Movie Quotes and such...

I feel like thinking a lot right now. It seems like there is so much going on in our lives! I have a job that I have orientation for on Wednesday, I have an interview on Thursday, and then another interview on next Wednesday! Also, a special someone in my heart :) found out that he will be doing a training course and has a conditional offer of employment (he gets the job as long as he passes drug test, training course, and gets certified to carry a handgun)! I really can't believe how things are changing.

A favorite quote of mine from a little movie called You've Got Mail is this: "People are always telling you that change is a good thing, but what they're really saying is that something you didn't want to happen just happened." I love that quote! I've seen that movie so many times that I seriously could probably quote it. Sadly, I don't have it on DVD...I have it on VHS! I actually like that better because sometimes I'll watch 15 minutes when I'm eating lunch or something and I can always start it right back where I was!

Anyways...I don't hate change. I don't love change either. Some change is good, some is bad, some good turns out to be bad, and some bad turns out to be good. I guess that's just how life is. At least we know that all things (i.e. changes) work together for good for those that love the Lord (Romans 8:28)!

Another quote I like is from the movie Tin Cup: "Either you define the moment or the moment defines you." I'm trying to define the current moment myself. I don't want to let life's circumstances define me, although I know they have and will continue to shape who I am. There are so many things that have happened in my life that have affected the person that I am. I have five brothers, me being the next to youngest, which means a lot of my childhood was defined as being "Little Turner Girl." I guess that's part of why I love being away from home and where I grew up...I'm not bound to that little shell that I always had. Even though I went to college, I didn't go far from home and most of the people in the church had known me growing up, so everyone at college and church already had their opinions formed about me. I guess that's why Ashley and Erika and I all got along so well, because we all got to be "who we were" and not just what we had always been.

Next quote: "Every man dies, but not every man really lives" from Braveheart. I hope that, when I die, people will be able to say that I really lived.

"Nothing has turned out as we expected. It never does. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is" from Gone With the Wind. I never expected to meet a man who I would fall so madly in love with. I never truly believed that "happily ever afters" actually existed. Not to say that our life is perfect...like the quote says, nothing has really turned out as we expected, but we are thankful for what we've got.

"Beginnings are scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most" from Hope Floats. This quote is unusually sad, but exceptionally true. Love it!

"Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts" from Naked Gun 2 1/2. This one just makes me laugh REALLY hard!

"As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't" from Now and Then. I haven't actually seen this movie, but I really liked this quote.

"I guess sometime there just aren't enough rocks" from Forrest Gump. I love/hate this part of that movie. It's so sad, but it's such a defining moment for Jenny...she finally faces something that affected so much of her childhood.

I've been thinking so much lately about different things and about how life is changing. I love some of the changes, but hate some of the others. I am just so thankful that God is watching out for me and that He is the one calling the shots. I know that I am in good hands.