One Day You Will

• 27 Dresses - check!
• 300 - check!
• Avatar
• Caprica
• Continuum
• Defiance
• Dirty Dancing
• Ironman - Check!
• Ocean's Eleven
• Rise of the Lycans
• SG1 - Children of the Gods
• Stargate Atlantis S. 4 - check!
• Stargate Atlantis S.1
• Stargate Atlantis S.2 - check! (once Jake gives it to me for my b-day...)
• Stargate Atlantis S.3 - check!
• Stargate Atlantis S.5 - check!
• Star Trek - check!
• Terminator Salvation - check!
• The Dark Knight - check!
• The Proposal
• Underworld
• XXX  

One day I'll own all these movies...one day. (I'll add more later...)

Open up your arms and let me in

Remember when I saw GRO and Sleeperstar at Harper's Ferry in Boston? You should, because it was a pretty lengthy blog post/concert review. :-P


Anyway...both of them have free acoustic music out right now!! Click for some GRO-goodness. Check out the melodious sounds of Sleeperstar.


And for a good laugh, click play. :)

Mr. Blue Sky

Wednesdays are the longest days of my life. Seriously. I get to the office at 0800 (or around there) and don't leave till 1700. And then add in days like today, when we have Passion of the King. And not only do we have practice, but we have a dress rehearsal. Do you know what that means? It means if we're lucky, we're home by 2300. And yes, I know there are people who have these kinds of days everyday, but I'm not one of them. So this is wrecking havoc on my sleeping habits. I woke up this morning at like 0530 and couldn't go back to sleep. So I just laid in bed until the alarm went off at 0645. Now, don't get me wrong, I absolutely love, what I'm doing. However, being an asthmatic, means I'm already prone to looking like Uncle Fester when I wake up. Add sleep deprivation to it. Let's just say it's not a pretty picture...


I also just want to bemoan the fact that I'm still not caught up on Lost!! Boo. But I promise I will. And I will also have my handy-dandy notebook close by, so that I can take all kinds of notes to post on here. :)


So I'm gonna be the "traveling woman" in April. Not gonna, lie, I'm pretty excited! :)


Here's the sched:


4.4: NYC w/ the family! Going to see the Statue of Liberty...it's the 50th anniversary of when my grandparents and uncles immigrated to America! :)


4.18: "Grand Day Out" - Boston w/ the Tougas'!


4.22-24: Celebrating Mom's birthday/Parent's Anniversary with a trip to Maine!! SUPER excited for this. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Maine! :)


Now I need to get back to work. :-P
But thanks for the distraction.

Of Cinnamon Scents and Paper Cuts

You know that lovely smell that assails your nose when the air isn't moved around enough? That's what an office can become like. So we purchase candles, or aerosols to help battle the mediocre. Last year, for my birthday, one of the choir ladies was super awesome and surprised me with a birthday gift! In it was one of those White Candle & Co (but it's sold at Bath & Body) plug-in scent thingys. I've had it in the office, free in the ability to plug it in whenever the air feels anything less than fresh. However, yesterday I walked into my 'cube to the almost overwhelming scent of cinnamon. Seriously, almost nauseating. To my dismay, the liquid that resides in the plug-in module had tipped over and spilled all over my desk. Ugh. A day later and it still is overwhelmingly strong. This morning when I went to put on my jeans (coincidentally the same ones I wore yesterday) and was hit with the cinnamony aroma. At first I was dumb-founded. Then realized why. So if you see me in the next few days and smell cinnamon...you know why. :-P


ps. 16 days from now, Clash of the Titans opens!!! So excited for that! :)

Minimum Speed

• Mail for "Mr. Corey Leamy"
• Messing up a Sudoku
• Misplacing important notes
• Heading towards a destination with a purpose, only to realize you forgot your purpose once you reach your destination
• Throwing recyclables in the trash
• When people speed up to cut you off, then slow down once they're in your lane
• Broken headphones

The Same Power

"When You see me, will You know me?"

Those are lyrics from Sleeperstar's song: The Journey. Whenever I listen to that song, I always tune into that part...I'm sure that's happened to you. You're busy working, but whenever a certain song comes on, or a certain part in said song, comes on it's like your ears automatically pick it up and decide to actively listen. And this morning I was struck by that part (I'll admit, in the past I've often been struck as well, I just didn't feel like blogging about it! haha). Anyway, Warren Barfield had a song awhile back that said,

I shouldn't have to tell you who I am
Cause who I am should be speaking for itself
Cause if I am who I, I want to be
Then who you see won't even be me
Oh the more and more I disappear
The more and more He becomes clear

Til everyone I talk to hears His voice
And everything I touch feels the warmth of His hand
Til everyone I meet
Sees Jesus in me
This is all I wanna be
I wanna be mistaken
For Jesus
Do they only see who we are
When who we are should be pointing them to Christ
Cause we are who He chose to use
To spread the news
Of the way the truth and the life
Oh I want all I am to die
So all He is can come alive

And while the two are saying different things, they [sorta] mean the same. With Sleeperstar's lyrics I tend to think about how God sees me. Does He see me fulfilling the path He's perfected for me? Or does He see me going my own way? Am I using the gifts and talents He's blessed me with for His glory? Or my own? Am I living my life so that others can clearly see I'm His?

Which brings me to the next song. Warren Barfield sings about wanting to be mistaken for Jesus. Are we living a life that when others see us, they see God? The chorus touches on our senses. Hear, Feel, See. When people hear us speak, do they hear God? Can they plainly tell just by the use of our language that we're different? Do we lift others up with our words? Or do we push them down? When we touch others, do they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that "the same Power that conquered the grave lives" in you? Do the people you walk by see that you're different than others? Do you dress in a manner that doesn't invite trouble? Do you smile at others...regardless if you know them or not?

To love the "unlovable" was once my goal, and I think I've veered from that path...but I'm working on getting back on track. So that others can Hear, Feel, and See Jesus through me.

Watching the time go, the second hand is moving too fast...

• OPI Nail Polish
    

• Miami Beat
• Aphrodite's Pink Nightie
• Prince George's Passion (pictured)
• Vampire State Building
• Nice Color, Eh
• The power of white-out!
• Primeval (by that I mean James Murray)
• The throbbing you feel in your chest when the bassist starts playing at a concert
• When you secretly laugh at people who sing in their cars...only to realize you probably look the same way (cuz you know you do it!).
• When a song gives you the chills
• Songs that have "woah-ohs" (or something similar) in it...so you can belt it out! (because it's the only part you know...)
• Falling Apart - Matt Nathanson
• Texas Rain - Sleeperstar

I'd Walk A Thousand Miles

In 78 days, I turn 21. No big whoop...haha not like I'm gonna go party and drink! :-P But just the same...I've decided to fast candy til then. Maybe beyond then...we'll see. I've done pretty well...though I did have a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on Sunday at group. So I decided to just say Monday was my starting point! haha. :)


I also decided in February that for 2010, I was gonna try my hardest to give up Starbucks. However, I do love their Raspberry Passion Iced Tea Lemonade, so whenever I do get something from them, I've decided to also send some coffee to a soldier through Green Beans Coffee's program Cup of Joe for A Joe. Which is pretty sweet. Not gonna lie. :)


Check it out.


Love 'n Hugs!!

Of Power Cords and Thin New Books

I realized I've neglected my blog for more than two weeks. Sorry! I still haven't caught up on Lost...I feel I have this reoccurring bad habit of missing Lost for a few weeks then catching up on 3+ episodes all at once. :( So I promise that I will catch up! But while we're on the subject of Lost Sarah had a great thought and I'm inclined to believe it.

you know how the smoke monster is in locke's body right now? did he used to be in jack's dad's body? because his dad died, but he was alive on the island. and if i remember right, him and claire were together at the end of last season, weren't they? but now jack's dad is m.i.a. and claire and "locke" are bffs...

Yup, I definitely agree with that.

So moving on, while at Target the other day, I got a new OPI nail polish! It's called Italian Love Affair. Caity and I were twins on Sunday, in some pretty scary ways, not gonna lie! haha. :) My hand is on the left, her's (obviously) on the right. I'm excited for when I'm tan...it will look much better on me then! (It's ALOT brighter than it looks in this picture). The color looks like one of my favorite OPI colors Aphrodite's Pink Nightie, which I still haven't purchased. But I intend to in the future. (well as soon as I see it in a store, haha!)

I was greatly disheartened to learn that my laptop battery cord is once again on the fritz. Boo! : (

With Pop scheduled to head to the giant sandbox, I recently dropped out of our Praise Team. Let me tell you, it is a weird experience! I walked into church late (by like 2 minutes...so not too rebellious!), got to park in the regular parking lot, and got to leave right after service. So I also find myself with seemingly hours more to my day morning. So I started to read Sex God by Rob Bell again. I started it when I went to Guatemala last July and never finished it. The books tagline is "Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality". Someone asked me about it yesterday, so I figured I'd put a few of my favorite excerpts in here. (I would definitely suggest you read this book).

We're addictive creatures. We try things, we experiment, we explore, and certain things hook us. They get their tentacles in us, and we can't get away from them. What started out as freedom can quickly become slavery. Often freedom is seen as the ability to do whatever you want. But freedom isn't being able to have whatever we crave. Freedom is going without whatever we crave and being fine with it.

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If you're God and you want to express ultimate love to your creation, if you want to move towards them in a definitive way, you have a problem, because just showing up overwhelms people. You wouldn't come as you are. You won't come in strength. You wouldn't come in your pure, raw essence. You'd scare everybody away....So how would you express your love in an ultimate way?...You would need to strip yourself of all the trappings that come with ultimate power and authority. That's how love works...This is the story of the Bible. This is the story of Jesus.

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It takes spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you.

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I went back and re-read chapters I'd already finished, because it's just so filled with little nuggets of goodness that I might have missed the first time around. :-P