1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
Here we go...
1.
"Funny old world? Dog my cats!" The Spanish Prisoner - MOM (I'm so proud...)
2.
"Define "interesting"' "Oh god oh god we're all going to die?" Serenity - Christina (FB)
3.
"I had. A bad. Experience. D*** it. "I'm" deaf." The Italian Job - Sarah (FB)
4.
"I want you to leave and never come back. " Pirates of the Caribbean - Reece
5.
"A penny saved is worth two in the bush, isn't it?"6.
"It's a shame about raisins." Benny and Joon - Sarah (FB)
7.
"You have been deemed hazardous. Will you comply? " I, Robot - Reece
8.
"And no drippy-drippy. What are you rolling? Whippets? Goof balls? A little wowie sauce with the boys?" Transformers - Christina
9.
"Now that we're a family, I can be the ulll-timate DAD." Series of Unfortunate Events - Christina (FB)
10.
"And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident." Equilibrium - Christina (FB)
11.
"All right, I'm about this fonging close mate! I swear to God, Quaisimodo! I oughta... " A Knight's Tale - Reece
12.
"Does the term "cruel and unusual punishment" mean anything to you?" Remember the Titans - Sarah (FB)
13.
"Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate, or fair! And make no mistake: here, you face Death." Batman Begins - Skye (FB)
14.
"Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint." Iron Man - Christina (FB)
15.
"Jack, please, I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!" The Nightmare Before Christmas - Christina
is beautiful.
I thought I would post a part of something I sent to a good friend of mine:
"Now, the silence of God...
My second passion is music (follow with me for a minute)
Have you ever gone without music for a point of time?
I have.
Sucks.
See, the silence of God is like that. The music is still there. All music didn't just leave the world.
God is still there. God didn't just leave.
Sometimes, it was just there wasn't anything playing around me... sometimes something wasn't plugged in... or I needed headphones... or I had broken my iPod.
Sometimes God just isn't speaking... or we aren't being still and waiting... sometimes sin is in the way... or I was rejecting God's word.
In the time of no music, do you find music in your heart and mind? Songs you'd heard before? Do you sing to yourself?
But... after... when I hear the music again...
What is that first song like? Is it clear? Beautiful?
Filling?
Sometimes God must be silent so we will be really listening closely , longing for the melody. Or he's already spoken to us, either through the word or his voice. We know the word (like the songs) and it plays through our minds... it's the songs we've heard on the radio a million times but maybe didn't learn. Go look up the "lyrics" so you can sing, even without music.
Does that make sense?
Life is a wonderous concert, and life with God is like having the perfect playlist.
His love is the most beautiful, delicate, yet powerful piano solo... hauntingly standing out against all else.
His mercy... a song of power, yet grace, filled with chords to make you cry.
His compassion... a tender lullaby. A dad playing guitar for his little girl before bed.
His anger... KISS and Metallica got nothing on this... no scream-o compares.
His joy... an exciting, gotta smile song that just makes you want to dance, even in a thunder storm.
No CD (worldly thing) can EVER compare to such a live concert.
Enjoy it! Embrace it! Sing along at the top of your lungs! Allow it to make you cry and laugh!
Be in Awe!
C"
I have to admit, this Thanksgiving is bittersweet. I'm so very happy to have my wonderful husband... he is definitely at the top of my "thankful list".
But its a little sad too, cause this is my first holiday without my mom, dad, brothers, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle and cousins and all my friends, including my best one, Sylver. And I miss them so much. We sadly couldn't go to Florida with my parents due to Josh working. I'm not mad, and I definitely am so thankful that it's because I have a husband and he has a job. But I'm homesick and have been fighting tears all day.
I just received a Thanksgiving card from my grandmother, and that ruined me. I'm now a teary mess. I would give up chocolate for a year for a hug from my mom right now.
I'm thankful.
Edit!My mom, not knowing about this post, sent me this picture after I sent her a text saying "I miss you.
Caption:
"Me hugging you"
So I had other stuff to blog about... but I don't remember what it is. I'm just going to tell you a story, that I do remember, instead.
One of the very first things that Josh and I noticed about each other is how very alike we are. I would guess it to be 85-95% of the questions we asked each other, the other liked exactly the same thing. Well the more you are together, the more you noticed what is different. Yes, we are very much alike, but we have differences of course. But, that said, I love it when we come across another similarity.
Josh and I made a deal a while back to put aside 10% of every paycheck/cash we get into savings just for us. We haven't always been able too, but we each had a little. Recently, it's been Christmas and our dream of having an Xbox 360. He had $25 stored away somewhere and I had $20. We each had about $5 to add to our "hiding places". I have an old gun. It doesn't work, but looks really cool and pirate-y. (Actually its type of gun that is crossed on the National Guard's symbol.) Anywho, the gun has a cool wooden box case. So I have just been putting little memory things in it and the money. Thus, I shut the bedroom door, reached up on the bookshelf and hid it in the box. Then I left the room and Josh had his turn. He came out a few minutes later and said "well we should have seen this coming. You're a pirate... I'm a pirate, of course this would happen." I laughed, seeing where it was going. Yep! My husband and I, with our alike pirate-mindedness, had both chosen the same hiding place. I never noticed because I didn't take it down off the bookshelf, but instead just opened the lid of the box and put it in there.
So there you go... Josh and I are alike. :-p
I love him.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
Mommas gonna buy you a mockingbird
And if that mockingbird won't sing
Mommas gonna buy you a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring turns brass
Mommas gonna buy you a looking glass
And if that looking glass gets broke
Mommas gonna buy you a billygoat
And if that billy goat won't pull
Mommas gonna buy you a cart and bull
And if that cart and bull turn over
Mommas gonna buy you a dog named Rover
And if that dog named Rover won't bark
Mommas gonna buy you a horse and cart
And if that horse and cart fall down
You'll still be the sweetest baby in town
I loved that song.. are those really the words?!
I'm taking a break from cleaning. Lala asked me to post some pictures of our "home sweet home". I've been wanting to get the house to the point that I wanted to show it off in pictures. It's close, but not quite there. So I'm taking the day cleaning and "decorating". Its kinda fun. But its pizza time now.
So update on the interview.... didn't go well. I mean it didn't go terribly bad I guess, I could just tell she wasn't impressed. And another major bummer, the lady at Bath and Body decided she didn't need me. I pretty much cried over that one.
Buuuttttt...
A grocery store I applied at called me for an interview. So that's excited. Its the first call I've gotten. I got the first interview by going in frequently and asking if anyone had gotten the chance to look over my application. I'm also thinking of applying at a shop that has a huge downstairs Christmas section. It's so pretty and pleasant. Its not that I won't work any job I can get. I would. I just really want a positive environment that's safe and products that I feel good selling to people. Maybe I should just sell Pampered Chef.
Well that's it for now. I'll post pictures soon!
Why I Can't Vote For Obama
By Huntley Brown
Dear Friends, A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, so I sent out an e-mail with a few points. With the election just around the corner, I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it's worth repeating...
First, I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.
Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads - I follow. I can't dictate the terms, He does because He is the leader.
I can't vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that's who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won't be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong- then economic concerns will soon not matter.
We need to follow Martin Luther King's words, don't judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don't know Obama so all I can go on is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (1/31/2008).
To beat Ted Kenn edy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.
There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100% rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas, etc., love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted "No" on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a reason he voted "No" on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted "No" on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.
Let's take a look at the practice he wanted to continue -
The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:
A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby.)
B. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law.
Think about this: You can't give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.
There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.
Obama tells us he has good judgment, but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright's sermons. I wonder why now?
Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19-20, "Go and make disciples of all nations." This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you; walk like you; talk like you; believe what you believe, etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?
Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a ...
1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions .
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System.
7. Personal commitmen t to embracement of the White Value System.
Would you support a President who went to a church like that?
Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama's former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside. This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can't be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world.
A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if it is a white church or a black church, it's still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.
Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him."
Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?
So what does all this mean for the nation? In the past, when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.
Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 "Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."
Then God says -
1 Samuel 1:18- "When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day." 19- But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. 20- Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles." 21- When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22- The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king."
Here is what we know for sure. God is not schizophrenic. He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, "a city divided against itself cannot stand," so obviously many people are not hearing from God. Maybe I am the one not hearing, but I know that God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture, so I doubt it.
For all my friends who are voting for Obama-- can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. But I know I can look the other way because of the economy.
I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama's positions. Finally, I have two questions for all my liberal friends. Since we know someone's value system has to be placed on the nation,
1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation?
2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?
Blessings,
(Note: While he wrote this just to his friends, the sad part is that now he has been getting
hate mail and his family is being harrassed.)
I've got an interview at Rue21 on Halloween! Please be praying for me! And I'm also pretty darn sure I'll get an interview at Bath and Body Works too... the hiring manager seems to like me a lot. She just hasn't gotten to my application yet!
Yay!
By the way, still waiting to hear what shows people watch.
Love love!
"Oh the more I seek, the more I'm sought"
~ Hymn #101 by Joe Pug
I've been tagged by Lala and Smithy to participate in a blog game. The rules are:
Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write Six Random Things about yourself.
Tag a few other people at the bottom of the post.
Leave comments on their blogs, letting them know they've been tagged!
Let the person who tagged you know when you've written the post.
1. I greatly do not like going through the wrong door to either exit or enter a store. I must go through the correct door.
2. I love icons. Like the ones that people often have annoyingly placed all over their Myspace. I find theirs annoying, but I have a huge folder of them on my hard drive. I especially love sayings, ducks, stars, umbrellas and socks.
3. I do not like wearing matching socks.
4. I find myself using a different accent if I'm around someone who does for even an hour. Or I watch a show with a different accent. That includes friends who wear braces.
5. I know they are bad, but I can eat hot dogs basically all the time, along with cheese and pizza.
6. I wasn't allowed to watch the show "Doug" when I was a kid because a character was blue. (I love you mom. :-D)
I tag
Tina,
Deana and
my mom.
Thanks for the fun!
So yeah, I'm ashamed at how long it's been since I've posted. Ah well, its okay.
I have to get in the shower, but I thought I would update first, so I've got my new "Paste Magazine" music sampler in and I'm ready to go. I love Paste magazine. (Thank you Christina for getting it for me for Christmas :-) ) If you like secular magazines and are over... 17 or 18, this is a real winner.
Happy news! Josh got a job! At Radioshack. Wooooohhhhoooooo! I did a very thrilled dance when I listened to that voicemail. We celebrated that night by each getting a pint of Ben and Jerry's, which was on sale. I got the "Creme Brulee" which was awesome! Especially with the swirl of chocolate I put in it.
He starts sometime next week. Please pray he gets lots of hours as it is a "temp" position. I'm still looking for a job. :-/ So if anyone wants to hire me in Shelby, here I am! :-p
Other than that, we haven't had any super exciting news.
I have started learning how to play chess from Josh. Its fun. At first it was so easy to want to get frustrated, but I gritted down and decided to force my brain to do it. We started "playing" at 12 am. ("Okay, so this one is called... the rook?" "Yes, and no, you can't call him Dwayne." "Okay." "So tell me, how many moves can the rook make and what will be the best position for him. And what's my next move?" "Um... I don't know?") (For the record, I wasn't a pest about it, I really did try.) We finally stopped playing at 2:15am. Wowzers.
Then the next night I randomly decided to open up the two really old computers we had and see what they had. Next thing, an hour later, we had put all the good parts in one and had a working computer. Then we spent an hour getting the network card to work.
So anybody have any interesting stories to tell so I can be amused? :-p
Oh, I do want to know, do any of you have a weekly show you watch?
Josh and I have been watching "Sanctuary" and I watch "Bones" and *ahem*
"Greek". Lately we've been working our way through series. Like SG1, Psych, Roar and our current one, Band of Brothers. (I love that show and insisted Josh had to see it. He likes it so far.) I think we have "Freaks and Geeks" up next. But that will probably be in a few weeks.
It sounds like a lot of shows, but remember Josh is a film major, movies are important.
By the way, if you are like me and fear is a problem... don't watch the first Resident Evil. The other two are fine, but gosh, the first one sparked fear in me. I gotta conquer that.
Oh! Josh and I went to the first church we've gone to for the point of "visiting" to try to find a home church. No we haven't been total heathens, either we've been away or had company or went to a church for all but two weeks.
The people were really nice and the building was very nicely done. I liked the atmosphere. But unfortunately, we don't agree with their teaching. I can't go to a church that I only agree with half of what they say. I think 3/4 is a good mixture. But otherwise, any less than that and you're torn the whole time and really end up confused and frustrated.
Well good day folks, I hope its a great one.
So I'm sitting here wondering how I can be more me.
I feel the need to find my niche.
My friend Courtney has started a new blog called
"Thrifty Wife"It's pretty cool and I can tell I'm going to learn from it. Man, I want so badly to really be wise with our money.
My friend Lauren has this beautifully artistic house, which she affectionately calls "The Fort". That's another thing I would love. I long to create a beautiful home for Josh and I to share.
I want my niche. My thing.
The other night I told Josh that I've always wanted to paint. The next day he pulled out a canvas he has and his paint stuff and told me to paint. I haven't started yet, but I'm going to soon.
I guess all this randomness is to say, I'm in a place of discovery. I do not want to go through life a "half" person. I want to live to the fullest, and be uniquely, loverly and frighteningly me. And...
I know that a huge part of that will come through growing closer to Christ. Which is an area I need prayer in. I feel I really need to draw closer to God, but almost am unsure how to go about it.
Maybe I need to write a song. That might help me figure stuff out.
Thanks for listening everybody.
(Josh's putt-putt golf ball from our recent trip to Charleston.)
(YAY! 3 DAYS TIL SYLVER AND TYLER COME TO VISIT!)
Hmm, so basically I'm posting simply because I haven't posted in a while. I have nothing of "uber" importance to say.
We did hang up some of our wedding "lanterns" last night in the old, unused fireplace. They look beautiful. Next step is to get some outdoor Christmas lights and put them in the floor of the fireplace. It'll look pretty.
Josh and I both have colds. I'm getting over mine thankfully, but it's not been a fun time. Poor Josh hit the worst of his last night. Yes, I know, due to the facts I just told you, I was the one to give the cold. I'm a bad person. But here's what Dustin and I figured: Either I stayed away from Josh, no kisses, slept on the couch, no sharing drinks, which would really be icky cause both of us have the love language of touch. So in that case, he got heart sick. Or he got physically sick and could take cold medicine.
By the way, have you noticed how multi-symptom cold medicine is like a grenade? They cram a lot of different meds in one bottle and figure "well if we chuck all this at them, its sure to help something." Oh for a sniper rifle against the common cold.
Speaking of sniper rifles, Josh and I are getting into airsoft. More, I'm getting into airsoft. See, Dustin is wanting to start a league so Josh and I are going to play once a month. We ordered my gun yesterday. As much as I would have loved the shotgun with cartridges that shot out three at a time. (That thing is a bad beast!!) I could not justify spending the $70 on it. So I just got a cheap gun that I could feel okay spending our "newly wed amount" of funds on. It's a good gun and should do me fine. I even got two extra mags for it. So I'm excited. :-p
Well I have a couple other things to do before I start getting ready for the family reunion. :-)
So later ya'll!
Am I the only bride who feels like she could be so much better?
Well here's a tad of encouragement:
Josh puts it as "Shut up, (totally in a loving way, promise.) We're trying to squish two lives into one life. That's not going to be pristine and perfect all the time."
So ladies, it's not going to be pretty all the time. It's not going to be neat always. You won't always make the perfect dinner all "whambamthankyouma'am" or have clothes that you just happen to pull out of the dryer meticulously folded.
Its okay.
They love us. :-)
Ha, I'm just teasing with the title.
Today we got up at 11ish, to the sound of our doorbell ringing 20 times. See, we bought a wireless doorbell and stuck it on the door of the basement and the "ringer" is in our bedroom. Anyway! I had told my brother-in-law Dustin to ring it 17 times to make sure we awoke.
Well he went all "the extra mile" on us and did 20. Oh well.
We got up... quickly. Got breakfast and got dressed... then we prepared for what would turn out to be about a 3 hour airsoft game. It was so much fun! Josh and I were a team. And Dustin, Nathan and Michael were a team. I'd never played before, but they got "advantage" cause we had the better guns. The area was no wider than 50 yards at the widest and about 200 yards. Lots of trees, briers and a creek.
The scenario was "Capture The Flag". Dustin, Michael and Nathan had the flag and we had to capture it and get it back to our base. Flag was dropped if you were killed and the defending team couldn't move it.
And yes, we did lose. But we lost valiantly. We had done three attacks, keeping them close to their end. We had em with Dustin at 1 Kill, Nathan, 2 Kills and Michael, 0 Kills. And they had killed me and Josh once. (Three kills and you were out of the game. A kill came about if you were shot four times in any combination of limbs, 2 in the back or stomach or once in the head or chest.) But then they snuck up on us while we were reloading. I happened to see them by sheer luck. So we knew they were at our end, hiding, and generally (within 15 feet) where. But what we didn't know was Dustin was in the "raven", in water, with three fallen logs covering him. Scared Josh to death when Dustin opened fire. At first, we thought we were in some serious trouble. Nathan was on the bank and Dustin was in the raven with excellent cover and Michael was... somewhere. But I pulled a really risky move and ran around our cover, which was a couple trees and bushes on the opposite bank from Nathan, and got directly in Dustin's line of fire, with Josh offering cover fire (and a clear shot on him too) and then I opened fire. And man! I got him! I was so proud of myself. Josh and I had pinned him down good and I had killed him. Beautiful.
So now the score was Dustin-2, Nathan-2, Michael-0, Me-1 and Josh-1.
But then they came back, pushed us tight and killed us off. We were close to our regeneration zone, but we had no where to go to get cover.
So we died.
It was sad.
We are sore.
But we had a lot of fun.
:-)
The End
Hello literate friends,
Sorry it's been such a long time. I'm missing my "real life" journal, so everytime I've gotten on here, it's just gotten too deep and too personal. So I end up deleting it. No one needs that good of a map to my mind, except my husband and my God.
Gosh, "my husband". Those are beautiful words. How I love that man. We've now been married over a month and known each other 5 months.
Ha, we're a lot alike. But after a couple months, we started noticing our differences.
Well, a night or two ago we remembered how alike we are.
I'd already been asleep a couple hours, but I woke up. It was about one o'clock and Josh was still awake, poor darling. Well we'd been laying there a while, and I was thinking about how good a grilled cheese sandwich would be. I hadn't been craving them at all until that night. So I thought about saying I wanted one, but then I changed my mind. So after a little longer, I just randomly piped up "I'm going to make grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch." And Josh goes "I've just been thinking about how that would make a good midnight snack." We laughed, talked about it, and then got up and made them. They were wonderful.
Josh and I are doing quite well, to any who are concerned. We're falling nicely into life as a married couple. If we could just get our dang sleeping patterns fixed. lol. I hate sleeping til 12, but I can't seem to fix it. But that's okay. I'll even out eventually. :-)
We've gotten some job leads, so that's exciting. We're really seeking to keep our hearts open to God. We don't want to just settle into just any job unless that's where God wants us at the time.
Gosh I was so picky about how to word it. Christianity truly does train up some brilliant verbal gymnast. I mean, we could just say stuff the way it is, they could just walk across the mat, but no, they flip and flop and try to make it pretty, sometimes adding ribbons. Now, that's nice to watch sometimes. But all the time? How tiring. Ridiculous.
Well I'm off.
Later hombres.
Hello peoples :-)
(I wish there was a gentle smile smilie...)
I hope you are all doing well.
We had a really late night last night. Josh was a bit wired, and his hyper attitude was infectious I suppose. We talked until... well it was after 3, we'll just say that. (Thank God for Labor Day, right?) Uncovered more in an area of me that I'm painfully (not because of Josh!) learning I even have. I'll delve more into that in a minute. Because I was up pretty late, and its delightfully dark in our room and very quiet... well I slept in. Okay, so all that was really an excuse. I just plain slept in. I got up about an hour ago. And it felt wonderful. lol. And then I got some stuff together, cleaned up in the bathroom, emptied all the trash cans, and just tidied.
And now I'm sitting in the living room. I'm feeling very peaceful. I have Flyleaf's "Supernatural" acoustic version playing over and over on the speakers. I'm hoping to learn it well enough to sing it soon. The coffeepot, while not holding "hot" coffee (just cold,) is glowing nicely in the corner. And its just peaceful. I am planning on trying to have these quiet times in the mornings, before Josh gets up. Not because he is a deterrent to them, but because I normally wake up before him and it seemed a good use of my time. So the "planning" to do it, probably has helped my peaceful frame of mind.
I've been married for 17 days now. I can't really comprehend that. Last night I kept looking at Josh, thinking to myself, "He's my husband. That wonderful, handsome man, he's mine. And I'm his wife. We are married!" Ha, so it's still sinking in, yet I don't feel like I'm sinking. :-P
I'm already learning how I'm not the world's best wife, or the most easy to live with. But Josh is totally full of love and doesn't sit and fuss about it or put me down.
Its amazing how your heart changes and you want to be the very best for another person.
Also, more and more, I'm seeing the only way to do that, is to fall more deeply in love with Jesus. Josh and I are far from "perfect" Christians, but Jesus says we are saints to Him and righteous, right? Our honest, true desire, is to have Him at the center of our life. And that's far from easy, because our "dark" side, definitely rebels. But it is our heart, our main passion.
Change of subject,
how does one deal with fear? I've learned a lot about myself, over the past couple weeks, when Josh and I are laying in bed at night, doing the couple thing and talking. (and the "
couple thing" I'm referring to is the
talking. :-p)
Anyway, while doing that, we've discovered I'm an extremely fearful person. And a control freak, when it comes to my body at least. Josh's answer, and as short as it is, shows his wisdom. "Don't be afraid. Just don't." I answered that surely it couldn't be that easy. But the more I thought about it, the Bible says "Do not fret." Not "Remove fear." Not "Do this and you will have no fear." Not "pray this." Just "Do not fret."
So I'm on a mission to not be afraid. Pray. lol. And if
anyone knows some good verses to remember or something that helps them, PLEASE TELL ME.I'm not really in the mood to blog about the wedding right now, but I'll sit down with Josh sometime and we'll write down our thoughts on it. :-) And I'll post a picture slide show or something and a link to the video. :-) Ha, I just realized, we'll have a guest next time then! Boy, that sounds like some sort of event that would happen in a well read blog. Okay, ha, back to typing about the wedding...
I will say this, it was beautiful. The wedding of our dreams.
So, I'm going to sign off of here now. I'll keep you all updated on the findings of fearlessness.
Oh, since many read this on there, I'm not going to be on Facebook for a while... until Sept. 21st actually. So if you want to comment on a blog, go ahead, I'll read it when I get back. Or you can post something on the actual blog site, which is http://simpaticosity.blogspot.com/. And if you have something really important to tell me, call or send me a text or if you can't do either, send me a message on Facebook and Josh will tell me about it.
I love you all!
Mrs. Christa Edmonds
(Our First Ever, On The Lips, Kiss)
I'm sorry! I know, I've been married 13 days and no blog! What's wrong with me!? Oh... that's right... I'M MARRIED!!!
YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY!
So I'm not going to take a lot of time tonight to blog.... but I do want to say that I'm alive, thrilled, in love and safe.
We're currently living in NC. It's a pretty cool little place, and I'm loving being close to my in-laws and getting to know them. I have a really cool new brother too in my brother-in-law Dustin. Not to mention "cousin" Tony! :-)
I'm really enjoying getting into the swing of being married and "tending" (setting up house) I've learned a couple good lessons already (which I will post soon, along with more pictures.)
Well I love you all and goodnight!
The now MRS. EDMONDS!
I've been thinking a lot about what love is. And how people seem okay with a lack of love... I don't get that at all.
I'm very much a lover. Sometimes it doesn't feel like I can give out enough love. Like I'll get tired or testy with someone and often God stops me and goes "Yo, um, why aren't you showing love?" Like "Who do you think you are choosing who to love and when?"
Why are we not ALL showing EXTREME love to one another (and in that, everyone)? Why are we not known for our passionate love? What's been warped to make that feel "acceptable" to harbor hatred and resentment?
Not God's word. If we look there, we see that is dead wrong:
1 Peter 3:8 (ESV if yo wonderin')
"Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart and a humble mind."Psalms 133:1"How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity."
2 Corinthians 13:11[
Final Greetings ]
Finally, brothers, goodbye. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
This is a big one, but seriously, read it.
2 Corinthians 5:11-2111Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But
what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you
may be able to answer those who
boast about outward appearance and
not about what is in the heart.13For
if we are beside ourselves, it is for God;
if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that
For the love of Christ one has died for all, therefore
all have died;
15and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
16 From now on, therefore,
we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.18 All this is from God,
who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us
the ministry of reconciliation;
19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
In view of all that, in view of the love of Christ, where the heck do we think we have the right to hold "hatred" in our hearts? We daily, to loosely quote "Remember the Titans" :
(Coach quoting the voices of the soldiers at Gettysburg:)"I killed my brother with malice in my hearts. Hatred destroyes my family." We should listen, and take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, just maybe we'll learn to play this game like men."
This goes deeper than mere respect. One of the best speakers I've heard, Josh McDowell, said "The best definition of love I have found is this: "To provide and protect"
We need to be providing for and protecting each other. NOT loving only when you are around them and then tearing them dowm when you aren't with them. I'm so guilty of that. I show love, but in my heart, I'm bitter and resentful or just plain feel as though I am above the person. Wow, and I claim to be an "ambassador of Christ" to the world. How screwed up. Christ showed love. He poured love. He spoke harshly to the religious leaders of the day, cause they were misleading his people. They weren't acting out of love. And that's exactly how it should be. God calling people out of love for a lack of love.
Here's what 1 Corinthians 13 says:
The Way of Love
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
LOVE is patient and kind.
(love doesn't just bear with someone or tolerate them. in patience, it is kind as well. it is loving.)
LOVE does not envy and does not boast.
(love doesn't envy what others have and it doesn't look to make others act out of a lack of love by causing them feel the need to envy it. or make them feel lower. [sidenote: if you envy, you are not rejoicing in their good fortune but resenting not receiving it yourself. and thus telling God he was wrong. its not against a person, but God.])
LOVE is not arrogant or rude.
(do I really need to expound on that?)
[hardest one for me... irritableness...]
LOVE is not irritable or resentful (also read "keeps no record of wrongs").
(love doesn't use tiredness as an excuse to not put others first. it doesn't allow another to make them upset. only righteous anger given by God is true. love doesn't hold back love for any reason to do with a grudge. {grudge keeping is a bitterness that wears the heart down. let it go. its not worth the price of the bricks to build that wall. freedom is so much sweeter to the soul.}
LOVE doesn't rejoice at wrongdoing BUT rejoices in TRUTH.
(love doesn't cheer on the friend for doing what they both know is wrong. but love does encourage the one who does right as often as possible.)
Love...
bears all things.
believes all things. hopes all things.
endures all things.
All else fails, but love remains.
So that's my deal right now.
Stop being childish, stop feeling wronged, stop thinking we are above Christ and deserve to hate. STOP.
Love.
And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." ~Matthew 22:37-40
"And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
9: Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness."
1 John 2:3-6;9
Man, as of 28 minutes ago, its 10 days til Josh and I tie the knot. I seriously can't wait.
We had a little bit of a tough couple days last week... learned a lot. A whole lot. And the days after have been bliss. For real. I think the tough spots made us appreciate each other just so much more. I'm going to cherish falling in love with him more and more over the years. It's gonna be awesome, thinking about how much I love him right now, to be able to look back and go "When we first got married, I had no idea what love was..." (=
So I'm sorry I haven't blogged lately. Days are definitely blending together right now.
So the update on the to-do list:
The cake designGetting the invites out- Getting the last of the decorations
Figuring out the groom and groomsmen clothingGetting the bridesmaid dresses altered.Finding my hairstyleFinalizing the menuPicking a overall theme
New To-Do List:
- Get rings ordered
- Apply for marriage license tomorrow
- Get Josh's flip flops
- Get my shoes
- Get Josh's shirt
- Finish packing
- Write thank you cards
- Find jewelry
- Pick out garter
Well, yes, I know I so should have had this done before... but I think I finally know the rings.
Josh's:
Mine (I hope!):
Unfortunately, while Josh's will be here on time, it doesn't look like mine will. So I will have to use a "filler" ring. But I'm okay with that, because to me, the ring isn't a huge deal. I want one that looks like a wedding ring, cause I want people to know I'm taken, but other than that... not too fussed. I just love this ring though!
The "company" is this really cool seeming couple in Tennessee who run the business out of their home. They have 7 kids from 4-13 and they homeschool. Which makes them winner in my book. And they also had a blue heeler until just this past week or so (poor thing got hit by a car) And by their blog, they just seem super sweet.
So honestly, I want to support them and its a beautiful ring. All of their work is very well priced. Another great thing, since it's got sapphire, it will perfectly complement my engagement ring, which as I've said, I'll wear on my right hand. So pray I get it folks. And please pray that by some miracle, it would get here by the Big day. I would have ordered it sooner, but I just found it tonight.
Hmmm... my "almost no sugar" diet is starting to work. Chugging the water and loving fruit and eating less... hard at first, but now, after not having a lot of sugar.... sweet things taste so very sweet. Ugh, I tried to eat a bowl of ice cream, just as a splurge, last night. My brother had been really cool and gotten ice cream and fixings. I couldn't finish it. It was just too stinkin' sweet.
On another note: we're done with counseling!!! Woohoo! Far less painful than one would think. Cool thing that Georgia does, if you've had counseling, you get the application fee waved. Really good incentive if you ask me. Not that we did it for that reason, but it was nice.
OH! And my mom found my flowers! We were debating over all different kinds, then I came home last night and she goes "look what I found!" And they are absolutely perfect! Soooo beautiful. Man I love my momma.
Thank God, everything is running smoothly. And I'd like to thank everyone who has offered their help. The support has been such a blessing!
And to anyone who came to showers... lol, I promise, I'm working on those thank you cards tomorrow. :-p
Well I better hit the hay... and after that exciting exercise, I'm going to sleep.
nite.
Caption:
(Josh's putt-putt golf ball from our recent trip to Charleston.)
