ranting to come

i've had a whole blog post in the works going on in my head today but i'm too tired to attempt it right now. it's all about fulfillment in Christ and how i don't understand why people always think they need to be in a relationship with the opposite sex to be fulfill and how i've noticed that my views on guy/girl relationship--on every level--is conservative when compared to others, even other christians. it was all spurred on when i overheard a girl in the bathroom telling her friend that she "needs to start dating someone" cause she's alone. like really?? really?? i mean i wanna have someone who loves me just as much as the next person but it is not what drives my life. take it from someone whose been single for the past 5 years, it won't kill you! and i'd rather not date someone than date the wrong someone. plus it means that my heart has been saved from being spoiled as much. ok i need to go to sleep...more to come soon!

jane austen

let it be known that i believe i would prefer to watch a movie based on a jane austen novel than any other movie i could watch. tonight after 608 i went home and at 9 turned on KET aka PBS and watched Masterpiece Classics....tonight they had part 1 (of 3) of Jane Austen's Emma...(which for those of you not familiar with JA happens to be the novel that the movie Clueless was based off of...). now this is a version i had never seen...so far so good. the thing i find most funny is that actors that are in Jane Austen movies tend to also be in other Jane Austen movies...and sometime their character is so different, it's funny.

"The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone."
— Anne Elliot in Persuasion

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen, Emma

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

optimus prime

my sister and i have a dog. his name is optimus prime. it's sort of a joke cause we wanted to give him a really manly, strong, tough name since he's a small old man of a shih-tzu. we got him from the humane society over a year ago. when we got him they had estimated that he was "9+ years old", so basically old. he had a mow-hawk, had had bad cataracts in his eyes, and he is missing some of his teeth in the front (this is due to the fact that when he was rescued he had gotten all sorts of hair and food stuck in his teeth and had massive infections so they had to pull a bunch out). so basically he needed love the most. he spends most of his days sleeping, which is completely fine with me. he is normally a very mellow relaxed dog....until you try to groom him in any shape or form. he won't even let you brush him, and since he is a shih-tzu his hair just grows, and grows. so when we take him to the groomer (so specializes in aggressive dogs) we have to get him sedated, and on his records at the vets office there is a sad smiley face. he's so bad. well it had been a while since we had gotten him groomed, and normally when we get him groomed we get it pretty sort but still leave it long one his tale and ears and give him a little beard. well this time, he just needed to get it ALL OFF. and when i say all off i mean all of. when erin brought him home i think i laughed for about 5 minutes. i didn't know his head was this small.

real beauty

How beautiful are the arms which have embraced Christ, the hand which have touched Christ, the eyes which have gazed upon Christ, the lips which have spoken with Christ, the feet which have followed Christ. How beautiful are the the hands which have worked the works of Christ, the feet which treading in His footsteps have gone about doing good, the lips which have spread abroad His Name, the lives which have been counted loss for Him.

-Christina Rosetti