Two of my coworkers are married and have a three-year-old daughter.

Samantha told her Mommy the other day that she wanted to pray.  Her mom knelt besider her bed and Sam said, "No, Mommy, you have to sit on your circle!"  Apparently in their children's church they sit on circles when the pray.

So then Sam begins to pray.

"Dear God,
Please kill the bad guys.
And be up in Heaven.
And kill all the bad guys.
God."

Her mom said, "Say Amen."

Sam said, "No, I wanna say God."

Okay.

Needless to say her mom got to explain to her that we don't pray for God to kill the bad guys, but that God will help the bad guys become good guys.

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The next night she prayed:

"Dear God,
Please get all the bad guys.
God."

I suppose she's starting to understand.  lol!

At least I hope so.

I am happy with my life, but have realized I have chosen the wrong career.  I love to teach.  I work with middle and high schoolers at my church, and love it SO MUCH!!!

I have decided to go back to school and get my education degree so I can teach junior high school.  I am MADE to do this.  I want it very much.

My hubby and I have discussed it.  We can live comfortably on his income.  I work full-time, and we are putting that money into savings so that we can buy a house in five years without a mortgage (quite an undertaking, but it's working for us).  Once we are finally able to have a child, I am planning to stay home since we can afford it. 

Once I am no longer working full-time, we have decided that I can go back to school.  It will be nice knowing I have the house paid for before I go back to school.

Anyhow, y'all be praying for me!  I want this very much, and hope that within about 6 or 7 years I should have reached my goals.

:!:

Well, another fabulous weekend has gone by, leaving us with another LONG workweek before the next one.

But that's okay.  At least I have a job!

But I am very sleepy today.  More than my typical 'is it Monday?' crap.

I think I need to leave work early and catch a nap before my class tonight.  I don't think I can hold out if I don't get home until 9:30 without a break!

Until then, I'm plugging away on the next Wild Side chapter and wishing for a little energy.  I've had four cups of coffee already, and that doesn't seem to be helping.

Go figure.

Well, maybe not so deep.

So, I've noticed the number of hits per chapter of my fanfic has decreased TREMENDOUSLY over the past few chapters.  I assume it's because of all the angst.  It's not much fun to read (or to write, for that matter) the tough stuff, but I have to get through it to make the good stuff make sense.  Know what I mean?  Hopefully it will become more fun soon.  I have some ideas for a different story running through my head right now as well.

I wanted to take a moment to say thanks to everyone who has been so nice since I discovered TV.com and the NCIS forums.  Y'all are great.

I've been feeling kind of out-of-sorts today.  Which is very unusual for me because I am an extremely positive person.  For some reason today, I just want to cry.  So strange for me...

NCIS Cover Story was a fantastic episode!  I've watched it 3 times now, and have yet to delete it from my TiVo.  I think last week's Grace Period was even better, but my TiVo copy was poor as the episode kept being preempted for storm coverage.  I watched Grace Period the next day on Innertube.

Okay, enough rambling.  Later, taters!

This is a picture of my nieces at a wedding this weekend.  I call it Pretend to like your little sister!

Okay, so now that Season 2 of Twin Peaks has (finally) been released on DVD, some friends and I are planning a really awesome marathon weekend.

Will we actually get through all 36 hours in one weekend?  Probably not, but two consequetive Saturdays should do it. 

We plan to have coffee, cherry pie and doughnuts (laid out two by two as if by Lucy).

One great thing about our TP marathons is that we always bring at least two people who have never seen the series.  It is so fun watching someone who is watching for the first time.  I remember distinctly when I lost my Twin Peaks virginity.  I was in college, and I couldn't believe I had waited so long to experience the joy that is Twin Peaks!

When we all get together, we watch in absolute silence.  If someone gets up for anything at all; bathroom, get snacks, stretch their legs, make a phone call; we pause it and look at them like they're crazy.  Since the show was created in such a way that you really have to watch it all, if it looks like someone isn't paying attention - PAUSE.  "You HAVE to see this part, it's so cool..." etc.

I suppose some would hate watching something THAT focused, but that's how it was for me the first time and I know how much I appreciate the person who forced me to watch with my full attention.

When I saw it for the first time it was the last few weeks of one semester of college.  Including finals week.  We would get together in a friend's room.  When the hour would pass that you could have members of the opposite sex in the dorm room, we would move the VCR (those were the days) to the lobby of the residence hall and watch there.  I can remember thinking we would stop "after this episode".  But then each episode had sort of its own cliffhanger.  We would stop the machine and begin gathering our things to leave.  Then, my friend and I who were first-timers would begin discussing our theories while my experienced friend just sat there smiling, refusing to divulge any information.  We would talk for about twenty minutes before insisting we watch "one more episode". 

I remember one night during finals week when some people were coming in from studying to find us in the lobby of the dorm.  When they woke the next morning to go take their finals, we were still there.  It was great.

So, I'm really looking forward to watching the series again.  (For the 20th time or something as I own it on VHS.)

If any of you actually live near me, you are so welcome to join in the experience.  It'll rock your world.

Later, taters!

~Barbara

Happy Easter everyone!

I have a nice holiday weekend, so far.

I saw a couple of movies this weekend: The Lookout and Blades of Glory.  Both were good.  Blades of Glory was retarded, but hilarious.  I went with a group, which means I'm surprised we didn't get thrown out of the theater from laughing so hard.

Well, I'm off to church.  Have a fabulous Easter Sunday!!

~Barbara

Did y'all see that article where Keith Richards admitted to mixing some of his father's ashes with his cocaine and snorting it?  One of my friends asked - is that cannibalism, to snort your father's ashes?  Strange...

Nothing major on TV tonight.  My hubby watches Mythbusters on Wednesdays.  I usually just play on the computer after church.  I have a couple of movies I need to watch... maybe I could do that.

I also have Season One of Prison Break on loan from a friend.  I still haven't started it.

So...  New NCIS tonight.  I'm so excited!

Also, Season 2 of Twin Peaks released today.  I'm gonna hold off a bit before making my purchase.  I already own the entire series on VHS.  There is a rumor that they will be releasing a Full Series DVD special later in the year, including the pilot, extras and the Log Lady intros.  I would rather wait.  I never picked up the first season on DVD because I was hoping to get the series all in one shot.  I can hope!

I've really become obsessed with writing fan fiction.  I wrote some nine or ten years ago with a good friend - we wrote Pretender, XFiles, General Hospital and Marvel comic character crossovers.  Very bizarre, but very fun.  I've never written any fan fiction by myself until now.  Which brings me to my point.  (Is there a point?)  Everyone has been so encouraging.  It has helped so much.  But I feel like I'm fishing for compliments all the time.  I mean - I starting writing the story because I needed to get it out of my mind.  I'm always thinking crazy stuff.  Now I probably check back every five minutes after I've posted to see if I have any comments yet.  Which is weird - I've never been addicted to feedback before.  It's probably because I'm still new to this.

Quite a storm is brewing outside.  I pray for God's protection over my home and family.  I will trust in Him that no harm will come to me.  I love His promises in Psalm 91.  I just pray the rain doesn't block the satellite signal during NCIS!!!

Ta for now! ~Barbara

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