Best holiday photos

Happy Holidays from my family...

in 1987...









and now!

(note: we now have matching blue v-neck sweaters!)

New signs (at work)

The Medieval Scholars St. Thomas Aquinas and The ladies of the View

The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.

Aquinas believed “that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs Divine help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act.” However, he believed that human beings have the natural capacity to know many things without special divine revelation, even though such revelation occurs from time to time, “especially in regard to [topics of] faith.”^[12] Aquinas was also an Aristotelian and an empiricist. He substantially influenced these two streams of Western thought.

Aquinas believed that truth is known through reason (natural revelation) and faith (supernatural revelation). Supernatural revelation is revealed through the prophets, Holy Scripture, and the Magisterium, the sum of which is called “Tradition”. Natural revelation is the truth available to all people through their human nature; certain truths all men can attain from correct human reasoning. For example, he felt this applied to rational proofs for the existence of God.

Though one may deduce the existence of God and His Attributes (One, Truth, Good, Power, Knowledge) through reason, certain specifics may be known only through special revelation (Like the Trinity). In Aquinas’s view, special revelation is equivalent to the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. The major theological components of Christianity, such as the Trinity and the Incarnation, are revealed in the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Scriptures and may not otherwise be deduced.

Supernatural revelation (faith) and natural revelation (reason) are complementary rather than contradictory in nature, for they pertain to the same unity: truth.

Here to expound further are the ladies of The View (stuck somewhere in the Middle Ages) :

For your fat stupid child this Christmas...

how about a Power Wheels Escalade?

New Work (at work)

My Birthday!!!

I just turned 26! We went to Szalas for dinner, which everyone should do at least once.


You have to ring a bell on a rope to be let inside!





It is decorated like a Polish village. Yes that is a stuffed bear background.





These guys are there and they sing Polish drinking songs...drunk.




Did I mention that the menus are made out of leather?




My mom gave me a My Little Pony card. She changed the inside so it read:

A wish for a sweet little girl
who's 26--
Hope all of your birthday dreams
come twix.

The card was meant for a 2 year old and she crossed out the word "true" and wrote in "twix" so it would rhyme. It was the most fun birthday ever!

Rococo Nightmare Part Deux

My mom got me a cover for my old crappy couch, and though the new cover is hideous, it is much much better than looking at the stained, pastel, home-for-dust-mites couch that came with my apartment.

See the original Rococo Nightmare Here

Music I've Deleted Forever From My Itunes

Note: a lot of this music was given to me, I didn't pick it out myself.

Bright Eyes
Eric Clapton
Grateful Dead
All Christmas music
Devendra Banhart
BoDeans
Sarah McLachlan
Counting Crows
Bob Marley
Joanna Newsom
!!!
Steve Miller Band
Burial
Randy Newman
Lupe Fiasco
Paul McCartney

New at Work

When the holidays are over, one of those cakes on the cake plate is going to be hung up in my kitchen.



Where have the cookies moved to? They've moved to COOKIE TOWN!





This chalk board is informative and also educational.





Our manager hated this sign so much he tore it down and threw it in the trash. It doesn't make sense unless you've seen our Easter ham sign:

Downtown when Obama won

Omega Man

Our boss said he liked the sign but that we couldn't have any guns in it, so we changed it to this:



Which I think is better anyway.

New Signs at Work

I wish I could take credit for this one, but it was all Kent's doing. The golden girls are saying, "Unlike us, these crackers are suitable for entertaining."





This one is my work. Apparently, we both really like making fun of old people.

Hagia Sophia Progress

I'm making progress! Every step forward on this project is accompanied by at least 8 new problems, but look I'm really doing it! Next week I'm going to paint it and put the dome on top. Hopefully it will look just like this:

A painting of mine was in a show.

" Oh hi! You caught me telling a hilarious story at the 11th annual Chicago Art Open."





Standing by my painting. "I hope I don't run into anyone I went to school with."

More New Seasonal Signs at Work

Pumpkins! Everywhere!

New Seasonal Signs at Work

All that coloring and those turkey/hand-outline drawings in school really paid off.