Jenamarie

Maybe fast from something other than food? When I was pregnant I would get dizzy if I didn't eat regularly, so I would fast from media on Sundays, with the exception of MoTab music. So no TV, no secular books or music, etc.

I have a collection of workout DVD's that I rotate through. My favorite instructors are Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper for total body (weights + cardio), Shawn T (Insanity, cardio) and Rodney Yee (for Yoga/stretching). I do one or two DVD's each morning, first thing. :) (and I say two dvd's, because some workouts are only 30 minutes long, and I see better results when I work out for 45-60 minutes at a go)

I'm rather "dressy", and have gotten more fashion minded with age. I LOVE dresses and skirts, bright colors, fun patterns, cute shoes, hats, scarves, and dangly earrings and necklaces. Today, for just lounging around the house and homeschooling my kids, I'm wearing a floral blouse with a wide brown belt, a green cotton skirt, red tights, knee-high brown boots (that match the belt), and a red flower clip in my hair. When/if I leave the house I'll exchange the flower clip for a red cloche hat. I do also have a few pairs of skinny jeans and trousers in various colors that I like wearing with cute shirts, crop jackets, and scarves. If you try looking through my closet for a plain jeans-and-a-t-shirt outfit you'll be in there a while. (as I discovered when trying to find something appropriate to wear for helping out with a service project that was going to have me working in the dirt ) And I only use my sneakers for exercise.

Mine says I will WIN this staring contest.

I side with the family. The ONLY reason this woman's body has *any* function at all is because of the machines. She's dead. She did not want to be kept on life support and the hospital is not allowing her legal next-of-kin to make this medical decision for her. And think about it, what does it mean when a woman comes into the hospital, is hooked up to a ventilator, etc., but is determined to be beyond saving? Is the law going to require that a pregnancy test be given to any woman before they're allowed to be disconnected from the machines? Would the law trump a legal "living will" of a woman who is found to be pregnant when her life ends in a hospital setting? And is it ethical, or even wise, to use a deceased person's body as incubator? Is that any fair to the baby? Reading what the woman's family is saying about the condition of her body and of the developing fetus, I would be absolutely horrified to have to watch a loved one go through that.

No, because then it would have been one film in three parts, each talking as long to watch as the original one did.

It involves a golden lasso and an invisible jet, right?

Homeschool mom. I was briefly a fitness instructor, but I couldn't dedicate enough time to it to make it worth the cost (I wasn't bringing *anything* in after expenses) so I quit to hopefully pick it up again another day.

"Don't judge me because I sin differently than you do." -Pres. Uchtdorf.

It was both. It had a stereo-typical animated princess who sings, and has animal friends, and falls in love with a prince she just met, who ends up being thrown into OUR world by her evil-step-mother, and finds that the typical "princess movie" formula doesn't work so well in real life.

Her clothing change I saw as another way she was breaking free of ("letting go") all the rules and fear that had suppressed her as a child. Prior to that she'd always been dressed in such a way that only her face was exposed (high-necked, long-sleeved dresses + gloves). Now she could wear what she wanted, because she didn't need to fear touching something with her skin and exposing her power (like when she took off the gloves at her coronation to take hold of the septer). And Enchanted kind of had both marriage paradigms. Ya, Giselle doesn't marry the prince she just met, but the ex-fiance of the guy she *does* decide to marry does, and jumps into a whole 'nother animated dimension to do it to boot!

It depends on how many people are in the session and the size of the Temple. I've been 3 hours in the Temple for an Endowment at one of the mini-temples, because the session was full, and I ended up in the very back, and so was the last one to go into the Celestial Room, and then nearly everybody else beat me to the changing room, so I had to wait my turn to get back into my locker with my things and get changed back into my regular clothes. (wow, long sentence!) In a regular-sized Temple getting back into my locker as soon as I was done was never an issue, but then the sessions could hold a lot more people, and so if you ended up in the back of the room you could still end up being there a while. So anyway, I'd schedule 3 hours, just to be on the safe-side. I'd rather block out too much time than too little.

I wouldn't call those type of men "men of courage and principle."

My city lives in a "rain shadow". Storms blowing across California from the Pacific dump the majority of their moisture when they reach the ridge of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and then will many times dissipate. I don't know how many times this summer I saw storm clouds that looked like they were headed our way that never made it. In the winter what moisture makes it past the mountains falls as powder snow, and it makes noise when it falls, like tiny pieces of hail, rather than large, soft, quiet flakes. And it's WINDY! Often. 20+ MPH winds. People here buy their lawn furniture based on it's weight, and the highway between here and Carson City is often closed to trucks and other tall vehicles because they'd be blown over.

Ya, I did. And definitely this book is where Disney got it's inspiration. A book-worm heroine with an over-sized horse? Yup.

Robin McKinley.

Frozen. LOOOOOOVED it!!! Great message! Don't be afraid of your power. :)

Just finished reading Watership Down, after having it sitting on my bookshelf for years. I actually enjoyed it a lot. :) Now I'm re-reading Beauty by Robin McKinley for the umpteenth time.

Definitely an excellent choice. :)

I think what is meant by "nobody is perfect" is that everybody makes mistakes. The scriptural use of the word "perfect", however, means "complete" or "whole". We were perfect at the Creation, then became imperfect due to the Fall. We will can regain that perfection, and be complete and whole again, when we are reunited with God, which will happen as we strive always to draw nearer to Him, and endure to the end.

The "Shut up, Wesley" cracked me up!

To be fair, an elopement excludes *everyone* except the bride and groom. A Temple wedding excludes certain individuals, regardless of their relationship with the bride and groom. You may have a bride's great-aunt-once-removed, who was invited as a favor to the bride's mother, at a Temple Sealing, but not the mother of the groom. Now imagine if that groom was his mother's only child. There's going to be hurt feelings.

Would wearing a panty liner that you change regularly help with this, I wonder?

If you have a distribution center near you they can help you. There are lots of different fabric choices when it comes to garments, including some intended for hot-weather areas. There are Temple-Endowed members of the Church in tropical areas, deserts, etc. and has been for years, so making sure you don't get too hot is definitely a consideration the Church has made in designing the garments. :)