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Quotes for Life

"Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should....My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether be life or by death."~ The Apostle Paul: Eph 6:18-20; Phil 1:20

"Lord, I intend it to thy glory, and let no profane misinterpreter abuse it to thy diminution."
~John Donne

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
~ John Adams

"You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something."
~ Winston Churchill

"I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence."
~ Ben Jonson

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

~ George Washington

"Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. It’s about gettin’ drunk and gettin’ sober. It’s about leavin’ and it’s about comin’ home. It’s real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We’re not offended, ’cause we know what we’re all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary."

~ Jeff Foxworthy

"The most dangerous predator of liberals is the real world. They hide from it in college campuses."
~ www.imao.us

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"
~ Edna Ferber

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument."
~ Robert Frost

"I'm a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."
~Ann Coulter

"Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother."
~ Phyllis Schlafly

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."
~ G. K. Chesterson

"It isn't going to bed with a man that proves you're in love with him. It's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful, everyday world with him that counts."
~ Yours, Mine and Ours

"I owe nothing to women's lib."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

~ Henry VI

"We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic."

~ Rush Limbaugh

"True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same conclusion."

~S.S. Smith

"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit."

~ Jack Dake

"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"What I felt like saying was, 'I've produced my third child and my sixth book since I last saw you. Aren't either of these things more important, more interesting, than my size?' But no - my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book; finally, something to celebrate! Maybe this seems funny or trivial, but it's really not."
~ JK Rowling

"Dear Lord
Lest I continue
My complacent way
Help me to remember
Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?"~Anon
"[Judgment] comes from four sources: God, nature, diligence and conversation. Serve the first, and the rest will serve you."
~ Ben Jonson

"I think political correctness is a wonderful fad. Probably not as spiritually uplifting as the hula-hoop, but undoubtedly better for the health."
~ Waiting for God

"Our God and soldier we alike adore. At the brink of danger, not before. After deliverance, both alike requited. Our God's forgotten and our soldiers slighted."
~ Oliver North

"The way to tell the professional writers from the amateur writers is that the amateurs only write when they feel like it."
~ Jerry Van Cook

"Remember that only in cheesy romance novels is the heroine guaranteed to find true love without the risk of vulnerability or pain."
~ Dear Prudence column

"We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue."
~ from "The Birth of a Nation"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move."
~Captain America

"While God doesn’t promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity."
~ Tony Snow

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~ John Stuart Mill

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."
~ J.K. Rowling

Wisdom from the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan:
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Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget...in the final analysis...that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

February 11, 2010

Friday Randomness

I've been watching the mail for several days now, but not for a letter from SoldierMan. A package was supposed to be on its way and so I was again stalking the mail lady.

Then yesterday, after a morning of running around and trying to get everything done before the next big ice-over hit, I come home and find a box on the doorstep! Yay!!

My hat was here! My friend Lindsey is making and selling hats, t-shirts and (soon) jewelry to help her and her husband fund their adoption. Plus, with the hat was also a picture of their children, so I have faces to pray over now!! (I can't scan and share that with you because they don't have permission to make their names/faces public yet, but trust me, they are precious!)

I know, I know, most of you are not OU fans. That's the only OU product. There are like 10 different styles to choose from, all of them totally cute! Click on the picture to go to her etsy shop, and click on her name above to visit her blog.

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I am changing the URL to my blog soon. I *LOVE* all of you as followers, so I'm not trying to hide from you, I promise! But I need to change the link. So if you would like to be notified of the change and given the new link - PLEASE EMAIL ME:
MYNEWADDRESSIS*AT*HOTMAIL
so I can put you on the list. I will be posting this reminder for a while until everyone's had a chance to change over. Thanks for dealing with me!

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I see everyone is going to see or has gone to see "Dear John." From the beginning I knew I wanted to avoid this book/movie like the plague. Why?

Most people of my generation probably don't know this, but back in WWII there arose such a thing as a "Dear John" letter. Basically it was when a girl back home sent a soldier a letter saying she'd met someone else and couldn't wait any longer, sorry. Since then, the term is synonymous with a break-up letter.

So when I saw a preview for a movie about a military pen-pal couple titled "Dear John"...all sorts of red flags went off for me.

Now, I haven't read the book or seen the movie, so I don't know that that's even a part of the storyline. But, from what I've gleaned, it may not be far off. Either way, I'm not going to see it. Just really can't handle any more downers.

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Speaking of downers, my laptop is down, so I've been using SoldierMan's desktop for the past couple of days. While they might sound like a great compromise, and for the most part it's fantastic, the desktop doesn't have any of my photo editing software or anything I've worked on since New Year's, which was my most recent backup of the laptop to the desktop's external hard drive. So the pictures I've taken, except the ones above, will just have to sit on my camera until I get access to my Lightroom again. :( The power cord died, so I have to get a new one. And while that's cheaper than a whole new computer, it's still expensive. So we'll see what happens there.

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The reality of what we are doing is hitting me in waves. Like last night, I'm at my ~~weekly~~ semi-monthly Bible Study group, and one of the girls tells us she's pregnant. Exciting stuff, right? She's got this great plan about finishing grad school and continuing to work, and she has until September, which is her due date, and in my mind I start thinking about baby showers and going to see her in the hospital...

...and then it clicks - September? I'm not supposed to be here then....

bum
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I don't know how this happens. I was having a great day yesterday. Well, not great, but really good. Got a lot done, got my super-cute hat, got some good news about a friend. Then that night I'm sitting at the computer with my phone waiting for SoldierMan to either call or get online to webcam chat. (our first one, I was so excited, I got all "cute" and waited by the camera.)

SoldierMan's personal time every night is from 2000-2100 my time. So promptly at 2000 I'm in front of the computer, phone in hand, waiting.

2030

2045

2100

2115

By 2130 I gave up. I thought maybe, maybe since pass starts this morning, they might have started last night and given them the extra free time, but I guess not. Lights out was apparently still at 2100. So, at 2130, I went downstairs to eat dinner.

At about 2200 I come back upstairs....and in the little chatroom (we use Google Talk) is an "are you there?" at 2135. I had just missed him. And of course, by then he was long gone.

It made me absolutely sick. He must have used all his free time sitting there waiting for me because there wasn't an email, and if he had had the chance to write me, he would have. I'm still pretty upset. But hopefully, by the time you read this, we'll have had the chance to speak at least once. So that will definitely lift my spirits.

That, and the huge glob of Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough that I'm eating with a spoon to assuage my misery.

9 comments:

AshleyFebruary 12, 2010 at 4:02 AM
I totally missed a call from my soldier earlier this week too! It's hard to know you just missed them...by like a few minutes. Hang in there though it's bound to happen from time to time. I would like to be added to your new blog list if that's cool?...I'll try to remember to e-mail you to just in case, cause you are seriously one of my favorite reads!
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aeFebruary 12, 2010 at 5:06 AM
I have read the Dear John book and you are not missing anything. I love Nicholas Sparks but his books can be a little depressing. I will be emailing you for the new link cause you are one of my favs!!
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SarahFebruary 12, 2010 at 5:18 AM
Aw. =( I'm sorry you missed him. The same thing happened to me when Joe was in Basic. I was at dinner (at the beach) with his family and never heard my phone. A few mins later, I got a voicemail from him. I didn't know that they'd called from a payphone, so I called the number about 5 or 6 times and ended up talking to different Soldiers each time, none of whom knew my hubby. Meanwhile, I'm crying my eyes out in front of a store at the beach because I missed his call. Finally, after what felt like forever, his Drill SGT let him use his cell phone to call me back. =) Hope you get to talk to him soon!
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JessicaFebruary 12, 2010 at 5:22 AM
I had some of the same "enlightening" experiences while Trey was at OCS. Finding out that my SIL was pregnant and realizing I wouldn't be there to help decorate the nursery, be there for her through the majority of the pregnancy, see my neice when she was born. Realizing I would be there for one of my best friends giving birth. It was hard. But you do the best you can from a distance. It's never the same, but you hang in there and learn to appreciate the really small things. The phone and Skype will be your best friends.
I'll be emailing your shortly to keep me on! I'm glad you'll be putting out reminders just in case though :)
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Julie the Army WifeFebruary 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM
I have missed so many weddings and have never met friends children because of this life :( It sucks :( But then you do get to meet people from all over the place which I think is really cool.

I hate when we miss each other online. It really is the worst :(
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AshleyFebruary 12, 2010 at 7:45 AM
I'm so sorry you missed your talk time with SoldierMan. Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough sounds like a perfect temporary solution to that problem. ;) Hopefully by now you will have been able to talk to him.
I have been considering movie URLs myself but dread losing followers/readers. Are you staying with blogger or purchasing your own domain?
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BSSFebruary 12, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Yes, you are totally not missing anything by not reading Dear John. I knew the whole "Dear John" concept, I was just hoping it was a coincidence that his name was John. I hated it. It was horrible. I rarely feel that strongly about a book also.

I totally agree with the comment you left on my blog, by the way. I think it's silly for girls to complain about their husbands because (a. it doesn't do anything to help the issue and (b. if a man doesn't even have the complete support of his wife, then what does he have?

I looked through my emails to find the Disney info but I must have deleted it... sorry :( They do it once a year and I'm sure when you two get set up in once place and you get FRG info that you'll come across it. Thanks for linking to that etsy shop too-- I've always had it in my heart to adopt, and I love when other people do too!! Have a good weekend!!!
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BSSFebruary 12, 2010 at 1:32 PM
p.s.

isn't it awful to miss them by a few minutes? When E was deployed and I'd miss him on IM or he'd call and I'd miss it, I'd cry and cry... it was awful! I hope you get a nice talk with him soon!!
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JessicaFebruary 12, 2010 at 4:42 PM
I haven't seen or read Dear John either and I have no intentions on doing so. It doesn't appeal to me at all.

I'm sorry you missed your chat with him tonight, I hope you have better luck tomorrow. :(
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