Thursday, November 30, 2006

Christmas Music

My friend Adam just wrote on his blog that he only likes really good Christmas music. I guess I'm not as selective...I like pretty much any Christmas music by almost anyone. I have Yahoo Music Jukebox, so I'm able to listen to a lot of music that I don't have CD's for. My Christmas playlist is a fairly interesting blend--Lee Ann Womack, Point of Grace, Reba, Todd Agnew, Martina McBride, Clay Aiken, Mariah Carey, Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Brad Paisley, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Jessica Simpson, Hanson (yes, it's true!), Harry Connick, Jr., Il Divo, Chris Botti, Vince Gill, Rhonda Vincent, Jim Brickman, Julie Andrews, Take 6, Glad, Michael Buble, Faith Hill, Jaci Velasquez, Manheim Steimroller, Brian McKnight, Trisha Yearwood, Rosemary Clooney, Sammy Kershaw, 98 Degrees, and N'Sync (yes, I'm slightly ashamed by these last two). I do have several of these on CD (I'm not saying which), but most are newer for me.

Adam's favorites looked interesting, so I'll probably look them up, too!

My only rule about Christmas music is that you can only listen to it between the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas (or until your family finishes celebrating Christmas if that's after the actual Christmas Day).

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving???
Well, most of you are probably getting ready for a huge Thanksgiving feast with your family...I'm sitting on parents' couch talking to my mom and trying to figure out what the two of us are doing today!

No family coming over, no big Turkey dinner cooking...Dad's working today (actually he's sleeping, because he's on the night shift), and then Kelsey is working tomorrow before my dad wakes up...so we're having Thanksgiving on Saturday. And because we always decorate the house for Christmas on the day after Thanksgiving, so the house will be decorated for Christmas when we celebrate Thanksgiving. We're also having Chicken Spaghetti...and we have to do it at 11:00, becuase Kelsey has to be at work at 1:00, and I need to leave early afternoon to get home at a decent hour (because next week is pageant week)...it's getting harder and harder to coordinate our schedules.

So...Mom and I are going to Furr's today to have Thanksgiving dinner...and then we're going to go see Facing the Giants.

It just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving yet...But Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Some Pics




I couldn't resist this picture of Brendon's squished face!










And once again my niece and oldest nephew show their similar tendencies.













Contacts

Yes, after 5 years of wearing glasses, I have finally broken down and gotten contacts. I'm sure it was entertaining to see me try to put them in and take them out for the first time. But I can see!! (my vision's not really that bad). I also got new glasses, because my prescription had changed.

Ok...I have a major research paper to finish...blah...

Saturday, November 18, 2006

I love accents!!!

Yes it is really almost 1:30 a.m., and I am still awake. I was about to go to bed, and I found the Take Home Chef on TLC...I love this show, not because I like learning new recipes...but because I think Curtis is so good-looking. And I've realized that while I love his blue eyes and smile, I think what I like the most is the Aussie accent! I think that's why I like Keith Urban, too! :-) Just some random thoughts after midnight!!

(I also love English accents...that's why I like movie versions of Jane Austen...especially Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.)

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Playing around with my blog
Well, apparently the folks running this blog site realized how difficult it was to figure out how to customize your blog for someone like me, so they made it a little more user friendly if you updated your blog. Which I did...which means that the handful of you who read my blog will notice it changing every day or so until I get it right!! Let me know if you really like or dislike any look that I have.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Living the Single Life
For some reason, talking about being single is something that I have done over the past few days with several different people for several different reasons.

I have been an completely content single woman since September 8, 2005 when I moved into my own place for the first time ever. I never realized living alone was going to be something that I enjoyed so much.

I sort of dated someone before I left Temple (how sort of? well, I didn't know we were sort of seeing each other until he broke it off). For the first time ever I can say that I have no regrets on how I handled this semi-relationship, and that I did not act like a desperate single girl who is trying to land a husband (finally!). I can't tell you how encouraging this is for me!!

I still get asked why I haven't gotten married yet (usually by someone in my home church who has known me since I was little). I have several reasons (and these are in no particular order):
  1. God hasn't brought that person into my life. If all I wanted was to get married, I could have done that various times in college.
  2. I'm not ready to get married yet. I still have grad school to finish up (hopefully by Spring '08). I like living alone right now. I like my independence. I like what God's teaching me. I honestly have no desire to be married. I know a lot of my friends were ready to get married when they were younger, but I wasn't ready at 20 or 21 or 22 (or even 26).
  3. I don't want to get married until I find someone who will love me as much as my daddy loves my mom. I don't want to get married until I know I'll have what my best friends have with their husbands. I want a husband who will always think I'm the most beautiful woman in the room the way my dad does. I want a husband who strives to protect his wife from hurt the way that Adam protects Brooke. I want a husband who is a compassionate father and encourager the way that Jeff is to Cat.

I have so many wonderful examples in front of me...how could I possibly settle for anything less than what my friends have?

Friday, November 10, 2006

Where's Waldo?
I used to like looking at these books...if you have some time to kill, go on over here and find Waldo.

Thursday, November 09, 2006


Wow...I started to laugh at this comic until I realized how true it is in my own life. (not that i'm praying to Buddha now or anything like that). How often do I take a need before God and then expect him to answer immediately on my time table. Worse than that, how often do I pray to God and tell Him exactly how I want my prayer to be answered, and then get mad because He answers it in a different way.

I have so much to learn about prayer...my prayers are so me-focused. Please help me do this or please help me do that...Don't get me wrong, I think that it's important to take our needs before our Heavenly Father, but when 90% of my prayers are focused on what God can do for me instead of Who He is...something's out of whack. I've been a Christian for 19 years, you'd think I'd have this down by now..

God, teach me how to pray...

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Why Guys don't plan the wedding.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

On the Most Viewed News story list on Yahoo
I for one am in shock! (sarcasm)
This story was the number one viewed news story as of a few minutes ago on yahoo...

Closely followed by this one. I actually saw this on TV last night, and while I thought it was a poorly chosen joke, recognized that she was just kidding. I thought it was odd when I watched her reaction, and figured that she'd get some backlash. I think people need to calm down mostly, though.
So ready for election day to be over!!


This comic pretty much captures what I've been feeling lately! I'm so sick of watching political ads! Last night I saw three ads in a row from three different politicians running for the same position. I'm sick of watching ads for Kinky Friedman and the tough grandma and everyone else! I think that the election is very important, but can't stand all the stuff leading up to it!

Okay...I just had to get that off my chest! Go vote everyone!

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

This made my day!

As most of my loved ones know, I am a very proud aunt. Part of the struggle of living away from my niece and nephews is wondering if I'll ever have a strong relationship with them. Mom sent this e-mail to me today.

I forgot to tell you something that happened last night. Aubrey wanted to go into my office. Then she wanted to see Aubrey on my laptop. I turned it on, then showed her the tumbling teddy bears. (Kelsey got a kick out of that.) Then I showed Aubrey that pic of you holding her & Brendon. She got real excited & screamed, "NINI!!!" I thought that would make you smile.

Yep...that definitely made me smile!