Women are like lionesses at the gate of the home. . . . She guards that gate, and things matter to that family if they matter to her. . . . Sisters, you are each like the lioness at the gate. This means that there has to be some prioritizing. I was taught years ago that when our priorities are out of order, we lose power. If we need power and influence to carry out our mission, then our priorities have to be straight.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Michael's list of threes

Three Things I Love:
1. My wonderful wife and cutest baby and furry kitty
2. Sports
3. Music

Three Things I Hate:
1. Bad drivers
2. Pundits, talking heads, and everything else about 24 hour news networks
3. Incompetence in general

Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. Shaelyn
2. Maggie, when she’s hallucinating
3. Will Ferrell

Three Things that Scare Me:
1. Anything happening to my family
2. Going down in a plane crash
3. Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor

Three Things I Don't Understand:
1. How any offspring of mine can be as adorable as Shaelyn is
2. Terrorism
3. Homosexuality

Three Things On My Desk (at work):
1. Florida Gators mini-helmet
2. Stacks of data tabulations for me to analyze and create reports and presentations on
3. Framed pictures of my family

Three Things I Plan To Do Today:
1. Head up a meeting on industry best practices for fit testing in jeanswear
2. Hold the baby and act like a goofball to make her smile
3. Smooch on Shelley for awhile

Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
1. Live in France
2. Play in the NBA (who wouldn’t want to make millions doing something they love?)
3. Do, say, write, or create something that makes the world a better place

Three Things I Can Do:
1. Make people laugh
2. Forgive very easily
3. Rattle off worthless sports and pop culture trivia

Three Things I Can't Do:
1. Shoot higher than 60% from the free-throw line
2. Drive a stick shift
3. Keep from making sarcastic comments

Three Things I Miss:
1. My 6-pack abs
2. Having three months off for summer vacation
3. Decent movies

Three Things I'd Like to Learn:
1. How to play the electric guitar
2. How to invest wisely
3. How to fly

Three Things I Regret:
1. Bodyslamming my sister April once when we were growing up
2. Some of my dating choices
3. Losing touch with some of my closest friends

Three Favorite Foods:
1. Café Rio
2. Red Robin
3. Macaroni Grill

Three Favorite TV Shows as a Kid:
1. Saved by the Bell (Everybody loves Screech!)
2. ChiPs (Everybody loves Ponch!)
3. Jeopardy! (Nerdy, I know, but there’s a reason I’m smarter than you)

Three People I Tag
1. Jeremy
2. Greg
3. Maggie

Cleverly written by Michael