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Supernatural – Don’t Separate Us Again

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 27 - 2011

The brothers Winchester face a short separation from the end of Season 5 and the beginning of Season 6. Dean lives with a woman and is raising a child, and Sam is still hunting. The two brothers re-unite again and immediately get down to their old demon fighting tricks. What’s the longest seperation you’ve had with your sibling or best friend? What was the first thing you did when you were re-united?

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I can say, the longest I have ever been separated from a sibling was when I moved to Ohio with Pato and it was 8 months. 8 very long miserable months because I am a mama’s girl. I remember when I came back for vacation, I had never been so happy to walk into my parents’ house and hug everyone. We just sat around and enjoyed each other. Then I went fishing (something I regularly avoid because a) I don’t put live things on hooks b) I don’t take live things off of hooks either c) I hate poison ivy and bugs) with my brothers. I returned with a nice case of poison ivy that landed me in the emergency room a week later.

I don’t fish. Love nature, especially when there are no plants with 3 reddish colored leaves protruding off of them and when I have a very strong bottle of bug spray. So not a fan of mosquitoes and ticks either. I so want to enjoy God’s creation without a rash or bug bites. I don’t think that is too much to ask.

With a friend, it would be my best friends from school, Angie and Danielle. Years. Years and years I tell you. It was my fault, but I have told that story before. Our first get together was at the Olive Garden and it was as if time had never passed. We just started gabbing like we always did. I love them so much. Though we don’t have nearly as much time as we did to hang out when we were in high school, we are all trying to make time together because we need each other. It’s more like sisters than friends. 23 years people. They are my girls.

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Big Bang Theory – Geek Is Chic

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 27 - 2011

And can I just say thank goodness for that?

LOVE the Big Bang Theory. I haven’t had a chance to watch it as much as I would like to, but seriously a funny show. Jim Parsons is my favorite actor on that show. I love watching him on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson too. He seems to be on quite a bit and his sense of humor is so dry, total dead pan. He says something completely seriously that just will crack you up. I think that is why I love the show, it’s dry humor. My favorite kind. There is classic humor also, but the dry humor just cracks me up.

The whole cast is very good looking in the show, but not in a conventional way. I’m trying to accept how I look now and get over the whole I’m ugly, fat, and point out every flaw that I can see all the time part of me.

See, not conventionally beautiful. But, I would like to say that I do not cringe when I look in the mirror any more. I spent so much of my life tearing myself down, throwing up my food, overeating, not exercising, that I just hated myself. Born again Heather can look in the mirror and say, nope not a super model, and not the perfect Heather that God created, but that I still am beautiful in my own way and I will get to where God intended me to be eventually, soon.

Geeky.

I have a new found way of looking at the world. I looked around now and I can see beauty in everyone. Before I was a little too judgmental. It bothered me people who were overweight, like myself, didn’t take pride in their appearance, dressed sloppily, didn’t brush their hair, didn’t look like they cared. Now, I can look at overweight people, like myself, and see beauty. Though, I still wish that some people would put effort into themselves. I think they would feel better about themselves. You can see a difference. I know someone who never wears make up, never has her hair done up fancy, but just looking at her you can see her confidence, she knows she is perfect the way she is. I see others who just don’t look like they believe in themselves at all, and that makes me sad for them. I can understand that, and recognize it, because I am still struggling with that myself. I can look at people who I never would have paid attention to, the man at gas station who before I only noticed that he was balding with long hair, and had acne, and now I look at him and think, you know he really is a nice fabulous man, and I hope he can see his own beautiful as God made him.

Geeks rock.

Geeks are beautiful.

Those of us who are overweight? Beautiful.

Any other flaws you have? You’re still beautiful and believe me, you notice those flaws way more than anyone else does.

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Fringe – Life Collides

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 27 - 2011

Season 3 of Fringe is set within two distinctive worlds where one world is affected by the actions that occur in the other. How often do you feel like your professional and personal worlds collide? How does your online persona differ from who you present yourself as professionally? Explain how you, like the characters in Fringe, are able to function in both worlds without upsetting the balance.

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I just thought that was an interesting question and wanted to pose it to you all.

My online persona is my professional persona since I am a stay at home with the kids. I could separate it into my public and private persona as well.

In public, I am the most patient (most of the time), slow to anger, easy to get along with, slightly nervous, usually confident person you will ever meet. (Now)

At home, I am still working on controlling my temper, not yelling when I am frustrated, following through with my children when my patience is beyond frazzled.

In public, I know for a fact that it appears that I have everything pulled together and don’t worry about anything. I have been told that people just don’t know how I did it with my 4 kids (as my kids are running around pulling me in 4 different directions at the same time – one to the parking lot, one to the snack shack, one to the playground, and the other back to his game – multiple tantrums ensue, and Heather, public Heather, can handle it all.

Private Heather, the one at home, sometimes shuts herself in her room to get away from the chaos. Private Heather has to do deep breathing when 4 children are screaming at the top of her lungs.

Both public and private Heather adore her children completely from the bottom of her heart.

I’ll admit it, public Heather does a very good job of acting as if she has it all pulled together.

Private Heather should learn something from her.

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Nikita – Could You, Would You?

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 27 - 2011

On Nikita (the season 1 DVD set is now available BTW), “The Division” recruits troubled youth, erase their background and shapes them into spies and assassins. If given the chance, would you neglect your current life for one of globe trotting spy work if it meant you would have to cut all ties with everyone in your life?

In a word, no. Unless of course, God has changed his plans for me. There is no way I could cut my ties with my children, my husband, my mother, my father, my siblings. I am way to dependent on them to never be able to talk to them again. In fact, I’m way to dependent on my mama to even move out of state, away from her again. I’m telling you, the umbilical cord stretches, but it was never truly cut.

Family is just too important to me. My children need me, even as they get older, they still need their mama and always will.

How about you? Could you cut all ties with everyone you know and love to do spy work? I think it takes a very very strong person to be able to do that, especially when it comes to protecting our country.

That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy watching it on TV, Nikita is fabulously addicting.

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I Played Soccer Today

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 27 - 2011

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Oh yes I did. Jordan’s soccer practice was changed from yesterday to today which meant Pato was going to be home. I left sleeping children with him and Jordan and I went off to practice.

I always read my Bible now first thing in the morning because let’s face it, I didn’t for a long time and I was very lost trying to do it on my own. I feel stronger yet lighter more confident and just more understand of God’s will when I start off the day with his word. Today I took that with me and read on the sidelines – may I recommend Proverbs 1 if you are struggling at all between what you know to be true and what you personally want to do. I decided this morning that Proverbs is one of my favorite books. It’s not all begets and where people went to city after city. Which is fine, I know some people like that stuff, but I want to just get to the heart of it period. I want the message they gave in each city. Proverbs is just so easy for me to understand.

And I seem to always go off track when I start ….. never mind, being excited to finally back in God’s loving embrace is not going off track, it’s finally being on the right track.

So, I went to soccer, read my Bible, called my mom, read that chapter to her because it just spoke to me so much, and then danced on the sidelines because I was at a soccer field, had no children that I was chasing around, and I just felt the need to play. Jordan called to me and asked me to take his place as goalie. I kind of went back and forth and decided to jump into the game. Too much fun!!! I blocked 2 goals. I’m not as good as I used to be, and I’ll admit it, I’m a tad scared because the boys kick hard, and I believe when the coach came running at me, I told him to get his bootie back in the goalie box, because I know how hard he kicks. It was just too much fun.

I came home singing, I played soccer! I played soccer.

Favorite sport to play….. EVER!

I do play with the kids at times, but to be out and actually playing a game, even if they were gentle with me (and I do appreciate that boys), it felt so good!

I wish practice was on Saturday every week so I could play with them all the time.

Too much fun!

I shall leave you with 2 things:

Proverbs 1

¹The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; ²To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; ³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; ⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. ⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: ⁶To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. ¹⁰My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: ¹²Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: ¹³We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: ¹⁴Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: ¹⁵My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: ¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. ¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. ²⁰Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: ²¹She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, ²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ²³Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. ²⁴Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; ²⁵But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: ²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; ²⁷When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. ²⁸Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: ²⁹For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: ³⁰They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. ³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³²For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. ³³But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.