Hello all,

I'm asking for prayers.  Around 6:30 pm on Mother's Day, a 10 year old wake board champion (Little Valarie Anne Hodges), the granddaughter of my pastors, went into the Amite River (right behind her house) to practice her wakeboarding.  While her father had his back turned putting a life jacket on her three year sister, Little Valarie stopped answering her father and when he turned around, she was gone.  They pulled her body out of the river three hours later close to 10 pm.  We burried her today.  While my whole church is affected by this tragic event, please keep the Hodges family in your prayers and please remember the children that Little Valarie touched.  Children at church, school, soccaar team, teens on a wakeboarding team, a family in China that she met while on a Mission Trip.  There were so many people there today.  And there were even some kids that had come as well.  I know I checked out my kids and they came with me, their choice.  I tried my best not to influence their decission.  But my son, who is ten and thinks that girls have cooties and doesn't have any friends who are girls, considered Little Valarie a friend.  My daughter also considered her a friend.  

Side Note:  She was called Little Valarie because she was named after her grandmother, Pastor Valarie Hodges.  Her middle name was her other grandmother's name.  Pastors Leland and Valarie and their son, his wife, her parents, and their brothers and sisters really need our prayers right now.

Thank you in advance for praying,

{{hugs f-list}},

Mac

I'm in need of a lesson.  I think I have stated that I just started to volunteer at my local domestic violence shelter.  Well I was talking with the director today about the website.  She would love a picture in the format of my icon for this post.  One that the pictures change.  She would like it say "The Face Of Domestic Violence"  (of course it needs to be spelled right and I'm not sure if I spelled it right LOL) and the pictures would be of all the races, classes, ages, etc of the people of the world -- both female and male.  Could some one please give me  a lesson on how to do this.  I have Roxio Photo Suite 4.   But if there is a free program out there that will allow me to do this or if you know how to make a gif rotate pics like this, please let me know and teach me how to do this please.  I will also like to learn how to make a banner on a webpage change an example of this would be the Mary Kay webpage, www.marykay.com  This is juts some things that the director and I were talking about today.  I told her that I didn't know how, but I could learn.  I know so many people out there, I'm sure that someone can help me learn how to do this.

Thanks so much,

{{{{hugs Mac}}}}

P.S.  If you can teach me how to do this, then comment here and I will PM you my email so we can talk in email and/or IM  I'm on Yahoo IM so I can PM you my IM name as well.  Again Thanks so much for this.

Well my head hurts worse than it did at my last update, but I did manage to get 1,449 words written today.  So that's a pluss.  I will catch up sometime soon -- I hope.

So the total so far is 1,765 words.

Going off to bed now.

Ok, I normally don't do this, but I feel that this information needs to be out there.  So I am posting it here.   Take what you want from the information.  I will *not* defreind anyone based on their political or religous views.  The only way I will defriend  you is if you treat me bad, and I hope that everyone extend me the same courtsey.  If you wish to copy and paste into an email to share feel free to do so, or if you wish to copy and paste into your own journal feel free to do so.  I have disabled the comments on this post because I know that comments can get ugly when we are talking political and religon.  And the comments start off nice and informative, but then later turn ugly.  So just to prevent this, no comments on *only* this post.

( Obama's funding )

( Dear America )

We got our power back about an hour and half ago.  We survived Hurricane Gustav ... Gustov... what ever....  we survived.  We have been out of power since lunch time on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 and about 6 pm on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008!!!!  Just to let everyone know we are fine.  Just trying to get the house cooled down.  I never would have made it 150 years ago here in south Louisiana when they had no power therefore no A/C.  The no power I can deal with it's the no A/C I have a hard time with!  And to think that they wore a whole lot more clothes than we do now!  Man they had some tough people to survive in this heat with more clothes on and no way to cool down!!!!

Mac

Hello all,

I'm in need of some help.  This year I'm helping with the Children's Church at church.  They are staring a new program this year and it's about a two year program.  It is a Studio (Acting) theme.  They are going to have several characters come and go through out the lesson, so that the adults don't miss all of the sermon.  Ok so we have two characters that are actresses and we will alternate Sundays.  I start the first Sunday.  But the thing is we have to name our characters.  I'm wanting to portray an airhead, self-centered, snobbish actress.  But I'm having trouble coming up with a name for her.  I thought that I would just name her like I do all my other characters.  I make up the personality and then I choose a name that means that personality.  However, I can't find a name that has the meaning of my character.  So... this is where the call for help comes in.  

The first name that came to mind was Buffy.  I know that Buffy wasn't really an airhead, and neither was she snobbish or self-centered (at least not in the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  But her name does sound like that kind of personality.  (Which is why Joss Wheadon picked it I think.)  But anyway, the people at the meeting for Children's Church tonight liked the name.  I told them I wasn't 100% sold on the name yet, that I would go home and try to come up with something else.

The Children's pastor suggested Buffy Buffont when I told him the name Buffy.

I was talking with a friend tonight and she suggested Dixie.  However when I hear the name Dixie, I think of Designing Women and think of the woman that owned the company that Designing Women was about.    ( I have no last name to go with Dixie, but I would need something that starts with D -- per request of Chilren's Pastor)


In my search for a name meaning airhead, I put in the word valley to see what names might mean valley.  (Valley short for Valley Girl because when I put in Valley Girl I got ziltch.)  And I got these neames:  Deena and Denna.   So I was thinking Deena Danes; Denna Downs

I'm still not sold on any of these names.  

Would my friend's list please help me out and send me some names that just scream "AIRHEAD" to you?  Or tell me if you like any of these names.

Thanks os much in advance!  {{{{hugs to all on my friends list}}}}

Mac