A "funny" thing happened in the movie last night...

If you've ever wondered if you could get yelled at for laughing too much in a comedy, i'm here to tell you the answer is "yes." Last night, my friend Holly and I went to see the movie, Baby Mama (which stars Amy Poehler (show stealer) and Tina Fey). Well, it was a pretty funny movie. There are some scenes that made Holly and I laugh....really hard.

Let me back up for un momento. When we arrived at the theatre, there was hardly anyone there. We chose our seats carefully -- no one sitting directly in front of us and blocking no one's view behind us. Also, I like to not sit directly in front of people because we all know that it's much more fun to watch a movie with your feet propped up on the seat in front of us. Gasp! Yes, I admit it; I do this.

So, we sit down, the previews are just beginning when these two ladies -- one old and one whose age is undiscernable. You know how it is when people are probably younger than you think, but either because they are overweight or are with much older people or are dressed older, they just seem older? Anywhoo...
The ladies sit down DIRECTLY in front of us. The gall. The nerve. Whatever. Holly suggested we scoot down. She's a smart girl and so innovative. So we scooted down a few seats. Ahhh, comfort. My feet immediately go up on the seat in front and all is well with the world.

Now, said old lady is a low, loud talker. She has the gutteral voice of a lifetime smoker and she's not from the South. It's obvious. I am praying that her running commentary during the previews does not extend into the feature presentation. Hoping and praying and wishing and....

There are a lot of one liners in this movie and situational comedy. It's funny, people. Holly and I are near tears at times. Well, I cannot remember which scene it was -- I'm thinking it's the lamaze class scene where the instructor has a speech impediment and instead of "crying" she says "cwying". So, we're laughing....hard. The old lady turns her head around (not quite Exorcist style) and tells us to stop (in effect) that some people want to hear and that we're being very inconsiderate! WTF? It's a comedy. It's supposed to make you laugh a lot. So that made us laugh even harder. People around us were laughing too --and not at the movie. It's hard to recover after that. Now we're sitting there paranoid about laughing for fear of incurring the wrath of the crotchety, SO not fun, old lady. Holly took the opportunity to laugh EXTRA loud at the next available funny scene. I sunk down in to my chair and covered my face with my hoodie.

It took a lot not to say anything to her, but we didn't. It really ticked us off actually, but whatever. We kept laughing and she didn't scold us any more, but I did notice some shaking of the head.

But seriously folks, if you're going to a comedy, please expect laughter and loud laughter. Laughter is good for the soul!

Running

So my big accomplishment last night was running 5.7 miles! I haven't done that in forever. I know that's not a lot to you distance runners out there, but for me, WOW. It's exciting to see the progress I'm making in just the 2 months or so that I've been stepping up the workouts.

Holly and I met with our triathlon mentor on Sunday afternoon and now it's all the more real. We're doing this and it's going to be great!

I feel strong and healthy and like an athlete again. I like it and I think this is going to be a bit addictive (kind of like that ingredient in the colonel's chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly).

Today

C.S. Lewis, from A Grief Observed


"... Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels — welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become. There are no lights in the windows. It might be an empty house. Was it ever inhabited? It seemed so once. And that seeming was as strong as this. What can this mean? Why is He so present a commander in our time of prosperity and so very absent a help in time of trouble?"

Just the facts

My friend Amy, one of my oldest friends, tagged me. I'm supposed to write 7 facts about myself.

Here goes:

1. I've had my navel pierced twice.

2. In college, i wore a fake nose ring to test out the look. It took me until April of 2007 to get the real deal only to have it yanked out by my towel while drying my face.

3. I like the way God designed men's knees.

4. I drink a cup of coffee on my way to the Y at 5:30 a.m. before I swim.

5. I cannot stand to have someone use a pumice stone on the bottom of my feet. It is so ticklish, it's painful.

6. I twirl my hair.

7. My freshman college roommate Erin and I thought we were funny enough to write skits for SNL. We contemplated sending in some of our material.

I tag Emily, Marty, Murph and Holly!

Remember Me

About 2 weeks ago, I asked the Lord to remember me. I was praying in the shower and prayed this prayer with the utmost sincerity. There are days that I feel that He has forgotten my life, forgotten my plight -- simply forgotten me. This morning, after I got back from swimmming at the Y, i opened my devotional and the reading was from Isaiah 49. These are the verses that jumped out at me in light of my prayer 2 weeks ago:

14 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me,
the Lord has forgotten me."

15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!

16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.

He does not forget. He remembers.