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I can’t wait!

November 20, 2007

istock_000001885633xsmall.jpgRecently I’ve been thinking a lot about Pride and Prejudice, but it hasn’t been available the library. I finally checked out the book on CD thinking I would listen while I design, but apparently I’m unable to concentrate fully on two things at once. It just didn’t work. I’ve been listening in the car and my two oldest daughters (7- and 10-years old) are hooked, too.

Years ago we rented the A & E mini-series with Colin Firth, not realizing it was 5 HOURS LONG. Once started, however, we were powerless to stop watching. It simply couldn’t be done. So we stayed up until a ridiculously late hour and finished it.

Disc1 arrived in the mail from Netflix today, and I’m expecting disc 2 tomorrow. Sometime during this holiday weekend we will settle down to a P and P marathon, and I CAN’T WAIT!

Do you have any movie plans for the long weekend?

Inconceivable!

March 27, 2007

Three weeks ago…

Ryan: America has voted. Sanjaya, you are safe. Sundance, you’re going home.

Mommy Dearest: Inconceivable!


Two weeks ago…Ryan: America has voted. Sanjaya, you are safe. Brandon, you’re going home.

Mommy Dearest: Inconceivable!


Last week…

Ryan: America has voted. Stephanie, you’re going home.

Mommy Dearest: How the #@*& did Sanjaya stay out of the bottom two? Inconceivable!

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.


America, please, for the love of all that is decent: MAKE IT STOP TONIGHT! Mothers of preteen daughters: HIDE THE PHONES!

My 10-year-old daughter embarrasses me herself everywhere she goes since she’s willing to fight to the death to defend her teenage heartthrob. At least she doesn’t cry.My kids have spent the week crooning the immortal questions: What’s your name? Who’s your daddy?For some fun Idol blog reads, check out Melanie’s If my blog was on American Idol, and Linda at 2nd Cup of Coffee’s AI.

What’s Floatin’ My Boat

February 19, 2007





Basic Truths About 24’s Jack Bauer

January 11, 2007

As an avid 24 fan, I’m awaiting Sunday night’s season premiere with much anticipation. FiddleDeeDee posted this hysterical list of Jack Bauer trivia (and yes, every word of it is true). Neal Boortz is the author (and like FiddleDeeDee, I had to edit the list a bit for publication). Enjoy!

Basic Truths About 24’s Jack Bauer

Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.

If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.

If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Jack Bauer spared your life.

Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.

If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it’s beef.

Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.

Let’s get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.

Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.

Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer hates lemonade.

Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.

Osama bin Laden’s recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.

Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.

Jack Bauer doesn’t miss. If he didn’t hit you it’s because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.

When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.

Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.

Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better do it.

Jack Bauer won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it wasn’t a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.

When Jack Bauer pees into the wind, the wind changes direction.

Jack Bauer’s favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.

When you open a can of whoop-a**, Jack Bauer jumps out.

When Google can’t find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.

You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.

Jack Bauer can get McDonald’s breakfast after 10:30.

When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.

Every mathematical inequality officially ends with “< Jack Bauer.”

In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the heck have you done with your life?

Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.

In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.

What color is Jack Bauer’s blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.

Guns don’t kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.

If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.

People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.

Sun Tzu once wrote, “If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you’re dead.”

Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.

Jack Bauer has been to Mars. That’s why there’s no life on Mars.

Superman’s only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.

When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.

It took Jack Bauer two minutes to beat a confession out of OJ.

Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.

Jack Bauer’s family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.

Say Anything!

November 14, 2006

In 2002, Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the greatest modern movie romance.

Are you a child of the 80s?

From what classic 80s movie comes this quote?

“I don’t want to buy anything, sell anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”

Bonus question: What awesome song was played in one of this movie’s most memorable scenes?

A Movie and a Meeting

October 20, 2006

Bryan and I went to see Facing the Giants on our anniversary Wednesday night. The night before, I was in line at Chick-fil-a and the manager, a dad in our music program, was saying it was one of the best movies he’d ever seen. He told a group of teens to go see it, and if they didn’t like it to come back and he’d pay for their tickets. He said, “Whatever you’re doing tomorrow night, cancel it and go see this movie.”I was disappointed at first because the film quality and acting were mediocre; however, what the movie lacks in polish, it compensates for in sincerity. It was filmed in Albany, GA, and appears to have been very much a community effort. My impression was not that some Hollywood types sat down and said, “Let’s see if we can make a movie that the Christians will pay to see,” but real people made a movie that they believed in.

I thought it was interesting that the movie received a PG rating “for some thematic elements” - in other words, it was a little too evangelical for the ratings board. What this movie gives you is a look at the transformation that occurs in a man who hits rock bottom and then looks up - way up - and dedicates his life and the high school football team he coaches to God’s glory. I cried off and on all through it.

We’ll be at a big church meeting all weekend. The kids are so excited - they’ve been asking if they can get dressed all day. I love big church meetings, even though I know I’ll have a bad case of PAMS next week (Amber, you introduced me to that acronym). My cousin Lynn also put up a nice post this week about singing. I can’t wait for tonight - there’s nothing like Friday night at an annual meeting, when everyone is fresh and fired up for some good preaching. I’m also looking forward to spending the weekend with my dearest friends, my church sisters. Have a blessed weekend!