Southern belle secrets

These southern belle secrets are from a tumblr blog but I've been seeing them on Pinterest for months.  I cannot tell you how much I love them!!! 
Here are some of my favorites!
 

 

What I'm loving Wednesday!

I'm loving that the sun is finally going to peek out tomorrow and then step right on out and shine come Friday!  It has rained all. week. long.

I'm loving that today is my Friday!  I'm off until Monday!!

I'm loving that I'm going to the fair Friday with Ami and Brian!  It should be a gorgeous day to take pictures! 

 And pick up ducks!

This was always my favorite thing to 
play at the fair when I was little.  

No losers!  Every duck wins a prize!  Ha!  

You know I'mma pick me up a duck Friday.

 And ride sheep!

This I HAVE to see.  

They let little kids under 60 pounds 
RIDE A SHEEP.

It's called Mutton Busting.  Bwaaaah!  

See ya Friday, Mr. Ferris Wheel.

I can't wait!!

Honor begins at home

I hadn't planned to go see the movie, Courageous, last night.  I wanted to see it but I thought it could wait, I thought, "it'll be playing a while, no need to go right now", I thought I might even wait until it came out on DVD next year.

What a difference a day makes.

I was on the phone with Larry late yesterday afternoon and he urged me to go so that I could tell him about it today.  That's what we do.  I go see movies and then tell him about them in as much detail as I can remember, usually while he's munching on chicken wings.  It's one of our things.  He says he always feels like he's seen the movies, too, when I'm done.

So that's what I did.  I got dressed and made it to the 8:15 showing over at the Galleria.

Now that I've had time to absorb this phenomenal, amazing movie and have shared it with Larry, all I can still say is wow.  This movie, made by the good folks at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany (Allbenny, for those of you who don't know how we pronounce it!), Georgia, the same people who brought us Facing the Giants and Fireproof, is the best movie I have seen in a long, long time, maybe ever.  I laughed and cried and then laughed (the Snake Kings scene is HILARIOUS!) and cried some more.  Real tears, running down my face.  It is so profound and potentially life changing that all I can do is tell you to go see it.   I could never do it justice.  Just go.  Take your daddy, your brother, your church, your coworkers, just take the whole town!  It is a must see!!

It came in #5 the first week in the box office.  That is pretty impressive for a Christian movie.  We should really get the word out there and get more people to see it.  It truly should be in that #1 spot but more importantly, everyone should be given the opportunity to see it and put the message to work in their own lives.

Here's the trailer.  No way could I even begin to say it better.

Fill in the blank Friday!

Something popular that I can't stand or don't "get" is Dancing With The Stars.  I've tried to watch it a time or two but I just wasn't impressed.  And who picks these "stars" anyway?  Bristol Palin and Nancy Grace?  Come onnnnnn...

Something unpopular that I LOVE is old country music.  I'm talkin' George and my girl, Tammy, Conway and Loretty, Patsy and I do love me some Charlie Rich.  Country music has NOT been the same since they closed the Ryman.

When I've had a bad day, I take a nap.  When I've had a good day, I take a nap.  Ha!

I would prefer a night at home in my jammies doing laundry and cleaning to going out and partying any day.  Like tonight.  :)

Something that makes me nervous is not knowing what's coming next.  I wish I could just roll with it and be open and flexible to God's plan and some days I do better than others but I want to know, I want to know, I want to KNOW.  You know??

Something worth fighting for is LOVE.  If you are so blessed to find THE ONE that God created just for you, you hold on to him (or her!) for dear life.  Do whatever you have to do to protect that relationship and grow old in that love. It may not be easy but nothing worth having is easy.  That's how you know.

When people think of me, I hope they think that I'm a good wife, daughter, sister, aunt and friend and that I have a good heart.  And that I'm funny as all get out.  :)

Happy Weekend!

What I'm loving Wednesday!

 

I'm loving my new-to-me Dolce & Gabbana 

purse that Dr. Patrenos gave me today!

 

It's such a beautiful color for fall, it's butter soft and soooo roomy!  I love how it just lays open like that.  I have room for all my stuff and then some.  It's gonna be perfect for smuggling Skittles and bottles of green tea when I go to the movies!  :)  Thanks, Dr. P!!  I promise I will take good care of it and it'll be happy with me.  <3

I'm also loving this little picture I found on Pinterest tonight.

 

Steve Jobs passed away this evening after a long battle with cancer.  My first computer, at the urging of Brian and Ami who already had one, was an iMac.  An original Bondi Blue G3 iMac that I bought in 1999.  That computer made me an Apple snob.  And that old girl will STILL fire up and pull up one page on the internet.  She just needs more memory to do more but she's still a'kickin'.  She was my only computer for six years and then Larry got me my beloved iBook for Christmas in 2005.  She's still kickin', too.  I had to buy a PC (the horror!) last year for an online class that my Mac wasn't compatible with and its desktop display right now as we speak says, "I wish I was a Mac".  RIP Steve, you old square peg in a round hole.  Thanks for helping me to be one, too. 

Ten-four

I couldn't resist paying homage today on this 10-4 to one of the greatest movies evah.

Smokey And The Bandit.

Cledus Snow: Hey Bandit. Me an' Fred got a question.
Bandit: What you an' Fred want?
Cledus Snow: How come we's doin' this?
Bandit: Why d'you ask?
Cledus Snow: Well, they said it ain't never been done before.
Bandit: Well, that's the reason, son.
Cledus Snow: [shrugs] That's good with Fred.
Bandit: [laughing] Ten-four 

RIP Snowman and Fred.

Over and out.

Weekend Wonders

We're only two days into October and 

I'm already ready to do this to my porch.  

Ain't they gorgeous??

I had a pretty awesome weekend.  I woke up both days to temps in the 40's, got to wear my new yoga pants and my favorite fluffy sweater and SOCKS.  Yay!!!

Larry and I had one and a half ('cause I went to church this morning) fabulous days together and got the shock of our entire DOC-controlled lives yesterday.  The vendor who provides the food for the visitation room has apparently decided that he's made enough money and he has abandoned us.  We've noticed during the past few weeks that the candy bars looked the same and I mentioned to Larry that I thought they were going to make us buy what was in there before they put anything different in there and I don't think I was too far from the truth.  We heard today that the company has filed bankruptcy, which completely blows my mind 'cause how can somebody file for bankruptcy when they're making a fortune off inmate families??!  $3.50 for six chicken wings.  That's 58 cents a piece.  I mean, come on now.  This ain't Hooter's.  It's ridiculous how these people take advantage of us because they CAN.  There is no competition.  You pay it or you do without.

Okay, to the shock.  I got a little sidetracked there.  Ha!  That's funny 'cause that's the name of the vendor.  Sidetrack Vending.  Anyway, so the two Coke machines stopped working and after about an hour of us sittin' there 'bout to DIE of thirst, the guards bring out cups and ice and two huge coolers of red Kool-Aid and water!!  

Those of you who know nothing of prison life probably are thinking, "So?  What's the big deal?"  Those of you who live the prison life probably feel heart palpitations bubbling up in your chest just reading about it because you know that this was HUGE.

In my 23 years of walking this walk with Larry, I can tell you that this nor anything remotely like this has ever happened.  The DOC plays this game about how important family time is and how that connection with loved ones is so vital to the rehabilitation of the guys unfortunate enough to live there but that's just it.  It's a game.  It's for the newspapers, for the TV interviews, for the show. They make it so difficult to even get in there to see your loved ones, the lonnnnng lines out in all kinds of weather, the scrutinizing of every stitch of clothing you have on, the nasty attitudes simply because you are there bothering them, forcing them to get up and work.  They'd rather you not be there and they let you know it.

Can you tell they're not really my favorite people?  Ha!  But I pray for them.  I pray for them to find other jobs.  :)

But what happened yesterday chipped away some of my discontent with them.  It was such a small gesture and to the outside world, it was something you'd expect in a situation like that.  A show of humanity, compassion, kindness.  I saw Jesus all over it.  Yep.  If you look hard enough, you can see Him in everything.  Even in cups of red Kool-Aid.

This weekend was pretty awesome. I got to love on and laugh with my baby, I got me some Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin stuff at Bath and Body Works (thanks, Mama!  I used my birthday gift card!), I opened my windows and let that cool air in while I got my house super duper clean, I went and got recharged for the week at church this morning and I made one of my favorite comfort suppers tonight.  Rosemary chicken and roasted potatoes.  Yum!!

Pretty awesome indeed.