Fun Fact Friday - Edition #1

~ I have seen the movie Grease a bizillion times, and still love it.

~ My mom named me Tina, because in the baby name book the hospital provided her (I was three months early and she hadn’t picked out a name yet), Tina meant “little one”.

~ Tonight I am going to see Get Smart with my daughter, even though she has NO idea what its all about, she has been excited to see it since the previews came out months ago!

~ I get sad when nobody remembers my birthday. Ok…who doesn’t…really….but still

~ On 9/11, I was driving to work listening to the radio at what had happened and what was going on – when I arrived at work, I quickly realized that nobody knew what had happened in NYC. I started telling everyone and we turned the TV set on in the conference room, and all sat and watched…about that time, the 2^nd plane hit…we didn’t move for 3 hours, until we decided to call it a day and go home to our families. I also called my boyfriend, who was in Canada at the time, unaware as to what was going on, because he was in a conference ~ he didn’t believe me!!! He told me I was crazy and exaggerating, and told me I had to be mistaken…I was soooo mad!!!!!

~ I buy all the vitamins and calcium and stuff I should be taking, yet they are mostly still sitting on my kitchen counter…unopened…and well, probably expired…

~ I really do want to get married.

~ I was in the “first” drill team my high school ever had…we were called the Golden Debs and well, we weren’t that good, but it was so much fun! Haha!

~ My wrists circumference is exactly 4 ¾ inches

~ I really would love to jog or run to get in shape, however, those of you who know me – know that I might injure myself…LOL…(update: Joined the gym…woohooo)

~ I believe in Chiropractic..yet rarely go

Saddleback Church

I attended Saddleback Church yesterday with my cousins. I have been here many times before, but for some reason, this time was different. Let me just start by saying that I am NOT a big fan of the “mega church” but I go whenever I am with my cousins, and yesterday they were handing out free Krispy Kremes…F R E E…(think about HOW many Krispy Kremes that is at Saddleback- plus they gave away a free dozen to the oldest father in the congregation - they had to give out two dozen..cause there was two fathers who were over 90 years old - NINETY years…wow…) sorry, my A.D.D. kicked in…Ok…so…I prefer a much much smaller congregation and this place has a huge campus that can be very overwhelming, it has several different buildings, a new one that will be opening in the next couple of weeks for students is affectionately called “Starbucks on Steroids” by many, but actually called “The Refinery”, complete with two basketball courts, volleyball court, theatre, game room, skate park and a restaurant (thus the “starbucks on steroids” moniker)…so now…the campus will soon have two restaurants for sobbing out loud!!! sorry, my A.D.D again…But anyway… why was this time different, you may be asking. Well, I had pretty much decided that I was not a big fan of Rick Warren. Why? Many reasons, that I will not get into at this point. But he turned me around - OK - maybe it was God…so I am now not going to be so quick to dismiss his “style” of preaching. The approach that they take is actually biblical and makes so much sense for - well - those who are new Christians or might not of grown up in a Christian environment or ever even heard of Jesus!! I know alot of evangelical/protestant churches are “prescribing” to this “Purpose Driven” way of things these days. I guess I am trying to say is that the lesson I really learned in church yesterday was: don’t be quick to judge anything until you have all the facts, and can truly see where someone is coming from or why they do the things they do.

On a side note…do you any of you remember the group Ambrosia? Or perhaps you remember this song by them, called “Biggest Part of Me?” Well, David Pack, the lead singer, is now a member of this church, and sang that song during the service yesterday morning ~ rewritten of course. He can still hit all the high notes…it was great!!! And my cousins daughters best friend got to sing back up for him!! It was really a great treat, it seemed everyone was loving it ~ all that was missing were the lighters ~ haha! I am going to try and find the lyrics…and post them later. But here is the chorus of the song: (they put the words up on the big “jumbo-tron” - so you can sing along).

Make a wish, brother (insted of baby)
Well, and He will make it come true
Make a list, sister
Of the things He’ll do for you
Ain’t no risk, now,
In lettin’ His love rain down on you,
So He can wash away the past,
So that we may start anew

Anyway, it was pretty cool!! The only disappointment to me was that Rick preached “via satellite” from the Corona location. There was a group of about thirty people all the way from Montana on their way to Mexico for a mission trip, that was there, I bet they were disappointed to…that Rick wasn’t actually there live and not like memorex…anywho, I guess we don’t go to church solely for the pastor…huh??