Category: Books

Mary, Called Magdalene

Wednesday, 1 June, 2005 at 11:38 am

I finished this book, Mary, Called Magdalene, a little while ago … about a week and a half. When I first got into it, some chapters in, I didn’t like it and I planned to throw it out, not just give it away, because I just didn’t agree with what Margaret George said happened. I know it’s fiction, it’s not a history book, but on the back it said, “Grounded in biblical scholarship and secular research….” I expected it to jive more with what [I think] I know. I mean, exactly what kind of research did she do?

But I don’t want to whine and complain and criticize. I just thought it was interesting, in the back there’s this interview with her, and she says

[What is your own spiritual background?] A long pilgrimage that has led me from my family background as a Baptist, to the traditions of the Episcopal and Catholic churches, married to a Jewish man, and now discovering New Age spirituality.

That’s cool. ^^ Too bad it’s New Age she got into and not Old Age. Maybe I woulda agreed with the book more. Not that there’s anything wrong with New Age, necessarily.

I also didn’t read the end after Jesus left. I just got really bored with the book. Next book I plan to buy, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar.

childhood book

Wednesday, 13 April, 2005 at 9:40 pm

Weird. Just had to save this somewhere. I was looking at dollcloset.com (found through Noelle’s entry :)) and there’s this one “organza” dress so I looked at it and thought, ‘So that’s what organza is?’ I always thought it was orange or peach-ish or something. *sweatdrop*

I got that idea from this one book I read when I was a kid. And, dood, I haven’t thought of that book in a long time … I don’t even remember what it was called … or what the cover looked like … or anything. But. I remember … it was about these three girls … oh! Okay, I think it was called Ballet … something or other. Yeah. The three girls were sisters, although they weren’t related, they were adopted by this one guy who traveled the world, and he’s absent throughout most of the book … causing them some financial problems … so it was special when they got to go out and buy organza to make dresses they needed. ^^;

Yeah. I remember the cover now. It just had the three girls on it: the oldest, blonde/red hair, who liked acting, I think?; the middle girl, with black hair, who liked tomboyish things; and the youngest … I think she was the darling of the bunch, she lived for ballet, ’cause her mother was a dancer. Yeah. I dunno. ^^;; I think I got that book from the elementary school library for reading the most books in one month or something.

(At present, I feel guilty for participating in those reading programs. It’s not like I needed encouragement to read more. Other kids probably would have been delighted to be top in something. Or … I don’t know. I just think it’s kind of unfair for being rewarded for … doing what I usually do. Kind of like when I was student of the month once in middle school because I brought up my hideous English Language Arts grade from a C to a B. [I was being lazy and slacking off.] I thought, I get notice for doing what I’m supposed to do?!)

Umm … yeah. How can it be 9:40 already? *grumbles and gets ready for bed*

Bean! (funny or insanity?)

Friday, 1 April, 2005 at 2:14 am

Because it was one of the most random and (when taken out of context) just plain weird sentences …

“Bean stood on a table again.”

It’s a sign that I should go to bed now because I just find that hilarious …

(I always say, I don’t need liquor or drugs. Just deprive me of sleep or feed me too much sugar or both, and I can achieve pretty much the same effect.)

…

Oh no! He’s climbing up on the table again! Shoo! No Beans allowed on the table! *laughs her head off*

The Haunting of Hill House

Thursday, 30 December, 2004 at 11:13 pm

I was going to go to bed and read more of The Haunting of Hill House, but then I remembered I have to make an entry here. hah. Uh. Last night we lost internet connection, I don’t know why, then this morning, or afternoon really (when we got back home) Daddy told us the router was busted and he put back the old one. ack. Now my laptop won’t connect anymore. arrrrgh.

Last night I went to bed about … I don’t know, 11:30, 12? Read THoHH for a while … it was freaking me out even though Mickey was awake in his room. ^_^;; Then he went to bed and then it was really freaking me out. eek! I turned out the light and pulled the blankets over my head. hahaha. Uh. When I woke up I was still freaked out! The heater turned on and I don’t know if it was that or if I was half-dreaming, but I thought I heard someone say “[Jei]” in my ear. O.O Freaky!

baaaaad week/Adam

Thursday, 14 October, 2004 at 10:22 pm

Uh. I forget why I opened this. (It’s 12:04 now. O.o;;;)

Um. My CD-player in my car ate my CDs. They were my Muse “Absolution” and New Found Glory “Sticks and Stones” CDs. :( (Then of course Hidek had to make a jab at NFG, calling them mainstream … *rolleyes*) Yeah. The CD-player’s been acting up for a while anyway. Maybe up to a month or so. First, when the first CD finished and it switched to the second CD, it’d only say ERR and then no music. Last week it worked, though … but then today my CDs won’t come out. O_o They both played fine while I was driving home. They just won’t come out. Or reload into the CD player. (It keeps saying ERR.)

Niiice way to end such a great week. Mum said that everyone’s been having a bad week. O.o Hidek had his wallet stolen because he forgot to lock up his pants during P.E. … but the person who stole it did NOT find his MP3 player in the other pocket. :O Talk about luck. Or stupidity, on the thief’s part. :b

Anyway. Mum also threw in a comment about … yeah, negative vibes around us. Hm. They traveled with me all the way to college. *laughs* Or maybe someone’s got a voodoo doll with our last name on it. *nodnod* (Even though voodoo dolls don’t work. … After Sylvia Browne said that she also said that voodon is a beautiful religion. o.o I didn’t know there was a religion.)

I finished reading The Da Vinci Code this week. Yesterday, to be exact. (Wednesday yesterday, not Thursday yesterday. >_>) I only had a couple pages left to read. I read the majority of the ending on Monday. I didn’t have any chem work to do (or none that I could remember anyway -_-;;;) and I didn’t feel like taking my math book with me. So I spent most my time reading that. :b I even read during Logic. We were working on … syllogism. Which I don’t remember the definition of at the moment. (On Monday it was easy. But then on Wednesday they stepped it up and my mind was kind of fuzzy/sleepy and I felt so lost. ;_;)

So on Monday I looked through the book, because Mum wondered where Dan Brown did his research because it sounded a lot like what Sylvia Browne said. In the front there was an Acknowledgement page and the author thanked The Gnostic Society Library. XD That’s so cool! You have to admit that’s cool or I don’t like you any more. *turns away* Okay I’m being weird. But it’s still cool. I wonder what sort of stuff they have in there. Hopefully nothing like what I read in this one bookstore about the history of Gnosticism. >_> (It said Gnosticism started in the Hellenistic Age and came from paganism. O_o?)

The only really weird part about the book for me is the sex ritual stuff. Poor misguided fools. I’m not saying sex isn’t good. *blink* … *coughs* But they made it … like a part of their beliefs. Really odd interpretation. … Of this, uh, thing, I don’t know what it’s called, but you need male and female traits to become spiritually whole. The book (I know it’s a novel …) said that, then the character went off about the sex ritual stuff, and I just thought, ‘Whuzzat? O_o’ Hm, I wonder who it was who said you need male and female … or something like that, I don’t remember exactly what Mum told me. What it means is you need intelligence and emotion to become spiritually whole.

My brain is too tired to even understand what I’m trying to think. Oh well.

To explain the title of this entry … (and everyone goes to check it out) … I have my own theory about this bad week. You see. There was one very different event that happened this week that’s never happened before. I got on aim Monday night to talk to Adam, I did. At the end of the convo he wished me a GOOD WEEK. Yes. Adam? Don’t ever do that again. :b