My husband and I were high school sweethearts but the story is much more interesting than that. My husband moved to Calhoun County 1 week before we both started our Freshman year of high school so he was the "new" guy in school. I remember seeing him every now and then at school in the hallways but I never knew who he was. When we started dating he told me that the first time he saw me, he wanted to ask me out. He mentioned this to a friend of his and his friend told him, "Yeah right! She won't go out with you!" Being the type of person who never lets anyone tell him he can't do something, he decided to write me a letter letting me know he liked me and asking if I would like to go out on a date with him. He carried that letter around with him in his wallet for the whole year and never got up the nerve to give it to me. I think the reason he ended up throwing it away was at the end of that year, we were given open campus lunch and my brother who was a Junior asked me if I wanted to have lunch with him. I was excited that my big brother wanted to spend some quality time with me so I accepted. He told me to meet him at a certain place in the school and while I was waiting for my brother, the "new" guy comes up to me and asks, "Have you seen your brother?" I quickly replied that I hadn't but then I asked him why HE was looking for him. I quickly found out that he and his best friend were also invited by my brother to lunch. Being mad at the situation, I gave off a cold vibe to the 2 unexpected guests and my future husband felt to all too well. So much so that he wrote me off as a stuck up right there and then. During lunch, we sat next to each other and my brother, seeing I was visibly annoyed already, made the comment that we would look cute together. The response from my darling future husband was, "YEAH RIGHT!" This interaction was enough for both of us to stay away from each other for over a year. During our Junior year of high school, we were put in the same Chemistry class together. On this first day of class, he was wearing a t-shirt that I also had and I asked him if the paint came off the shirt when it was washed. He was short with me and responded, "I don't know, I haven't washed it yet," no doubt remembering how "nice" I was to him a year earlier. I was now on the receiving end of the cold shoulder. Fate quickly intervened and since our last names were close in the alphabet, we were assigned seats that were right next to each other. Long story short, we got to get to know each other pretty well. Almost every day, I got in trouble for laughing too loud at something he said to me. I was hooked! Being "shy" with the opposite sex, I decided to hang around him and his best friend more so he could figure out that I liked him. That blew up in my face! Every time I would go to talk to him, he would leave me there with his best friend. His best friend and I would then talk about how I liked him and I wanted him to ask me out. I later found out that the reason he would leave everytime I would come up to talk to him was that he thought I liked his best friend and he was giving us some space. Since that approach wasn't working, I decided to enlist a friend of mine who had another class with him to give him my phone number and tell him to call me. When he finally called me his opening line was, "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" That infuriated me! I thought, who does this guy think he is? I quickly replied "NOTHING, GOODBYE!" and was about to hang up when he changed his tone started speaking to me normally and that was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. 6 years later, we were married and this March we will be married for 9 years. The corny thing is that when people ask how we got together, I get to say we had "chemistry" together! Ha Ha! I said it was corny! lol
Froy, I think many Christians (I am putting myself in this category) view mainstream Christian artists positively. Groups like Switchfoot, POD, and even the Newsboys (who have been the band of choice here in big Vic for the Red Cross fund raiser) are able to reach a wider audience when they are picked up by not only a mainstream label but also a mainstream audience. The people who if told KSBJ is all "Christian" music and would never listen to it, would listen to some mainstream Christian bands on other radiostations. I know several people who told me about some "new" band they heard of only to find out from me that they were a mainstream Christian band. I will pray for Matt Maher that he keeps his identity true to Christ but I will also pray that he reaches the unreachable. On a side note, thanks for telling us about Matt Maher, I hadn't heard of him, I will definitely look for his music now. I'm a Skillet person myself :)
Froy, I too must admit being a new fan of "Scrubs." The message at the end is always one that makes you think. At whatever stage of life you are in, you can somehow apply it to some area of your life. I would go even one step further by saying that I think everyone has their own inner monologue like J.D. (we just all don't look up in contemplation while we are doing it!) To comment on the questions you posed (whether hypothetical or not): I'd like to think that we are influenced by our upbringing (morals and the like) but I don't think that is correct. I think our influences are taken from how we were raised, mixed with what we "see" around us and also what we experience on our own. For me personally, faith has alot to do with it. Does that mean I think I am perfect? No, FAR from it, but my faith in God helps me to deal with the "influences" in my life, the good, the bad and the ugly! Thanks for posing such thought provoking queries! Teacher2Mommy
BJ, If you want to see a GREAT suspense movie, go see, "The Orphanage." My husband and I went to see it on opening night during the late show and it was disappointing to see only a handful of people showed up to see it. I am a foreign film buff, my husband is quite the opposite. He thinks movies should only be entertaining, not a "learning" experience. Needless to say, it was a chore dragging my husband to watch a movie that had subtitles. When we left, he remarked how if a movie is really good, you forget about the subtitles and focus on the movie. So, the movie was good enough to change my husbands opinion about foreign films. I must warn you though, as one of the reviews stated that I read before I saw the film myself, "... ""The Orphanage" is one of the saddest suspense movies yet, I would put it up there with "The 6th Sense." I TOTALLY agree! Alicia Cuellar-Garcia
Amen BJ! My pet peeve is misuse of the turn signal or lack of its use. I often daydream that I am a cop, and I give tickets to anyone who "forgets" to use their turn signal LOL!
Whoa! That is scary! A good thing my sister in law taught my niece (when she was about 2 1/2) who didn't like to have her hand held very much was to hold on to her pocket whenever they are in public places. This also helps my sister in law unload or load whatever she needs to into or out of her car. It is also too cute to see, she looks like a little monkey!
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My husband and I were high school sweethearts but the story is much more interesting than that.
My husband moved to Calhoun County 1 week before we both started our Freshman year of high school so he was the "new" guy in school. I remember seeing him every now and then at school in the hallways but I never knew who he was. When we started dating he told me that the first time he saw me, he wanted to ask me out. He mentioned this to a friend of his and his friend told him, "Yeah right! She won't go out with you!" Being the type of person who never lets anyone tell him he can't do something, he decided to write me a letter letting me know he liked me and asking if I would like to go out on a date with him. He carried that letter around with him in his wallet for the whole year and never got up the nerve to give it to me.
I think the reason he ended up throwing it away was at the end of that year, we were given open campus lunch and my brother who was a Junior asked me if I wanted to have lunch with him. I was excited that my big brother wanted to spend some quality time with me so I accepted. He told me to meet him at a certain place in the school and while I was waiting for my brother, the "new" guy comes up to me and asks, "Have you seen your brother?" I quickly replied that I hadn't but then I asked him why HE was looking for him. I quickly found out that he and his best friend were also invited by my brother to lunch. Being mad at the situation, I gave off a cold vibe to the 2 unexpected guests and my future husband felt to all too well. So much so that he wrote me off as a stuck up right there and then. During lunch, we sat next to each other and my brother, seeing I was visibly annoyed already, made the comment that we would look cute together. The response from my darling future husband was, "YEAH RIGHT!" This interaction was enough for both of us to stay away from each other for over a year.
During our Junior year of high school, we were put in the same Chemistry class together. On this first day of class, he was wearing a t-shirt that I also had and I asked him if the paint came off the shirt when it was washed. He was short with me and responded, "I don't know, I haven't washed it yet," no doubt remembering how "nice" I was to him a year earlier. I was now on the receiving end of the cold shoulder. Fate quickly intervened and since our last names were close in the alphabet, we were assigned seats that were right next to each other. Long story short, we got to get to know each other pretty well. Almost every day, I got in trouble for laughing too loud at something he said to me. I was hooked!
Being "shy" with the opposite sex, I decided to hang around him and his best friend more so he could figure out that I liked him. That blew up in my face! Every time I would go to talk to him, he would leave me there with his best friend. His best friend and I would then talk about how I liked him and I wanted him to ask me out. I later found out that the reason he would leave everytime I would come up to talk to him was that he thought I liked his best friend and he was giving us some space.
Since that approach wasn't working, I decided to enlist a friend of mine who had another class with him to give him my phone number and tell him to call me. When he finally called me his opening line was, "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" That infuriated me! I thought, who does this guy think he is? I quickly replied "NOTHING, GOODBYE!" and was about to hang up when he changed his tone started speaking to me normally and that was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
6 years later, we were married and this March we will be married for 9 years. The corny thing is that when people ask how we got together, I get to say we had "chemistry" together! Ha Ha! I said it was corny! lol
Froy,
I think many Christians (I am putting myself in this category) view mainstream Christian artists positively. Groups like Switchfoot, POD, and even the Newsboys (who have been the band of choice here in big Vic for the Red Cross fund raiser) are able to reach a wider audience when they are picked up by not only a mainstream label but also a mainstream audience. The people who if told KSBJ is all "Christian" music and would never listen to it, would listen to some mainstream Christian bands on other radiostations. I know several people who told me about some "new" band they heard of only to find out from me that they were a mainstream Christian band. I will pray for Matt Maher that he keeps his identity true to Christ but I will also pray that he reaches the unreachable.
On a side note, thanks for telling us about Matt Maher, I hadn't heard of him, I will definitely look for his music now. I'm a Skillet person myself :)
Froy,
I too must admit being a new fan of "Scrubs." The message at the end is always one that makes you think. At whatever stage of life you are in, you can somehow apply it to some area of your life. I would go even one step further by saying that I think everyone has their own inner monologue like J.D. (we just all don't look up in contemplation while we are doing it!)
To comment on the questions you posed (whether hypothetical or not): I'd like to think that we are influenced by our upbringing (morals and the like) but I don't think that is correct. I think our influences are taken from how we were raised, mixed with what we "see" around us and also what we experience on our own. For me personally, faith has alot to do with it. Does that mean I think I am perfect? No, FAR from it, but my faith in God helps me to deal with the "influences" in my life, the good, the bad and the ugly!
Thanks for posing such thought provoking queries!
Teacher2Mommy
BJ,
If you want to see a GREAT suspense movie, go see, "The Orphanage." My husband and I went to see it on opening night during the late show and it was disappointing to see only a handful of people showed up to see it. I am a foreign film buff, my husband is quite the opposite. He thinks movies should only be entertaining, not a "learning" experience. Needless to say, it was a chore dragging my husband to watch a movie that had subtitles. When we left, he remarked how if a movie is really good, you forget about the subtitles and focus on the movie. So, the movie was good enough to change my husbands opinion about foreign films. I must warn you though, as one of the reviews stated that I read before I saw the film myself, "... ""The Orphanage" is one of the saddest suspense movies yet, I would put it up there with "The 6th Sense." I TOTALLY agree!
Alicia Cuellar-Garcia
Amen BJ! My pet peeve is misuse of the turn signal or lack of its use. I often daydream that I am a cop, and I give tickets to anyone who "forgets" to use their turn signal LOL!
Whoa! That is scary! A good thing my sister in law taught my niece (when she was about 2 1/2) who didn't like to have her hand held very much was to hold on to her pocket whenever they are in public places. This also helps my sister in law unload or load whatever she needs to into or out of her car. It is also too cute to see, she looks like a little monkey!