tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61646294814435793912024-03-05T18:21:56.377-06:00A Cajun's TaleBits and Pieces from a simple Cajun's Life in ArkansasArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-45276915132601498542011-03-04T10:18:00.003-06:002011-03-04T10:36:25.040-06:00Awake My SoulI'm planning on going to Memphis for the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival. The lineup just came out yesterday, and not only the Cougar himself (John Mellencamp) will be the headliner, but also Mumford and Sons will be playing...along with a slew of other awesome bands.I focus on Mumford & Sons because I went to Target yesterday and picked up their album Sigh no More. It's a greatArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-63657869304668773402011-03-02T10:19:00.006-06:002011-03-02T10:48:35.385-06:00My First Shower....I'm not talking about hygiene, here...I'm talking Weddings!!I had my first wedding shower this past weekend. My mom, dad, sister, and little niece joined us up here in Arkansas for it. We had a grand visit! It was the first time I had actually seen my parents (or anyone in my family, really) for two weekends in a row since I went to visit them in St. Croix almost 4 years ago!We had dinner ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-90413922109300872132011-02-21T14:24:00.003-06:002011-02-21T14:33:13.472-06:00After the Trip...As for the trip this past weekend, it went fantabulously! We made really good time on the way down, even though we stopped twice instead of our usual one. We made it in just under eight hours. Not bad. (AND the future in-laws still like me ;))It was an exhausting trip because we were only there for 36 hours - and were out and about for most of the waking hours. I did, however, FINALLY ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-17321505472115724682011-02-18T09:45:00.005-06:002011-02-18T10:00:57.051-06:00On the Road Again...So, we're heading down to Louisiana this weekend, actually in about 10 hours. I tend to be slightly impatient. I'm not one of those people who enjoys riding in a car on an interstate for 8 hours, especially when it comes to seeing my family. When we drive down there, I want to get there. It isn't a joy-riding experience, it's simply a means to an end. For the record, I DO quite enjoy 'road ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-58596686340586445662011-02-15T15:14:00.003-06:002011-02-15T15:20:49.063-06:00A Posting...I've only just realised how long it has actually been since I've written a blog update. I'm terribly ashamed for having waited so long, but you know how things get around Thanksgiving...then Christmas comes along...then the New Year...then St. Valentine's Day. I can't believe it's already mid-February.At least things are beginning to settle down a little despite being super busy. I've started ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-67758423238953416632010-11-02T10:18:00.004-05:002010-11-02T11:06:55.322-05:00November RainIt's already only just the second day of the month of November, and already we're seeing the dreariness of the month. In fact, for the past 2 days I've had to check outside to make sure that we are, in fact, still in Arkansas and didn't somehow magically appear in London during the eve of all hallows. Despite the dreary weather, we have two beautiful feast days to celebrate here at the beginningArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-66784732188818450572010-10-27T10:12:00.005-05:002010-10-27T10:33:41.822-05:00Where to Begin?Because I have shamefully neglected my blog for so long, I thought I'd do a run down of why I haven't been blogging recently.I just started back to school in August. I'm working on getting some prerequisites for a Respiratory Therapy program. So, after my already 8-hour long day for four out of five days, I add on another 4 hours of school and/or school work. When I'm finished with that I meetArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-90241155741508978612010-08-13T12:10:00.002-05:002010-08-13T12:40:07.123-05:00I Like to Cook and I Cannot Lie...So this week, I've been cooking as much as I can. With Scott's family out of town, someone needs to make sure that he eats, right? I'm a good Cajun girl and as such, I've been programmed since birth (pretty much) to make sure that anyone who is left alone by his (or her, but mostly his) family is taken care of, e.g., fed very well! Of course now that I'm writing this I'm thinking I should haveArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-59131048624896578972010-08-02T12:05:00.003-05:002010-08-02T13:14:28.220-05:00Pretty Low Key Weekend...FINALLYIt was finally a calm weekend for us, which doesn't happen very often. Not only was it low key, but I was able to spend the weekend alone at the house and enjoy a Sunday dinner with Scott together at the house with just the two of us. That happens like once every 6 months or something. So nice to just be able to chill and eat and watch a movie.Anyway, Friday, we went to Grampa's Catfish for ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-74719735304657679302010-07-29T12:10:00.004-05:002010-07-29T12:32:16.910-05:00Busy Busy Beaver...It seems like it's been forever since my last post...because it has! I've been super busy here these past few weeks...I got a chance to go down to Louisiana for my mom's birthday and my niece's 1st birthday. She quite enjoyed her presents. Her favourite was this little rock n' roll guitar she got. Sooo cute!Anyway, the BIG weekend was this past one. We went to Las Vegas for the Right Online ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-50161659060259485372010-07-07T09:07:00.003-05:002010-07-07T09:35:27.608-05:00Oh beautiful for spacious skies!Well, we had not only a long but a busy weekend this weekend. After hearing that my parents were not going to be able to make it up this past weekend, I was pretty saddened but I did look at it as an opportunity to do some things we would otherwise not have been able to do. (Even though Friday had to be the worst day I had had in a LOONG time - and I'd like to keep it that way - I will discuss ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-9518705054690933032010-06-29T11:45:00.004-05:002010-06-29T12:03:39.020-05:00Toy Story, Hibachi, and Birthday...Oh My!So, this weekend was great! It was nice to (finally) be in town for a whole weekend with nothing in particular to do. (Well, I had to work for a few hours, but that was no big.)Anyway, Friday night, we took my 2 little cousins to go see Toy Story 3 in 3D on the IMAX screen. That was something! They had a great time (and we did too) and I'll even admit that I teared up watching it! It was an ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-67630766772862474022010-06-23T10:39:00.007-05:002010-06-23T11:24:48.841-05:00The Joy of FamilyThis past weekend Scott and I went down to the good ole South LA to visit with my family for my parents' anniversary and Fathers' Day. We left (of course) later than we wanted to, but we got a chance to hear Scott's favourite, Jimmy Buffett live from Massachusetts on Radio Margaritaville, XM55. We were well into Mississippi after stopping in the Southaven at Chik-Fil-A (our ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-42463294668629055452010-06-14T13:51:00.003-05:002010-06-14T14:14:18.185-05:00Tour de Rock 2010So the day started out great! The ride began at 7:00, and we had to get there for around 5:30 because they were doing a broadcast from the starting line.I made it to the first rest top about 7:50, but I had left Scott behind somewhere, so I waited until he met me at the rest stop. Apparently, he had gotten a flat somehow and didn't know if it was something that popped the tire or was just a ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-72511910665673392302010-06-08T13:59:00.004-05:002010-06-08T14:42:48.841-05:00Wedding ExtravaganzaSo, Saturday was the end to our galavanting around to weddings here and there. We were actually in this one, so we had to do lots of good prep work for the wedding. We went to the rehearsal and dinner on Friday evening. (I got to leave work early, at least, so can't complain!)The rehearsal actually didn't take that long. We only had to go through twice and we were finished. We got our ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-14142816492119915112010-06-02T12:57:00.002-05:002010-06-02T13:02:13.160-05:00FrustratedToday has not been the best of days, though it hasn't been the worst of them, either. I'm tired, have a migraine, am babysitting for the day, and having a money problem. It's difficult, sometimes, to see the forest through the trees and to remember that more good can come from the trouble if I rely on God and use these issues to bring me closer to him. Faith is so important. Without it, we canArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-91752457994493719182010-06-01T10:35:00.007-05:002010-06-01T11:48:31.796-05:00Memphis Adventures and MoreLet me start this by saying that I absolutely LOOOOVE 3-day weekends. That being said, I can now begin discussing said weekend.So, my friend Mandy from LSU got married this weekend. She and I were on the retreat team together at Christ the King at LSU, which is where she met her now-husband.Anyway, I went over to Collierville (yet another weekend in Tennessee. Maybe God is trying to tell me ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-84798101005204100272010-05-24T14:40:00.000-05:002010-05-24T15:21:09.579-05:00Walkin' in Memphis...In celebration of Julie's upcoming nuptials, we took a girls' trip to Memphis. Well, we started at Cajun's Wharf here and stayed downtown on Friday night. Saturday morning, we headed for Memphis. It was a wonderful trip!Friday, we started at Cajun's Wharf. Then we moseyed on to the Peabody hotel for the Alice 107.7 Peabody Rooftop Party, where we got in free (Thanks to the doorman who felt ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-54336456219142535472010-05-21T10:26:00.001-05:002010-05-21T10:53:13.264-05:00Adventures in CyclingOk, so this post is probably (ok, yes, it is!) a couple weeks late. Anyway, on 8 May, we did the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure ride. We had signed up for the 20 mile ride, and I was pretty scared that I wouldn't be able to do it. I mostly got scared because two days prior to the ride, we did a preliminary ride, to follow the track and go back and do around 20 miles, just so that I ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-57144349609463796282010-04-30T09:28:00.000-05:002010-04-30T09:54:36.594-05:00En MemoriamBeing from Louisiana, it strikes me anytime there is a tragedy in or around the great state. The explosion of the oil rig hit me a little harder than usual, mostly because my father worked on oil rigs out in the Gulf for most of my early life. He no longer works out on rigs but he still works in the oil industry. I never thought anything, really, of the long weeks he would be out on the oil ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-89259026155242546242010-04-29T13:27:00.000-05:002010-04-29T13:59:28.635-05:00Anima ChristiI love this prayer! It is such a wonderful expression of desire to always be with Christ. I especially enjoy praying it directly after receiving the Eucharist.The 'Anima Christi" is a reminder of what Jesus himself said:"Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-50870816130092351822010-04-26T14:24:00.001-05:002010-04-26T14:53:01.676-05:00Let the old be stripped away...In the spirit of the Spring, I finally (after nearly 2 years) have been able to go through my storage unit and purge it of unclean things, aka, get rid of a bunch of junk that I've been hanging onto for no good reason. I cannot take full credit for this sudden desire to clean, however. If my financial peace class wouldn't be having a garage sale, I probably would have avoided the storage unit ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-71401501910273761442010-04-26T14:15:00.000-05:002010-04-26T14:20:58.568-05:00Two Reasons I love Latin...Just wanted to share two of the many beautiful Latin prayers. Latin just flows so well, and I feel as though I am praying and singing at the same time when I pray them. (Both come from http://www.catholicsaintoftheday.com) They had videos of the prayers being sung, but I'm not so tech savvy as to know how to embed them in my posts just yet. I'm learning, though! Enjoy! Dominus vobiscum!PaterArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-31458484109636086482010-01-12T12:51:00.000-06:002010-03-29T16:32:09.631-05:00A Simple Life...There are many times in our lives that we expect God to speak to us in extraordinary, dramatic ways. Surviving a plane crash, missing a plane or train only to find that you were saved by a vending machine or your lackadaisical child who made you late, meeting your soul mate on the top of the Empire State Building a la Sleepless in Seattle, having a "near-death" experience are all ways in which ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164629481443579391.post-70341034489666309992009-11-18T13:36:00.000-06:002010-01-12T12:41:41.943-06:00The Meaning of SufferingIt seems that in today's society, we are constantly bombarded with people telling us that we deserve one thing or another, whether it be a new house, a new car, fancy vacation, money, insurance, or, as we often see on television and in the movies, sexual gratification as well as . All of these things are nice to have, and maybe something we did warrants some time off or a massage or some ArkCatholic Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416193438447719187noreply@blogger.com0