Apparently when you are tired you can't write a blog... and you forget pictures. Please take the time to read this again. It would mean a lot to me. Sorry for all the errors in the first one.
Take that for a title of a Feisel Family Blog! Here's another teaser for you!
Thurs, With God ALL THINGS are Possible!
Friday, I was poisoned!
Saturday, Avatar the Movie!
Sunday, I will miss you, Brittany!
Let’s go back before Thursday even hit. Last week Tommy and I dropped off my rings at Helzberg Diamonds at Tuttle Mall. He and I usually never go out there because it's a little bit of a hike. So, Monday the 14th rolls around and Helzberg calls to say that my rings are ready to be picked up. We couldn’t go that night because I was hosting Girls Night. Tuesday didn’t work because we were busy working all day. Wednesday we went to our Bible Study’s Christmas party. We thought we would leave there in time to go pick them up but it was 10:30 before we knew it (I guess because we were having so much fun!). On Thursday we did get our work done in time to go pick up the rings and eat some Chick-fil-a at the food court in "thought" of my cousin Andrew (who works for the main branch in GA). When we were getting ready to leave the mall we saw a married couple about our age at Guest Services (we found out later that their names are Johnny and Anna.) Anna was crying a lot and as the minutes passed her tears got bigger and bigger. Tommy thought maybe they lost their child in the Christmas crowd but the mall was dying down and I would think that only one parent would have run to information while the other was screaming his/her name. As Johnny walked away from the Guest Service counter, Tommy asked him what was wrong. He said, "My wife lost her wedding and engagement ring. She thinks that they fell off in the ladies room while she was washing her hands. She knows that she had her rings on here at the mall because she played with them on her finger when we talked about getting the wedding band appraised so that it’s insured along with the engagement ring. I said the mall will not be open late enough we’ll have to come back tomorrow.” What’s worse is that the ring had been passed down from her mother!
Anna finished giving Guest Services her info and ran back to the bathroom to search again. Mind you, the mall is closing in 6 minutes. I talked to Tommy for a sec and then proceeded to the ladies room myself. Well, forty minutes, and 4 trash cans later, no rings. We talked while going through the trash (mostly me trying to clam her down) and found out that we had a lot in common between living in Akron, going to Hudson Community Chapel up north, both going to Vineyard in Columbus, the year we got married and that Tommy and Johnny rhyme! ;) After no luck of finding the rings we sat down in the bathroom and prayed together. I shared with her that if the rings were stolen that God has the capability of placing them back into your life. Somewhere you would least expect them, to make sure that you know He did it. Before we parted, I gave them my business card and asked her to call me to keep us posted.
Later that night Anna called. She said that when they got home they looked on the dresser to see if the rings were there. The dresser is where she always puts them when she takes them off. They both looked on the dresser and found nothing but one picture frame and two candles. They went down stairs to the living room and prayed together for at least half an hour. When they went upstairs to go to bed, they saw both her engagement ring and wedding band stacked in a way that even with the steadiest hands would be difficult, with the center diamond pointed straight at the corner of the dresser. God did this for Anna. He is so amazing. For all we know, someone found the rings in the sink at the mall, didn’t turn them in and God took them back. Our Lord is so amazing.
Friday started out as quite a night. We went to Brian and Alisha’s house to surprise one of our friends for her birthday. We met some new people and hung out till Bizzy (Elizabeth) got there.
Around nine, we left to go shopping and ended up at Brio (right before they closed) for their $2.95 bar menu. All we got was the Red Pepper Bruschetta and some waters. As soon as I stood up I knew I was going to be sick. We had tickets to see Avatar (in 3D) and while Tommy returned them at the box office I sat back down in the lobby. Luckily I made it to the car and we almost made it home, but on our street, it happened. Sick as a dog! Tommy took such good care of me when we got home, he could not have done any better if he tried. We were sad though that we did not get to see Avatar that night.
We ended up sleeping in on Saturday morning. We got up around 9:45am. Bethany came over around 10:30 or so. She was coming to pick up some stuff and we hung out for a few. It was great to see her, I had not seen her in weeks. Later, Tommy and I got ready for the day and went shopping at Kohl’s for Brooke’s Birthday party; she was turning 5 years old. Marvin, Jill, Brooke and Audrey used to live next door to us, they recently moved several miles away so we’re always excited to get to see them. Tommy found a sweater that he thought Brooke would look cute in, and then ended up picking out the perfect birthday card too! Tommy said she’d love it because it had a lady bug on it and sure enough she did. When she opened presents at her party, she showed everyone her card like she was the teacher reading a book to her class, and it was so cute.
The party was flowered themed, which is where we are headed next on this “What a Weekend Story”! Jill outdid herself once again. Each of the kids got a foam wreath to decorate with little flowers. She then took a picture with each of the kids and Brooke, printed them off and framed them in the wreaths, which we stuck magnets on the back of. After that, the kids planted mini, foot-tall, Christmas trees they got to decorate with pipe cleaners and more mini foam flowers. Then Brooke un-wrapped her gifts and the kids had cupcakes and ice cream. We had such a great time at her party. Before we left Jill gave me my Christmas gift from her. I got the cutest purple hat and wrap-around scarf. I was so excited! The hat is just my style and in a color that I didn’t have yet. I was so happy. She also got me an 8x10 of the two of us at Easton when we went to go see Transformers 2! It’s so cute and I was so excited about the picture because all we have framed right now are family pix. I am determined to start a friends wall, and the picture of me and Jill will be the first to go up! (it’s already in a frame!)
After the birthday party we went to Edamame. Our waiter, also a Tommy, calls us regulars…I don’t know about that but we do like it there. He said since we were, we could order off the new menu they are introducing next week! We ordered a new appetizer, the Calamari. It was amazing. It came with deep fried green beans on the side. We got some of our favorites; the Edamame Roll, the Buckeye Roll, the Nutty Almond Roll, and we tried a new roll called the Mango Roll with, yes, mango. We spent two and a half hours at the restaurant just talking and eating. It was great!
We bought tickets (again) to see Avatar that night. We headed over to the theatre afterwards and got into the line. Yep, they let us all up at once, then we had to wait again to get into the actual theatre. To be honest I had absolutely no intention of seeing this movie till Tommy told me about the reviews and that we could see it in the “New 3D” experience. Amazing!
You have to go see it. I have to agree with most of the reviews that the plot could have been more detailed and just better but it was so cool the way the film was shot. I don’t want to tell you too much so you need to just go see it, in 3D! I am also ecstatic that Alice in Wonderland will also be out in 3D, like the way Avatar was filmed. Can not wait for that!!!
Today brought what Saturday morning brought, sleeping in! Ahhh! Avatar was a 2 hour and 45 minute movie and so we didn’t get home till around 2am. So far it’s been a lazy day. Tommy and I played some board games in front of the fire place and sipped on hot chocolate. We took a nap, two hours later we got up and I wrote this blog while he went out on a shoot. Picture to come later. Sadly, I just found out an hour ago that Brittany Murphy died this morning. I know it might sound silly but I feel like I lost a friend. I love her movies. I have almost every one of them that she was in. Clueless, Just Married, Uptown Girls, Little Black Book and Girl, Interrupted are just some of my favorites. My heart goes out to her family.
I guess she has 5 movies in post-production right now. It will be nice to still see her on the big screen again, although I am sure they will be hard to watch. Again, my heart aches and I will miss her as, I am sure, many others will.
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