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23 February I second that!Truthfully, I don't think I ever thought I would stand up to defend someone as ridiculous as Britney Spears. However, I have to agree with Dooce. Cut the girl some slack. You don't have to live her life or live with her decisions. As I've said in my head to a million people about my own situations:
Walk a mile people!
Walk a mile.
So, Two thumbs up for Dooce. My prayers are going out to Britney and her children. 22 February Struck meI read this in an article today and it struck me . . . hard. So, I'm sharing.
I realize I'm not the only one whose dreams have been seriously delayed. I understand there are things far more threatening and frightening and sad than being without a husband and children. But this has long been my desire, and so it is the place from which I can truthfully speak. I know others who have had the very things I long for, then seen them wrenched away by tragedy or selfishness or simple neglect. I know that some pray for cancer to be gone, or for still limbs to stretch and move, or for the hardened heart of another to melt, or to hear that they're finally forgiven. My heart goes out to them. I want them to keep on hoping too. I do. It would be easier to let hope quietly die, but I don't. I choose to keep the faith because, in a way I can't completely fathom, I know that faith is the truest substructure of the things for which we hope—the real, actual foundation and substance of the heart's fiercest longing. It's the required "deposit" that must precede any future blessing. But even though I accept that an unbreakable connection exists between believing and receiving, it's easier for me to believe for another's hope than for my own. **** How is it possible to long for something so deeply and so desperately and never see it? Haven't I trusted in You, God, or have I only not trusted in me? Is the desire of my heart from You? And if so—haven't You promised to give it when I delight myself in You? And haven't I done that? Then what? When? How? I have waited on You alone. I want You, and no one else, to give me my desire of a husband and a family. Did Sarah ever remind You of her age? This Saturday, Lord God, is my birthday.* Another year and my desire is the same as it has ever been. All my distractions and old allegiances are gone. Killed. Severed. I am no one's now but Yours. I need You to give me the desires of my heart. I cannot get them for myself, by myself. Help me to look expectantly to the future You are forging for me, even now. To believe Your good loving-kindness exists for me and not just for others. Help me to count on You, to hope in You with confident assurance. Please. It's midnight, and I'm here: begging for my bread before the only one who can give it. Prepare a banquet for me, just because You are good. Please God, would You do that for me? If you happen to want to read the entire article, it's called One Bright Red Bird. If you click here you can read it in it's entirety. *no, saturday is not my birthday. 17 February Laughing BabyAllison showed me this, AARON found it. It sounds a lot like my family actually. Very amusing.
13 February Wisconsin WinterOkay, so two posts in one day, I know, deal.
 Kelly and I were talking about how our Pastor read this in church on Sunday and since he's originally from Washington state it's highly amusing and, in all honesty, not that far from reality. So, Enjoy!
Spam can be so amusingSo, I'm checking through the spam box a work today. Normally I scan through the subjects to see if any of them look like something that may have been categorized wrongly. So, I run across one that says
JOB OFFER
Now, I'm not particularly in the market for a new job but I might be willing to consider the right opportunity . . . for a night job, not for a day job. I'm pretty content in my day job right now. Anyway, I click on it to see what it says. Then as it's loading I see it's from . . .
drumroll please
GEORGE CLOONEY! Oh, my God, George Clooney has a job for me!!! (totally kidding, I'm so not that gullible)
This just makes it that much more amusing because how many people are actually going to believe that George Clooney is e-mailing them with a job! Too many to be sure. It loads up and this is what it says:
Good Day,
Are you looking for a lucrative part-time job ? The job takes less than 5 hours a week and it a mean by which you can increase your weekly income by about $500 weekly. This job does not require any deposit to get started and also you do not need to resume at any office before you can get started. You can also try this job without risking your current work. Do get back to me if you are interested. Thanks George First of all I don't see George ('cause we're so tight we're on a first name basis) saying "Good Day" I suppose he could, it just doesn't fit my image of him.
lastly, the e-mail came from georgec1000@gmail.com. That, again, amused me. So, I just had to share this slightly amusing incident from my Spam. I'm regularly amused by the "dirty" spam I get at work, but that's 'cause I have a dirty mind.
Anyway, hopefully in a soon to come post there will be a highly amusing incident shared by one of my loyal readers and her recent experience at McDonald's. Totally blogworthy stuff, she just doesn't have a blog. So, I'll share it on mine. 06 February VoicemailI have a handful of pet peeves. I posted about one over a year ago. If you click on the "Peeves" category at the bottom of this you can read through it.
Here is my peeve for the day.
"Oh, Look, I have voicemail" (or any kind of message)
Play the message and I hear something to the following effect:
"Hi, It's (insert name). Give me a call, I have a question for you. Thanks. Bye."
Ummmm, WHAT??? What do you want?!?!? I need to be prepared. Do you want to talk about a file we're working on? Do you want to talk about a brochure I should have? Do you want to know if I can go out on Saturday and I should have my calendar handy? Is someone traumatically injured and I need to be able to focus all my attention on you for half an hour??? I need a little bit more info than "I have a question"
I'm not sure why this sets me off, but it does.
SETS
ME
OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Literally, makes me want to scream every time. Now, I will admit that if you're just calling to chit chat and I realize that, I don't freak out when you leave a message like "Hi, it's me, just wondered how your day was going. Talk to ya later." That will not set me off. It's knowing that you want something and won't even give me a hint about it that sets me off.
I've been in a pretty poor mood for the last4-ish days, so you'll have to excuse the added vehemence of this message. I'm 2 steps from ripping someone's head off. So, be nice, and play careful, and maybe you'll get to keep yours.
(kidding
. . . sorta) 04 February Yours, Mine and OursI just got done watching Yours, Mine and Ours (2005). Pretty cute. It was an almost predictable, but regularly amusing comedy. You had to expect plenty of slapstick style humor and getting dirty humor and kids stuff, and there was plenty of it. BUT, nothing that was really "already done." It was all a little bit new.
I did have a hard time keeping the kids straight, but I suppose that's okay. The older kids and the youngest were easy to keep straight, but I got lost with the middle ones. They did a pretty great job for kids.
Renee Russo was pretty great too. I wasn't overly impressed with Dennis Quaid, but his performance fit just fine. It didn't feel stilted or forced to me, just not spectacular either. But, he's not really known for spectacular. Renee, however, fit her part much better. In my opinion if you can play different types of characters and convince me, you're a great actor. I've seen her do that. Dennis Quaid's character's don't tend to vary too terribly much from a certain center point.
There were some good lessons to be learned. A couple of motto's "Homes are for free expression, not for first impressions." being one of them. The standard "We're better together than apart" and who could forget, "Don't do things rashly." Those last two aren't actual movie lines, but the first was. There was something else said towards the end of hte movie that I thought made a good motto and was going to include it, but now I've forgotten what it was, so I'm just going to leave those.
All in all a decent, family movie. Granted, you may not want your kids to watch it if you don't want them to get new ideas for destruction or decide that the family pet should be a pot bellied pig, but other than that, I didn't see much wrong with it. I'm not actually a parent myself, so that may not mean much, but you can take it for what it's worth.
On a slightly side note. What is up with the previews??? I usually skip the previews. Once in awhile I watch them just to see if there were any movies I've missed that I wanted to see. So, today I decided to watch these previews just to check that. The first one was rated pg-13, the second pg. AND, the crazy thing was that one of them was for AEONFLUX. that is not a children's movie or family movie in any sense of the phrase! What in the world is it doing on there??? These are the questions of life I will never figure out. :sigh: That's okay.  |
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