E & M

What a beautiful wedding! The bride is 20 and I think the groom is 22 at the most. The are a young christian couple and boldly shared the gospel by having the pastor preach a little 'sermonette' about the wedding picture being a reflection of the sinner coming to Christ. All a sinner has is a broken contrite heart but Jesus Christ has the Cross and His dying for the sinner. This single girl knows from the bottom of her heart that the joining of man and woman is a picture of God but had not really visually viewed it like this. Definitely a keeper for me to keep pondering over. LOVED IT. I think this was the best part of the wedding for me.

I only know of Mitch through Erica. So I paid attention to his actions. Oh, he looked like a boy in the candy factory. His face was just a glow in a smile all the time and with his red hair it was so adorable. I have been to a good share of weddings in my day and I think this is the first time I saw a young man very excited and contented and very ready for this new thing to be. Most grooms are scared to dead and very much looks it!

Of course the whole place was beautiful. I have been getting to hear snippets of the preparation and I couldn't wait to get to see it. Erica is so very organized and she never seemed to stress over any part. She was frugal and creative. I just can see this marriage as something that is loved filled and will last a lifetime.

I wanted to see her hard work and I don't mind going to the wedding part. I do not like the reception and I usually leave after the wedding. But I wanted to see the decorations and the slide show. I went and made it all by myself. I did have work peeps that I could sit with. Even though there was lettuce, candy, and cake, I was quite happily surprised that the meal of pork, potatoes and green beans where foods that I could eat!!!! You don't know how it feels to have everyone eat around you and you can't because you are allergic. People commit - AWKWARD. I saw a family friend that I went up to and talked a bit. We were both surprised to know that Erica was the common link to why we attended.

I still was ill at ease but I know God's peace was with me. Weddings are hard and having to go to them by yourself is even harder. Being in the deep in of thirty, I still wonder if I will have to endure being a loner all my life. Too hard, I say. But God says no, it isn't. So by faith, I keep walking with my hand in His.

Be calm within your soul...
Even the restless waves,
which break upon the shore,
find their way, from time to time,
into peaceful, tranquil harbors.

I did have a great time creating a painted gift for her. She loves my stuff so I had to do something so cool that would blow her mind. She loves the wine bottles that I do for dish soap but she is into browns and the soft colors that go with it. I just so happened to have a brown wine bottle not a beer bottle but a brown wine bottle. She is in love with daisies and is wanting to go sage in her kitchen. I also found a great copper round tray at my favorite place - TARGET. I did daisies up the side and put their last name and date on it. I didn't forget to put butterflies on it too.

a mess ...

I do have a bit to write about but since this basket of apples has been tipped over, I have had a divided mind. I need organization for my creativity. A few of the apples that have rolled away are Safari, Appleworks, iMovie, iPhoto, and Shutterfly. I have lost all my favorite bookmarks here in my Safari so I have been gathering up from what I can remember. It is great having a visual mind. I shall surely bit by bit get my world back in order. I still have to find Appleworks and iMove. Grrrrrrr, because I have no idea where to find them. I have reload iPhoto and Shutterfly. All in all I have cleaned up and learned bits more about my iMac.

I need some vacation time besides a rainy Saturday to help me in my turned-over-apple-cart. Man, I need an apple friend!

Batman: The Dark Knight ...

Should you go and see this movie? If you see it, aren't you condoning the Hollywood love affair with actors who can disappear within the role? What happens when they can't get out of the darkness? In the Joker's prolific words: 'Insanity only takes a push.' How can Hollywood get away with believing actors can be something they are not and give awards out for it? Can you act out another person and still come out of it unchanged or at least changed for the better? If you decide to go, go with discernment. This isn't just a surface movie. It is deep and dark. It is not to be taken lightly as the row of teenage boys beside me did when all they could do was laugh at the Joker and his explosive acts. If you see the movie in the way you should see it, you should leave the theater in a dark pensive mood. If you go and see this as a believer, there is a dawn after the darkest night.

My favorite movie moment in this piece was when Bruce Wayne is sitting in his high rise suite looking out over the city. He is still wearing his bat suit minus the head gear. This is after he made the choice between saving Mr. Dent or saving his love, Rachel. He went after Mr. Dent while the others went after Rachel. All that was left of Rachel was the coin now with a light colored head and a dark colored head. Bruce is pensive. His Butler comes in with the breakfast tray containing the goodbye letter from Rachel. Bruce looks up and says that he feels sorry for Dent because Rachel said that she would wait for him to finish being Batman. Here is where I would jump in and rewrite the story only because I would choose to wait for Batman with no eyes for any other. But Batman/Bruce would have to know to that a girl is a flower and will wilt. If I was the Keeper (reference to the first movie) the Finder must keep. I would put up with his act of being a playboy as the front to save the identity of Batman if only he would keep true and keep me nourished in his love. Every man is on some adventure and the girl just wants to belong and to be part of the adventure. Every hero needs a feminine-wing-woman to fight for and not just a butler and Mr. Fox. Keep her. Do not abandon!!! Sorry. I had to off road here. {smiles}

I am an English Major and pretty visual too. So I get off on diving into the story (esp movies) and see the parallels, motifs, layers, and connecting it to my life and my faith. The first movie (Batman) didn't disappoint so I figured the second wouldn't either. I was right. If anything, please understand what I felt as I left the movie. ~Every soul is in a fight of good and evil. We have a Savior! Will you be a Message Destroyer or a Message Bearer? ~ What was a heart moving moment was when Detective asks Batman what he should do and say about Mr. Dent since he failed the good and killed five in vengeance. Batman used Mr. Dent's prolific words: " 'You die a hero or you see yourself become the villain.' You keep Mr. Dent's reputation in tact and I will take on his evil. Say that Batman did it." I have a Batman! Jesus Christ has taken every wrong I have done and shouldered it for me. He isn't of flesh either! He is the Almighty!!!! Another moment attached to this one is that the young son of the Detective asked his father why they were going after Batman. The Detective says that have to chase Batman. Are you chasing Batman? If you catch him what will you do? Crucify Him or Embrace Him?

timewarp ...

All I wanted to do was get my Appleworks back. Shouldn't that be important to someone who wants to write? It came with my Mac and I have written things down that I want access too. Well, this girl tried to find it and when I put the disk in and pushed buttons that I shouldn't have, I broke my Apple even more so much so that I was sent back to operating system 9! Nothing worked and I couldn't even get online. I still had the music, pictures, and documents that I could retrieve. It took a bit to get a USB large enough and then when I went to get it, Staples didn't have it. Now that is a story and a half. The helper was a bit wacked out but Staples did send me the USB port. Well, because I was not home to receive this package, I put a note for UPS to leave it. I had no way to access the Internet for an official leave-the-package-or-i-just-might-go-ballistic document. No, they would not leave it. So I got it the next day only to find out that this fantastic lifesaver would not work on an OS 9. I was hoping what I could to my tiny USB ports and then got a notion to transfer them over to the big USB port at work. Yesterday, I reloaded my Tiger. Got back to OS X but couldn't get online. Plus, Appleworks still was broken. Today, I was ready and erased the whole thing and reinstall Tiger. Guess what? No Appleworks to be found! What? I did save all the dmg's so that I would not have to waste precious time reloading all the things I had downloaded. They worked too. Very happy about that. Not sure if I was successful at saving my Safari preferences. I hope I have a good memory! It will take me some time to get everything back just the way I like it.

I missed my writing ...
I did have good thoughts but my brain was working overtime on how to fix things up. Furious about Appleworks. Still wishing for an Apple friend. Could have used one! And sadly, no one seemed to miss me. But that is my life. A loner...