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Remember these shows?

Yeah, I was bored today...and made this list. Enjoy, and add to it if you like...I'm sure there are plenty I've forgotten about...especially shows more for girls. I stuck with the non-cartoons that 80s kids were known to watch...on their own or forced to watch with parents since most of us only had one TV in the house. (in Random Order):

Double Trouble
Small Wonder
Just the Ten of Us
The Hogan Family
I Married Dora
Perfect Strangers
Alf
Mr. Belvedere
Out of This World
Diff’rent Strokes
Facts of Life
Family Ties
Growing Pains
Head of the Class
My Two Dads
Who’s the Boss?
The Wonder Years
21 Jump Street
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Cosby Show
Family Matters
Punky Brewster
The A Team
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Charles in Charge
Knight Rider
My Secret Identity
Gimme a Break
227
Silver Spoons
Kate & Allie
My Sister Sam
Learning the Ropes
Newhart
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Riptide
Magnum P.I.

The Random TV Show Game

Last night Isha and I found ourselves layin' on the bed, and like we sometimes do, we broke into a spontaneous game...this time of TV trivia. It consisted of giving a word or short phrases of description of TV shows while the other tried to guess the show. It was just funny how little info the other one needed sometimes and how much we needed other times. For example, Isha got these right off:

"Cousin"

"Housekeeper"

Then, she looks at me and says, "Huh?" after I gave all these clues before finally guessing:

"Family...Yellow...Fat...Ageless..."

"Alien...Furry...Likes Cats..."

I think I should get bonus points for guessing the ones that she gave wrong clues on though, like:

"2 brothers...a cousin...a uncle...a farm"

"a family...2 uncles"

But, I must say the highlight was winning the debate as to whether Max Headroom did Coke or Pepsi commercials...the look on her face as she googled it and the prize I got for winning..."YOW BAYBEE!"

Random Things That Pop in My Head

I'm quite the thinker and I can't really just veg out often because I'm always thinking about something I need to be doing or planning or whatever. But from time to time these random things just pop in my head and I don't know why (in random order):

How a memory has been blocked in my mind from 6th grade...I was accused of taking a dollar, and I honestly can't remember if I did or not...then, I think I replaced it, but I can't remember that for sure either...just bugs me because I usually remember everything

Isha's blond fro she had when I met her that bobbed around when she laughed

The song, "Islands in the Stream"

A girl's phone number I liked in 3rd grade...592-9896...I never even called it

Picturing myself randomly punching someone in the face

Plays from a Kansas City Chiefs-Houston Oilers playoff game in 1994 including a touchdown pass Joe Montana threw to Tamarick Vanover in the win over Buddy Ryan's defense. Vanover spiked the ball in a huge realistic drawing of Buddy Ryan's face on a banner a fan had hanging on the sideline...the Chiefs came back from a 7-13 defecit in the 4th quarter to win 28-20...Montana's second consecutive comeback in as many weeks during those playoffs. This was my favorite non-Super Bowl game. He got a concussion and lost to the Bills in the next game, but then the Cowboys took care of them in the Super Bowl.

Picturing myself eating a small moist loaf of bread...and then my mouth begins to water

Car jumping scenes from the original series, "The Dukes of Hazzard" as I'm driving and picturing myself doing it


Another random thought not related to this list: That I used to think about soft serve ice cream when I saw something gross or smelled something really bad to keep me from gaggin'. I mean soft white creamy cold ice cream is the opposite of warm yellow-brown chunky stinky puke, right? Well, that all got ruined on a ski trip a few years ago when a kid had a soft serve ice cream cone and then chucked it on the floor right beside my driver's seat.

Getting Lost in Lost

I began watching the show Lost a few years ago when the show started. But, my crazy schedule with ball practices and church and such kept me from continuing past the first few episodes. It was before my DVR days, so I just let it go without much thought but that I knew I was missing a good one. Well, after hearing more and more people rave about it and knowing people who had actually owned it on DVD, I decided I would get it that way and begin watching it. Well, Isha and I got it Saturday evening. We were preparing for company the next day for lunch after church, so we settled in about 9:30 to watch an episode or two. The season is 7 disks of 4 episodes each. They are about 3 hours per disk with a 3 1/2 disk 7...I'm assuming a 2-hr season finale or just a 25th episode. Well, we got sucked in so quick. We moved the 50" TV to the bedroom and we spent the weekend in bed watching Lost and eating too much. We watched 4 episodes Saturday night 9:30-12:30. When the company was gone and cleaned up after on Sunday, we settled in for 4 more episodes 2:30-5:30 p.m. before church. We went to church and came home in time to catch another showing of 4 episodes 8:30-11:30. Monday was a busy day of errands and appointments in Wichita, but we returned and fit in 8 episodes from 7:30 till about 2 a.m. We have only disk 7 left to finish this season, and probably on the brink of bed sores. And my gosh people, you watch another episode to get answers, and they only present more questions!

Anyway, I knew it was a good one when I first saw it, but didn't have the means to keep it going. But now, we defintely are sucked in and will be going through it all to catch up. Hopefully, we can pace ourselves a little better though...lol.

Being Disappointed

I've decided I'm ready to set myself up for a little more disappointment. Sounds stupid? I know, but hear me out. Things in life have made me very cynical. I've become a person that expects the worse from people. The benefit to me was that I'm never disappointed in people because I was always prepared for the worst. The problem is that it also makes you very unhappy with people and somewhat isolated. I've wanted to live on an island with one ferry in and major security checks before anyone can enter my island.

I was watching a TV show the other night where the main character is a real jerk to everyone all the time. He always expected the worst from people and never gave anyone the benefit of the doubt. However, he was very good at his job and that was his appeal to people. I realized that, if not for that talent, he would have no friends at all and be very miserable. Someone finally said to him, "I would rather go through life expecting good from people and being disappointed every once in a while than to just always expect the worst."

The Bible is clear and I've posted on it before, a person that keeps friendships and close relationships with fools will suffer because those fools will use them and burn them for their benefit. And fools who have nothing to lose are the scariest because I have worked hard and God has blessed me with so much that I could lose. I know who those people are, and my feelings there won't change. But, I don't want to go through life assuming everyone else I meet is on that list until they prove to me they're not. I want to go through life assuming they're good until they prove they are the fools the Bible is talking about. I want to enjoy people and life and assume they're good...and maybe be disappointed every once in a while.

Think about what you think about

Last night, I watched the movie "Click" with Isha, we had our devotional together, and then stumbled onto this quote from one of her old blogs:

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny!

Our devotional (Joyce Meyer: Battlefield of the Mind Devotional: 100 Insights That Will Change the Way You Think) was all about how your thoughts determine your future and how bad thoughts can lead to failures and misery. And, of course, "Click" is a comedy about a guy that focuses on the wrong things and misses life because of it. This is an area that I sometimes struggle with. I can be very pessimistic and I tend to be miserable with defeat to the point that i'm only slightly satisfied with victory or success. When things go bad, I'm miserable, and when they go good I barely enjoy it.

I love the life that God has given me. I never know what direction it will go, but I don't want to worry about the future at the cost of enjoying the now.

I love my kids, and I am tore up that they are nearly halfway through their time at home and well into the age of remembering everything from that goes on. They can both be difficult at times, but I am so selfish with my time and energy around the house. tonight, we are having family time instead of going to the varsity game. I hope this is the beginning of a better relationship for us as a family.

I love my wife. She is the greatest...people see it, but I've got the best seat in the house, so no one knows like I do. I fail her all the time. I am so ready to take on anything God has for me with her by my side. I can only be happy when she's happy, and I can't help but be sad when she's sad. I can't sleep without her foot touching my leg...seriously. I just wish in my successful quest to find the perfect wife, I'd have spent more time preparing to be the kind of husband that wife needed.

My family is a constant reminder that my relationship to God must stay firm. I cannot be what they need without Him, and every shortcoming in my attempt to be a good father and husband is when I try to do it on my own.

Okay, that wasn't even what I began to blog about, but guess I needed to get that out too. Anyway, I want God to control my thoughts and desires. When I think I'm unhappy, I think I need something more. When that happens I feed a desire for more than what God has for me and has given me. My life is not perfect, but it is perfectly covered in His grace, so I need to quit worrying about every little imperfection and live for Him. My desire is to take care of what God has blessed me with and seek His will for my life--and the lives of my family that He has entrusted to me.

I hope anyone that reads this that finds themselves unhappy can know that true happiness is found only in the will of God, and that will is found through prayer, His Word, church, and godly wisdom from those you know can serve as a mouthpiece of God to you. And don't let Satan, that sorry thief, rob you of the life God promises by putting lies, worries, and hurts into your thoughts!

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the FULL." - John 10:10