Our dearly beloved... let's call him Penji... has left his wallet at Ryan's house.
Ok, so he'll have to get back to Ryan's to get his wallet...
...but Ryan is in Athens for the day... Maybe Keef will be there around 5:00 to let him in.
Ok, so Penji can wait, then get in his car and drive down to meet Keef at Ryan's to get his wallet.
...but Penji left the keys to his car in Brody's truck...
...and Brody left Atlanta and is now in Athens...
...so Penji picks up his phone to call his girlfriend in Athens to get his keys from Brody and bring them to him in Atlanta...
...but his phone's dying dying dead... Where's his phone charger? in his car--right outside--without keys he can only look at it...
...so he calls his girlfriend, gets her vm and then he checks twitter: she's getting her hair cut... no response....
...so maybe if his girlfriend calls my phone after her hair cut but before Grant and I leave, Penji will get her to get his keys from Brody and we can take him to get his wallet with Keef from Ryan's house and she can bring him back to get his car at our house... and then they can go to Athens.
This does not happen to normal people... except our friend Benji (oops, told on you ;) who swears that he "is a grown up some of the time"
We love our Benji and will take him even if he's a mess ;)
ps. Benj: this was too funny not to share. we love you very very much and hope you can stay with us as long as you want/ need to. I mentioned that you could just use our spare key... Grant said you might lose it....
28 August 2010
23 August 2010
things about me in threes
Three names I go by:
1. Luce (if we're close)
2. HunnyBunny (if you're grant)
3. hey you ;) (if you're most everyone else)
Three places I've lived:
1. Athens, Georgia (the place of all things good :)
2. Antelope, Oregon--that summer was a slice of heaven!
3. Fairbanks, Alaska
Three places I've worked:
1. Fortson's Clothier, Athens, Georgia
2. YoungLife Wildhorse Canyon
3. Lost Creek Ranch, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Three TV shows I love to watch:
1. Dexter
2. Weeds
3. Sex and the City
... pray for me after that list ;)
Three movies I would watch again:
1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Across the Universe
3. Inception
Marley and Me--how can I not pick a dog movie??? The Holiday--how can I not pick a date movie???
Three books I would recommend:
1. The God you can Know
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy
3. Pillars of the Earth
Crazy Love, A Light in August, Jane Eyre, Twilight, On Writing, Straight Man... the list goes on... did you really expect me to limit this to 3???
Three special places I have been:
1. The Forbidden City, Beijing, China
2. Liechtenstein
3. Frienze, Italy
Three things I love to eat:
1. Italian
2. chips.and.que.so.
3. Grant's wings on the grill. wow.
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. ITALY!!-11 days and counting!!!!!!
2. getting pregnant (really looking forward to that whole season of life and lots of little children all around us)
3. prayer every Thursday--seriously, the icing on my week's cake.
copy, paste, rinse, and repeat!
[I broke some rules. free yourself to do the same!]
1. Luce (if we're close)
2. HunnyBunny (if you're grant)
3. hey you ;) (if you're most everyone else)
Three places I've lived:
1. Athens, Georgia (the place of all things good :)
2. Antelope, Oregon--that summer was a slice of heaven!
3. Fairbanks, Alaska
Three places I've worked:
1. Fortson's Clothier, Athens, Georgia
2. YoungLife Wildhorse Canyon
3. Lost Creek Ranch, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Three TV shows I love to watch:
1. Dexter
2. Weeds
3. Sex and the City
... pray for me after that list ;)
Three movies I would watch again:
1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Across the Universe
3. Inception
Marley and Me--how can I not pick a dog movie??? The Holiday--how can I not pick a date movie???
Three books I would recommend:
1. The God you can Know
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy
3. Pillars of the Earth
Crazy Love, A Light in August, Jane Eyre, Twilight, On Writing, Straight Man... the list goes on... did you really expect me to limit this to 3???
Three special places I have been:
1. The Forbidden City, Beijing, China
2. Liechtenstein
3. Frienze, Italy
Three things I love to eat:
1. Italian
2. chips.and.que.so.
3. Grant's wings on the grill. wow.
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. ITALY!!-11 days and counting!!!!!!
2. getting pregnant (really looking forward to that whole season of life and lots of little children all around us)
3. prayer every Thursday--seriously, the icing on my week's cake.
copy, paste, rinse, and repeat!
[I broke some rules. free yourself to do the same!]
21 August 2010
prayer
After today, I can honestly say that my mind has been blown away with prayer.
I am completely overwhelmed--in a wonderful way--with what God has in the way of communing with us through prayer.
I still haven't even processed it all yet, but prayer today at Grace Midtown was transformational.
praise.the.Lord.
!!!!!
I am completely overwhelmed--in a wonderful way--with what God has in the way of communing with us through prayer.
I still haven't even processed it all yet, but prayer today at Grace Midtown was transformational.
praise.the.Lord.
!!!!!
19 July 2010
Perspective
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.
Sir Francis Drake
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.
Sir Francis Drake
15 July 2010
One Month
I can't BELIEVE it's been a month since I last posted!
Shame on me!
I don't have much time to update, so I'll just give you the basics of everyday life with us.
Tomorrow I'm picking up Mary Brantley and we're road-tripping to B'ham for Laura's bachelorette weekend! Should be much fun and great laughter for sure!
Saturday night I'm sneaking off to Katherine's wedding in Huntsville--should be gorgeous and fabulous!--where I will promptly join my parents on the dance floor, only to return to B'ham just in time for the lingerie part of the weekend.
MB and I will head back to ATL Sunday just in time for small group and a late night service at Grace Midtown--our new church home (potentially!).
Monday-Tuesday Grant leaves for Charlotte for work (sad. I have to stay here and work and miss out on seeing Grant for two days and Hannah, too).
Tuesday night the girls of our small group have dinner plans together! and we'll get to find out the sex of Amanda's baby--the first to be born in our group!! hip hip hooray!!
Thursday night I get to sit in on my very first board meeting with NGM--this is serious ;) I will sit quietly in the corner, take notes, and make intelligent sounding grunts while readjusting my glasses to pretend I'm adult enough to partake. Board Meeting. Big Deal.
Friday-Sunday after that, Grant and I are headed to South Carolina to play with the Greenville Duggars at the lake. It's been too long and we're looking forward to seeing them.
ps. Have I mentioned that 7 weeks from tmrw I will be on a plane with my Love (and MB and Lee) to ITALY???!!! Does it get much better than this???
That's all for now. Will write again soon.
[oh, and one last thing; speaking of writing again soon: Grandmama and I have become pen pals, which is awesome. She writes the funniest things and I enjoy her in a whole new way now.]
Signing off!
Shame on me!
I don't have much time to update, so I'll just give you the basics of everyday life with us.
Tomorrow I'm picking up Mary Brantley and we're road-tripping to B'ham for Laura's bachelorette weekend! Should be much fun and great laughter for sure!
Saturday night I'm sneaking off to Katherine's wedding in Huntsville--should be gorgeous and fabulous!--where I will promptly join my parents on the dance floor, only to return to B'ham just in time for the lingerie part of the weekend.
MB and I will head back to ATL Sunday just in time for small group and a late night service at Grace Midtown--our new church home (potentially!).
Monday-Tuesday Grant leaves for Charlotte for work (sad. I have to stay here and work and miss out on seeing Grant for two days and Hannah, too).
Tuesday night the girls of our small group have dinner plans together! and we'll get to find out the sex of Amanda's baby--the first to be born in our group!! hip hip hooray!!
Thursday night I get to sit in on my very first board meeting with NGM--this is serious ;) I will sit quietly in the corner, take notes, and make intelligent sounding grunts while readjusting my glasses to pretend I'm adult enough to partake. Board Meeting. Big Deal.
Friday-Sunday after that, Grant and I are headed to South Carolina to play with the Greenville Duggars at the lake. It's been too long and we're looking forward to seeing them.
ps. Have I mentioned that 7 weeks from tmrw I will be on a plane with my Love (and MB and Lee) to ITALY???!!! Does it get much better than this???
That's all for now. Will write again soon.
[oh, and one last thing; speaking of writing again soon: Grandmama and I have become pen pals, which is awesome. She writes the funniest things and I enjoy her in a whole new way now.]
Signing off!
15 June 2010
F. Buechner
"It is just where God seems most helpless that He is most strong, and just where we least expect Him that He comes most fully."
Amen.
Amen.
14 June 2010
D.A. Carson
"People do not, will not, drift toward holiness.
Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith and delight in the Lord.
Instead, we drift toward compromise and call it 'tolerance,'
toward disobedience and call it 'freedom,'
toward superstition and call it 'faith.'
We cherish the lost discipline of self-control and call it 'relaxation.'
We slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism.
We slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves that we have been liberated."
Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith and delight in the Lord.
Instead, we drift toward compromise and call it 'tolerance,'
toward disobedience and call it 'freedom,'
toward superstition and call it 'faith.'
We cherish the lost discipline of self-control and call it 'relaxation.'
We slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism.
We slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves that we have been liberated."
12 June 2010
I am embarrassed about this post...
... for several reasons.
1. I have a new favorite movie...King Kong.
[I can hear you laughing at me, you know]
But it really is a ridiculously good film with a stellar cast--Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, and Colin Hanks to name a few.
2. I now have a celebrity crush on Adrien Brody [I figure it's time to give Ryan Reynolds a break]. This is painfully embarrassing for me because I had (previous to seeing him in this film) thought of him as awkward, looking either...
always on the brink of tears...
or always on the brink of insanity--per his character in The Villiage...
or slightly anemic...
but in light of this pic and his performance in King Kong, I confess to have been completely wrong in my judgment of Adrien.
The secret is this: he is un-freakin-believably talented as an actor in motion... his still shot pics can be misleading--well some of them.
3. i love watching movies in the Cardio Theater Room at the gym--which is how I happened upon Adrien today and my whole opinion of him shifted in an instant.
4. The way that he kisses Naomi Watts in a scene in King Kong makes me blush. How embarrassing is this: here I am, going to town on the elliptical--nothing new here--and all of the sudden the movie gets serious, even ominous, and I blush at a kiss and am forced to avert my eyes!
NOTE: For those of you who've spent any amount of time in Europe/ around European men, you'll know what I'm talking about--the rest of you: book a trip to Europe immediately.
Adrien has this very European way--looking at her, holding her gaze, pausing, tentatively, and then taking her--of both longing for her and yet passionately having her at the same time... and this is just a kiss, people. No love scene. Nothing scandalous. But the intensity of it, the simultaneous reverence and fearlessness, his awe and acknowledgement of her femininity and yet his unreserved and bold masculinity--well, it's overwhelming... in a good way! And in that moment, there's this undeniable sense that thing will never be the same again. (whatta kiss!)
To be able to communicate all that in a very simple expression for a few seconds on a screen... well, it made me blush.
Now where the heck is my husband... I need to get my arms around him immediately. ;)
1. I have a new favorite movie...King Kong.
[I can hear you laughing at me, you know]
But it really is a ridiculously good film with a stellar cast--Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, and Colin Hanks to name a few.
2. I now have a celebrity crush on Adrien Brody [I figure it's time to give Ryan Reynolds a break]. This is painfully embarrassing for me because I had (previous to seeing him in this film) thought of him as awkward, looking either...
always on the brink of tears...
or always on the brink of insanity--per his character in The Villiage...
or slightly anemic...
but in light of this pic and his performance in King Kong, I confess to have been completely wrong in my judgment of Adrien.
The secret is this: he is un-freakin-believably talented as an actor in motion... his still shot pics can be misleading--well some of them.
3. i love watching movies in the Cardio Theater Room at the gym--which is how I happened upon Adrien today and my whole opinion of him shifted in an instant.
4. The way that he kisses Naomi Watts in a scene in King Kong makes me blush. How embarrassing is this: here I am, going to town on the elliptical--nothing new here--and all of the sudden the movie gets serious, even ominous, and I blush at a kiss and am forced to avert my eyes!
NOTE: For those of you who've spent any amount of time in Europe/ around European men, you'll know what I'm talking about--the rest of you: book a trip to Europe immediately.
Adrien has this very European way--looking at her, holding her gaze, pausing, tentatively, and then taking her--of both longing for her and yet passionately having her at the same time... and this is just a kiss, people. No love scene. Nothing scandalous. But the intensity of it, the simultaneous reverence and fearlessness, his awe and acknowledgement of her femininity and yet his unreserved and bold masculinity--well, it's overwhelming... in a good way! And in that moment, there's this undeniable sense that thing will never be the same again. (whatta kiss!)
To be able to communicate all that in a very simple expression for a few seconds on a screen... well, it made me blush.
Now where the heck is my husband... I need to get my arms around him immediately. ;)
07 June 2010
great news-surgery results
As many of you know, I recently had a quick, no-nonsense "procedure" to remove some melanoma from my chest area.
When we got the first pathology report back--from a sample scrape in a dermatologist's office in Huntsville--the diagnosis was "a mild case of pre-cancerous melanoma" meaning that there were melanoma cells and that it was "medically necessary" to remove them before they turned cancerous and spread into full-blown skin cancer.
I had a plastic surgeon at Emory remove the "atypical nevus" in her office and then got the stitches out and path report back on Friday.
GREAT NEWS!
All the boarders of the removed biopsy were clear--meaning no melanoma cells present or spread--AND, there were NO MELANOMA CELLS AT ALL in the removed section!!!
This is great news because 1) I'm in the clear (was never worried about that part), and 2) we specifically prayed for complete healing and that (if surgery was necessary, which turned out, it was) the surgery would only prove that God had completely healed it from the inside out--which the results did!!
Grant and I have marveled at the list of things God has done for us this past year. And if He never blessed us again, still we would say, "blessed be the Name of the Lord!" but it sure is fun watching Him do what only He can do. Amen!
ps. my scar is healing beautifully!
When we got the first pathology report back--from a sample scrape in a dermatologist's office in Huntsville--the diagnosis was "a mild case of pre-cancerous melanoma" meaning that there were melanoma cells and that it was "medically necessary" to remove them before they turned cancerous and spread into full-blown skin cancer.
I had a plastic surgeon at Emory remove the "atypical nevus" in her office and then got the stitches out and path report back on Friday.
GREAT NEWS!
All the boarders of the removed biopsy were clear--meaning no melanoma cells present or spread--AND, there were NO MELANOMA CELLS AT ALL in the removed section!!!
This is great news because 1) I'm in the clear (was never worried about that part), and 2) we specifically prayed for complete healing and that (if surgery was necessary, which turned out, it was) the surgery would only prove that God had completely healed it from the inside out--which the results did!!
Grant and I have marveled at the list of things God has done for us this past year. And if He never blessed us again, still we would say, "blessed be the Name of the Lord!" but it sure is fun watching Him do what only He can do. Amen!
ps. my scar is healing beautifully!
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