high school memories...

i finally brought in my yearbooks from the car... i haven't looked at them in several years... and last night, i decided to look back at some memories... it was actually pretty cool... here are some things i am taking away from the experience...

*i have forgotten a lot of people... i never thought i could forget everyone from high school, but as i read through the notes written on the front and back pages, i thought, "who is ralph?" when i finally got around to looking at the pictures, especially my graduating class, i thought, "oh, that's ralph!" (i mean, he was even basketball homecoming king my senior year...)

*because i was really involved in drama and choir, everyone thought i was going to be an actress... which is funny... especially since after high school, i only took one choir class and no acting and majored in journalism in college...

*there are a lot of bad pictures of me...

*based on 2 notes written in consecutive years in my yearbook by the same person, i should have dated him... we may have... it's all kind of cloudy...

i'm sure there are other things... but right now, that will be all...

updated points and the winner of january movie trivia...

the points have been tallied and amy is the winner of january movie trivia... congratulations!!!

amy will receive a $10 gift card to the store of her choice...

oh, and the rest of the answers are as follows:
18. child's play
19. a jawbreaker
20. oprah winfrey

this all comes with my promise that i will never again do daily trivia for 4 weeks at a time!!!

post #400...

this is my 400th entry... how exciting... i don't really have anything else to say except that i'm excited to be able to share my life in this way... i heart my blog!!! (and i hope you do, too!!!)

question #20...

last one... are you ready?

i'm going to give some facts about someone famous who shares a birthday with me... name them for 1 point...

as always, no cheating and email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com

here are the facts:

Graduated from East Nashville High School in Nashville, Tennessee; voted most popular

Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's 1998 list of the most powerful people in industry, but dropped to #6 in 1999 list.

Graduate of Tennessee State University, with degrees in speech communications and performing arts

Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

middle name is Gail

give me the weekend to double check everything and name the winner... if there is a tie, i'll let you know and i'll come up with something to determine who the winner is...

oh - and i'm putting an entry below that is a pretty good read, especially in relation to the last for real entry i posted...

it's amazing the difference a day can make... or chicken soup for the soul...

i've never been a fan of those books... but i liked the idea of it tonight as i was talking with a friend about the night... and i said, "it was like chicken noodle soup for my soul!!!"
so here's what happened...

yesterday i was definitely hitting depression... i mean, it was not good at all... so i got a few phone calls, all of which made me cry... and i decided i needed to come home... what's strange is that my mom's house has never really been my refuge before... i usually would go to visit friends or go somewhere else to get away... but for the first time, i found comfort in knowing i could just come home... and i was also looking forward to hanging out with the perry's for a little while... and just being around people... that's always good for me...

so tonight, i decided to go to student matrix at fbc... i was so excited to see chris and bekah and andrea... and a bunch of other people that i don't really know or know all that well... but it was good... the service was great... therapeutic, but not the best part of my night...

we went to eat and i started talking to the girls at my end of the table... and i was interviewing them... and it was fun... we were laughing and having a good time, and then i ended up going to the other end of the table where i resumed the interview game and got into a really long discussion with a guy i'd never met before...

all good... so then, afterwards, i wanted to go get coffee - so i suggested it to kathryn and lauren - and off we went... and it was so much fun... i forgot how good it feels to sit and talk over a cup of coffee about nothing and everything all at the same time... missions and boys and coffee and school and family and just stuff... my cup runneth over...

and i know that's what ministry is... and i miss that aspect of it... so i'm sure it won't be long before i'm looking for a place where i can plug in and do ministry like that... to invest in the lives of students by being real and authentic and available and honest... to share life and walk alongside them... i just hope i can find it... seriously - in talking with people from last night to tonight, they could tell something had changed...

i have actually been seeking God more than i had been... the hard part for me is not the location but not having friends besides my roommates... because i'm a people person... and i know that God is up to something, i was just having a moo moo day, as my friend sarah says... and i'm allowed to have them... God is bigger than my bad days... and He always meets me where i am... like today, for example... the other hard part is not having a job... i know it's only been a couple of weeks, but i wasn't expecting it to take this long to find a job... and i wasn't anticipating the long amounts of alone time...

enough rambling... my only fear is monday - going back to the lack of a job and the alone time all over again... but i guess i don't have to worry about that for a while...

question #19...

The following is a plot line for a movie. fill in the blank to earn one point. as always, no cheating and email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com... one more day left!!!


In what was meant as a harmless birthday prank, three of Reagan High School's most popular girls, Julie, Foxy, and Courtney pretend to kidnap their friend, the latter shoving ___________ into the victim's mouth to keep her from screaming. Their plan goes awry when the girl accidently swallows it, choking to death. The cool and calculating Courtney tries to cover the crime but is found out by school geek Fern Mayo. In return for her silence, Courtney transforms the gawky Fern into the stylishly beautiful Vylette, leaving the conscience-stricken Julie out in the cold, threatening to set her up for the girl's murder if she breaks her silence.

pointstuff...

i'm going home in a little bit, so i wanted to update points and get some tally stuff out of the way, so everyone knows for sure where they stand... i'm working on the next 2 days' trivia and will update from home tonight and tomorrow night and then, if needed, the tie breaker will be next week...

i've updated the points for today's question so far...

as far as this week goes,

amy, erin, andrea, and chris all got monday's question right... meet joe black
amy and erin got yesterday's question right - bridget jones
so far, amy and chris have gotten today's question right...

i don't know if i talked about answers from last week...

but here they are:
11. mlk, jr.
12. true (the birthday song being owned by warner)
13. c. august
14. marilyn monroe, jfk
15. b. england

question #18...

as always no cheating and email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com...

in what movie does andy receive a toy for his birthday that is not quite what he expects and isn't so much of a "good guy?"

::beauty in the breakdown::

it finally hit... i'm not sure what exactly caused it... a number of things, i'm sure... i won't name them all... but the breakdown finally happened...

i was talking on the phone to my brother last night... one of the many people who have called just to check up on me... when i'm about to start crying, i can usually catch it before and stop it before it starts... this time, i didn't have a chance... and it was out of nowhere, really... i tried to change the subject to something more happy, but it didn't really help...

i sort of feel like i don't want to talk to anyone... i don't have anything going on... i applied for 5 jobs yesterday, as a matter of fact, and other than that, i sat around and watched tv... i stay up too late because i'm not tired and sleep in late because i don't have a job to go to... the tally is up to 35 jobs applied for, 2 call-backs and 2 rejections... i don't have anything new to talk about and it makes me sad when people ask... and i know they mean well... they just want to know if i've found anything, how the job hunt is going... so a lot of times, i just don't want to talk at all, especially if i know those questions will be asked... and since i have nothing new to talk about, i don't want to talk... (so if i've brushed you off lately, i'm sorry... it's not you, it's me... :)...)

today was the worst... i called mom to check about something with the license/tags... and a fax i sent... she said that chris - the youth pastor i interned with for 2 years, who coincidently, i was talking about last night with high praise because he's incredible - called my house wanting my phone number... so my grandma called my mom to tell her and my mom and i talked - and she gave me chris' number to call him back... which i just did...

he asked me how things were going... and i felt it welling, but couldn't stop it (again)... "fine," i mumbled through a shaky voice... i knew that he knew i wasn't fine... and i know that i don't have the intimiate fellowship with God that chris does, but he said that i had been on his heart and asked what he could pray for... and he gave me some scripture and we hung up... and the tears continued to fall... i tried reading the scripture he gave me... one is random, so i'll have to sit and try and figure it out... and the other is one i couldn't get through because i was crying... so i'll tackle it later, too...

i hate the way this feels... i hate not having an outlet... i hate not having purpose (with respect to a job)... i hate asking my parents for money... i hate crying about it because i feel like a baby... and because it makes other people uncomfortable... i hate the phrase, "something will come along"... i hate not having the answers... i hate the way this all sounds... i mean, i guess i should be thankful... but any attempt to say the things i'm grateful right now concerning the lack of a job would just be fake...

right now, i'm thankful for oreos and i'm hoping the milk hasn't gone bad, because all i want to do today is sit around and eat oreos and drink milk...

question #17...

Tuesday... woo hoo... after today, you have 3 more chances for points... i'm going to try to make the next few days tougher... the rules are the same... no cheating and email responses to rmschristian@yahoo.com -

Whose birthday dinner included:
blue soup
omelettes with caper berry gravy (congealed green gunge)
and orange parfait/pudding (that tasted like marmalade)?

question #16...

easy monday morning movie trivia... i'm too tired to think of anything else, so today's should be pretty easy... this is the last week so make each day count... if there's a tie at the end of the week, maybe i'll do a tie-breaker... we'll see how it turns out...

same rules as always... email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com and no cheating!!!

the following is the plot synopsis from what movie?

Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man's body. His intention was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe's former host and Bills beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she's flirting with.

question #15...

this is going up a little earlier tonight than usual... i just want to get it up so i can get ready and go to bed... i have a second interview/observation tomorrow... (yea!) and i need to get some sleep...

this is the last question from the random birthday trivia - it will be back to movie/pop culture/ maybe tv on monday...

it's another multiple choice question...

The following describes typical birthday celebrations in what country?

Fortune Telling Cakes and Bumps. Certain symbolic objects are mixed into the birthday cake as it being prepared. If your piece of cake has a coin in it, then you will be rich. Also, when it's your birthday your friends give you the "bumps" they lift you in the air by your hands and feet and raise you up and down to the floor, one for each year then one for luck, two for luck and three for the old man's coconut!

a. USA
b. England
c. Ghana
d. Vietnam

as always... no cheating and email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com

question #14...

6 questions to go after today... i'm still sticking with the random birthday trivia... there are two parts to today's question... you have to get both to get the point... as always, no cheating and email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com

the most famous rendition of "happy birthday" (the birthday song) is when ______________ sang "happy birthday, mr president" to _______________ at madison square garden on 19 may 1962.

yes, it has 2 parts, but it's not that difficult... if you know one, you definitely know the other... and the date gives away a lot...

question #13...

i'm continuing on with the random birthday trivia... this one is multiple choice... as always, no cheating, email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com

according to a website (that i won't name for obvious reasons), more people celebrate their birthdays in what month than in any other month (about 9% of all people).

a. january
b. april
c. august
d. december

there's another random side note, but i'll wait to tell it until tomorrow because it will confuse this question, i think... don't miss the post below... it's a pretty decent one this time...

maybe that's all family really is...

over the last month, i've started to reflect on family more than i have in a really long time... i left the south to move to the northwest... i took on many of the characteristics that describe many northwesterners... i definitely had a feeling of independence... like i wanted to do it all on my own...

as i started facing the possibility of moving back to the south, i started to realize i couldn't do it alone... i have several friends whose parents don't really help them with anything, especially when it comes to money... i have always been fortunate enough to know that if i needed anything, i could call either of my parents and know that i wouldn't go without - if i really needed it...

my parents have been great during the move back... the transition... the lack of a job for the last few weeks... (which will hopefully be changing at the end of the week...)

but more than that... there's someone who has been terrific to me for the last several years... i'm pretty sure that i never even realized it most of the time... and it took me moving back (closer to) home and realizing how often my sister bends over backwards to make sure i have what i need... it's crazy... money hidden in my bags or my car when i went home for weekends... or as i moved here... she let me borrow her truck with no estimated date of return...

i really have no words to express my gratitude... i'm blown away by the unconditional love of family that i never recognized before the last few months... by the constant support with no strings attached... no stipulations... nothing... just because we're family... because we love each other... because we don't want to see the other one without...

thanks... i know you're reading!!!

oh... i just realized... my brother owes me $50... just kidding... but not really...

i'm was going to upload some picutres, but my computer and printer are being insubordinant... stupid computer and printer... evidently my computer forgot that it knows my printer/scanner... so no pictures will be uploaded tonight...

question #12...

i'm watching david letterman, and i'll just say... it's the saddest thing i've ever seen... because of the golden globes, it seems like he had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for guests... martin lawrence and one of the hosts of the show mythbusters... and some random guy who is wearing rabbi-ish clothing with tennis shoes and he's rapping... it's weird... truly weird...

onto the trivia... i think that this week will all be random non-movie related trivia... after all, it is more about the birthday part than it is about the movie part... i'll be back to movies and tv next week... but for now... the question of the day...

it's a true/false question... so even if you don't know the answer, you have a 50/50 chance...

the rights to the birthday song (happy birthday to you) are owned by warner communications, and it brings in over $2 million in licensing rights annually...

true or false?

question #11...

as long as my hard drive will hold out, i will continue to post... i've had extreme computer problems this weekend... ugh... i have some stuff to post - but i haven't had the time to deal with them while trying to back up my hard drive... so i promise - some real stuff coming as soon as i can get the computer stuff worked out...

but for now, today's january trivia question... and it's incredibly easy, guys!!!

as always, no cheating and email the answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com

Whose birthday is being celebrated today (January 16th), causing many businesses to close in honor of him?

(i can't figure out how to word it - but you know what i mean...)

points are as follows...

ok... here's what i have as far as answers go... correct me if i'm wrong on your points...

i'm going to list the person and the questions they got correct...

amy: all but #8 - 9 points total
erin: all but #4 - 9 points total
andrea: all but #'s 3,8 - 8 points total
chris: #3,8,9,10 - 4 points total
emily: #'s 1,5 (?) - 2 points total
louis: #1 - 1 point total

i gave erin the shaft the other day because of the time zone difference - my bad... i'm actually very impressed!!!

the correct answers, in case anyone is wondering are:
1. 30
2. tell a lie
3. high fidelity
4. 16 candles
5. the bachelor
6. hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry (just hogwarts is acceptable)
7. napoleon dynamite
8. stop! or my mom will shoot!
9. sleeping beauty
10. clueless

if there are any discrepancies with the points, let me know...

question #10...

last one for the week...

name the movie the quote comes from for 1 point...

So like, right now for example. The Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?" Well it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I put R.S.V.P. 'cause it was a sit-down dinner. But some people came that like did not R.S.V.P. I was like totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, and squish in extra place settings. But by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier. And so if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion may I please remind you it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty. Thank you very much.

question #9...

evidently yesterday's question was tough... i don't usually post the answers, but for inquiring minds - it was stop! or my mom will shoot! random, i know...

today's question is different...

the following is a list of characters' names from a movie... name the movie for 1 point...

philip
aurora
briar rose
flora
merryweather
fauna
maleficent
stefan
hubert

same as always - no cheating and email the answer rmschristian@yahoo.com

question #8...

the following is a plot line for a movie... name the movie for 1 point... as always, no cheating... email the responses to rmschristian@yahoo.com...

A tough detective's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.

question #7...

today's question is a quote... same rules apply... no cheating, email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com... name the movie the quote is from for 1 point.

"Yeah, I took her to the mall to get some glamor shots for her birthday one year."


on a random side note, i just heard thunder - one of the things i missed about the south... enter me, with a big smile on my face... funny how something small makes me feel at home...

question #6...

same as last week - no cheating, email answers to rmschristian@yahoo.com...

on his 11th birthday, harry potter gets a letter inviting him to attend what school?

update...

life seems to be flying by... i have a ton of phone calls to return... and while my days seem busy, there is little to write about... i bought my first furniture in tennessee today... a shelf to hold my tv, dvd player, vcr, and stereo (and something else on the bottom shelf) and a bookshelf... oh, and a shoe cubby (which is awesome) and 2 plastic drawer things (that go in my closet - along with the shoe cubby)...

i'm going to put books on the shelf tomorrow and see how much stuff i'll still have after i do that... i still have to get a bed... but i'd love to have a job before i do that... considering i still need to send the convention a check for my shipping stuff... and i have to pay a couple of bills as soon as they get here... and i need to pay to have a tb test done and some background check stuff done if i want to substitute teach - which, by the way, pays $78 a day, which i could totally handle...

things i know i still need to get:
desk
something to hold my cds
something to hold my pictures besides the cardboard box they're in
bed with risers so that i can put stuff underneath it
antenna for my tv

for now, i need to get some sleep... i'm tired...

question #5

this is the last one of the week... same rules - and email to rmschristian@yahoo.com or call or let me know before midnight friday...

the plot line for a movie is below. name the movie for 1 point...

James Shannon III is a man who is somewhat gullible at keeping relationships with his girlfriends. But one day, he meets Anne Arden and suddenly his life is changed. It is then that the night he was supposed to propose to her that he returns back to his old self again. This upsets Anne completely. Soon enough his grandfather dies and leaves Jimmie an inheritance of $100 Million with one huge condition: Jimmie *must* get on his 30th birthday by no later than five after 6:00pm or else his San Francisco-based pool table company goes under and/or will be sold, his bank accounts will be frozen, and employees will be laid off completely. Jimmie must now use every attempt to learn from his foolish mistakes, find his true love, get married, and save the company in one day.

question #4...

ok, so if it isn't obvious enough, the theme is birthdays... each trivia question has something to do with birthdays - the movies have birthdays in them or the quotes contain the word... that will be a little clue for you...

also, i will only do trivia monday-friday each week and it will end on january 27, which is 2 days before my birthday...

today's question is:

one tagline for this film read: "It's the time of your life that may last a lifetime."

good luck, kids!

jobs...

i applied for a job at starbucks... one of the stores down the street (6 miles - after i've already passed 3 others) is hiring baristas... we went in to get coffee, i saw that they were hiring, picked up an application and filled it out immediately... we'll see if i get a call on it or not... it would be great... i may also check into substitute teaching pretty soon - because that could be on an on-call basis... which would be terrific if the starbucks thing works out and in case it's not enough hours - i could fill in with the substitute teaching...

we'll see...

question #3...

name the movie this quote is from for 1 point... no cheating... email the answer to me (rmschristian@yahoo.com) or leave a note in my room... :) or call me on the phone... :)

a: Hi, do you have the song "I Just Called To Say I Love You?" It's for my daughter's birthday.
b: Yea we have it.
a: Well, can I have it?
b: No, actually, you can't.
a: Why not?
b: God. Do you even know your daughter? There's no way she likes that song. Oops, is she in a coma?

starting to think about writing about the transition

i really am at a loss for words... i feel like i should be overflowing with them, but i am empty... tons of emotions, but few descriptors for them... i left the northwest a little over a week ago... i've cried a little, but not near the tears i thought i would have cried... just one or two, here and there... i guess it's surreal... i still have a ton of questions... i don't know why i'm here a lot of the time... i still have everything in boxes stacked in my room... but i don't have furniture, so nothing is going anywhere... i just haven't gotten anything done... we've done something every night, and night time would be the best time to get stuff done...

i hate when i ramble...

the road trip was different than i expected - and different than erin expected, too... for me, it was a means to an end... i didn't feel the need to dilly-dally in places for longer than we needed to... i was ready to get on the road and get it over with... so we made it in 3 days, which was awesome... alyssa made us a journal to write stuff down in - and erin did most of the writing (because i did most of the driving)... so i don't have a lot of my thoughts written down, but at the same time, i've let my mind kind of block some of the things i should be thinking...

i'm still kind of in vacation-mode... it hasn't really sunk in that i live here now... i am loving not having anything to do, but i know i need to find a job very soon... i love sleeping in and not really having any responsibility besides checking the mail and maybe making dinner...

i picked up an application for starbucks today...

i'm going to stop now and try to journal the thoughts i wish i could describe on a different day...

question #2...

good job to everyone who participated yesterday...

just a reminder (not that i think anyone did, because it was an easy one...), no cheating... i just forgot to say it yesterday... but i hope there were no problems... there didn't seem to be any on my end... emails go to rmschristian@yahoo.com...

today's question: (a little harder today)

in a 1997 movie, max reede wishes as he blows out the candles on his fifth birthday that his dad would be unable to do what for a whole day?

january movie trivia... this is how we roll...

i'm going to post one movie trivia/pop culture trivia/whatever i feel like trivia question a day... each person can answer each question one time only (daily). if he/she gets the question correct, he/she will receive one point. the answers cannot be posted as comments, but must be emailed to rmschristian@yahoo.com... the answers must be submitted during the day on which the question is posted...

whoever receives the most points by january 31 will receive a $10 gift card to the store of his/her choice... any questions? let me know...


i'm starting off easy so everyone can get the hang of it and to boost morale... it will get harder!!!

today's question is...

in the semi-girl-version of the movie big, jenna rink wishes she was what age on her 13th birthday? (hint: she gets her wish...)