Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Hmm....

I'm really tired, so this will be really short. However, if you wish to find out about how my lovely thanksgiving went, all you have to do is go to Sharon's Blog--lol!

The good newses-- I baked my first turkey this Thanksgiving! Actually--I basically did what Momma usually does, and she did what I usually do--She did the last-minute cleaning, while I did the cooking! It was fun to be in the kitchen.

The turkey was marvelous, which is why I'm gonna leave you with the recipe--Definately worth a try! We did the dressing that goes with the turkey as well, but I prefer a cornbread dressing--I'll probably merge two recipes next year--or just do Slave Dressing with apples and sage. (Yup--that's the name of my family's fabulous recipe. PC it's not... )
I wasn't too keen on the sausage this time. I don't know why.

Has anyone else tried this?
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

It's great fun--and just for the info, I'm 76% Dixie. My dad--who says Say-ruh when he's pronouncing the name Sarah--scored lower than ME!
Oh well--some mysteries will never be solved.... lol!

Going Home, I'll meet you in the Rapture, Going, home, I'll meet you in the Air. And you are never too young to think about it; I cannot wait --To be Going Home....


Sunday, November 27, 2005

I need thee ev'ry hour...

I'm listening to the radio online through Messagelinks right now while I'm also finishing up my LRP's. I don't know how late I'm gonna be up tonight--I just know it's going to be reaallly LATE--and I know that my kids aren't going to get the best of me tomorrow. Thankfully, they are finishing up projects, and they each individually know where they are. I'll just have to monitor and adjust tomorrow.

But anyway--back on topic. I love what's playing--songs from Fernando Ortega's Hymns CD. They're such beautiful songs. And it's so funny, how many of the pple I know who sing on messagelinks radio--tonight I heared Ben, my brother-in-law, as well as my pastor, as well as Bro. Jeff Elkins from Mesa--and if I knew more people, I guess I'd know them too(!!!)

Tonight we had such a wonderful service at church. The messages that come across at my home church have just been for me--and I'm so grateful to the Lord for meeting my need. I know He promised, but when I see it manifested in my life, and in my heart--that is so wonderful.

I love to listen to Brother Branham... but sometimes, it's difficult for me to catch the gist of the Message he's bringing across. It seems as if when the Word is brought across the pulpit, in church, It's amplified--it's meaning is so crystal-clear. How grateful I am for a God-sent pastor, and the fact that I'm in my place--where I belong.

Monday, November 21, 2005

'Tis time--'Tis time--To...

UPDATE.

I know it. But I've been avoiding it. Because it seems as if I won't have anything happy to say until my BREAK BEGINS at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon--and I'm FREEEE for five days! Isn't it funny--until I became a teacher, I never realized that the teachers want breaks just as badly--if not worse--than the students. All I know is I currently need one... and will be thrilled to take any snow days that God will, in His infinite mercy, give me this year! But in truth, His mercy will carry me through this year, and has already. And I'm so thankful for that. I was just thinking the other day about the kingdom of God. It's something my pastor has been preaching on lately, and I hope that it's begun to take root in my heart and life. It made me think about this: we spend so much time absorbed in the kingdoms of this world--our jobs, traffic, media, news, wars, pain and suffering... The list goes on and on. And we learn the kingdom of this world well. We can repeat its mantras, demonstrate how to survive, and complain with the best of them.

But when we've so thoroughly learnt the world's kingdom--gotten it down-pat--then we go about to learn God's Kingdom--of joy, peace, and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. It makes me wonder if I'm not defeating myself, this focus on Satan's Eden. Lord, am I really learning the ways of your Kingdom? I pray I am, one step at a time, through the Great Tutor.

HEARING.RECEIVING.AND.ACTING.title CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0607

E-14 014 A carnal mind wants God to bring the birthright down to their level. But for me, and I believe all true born Christians, we meet it on God's level. I don't care what I have to do, or what I have to say, how I have to act: the only thing, I want it. That's means more than my popularity. That means more than my job. It means more than my mother, means more than my wife, more than my children, more than every friend I got. Let me have that birthright. I don't care what I have to pay. I want to meet God on His requirement. Whatever He requires, if it's fall in dust, if it's speak with tongues, if it's run through the building and act like a maniac, or stand on my head, I don't care what it is, just so I get it. That's the main thing. That's the spiritual minded people. They want the birthright, regardless.

They want it. And as soon as they get it, it sets up the same reaction it was in that family. Finally, it'll come to a place till there come a separation. A man will have to obtain, if he obtains this birthright, he will have to separate himself from the world, just as Jacob had to.

HEARING.RECEIVING.AND.ACTING.title CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0607

E-15 015 My, sometimes it means walk alone. But if you really are sincere, and you really receive the birthright, you don't care to walk alone. If the neighbors won't invite you anymore over to dinner, if nobody will have anything to do with you, what difference does it make to you? As long as you've got the birthright, that's the main achievement of your life. As long as I'm borned of the Holy Spirit, what difference does it make? Long as I'm on my road to heaven, what difference does it make what the people say as long as we're walking in the Spirit? And all that's borned of the Spirit of God, are led by the Spirit of God. Sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God, always walking in the beautiful light of holiness, cleanliness.


THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE.title RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 65-1205
37 027 Therefore, the Bride in the rapture will come forth, and there it's all preplanned by God, all backed up. From the beginning He knowed every man, every place, who would set, all about it. It's all preplanned. God knew it would be here, and--and when He made it that way so that when we get there--He's gone to prepare a place for us, and when we get there, it'll all be prepared just like even this night is prepared, like this hour is prepared. This...

THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE.title RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 65-1205
38 028 His great foreknowledge tells Him all these things, by foreknowledge. He's omnipresent because He's omniscient; omniscient because He's omnipresent. Therefore, by His foreknowledge... Now, He can't be just like the wind over the earth, because He is a Being. He just isn't a myth; He's a Being. He dwells; He even dwells in a house. He dwells in a place called heaven; and therefore, by His omni--being omnipresent--being omniscient, knowing all things, then He is omnipresent because He knows all things.
You... Now, you grew from your birth... When you was born and presented into this world, God knew that you were going to be here in this earth, and you growed from birth to maturity. Things that seem so strange to you in your young womanhood, young boyhood, as children, now seems very real. You couldn't understand it when you was a child, but now as you become adult, you begin to understand and find out that everything was just set just right. And you... It really means something to you now.

THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE.title RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 65-1205
40 029 So is it in your spiritual birth. You do things that you don't understand when you're a little baby, come to the altar and you give your life to Christ. You do such strange things. You wonder why you did it. But after while when you mature, as matured Christians, then you understand it. See? There's something picks up and you see why you had to do it. Your spiritual birth... Your natural birth types your spiritual. How--how it fitted to you. In this life as you grew, everything fitted right in, because you were made for that.
Wasn't it a strange thing the night that you staggered into the mission, the tent meeting, or the little church somewhere on the corner, and something, a preacher preached on a certain subject, and you just fell right at the altar? See, see? God knew that before the foundation of the world. See? It--it seemed strange to you why you did it then, but now you understand. You knew what happened. And so fitting to you in this life and will be also in the life that is to come. This world and it's life seems to--to advance as you mature. Everything seems to go right with you.

THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE.title RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 65-1205
41 030 I don't believe in a--that a person just happened to be here by chance. Now, just think: when you come to the--the world, everything had to be foreprepared for you, or preprepared, rather, for you. I don't hardly understand that how that we could think that a God that could prepare all these good things for us would not--we could not put trust in Him, that if He brought us in this chaos that we're in now and prepared the good things of life for us here, how much more can we trust Him to prepare the things that is to come (See?), the eternal things.

God Bless!


Friday, November 11, 2005

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Choose Something Like a Star
by Robert Frost

O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud-
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to the wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says, 'I burn.'
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use Language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.


Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Okay--talk of cars on other xangas has inspired me.

I'm shall tell of my very first car-- White Lillly.

She was a '72 Datsun 510 hatchback station wagon, with more character than a scarred vetran. I received her on my sixteenth birthday from my sister--who had just bought a brand, spankin' new white Honda Accord.

She's the reason that I know how to drive a straight drive, though since her untimely death, all I've had are automatics.

She received her name after I read Mathew 6:28, which says:

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

She was white--sort of--and she toiled not, neither did she SPIN...

At the event of her untimely death, I wrote the following obituary...

The residents of W*** U**** were saddened by the great loss of a faithful, albeit old and decrepit companion of eight years.

White Lilly, as she was known in some circles, will be properly mourned as her passing became imminent with an unusually harsh sound in her third gear, resulting from a faulty transmission, which, if driven any more, would cause the driver great duress and suffering, with a roadside call of angst to one's father/mechanic.

As slave to her owner's demands of somewhat unruly driving, she served her one-score and eleven years in the service of the road, transporting her innocent and mechanically ignorant female mistresses around the bountiful and munificent campuses of W******* and C******, as well as carrying her long-time and not so mechanically ignorant owner, Mr. Mike G. far and wide.

Ms. Lilly died at the extremely old age of thirty-one, on the twenty-eighth of January, two-thousand and three.

.

(Yay!!! I get a new car!)

~Marie~


--Sometime, I'll post a pic of her...


Saturday, November 05, 2005

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This is for Alyssa

Introverted (I) 62.07% Extroverted (E) 37.93%
Intuitive (N) 51.72% Sensing (S) 48.28%
Feeling (F) 64.71% Thinking (T) 35.29%
Perceiving (P) 64.71% Judging (J) 35.29%

Your type is: INFP

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

Enneagram Test Results

The Enneagram is a personality system which divides the entire human personality into nine behavioral tendencies, this is your score on each...

Type 1 Perfectionism |||||| 30%
Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||| 50%
Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||| 50%
Type 4 Sensitivity |||||||||||| 43%
Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||||| 66%
Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||| 33%
Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||| 43%
Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||||| 53%
Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||| 46%


And all this means... http://linus.highpoint.edu/~bblatchl/infp.html


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Big 45 Test Results

Gregariousness |||||||||||| 38%
Sociability ||||||||||||||| 42%
Assertiveness ||||||||||||||| 46%
Poise ||||||||||||||| 46%
Leadership ||||||||||||||| 50%
Provocativeness |||||||||||| 38%
Self-Disclosure ||||||||||||||| 50%
Talkativeness |||||||||||||||||| 58%
Group Attachment |||||||||||| 38%
Extroversion ||||||||||||||| 45%
Understanding ||||||||||||||||||||| 66%
Warmth ||||||||||||||||||||| 62%
Morality |||||||||||||||||||||||| 78%
Pleasantness ||||||||||||||||||||| 62%
Empathy |||||||||||||||||| 54%
Cooperation |||||||||||||||||||||||| 78%
Sympathy ||||||||||||||||||||| 66%
Tenderness ||||||||||||||||||||| 66%
Nurturance ||||||||||||||| 50%
Accommodation ||||||||||||||||||||| 64%
Conscientiousness |||||||||||| 34%
Efficiency |||||||||||| 38%
Dutifulness ||||||||||||||||||||| 66%
Purposefulness ||||||||| 30%
Organization ||||||||||||||||||||| 62%
Cautiousness |||||||||||| 34%
Rationality |||||||||||| 34%
Perfectionism ||||||||||||||| 42%
Planning ||||||||||||||| 50%
Orderliness ||||||||||||||| 43%
Stability |||||||||||| 38%
Happiness ||||||||||||||| 46%
Calmness ||||||||||||||| 46%
Moderation |||||||||||| 34%
Toughness ||||||||||||||| 46%
Impulse Control |||||||||||| 34%
Imperturbability ||||||||| 22%
Cool-headedness |||||||||||| 34%
Tranquility ||||||||| 26%
Emotional Stability |||||||||||| 36%
Intellect |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82%
Ingenuity ||||||||||||||||||||| 62%
Reflection |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82%
Competence |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74%
Quickness |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74%
Introspection |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74%
Creativity ||||||||||||||||||||| 66%
Imagination |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74%
Depth |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74%
Openmindedness |||||||||||||||||||||||| 73%

Big 45 Key

Factor
low score high score
Gregariousness 38% quiet, reclusive engaging, socially bold
Sociability 42% withdrawn, hidden warm, open, inviting
Assertiveness 46% timid, gunshy controlling, aggressive
Poise 46% uneasy around others socially comfortable
Leadership 50% stays in background prefers to lead
Provocativeness 38% modest, plays it safe bold, uninhibited, cocky
Self-Disclosure 50% private, contained very open and revealing
Talkativeness 58% quiet, stealthy, invisible motor mouth, loud
Group Attachment 38% loves solitude prefers to be with others
Understanding 66% insensitive, schizoid respectful, sympathetic
Warmth 62% disinterested in others supportive, helpful
Morality 78% break/ignore the rules play by the rules
Pleasantness 62% aloof or disagreeable gets along with others
Empathy 54% out of tune w/ others in tune with others
Cooperation 78% competitive, warlike agreeable, peaceful
Sympathy 66% socially inconsiderate socially conscious
Tenderness 66% cold hearted, selfish warm hearted, selfless
Nurturance 50% self pleasing, me first people pleasing, me last
Conscientiousness 34% reckless, unscheduled careful, planner
Efficiency 38% unreliable, lazy finisher, follows through
Dutifulness 66% leisurely, derelict strict, rule abiding
Purposefulness 30% inattentive, undisciplined prepared, focused
Organization 62% relaxed, oblivious detail oriented, anal
Cautiousness 34% impulsive, spendthrift restrained, cautious
Rationality 34% irrational, random direct, logical
Perfectionism 42% careless, error prone detail obsessed
Planning 50% disorganized, random scheduled, clean
Stability 38% easily frustrated calm, cool, unphased
Happiness 46% unhappy, dissatisfied self content, positive
Calmness 46% touchy, volatile even tempered, tolerant
Moderation 34% needs instant gratification easily delays gratification
Toughness 46% hypersensitive, moody thick skinned
Impulse Control 34% lacks self control maintains composure
Imperturbability 22% highly emotional emotionally contained
Cool-headedness 34% demanding, controlling accommodating
Tranquility 26% emotionally volatile emotionally neutral
Intellect 82% instinctive, non-analytical intellectual, analytical
Ingenuity 62% lacks new ideas innovative, novel
Reflection 82% unreflective, coarse art and beauty lover
Competence 74% slow to understand/think intellectual, brainy
Quickness 74% intellectually dependent intellectually independent
Introspection 74% not self reflective self searching
Creativity 66% dull headed synthesizer, iconoclast
Imagination 74% practical, realistic dreamer, unrealistic
Depth 74% lacks curiosity mental explorer

I love to cook... lol...

I cooked for the first time in--eons--last night and today
YAY!

I made (I know y'all really want to know this... )
Pork Chops and Apples, Pan-Fried Potatoes (AKA fancified hash browns, with sauteed onions and chicken broth and spices), and Brocolli... plain-jane, cause everything else tasted pretty complex. Served with from-nature grapes. No cooking involved.
And this morning, I made muffins and homeade applesauce. I LOVE homeade applesauce!

It was just a relief to do something so incredibly normal, like cook a meal. And since I love to cook, it was tons of fun!


I don't think I'm in teaching for the long-haul. (Actually, I know I'm not.) As much as I love literature, writing, and all of that good stuff, being with so many people in one day stresses me out. Especially when I must direct their actions, and make sure they are actually doing something productive. Especially when they don't want to be directed... lol!

But I am an English nerd. I'm such an English nerd that I get daily poetry. Now, they aren't always good, but this one was. So I saved it, now to be rehashed in my xanga.

Here's a poem for the day, complements of Writer's Almanac:

God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.
Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with
toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell:
the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs--

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World
broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.



God Bless!


I love to cook... lol...

I cooked for the first time in--eons--last night and today

YAY!

I made (I know y'all really want to know this... )
Pork Chops and Apples,
Pan-Fried Potatoes (AKA fancified hash browns, with sauteed onions and chicken broth and spices), and
Brocolli... plain-jane, cause everything else tasted pretty complex.
Served with from-nature grapes. No cooking involved.

And this morning, I made muffins and homeade applesauce.
I LOVE homeade applesauce!

It was just a relief to do something so incredibly normal, like cook a meal. And since I love to cook, it was tons of fun!


I don't think I'm in teaching for the long-haul. (Actually, I know I'm not.) As much as I love literature, writing, and all of that good stuff, being with so many people in one day stresses me out. Especially when I must direct their actions, and make sure they are actually doing something productive. Especially when they don't want to be directed... lol!

But I am an English nerd. I'm such an English nerd that I get daily poetry. Now, they aren't always good, but this one was. So I saved it, now to be rehashed in my xanga.

Here's a poem for the day, complements of Writer's Almanac:

God's Grandeur

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with
toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs--
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.


God Bless!

Friday, November 04, 2005

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I'm alive... really!

---^---^---^---^---^---^---^---^....
I've just been busy lately. Long-Range Plans are due soon, as well as midterms coming up... so it seems like a lot's going on. So, Aly, I've not abandoned you--I just took a temporary leave-of-absence!! My students were so BAD today... argh! They were just loud. They had trouble listening. And I wrote up a student. And others got in trouble too. In fact, as I walked down stairs at the beginning of my planning period, I saw a whole GROUP of students that I teach, waiting to see the sixth grade disciplinarian. Every single one of them were my students, and most of them were all in my first period together. And I wonder why in the world that period won't settle down?! La. But on a happier note... This weekend, I'm not gonna do a thing. Well, actually I am. I'm going to accomplish as much as I can on my long range plans, so that next weekend, I'll actually be free from responsibility. Because Ben and Sharon and Renee are coming up... and we're going to finally celebrate my birthday!! --Celebrate my birthday. lol-- I know-- it was a month ago. However, we've been incredibly busy; therefore, we haven't taken the time. Anyway, it's just now starting to look and feel as it should when my birthday takes place... so it's not really that much of a stretch. The trees are just now starting to be beautiful and red and yellow and orange... and maybe I'll take the time to run to the mountains this weekend.
Why is it fun to take personality tests online? It just is. Maybe it's because it's fun to see where they're wrong and where they're right. Please pray for me. It seems as if I can't break through, past all the stress and worry and confusion that a first year teacher's entitled to. It's been such a struggle, ever since I started teaching, to spend time with Him and His word. But I KNOW--beyond a shadow of a doubt--that God is greater than our confusion, and he will supply our needs. I know that I'm in this job for a purpose. I just haven't quite grasped what it is. I'm thanking the Lord that there is a purpose--a reason--that I'm going through all this. And I know that I'll come out stronger on the other side. Thank you all, my wonderful friends from around the world, for your love and care. God bless you!