Today is an amazing day in the household of yours truly! For today is my the day that my darling mother celebrates her day of birth! And of course she celebrates with her family....Which includes me! (No Squareularness here!! ;-p) Yesterday was, surprise surprise, my birthday...So it, the holidays, have the making of being quite interesting. Of course it stands to reason that everyone far and wide should wish her well on her special day...and if they don't....Well, I'll just have to hunt them down and do "horrible nightmarish visions" to them....(for all you invader Zim fans) Of course I couldn't really hurt them....Hmm...Maybe I could...After all...A doctor does need someone to doctor...of make better...or whatever...
Anyway! Just thought everyone would like an update!! I know I would...
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Thanksgiving
Ahh, the joys of thanksgiving... A time for peace..Joy...Family....And for college professors to cackle evilly whilst they bury their poor unsuspecting students alive in homework....without proper warning...But that is the price that must be paid for getting an "education"...especially when it is something as expensive as college. But that is not the point...
But the point will have to come later...As I must now away with me...For the sake of family and peace and all of that wonderfulness....BTW I love this song....Just in case you were wondering.
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Now playing: tobyMac - Ignition
via FoxyTunes
But the point will have to come later...As I must now away with me...For the sake of family and peace and all of that wonderfulness....BTW I love this song....Just in case you were wondering.
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Now playing: tobyMac - Ignition
via FoxyTunes
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Shannon, you're gonna LOVE this. . . .
Shannon dear, today I had the most interesting conversation with Jason, and Michael . . . .and Natalie and Indya and DeAnna and ....and....You get the idea....ANYWAY! So we were standing there talking....Well I guess I should start at the beginning....
So Jason was about to leave, I was walking out with his sisters, when I decided to tell him something...Well I had actually remembered it and told DeAnna to tell him, but we both agreed that I should probably see his face as it would be priceless...Which it was, but that's not the point at this particular moment...
Anyway so out I went...And I accosted him and told him that I had a confession to make, which made him look at me like he wasn't sure if he should be scared or amused...Probably both. (I'm not that bad am I? I know I tease, but I wasn't aware that I scare people that easily...) Anyway I proceeded to tell him that it's been about 2 1/2 months since I've been on Facebook...Which, oh Shannon I WISH you could've been there to see his face and the subsequent reaction...!! It was absolutely worth standing outside freezing to death because I forgot to take my coat with me when I went outside....I think I laughed for a good 10ish minutes...It was THAT priceless!! I actually managed to make the guy speechless...Granted it wasn't for long, but it's something. Or at least it's a start! Lol!
Anyway the conversation eventually went to the Jane Austen Facebook Groups that I'm a part of...And don't ask me how we got onto that subject....It's not exactly something you bring up to talk about to your guy friends, but hey! I remember how we got onto that subject! Michael, who was being Michael btw, mentioned that all the groups that he's a part of have something to do with fire arms...Which led me to mention that I have more refined taste....Albeit a more 18th century taste! ;-p So Jason started, we'll say "teasing" but it was more along the lines of "poking fun at" but in the end it's all the same basic thing so I don't care that much! Anyway
So he's going on about the different things that we'd talk about in that group....Which according to him, the height of which would be "talking about writing long letters on paper by hand" that's the gist of it anyway. But that was amusing, even though it led me to point out that what we talk about it wanting to meet guys like Mr. Darcy...And eventually to wonder why no one like Bingley....Anywho, then I said that we also talk about the guys we know who don't fit into that category, as in who doesn't count as a Mr. Darcy...Anyway Michael got it into his head that I was referring to current company....And in a way I was....Michael isn't a Darcy! lol! ROTFLOL!! ;-p but from a guy who absolutely refuses to be interested in what gals are interested in, or read the book, it's not really surprising. (Jason, just in case you were wondering I'm teasing Michael and I wasn't referring to either of you. Just to set the record straight) And they made a big show of being offended....Lol!!
Anyways! Sorry it took me so long to post this....My laptop froze halfway through and it took me a while to get it back up....that and I've had a horrible past couple of days...Shan, I really mean terrible! I swear if I keep getting stressed like I've been through this semester I'm going to get hospitalized or something...Like what happened with Jessie!
Jason, I did try to get it posted that night, Sunday night...But my laptop kinda was against it and then I had to study for an exam in my Chemistry class....The one that's a man-eating monster that also happens to be a vampire that wants to eat me and make me join its legion of the undead....
So Jason was about to leave, I was walking out with his sisters, when I decided to tell him something...Well I had actually remembered it and told DeAnna to tell him, but we both agreed that I should probably see his face as it would be priceless...Which it was, but that's not the point at this particular moment...
Anyway so out I went...And I accosted him and told him that I had a confession to make, which made him look at me like he wasn't sure if he should be scared or amused...Probably both. (I'm not that bad am I? I know I tease, but I wasn't aware that I scare people that easily...) Anyway I proceeded to tell him that it's been about 2 1/2 months since I've been on Facebook...Which, oh Shannon I WISH you could've been there to see his face and the subsequent reaction...!! It was absolutely worth standing outside freezing to death because I forgot to take my coat with me when I went outside....I think I laughed for a good 10ish minutes...It was THAT priceless!! I actually managed to make the guy speechless...Granted it wasn't for long, but it's something. Or at least it's a start! Lol!
Anyway the conversation eventually went to the Jane Austen Facebook Groups that I'm a part of...And don't ask me how we got onto that subject....It's not exactly something you bring up to talk about to your guy friends, but hey! I remember how we got onto that subject! Michael, who was being Michael btw, mentioned that all the groups that he's a part of have something to do with fire arms...Which led me to mention that I have more refined taste....Albeit a more 18th century taste! ;-p So Jason started, we'll say "teasing" but it was more along the lines of "poking fun at" but in the end it's all the same basic thing so I don't care that much! Anyway
So he's going on about the different things that we'd talk about in that group....Which according to him, the height of which would be "talking about writing long letters on paper by hand" that's the gist of it anyway. But that was amusing, even though it led me to point out that what we talk about it wanting to meet guys like Mr. Darcy...And eventually to wonder why no one like Bingley....Anywho, then I said that we also talk about the guys we know who don't fit into that category, as in who doesn't count as a Mr. Darcy...Anyway Michael got it into his head that I was referring to current company....And in a way I was....Michael isn't a Darcy! lol! ROTFLOL!! ;-p but from a guy who absolutely refuses to be interested in what gals are interested in, or read the book, it's not really surprising. (Jason, just in case you were wondering I'm teasing Michael and I wasn't referring to either of you. Just to set the record straight) And they made a big show of being offended....Lol!!
Anyways! Sorry it took me so long to post this....My laptop froze halfway through and it took me a while to get it back up....that and I've had a horrible past couple of days...Shan, I really mean terrible! I swear if I keep getting stressed like I've been through this semester I'm going to get hospitalized or something...Like what happened with Jessie!
Jason, I did try to get it posted that night, Sunday night...But my laptop kinda was against it and then I had to study for an exam in my Chemistry class....The one that's a man-eating monster that also happens to be a vampire that wants to eat me and make me join its legion of the undead....
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Game Show
So I'm in a class called Intro to Computer Applications...I wouldn't normally take a class like this, although I would call myself computer/technologically challenged. But I'm taking it for my major, or so I can graduate sometime this century. And it turns out I absolutely love the professor!! He's completely amazing...And I'm considering a minor just so that I can see him more often....Although I already know I wont go with it just because I do want to graduate sometime soon.
Moving along....
This class is like a game show that you take notes during. There's a server, I think he designed it and what not, that we have to interact with and do all the assignments and what not on...But it gives extra credit....And you can buy things with the extra credit...Which is amazing...Oh, and there aren't any exams...Just a quiz every 5 weeks...Can you see why I'm loving this?? Anyway the extra credit that you can get when you're one on one with the server also applies, in a sense, to class - which has like 400 students. The screen goes blank and then a cartoonized character comes on screen and it's extra credit time...Where music and fanfare and confetti and host of other things all come into play to completely embarrass the poor kid who gets picked...Of course the extra credit at the end helps!! I so can't wait till it's my turn....If I took anymore time writing about it I'd be here for a while....And then I'd miss homegroup!!.. So...until next time kids!!
Moving along....
This class is like a game show that you take notes during. There's a server, I think he designed it and what not, that we have to interact with and do all the assignments and what not on...But it gives extra credit....And you can buy things with the extra credit...Which is amazing...Oh, and there aren't any exams...Just a quiz every 5 weeks...Can you see why I'm loving this?? Anyway the extra credit that you can get when you're one on one with the server also applies, in a sense, to class - which has like 400 students. The screen goes blank and then a cartoonized character comes on screen and it's extra credit time...Where music and fanfare and confetti and host of other things all come into play to completely embarrass the poor kid who gets picked...Of course the extra credit at the end helps!! I so can't wait till it's my turn....If I took anymore time writing about it I'd be here for a while....And then I'd miss homegroup!!.. So...until next time kids!!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Hopeless Romanticism or Realistic Rationalism?
Bill Ihde recently preached a series of messages on marriage. Not surprising since he's always been the family man...According to my mother anyway, I was WAY to young to remember any of it. And I've been stewing on it and mulling it over and I think I've finally come to a conclusion.
As a girl I spend time, granted it isn't all of my time but it is some, thinking about marriage and the whole nine yards. This shouldn't come as a surprise, anyone who has a sister or is a girl knows and has experience with this sort of thing. But I always just assumed that I'd end up marrying a knight in shining armour or a fabulously fabled prince who would just come out of nowhere and marry me and we'd live a magically and ridiculously unrealistic happily ever after. But I've come to realize that there isn't any realism in that kind of thinking. Sure it's cute and the kind of thing that you'd see in a Disney movie, but how and where does it play out in real life?
When I examine all the ideas and preconceptions that I've carried around about marriage and love and falling in love I really find that things aren't what I thought that they'd be. I don't mean that I have no idea or anything, just that the whole I guess "dream" about the way that I would want things to be ideally just isn't ideal. Actually I realize that it doesn't leave room for what really matters. Even as a Christian my "dream" of it all has been skewed by the way the world looks at things. Bill talked about how a man worthy of marrying would want to leave the girl he's interested in in a better place both with God and in everyday living than when he met her. He would change her for the better, whether or not he actually walked down the aisle with her. He would work with and on her like a garden and treat her like a precious thing that was worth not just protecting but being cherished. So many of us girls in this world haven't been cherished by anyone and the thought that we're worth cherishing and that we deserve and should be cherished hasn't even crossed our minds. But I guess this is just another instance where the Lord knows better than we do.
The kind of guy we ladies like is as different as we are, and that's ok. The interesting thing is that all girls are looking for someone who makes them feel like they're worth something not just because they're beautiful or attractive or an object of desire but because there is something about them, I think it's our souls whether or not the guy in question actually realizes it or not, that they see and can't help but find value and I don't know something special in. It's the ones that make you feel special that make the cut. Personally I believe that in those instances they're not just seeing us, they're seeing a part of God that is speaking to them and blowing their minds away. In Genesis it talks about how the creation of the world wasn't complete until God made woman. Ladies, we're the crown of creation, if it wasn't for us things wouldn't be "good" or complete. So I have to believe that being a hopeless romantic isn't such a bad thing after all. I'll leave off with a quote, from Hitch - which was a moderately ok movie, "Any man can sweep any woman off her feet, he just needs the right broom." Or in this case he needs to have the right idea of who to use the broom on!! ;-p
As a girl I spend time, granted it isn't all of my time but it is some, thinking about marriage and the whole nine yards. This shouldn't come as a surprise, anyone who has a sister or is a girl knows and has experience with this sort of thing. But I always just assumed that I'd end up marrying a knight in shining armour or a fabulously fabled prince who would just come out of nowhere and marry me and we'd live a magically and ridiculously unrealistic happily ever after. But I've come to realize that there isn't any realism in that kind of thinking. Sure it's cute and the kind of thing that you'd see in a Disney movie, but how and where does it play out in real life?
When I examine all the ideas and preconceptions that I've carried around about marriage and love and falling in love I really find that things aren't what I thought that they'd be. I don't mean that I have no idea or anything, just that the whole I guess "dream" about the way that I would want things to be ideally just isn't ideal. Actually I realize that it doesn't leave room for what really matters. Even as a Christian my "dream" of it all has been skewed by the way the world looks at things. Bill talked about how a man worthy of marrying would want to leave the girl he's interested in in a better place both with God and in everyday living than when he met her. He would change her for the better, whether or not he actually walked down the aisle with her. He would work with and on her like a garden and treat her like a precious thing that was worth not just protecting but being cherished. So many of us girls in this world haven't been cherished by anyone and the thought that we're worth cherishing and that we deserve and should be cherished hasn't even crossed our minds. But I guess this is just another instance where the Lord knows better than we do.
The kind of guy we ladies like is as different as we are, and that's ok. The interesting thing is that all girls are looking for someone who makes them feel like they're worth something not just because they're beautiful or attractive or an object of desire but because there is something about them, I think it's our souls whether or not the guy in question actually realizes it or not, that they see and can't help but find value and I don't know something special in. It's the ones that make you feel special that make the cut. Personally I believe that in those instances they're not just seeing us, they're seeing a part of God that is speaking to them and blowing their minds away. In Genesis it talks about how the creation of the world wasn't complete until God made woman. Ladies, we're the crown of creation, if it wasn't for us things wouldn't be "good" or complete. So I have to believe that being a hopeless romantic isn't such a bad thing after all. I'll leave off with a quote, from Hitch - which was a moderately ok movie, "Any man can sweep any woman off her feet, he just needs the right broom." Or in this case he needs to have the right idea of who to use the broom on!! ;-p
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Spring Cleaning
Since I have been "spring cleaning" recently, and I still have it on the brain, I thought I would share some observations and insights with you.
We are like a cupboard. Profound huh??.. I like it. And to prove my point: we holds things from the small cups of sorrow or joy to the plates of plenty. We lock them into our hearts and minds and we don't let them go. The good, the bad and the ugly, it all resides within. Our sin is like the dust that accumulates around our collective "stuff" and dulls it and makes us nasty and grimy and completely unfit to hold eating utensils. Yet we use it still. Why? Because it is safe, and normal - if anyone knows someone who is interested in creating a way to hold dishes other than a cupboard then please let me know...I'd LOVE to NOT have to clean it...I'm allergic to dust...Ahh a world without dust....But I digress...Back to cupboards. - and we don't know another way of doing things that doesn't include our sin. Let's be honest with ourselves, we LIKE our sin. It's comfortable and it makes us happy. Not in a lasting way, or in a way that gives us joy...But we all enjoy revenge now and again, or losing our temper...Or not screening what we say when we're talking to someone and we're upset...It's the little things. And they matter. They add up. Little by little and we still, like a dog, go back to our vomit... There, I said it, but I don't like the imagery...Just so we're clear. It's God that comes in and takes everything out and starts to clean up the mess that we've made of ourselves and our lives. He moves our plates and dusts off our dreams, and in some cases throws them out and then he gives us new ones. And then he puts them back onto the nice, CLEAN, and sanitary shelf and deposits a little bit of himself in our cabinet, to keep things looking spankin'.
So I say again. We are like cabinets, and we are desperately in need of some cleaning.
We are like a cupboard. Profound huh??.. I like it. And to prove my point: we holds things from the small cups of sorrow or joy to the plates of plenty. We lock them into our hearts and minds and we don't let them go. The good, the bad and the ugly, it all resides within. Our sin is like the dust that accumulates around our collective "stuff" and dulls it and makes us nasty and grimy and completely unfit to hold eating utensils. Yet we use it still. Why? Because it is safe, and normal - if anyone knows someone who is interested in creating a way to hold dishes other than a cupboard then please let me know...I'd LOVE to NOT have to clean it...I'm allergic to dust...Ahh a world without dust....But I digress...Back to cupboards. - and we don't know another way of doing things that doesn't include our sin. Let's be honest with ourselves, we LIKE our sin. It's comfortable and it makes us happy. Not in a lasting way, or in a way that gives us joy...But we all enjoy revenge now and again, or losing our temper...Or not screening what we say when we're talking to someone and we're upset...It's the little things. And they matter. They add up. Little by little and we still, like a dog, go back to our vomit... There, I said it, but I don't like the imagery...Just so we're clear. It's God that comes in and takes everything out and starts to clean up the mess that we've made of ourselves and our lives. He moves our plates and dusts off our dreams, and in some cases throws them out and then he gives us new ones. And then he puts them back onto the nice, CLEAN, and sanitary shelf and deposits a little bit of himself in our cabinet, to keep things looking spankin'.
So I say again. We are like cabinets, and we are desperately in need of some cleaning.
Monday, August 13, 2007
A New Beginning
Hello my vermilion eyed visischwa of verbiage,
I am back. After a much needed, sought after and untimely silence, I am back. Who's to say what random or otherwise thoughts will fill my head and the walls of this blog. It could be anything. And it certainly will be interesting. At least to me.
The silence is over, I have a new computer and I shall use it mightily. (For those of you left wondering WHY I have allowed such a lapse in posting let me tell you. My old computer crashed and is otherwise now known as a glorified paperweight. But I now have a new computer and I'm going to use it.)
No longer shall the halls of this blog be shadowed in darkness. It shall again be filled with my thoughts....Whether liked, which I hope it/they will be, or not. I haven't stoped thinking just because I've stopped posting.
Love,
me
I am back. After a much needed, sought after and untimely silence, I am back. Who's to say what random or otherwise thoughts will fill my head and the walls of this blog. It could be anything. And it certainly will be interesting. At least to me.
The silence is over, I have a new computer and I shall use it mightily. (For those of you left wondering WHY I have allowed such a lapse in posting let me tell you. My old computer crashed and is otherwise now known as a glorified paperweight. But I now have a new computer and I'm going to use it.)
No longer shall the halls of this blog be shadowed in darkness. It shall again be filled with my thoughts....Whether liked, which I hope it/they will be, or not. I haven't stoped thinking just because I've stopped posting.
Love,
me
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
So I'm not sure I told anyone about this...But Thursday I'm competing in a speech competition....No pressure.....Right??...Dude...If I stress about this anymore than I already am I'll die of a heart attack!! Seriously!! I am so doomed!! Ok, so I know I can do all things through Christ...But I'm starting to think I'm gonna die....or at least that entering was a bad idea...So there's like 2 rounds. There are 6 rooms and in each room there are 7 people each competing for a spot in the final 6...So there can only be one winner from each room...And then they compete in front of a live audience...For one of 6 places...The only ones worth mentioning are the first 3...First place wins a plaque..500 dollars and a lithograph worth $500....plus about $200 in "gifts" whatever THAT means....2nd place is $300 and third place is $100...All places win a plaque...I have an exam earlier that day...and the competition is from 6pm to 9pm....and all I can say is..."help me...!!!....Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllpppp meeeeeeeee!!!..........." or "we're all gonna DIE!!!"...Yes, I am nervous!! Which I have to say is an interesting place to be in....I HATE this!! I have 6 minutes to try to give a persuasive speech and I'm so...ARGH!! this is SO over-rated!! On the one hand I'm like....Sweet!! I could SO go for the $500.....but then again...I have SO much to do to be ready that I'm like!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!....There HAS to be a middle ground!! It can't be like this for the next two days!!! I'll die!! Seriously!! The stress alone'll kill me! I guess I'll just have to try to think about this as a test.....of some kind.....and that I'll just have to put on some kind of persona....well...not in those words exactly but you get the idea....I never really saw myself as someone who'd get nervous about public speaking.....well..It's not really the speaking but the COMPETING that's got me running and hiding under my desk in abject terror......Who'd have thought all my shy notions would suddenly come back with a vengeance!!! Ugh!!
Monday, March 05, 2007
Jason, So You Wanted To See My Latest Facebook Profile Picture........
So the following is a picture from my Make-up for Stage and Screen class from last semester. . . . . It is not two pictures photo shopped together, but rather one picture....Everything was done in halves. The wig is only a half, the hat was only a half and I only did half of my face to look female and half to look male.....etc...So here are the results...I welcome your predictions and comments!! I just WISH I could see the looks on your sisters, and mothers, faces when they see this picture Jason...So you're going to have to either take a picture of their reactions or videotape it!!! And I'm DEAD serious here!!!
Monday, January 29, 2007
New Attitude 2007 Conference Promo
For those of us who have been here....Who went for the May 2006 conference...Then you'll recognize this...Otherwise...For the ones who didn't go...Go...Come..Enjoy this blessing with the rest of us.
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