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Courtney

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,

About Me

"High on life, honey, high on life!"
Good thing Matt didn't slip in Norway...
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My Interests

running (FINALLY beginning to run again!), my best girlfriends, Buckhead Church, red, classic movie musicals, good coffee, good books (especially w/ good coffee), great discussions (especially about good books, w/ good coffee), Florida football ('tis the season!), thinking I've cheated the retailers (great bargains), finally completing difficult tasks, Poppies and Daffodils, playing in the woods, high heels and flip flops, the nervous excitement of deboarding a plane in a new city, airplane food from foreign countries

I'd like to meet:

Christ (one day!), Solomon, C.S. Lewis, Shakespeare, no strangers

Music:

Rat Pack, Armstrong and Fitzgerald, 80s hair bands, anything Broadway, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Eagles, a few jam bands, Queen, Elton John, James Taylor, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, Chicago, U2, Coldplay, Chili Peppers, doo-wop and motown, Thomas Newman, John Williams, Leeland, BC's Sunday morning mix

Movies:

Funny Face, The Philadelphia Story, Some Like It Hot, Moonstruck, Hello Dolly, Amelie, My Fair Lady, Big, Shag, Moulin Rouge, Austin Powers trio, Under the Tuscan Sun, Great Expectations, Cinderella, The Money Pit, An American in Paris, Pillow Talk, Dances with Wolves, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Television:

TBS reruns, TCM, Food Network, Travel Channel, The Today Show, STORYLINE (my new job!!!)--www.tbsstoryline.com

Books:

the B-I-B-L-E; Redeeming Love; The Mark of the Lion trilogy; Pablo Neruda collections; Mere Christianity; The Harry Potter series; The Secret Life of Bees; Let Me Be a Woman (tough love, Elliot); The Great Divorce

Heroes:

anyone who has fought worldly influences, yielded to God's call, and surrendered fully to Him to reveal his true self, then used His gifts and selflessly blessed the world with them

My Blog

What Would They Say?

Are you really making a difference, or are you just floating along blase/indifferent/hoe-hum/jaded by the world?  A coworker died very unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon.  I work in television,...
Posted by Courtney on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:52:00 PST

Psalm 4:5-8

Don't you love it when a few verses hit you in just the right spot?  Was just reading this last night, and what great teaching, what great comfort knowing David (and countless others) and I had a...
Posted by Courtney on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:02:00 PST

New JOB!!!

Yep, I finally have a new job! Praise God for His perfect timing. Won't go into detail about the timing (because it's a little creepy sharing such personal things on this MySpace deal, where anyone ca...
Posted by Courtney on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:09:00 PST

J's

Anyone ever notice how many lead singers from the 60s and 70s have first names beginning with J?  Jerry Garcia, John Lennon, Janice Joplin, Joe Cocker, Jim Morrison, John Fogerty, Jimi Hendr...
Posted by Courtney on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:40:00 PST

I'm NEW!!!!!

Last weekend was LDR2K6 with Northpoint and Buckhead Churches in my gorgeous hometown of Destin, FL.  790+ drove down to allow Francis Chan to feed into our hearts and play on the beach in our do...
Posted by Courtney on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:37:00 PST

Romanticism V. Classicism

Since I've been learning more about the inherent (as opposed to learned) psychological differences between men and women, I thought this was interesting.  I just looked up the definition of ...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:13:00 PST

Give Poetry a Chance

If you don't think this poetry is beautiful... Pablo Neruda's Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine.  Rest with your dream in my dream.Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.The night turns on i...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:54:00 PST

Hi! I'm new to this, so bear with me...

I think I'm pretty tech-savvy (though not like all the teenys on this site seem to be), so hopefully I'll catch on quickly.  Still am not sure I see the full advantage/potential of MySpace, but I...
Posted by Courtney on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:00:00 PST