Miss Cleo or Divine Intervention?

Ring ring..... could I be the new Miss Cleo? Anyone remember her? 

I think I've become the new Miss Cleo...minus the 1800 number, lawsuits and jail time. For the past week I've had the most vivid, crazy dreams. For some people this is normal but for me it isn't. I rarely dream and if I do, I never remember them. So when I have a reoccurring dream or an actual dream that I can remember it usually affects me and my day.

I usually don't think anything of the dreams. I shrug them off as nothing and tell myself they were either caused by something I ate, something I've read or something I've seen in a movie or on television. However, this week one dream has profoundly effected me. To explain it, I'm going to have to give a little back story. Bare with me. 

Near the end of 2007, I got extremely sick. I was having serious stomach problems. I became so sick that one night after months of feeling horrible, seeing doctors and never getting answers that I begged God to either just let me die (which I'm extremely afraid of) or to get better. At that point in my life, God and I had had it out multiple times. I was struggling to believe in anything but I was raised in a very religious family so when I got sick, I looked for answers. Months later I finally started getting better and after a year I was basically back to normal days of feeling ok. Yet, this time I felt different. I started saying a nightly pray. AND if you know me, then you know that was a big step for me to take. When I don't understand things, or don't know what to do, or I have a day where I feel sick, I always go address it in my nightly prayer. 

So...this leads me back to the dreams. At the start of this week, I said my nightly prayers and went to bed. I woke up and I could remember the entire dream I'd just had. In the dream someone I knew and had once dated was getting engaged. In the dream I was there, watching it unfold. I shrugged off the dream and went on with me day. A few hours later, I'm at work and I find out that the person in my dream... got engaged. It scared the crap out of me. Why? Because I may or may not have mentioned them in my nightly pow wow with God. Now, why am I talking about this? I seriously believe that God was preparing me for it. I think he knew that I needed the heads up. And I've had 2 other come true dreams this week, hence the miss cleo (seeing the future) reference. 

Now you can laugh or call me crazy or think that I've seriously went off the deep end but I really do think that I was given that dream. And a few years ago, if I would have read this I would have thought, wow that girl is losing it. Now... not so much. I mean do you ever feel like God has intervened in your life problems? 

Theater Thursday

Welcome! It's Thursday so that means it's time for another Theater Thursday! This week in honor of the Olympics, we're taking a look at Cool Runnings. 

Cool Runnings is based on the true story of the First Jamaican bobsledding team trying to make it to the Olympics. Derice Bannock, a sprinter trying to make it to the summer games becomes involved in an accident during a qualifying race and misses out on making the team. Trying to figure out a way to make it to the Olympics he learns that an ex-bobsledding champion now coach is living on the island... Irving Blitzer (John Candy). Derice tries to convince him to coach him to the Olympics and to help start a team. Blitzer (Candy) wants no part in it yet becomes convinced when Derice let's him know that him and his father were once friends. 

Derice has an open house looking for 3 teammates. He enlists his good friend Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug), fellow sprinter Yul Brenner and a rich boy, Junior Bevil. They begin practice, start raising money and head off to the Calgary games without a sponsor, hoping to qualify to race. 

The 1988 Jamaican Bobsled team & Coach

Fun Fact: The 1st Jamaican Bobsledding team competed at the 1988 Olympic games and included the four following men: Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White and Samuel Clayton. 

Now, here's the really fun part! Do you have a a movie you love that's out on Dvd? Post about it, then come back here and link up! Don't know how to use McKLinky? It's simple...here's what you do to link up. Once you've published your movie post, come back here. Click on "You Are Next" then follow the steps of entering your name and blog post address. Still have questions, then just e-mail me!

Spilling the Beans

I have a confession to make. I am an obsessive list maker. There I said it. Please don't hate me. 

I make a "To-Do" list every single day. At the end of the day, if all my items on the list have been marked off then I feel very accomplished. I can't help it, I've been this way for years. I find these lists everywhere. Maybe I should make it an item on my list to find and throw out all of my random "to do" lists laying around. 

Why am I talking about this? Well that's because yesterday I got to mark off a big item on my list. I booked my flights for the month of May. If you thought I was driving out there, heck no! Also, I started the process of getting ride of things I don't need to take. I began with my bedroom closets (yes I said closets plural, I have 2) and oh my goodness! I think I have every piece of clothing I've ever bought. I was in a sorority in college and if you know anything about sorority life, it's that we love our t-shirts. I think I counted at least 20 greek life related t-shirts, not including big/little sweatshirts. I can't throw those out! The 1990's parachute pants...yeah those can be go bye bye. 

I'm thinking I'm going to have to have my very 1st yard sale come spring. Maybe someone out there is dying for a VHS of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a cassette player stereo or out dated clothing to wear to themed parties.

It's not where I originally was going but I think it's going to be fabulous! It's going to be a crazy, long adventure getting there but life is all about challenges, chances and making the most of it. I'm willing and welcoming it with open arms. You never know what can happen! 

Doesn't it just look amazing!?!