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I Believe in Pink

Did You Know They Took "Gullible" Out of the Dictionary?

Yesterday was a day of crushed dreams and humiliation. It all started when I saw a link to this picture on the FB newsfeed:

A miniature lap giraffe!

The little girl in me who wanted her own pony, or better yet, a unicorn, came out full steam. I couldn't believe my eyes and I was immediately picturing myself with a little pet giraffe roaming freely in our home and back yard. (Mind you, I hadn't seen the Direct TV ads with the mini-giraffes in them, yet, so this discovery was like pure gold to me.)

So anyway, I then started to browse a web site that claimed to breed and sell these creatures, even boasting a live action giraffe cam. Man, I was totally sucked in at that point. It dominated my thoughts all day, to the point I was obsessing over it at work, drawing my co-workers into the frenzy as well. It wasn't unitl late last night that I realized I might have been had. (ya think?)

screen cap of mini-giraffe breeders web site

Notice in the upper right hand corner, there is a blue triangle that says this: "As seen on American Commercial. Be Clicking to View." (The "breeders" are Russian and the web site is full of endearingly bad English) Nice touch.

So then, in an epiphany moment about 8 hours too late my brain finally

"Be Clicking to Get A Clue."

The "breeders" website was all genius marketing done by Direct TV. All part of getting you to view their ads. I hate you Direct TV for breaking my heart.

But seriously. I come away from this with a few thoughts.

#1 I am SOOO gullible. It is super weird, because I am pretty level headed and rational most of the time. I am even quite often the voice of reason. Which leads me to think that maybe there is part in all of us, or at least in me, who wants to throw caution to the wind and cling to little girl dreams and magical ideas.

#2 Someone at Direct TV is uber-creative and smart and diabolical. I always love to imagine the brainstorming pow wows that were the genesis of ad campaigns

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#3 Even if mini-lap giraffes aren't real, I still want one. She can come live with my other pet...

Song Crush #26

"All around
Hope is springing up from this old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us"

I just have to say, can you hear the cello? *sigh*

There is also a cool acoustic version.

A Song, er, Group Crush Fulfilled

Last month I shared this with you...my group crush on Green River Ordinance. I adore their music. Love pretty much every song.

Well, I got word that they would be playing a free concert in Fort Worth, to kick off Christ Chapel's ArtReach weekend. The practical side of me was like, "Well shoot, wish we weren't so busy. Wish I hadn't just traveled to Dallas last weekend. It just doesn't make sense to go there again. What will we do with the boys? It's too hard to figure out the logistics... Blah, blah, blah."

But the fact that my favorite band would be so near, playing a FREE concert in a very intimate setting, sort of haunted me. I wrestled with it for a few days and then I finally pulled the trigger in a so not Mindy-esque kind of way.

With the kid's childcare pieced together, Mark and I loaded up in the Impala and took off to Fort Worth for a 24 hour adventure.

Our adventure included an amazing concert. GRO kicks it live! They are skilled musicians, great showmen and their vocal harmonies...*sigh*. Plus, we got to hear the story behind several songs they've written. I love that. It's like reading someone else's mail.

Then we had dinner with beloved friends.

(the obligatory "everyone squeeze in," big face picture)

Finally, we fell into our ridiculously hard hotel bed exhausted (I am pretty sure our mattress was part of the Stonehenge Extension campus) and awoke the next day ready to book it back to the Hub City.

Were we exhausted? Absolutely. Did the cement slab mattress kill our backs (and thus remind us of our age)? Yep.

Do I regret a minute of it? Never!

and just for your enjoyment...

What Makes Sense

I am often bound to what makes sense. I will do something if it makes sense. I will back away if it doesn't. I suppose there are times when things should make sense...when rational thought and a list of pros and cons should help us make our choices. But it stands to reason that there are times when we should act on faith. Take a leap. Just do it.

It sort of makes me wonder...what have I missed out on for the sake of making sense? Does what God wants me to do always "make sense" in the way that making sense, makes sense to me??? (a cyber high five goes out to anyone who understood that last sentence). After all, His ways are not our ways (from Isaiah 55: "I don't think the way you think. The way you work isn't the way I work." God's Decree. "For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.")

I would like to be more willing to jump in to something that presents itself that seems like it might be from God. I would like to be up for the adventure that life is (or is supposed to be.) But I fear I often turn adventure into formula.

I have a friend who is applying to be a missionary thousands of miles away. She will be leaving a secure job to journey into the unknown. Some other friends I know packed up their sweet family of 5 and moved to Nicaragua, because they have a heart for loving on and showing Christ to the people there. I am guessing those choices didn't always make sense, at least in the way that we understand it.

But it's other things too. The day to day. In college, I had a group of friends who took a road trip to Utah to go hiking over Spring Break. What did I chose to do instead? I stayed home and worked on some papers that would come due in my classes because that made more sense. Even yesterday, the hubs took the boys to Carlsbad Caverns while I worked. I would have never done that because it doesn't make sense to squeeze in a trip like that when the boys would have been just as happy at home. (can we say killjoy?)

My husband, my friends...they are on to something.

I want to get there too.