Greg Loves Sarah

In “Little Women” [at least in the movie], the tutor John Brook informed: “Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil best left undisturbed.”

I offer you, my loyal readers, a glimpse tonight beyond that veil. What kinds of conversations would YOU think take place between girls on an average Tuesday. The featured females are ME [who should be writing], MELANIE [who should be studying], ERIN [who should be getting better], and AMY [who was wisely talking to her mother when this conversation was inspired]. Enjoy…. [hee hee]

You, my guest, enter into an IM conversation between me and Mel:

Melanie: …Random info…Talking to Amy…apparently they had some kind of shrimp for dinner…nothing major….but anyway…got my mom on the topic of Red Lobster…

Sarah: Yeah?

Melanie: And so Amy said that she remembers once when we went she was little and stuck the straw up her nose and then she breathed.

Sarah: LOL!

Melanie: :D BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!! I remember that…it was SO FUNNY!!!

Sarah: She sucked up her COKE!!!!!!!!!!!

Melanie: Dr. Pepper, actually. ;)

Sarah: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In her little nostrils!?

Melanie: yup!!!

Sarah: Bless her heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! explains a lot huh?

Melanie: LOL!!! hee hee… :)

Sarah: THAT’s how the AIR got up THERE! ;)

Melanie: ROFL! I GUESS SO!!

Sarah: It’s OK When I was teeny…..My Uncle Billy tossed me up right into a door frame (or something similar) and I have never been able to sit still for long since.

Melanie: ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how funny!!!

Sarah: And once when Cat was little, she had a pillow up her nightgown…..and dad would punch her in the pillow….She would fall over and laugh…..But once, when he swung…..She sat. :-O

Melanie: oh no!!!!!!!!!right in the NOSE????

Sarah: Somewhere in the face..Poor dear. AND SHE has liked chocolate ever since.

Melanie: oh my word. that’s tragic.

Sarah: AND ONCE……When cat and I were younger, we were in a tree eating little plums….Her above…..me a little lower…..She spit out her pit……And it stuck…..

Melanie: in your HAIR!!!!!!

Sarah: Between my eye and my glasses lens.

Melanie: ACK!!! SCREAM!!!! LAUGHING! that’s soooooooooo funny!!!

Sarah: I am cracking UP!!!! *breathe* AND I….have never much cared for squid since.

Melanie: * LaUGHING!!! * oh my SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah: And now you know.

Melanie: man…that’s incredible.

Sarah: Yes……SO tell Amy we understand. *insert look of compassion*

Melanie: oK!

Sarah: AND ONCE……When my parents were younger and Cat was teeny…….The guys from dad’s work trapped him in a porto-potty….Loaded it onto a truck….

Melanie: OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah: And brought him home to mom.

Melanie: OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!

Sarah: And he STILL doesn’t sing in the shower!!!

Melanie: oh man….ROFL!! I told Amy and she said…”Tell her thanks for understanding” :)

Sarah: Anytime. sigh Some of us just suffer… =-/ …

SO THEN…Melanie e-mailed Erin….And this is Erin’s saga….

“…That was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like beyond HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, I can SO relate because when I was little my Grandma had this BIG jar of pennies and I would dump it out and count them and ever since then I haven’t liked chicken…….no joke. I’m dead serious!!!!!!!!!!!! It all makes sense now huh?? Yeah, I thought so too…. :P ”

SO THEN…Melanie replyed to Erin. And THIS is Melanie’s saga….

“…YAY!!! I’m so glad it made you laugh!!! I’m sorry about the pennies and the chicken. You know, I always KNEW there had to be something behind that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Course, I can understand too, cause once when I was little, I was going down the hill on my bike, and a car was coming, and I couldn’t stop…so I kept going straight, and got to the other side before the car reached me, but at the other side there was this CURB…so I flipped, and scared the poor man who was driving. And ever since then, I wear a helmet and walk into poles.”

And I was there when Mel walked into that pole while wearing her helmet. I can verify the accuracy of her account! :D

And then later, Erin made another discovery about herself. She wrote:

“Once, when we were on vacation in Arkansas, my brothers and I went on hike without Mom and Dad and we found bear tracks in the woods and ever since that moment I’ve had a thing for sunflower seeds, shelled, no salt. Bear tracks do the weirdest things to kids………….shaking head………..”

Don’t things make more sense now, my friends???? And now I ask, have you learned anything from this little glimpse beyond the veil??? Have you discovered anything about yourself? We’d love to hear about it!

*Here’s me, Mel, Erin, and Amy as little people! Thanks for creating it, Mel – great job! :)

Wouldn’t it be nice to have long arms?

I mean like r-e-a-l-l-y, REALLY long arms…..So long that you could reach across WHOLE states to hug a sister or a friend whenever you get the gumption.

I have one thing to say, “Go-Go Gadget Perky Arms!!!!!!” ;)

I love y’all!

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.”

Melanie: God is not looking for extraordinary people – He’s looking for ordinary people who will trust an extraordinary God…

Sarah: Thanks, Mellie-Malloo…For singing the song…My notes are a little flat tonight. So I am grateful.

Melanie: It doesn’t say, “make a choral melody” It says…”make a joyful noise.” To God…even our croaks are a rainbow of harmonies. Especially if they are weak hearts endeavoring to know God’s strength…

When we are weak…HE is STRONG…His mercies being NEW every morning… is what makes tomorrow different. Even when we do face our same failures…His faithfulness is greater than that.

Take Heart, Fair Maiden!!! Thy Heavenly Prince eternally knoweth thy every prayer…and will fulfill HIS perfect plan…in HIS perfect way…creating HIS perfection IN YOU…in HIS perfect time!

Sarah: Lord…I thank You for a friend that sings…And I thank You for my weaknesses…That they keep me coming back to You… :)

Today was a perfect day for a change of scenery…With the temperature in the low 70’s and the sun sparking through the partly cloudy sky, I headed out to CC’s [a Louisiana coffee spot] to work in the sunshine. It was so nice to feel the sunshine on my face without the chills that come with a cold breeze. And the strawberry smoothie was a perfect accent. :)

I do believe Spring is j u s t a r o u n d t h e c o r n e r ……….

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” :-)

BTW…This site is now set up [with special thanks and credit to Joshua] so that you can subscribe to me [similar to Xanga] and receive my posts in an HTML e-mail. Pretty sweet! Just scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your e-mail addy. Easy as a wink You guys are treasures!!!!

It can be said that “anticipation” itself is one of the best parts of receiving, giving, experiencing, or whatever. But when it comes to being a girl from South Louisiana, even Wikipedia knows the likelihood of a white Christmas down here. They say, “Snow is not very common near the Gulf of Mexico, although those in the northern parts of the state can expect one or two dustings of snow per year.” Think they know EVERYTHING.

I also read that “Longing for a snow-white Christmas may be keener in subtropical Louisiana than in any other state in the union.” [Editor, Christmas Stories from Louisiana] So….we go to Hobby Lobby and buy little plastic snow flakes for decoration. And at the local ice-skating rink, they even section off one end of the rink and put a pile of snow there for the children to play in. I wonder where they get the snow from. Hawaii?

The National Climactic Data Center has a document out that tells of the likelihood of a white Christmas around the country. To see our lovely state in that list is quite disturbing. They list 6 cities in LA: Baton Rouge, Lafayette [that’d be us], Lake Charles, Monroe, New Orleans, and Shreveport. All show 0% chance – except for Monroe. Monroe has a 4% chance – probably snowed there on 12/25/1856 and that threw off the calculations.

…Last winter, I created a Louisiana “snow” man. Even kept him in our freezer for his preservation. Alas, I must admit, he didn’t survive the year. And he WAS the last of his kind. *sigh* I think Mom was the one who “set him free” which led to his demise.

AND, while we are on the subject of cold weather, I’d like to address another issue. Why do department stores, Wal-Mart, Old Navy, Eddie Bauer, etc. endeavor to sell random fuzzy, heavy, and plush sweaters this time of year in Louisiana? At times the only people they would benefit are those who occasionally have to walk into a commercial freezer! Up North, these items of winter finery are necessities. Here – they are “drawer-fillers” (with the occasional exception). I think the clothing industry is taking advantage of our hopes for a picture-perfect winter. Maybe they are attempting to subconsciously convince us that “If you buy it, it will snow.” Doesn’t work that way though. But hey – positive side is that, HERE, a good heavy sweater will last you for YEARS!

I will encourage Louisianan children, who have yet to see snow in their beloved state, with the following photographic evidence that snow IS possible here. This is me and my sister at one of those quite rare times when snow flakes fell [and I DO mean more than ONE flake] and actually STUCK to the ground. If it could happen then….IT CAN HAPPEN DECEMBER 25, 2006!

Keep hoping, little ones! Miracles do happen!!!!! :)