Saving Grace

Look at me! I figured out how to customize my blog! I'm not as completely clueless as I thought...whoo hoo! Now I feel more inspired to put all of my ramblings on this little outlet I've so lovingly created! This could become an addiction. Just wait and see...

So! Normally on my days off I spend the time running around visiting people, helping family and friends, taking care of business, cleaning or organizing, and things of that nature. Sometimes I'm just a slug. Today was one of those days. I use to feel badly when I had days like today but now I'm realizing that I deserve the down time. I pretty much stayed on the couch and ate junk food...also caught up with some of my shows on the DVR...God bless the DVR!!! :)

One of my favorite shows is Saving Grace. I love this show so much that sometimes I'm inspired to re think my career choice and pursue law enforcement instead. I would not have the stomach for it, however, because I'd probably just want to kill all the evil rapists, molesters, murderers, etc. There are some really awful stories on this show, but in the end the good guys win and the bad guys get there come up ins! And it's set in OKC so there's talk of my beloved Sooners, remembrance of our bombing tragedy, and reference to good ol' Oklahoma landmarks :) Holly Hunter is Grace and she is really a phenomenal actress...so passionate! New shows on Tuesdays by the way. Last week, Grace was drugged and tattooed with angel wings...not sure yet how she will take it but I for one think the tattoo is beautiful and the crazy person who did it to her wasn't doing it to be evil...I mean he was flippin' crazy...but he thought he was saving her by giving her wings to fly. I wonder if I can find a picture of it. I'll try. Psh...no luck. Here's a good one though...


These are the detectives on the show...with the other woman being the forensic specialist. The element that sets this show apart is that Grace has a "last chance angel." His name is Earl and he has a gut and wears flannel and talks with a strong okie twang...but he sometimes shows his angel wings and they are lovely and he is such a lovely character. I'm not going to summarize the show but it's so absolutely interesting. An example of it's uniqueness: God manifests as a big dopey dog with his long tongue hanging out of his closed mouth...it was a great scene! The show and the experiences make me want to feel the light and breath of God and divinity. I'll have to write more about my spiritual beliefs another time. Here's Earl and Grace.


I can't wait to write sometime when the thoughts in my head just flow...right now my head is cluttered with the thoughts of Monday...I despise Mondays...blah! Well at least I had a nice weekend:)

Computer challenged

I seriously feel like a total idiot when it comes to the computer. What is the best way to learn? I want to know how to make my blog layout my own design and use my own photos. I also want to learn some photoshop stuff...yes I know I ranted about people photoshopping the hell out of their images but I'm not against it...I just don't like it when people overly photoshop...not in general either...just the times when they can't take a good picture to begin with and rely on photoshop to fix it. Anyway! I can't even make a freakin' photo collage!!! I'm so behind as a modern day photographer...I seriously fail. Fail I tell ya! Dang it.

I guess I should start by buying some actual photoshop software. My current software is Adobe 2.0 I think...or something equally pathetic. Yes I know...lame.

Ugh. It's almost 2 in the morning. I need to go to bed so I can get up in the morning and get new tires for my truck. Must go now. Must post picture first so that this is more interesting. Will find something random.

Makes me laugh every time!

Fail!

Well so much for blogging regularly! I fail. I really need to get on it because I've been feeling so nostalgic lately, and I don't necessarily want to journal about all of that...I'd rather reminisce in blog land. I read this book recently...The Myth of You and Me...and it got me to thinking about the friendships I have in my life. There's Michelle, friend of 20 years, and there's Amy, friend of 13 years. I consider another 4 girlfriends and my sister as best friends as well, but, not counting my sister, my friendships with Michelle and Amy have existed the longest. Another thing that sets them apart is that there was a time with each of them when the friendship could have ended. This book is about a friendship that ends 8 years prior to the present tense of the story. I recommend it as a good read and one that will make you feel grateful for the friendships maintained throughout life. As the three of us have gotten older, naturally our lives have changed so much!


In the beginning of our friendship I thought Amy would move back to California and live in a nifty little place near the ocean where she'd collect sea glass and wear funky jewelry and love a man with long hair who played guitar and wrote poetry. Thankfully she is still here in Oklahoma and she still has great taste in jewelry. Her husband does not have long hair but he does play guitar! :) Our friendship went through a troubled period near the end of high school...it could have been the beginning of the end. But even with the distance we experienced during college and the changes we went through becoming adults, our friendship survived and is stronger than ever being as we are now women and not silly girls!




In the beginning I thought Michelle would live in a studio apartment surrounded by her art and maybe a pool table and she'd drink vodka straight from the bottle and wouldn't let a man in to her heart. Her art is not as apparent as it once was but she's very much still the artist. No there is none of the vodka from the bottle thing going on...yay! She has let a man into her heart but she is still very cautious. The big upset in our friendship was about four years ago and it could have easily been the end. There was a seriously long period of silence but I was eventually forgiven and the situation opened my eyes to an even bigger problem with me personally...but I'm not going there today! Anyway! Here we are! This fall will be 20 years being friends and we plan on having a kick ass anniversary party!

The three of us have been spending a lot of time together and it's been wonderful! It's the first time in our lives when all three of us have been in relationships so it's really great when we all spend time as couples. Each of us are so different from each other in so many ways and there's no doubt how different our men are from each other...but we all mesh together well! There is no myth to these friendships and relationships. Though they have changed, they have always been real and genuine. I have my boyfriend, my family, my career, and my dreams...but I'd be so much less if I didn't have my girlfriends. I love you sisterfriends!