Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for the Church. Yessiree, that there Body of Christ is one wacky bunch. I have been in the church my entire life and I still don’t get how it works. Somehow this collection of losers, sinners, arrogant fools, freaks and weirdos all get lumped together and made into something beautiful. We [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for Flyleaf’s new album Memento Mori. Their first album was excellent, but they have topped themselves with their second. It’s kind of music that makes me want to dance and sing and cry. They understand life and sing about it in song-sized chunks. Pain, fear, glory, Heaven. The lead singer and [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Nov 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
This weekend didn’t go quite the way I was expecting. We had a busy couple of days scheduled with Night of the Burning Plum and family coming in from out of town. Crystal and I were gearing up for stashing six more people someplace in this house and then feeding them repeatedly. The Lansberrys were [...]
Posted in Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Nov 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
I figured out something about myself last night. Well, two things actually–the second is that I’m apparently a brunette now, and I’m not sure when that happened. The first one is slightly more complicated.
See, I don’t really like beer. In fact, the alcoholic drinks I like tend to be really froo-froo girly mixed [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
Today is Veteran’s Day. Today would be a great opportunity to give thanks for the men that have gone to war for our country.
But I don’t want to. I hope that doesn’t sound horrible, I really do. I have nothing against veterans and I do feel they should be honored as those who put [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Nov 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
So, for reasons I won’t get into, I’ve had the train of thought bouncing around my head: if someone walked up and asked me “How do you know that the Bible is really completely true? How do you know it didn’t get changed around over the years, so it’s just mostly true?”
And then [...]
Posted in All About Words, Gabrielle, Poems and Stories, Rants & Rambles on Nov 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
(There is a good chance that this will come out completely wrong and will somehow sound like heresy. I mean no disrespect and certainly no heresy so just bear with me.)
I recently wrote my very first short story. According to standards I read on the Internet (insert snarky Internet comment here) what I’ve written previously [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Oct 29th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’ve been listening to lies this week. I listened even though I knew they were lies. And then I kept being surprised when I felt upset about it.
So, Tuesday I went out shopping. It’s my official errand day where I run around like a crazy person doing grocery shopping for myself and some for Crystal. [...]
Posted in Around Town, Friends & Family, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Raquel on Oct 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Yesterday was a crazy day. Due to circumstances beyond our control, which partly just means it didn’t get realized until too late, Go Play Peoria and the Reformation Day Faire were on the same day. So naturally we proceeded to devolop a complicated plan involving two major events, two vehicles, and nine [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]