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I Can't Stop Loving You

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:51:15 GMT

This is one of my favorite songs. Martina McBride is at the very top of my fav. singers list. She does such a great job with this song. Wow.

Click on the link below to listen to this song!

http://www.imeem.com/vitaoei/music/VRqtGshR/martina-mcbride-i-cant-stop-loving-you/

I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU

I can’t stop loving you
So I’ve made up my mind
To live in memory
Of such an old lonesome time.

I can’t stop wanting you
It’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life
In dreams of yesterday.

Those happy hours
That we once knew
Though long ago,
They still make me blue

They say that time
Heals a broken heart
But time has stood still
Since we’ve been apart.

God~Thoughts...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:35:38 GMT

Reading from different passages today, a theme jumped out at me: God as the center of my life, my thoughts, my desires. As I continue to protect His place in my heart, my life becomes more and more wide, free, open, fulfilled. Amazing words.

When I read them, that stirring of God's Spirit that expands my heart and makes me aware of His presence, compelled me to take these verses as my "God~message" for today. I love it when He speaks so clearly ~ gently confirming and assuring me of the lessons He is teaching...

"If your first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to Me, you'll find both yourself and Me." Matthew 10:39 (msg)

"Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignored God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored. But if God has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of Him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome Him, in whom He dwells ~ even though you still experience all the limitations of sin ~ you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive~and~present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, He'll do the same thing in you that He did for Jesus, bringing you alive to Himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as He did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With His Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!" Romans 8:8~11 (msg)

This assures me that as long as God is the center of my life, my dreams, and my desires, I can rest assured that I will find myself and Him! My life will also be open, spacious, and free ~ and I will be alert for whatever God is going to do next! In this regard, I'll never be left feeling shortchanged - instead, I won't be able to round up enough containers to hold everything that God will generously pour into my life through the Holy Spirit!

"We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary - we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit." Romans 5:3~5 (msg)

You Know You're Living In 2009 When...

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:48:38 GMT

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2009 when...

1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of

three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is

that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to

see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of

the screen

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't

even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a

cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your

coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to

forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list..

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9

on this list.

~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~

NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself. Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to!

~.~A Few Cool Sites~.~

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:30:24 GMT

For those of you who are way into music as well as social networking (i.e. Facebook, Xanga, Twitter, etc) here are a few sites I found this week that I made use of and thought were pretty cool and interesting.

http://www.playlist.com/ ~ This site is cool because it's versatile. Some players will only work for MySpace or Facebook but this one works for a number of sites listed and also offers an option to get a code that will work on any other website you might have. I've been keeping an eye out for a play list that would work for my Xanga profile - had tried a few - but hadn't been able to come across anything compatible. Good news! This one works. I simply went to "edit my theme" and clicked on "create new module". When the box popped up, I named it, added the code for the player and voila! it worked. Since music means a lot to me, I was pretty excited!

http://blip.fm/all ~ This site I found through my new fav. site: Twitter!! yeah! So cool, because you can create an account easily enough, then type a song into their search bar. When you find the one you want, you can "blip" it - add it to your profile page along with your thoughts or comments. In this way, you can be your own DJ, can add your friends so that they can listen to your music, and can attract other users who might like your selection. However, the feature I really like, is that you can connect it to Twitter, so that when you "blip" a song, it automatically "tweets" it, along with your thoughts/comments. Want to add a song but don't want to "tweet" it? Simply put a "!" in front of your blip - and your blip stays on blip.fm without being "tweeted". My blip.fm username is "b_girl" fyi!

Anyway, just wanted to share - for some of you who are social networking, Twitter, or music addicts!

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:36:43 GMT

Well, for all you FB'ers who will be reading this, I'm sure you've checked out my April photo album - pics of my birthday on there! But if you haven't and you're interested, well, head on over!

We've finally had a few days here of sunshine and warm weather (high 60's, low 70's)! You know, it's almost time for me to start my spring cleaning. Funny thing - I can never seem to get motivated to do that with gray skies and cold, rainy days. But as soon as the sun starts shining and the air warms up enough to open the windows - oh yeah! The cleaning bug hits me! I feel it coming on!!

I get excited at this time of year too, because all the perennials start showing their green shoots and the tulips bloom! I've already done some planning so I have a pretty good idea of how I want to plant the flowering annuals I'll buy this year. The planning is almost as fun as the planting - not quite, but almost!! My Easter lillies are coming up as well as my ditch lillies and my bleeding heart! I see just a tiny peeking of my echinacea and the hydrangea has buds! The fun begins!!

So what makes YOU excited about spring? Doesn't have to be flowers or cleaning! lol I'd love to hear your thoughts!!

29th Birthday

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:16:02 GMT

Today, it has been 29 years since I was born. Hmm. Something to think about, especially when I'm only one year away from the big 3-0.

Speaking of the big 3-0, I'm in a bit of denial about that. The thought of 40 or even 50 doesn't bother me (at least, not now! lol) but for some reason I'm having a spot of trouble about 30. I think it's because it's such a thresh-hold. Once you're 30, you cease to be a "young adult". You've crossed a line that, though invisible, is glaring and final. I rather like the 20's... I'm comfortable with them. They provide more maturity than the teens and yet still maintain that life is streching out before you in a long, winding, exciting road.

Oh, I know that the 30's can be just as great and I'm really sure they will be. It's just the mental factor about crossing that line that I hope reaches some perspective in my mind before my next birthday! :o)

But 29. It's a great birthday! The last one I will experience in my 20's and just that alone is reason enough to celebrate. I feel happy about my birthday this year, excited even, which I find refreshing. For those of you who know me well, you know that the last few years have been a difficult journey of healing for me and there have been days and even months when joy and excitement have seemed unobtainable. This anticipation and enjoyment make this year's event all the sweeter for me. It truly is a happy birthday for me! Yeah!!

Tomorrow night, Rick and I are having our very favorite sitter, Tosha, over to watch the babies for a bit while we go out for a drink and (hopefully) a walk @ the Leamington Marina, weather permitting. It will be refreshing to get out and have some "grown up" time and conversation!

And as for my gift this year.... well, besides Jesus, love, and family (which are the very best gifts one could ever wish for) it will be the best present I've gotten in a long time: a new Blackberry Curve PINK in July. I don't care one bit that I have to wait 3 months to get it - oh, it will be worth it!! :o) I'm so psyched about this - more than I have been about something in a while!!! Yipee!!

And finally, I'll end with a quote that makes so much sense and is an inspiration to me:

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice."

Go ahead. Go back and read it again... So simple, yet so profound. "You can either regret or rejoice." I choose to rejoice! 29 years...

"Thankyou, God, for all Your love, care, and fatherly guidance in my life. You are the first reason that I can rejoice!"

Glimpse of Spring...

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:10:24 GMT

Just a small glimpse of spring... :o)

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:01:10 GMT

I just wanted to share some pics of the kids getting their Easter baskets. Pretty exciting stuff!

This morning we headed out the door around 8am to help cook for our church's Easter breakfast. Turns out, all the spots were filled with great workers, so we hung out and visited until 9am when the breakfast started. Wonderful people thought to fry up some gluten-free pancakes, so R.J., Beth Anne, and I were able to eat something that we didn't have to bring! Yeah!!

Easter service was great, as always. Amazing time of year... remembering and celebrating some very core reasons for our faith...

This afternoon, we took a drive near Lake St. Claire, on to the Detroit River/Riverside Drive in Windsor where we stopped @ McDonald's for some sundays!! Mmm. I think that's the only thing on MickeyD's menu that we can actually have, which doesn't break my heart. lol After our yummy sundays we headed back to Riverside Drive to one of the many little play areas along that stretch and let the kids run loose for a bit. They got lots of sun and fresh air. It was beautiful - though a bit chilly. *shivering* Sunshine was fabulous. Ahhhh. Warm weather is coming...

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:13:56 GMT

Ok. So...

I posted on Facebook already about the new phone I'm SO excited about!! I just found out yesterday that it's going to be my late birthday present! YEAH! I'm so pumped. My birthday is on Tuesday - but my phone contract is up in July, so only a few more months to go before I get a Blackberry Curve PINK! Yee~haw!! :o)

Here's a pic of the phone and then the cover I want for it. *sigh* beautiful-ness.

Twitter. Alright!

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:05 GMT

You know, I signed up for Twitter today - and I gotta say, it's pretty darn cool. The best thing about it, for me, is that not only can I link it to my Facebook status/account but I can also update it from my phone via text msg. Alright! That's pretty amazing for me - because my phone is pretty, well... featureless! lol But I do have txt'ing! ;o) So, if I'm out and about, I can tell my friends what I'm up to. Pretty cool, if you ask me.

Gotta love technology, eh?

Musick_maker's Xanga

I Can't Stop Loving You

God~Thoughts...

You Know You're Living In 2009 When...

~*.*~A Few Cool Sites~*.*~

Saturday, April 18, 2009

29th Birthday

Glimpse of Spring...

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Twitter. Alright!

~.~A Few Cool Sites~.~