Disturbing

Guess what fast food item this is:

http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/mechanically-separated-chicken-nuggets?gtl=47001

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp

A friend of a friend

One of Andrea's friends is fighting cancer. She is 26 and has a baby. I've been praying for her and following her blog for a little over a month. Her post tonight has led me to request anyone who reads my blog to please begin praying for her as well.

http://libbyryder.blogspot.com/

Even though I may never meet her, she is part of my christian family. So I will continue to pray for her because that is what the body of Christ is about.

Confessions of a Rapaholic

Well, I didn't really intend to start this whole "confessions" posting, but after last night's post the title just kind of came to me. Those of you who know me at all know I love rap music. I'm a closet rapper. It's true. I'm sorry if that makes me a little less lady-like, because I consider my self a lady-like rapper (if it's possible for such a thing to exist). Anyway, I love this video. Emily T. and Katherine found it and so if anybody hasn't seen it yet, here you go. I could have performed right along with Jimmy and JT - and actually was rapping along in my living room. When the JCS girls came to visit me in NYC we went to Jimmy Fallon and he had Snoop on and he rapped for us and we were all singing right along. How could you not like it? Turn it up and then get up and dance along!

Confessions of a poor shopaholic:

Since one of my hobbies is an expensive one (shopping), lately I just shop on line for about 30 minutes (without actually purchasing anything). I get my new & pretty things fix and keep all my money. Here's what I "purchased" tonight, on my pretend shopping trip to Anthropologie.

1. Love Letter Sheets - $248
2. Poppy Wallpaper - $148

3. Black Trench - $188

4. Flower Lamp Shade - $98

5. Upwards Boots - $358

Total saved by skipping the checkout part: $1,040 (plus tax)

What else can you do when you have great taste and no money? :)

Today

Lately things have been crazy. Crazy busy and crazy fun! We had my parents come for a visit. We went on a weekend trip with Ryan's family to Chattanooga. We had Andrea stay with us for a whole week! We had a quick visit in Atlanta with Julie & Jason and with Chris & Sarah. We had Rabbi and Lisa here for almost two weeks! We had a fabulous weekend trip to the TN river with wonderful friends. We've been to several braves games. We had Adam and Theresa here for Labor Day. We've been blessed!

But today, well, today was one of those wake up too early, work too many hours, sit in traffic too long, have too much cleaning to do when you get home but too tired to even try kind of days. The kind of day when you wish something good was on tv, but isn't. The kind of day when you just want to snuggle with your puppy and not do anything that a grown up is supposed to do. Like go to bed at a reasonable hour so that tomorrow doesn't start off in the way too tired way that today did. One fabulous thing happened today. One of my sweetest friends had a baby! Alice Elizabeth Thompson has arrived safely and I spent the majority of the day in prayer over her and her mommy. Marissa, Julie, Brooke (and Emily too, though she was busy giving birth) and I were emailing and texting all day. Today I miss my friends.