Category Archive:Moose Nuggets

That’s not a . . .

November 21st, 2006 / Categories: Family, Moose Nuggets / 2 Comments »

One of my joys four days a week is taking TAT to early school before I go to work. He meets a small group of students and they get some extra attention from a teacher.

One day recently as we rushed in three of his little friends were sitting on a couch chatting with a teacher. I did my normal good-bye thing – I gave (and received) a big hug from TAT and told him to have a great day in school and to learn bunches.

Then I gave him a kiss.

We are a close family – hugs and kisses abound – we enjoy each other and love each other.

The teacher looked up and said . . .

T____ are you letting a GIRL kiss you?

He looked her right in the eye and said . . . (more…)

Conviction

November 18th, 2006 / Categories: I wanna go home!, Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

I receive emails from someone who is on a foreign mission field. For the safety of many, that is all that I can say about it. A scripture is written with each message and today’s blessed me mightily:

Romans 1:16  “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

There is blessing and conviction in that verse. The conviction comes from the first part – “for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ . . .”There is no shame in telling you all that I am a believer in Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. Yet, sometimes I fear I hide that fact. Thus the conviction.

It is easier, at times, to play along with those around us – joining in on the reindeer games, so to speak. It is easier to titter at an off color joke than it is to simply turn and walk away (taking the chance that someone else might be offended by our actions???)

It is easier to join in on the office gossip – to cross the line from confidence to expose’ – so much easier . . . in THIS world.

but in the next world – I will be facing my God – and He will be demanding the reasons – and I will be responsible for what I have done or not done on this earth.

no less forgiven, understand, but responsible nonetheless.

It is my prayer that He will see only His Son’s shadow in front of me – for I am forgiven by His blood on the cross. Praise Him!

Have an awesome Saturday, everyone. 

 

Mass Exercise

November 17th, 2006 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

The local emergency responders, CERT teams, and Civil Air Patrol are holding a mass immunization exercise today. The scenario is a bioterrorism threat with resultant immunizations needed by the entire community.

Two locations have been set up with a goal of seeing 500 people (between the two locations) going through an hour.

The pull? Free flu shots.

I was there bright and early this morning and was able to make it through all five stations (greeting, check-in, immunization, checkout, survey) in right around 5 minutes. Everyone had big smiles on their faces – broadened by my own quirky sense of humor, of course. 😮

Our receptionist went by about an hour or so later and discovered there was no way to get into the parking lot – so that is a good thing – that they are busy, not that she couldn’t get into the parking lot.

People are encouraged to go through the exercise even if they don’t want a flu shot. The big push is to see how many people they can accommodate in the 6 hours or so the exercise is going on.

I’ll show you my special bandaid later.

:moose:

it’s nice

November 16th, 2006 / Categories: Moose Nuggets / 3 Comments »

to have a listening ear sometimes . . .

we actually learned a bit about that at our staff meeting yesterday when a coworker presented on compassion fatigue. Very interesting topic.

One of the main points that I heard was to use your coworkers to debrief if needed – and to listen to them when they need to do the same.

I’ve never found that hard to do where I work. And that is always a good thing.

Sorry folks – don’t have any more than that for now – maybe later. You all have a wonderful Thursday – next week is Thanksgiving! Do you have the bird out of the freezer yet?

Looks like Lisa will be having pheasant!

This is NOT

November 15th, 2006 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / 1 Comment »

a weather blog . . . but, really, folks . . . how could I NOT talk about the weather? We are having terrific – horrific – wondrous – awesome windstorms this week. Not sure how high the gusts are, but it makes for interesting wind chill factors. Must protect those extremities, people!

And, I am not a great example, either. I happilty wander around all winter bareheaded, light jacketed, bootless, and often, mitton/glove-less. Of course, the extent of my outdoors forays is from my house to my car (previously plugged in by hubby Moose – and auto started from my living room – how spoiled can a moose get?) then from my car to my office – reverse that at lunchtime – reverse again homeward bound.

I am that unusual Alaskan who does NOT play outdoors in the winter months. I am happiest curled up with a poor man’s mocha and a book or my knitting – or a bowl of popcorn (liberally buttered, thank you very much) and a favorite movie or tv program. You can find me thus most evenings.

Of course, you must remember, that this moosie is getting up into her dotage years – hahahaha – it takes a youngun to play in the Alaskan wintry out of doors. Oh, wait, I didn’t do much of it when I was younger, either. Too busy raising my own younguns and making sure their faces and such didn’t freeze when I forced them to go outside to play.

🙂 heh

And, to add to our weather related topic, we awoke this morning to hear, first, that a tsunami warning had been generated due to an 8 point something quake in Japan – and, second, that said warning had been cancelled because the biggest wave was only about 16 inches.

Gotta love those ups and downs, right? Right.

Have a great day, everyone!

:moose:

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