The Weekend

So today was So good day. I worked my usual time and we made over 2,000 dollars in profit! Pretty sweet but that not all that happened over the weekend. I won the speech competition that I thought I would lose for sure. Three funny stories about that. The first is that I ran into a good friend of our good family friends, she was a teacher at one of our local Christian Schools and she was there to support two of her students. I asked whom they were and found out that one of them was the younger brother of the boy that I had lost to two years previously (I didn’t do it last year) He was the age I was when I went up against his elder brother and I was his older brothers age. When I went up and signed in, the lady at the desk told me there were X amount of...and to pick a number. As I fished around in the offered plastic-baggie I was praying, “God if you give me number one, I know that I’ll win” I gave it to the lady to read imagine the pleasant shock I got when she said, “Okay, you’re going first.” Yeah, God really does answer prayer when you least expect it. The last funny thing is: in my speech I mentioned that Cornerstone Presbyterian Church was built in 1940, well it was not. It’s finished state happened in 1958, the blueprints and land clearing were started in 1956. The only reason I knew this was because the very first Pastor of the church was sitting in the audience judging the speeches, needless to say I was counted off for inaccurate information. His was the only low score I got though, the rest were all above 90’s. I aced the “Suitability of topic for Saint Mary’s” on all of them though.

Because I work at a bookstore I have been doing a lot of reading in the past few weeks. My boss has decided to give me an “education in the classics”. I have this huge list of classic children books and “morally uplifting” to read. It’s taking me a little longer than normal to read them because she’s retraining my speedreading abilitys to slow down and get what the author is saying. Which may be one of the reasons I like Henty’s so much, big interesting words that I can skim over without really understanding what is really going on. She, my boss, is very smart and a fascinating study, she I think, is what I hope to be as an adult. Her grandson is quite interesting but for a different reason. I’m laughing as I write this, today I found out he has this list of girls and he’s giving them a rate of 1-10 with the end goal of dating the ten. Well, he came in yesterday to “talk to his grandmother” but needless to say, I was not there, I was sitting for four hours in an auditorium. My boss was giving me little tips like, don’t text when you come over for dinner, this is his favorite color, don’t tease him about this and that, Ask how many pounds he can lift, Don’t cross his sister, etc. Yeah... So I’m not really worried, it looks like I may get a prom experince yet.

Story time children! I’ve been reading Pro Life Answers to Pro Arguments by Randy Alcorn for my own enjoyment. One chapter talks about Mentally handicapped Children. It says “Handicapped children are not social liabilities, and bright and “normal” people are not always social assets.” And then proceeds to tell this story as told by geneticist C Everret Koop, “Many years ago, my father was a Jewish physician in Braunau, Austria.  On one particular day, two babies had been delivered by on of his colleagues.  One was fine, healthy boy with a strong cry.  His parents were extremely proud and happy.  The other was a little girl, but her parents were extremely sad, for she was (Down’s Syndrome) baby.  I followed them both for almost fifty years.  The girl grew up, living at home, and was finally destined to be the one who nursed her mother through a very long and lingering illness after a stroke.  I do not remember her name.  I do however, remember the boy’s name.  He died in a bunker in Berlin.  His name was Adolf Hitler.” I cried the first time I read this,