http://www.pleonast.com/user/iluvchinesebabies recent pleonast.com entries by user iluvchinesebabies en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/iluvchinesebabies?l=5&entryID=559423 "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked of Him" (1 John 5:14-15) Praise the Lord! I just completed my first day of teaching Kindergarten and God heard my every prayer. That's all. :) 2008-08-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/iluvchinesebabies?l=5&entryID=548123 i'm home for a little while and lovin the free movie channels. oh the digital cable with tv guardian bliss! dad and i watched a movie last night called "once" that absolutely floored me. it was by far the best movie i've seen in a long time. real musicians playing struggling musicians, and the music was awesome. the movie won best original song at the oscars, so apparently i've been living under a rock. BUT, i figure if i've been living under a rock, maybe some of you have been under there with me. so i'm posting this video showing clips of the movie with glen hansard and marketa irglova's oscar-award winning song "falling slowly." enjoy! on another note, i'm trying to wrap up wedding stuff before school starts. it's a little stressful, but a lot of fun. dad and i are working on a slideshow. here's a sneak peak: 2008-07-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/iluvchinesebabies?l=5&entryID=543613 i love coming back to pleo after almost a year, writing a big entry, running out of time and in the process of logging back in, losing everything written. ugh. anyway, i had trouble deciding what to title my severely neglected blog after all this time. i went with the punch line to my first graders' favorite made-up knock-knock joke. the made-up knock-knock joke phase of a kid's life is the happiest for them, and the most torturous for all who are around them. most of the time anyway. i must enjoy the torture a little, or else i wouldn't be teaching. the past year has been delightfully fun and wonderfully silly, much like a child's made-up knock-knock joke (see, i tied it all together!). within just a season, i got a niece, a career, and a ring! my cup overflows. i've also moved for the fourth time since living in bowling green. i'm living in a fancy loft apartment. i say "fancy" because it's not. in fact, as i sit in the living/laundry room typing this, i can ... 2008-06-26 http://www.pleonast.com/user/iluvchinesebabies?l=5&entryID=408737 YOU'RE INVITED!! What: a Nintendo Wii(R) party! Who: Karen Craig and Richard & Charity Fontenot, and you! ("you" is plural- it won't just be the four of us, although I'm sure that would be fun) Where: at the home of Richard and Charity Fontenot When: whenever we get enough Coke Rewards Points(R) to get a Nintendo Wii(R) How: this is where you come in! What am I talking about: Through the combined efforts of friends and family (thanks to all), by way of email, text message, trash diving, and stranger harassing, Richard, my Dad, and I have successfully managed to collect about 2500 Coke Reward Points(R). At first, our goals for these points were small. But now we have set our sights bigger: by early November, with help, we hope to have 6000 points, enough to earn us a joint-custody of a Nintendo Wii(R). How this involves you: If you are a Coke product drinker, and are apathetic to Coke Points, but sympathetic to our cause, please give us your codes from those 20... 2007-07-20 http://www.pleonast.com/user/iluvchinesebabies?l=5&entryID=390800 i believe i am overdue for a post. i am supposed to be studying for the PRAXIS, so updating suddenly seemed like a good idea. any suggestions for taking the PRAXIS, while we're on the subject? so how are you? i'm busy, but good. my favorite brother and expecting sister-in-law took justin and me to kissimmee for a few days. it was good time full of sushi, disney, sunburns, discussions about babies!, raquet ball (i dominated), and nacho libre. thanks again! justin and i also went to see pirates 3. it was a strange movie that i'm going to admit i don't think i liked. it might have been because i was asked to throw away the diet coke that i had brought in my purse by an overachieving rent-a-cop. it was pretty embarrassing. especially when justin, covered in the fun dip i also brought in my purse for him, shook his fun dip stick at me and yelled, "yeah, get that riff-raff outta here!" as if he didn't know me. unbelievable. he ended up looking like a loser thou... 2007-06-06