cabin fever

my friend daniel has a theory about lost… he thinks that the reason the show is called lost is because anyone who tries to watch it is going to feel lost during the show. while i usually think, nah, daniel’s just lost because he hasn’t kept up with it, i must admit that the thought did go through my head last night while i was watching a nonchalant claire in the cabin that i thought, “hey, maybe he has a point. i’m lost.” …. but i’m getting ahead of myself. let’s start from the beginning. let’s talk about john locke.

lost has a habit of making you question whether or not you have it on the right channel at the beginning of some episodes. last night was no exception.

we see emily dancing to buddy holly (ah oh ah oh) before going out on a date with a much older anthony cooper… then she gets hit by the car (which i wonder if it’s anthony that actually hits her?) and the next scene is a hospital, where the skinny girl tells the nurse that her eggo is five months prego (thank you juno) and she has the baby. (p.s. i hope i look like that when i’m 5 months pregnant. wow.) so… long story short (too late) it’s john locke. even though he’s super premature, he makes it, but emily gets scared and runs away, and her mom decides to put him up for adoption. and, as chill bumps make their way to me, we see richard (looking the exact same age as he always has) watching this whole thing. what’s even spookier? the mom looks as though she recognizes him. i may be crazy, but the thought did go through my head, hmm… maybe he’s locke’s father? it drives me crazy that he never looks like he ages, but get this: what if richard is just using the time travel thing to his advantage? not that i am even beginning to figure out how it all works, but hey, it’s an idea.

and that brings us to time travel (again). no doubt that this theme has tons to do with lost, and since i have no idea about time travel things, it’s making it harder for me to figure things out. this is the first time that i actually noticed something going on with time travel as we are actually watching the episode: the doctor. i knew i wasn’t losing it… in the freighter time, the doctor was not dead yet. the morse code message could be heard coming from the phone, so that let us know that the island was ahead of the freighter. now it’s understandable that the lostees thought it took forever to hear from the helicopter that took desmond and sayid. hmm… my head hurts.

i only have one more thing to say about the time thing, and it might have something to do with time travel and it might not, and maybe i’m really reading into things, but here’s a question: when horace was talking to john, he said he had been dead for 12 years. this didn’t make sense to me. i thought the whole dharma purge thing had to have happened more than 16 years ago, because i can’t imagine that ben would go steal alex away from danielle while he was still in the dharma initiative and no one question it… unless he stole her, left her with one of the natives, and came back and claimed her later on? but that would make alex 4 and… i just don’t get it… it doesn’t add up. and it was strange to me that horace’s nose was bleeding like the time travelers do when the jump time… but it was a dream of locke’s, right? so does it even matter?

now i’ll just make some interesting points:

1- the island is still not done with michael, since someone else can’t even kill him. dude just can’t catch a break.

2- that “orderly” in the hospital (aka miss klu’s brother, abbadon) is the one that told him to go on the walkabout… he obviously works for widmore, and he’s connected to the island because he needed to get locke there for some reason. p.s. ever realized that the last names sometimes symbolize who the island thinks is good and bad? like goodwin, goodspeed, abbadon (for a bad one)… hmm…

3- i think that locke is the new jacob. did you realize that the first time that locke saw the outline of jacob it kinda looked like locke? then the eye in the cabin that hurley saw looked like locke. and that’s why locke hasn’t seen him since… it’s kinda hard to look for someone when.. um.. you’re him? crazy, i know. but still, it could happen.

4- we finally see that widmore and dharma really do have a connection from the whole protocol book that keamy uses to see what he’s supposed to do next. ready for my theory? i think that charles widmore was somehow involved with the dharma initiative, found out what ben did when he killed everyone, and now he wants his island back and wants to get even with ben.

5- how many times has john locke said “don’t tell me what i can’t do!” in his life? gah, it’s annoying. i’m sure it has a purpose though.

6- what is this???

7- i was bummed when the captain died. he was pretty cool.

8- now back to claire. i’m guessing this is how kate got aaron. i don’t really get how claire was acting though. i don’t think it was really her. first of all, she never liked christian shephard, and would have never called him dad. second of all, aaron was everything to her. she wouldn’t just leave him in the jungle and go off with “daddy.” i don’t know if she was drugged or that just wasn’t her, but something is obviously off. what? i dunno.

9- was it just me or did christian shephard look really old and scruffy?

until next time, stay lost. (i know i am)

i’m working on it…

i know i know…i haven’t updated lost yet, but if you watched the episode you would agree with me when i say that it was full of stuff and i don’t want to miss talking about something, so i am working on it. i promise. it will be here shortly, so stay tuned…

a chance to get some old windows.

right when david and i moved into our house last year, we went on a search for some old, rugged glass pane windows to decorate our walls. we looked everywhere, and while they are not really hard to come by, they are ridiculously priced. and by ridiculous i mean, the cheapest we found them at antique stores was $250. it made me so mad…

until i found out about the spartanburg preservation trust. right now they are renovating an old neighborhood in spartanburg called hampton heights. in order to raise money for their organization, they take the old windows, doors, and other things from these old houses, and sale them to people… for a lot cheaper than $250. so i called and made an appointment and they met me at their building. i picked out my three windows and got all three for a grand total of $15. this is the end result (plus a little painting and unbelievable deals on the chairs and endtable):

the spartanburg architectural salvage is now officially opening to the public. grand opening this saturday, may 10th from 10am-2pm. 307B W. Main St. (above Cohen’s Closeout). for more info, visit the website above or call 864-542-2282. be creative with some windows, while giving to a good cause!

 

 

lens cap blues.

(in a recent comment posted by christian, i was asked what has gotten into me with all the new blogs lately… one a day for three days now. well, here’s the answer: i always get excited when i read someone’s blog and they have updated it… even if it’s not something that is totally unbelievable or even makes sense, just that they have something new on there. it’s like getting that new book from amazon in the mail, or constantly checking your bank account online and seeing that your paycheck was finally deposited. i’m not even sure that makes any sense whatsoever, but hey, it’s the way i think. i came to the conclusion that i could always think of some random comment to make about something…)

which brings us to today’s topic: lens cap blues. for the magazine, i have what i think to be the mac daddy of all cameras out there right now, the nikon d80… complete with one of those huge flashes that you attach to it, for really unbelievable pictures. here’s what’s hilarious though: i walk around with this awesome, high tech “i really know what i’m doing” camera around my neck, and instead of a lens cap, i have a sock covering the lens. i lost the lens cap downtown greenville a few weeks ago, and hey, i’d rather just make myself look ridiculous than get the lens scratched. so there. i look real cool.

**UPDATE: due to.. um.. taking a horrible, picture, i took it off… thanks courtney. hahaha…

morning person. i wish i was one.

i seriously pray that the Lord would make me a morning person. this would solve so many of life’s problems.

#1 i would go exercise.

#2 i would actually sit down, eat breakfast, drink hot tea, and read.

#3 i would take my dogs for a walk.

#4 i would actually iron my clothes instead of throwing them in the dryer.

#5 i might think about blow drying my hair straight once in awhile.

#6 i won’t have to listen to david ask me if i even washed my hair this morning… 

and these are only six reasons. here’s the catch: lately i’ve been waking up around 5:30am, but being stubborn, i force myself to go back to sleep. even if i lay there for an hour, for some reason i absolutely refuse to get my derrière out of bed. so, it’s not like my prayers aren’t being answered. He’s getting me up alright, i just need a change of attitude…. any suggestions?

H is for…

hilarious. as in, this picture i got in an email recently.

haha.

hot weather. i love it.

honeymoon. it rained every day on our honeymoon. that’s why i’m so looking forward to cancun. woo hoo!

horseradish. the key ingredient in the oh so good bloomin onion sauce at outback. i mean, really. is there another sauce that’s better? no. but don’t try to eat this stuff by itself. i did it recently, and it wasn’t pleasant. (right angie?)

hot tamales. these are david’s favorite candy.

horses. the kentucky derby this past weekend was one that will not soon be forgotten. it makes me incredibly sad, but incredibly proud of eight belles at the same time. she had a good run.

houseguest. david and i are having one all summer. welcome, david whitlow.

happy. my birthday is coming up… may 17th. wanna guess how old i’ll be? be nice.

something nice back home…

this episode of lost left me with mixed emotions. obviously, i was super excited to see that it was kate and jack together, but it made it all the more heart breaking when we started to see the decline of jack. i do have some points to make about this episode though.

- how stubborn is jack? stubborn enough to let his appendix burst and die? seemed like it to me. i don’t understand that. i think he still doesn’t truly trust juliet either. which is why he wanted kate in there (other than the fact that he loves her), and then wanted to stay awake while she dug around in his abdominal cavity. seriously, who does that? take it like a man and just go to sleep jack.

- how upset is juliet about the whole realizing that jack loves kate instead of her thing? i gotta hand it to her, way to make him feel bad in the end by saying that to kate while knowing he was awake. and then i gotta give jack props for not squirming while she was sewing him up… but, ya know, if you can handle watching someone carve into your gut i think you can handle being sewn up afterwards. but that extra “jab” from juliet had to make him feel even more like crap.

- the whole hurley scene disturbed me. it’s crazy that this is the part that makes jack flip the switch… the whole message from charlie: “you’re not supposed to raise him, jack.” spoookkyyy… “just take your meds, hurley.”

- the secret phone call thing. you would think that kate would no longer be sneaky, but i guess some things never change. then we find out at the end that she was doing something for “him”… as in… sawyer. and i’ll put money on it that it has something to do with his daughter, clementine. kate already knows cassidy, the mama, anyway from way earlier. i wonder how all that came together?

- something is telling me that the whole “you’re not even related to him” comment in the end is a way of almost revealing that jack eventually found out about him and claire being half siblings. at the same time, that was pretty harsh, jack. if aaron could have understood you that would have been bad, but i’m guessing he’s only around 2, maybe 3, so it could be possible, but not too likely.

- what is up with christian shephard’s ghost? what is going on? did he somehow kidnap claire, and maybe that’s how kate ends up with aaron? i’m sure we’ll find out at some point…. but not next week. it never works that way.

until next time, stay lost.

raleigh palmer beasley

i was brushing my teeth this morning and realized that i have not yet graced my blog with a beautiful picture of sarah jo’s beautiful new baby boy, palmer. sure, he’s been on here before, but.. um… he was not yet out into the world. so a couple weekends ago i had a shower for sarah jo at my house, and here are a couple of cute pics… he’s too adorable! way to go sarah jo!

 

I am…

borrowing an idea from lauren, courtney, and kim. i thought it was fun…

i am: a wife, a daughter, and a sister.
i think: my husband is super hot.
i know: that the Lord is faithful.
i want: a child… (and patio furniture).
i have: two dogs.
i wish: i could go to italy.
i hate: injustice.
i hear: roxy squeeling with the tennis ball in her mouth.
i feel: loved.
i miss: being a child and going on family vacations.
i fear: spiders.
i smell: achilles paws all the time.
i crave: marble slab chocolate ice cream with cookie dough.
i search: for the negatives from my wedding.
i wonder: why i don’t draw anymore.
i regret: eating the marble slab chocolate ice cream with cookie dough.
i love: sleeping in.
i care: about trying to keep my dogs off the landscaping (david would argue otherwise).
i always: read magazines backwards.
i am not: scared.
i believe: in miracles.
i dance: with my husband and i love it.
i sing: to make my husband laugh.
i cry: when i am passionate about something.
i don’t always: tell people how i feel.
i fight/wrestle: with achilles when we play “bite the hand”
i write: on this blog not as often as i should.
i win: against the enemy everyday.

i lose: track of time when i’m in target.

i never: will give up.

i confuse: people with the names jessica and jennifer all the time.
i listen: to the Lord… and my mom.
i can usually be found: at Belle Magazine, working against deadlines.
i am scared: of snakes too.
i need: to drink more water.
i am happy about: going to cancun this summer.

the shape of things to come

wow. you know, just when i think that lost cannot possibly throw another shocker my way, it does. but i’m getting ahead of myself. let’s start from the beginning:

the jack/kate flirt scene. i have to admit, it was a little cheesy. but since i am a jater, i have to love it. too bad the whole jack is sick thing kinda threw it off. and usually, jack is lookin pretty good, but when kate said, you don’t look too hot, i totally had to agree. we all know he doesn’t die though, since we have the flashforward pill popping jack to look forward to (but not really).

so… jack is totally onto daniel farraday’s sneaky endeavors. and who knew that bernard had mad morse code skills? could you see daniel actually wetting himself when he got found out? not really, but i absolutely loved it. what a weirdo.

speaking of weird, did i totally miss when the doctor died on the ship? i could have. but then, the ship said the doctor was fine? i’m totally lost here, but only this show and make you completely forget about the mysterious body that washed up on shore by going to the next scene.

which brings us to alex and her new found freighter enemies. seriously, how did they get to the island? did i miss something? smart girl putting in the warning code for dad… and then… well… you know. i can’t even say it. this part totally disturbed me. i really like alex, and all the more solidifies one more reason i can’t stand ben. (and when claire’s house got bombed the thought did go through my head that she was actually dead and that’s why kate has aaron. then i realized that she still is in a couple more episodes according to imdb… yes i look at imdb all the time thankyouverymuch.)

but i have to say this: what is up with sawyer being all worried about everyone and taking care of everybody? when did this happen? i have to admit, i kinda like it, but at the same time it doesn’t really go. i guess we’ll see if locke harms “one hair on hurley’s curly head.”

the smoke monster: i didn’t realize it was ben’s little killer pet? this was the most we’ve actually seen how huge this smoke monster is… we usually just hear it but it graced us with it’s entire presence the other night.

now onto the flash forwards… ben centric, obviously. but when i saw sayid say to the camera he just wanted to bury his wife, i was confused to say the least. then he said nadia to ben, and i got happy and sad for him all at the same time. he found her, but he lost her for good. and ben is still the little con man… did you see that smirk after sayid said “who’s next?” bleh.

the last scene questions: what exactly where the rules that evidently widmore broke? why can’t ben just kill widmore? why does widmore think that ben will never find penny? and what about widmore owning the island? what was that about? perhaps that’s what started this whole thing. widmore sent dharma there, ben got rid of dharma by killing everyone, and widmore is mad about it, therefore wants ben?

anyway, next week’s episode looks good as well… until next time, stay lost.