100th Post and Artpad

This is my 100th post! Took me a long time, but I'm here. =)

So when I'm really bored I go to artpad.art.com and I paint, and since I have nothing to post about, I thought I'd post some stuff I've painted.

^^This one is my favorite. Took me awhile too.

Oh yeah, the writing you canNOT add on artpad, so I went to paint and added it over the stuff I DID do on artpad.
I really don't know what this is...Like I said, I was bored. =)
Black dots I did on paint too. Heehee. Would you call that cheating? =D

Friday Night

Last night my youth group went to another church in Lexington because they had a special guest. Mike Timlin from the Red Sox!!! He talked about his faith, his family, he talked about the Red Sox a little bit, and he answered some questions. It was pretty cool, probably would have been cooler if I had paid more attention. It was so not my fault though (ok a little tiny bit my fault), YOU try sitting next to Jaina! It was so funny. I really don't know why, but we couldn't stop laughing, even though nothing was really that funny. Then I took Jaina to the "bathroom" because we couldn't handle it anymore, and we had to go calm down. We weren't really being loud, but if we had stayed there, we would have been. Besides it would have been really werid if we had just randomly started laughing when Mike Timlin was talking. And really embarassing...haha. Near the end I acutally went down one row and sat next to Rachel, because I couldn't look at Jaina without laughing. No idea what caused our crazyness, and by the way, I usually do pay attention when someone's speaking. Just not with Jaina....heehee.

Choices

Choices make you who you are. Ok I get that.

So let's say a person makes a lot of bad choices. Does that make them a bad person?

Let's say a person makes a lot of good choices. Does that make them a good person?

What if a person who has made bad choices, made those choices, because they didn't see any other choice?

What if a person who has made good choices, has their heart in the wrong place, and only makes those good choices for the glory or riches?

I think that it doesn't matter WHAT choice you make, whether it's a good choice or a bad choice, as long as you learn from the consequence of that choice, and then, chose the RIGHT choice next time.

Give me some feedback people.

(My weekend was) Won-Da-Ful

My weekend was won-da-ful. It felt soo good to relax, even though actually was pretty busy. I think that's a good way to just forget about schoolwork and all those stressful things. Just keep busy, but don't go nutty with stuff.
Saturday my Aunt Lisa and my cousin Jill came over. I'm so glad they did because we don't see them a lot and I miss them. I got my very late birthday present which rocked too. I got these beautiful beaded necklaces that were made in Kenya, Africa. They are soooo pretty and you can do like a million things with them. After they left I hung out with Meghan. We surfed youtube for a little, finding some awesome people who can play the Pirates them song on their electric guitars. These people are seriously talented.

Today I saw Brianna!! Not Brianna from youth group, a different Brianna. I knew her when I went to a different youth group with Bethany, and now she goes to school with Molly. And I remembered her and she remembered me (after a while, she thought Molly was insane when Molly told her that she knew her sister). Are you at all confused? It's a very long confusing story. And I don't think I explained it very well. But that's ok because you'll deal. Haha. So Bri and her dad picked me up and I went to their church service this morning. After I stayed and helped with their harvest festival. I officially have a new skill. I can face paint!!! I was so scared I would mess up and the little kids would like, hate me, for drawing something completely hideous on their face, but I actually did pretty well! It wasn't that hard, I just had to let go and relax, and not be stiff and mean. I talked to the kids too, they were all so cute. I must have done like 30 rainbows. Yep so that was fun. After we went back to Brianna's house and hung out there for like 3 hours and did random things. Yeah so Brianna's awesome. I love her. =)

~Adios.

Science Museum

We're going the the Science Museum today!! I haven't been there for like...8 years I think. Actually the last time I was there I had a broken leg.

Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy!!!

A Couple of My Feelings

Why do people always try to make your business their business? It's like they think they can help you, when you know that you don't need their help. They think that because you're having problems, that that automatically means that you don't have a handle on things. Oh yeah? Well maybe you do have a handle on things. And if you don't, well then hopefully God will put some sense in your head and make you go and talk to someone. If not, then offer your help to a friend, but don't push it.

Also, life is different for everybody, so let them live their life and you go live yours. If they want to skydive for a living, then shut up and ask them if you can come for one ride.

And if you have a problem, don't hide it. Don't be the dramatic actress or actor, cuz no matter what you think, you are not in a movie and you need to trust the people around you. Everything's going to be ok if you trust in God and in the friends and family he gave you. That's why they're there you knucklehead.

You can't change the past so get over it, and try to make the future different. Plan ahead, but live for the moment.

And one last thing, if you're planning on being my friend, then BE MY FRIEND. Don't make any promises you aren't going to keep. Trust me, I'll be better off without you if you do.

This is not directed to anyone in particular. It may contain somethings I want some people to know, but not completely. It's also just my feelings...Please don't get offended by them. This isn't directed towards you.

Every Day

This is a song by Rascal Flatts, they are a country Christian band, and they wrote this song for their newest cd Still Feels Good. I really like it because I think that this song is directed to God and how he saves, and love us unconditionally.

You could've bowed out gracefully

But you didn't

You knew enough to know

To leave well enough alone

But you wouldn't

I drive myself crazy

Tryin' to stay out of my own way

The messes that I make

But my secrets are so safe

The only one who gets me

Yeah, you get me

It's amazing to me

How every day

Every day, every day

You save my life

I come around all broken down and

Crowded out

And you're comfort

Sometimes the place I go

Is so deep and dark and desperate

I don't know, I don't know

Sometimes I swear,

I don't know if I'm comin' or goin'

But you always say something

Without even knowin'

That I'm hangin' on to your words

With all of my might and it's alright

Yeah, I'm alright for one more night-

Every day you save my life

© 2007 Lyric Street Records, Inc.

GAHHHH

I CAN'T CHANGE MY BLOG TEMPLETE.....

I am going to go CRAZY.

And by that I mean more crazy than I already am.

*sniff*

Cold burgers *GASP!*

The world,

would be a terrible place,

IF ALL THE BURGERS WERE COLD.

Uh-huh, yup.

Winter -- Say what?

Is there something I'm missing? Everyone seems to adore winter, and yet, I don't. It could have something to do with being cold. I can't stand being cold, and I always am in the winter.

Also snow. Completely beautiful and sparkly for a moment, but soon, gray and smushy. (Not a word but it should be.) It looses it's appeal. But I will admit, for a minute it time, it does have a certain...charm to it.

Now me, I prefer the ocean. Warm beaches, palm trees. Somewhere tropical. Green, green grass squishing beneath my feet. Soft, warm breezes are always appreciated. The winter just seems so dead and silent.

If you care to prove me wrong, I encourage you to try. But I warn you, it won't be easy. =P

Erika!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIKA!!!

YOU ROCK LIKE A NEW SOCK!!!

Ok sorry that was really lame but we really couldn't live without socks. Think about it..

Anyway...I hope you have an awesome birthday, and btw...being 15 rocks. So enjoy it. =)

Yep, so they kidnapped me

Ok so hi! Sorry it took so long for me to post about my wonderf-uh I mean traumatizing experience on Monday.
So first of all, I have like the best friends ever. I do, I really do. I mean I'm the only girl (that I know of) that has gotten kidnap by her friends!! Yes, it was my friends who kidnapped me. Shocking I know. Yep so they kidnapped me, and I was at the computer at the time, about 10 minutes probably after I wrote the post before this one. And they came up behind me and grabbed me, and someone (you'll find out later) put their hands over my eyes so I couldn't see anything. Then they blindfolded me, put a pillowcase over my head and tied my hands with a bandana. After doing that they carried me out of my house. And I just have to mention that apparently my parents felt it was their duty to do nothing. Unless they knew something I didn't...
I was positive that they were going to drop me, so I offered to walk, but they didn't reply...hmm. Wasn't that nice of me though?! Offering to help my kidnappers...Heehee. They actually did drop me too. On the wet grass. But I didn't get that wet, haha. So they carried me down to the driveway and pushed me in a car, and they buckled my seat belt for me. Which I thought was very thoughtful of them because I couldn't buckle it myself because my hands were tied and also because that meant that they were concerned for my safety! After doing that they pulled the pillowcase and blindfold off my head and untied my hands. GUESS, who it was.

Ashlee, Tori, Kaeleigh and Naomi!!

I love those girls. Hahah. Yeah so after they kidnapped me for my birthday!! Don't you wish you could be kidnapped for your birthday? I bet you do.

We went to the Rockingham mall which rocks, and we went to Mr. Tux! We only went there because Tori asked me where I wanted to go and that was the first store I saw on the map. Hhaha. When we went in, the saleslady came up to us like right away and asked us if she could help us, and we said, no thank you. She looked at us kind of strangely (do you blame her?) and asked us we were looking for something in particular. We said not we're just looking, and she walked away. She watched us the whole time we were there and I could tell she really really wanted to kick us out but she didn't because she didn't know why we were there.

Later we got a birthday sundae! It was huuuuuge. Tori took some pictures and I'm going to make her put them on her blog. So Tori please put them on your blog when you have time!

It was really good by the way. =)

So that's my traumatic experience. It was awesome. =)

It's...its...

It's....it's....too tramatic for me to post about my extraordinary kiddnapping the other day...I will only be able to post about it when I recover....*Sigh* If I recover!

Also I have to find out how much I am allowed to tell the world. My special CSI agent Diane has to tell me what I am allowed to tell you.

WARNING: You may not be able to handle it.

With Someone...oooooh

Apparently I'm going out today, With Someone. Or Someones. To Somewhere. Or Something. I have no idea, Who, What, Why, And Exactly When. Ooooooh. Scary.

Well I kinda know why, it's a belated birthday surprise. With Someone. BUT I HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT ANYTHING!!!!!

So I'm just sitting here...at the computer....waiting...for something to happen.

I love surprises, I really do, but I don't love waiting. It's deffinatly not a skill of mine.

Huh. Well I'll post about whatever I'm doing, after I'm done whatever I'm going to do, and with whoever I'm going to do it with.

....Or whatever.

Templates!

Ok so I'm trying to find a new blog template and I'm having a hard time finding one that I really like. So I'm going to try a bunch of different ones probably every 1-3 days (so keep checking in), and I want you guys to comment on which template you think looks good. Also I'll probably change the blog title to have something to do with the template. If I think of a good title. So I need you to comment people!! =)

Meghan and Sophie here!

HI! It's Sophie and Meghan. On Sophie's blog!!! Woooohhoooooo we are simply amazing!! Ok really sorry but it's a tad late and we are both hyper on......um....I'll give you the short version, laughter.
WE went to the mall today, it was faaantastic. We got kicked out of Claires!!! Because we were rabid wild hooligans!!!!! Or because I had the much desired mocha joe, <33333 and you're not supposed to. mua hahahhahahahhahahhhahahaah. Man I need to go to bed.
Meghan says "NO WAY! Hyper........HYPER!!!"
Oh and for those of you who care and have read Maximum Ride, Meghan and I found the perfect person to play FANG in the movie!!!!! Joe Jonas! He can totally pull it off!!!
Together, Meghan and I spent probably....about $115 bucks at the mall.........our excuse is that Meghan got a wicked cute hat. Two hats actually. WHICH I FOUND!! both of them. both on sale. I have a sixth sense about stuff like that. Heehee.
Meghan is going to get the cable thingy so that her laptop doesn't run out of battery because I guess she thinks this is going to be a long post or something. pshh.
Oh and Meghan and I have a new favorite song!!!! It's from Robin Hood. Yes the cartoon.
It's called Oo-de-lally! AHHH!!! <33
here are the lyrics but it's soooo much better with the music. maybe I'll find a video for it.....

Robin Hood and Little John
Walkin' through the forest
Laughin' back and forth
At what the other'ne has to say
Reminiscin', This-'n'-thattin'
Havin' such a good time
Oo-de-lally, Oo-de-lally
Golly, what a day
Never ever thinkin' there was danger in the water
They were drinkin', they just guzzled it down
Never dreamin' that a schemin' sherrif and his posse
Was a-watchin' them an' gatherin' around
Robin Hood and Little John
Runnin' through the forest
Jumpin' fences, dodgin' trees
An' tryin' to get away
Contemplatin' nothin'
But escape an' fin'lly makin' it
Oo-de-lally, Oo-de-lally
Golly, what a day
Oo-de-lally, Oo-de-lally
Golly, what a daaaaayyyyy!!

........We are NOT as crazy as it seems.

G'NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashlee!

Check it out people!!!
Ashlee is on my blog links!!! Because she is amazing and she rocks and she's my biffle. So go to her blog and I know she'd love it if you commented!! =)
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Taking Chances

"What do you say to taking chances,

What do you say to jumping off the edge?

Never knowing if there's solid ground below

Or hand to hold."

-Celine Dion, Taking Chances

My sister...

I was just thinking about me and my sister. We have a very...complicated relationship. She thinks she knows all there is to know about me, but she actually has never taken the time to dig a little deeper past the outer surface. I'm a girl, so yes it's true that I hide a lot. Maybe more than some people know. I have feelings that rush through me like water and in an instant are gone. I have little pet peeves, small things that annoy me that probably shouldn't annoy me as Meghan and Rachel point out. =)

But there are deeper things in me. I have passions, dreams, sorrows, and burdens. I've hurt some people, but people have hurt me too. My sister hurts me a lot, not phiscally, but emotionally. She doesn't understand me but she thinks she does which makes her assume things that aren't true about me. And I know that she has told some other people things about me. But she doesn't really know anything.

I have hated my sister. I have felt like punching her and I'm sure if I was a boy I would have by now. =) But I'm a girl so I've been afraid to. I've been afraid of a lot. I used to be afraid of stairs without railings and with openings underneath. But mostly I'm afraid of feelings. Sometimes I hide from my feelings or other peoples.

I've handled a lot of things the wrong way I know that, but the thing I kept telling myself is live and learn. That doesn't help very much when you're hurting inside. My sister doesn't know I hurt inside. She thinks I'm so full of it, that I'm always confident and I'm selfish. Well yes sometimes I am selfish, but so is she. And everyone is. It's life.

My sister has made me cry a lot before but I've decided tonight not to let her anymore. I know she's going to keep hurting me but I am not going to run to my bed and throw my self on it and cry. No, I'm going to run to my heavenly father and throw myself in his arms. I've made a lot of mistakes this summer, and the summer's before that. And I just want to say that I'm sorry. I'm sorry for those mistakes, I'm sorry for anyone that's gotten hurt, and I'm sorry that my sister and I don't love each other like sister's should. But I just want to say that I'm going to move on, and I'm not going to dwell on my mistakes anymore, because my savior forgives me. Even if my sister....and some others, don't.

I want to be happy, so after this post I'm going to be. I've kept some things inside for too long and I need to let them out. You don't have to comment about anything of this, I just needed...to let it go.

Hola

Hola everybody who still has faith in my blog -

So yesterday was my birthday and I truly have the greatest friends because so many of them did just a little thing for me! I am like swimming in movies which I totally love. I love old musicals and I got like 5 because I just have the greatest family. =) I also got Ocean's 11 and 12, and Robin Hood! The old Disney movie with the fox as Robin Hood. I have to admit I totally love that movie and I always will because I WILL NEVER BE TO OLD FOR ROBIN HOOD. Hah!

Something I forgot to mention is I'm taking singing lessons every Tuesday night. Today was my second lesson and I already love it. My music teacher's really nice and apparently I surprised her because I went up a key in like, 2 minutes or something. I'm not sure but I was happy. =)

You People are NUTS

Ok, wow. Oh my goodness. After 103 comments I think I kinda have to post.

SO I'M BACK!!!!!

Hmm weird, I think I just heard someone gasp....hahah.

Ok so here are a couple of things I learned over the summer.

1. I am absolutely terrible, horrible, atrocious, apalling, and actually frighteningly bad at LASER TAG. Yup. It's true. My youth group went after a car wash and I came in dead last. Out of 28 people. I'm not going to embarass myself further by telling you my score. I was under the illusion that I was doing really well too. Haha, I had fun though, people were trying to convince me that was the point. Psh, whatever.

2. My little darling kitty-cat is an amazing escape artist. She is the cat Houdini. Not joking. Guess which cat. Her name rhymes Fudge.

3. If you go really far, over the hill, across paths, through the woods, you find a place, that looks Lord of the Ringsy. Minus Ring Wraiths.

4. This blog is apparently loved. I have power....MUA AHAHAH.

5. I MET AYIESHA WOODS!!!!!! Some of you probably don't know who she is, but she was at the Revolve Tour that I went to with some of the girls from youth group. SHE'S NICE! I like her, and someday I'm going to be on her MySpace. (at least that's what she said when she took our picture. heehee.)

6. Hawk Nelson rocks. In case you didn't know. But I hope you did, lol. "You'll never, ever pull my leather! Not today and not forever!!!!!!"

7. I feel really old, and it's not even my birthday yet...(tomorrow =D )

8. I CAN DRIVE IN 6 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you totally don't have to stay off the road like Mr. O'Brien says. PSHHHHHH.

9. I won bingo this summer!!! When I was camping with Rachel the campsite has a bingo night and I actually won.

10. There will be more posts, but not everyday. haha.

So I hope all you crazy people are satisfied now. Gosh, can't you give a girl a little break? lol, jk, arrivederci.

I'm back!

Heehee. OK now that I got the "I have nothing to post" out of my system, I can actually post!! Those comments were funny though...=P
Well camp was amazing, awesome, wonderful, great and everything it always is. Jodi remembered me, which I thought was pretty sick. I really really don't have the paitence to write all about it, so go read Tori's blog, because she's the best and is writing a post for each day at camp.
I'm so excited for next summer because, drum role, I GET TO WORK AT BEREA!!!!!!!!!! Woot woot!!! Tori is too! And possible Kaeleigh. Tori and I are going to be SIT's (Staff-in-Training), and go for a staff week to "bond" (haha isn't that so great? lol) and then work for 3 camp sessions! I'm so happy, cuz I just love Berea, it's the best place in the world. Well I think. =)
So mostly since I got back I've just been chilling. I haven't posted because sometimes during the summer I really hate going on the computer. No idea why, I just don't feel like staying in one place. So sorry about the lack of posts.
Today I'm really excited because it's Ashlee's birthday party!!!! Ahhhhh!! She's a teenager, which is pretty awesome all in all. I always think she's one year older than she really is, not because I forget her age (ahha) but because she just seems older.
Also before her party we're going to the movies with this family, the Eppersons. They're from CBC, (not your church Tori, it's Meghan's church here) and I guess they came to a homeschool meeting once, but they didn't join. But there is a girl Grace's age, and girl my age, and a girl Molly's age. Freaky huh? Yeah but their mom wanted us to get to together which I think is pretty cool, cuz they live in my town and more friends is always a good thing! lol. Yeah so we're going to see Underdog. And we're leaving now, so adios!

Nothing to post

....I have nothing to post.

This post is so random, I can't think of a title

This is probably going to be my last post before I leave for camp. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Sorry I haven't posted all week, VBS has made me exhausted. Blah. VBS was awesome. Even though I had to get up really early, and then come home wicked tired, it was still great. I had these 2 little girls, Maylen and Annie who are sooo cute!!! Everyday they fought over who got to sit on me. Of course they never gave me the chance to say, "Well what if I don't want to be sat on?". They just sat on me anyway. =) But they're so cute. I already said that...WELL DID YOU SEE THEM?!!? Annie told me on the last day that she loved me and that she was really going to miss me. Ahhhh, yeah I'm going to say it again....So cute!!!!!

The rest of VBS was fun too, I thought Chadder was kinda dumb this year but that's ok cuz it kept my kids entertained. =) It was great seeing a lot of people from the homeschool group that I don't get to see anymore a lot. =)

My throat is all scratchy..and I'm really worried cuz it's been like this all day, so I was wondering you people, who read my blog, would pray for me? I really don't want to be sick for camp. I wait for this all year and Berea is my favorite place in the whole world, so it's really special when I get to go. =) Yeah so if you could just pray for me that'd be great.

How To Make a Cat Mad

HOW TO MAKE A CAT MAD:

(A-very-instructional-umm-thing-you-should-uh-know-for-the-future-I-guess...)

Pinch it's nose. It will then immediately become angry, stop purring, and possibly give you the cold shoulder.

Triskaidekaphobia

Word of the Day for Friday, July 13, 2007 (Yesterday)

triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:

A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th.

My only thought is this...
I hope that there isn't a lot of 13 year-old kids who have triskaidekaphobia.

The Beauty of Grace

Must make 5 more posts before July 10th....I can do it!!
These are the lyrics to Krystal Meyers song The Beauty of Grace. I just bought this song on iTunes after listening to it on Tori's iPod. I think the lyrics are so meaningful that I decided to share them!

The Beauty of Grace

Written by Krystal Meyers and Ian Eskelin (thanks Tori!)

Tell me why'd you run?

You say you’re so ashamed

Bruised and broken

Thought if I figured out the mess you made

Then I’d leave

But anywhere you are

Is never too far away

There’s freedom from your scars

The mistakes that you’ve made

Forgiven

The memories erased

Baby, that’s the beauty of grace

La de da, la de da da

Tell me what is love?

I’ll never hold you to

The things you may have done

You say you want new life

In My arms there’s mercy

So blow a kiss goodbye

To all the pain you hide

(c) 2006 Designer Music (SESAC)/Koobie Tunes (SESAC)/Bridge Building (BMI)/Starshaped Music (BMI)

Pet pictures

Sorry the pictures took so long! My mom actually had my camera cord, no idea why.
Anway these are my darling pets, not always darling but most of the time! =)

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday was the 4th of July! I'm guessing that you all knew that already, unless you haven't look at a calender for 8 months, or you're in a coma! But I highly doubt that.

Anyway yesterday I spent most of the day at Meghan's (oooh suprised you there, didn't I?) because her family invited my family for a cookout. Well cookin, cuz it started to rain. It was fun though, Meghan's grandmother gave me this cool hat, she gave everyone a hat. She is a really cool grandmother. She's really funny too, she doesn't act a whole lot like an adult. =)

Today my mom woke me up at 6:30. She didn't try to wake me up, but I could hear her doing something loud, I actually have no idea what she was doing but it was loud! I probably just think it was loud cuz I'm a light sleeper, ha. So after that fun I watched Monk. That is a funny show. We borrowed the first season from the Lareau's, and I finished it in 2 days. It's horrible I know. Hey it was my first 2 days of summer (almost) and Meghan wasn't done yet!

I know I promised like...6 posts ago that I would post some picutures of Nudge, well, earlier I found her laying in a empty, plastic, trash can on it's side. I ran upstairs to get my camera, took about 12 pictures, then went to the computer to load them on.
....Well guess who lost her camera cord!!!!!! I'm so annoyed. How do you lose a camera cord?? Well in MY house!? I can't use my mom's cuz it's too big, and since she's hiking, I can't ask her if she put mine somewhere. So you're going to have wait longer to see Nudge. =P

Posts, Carpets, and Tuesdays. And stealing Meghan's three subject post thing...that she doesn't do anymore....

70 posts...sweet.

This is the first of 8 posts that Eric and I are writing before July 10th! Well this is my first post, I'm slightly ahead of you Eric!!! But I bet not for long, lol.

This morning this guy came over and cleaned our carpets downstairs. My house smell weird now. And the carpets are wet. I almost asked my dad, "Why did we do that again?" but I realized that if I did ask my dad, he would just start to rant about all our dirty pets. Hahah! Oh well, we love them, so we can put up with them. At least I can, I know if my dad had it his way......ehhhh. lol.

Today is new music Tuesday!! I love Tuesdays!!! And iTunes. =)

kuh-LOOD

collude \kuh-LOOD\, intransitive verb:

To act in concert; to conspire; to plot.

I'm colluding? How do you say that....?

I'm colluding to steal some chocolate from the top shelf on the cupboard! I'm hoping that all my colluding will pay off and I will find myself eating that delicious chocolate. Mmmm.

Eye See You

Today I had an eye doctor appointment. It was my yearly eye-checkup, and personally I don't see why I would need a yearly checkup, except to see if I'm going blind or something.
But I think I could tell them if I thought I was going blind. Uh yeah.

I need a new prescription anyway though, so I can understand that I needed to go. And actually, I usually need a new prescription every year, so I could also understand why my mom would make an appointment every year. But still. It's the principle of the thing!

Oh yeah, and I have astigmatism (Thank God for spellcheck!) in my left eye. That means that my left eye is not shaped like a perfect soccer ball like my right eye. The doctor's words not mine. I don't really care, I mean why would I? It's not like I'm going to go around hiding my left eye because of a little imperfection. I actually like it. I feel like my eye is unique. Strange, huh? =)

Tomorrow we might be going to Wal-Mart (The-official-store-of-America-where-you-can-get-all-the-junk-you-might-happen-to-need) to get new glasses. I always get freaked out before we go there, cause I'm afraid I'll pick a pair that look horrible on me. Maybe I'll take Meghan....or maybe not. haha.

Random thoughts

I have a cute hamster.

Wink of Death is fun. Even when I'm the first one to die...

Don't stay up until 3:30 AM. Even if you hear ghostly music...JUST DON'T!

Meghan and I had a lovely garden party and you weren't invited! (Meghan and I got crushed in a totally twisted game of Uno, so we decided to have a garden party, and not invite the ones who did the crushing.)

The sky up here (when I say up here, I mean on the hills where I live) change every 15 minutes. Or it seems like that if you aren't paying much attention.

Kickball is awesome, I think we should play it all summer, but maybe not every Friday, but I really don't care!!

I love volleyball.

Jet-Puffed marshmallows have a very strange name, and dissolve if you put them in boiling hot cocoa. And they are wonderfully delicious.

It is not weird at all to have hot cocoa in the summer. IT'S JUST NOT!!

I want to learn how to play the drums.

I miss my couch, because my parents moved it down into the basement. It's just not cool!

Summer is the best time of the year.

Batman Begins is a awesome movie.

Ok random thoughts are done! I just thought I should post. =)

Fang

Ok ok! I AGREE!!!! Fang is totally and completely real. I'm apologizing to Fang, wherever the heck he is, that I ever said that I didn't think that he lived and breathed oxygen. That he eat pizza and ice cream, like every other teenager in the world, that I didn't believe that maybe, just maybe he listened to music, and watched Lost. No idea if he watches Lost, but whatever.
So I'm sorry ok!?

...NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! =P

I really think though, THAT I NEVER SAID HE WASN'T ALIVE. People seem to remember a lot more than I do apparently.

Tori is brilliant

Tori showed me this weekend how to post a video!!!! I love Tori. =)

Here's the speech again, just in case you weren't really listening, and were just watching the clip...like I was...aha.

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

My weekend

Friday was kickball!!! Kickball was fun, I lost, again, but that's ok cuz I had a lot of fun! I caught an "Eric ball" (that's what everyone's calling it...), and Zachoia (pretty sure that's how you spell it) followed me around the whole game and held my hand. Man Eric, you have the cutest little sister. =)
There was also youth group!!! Always love youth group. We played ultimate football which is different, but fun. (has anyone else noticed that everything is fun in this post??) The guys on my team would not pass it to any of the girls (Brianna, Robin, Karoline and myself), so we decided to show them, and we got 2 points on our own. I think 2 points, not sure.

Saturday (today) Meghan and I went to Tori and Ashlee's soccer game!! They had two games today, one at 8 and another one at 1. I only went to the one o'clock game cuz they played in Waltham (weird name) which is an hour and like 15 minutes away. They one the first game, and tied the second. Just to let you know, THEY ROCK!!!! Tori made some awesome kicks, and Ashlee is like the greatest soccer player, but unfortuantly she didn't get to show off her amazing skills because she pulled a leg muscle. =) But still, they were both marvelous.
Then after the game, Meghan and I went to go see Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer. It was so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! My mom thought we were getting ripped off by the prices of the tickets cuz the movie is only and hour and 30 mintues long, but we didn't think so because 1) it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!! and 2) it felt much longer. I must say it again, AWESOME MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Favorite part of LOTR

This is a quote from Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers. It's my favorite quote in the entire trilogy because it's just so powerful and beautiful. It's soo much better if you can actually watch it because of the emotion, music and the scenery. Go here to watch the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMdXhfO-Wk
I can't put the clip on my blog because my computer is soooo incrediably annoying, and it won't let me make an account or login at YouTube. I NEED A LAPTOP HERE PEOPLE!!!! Anyway, here's the quote. I suggest reading it, and then watching the clip.

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

I love Sam!!! He's so awesome! Tell me what you think! Even you haven't seen the movies, it still rocks.

Nudge

For anyone who doesn't know...we have a kitten in the house. A little gray fluffy kitten. Meghan and I dubbed her Nudge. Nudge is a character in a series (of books) that we love, Nudge is a orphan, who doesn't stop talking and whom everyone loves. Nudge the kitten is an orphan, who never stops purring (and at times mewing), and whom everyone, loves. =) I love her so much!! She's so affectionate and loveable! Not to mention tiny. My sister and my mom found her beside our church, she was following them and meowing patheticly cuz she was so hungry. We don't know yet if we're keeping her, but my mom and I are 99% sure we are, cuz we just came back from the vet (she's perfectly heathly by the way), and the cost of having another pet around was part of why my dad didn't want to keep her. So for right now, we're just taking it one day at a time. =) Pictures soon!

Posting and school

Well since it is apparently a big deal whether I post or not, I am posting!!! I have nothing to post about but I guess some people don't care, they just want to see that I still remember that I have a blog. Which btw, having to do with your comment John, I actually did remember I had a blog!!! ...I just felt lazy. =D I deserve to be lazy because, drum roll please.....I'm done with my school for the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippee!!!!! Uh I mean....Woohooo!!!!!!!! I also am done my testing, so all I have left is to finish up an essay I'm working on and then it's summertime!!!!! Just and interesting point, my essay is arguing that home schooling is better than public schooling. =D It's not very hard to find really great things about homeschool when you know alllll about Pelham High. haha. I hope no one goes there who reads this blog...ahhh. I'm sure that Tori will have fun at LCA next year though!!! It's a private school not a public. lol.

My computer (grrrrrr)

I hate my computer. Yeah, I'm not afraid to say it!!
My computer is absolutely evil, and it's only 4 years old!!! So yeah, in like 5 years it should be evil and broken but it just had to turn on me now!!!!!!!!
Huh, yeah, NOT CRAZY!!!!
Seriously. Like Tori, I've been trying to email you for a very long time and my computer won't let me send any emails! So I'm not ignoring you by the way. =D
It won't let me make accounts on websites anymore, thankfully it still lets me log in to places...well sometimes. I'm surprised I can still blog!!!!
AND it's takes an eternity to load stuff. Even just like regular webpages and stuff!!
My dad says that it's all the kids faults (the kids that live here), but he always says that. Pshhh.
If I don't blog for a very very very very long time (and I mean like longer than I have not blogged before) then you'll know my computer has commited murder apon those who pesercute it...........that'd be me y'all. =P

More stuff

I love the song "I'll Stand By You". If you hadn't noticed. =)

The first time I've heard it was on American Idol, on their special show, Idol Gives Back. Since then I have listened to it probably more then 30 times. Carrie Underwood sang it on the show, but orginally The Pretender's sang it. I have no idea who they are but they made a great song! The lyrics I think are just so beautiful and meaningful. They're on the side, and I insist you read them.

About my colors and new layout, I'm not sure if I like them but finally, at 11:40 PM, my parents are telling me to get off the computer. I think they forgot about me...
But comment if you like it. =)

Ciao for now!

On A Roll, with pictures!

Wow, I'm on a posting roll.... sweetness!!


So this is the Gumbo Limbo (cool name, huh?), a place where they had sea turtles and baby sharks and other fish, it was really cool.
TURTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More turtles!!! 'Cept, these are land turtles, not sea turtles. but they're still cute!

Oooooh sharks! In this like, bowl....tank...circle...aquariam thing, there were some baby lemon sharks, and nurse sharks. One shark was trying to get the food so badly, it like jumped up and splashed this big guy. It was funny.

This is in the everglades, and I just thought it was so pretty how the clouds were relecting on the water. =)

More pretty clouds!! And if you look carefully, that little spot in the water with the kinda-hard-to-see ripples, is an alligator!! It was a small one.

This is right outside our condo..building place, right after the gates that go out to the street. I LOVE PALM TREES!!!!! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!!

Palm tree love <3333

Oh my gosh, this was on this walkway from the pool, all along the canal, and there were these trees between the canal and the walkway, and I found this little hole in the trees and I thought it was so beautiful.

I should probably stop with the picutures now before I hurt my computer's hard drive. I seriously need either my own, or a new computer cuz this one is old and slow, and it doesn't let me do like...anything. Pshh.

10:40 PM - Jordin Sparks ~ OUR NEXT AMERICAN IDOL!!

JORDIN WON AMERICAN IDOL!!!
I actually would not have been very shocked if Blake had won, because AI is famously known for it's curve balls. But I would have been disappointed cuz Jordin's got mad skills!! ("Skills" Meghan, not "skil-illz) I can't believe she's only 17. Yeah I know, I sound like Randy...right on, uh, dawg! Aha ok I'll stop.

It's 10:43 now...someone should be telling (possibly very sternly) to get off the computer...this is strange that they are not. Hmm...

So I've been trying to learn how to juggle a soccer ball. On my legs, not my hands, just telling that to anyone who would possibly tease, or joke. =P

Yeah, um, well you know the saying, "No pain no gain"? That saying is unfortuanly very accurate. My thighs, to say it bluntly, kill. Only when I'm doing it though. Meghan tried to steal the soccer ball away from me, because I kept saying "OW!". Psh, what does she know? =P

10:46....WHAT THE HECK...must be the American Idol Magic. =)

Pirates 3 coming out tomorrow night!!!! Hopefully I'll be seeing it Friday at 12 (noon) with Rachel, Meghan and my mom. I canNOT wait....sigh....Johnny Depp....haha just kidding.

Next post will be pictures! I promise! I may even get to do some tonight...if no one kicks me off....

Florida Pics

Huh. What do you know, pictures do work...sorry computer!!!!

This is (well, was) my Ihop coffee. It was really good! =)

If you can see them, the little black things in the water are baby turtles. Aren't they cute??

This is a wicked cool jeep we saw in the grocery store parking lot. It looks like a zebra...kinda.

This is our condo, and our car. Oh and Molly.

The place we stayed was called Tuscany ...something. Oh man I can't remember. Well that's sad! But anyway there were these big gates that you had to wave this little black card at them to get in. and right here is the road before the gates. It was so beautiful. There were these pretty little trees with bright pink flowers.

This is the pool! Isn't it pretty? If you look carefully you can see the canel behind it. But here's a picture of the canel so don't strain yourself. =P

This is the canal. The owners of the condo we stayed at said they saw manatee's in it a week before we stayed there. Unfortuantly we didn't see any, but I did see a sting ray. Or some kind of ray.

OK well there are a lot more pictures, but this is it for now. Comment if you want to see more.

Florida <33

A couple of weeks ago (as most of you know) I went to Flordia. =) I love Florida. <33 Seriously though! It was WARM!!!! I hate the cold, hate hate hate it. It hates me too by the way. But I was so happy cuz we were freezing at the airport (in Manchester) and then at the airport in Tampa it was like "Whoa! ...WARMTH!!!!!!" I would put pictures but my computer is dumb and won't let me. I'll work on it I promise. I'll write more tonight cuz my sister's kicking me off. =)

Aaaaahhhhh

Hey! I'm posting!!! Would you believe that I actually forgot I had a blog?
...Yeah you probably can.
Aha well I remembered, and I saw all your comments from my last post. I feel so loved!!
I'm going to do a couple of posts, cuz a lot has been happening, and because it looks like I've been on my blog more. =D

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey Writes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it.
And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.
To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.
We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.

Beautiful weather

I'm so loving this beautiful weather. =)
For the people who really know me, they know that I hate the cold. Can't stand it. I don't even like snow. Yeah I know that's not normal, but I never said I was normal. =P

But today it felt like summer!! Which made me extremly happy. Meghan and I were outside mostly all day wearing flip-flops. I wanted to go swimming so badly, the closet I got was the hose, uh. lol.

Meghan's pastor (not exactly sure if he's her pastor yet) said in his sermon last week that if there is something wrong with your life, get rid of it. That just made me think cuz there are so many things that are wrong in everyone's life, and obviously we can't get rid of them all (at least not without the Lord's help), but it made me think, do we even try? Do we recongize that there is something wrong? Do we try to fix it? Do we think WWJD? Do we even realize that there is something wrong??

...and what should we do? What should we try to do...

Sanjaya

SANJAYA IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh I think America is happy. I know I am. =)
Blake was so close, but he's safe. Now I have to start voting. =)

Rain

It's raining!! I love the rain. =) Except when it rains for too long...

The Prestige

I just saw this movie that I borrowed from my friend Mia, it's called The Prestige. That is a very, dark movie. But Christian Bale and Michael Craine are in it and I love them. It's all about illusion and magic (none of the magic is real btw), and these two magicians used to be friend but then they got into a fight and now they're rivals. It's an amazing movie. My dad and I stayed up until 11:40 to finish it, cuz it's 2 hours long. You have to pay attention every minute cuz every little small detail is very important. I loved it though, dark movies intrigue me.

April Fool's Day Video

I know it is 3 days after April Fool's day, but I just got this video and it is soo funny!
It's in German but that's ok, you really don't need to understand what the people are saying to get the point. =)

http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1428108

Two posts in two days

Two posts in two days! Who knew I could do it?
I went shopping today!! Normally I'm not really a big shopping kinda girl but I have my moments (and it's definitely more fun if you have money...). I went to Kohl's with Meghan and her mom. I had like 50 bucks to get clothes for Florida (CANNOT WAIT TIL THE WARMTH!!), and I only got 2 shorts. What a rip-off. And like all the shorts were really short...I started ranting to Meghan about the immodesty of today's youth. (Aha...yeah.) So I got bermuda shorts.
Ok gonna stop talking bout shorts now!
When we got home I also beat Meghan at Trivial Prusuit.
....Ok I won by one turn but hey.
Oh, and on American Idol!! Sanjaya is so annoying. I just want him gone...
Yes I watch American Idol. So do about 3/4 of the rest of America!!!
Can't think of anything else to say...

Odd post

Today I had a good day. Meghan had a bad day, but I'm sure you'll find out about that if you read her blog.
I basically just got to chill today. I read a lot, watched a movie and went up to Meghan's and ate m&m's.
OK so yeah I really don't have anything to say, but I felt like posting.
Umm ok here are some interesting facts about me. =D

I can't snap my fingers with my right hand, and I'm a righty.
I'm very unpredictable.
Chocolate is something that I would die if I did not have.
I love coffee. =) Starbucks rocks.
Blueberry muffins rock too.
So do chocolate covered raisins. Give me any of those things and I will love you forever.
Youth Group!!!!! Oh my gosh cannot stress enough how wonderful youth group is!!!!! =)
I have very weird taste in music. I love like...everything. Except the songs where the dudes like scream...um yeah that's just disturbing!!
I'm not a very messy person (some people would beg to differ, but psh), but I'm not very organized either...haha
Right now I am obsessed with Tetris. Well actually it's called Terollapse on addictinggames.com but it's really tetris.

Sorry about the really random post. I'm very bored. haha. Comment if you can think of anything other random things about me. =D

Meghan's Post

This is Meghan's post because she said that she is very mad at me because she keeps checking my blog and I have no new posts. Which is true...because I'm lazy. =D

Yeah but anyway, I'm going to talk about Meghan because she made me write this post (which I'm not saying is a bad thing, but still, she made me.), so I'm going to embarrass her. Even though I just remembered she doesn't get embarrassed easily....dang.
Well maybe she's just acting!! Hahaha.

Ok so anyway Meghan is my neighbor up the street. And I love her much more then I love spaghetti. She makes me laugh a lot and she entertains me! Meghan is nutty and we have a nut party when we get together. umm yeah.

She also is a superhero geek. So am I. We have a pattern to that. I see the movie first, I yell at her about how great it is and then she makes a face at me and she says, "Gee thanks Soph, now I want to see it!!!" Then I see it again with her.
It's our bit. =D And it's very fun. lol.

Random post huh?

Basically I love Meghan!!!! She is my wacky, mostly-red-headed neighbor who lives up the street(I know you are thinking "duh" right about now)-who is babysitting my pets when I go to FLORIDA (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 2-9)-and who I love to death!!!!!

Phobias

Mia sent me this website that has a list of phobias. They all have really long and weird names. It's so funny and here a some that made me start cracking up.

Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. (Meghan didn't believe me when I told her this one.)
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Bibliophobia- Fear of books. (Uhh that's horrible. No one should have that phobia)
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. (....how strange)
Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees. (HAHAHA. I mock anyone with this phobia. Heehee, I'm sorry.)
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers. (If you are looking at this post, you do not have this phobia.)
Macrophobia- Fear of long waits. (I think Meghan has this one...lol.)
Nomatophobia- Fear of names. (This makes me laugh!!)
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on. (I pity anyone with this phobia. I feel your pain.)
Russophobia- Fear of Russians. (I'm not surprised some people are afraid of Russians...I mean do we ever seen any?! NO!!)
Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat. (HAHAHA!! I laugh again!!)

Here's the website if you want to check out some more.
http://www.phobialist.com/#A-

I suggest looking at them if you are really bored or need a laugh. lol.

Partayy (s)

So yeah even though I haven't been feeling my best this past week...and 3 days I still went to 2 partys.

The first one was Rachel's party. That was such a fun night. I gave her this dice (bluffing too) game that they play in Pirates Of The Caribbean 2. It was so much fun, we kept laughing when someone made a really wild guess. Yeah it's kinda complicated to explain, and I know even if I tried you still wouldn't get it. lol. Hey hey, Meghan had a hard time grasping it too. lol haha.
After we played American Idol! Well Rachel has an American Idol karaoke game thing that we played on her PlayStation2.

And today, it was Tori's birthday! It was just a couple of people...Erika, Tori and myself. And of course Ashlee, Naomi, Rueben and Mrs. Dutt. We played this really wacky story game which was totally weird but funny. And I made a really funky red choker that is pretty sick.

My cold is like all gone now, all I have is a little cough. I am going to youth group next week! I have missed everyone so much!!! =/

Behind the scenes

Uh Tori is going to hit me for this (and she will, I can promise you that. She's a soccer player, they show no mercy. ;), but I'd kinda rather just re-design my blog about a million times then post. I guess I'm a more of behind the scenes kinda girl. *shurg*

But I'm still blogging, cuz it is fun. And I don't get to see Ashlee and Tori as much as I would love too, so this is a way they can laugh at me from their house. =)

Deep Freeze

I really thought I could do it...
I thought I had some small chance of beating Tori. But nooo. She does it...like...well I don't know when but probably as soon as she got home. Wow Tori, you are amazing.
So I'm the second one to tell you about Deep Freeze, but that's ok. =)

It was totally awesome!!!!!!! Camp Berea is my favorite place in the whole world!!!! It's so inspiring and uplifting. The speaker was Dwight Knight (cool name, huh?) and the band was 7-Miles. They totally rock. Literally. =)

I really don't have much to say about it, because you kinda had to be there to experience it all. But I can tell you that I had a ton of fun, and it was sooo awesome!!!!! =)

.....KITTY!!!!!

Heehee, don't you just love the post name? ;) lol.

WE GOT OUR CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is a domestic short haired, black and white cat. We named her Winnie. I loove her soo much!!! She's really sweet, and loves to be petted. The person working at the shelter said we should leave her in a room for a couple of days, but she keeps wanting to get out and sniff everything. Maggie is pretty good with her so far. They both just like, sit there staring at each other, waiting to see what the other one does. It's kinda funny. =) Winnie is really small though, she's 2 years old, and they found her as a stray January 19th. She is soo cute!!!

Our computer is acting all weird, and it won't let us put pictures on our blog anymore!!!! We had to download this new control thing, so my mom thinks it's that. So I'm really really sorry but no pictures right now. I'll try to work on it!!!!!

PSYCHED

I AM SO HAPPY.

My dad...MY DAD

said...that we could get

A CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my word. I have wanted a cat for like....forever. And my dad didn't want another pet,
and I'm allergic to cats...But my asthma has gotten soo much better!!!!!!!!!
And he decided we could get one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so psyched..... =) =) =) =)=) =) =) =)=) =) =) =)=) =) =) =)

Water Buffalos

Well, Tori was being all cool and all, and showing off her superawesome water buffalo and I just wanted you to see mine too!!

Isn't he cute?

Where is your water buffalo?

Everybody's got a water buffalo....

Youth Group Tonight!!

Youth group tonight!!
I get to see all my friends... :)

Points, planks, and sisters.

My sister Molly and I don't have the greatest relationship.
I'm sure some of you already know that. lol.

We both find faults in each other that we both, actually have.

Of course neither one of us is willing to admit that....ever.

Today she had just annoyed me immensely, and I just decided to stop talking and try to forget about it. Then my eye started hurting and I went to the mirror to see if there was something in my eye.

Then it struck me.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3

WHOA

Reality check

There wasn't anything in my eye. At least, not that I could see.

I was just amazed what God can do to make you see a certain point, or a fault you need correcting on.

POINT TAKEN!!!!

The Computer

I think we all spend waayyy to much time on the computer.

It's very addicting.

I also think you all should get off your comfortable chair and go run around your house 3 times.

I dare you.

Ice Skating (blah)

Today with my home school group we all went ice skating!!!!!!!!

Um yeah, I'm not really as happy as those exclamation points make you think. I'm not much of an ice skater. Oh don't get me wrong, I could probably be good if I wanted too (:P), but I don't.

When I was about 8, I broke my leg ice skating in my neighbors yard.
It was so cool! (Not the breaking of the leg part, the self made ice rink in their backyard) But very bumpy. So I was getting really good, (well as good as an 8 year old can get) and I was on my 3 twist around thing-don't know what they are called...OH! a spin-and my blade got caught on a bump on the ice, and my foot was trapped and my leg cracked.

The x-rays were really cool! There was just a big line down my bone. Ahaha sorry if this is gruesome. :P

After that I didn't go ice skating for like 5 years, and then Kelsey invited me to her birthday party at an ice rink. I went, terrified, but I still went. Got on the ice, fell on my knees, got back up, and skated (barely). Didn't like it at all. It was cold, and my knees hurt. And besides that, I think I lost something when I broke my leg. I'm guessing it was my self-confidence on the ice. Sad isn't it? :(

That was 2 years ago. And I haven't been ice skating since. But then our home school group was going, and I thought I could go, read a book, see my friends, and get out of school. But Tori, who can get me to do almost anything, convinced me to rent some skates. She said we could fall down together.

Well TORI, you are a MUCH better skater then I am so it was just basically me falling!!! :) haha I love Tori though. She rocks.

Oh yeah, back to ice skating. Well, I don't have much else to say except that I had fun being with my friends. But I don't think I'm going ice skating again.

I hate the cold, and if you didn't already know this.....ICE RINKS ARE COLD!!!!!

I roller blade now though. I loooove it. :) So I'm good.

Did you like my story?? It's all true, and it's how I feel.

MY LIFE

My life is good right now. Tomorrow I might not be saying that. But now it's great.

Have you looked outside? It's shiny. Meghan be happy. =P

Today I went to Bethanys. As always, we had a ton of laughs and we took awesome pictures. Bethany is my biffle and I don't think I could live without her. =)

News:
Meghan got a blog!! Check it out. http://www.meghan-moviefreak.blogspot.com/
I need to clean my hamsters cage. . .poor Sheby
I officially hate skiing and ice skating.
I'm going on a strike against winter...who's with me?! boo ya.

Yeah

I really don't have a lot to say. Maybe later. ;)

Funny things

It's funny how you can have your mind made up. You made a decision. You're going to stick with it. And then....something happens. You find out that it's not as easy as it looked. For some people this simple misunderstanding can be the biggest mistake they ever made. For others, it made them stronger, wiser, braver. But we don't know which one we'll be until that moment comes. The moment of choices. Left, or right. Which one are you planning on choosing?

Sometimes it seems like you know a person. And then they throw a curveball. Take you by complete surprise. You aren't even sure who they are anymore. They make you rethink everything.

Well I think that if you agree with what I'm saying, then we all need to trust God more then ever.

Ahh sorry if I seem to be going...uh wack. Well more wack then usually! =P
(Yes I put that in just for you Ashlee :)
But certain things have been, lets say called to my attention. =)

Here's some good news though!!! I got this WONDERFUL letter in the mail from one of my BEST friends in the whole entire world. I'm not going to say who it is cuz, uh they may not want me too. But this girl is awesome, and I love her to death!!!! She is so nice and thoughtful and in her letter she told me how much she loved me, and what a special kind of friend I am. Well I don't agree with her on half of what she said about me, lol, but if she feels that way then, uh, good for her. ;)
This girl rocks and I love her!!!!!

Whatever happens...

Yeah it hurts, when they're all talking about that someone special. What did you think? That having you heart pricked didn't kill? I feel like I'm dying from the inside. No one understands. They're all so stupid! I walk right past them and they don't even notice what's going on right inside of me! It's a storm I can't control. Do I have to scream to be heard? Do I have to die to be seen? I don't want any of this. I want them to stop flaunting their good looks. I want them to stop talking about all those things that don't matter. I want to know what happened to depth? What happened to character? What happened to dignity? It's all gone now. In those people who used to know what was important. They don't understand anymore. They're all fakes. Liars. Cheaters. They'll never get it. They don't want too. Ignorance is bliss. Oh yeah?? Well ignorance hurts. It kills. From the inside. This world is changing. Right before our very eyes. What are we going to do about it? How are we going to change the uncontrolable? How are we going to make a difference, in this once lovely world...

"Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God. For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him." Philippians 1:27-29

Christmastime was here! ...And is now over

Sorry I haven't told you anything about my Christmas. Let's just say it was great! =] I got an iPod Video, some books and other little stuff. I love books. All you have to do to get me to love you is give me a blueberry muffin and a book. Or you could just ask. =P My cousins came over on Christmas Eve (which is also my mom's birthday) and we had this seafood chowder...stuff. It wasn't that bad. But I didn't really like it. Then on Christmas morning we went to my aunt's house and she made ham with raisin sauce just for moi. =] I love Christmas. It's my favorite holiday, and not because of the presents. Though that does help. ;] I hope you all had a great Christmas too.

Eragon and walking

Ooooh ok so today I went to see Eragon with Meghan! One of the best, movies, ever!! We had a lot of fun, Megs bought me candy because she is a good friend and rich. Ahah. =] Here is the movie poster.

Oooh scary. It's actually not that gory. Well it's PG so I guess it can't be. I think the book is better, they tried to stuff a 600 page book into and hour and 30 minute movie. But the movie was still awesome!! I highly recomend it. =]

Saturday was an....interesting day at least. I went over Bethany's and guess what?! She was bored!!! I shocked you there didn't I? =P But anyway she wanted to walk to Rite-Aid, just because. I was hungry, I wanted food. Bethany wouldn't give me food. She said we could get some after we got back. When I asked her how long it would take us, these were her words. "Oh just 5 minutes more then it would take biking. So like 15 minutes." Bethany can be very blond sometimes. Very, very blond.

So we started walking....and a hour later we still weren't there!!! Bethany kept saying, "It's so much shorter in the car...." And I was just yelling at her because I hated her with passion. Aha no I didn't but I did want to hurt her.

I was so hungry when we got there, I ran in a bought a big bag of potato chips. it cost like 4 bucks but I didn't really care. We ate like all of them anyways. Ohh and we took Beth's dog Linkey with us, he is so cute!

Bethany also convinced me to rent a movie, so I went in to pick one and she told Link to stay outside. He really loves Beth, so he kept trying to come in. But it was really funny cuz he thought we were in Hallmark (right next door to the video store) and these people were petting him and thene when they went inside Hallmark, he just followed them right it. All in all it was a very weird day. And funny. Beth and I have strange lives. =]

Meghan <333

Me: So basically we just stand there while the parents clean up.
Meghan: I'm good with standing, unless of course there is an opportunity for sitting.

&

Meghan: I was waiting for the opportune moment to ask my parents about Eragon...
Me: And...?
Meghan: The opportune moment never came.

Ahaha I love this girl!!
She is my drama queen.
<3

Brianna

Brianna: I have a confession to make Sophie...
Me: What is your confession?
Brianna: I dropped the Shieks turban in the mud
Me: How could you!?!?
Brianna: Well first there was this bird and then the donkey ran away and he fell into a and then there was the bucket with the cold water and I...I...I...WAAHH.

Poor Brianna! Oh well, she'll be fine...soon.
LOve you!!!

Um....yeah

Um, yeah ok. So the reason I haven't posted is because there is nothing to post about in my life...But now I have a couple of things.

Last night was youth group!!! I love youth group, it's so much fun. I get to see all my friends (my kins;) and learn some pretty awesome stuff about God, and making the right choices. I have to go to Ashlee and Tori's house to get to youth group, cause I live a hour away from the church.
=[ It's good in a way because I get to see them! I don't get to see them a lot so I miss 'em. =] Naomi (their little sister) told me something wicked cool. She wrote a letter (actually email) to Santa! They don't believe in Santa but it's still a cool idea. You can find the link to write a email to Santa on Tori's blog. But anyway, Naomi said in her letter "Jesus loves you!" And she got an email back (I'm sooooo doing it!) and "Santa Clause" said that he was glad that she brought up Jesus cause he's the whole reason we celebrate Christmas!!! Isn't that just fabulous??

It snowed this week. =[ Just a little. I don't like snow. I'm sorry to disappoint you people! But I don't. It's cold, it gets everywhere, and I don't see ONE thing magical about it!! Ok, yeah it's really pretty, but it never stays pretty. I need to move to South Carolina. Ahaha.

So I think that's all of my news...Oh yeah! I can't talk. Well I can, but not very well. I don't sound like myself. It's funny for people like Bethany but not for me. It feels weird. OK, so here's my advice...DON'T GET SICK!!!!

Psh and don't say you can't help it!!! You all know you can....

Not feeling so hot...and the 30 Hour Famine!

Uh, whenever I'm not feeling very good I'm always irritable. I can't help it sometimes. It's just like my body's saying, "I'm not feeling great, now all your friends and family must pay!" Haha, that's probably a little extreme, but I am sometimes like that. So I apologize in advance if I snap at you soon. I'm not feeling so hot... =/

But I'm still feeling good enough to post. =] Tori you must be proud. =P
2 days ago was my youth group's 30 Hour Famine. It was...simple amazing. I feel like I experienced so much in that one day that I would have normally experienced in like, a week. Or something like that. On Friday there was the usually youth group but the people who were doing the Famine slept over (I was one of them). We played sardines. It was sooo much fun! On Saturday we decorated the church for Christmas, and then Elias and Roscoe shoot everybody. Don't worry, it was foam bullets. =P It was so funny. After we did that we went to The Lazarus House. That is a homeless shelter in...Ahh I forget the town. Sorry. =D We split up into two groups, one group (my group) stayed and cleaned some of the house, and organized the food storage..um place. And the other group went to the soup kitchen and the thrift shop and they helped restock and load up a van. Then we went to Boston! We rode the subway, that was funnnn. In Boston we were supposed to do a picture scavenger hunt, which we sorta did, but one of the things on the list was take a picture with a homeless person. And to not seem rude we bought them a Burger Kind Jr. Whopper meal. So we wouldn't be like, "Hey we need your picture. Thanks, see ya later!" Ahaha. So we started too, (F*Y*I* "we" is the girls, it was girls against the boys. We so would have beat them if we, uh hadn't....well you'll see. ;) but we couldn't really find a homeless person. But then Jessully (sorry if I spelt it wrong!) saw this dude sitting on a bench, and then he feel off of it and didn't move. So we were like, oh yeah he looks homeless. So Jessully went and put the food next to his head, but he didn't even move. We were just like...umm ok, lets go! But then someone was walking by him and took the food. Tori, Christa, and Miss Wendy went over and told him that it was for the guy on the ground. They talked with that guy and another girl for like 10 minutes. And some of the girls were crying and/or they were scared. It was kinda freaky. So basically we went back to Burger King to get food for like 5 more people because they were all homeless and hungry. And they were all on drugs too. =[ And then they called an ambulance for they guy on the ground because he was like, trying to talk but he was having a hard time, and he had blood on his face where he hit the ground. It was all so sad and scary at the same time. There was another guy there, Dennis, he was really nice and he was homeless too, but he didn't belong there. He become addicted to achohal in high school, but then he was sober for 9 years. And then in Hawaii this summer he took a sip of beer and became addicted again. He asked us to pray for him, because he wants to get back onto the right track again. So please pray for Dennis, and all the other homeless people out there. And remember how blessed you are. I know I am.