I'm trying to add a picture. Is this working? Whoo hoo! It worked. This is Nick and me at Disneyland about two years ago. I think it's the Alice In Wonderland ride or something.
There are a lot of specifics I don’t remember. Where we were living, what stage of our marriage we were in, how many children we had—but really, none of that matters. What matters is this: we were married with more than one child. I had moved many times to support our lives together. I was less than thrilled with my body and had no illusions about my own mortality, aging and/or energy for frivolous things like intimacy. I hope that paints a picture for you before I share this moment in my life. I was picking Nick up from some airport somewhere. It was either PHX or PHL or EWR. I don’t remember and it wasn’t important. It had been somewhere between 4 days and 2 weeks since I’d seen him. Either way, it was a long enough time for me to be exhausted by parenting, housekeeping, working full-time and trying to maintain some kind of sanity. “How was your trip?” I said after pulling away from the curb. “It was good. Ha...
I was reading this chapter of the Bible tonight, working my way through the book. It starts out with this guy and his wife, Ananias and Sapphira. They have this farm or some kind of land that they are to sell and give the money to Peter. They do this but don't give him all of the money. It seems to be one of those Adam and Eve type situations except that this time, it's him that does the sinning and her that says "yeah, sure I agree with that". Well, somehow, Peter finds out about this and just goes off on the guy. He accuses him of lying not to Peter but to God. What a horrible thing to do! Don't lie to God! Everyone knows better than that. Well, when Ananias hears this, he falls down and dies! Then Peter lays into Sapphira, accusing her of the same thing and promising her the same fate. Then she falls down and dies! Wow! Don't cross God! Other people hear about this and are freaking out! They don't...
This book is killing me. I'm finally about half way through it and it gets more annoying as I go along. Really, I think the plot itself would be ok if not for the horrid writing. So, Bella's off to an unknown destination with Edward. We got to hear a completely useless exchange between the two of them as to why she had to drive her car. Charlie would know. Can't tell Charlie who she's going with. If he saw her car still home, he'd wonder. They had this elaborate back and forth about how Edward would get to her house without his car. Who cares? Not relevant! Why can't they just get going already? If her car would have been some necessary addition to their little outing in the meadows of Washington, fine. But IT DOESN'T! Oh, and if I hear one more thing about the fabulous Phoenix weather, I'm flushing this book down the toilet. She mentions this blouse that she wears in Phoenix "in the dead of winter". Um, there's no such thing. Phoenix has...
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