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so here i am, taking care of some freelance in my office, space heater 6″ away from my leg…sipping on some “rooibos sunshine” loose leaf tea. my coworker dalton and i have become addicted to rooibos, and there just happens to be a loose leaf tea shop a few miles from the church which has probably a hundred kinds of loose leaf tea. so we have our little tea station in our communications workroom. i’ll admit, we’ve become tea snobs.

earlier today, as i was getting ready – applying eyeliner or something – one of those thoughts [that you know aren’t your own] pops in my head and says, “Why even bother? You know you can’t compete.”

I knew exactly what this statement meant and where it came from. I seem to have my brain locked into this “22 years old is the perfect age” mindset. It probably was one of the best years of my life. And now as I creep ever-so-more up on 30, I realize that superfically, aging is something I’m not looking forward to.

You would never hear me say it aloud, but I am horribly competitive. A few years back, after a fierce game of Uno, we all went to eat. We talked about the game and I said something about how “I’m glad I’m not one of those competitive crazy people.” Steve, normally laid back and not too expressive, smacks his hand down on the table and says, “SWEET JESUS ANNE, YES YOU ARE!”

After Steve’s statement, the fact I had broken many a Super Nintendo controller in my youth, as well as chalking up several technical fouls during my high school basketball career, I realize – yes, I am extremely competitve.

This competitive nature also comes in the form of my appearance. The voice that snuck in unexpectedly today was pushing that competitive button – making me feel there’s no way I can physically compete with the beautiful, early-20 year olds that seem to overflow out of the Rockwall city limits.

Fortunately, a Voice much louder and more important reminded me, “Why do you need to compete, anyway?”

Eh. Good point.

Now if only I can convince myself to believe it…

today is an ice day.
although where i am, there isn’t any ice.
so i am sifting through my credit report
calling people in india,
promising i am not the person
who opened a phone account
and ran up $800.
and sending them my notarized
ftc report to prove it.

identity theft is not fun.
i have disputed 23 items on my credit report in the last month.
if you haven’t looked at your credit report lately – please do.

speaking of theft
i thank whoever dlink is
for their open wifi spot
of which i am partaking.

as i have no internet at home
except the blackberry.

my birthday is a little over a month away. and after going to christina’s fabuloso fiesta on thursday, i am inspired to have a shindig as well. what should i do?

Cisco is suing Apple and seeking an injunction to prevent Apple from using Cisco’s “iPhone” US trademark. As of yesterday, Cisco representatives said that a deal was close for licensing the trademark to Apple, however it appears as though Apple’s announcement before a deal was reached may have forced Cisco into the courts.

“Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name,” said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. “There is no doubt that Apple’s new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.

“Today’s iPhone is not tomorrow’s iPhone. The potential for convergence of the home phone, cell phone, work phone and PC is limitless, which is why it is so important for us to protect our brand,” Chandler concluded.

With its lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Cisco is seeking an injunction to prevent Apple from copying Cisco’s iPhone trademark.

Note: While Cisco has the US trademark for “iPhone,” Apple does have the trademark for “iPhone” in some other countries.

(link MacRumors; thanks Jared)

ALSO…a new feature added to the iPhone. Meet the iPhone Quattro – Now you can shave while you talk!

Does everyone HAVE to blog about the iPhone? It has been announced for the last 24 hours and I am already sick of it. It’s like a new Nickelback song. You get in your car, Nickelback’s on. You go to the grocery store, it’s on again. You pick up your dry cleaning, good ol’ Chad’s singing. You go to TGIFriday’s, “Been farrrr away furrr farrr too lonnng”. You simply cannot escape it. And at the end of the day you want to stab your eyes out.

So is the same with the new iPhone and bloggers! I know half the people in my Google Reader blogged about it (and I love each and every one of you) but it’s just getting silly! :)

Every party has a pooper and yes, I am pooping on this party. Apple is innovative… We’ve all known that for a while. They are the kings of buzz and I give them props. But it is obvious they have 98% of the blogging community under mind control.

i am more affected by this blog than i care to let on. the more comments i get, the more inspired i am to write. the more daily visitors i have, the more i feel like i am making a difference. and all that is bull crap. i am relying far too much on this thing to make me feel successful in my ministry or in relationships. and that’s nothing but a lie.

There are some lyrics by JET that kinda describe this for me.

You tried so hard to be someone
That you forgot who you are
You tried to fill some emptiness
Til all you had spilled over

Now everything’s so far away
That you don’t know
Where you are
You are

When all that you wanted
And all that you have
Don’t seem so much
For you to hold on to
For you to hold on to
For you to belong to

When it’s hard to be ourselves
It’s not to be someone else
Still everything’s so far away
That you forget who you are
You are

When all that you wanted
And all that you have
Don’t seem so much
For you to hold on to
For you to hold on to

(By the way, I’m not sad or depressed or moody or funky. I feel fine. Just learning some things.)

Copying Mr. Tony Morgan, here is what happened on FlowerDust.net in 2006!

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Here’s to a great 2007! By the way, I don’t really have internet right now at home, so blogs will be few and far between for a while. I can still email from Chris’ BlackBerry though…so don’t let the love stop.

whenever i would hear reports of car bombings or iraqi violence, it always blended into to background – somewhere in between the weather report and traffic. i have friends with family over there, and my dad is a vet, but somehow it has just become something that never really stood out to me when i watched the news.

until i found out my friend nathan was in baghdad.

i’ve known nathan about half my life. he was always our waiter at IHOP on family-night fridays when my parents would take my brother and me out to eat. i really didn’t mind, and found him pretty cute. plus he would make me the best cherry cokes ever. i started my freshman year in high school and realized nathan also went to my school. we started hanging out, and after i moved to dallas my junior year, i’d go back to abilene and we’d always spend time together. about the same time i graduated, he moved to seattle, but we still kept in touch, writing letters (this was before email was as convenient as it is now)…i still have some of his letters…filled with awesome prayers and songs he’d write.

as life would have it, nathan moved to dallas and we ended up working at the same company four years later. we reconnected and hung out, but as our dot-com imploded, we lost touch again, and i moved to kansas.

occasionally i’d google his name to see whatever happened to my friend. i tried to find him to let him know i was getting married. no luck.

until just a few months ago when he found my blog online and left a comment.

i emailed him – so happy that a life-long friend was back in the picture. he had gotten married too, and although he’s not in the military, he works for the government in baghdad.

now each and every time “those” kind of reports come on the news, my pulse quickens a little bit and i get anxious wondering if my friend for the last 14 years is alright. i pray for his wife, who has got to be missing him something awful.

i just found out he gets to come back to the states for a few days in january, after two years of being gone. if you think about it, please pray for his safety there with the recent events and execution. that he’d have a safe trip home, and quality time with his wife.

so there is this girl i randomly found on myspace a week or so ago. a friend of a friend of a friend who goes to this school…click, click, click. anyway, she is just 17 and is in the hospital, has been there for over a month, with a growth on her pancreas. tomorrow, yep, the day after christmas, she is having a tricky surgery where the surgeons will go through her throat to drain the cyst and remove it.

since i dont even know her really (although she is from the dallas area) i’m not going to post her myspace, but if you could leave a comment here letting her know she is in your thoughts and prayers, i thought it’d be really cool to have her visit to see all the people who are praying for her and her recovery. i can’t imagine how crappy it is spending thanksgiving and christmas in a hospital. :( but she is really keeping a great attitude and you can tell her friends really care and miss her.

we will call her “E” – so if you’d leave a prayer below for her, that would be awesome. you guys talk about underwear and rick warren, so surely you can say you’re praying for a lovely young lady!!