All Consuming : Stephanie

Consuming "Divine Discipline: How To Develop And Maintain Self- Control"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:37 GMT

Divine Discipline: How To Develop And Maintain Self- Control

by Rhonda H. Kelley

Consumed "Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind No. 3)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:39:00 GMT

Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind No. 3)

by Tim LaHaye

WORTH IT!

Reads like an action movie (rated 5 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:39:00 GMT

Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind No. 3)

by Tim LaHaye

It was a really good, fast paced book. The first couple of chapter were a little slower but just a little. There was one point were I closed my eyes like you do when your watching a movie but then I remembered it was a book so I read starting reading really fast to see wheat would happen next.

Consumed "An Inconvenient Truth"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:42:32 GMT

An Inconvenient Truth

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (Full Screen Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:49:30 GMT

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (Full Screen Edition)

WORTH IT!

Damn Good movie (rated 5 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:45:02 GMT

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (Full Screen Edition)

This is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time.

A story about "Boundries: When to say Yes, How to Say No to take Control of Your Life"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:03:26 GMT

Boundries: When to say Yes, How to Say No to take Control of Your Life

by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

I’m only on page 32 and I’ve already learned a few things. This is a great alternative to that other book I was reading last year. Yeech!

Consumed "Fasting"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:36:34 GMT

Fasting

by Jentezen Franklin

WORTH IT!

A story about "The Book (NLT)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:47:46 GMT

The Book (NLT)

I haven’t read the entire book but I’ve read enough to know its good.

Consumed "Fasting The Private Discipline That Brings Public Reward"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:52:01 GMT

Fasting The Private Discipline That Brings Public Reward

by Jentezen Franklin

WORTH IT!

Why I gave up consuming "Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:37:47 GMT

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

It wasn’t what I was expected at all. I’m mean, when you pick up a book in the Christian Inspiration section you don’t expect it to be littered with 4 letter words and tales of sex and drugs without much sound of repentance. Well, she did seem to repent the drinking but… I don’t know.

Don’t get me wrong. The half of the book I read was interesting but it was really more of a memoir and that’s not what I was looking for.

Its like if you order pizza and the delivery guy brings ice cream. Ice cream tastes good and all but you had a taste for pizza but it wasn’t delivered.

A question I have about "Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:14:11 GMT

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

Why is this book in the Christian Inspiration section?

I’m Christian. I swear when I get frustrated. Sometimes I even swear under my breath as I’m rushing down the sidewalk to church.

Still, it is very odd to be reading a book I got out of the Christian Inspiration section with this much cussing in it. Her little boy is even swearing in the book! Maybe the memoir section would be a better place for it.

Anyway, I’m almost halfway through the book. It is interesting. Just miscategorized in my opinion.

How "The five love languages of singles" changed my life

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:45:21 GMT

The five love languages of singles

by Gary Chapman

In my last entry I hoped this book would give me advice on how to communicate my love language without sounding like a psychologist on some 80’s talk show.

It did.

It seems that I fall into a small segment of the population that expresses love in one language but who’s primary choice for receiving it is another.

The test said my primary was words of affirmation and my secondary was quality time. What I discovered through reading the book is that I express love, respect, appreciation, etc primarily through acts of service.

The author explains how to recognize the love languages of family, friends and coworkers. It took me ummm… almost 3 seconds to realize that the love language of most of my relatives is acts of service. Except for my brothers, I believe theirs’ are gifts. Well, I think Robert has a tie between acts of service and gifts. Anyway, whenever I’ve wanted people in my life to feel valued, I’d try to do something nice for them or give them a small gift.

On the other hand, when people try to do things for me it makes me kind of uncomfortable. I could, and a some point will, write a whole blog entry on this subject alone.

In the books it says if you use the wrong love language with someone you might even offend them. They gave an example of your roommate going away for a vacation and they’ve returned to find you’ve cleaned their bathroom. That’s something I’d do. Especially if they came from a place that had room service. Transitioning back into real life can be a little tough after a week of room service and housekeeping. But if acts of service is not their love language, they may think that you are thinking, they aren’t doing a good enough job keeping their space clean. To be honest, if it were me and my bathroom, I would have been quietly thinking the same thing. Weird, huh?

In fact, whenever a coworker, or worse supervisor, offers help I get a little paranoid. Yet if I have free time, I offer help to coworkers and superiors all the time. Just because I like to keep busy. Now, that I think about it, over the years on my job evaluations they say, Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Then I’d cringe a little inside. Hmmmm. I’m nowhere nearly a bad as I used to be but like I said, I’ll save all this for a future blog entry.

The solution for me was handing out more compliments and thank-yous myself. At the end of the night I find at least two people and tell them I enjoyed working with them (if I did). When given help with my work, instead of getting all paranoid I thank them for thinking of me. Then I started getting them back. The other day a nurse turned to me, before the shift even started, and told me how pleasant it was to be able to work with me. It was a nice way to start the night. I actually enjoy going to work again. Its a been a long time.

Edit: I also have to give credit to the friend that I emailed when I first started reading this book. She was the first one to tell me if I wanted to get affirming words I needed to give them and to start thanking and complimenting my new coworkers for a job well done.

Consumed "Skinny Bitch"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:39:56 GMT

Skinny Bitch

by Kim Barnouin

Consumed "Dating Delilah"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:01:12 GMT

Dating Delilah

by Judah Smith

WORTH IT!

Consumed "A Divine Revelation of Hell"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:48:56 GMT

A Divine Revelation of Hell

by Mary K. Baxter

WORTH IT!

Consumed "fudge brownies"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:31:08 GMT

fudge brownies

WORTH IT!

Why I want to consume "fudge brownies"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:23:57 GMT

fudge brownies

because they’re from Flirt. So I know they were baked with love. :)

A story about "eggrolls"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:49:57 GMT

eggrolls

I’m consuming avacodo eggrolls. They’re yummy.

A review of "The Secret Things of God: Unlocking the Treasures Reserved for You" (rated 3 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:56:44 GMT

The Secret Things of God: Unlocking the Treasures Reserved for You

by Henry Cloud

It was alright.

A review of "Don't Be That Girl: A Guide to Finding the Confident, Rational Girl Within"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Stephanie) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:21:30 GMT

Don't Be That Girl: A Guide to Finding the Confident, Rational Girl Within

by M.D., Travis L. Stork

I don’t know why I picked this up. I think it was because the cover was so funny. There was nothing in there to help me really. But if anyone has ever referred to you as psycho, drama queen, desperate or clingy, this book may help.

The gentleman who wrote this was guy from The Bachelor: Paris. From the 2 or 3 episodes I saw of that season, he seems just as shallow as I remember. Again and again he felt the need to mention the fact that he is an ER doctor. It was mentioned on nearly every page. This isn’t a health or fitness book. Sometimes it was relevant to what was being discussed but most of the time it came across as bragging and having a passive know-it-all attitude.

There was some good advice in there. A little. I could see some of my younger self in some of those “that girls.” My advice is if you buy that book head straight for the chapter on how to be a good friend. Thats a wonderful chapter. The most useful in the book.

Stephanie