90's Flashback

You've Had Too Much of the 90's When...

You try to enter your password on the microwave.

You now think of three espressos as "getting wasted."

You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.

You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he emails you back "What's for dinner?"

Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.

You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.

You didn't give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your email buddies via a Web page.

Your daughter just bought on CD all the records your college roommate used to play that you most despised.

You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea

Thought you guys would like this.

A Day To Remember

Mark this day on your calenders. Call Guinness for the newest candidate for longest time ever being single, but those days are now over for now.

Chrissy Dennis is no longer single.

Read those words over carefully, because I know they are difficult to believe. Heck, I don't even believe them yet. It took a lot of praying, getting insight from friends and reviewing my feelings, but it happened. Chrissy Dennis is no longer single.

I don't know what the future holds, but I do know that if God is in the mix, and if this is part of His divine plan, then I'm not worried. (Well that's not true, of course I'm worried, but I trust Him).

Just thought you'd like an update. Please pray for me as I begin this journey that I've never taken. I'm scared to death; I won't lie, but I know who Jesus Christ is, and He'll take care of me.

CHRISSY

Is Fear a Factor for You?

Hey all

Okay so silly question: does anybody have eany great ideas for gross and/or physical challenges for kids in the age range of 11-13 year-olds?

Tuesday night will hold our 2nd Annual Fear Factor Challenge, and I'm trying to come up with something to top our Sardines/Oyster one from last year, but I'm also trying to avoid seafood, just in case.

I also need some in-between challenges. If you can think of anything - the food doesn't actually have to be gross, it just has to look gross, and I can make something up. For example, I'm doing a challenge where they have to dig out cow eyeballs from a bowl of Pig Mucus. Where actually, they are going to be digging out something like gumballs out of tinted green cool whip. So just something like that. If you can think of anything, please comment or email me. Before tomorrow if possible, since Tuesday I have to do all my shopping and should have a game plan by that point.

I'll post a blog after Fear Factor, letting you know how it all went. LOL. It should be exciting...

Especially because I only have to host. Muah ha ha

CHRISSY

God is Amazing

I just wanted to share how God's been working in my life. He's so amazing, did you know that? If you didn't know that, or you don't know Him, you don't know what you're missing!

I've been dealing with random crap for about 3 months (Kari estimates) and I've been convincing myself and others that I've been fine. I haven't even been writing anything down in my journal, that's how convinced I was, and yet stuff was just building up, and over the last few weeks, things have gotten worse and I've basically had more mental breakdowns than...I don't know, something that has an outbreak of mental breakdowns. It's been daily, anyway.

Long story short, throughout all of this, I kept hearing that voice telling me to open up, to stop faking it, to stop wearing a mask and be real; to myself, to others, and to God. I had the feeling that I had to deal with everything, so that was when I got the idea to make a list. So God was leading me to do the list last weekend, and I ended up side-stepping that, but felt guilty and this weekend, was forced to. God wanted me to do it before communion Sunday so I could go to the Lord's table clean and relieved. The biggest thing I heard God say to me, when I asked Him where He was, and why couldn't I feel Him, was "Let people in; that's how you'll see My love."

So Saturday night, 2 1/2 hours and 13 typed single space pages later, I had my feelings. It's amazing how exhausting that can be! I fell asleep so fast, and even napped on Sunday! (I know, weird eh?) I'm still tired, but I got it out of me, and I prayed about it, so it was God's.

Well yesterday, I was more honest about not being fine, and I opened up a little bit to Michelle when she asked me if my ear was bothering me, and I said yes, and proceeded to tell her what was wrong with it, and I'm not kidding, INSTANTLY, the pain was gone! I just smiled and thought, wow God, You're awesome. But that wasn't the end of it. At Bible study last night, I shared about how I gave stuff to God and need help in dealing with stuff, and I COULD NOT GET OVER HOW LIGHT I FELT, AND HOW I FELT GOD'S LOVE through Michelle, and through Lyla, and through Christ Himself coming on me with His Spirit. I felt His love sweeping through me and gave me a genuine love for the people in the room for me, and...you know what, I won't be able to do it justice by explaining how uplifted it felt, to feel God's love upon me like a dove.

WOW! I'm just so motivated to go out there now. God told me if I stopped faking it and stopped wearing a mask, I would see His love.

And I did.

CHRISSY

Freaky Frenzy

Okay so just when I was starting to think addiction to computer games wasn't actually feasable, I found I was wrong.

So today, while I was patiently awaiting for my professor to show up for my class, I ventured toward a website with an interesting challenge. To guide the red dot through the maze of moving objects to the finish circle.

Looks easy? Think again. I must have spent a good hour at this game, and, though getting within a centemeter from the finish circle, would have to start again, because here's the catch: You cannot let the red dot touch the walls under any circumstance.

Care to try the challenge? www.mazefrenzy.com . Good luck, and if you manage to finish, scroll down to the bottom of that page to try part 2 of Maze Frenzy (follow the link).

Yeah, so good luck. I'm now addicted to it, and am EXTREMELY DETERMINED TO GET IT EVEN IF IT KILLS ME!!!!

CHRISSY