He doesn't even sing in it... But He steals your heart anyway!!

Ok, I just realized I don't own the DVD!!

Ok, I just realized I don’t own the DVD to PRINCESS BRIDE!!

DID somebody get the hint??

I had to do a search for something that Westley says in the movie.

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something" It's true and I never could remember it right and I just wanted to remember it because I seem to have been in a bit of pain over the last year and I could have used a bit of snake oil but it seems I saw through all the sales people.

Then while looking it up I remembered... MANDY PATINKIN!!

Known as ~ Inigo Montoya: "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Of course I know him as "Sunday in the Park With George" ~ a Musical (yes) he has got the most beautiful voice and he did a whole movie with Barbara Streisand and never sang a word (Yentl).

He is in my TOP 10 people who I could sit and listen to just sing without musicians. Once on Dave Letterman he just sang "Somewhere over the Rainbow" out of the blue and it took my breath away.... and there went my heart.

It's the simple things (a stocking stuffer would do nice) a movie like Princess Bride where you have True Love and nothing is inconceivable!!

This was the best thing that I could find that just captured his voice...

My Christmas Tree is Broken - INTERJECTION - OUCH THAT HURTS!!

Ok,

Andrew decided to take the Tree which already had I believe 10 strands of lights on it wrapped so nicely around an eight foot tree. I do this because an old boss of mine taught me how to do it before you set the tree up the first time so as not to have to do it again and again each year. Well Andrew started to take it out of its special box and it was broken and it would not stand up. He did this while I was napping. I would have tried Scotch Tape. I would have tried any 3M product but he said it would not have worked and it was doomed. The tree would not stand alone and Corbin was not up for standing for 30 days while we plugged him in and fed him and he held up the tree. SO....

Arghhhh... I have to go shopping!!

Ok... I can do this.... but what do I buy??

TALL? SKINNY? FAT? GREEN? BLUISH? REAL? (scratch that not real) I now have decisions!! Andrew goes on watch tomorrow (Monday so I have two days to research and figure out WHERE I can really put a TREE in this house (my ceilings are rather high) and what kind of TREE we really NEED!! If it were me I would just pull out my four foot tree that I can place on my ROD IRON table and call it the tree but the kids will not buy it. They want the whole nine yards TREE, LIGHTS, CAMERA and ACTION. So.... INPUT - HELP PLEASE!!
Off to pull the Sunday paper out of the trash....

If only I had known about this before BLACK FRIDAY.... INTERJECTION!!

Can't I just borrow one from a picture and poof instant tree?

CORBIN AND TORREY PICTURES SAY SO MUCH

PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE KIDS PICS

http://fergiskids.blogspot.com/

I posted some slide shows of the kids from Thanskgiving up and that is what I am truly blessing God for!! The ease that they have brought the last few months of moving and starting school and you can just see it in their faces how happy and good they are doing.

Like I said before -

the holidays are just starting!!

count down is beginning!!

HUGS,

Micki

IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.. the last 10 days....

Ok, I must confess, not only did I go over to the sparkles and the glitter but I took my mother with me.

I found refuge there.

It's funny.


I know...

MY SPACE...

It can be somewhat addicting.... but yet if used correctly you can truly find some people you have really wanted to hook up with. People you can stay in touch with that you never thought you could stay in touch with

YOUR SPACE...

I can spy on you...

not what I really wanted to do...

SO I STOPPED

MY SPACE

I want to be your friend so please stay in contact with me I'm so thrilled I found you

YOUR SPACE...

I LOVE your music now I can keep up with where your concerts are at and I can know when your album as due to release and I can say Johnny Cash in the Grave is still MY FRIEND!!

MY SPACE...

I can still have a say in what I want to say - choices and pictures and glitter and such but here is where I can have my voice I can blog there but there I feel naked somehow. Here I feel I can feel free. But there is one thing that I have found that MY SPACE THE SPACE HAS and that is a connection to each other through each other. How we all are connected I know her and he knows him and so on. It's funny. Like playing the game six degrees of seperation.

I also found a place where I am completely at peace on MY SPACE - not MY SPACE but a place I made.

It's MY MOMS SPACE

It's beautiful - It's filled with gorgeous colors of purple and a cartwheel in the right corner. She wanted roses so I gave her roses everywhere there are flowers. She wanted Kenny Rogers to sing the Roses song but it wasn't on HIS site. So I made him a friend. It was funny it took him almost 10 days to become a friend. But I found the video of the song sung by someone else which you can just watch. I put the pictures of the cats done by the same person who did the fatcow that scroll by and then the rose that Andrew took for her is on it.

You can check out her MY SPACE icerune

Now - I tell you about this site because I made it for her - because I have had some down time lately where I just needed some time to myself and funny I have had lots of music to listen to but I have had this one song to listen to

YES - it is about a song - you thought it wouldn't be didn't you - I gave you the hint from the title!!

anyway,

THE LAST 10 YEARS by KENNY ROGERS (who by the way is also a MY SPACE friend as well)
has just been really speaking to me because it has been the last 10 years of my life that I have lived having these kids in my life.

The Last Ten Years

Oh, the last ten years.
It's been quite a trip.
Over thirty-six hundred spins around,
without a cosmic slip.
But within the realm,
Of our atmosphere.
We're about as out of whack,
As we've ever been in a million years.

We watched the Y2K scare in a panic. I WAS AT DISNEY WORLD
And we watched as time proved Nostradamus wrong.
And we watched as Mother Nature shook the planet,
And celluar replaced the telephone. MY FIRST PHONE BOUGHT IN OMAHA 6 years ago
We lost charlie Brown, WE ALSO LOST JIM HENSON
Ray Charles and Johnny Cash,
We even lost Superman.

Well the last ten years,
Look at the hills we've climbed.
The best golfer's black the best rapper's white, I REMEMBER WHEN TIGER WAS 18
And it's about damn time. KID ROCK - DEBBIE did it first -
But we'd best beware,
There's a brand new fight y'see. IF WE DON'T START SEEING THAT THERE IS A NEW FIGHT TO SEE
And I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy.

We watched Oklahoma sifting through the damage,
And we watched the US President get caught. PANTS DOWN
We watched share holders watch their savings vanish, IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN
We all cried when we watched those towers fall. I STILL SEE IT IN MY MINE -WE SAW IT LIVE
We lost Minnie Pearl,
Ron Reagon and Sam I Am. MY HERO, MY HERO and MY HERO
We even lost Superman.

Expensive gas and free downloads, WILL HE EVEN BE PAID FOR MY MOMS DOWNLOAD
The dot com boom and reality shows.
What's gonna happen next is anybodys guess.
Satellite radio and hypercars,
Handheld computers and a trip to Mars. I DON'T EVEN USE MY PALM ANYMORE
It's all become a part of who we are.

In the last ten years,
In the last ten years,
we lost George Harrison,
John Paul and June Carter Cash, WE LOST JOHNNY CASH
Hell, we even lost Superman.

Gonna miss you, Chris. BUT HE DID SO MUCH!!

I just sit there and watch the space - MOM's space listen to the song and feel so much better - so if anyone needs to feel comforted go there - I asssure you watching the roses and even watching the video or the song on the video. Is a great rest.

Check out her myspace icerune

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!! HE'S HOME

January 2006

In an E-mail from a
friend, a MOM of a new SOLDIER who was just sent over there. THE SANDBOX

Please send some junk food like candy bars and Doritos. Will message
again as soon as possible. Working Hard

I could cry. I'm very happy, and
very proud, and very sad.

BACKSTORY

I was the interim Youth Pastor of a church for almost a year and got real close to several of the parents and several of the kids that were seniors that year. One of them was called Andy. Ok Now his mother of course called him Andrew. She wanted him to go to College but he had a great desire and a great need to become an airborne ranger. To go and fight for our country and I in my heart knew that was what he was going to do. His first war was to win the one against her. He would have to fight a mother who only had one son to send off to a place that was dangerous when he could stay in a safe place close to home, closer to her and go to college.

IN December 04 he graduated from Basic Training only to be sent to sit a while in Texas so close to home doing paper work and waiting.

“We learned on Wednesday (day before Thanksgiving) that Andrew may be sent home to do some Home Town Recruiting. He could fly in on Monday. That would just be soooo wonderful!!!! He'd be home for approximately two weeks and then travel to Fort Hood, TX. He shared that the electronic version of his orders (received Wednesday) has him going to TX, but because it's not a paper copy, he can't say with complete certainty that this is his destination. We'll just wait and see.

How have you lived with the military mentality of "this could happen,
but this might, and then this may be what happens instead?" I feel like
everything is certain, but nothing is concrete. What a rotten way to manage a person's life.” MOM was learning fast that her son was not her son anymore but the property of the military.

So one year passes and he goes off and then I get this E-MAIL:

Nov 11th 2006 we FINALLY have heard from HIM.

This morning (while we were sleeping), He left a message. He's in
(blank) now and expects to arrive at Fort Hood, TX this Tuesday, November 14th approximately 2 PM.

Praise God! Praise GOD! PRAISE GOD!!!!! He will
remain in TX for approximately 30 days for reintegration. Then home!! What a wonderful Christmas gift. I'm beside myself with relief and long awaited joy.

Thank you, thank YOU, THANK YOU, dear friends, for your ongoing prayers,
encouragement, and emotional support during this long, difficult time for us.

Have a blessed day,

___________

Nov 15th 2006 Just wanted to let you all know
that Andrew arrived in Texas noon-ish today.

A day later than expected,
but here nonetheless.

I just got off the phone w/him.

Praise the
LORD

______________________________

Now, Ok, Why do I tell this story? Because Andy or Andrew (whatever you call him - I call him Andy) the 18 year old my husband chaperoned to his HIGH SCHOOL PROM (drove him to and from to keep them safe) was meant to go to war. He wanted to go and he knew it from the time he was around 16. I knew it I could see it in his eyes. He was one of those kids that like playing those video games (where they shoot each other and get all the computers in the same room). But it was more than that. I had a strange feeling deep in my gut that God had a Plan for him. Still has a plan for him. Will he go back? Will he stay on? All I know right now is Mom is happy he is home for Christmas. I don’t ask any questions. I just know that God had a plan a long time ago that this kids was meant to be exactly where he was this last year and I have no doubt he had some bad times, sad times but he had the ride of his life. God prepared him for it. I saw it in his eyes when he asked me to calm him Mom’s nerves when he asked me to talk to her about him joining the Army. Let’s see he must be almost 22 now. A man!! Ten years older than Corbin. Could I do it? I don’t know but boy I would be saying thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing my baby home too from a place like where he just came from. I’m glad he is home safe Until he goes again.

My husband will put him on his lists of Vets he honors!!

I have never been prouder of a kid correction MAN I helped mold!! and a MAN who helped me come to terms with GOD HAS A PLAN - see ANDY helped me listen to GOD even over this last year to listen more than talk to GOD!! Andy was and is smart beyond his years.

It’s funny it all comes down to they just want Doritos!! Simple things in life!!

Still the same!!

Let the Holiday’s begin!!

ANDREW MADE ME A POSTER I HAVE TO SHARE

IT SEEMS HE MADE A CARD AFTER FINDING FOUR MISTAKES IN THE RANTING BY THE HOMOPHONE TRIBUTE TO WHOEVER BLOGS SO INCORRECTLY (I WAS ASSUMING IT WAS ME) BUT I ASSURE YOU FINGERS WERE POINTED EVERWHERE SO.... THIS IS TO EVERYONE... This is for all of you who have ever been picked on!! Thanks, Andrew, I needed it!! I feel so much better... no. INTERJECTION!! DAMN!! I, FEEL GREAT!!

I got my INTERJECTIONS down RIGHT but stink at HOMOPHONES!!

So.... Instead I focused on the interjections like HEY - OUCH - with !! and comma's
and then went on to WELL, HEY, WOW, HEY!!
I got that down pretty good.
I guess you could say I learned more from the TV -
Learned even more interjections can't repeat (can we kids)
Enjoy the video....
because after that
darn... that's the end.....of my rant (I wonder how many mistakes I made typing this up) hmmm
oh - click the button and injoy the interjection song - my favorite!!!

I grew up Country - so I cry Country Tears.... Right

Ok, Now like every other girl in the 70's I grew up singing
Delta Dawn what's that flower you got on could it be a faded.... from days gone by
and then there was the
LIKE A RHINESTONE COWBOY - yep then my brother would go "boing boing"
"getting card and letters from people I don't even know"

I even had the origional Donny and Marie "I'm a little bit Country - and I'm a little bit Rock and Roll. I was really cool.

Yesterday I tried to sing the whole song "YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE" in front of my son to my husband just for fun. Funny how we forget some of the words. I did make up some great new ones and we laughed and laughed till Callie (the dog) thoughed it was tickle time!

Here is the kicker.
I have all along made my kids (ok they havn't been tied down I have let them listen if they want to) listen to all sorts of stuff and it just so happens that C. W. McCALL Convoy was one of my favorites so we played it alot. So was Johnny Cash. Well Johnny Cash just passed away. So.... His songs are popular and we didn't plan on that. It is strange that he was still writing music till his dying day. I am so taken back by what it is and says that I just have to share it. So many emotions have I been through the last year that it seems like his life has been mixed with mine somehow and in that I feel the need to share this video. Maybe there is a message for us all in it somehow!!

If you haven't heard Johnny's final album, American V: A Hundred Highways, and you're a country music fan, then you're missing out. Producer Rick Rubin summed it up best when he said, "These songs are Johnny's final statement. They are the truest reflection of the music that was central to his life at the time. This is the music that Johnny wanted us to hear." Listen to “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” http://christianmusic.about.com/b/a/257016.htm

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down

Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head's been wet with the midnight dew
I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do My will!"

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's down in the dark will be brought to the light

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down

I DON'T CARE

It seems like you ask the question? Sweetie are you going to brush your hair you get the response. With of course shrugged shoulders "I don't care". Well today, I did that and got that along with are you really going to wear that and did you brush your teeth? I realize I also have been doing the same thing. Micki what do YOU want for Dinner? "I don't Care" (and I don't). Hmmm

So... What has been going through my head is it that we just moved here and still have boxes to unload and don't want to do the last of the last.
Truly - I don't care about doing that!! I DON'T CARE! oops

I can tell you it reminds me of along along time ago - back when I was about oh eight I had a record player (ok you hear a song in this) and Carly Simon had these records called the Rosie Something (probably could look it up). Anyway there was a song that was called I Don't Care.

It was Very VIVID and made a great point and I think of it all the time when I get to this point and I want to share it with you all.

read the first chapter then listen to the story - if you have kids listen with them it is a good video to watch for adults and kids and has a great moral!!

Pierre
Carole King

[Prologue:]
There was once a boy named Pierre
Who only would say, I don't care!
Read his story, my friend, for you'll find
At the end that a suitable
Moral lies there

[Chapter I]

One day his mother said
When Pierre climbed out of bed
-Good morning, darling boy, you are my only joy
Pierre said-I don't care!
-What would you like to eat?
-I don't care!
-Some lovely cream of wheat?
-I don't care!
-Don't sit backwards in your chair
-I don't care!
-Or pour syrup on your hair
-I don't care!
-You are acting like a clown
-I don't care!
-And we have to go to town
-I don't care!
-Don't you want to come, my dear?
-I don't care!
-Would you rather stay right here?
-I don't care!
So his mother left him there