Mr. Kristen

A couple of the girls that I work with and I are listening to an audio book about how to hold important conversations effectively. One of the things we learned yesterday was that when adrenalin is flowing through your body more blood goes to your muscles groups and blood actually leaves parts of your brain. Which is why sometimes when you are emotional you say things that seem smart at the time but not so smart later, when all the blood is back in your brain.

Anyways. I discovered that I am not immune to this today when I received the following phone call.

Me: "Human Resources, This is Kristen."
Indian-accented Pharmacist: Silence
Me: "Hello?"
Indian-accented Pharmacist: Can I speak to Mr. Kristen please.
Me: (Already a bit annoyed having received an email from this person addressed to a Mr. Kristen.) "This is Miss Kristen"
Indian-accented Pharmacist: I received an email from Mr. Kristen asking me to contact him.
Me: I'm Kristen
Indian-accented Pharmacist: Something I don't remember because the blood is leaving my brain, but I think it had something to do with, can I please speak with Mr. Kristen.
Me: I'm Kristen. I'm a girl.
Indian-accented Pharmacist: Oh

Yeah. Thinking back on this dialogue, I probably should just asked what he wanted and used a deeper voice...... ;)

It's not that cold.....

This weekend I went to the beach with some of my friends despite weather predictions of below 70 degree temperatures....We thought, hey it's sunny out. It will be nice! Which, it was sunny and beautiful outside. However, we decided to play in the waves. It really didn't feel that cold at the time. But we were the ONLY people on the whole beach (did I mention that its Spring Break?) who actually got in the water! And we stayed in for a good while. Which was fun and kindof invigorating. However, when we got out it was REALLY cold. And we had drifted a very long way down the beach so we had to walk back against the wind. It took me awhile to warm up after that....

Still, it was very nice to spend time outside this weekend!

Washed Clean

Tonight I gave my lovely little kitty a bath. She was not very happy about this. But as most of you know, she is fluffly thing and as such tends to attract a lot of dirt. It was time for a bath. I hopped in the tub with her and turned on the water. It was amazing to see how much dirt came off of her. I also love how she smells and feels when it's all over.

I couldn't help but think that sometimes God must feel like that about us. He knows we are dirty and that he can make us look and smell so much better. But sometimes that involves going through the water. But God doesn't just throw us in and hope for the best. He jumps in with us and help us remove the dirt from our lives. And when we're out it's amazing how much better and cleaner we can feel.