The Thorn, Chicks and Twilight...

This going to be a rather long post because I have a lot to say about lots of things, so I figured, what the heck, I'll just mash them all together into one post! I hope you can keep up with my rambling.

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The Thorn
"A barrier was built between God and man, a barrier God was not willing to let stand...to remove the barrier, sacrifice had to made." Wednesday evening, Lindsey and I went to see The Thorn at Seacoast Church in Mt.P. Having never seen or even heard about it before; I wasn't too sure what exactly my night would entail. I thought it was going to be like watching The Passion of the Christ, live and to be honest, I was a little nervous.

When we arrived at the massive church and walked into the gathering area (the narthex) we wound our ways through the crowds, Centurions, village people and smiling faces of the ushers and got our coffee. There is a cafeteria in the gathering area and I was floored that we could bring coffee into the church. I digress, we were shown to our seats facing the stage, which was draped in white fabric and before the event began we were welcomed by the Sr. Pastor.

The show was narrated by John (one of Christ's disciples) after he had been exiled to Patmos and consisted of flashbacks which served to tell the story of Jesus' birth-Crucifixion. It was in a word, amazing! There were elements which reminded me of Cirque du Soleil with the gymnasts and acrobatics also of a Renaissance fair with the sword fighters. Keeping in mind that the players were people from the church baffled me even more. The music was fantastic, top-notch quality. I'll be honest, the beatings and Crucifixion of Christ did bring tears to my eyes, but the show was wonderful. Next year, I'd like to bring B. I think he'd really enjoy it and I'm so glad Lindsey invited me.

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Chicks
This past Thursday, some of the Bible study girls (AKA the Frazzled Females) came over to my place. Rather than doing an actual Bible study (we had just finished an intense Beth Moore study of Esther-I highly recommend), I decided we could do an Easter craft. So, being the good researcher that I am I Googled, "Easter Crafts". Most of them were really cheesy, too hard, or geared more towards children. Thinking to myself, we're frazzled females, we can't make something that would take forever, or Easter baskets out of berry baskets (do they even make those anymore?)! We need something that could be a decoration on a desk or a mantle; something that won't take longer than 10 minutes to complete. Where, oh where would I find such a craft?

Finally I found it! We would make bean bag Easter chicks! The pattern looked easy enough and the part that really caught my eye was "no-sew"! Now, I feel I need to caveat that I'm a fairly good seamstress, I made a quilt during B's first deployment for Pete's sake, so I'm not completely unfortunate when it comes to Singer. However not having to lug my machine out of the closet was a great plus.

I printed out the pattern at work (shhh, don't tell) and bought the felt from Wal-Mart and the eyes, ribbons and pom-pom tails from AC Moore and I already had the beans (I used lentils). Tuesday night, I hunkered down with all my purchases, put on a movie and began making the chick bodies. I decided I would make the bodies and the girls could decorate/accessorize as they wanted.

So, Michelle, Cristin and Lindsey came over Thursday night and we ate Cristin's fab lasagna and put the eyes, beaks, bows and tails on. Here's the final product and I think they turned out egg-celent!

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Twilight
Anyone who has kept up with my Facebook and Twitter statuses would know that I've reluctantly become a fan of the Twilight series. Reluctant because, to be honest, my first reading of Twilight was ok. Wasn't great, wasn't bad...just ok. I'm a HUGE Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan! My parents and I would watch every Wednesday night when it was on. So it seemed natural that I would like the Twilight books. But for some reason I just wasn't motivated to continue the series. Thinking back, it may have been that I was trying to compare it to the Harry Potter series, which anyone who reads a lot knows, you just can't compare one series to another. No author writes the same and I'm glad that I gave Twilight another chance.

This new-found-interest came about after I watched the movie (which I've seen 4 times since I bought it-call me a dork if you want, but at least I own up to it). I started reading New Moon (the 2nd book) last week and I finished it this morning. I've already arranged with Jill to borrow Eclipse and Breaking Dawn and can't wait till Wednesday when she'll hand them over! I can't wait to see what will happen between Jacob, Bella and Edward. Personally, I'd take Jacob over Edward any day!