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  • Wedding Update

    For those of you who are following, it is now approximately five months until my wedding. I figured I’d give you an update every once in awhile about it for those of you who are interested.

    At this point I really haven’t done a whole lot more, but things are moving along slowly. Hopefully the planning process will pick up now that I’m done with school. What I have done since I last wrote about this:

    1. Chose the color scheme – brown and light blue.
    2. Met with the photographer that I want, although I have yet to get my parents to pay the deposit to book her for sure.
    3. Ordered save-the-date magnets. I wish I could show you what they look like, but I am having a hard time converting my proof into a format that will upload how I want it to.
    4. Decided on a honeymoon destination – Hawaii! Specifically, Kauai. I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS AND I WISH WE WERE THERE NOW.

    Hmm, I thought that I had done more but I guess not. There is still SO much to do…ah, well, it’ll get done somehow.

  • scripted

    Last night I totally came home and watched Dancing with the Stars, Gossip Girl, AND The Hills. I don’t know what came over me, but I have to say that it was fun.

    I was watching with my roommate Amanda and her friend Lilly, who is loud and hilarious. Everything is better when you watch it with her. When it was time to watch The Hills, we discovered that something went wrong with the DVR and it failed to capture the sound. We were determined to view the episode, so we turned on the captions. This inevitably led to us acting out the parts in each scene, and we even sang the theme song. I call it TV Karaoke.

    If you’re bored, I highly recommend this activity. Especially with The Hills. It is an entirely different viewing experience.

  • A Poem, A Prayer

    I’m not really into the whole poetry scene, but a certain style of it I do like, and this one touched me so I wanted to pass it along.

    Prayer
    beginning with four lines
    from Taha Muhammad Ali

    If, over this world, there’s a ruler
    who holds in his hand bestowal and seizure,

    I turn in prayer, asking him
    to decree for the hour of my demise

    that it be a morning on Lake Keowee,
    in early spring when the bloodroot

    and yellow violet are in bloom in the woods
    beyond us, a ghost of fog moving slowly,

    almost imperceptibly, across the grey water.

    And I ask that it be after a long trip,
    after I have seen my grandmother, my brother,

    after I have looked upon the face of a niece
    I’ve never seen, after I have said to my father

    what I need to say to my father, whatever
    that may be then, and on the morning on the lake,

    may I be on the dock with my beloved,
    tossing bits of biscuit to the fish, rising

    from the green depths like memories–and
    across the lake the sound of two geese

    calling to one another.

    Ed Madden

  • Answers

    Thank you to the three people who played my movie game. Here are the answers in case anyone is wondering:

    1. Tombstone
    2. Braveheart
    3. Moulin Rouge
    4. Pirates of the Caribbean
    5. Chocolat
    6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    7. Spanglish
    8. Spaceballs
    9. Chariots of Fire
    10. Best in Show

  • Guess the Movie

    Ready for some more mindless fun? Below I have posted quotes (retrieved from imdb.com) from ten of my favorite movies. Without looking any of them up, can you guess which movies they are from?

    1. “I have two guns; one for each of you.”

    2. “–He fights for something that I never had. And I took it from him, when I betrayed him. I saw it in his face on the battlefield and it’s tearing me apart.
    –All men betray. All lose heart.
    –I don’t want to lose heart! I want to believe as he does.”

    3. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”

    4. “You need to find yourself a girl, mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You’re not a eunuch are you?”

    5. “–Each time I tell myself it’s the last time, but then I get a whiff of her hot chocolate, or…
    –…Seashells. Chocolate seashells, so small, so plain, so innocent. I thought, oh, just one little taste, it can’t do any harm. But it turned out they were filled with rich, sinful…
    –…And it melts, God forgive me, it melts ever so slowly on your tongue, and tortures you with pleasure.”

    6. “I’ve already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit.”

    7. “Flor! Look at this child! You could make a fortune doing surrogate pregnancy!”

    8. “Oh, you’re right. And when you’re right, you’re right. And you – you’re always right!”

    9. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.”

    10. “I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.”