Alias, revisited

Ok, back in the day (like 2001 or so) Dave and I watched this little show called Alias, every Sunday night with Levi and Bethany, after Bob and Gina's cell group. So THAT seems like 150 years ago at least, considering all that's happened since then (like, all those friends moved away and my husband moved out, just to name a few). ANYWAY, I stopped watching Alias right about the time Vaugn married Lauren and Sidney came back to life; too many "Is it possible for a man to love two women?" lines for me and my rocky marriage to handle at the time. So here we are, 2008, and the world is better for me now; so I was at the library recently and saw they have the whold flippin 5 seasons on DVD!!! So for shits and giggles I got the first disk one night..... AND I'M ADDICTED ALL OVER AGAIN. That's right Sara and Des, pull up a chair for 3 cuz this show is a w e s o m e. I loved it before but it's so cool to watch it now, sans commercials, and oh yeah you can watch 4 episodes in a day rather than waiting 7 days in between episodes. Genius. There's heavy music, hot guys, cool girl fights, cool cars, good writing, and fun costume changes:) Nothing like spending cold winter nights watching a little espionage-- and if there is anything better, it's been so long I must've forgotten what it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weddings and Things Event Design, Inc.

Ta-Da! It's official y'all, I'm incorporated. Yikes! Let me just say that anyone, absolutely anyone, can go online to pay $85 and get incorporated. Seriously. For shits and giggles you could become a corporation on a rainy day. Well, it is a little more serious than that, as far as taxes and all that grown-up boring stuff, but we don't wanna think about that; we wanna think about the pretty wedding invitations, tuxedos, and pretty jewelry I can now buy with my tax ID number WHOLESALE. Yeah baby, it's all about cheap jewelry:) I still have to get the official loan papers back from the underwriter, and I still have to sign the lease (which is a minimum of 3 years. That's the scary part). But we are strapped in and the ride has left the building. Hold on roller coaster fans, there's no getting off now...

Saturdays and Shrinky-Dinks

Well the high today reached 7 degrees. Sunny and 7, welcome to Northwest Indiana in January. That's not even the weird part; the weird part is that less than two weeks ago it was 62 degrees. God has a sense of humor with Hoosier weather! So it's Saturday and very cold out, and rather than watch tv ALL THE LIVELONG DAY (which is what my children would prefer) we've gotten creative. We baked cookies, played with our Heelies from Christmas(the most retarded invention ever, says the mommy), played Connect Four. The most favorite though was Shrinky Dinks! Remember those as a kid? They're right up there with Color Forms and Garbage Pail Kids for me. Color the plastic, cut it out, put it in the oven and they shrink. Of course they let off a smell as well, leading me to believe that the toxins in the melting plastic probably aren't too safe...and yet we'll pay the price for a little bit of nostalgia I guess!!! There's a cool store in Chicago in Wrigleyville on the north side called Strange Cargo, that has cool toys from when we were kids (think Brook Shield metal lunchboxes and KISS dolls). The kind of stuff that makes you go, "No! Way!" What kind of childhood memorabilia makes you guys do that?

Weddings, Risk, and Retail

Ok prayer project for the week: I turned in a loan application yesterday at my bank to see about openning a wedding store. Tuxes, invites, bridesmaid/prom dresses, photo albums, I even have a girl that paints bridal portraits and a guy who custom builds hope chests. I have the opportunity to get some retail property in Kouts, which doesn't have anything like the store I'd like to open. Of course I'd do wedding planning out of there as well, and even have a kid room to play in. I'm excited and scared and broke and hopeful all at the same time! But here's my promise: anyone who helps me pray it into being can come hang out at the store, drink coffee and look at bridal magazines all day long. It'll be the coolest estrogen filled hangout ever:)

Holidays

My holidays with my kids were fantastic! I say it all the time but they're so fun now I"ll continue to brag about them:) We did dinner and the Nutcracker one night, we took the train to Chicago to see the Macy's windows and the ice skaters at Millenium Park. They were also in a play at church, Sky was Mary and Hannah was a "Pajamma Kid" talking to her friends (and an angel!) on Christmas Eve about Jesus's birthday. It was a hoot! Of course New Year's is a gamble usually: single mom, can I get a sitter, I don't want to go to a bar...so I ended up at Sara's with Ducats (yay!) and some karaoke and some alcohol...it was all good! Hope everyone's holidays were as fun as mine!

Freedom

How's this for an explanation of Freedom in the Christian walk? Chew on the following idea: Satan did not put the fruity temptation in the Garden, God did. Because without choices (even bad ones) there's no true freedom; God loved us enough and wants us to choose Him so badly that He's even willing to deal with our bad choices if it means they'll bring us closer to Him...which is where true freedom really lies. Huh. God put temptation there, on purpose. I've been chewing on that for 2 weeks now...

Wrestling

Anyone know what this is? Say it to yourself first and then keep reading. It's a ladder, which is the second thing you see, that we put up at our church for a Jacob's Ladder Prayer Storm. We did not put the angel there...