Hello, faithful readers.  And um, first time readers.  And maybe readers who come back occasionally but not all the time . . . but anyways.

It's Sunday afternoon and I'm kinda bored.  I'd usually be sleeping at this time (naps are GREAT), but I spent most of the afternoon at my grandma's house and then Mom and I went to Best Buy, got a DVD player for our useless TV that now is not quite as useless, got a TV table for the useless TV, and two movies to go along with it (for you curious minds out there, the two movies are Master and Commander and Gladiator . . . no, I'm not gah-gah over Russel Crowe, I just happen to like those movies).

This morning in Jr. Church we took all the little kids out and measured off how big the Ark would be and then we had a few kids stand at each corner of the Ark.  That was one frickin' huge boat (450' x 75' x 45').  Then these two kids started running and screaming because they thought that some ax murderer was living in a neighbor's woodpile.    But they were pretty good, for the most part.  Logan even behaved himself, and besides galloping into the classroom and falling flat on his face, Aldin behaved, too.

Well, I got to "act" in Sunday School this morning.  We divided into two teams and each team had to pick a character to portray and the other team had to guess who it was.  Each team picked one actor, and everyone in my group was like, "Hey, Marianne likes to act.  She's doing it!"  Yay!  Jimmy was the other team's actor, and he started off by singing "A Whole New World," so we correctly guessed Aladdin about 3 seconds in.  Brittaney had chosen Commodus from Gladiator (what freaked me out was she has absolutely no idea how much I like that movie, lol).  When it was my turn, I got up and screamed, "AM I NOT MERCIFUL???"  I would have grabbed a team member's face and shouted it in their ear if A) it wouldn't have freaked them out, and B) I wanted to damage their hearing.  Well, Team "Bad Guy" didn't guess that, so I said, "You simply won't . . . die."  They still didn't get it (although my youth pastor knew who I was and said I did an outstanding job, lol).  I tried one last time.  "It broke my heart when I read your list of virtues and I realized I had none of them."  Still nothing.  Jimmy's just like, "THAT GUY FROM SIGNS!!!"  LOL!  So, Paul finally said, "Okay, we'll accept Joaquin Phoenix as an answer."  It was fun.  Commodus would have been a fun guy to play, haha.  Although I wish Brittaney had said Maximus instead of Commodus.  I would have loved to have said, "Are you not entertained?  Is that not why you have come?" or "I tell my son I will see him again soon, and to keep his heels down when he's riding his horse.  And to my wife?  That's none of your business."  Although if I said, "My name is Gladiator" I think that would give it away.

So yeah, I just wasted a good 20 minutes of my time telling you about my boring day . . . hope you enjoyed it.  Everybody's starin' at me . . . I gotta go.

Peace, love, and happiness,

~Marianne