July 4, 2009

• Happy Birthday United States of America! …

  Sorta feel odd just saying “America” since Canada is part of the “Americas” but isn’t really part of the good o’l U.S. Americans – well depending on who you ask. 

  Learned a new word the other day: propitiation –
  

  In Christian theology, propitiation is the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, by which He fulfills the wrath of God (both an emotional response of anger and a moral response of indignation), and conciliates Him who would otherwise be offended by our sin and would demand that we pay the penalty for it. The concept of propitiation is associated in some Christian theological systems with indemnity, imputed righteousness, and substitutionary atonement.

  We spent our July 3rd day off by helping the local economy.  We still need another two dining chairs to have enough seats around our dining table.  For those looking to buy dining room furniture I don’t recommend our method of buying the table separately from the chairs.  Just buy the set and be done with it.  I received a $20 off coupon for the World Market a few days ago and add that to the $15 off coupon I already had we went to buy the last set of chairs.  When we got to the store we found out that the chairs were also on sale!  So triple bonus for us!

  Still, we have some friends staying with us on Sunday night.  Everyone has complained about our guest bed (What?  It’s not a deterrent to ever stay with us again? ) being too soft.  I mean I’ve only had it since 1992.  After trying all the main retail stores (Macy’s, JC Penny’s, and Sears) we couldn’t find any really nice, firm mattresses and didn’t cost as much as our queen mattress.  So we decided to try one of those mattress stores you hear about – Mattress Discounters, Mattress Warehouse, etc.  I already feel iffy about those places because they seem so sketchy.  But we wanted to get a mattress so we had no choice but to at least look.  And lo and behold this placed called Mattress Fame had extra firm mattresses!  Pretty decent selection and much cheaper prices.  Who knows if the mattress will last but we were at least happy with what we tried at the store.  Dude tied it down on the roof of our car and we drove the 3 miles back to our house.

  Since our family and friends are coming over this weekend we went to the local Giants to stock up on some food.  Typically we use one of the hand held scanners because it’s not just fun but they also give coupons on the scanner.  We’re not the type to clip coupons mostly because we forget them.  I’m sure at some point we’ll be more diligent in using coupons if we actually got the paper to supply us with coupons but I guess that’s a different issue.  While in the scanner checkout line I noticed a ton of people just using the registers as self-checkout.  Man that sucked.  Hello that’s not what these stations are used for.  I’m guessing God wanted me to learn something because as soon as we tried to checkout the station basically barfed our whole shopping experience.  It didn’t like our Giants Bonus card nor the scanners inventory of what we had scanned in.  It took a manager about 20 minutes before we were finally checked out.  Ironic ain’t it?

  Anyways, hope everyone has a safe and fun July 4th!  Also check out this cool article about a baseball bat turned into a violin.

  America Bless God!

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