Yep, that's right. We are without t.v. right now, due to lack of payment. :-P
Not that we don't have any channels at all- which is really weird- we do still receive some of the news and Christian channels. Also, it's not that I actually watch t.v. a lot. Quite honestly, I don't very much at all. It's more a matter of my mom watches it most of the day, and I'm always in the livingroom, so I always see it.
I do have my shows that I enjoy (as you can see from one of the lists on the side of this page), but I don't have any shows right now that are absolute must sees. However, my mom is currently mourning the loss of being able to watch The Biggest Loser and American Idol tonight. :-P
So, where have I been and what have I been doing since Valentine's Day? Mostly reading and watching DVDs. You see, all the wonderful goodies I bought with part of my tax return came during the past week, and I have been going through and getting to know them and letting them get to know me.
What all did I get? Well, for starters, I got a new set of season 4 Doctor Who DVDs, as my old set didn't work pretty much since I got them, but I didn't realize that until it was too late to return them. My bad.
I also got the DVD of the Classic Who episode "The Sontaran Experiment" with the Fourth Doctor played by Tom Baker.
Most squeeably I got the first season DVDs of the BBC's show Merlin! ^.^ There is much squeeage and smiles among my life just with that! (and might I highly recommend the episode ten commentary- absolutely hilarious!) Still, that wasn't all! I finally got, after years of wanting, and down right needing, a NOOK!!!! :-D ^.^ :-D ^.^
Let's face it, with how much I love to read and travel, and how I always try to have a book with me, a NOOK really was a neccessity. My purse is only so big, you know.
All that I was able to get, plus a nice cover for my NOOK plus a bunch of NOOKbooks (including the full CoN), and still be able to put some money toward bills, and a new pair of pants for work, and for three pairs of some much needed new stump socks. Now with the money I got from my taxes, plus whatever I get from the fund raiser at work, I hope to be able to get as close as possible to a whole week's worth of socks.
God has given me great blessings. :-)
And I just finished reading The Hobbit. Yes, it is the first time I've read it all the way through- so sue me. The first time I tried, years ago, I couldn't even get into the first chapter. Now, I got through the whole book, and I liked it, though I think I still prefer the storyline of LotR, better. (though I haven't finished the actual books for that, either...just "Fellowship")
I'm afraid I haven't written anything new, yet. Still, the ideas for the main part of the story are starting to swarm around in my head. We'll see what happens in the near future.
*snugs*
Song stuck in my head right now:
"Inspiration" by Ken Blount
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Second Book and Valentine's Day
Yep, today was Valentine's Day, but I tend to be one who calls it "Singles Awareness Day". Not that I really mind the day, or that it all gets to me, but it's kind of fun. Plus, being single as long as I have, it does get more noticeable every year around this day. :-P
I'm not at total loss for the day, however. My parents always get me a little something, and everyone at TLC sends greetings to each other. It's all fun.
Another point up for this post is that I've started writing my next book, already. I really didn't expect to start on it yet, but I guess my brain decided my post NaNo break had been long enough. Last night, after reading a bit of The Hobbit, I went to start on my laundry and the words for the prologue of the book started entering into my brain and wouldn't leave me alone until I had "written" it out into my computer. I haven't even begun editing my first book, and this one has decided it wants to come out! My, books are stubborn things.
This book is not a continuation off the first book, but it is in the same series. Most, if not all, of the books after the first will be highlighting the lives of different characters within the stories before the events in the first.
There is a list on the side of the books I've got right now, and what step of progress they are at in the present. -->
As I said, I only got the prologue out, so far, and I'm not going to share the whole thing here, but here is a bit of an excerpt from Faerie's Love: Naji's Story :
Songs stuck in my head:
"All the Earth" by Parachute Band-
"Made Me Glad" by Hillsong
I'm not at total loss for the day, however. My parents always get me a little something, and everyone at TLC sends greetings to each other. It's all fun.
Another point up for this post is that I've started writing my next book, already. I really didn't expect to start on it yet, but I guess my brain decided my post NaNo break had been long enough. Last night, after reading a bit of The Hobbit, I went to start on my laundry and the words for the prologue of the book started entering into my brain and wouldn't leave me alone until I had "written" it out into my computer. I haven't even begun editing my first book, and this one has decided it wants to come out! My, books are stubborn things.
This book is not a continuation off the first book, but it is in the same series. Most, if not all, of the books after the first will be highlighting the lives of different characters within the stories before the events in the first.
There is a list on the side of the books I've got right now, and what step of progress they are at in the present. -->
As I said, I only got the prologue out, so far, and I'm not going to share the whole thing here, but here is a bit of an excerpt from Faerie's Love: Naji's Story :
Naji’s reverie was broken as she was prompted by her father to respond to the courtiers’ condolences as they passed by them in single file. It seemed to Naji that the whole kingdom wanted to say they were sorry for them. She lifted her large gray eyes to each one, and whispered a small “Thank you” as they stopped in front of her. She really wished she could be somewhere else at the moment. Her feet were starting to ache, she felt fidgety and restless, and she wanted to find out why mother was empty now. Naji had overheard a few courtiers mention that the queen would be placed into one of the royal family crypts the next day- Naji guessed it was because her mother was empty. Did empty people get put into crypts? Why? Her five year old mind was very inquisitive. When there was a bit of a gap in the line, Naji ventured to ask her question to her nurse, but the only response she received was a frown and a reproving “Hush, little mistress. Have some proper respect for your mother.”A second small excerpt:
“I want to have respect for Mama, Ippy, but wouldn’t it be disrespectful to put her in such a thing as a crypt?” Naji pressed.
“No, Your Highness,” Nurse Ippy said, shaking her head and frowning further, “Not when she’s dead. A crypt, then, is the most respectful place you can put her.”
When Naji awoke the next morning she found it was a beautifully sunny late spring day. She wanted nothing more than to put on her yellow dress and go outside and collect all the daisies she saw growing upon the hills in the castle’s parklands. Her dream was short lived, however, when Nurse Ippy told her no, and pulled out another lovely but rather simple black dress. Naji hated wearing black, and, as Ippy was tying her long golden hair back into a black ribbon, she made her feelings known.What do you think, so far? :-)
“I’m sorry, Your Highness, but black is what you must wear, and will be wearing for the next month, so I suggest you reconcile yourself to it,” was the nurse’s firm response.
“But why?” Naji questioned, “Why must it be black? I don’t like black. It is the one color I do not understand.”
“Because black is the appropriate color for mourning, and you and your father the King are mourning your mother the Queen,” Ippy answered, “And you don’t have to understand it, you just have to wear it.” She gave a firm tug on the hair ribbon she had tied into a bow as she said this last statement.
Songs stuck in my head:
"All the Earth" by Parachute Band-
"Made Me Glad" by Hillsong
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Mystery Solved?
So, the mystery of the shattered glass may be solved. One of my dad's cousins offered this explaination:
What do you think?
Oh, word of advice....
Don't eat bad apples!!!! :-P
Song stuck in my head:
"Hands In The Air" by The Waiting
It may have been tempered glass. It shatters in small pieces, no large fragments to be found or cut on. That type of glass will shatter into very small pieces as if it exploded, if it has a chip, hairline crack, or any type of trauma. Funny thing about it. It doesn't always break right away.This does seem the most plausible explaination I've received, yet. So, mystery solved?
Anything as simple as a change in pressure in a room can cause it to explode if it has any cracks, even those too small to see. Although rare, it does happen.
What do you think?
Oh, word of advice....
Don't eat bad apples!!!! :-P
Song stuck in my head:
"Hands In The Air" by The Waiting
Monday, February 7, 2011
Shattered Glass, Like Tears
I must say, today has been very interesting. Some of it good, some of it not, but all interesting.
It started out like a normal day off of work, kind of boring, but while my parents were at the store, and I was in the bathroom, I suddenly heard the sound of glass shattering and falling to the floor. There had been nothing before that- no house shaking, no extremely loud noises, no major temperature changes, nothing projectiled toward the glass...nothing! It just shattered! And shattered all over my decorations on the shelves below it, not to mention on my coat and some of my clothes. I spent a good part of the morning picking up glass. My mom and I consider it a mystery, what in the world made it break. And it really did shatter and explode, too. You can tell by the pieces of glass. They have that webbed look within most of the pieces...and those pieces were the thick part of the bottom of the glass. Definitely not a case of falling and breaking.
It was almost like the Doctor had come in and held his Sonic Screwdriver to the glass, a la Torchwood glass door illustration. :-P
At least the incident has forced me to finally vaccuum my room, like I've been meaning to get around to for months, now. And I'm saving the glass in a bag, for now. I plan on dumping it all into a glass bowl and taking some cool photos. ;-)
The worst part of the day was one of those times where I just let things get to me, and make me a bit depressed. Having delt with depression in the past, I'm careful not to let myself fall into those lies that try to trap me back into those mindsets, but every now and then I have a moment of weakness. This is when I need to make sure I keep my focus on God's love and grace, and not look at the world around me. But I did look at the world around me, today. I felt ignored and left out and let down by my friends. I would say things, and no one would respond. I put my self worth for the day into the hands of my friends, just like I used to do when I was a teenager, when I dealt with the worst of the depression. But I know that's not where my worth lies, no matter how my friends interact with me or don't interact with me, my worth is in Christ. He's always listening to me, and tells me what He thinks. I'm know that I'm the most important thing in the world to Him, and His love covers me, always. It will never end, and nothing can change how big that love is. Nothing can seperate that love from me. It's important to have earthly friends, of course. They help keep you strong, and show you a part of that love via their love, but His love is the biggest and most important. He proved that love 2,000 years ago, and he continues to prove it every day. I am His beloved, and He is mine. This is what makes me happy. The very love that comes from His never ending, never failing grace. This is what keeps me from fear and depression and all those things of the past that He has removed from my life. This is what has brought my freedom from such bondage- a freedom that allows me to dance and sing and write and worship Him without the fear of what others may think or of what I may have done or not done in the past. His grace covers everything, and I rest in it. My resting in it keeps me strong, and keeps me on the right path of my life, not letting me go back to how I was. His love is overwhealming, and this makes me smile. :-)
The song I have stuck in my head right now:
"Kindle" by Between Thieves
It started out like a normal day off of work, kind of boring, but while my parents were at the store, and I was in the bathroom, I suddenly heard the sound of glass shattering and falling to the floor. There had been nothing before that- no house shaking, no extremely loud noises, no major temperature changes, nothing projectiled toward the glass...nothing! It just shattered! And shattered all over my decorations on the shelves below it, not to mention on my coat and some of my clothes. I spent a good part of the morning picking up glass. My mom and I consider it a mystery, what in the world made it break. And it really did shatter and explode, too. You can tell by the pieces of glass. They have that webbed look within most of the pieces...and those pieces were the thick part of the bottom of the glass. Definitely not a case of falling and breaking.
It was almost like the Doctor had come in and held his Sonic Screwdriver to the glass, a la Torchwood glass door illustration. :-P
At least the incident has forced me to finally vaccuum my room, like I've been meaning to get around to for months, now. And I'm saving the glass in a bag, for now. I plan on dumping it all into a glass bowl and taking some cool photos. ;-)
The worst part of the day was one of those times where I just let things get to me, and make me a bit depressed. Having delt with depression in the past, I'm careful not to let myself fall into those lies that try to trap me back into those mindsets, but every now and then I have a moment of weakness. This is when I need to make sure I keep my focus on God's love and grace, and not look at the world around me. But I did look at the world around me, today. I felt ignored and left out and let down by my friends. I would say things, and no one would respond. I put my self worth for the day into the hands of my friends, just like I used to do when I was a teenager, when I dealt with the worst of the depression. But I know that's not where my worth lies, no matter how my friends interact with me or don't interact with me, my worth is in Christ. He's always listening to me, and tells me what He thinks. I'm know that I'm the most important thing in the world to Him, and His love covers me, always. It will never end, and nothing can change how big that love is. Nothing can seperate that love from me. It's important to have earthly friends, of course. They help keep you strong, and show you a part of that love via their love, but His love is the biggest and most important. He proved that love 2,000 years ago, and he continues to prove it every day. I am His beloved, and He is mine. This is what makes me happy. The very love that comes from His never ending, never failing grace. This is what keeps me from fear and depression and all those things of the past that He has removed from my life. This is what has brought my freedom from such bondage- a freedom that allows me to dance and sing and write and worship Him without the fear of what others may think or of what I may have done or not done in the past. His grace covers everything, and I rest in it. My resting in it keeps me strong, and keeps me on the right path of my life, not letting me go back to how I was. His love is overwhealming, and this makes me smile. :-)
The song I have stuck in my head right now:
"Kindle" by Between Thieves
Sunday, February 6, 2011
New page!
In case you didn't notice yet, I added a second page to this little blog today. It's for the various graphics I make...at least, those not made for specific people and I don't mind showing. There are only a few sets of old ones, right now, but when I add new ones, they shall always be on the top. ;-)
Maybe I'll soon add a page for my book?
Maybe I'll soon add a page for my book?
Saturday, February 5, 2011
The Waiting, Smalltown Poets, Butterfly, Superman, and My Crazy Life
That's a lot for one post title, I know, but that's all the different things I wanted to feature this time, as well as the usual rambles.
First off, I wanted to post sooner, but life has a way of going crazy...even when it's not being crazy crazy, it can still be crazy enough to keep you from doing stuff you want to do. As usual, there's work, and we just sent off our general manager into retirement...I'm super curious to know who the new GM will be. Then there is babysitting, and let me tell you, as much as I absolutely love my neices and nephew, they can be a handfull...especially when you're babysitting them for five or more hours straight. I get exhausted just thinking about it. Then there's forum stuff...yah, you get the picture. After all that, I feel a little more blah than I did the other day...and things were looking up just after that...*sigh*
Don't worry, I'll be fine...some snugs and I'll be right as rain. Oh, and I had the ice cream, but I didn't have it until the next day.
Sooo....The Waiting!
One of those bands who came out in the late '90's and didn't really make it past 1999. However, they were popular enough to make three (or was it four) albums. I have several songs of theirs that I like, but I have five songs that I especially love: "Never Dim", "How Do You Do That?", "Hands In The Air", "Unfazed", and, most especially, "Speak". You can find videos of all five of those on Youtube, if you're interested in hearing them, but, I'll warn you, most of them are live performances which can usually sound a bit different in the way they sing the songs than what you would hear on their albums.
Here is a vid of "Speak":
I especially love the last verse: "From the burning of the bush that refuse to be consumed,/ To the Spirit on a shepard boy who ran through every tune./ The terror of the King who carries vengence in His had,/ The love of the Messiah dying quiet as a lamb!" The last phrase makes me tear up every time. It's such a beautiful picture.
Then there's Smalltown Poets. Another band who did quite well in the late 90's (maybe the very early 2000's, too), that I still love, who did a mix of quirky deep and beautiful deep and simple all at the same time. Interesting mix, huh? Well, that's how I describe it, anyway. From the interesting presentation of "Prophet, Priest, and King":
to "Anything Genuine" and the beautiful "Hold It Up To The Light". More I highly recommend checking out.
A couple more great songs are Seven Day Jesus's "Butterfly":
And Luna Halo's "Superman":
All great, and I hope, if you haven't heard them before, that you'll check them all out. ;-)
That's all for now! See you later! *SUPERSNUGS*
First off, I wanted to post sooner, but life has a way of going crazy...even when it's not being crazy crazy, it can still be crazy enough to keep you from doing stuff you want to do. As usual, there's work, and we just sent off our general manager into retirement...I'm super curious to know who the new GM will be. Then there is babysitting, and let me tell you, as much as I absolutely love my neices and nephew, they can be a handfull...especially when you're babysitting them for five or more hours straight. I get exhausted just thinking about it. Then there's forum stuff...yah, you get the picture. After all that, I feel a little more blah than I did the other day...and things were looking up just after that...*sigh*
Don't worry, I'll be fine...some snugs and I'll be right as rain. Oh, and I had the ice cream, but I didn't have it until the next day.
Sooo....The Waiting!
One of those bands who came out in the late '90's and didn't really make it past 1999. However, they were popular enough to make three (or was it four) albums. I have several songs of theirs that I like, but I have five songs that I especially love: "Never Dim", "How Do You Do That?", "Hands In The Air", "Unfazed", and, most especially, "Speak". You can find videos of all five of those on Youtube, if you're interested in hearing them, but, I'll warn you, most of them are live performances which can usually sound a bit different in the way they sing the songs than what you would hear on their albums.
Here is a vid of "Speak":
I especially love the last verse: "From the burning of the bush that refuse to be consumed,/ To the Spirit on a shepard boy who ran through every tune./ The terror of the King who carries vengence in His had,/ The love of the Messiah dying quiet as a lamb!" The last phrase makes me tear up every time. It's such a beautiful picture.
to "Anything Genuine" and the beautiful "Hold It Up To The Light". More I highly recommend checking out.
A couple more great songs are Seven Day Jesus's "Butterfly":
And Luna Halo's "Superman":
All great, and I hope, if you haven't heard them before, that you'll check them all out. ;-)
That's all for now! See you later! *SUPERSNUGS*
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
After You Get What You Want...
...you don't want it.
You know that saying, right? It's kind of how I'm feeling right now.
After the ton of snow we got last night I was hoping and praying I'd get a snow day from work. (We all want those days from time to time.) Well, after getting ready for work, but before leaving the house, I found out I got my wish. Unfortunately, after the initial excitement, I became very bored. I've done nothing all day but rotate between the same websites (email, Facebook, thelionscall.com chat and forum, and here), with a small nap in there. Real exciting.
The thing is, I've got plenty I could actually do. I need to do my taxes, I've got a classic Doctor Who DVD to finish screen capping, two book reviews to write for SCR, and a book to finish reading so I can continue onto the over one hundred I've got on my "to read" list. Not to mention a lot of graphics and music playlist ideas running through my head that I could do some creative work on. So why do I let myself just sit here and become bored. *shrugs*
I just feel blah....I think I need lots of snugs...maybe that's part of the problem...maybe I'm currently hug deficient. I was once told that it actually takes fifteen hugs a day to remain physically healthy, and I believe it! I've always been a hugger. Hugs make me feel happy. I think I'm definitely currently hug deficient.
Chocolate would be nice, too....I do have some Starbucks hot chocolate ice cream in the freezer....but I've been fasting sweets for the last month (virtual ones not included, so all those cookies handed out in the chat are fine) and have been trying to go for forty days with it...I have considered going only thirty, which would mean I'm now done.
To stop or not to stop, that is the question! Whether 'tis better for me to continue a fast of forty length for my health and spiritual life or to stop now and enjoy chocolate ice cream. Either a noble feat which cannot be scoffed at. Ah! cruel world to place such decisions at the feet of one so craving the sweetness of chocolate! Yet, to partake of that which is already in one's possession, but not continue farther, is not of a criminal mind; but to tarry to the end in strength of decision is more honorable, still. The thought of freezer burn and waste to attack such sweet splendor is more than one can bear, yet temptation is not one to give humor. This life brings me onward in decisions I must debate until the end is neigh. Sorrow upon each moment until that decision is made.
Ooookaaaay....yeah....I reeeaaaly need hugs. :-( *le sigh*
You know that saying, right? It's kind of how I'm feeling right now.
After the ton of snow we got last night I was hoping and praying I'd get a snow day from work. (We all want those days from time to time.) Well, after getting ready for work, but before leaving the house, I found out I got my wish. Unfortunately, after the initial excitement, I became very bored. I've done nothing all day but rotate between the same websites (email, Facebook, thelionscall.com chat and forum, and here), with a small nap in there. Real exciting.
The thing is, I've got plenty I could actually do. I need to do my taxes, I've got a classic Doctor Who DVD to finish screen capping, two book reviews to write for SCR, and a book to finish reading so I can continue onto the over one hundred I've got on my "to read" list. Not to mention a lot of graphics and music playlist ideas running through my head that I could do some creative work on. So why do I let myself just sit here and become bored. *shrugs*
I just feel blah....I think I need lots of snugs...maybe that's part of the problem...maybe I'm currently hug deficient. I was once told that it actually takes fifteen hugs a day to remain physically healthy, and I believe it! I've always been a hugger. Hugs make me feel happy. I think I'm definitely currently hug deficient.
Chocolate would be nice, too....I do have some Starbucks hot chocolate ice cream in the freezer....but I've been fasting sweets for the last month (virtual ones not included, so all those cookies handed out in the chat are fine) and have been trying to go for forty days with it...I have considered going only thirty, which would mean I'm now done.
To stop or not to stop, that is the question! Whether 'tis better for me to continue a fast of forty length for my health and spiritual life or to stop now and enjoy chocolate ice cream. Either a noble feat which cannot be scoffed at. Ah! cruel world to place such decisions at the feet of one so craving the sweetness of chocolate! Yet, to partake of that which is already in one's possession, but not continue farther, is not of a criminal mind; but to tarry to the end in strength of decision is more honorable, still. The thought of freezer burn and waste to attack such sweet splendor is more than one can bear, yet temptation is not one to give humor. This life brings me onward in decisions I must debate until the end is neigh. Sorrow upon each moment until that decision is made.
Ooookaaaay....yeah....I reeeaaaly need hugs. :-( *le sigh*
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Where Do I Go From Here?
The answer to that question?
Quite honestly, I don't know. I even spent a good part of the day, while at work and getting ready to go there, beforehand, thinking about what I could write. I thought of different things, but nothing that really stuck out...for the most part.
I did think...since I've been going back over a lot of the music on my computer, lately, maybe I'll put the lyrics to some song or other that stuck out to me that day, and do this each time I post. Maybe....
A lot of the songs I've been listening to, lately, have been pretty old- that is to say, at least ten years old. It's fun listening to the music I enjoyed in my junior high and high school years, I'll admit. Is there anyone else out there that remembers such bands as Considering Lily? or Reality Check? Or the first albums of those bands that are still popular such as Jars of Clay's "Much Afraid" and "If I Left The Zoo" or Switchfoot's "New Way To Be Human", even Third Day's self titled first release.
Yah, I'm remenicing (sp?)...but that's not a bad thing. Right?
"Hymn"
Jars of Clay
Quite honestly, I don't know. I even spent a good part of the day, while at work and getting ready to go there, beforehand, thinking about what I could write. I thought of different things, but nothing that really stuck out...for the most part.
I did think...since I've been going back over a lot of the music on my computer, lately, maybe I'll put the lyrics to some song or other that stuck out to me that day, and do this each time I post. Maybe....
A lot of the songs I've been listening to, lately, have been pretty old- that is to say, at least ten years old. It's fun listening to the music I enjoyed in my junior high and high school years, I'll admit. Is there anyone else out there that remembers such bands as Considering Lily? or Reality Check? Or the first albums of those bands that are still popular such as Jars of Clay's "Much Afraid" and "If I Left The Zoo" or Switchfoot's "New Way To Be Human", even Third Day's self titled first release.
Yah, I'm remenicing (sp?)...but that's not a bad thing. Right?
"Hymn"
Jars of Clay
Oh refuge of my hardened heart
Oh fast pursuing lover come
As angels dance around Your throne
My life by captured fare You own
Not silhouette of trodden faith
Nor death shall not my steps be guide
I'll pirouette upon mine grave
For in Your path I'll run and hide
Chorus:
Oh gaze of love so melt my pride
That I may in Your house but kneel
And in my brokenness to cry
Spring worship unto Thee
When beauty breaks the spell of pain
The bludgeoned heart shall burst in vain
But not when love be pointed king
And truth shall Thee forever reign
[Chorus]
Sweet Jesus carry me away
From cold of night, and dust of day
In ragged hour or salt worn eye
Be my desire, my well sprung lye
[Chorus x 2]
Spring worship unto Thee
Spring worship unto Thee
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