He's Back...

Can't you just smell the popcorn?  I sure can!  It is almost that time of year again.  NO...not the time when I whine about stuff again.  Geez!

Summer blockbuster movies...and this year brings back my favorite Captain!  Johnny, I can't say I LOVED The Tourist but I have HIGH hopes for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides!  You are rid of those dead weights, Will and Elizabeth, so now you can have some real fun! 

OK, so those first three movies were suppose to be Elizabeth's story according to the writers.  How can that be when you are the star?  Without Captain Jack, there isn't a Pirates of the Caribbean!  Let's be honest, did they choose to put Captain Jack (in all his Johnny Depp glory) in the famed ride or Will and Elizabeth?  Yep...Captain Jack!  (OK, Barbossa made it too but Will and Lizzy aren't there.) 

What will the new Pirates bring?  I can only hope the fun and fresh comedy and adventure that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl brought to the screen in 2003!  Want to see the trailer?  Here it is...http://disney.go.com/pirates/

Who knows, perhaps I will dig out my pirate costume for opening night!

Yo Ho!

God Thing

Yesterday was a Debbie Downer kinda day.  This morning, at church, God had several messages for me about what I wrote yesterday.  The biggest was...I AM God and I will never leave you!  Trials come and sometimes for reasons that I, God, will use to bring myself glory!

Lord, forgive me for throwing my "fits" about current circumstances and not looking at eternal goals.  Forgive me for allowing a root of bitterness to grow in my spirit.  Forgive me for taking my eyes off you for even a second to look at the storm around me.  Like Peter, I started to sink.

This isn't to say that I will not be down again or totally mess something up.  It is to say that, in every moment, God is faithful and loves me so much!  He sent His perfect son to earth and that perfect son put himself at the will of the Father to die for my sins...and your sins that we may be called Children of God!  That's good stuff.  I don't care who you are!

So, as I can still hear the fans drying my carpet and my husband still has no job and lots of other stressful things surround me, I just need to remember who is in charge and the ETERNAL goal which is hard to see when you take your eyes off Him.

Can I get an Amen?!  I think so...

Winning!

Amazing how one little word has come to mean so much in pop culture. Thank you, Charlie Sheen! Now winning is almost the code word for LOSER! Yep, sorry to burst that bubble for ya, Chuck!

Anyway, some days I feel like I am winning about a much as Charlie. Of course, I know how bad the situation is and Charlie doesn't have a clue. But...good old Chuck is making a ton of money. Is it as much as he was making before? I doubt it. Did you know he was the highest paid actor on the planet? He was making 1.8 million per episode of his half hour sitcom where he played himself! Seems like a REALLY good gig to me. Unfortunately for Charlie, he didn't think so.

In my world, where winning is a lot less profitable, it has been a tough 6 months. This next Friday marks the 6 month mark that hubby lost his job. After that, he had major surgery and we spent 7 days at a hospital hours from home. That was in the days leading up to Christmas. Always a cheery way to spend the holidays. This time also saw his car break down, our water heater leaked all over the garage, I got the flu at a very inopportune time, I also got two UTIs (never had had one before), the kids got sick, oldest son's math teacher and I are having an ongoing disagreement over a book, hubby had another surgery, I had a girl's weekend that let's just say was a bit disappointing and, most recently, a pipe sprung a leak that caused damage to my bedroom, bathroom and garage! Seriously?! Yep...seriously!

I am becoming that person that you don't want to be. Even someone that you can look to and feel better about yourself because you are not me. For that, I say you are welcome. Feel better about yourself!

Just in the last week or so...and this could be due to the small flood in the bedroom from the pipe leak...I have started to feel like there really isn't going to be a light at the end of this tunnel. Please don't get me wrong, I KNOW that God is always in control. Just because God is in control, it doesn't mean He will always hold back the rain. It seems to have been raining for a long time. Longer than these last six months...more like 12 years. Have there been good times? Of course! But, the overarching theme has been that I am not going to win. I'm in the rain and there is no umbrella or bright sky in sight. Am I just writing this because I am OVER my present circumstances? Most likely. I sometimes just need to put it all down in writing and walk away. Writing can be a very cathartic exercise.

Gotta get back to all that winning! Maybe I should give Charlie a ring and see if he would like to do a new sitcom about a cursed woman and a washed up loser...