Well I will start this post on a light note, here is a funny quote from tennis yesterday:
D-nate: “They are brand new balls so they are bouncy”
Jason: “Insert comment from Rachel here”
D-nate: “Yeah, we miss her don’t we.”
In other news either Jason or I may be cursed. Monday at his softball game a fellow player has a heart attack on the field… today in Target some random old lady falls over and has a siezure 10 feet from us… I called 911… Some Target employees and another customer kept her from choking on her tounge until the ambulance arrived… The lady at Target was coming around by the time the ambulance people arrived, she seemed like she was gonig to be ok. Thank God!
This was hard to see… I don’t know most of the guys on Jason’s team well, but Paul always was the nice, quiet teddy bear type of guy. The community, the team and his family will be sure to miss him.
I am going away this weekend on a scrapbooking retreat to Pj’s and Pigtails with a group of friends… I am looking forward to getting some work done and relaxing a little… I will, however, be without internet the whole time… so with that I say goodbye internet… see you in a few. Please keep your tweets and everything to a minimum so I can catch up when I get home! 
I have caught up on 4 seasons of “The Office” and 3 seasons of “How I Met Your Mother” in the last 2 weeks… Wow, it feels good to maybe do something other than watch TV
I finally finished “A Prayer for Owen Meany” after reading it for probably well over 6 months… It was worth every minute of it… I’m not sure why it took so long… maybe it just kept popping up at inconvenient times over the last few months….
October is Breast Cancer awareness month… which means the Boobiethon is up and running… (no I don’t contribute photos)
October is also scrapbooking month for me… I hae a three day weekend out this weekend… a one day crop in Eldridge and the Marathon crop at the end of the month…
Babysitting L is going amazing… he is the perfect little baby… (despite the great poop explosion of last Thursday)
I am scrapping this weekend and J is going to stay with his brother while he goes to a history thing in Minneapolis…
Happy October Everyone!
Sunday Jason and I went to see the recording of the final Broadway performance of RENT. I can’t believe it is over! I have been totally obsessed with this show since the first time I saw it… I hope to see the touring cast again this next year… I have seen the show live at least 6 times, maybe more… And I own the movie. So, review of the final performance and the production of the video…
The cast was good, voice wise… The problem came with the fact that the cast was filmed… and there were EXTREME close ups… My problem in particular was with Roger, with so many close ups he just looked old… too old for the part… I also thought that at times the camera switching/angles were kinda crazy and moved too fast, almost dizzying at times…
But I have to say that overall it was totally AMAZING! So much better than the movie! I really really really hope they release it as a DVD eventually! While I did think that Roger looked too old on film I think that on stage he would have looked fine… and I have to say that out of all the Roger’s I have seen he was the only one that really has displayed habits/twitches of an ex-junkie… Tracie Thoms (who was in the original cast) was in this final cast and she was beyond amazing as Joanne… The Maureen was very good, she actually reminded me of Idina at times… I like the Mark, Jason didn’t… Collins and Angel were good… Not sure if they were the best I have seen or not…
So this Gospel kept popping up in my life all week long… Tuesday night we read it and talked about it at the Pastoral Council meeting… Saturday we read and talked about it at my MFP class… and I had to prepare to read/teach it at the first Faith Formation class of the year… as well as hear it proclaimed in church on Sunday morning… So before I start some of my observations, lets get the cast straight (at least as i intrepret it)… Landowner = God Laborers = us The days wages/payment = the Kingdom of Heaven
1. There are often people who refuse to believe that some people could have gone to heaven. Some people assume that since a person made some large mistakes in their life (murder, denying God, etc…) They will definitely not be in heaven… I believe that we don’t know when that last moment of judgement is, we don’t know when God asks for the last time… This scripture seems to imply that God is more accepting than most of us can imagine… and that even those who come to him late will recieve the same reward..
2. This part seems like one I need to remember sometimes… as believers we have agreed to the payment/reward of the kingdom of heaven… as someone who works hard for her church it is hard to accept that people who turn to God in the last moments may get that same reward…
3. Lastly… the workers who weren’t working all day weren’t working because they were never asked…