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!

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!

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…

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…

When you sign up for a Myspace page the default in the about me section is “I don’t want kids.” That section is a drop down box with a few options… like things along the lines of Proud parent, don’t want kids and someday…  I don’t know about you but I would expect a 17 year old guy to have his set either to someday or maybe to have just left it at don’t want kids…  I wanna scream everytime some idiot brings this up… would you rather that this 17 year old boy had said yes I want kids….. (i’m not even sure if that is an option in the drop down box…) then everyone would be saying he did it on purpose…

GOD: Francis, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect, no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But all I see are these green rectangles.

ST. FRANCIS: It’s the tribes that settled there, Lord. The Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers “weeds” and went to great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass.

GOD: Grass? But it’s so boring. It’s not colorful. It doesn’t attract butterflies, birds and bees, only grubs and sod worms. It’s temperamental with temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want all that grass growing there?

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so, Lord. They go to great pains to grow it and keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing grass and poisoning any other plant that crops up in the lawn.

GOD: The spring rains and warm weather probably make grass grow really fast. That must make the Suburbanites happy.

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not, Lord. As soon as it grows a little, they cut it-sometimes twice a week.

GOD: They cut it? Do they then bale it like hay?

ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly, Lord. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags.

GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it?

ST. FRANCIS: No Sir. Just the opposite. They pay to throw it away.

GOD: Now let me get this straight. They fertilize grass so it will grow. And when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away?

ST. FRANCIS: Yes, Sir.

GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves them a lot of work.

ST. FRANCIS: You aren’t going to believe this Lord. When the grass stops growing so fast, they drag out hoses and pay more money to water it so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it.

GOD: What nonsense. At least they kept some of the trees. That was a sheer stroke of genius, if I do say so myself. The trees grow leaves in the spring to provide beauty and shade in the summer. In the autumn they fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep moisture in the soil and protect the trees and bushes. Plus, as they rot, the leaves form compost to enhance the soil. It’s a natural circle of life.

ST. FRANCIS: You better sit down, Lord. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle. As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away.

GOD: No. What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter and to keep the soil moist and loose?

ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.

GOD: And where do they get this mulch?

ST. FRANCIS: They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch.

GOD: Enough. I don’t want to think about this anymore. St. Catherine, you’re in charge of the arts. What movie have they scheduled for us tonight?”

ST. CATHERINE: “Dumb and Dumber”, Lord. It’s a really stupid movie about…..

GOD: Never mind, I think I just heard the whole story from St. Francis.