i love it!

it's beautiful!
http://fashionablygeek.com/t-shirts/lovely-luna-lovegood-art-nouveau-t-shirt/

not a spoiler cuz it's from the opening credits

so wish i could get away with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kcr0pFlC7M

prayer request

quick prayer request - purple cousin's mother-in-law passed away tonight. prayer for her and her hubby crabman and their 1 1/2 year old chubmuffin would be appreciated. and if you feel silly calling them purple, crabman, and chubmuffin when praying, 'mel's cousin and her family' works, too. thank you.

two months down, one to go

i think i'm getting a little tired of not driving. i'm just getting antsy and lonely and wanting my freedom. oh well. 2/3 of the way there. and really, these last two months have gone pretty quickly. i can do this!

why why why

do i forget to do laundry til 10:00 at night on saturdays? or i put it in the washer earlier but proceed to forget it there, and then have to stick it in the dryer at 11:30 so i have sheets, and then when it's done i still have to make my bed. and this happens every time! how do i not learn?

after an absence of about four months...

i have returned to http://spoilingpoint.blogspot.com/.
just in case anyone wanted to know. ;)

dear friends on fb,

you sound like a dork when:
a) you say, 'that awkward moment when...'
b) you say, 'twelve more sleeps til...'
c) you use hashtags #thisisnttwitterpeople

Book Reviw: "The Casual Vacancy," by J.K. Rowling

Though it was panned by the critics, I decided I would give "The Casual Vacancy" a try. I don't like people telling me what I should and shouldn't like, and I was guessing they were putting unfair pressure on J.K. Rowling. And so I've been on the waiting list at the library for months.
I finally got it yesterday. After reading ten pages my main thought was that if you like that kind of book, it's probably good. What "that kind of book" is exactly, I'm not sure I can explain. I guess I would say it's modern small-town social politics. But I don't read that much that's modern, and social politics just means a bunch of back-stabbing snooty people. I'm sure it's well-written, being JKR, but with all the books in the world that I want to read, this one just seemed like it would be taking time away from books that actually interest me. I'm glad I got it out of the library so I could decide for myself. I'm not panning it, I'm just saying it's not my kind of thing. So there critics.

the next sermon i haven't heard

"Then the Lord said, 'I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt...Come, I will send you to Pharoah that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.' But Moses said to God, 'Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?' He said, 'But I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain.'" - Ex. 7a, 10-12 (italics mine)

This all takes place between GOD first calling Moses' name and Moses saying the Israelites won't listen to him. This is before GOD tells Moses HIS Name, that the Israelites will believe him. This is before and independent of Moses casting down his rod and it becoming a serpent. GOD here promises Moses that HE will give him a sign that GOD has called him to this purpose. The interesting part? The sign will come after Moses has done it. How's that for a challenge to faith?

crying into my wine cooler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEDb3xzdec

why have i never heard this as a sermon?

"Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush in not burnt." When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I."" - Ex. 3:1-4 (italics mine)

We hear of Moses checking out the burning bush, and GOD speaking to him, and that's the happy story of "Wow. GOD spoke to Moses, and Moses eventually, after many 'but's, obeyed."
But here's what happened. The Angel of the LORD appeared. He came on an ordinary day as Moses was doing an ordinary task. He didn't speak. He didn't come before Moses. He made Himself noticable, but not in a way that Moses couldn't ignore. Moses had to turn aside to see the miracle that was happening. He had to conciously make an effort to see what GOD was up to. He could've kept going on with his daily tasks. He could've taken a moment and thought, "Wow! Look at what GOD has done!" and walked on past. But he didn't. He chose to take the time and effort to explore GOD's wonder. Until he did that, the LORD did not speak. The LORD let Moses know HE was there, but HE did not impart HIMSELF to Moses until Moses sought HIM. Yet as soon as Moses did, GOD called to him by name.

screams of 'Yes!!!!!' are echoing through this house

oh please, let me see this someday!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/christopherhowse/100001547/jrr-tolkien-and-cs-lewis-joint-work-discovered/

screams of 'NO!!!!!' are echoing through this house!

https://mobile.twitter.com/glen_perkins/status/292775144462626816/photo/1

i'm so lazy

i love that i wait til my bladder is seriously about to explode before i go to the bathroom because i'm too lazy to get up and go

Movie Review: "The Switch"

Now that I own all three seasons, I've been watching a lot of "Arrested Development." Naturally, this means I'm on a Jason Bateman kick. Which naturally means that I check the library for whatever Jason Bateman movies they have. Which naturally eventually means I'll get to "The Switch." I was leary. For while it has Jason Bateman, it also has *cringe* Jennifer Aniston. Without fail (well, except for "The Break-Up") Jennifer Aniston movies are terrible. I decided to take my chances, though, because, after all, this is Jason Bateman.
I was pleasantly surprised. It actually wasn't bad. It was a romcom from the guy's point of view, which was refreshing (and it also enabled them to have a little more Bateman and a little less Aniston), and of course Bateman was absolutely charming. He was such a good guy (yes, I know, the term guys see as the kiss of death), even if he was neurotic. Somehow I can relate to neuroticness.The ending wasn't great - it was a sudden, 'oh crap, we don't know how to end this so we'll just...um...there you go. the end,' but whatever. Considering it's Jennifer Aniston, I think it's pretty good that that's my one big complaint. Oh, that and while the kid was a good actor, he was too dark to be believable as Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston's son. I found that a bit distracting. Cute kid, though.
 It did, however, work as most romcoms do. It made me depressed. One, yes, because who wouldn't want a Jason Bateman, but two, because I could relate to some of the neuroticness, and it made me feel very alone. So now I'm in the process of telling myself to suck it up. C'est ma vie.

no offense, aaron, but i'm kinda happy green bay is out. now i can go back to not watching football. that makes me very happy.

like mother, like daughter

while i sympathize with hobbitsister about her exasperation with erma at times, i can't help but laugh, because it is so my mother and me. and while i sympathize with erma about her exasperation with hobbitsister at times, i can't help but laugh, because it is so me and my mother. poor people.

so the other night...

i realized it was the day before my wedding and i hadn't had the final alterations done on my dress. i also had totally blanked out on shoes. so as i'm at the mall (which unfortunately was not moa) with my parents and a couple friends i'm frantically having to come up with a plan on how to accomplish all this. my friends apparently bailed, so while my mom went home to alter the dress, my dad had to take me shoe shopping. i didn't know where to start, because i knew stores would be closing soon. i was speedy, though, and i knew what i wanted, so i managed to hit a few. nobody had what i was looking for. oh, there were some very, very pretty ones out there, but if i'm going to be on my feet all day, i want flats. so i got to thinking about all my friends who have done flip-flops, and was considering that, but i really wanted the glass slippers. finally we gave up on the mall and headed for some other stores. suddenly it dawned on me, though. here it's winter and all i have is an outdoorsy-type jacket. i can't wear that to and from my wedding! i need a fancy coat! luckily, however, on the way to the parking lot there was a vending machine. you know, one of those vending machines that have nice coats for a dollar. it's luck of the draw, but thankfully i got a nice one; not very warm, but i wasn't expecting it to be. i just needed something pretty to get me to and from the car, and this came with a red scarf, which was perfect because my bridesmaids would be wearing red.
i'm not sure what their dresses looked like, but i did see mine from the waist down. i'd try to find a similar dress to show you, but blogger won't let me upload pictures, so i'm afraid that's that.

dear future husband, whoever, ifever you are,

just a fair warning: my mother and i have a competition every winter to see who can go the longest without shaving her legs; who can achieve the hairiest legs. i have no intention of losing just because i marry you.

Happy twelfty-first birthday, Mr. Tolkien!

I love him so very much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_tDLYrG28

"The heart of Man is not compund of lies,

but draws some wisdom from the only Wise,

and still recalls him. Though now estranged,

Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.

Dis-graced he may be, yet is not dethroned,

and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned,

his world-dominion by creative act:

not his to worship the great Artefact,

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light

through whom is splintered from a single White

to many hues, and endlessly combined

in living shapes that move from mind to mind."

- from "Mythopoeia"

shouldn't have joined a dating website

i don't like it. i don't like responding to the emails, i feel like i'm stringing the guy along (though i spose that's mostly cuz i can't drive, so i can't meet him anywhere, but he doesn't know that), the guys who look most attractive to me (not that they've contacted me) are divorced and i believe it would be Scripturally wrong to date them, it makes me tense up, and i just plain don't like it. i've paid for it, though, so of course i'll stay on there, and at least in the end i'll be able to say i tried it, but why oh why can't i just meet a guy the old-fashioned way? i remember purple cousin being worried when she didn't go to college that she'd never meet a guy because where do you meet them outside of school, but she got married at 20, and here collegeified me is single at almost 32...and wondering where the heck you meet them outside of school. ugh. again i just want to throw a shoe at my life.

but then i look at it from the other side and i think, any guy i would want deserves better than me anyway. it's better than i'm single. but ugh!

Movie Review: "Dedication", possible spoilers, but you probably won't see it anyway

Terrible movie. I don't know why I watched the whole thing. Okay, maybe I do know why. I suppose you would call it a romantic comedy, but it wasn't really funny, and he was not at all charming. It was very atypical. He was rude and mean, and she was miserable (in life in general). You didn't come away from it wanting their perfect lives. They both came from dysfunctional backgrounds and were just trying to have things not get worse. Things didn't end up all perfect. He was still messed up, and you still got the feeling she was settling (though given the choice between him and her ex-boyfriend, I guess he was the better one).

There was one part that was sweet, though. They had just kissed after looking at the stars, and he said he couldn't go any farther because it would get complicated (they worked together).

Lucy: Do you just genuinely dislike me, Henry?
Henry: A week ago I didn't give a rat's [patootie] about nebulas, and now I can't get enough of them, k?
Lucy: 'Nebulae.'
Henry: What?
Lucy: It's 'nebulae,' not 'nebulas.'

Henry: Okay, fine, I don't care about nebulas. You can accuse me of whatever you want, I'm probably guilty of it: contributing to global warming and killing a squirrel once and using the word 'retarded' and occasionally misinterpreted bigotry, but don't, don't, don't...don't, don't, don't, don't, don't accuse me of not liking you. K?
Lucy: I understand.

And that was that. So while now after thinking about it I don't think it was a waste of an hour and a half as I cleared out drawers and folded laundry, I still don't think I'd recommend it.