7 quick takes

1 - This song is a tribute to what I had wanted to happen.

2 - I am on Pinterest.  Are you?  It's true what everyone says about - a great way to have hours of your life sucked away from you.  But it did teach me about the sock bun.

I look cute with a sock bun.  Not gonna lie.

3 - It's also how I learned how to do a simple Gibson Tuck.

I was hoping I'd look really cute with my hair like this.  But I got 0 compliments and my husband told me I looked like an AC.  (That's Apostolic Christian.  I was told once, by an AC, that there are more AC churches in Central Illinois than in the rest of the world combined.  So you may not know what an AC is.  Think strict Baptist meets strict Mennonite.  They're good people.  The women wear skirts, and always have their hair up with a little croqueted covering.)  It's not an insult to be told I look AC, but I would have preferred "pretty", "classy", or even "nice".

4 - Of course I was not trying to look like an AC.  I was a little more inspired by this:

It is true.  The void in my life created once I finished Lost has now been filled by Downton Abbey.  Simply put: I am in love.

5 - Here's a little post I wrote over at the Behold blog.  It's all about how I got involved with Behold in the first place.  Check it out!

6 - There is a youtube video all over the place called "I hate religion, but love Jesus".  It's really well done and you may have seen it.  If you have, I encourage you to read this commentary, written by Marc Barnes. 

7 - We still have our Christmas lights on the front porch and I still turn them on.  Especially now that there's snow I like having them glowing in the night.

Winter is so dark and I love coming home to a dark street with our cheery lights welcoming me.  But I do promise to you all that they won't stay up all year long.

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Okay, so I love this song, but after watching this version of it I want to follow my dream of learning to play the accordian and write the percussionist a fan letter.

2 - I actually don't have a dream of playing the accordian but the other day I was thinking about how it'd be cool if I could.

3 - Last night I had my consultation with Bloom Personal Shopping's Hallie Lord.  It was a wonderful experience!  Hallie gave me all kinds of tips on what I can wear as stay at home, overweight mom.  A lot of her suggestions for me were reasonably priced (though for me that still requires saving money or waiting until after Christmas) and I'm excited to get things to smooth out my spillage, hide my flaws, and play up my own personal style. 

4- In fact when I woke up this morning I had this great feeling of empowerment.  It felt a little like, "watch out I'm gonna look smokin' today!"  That feeling diminished though, when I remembered I still had my old wardrobe.  Boo.

5 - My new post at Virtuous Planet is up.  Travis suggested I write something light hearted so I did a list of songs Lydia and I both love.  You can check it out here:  Music to Make You Happy.

6 - The only thing that frustrates me each week as I work on my VP post is that they want at least one picture in each post.  I spend stupid amounts of time looking for a good picture and then just settling for something that's good enough.  I understand why they want a picture but for whatever reason any time I try to upload one of my personal ones it says the file is too big.  I'm not tech savy enough to figure that one out so I'm left searching the creative commons on flickr.  If you know Wordpress and can help me out (and you live close by) I'll bake you cookies and deliver them to your door.

7 - I finished Lost.  There is now a void in my life.  When I come to terms with things I will write a post that will be a major spoiler.

Serious.

That's what I am, people.  I'm serious.  Serious about Lost.

I have become a lame version of the person I once was because I am so consumed by this show.  And I was pretty far from cool in the first place so this is bad news.

Take, for example, the following song.

I've been listening to it on a regular basis ever since the episode where Hurley gets the Dharma van filled with beer and Roger's corpse started.  Do you even remember that episode?  Or this song?  Someone please say YES!

I'm in Season 6.  And let me tell you when it's over I'm going to be sad.  Maybe I will drown my sorrows in beer.  Probably not. 

And here's my other problem:  I cannot watch Dexter.  I tried watching it before at the encouragement of others and realized that the American public and many of my close friends are sick, twisted, dark people.

Let me leave you with one last piece of Lost loveliness.  A quote from the episode I watched today during nap time / picking up the kitchen.

Miles to Linus:
Why would I need your money when there are a couple of jabonies under there named Nikki and Paulo who got buried alive with $8 million in diamonds on top of them.