what are you going to go write about that in your blog?

so, this is fairly old news but as i rake my brain for topics to keep my dusty old blog from getting so...well, dusty, this is pretty much all i can think of. so. here we go.

for any of you out there in blogland who didn't know, some of the, let's call them, "quirkiest" people you can imagine tend to flock to my workplace of Edwards Cinema like the Israelites exodus-ing Egypyt. Some have names (ie "Tiny"-the burly 6'smthg" man whose voice register rivals mickey mouse's & "Two Hot Dogs & a large Diet"-a guy who ALWAYS, no matter what, orders two hot dogs and a large diet coke when he ocmes in), but most just deliver an anonymously quick and unwanted batch of driveby freakiness. this story pertains to two quirky gentlement in particular that i had the "good fortune" (?) of serving a few weeks ago.

aaaaaand ACTION!

Two Gents: *approach counter*
Missy: "Hi! How're you doing?"
Two Gents: "Fine and you?"
Missy: "Good, what can I get for you?"
Two Gents: "*list off random overpriced concession items*"
Missy: *gets concession items & returns to counter*
Annoying Fly: *flies in Missy's face*
Missy: *attempts to swat at Annoying Fly who is repeatedly flying in her face* "Is that going to be all?"
Gent #1: "Uh, do you have turrets or something?"
Gents #1&2: *laugh*
Missy: "....No. There's a fly."
Gent #1: "Well, I don't see it."
Missy: "*forced laugh*Haha........"
Gent #1: "What are you going to go write about that in your blog?"
Two Gents: "*laugh some more*"
Missy: "*more forced laughter*haha, sure........have a nice day."

so. here i sit. writing about it in my blog to appease the fat gentleman who accused me of having turrets. i hope you're happy, sir. if nothing else, you've served as a quick detour from my writer's block.

amen and amen.
mjl.

home alone...not

so, for those of you out there who may be unfamiliar with traditions of the family lonsinger...ever since i can remember, my grandparents (dad's parents) rent a beach house somewhere on the coast and my dad's entire side of the family stays there for a designated amount of time. it used to be a couple weeks, went down to a week, and now they're only staying for a few days. and as the times have changed, so have the beaches. we used to stay at morro bay and cayucous, then we started migrating towards pismo. currently, we're in oceano (a little town on pismo).

so i've taken a quick break from the family time to check the myspace, facebook, etc. and, of course, write to you loverly readers out in blogland. (if there were any doubts that my life is utterly lame, they were destroyed in the last sentence). the latest family event...dinnertime.

now, for those of you out there keeping score, there are (including myself) 2 grandparents, 4 uncles, 3 aunts, 8 grandchildren, 2 girlfriends of 2 of my cousins, and 1 friend of another cousin living in this house...that's right 22 people in one house going after ribs and clam chowder at the same time. it's kind of like a mix of home alone (you know, in the beginning of the movie when they're always scrambling around the house and they forget macaulay culkin) and those feeding frenzies you see on animal planet when the family of lions takes down the lame antelope with the gimpy leg.

but it's my family and i love 'em.

amen.
mjl.

a very merry unbirthday to me

so this whole birthday week has been absolutely phenomenal. everyday since tuesday has been overrun with going out to restaurants and getting to spend quality time with people that i love (with the exception of my actual birthday and friday when i had to work and was surrounded by the bizarre at Edwards). i couldn't have asked for a better birthday, and it's not even done!

tonight I finally get to go to the Jonas Brothers concert, and although I'm not necessarily looking forward to getting my eardrums punctured by the shrieks and squeals of thousands of teenage girls, I really do enjoy their music, and the fact that the boys are actually quite handsome, doesn't hurt either. (:

And after tonight, we go to Disneyland! Well, sort of. We go to Disneyland tomorrow morning, which should be spectacular. I love Disneyland. So yeah, this entire birthday week is pretty amazing. Thank you to all who've contributed to this awesomeness. I love you!

mjl.

about me

I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord...I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 3:8-14

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
-Ephesians 3:16-19

happy birthday to me (:

amen.
mjl.

we the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union...

happy late independence day!

in honour of the anniversary of the spectacular anarchy that broke our nation away from the oppresive rule of a tyrannical Britain in the late 18th century, i'm putting the most razor-sharp & insightful political outlooks on the American Revolution here on my humble blog.

That's right.

It's School House Rock time. (:






Hope your 4th was happy.

mjl.