BLOGGERS GAME!
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
"Presently they induced a peace so satisfying that tension gradully gave way and a fresh zest for life devloped."
thanks joy for the idea...i actually got this from your blog...that you wrote a few years ago, AND on the same page, i found that old picture of the Italian moped gang and the guy that looks just like jason...WHICH!!!! he does.
anyways. today will be a good day. leela is coming over for a while to watch crystal with em and while my mom and hers go out and do stuff. :)
hope it goes well. m,aybe i'll read mark chapter 4 with her! that's a good idea.
Friday, May 12, 2006
After the night, there's always a morning.
The shadows seem to just slipp away.
What once was fear, now was a listless dream,
Of demons and dark things and things not of the day.
Even in the darkness, the Lord waits for me.
Always shining, awaiting my plea.
Oh Lord guard my night as well as my day.
K eep it for you.
Feeling the night, just breath it in.
Taste the dark forcess creeping within.
There laughter echoes acroos...
waiting for the heart to stop.
But God awaits with them, in every corner.
Ready to defend and mark me as His.
CMT
The shadows seem to just slipp away.
What once was fear, now was a listless dream,
Of demons and dark things and things not of the day.
Even in the darkness, the Lord waits for me.
Always shining, awaiting my plea.
Oh Lord guard my night as well as my day.
K eep it for you.
Feeling the night, just breath it in.
Taste the dark forcess creeping within.
There laughter echoes acroos...
waiting for the heart to stop.
But God awaits with them, in every corner.
Ready to defend and mark me as His.
CMT
Thursday, May 11, 2006
CINNAMON-SPICE OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES Makes about 4 dozen
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1
teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
Pinch of salt
8 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into small pieces
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups quick-cooking (not instant) rolled oats
2 cups seedless raisins
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, allspice and salt. Set aside. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle or beaters, or in a large mixing bowl using a hand-held electric mixer, beat the butter at medium speed just until soft and smooth. Add the granulated and brown sugars and continue beating; once the sugars are incorporated, raise the speed to high and continue to beat for several minutes until the mixture looks fluffy, stopping the machine from time to time to scrape down the side of the bowl and under the beaters if necessary with a rubber spatula. Reduce the speed to medium and, one at a time, add the eggs, beating just until smoothly combined. Add the flour mixture and beat at medium speed just until combined. Add the oats, raisins and walnuts and beat just until combined. On the kitchen counter, place a sheet of plastic wrap large enough to completely enclose the cookie dough. With the spatula, scrape the dough from the bowl onto the plastic wrap. Seal the wrap around the dough and refrigerate at least 2 to 3 hours or preferably overnight. Position the oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees and then line 1 or 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. With your fingers, pinch off golf ball-sized pieces of dough and roll them between your palms until round, then put them on the prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake a sheet at a time until the cookies are slightly firm to the touch, 13 to 15 minutes, rotating the sheet after 7 to 8 minutes to ensure even baking. With a wide metal spatula, transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool. If reusing the baking sheet, let it cool slightly before placing more balls of dough on it. Once the cookies have cooled, store in an airtight container at room temperature.
i challenge someone to make those!!! for st. patrick days!!!! :)
well, tonight, homegroup was awesome. :) the Lord was challenging me with some things, and showing me new things, and making me realize things...but...as always, i cannot rightly remember what they are. someday one of those thoughts will spring up in my mind...but as of now, i think the Lord was only bringing them to my attention.
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1
teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
Pinch of salt
8 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into small pieces
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups quick-cooking (not instant) rolled oats
2 cups seedless raisins
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, allspice and salt. Set aside. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle or beaters, or in a large mixing bowl using a hand-held electric mixer, beat the butter at medium speed just until soft and smooth. Add the granulated and brown sugars and continue beating; once the sugars are incorporated, raise the speed to high and continue to beat for several minutes until the mixture looks fluffy, stopping the machine from time to time to scrape down the side of the bowl and under the beaters if necessary with a rubber spatula. Reduce the speed to medium and, one at a time, add the eggs, beating just until smoothly combined. Add the flour mixture and beat at medium speed just until combined. Add the oats, raisins and walnuts and beat just until combined. On the kitchen counter, place a sheet of plastic wrap large enough to completely enclose the cookie dough. With the spatula, scrape the dough from the bowl onto the plastic wrap. Seal the wrap around the dough and refrigerate at least 2 to 3 hours or preferably overnight. Position the oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees and then line 1 or 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. With your fingers, pinch off golf ball-sized pieces of dough and roll them between your palms until round, then put them on the prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake a sheet at a time until the cookies are slightly firm to the touch, 13 to 15 minutes, rotating the sheet after 7 to 8 minutes to ensure even baking. With a wide metal spatula, transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool. If reusing the baking sheet, let it cool slightly before placing more balls of dough on it. Once the cookies have cooled, store in an airtight container at room temperature.
i challenge someone to make those!!! for st. patrick days!!!! :)
well, tonight, homegroup was awesome. :) the Lord was challenging me with some things, and showing me new things, and making me realize things...but...as always, i cannot rightly remember what they are. someday one of those thoughts will spring up in my mind...but as of now, i think the Lord was only bringing them to my attention.
well...it is now 1:21 a.m. on the same day. i just dipped my hand in the pickle jar and ate a juicy dill pickle. mmmmm...the vinigar is still lingering on my tongue. me and my bro are still talking. in fact, i got him to make his own blog. :) and i have a link to it on my page!!! how exciting!!! :)
well, i might go to bed soon, and if not, you'll hear from me. :)
well, i might go to bed soon, and if not, you'll hear from me. :)
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
...well, it is presently 11:57 p.m. you may think that that is not late....but i'm dog tired. me and joy got to stay up late last night and "talk" and giggle like two dumb-founded little girls...ahhh...good times. of course. if i were to try to even describe some of the things we talked about during the wee hours of midnight, you wouldn't get them...in fact...they're not even funny to us now that we've been able to sleep on it. but alls i know, is we had some deep discussions. ;) hahaha. anyways. joy. i hope you had a good time. i did. i always enjoy your company and hearing your happy laugh. OH!!!! AND GUESS WHAT!!!!! i got a guinea pig. i went to that one place that you told me about...when you were driving around with jason and david!!!! it turned out to be a hole-in the wall-feed store. the guy who worked there was really sweet. he was on crutches because he lost one of his legs...it was sad. he was telling us all about the guinea pigs that they had. there were four... and he seeemed a little sad that i was taking one. he petted it before i took it. but, he was a really nice guy, and i got a really nice GP! she! (yes...female....) has extremely long hair...(actually, it looks like the owners gave her a partial hair cut...so there is really short patches of hair and then reallllly long patches of hair...) white mostly with red and orange patches. very dark brown...maybe even black...eyes that somehow turn purpleish if you look at them correctly. she's really shy to. i read online that i need to let her run around my room everyday for her morning...Jazzercize. soo...yepp. if you want to come see my guinea pig...i guess you can :). just call first.
well...i'm talking to my bro online right now...so i'll hit the road.
well...i'm talking to my bro online right now...so i'll hit the road.
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