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This is where family and friends hang out and discuss world events, family happenings, valley news and things I'm "moosing" about.  It's the day to day across the fence chatter.

The Movie Noah Was No Good?  BIG SHOCKER!

3/31/2014

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It really irks me that Christians all flock to the latest, so called, Biblical movies, in the hopes that Hollywood has finally made something that will include them.  Case in point: Noah.  Once again the Christian world has been Hollywood's stool pigeon.  They have helped line the coffers of evil men to enable them to further degrade society.  No I didn't see the movie.  I wasn't fooled.  In fact, I thought the biggest clue that this movie was going to be a moral disaster was the little blurb they added to the end of the radio advertisement that said "we (who the heck is "we" anyway?) believe that this (train wreck of a) film upholds the integrity and text of the Bible"  First of all, "we" was probably the directors who are acclaimed atheists who wouldn't know Biblical truth if God spelled it out in the sky for them.  Secondly, when did they become Bible scholars and think that they ever understood the text of the story anyway?  Obviously by their villainization of both God and "righteous Noah" (yes, that's what the bible calls him), it's obvious that they didn't.  The righteous Noah of the Bible did not collaborate with fallen angel nor did he run around with a knife intent on killing babies.  Actually this film was a mockery of God character, portraying what is good as evil and what is evil as good.  


For a more detailed description, I suggest you go here:
 http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/03/29/im-a-christian-and-i-think-noah-deserves-a-four-star-review/.  Not only is his description detailed, but it's hilarious as well!


I always think that some day Christians will wake up and quit trying to fit into this world that we are to shun, but it never happens.  They just keep getting sucked into the world and do a little happy dance when it appears that maybe the world is accepting them.  Christianity never was and never will be politically acceptable.  In fact, the void between us the world will just continue to grow as the end draws near. I just wish American Christians would get a clue. 
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Coach K: Take Some Basketball Advice From This  54 Year Old Grandma

3/28/2014

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I am a huge Duke fan!  I have no ties to the university except I grew up watching ACC basketball with my Dad.  In fact, I cut my teeth sitting in an antique child-sized rocking chair watching ACC basketball and NCAA tournaments.  After MD shafted Lefty over the Len Bias debacle, I switched my loyalties to Duke and that is where they have been ever since.  When Coach K wrote a book, I immediately bought it and read every word.  Every year I fill out my brackets, sometimes taking a chance on Duke, even when I know it's against my better judgement.  

For me, the tournament is over.  My Dukies lost in the first round.  I'm rooting for some other teams now, but my loyalties still lie with Duke.  

Over the years I have observed some things that Coach K has seemed to miss, so Coach K...this is for you.  This 54 year old former NCAA Sun Belt Championship Team member grandma has some advice for you.  

When I went to college, I was recruited by an ACC school and a Big 12 school, but I ended up as a walk-on center at the university of my choice.  In those days... and Coach K, you will remember this...there was no future for women in basketball except for a few low paying or volunteer coaching jobs.  That was until my contemporary, Nancy Liberman put women's basketball on the map.  I picked my school for academics, not sports, or scholarships.  What my coach liked about me was that I was big...well tall...and strong... and quick...and a great defensive player.  And I could jump...high.  Most big girls in those days were lucky if they could walk and chew gum at the same time much less jump.  

I said all that to say this to you Coach K.  I am always amazed at the quality people you recruit.  I have a feeling that they are much better quality once you are done with them.  When the rubber hits the road, this is what really matters.  But when it comes to basketball, Coach K, it matters that you have big, strong, quick middlemen who can jump!  The Plumlees and those you've had in the past, with the exception of The Landlord, have been able to cut the mustard in the ACC, but once you get out into tournament land, they are more likely to get smeared like mustard.  They can plug up a lane, but they aren't agile enough to guard without fouling so they end up taking up space and oxygen and that's about it.  They are gonna face big farm boys in the Midwest and tough thug types from the south.  Why not be those boys instead of facing them?

Let me reiterate.  I'm just a 54 year old grandma who loves basketball and has been watching it since before I was old enough to understand the game.  I probably don't know much.  But it just seems to me that this is always the thing that kills Duke in the tournament and just in case you missed it,  (sometimes it is hard to see things clearly when you are too close), I wanted to mention it to you.

With Kind Regards,

Mimi
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Have I Told You How Amazing This Man Is?

3/9/2014

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Have I ever told you how amazing this man is?  I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but he never ceases to amaze, surprise and delight me!


Just a few months ago I returned to working full time for someone other than myself.  After 27 years of being self-employed, it has been a big change! To say that it hasn't been a big adjustment would be a lie.  


~all the sudden 45 hours that used to be mine are someone elses
~Since I don't get home until almost 7pm, I've had to learn to shop and cook differently-a new trick that is not coming easy for this old dog.
~There's just not time to do all I used to do so I am having to determine what stays, what needs modified and what needs cut out altogether.


Part of the reason I chose to go to work for someone else was so that he wouldn't have to work so hard all the time and would have some time each week so that he could do something he wants to do like shoot, or shoot, or even.....shoot!  I have to admit, I'm jealous of how much time he can spend at the range and unhappy that he now does it sometimes without me at his side, but I am happy that he doesn't look exhausted all the time and he seems more happy, not that he wasn't before, but I am enjoying parts of his personality that I haven't in awhile.  However, in any family, when one person is experiencing changes, everyone in the family is experiencing  them too.  He seems to have taken to these adjustments very well.


Every day around 4pm, I get a text that says "do you want me to do any dinner prep?"  This from a man whose mother never allowed him in the kitchen except to eat!!  So at age 54, he is learning to cook things like rice, baked chicken, pasta, salad and vegetables.   


When I come home, there is often food occupying spaces that were empty when I left for work in the morning.  This from a man who never shopped for groceries our whole married life unless I was sick or busy with the babies, and then he only grabbed things from a very detailed list complete with brand names, aisle names and shelf location directions!  Now he will just go and grab some things to "get us through the weekend."   We rarely run out of milk even with two boys who drink milk like a a fish drinks water.  


If he's free for lunch, he almost always comes and picks me up over my lunch hour and takes me somewhere to eat.  He misses me but certainly not more than I MISS HIM!  We used to see each other periodically through the day.  Now we send text messages like "how come you always leave in the morning right before I get home?" and I respond "how come you always get home right after I leave in the morning?" LOL!  Every now and then I push the clock to the limit and he hurries and we get to see each other for a brief moment in the morning.


When he knows I've had a hard day at work, he will take me out or bring home take out.  All day long I get text messages that make me smile or laugh out loud and that occasionally bring a happy tear to my eye.  I'm always aware of how much he loves me.  And that makes these new adjustments easier for me.  


I always knew that he was an amazing man but now I'm more convinced than ever before that there's just no one like him anywhere.  

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