UPDATE:

Okay, am I the only one who doesn’t know a lick more now than I did at the end of Season Three? I thought we were promised some answers, people! Oh well, wouldn’t be Lost if there was any story line resolution from one episode to the next. I’m just glad my fave little hobbit Charlie is still around, dead or not.

One cool thing I noticed today while watching a Season Three episode. Remember the woman in the jewelry store who told Desmond he had to go to the Island? SHE was in a picture on the Head Monk’s desk at the monastery. Whaaaa??!


It’s almost time, my friends. Time for the coolest, confusingest show on tv to jump start the pathetic t.v. lineups. (Not that they’d be any better without the writer’s strike. TV in general is just about unwatchable any more – but that is a rant for another day.)

I’m thrilled out of my mind we get the Thursday primetime slot instead of Wednesday nights. I only got to watch the last half of last season because I didn’t get home from church on time. Alas, we do not have dvr so I rented Season 3 and have been watching a couple of episodes a night for the last several days trying to get caught up before the premiere. One crazy little side effect that I did not anticipate? Luke has become a Lostie, too. He always thought I was a little dorky for loving this show so much and now he’s TOTALLY into it.

I’m certain he’ll wish I hadn’t told you that.

So I’m still completely wigged over Jacob. What in the stinkin’ world? And whose funeral do you think Jack attended? And who is the ‘he’ Kate had to get back to? Oh, I have questions people. If you have any theories about what’s going on or simply want to express your love for this show, leave me a note. I’ll feel ever so much better knowing I’m not alone in my fascinations.

And one more thing? I dare any child to need mothering tonight. They are SO on their own after 8/7 Central. Can ya’ll say ‘Ramen Noodles’ for supper?

Peace out, ya’ll. I’m off to watch more Season Three….

January 31, 2008 | Filed Under Lost | 29 Comments 

Welcome to the Fold…

I’ve just learned that three great girls whom I love have started blogs! It absolutely makes my heart sing when my friends join in my obsession. Will you be ever so precious and stop by to welcome them to BlogLand?

Amanda at I’ll Try! is a member at our church and is absolutely one of the most precious teenagers you will ever meet. She has a heart for God at 18 that would rival any of us who are, let’s say, older than 18. I only have one thing against her. She started a blog and didn’t tell me. For all of you other church girls out there – please refer to the church covenant which states, “Lisa must be made aware of any and all blog activity within the body. Because she loves them. And she’ll have her feelings hurt if I don’t.” I forgive you, Manda. :)

~and~

Natalie at Married to the Preacher is one of our deacon’s daughter-in-laws. Did you catch that one? She and her husband Michael have just taken a new pastorate in North Carolina and have a new baby that is 6 months old. We’ve only gotten to spend minimal time together when she and Michael come to visit family, but I’m looking so forward to connecting with her online. I love my ministry girls and especially ones related to our own church body.

~and~

Carrie at A New Heart is one of my good girlfriends here in town. We have bonded over many a ballgame. She has a relationship with her sisters that would challenge anything on a sitcom. These girls are all stinkin’ hilarious and there is nothing more fun than spending a summer on the sidelines with them. She also didn’t tell me she had a blog but I have my ways of finding these things out, people. You can run but you can not hide. :)

If Amanda, Natalie, and Carrie are anything like me when I started my blog, they have no idea yet what community and friendship await them on the otherside of that computer screen. Please run by and introduce yourselves. They’ll be blown away!

Thanks, girls!

January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Stuff | 7 Comments 

God, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and The Importance of a Good Popsicle Stick

So a few of you have emailed asking how the First Place thing is going. I assume when you ask you really mean, ‘Are you losing any weight?’

To which I am proud to reply YES! To what extent? Let’s just say thank the Lord I am able to dry my blue jeans again.

Tomorrow will be our 4th meeting and it is none to soon. The four week mark is typically the point in any diet in which I will completely blow it. I don’t know if there is something significant about that time or if 30 days is the maximum amount of commitment my DNA can manage at one time.

I could tell that I had reached the critical point today when I actually found myself petting, yes you heard me correctly, PETTING like a kitty cat a package of McDonald’s chocolate chip cookies. I was tenderly contemplating the taste of them – counting the cost if you will. Would all that chocolaty goodness be worth the sense of failure and the pound I would most certainly gain if I ate one? The little red guy on one shoulder was screeching, ‘yes, yes it will be SO worth it!’ and the little white one on the other gently reminded me, “you just taught Children’s Church about temptation. How can you expect those little ones to choose the right over wrong if YOU can not even say no to one measly cookie?”

So I took a huge bite.

And then immediately spit it out.

I couldn’t let down the Children’s Church Kids. Or God either. Let’s not forget Him.

Even though it seems a cookie and God have nothing to do with one another, I can assure you any food issues I may have are completely rooted in spiritual matters. A gooey chocolate chip cookie or piping hot cheeseburger represent a sick kind of satisfaction to me. If I’m having a rotten day, a big bite of something disgustingly fattening seems to make all those stresses disappear. Until it’s time to get on the scale and I’ve outgrown my 6 month pregnant weight. Until I have to air dry my jeans so I can zip them. Until I realize that I am settling for the slum over the sea.

So with that said, saying no to a cookie is about much more to me than a number on a scale. It is very much about evaluating where my joy lies and not settling for anything but God’s best.

(Have ya’ll gotten over yet that I was petting chocolate chip cookies? I’m still a little unsettled by it.)

On to other things, I have to say a huge THANK YOU to my dear mom today. Remember back at Christmas I told you she got these?

Well, seeing as how she’s so generous, I inherited her old washer/dryer. I use the term ‘old’ loosely. I should really just say ‘pre-owned’ because they aren’t old at all. They are almost brand new and in most excellent condition – much better than the ones I had.

Mom was very proud to give me her set when I shared with her that our current dryer only operated with the aid of a popsicle stick. You know those trays you buy for kids in the summer where you can pour in juice and make homemade popsicles? Well, apparently some piece broke off the door of the dryer that has to be depressed for it to run. SO, my darlin‘, handy hubby determined – after much searching through household instruments -that the stick would be perfect to cram into the hole where the piece broke off. He was right and VOILA, my dryer would still work! All that without an over-priced repairman or nuthin!

Have I mentioned before how I do love that man-o-mine?

My camera is broken too or I would truly love to show you his handywork in all its glory, but maybe I’ve given you enough of a visual. Fortunately, the dryer is now in the dumpster. I’m still instinctively looking to wiggle the popsicle stick on the dryer to get it going but alas, my new dryer has no such apparatus attached. Dearest Popsicle Stick, we’ll think of you everytime we have to make 5 popsicles instead of six. But then again, maybe hubs can find something suitable to use in your place.

Cause he totally rocks when it comes to finding replacement parts.

I’d love to share more, but beep, beep….I hear my new, darlin‘ dryer calling my name!

January 29, 2008 | Filed Under Randomness | 26 Comments 

Next Page »

Social Widgets powered by AB-WebLog.com.