| luke 15:9 ish |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|09:18 pm] |
"And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost [car].'"
okay, so it's bad exegesis to use that verse, but i have a strange sense of humor. anyhow, i did find my lost car, er...the newark police department did. the thieves were definitely not the brightest, since they took some stuff, but left a bunch of new stuff. i no longer some books, cassette tapes, and a couple of journals, in addition to my registration & license plates, but i now have a phone charger, a leash, a bottle of water, and had someone else's license plate before the police took it back. the funniest part to me was that they washed my car. i thought it was very considerate of them, since it really needed a bath. there wasn't any damage that i could find, other than the broken windshield. my insurace will take care of that, but in the meantime i'm driving a rental car. thanks to matt's brother's solid advice about renting cars in general, i didn't get screwed by the rental company! yay andrew!
it is a weird experience to have something so big stolen. i've been in accidents and without my car and i've had my car broken into, but i've never had it completely gone. my mom bought us both clubs to make our cars harder to steal, but i still feel a little like "why bother?" one of my coworkers says that locked doors only keep honest people out, since the dishonest ones will find a way in no matter what precautions you take. i kind of agree now. i don't want to live in fear of someone taking my car, since it is just a car. of course, having to pay the stupid deductible SUCKS! maybe i just need to get rid of my deductible all together and then i absolutely will have no worries about accidents/theft.
on a related note, matt rocks. he's been nothing but helpful since my mom's purse was stolen. even though i know him well, i was surprised at how he just shined the past few days. he was very protective and supportive pretty much around the clock, even to the point of going without his car so that i could have one while i waited for my rental car to be approved. i knew i liked him, but this is just icing on the cake! ;-) |
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| icky |
[Aug. 22nd, 2006|04:18 am] |
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my car was stolen tonight. my mom called me about 8:30 to tell me that her car was broken into and her purse was stolen. matt and i were having dinner with friends in san jose, so it took me a while to get back home. matt offered to spend the night, since my mom's house keys were in her purse and someone could potentially break in to the house easily. so we were all settling in for the night when my mom heard a car start outside. she thought someone may have been trying to start her car so she looked outside. she asked if i had parked my car behind hers and when i said, "yes" she informed me that my car had just been stolen. i called 911 and reported it and they dispatched cars to look, but nothing has turned up yet. anyhow, i'm really tired and really feeling like nothing is safe. i'm trying to make a plan in my head of what i can do next, but there's nothing really to do. it's weird and scary. |
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| i'm getting married |
[Jun. 14th, 2006|12:23 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  loved | ] |
| [ | music |
| | david crowder band | ] |
i've been dying to tell everyone that i was going to get married for the past couple of weeks, since matt on memorial day declared his intention to propose. he had picked out the date and the place to propose, but still needed the ring.
we have been looking at rings and olivia hooked us up with someone who got us a great deal on the ring, but it was going to take longer than expected to get it...past the date when matt intended to propose. he told me his plan (to propose at hume lake this weekend) and that the ring wouldn't be ready in time, so we came up with the idea to buy a really gaudy fake ring for me to wear for the next couple of weeks while the ring was being made. i HAD to try it on when we left the store and i didn't want to take it off even after our date was coming to a close.
i jokingly said, "i don't have to take it off if you propose right now" and he said "i'm thinking about it." i thought he was joking, since he is not the type to change his plans...ever. :-)
we got back to my office and were sitting in the car listening to billy joe mcguffrey, clapping along. when the song was over, i took off the ring and started to get out to go in to my office and gather my stuff and matt told me to wait.
he plucked most of the sweatshirt fuzz off of this monstrous ring and stared at it for a while then he said...crap, shouldn't i remember what just happened?!? that's not what he said, that's me wondering what he said.
anyhow, he said something about how he'd had a fantastic evening and how he was looking forward to a wonderful life with me. he said a couple of other sweet things and then he looked me in the eyes, aplogized for not being able to get down on one knee in the car and said "frances will you marry me?"
i said, "duh. yes." not quite as poetic as i'd like to remember. oh yeah, it's history, so i can make it up and no one will ever know what really happened. i said, "yes, what a lovely proposition. i would be honored to spend the rest of my life with you, sir." that's what really happened.
anyhow, we hugged and he kissed me and put the bennifer ring on my finger and sang "there is no one like you" along with the radio. something about that moment just made me want to praise God. i'm a happy girl and i'm even more happy that i get to marry a great guy.
oh, the date i've had to keep secret is September 8, 2007.
I'M GETTING MARRIED! |
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| satc musings and weekend update. |
[Jan. 22nd, 2006|11:42 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  grateful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the white stripes: instinct blues | ] |
ever since my valentine's day present from matt came in the mail, i have been thoroughly enjoying it. he got me the 20-disc collector's edition of sex and the city. i convinced him to watch my 2 favorite episodes at first and since then we've ended up watching most of season 6. we've discussed the whole big and carrie situation a time or two. i told him that women don't usually like big and that men all love him and think he's a great guy. tonight, after watching another disc's worth, he had the most interesting insight about big and carrie. he said that he thinks that men like big because carrie is an "everywoman". women are supposed to watch the show and identify with her feelings. men watch that show and see big's behavior as something they would do, but they are seeing it from inside of "everywoman"'s head. men know what big was thinking (or not thinking) and seeing how it has hurt carrie and they are hoping that she will forgive him. they cheer for the relationship not because they think it's particularly good, but because they are hoping that he (and ultimately themselves) will be forgiven when they screw up. hmmm...interesting insight. the whole idea that big's name is john in the end simply underscores that whole idea that he represents "everyman".
i took matt to see underworld evolution today. i didn't have a lot of hope for it, since i didn't like the first one too much (at all!). matt was a huge fan of the first movie and wasn't into this one as much. i had the oppostie reaction. i liked this one better. not that i think people should run out and see the film, but if you have money to burn, this might be a good way to do so. :-)
today was a good day for finishing. i finished painting the journeyland office. i painted blue waves all around the walls, since it feels like a fishbowl with the big window to the main lobby. i really like it, since i know that it's cute and goofy, like a children't ministry office should be. i'm going to put up a clear shower curtain in the winndow to make it look even more fishy. the final step is to have the kids from journeyland draw fishes to hang on the walls. it's going to be the cutest office ever.
now i have real work to finish. |
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| uh oh |
[Dec. 22nd, 2005|05:55 pm] |
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| |  giggly | ] |
| [ | music |
| | john mayer: something's missing | ] |
so last night at liz's birthday dinner, i realized that matt and i have become the obnoxiously cute couple that is always holding hands or sweet talking one another. of course, from this side of the situation it seems perfectly rational. i apologize to the friends who have to put up with it in the mean time. :-)
this is an interesting week. things are all turned around because of christmas and i'm stuck between hurrying up to get some loose ends tied and waiting until next year to get started with other stuff. i'm leaving in a couple of days to go back to fresno. pauvre matt has to hang out with my family saturday night. not that my family is any weirder than anyone else's, i just sympathize with the guy for having to hang out with a bunch of people that he doesn't know for a few hours. naturally, he's not nervous about it at all. he said, "you'll be there." (i warned you about the sappy comments!) after that, we're going to the journey's christmas eve service and driving to fresno late christmas eve.
this is probably my last post until sometime next year, so merry christmas and happy new year all! |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 12th, 2005|11:14 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  sick | ] |
| [ | music |
| | some cheesy elevator music my mom likes | ] |
yay! i finished my first quarter of graduate school. tomorrow it will be 3 years to the date that i graduated from apu. time really flies. technically, i have to finish my reading before i can say that i'm completely done, since i can't tell matt's dad, "hey, i didn't read". he'll just look at me and tell me to get it done. rats, it's hard having a bf's dad as a teacher. :-) the church planter, joel, told me that at his seminary they banned having teachers ask students how much of the reading they did since it cause such a moral dilemma. i think that's stupid, people should just be honest if they didn't read or read.
i missed the cr christmas banquet last night. i'm a bit bummed, since i really would like to see everyone, but we had a fundraiser dinner for 2 young women who are going on missions trips. (is it mission or missions i wonder?) i got to play the role of auctioneer. someone bid $850 on a clambake for 6! i told the cook, "no pressure to make the best dinner of that person's life." matt bid lots of money for the item i wanted, but lost to joel. :-( it was still super sweet. i wonder how much money we made in all for the girls.
matt and i saw chronicles of narnia last night after the dinner. i thought it was quite good, but wasn't blown away. i guess the hype surrounding it gave me inflated expectations, so i was expecting the best movie to every touch my senses or something. i could have been simply too tired to fully enjoy it, as i got up at 5 am to set up for church and the movie didn't get out until 11:45ish. it was interesting, since matt read an article to me about the movie and the books before we left that highlighted a lot of the themes and more subtle christian stuff. i think it would be interesting to read the books now, since i never did that in school or as a child. i can make that a christmas fresno activity. :-)
for old times sake, vanessa, matt, and i went to subway and debated about spiritual gifts after church. (that was what we did the first time matt and i met) it was totally fun even though we still don't know the exact nature of spiritual gifts. matt and i like to argue that music is not a spiritual gift and vanessa says that she heard anything you use for God's glory is a spiritual gift. it just now occurs to me that i know a christian who did drugs before he was converted. he went over to visit friends shortly after he became a chrsitian and ended up doing cocaine with them and talked all night about jesus and the friends converted to christianity. by v's line of thinking, his spiritual gift could be doing cocaine. :-) fun stuff to debate.
12 days until i return to fresno for more time with matt's fam. fun fun fun. i don't mean that sarcastically. really, it is fun. :-) |
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| always a good time |
[Dec. 8th, 2005|05:22 pm] |
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
Last Friday I gave ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) dwr8 a kidney (1000 points). Last Wednesday I donated bone marrow to rudedude in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In February I signed my organ donor card (28 points). Last month I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In July I gave sweetpunkchik a Dutch Oven (-10 points).
Overall, I've been nice (1319 points). For Christmas I deserve a new bike!
Sincerely,
francess |
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| $561 |
[Nov. 30th, 2005|08:38 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cranky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | kanye west: gold digger | ] |
holiday shopping is in full swing for not only me, but apparently for someone who tried to use my amex card for $561 online. they tried to buy a bunch of designer clothes. that is so not me, so it won't go through. however, this does mean i can't download any more songs from itunes until i get my new amex card. :-( |
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