heart of stone

i just cried at least five different times while watching the movie becoming jane. i've come to the conclusion that if you don't cry watching the movie you have a heart of stone. :P nat watched the movie with me and he didn't cry*. i accused of having a heart of stone to which he replied, "i guess i'll watch it again". we'll see if he cries.

* granted he was working and playing video games on his laptop so he was watching off and on, but that's not the point.

hosed

many many years ago (i think 2002) when i got my computer, i decided to partition my hard drive into 3 sections -- one for the OS, one for programs, and one for my personal information. i figured, 7GB of space would be enough for the OS. unfortunately, i didn't realize that even though i installed the programs on a different partition, things were still being written into my OS partition. so over years, my OS partition has run out of space. the past month, i've had 600MB max of free space on my OS partition, so i've been trying to free up space by uninstalling all the programs i didn't need, doing disk cleanup almost every week, etc.

finally, last week, i just got fed up after i got the "You are running low on disk space" message for the third time in a week. i decided right then to reformat and reinstall windows on my machine. who would have thought it would take the whole day to figure out how to do it? the first problem i ran into was that i would run the setup for Windows XP in my old version of XP. when you do this, it copies the install files onto your harddrive. no big deal, right? well, it is if you have partitioned your drive b/c you can't delete the partition and remerge all the undeleted partitions into one chunk b/c the setup files are on the partition. so all i had to do was just boot from the CD. simple, right? no, not for my computer. my desktop doesn't have a CD-ROM in the tower itself (it's generally used as a small server computer i think); i have had to use the USB external CD-ROM to connect to it. we tried changing the BIOS, but it didn't detect the USB port that was connected to the CD-ROM. grrr. we tried copying the setup files we need (from a reference online) to a USB key. the BIOS detected the USB, but it couldn't boot from the USB.

by this time, we had just given up. nat was going to try to switch the harddrive out from my current computer into an older computer that had a CD-ROM and wipe and reinstall the harddrive; he was going to do that the next day b/c we were so frustrated and tired. by a stroke of luck, we had one of nat's friends over for a game that night. he suggested opening up the computer, taking out the CD-ROM from my old computer and attaching it to my current computer and installing from there. it was quite a hack job, but fortunately my current computer had an IDE spot for the CD-ROM. i had to connect the power of the CD-ROM to my old computer b/c the power didn't match for my current computer. it looked like frankenstein, but with computers.

to my joy, it worked. it booted from the CD, i wiped and reinstall, and now i have all this space on my computer. :) yippee. :) i must say, as a neat freak, i like how there is minimal stuff on my computer right now. :) i realized after cleaning up my harddrive multiple times before i reinstalled that not all programs will delete all the folders and files that are associated with a given program during an uninstall.

my computer is running, i have lots of harddrive space, and very minimal stuff on my computer. ahh. i feel good. :)

can an extrovert have too much social activity?

we'll find out after this week...

tuesday night: women's Bible study
wednesday night: hang out with friend
thursday night: movie night with friends
friday night: baby shower
saturday night: dinner with friends
sunday night: small group

my poor introverted husband....

good luck charm?

well, texas pulled out another victory this week. sean was wearing the same jersey he was last week.

i'm still nervous that texas won't be able to make it through the season unscathed. there has been so many changes to the top 10 rankings in the poll that it seems like no one is safe. maybe it'll help if sean keeps wearing his jersey?

cry baby

you know you're ready to have another kid when you tear up watching "a baby story" while working out.

what would Jesus say?

i'm very saddened to hear that there are services like this. what would Jesus say to this "consumerist" attitude that some churches are promoting?

i'd like to direct the people who provide and use the mystery-worshipper service to todd agnew's new song--my Jesus. here are the powerful lyrics:

Which Jesus do you follow?
Which Jesus do you serve?
If Ephesians says to imitate Christ,
Why do you look so much like the world?

Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the arrogant
So which one do you want to be?

Blessed are the poor in spirit, do we pray to be blessed with the
Wealth of this land
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness
Do we ache for another taste of this world of shifting sand

And who is this that you follow
This picture of the American dream
If Jesus was here would you walk right by on the other side
Or fall down and worship at His holy feet

Pretty blue eyes, curly brown hair and a clear complexion
Is how you see Him as He dies for Your sins
But the Word says He was battered and scarred
Or did you miss that part
Sometimes I doubt we'd recognize Him

Cause my Jesus would never be accepted in my church
The blood and dirt on His feet might stain the carpet
But He reached for the hurting and despises the proud
I think He'd prefer Beal St. to the stained glass crowd
But I know that He can hear me if I cry out loud

I want to be like my Jesus
Can I be like You
I want to be like my Jesus

red river shoot out

i didn't think we could do it, but we won the red river shoot out. :) fortunately, i got to celebrate with my family and jay, who is also a big texas fan. i'll be sad when jay leaves, b/c i won't have anyone else to celebrate with outside my family.

here is our family, celebrating!

the highlight of my day yesterday

going to the new meijer in urbana. i kid you not, i was super excited to go. ;)

pleasantly surprised

i've been taking advantage of my library by checking out movies that i've been wanting to see. i must say, i've been pleasantly surprised with how family friendly many of the movies we've seen are--hairspray (the newest version), night at the museum, no reservations.

i don't know if it's b/c of the news we read or the shows we watch on tv, but when we've watched these movies we've always thought the worst things were going to happen--someone gets kidnapped, someone gets raped, someone gets beaten up, etc. so it's refreshing to watch these movies that prove our expectations wrong.