Amy J. Bennett

Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life

Friday’s Feast #165

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Here’s a new meme I’m trying out.

Appetizer
If you were a dog, what breed would you be, and why?

A chocolate lab. I look good in brown.

Soup
What does the color purple make you think of?

My 18 different shades of purple socks I had as a teenager of the 90s.

Salad
Approximately how long does it take you to get ready each morning?

30 minutes or less.

Main Course
How many cousins do you have, and are you close to them?

On my Mom’s side, I have 1 younger male cousin and 1 female second cousin that I count as my cousin because she’s only 6 days older than me. *Update* I forgot two more younger male cousins on my Mom’s side.  Whoops. * On my Dad’s side, I have 5 younger female cousins and 1 younger male cousins. I was the first grandchild for both sets of my grandparents.

I would say we aren’t all that close. I’ve lived 8 hours away from them my whole life. We get along well when we’re together and I do keep in touch with some of the older girls more than the others. They seem like really cool people too so I do regret not being closer to them than I am. 🙁 The youngest ones are the same age as my children and they have a great time playing when we visit.

Dessert
Take your initials (first, middle, last) and come up with something else those letters could stand for. (Example: SFO = Sweet Funny Otter)

AJB – Angelic Joyful Butterfly

Grey’s Anatomy “The Heart of the Matter” October 18

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Yes!  Yes!  Yes!  Grey’s was FINALLY back tonight.  Up until this episode, Grey’s hasn’t really felt much like Grey’s but tonight rocked. They finally found a good balance between existing storylines, the interns and the medicine.  I LOVED it.

The whole cafeteria beat-down thing was hilarious.  Well, until of course Izzie realized there wasn’t going to be such a thing and then it was sort of like watching a really embarrassing moment.

The old intern Norm was funny tonight.  I loved the use of "seriously" and replacement of words like untoward for uncool.  Hopefully that will be just this episode because too much of that will get old fast but I thought it was cute.

The storyline with the chief’s niece was heartbreaking.  She was so young.  And especially with my grandmother going through cancer and thinking a lot recently about how much it has shown in my family.  Well, it was tough to listen to her give up.

Derek’s confession at the elevators was super sweet.  He wants a lifetime.  Awww.  Hard-headed Meredith still can’t commit and it’s driving me crazy they’re still stretching THAT out.

But my favorite of all tonight was Alex.  Alex grew on me last season in a big way and tonight was another one of those moments.  You realize he’s mad at Izzie because he wanted to be the first after Denny.  And then when we walked in her room at the end.  Whoa!  That’s so swee-et.  I always wanted her and Alex together since Denny especially when he held her in that chair right after Denny died.  Aw, I hope they get together.

Definitely my favorite episode of this season and I hope that it just goes up from here.

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On Sharing

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I don’t understand what it is about toddlers (and maybe it’s with all children) that they must have things assigned to them.  As in, this is my cup, this is my chair, this is my book, this is mine, mine, mine.  Everyone has everything assigned to them.  Tonight S was over here and we were outside.  We have a swingset that has 3 swings.  The left one S usually sits in, Emma sits in the middle and Lexi usually sits in the one on the right.  Fine. 

But today Lexi wanted to sit in the middle one.  S got in hers but Emma would not even sit in Lexi’s on the right.  She whined, "But Lexi’s in myyy swing."  I say, "Emma, these swings don’t have names on them, you can swing in that one."  You know, she stood there and watched S and Lexi swing instead of swinging in "Lexi’s" swing?

The girls got up and played on the slide and then made their way back to the swings.  This time Lexi sat in the middle, Emma sat on the left in S’s and S would. not. swing on the one on the right.  She sat there with a scowl on her face the whole time.  I kept trying to explain they were missing out on swinging time by standing there and they needed to share and blah, blah, blah.  I don’t get it.  They would rather sit there, miss out on swinging and pout than get in "someone else’s" swing.

Little Texas, Rascall Flatts, same thing

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The other night we went out somewhere and I heard that song “What Might Have Been” by Little Texas. Back in the day Scott and I were HUGE country music fans. In fact, we were even into the line dancing and all. We’d go out every single Wednesday, sometimes Thursday and Friday nights to a country club in Charlotte. Anyway, I realized that song is a lot like one of my favorite Rascal Flatts songs on my iPod “What Hurts the Most”. Donchathink? OK, so Little Texas and Rascall Flatts don’t even compare but I really think the songs do. I’ve never had the opportunity to see Rascal Flatts in concert but if I could ever get Rascal Flatts tickets, I would love to see that song performed live.

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Tip to ward off telemarketers

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I’m standing at the stove cooking dinner tonight (because YES I do that every night) and the phone rings. Scott answers and you can tell it’s a telemarketer. I’m starting to mouth to him, "I don’t want to talk to anybody." And he says to the telemarketer…"No hablo Ingles." and hangs up. LOL. He cracks me up sometimes.

Computer Backup

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I will downright cry if one day I try to turn on my computer and it doesn’t work and ALL my files, pictures, videos, everything will be gone.  I haven’t backed up in SO long it’s pathetic. In fact, I hope I haven’t jinxed myself just typing that.  I just checked and I have over 32GB of pictures on this computer.  I’m in some serious need of a backup.

I was thinking I might go the DVD route, but that would take way too much time.  I was thinking the external hard drive route, but I don’t know, something could happen to that as well.  I’m thinking Online Storage might be the trick. I really like the fact that it shows up just like a mapped drive and you can access it anywhere and can even share it. I know my parents and sister would love to have access to my pictures at any time. What do you guys do for your file storage?

Drama SO not over

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So Monday I posted about the youth leaders having a smackdown meeting and supposedly getting everything out in the open.  I don’t think that’s necessarily true as the pastor is still going to talk to the leadership team.  Looks like the pastor is trying to get everything resolved before the new youth pastor gets here.  Could be more drama coming.

FYI, this post was edited to make it non-password protected

Password Protected Posts

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Look at THAT alliteration. Ok, so I have some password protected posts recently and I really don’t mind people reading them, I just want to know WHO is reading them. So post a comment or email me and I’d be glad to give it to you.