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Name: Jessica
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Metro: Greensboro
Birthday: 3/15/1990
Gender: Female
Interests: First and foremost, my wonderful Savior, God, and King: Jesus!Missions, Acting, Animals - especially dogs and horses, Reading, Writing, Art, Knitting
Expertise: The only area that could maybe go here is baby-sitting.
Occupation: Student and Cashier
Industry: Christian bookstore
Message: message me
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Member Since:
4/19/2006
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| The True Tale of the Baby-sitter and the Psycho CatThe other day, I get a baby-sitting job for the brother of one of our friends. His wife is out of town, and he has to teach a class at their church. So I drive the half-hour to their house, meet the kids and their (supposedly) sweet little cat. Molly isn't a kitten, but not quite full grown either. Pretty cute, fluffy, gray and white. She even rubs up against me and lets me pet her. Everything's great.
Until snack time.
The kids want apples, so I open the fridge to get them out, and Molly comes streaking across the house and jumps into the refrigerator!  Okay, I think, this is strange. What could she want in the fridge? I look in, and Molly has pushed her way to the far back between a bunch of drinks and such and has no apparent intentions of getting out. I call her a few times, but she just gives me this look like, I'm here to stay. I put my hand in to pull her out, and get a look similar to this:
(Seriously, that's almost exactly what she did.)
By this time the kids are wondering what's going on, so they come to see. They're both a bit too young to really help but try anyway and get the same response. 
Okay, this cat has problems.
I need to get the kids their snack so they can get off to naps, so I figure I'll let the cat see what happens in the fridge. I shut the door, get the apples sliced and served, then return, figuring I'll find a penitent cat waiting to come out and behave.
Ha.
Guess what I get when I open fridge and attempt to remove kitty? (See above photo.)
By this time I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I can't get Molly out, but I can't leave her in or she'll end up as a cat-sicle. And I can't leave the refrigerator open or I'll waste a ton of electricity. 
Finally, I notice the cat perk up when I take start moving food around on the shelf above it.
Hmm, that gives me an idea.
I move a container really close to the edge of the shelf. The cat leans out to sniff, and one quick smack on the tail is enough to move it to the ground.  I quickly shut the fridge, and the cat looks up at me, meowing indignantly. Molly stalks off to the other end of the house and spends the next hour there - with no complaints from me. 
And I thought getting locked out of the house during a baby-sitting job was exciting! 
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| Want to see a GREAT movie?Guess what I got to see yesterday! The new film by Sherwood Pictures (the creators of Facing the Giants)! Fireproof is a movie I would recommend to anyone; it's clean and funny and wonderful all around.  They did such a good job with it. Even though they deal with some deep issues, it's handled so well that any age could see it. 
It was produced by a church in Georgia on a $500,000 budget, opened in about 850 theaters nationwide, and until opening day pretty much flew under the radar of most of the Hollywood big-shots. Then it exploded! Even with being the #1 ticket seller on Fandango, it wasn't given a ton of attention. However, on Friday, it was the #3 movie IN AMERICA!! Go see it if you haven't yet. Hollywood's gearing up for a bunch of releases next Friday, and if this film doesn't do well enough, most theaters are planning to cut it out in favor of the bigger buck-makers. Another AWESOME thing about the film was the integrity in it. At the end, the Holts (the lead characters) kiss. Kirk Cameron (who played the male lead) wouldn't kiss the female lead because of his covenant of marraige with his wife. Of course, the Sherwood people didn't expect him to. So Cameron's wife came in, they got her a wig and the same outfit and makeup as Erin Bethea, and shot the scene in sillouette so no one could tell the difference. Hollywood was just astounded by it! (That's so cool.) Basic story line: Caleb Holt (a captain in the Albany fire department) and Catherine Holt (PR director at a nearby hospital) have been married for seven years and are ready to move on to something more exciting. Caleb's father urges him to hold off on the divorce for 40 days while going through a devotional he gives him called The Love Dare (which was originally only a plot device, but, due to an overwhelming interest after a screening, was written for publishing). The movie is then about the process of him trying to win back his wife's heart. So good; you have to see it! That's it for now. Here's a funny joke, though, off of a Christian comedy DVD we were watching earlier this evening. Thor Ramsey (who, by the way, is one of my favorite comedians) was talking about how he and his wife are homeschooling parents: "When they hear we homeschool, one of the first questions people ask us is, 'Well, aren't you worried about socialization?' Of course we are; that's why we homeschool!" | | |
| It's a Zoo Day!One of my dad's coworkers was going on a trip to the zoo with his family and a group from their church on Saturday (the 20th). He invited us to come along. Mom and Z couldn't, but the rest of us went. The zoo is about 45 minutes or so from our house. We met the rest of the group at the zoo and went in for about 3 hours that morning. We went in through the Africa entrance, so we spent most of the morning there. Ever seen a zebra's stomach? I never knew there was a stripe down the middle. 
The zoo has all these metal sculptures along the paths and such. O and J had fun climbing on some of them. 
Then we went back to the cars for lunch. Our group split up to go to the different vehicles, and I managed to get lost.  lol We were all hanging out near the entrance, and I stayed behind after Dad, T, S, O, and J went to the van so I could finish my conversation. Then, when I went to join them, I passed up the correct parking lot and went way far down looking for the van. Tells you how great my sense of direction/memory is. No cell phone service meant me wandering around for 10 minutes or so. But I made it back to the van and had lunch. After lunch, we took a tram down to where we had stopped that morning. We went through the rest of the zoo that afternoon, and finished at about 5. There's a really cool playground area for the kids. It's like a giant garden. The structures are all giant veggies, vines, and such. There are some big bug ones, too: a praying mantis, bumblebees, etc, and a spiderweb to climb. 
Red wolf: 
The arctic fox pup was so cute! It was right up at the fence where you stood to watch, and it would follow us around.  
Otters! One of my favorite animals there:  
Oh, and I thought of you, Inky, outside of the aquarium exhibit:  
Haha. You're the one who got me started on that show!  Tonight, I'm going to the class S is helping teach. My small bit of experience with web-design got me pulled into setting up the class site. It's fun, though. I have to go tonight to show the class what's been done so far and get their input on changes, etc. Hmm. Why do audio theater things show up as "Reading" instead of "Listening" on the " Currently ____" thing? | | |
| Just a little update ...It's strange to think that it's been seven years since the terrorist attacks ... In one way it's seemed like not that long, but in another way it's seemed longer. Though my name's not there, something I submitted to a website got posted! On Joshua Phillips' (son of Doug Phillips of Vision Forum) website, he was talking about inscriptions in books. He said that if any of his readers had old books with inscriptions in them to take pics and send them to him. I had one and sent it in, and he put it in his post for 9-11-08. Mine's the Thomas Jefferson one. Nothing else new to say, so here's some pictures of Z:  
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| School has come again!Back to work! I'm hoping to finish up by the end of '08, but we'll see ... Not much has been going on lately other than school and work. We're getting all our Christmas stock! And it's only the beginning of September! I'm in charge of the Dayspring department at the store - I have to place the orders each week, make sure they are delivered and stocked correctly, and all that. Idk where I'm gonna put all these boxes of Christmas cards! I hope they don't send us anymore for another couple of months. We were listening to a kids' story CD of O's the other day, and here's a funny quote from it (there's a lot of those in this series): "I was in such a good mood this morning that I read the book of Lamentations just to even things out." ttyl! | | |
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