From one generation to another

The infamous Grandma Cat came to Thanksgiving. This woman is incredible and I would have married Jesse just to be related to her. She is credited with the quote of Thanksgiving:

"That's it, I'm done, I'm out, bury me now."

Thank you GC, we all appreciate you. Next, a quote from my own grandmother. Jesse and I went to MN not that long ago and my grandma also had a little whisper of wisdom for all of us. We were having dinner and one of my aunts was late because of a work meeting so my uncle asked my grandma if she would like him to top off her wine glass to which she replied:

"Sure, might as well get drunk."

Thank you grandma, my life is always enriched by your presence.

Love your grandparents today, they're rockin' people.

Life outside the Bookstore

Some times in our random rants here at FBS I wonder about the other departments and if they are as eclectic as we are. Today the following conversation took place between a nameless/faceless department in my office. See if you can guess who it was.

All of these things were being said at the same time:

-So, are you going to dress warm tomorrow?
-Oh yeah, I check the weather everyday before I leave my house
-How is it going to get cold so fast?
-It said freezing rain, who came up with that? Freezing rain, don't these people know that if the rain is frozen that's called snow?
-I think if it's frozen before it hits the ground then it's called sleet
-It's going to be 20 degrees or something
-Why does it do that? It's like 60 right now...

And then they left...name that department folks, extra points for who said what.

Guerilla Radio

For Thanksgiving Jesse and I traveled westard to St. Louis. Jesse's father has a radio show and every Thanksgiving he has the fam on the show to talk about the holiday season and favorite Christmas movies and what not. It was a good time. Mostly we all just sat in a little room and did really random things. Every now and then Bob came over our head phones (Jesse's dad) and told us the things that would get him fired and asked us all to adhere to things that wouldn't get him fired...I think we did okay. The boys sang a song from Holiday Inn, Jesse's mom and I rocked the female scene and Bob tried to get us all to talk about IHOP and Jesus instead of making fun of James.

I think everyone should have a chance to be on the radio, it was fun and people responded well to the randomness. I think that the people who called in or just heard us and talked to Bob later related to it because at the core of the family we're all the same. No matter how messed up or how perfect the unit is you're still a bunch of people who didn't pick eachother but will be tied together forever. My sisters and brother and I are so different from eachother, we've got two artists who love the backstage (ceramics and sculpture for one and drawing for the other) a mathematician techie genius, a science geek who sings and loves attention and a Lord of the Rings, horse riding, Cars fanatic, not to mention none of us are anything like our parents. Kathy and I aren't Republicans, (but I'm a not Democrat either) Anna doesn't really care she just wants world peace, Ruthie is a hippie and monkey will probably own many guns. I love this game. Love your family today!

"You Christians take your fish eating selves and get out of here!"

All that to say don't see Happy Feet...it had an agenda 17 miles longs that lured you into the theater disguised as a happy dancing cute little penguin.

Just thought I'd come clean

I had an extremely stimulating conversation today with by far the most right-winged person I have ever met. It was extremely interesting and yay terrifying. It inspired me to confess something to my parents...mom, dad, I'm not a Republican.

Interjection: "When all hope is lost the answer to your prayers is Chuck Norris." I just heard this on a commercial for Delta Force and I thought that I would share it with all of you.

That's all for today citizens, good night and good luck.

I just wanted to say

I love this. I love the end of myself, I love family, I love Minnesota, I love friends, I love JESUS, I love my incredible husband and I love being alive. I love this. Remember today that the end of yourself is quite possibly the best place that you can be.

Every now and then

Once in a while I just like to take a minute to dwell upon how incredible God is. I hope that I actually do this everyday it's just that every now and then I bubble over and must post it here in the ramblings category. God is so good, he is so good. There is nothing I could do without Him and I wish that there was something that I can do for Him. My life seems like such a small thing compared to being rescued from hell and the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. It's really incredible. Everyday I'm reminded by my surroundings the faithfulness and the love of the Uncreated.

I love You too. On the days I can't see You or hear You or even know that You're real I know that You're whispering "I love you" to me. Crazy...weird...and unnaturally natural. Thank You Jesus for You're unmerited grace, I cannot repay the things that You've done, but I will waste my life here, before You.

This is also that every now and then that warrants the bragging on of my Love. Married or celibate God knows what He has for our lives. I have the privilege of death by marriage. Here on this cross I am in love and the man that I belong with is killing me but it hurts in a way that I never thought possible. I love dying. I love being crucified here and I am glad every morning to wake up next to him and be ready to die to myself. I am stubborn. Very very stubborn. This one is so patient, loving and kind, Jesus knew what would kill me fastest and I have to say it's the whole nice thing. He's so nice...all the time, he is nice to a fault...a fault that makes me cry because of how stubborn I am...dying, I'm dying here. Jesse, God is, I love you and it is my honor to die here with you. I can't believe that we've only been married for four months, I feel that I've known you for a lifetime and been close to you since the dawn of time. I love you. Thank You Jesus for this one, he is truly beautiful.

This Other Half

So my feeling as of late is one of a kind of struggle. A bit of a hardship, if you will. Then again...momentary light afflictions right? At least I'm not in a fox hole with one leg left as a guy tries to tell me I'm a good shot. But then again. Aren't we all? Aren't we all?

This is my post. Like it or not. I only post once in three blue moons and so I feel I have a right to be as weird as I want. I'm not sure if the crowds will really go for it, but I'm not here solely for posterity.

Ok....so...um....something of substance....
Relinquish my dreams far reaching chasm!!
I pray you feel my turse diparture from one storm!!!
Rip me not!! For my help is Most High!!!!

'Tis a far far better thing I do....'Tis a far far better place I go to.

To be.

All right. I hope this has satisfied all your little thirstiness for a blog. There's a little bit of this, little bit of that. I tried to hit home with the classics. Then again who knows? Maybe noone'll get it........................

~The husband a.k.a. not the girl who usual writes this.

Nothing I can do about it

Today was one of those days. I walked in the office at 9 am ready and raring to go and the first instances of the day made it pretty clear to me that Mama said there'd be days like this, for real.

So, I had a homie from another department come in and ask me where Rock and Roll was, I said in a meeting she said "There is a man on your couch wailing...right here in the store." What? Surely this will be the weirdest day ever I thought to myself. I walked out to investigate her claims and it was yay worse than I expected.

On the floor next to the couch was a man weeping and sobbing as he was draped over the furniture...oh goodness, what do I do with this...I was curious as to what he had been reading that would undo him in such away...Passion for Jesus? Evidential Power of Beauty? Prayer by Balthasar? What touched him in this way...the answer my friends is none of the above...can you guess it? The Rapture Question Answered...I need to get serious about the way I study the end-times, but seriously, The Rapture Question Answered...this is my life. I walked away looking at my smiling cashiers and shrugged...there's nothing I can do about it, really nothing.