Walken Around the World

So I just want to say that Christopher Walken is ubiquitous. He is in absolutely every single movie!
Okay maybe not every movie, but certainly quite a few since he started his career back in 1972.
It's crazy.
So I thought that I would type upe Christopher's filmography, and then you all can look through it and comment on your favorite characters and movies.

•Around the Bend (2004)
•Envy (2004)
•Man on Fire (2004)
•Romance and Cigarettes (2004)
•The Stepford Wives (2004)
•Undertaking Betty (2004)
•Gigli (2003)
•Kangaroo Jack (2003)
•Poolhall Junkies (2003)
•The Rundown (2003)
•Catch Me If You Can (2002)
•The Country Bears (2002)
•The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
•America's Sweethearts (2001)
•Joe Dirt (2001)
•Scotland, PA (2001)
•The Opportunists (2000)
•The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)
•Blast From the Past (1999)
•The Eternal Kiss of the Mummy (1999)
•Illuminata (1999)
•New Rose Hotel (1999)
•Sleepy Hollow (1999)
•Vendetta (1999)
•Antz (1998)
•The Eternal Kiss of the Mummy (1998)
•Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1998)
•Suicide Kings (1998)
•Excess Baggage (1997)
•Mouse Hunt (1997)
•The Prophecy 2: Ashtown (1997)
•Touch (1997)
•Basquiat (1996)
•The Funeral (1996)
•Last Man Standing (1996)
•Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1996)
•The Addiction (1995)
•A Business Affair (1995)
•Nick of Time (1995)
•The Prophecy (1995)
•Search & Destroy (1995)
•Pulp Fiction (1994)
•Day of Atonement (1993)
•True Romance (1993)
•Wayne's World 2 (1993)
•Batman Returns (1992)
•Scam (1992)
•All-American Murder (1991)
•The Comfort of Strangers (1991)
•McBain (1991)
•King of New York (1990)
•Communion (1989)
•Biloxi Blues (1988)
•Homeboy (1988)
•The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
•Puss-In-Boots (1988)
•Deadline (1987)
•At Close Range (1986)
•A View to a Kill (1985)
•Brainstorm (1983)
•The Dead Zone (1983)
•Dogs of War (1981)
•Pennies From Heaven (1981)
•Who Am I This Time? (1981)
•Heaven's Gate (1980)
•Last Embrace (1979)
•Saturn 3 (1979)
•The Deer Hunter (1978)
•Sentinel (1977)
•Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
•Shoot the Sun Down (1974)
•The Anderson Tapes (1972)
•The Mind Snatchers (1972)

A Hero, A Scoundrel, and a Princess

These characters make up one of the best movie trilogies ever made - STAR WARS. It is amazing to me that George Lucas began his empire with an allotment of only 8 million dollars for Episode 4.
The trilogy was released for the first time ever on DVD Tuesday, and it is spectacular. I wish I had been able to watch it with surround sound...oh how beautiful it would be to watch those movies surrounded by the sound of X-Wing fighters flying over your head shooting at various Death Stars (Episodes 4 and 6) or the Millennium Falcon evading various asteroid fields (Episodes 4 and 5 - although in Episode 4 the asteroid field was actually the planet Alderaan that was blown by the first Death Star).

But they are beautiful however you get to see them...simply fantastic.

Growing up, I always wanted to be Princess Leia. She was beautiful, she was sassy, and - hello! - she was a princess. Man, she kicked butt.
The only problem with being Leia is that I was totally in love with Luke Skywalker (what with them being brother and sister and all it kinda didn't work). Oh, he was gorgeous, and brave, and sensitive, and he got to have the lightsaber. He was the epitome of the perfect man.
Han Solo - yes, he was scruffy looking (Episode 5), but that just added to his charm. And hmmm-mmm, if that man wanted to he could charm his way out of anything (and often did with his blaster and/or his starship).

These three characters, these three movies have touched the lives of millions of people in this star system alone. Countless little girls would pretend they were Leia, boys would play with their imaginary lightsabers saving the Republic from certain doom.
People began to use their imaginations again and believer that anything is possible.

Once Upon a Time

When I graduated college there was absolutely no way that I was going back home. Not that the town my parents lived in was home, but just did NOT want to be stuck in a town (Podunkville, as I derisively called it) where I didn't know anyone and felt like a failure to boot.
Needless to say, the place I had no desire to be was exactly the place I stayed. I lived with mom and dad for a month and then moved across town into my own apartment. For that first year I saw them about once week, and only then if I needed to do laundry.

My parents moved to Circleville my sophomore year at Olivet, so the only people I knew was my family. The church they went to was definitely not for me either. The closest person to my age was my younger brother.
So for the first 3-4 months I was friendless. During this time I was working as a construction secretary. For the first few months I HATED it! I had a college education and I felt like I wasn't doing what I should be doing...And then I began to like my job, even love my job. I liked the people I worked with and began to hang out with them more and more after work. I began to be not the person that I should've been. Instead of being an influence for Christ, I was influenced to do things I ought not have done.
I was given an oppurtunity to leave Circleville. I was ecstatic. This was going to be great. I would get to travel, do a job that I had come to love, and I wouldn't be in this stupid little town, stuck there with no friends (the people I worked with were all construction workers and most of them traveled constantly over the U.S. looking for specific work).
But I didn't end up going. At that point I had made a few local friends in the area, but I had no one tying me to this place...I could've left. There are times when I'm amazed that I didn't. But I also know that if I had left with the way that my life was heading, I wouldn't have just said good-bye to this town, but also to my relationship with Jesus.

I have always been very independant of my family. This is not to say we don't love each other or have a wonderful relationship, because my family is amazing - It's just that we've never had to be close geographically to still be a family, to know that we love one another.
It's been almost three years since I decided to stay - my brothers and I are closer thatn we've ever been before, I visit my parents almost every day, I have friends who think I'm swell (boy don't I have them fooled), and I LOVE Circleville. The town grows on you and I would definitely not mind staying here for a good long while.
But at the same time I know that if (and in my heart I know that when) the Lord leads me somewhere else I will be okay. My family will always be there when I need them, my friends are only a phone call away and my Jesus is right by my side throughout everything.
I never thought I would be in Ohio this long, but who knew that living in Podunkville U.S.A. would have had such an impact on making me the woman God wanted me to be.

As Shakespeare said, "The past is prologue." My story is just beginning.

Whatnot

Disclaimer for Paul - The guy who comes in on specific days to see me in contacts is 50 and married (his wife comes in with him). That is NOT a valid hit.

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I read the other day that 40% of women who have a college education are still single at 28.

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My parents and I were talking the other day and I mentioned that if I'm still single by a certain age I am going to be artificially inseminate. I do want children, and I want to go through the whole birthing process. My parents were okay with this. They are so cool.

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I still have a dent in my leg - of course it's only been 4 years and the doctor said it would go away. I guess I'll wait a little longer for it to leave.

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My pastor makes outlines for his sermons. I really don't like outlines for sermons. They really don't help, in fact, I tend to not pay attention when there's an outline. I'll listen long enough in spurts to figure out where he is in the ouline just to see how much left I have to sit through. I seriously think I have adult onset ADD.

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My friends and I are trying to plan a night when we can all meet and hang out. It's been since April that we've seen each other and things are a tad more difficult to get together now that we live in 4 different states - But I'd really like to see these girls.

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My housemate is a nurse. She met a boy as a patient, and now they are dating. Maybe I need to be a nurse.

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My friend, Rachel, needs to giver her husband a good, swift, kick in the you-know-where and get himself a blog.

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And to end:
"It is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle, which if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it." Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte.

Starlight, Starbright

So, I wished on a star the other night, and since I am pretty sure it is not going to come true - or "is" going to come true (I can't figure out which I would use here) - so I have no qualms in telling you what I wished for.

I wished that not another year would go by.

It will be fine years in October since I've had even a date! How sad and pathetic am I?
I've grown used to my singledom, and I can live with it. But sometimes I'm lonely. I live vicariously through my friends - and let me tell you some of them have so much drama (not the good kind) going on in their lives that you would think that some of it might rub off on me...but it doesn't.
I would so much like some drama in my so undramatic life.

Part of the reason I know I am single is my own fault...alright scratch that - it's all my fault.
My parents like to tease me and say they should never have taught me to read - because I always read fairy tales and books with "happy-ever-after" endings. From this my parents think that I expect the perfect man to sweep me off my feet and we'll live a perfect life. But I've lived my life long enough to know that life is very definitely not perfect, and everyone disappoints you at least once.
But I am too picky. I know what I want and I don't have it in me to settle for anything less that what I think is the best for me. Maybe my expectations are too high, but really I don't think so. I have been attracted to imperfect men in my life. The thing is, they are not attracted to me.
I have found that men my age do not find me attractive. I'm not "dateable." Men don't hit on me (check out www.finelines.blogspot.com - a post about a week ago), and they don't date me.

Sometimes I think that maybe I should do this or what if I do that in order to gain attention, but then I realize - Hey! I'm cute, I'm educated, I have a sense of humor, I'm a Christian...I am practically the perfect girl (okay that last part I don't actually think...just thought I would throw it in). I don't need to change who I am.

So I continue to be patient, hopeful, and wishful. Waiting for the right man at the right time. Knowing that I may never find the man who I can love, cherish, and respect, and who will love, admire, and respect me just the way that I am. But that's okay too, because Jesus loves me, my family loves me, and my friends love me, and that's all I really need.

Right?

Nothing Really

I;m kind of blah lately. Nothing great, nothing bad...just blah.
I really hate feeling this way, but I've found, that I just have to go through them. There's nothing I can do to make a change, just one day I get up, and it seems as if I am better.
Did I tell you I have a new cat. Yep.
One of my cats died while I was moving about a month ago, and a week later Tim, Sky, and Stupid Jeremy went camping down in the smokies and found a kitten, and brought it all the way back to Ohio for me.
She's real small. I would say she's about a pound now (she was only 14 oz. when I first took her to the vet). She's black and white, and her name is Daisy. She's funny. She likes to try and beat up on my other cat...who is ten times her size. They are kind of cute to watch.

Like I said, pretty blah.

No More Rhymes Now, I Mean It.

This has to be one of the bes movies ever.

We were very slow last night at Blockbuster and so I did something we're not supposed to do. I put in a movie. (We have this DVD of promo material we're supposed to have in the DVD player that replays over and over and over again...it's terribly annoying) My co-worker had never seen this movie and so I told her she was definitely in for a treat.
She laughed at me every time I started quoting along with the characters...but one can't help but do that, what with lines like:
"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife. But after what you just said I'm not even sure I want to be that anymore."
"Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a little while."
"Oh my sweet Wesley, what have I done!?"
"Mawriage, Mawriage, is whut bwings us togwever today."
And one could go on and on....It's practically a "miracle."
The book is even more perfect. Let me tell you, if you have never read the book, you MUST take the time to do so. It is hilariousm and it brings so much insight to the characters. Just so you know, the book is by William Goldman, and it is the Good Parts Version.

Anyway, I wish you all a good day :)

Anybody want a peanut?

Know My Name

So, I work too much.
I say this not because I actually work too much, but because:
1) I have had at least three people tell me each day I worked that I am always here.
2) I know people out and about town only because they are regulars at Blockbuster,
3) And they know me by name as well.
4) I have a regular who comes into Blockbuster only on Wednesdays and Sundays because he knows those are the days I wear my contacts instead of glasses to work.
5) There are children of regular customers who know me by name -
6) One of which, her name is Madison Marie, asked me where my glasses were yesterday because she'd never seen me in my contacts...Madison is 3.

It's just kind of funny to me.

People and Blogs

I probably should tell you that I have become addicted to blogging. It is quite fun, and an absolutely ingenius way to keep up with friend's lives who have moved away and whatnot. It excites me.
I tend to tell people things that excite me. The only problem is - not many people know what a "blog" is. I try to tell those who I think would know what I am talking about, and they have absolutely no clue what it is I am talking about, and it is a little hard to explain what it is I am so excited about.
It's kind of disappointing.
But that just means that I (and whoever else has a blog) need to tell everyone about them. Then they, too, can join the fun.

I like blogging.

Fridays

I usually love Fridays. In college and high school I NEVER did homework on Fridays, and for the last six months or so Fridays were the ONLY day that I had off from both jobs. Working 6 days a week is really not a big deal-But it is nice to have that one day entirely to yourself.

However - I have a tendency to make my life busier that it needs to be.

I have volunteered to work an extra day at my second job every other week - So now I am working 6-7 days week (48-56 hours) and directing the first musical that Circleville Bible College has ever done. Hip Hip Hooray!!! (That was written sarcastically)

But, honestly, this is not such a big deal because sooner or later I'm gonna get to the place, get the job, BE right where it is that God wants me to be. I just have to be patient a little while longer, and all will be happy in the end.

This is a first...

So, I have never ever done a blog before, and I am thinking why would anyone really wanna read what I have to say about my day (hmmm...that kind of rhymed.)

Anyway, this is just a quick, "hi there and hello" to kind of get started. We'll see where it goes from there. :)