David Bowie turns 61 today = the most incredible day of my year…possibly over my own birthday and the wonderful Bastille Day of France.

Why do I feel more adult than my parents?

If I didn’t know he wasn’t my boyfriend, I’d swear we were dating.

Cut through the cushion…yep…who knew there was so much physics involved in flying airplanes. 

Mustard hurts.

Everybody cut loose, foot-loose.  Kick off your Sunday shoes!

It’s what I like about YOU!

Most original pick-up line I’ve received:  “I’d keep 747’s in holding pattern for you.” – yep, he was an air traffic controller for CVG.

There you go.  🙂  Enjoy!

I’m going to see Sweeney Todd in exactly 10 hours.  My life will begin and end at that time.  🙂  It will be the most amazing thing for this year.  I’m excited.  Just saying.  So, I’ll tell you all how it goes later.  Yippee!

I would love to go on a drive around town to see the Christmas lights.  That’s fun.  We did that a lot when I was younger.

I would really enjoy going to Nutcracker…it’s been several years since I’ve done that. 

I’m not really a fan of snow, or the cold, so going sledding or ice skating or skiing, isn’t necessary for me to enjoy the season.  BUT, I do want to go down to the Festival of Lights.  I already have tickets…I just have to get people to go with me. 

Um…these are things that I’m not sure that I’ll get to do.  The other things that I want, I know I’m going to get:

spending time with family

spending time with friends

getting an mp3 player.. (silver, with an FM transmitter…hah!)

Of course I could add my life-long wish to meet David Bowie…but that’s not just a Christmas wish.

PS.  Today is my 6-month birthday.  Isn’t that wonderful?  I don’t expect presents…at least today…but a good wish would suffice.  🙂  Lata!

ooo…I forgot…I’d love a Toblerone chocolate bar.  It’s my only chocolate craving, really…with toffee bits.  yum…

So Lakota schools caved and are not going to be performing Ten Little Indians because its name was changed from Ten Little Niggers.  The NAACP threw a cow about this and said that it wasn’t appropriate for high school students.  This, to me, is ridiculous.  If we can discuss the war in Iraq in high schools, they should be allowed to perform this brilliant play by Agatha Christie.  If you don’t know the plot-line, the story goes that 10 wealthy individuals were all invited to an island resort for a weekend.  They get there and one by one the attendees are murdered off, “…until there was one.”  I went to see this with my mom and sisters at Playhouse in the Park.  It was really, really great, with alternate endings and everything.  I’m just annoyed that people are so touchy and offended at the slightest thing.  I wonder if the guy even read the book or not.  Agatha even changed the name so early on, everyone I spoke to has had no idea that there was even another title.  The play itself has nothing racist in it at all.  Having changed the title lost nothing of the thrust for the plot and has proven inconsequential.    Ok, I’m off my soapbox…but come talk to me in an hour…I might have a second wind.

…to connect with Christians from all over the world.  It makes the world seem not quite so huge…and gives me warm fuzzies all over inside.  I’ve been emailing some of the girls I met in China and it’s been wonderful!  They are so encouraging to me.  Just when I thought that my hands were no longer working in China…here comes some new information.  I don’t know if it’s God encouraging me not to give up my dream of being overseas, or what it is…but I’m very pleased.  And I’ve been meeting people from all over the world just in our little city here.  It’s really great, and I feel as connected with the world as I need to be.  I feel like I can really be incredibly ready for Christmas now…to share love and goodwill with everyone around me (except the man who fixed my windshield…another story).  But there you go.  Have a great day y’all.

Happy Thanksgiving y’all!   Yep, many blessings and joyful times for you all!

In Him,  Sarah ><>

This is an excerpt from the book “Sacred Romance” by Brent Curtis and John Eldridge…which is an excerpt from one of C.S. Lewis’ book (it doesn’t say which specifically, but it’s either The Great Divorce or The Weight of Glory), but I really felt like someone might need to read this…so here you go!

“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of – something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat’s side? Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it – tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest – if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled in the sound itself – you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say, “Here at last is the thing I was made for.” We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we chall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work. While we are, this is. If we lose this, we lose all.”

In honor of this joyous holiday…here are a few puns to get your funny bone jigglin’.

These are the top 20 funniest puns according to punoftheday.com  Enjoy!

11.   A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said ‘No change yet’.

12.   There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn’t control his pupils.

13.   A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two-tired.

14.   Two peanuts were walking in a tough neighborhood and one of them was a-salted.

15.   When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

16.   What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little whine.

17.   A prisoner’s favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.

18.   Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

19.   A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

20.   We were so poor when I was growing up we couldn’t even afford to pay attention.

http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

My excitement for children’s fantastical movies made me really anxious to see the new movie, The Golden Compass, with Nicole Kidman.  My mom just forwarded this email to me, expressing concern about the content and intentions of the film, and I, proceeding to the Snopes site (link above), discovered that the warnings are true!  Apparently, the movie is based on the first book of a series by an atheistic British author, Philip Pullman.  Here’s a link to what Wikipedia has to say about it too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_dark_materials

The whole series is a retaliation against the Chronicles of Narnia and God Himself.  The books teach children to rebel against religious upbringing and the characters eventually kill “God” in the end of it.  Each person has a daemon linked to them which can take the shape of different animals.  Lyra, is a young girl, whose own mother is a part of the “Church” that kidnaps children from around the world for experimental purposes. 

I was really excited about this movie, but now, not so much.  I think this is very dangerous…some consider Pullman to be the most dangerous writer in England.  He is staunchly atheistic and despises Christianity and C.S. Lewis.  I am probably going to read the books, just so I can know better how to argue against them…but I urge you NOT to go see this movie.  We shouldn’t give any more money to this man than he’s already getting.  Nicole Kidman is in it, so, therefore, it is getting a lot of press.  I’m usually an advocate for fantastical children’s series’, but not in this case.  Do not allow your children to see this, and warn others about it as well.