Favorite Gilmore Girls Moments

Gilmore Girls came to Netflix yesterday. It’s like my birthday. Only different. I love Gilmore Girls (Jen Martin got me obsessed, thanks for that). So as part of my Octoberfest and in celebration of this wonderful, marvelous addition to the Netflix family, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite moments. 😀

1. Rory meets Dean. First episode of the first season and bad boy James Dean…er…sorry Dean meets Rory and carries her books and it’s soooo cute!

Too cute!!

2. Lorelai gives Luke the hat. The hat that he wears for the REST OF THE SHOW. She replaces his hat and he wears the one she gave him for the next seven seasons.

3. Dean’s movie nights with Rory and Lorelai. Technically, there is more than one moment. But this moment of boyfriend/mom/girlfriend bonding time is kind of the best.

Please note that he is the only one eating salad.

4. Max Medina and the thousand yellow daisies. I know Scott Cohen as Wolf from 10th Kingdom, but Max Medina is almost as good.

5. Michel. Not necessarily a moment. Just every moment with Michel.

6. Sookie and Jackson get married. I love Sookie and her moments in general, but when she and Jackson get hitched I get happy.

Yes. He’s in a kilt.

7. Jess publishes a book. I love Jess in the show and I love him and Rory together, but when he shows up with a great accomplishment– a book! I get so excited. It’s a great moment.

❤

8. Luke and Lorelai’s first kiss.

It’s a perfect moment.

9. Rory and Logan after Logan was an idiot. Granted this happened multiple times. But he always makes up for it.

Stupid.

10. The last episode. It simultaneously makes you proud and breaks your heart.

Bon Voyage Gilmore Girls

I’m so excited to be watching GG this month. 😀

A LOVEly Day :)

What do you say on Valentine’s Day? I just don’t even know. My life is so full. I remember last year telling my mom that I hated Valentine’s Day. But this year I love it. I got all dressed up and I sent Crush cans to three of my favorite single ladies (I missed one, but she forgave me). My dearest friend Ashley sent me a grape Crush. It will be my only soda of the year.

Yummy. I love Grape Crush.

I have some great friends. I have Ashley and Andie, my sometimes roommates. They encourage me, keep me accountable, and deal with my silliness on a hourly basis. I have Luci, who understands my interests better than anyone else. Just last night we had a very long conversation about BBC shows. It was great. I have two other young ladies who delight my soul: Danica and Emily. I love them both dearly. Tonight we are having a party that will, no doubt, be epic in every sense of the word. Then there are my sisters on my floor, who are all great. I find myself laughing all the time now and I don’t think I would trade my spot on 7W for the world. They are such a wonderful group of godly, fun women and I love them all so much. God has blessed me so immensely in my friends.

I also have a fabulous brother full of God-centered guys that are so encouraging and delightful to be around. K-9 sent me this valentine:

Aren’t they sweet?

My family also sent me Valentines. My mom sent me the Valentine that keeps on giving because she was so overwhelmed with love for me that she couldn’t put it into words and decided not to even try. The card was blank. My older sister, Brianna sent me a wonderful Belle (from Beauty and the Beast) Valentine that sings when you open it. 😀 I love my family.

White chocolate…heavenly

My deep-rooted love for Valentine’s Day comes from my mother. When we were littler, every V-day was like a second Christmas. We would wake up and know that the table was littered with candy, specifically HERSHEY HUGS!They were and continue to be my absolute favorite Valentine candy. We got mugs that were covered in hearts, Beanie Babies (usually V-day bears), and home-made cards. It’s my mom’s favorite holiday. Ironically, it’s my dad’s least favorite holiday.

Today is not necessarily about couples or romantic love. I think it’s about expressing love to the people you really care about. It’s an excuse to send people candy and to be boisterously affectionate. Seize the moment! I’m planning on calling my grandmothers and wishing them a Happy Valentine’s because I don’t usually talk to them.

This is just another day to recognize the love that my God has for me. It’s a love that makes my heart speed up, that gives me weak knees, and I know that it’s a love that will never end. Earthly love can only be till death do us part. My one true Love will be forever. It boggles my mind. I’m so happy that I can celebrate this day with my girl friends and my God.

Dear reader, Happy Valentine’s Day.

Bookends

What I like in a book has drastically altered over the years. I have to say that if I talked to my younger self, she would be appalled. Nowadays, I favor books that are realistic. Books that show the true nature of the human affliction; that show what people are capable of. All that being said, I have grown out of romance novels. But not out of chick lit. (Some of you are wondering what the difference is. Ask me and I’ll let you know, but the rant will take place in another entry). I know, I know! I really should have moved on by now! But I can’t get past the warm, mushy feeling at the bottom of my stomach when the hero and heroine FINALLY get together at the end of the book. And I have found that a lot of chick lit is full of plights of the human condition. Which is why I love Jane Green.

I picked up Bookends for the title. The description was okay, but I loved the idea of thetitle. Bookends. I don’t know, it captured me. It took me all summer, but I finally managed to start it. And couldn’t put it down. The story revolves around the heroine Catherine (aka Cath) and her best friends. She starts by introducing them in college and then flashes to the present. In college they goofed off, dated, but remained a central group: Cath, Simon (Si), Josh, Eddie, and Portia. Portia was the star around whom they all revolved. Until the night when she broke Josh’s heart, and the others couldn’t forgive her. They all faded from Portia but not really from each other. Eddie moved away, but kept in touch occasionally, and Cath, Si, and Josh remained good friends and the group expanded when Josh married the lovely Lucy. The book picks up in the present day, where Cath hasn’t had a real relationship in over five years, Si is still looking for the man of his dreams, and Lucy and Josh have the perfect marriage. Then Lucy proposes to help fulfill Cath’s lifelong dream of opening a book shop/cafe. And Portia shows back up in their lives.

Drama, inevitably, ensues and it pains out in a lovely story. Sort of. The ending isn’t perfect. Yes, Cath meets eligible, cute, boy-next-door James and they start something, but Si meets ugly, cruel, jerk-face Will who had HIV and didn’t bother to tell his boyfriend. It’s heart-wrenching. But real. Which is what I liked about it.

The characters made decisions, assumptions, that I would have made were I in their shoes. They laughed, cried, slammed doors, and were real to me. I’m not a huge fan of sex in books (not a fan at all really), so that part didn’t thrill me (there was only one) but the rest of the book was alive with emotion and intrigue, something you’ll find in all Jane Green’s books. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to people who prefer less sex-filled writing. Or to young children. Or teens. lol. But if you’re of a reasonable age 😉 and you enjoy light reading on a rainy day (although many issues in this books will definitely make you think) I’d encourage you to pick this or another Green novel up. You won’t be disappointed.