Until Next Monday…

This next week I will not be on my computer at all, as our family relooks at our schooling and acomplishes some bigger projects that we’ve been putting off. Therefore, I’ll be neither blogging or even checking my emails (We’ll be able to continue our photography challenge, though).

If any of you were wondering where I was over the weekend because I didn’t post— I’m fine, the only thing that happened was that Mom and Dad were out of town for the weekend and I kept busy watching movies. Kayla and I watched a ton—Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot films (what do they have in common? They’re all detectives.)

Miss Marple: We saw at least three of her movies

And last night, Kayla and I had our Avenger Marathon! We watched Iron Man, than Thor, and than finished with Captain America. I didn’t get to bed till 3:00 in the morning. I’m so tired from lack of sleep, but it was so worth it. Watching all three and than watching the mini avenger trailer to top it all off . . .  it was extremely epic.

So, yes. I can now say I saw all three movies one after another in one night. WHOOOOO!

Anyway… I’m extremely tired, I’ll probably be going to bed really early to make up for last night. Kayla, Nathan and I are safe and sound and so are Mom and Dad, and so is the house.

Oh. Kayla and I get to go see Beauty and the Beast 3D on Thursday. I’m EXTREMELY excited because it’s my most favorite Disney movie ever and it will also be my first 3D movie.

So anyway. See y’all next week!

~Jamie

Film Score Friday: Disney Galore

Disney is known for it’s animation, but the films include spell binding songs and original score. Each are different and unique, befitting each film perfectly. So, I decided to pick four different tracks from four different films that give off the strong feeling of said film.

Aristocats, The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid and The Lion King.

EEEEEKKK! Who else loved this opening scenes of this movie????

Squeee! I love the main theme for this movie! It’s SO perfect for the setting, for the story, for the characters. And I just really love this movie anyway. Grandma got it for me from Goodwill for Christmas this year; I still need to see it again.

What tune doesn’t sum up the Little Mermaid outside of her beautiful voice? I haven’t seen the full movie, yet when I listen to this, it will get stuck in my head and I’ll go around singing like Ariel. Is that weird??? Mmmmm.

I LOVE the end of this soundtrack. It’s soooo epic!! But than, Hans Zimmer wrote this music, so of course it’s epic!

*sighes* For just getting out of bed, I sure feel extremely spunky. You can probably tell by my extremely excited voice up there. XD

It’s not even like I drink coffee!

~Jamie

The Kitty, Lowercase Letters, and Music

I’m really relieved that my early allergies I was feeling when I first got Princess are totally gone now. I was literally sneezing so hard after just holding her for the first week or two… even three. If I didn’t wash my hands right away and blow my nose, I could be sure that I would have a very hard sneezing fit. It’s not fun having an itchy nose all the time. Praise the Lord that it all has cleared up and I am no longer suffering! I’m also glad my allergies weren’t even worse, like breaking out into rashes or anything. That . . . would not have been good.

Does anyone understand the recent fad on the blogosphere where the style is to write everything in lowercase letters? What is up with this? What happened to typing correctly and looking like an intelligent blogger? i mean, does this look good to anyone else out there? just, dropping capitalization. randomly. in the name of ‘i’m so obsessed with lowercase letters’ blaw blaw blaw. it looks so terrible. It’s just about as bad as text talking—but not really. Not quite that bad. But almost. How can we bring back the ‘fad’ of typing correctly instead of trying to look cute, or following the crowd or whatever is happening out there. If you type in all lowercase letters, drop me a comment and explain why you do it. For my simple understanding. Thank you.

The other weird thing I’m thinking about recently is how quickly my tastes change–example being music. One day I’m so excited about a recent song I just found and it’s all I listen to for two..three..four days. And than one day I listen to it and I’m like “meh, why is this on my favorites list?” Of course, I’m not changing fandoms every week or realizing, “Wow, those green beans I’ve hated all my life—I think they’re delicious today!” But it’s those little things, like certain songs or maybe that weird pair of socks in my drawer. Maybe it’s because I wear things out. I don’t know. It’s just something I was thinking was different.

But anyways, as Daryck likes to say, “Enough about me! What’s up with you?” I should really stop rambling . . .

~Jamie

Pretty Picture Tuesday

~Jamie Joyce

Love is a Verb

I was watching a series of Youtube videos Wednesday—all hilarious, sarcastic and well said by a young man named Jordon, a homeschool graduate. One really got me thinking again— it’s about the word love. He covers it here in THIS VIDEO which I beg of you to go watch after you finish reading this post. Or, go watch it now and you’ll know what got me thinking. Either way—JUST WATCH IT.

…moving on…

His point that got me thinking was that we, the American culture, have so overused the word ‘love’ that it’s meaning has just about been lost.  “I’m sure Jesus is extremely happy to be on the same level as grilled cheese your mind!” His point being, “Can we all just agree to default to “like” instead of saying that we loooove everything?”

And than he said this. “But maybe that’s the whole problem! Maybe we’ve forgot what love is suppose to be in the first place. Love is a verb. It’s something you actively do, not something you feel. It’s something you wake up every morning and decide to be.”

I was like. “Wow.”

Love is a verb.

Real love is action—you know when someone loves you when they’re willing to DO whatever needs to be done, when they’re will to die for you, when they’re will to LIVE for you. Anyone can ‘speak’ love, but only those who truly serve will actually give real love.

This really help give some glue to many of my opinions about the ‘love’ we see in many movies. There are always those films where the girl and the boy just ‘fall in love’ at first sight. Admit it, you’ve seen at least one movie like that; I know I have. And the girl and boy will do anything to be together, because they just know they’re ‘in love’. Even to the point of disobeying parents or even God. Because their feelings tell them they’re ‘in love’.

But if love is something you do, you aspire to be, is being a servant— than what kind  of love do they have if they only just met? (Example: Aurora and Prince Phillip of Sleeping Beauty).

No. That girl and boy in the movie (and sadly in many real life situations even) are not “in love”, even though they might think they are. I think it would be best to reworded this feeling as ‘becoming physically attracted’. What they’re ‘feeling’ is probably natural chemistry–but not real, Biblical love.

“Love is something you do.”

Think of Scripture: 1 Corinthians’ definition of love is a entire list of verbs/actions/things to do. Being patient, being kind, don’t be easily angered, ect. And even John 3:16, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.” Catch the verb gave.

I certainly am not saying that there is no room for the affection/chemistry type love—no way. That love will be there, because it’s natural. I’m just saying— DON’T MIX THE TWO UP! Because which one should have a higher priority?

I still do not understand everything there is to love—no one will ever perfectly understand it or be able to perfectly live it. But I will certainly keep thinking about it. What Jordon has stated in his video is very powerful and something I’ll certainly want to apply to life, especially when I enter a relationship with a young man. Because the verb love will certainly help a marriage last, rather than the chemistry love—because that love will eventually dull (this is one of the reasons why there are so many divorces, people). I want the love that binds and glues—ultimately Christ’s self-sacrifing love of serving others.

‘Cause that’s all that will matter in the long run and that’s what will last.

~Jamie