Yes, I've read all four books. Yes, I've seen the two movies out based on the first two books. I'm the mother of a teen. But I'll tell you something, no one speaks as well about the damage this book series has done as the substitute teacher in this story from a website called mylifeisaverage.com:
Today, I was sitting in class and we had a sub. We were told to write his name at the top left of our paper. His name was Mr. Cullen. I asked him if his first name was Edward. His response. "That f-ing movie has ruined my life. Oh and yes it is. My wifes name is Isabella too. I hate twilight." MLIA.
Dang you, Stephanie Meyer! Dang you! (Planet of the Apes - Mormon version)
Oh my gosh, and another I can't resist sharing:
Today, I was grocery shopping with my mom. I saw this bald man who looked a lot like Voldemort. As he passed me, I whispered (in what I thought was pretty silent whisper),"Lord Voldemort, you've returned." When I turned around for one more glance, he put his finger to his lips and said "Shhh!" My mom freaked out and asked if I knew him. I said yes. MLIA.
The website is filled with these little blips of teen life and some are quiet hilarious. Pop in and get a good laugh.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Yeah, Three Posts in Two Days
Clowns Are Scary!!! This commercial proves what I've been saying all my life:
Baby Boom
I watched the movie Baby Boom this morning. It was made in 1987 with Diane Keaton playing a yuppie New York fast-tracker named J.C. Wiatt and Sam Shepard as Jeff Cooper, a Vermont country veterinarian. J.C. inherits a baby girl from a distant relative when the parents are killed in an auto accident. She's unprepared and it begins to affect her work as she struggles to adjust. Her relationship at the time ends over it. She ultimately loses her position in the company, so she quits and moves to a 62 acre farmhouse with an apple orchard. This 200 year old home and property costs her most of her savings as one thing after another goes wrong and then, quite by accident, she discovers a market for gourmet baby food. Within a short time, she's built up this amazing business that her old account in New York wants to buy. By this time, she's involved with the vet and the problems on her property (a new roof, a well that's gone dry, the heating system) have all been repaired. So she goes to New York to hear the offer and negotiate with the intention of leaving Vermont and returning to the world she'd lived in before. But after the very impressive offer is made and she thinks she's going to accept, she realizes how much she loves the life she has now. She turns it all down and returns home to her farm, her daughter and Sam Shepard.
The first time I saw this movie, I was single and childless but very much wanted to be married and a mother. So, what stood out most in my mind, is the scene I know by heart. It is the ending when J.C. comes home and walks into the room where her baby is sitting on the floor playing. She says, "Hi, Elizabeth" to her daughter and the baby smiles and says, "Mama!" This sweet, precious ending always made me long to be a mother all the more. But when I watched it today, I realized that simple, heart-filled moment is one I get to live every day now. My daughter, even at the grown up age of 13, still calls me Mama. And every time she says it, my heart sings. The best gift I've ever been given is my daughter. I was 35 years old when she was born. Sometimes the things we must wait the longest for are the very best. She is.
The first time I saw this movie, I was single and childless but very much wanted to be married and a mother. So, what stood out most in my mind, is the scene I know by heart. It is the ending when J.C. comes home and walks into the room where her baby is sitting on the floor playing. She says, "Hi, Elizabeth" to her daughter and the baby smiles and says, "Mama!" This sweet, precious ending always made me long to be a mother all the more. But when I watched it today, I realized that simple, heart-filled moment is one I get to live every day now. My daughter, even at the grown up age of 13, still calls me Mama. And every time she says it, my heart sings. The best gift I've ever been given is my daughter. I was 35 years old when she was born. Sometimes the things we must wait the longest for are the very best. She is.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
What Global Warming?????
It's been cold here. Very, very cold. We're in the single digits and minus temps Fahrenheit, so we're talking in the range of -25 to -10 Celsius for my Aussie and Canadian friends. And right now, due to an infected blister on my left foot, I can't wear socks or closed shoes. I'm living in the lovely (and warm, thankfully) clog-type slippers my hubby got me for Christmas until I get the okay from the doctor for regular shoes and some socks again. I have a case of cold feet - literally.
There has been a very cold series of days over the last couple of months across the United States. I can barely keep up with local weather, so I can't say how the rest of the world is faring in this area, but the U.S. is having one heck of a winter. It's been interesting because these are the winters of my childhood - the seasons when snow stayed on the ground for days or weeks at a time and the days stayed cold. In the last 20 - 30 years, approximately, Colorado winters have been quite mild. We would have a snow day and a day later it warmed enough to totally melt it away. It's one of the things I love about this State, although in all honesty, I am enjoying having a "real" winter this year.
Climatologists say this is the natural ebb and flow way of the weather. It moves in twenty - thirty year cycles. Twenty - thirty years of colder weather followed by twenty - thirty years of warmer weather. I'd love to post studies by some climatologists but the fact is, someone else could find just as many studies to the opposite by other scientists (though few of those would be climatologists who specialize in this area).
So how did I come to the conclusion that allows me to believe Global Warming is baloney to the degree that Al Gore (the man who alleges he invented the Internet) and other scientists have touted? Doctrine and Covenants 104:17 says:
"For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves."
This tells me we will have enough on this earth as long as we are "agents unto" the earth. We are its stewards and must care for it as best we can. I am willing to live "green" to the extent that it does not cause undue difficulty in my or my family's life. I use the "new" light bulbs, I watch our waste of things and limit it as best I can, etc. But I will continue to drive me car to get from place to place and when they become affordable and reliable, I'd even be willing to go to a hybrid or electric car. But I have faith that in doing what I can, as I do, "the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare".
There has been a very cold series of days over the last couple of months across the United States. I can barely keep up with local weather, so I can't say how the rest of the world is faring in this area, but the U.S. is having one heck of a winter. It's been interesting because these are the winters of my childhood - the seasons when snow stayed on the ground for days or weeks at a time and the days stayed cold. In the last 20 - 30 years, approximately, Colorado winters have been quite mild. We would have a snow day and a day later it warmed enough to totally melt it away. It's one of the things I love about this State, although in all honesty, I am enjoying having a "real" winter this year.
Climatologists say this is the natural ebb and flow way of the weather. It moves in twenty - thirty year cycles. Twenty - thirty years of colder weather followed by twenty - thirty years of warmer weather. I'd love to post studies by some climatologists but the fact is, someone else could find just as many studies to the opposite by other scientists (though few of those would be climatologists who specialize in this area).
So how did I come to the conclusion that allows me to believe Global Warming is baloney to the degree that Al Gore (the man who alleges he invented the Internet) and other scientists have touted? Doctrine and Covenants 104:17 says:
"For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves."
This tells me we will have enough on this earth as long as we are "agents unto" the earth. We are its stewards and must care for it as best we can. I am willing to live "green" to the extent that it does not cause undue difficulty in my or my family's life. I use the "new" light bulbs, I watch our waste of things and limit it as best I can, etc. But I will continue to drive me car to get from place to place and when they become affordable and reliable, I'd even be willing to go to a hybrid or electric car. But I have faith that in doing what I can, as I do, "the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare".
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