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May 21, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Desperate Housewives finale was really good. I can’t imagine someone will not rescue Edie in the nick of time. Bree is conniving as normal, how I did not figure out her fake pregnancy before it was revealed, I do not know. Seemed obvious after the fact. Lynette..can’t believe she puts up with her mother. Of course, why do any of us lol? Finally Susan and Mike–very sweet ceremony. And poor Gaby being used as a pawn, wonder if that will be annulled or she’ll use him back somehow.

The Office finale was fantastic. Loved that Ryan got the job! That surprised me. Jim and Pam are on!!! Whoo hoo!! Why oh why do I have to wait 4 months now to see them together! So much more I could say about the episode, I doubt you want a line by line review though!

I was so mad at Grey’s! OMG! I can’t believe they left the season like that! Not fair! Nothing was resolved except the chief which really wasn’t resolved. And now Burke is gone, George might be gone, Mer/Der might be gone. Ugh!

feeling better

May 17, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

So not to fret, I’m feeling much better this morning than yesterday morning. I think I was just running downhill from a very stressful week. I am looking forward to my hour talk with the counselor this afternoon. I’m sort of scared to talk about it but I’d like to hear a professional’s viewpoint. I’m also staying an extra hour to sit with one of the youth members while she talks to her. Same one that was going through some counseling last fall.

So Mom and Heather are busy all weekend with the local Italian festival so they can’t watch the kids for our women’s conference. I think I’m just going to take the kids on Friday night. And S volunteered to keep them until Scott got up on Saturday morning. A very interesting concept and we’ll see how that one goes…I am very grateful though, I think it will be very good.

not feeling good today

May 16, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

i feel like crying for some reason. i can’t wipe the frown off my face. i’m embarrassed. sick of myself. tired. very, very tired. stressed. sad. depressed. hurt. and tired. tired of feeling the way i do and fighting it and not feeling things i want to feel. tired of analyzing myself. just so darn tired. tired of trying to be a perfect mother and failing miserably. tired of trying to be a perfect wife and failing miserably. tired of trying to be the perfect volunteer and perfect friend and perfect sister and perfect daughter. and somehow trying so hard and not getting any of it right.

Bachelor

May 15, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Still think Bevin is in the top of the running although Tessa made up a lot of ground this week. Next week should be interesting. The Bachelor’s family always seems to make a difference.

TV update

May 9, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Bachelor – I love his choices this year. That scene with Amber at her apartment sealed the deal for him for sure. He’s not into all that giggling. I’m still not sure why he keeps Tessa around. I like her enough but she’s too much work. Seems like he enjoys dragging the words, I want to fall in love with you out of her rather than actually falling in love with her. Bevin is the obvious frontrunner still. I so do not want her to win but unless he has more doubts about her divorce than they show, I think it’s obvious she’ll win. And Danyelle is just friendly with him I think. Not really seeing too much romance there.

DWTS – Glad to see Billy Ray finally gone. Still liking Apolo

AI – AI sucked last night and in a big way. Not impressed at all. I agree with Blake that his beatboxing got old although they were individually ok. I think he just bought himself a spot in the bottom 2 or maybe even a ticket home. Melinda always has the best voice and even though Jordin does not have a great voice and was hurting by the second song, I just think she fits the AI mold better and has such a great future that I hope she wins. Who knows though. Melinda definitely should win based on voice only. I hope Lakisha goes home tonight though.

Desperate Housewives – I never comment on this show but always watch it. It was SO good on Sunday. Loved Tom/Lynette storyline. Boy, could I relate to that. Kind of scary really. So glad they didn’t drag out Susan/Mike. Glad they are back together. I see a wedding at the season finale maybe. Carlos and Edy are just weird together for me. Gaby’s mayor is going to pull some murder out or something. Not going in a good direction there.

As always, I’m still watching Grey’s. Not happy about Mer/Der being on the rocks. I want George and Izzie together. Still don’t like Callie with George. Christina and Burke’s wedding is going to be insane. Not sure about that new spinoff. Seemed like it was hitting an audience about 10 years older than me but who knows. Could be good.

AI

May 3, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Wow, for some reason I’m surprised Phil got booted last night. He’s had some good weeks recently. So Blake is the only guy left. Will he pull a Chris Daughtry and go home at #4? Who knows. I haven’t decided whether I actually want him to win as it seems to have paid off for Chris not to have won. I think Jordin would make a great AI winner as she has a lot of talent that seems just now discovered, has a lot of room for improvement and a lot of time to have a career. I just think Blake will be successful no matter what.

Catch-up

April 25, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Hm, this might be a long post. Haven’t posted in a week now.

So this past weekend is a blur. I remember working A LOT last weekend and then finally heading to Longhorn at almsot 9pm on Friday night and then sleeping in Saturday. OH! Then I went to dinner with a bunch of kids going to prom on Saturday night! Um, yeah, I said prom. Two of the girls in the youth group I’m close to invited Scott and I and the youth pastor and his wife to dinner with them. Two couples dropped and they had room on their reservation. Last minute, they dropped out because they had no babysitter and then Scott wouldn’t go without him so it was just me. I tried to back out too but they begged me to go so I did. I felt SO lame at the house taking pictures with the others and then waving bye to all the parents when we left for dinner. But I took the role of sexy chaperone and went with it. Dinner was at Villa Antonio’s in Charlotte. And it was SO good. Definitely have to go back there with some adult couples. The dinner was actually a ton of fun. I drove back with them to the high school and D and I watched the rest of the people going in, as is our annual ritual.

Sunday was normal stuff and then the same ‘ol, same ‘ol came back this week. Nothing extravagent going on.

I’ve attempted a new tactic with Emma and the potty, creating a potty chart with new stickers. It worked once. She has one sticker on there. She has since acted like she wants to go to use it but has had at least one accident I can think of. Ugh. One day she will get this all right.

This weekend I’m going to do a mini photo shoot at M’s house with J, her husband who took the pictures from the magazine. I’m going to attempt to get 4 good pictures and make a comp card and possibly look into modeling. No lingerie or swimsuits for me, just something like I did last time in a catalog or such. I’m not getting my hopes up but it would be an extra-fun part-time job.

As for Bachelor…LOVED his picks for this week. Bevin is definitely on the top of my list of who I think he really likes although I really like Amber.

American Idol…I liked Chris and Jordin this week. I can’t believe how much better Jordin has gotten. She sort of reminds me of Kelly from the first season even though she came on stronger a little earlier. My guess is Lakisha or Chris will go though. With 6 left, I’m getting to the point where I will really miss whoever goes and Simon was right when he said the competition started last night.

Also in the works is a DVD for our youth group to hand out at our spring festival next weekend. Lots of work to do between now and then.

VTech

April 18, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

There are a lot of things I’ve been thinking about this tragedy. I’ve been somewhat glued to the news stories about it. I think it is really quite interesting that he actually took the time to do all that in between the two shootings and actually had the guts to return to do more damage. I’m not giving him props, I’m just saying I really want to hear whatever he had to say that he took that much effort to say it and understand what would lead a person to do such a thing. It is horrid what happened. I read some of the stories about the victims and their families and there was so much hope and future there. It is so sad. More of what I’ve been thinking is on the spiritual level. Only because a friend of mine has asked me questions about it.

Number one, does a person that commits suicide automatically get sent to hell? In my theology, no. At one time in my life, I would have answered that differently. I believe if a person is lost, meaning not saved, not a Christian, does not believe that we are sinners, Christ, the perfect Son of God died for us, rose three days later and is coming to get us one day kind of lost then that’s automatic don’t go to heaven ticket. It grieves me, but I believe it to my core. As for Christians, I simply believe once you have put your faith in Christ, nothing can take that away. And even if you don’t confess even your last sin, it was all forgiven when you accepted Christ. My heartfelt hope is that if someone is truly a Christian that they couldn’t feel that low and do that, that somehow the Holy Spirit inside them would stop them, but I am sure it has happened and I just plainly believe that nothing can take us out of His grip once we’re in it.

Number two, is it God’s will that these students were killed? This one is not as easily answered. You have to have the big picture of your (my) theology answered to understand it. But I’ll do my best. The simple answer is no, it was not God’s will for these students to die. God never wills evil or desires bad things to happen to people. In fact I believe God is incredibly sad right now, his tears are just as fresh as the mothers and fathers of those students. He made all 32 of those students and is grief-stricken their life was taken. But the truth of the matter is a really long time ago, God created man and gave him free will. And in so doing, man CHOSE evil. One evil, no matter what it is (white lie or murder or any disobedience of God) was enough to mar the perfection of God’s creation and God cursed man and He cursed the woman and He cursed the land. And in the same way a lemon seed only produces lemon, man could only produce sinful, cursed man. And hence we have 6 billion sinful men with free will. And this 23 year old one CHOSE to kill 32 people on April 16, 2007. Did God will that? No! God detests evil. Can God use that in His plan? Yes, that is why He is God and not I. I choose to believe that in all things, God works all things together for those who love Him and He can and will bring something good out of this for someone. People will draw closer to Him for comfort. People will realize their paths could be short and change it. Is that WHY it happened? No! But God is gracious and merciful enough to love us through this and comfort those families and bring something good out of it. He is just as sad and is mourning those people like we and their families are. And even for the killer. You know, it’s easy for me to have this viewpoint but God created him too. And He really wanted a relationship with him. He didn’t want all this evil and anger for him. He had a perfect plan for him but he chose not to accept that. I don’t know if it had ever been presented to him but the fact that he talks about Jesus in his writings makes me think he had and had rejected him. And that makes God sad too and certainly wasn’t His will. Which as a Christian, gives me a burning desire to spread God’s love and let people as lonely and angry and depressed as him know that there’s more out there. That there’s a God that loves them no matter who they are or how much money they have or what they look like. And God has a perfect plan for them filled with blessings and love and joy. I can’t imagine my life without that. God has kept me close to His side [as much as I would let Him] for almost 22 years now and I’m just so thankful.