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