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Amber

Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.

About Me

PB&J, wheee!
According to my pal, Julie , I've "aged like a fine wine...sweet and bold and full-bodied. And fruity, I guess."
I'm pretty much a family oriented person. I'm a Christian. I'm crazy about my husband Bri and our four great kids. I'm married to a man who's eyes are so beautiful, they'll melt your face if he looks directly at you. I cook, I read, I love movies. I have no patience with sports. Bri is very offended when I read at his softball games, but what can I say? I hate softball.
Favorite C.S. Lewis quotes -
"...the present is the point at which time touches eternity."
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
"The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
Favorite scriptures -
"'You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.'" Revelation 4:11
"But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
"He has made everything beautiful in His time." - Ecclesiastes 3:11
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39

My Interests

time with my family, reading, Bible study, movies (BTN!!!), writing, cooking, antiquing, and thrift shopping, and some crafty type things for which I have no talent but enjoy anyway :p

I'm also fond of beards, rainbows, and striped socks, but it would freak me out if I met a bearded man wearing rainbow-colored striped socks. That would just be weird.

I'd like to meet:

Eh, just anyone. Message me :)

Music:

I guess I just like what they're calling "adult pop" these days. Some of it is overplayed, but...*shrugs*

Movies:

In no particular order...

Meatballs
Muriel's Wedding
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club
Clerks 2
Sixteen Candles
A Mighty Wind
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Full Monty
Shaun of the Dead
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Passion of the Christ
Labyrinth
The Fisher King
Harold and Maude
Lost in Translation
The Princess Bride
While You Were Sleeping
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Secretary
Crossing Delancey
I Spit on Your Grave
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Baby
They Came From Within
Signs
The Village
It
Hostel
Cabin Fever
Carrie
28 Days Later
The Last House on the Left
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Trilogy of Terror

Television:

The Office...yes, the UK version was great, but don't knock the American one...I love them both :)

Books:

C.S. Lewis
Slowly making my way through everything I can get my hands on by and about him. My favorite so far is Mere Christianity.

Stephen King
Most notably, The Dark Tower series, but I can't think of very many Stephen King books I didn't enjoy.

I also like John Irving, Ayn Rand, Amy Tan, John Bloom (aka "Joe Bob Briggs"), William Golding, Pearl S. Buck, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, J.K. Rowling, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Shel Silverstein.

There are probably more, but these stood out when I was making the list. And yes, there is a high percentage of Children's/young adult books in there :p

Heroes:

Jesus, C.S. Lewis, my husband, my mom and dad

My Blog

Gosh, but my floor is dry :)

After having the whooole morning to myself yesterday, which was so awesome, Brian brought home my "new" washer & dryer that his stepmother gave us.  She also sent over a microwave (ours coinc...
Posted by Amber on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:10:00 PST

Woohoo!

Davey went poopy potty for the first time! And now I shall sing a medley and dance a ridiculous mom dance- My boy likes to potty all the time, potty all the time, potty all the tiiime... Come along an...
Posted by Amber on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST

entertainment, etc...

I finished Freaks and Geeks today, and I loved it.  I wish it had gone on for a few more seasons.  Now I'm sad. :( Hey, has anyone heard of this new Bruce Campbell movie that's supposed...
Posted by Amber on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:55:00 PST

hahaha - moms make a note of this...

If you're gonna do it on the plane, make sure you don't have any little tattle tales with you, lol. (from the Found archives)...
Posted by Amber on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:25:00 PST

agreed! (and showing my age a little bit :p)

Not that I would complain if someone made me a mix-cd, hehe.
Posted by Amber on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:37:00 PST

lol

Thank you, Found, for once again cheering me up just a little bit.  I came across this in their archives - ...
Posted by Amber on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:22:00 PST

so cute

Okay, first of all, I'm having a really, really, really bad day.  I'll take back one of the reallies because I got to spend some time with Brian before he left this morning, but otherwise a real...
Posted by Amber on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:18:00 PST

in case anyone’s interested...

Okay, I feel sort of like a little kid bugging people to look at his fundraiser stuff, but just in case anyone's interested, I have a zazzle store.  It's here if you want to take a...
Posted by Amber on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:09:00 PST

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

I feel terrible.  I had to delete one of my friends, Maria, from my myspace because I kept getting messages with spam and links to phishing sites, and I assume that's because someone has taken ov...
Posted by Amber on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:37:00 PST

I’m full of mush, and no I’m not complaining about being fat again :p

I watched The Notebook with my beloved tonight.  I read the book awhile back, but it's been so many years that even though I remembered the basic story, I forgot how it ended and some other detai...
Posted by Amber on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:47:00 PST