day. Granted if I sit down and really think about it, which is not hard for me to find time to sit in think, being in the car so much already. Most of the days that I spend in Lex, I would have never gone home anyway so whats the real difference besides the actual driving.

Last weekend, I probably could have tried to blog but I was so tired that I slept the majority of the weekend. Including 14.5 hrs Friday night through Sat afternoon. Accomplishing none of the things besides grocery shopping that I had on my list.

Today I thought would be a productive day, but I am not totally sure about that. It is already 12:30 and I have barely been up for an hr thus far. I am sitting here debating what I should accomplish in the next 3.5 hrs before I head to Lex, for a Lexington Legends game with some friends.

Though I have not posted in the last couple weeks, I have found some interesting articles on MSN that I wanted to post so those will be following or preceding this here shortly.

Autocross Points Event #4

Two weeks later and I am at it again. Wow today was an awesome day. I really enjoyed the course at EKU. It was full of nice turns, including almost a figure out, plus a lane change followed close with almost an S shaped pattern. It was tight in spots but you could definitely get into the horsepower at spots as well. I was finally getting the hang of it on my last couple of runs. Here is my run breakdown:
1) 35.7
2) 35.175
3) 35.832 -- Tried a bit different technique here that didnt work.
4) 35.684 -- Still a bit rattled.
5) 35.042 -- Ready to go again :-) (The third place driver in my class got a 35.046 on this same run. She had been running in the 36's. Fortunately for me her last run she DNF, and I dropped another half second.)
6) 34.527

It was quite an impressive run for me. I finished 2nd in GSL (G-Stock Ladies). You combine us with GS (G-Stock) and I finished 6 out of 10. Two events in a row, I have defeated what I consider my most equivalent competition, though only by .093 of a sec. C drives a '04 or '05 Honda Accord Coupe V6 6-Speed Manual. Its a big ole car like mine :-)

Overall after the PAX (Index Modifier to make all cars equivalent), I finished 47 out of 83 drivers today. Close to the midway pt which is my best performance thus far. We have two pts events left. I am still pretty far back in pts, hanging out in third place.