I could not have said it better Continued

…continued from part 1

6/ We love your scatter-brained craziness and some of the insane things you do like rolling down grassy hills or leaping around the living room to yur favourite CD (and getting the words wrong!) or twirling in your skirts and dresses!  The twirling thing is an absolute charm!

7/ We absolutely adore it when you wear your feminine clothes like blouses, skirts, dresses and shoes that don’t have a certain swoosh or motif in the side. And you don’t necessarily have to adorn yourselves with all the latest accessories, jewelry and other enhancements.  Maybe some of us guys aren’t intelligent, articulate or kind enough to compliment you on how pretty you might look; maybe we’re afraid you’ll suspect our motive for saying something nice.  But if we comment negatively, here’s a piece of advice:  ignore us.  Whatever you do, don’t stop dressing like a girl… it helps to define you.

8/ You look so loveley whenever you wear some of those full skirts.  They can be any kind, circular or pleated, but their volume and fullness gives you a romantic presence that has untold power.  You look so beautiful and graceful when, as you take a seat, you skirt seems to flow everywhere(!) and the sound it makes whenever you move announces the presence of a real, genuine, feminine woman.

9/ How magic it is to walk beside you when you wear your skirts and dresses!  You look so pretty and feminine as you swish along with us. You make us feel like men – gentlemen if we’ve got any sense.  And if we’re lucky the breeze will catch your hem and brush it gently against us. Phew!  I’m in the presence of a woman!  Years ago, on a date with my soon-to-be wife, I remember that I couldn’t have imagined being with anyone prettier as strands of her hair drifted in the breeze and her dress swished, flowed, splashed and rippled as we walked along the beach.  She made a beautiful picture

10/ You can steal our hearts without knowing it!  We can sometimes remember even brief encounters with you years after they’ve happened. Why?  Because of the powerful impression you made.  It could have been something as simple as a smile you tossed over your shoulder when you said “See you later!”,  but you can’t imagine the effect as your hair and clothes twirled outward.

You are so distracting.  Who on Earth should a gentleman live for other than his girl?

I could not have said it better

I found this as I was rabbit trail blogging (finding a blog, and then clicking a link on it to another blog and then doing that about 5 or 6 times). So here it is:

Greetings, Ladies

Christa asked me to be a guest blogger on her Empowered Traditionalist site and so for the first time here is an article which, whether you see yourself as a girl, woman or lady, I hope will encourage, inspire and dignify you.

Ten Things Guys Love About Girls

Before I begin there are a few things that I should mention. First of all, a little-known truth:  there are so many things about you which enchant us guys (those of us who are in touch with the higher brain functions ^_^) that this article will never be complete. I would be unable to speak on behalf of all men.  So, perhaps I should just add to it from time to time whenever I think or hear of something that we men love about you.

If you’re trusting and hoping that God will bring you a suitable man one day, then be encouraged, because you have so many ways of leaving us spellbound without even knowing it!  You may not consider yourself to be that attractive but you can win our attention without even trying.  You’re a girl, therefore logic and the law of probability dictate that sooner or later you will deeply impress a man, just the way He intended.

1/ We love your expressive behaviour, particularly the way your eyes smile and sparkle when you laugh.  We love that wide-eyed expression of yours when something excites or amazes you.  And to be truthful, we love that cute “puppy” face you use on us (come on, girls, you know the one I’m talking about! ^_^) when you want something – and what’s so infuriating is that it works! ^_^

2/ We love some of the mannerisms which you take for granted.  It might be something as simple as tucking a lock of hair behind your ear.  Such a “feminine” thing to do.

3/ We love what you do with your hair:  slide-combs, clips, grips, pony-tails, plaits, curls, waves, fringes, braids, bows and (a personal favorite) ribbons that flutter and dance behind you in the breeze when you walk around.

4/ We love your frequent willingness to help or “problem-solve” in any situation.

5/ We love that confident but gentle way you carry yourselves.  Your poise and grace and the way your voices can sometimes have a soothing tone. Your uncontrived, guile-less manner so unlike the attention-seeking, manipulative ditziness of some others.

part 2 coming tomorrow….

I don't think there's anyway I could have been more descriptive then this young man. You know, most of the things he mentions are things that I find to be true, I just wouldn't have noticed them.
I think I'll leave it at that. Part two tomorrow.

International Duel (2011) Teaser Trailer

It's finished!!!!
we've finally finished the trailer for our first movie!!
Here's it is!!
(You might need to turn the music off in the side bar.)


Please comment on the youtube page, I check that more often.
Paul

Answers to Prayer, it a little thing

So a little background.
My eldest Brother Ross is coming home from Michigan this summer for about a week, and while he's here, we'd like to go cross country mountain biking. So there was this sale on a website called "groupon" that was offering a shuttle service un the Willamette river to drop bikers off at the head of the trail, and then they ride back to the bottom, where they're cars would be.
So I was looking at the sale tonight, and realized that it was going to end in about 3 hours, and it was already almost eight at night! Uh oh, I hadn't confirmed with Ross that we were going to do this, so I still needed to call him, but it was almost midnight back in Michigan. I asked mom if she thought it would be too late to call Ross (though, I had a feeling I knew what she was going to say) and she said it was (Rats!). So, with bated breath, I Prayed "Lord, have Ross be on his email" then I checked Gmail to see if maybe he was online. Nope. Double rats!
Then my Cell Phone rang.
"No, that couldn't be him."
Sure enough, Ross was calling me! And guess what he wanted to talk about?!?!
Yep, the bike trip. It turned out that he had been at a friends house tuning they're piano, and then had stayed for dinner and ping-pong. So he was driving home late, and remembered that the sale was ending tonight, so he called me.
I prayed for him to be online, and it's almost like God said "Emails too slow. Here, I'll have him call you".

~Paul

Filming!

Well, I probably should have posted on this quite a while ago, but I didn't, so now I am! The main reason being that I'm being filmed, right at this very moment! There's a shot at the beginning of the film where I'm working on my computer, and I need to be typing to make it look more realistic, so I figured "Hey, why not do something productive while I'm just sitting here!" so that's what I'm doing!
Anyway, So we got everything we need in Akumal, so now we're filming the shots we need at my house. There aren't many, but they're still going to take some time because of our limited staff. Right now David is pulling the dolly, and Peter is running the camera. Fun fun! Hopefully I'll get some photos and maybe a commercial up soon!
Until then!
Paul

Snow pictures!

Sorry this has taken so long to post these. I've been quite busy until now.

So, we got about 5 inches of snow!! It was so Beautiful outside! The trees looked like something out of a movie. every branch, every twig, was outlined by snow. These pictures don't do it justice.

His back yard.

That's how much snow we got. All in one night!

It's really cold too. At the time I took this photo, I think it was about 16º outside.

This build up is pretty standard out here. Just about all the cars have it. It's pretty weird.

Snow!!!

It's finally snowed!!!! After being almost three weeks late, it's finally here!!!! We've only got about 5 INCHES right now, and it's supposed to snow more during the night!!! Yippee!!!! A friend of ours just bought a big snow blower, so in a few days, we're going to head to his house to make a fort with the snow blower. "How?" you ask?  Well, it'll throw the snow about 25 feet, so we'll clear a circle, and start blowing inwards, and just keep clearing until we get a huge pile in the middle, then we'll make a big fort out of it!!! I'll post pictures soon!
Paul

Leaf Removal

Ok, so the leaves have been gone for almost two weeks now (or at least, that's when the city pick-up service ended), but I just realized that I never told all you how the people in the city deal with all  they're lawn "refuse". After raking all the leaves into piles, the city has told them that they aren't allowed to burn them, so, using tax dollars, they supply a lawn "refuse" removal service. So after getting the leaves into piles, they aren't allowed to strike a match (I can here my fellow county boys gasping), they have to get them all into paper bags and line them up by the road. I was assuming that this would be no big deal, but have you ever tried to shovel leaves with a snow shovel into a bag that has about an 18" diameter opening. Now, add onto that all those nasty little twigs that make it very hard to pick up a shovel sized load of leaves, instead you get about three, and then the weight of all the extra hanging off the sides makes them all fall off! Arrg! But despite all these obstacles, and the feeling of defeat, I prevailed!!! Here is a picture of my triumph:

I know, it doesn't look much like some majestic sward or lance, but hey, could you imagine trying to move leaves with a lance? Have to run them through, and then wipe them off into the bag? That would take forever!

A Tribute to Kitttens.

Oh how I love thee, thou fair and sweet kitty,

For moments on end,

you chase for your tale,

But it seems to me,

that you shan't prevail.

You sleep the day through,

you play all the night,

oh kitty why can't you

please turn out the light.

The laser goes up,

the laser goes down.

The laser makes kitty,

run round and round!

I don't know, I just felt like writing that. And this has absalutly nothing to do with my trip to Michigan, other then that I miss our little kitties. With that, here's some funny photos of our cats.

     

Kitties not sure if he's a cat, or a spider. Maybe he's SpiderCat!!

One can only wonder what they're thinking.

Back and forth, back and forth.

Look at the white one. He's getting squished!

Now for some more somewhat random Cat pictures:

Ohhhh He's so Cute!!!

I has conquered the horse, you next!

Let me go!!

AHHHHH!!!

He silently plots his revenge.

Ok, I know Ruger isn't a cat, but this was too funny not to stick in here.

Ya gotta love cats!! (and dog)

Hay Ride!

October 31st just happened to be on a Sunday, so that evening Ross and I went to home group as usual, which was meeting in the basement, as not quite as usual. The reason was that the house we were meeting at was in a neighborhood that persecutes christians on October 31st by sending little people dressed in nasty costumes begging for candy. In other words, we met in the basement so that we could leave all the lights upstairs turned off so that trick or treaters wouldn't come knocking. 

After we left there, we headed to Ann Arbor Baptist church to see some old friends who had congregated there for the harvest party. After playing a really long game of capture the flag, we went for a hay ride. That was pretty fun, and probably would have been more so if I had been able to feel the tips of my fingers.

The Photographer strikes back!