tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11669382443598563462009-11-14T15:25:17.309-08:00Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-22084231223950035362009-10-30T15:46:00.000-07:002009-10-30T15:46:29.413-07:00

*Sigh* I wish I could say that I foresee more time for blogging in the future, but next month is going to be a whirlwind of chaos with seemingly everything happening all at once.  But I am sad that I have only gotten to this forum twice in the entire month.  So much has been happening within my life and my thoughts and heart and I wish I had some time to chronicle it, but oh well.  It is what it

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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars When it comes the business world portion of my life I have a few gurus who's word and findings I absolutely trust for the truth that they present.  Jim Collins is one such author.  His seminal work, "Good to Great" was the best business book I have ever read. His first work that he coauthored, "

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So earlier this year, I happened to watch one of the most amazing dance competitions called "Red Bull BC One" and wrote the following:"...After watching the Red Bull BC One, I have decided that if I believed in reincarnation, I would want to come back to earth as a B-Boy. Being 27, I think I have missed out on this dream, but man oh man, how I wish I knew about it back when I was a kid (dang

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-10543770384784203012009-09-21T11:04:00.000-07:002009-09-21T11:40:57.860-07:00

This weekend as I was thinking about this blog and what my next steps are going to be, I realized that I have been officially blogging for 2 years now! That is crazy. I never expected my little technology experiment in 2007 to advance this far...so far in fact that I started another blog at the beginning of this year and have been blogging for my company over at Signature WoodCrafters' blog. I

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There are a lot of things that are going through my head these days, but am having a hard time sifting through the ideas and thoughts and figuring out what to say in this little corner of my world. So until I can sift through all of them, just a few thoughts and one video...1 - Though I felt a little bad for Taylor Swift's "moment" being interrupted, I thought Kayne interrupting her was kind of

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-77913560424645862502009-09-03T09:57:00.000-07:002009-09-08T08:19:17.384-07:00

When I was in college, one of my favorite things to do was find awesomely, fantastic, useless stuff at K-Mart for my roommates. It was a mecca for me and I did find some pretty awesome stuff there. One of my favorite finds was a musical called "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" starring none other than David Hasselhoff. I got this gem for my roommate Rebekah because of her love for musical theater. We

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Was Russia's 'Hijacked' Ship Carrying Missiles to the Mideast?The article above from Time Magazine is kind of unbelievable. This is international politics and wars between intelligence agencies to the extreme. Do the Russians really believe that the world is going to accept their "official" version of events? There are too many questions that don't make sense in order to accept that and the

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-71747745443851995972009-08-31T15:08:00.000-07:002009-08-31T15:09:42.527-07:00

This post will mark 10 posts in August! That's a record for me - I've never had 10 succinct thoughts in a month that I have wanted to share with the World Wide Web. And yes, I do count this as Number 10.

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**I wanted to share a post from my other little blog corner of the world, Ruminations and Reflections. I loved this piece a lot and thought that I might as well post on here as well.**I am still making my way through the gem that is "The Only Necessary Thing" by Henri Nouwen. I love this piece on community that I read the other day. It is so true - I often think that in each person is God's

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-6575354527371921302009-08-26T14:11:00.000-07:002009-08-26T14:13:57.632-07:00

Check out this pretty amazing music video by Coldplay for their song "Strawberry Swing" off of the Viva la Vida album...and then let me know how long you think it took them to make it?Strawberry Swing Music Video

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-61557527484721481862009-08-26T10:23:00.000-07:002009-08-26T14:58:57.650-07:00

A bug has bit me. Something that goes by the name of "shopping" and "new fall fashions" and this desire to create pretty things. And then I got the new J. Crew September catalog. And, to borrow a phrase from Rachel Zoe (and yes, I feel a thousand times dumber for doing so), "I died".I L-O-V-E what this fall season is bringing to the table. I was not really inspired by the spring or summer

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-71117643792922322052009-08-18T09:59:00.001-07:002009-08-18T10:00:41.914-07:00

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-12199709366039617842009-08-15T12:31:00.000-07:002009-08-15T12:32:38.211-07:00

A Walk Across America by Peter JenkinsMy rating: 5 of 5 starsWhen I first started reading this book, I thought it was going to another tale like "Into the Wild" or something. I was a little put off by the way that it was written, judging it by my "high" standards of a well-written book. But as I continued reading and became captivated by the tale, I quickly learned that this was a book unlike

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-92179179889470486722009-08-13T10:41:00.001-07:002009-08-13T11:03:42.876-07:00

"Choice signifies love....God chose you because He loves you." ~ Father GregoryI heard that quote when I was in college and a couple of weeks ago I feel as if I gained a new understanding of the power of the choices that I make.A few weeks ago I had to go and help out with a golf tournament that my boss had "volunteered" me for. Honestly, I didn't mind, because it meant that I got to spend a

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-55021927561724035672009-08-13T09:09:00.000-07:002009-08-13T09:16:33.512-07:00

These guys used to have a show on MTV with their other coworkers...but I ran across their videos the other day and they crack me up. This is one of my favs :). Enjoy :)See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-67855652964584328012009-08-07T15:13:00.000-07:002009-08-07T15:20:28.520-07:00

I know that I may sound like a crazy person to keep bringing this up, but the Georgia-Russia conflict took another step yesterday when hackers brought down the entire Twitter network, caused Facebook disruptions and attacked the Blogger interface all in the name of silencing ONE individual who communicates on the web in favor of Georgia. (See story here).This really disturbs me. Who else sees

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-18384369389398757082009-08-05T14:57:00.000-07:002009-08-05T15:42:08.188-07:00

So, I do have a more poignant post coming soon - I have an idea that has been germinating since last week. But with the recent ending of The Bachelorette, Deadliest Catch, and the impending summer siesta of Burn Notice - and of course no Lost, or ABDC (until Sunday, woot woot!!), or really anything worthwhile to watch on TV, I have been going to my local Redbox and renting some films that I was

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-2978625279057547102009-07-27T14:06:00.000-07:002009-07-27T14:27:13.887-07:00

Last week, you almost got a very depressing post from the vast vaults of my mind. I was in a deep, dark depression, suffering from a confluence of events that ended up all culminating in these past few weeks of summer. It truly felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest still beating and aflame, a la' Temple of Doom. It was real pain and real hurt mingled with self-pity and lack of

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Today marks the anniversary in which President Nixon announced that he would visit communist China. It was a landmark event in the history of US foreign policy and it embodied a foreign policy worldview, first coined by Henry Kissinger (Secretary of State at the time), as "realpolitik". Realpolitik basically says (definition courtesy of The History Channel), that this is a policy of "politics

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The Host by Stephenie Meyer rating: 4 of 5 starsI don't know what it is about Stephenie Meyer, but she certainly has a way of capturing the imagination and interest of this reader. So much so that when I picked the book back up yesterday, I could only put it down once, and then once I started reading it again, I had to finish it before I went to bed. Meyer has a way of weaving a tale of such

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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell rating: 4 of 5 starsSo back in March of 2007 when I started this book, I thought it was ok - just another good, popular business book that I should probably read. The introduction was kind of dry and hard to get into when I was trying to read it on zero hours of sleep in the Charles De Gaulle Parisian airport. So I put it down for a bit...quite a long bit,

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-82088790088082505372009-07-06T15:34:00.000-07:002009-07-06T16:08:56.844-07:00

God is into miracles. Little ones. Big ones. Ones that require only a little bit of faith. Ones that require a mountain range plus Mt. Everest of faith. Ones in which it requires a little prayer. Ones in which a whole community rises up and surrounds a person or event with prayer. There are not many things that I am sure of, but of this I am - God is into miracles.Two of my friends from

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-20616181329921613182009-07-02T15:33:00.000-07:002009-07-02T15:44:33.459-07:00

Oh blog, bloggedy, blog, blog. I have been meaning and wanting to post thoughts, feelings, and reactions to a myriad of things for a while, but the demands of summer, life, and living with Jesus have been pretty pressing as of late. I hope to post some thoughts up here soon though about my completed trip to Young Life camp, as well as some other things that have been ruminating, marinating, and

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-59816317176086642672009-06-10T10:31:00.000-07:002009-06-10T10:33:06.710-07:00

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam HochschildMy reviewrating: 5 of 5 starsI finished reading this book about two or three weeks now I guess. The reason I have not reviewed it yet is because I don't want to acknowledge that I have in fact finished reading this book, because then it would just depress me that I do not have something as well-written

Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336783637792925807noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166938244359856346.post-37608418642803981292009-06-03T08:36:00.001-07:002009-06-03T08:55:23.920-07:00

Scene: Lauren is packing her things up after another long day at work. She looks at her watch - 7:55pm. *Sigh* She makes her way downstairs, for the final office check-through to make sure that everything is locked up so that she can set the alarm. As she walks down the hall to go out to the warehouse to double-check that everything is turned off and locked up, she notices a light on in one of

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