Happy Easter

"On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightening stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, 'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen!'"

Luke 24:1-6 

I've been taking French this semester (which I absolutely love!) and it only seems fitting to have some of these made for your Easter breakfast or mid morning hunt 

And who doesn't love an Easter Pug...

Happy Easter!!!

Good Friday

I sit here, huddled over my keyboard, trying to write an A worthy paper while my brain is slowly shutting down due to the time, but the only clicking my keyboard is doing is for the search engines or Facebook. I know ...I'm a terrible studier. I once found this website where you could block all kinds of websites while you study to help you be more productive, but of course I didn't save it. If you know what I'm talking about, comment below and let me know. I feel like I could benefit from it...

I don't know about you, but today was just one of those days. Nothing seemed to go right and everything everyone did got on my nerves. Luckily, I survived; because that's what we do. It's not going to kill you. I find that I need to tell myself that a lot. All my life I have always been too scared to try because of expected failure. I'm 27 years old and just now starting the path to my career, all because I was afraid of failing at something I loved. Well, I have learned a little truth a long the way ...Yes, you will fail, at times, but it's not going to kill you. It may sting or hurt at first, but remember that life will go one and that if you don't succeed the first time there is always a second, and a third, fourth, fifth, so on and so on. 

Jesus was a man. I have no idea if he failed at anything. I mean, did he ever build something incredibly crappy and have to start over? He dealt with the same things we dealt with, even fear. He did not want to endure his appending crucifixion and prayed that God would lift the cup from him (Luke 22:29-46) and asked if there could be another way. His anguish was so intense his sweat become blood (read about the condition here). The story is sad but is the greatest one of all time. Jesus loves you so much that he died for you. He endured all that he went through so he could be with you in the end. One of my favorite verses is in 1 John 4:9-10: 

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." 

What I take from this is, no matter how bad or frustrating my day may have been, I have God living inside of me and he loves me. He loves me no matter what. I may fail him daily, but he is there is pick me back up and telling me to "try again," and I love that. I don't know where you are in your life right now but if you walk away with anything from this blog let it be this, 

God loves you. Jesus died for you. He wants to be with you and you to be with him always and everyday...

Happy Good Friday

+Movies+

It's funny. Chris and I have been watching movies together for over 10 years now and it's amazing how many movies we've seen and how many I haven't seen that are apparently monumental.

Evidently, guys love to just walk around Best Buy. Not necessarily buy, just skim. I kind of view it as our version of "Window shopping." Chris likes to make his way around the entire store and you know the tv section is going to be inspected, but his favorite aisle is, you guessed it, the movie aisle.

If it is a blu-ray movie that he even remotely likes, if it's on sale, it's coming home. What can I say? He's an easy date. Our most recent movie purchase was The Shawshank Redemption, and I can honestly say that I had never seen it.

Oh, I'm sorry. Let me give you time to wipe your screen off from your drink spewing on the computer. Yes, it's true. I've never seen it and never made an effort to see it. Chris was just flabbergasted that I never had. So, he knew the perfect way to start off the month of February....


*The Shawshank Redemption 4.5/5
Chris would definitely give this movie a 100 out of 5, no doubt about that. I did like the movie. The acting was phenomenal, the twists and actions were devious and satisfying, and the characters even though criminals were people you are rooting for and grow attached to. But I felt like if they added one particular 5 second scene at the end, it definitely would have gotten a 5 out of me. I won't share what I think it should be for the people that have not seen it and wish to. I appreciate the cinematography and the little details that make it feel like imprisonment, such as a lot more cool than warm colors. I finished my first ever King novel a few weeks ago (which was amazing!!!) and through that and the movie, I definitely now want to read Shawshank.

*La Crin Blanc 2.5/5
This was a movie I had to watch for my French class at school and I just decided to make it one of my choices. Foreign films in my mind are better enjoyed when watched by multiple people. It was a very short film, it was like watching a hour long tv episode on Netflix. It was filmed in 1953 and is in black and white in French. I love the french language... The movie was ok. There is not a lot of dialoge at all, so if that is something you think is essential, I don't know if this movie is quite for you. A boy sees a wild white horse and has the desire to catch and make the horse his. It is neat to see the cultural and time differences and the scenery was not something I had expected to see in a part of France. The movie is a great choice if you would have to broader your cultural movie experiences.

*Prometheus 2/5
Now, we have mixed reviews on this movie. By that I mean, Chris liked it and I did not. This movie was/is/rumored to be the prequel to the movie Alien (now that is a great movie) and maybe I would have felt differently about the movie had I not already seen Alien.
The opening scene was set up with no explanation and I did not understand it until after the movie, once Chris explained it to me. The story is rushed way too fast and we are not given enough information that is necessary to the plot. Being a biologist-in-training I was kind of bummed the only biologist meets his demise (not giving away anything. you know people are going to die). The actions of a certain character are very unclear and even in the end show no reasoning behind why he does/did what he does. Almost every character was cold and distant towards one another I find that to be bothersome. There wasn't much of anything that I really liked about this movie

*No theatre movie
*With us both in school, homework took precedence over the finally movie week.


So, seen any good movies lately?
 ....read any good books

-Ashley-