The Evil Conspiracy.....

at 01/04/10 6:00PM

So the folks who decided who lives and who dies in computer world at my work have discovered Pleonast.com and found it to be most wicked and deserving of death.

Or, in less dramatic terms, work has blocked my pleo access. Sigh. The one last resort to real life that I could take solace in at work has been rent from me! Tragedy.

So, to those of you who have left me messages recently, I'm sorry i haven't been able to get them! I appreciate it! Soon I shall have in my posession a shiney new lappy and I will be able to internet to my hearts content. I will then respond to you. but not at work.

Anyway, hope ya'll are doing well and had a HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)

It must be a conspiracy because they are taking ours away at work too

by cojac at 01/04/10 9:03PM
I hope this doesn't happen to me; it's my last link to the outside world too! :)

by rissaj at 01/04/10 10:22PM
Bummer.

by slave_of_jesus_jdb at 01/05/10 12:06AM
:P no fun. Happy New Year to you too!

I met one of your friends this past week. Stephanie Black. She gave us housing during the John studies in Indiana. :) It was a blast.

by smiley_face at 01/05/10 3:50PM
SO THEY BLOCKED PLEO! HOW DARE THEY! Well, then I am going to teach you how to bypass there security threw a PROXY. Type in this website in your browser http://www.bypassproxy.us/ once at the page you will see an entry field labeled "Enter Address" Where is says HTTP:// just type the web address for pleo, facebook, whatever, and you should have full access. Just don't' get caught. This works pretty much anyplace that blocks addresses, college, library, internet cafe, work, Airports. Some times they try to block such proxy sites, but there all over the place. Just google= How to bypass a proxy, you'll get a list. Most businesses do this for productivity reasons, security, bust mostly because of bandwidth constraints, and lastly your Domain Admin Is a Jerk, or has a Jerk as a Boss! And this is why, i can guarantee you he is not blocked by the same internet constraints as everyone else! Admins always leave a back door! HACK-THE-PLANET-MAN!! POWER TOO THE PEOPLE! Ya! ;-)

by rojo at 01/06/10 10:37PM
its about time you get some work done! hee hee :)

by tmepiper at 01/07/10 3:28PM
Hurry up and get re-connected, because the Voice is back on here. ;~)

by brockeroo at 01/16/10 1:21AM
Just fyi, Wendy's is the devil. You found that out over the weekend, didn't you? ;~P

by brockeroo at 02/01/10 3:04PM
you can always quit! ;-)

by sarahpet at 02/15/10 7:19PM
http://www.flyohio.com/MotorsandGliders.html

by rojo at 03/18/10 5:41PM
used to use proxify.com to get around the work proxy at one place I was... once... upon a time...

by shinri at 04/05/10 5:31PM
used to use proxify.com to get around the work proxy at one place I was... once... upon a time...

by shinri at 04/05/10 5:31PM
Cool, Not heard of that one, I will Check it out! I often find Airports that try to block Youtube and Netflix!! WHY?? It's STUPID! So thats when I generally try out different Proxy sites. Thanks for the Info!

by rojo at 04/06/10 9:47AM
funny, my work did that with Facebook! Really, it doesn't do them much good to block websites b/c people come in with their fancy phones and plug into the computer and can use the computer's internet to go whereever they want on their phone.

by lilsis at 09/15/10 8:32AM
haha!

by micah at 09/19/10 3:07PM
Ahah! Well, I might have to post something new now that you can use it again.

by unclespike at 05/06/11 1:30PM

My Friends=My Blessings

at 12/16/09 3:51PM

So I'm just sitting here with my colorful red and green pens writing up some Christmas cards and thinking thoughts to write down to all these people I love. As I am writting and thinking about all these wonderful people, I am just filled up with thanksgiving to God for putting so many wonderful people in my life! Theres been so many times when I've been in a rough situation or needed a helping hand or a shoulder to weep upon and there has always been a friend in my life that God put there. I have been so blessed with all these friends and family members.
Thank you all for your kindness and love and may God return many blessings to you!!

Awwwww, shucks...

by slave_of_jesus_jdb at 12/16/09 10:52PM
I love and miss you!!

by denisemccaskill at 12/16/09 11:42PM
Awww, how nice. You've been an awesome friend to so many people, too! You've been there for me many times and helped me out tremendously!!! I love you!!!

by lilsis at 12/17/09 9:51AM
Wow. Um...sorry? :)

by noby_wan at 12/17/09 12:52PM
haha, i do what i can. how's that for taking one for the team?

by big_guy at 12/17/09 4:38PM
What!? You mean your whining was fake all along?! Ugh! Well...good! We'll play Sleeping Beauty the next time I see you, and you can be Maleficent.

by babyelephant at 12/17/09 5:01PM
oh Em!! i just wrapped your birthday present in a fresh box! i will try to get it to post office at lunch and if not..Saturday morning for sure! Neal is even informed :)

yes! now we have to do the nooks and cranny tour and swell our brains with all kinds of mansion history and stories!!! maybe when it becomes your summer home we could buy a lamp or so to "perk" it up some. i just can't see you staying in some place less than fabulous ;)
you're the best, Em. thanks for being my friend.

by take_the_wheel at 12/17/09 5:46PM
Merry Christmas, Emily! how are you doing?

by miss_lester at 12/25/09 10:38PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

by rojo at 01/03/10 8:09PM

I forget where you live....

at 12/04/09 8:55AM *

Who do I know that lives in Columbus Ohio? I may be driving thorugh and need to stop there for Church on Sunday morning, December 13th......

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Looks like I'll probly go to a church south of Cbus-the one where Dan Ruegg preaches. thanks everybody! :)

Me, me! I live in Columbus! :) Let me know if you need a place to stay or anything. We go to Laurel Canyon.

by rissaj at 12/04/09 9:34AM
I just renamed Nashville to Columbus and renamed Tennessee to Ohio. So now I live in Columbus, OH, you can visit my church!!!

by lilsis at 12/04/09 10:49AM
You know us-- we just bought a house in Aug so we have plenty of room!

by madam_librarian at 12/05/09 8:34AM
Thanks, sister ;)

by slave_of_jesus_jdb at 12/07/09 6:09PM
Tabby and her husband Jared do.

by smiley_face at 12/08/09 5:03PM
Are you coming Saturday morning or need a place Friday night too? We can spend most all of Saturday if you wants. Neal and I are heading to "down home" holiday Sunday afternoon. We stop and attend AM church where Dan Reug (oh i can't spell that name :P) preaches :) it's just south of Columbus, but you are welcome to spend the night Saturday night too. :) I'm just itchin with excitement to see you! :)

by take_the_wheel at 12/08/09 9:14PM
Yes they got custody of her when she was 9ish.

by madam_librarian at 12/09/09 9:07AM
Good to see you last night at New Salisbury even though I didn't talk to you. :)

by noby_wan at 12/11/09 5:29PM
Hopefully. We'll see.

by noby_wan at 12/14/09 3:53PM
Hey Em, heard you were briefly in town! Sorry i missed you. Hope all is well with you. :-)

by rojo at 12/14/09 5:25PM
good to see you last wk; thanks for coming to the mtng. sorry i was out of sorts and couldn't visit with y'all more. God bless!

by happinessisthelord at 12/14/09 11:50PM

My Evil Sister.....

at 11/30/09 12:26PM

So every year for Thanksgiving our family plays Bingo with goofy prizes. The goofier the prize the better-generally theres a can of Spam, or halloween candy from like 5 years previous. one year my sister worked at a national park and one of the prizes she contributed was a bottle of cayote urine (it was just the used bottle-she had refilled it with water.....at least I think she did.....). Part of the joy is who ends up winning a particular prize-such as the time my Gramma got the pocket spitoon as one of her prizes.

This year there were the usual horribly cheesy dollar store picture frames, ugly Christmas ornaments, toilet bowl cleaner, and a little something extra. There was a lack of prizes this year, so before we played my sister scrounged about the house and found some appropriate junk to wrap and put in the prize bucket. Well, along comes the first or second Bingo and my cousin in law picks out her prize. We all eagerly await as she unwraps a box. And inside we see a pair of shoes, well, thats odd, shoes are usually too expensive for a Bingo prize, and hey, those shoes look pretty nice. Any HEY, those shoes look pretty familiar too! WAIT A MINUTE-Those are mine! I shout!

Yes, in her scrounging my sister had decided to delve into my suitcase. I had to reclaim my shoes, a skirt, and a few other items throughout the game-fortunately none too personal!

Oh my evil sister....

A few moments later everyone heard a ringing sound from inside the prize bucket. Jen shouts-hey! Wait a minute! Thats MY phone!!
muahahahahahhaaa.......

By the way, thanks for your encouragement last week everyone-it helped bunches:) This week has been much better! love ya'll!

Ahahahaha!! That's funny!!

by onelittlecandle at 11/30/09 1:20PM
HAHAHA!!!! I didn't know you got her back!!!

by lilsis at 11/30/09 4:29PM
lol...good family memories! :-)

by smallfry79 at 11/30/09 5:31PM
HAHA! That's great! :)

by smiley_face at 11/30/09 6:26PM
HAHAHAHAHA! I love the Hewitt family! :)

by eladea at 11/30/09 10:06PM
Glad you had a good Thanksgiving!

by mayflower at 12/01/09 8:52PM
LOL thanks for the laugh, Em :) love you!

by take_the_wheel at 12/01/09 10:01PM
Heey, guess what! I was watching that good old Jimmy Stewart movie "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" and noticed that James Taylor said to "Stir up the hoi polloi." I got excited, because I'd never caught that before but this time I did and knew what it meant, thanks to you, my friend! :-)

by onelittlecandle at 12/03/09 10:30AM
I think they call that a "redistribution of wealth". :D

by grizzlytwelve at 12/04/09 5:24AM

So What do you do when....

at 11/24/09 9:16AM

So, lately I've had a few discouraging experiences. Some struggles with friends, some struggles at work with people who I thought were friends but have not shown themselves to be such, and lately I've just seen or heard of some discouraging examples among those who are older and wiser than me, people i respect.

Now, I've always been the first to say, give every one the benefit of the doubt! give second chances as many times as you have to! have faith in people and the fact that people can change, even though they make mistakes. But I have to balance this with the knowledge that some people won't change. That some people, though they have a sterling example on the outside, may have issues that I don't know about until it affects me or one of my friends.

what do you do when you lose a little faith in people?

pray. lots of prayer. Like you, I usually give the benifit of the doubt, but it's sad to acknowlege that some won't change. I (right after I was baptized) had a dear sister in the faith that I looked up to sooo much. She and her husband were part of the reason that I got so interested in bible study and evangelism, they taught me how and fed my hunger. About two weeks after I was baptized they fell away. They converted to Catholicism(sp?). She even assisted me in getting ready to be baptized, and not a month later she was gone. It seriously tore me apart, but it helped me to put my faith to the test. I believe it helped me grow closer to God, and put my faith more in Him rather than people.

It's sad to know not everyone is going to be devoted and kind to others, but God is faithful all through life, and that's the heart of it all. This life is a spiritual battle, and Satan knows how to get us down, but we just have to look towards God and trust in Him.

I hope this helped. I'll be praying for you. : ) Love you Emily!

by smiley_face at 11/24/09 10:06AM
I have been there, chica. :-/ With people who were super close to me, numerous times. All you can do is pray for patience, try to be understanding and forgiving -- because you may be the very thing that causes a turning point! Believe me, they will appreciate it so much if you stick with them and help them through their down-time. :-) Optimism can be hard when it keeps getting shot down, though, so keep praying, and keep leaning on those you know you CAN count on. *Hug*

by dragonmyst at 11/24/09 10:14AM
Anytime, Em! I'm only a phone call or internet convo away! :-)

by dragonmyst at 11/24/09 11:28AM
I'd say, try to not lose faith in people in general, but it's good to not trust the people who have shown they aren't trustworthy (to the degree to which they have shown themselves to not be trustworthy). Pray for them though. If they repeatedly make the same mistakes and don't appear to be trying to change or if they're dishonest, I tend to distance myself from them. Closely associate with people who love God most, love you, and are honest. They'll encourage and strengthen you and your relationship with God. And be introspective... look inside your own heart and investigate any "secret sin" like David did in Psalms. It helps you show mercy and forgiveness when you realize how much you need it, too, annnnd, helps you avoid the "log in your own eye" syndrome. That's what I attempt to do. I'm often not very good at it though.

by lilsis at 11/24/09 12:11PM
I love you. I know it's a tough thing to wrestle with disappointment in people. You become afraid that you'll shrivel up into an old sour grump who is suspicious of everyone.

by lilsis at 11/24/09 12:15PM
it's a tough combination to balance. we are to love, forgive, as well as bear the loads of others; yet, some disappoint time and time again. what makes it tough is that we cannot see the hearts of men, and it is difficult to see if one is genuinely struggling and is just weak in a certain area, or if there is no real concern and the spirit of true repentance is nonexistent. what may help is placing myself in the other's position and ask what would i do for myself. perhaps the other struggles because they need someone to help bear the load, and we are falling short to that aspect. if we do all that we can and that person is no better off, then we can learn where their heart truly lies. it takes time, practice, lots of prayer as mentioned in one of the other comments above, studying, and down the road we'll have more wisdom to better judge various situations. no one is perfect, but we all must strive to be holy as He is holy.

by big_guy at 11/24/09 12:55PM
If I understand the nature of trust, trust is something that is earned. Until we know someone, we can neither completely trust them nor distrust them. We should be neither naive nor suspicious. And it does take introspection to stay balanced in that, for all of us.

by bravedave at 11/24/09 3:09PM
i make mistakes. i make lots of mistakes. and a lot of people very dear to me make mistakes too. i try to remember the best the thing about who people are and who they want to be. with those of the faith, it's being a christian. we're all at varying levels of maturity in Christ and it can be so frustrating when someone doesn't understand something or struggles with something we don't. a lot of times i read 1 corinthians 13. i burn the definition of love in my mind. "Love is..." and pray. I always find it interesting that even Jesus escaped the world to go to lone places to pray hours and hours to His Father. i can't imagine any other man being more disapointedand about the people around Him (those who believed (fellow christains) and didn't believe(friends in the work place)). it's hard. it's so hard. show them love. Love covers a multitude of sins. i think about that verse sometimes and think how true. grow in love towards others and you'll find that your love for them covers a multiude of their wrong doings. (a good example seeing that is in family) shine your light and, even when they bring you down, you will continue to hold joy in the Lord. Em, you're so wonderful words cannot even express. encourage them with your faith and your fabulous Emily smile, gently tell them if they are wrong (sometimes its hard to TALK to people when we're hurt). "oh lesser light we shine not bright with glory of our own, for we reflect a Greater Light". we are to live that other's see Christ living in us. christian or nonchristain-everyone must see our hope. Home (Heaven) is our goal and we need eachothers help to get there. :) keep your heart soft. i love you, Em. *hug*

by take_the_wheel at 11/24/09 9:05PM
Lets do it!! :) let me know details, i'll move my entire schedule (if one exists) around :)

by take_the_wheel at 11/27/09 1:17PM

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