the 10 day YOU challenge - 2 songs

Here we are again on my 10 day (week) you challenge from BlogLoveTherapy, and this week is another hard one for me. 

I think it would be easier for me to share with you the 2 genres of music that I can't stand....

1) hard rock...like ACDC, and I grew up on that music.  But now those screaming guitars and heavy drums give me a headache.  Yea, I know, I'm showing my age, but I prefer to call it maturity. hahaha

2) Rap...half jokingly hubby and I call it rap crap.  If I can't understand the words, why listen?  And of the raps songs that I can understand, why would I want to listen to a song that talks about violence, and hate?  Why not listen to songs that encourage us and lift us up?

 

One thing I can say is that while my tastes have changed since I entered into a relationship with Jesus Christ, I don't only listen to hymns.  There are wonderful songs in every decade, and I listen to them all.  And so does Owen...he loves 40's jazz, 50's rock and roll, 60's fun, 70's love songs, and he even knows the words to Freddie Fenders "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights". lol

 

 

My most recent favorite song is a worship song, and it just transports me every time I hear it.

"10,000 Reasons" by Matt Redmen.

 

Be blessed,

Debbi

my 10 day YOU challenge - 4 books



Hey y'all...here we are at day (week) 4 of the challenge from BlogLoveTherapy. 

 

4 books....hmmm, this is going to be very difficult because I am an avid reader and can not possibly narrow it down to 4.  So I will be breaking it down to 4 categories.

 

1)  My most favorite book is my Bible.  Yes, I go to church and have faith, but you see, I don't have "religion", I have a "relationship".  And my bible is God's love letter to me.  And one I could not live without!

 

2)  Next up, my favorite books from my past...you know the kind of books that are so well written that you can close your eyes and remember the story years, even decades, later?  I have read 2 like that...J.R.R Tolkiens "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" series, which probably everyone has read, or at least seen the movies.  Let me tell you if you have only seen the movies, the books are sooo much better.  The other series is "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by Stephan R. Donaldson.  They are similar to Tolkiens books, but instead of being a separate world, we are pulled into the world of "the Land" through Thomas Covenant, a modern day leper who finds himself pulled into the Land in his sickness.  If you haven't read it, I won't tell you anymore.

 

3)  The books I find myself drawn to today are mostly series and my favorites are...

"The Mitford Series" by Jan Karon.  A great series about the life of Father Tim set in the funny and cozy world of Blowing Rock, NC.  Only it's not called Blowing Rock in the series.

"The Left Behind Series" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.  If you are interested in end time prophecy, these are great fiction books to keep your interest, and I have found them to be scripturally accurate when compared to the Bible.

Any of the many series written by Beverly Lewis.  She is an amazing author who writes stories about life in the Amish community.

And I also love books written by Karen Kingsbury and Ted Dekker.

 

4)  This last category I am going to leave open, because there are so many books out there just waiting to be discovered. 

 

So, that is my challenge for this week, click on the link above to see what other great bloggers are reading.

Be blessed,

Debbi

my 10 day (week) YOU challenge - week 5 - foods

As many of you already know, I am participating in the 10 day you challenge from BlogLoveTherapy.   And this week we are sharing our 5 foods...
 

 

1)  Ok, hmmm, let me think about this...can you guess?

CHOCOLATE

nuff said.

 

2)  Pizza.  Seriously, I could eat pizza everyday.  But not just any type of pizza, it has to be hand tossed (thick crust) and don't try and slip any veggies or funny fish onto my pizza.  No sirree...just crust, sauce (sweet), cheese (lots), and meat!  Pizza Huts meat lovers!  I also enjoy Hawaiian pizza...ham, pineapples, yum yum.  Our local pizza parlor makes great Hawaiian pizza.  Plus, there is a pizza franchise around us where you can eat all you want for only $5.00.  "Welcome to CiCi's"!!  And they have a pizza made with Bavarian cream.  Yes, dessert pizza.  The person who invented dessert pizza should win the Nobel Peace Prize!

 

3)  Chicken.  I love chicken.  Grilled.  Sweet n sour.  Roasted.  Fried.  But I will not eat any of MY chickens.  There's something about eating an animal I have named and carried around my yard. lol.  Once we were eating at our local Golden Corral, and they have a chocolate fountain.  I was telling my kids how everything tastes great dipped in chocolate, so one of the girls decided to try it on her chicken.  Well, I was wrong.  Chocolate covered fried chicken? ummm, not so good. :0)

 

4)  Pumpkin.  This is a big reason why I love the fall.  It's only in the fall that I can get the pumpkin bread from Bob Evans.  Or the Pumpkin Spice creamer from Coffee Mate.  But since I've started canning pumpkin, I can enjoy pumpkin bars, pumpkin bread, pumpkin whoopie pies, all year long.

 

5) And finally, as you can probably tell from the links in this post, I love food that I don't have to cook myself! 

 

If you haven't already, try this challenge for yourself, it's lots of fun.  And if you click on the top link for BlogLoveTherapy, you can see all the other great bloggers participating in this challenge.

If you would like to just share your general blog, or find other cool blogs to follow, click here for BlogLoveTherapy's weekly blog hop.

Until tomorrow....

Be blessed,

Debbi

my 10 day you challenge - 8 fears

Hello again, it's time for my 10 day you challenge (but I made it a 10 week challenge, lol).  It all started (with me) over at Blog Love Therapy, which is a great place for creative bloggers to get together.  So let's start this week...



 

my 8 fears....

 

1) SPIDERS!!!  Even pictures of spiders makes me swat the screen with a rolled paper.  Actually I have gotten better, there was a time I wouldn't even kill them myself, I would just scream and run.  And the size doesn't matter, if it has 8 legs...kill it!  Here's a funny story, before Chuck and I got married, I was a single mom.  Amanda came out of our bathroom crying (she was still young) about a spider in the tub.  I looked at it and my solution to the problem was to close the door and window, and put a rolled towel at the bottom of the door until Chuck got home from work and was able to come over and kill it.  We spend the whole day with "our back teeth floating" because we refused to open the bathroom door.  By the time Chuck got there, that little spider was gone, and it took a week before I could walk into that room with shivering. hahaha

2) Heights.  I'm not really afraid of heights, I just see no reason to climb any ladder higher then 4 feet.  That's why I have men in my life, to fix my roof, to hang Christmas lights, to trim trees.

3)  The dentist...but I still enjoy the laughing gas.  It reminds me of my teen years. :~D

4)  Pit Bulls...don't bother telling me that it's the owners to blame when they attack.  Just don't bother inviting my into your house if your pit bull is loose.

5)  Big cities and large crowds of people.  I'm not really afraid of them, I just don't like them.

*insert the theme song for Green Acres*

6) The people I love getting hurt.  I don't even like to think about it.  I'm trying to figure a way to wrap my grandson Owen in bubble wrap!

7)  Thunder storms...I like to watch storms and lightening as long as they are far away, but once the booming is over my house?  Forget it.  I will sit on the couch and count the space between the lightening and the thunder until I know that the storm is moving away.

8) Finally, I am afraid of lists that make me confront my fears!  Now I have to go and check my bathroom for spiders.  Ugh.

 

Now it's your turn, share your 8 fears, and then link up your blog post here.

 

Be blessed,

Debbi

The 10 day you challenge!

There is a challenge going on over at BlogLoveTherapy.  BlogLoveTherapy is a great place for bloggers to get together for support and fun.  So here is what is going on this week...



 

Here are my 10 secrets...

1.) I have a shoe obsession.  Of course if you have ever seen my closet, you already know this secret.  BUT I have found that as I get older, my shoes have become more sparkly and with higher heels.  Which hubby is not crazy about because now I am taller then him. lol

2.)  I dream of being an author.  I have dreamed about this since high school.  So to make my dream a reality (hopefully) I started writing short stories on my blog here, and last night Amanda shared with me a link to Amazon's National Novel Writing Month. 

3.)  I love to read, and I do my most reading in my bathroom, with the door locked. (yes, I have kids).

4.)  I dislike cooking.  But I do like to bake.  And I hate to clean up after both.

5.)  My blonde hair comes from a bottle.  My blondness comes naturally.

6.)  I am not afraid of snakes, but spiders make me scream and run.

7.)  Despite growing up in snowy Buffalo NY, I can neither skate nor ski.

8.)  I do not wish to learn to skate or ski.

9.)  I have imaginary conversations with myself.  Sometimes I find myself having them out loud, and when I get caught, I pretend I have one of those bluetooth phones.

9.)  I wear a size 16, but I feel like a size 6.

10.)  I am naturally extroverted, so thinking up 10 secrets was very difficult.

 

There...done...now it's your turn.  Blog about your 10 secrets, and then link it up at BlogLoveTherapy.

 

Be blessed,

Debbi