laughter&hiccups

midnight photography

2009-07-19T21:27:00.001-07:00

last night i took some cool pictures. i was, once again, having quite a dull evening. i decided that instead of amusing myself with the twisted ways of the human language, i would instead amuse myself with photography. mainly of my face. i sort of feel stupid taking pictures of my face, because there are plenty of other things that i could take pictures of. but i decided that i really like eyes, and so i took a ton of eye pictures. here is my favorite.

also, midway through my self-centered picture-taking experience, i thought of that little wise monkey saying thing: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. thus the following...

and i just liked this picture of my glasses.

what happened last time?

2009-07-18T14:15:00.000-07:00

i'm bored again. and i refer to the title of this post... what DID happen last time? the answer is thus: i wrote haikus.

this time, however, i did not artfully create them via fridge magnet. i just wrote them out.

what keeps me amused?
ideas and fantasies
imagination

this is actually a lie. my imagination lies dormant today. as does everything that usually amuses me... except, apparently, haikus.

and this one has an awkward little rhyme scheme... i don't think haikus are meant to rhyme by verse like this.

many many things
surround the unoccupied
now what do i do?

oh how boredom stings
when all fun things go to hide
i write a haiku

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-07-14T18:18:00.000-07:00

::drumroll::

Well, folks, it's finally here--the moment, the night, the movie that we've ALLLLL been waiting for.... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! :O le gasp! you are all in shock!

Tonight at midnight, the sixth installment of the beloved Harry Potter series premieres ON SCREEN. it will be EPIC, ladies and gentlemen. hordes of screaming fangirls and boys--not all cheering for the same reasons, i would hope--will start queueing up HOURS early, flocking to cinemas across the nation and only adding to the scent of popcorn and the sticky atmosphere caused by spilled soda. dressed as wizards and witches from the highly esteemed novels and movies, children, teens and adults alike will sit and stew in their enthusiastic, obsessive impatience, waiting for the midnight bell to toll.

then, charged with their passion for the witchcraft and wizardry (which is completely fictional, you amish-minded readers out there) of the evening's magical hijinks, they will storm the darkened theatres like so many French peasants at the Bastille. after fighting for decent seats, remembering they have to buy candy, and getting refills on their Mountain Dew Code Red, the overzealous moviegoers will settle down and wait for the feature presentation: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

now, normally, i would be one of these dedicated spectators. however, this year, i am not going to the midnight showing. i believe i already mentioned this. it's owing to the fact that izzi is in florida, and i am PHYSICALLY UNABLE to see the movie without her. PHYSICALLY. UNABLE.

so here's to the movie, and here's to friendship, and here's to boring, bitter, envious nights without either...

Bastille Day!

2009-07-14T15:58:00.000-07:00

Happy French Independence Day!

today is the anniversary of French Independence. on July 14, 1789, a bunch of French peasants were all like, "screw this oppression! we're so done with this!" and they stormed the Bastille, a French prison. hence the independence. I learned more about this in my World History class last year, and though Mrs. Ott would be ashamed of me, I have retained approximately 2 ounces of knowledge about it.

however, Ms Yahr would be appreciative that i remembered the name of this painting, even though it's only a small portion of it. Luncheon of the Boating Party.

oddly enough, Milwaukee holds a festival in Bastille Day's honor. it was held over the weekend, and not actually today, on France's day of liberty. it was good times. and good food.

we went on Sunday, the last day. mostly, we walked around a lot, and it was fun... but we began with the discovery of a lonely pair of attractive sunglasses in the parking garage. win! once we had entered the Bastille Days grounds--or rather, the two and a half blocks of fenced off street upon which the festivities took place--we immediately proceeded to buy beignets. this is necessary.

the new shades

menu of tastiness

then we walked around a lot more, hung out under the little Eiffel Tower, walked around some more, ogled a mural depicting famous French things, walked around some more... and throughout the whole experience, we scoffed, criticized, mocked and choked down laughter about the general populace in the surrounding area. i repeat... it was good times.

you know what i love? street performers. Brennick discovered, to his immense delight, that two of a five-member breakdancing group from New Orleans had come up to perform. he insisted that we stay to watch them, which we did. it was pretty awesome, and they were quite humorous.

whilst Piera, Brennick and I roamed the area in search of cheap deliciousness (which we found), we also witnessed a mime enjoying some transparent ice cream. delectable? i think so. he noticed us watching and slowly came to join us, doling out more invisible dairy treats to all.

finally, before we left, we saw a third street performer... he did all of the normal stunts, such as eating fire and juggling things and spinning plates... haha. the 'normal' things. it was impressive, although we had seen the same guy at a previous fest, so it wasn't quite as awesome.

FOOD WINS. we had beignets, chicory coffee, gator on a stick, garlic beef skewers, lemonade, crepes, cafe au lait, and more beignets. tastiness? i think so. unfortunately, i have no really good pictures of all of these things, because we devoured them too quickly.

and that was basically it. Bastille Days is fun. so are mimes. and crepes.

there and back again

2009-07-11T18:05:00.000-07:00

as it happens, i am succeeding in my quest to reread Harry Potter. now i'm on book 4! EPIC. this book is huge, though. i always forget how big it is. however, it's not like that is an obstacle--not in the slightest. the longer the book, the more fun it is.

okay, so that's not actually true. like, War and Peace? that book is freakin' huge, am i right? but it doesn't sound like very much fun. i digress.

i have decided i want to get married in Ireland. Isabel and i have been planning our weddings... she's getting hitched in Hawaii. this seems logical, does it not? that's a usual spot for matrimony. aside from the people who LIVE in Ireland, who gets married there?

well, the answer to that is ME. Ireland is the bomb. so is my COLOR SCHEME! grays, yellows, and greens. epic. Izzi also said that my flowergirl should be a fairy, and my ring bearer should be.... A LEPRECHAUN! haha! how awesome is that.

then Teia was like, "why do you guys have a bridal magazine?" and after scoffing profusely at her, we told her what we were doing. then she was like, "well, you don't even know who you're marrying yet." NOT THE POINT! so if you were going to comment on that, stow it. our husbands will just have to get over it. if they really protest, we can adjust a few things, but still--Ireland, am i right?

now Izzi and Kellen are in Florida. they're doing some kind of VBS thing, and they're gone all week, except this means... Izzi will be gone during the time that Harry Potter 6 comes out. it is a great tribute to our friendship that i'm waiting until she returns to see it. i mean, really. this is RIDICULOUS. i'm giving up the midnight showing! :O

also, next week Brennick and I are ditching for a Higher Things conference! it's my first one. i'm very excited. i will, of course, speak more about it after i... you know... go.

Keaton is in Oregon right now with his quartet, Augmented Fourth. they are coming here in a few weeks, but sadly, i will be at Higher Things :( so i'll miss it. but then he's leaving, and then coming home the week after! YES. win. i'm so excited.

so it turns out that that F REAKIN HUGE fish that temish caught is right now being all taste-ified by my mother dearest. she's putting lime juice on it, or something. it smells really, really good. but this means i must depart, for this laptop is chillin' on the table where the aforementioned fish will go when it is finished.

and don't be mad that i didn't once actually reference The Hobbit or Tolkien in this post. except for this apology.

word of the day

2009-07-10T12:02:00.000-07:00

today's word is NONSENSICAL.

words (!) of the day

2009-07-07T09:34:00.001-07:00

yes, there are two of them.

word one: torpor.

word two: extrapolate.

new word WIN.

2009-07-06T16:50:00.001-07:00

faultitude: a multitude of faults.

dilemma solving WIN

2009-07-05T16:01:00.001-07:00

i already used up my fridge magnet haiku quota for the day, and i was pretty bored. i already dinked around pointless on facebook, and other blogs, and on my mom's twitter, and i talked to my friends, and almost finished my mints... of which i have a whole collection...

then i realized how i must fill up my days, in honor of July 15th AND just because i want to. and the answer to my dilemma is..... TO REREAD HARRY POTTER! ALL OF THEM! for the second time.... this year. :D i am a fan.

and it seems that today's word is dilemma.

in the depths of boredom...

2009-07-05T13:56:00.001-07:00

so i guess when i get really bored, i make fridge magnet haikus. can you beat that? somehow i think NOT.

the frog prince

noah's ark

>:D
you know you've wanted to do that to at least one person.

unrelated 4

2009-07-04T21:44:00.000-07:00

1) it's the fourth of July! woo. it was a pretty uneventful day. i slept for most of it, because a bunch of my and brennick's friends came over and we stayed up ridiculously late... but we had fun. and then i fell asleep after they all left. then i watched fireworks... and came home. i like fireworks. Happy Independence Day!

2) you know what sucks? when your back hurts, and you really want a backrub, but there's no one to give you one. i slept all funny (haha, i told that to Sam and he asked, "why did you sleep FUNNY?" and i said, "yeah, i like to laugh while i'm unconscious." it was stupid. but funny. ha... ha.) and so my back hurts really badly around my shoulders. but you know what doesn't work at all? trying to give a backrub to yourself. it just doesn't work.

3) i love mint tea. i could drink it all day long... well, not literally.

4) it was another one earlier, but oh well.... word of the day: pariah.

salmon fishing--2009

2009-07-02T20:36:00.000-07:00

hey der, ho der, homestar.

okay, nevermind. but hi. today, we had an EPIC fishing adventure. we went on a fishing trip last year, too, and that was epic as well. however, the two were epic in very different ways.

1. i hate morning.

okay, actually, that's all.

but let me recap, if you don't feel like clicking the link i have so kindly provided for you (it's lime green. if you already did click it, you can skip this paragraph.). last year we went salmon fishing on a gorgeous sunny day, and we all got sunburned, because we went during the gorgeous sunny afternoon. we all caught a huge salmon, except for temish, who caught little grossness fish. i think my mom even caught two salmon. everybody was healthy and happy. it was a good time.

this year was very different. we did not go in the afternoon, so it began with our family waking up anywhere from 4-4:45 (my mom was up super early. i woke up 15 minutes before we were supposed to leave... who's surprised?). we were going to leave at 5, which we didn't do, but nevertheless we reached our destination 45 minutes early. good. whatever works, because i slept the whole way up there, and the whole 45 minutes until Mom made us wake up and go down to the boat. i hate morning. so much.

but let me quickly explain something to you. it was 9:30 on July 2. it was 55 degrees outside. it was windy. the water was choppy. a fellow fisherman asked us incredulously if we were really going out.

yes. thank you. thank you for pointing out that we are crazy. i would have responded, except i was half-asleep and chilly.

so we speed out over these bumpy waves, and Captain Paul tells us that recently the fish have been biting sort of... i don't know where. he said 'here.' it all looked the same to me. but anyway, him and Dr. Perrigo (i think that is spelled correctly), who went with us, set up all 5 or 6 fishing rods and we started to gently cruise around the little bay thing.

okay, gently is relative. those waves SUCKED. every time i stood up, i was like, "whooOOOaa..." and i ran into someone. so piera popped out the gingersnaps, to calm stomachs, and then the grapes ("one grape to rule them all..."), and then the REAL STUFF ginger ale. that was supposed to be another stomach-calmer. the cookies worked. the ginger ale, not so much. piera pointed out that it tasted like bandaid, which then made it taste like that. also, the sugar in it went straight to my head, because i hadn't eaten anything.

so i was in the middle of seeing how long i could balance on the rollicking boat without grabbing onto anything when i suddenly felt like i was going to die. so i sat down and put my head between my knees, and soon brennick joined me. it was like the hospital bench, or something. my mom tried to get me to drink water, but it was in her coffee mug, so it was like, coffee water. which was kind of gross. and piera was like, "more cookies?!" and i was like, "NO."

brennick and i responded to our sudden illness differently. his stomach felt queasy, and therefore he followed the captain's advice and tried to toss his cookies (quite literally, for we had been eating them all morning) over the side of the boat. this was amusing. however, it didn't work.

however, i had a beast of a headache, and so i dealt with this dilemma by putting my head between my knees and sleeping.

so in the midst of my mid-morning nap, Captain Paul is like "HEY A FISH! TEMISH, GET OVER HERE!" and we're all like, "TEMISH GO!" and he runs over there, and my mom holds the rod for him and he cranks and cranks and cranks and cranks and cranks and cranks and FINALLY he pulls in this mongous fish. it was epic. we tried to get him to hold it, but he wouldn't, so he just got a picture with it.

umm.... p.s.--this was the only fish that was caught ALL DAY LONG.

so after a long while--i went back to sleep--we headed back in. it was kind of pathetic, but we still had fun... relatively...

this is us... sketchin. nobody looks good, and i felt like throwing up.

then temish had to carry his fish all the way from the boat to the gutting table, so Captain Paul could slit it up and give us the meat. i was amused. by temish, i mean. not really the slitting up thing, so much. but it was still cool.

basically, that's the whole story. we stopped at this little beach thing to eat on the way home, and that was fun. then we stopped at my grandparent's house on the way home from THERE, and guess what i did practically the whole drive?

SLEEP.
i hate morning.

word of the day.

2009-07-01T18:26:00.000-07:00

i decided that this will happen frequently.

today's word: myriad.

phrase win

2009-07-01T18:09:00.000-07:00

i have created a work of art. and this work of art comes in the form of a phrase... this was how my conversation with ____(i won't fill in that blank because i don't want to falsely demean this skinny person) just went down. well, how i started it, at least.

"hey, fat stuff. that's like 'hot stuff', but for fat people."

isn't it genius?

other phrases i have coined:
*flamazing (that was keaton and me)
*tastry--mix of 'tasty' and 'pastry'

okay, so i know there are more, but i can't remember them right now.

win.

2009-07-01T09:16:00.001-07:00

and the Best Breakfast for a Frigid July Day Award goes to... that tasty thing i just ate that has no name!

but it was so tasty. no, there were no mini cheese wheels involved, but it DID have cheese (or else it wouldn't have won). also, i have mint tea. i LOVE mint tea. the other day i drank three and a half mugs of it. mm.

needed:
-an english muffin/a bagel (almost any kind)
-one egg
-sliced ham, salami or pepperoni
-cheese (preferably cheddar, sliced or grated)

split and toast the muffin/bagel. fry the egg and make sure it's not ooky and sick (shun the yolk... shun...). put it on the toasted muffin/bagel. quickly add cheese, whether you are grating it on top or just using a slice. either way, do it quickly, so it'll melt. then fry the meat and when it's crackling and spitting grease bits, slap it on top of the cheese. then add more cheese. then possibly more meat, if you want. add the other side of the muffin/bagel.

VOILA. TASTINESS.

now in miniature!

2009-07-01T07:49:00.000-07:00

okay, so yesterday Izzi and i went to piggly wiggly. we got miniature Häagen-Dazs ice cream thingies, which, you might think, are exciting enough on their own. because they were only like, two inches tall, and really tiny and i just loved them. plus they came with their own little heavy-duty-for-when-the-ice-cream-is-really-frozen-and-normal-plastic-spoons-just-crack SPOONS. it was EPIC.

no, this isn't me. but i had this exact kind.

but then, even though those are CRAZY AWESOME, and earlier in the day we had already bought (well, i say we, but i'm poor as dirt so it was actually Izzi buying everything) two little box-things of strawberries and a can of spray whipped cream, and had just eaten strawberries and cream, that's NOT WHERE IT ENDS (and this sentence will go on too, even though it's already really long and run-on, while i apologize for not splitting it up better. deal with it. i'm tired.). because on our little Häagen-Dazs adventure, we also picked up...

MINI CHEESE WHEELS.

MINIATURE WHEELS OF CHEESE. WE BOUGHT THEM. and i STRONGLY suggest that you do the same for yourself as soon as possible. because those cheese wheels are truly EPIC.

JUST LOOK AT THEM.

so, okay, i was thinking about it, and enjoying the delectable cheesy taste of these little guys, when i realized that we had been calling the cheese wheels/ice cream thingies CUTE. just because they were smaller. and so then i was like, well, why is it that the smaller something gets, the cuter it is?

well, that's not necessarily true, but like... babies. babies are CUTE. but 8 years later, you don't walk up to the kid and be like, "ohh, lookatyouyou'resocuteyesyouARE!" well, maybe you do, but that's just weird. or maybe if we had bought a 10 inch cheese wheel... would we have called that cute? maybe, because we're weird, but i don't think anybody else in this world would. you get the idea, though, right?

plus mini is just a cool word. or miniature. maybe that has something to do with it.

or cute as a BUTTON? why are buttons cute? believe me, i have seen some pretty HEINOUS buttons in my time. not all buttons are cute.

haha.

2009-06-28T20:32:00.000-07:00

oh wow my church sucks.

ok, not really.

but... kind of.

anyway, all this talk of church (haha, all 3 lines) brings me to the subject of HIGHER THINGS! yes! Brennick and some of our friends and i are going to this HT conference at the end of July, and i'm really excited. because... yeah. i never know how to explain what it is, but i know you can look on the HT website. every day you go to like, these sectionals and little classes and matins/vespers/that sort of thing, and you learn more about God and Lutheran things and awesomeness. plus, there are all these awesome people that are there too, and generally it's just really fun.

i think i may have mentioned that i went to a Higher Things retreat earlier this year, in January or something. but i don't really remember. anyways, if you care that much, you can look back for it. but i don't, so i won't.

Michael Jackson

2009-06-28T14:48:00.000-07:00

ok. so. he's dead. i don't really care. everyone is all like, "oh noes! michael jackson died! let me cry about it! thriller was so great! i loved that guy!"

DUH. HI. HE'S A TOTAL MOONWALKING PERV. so i don't care.

anyways, i wrote a song memorializing his death. not his life. his death.

♫
june the twenty-fifth
oh what a joyous joyous day
for the perv michael jackson
in hell will now forever stay

though he wrote ABC songs
and was cool and black
he changed to be pasty
like the powdered drug crack

he crept on some boys.
him and his sister were weird.
then he crept on MORE boys
and was generally feared

but now, oh the joy!
oh, rapturous day, oh!
for michael is dead!
someone should let those boys know.
♫

i'm not a very nice person.

flowers!

2009-06-28T13:41:00.000-07:00

as a gift from my friend, who works (worked? idk.) in a greenhouse, i got 10 flowers. i love them all. i received 6 marigolds, 1 snapdragon, 1 dianthus, 1 salvia, and 1 impation. impatien. impasian... limp asian? limp ninja? i don't know. whatever.

anyway, they were healthy and strong and AWESOME whilst they were growing in a tray in my bedroom, but when i transported them to small pots outside, they kind of... stopped being awesome. it was rather depressing. especially when it got so cold (in May......) that i had to take them inside again, and one of the marigolds slipped from my grasp and i lost him in the depths of my front lawn. i never revived that poor sucker. :(

so after that, i had 9 flowers, and they all were kind of failing. one lost a bloom, and another one kind of... fell over (he still doesn't stand up straight), and another one was much fuller and way leafier before the move. but now, at least, they are healthy and growing again, after much recuperation.

also, i named them.

well, not all of them. i had this whole huge list of names that were possibilities, but in my brief spell of giving up i misplaced the list, and now i can't finish naming them. but 4 of the marigolds are named Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello. after famous painters? no. after the teenage mutant ninja turtles? yes.

and don't worry, i made sure that Michelangelo, at least, was an orange marigold to match his orange-themed turtle self. it didn't really work for the others, because they are all Disco Yellow, and the other turtles are blue, purple, and red.

"aha!" you may say. "she made a mistake! for she has 5 marigolds, as mentioned, and there are only 4 TMNT! minte really DOES suck at math!" but never fear, for i can at least do simple addition (sometimes.). the fifth marigold, a wee little fellow whom i feared i would lose, i named Napoleon Bonaparte. now, still miniscule, he has bloomed beautifully and rests between the TMNT ranks.

i still have my four other flowers, though. i haven't forgotten them either. one--i think perhaps... the salvia? my mom thinks it is the salvia--is named Marcus Aurelius, after my flower benefactor. another, who sadly used to match Marcus Aurelius in height (M.A. is like, super tall... maybe a foot) until Brennick accidentally snapped a bunch off with his soccer ball, is named Androcles.

on the left is Marcus Aurelius, in the middle is Androcles, and on the right is the crip.

the others are unnamed. i think they think i don't care. but i don't, really, so whatever.

there's kind of a few intruders, actually. my mom's plant is just chillin with all my BAMF plants, but they have accepted it... as they have similarly accepted, as of today, a little white vinca that didn't fit into the flowerbed with the others that Temish and I planted today.

the infiltrators... vinca on left, mother on right.

just so y'all know, i totally favor Michelangelo and Napoleon. they're just way cooler.

the Ballad of Keith the Strawberry

2009-06-28T13:31:00.000-07:00

ok, so, i remembered something. on thursday was my friend Sara's birthday party, and it was really fun. she lives in this eensy little unincorporated town called Rome, and we walked around it a lot, and her and Cacia (her sister) warned me about the drunk drivers that frequent little Rome. but anyways, on Friday, to amuse ourselves, we picked strawberries. i picked this super heinous lumpy one, and we named him Keith. then we gave him a life story. and we reenacted it... or maybe just enacted it, and took many pictures... it was quite enjoyable. however, i don't have those pictures.

but i promised Sara and Cacia a ballad about it, and it reads as follows....

A long time ago, in a place far away
(itsy bitsy Rome, and not large Bombay),
a small strawberry came to stay.

You might think Keith was quite small and cute--
but while he was tiny, he was ugly to boot.
He was quite a deformed and squishy fruit.

Keith was so heinous, his mother cried out:
"I'll never have more, they'll all look like trout!"
And on this belief, she was quite devout.

When his father had reached the berry child,
he took one look at him and went rather wild.
Let's just say his death was prompt and not mild.

Poor Keith was lumpy, and his one satisfaction
was his little rattle, which proved a distraction,
because by no means did he have physical attraction.

As Keith grew, he became nicer and kind,
and one day, a sweet berry Keith did find.
Her name was Daphne, and she was blind.

Without her sight, she could not see
the deformities that made other girls flee,
and her and Keith's love was blissful and free.

But suddenly, randomly, Daphne was gone
and Keith's life no longer had a dawn
without his beautiful strawberry swan.

In grief Keith stumbled on, though he didn't know how,
and he found a single berry girll (so not a frau).
Her name was Eliza, and she was as huge as a cow.

As it happened, Eliza was also a jerk,
and so many times, Keith she did irk,
and eventually, Eliza just went berserk.

With a thorn whip she did advance,
and Keith just stood there, as if in a trance--
and then, she killed him, without a second glance.

The crime scene was bloody, really a mess,
and Eliza got away, she didn't confess.
But soon, she, too, would be in distress.

You may think that here, our story would end--
but it doesn't, you see, for you must comprehend
someone must get revenge on Keith's lady friend.

Anyways, soon, at the scene of the crime,
a chalk outline was made around all the grime,
and Keith was a taken away in double time.

Buried beneath his favored rattle tree,
his mother did mourn him, and it was she
that did erect a stone marked R.I.P.

Four other berries were there, dressed in black.
None were really related to Keith, except Jack,
who was a cousin, and grief for Keith he did lack.

Mother sat there in sadness, a cap on her head,
placing flowers beside poor Keith, now dead,
and looking forward to her plans ahead.

Soon she departed from Keith's mulchy grave
to find Eliza, and make her crave
the fate that awaited her in death's dark cave.

The aftermath was quite worse than Keith's was
and Eliza was chalked out as well, just because
Keith's mother did as a good mother does.

As Keith's mother transported the four berries home,
there approached a crazy drunk driver, native to Rome,
and it splatted them all there, crushed by the chrome.

This is the ballad of poor Keith's life story.
He was a strawberry, full of honor and glory--
and yet even so, his tale was truly quite gory.

blogging fail.

2009-06-28T13:19:00.000-07:00

sorry bout it. i know i suck as a blogger. i just kind of always... forget about it... and then i always had a bunch of homework, or i helped out with the musical, and i don't have a good excuse for the summer, but i'll just blame facebook.

but when i just mentioned the musical (Into the Woods--it was great, but I'm not going into detail because it was in May.), i remembered that the stage manager for all of my high school's drama productions graduated this year. then, in relation, i remembered that the director asked me to be the stage manager in her stead. it was quite exciting. i was pumped. however, instead of being put in the program as the assistant stage manager, i was put in the program as Set Manager. because basically... i designed and painted a large portion of the set. it was awesome. there are pictures... somewhere. maybe someday i will add them.

ANYWAY. i will probably get all bloggy and over-zealous, and post like 460975037 times in two days, and then not post again for like... how long was it? 4 months? but whatever. maybe you can prevent that by COMMENTING! woo!

so what has happened recently? i can't think of anything worth posting about. except, bummer, because i just realized i didn't post for so long that probably nobody looks at this page anymore. ridiculous. am i right?

lo aburre me.

2009-02-27T16:25:00.000-08:00

so i've been wanting to update, but the uno problemo is that all my pictures are on brennick's computer and brennick is sort of a crab about that. so i have to ask him at least three times (in quick sucession) before he lets me get on. and right now he's sleeping so i can't get on because if he wakes up and i'm on he'll kill me right there on the spot.

so anyways. thats that.

tomorrow piera comes home for her spring break. i'm pretty pumped for that. also we're about to send in registration for the Higher Things retreat this summer. i'm suuuuuuuuuper pumped for that because all these awesome people that i've never met before but always talk to will be there.

another exciting thing is i can pull entirely spanish sentences straight out of thin air. i do it all the time when i'm writing notes to my friends, but i just thought about it today-ish and i was like "whoa! that a different language and i get it enough to just come up with stuff!!"

so here are a few examples.
yo quiero el queso en el hamburguesa y yo quiero el biftec.
translation........
i want cheese on a hamburger and i want steak.

estoy fria.
i'm cold. (i'm not really. but i use that one alot in notes because my school is like negative degrees, always.)

me gusta la torta y lo quiero.
i like cake and i want it.

so those were kind of about food because that's all i could think of at the moment. but whatever. you know you're jealous.

face

2009-02-03T14:36:00.000-08:00

so here is my face.

these last two are my fave.

i'm gonna have to add more pictures later because brennick wants me to get off his computer... haha. so au revoir!

photography

2009-02-03T14:22:00.000-08:00

so, i took a bunch of cool pictures over the last few days. they'll be coming in sections, probably. but i'm going to try to update my photos more because i take bunches all the time. so. yeah. JSYK.

superbowl pictures

2009-02-02T15:39:00.000-08:00

so here are the SUPERBOWL PICTURES! sweet. i took like a million but here are the best, i would say.... relatively.

hats!

rockband. mmhmm.

izzi and naomi :)

yay food!

this was the river we went on.

most of the girls..

all of us.

everyone. we rock.

ps! i just remembered a great story. you know at McDonalds, how they always have this big yellow sign hanging somewhere that says 'ASK ABOUT MCSTUDY!'?

well, i did.

i saw it, and i HAVE always wondered what McStudy is, so i went up and it turns out it's something totally lame. plus it has to do with the employees, and not anything to do with the customers, so i don't even understand why the sign is even up there. but whatever. i asked. you should :D

superbowl MONDAY

2009-02-02T15:20:00.000-08:00

ta-da! i have returned.

so it was pretty fun last night. i'm loading pictures onto the computer now of all our fun adventures. izzi got here first, which is why i left, as you can read below. we hung out and took fun pictures(which will come later), and then awhile later Hannah and Cacia and Sara arrived. and Sara brought ECLAIRS! delectable. (as was the first!) then Harris and Naomi got here about an hour later... i guess? maybe not quite. but Harris brought his xBox360, which was good because the other girls had brought Rock Band. which is an extremely fun game, may i add.

so the game started, and we had started eating, and about 15 minutes in... or maybe not even that far... we all went up to my room to play the previously mentioned RockBand. we did that for awhile, and then just... did nothing for longer. may i mention that my mom was the only one who really watched the game? Harris said he was taping it at home to watch later, because seriously, who actually watches the superbowl at a superbowl party?

then Brennick was like," let's go to the river and go on the ice." cool. good idea. except it's COLD. and ice FREAKS ME OUT. and then we crossed under the bridge, and there was no snow or super thick, whitish ice... so we could SEE THE WATER. i was sure we were all gonna fall in and die. but then we didn't.

also, my mom made king cake. we had a GINORMUS array of food, along with the 5 pizzas that were brought to us and the beautiful, scrumptious eclairs that were also HANDMADE by Sara and brought so kindly to us.... but then, we succumbed to our boredom and hitched a ride to Mickey D's. yep.

then we went home, and then everyone had to leave soon after that. it doesn't sound like it was amazing, but it was. you're obviously just jealous.

oh, that's right. the Steelers won.

superbowl sunday

2009-02-01T08:20:00.000-08:00

whoa. my bad, you guys. i can't believe my last post was October. that's ridic.

anyways, there have been a few exciting events.... Wicked, in November. my birthday and Christmas in December. New Years, and then a Higher Things retreat last weekend.

so in November, Piera sent me an email telling me she had gotten 4 tickets to see Wicked, the musical, in Chicago. I went down there in the middle of the week (yes, I skipped school :D ) and it was AWESOME. i had goosebumps like the whole time. we got all dressed up too, so that was fun ^_^

for my birthday, Naomi and Meghan and Zoe came over and we partied. it was great. we watched movies and had good times :D i got Apples to Apples, which was amazing, so we played that a ton. and we were hyper. so use your imaginations on that one.

Christmas was pretty good. on Christmas eve, we went to the candlelight service and sitting behind us, all by herself, was this girl. woman. idk. she's 23, whatever that is. and my mom talked to her after the service, and she didn't have anywhere to go on Christmas because she had to work on the 26th and her family lives in Minnesota. so we invited her over, and it was awesome. her name is Cathy, and she's hilarious and really nice. it was really cool. she's come over a few times since then, too.

on New Years Brennick and Izzi and I went up to Naomi's. there were a bunch of our friends there and we stayed up all night long. it was extremely fun. we made pancakes at 5:30 (in the morning) and by 6:30 we were sledding on this mongous, super-fun hill. it was really fun. then we played capture the flag in Walmart.

last weekend was a Higher Things retreat near Naomi's. it was pretty fun. there we got to go to a concert for Erin Bode, who is a really talented singer. plus her father is a Lutheran pastor, so she gets bonus awesome points. she has a beautiful voice and i got goosebumps there too. you should look her up on youtube or something... i don't know. Brennick and I got a CD for my mom, but mostly i listen to it :D

so now, today, it's Superbowl Sunday. that's an event unto itself, isn't it? the only problem is, NOBODY CARES THIS YEAR. especially not in wisconsin. i mean, really. the Steelers and the Cardinals? nope. not really. well, Kurt Warner is pretty cool, I guess, but he's not Brett-Favre-while-on-the-Packers, you know what I mean? haha, Brennick pretty much summed it up for the whole of Wisconsin, the other day... "when Brett Favre left the Packers, my life ended."

anyways, today Izzi, Naomi, Harris, and our NEW FRIENDS Hannah, Sara and Cacia are coming over to PARTAY. it'll be great. i bet Brennick and Harris will be the only ones who will even watch the game. that's really not the point of the party, you know? i'll watch the commercials. and eat pizza.

but now i gotta go. because Izzi just got here. more later on the PARTY

BOOM I can SEE!!

2008-10-17T18:14:00.000-07:00

oh, right, Homecoming. i was totally gonna skip over that, it was ages ago... LW lost the game, but the bonfire was HUGE and it burnt this mongo ring out of the grass and it was awesome. there were these little whirlwinds of fire goin on and it was awesome. the dance was alright, I wasn't really all that hyper though and it wasn't as fun as I thoguht it was going to be. but moving on because that was like 3 years ago....

so today was the END OF THE FIRST QUARTER :O

how shocking is that? it really seems like school just started. it's definitely queer. but after lunch, I went home because I felt like I was going to keel over and die, sort of like I do now... I'm just not feel too great.

so my mom scheduled a doctor's appt. at 4ish but that was like 4hours away, so whatever could we do? we totally went to the EYE DOCTOR! woot. oh yeah, I went there last week...? I think? and I'm getting some SWEET new glasses, they're gray and green/yellowish and just amazing. I'm pretty pumped and all ecstatic about them. but also the doctor said I could get contacts, so I'm getting BOTH! how magical is that?!! totally and completely magical, that's the answer to that little question.

but yep. today we went there so I could try some trial contacts and guess WHAT?! I got them IN! and I WORE THEM! for like FOUR HOURS! :O

and then I had to take them out because you're supposed to add like 2 hours of wearing them each day. so. yeah. but I'm totally pumped about it!! because if they work smoothly for the next few weeks then I can get real ones to wear forever (well ok not forever...) and that makes me happy :)

and it was really weird because I kept wanting to put on my glasses. like, I wouldn't feel them, and I would reach for them up on my head or look aruond for them on the table or something and then I was like, DUH I can see what I'm doing, that's totally unnecessary... and sometimes I would look voer the top of my glasses, and I trid to do that like 12 times and then I felt ridiculous because I was just bending my head back and forth, lol.

also, A+ news about the little doctor's trip I took: no strep. woot.

but also that means NO MEDS TO FIX IT so I still feel like crap. oh well.

tomorrow I am going with Kevin and Thomas and Caitlin to see Piera's play, which is called Lend Me a Tenor, I believe. I'm pretty excited about that little adventure because then I'll get to see Peeps! yay!! yay for her. yay for the play where she is the LEAD! like she always hoped and DREAMED!! haha. if you didn't notice, I'm sort of hyperactive at the moment.

also, you may have noticed the outcome of the poll, which I did NOT notice until right now because I haven't been on here since I wrote that last post. Sean Connery won by a full TWO against a ONE! wow. impressive results, you guys. I'm raelly glad SO MANY PEOPLE VOTED

so let's try that again, shall we?

oh, real A+ news from the doctor that I just remember: you know what I SHOULD EAT to help smooth my throat painfulness a little bit? ICE CREAM. and POPSICLES. oh. amazing.

so anyways, I think I'm going to eat MORE ice cream and possibly read... and sleep... and think about cleaning my room because it looks like a total hazard area. there should be caution tape on the door or something. it's ridiculous.

ta-da

2008-09-28T07:07:00.000-07:00

so. I learned today that Kellen has a bone bruise and a minor contusion, I think on his shin? but it's not broken. so thank the Lord for that. but please pray for him to get better and QUICKLY because the homecoming game is next weekend and then maybe he could play for that. but I'm not sure because that's really soon.

anyways, my spanish thing went well, in case anybody was wondering, and on Friday I had an English presentation with 3 of my friends and that went pretty well. it could've been way better but it was a really stupid Romeo and Juliet thing, which is stupid, because Romeo and Juliet is just a stupid, stupid play.

but Thursday we had a game and we won 1-0, but their jerseys looked like EXACTLY the same as ours, so we had to go back to school and get the heinous green pinneys to wear OVER our jerseys. it sucked. and it was an extra layer and it was pretty warm, so that was irritating too. I only got to play for a little bit, and my friend Ilana didn't get to play at all. it wasn't a very good game for us even though we won--our coach was yelling at us because apparently we were horrible and terrible even though we WEREN'T...

and this morning I had to wake up at 7 because we had to be at school at 7:45. we had 2 games right in a row at this school like an hour away or something, so we left early and the coach still got lost -_- fail. also, HILARIOUS story--we passed this side road where a cop was sitting and this girl Siri was like 'oh, wouldn't it be funny if we got pulled over?' and we laughed and kept talking and then he pulled us over! apparently the coach was going like 20 mph over the speed limit, lol. it was a 25 mph zone and he was going 45... hahaha. we took a pityure of the cop car behind us and of the cop, and my friend Dana got the picture right as the cop was handing over the ticket. haha. so there's some Van-Ride Drama.

yep. so the first game we tied 0-0, but we would've won, I'm sure of it, if we played the normal setup. the coach put us out there in rows of three, so there were like 6 midfielders and only 3 forwards and 1 defender. it was ridiculous, because we've never been done that before--that was seriously the first time that's every happened. but we kinda figured it out later, a little bit... I don't know. whatever. anyways, we won our second game 8-0 :D

after the games there was a party for the field hockey...ers... at this girl Maggie's house. so my friend Ilana and I went for awhile and then we went dress shopping at like 6 places, because Homecoming is next weekend, but no where had anything. actually, only 5, because Maurice's was CLOSED! ridiculous. and actually, Boston Store had this really cute dres that was purple ad black and circly and stuff but it was like 30 ZILLION dollars! so I couldn't even get it. I was distraught. but I did get a dress to jst wear to school, because it's not that dressy, but I still like it and it was only $7 from Goodwill :D

also from Goodwill I got two pairs of teal tights (without the feet because I would kill myself if they had feet and never wear them because I hate feet tights), because Izzi and I need them for tomorrow. since Homecoming is next weekend, this week is Spirit Week. tomorrow is Twin Day and we will wear matching shoes and leggings and jean skirts and the same shirt. but only if I can find a cheap jean skirt when we go shopping today O_O because right now I'm at Izzi's, but we're sort of struggling with having everything matching.

Tuesday is Generation Day. Freshman have to dress like babies. I'm going to use Piera's old footie pajamas. heehee. Sophomores are toddlers, juniors are adults, seniors are elderly and the faculty are teenagers :D

Wednesday is PJ/Robe day. it's sort of boring but everyone's excited because it'll be really comfy. Thursday is Superhero day and nobody I've talked to even knows what they're doing for that. so I don't know. and Friday is just School Spirit day, so whatever.

Friday is also the Powderpuff game. Underclassmen against Upperclassmen, which I think is unfair but nobody cares, lol. we're going to get killed. then the real football game, then the bonfire. there's this HUGE pile of wood behind the school. it's seriously ginormus. it'll be so amazing. then Saturday is the actual dance--the theme is 'Autumn in New York.' that's cute.

oh! funny story. ok, so they put up these flyer type things on the walls, advertising for the dance, and there was total typo--AUTUM in New York. I mean, really? really? didn't anyone catch that? so I wrote in an N on like two of them, but I noticed on Friday that they replaced them with ones that were spelled correctly.

anyways I think that's all for now.... oh wait, on Monday, Tuesday AND Wednesday we have games. which is crazy. but oh well. ok NOW that's all.... au revoir :)

oh sketch.

2008-09-26T19:09:00.000-07:00

ok so Teia just told me it may or may not be a bone bruise/broken and it really could be either. so i am leading you falsely. but I really don't know which one, and I'll tell you when I find out...

pray. kkthxbye.

BONE BRUISE

2008-09-26T19:05:00.000-07:00

it's aight. well not really. but now they don't think it's broken and I got this update like 2 seconds ago... they think it's just a bone bruise. but please still pray for him.

prayer request

2008-09-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

tonight my cousin Kellen had a football game. I just called his house to talk to his sister, and his other sister told me that Kellen might have broken his leg at the game. the paramedics think it's a high possibility that he did but I guess they're not sure yet? or something? I don't know. but I just heard about this and so please please pray for him and his family.

k thanks.

muffin fail

2008-09-21T22:03:00.000-07:00

so I'm totally chillin' with Bolivia at the table, sketching out the ginormus A because I'm almost done with the letters and soon I will be done with the troubles of the world... (whoa, David Crowder Band poppin in there)

and then I realize I have to make MUFFINS! MUFFINS -_-
for Spanish. and I can't NOT, because I already told her (the teacher) I was going to. so now I have to make 2 batches of muffins.

oh no. you di-int.

also, I just JUST remembered I also have to draw a stupid MAP... thankfully there is enough posterboard... but really? REALLY? a map AND muffins?! this project is just unnecessary. if I don't get a good grade on it I will spit. or worse. probably worse.

STRUGGLE

2008-09-21T17:48:00.000-07:00

guess what? I'm doing this stupid Spanish project, and I was so worried about 7 minutes being like way too long for me to fill up with pointless chatter about Bolivia...

but then I was just practicing, to make sure I could talk and to see how long it took so far, and it took like 6 minutes to get through the B, O and L. I still have IVIA left!!! struggle. what am I going to do now? I have to like majorly spread out all the information throughout all the letters... but how am I going to make it look like I have enough information? and how am I going to know when to uncover the next letter? this sucks -_-

whatever. I'm hungry.

guess what's on TV? JAMES BOND! How amazing is James Bond? fabulously amazing. speaking of, did anyone see Casino Royale, with the blonde Bond? (haha! that's funny. lol.) at first I really didn't think he would be good at Bond, but he was, and now I so can't wait for the next one to come out... it's called Quantum of Solace. it comes out on November 14 of this year... here are two of the trailers.

actually, if you haven't seen Casino Royale, you shouldn't watch these trailers because they have a few giveaways about what happened in the other movie...
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1951203609/
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1024524313/
but if you have, so go for it. I'm totally pumped.

okay, so Daniel Craig, who plays James Bond, kind of looks like a puppy. am I the only one who thinks that?

IDEAR
poll time. :)

kbye.

forget WallyWorld

2008-09-21T15:34:00.000-07:00

so, funny story. you know how I saw Brisingr at Walmart? there was totally a reason for that. it didn't come out last night--it came out the night before that. so we totally missed the opening event type thing. and I guess the Barnes&Noble where we were going to go wasn't even going to have an event ANYWAYS, so... yep. the book at Walmart was totally legit.

Erin and I (Brennick wasn't gonna go after all) drove almost all the way out to Kelly's, which is like 20 minutes away, and then she called to tell us there was nothing going on but we could come over anyways... so we did... and that was fun. mostly we didn't do anything, but oh well.

OMG SIRENS x3 <-- Emily's face
is Emily reading? EMILY? ARE YOU THERE?

do you like the new colors? I'm not sure if the blue is too... BLUE. and too much of it. you know? what do you think?

I have to finish my Spanish project. which I almost techinically didn't even start but... whatever. ;D

oh, WallyWorld, how I love thee

2008-09-20T15:11:00.000-07:00

¡hola señors, señoras y señoritas! ¿como estas?

I'm in spanish1... and I like it... so... ^_^ haha.

you know what's totally psychedelic? Thursday was midquarter for me. it still seems like I just started school last week. but I didn't. it's been almost a month. how weird is that? anyways, my mom went in for parent-teacher conferences and to get my grades and guess what? I have all A's! it makes me happy because I didn't do too hot on a few quizzes throughout assorted subjects. so. I was pretty ecstatic.

also, we had our fifth field hockey game on Thursday. we won 5-0, which makes our overall 3-2. we lost the two before that, one 3-0 and the other 1-0. which isn't all that bad, considering we've won 5-0 TWICE and then 4-0. so, eat it, USM. (they were one of the ones who beat us ;) )

go here:
http://drhorrible.com/mushortio.html
it's pretty much amazing and hilarious. I love it.

I'm thinking about changing the colors on my blog soon. because I'm sort of bored with this PINK thing that's going on. so what colors do you think?

tonight Brisingr, the third book in the Eragon series, is supposed to come out. I'm going with some of my friends--Izzi, Brennick, Kelly, Ilana, Eva, Erin... okay, a bunch of my friends ;) anyways, I'm pretty excited because it should be pretty fun, even though I haven't read Eragon or Eldest and don't really care about the book. maybe I'll mooch some money off someone and get a different book. stupid bank closed at noon.... ::grumble grumble::

anyways, the point of my story was today I went to Walmart with my mother and while she was returning something, I went to look at the books. and guess what was there?

Brisingr.

so I just thought that was pretty hilarious. I mean, really? everyone's so hyper up to go to Barnes&Noble and get it for like $3,000 dollars when you can buy it for 20 at WallyWorld. whatever. haha.

so I should go, because my friend Erin is coming here before we go wherever else to go get Brisingr (which we could just get at Walmart and did I mention that before? ;D ), so I've got to clean my room. and I've got to do my paper route. and my stupid Spanish project, which I'm pretty anxious about because it has to be done on Monday and I haven't done anything for it yet.

oops.

it's a Spanish-speaking country project, and I have Bolivia. but if I do it right, it'll be flippin' sweet. here's the deal: I'll cut up posterboard into 1'6''x1' rectangles or whatever, and I'll write a B on one, an O on the next, an L on the next... you get it. then I'll write out all the facts on them and paperclip (or something) blue rectangles the same size over them. then on Monday morning I'll put on a pretty dress and go to school and ask someone if they want to buy a vowel...

get it? :D

I thought it was pretty genius, myself. I'm just worried about the talking part--I'll have to figure out how to say everything in 6-8 minutes. I don't know if that's too long or too short because I haven't really done anything yet so I'm sort of screwed and I better get started on that like... tonight....

and that's my cue to leave. ¡adios, amigos!

A Quick Overview of August

2008-09-06T16:34:00.000-07:00

and the end of July. but if I had added 'and the end of July' in the title of this post, it would have been way too long and therefore would have irritated me.

so, okay, in July I went to visit my grandparents with my dad, like I said. and we did go rafting, like I also said--but it wasn't whitewater. actually, the 'rapids' were pretty lame. however, I did manage to tip by my own stupidity. but it was extremely fun. we went rafting in the UP, and camped when we were finished, which was also really fun, even though I felt like there were bugs crawling on me all night because Piera and I weren't allowed to sleep in the car. ick.

then we went to Big Boy for breakfast--this is actually funny, so don't roll your eyes and say, 'why is she telling us about what she had to eat? do we care? I think not.'--and I asked the guy who brought us to our table for crayons. so I got some. and then I wrote on the back of the place mats that our waitress, Laura, was the best ever, and I drew Big Boy on the back of a different one and wrote 'Big Boy: kickin' it old school' and wrote that Big Boy was the best place ever. and then Ben, who is in the family of our family friends, gave them to the manager. and the manager showed Laura her picture and everyone could tell that she was so happy when she saw it :)
except I was in the bathroom. so I didn't even get to see this little exchange going on.
oh yeah, and then I asked the other woman at the podium by the door (it had changed from the kid) to give me some more crayons, and she did, and I told her she made my day. and I could tell that that had made her day :D

that was my Michigan adventure, pretty much.

when we got back it was Brennick's birthday, and we didn't really do anything in particular but it was still fun. a few days after that I got to go to Six Flags for the first time EVERR! with Izzi, Teia, Josh, Michael, and Kristin. it was amazingly fun. I can't even decide which ride was my favorite, but I LOVE all roller coasters. ^_^ and, it turns out, they do the opposite to me than they do for most people... so I felt a little sick because I hadn't eaten anything for lunch... and I was pretty sure I was going to throw up after Raging Bull but I wanted to go oon it anyways. so I did. and I felt waaay better. how messed-up is that?

then on August 1st, Breaking Dawn came out, which was sooo exciting ^_^ :D it's the fourth and last book in one of my favorite series ever, and Izzi and I went to the midnight opening and we dressed up like characters from the book and we both got a copy ^_^ so much fun

then it was Temish's birthday, and we didn't do much for that either, but like Brennick's it was still fun.

for a few weks after that there wasn't much going on, but Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings I had field hockey conditioning at 8--where you do two sets of sprints, four minutes each of push-ups and sit-ups, and run 3 miles. I didn't go to most of them, which I was fine with then... but not so fine with later, when I had to make up 15 miles for the coach. that sort of sucked. and we had to take a fitness test, which was ridiculous because no other sport has to do that. but our coach is ridiculous. we had to do 40 situps in a minute, 10 pushups, and run 2 miles... I think... in 20 minutes. it was pretty ridiculous, but I passed.

on the 21st I started high school! yay!! it was a half day, where we got syllabuses and figured out where all our classes were. I have World History, English 9, Algebra 1, Spanish 1, P.E&Health, Biology, Old Testament and Art 1. It's really fun ^_^ I think my favorite classes are probably Spanish and Art, who incidentally have the same teacher :D I also like Old Testament, because of the teacher, Mr. Staub. he's hilarious.

so school is pretty fun. I've gotten a bunch of homework and I had to write a paper before most people even started school (which was... lame.), but since I've never really been to school before, it's something new and so it's exciting and fun. I made a bunch of friends too... the ones I talk to the most are Emily, Ilana and Megan. they're all hilarious and I love them.

so pretty much since the 21st I've been busy with school and then fiel hockey practices after that. we have to run a mile and a half to the park wehre we practice... ick. but it does get us in shape. sort of. I still can't run the whole thing.

anyways, our first game was last Wednesday. we were super-de-duper-de worried, and especially when we got to the field and saw that their team was like, 3x the size of ours. so we all dinked around in our tank top/skirt uniform (it's amazing, haha) and watched them practice awesomely.

then we totally smoked them.

yep, we won. the score was 5-0. most of the time, they weren't even on our side of the field. I subbed in in the first half and then about halfway through the second and I finished in the game. I thought I was gonna play fullback (defense) but Coach Wiley (no joke. haha.) put me in in midfield. I ran like a madwoman and only got really tired like twice...

the game was really fun. I always complain about the practices (they are pretty brutal), but the games are so much fun and so exciting. it's cool. I like field hockey :D

hmm, I'm trying to think of what else happened recently. I know I've been thinking of things to post (even though I didn't). hmm... Keaton left the Saturday before school started, and Piera left the day after. I'm just remembering things, haha.

oh, and the Olympics! Michael Phelps = beast= amazing. and that running guy, Usain Bolt or whatever his name is. I didn't watch all of the Olympics, but that few parts Idid watch were pretty fascinating :D

well. I don't really think there's much else to say right now. but now I'll try to stay all caught up... and not ditch the blog again.... chao for now :)

er, hi...

2008-09-06T15:42:00.001-07:00

um, hi... I'm not dead or anything... I've just been doing stuff. so. sorry. I'll try to post later today or tomorrow, k? k.

baseboards and Batman and Brennick, oh my!

2008-07-19T12:39:00.001-07:00

what's going on with this summer? it's only been roasting for the past few days and I don't understand it. it's supposed to be roasting all summer. but whatevs. I'm pretty much fine with this because I don't like being broiled like a steak in my own house...

so since I didn't want to be cooked alive in my OWN house, Thursday I went to somebody's else's house to clean their floors and be baked like a potato. this lady at our church had a great uncle who died, and so she needed somebody to wash all the baseboards and floors and stuff... so Izzi and I went over there at 9 and worked till 2. we each got $38, which was pretty cool considering all i did was clean up dust...

then last night I found out Keaton and a bunch of his friends were going to see The Dark Knight, the new Batman movie, and Izzi and I were invited. then Brennick and his friend RJ were invited too, and then they found out there were only 7 tickets left and 9 people. so after a brief little discussion, RJ said they didn't have to go because he'd actually already seen it... (nerd, who does that?)

and so we went. and it was amazing. really. Christian Bale plays Batman, and Heath Ledger plays the Joker, and they were both freaking amazing. Heath Ledger has never played the bad guy before, but he is good at it. he was pretty scary, especially if you don't like clowns, which is why my friend Erin isn't going to see it.

it's not a very child-friendly movie, because it's pretty intense, but that's why it's PG-13 anyways. one of the people I went with said that was the first sequel to ever surpass the first movie, and it's pretty much true. it's amazing. and the pencil... ::shudder:: ... you'd have to see it to understand.

want to hear something crazy? today we were all just dinkin around and this car passes outside... then like, 2 seconds later there's this huge screech and tires skidding and a crash. so we all race outside to see what happened and the car that passed had run into a different one... which looked like it was just parked on the side of the road... psycho driver...

anyways, today is my friend Zoe's birthday, so she's having a party and I'm going to that... Zoe my friend though, not Zoe my cousin. it should be fun. we're going to see Mamma Mia... hmm.

then on Sunday, tomorrow, my mom is driving Brennick, Temish and I to Michigan to visit my dad and grandparents. we're also going to visit some family friends we haven't seen in a few years. tomorrow we're also gonna meet Piera when we meet my dad, because she went last Monday to spend a week with her boyfriend before going over to my grandparents. Keaton can't come because he has to work, so that's too bad. but it should be fun. I think he said something about rafting... which will also be fun, but not quite the smartest thing with Piera and me along ;)

then when we get back, it'll be Brennick's birthday on the 30th. he's turning 16, which is... weird... I think he's having a party, but he didn't really fill me in on the details.

so that's all for now. I think I posted all the pictures I promised, and maybe I'll put up some more random ones when I get home. or maybe not.

Robbie Seay Band Concert

2008-07-19T10:46:00.001-07:00

wow, I'm so behind the times. the Robbie Seay Band concert happened on July 8th. it was a benefit concert for Zoe Means Life, which was raising money for my baby cousin Zoe. Robbie Seay Band, a decently famous Christian band, decided to have a concert for her, and they flew up from Texas and went to this church like 20 minutes away from my house.

so basically, it was amazing. my mom, Keaton, Piera, a bunch of their friends and I were volunteers, and we were supposed to help with the refreshments and tickets or whatever. it turned out they didn't really need us, but it was still sweet.

the concert started at 7 and opened with Greg's (that's my uncle, Zoe's dad) brother-in-law Josh Pope. he's pretty awesome, and a 100% amazing musician, and he has a record deal. he sang a few songs and played one on the piano that I'm pretty sure he made up on stage. then Greg and Jen (my step-aunt) sang a few songs, and they were fabulous too.

then after a brief intermission (haha), Robbie Seay Band came on. they were, of course, fabulous. they're one of my favorite bands ever. Robbie Seay is really funny, and the whole band is really talented.

my second favorite song of his^^

what was great was that my Uncle Greg and his family--Jen, Teia, Izzi, Kellen, Selah, Elise, Ethan, Aidan, Zoe--got to hang out with the band before the concert, and eat dinner with them, and then afterwards they were all talking like they'd known each other their whole lives. the band went out to the lobby-ish area after the concert was over, and everybody got to talk to them, and I guess Robbie Seay loves my grandma. he told Greg he loved his whole family and he was happy he got to come do this.

also I got a t-shirt. it's super comfy and amazing, and I got it signed by the whole band and Josh. I also got pictures with all of them and my friend Caitlin.

Tyler^^

want to hear a funny story? ok. so Caitlin came up to me and was like, "LET'S GET PICTURES WITH THE WHOLE BAND!" and I'm like, "OKAY!!" and so we go over to the stage and she made me ask the one guy, Ryan, if we could get a picture with him. and he said yes, and asked one of the other band members, Taylor, of he could take the picture.

TANK^^

so he was passing the camera over to Taylor, and I guess neither of them was paying that much attention, because Ryan let go and Taylor definitely did not have it in his hands. it fell on the stage. and broke. the little lens part that pops out of of the camera was all bent over like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Taylor^^

so Taylor picks it up and is looking at it and trying to turn it on (because it shut off when it hit the stage) and he's freaking out and saying, "it says lense error, restart camera! what do I do? it won't restart! it says lense error!" Ryan took it from him and tried, and Caitlin and I are just laughing, and then Taylor starts to laugh because we are.

Ryan^^

Ryan tries to bend the lense back, and it's not working and he looks at all of us laughing and he says, "it's not funny! we broke her camera! we broke your camera! that's not funny!" but he and Taylor fixed it after a couple more minutes, and Taylor got a picture of us with Ryan, and then Ryan got a picture of us with Taylor... mostly though, it was hilarious.

Josh^^

Robbie Seay^^

anyways, the whole concert was really fun and just an amazing time. I'm so thankful this could happen, because it really brightened my uncle's and aunt's and cousin's day and possibly whole summer. Robbie Seay is a blessing, and so is family, and so is Zoe.

fishing

2008-07-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

k so. I'm kind of a slacker. sorry. I tried to do this earlier this week, but then all the pictures and posts would be out of order, so it didn't work.

the fishing trip was pretty fun. we got up there at like... I don't really remember. maybe 12:30? I'm not really sure when we were supposed to start, but happily (and unnaturally ;D) we got there right on time and set off in Captain Paul's boat. It was Captain Paul, Mr. Carl (because I don't know how to spell his last name), my mom, Keaton, Piera, Brennick, Temish and I. it was kind of crowded on that little boat.

so we jetted out onto the bay, just a little outside of it, and then started cruising around while the cap'n set up the.... six fishing poles on the back of the boat. we all picked cards, ace-6 and then a jack, to decide who would reel in first. Temish got to set a timer, so that after like, 10 or 15 minutes was up, it was the second person's turn, then once the next bit was over, it was the third person's turn... you get it.

then we sat. and we talked. and we sat. and we waited. for awhile.

then Captain Paul leaped out of his little steering chair place and over to one of the fishing rods, and he's like, "WHO'S TURN IS IT? QUICK!" and everyone looked at me and I was like, seriously? I get to go first?

so I bolted over there and started reeling it in and let me tell you, this is not as simple as like, fishing in Cedar Creek or whatever. you've got to prop up the fishing rod on your hip or stomach or something, and then hold it still and reel like your life depends on it. and keep reeling until your hair turns gray. it takes forever.

(in case you couldn't tell, I liked this sailboat ;) )

everyone was fluttering around, and Piera had my camera, all ready to take a picture of the freaking huge fish I would've caught, then all of a sudden I was reeling in nothing. and Captain Paul is like, "you lost it." I was really sad. I guess the hook got caught in the fish's side, and so it didn't stay on. Cap'n Paul knew that because the hook had scales on it. but still, that sucked.

so then Piera and Temish and I went in the front of the ship, the bow where the little pointless fence dealie is, and Piera and I sat with our legs over the edge to try to get our feet wet. Temish got all ninja behind us, but we made him stay still so he wouldn't fall in. being up there was fun, because Piera and I kept making each other laugh and then our whole legs ended up getting soaked. but I didn't get pictures of that because... I think I left my camera below deck.

fish scales^^

then Keaton was like, "Temish! come on back, Mom caught a fish!" and all three of us bolted back to the part of the boat where you're supposed to be, and my mom was reeling and reeling, and then one of the other rods caught a fish and Brennick started reeling one in. I was taking pictures and hopping around excitedly, and Keaton got to steer because Captain Paul was hurrying around making sure the fishing lines didn't tangle.

Brennick got his fish in first. nobody ever told us how heavy/long they were, but his was pretty large. it was a salmon, they all were but Temish's. I thought I took pictures, but I didn't actually find any... and my mom was still reeling, and she got us all to help because her hand was getting tired, and she still kept reeling. it was a really strong fish, but finally she got it in. hers was pretty huge too.

then there was a break, and Piera and Brennick and I went up front again. and Brennick was being super hilarious, and Piera and I couldn't stop laughing, but then it was Piera's turn to reel a fish in, and she hurried back and we followed because it was exciting.

so Piera's took a little bit too, but nothing too long. she was freaking out, and finally she pulled it close enough for Cap'n Paul to get it with the net, and she picked it up by the gill, and since it was still alive-ish it started biting her, which was pretty exciting. and kind of hilarious, because she was freaking out.

then while Cap'n Paul was reeling in the rest of her line so he could re-bait it or whatever, and while he was doing that, another pole caught one, and it was Keaton's turn. his was the biggest--it was freakin huge--and in the middle of his reeling it in, I got another one, which I lost again because the line got cut on some kind of wire...? I don't know. it was lame.

Keaton kept trying to grab the fish and it kept flipping around... it flopped like 12 times, no joke.

and waited... and Temish got bummed because he hadn't caught a fish yet... and we kept doing nothing and stuff.... and then it was my turn again! yay! this time, I brought it in, but since I'm weaker than a newborn child, Piera had to help me. and because of this, she couldn't take any pictures of me reeling it in like a madwoman.

but anyways, it was pretty exciting, even if it was smallish. (fail.) it took longer than anyone else's but Mom's. it was a strong fish though... ::defensive...:: I didn't pick it up by the gill because that's nast... and I just couldn't bring myself to do it, but I did pick it up by the 'handle', aka tail. and Piera didn't even get a picture of it. I'm still in shock.

so then the only two left were Mr. Carl and Temish. Mr. Carl got his first--it took like, two seconds. really. he crossed the boat and sat and picked up the pole and reeled for about a minute, or not even, and then there was another large, flopping fish on the deck, and more goober to wash off. seriously, those things are nast. slimy and slippery and full of GOOBER! I had to wash my hands like 5 times.

and then not too long later, it was Temish's turn (because he was the only one left) and so Keaton helped him and they got it in pretty quick together. it was a sheepshead, or a drum, my mom says. I don't know what that means, and I don't know how she does either.

so we stayed out for a little bit more, and my mom caught another fish, which was pretty cool. after that was all cleaned up, we headed back in.

whoa, I sound all ship-like and nautical-ish. heading back in... weird.

nevermind.

ok, so then once we had landed... docked... (nevermind about the nautical thing) Cap'n Paul had to gut the fish. Mom and Piera had told me, from the past few years, that it was the grossest part. it really wasn't that disgusting. maybe because he stood on a stool and the gutting table was really high and I couldn't see all that well... because I'm short... but maybe because it wasn't that gross. don't know.

then Mr. Carl took us to dinner at the restaurant at the top of the hill, and Piera and I split this lemon pepper salmon that I devoured--I could eat that every day. mmm.... and we got to take some (and by some I mean about three tons) of fish home. so good.

we were still there when the sun set, and so I got a few sunset pictures. they're my favorite. it finished off the day perfectly.

more pics

2008-07-17T16:25:00.000-07:00

okay so... I lied. sorry. but here are the pics from Izzi's birthday:

Teia hugging Izzi's cow balloon... they named it Minte. I was not amused.

birthday girl

Naomi, me and Izzi

Naomi

Michael, Izzi's boyfriend

Izzi and Minte

Teia on the dock

Ethan

Aidan

Michael and Kellen found a frog, and so Izzi was gonna kiss it, like Prince Charming

....and then they posed with it....

.... then flung it in the lake.

so we were dinkin around, sitting on the swing, and Teia throws a water balloon at them.
how mean is that?

and I pretended i was gonna throw Ethan in the lake... he loved it

Izzi tried to make a smiley face in the my sunburn

me and Naomi... fabulous

Izzi's friend Kenzie

everyone out on the pier

Meghan and Izzi creepin up behind her

cake! yay

Izzi + knife = bad

chocolate and shopping. oh yeah.

I made Izzi two cards... one has a TMNT on it. I thought it was Donatello but I guess it's Michelangelo... Donatello is purple.
::sigh::

Michael and I got Izzi season 7 of Gilmore girls... she went into ultrasound.

every party needs Skittles or it isn't a party

Meghan's a cutie

I love this picture... Michael is creepin and Meghan's face is the best xD

Kellen and Josh... weirdies

Naomi is my darling

Teitei

Meghan... framed her face?

Izzi got a rubber ducky and promptly started singing
♫"rubber ducky, you're the one! you make bathtime so much fun!"♫

that's all the pictures I promised from before, right? now I have to add the fishing ones, and then the Robbie Seay ones... but I didn't even mention that yet... I'm such a spaz -_-

pictures! (finally)

2008-07-14T19:23:00.000-07:00

alright. cool. there are a lot of them, but all these are from my grandparent's anniversary:

we'll start with my aunt Renee pretending to pick her nose.

practicing the show

Keaton playing guitar

Jen and Zoe

my grandparents renewing their vows

Izzi and Keaton

Omi, Grandpa Du, the 10 and their spouses, except for Erin

Allana ♥

the 10 and Omi and Grandpa Du

I couldn't decide which is better so I had to just put up both...

Aunt Margie/Gitta

the church

the party room place

the place cards that my mom and Izzi labored over ;)

Aidan

Cale practicing his guitar

my place

table 6 (it was the cool table)

Uncle Andreas and Adler

champagne glasses

Aunt Erin

Nathaniel

Omi and Grandpa Du

it's a little bit blurry, but I love this picture --my mom (Deirdre), Aunt Renee, Uncle Greg

Martina, about to pose

umm... Charis ;)

Abi, haha.

Uncle Brian and Peyton

Izzi, Keaton and I had some sweet shoes

the first performance... the kids and Aunt Renee, hands by Aunt Kirin

Adler again

Allana played flute

all the men sang a song about mice

Cale played guitar

Drew sang, accompanied by Cale

and Connor sang, accompanied by Uncle Jim

then Uncle Jim sang

and Izzi and Teia sang

and Kellen sang

then Jen and Greg

Izzi and Zoe

umm... Aunt Kirin.

Omi's wedding dress and a Mardi Gras mask

Aunt Heidi and Uncle Phil dancing

Grandpa Du and Keaton talking

Aunt Kirin and Aunt Jill

Aunt Martina and Gabriella, Brette and Aunt Tari

Elise

moi in a mask

Bren. haha.

alright, cool. so I'm done. and it's really late and I'm super tired, so I'll load the rest some time tomorrow... I promise ;)

The Fourth of July

2008-07-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

Happy Independence Day!

yay, the fourth of July! the parades, the barbecues, the fireworks!

it was 10:30. the sunlight streamed through the windows. the birds twittered happily outside. cars raced past on the street outside, their drivers eager to reach their festival, patriotic destinations. and there I was--asleep on my pullout couch.

my friend Erin had slept over, and we stayed up pretty late doing nothing. so when 9:30 rolled around and my mom wanted to know if we were going to the parade, the answer was no. I love the Cedarburg parade, even if it is the same every year, but I was tired. so we slept in. cross off the parade.

my mom spent awhile making dinner--it was fabulous, and some kind of Cajun dealie. rice, with sauce and shrimp and peppers over it... (Izzi--elves on rice!) garlic bread with extra butter.... and corn on the cob. no hot dogs. no hamburgers. no grill. cross off the barbecue.

Piera, Keaton and Brennick all ditched to go to Thomas's house. he's Keaton and Piera's friend from high school, and every 4th of July he has a party-type-thing and they all go kayaking in the creek behind his house, because you can see the fireworks really well from there. so Temish, Mom and I made our way over to the park and found a very convenient and well placed spot of grass where we could watch the fireworks. then we waited. and waited. and I almost crossed the fireworks off my list, too.

then they came, and they were fabulous. when they shot up into the air, I always guessed green. I was right, some of the time. I pointed out, because me and Izzi realized this a few years ago on the 4th, that they have just as many green fireworks as red, white and blue. since when was green a patriotic color?

all in all, even if it wasn't the average American's traditional 4th of July, today was a pretty good day. and after all... since when was I your average American?

and tomorrow we're going fishing up in.... wherever. Gill's Rock. it's like, 4 hours away. my grandparent's friend Carl knows a guy with a fishing boat (whoa, what a connection :D ) and for the last however-many years, the Original 10 (my grandparents 10 children) have gone fishing around the 4th of July. just in the past few years were the grandkids allowed, I think. this year will be my first going. I'm excited. I'll have to take pictures. and yes, I'll put up the ones from forever-ago on too.

so anyways... yay, the fourth of July! the sitting around, the taking of an accidental nap, the hunt for the perfect bag of gummi worms... in other words, how I spent my day.

pictures

2008-06-24T13:51:00.001-07:00

oh yeah, I took a ton of pictures at my grandparent's thing and at Izzi's party, but they're on Piera's laptop so I can't load them now... I'll try to put some up soon.

party woo

2008-06-23T18:13:00.000-07:00

alrighty then, I've been sort of busy the last few... days... week and a half. almost two weeks. two weekends ago it was my grandparent's 50th anniversary, and so the 10 kids threw a huge party and it was lots of fun--more detail later. so we've been planning that since pretty much January. then my friend Naomi calls and asks if we--Izzi and I--want to go to her dance recital.

we went. duh. but that took a ton more intricate planning that I didn't get till it was all over, because she lives 45 minutes away and sort of on the way to my grandparents, and there were like 30 shows through the day but maybe no tickets left, and I'm not a planner.

but we went and she danced beautifully. we got to talk for awhile after and decided she was made for dancing. then Piera picked us in her rust-with-blue-accents car, and we made our way up to my grandparents.

we dinked around till about 2:30 in the morning, filling out place cards and doing other handy, helpful things ::coughmomteiaizzicough:: and doing nothing, like coloring and emailing... ::coughpieraandmecough:: then we went to bed and woke up too early to get ready for church. it was kind of hectic, and we lost one of the room keys (it was in Piera's pocket... nerd) but we got there mostly on time. I think.

after church we were just putzing around and practicing our Super Singing Show... then we took pictures. a few horus later, the church filled up again, and my grandparents and all the other couples reaffirmed their weddings vows. it was cool.

then all of the family and all of the friends trucked on over to this MONGOUS place with funky purple carpet and a bunch of huge rooms for large parties like ours. so we set up, and people came, and we (the family) paraded in in Mardi Gras beads and stuff... then we ate good food. and then they served the cake, took more pictures, and
then a bunch of the grandchildren and few of the children/spouses sang and were all musical-like. it was really cool.

then Kirin whipped out the chicken feet and we started to dance.

no joke. chicken feet.

anyways, the whole thing was lots of fun. it was good seeing all my cousins and my grandparents and stuff, and great to see that so many people came to see them and congratulate them and stuff. I love those guys and I love that so many other people do.

then nothing happened for a few days. on Wednesday though, I had to wake up bright and early for field hockey! woo.

at the high school I'm going to next year, they're starting a field hockey team. they wanted to see if anyone would play on it, so they set up a camp-type thing and my mom signed me up (but I agreed... so it's all good) and then I went. they have a coach, but then they hired this guy from Australia to coach the coach, because the real coach has no idea what he's doing...

anyways, the camp went from last Wednesday to this Friday, and it's from 9-12. it's really fun, but pretty tiring. last Friday I pretty much started out thirsty, so running around in the super-hot sun didn't help at all. also, my shoulders and face got burned. no good.

so Friday Michael, Izzi's boyfriend, picked me up and we went to the bank, Wal-Mart, and McDonalds. we had to get presents for Izzi because Sunday was her birthday and we were going over there to partay. we got her Gilmore Girls, season 7, and she totally flipped out when she opened it.

but anyways, we got there and helped fix the dock on their lake. if you read my uncles blog, you'll know they live on a lake. maybe. I don't know, but they do, and it's awesome. a little bit later our friend Naomi showed up (previously mentioned as Naomsterina the Ballerina) and we all partied until LATER when Izzi's friend Kenzie from school got there, then Timmy and then Meghan. it was awesome. we all went out on the dock for awhile, then we had a bonfire and made smores and ate cake and opened presents... and it was pretty much the best time ever.

Naomi and Meghan and I slept over and on Saturday, we decided to go shopping because Izzi had gotten giftcards. we walked around to Kohls and Maurices and then to the Chocolate Factory, which really only has subs and ice cream... but it's still tasty.

then everybody left. it was really sad. Izzi and I were all alone. we kind of kept repeating how we wished thy had stayed longer. but the rest of Saturday passed and we stayed up till it was actually Izzi's birthday (watching Gilmore Girls...) and then went to sleep.

Sunday we went to church and hung around all day. but that happy part was I was there--I've only been at her birthday party once since we were friends. Sunday made twice. which is weird, because we're best friends and stuff... I just was always gone. so we were happy.

then there's just more field hockey this week. from last Friday to yesterday was probably going to be one of my more exciting times this summer... oh man... what am I going to do?

now I'm going to sleep. or at least going upstairs to read... tomorrow at field hockey we're going for a run o_O I'm not really looking forward to that, because the coach is huge and he probably thinks a a ten-mile sprint is a jog. I'm so going to die.

the beauty by the bluff

2008-06-07T13:08:00.000-07:00

yesterday I went with Piera to pick up Keaton from work. he works as a computer nerd at Concordia, right on the bluff. so we drove over there and waited until he came outside. it had already been a positively glorious day--warm and breezy and sunny and perfect. then, once Keaton had gotten into the car, we were driving away when we passed right by the edge of the bluff.

oh man. it was so beautiful. I made Piera park so we could go down by the water. it was so incredibly perfect. the sky was blue and had a few clouds, varying from white to dark gray. the water was dark, dark blue out on the horizon but it turned into this perfect color... something like this... except not quite. there isn't anything that can capture it. it was gorgeous.

Concordia just put in a little amphitheater and stairs down to the water--almost. there was this line of rocks, and just past that was a dinky little sign proclaiming that it was some kind of animal reserve whatever, and we shouldn't pass. we so didn't listen and climbed right over the rocks and onto the sand.

the water was brown right up close to the shore and freezing cold, but the waves were pretty big for so close and really fun to splash in. Piera kind of dinked around on the shore, but Keaton and I jumped around in the water and climbed on the rocks in the water. it was really really fun. my shorts got wet. that wasn't fun.

then we decided it was time to go. we climbed up the huuuuge steps--there's like, ten sets--and Piera was crossing the little amphitheater when I turned around.

it was even more beautiful than when we first saw it. there were a few little sandbars lightening up the darker parts of the water, and the whitecaps were splashing up on the rocks in a really cool looking way. there were more clouds, but now there was one single seagull swooping around. I can't even describe it, but I just really wished I had my camera.

so we sat on a little concrete wall for almost longer than we had been down by the water and just looked out at the beauty and talked about nothing. it was gorgeous. I loved it.

then again, I turned around, and there were storm clouds coming towards us. they weren't all clumped together though, and through one little hole the sun shone through in an amazing way. you could find so many cool metaphors about it.

anyways, the whole day it was beautiful, but that was the best part. it put me in a really really great mood for the rest of the day. I think God is amazing and I love Him for making things like that, that lighten up moods and days and lives.

and now I'm having trouble voicing out my thoughts, so I'm gonna go. I'm pretty sure that was it anyways.

but oh yeah... at the bottom of the steps I also looked up and the sun was really bright at the top. "It's like Jacob's ladder to heaven, or something," I said.

Keaton looked at me and had to ruin the image. "Or Concordia." yeah, thanks for that, you nerd.

Octopi

2008-05-25T13:07:00.000-07:00

So... my mom was online today and she found this hilarious article..... it's about Octopus.... and there's a video. They twirl Octopi above their heads because it's a tradition... for their hockey team. which kind of cracks me up.

OH MY COW I hope we get thunderstorms later. it says we may. I ♥ thunderstorms. lightning kind of fascinates me.

today in church the verse-y thingy was this one I've been trying to remember for the past few days... which made me pretty happy... but I've always liked it.

Matthew 6:25-34
25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

yeah. I like that cause I worry way too much. and Piera showed me this other one, a month or so ago. it's not about worrying, but it's still... good. comforting.

Romans 8:37-39
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

yay, Jesus.

a few random things

2008-05-20T23:01:00.000-07:00

whoa. one little problem for today: though it was really pretty outside later in the day, it was about 2 degrees. I know I keep mentioning this. but seriously. it needs to warm up. I am a summer person, no question.

so last night most of us watched Meet the Robinsons. the thingy on the back of the case says this:

Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the fantastical world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone--he'll need every bit of help he can get from the wonderfully wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself.

yeah. so that sounds nerdy and weird, plus it lied because of the whole dinosaur thing, but it's the description off the back of the case so what can you expect? anyways, it's HILARIOUS. pretty much every line has you cracking up. or at least me. because... it almost about my level of weird. you should see it.

I also took another picture similar to the one in the last post... and some sweet pictures of the moon. it's been pretty amazing the last few nights. but those are still on my camera.. yep. this is a frequent dilemma. my computer has about 2% of space left.

s'anyways, tonight Keaton, Caitlin and I (Caitlin is Piera's best friend) ran outside to the middle of the street and made asphalt angels. that's right. like snow angels... but in the street. it's like the grass angels I made with Izzi on Sunday... woot.

I know I had something else to say, but then... I forgot. so that's all for now.

summer picture

2008-05-13T21:46:00.000-07:00

this is the picture I wanted to post earlier...

I like it 'cause it seems like it's moving. sort of. and because you can't tell where it is at all... just the sky. and a pole... but really, that adds to it. because it could be in the middle of nowhere, with the pole connecting one small farm to civilization, or it could be just down the street from my house. or anywhere. I don't know. I just think it's a sweet picture. I guess I don't really know why. it's a summer picture, though.

8-3, Fabio's lead

2008-05-13T17:28:00.000-07:00

if you read my earlier post (the huge one)... the weather listened. or God. probably God. it's now 70, sunny, there are pretty clouds and the sky is bright blue where the sun isn't setting (there's it's this weird yellow-white color). I have this sweet picture that reminds me off today that I want to put up, but it's still only on my camera... whatever.

it says it's supposed to rain/thunder. I hope it does. and lightning, too. then I will dance in the street. today I have felt very much like dancing...

Keaton returned from Chicago with Piera, but the friend, Nathan, decided to stay at the other airport because it would be easier for everyone all around, except him. he'll have to lie around in semi-uncomfortable chairs and try to sleep or read or whatever till 6 tomorrow morning.

anyways, they got back around 4-something and we hung around doing nothing until Brennick got home. then Keaton, Brenbren, Temish and I went outside and played soccer till everyone was cheating. then we came in. it was awesome.

and in case you were wondering (you probably weren't) Piera sat in our soccer field and read her weird book... we called her 'Obstacle' and almost tripped over her a few times... but we didn't really care. she was at least out with us. and Brennick and I won 8-3. heck yes.

summer reading

2008-05-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

hey, guess what? Inspiration struck. kind of.

over the summer I have two things I definitely want to read, so far:

+Pride and Prejudice
+Lord of the Rings

do you have any suggestions? although at the rate it took me to read Sense and Sensibility (nigh on years) this may take up more than just this summer...

and here is a poem.

Her hair like barnyard flaxen,
Her eyes like bubbling brook,
They sparkle and flash like a shining star
And change with every look.

Her laugh is such as silver,
Her tears as fresh spring rain.
Glowing is her sweet deep smile,
Yet frowning brings swift pain.

Her temper gets the better of
Her dev'ously clever mind.
If you cross her darkening heart,
She will with magic bind.

In stony silence her victims sit,
Staring 'cross the yard.
The evil won the battle when
The good and malice sparred.

what do you think?

People, among other things

2008-05-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

bonjour, mes amis.

have you ever though about people? like, really. there are a lot of people. a lot. even in those uber-tiny, 'unincorporated' country towns with names like 'Cheesetown' (there is one. seriously), there's like 900-some people. how weird is that? you always think there will be 20 or something, tops.
anyways, each of those people have lives. they have thoughts, memories, dreams, worries, plans, friends.... and each of those friends has all of those things too. that's a lot of all of those things. every single person has them. how weird is that?
say you go into Mickey D's. it's mostly uninhabited, except for Person A, Person B, Persons C and D (they're eating together) and you. Person A is Lisa. she is 16 and working behind the counter and is currently reading Seventeen and popping her gum, as there is very little business. she obviously likes Seventeen, so we won't delve further into her mind, but I'm sure it's full of all the latest gossip, omg.
Person B is Dolores. She is 81 and is currently counting her change. That's what she paid with. she has $3.44 left, but she's not thinking about that. She's thinking about her life--when she was young she was a swing dance fanatic, very popular, and generally had a wonderful life. now all that's stuck in her memories, along with all her life with all her children and her husband and stuff. that's a lot of time, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. she has a whole LIFE--dreams, wishes, regrets, memories, everything.
Persons C and D are Samuel and Jackson (haha), and they are 12 and 13. brothers. they currently hate their sister for getting them in trouble, but usually they love her more than anything. Sam wants to be a firefighter and Jack wants to be a professional skateboarder-person-guy. each of these dreams sparked from something that happened to them during their life. their pasts and futures all mixed up because they have both and stuff.
I'm sure you get the idea. have you ever thought about all that stuff before? it's really very interesting. mostly what I'm driving at is we never really notice it. we're all kind of self-centered, even if we don't realize it. it's not harming anyone, either, and I guess it's not even bad. but mostly we don't think about the people we see in a passing car, or the person in the house next to Walmart, or the weirdo driving the tractor down the street. he may actually have a decent reason, and is in fact embarrassed to be driving said tractor down said street (I am kind of curious though--why was he driving it? he passed twice, on two different days, no less.), but we don't think about that. all we notice is a guy on a tractor.

you know what's another thing? actors. you look at the front of a magazine--Lisa's Seventeen, for example. Keira Knightly has lost at least 7 pounds since yesterday, when the magazine stalked her on her way to the beach, after going to 7-11 to pick up RedBull (it's a celebrity's drink). people think, 'oh, Keira Knightly. she's a freaky anorexic person who drinks energy drinks and windsurfs. she's weird.'
but you know what's cool? anyone remember how Keira Knightly makes a living?
ACTING.
so even you can see her spine more clearly than her face, she acts. and ACTING is sweet.
I guess people don't think of this because when they see these people in movies, they're not themselves. In Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightly is Elizabeth Bennett. she is not on her way to the beach to windsurf and drink RedBull. we don't even think about that. we only see Elizabeth Bennett. so it must the be same in real life: when we see them, we don't see the characters they portray when they are ACTING (which is an AWESOME thing to do, so I have to capitalize it each time) and so we don't even remember that's what they do. but they do. so. it's different.
I'm kind of rambling with this, but I'm sure you get my drift. moving on...

So, on Mother's Day we went up to my grandparents. it was pretty fun. I love those people. the only problem was it was about 1 degree up there. seriously, when I was totally owning Brennick at soccer outside (... um... just believe that), my mind kept telling me it was FALL. it's MAY. can the weather please cooperate with my mind, please?
73, weather. 73, sunny, maybe a few clouds and a light breeze. okay. thanks.
anyways, up there it was the kind of cold that, even when you're wearing a suitably warm sweatshirt, it makes about 1,000 goosebumps pop up all over your arms so that you look like some kind of freaky leper. nobody wants that.
today, it is... '64, feels like 64, partly cloudy.' let me rephrase: 'too flipping cold, feels 1,000 degrees less than it is, partly gay.'
But anyways, my Mother's Day was good. my grandparents crack me up, mostly. we looked at old pictures--when they were in their 20's, they were 'foxy,' as Piera put it. also, my Grandpa Du had a sweet retro haircut (and those were Brennick's words... he also said it reminded him of Pastor Mallie :P) and a VW bug. they were stylin'. I love those people times 4,000,000.

This morning Keaton and Piera were scheduled to come home. actually, Keaton was coming home from college, and he was just picking up Piera on the way back because yesterday, she went down to visit Le Derder... her boyfriend... and she spent the night at one of her friend's places down there. Keaton was going to drop off his friend at the airport so he could fly back to Montana (O_o) and then come home. incidentally, Piera didn't come home, but Keaton did. after he'd slept for like, an hour and a half, I kind of woke him up and then was reading and when I went downstairs, he was gone.
The reasoning behind this is that Keaton left his friend at the wrong airport on the wrong day. Nathan's flight is tomorrow at 6AM, not at O'Hare.
My brother and his friends are kind of idiots.
Oh yeah, and Piera I guess is coming home... later... whatever...

You know those sweet old-school bowls with the built-in straws? I'm pretty sure we all used them. they're awesome. anyways, this morning I used one and decided those kinds of bowls are the most dignified way to eat cereal. just because. the bowl makes the cereal into edible dignity. then you just slurp up the rest of the dignity, liquefied, through the dignified stiff plastic straw. it's rockin. my bowl of frosted flakes was like... whoa. pretty amazing.

er... yeah. anyways. that's all for today, most likely. unless I am struck by sudden inspiration. which I doubt will happen.

picture redo

2008-05-05T18:36:00.000-07:00

one of my friends really liked one of the pictures i took. since it looks like it should be old (the street actually looks like it came out of the 50's) she wanted to try something with it, and so she did and she sent it to me.

before:
after:

isn't it HAWT? I love it.

my chuck taylors

2008-05-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

so, I have three pairs of chucks, and it was like, 2 in the morning... I was bored. so I took some haaawwt pictures.

one of my favorites ^

and this

and this one

and those last three... not sure why, but they're some of the favorites out of the favorites.

Pictures

2008-05-05T16:36:00.000-07:00

these are some of the pictures I took over the past week--the first two sun pictures were on the way home from Indiana, and then the rest were just around town. I get really good pictures of the sun from my bedroom window or from our front door, but there are a lot of them, so whatever.

these first two, in real life, were completely beautiful, but my camera didn't quite catch that.

this is my hawt green hat. it only looks brown cause it's in sepia...

the dried roses in my room

a few people have told me they really like this one

it was really misty... really cool.

yeah. she's walking with a garbage can.

fail.

so those are those. and that is that. and now... i have to eat my chunks.

Cinco De Mayo

2008-05-05T14:53:00.000-07:00

hey! it's Cinco De Mayo, and I just realized it! sweet. have a happy Cinco De Mayo.

Piera got home on Saturday from college, which is awesome. her crap fills half the room... like you can't walk in that half of the room. but whatever. she's here. actually, right now she's off with her friend... already...

and I think I'll load pictures today... I have the ones from Indiana, but I also took some other fun ones over the past week. So I've got to look through them now... I'll post them separately, though. cause I can.

Here are some of the Indiana ones... I took a hundred-some of them, but these are most of my favorites.

I really like this one ^

typo! seriously. :O

this house had bars on the windows and the paint was chipping and stuff... Alexa said it made her think of an insane asylum.

there were a lot of tulips. they were really pretty colors, but I liked these ones...

I like this one too

from a different perspective

there was a pretty little garden of daffodils and then this random pink tulip. I loved it.

I loved this tree

yay. I love this one.

Alexa called this one 'The Writer'. I only see the trollz in the background.

we made brownie pizza--dark chocolate brownies, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, marshmallows, cut up snickers, cut up reeses, and chocolate chips.

this was the only decent picture of us, pretty much.

so that's that. now since it's pretty outside, I think I'm going out there... au revoir.

Home

2008-05-01T13:48:00.000-07:00

I'm home. I've been home since Sunday evening, but we're just going to get over that little fact.

the retreat was really fun, and so was being at Alexa's. we went for a few walks, and I took a few really cool pictures, but right now it's not working when I try to add them on the computer... so I'll have to later. anyways, I had a good week.

anyways, it's May today. right now it's 63°, but earlier this morning it was only 43° or so. last night around midnight, it was 36°. seriously. it's May. all this week, too, it's only supposed to be in the 50's, but right now they're saying we're supposed to have 'scattered T-storms'... and guess what? we're definitely not. so I don't know. they had better be lying about the temperatures, too.

Gone

2008-04-18T13:24:00.000-07:00

okay, so this weekend I'm going to a Higher Things retreat in Beloit. that should be fun, but there's not much to say about it. you spend 1 1/2 days in a church, learning new things and going to church pretty much every hour on the hour or something. it's like practice to become a nun. but it's still fun, because fun people are going and also God is just a fun guy, so it'll be all good.

then on Saturday night, after that thing is finished, my mom is driving me down to Piera's college (again!) and I'll sleep over there. then on Sunday, my friend Alexa who lives in Indiana will come pick me up and I'll spend a week at her house.

which will be fun. I'm pretty ecstatic, I'm not gonna lie. I also went last October for her birthday, and I saw her the August before that too. she's pretty great. mostly we will write. and visit the sweet Japanese garden down the road from her house.

anyways, au revoir for now. maybe I'll post pictures when I get back. or maybe I'll disappear forever and the only thing that you'll remember is that I perished in Indiana, which I'm sure is pretty easy to do. I could get lost in a corn maze, or whatever.

a bike ride

2008-04-16T21:53:00.000-07:00

yesterday I went for a bike ride, when the weather was only slightly less gorgeous as it is today. but I took pictures yesterday... so, yeah. here are some of my favorites:

I love these steps. mostly because they're lopsided.

I took this picture while I was on my bike... which is why it's crooked. but I kind of like it this way.

I took a lot like this... sun pictures are my favorite :)

Keaton said this was cool and I should put it on here. so I did.

this is pretty much my favorite picture.

yes, I was standing ON the railroad tracks :O

I was pretty much sitting on the tracks for this one, and I had this psycho nervous worry that a crazy out-of-control train was gonna come and plow me to pieces.

anyways, those are those. I have about a billion more, but that would take forever and a lot of them are repetitive, because I wanted to get them just right.

today, it was even more gorgeous. it was about in the seventies, and cloudless, and kinda windy. Temish and I played soccer, and then he killed Storm Troopers across the street while I sat in our front yard and read. it was pretty much a great day.

I love days like today. God is the best.

Pippin: His Life and Times

2008-04-16T11:13:00.001-07:00

so last weekend i went down to see Pippin: His Life and Times. that's the musical Piera was in. it was about Charlemagne's son, and would have been rated pg-13. Piera was only in the chorus-y type thing... didn't I mention that before?

It was weird, mostly. I'm not suer if I even liked it. Pippin was this guy who wanted to find something to do with his life, and he tried being a warrior or and artist or a scholar and even king but then finally he just ended up with this chick, and her son (from her previous marriage) went and joined the Players, who were like narrating the show. There was the Lead Player (SparklyMan) and the Assistant Lead Player (SparkleLady) and then the rest of the Players. they were the chorus, so that was Piera.

I don't really know how to explain it more in detail, but I took some pictures.

le programme

Pippin: His Life and Times

from left to right: Lewis, Pippin, Charlemagne, Fastrada the wicked stepmom

praying before battle, which was cool

Piera was ready to cut out your heart

Gramma Berthe--she smoked a cigar

Pippin's brief sojourn as king. i have to say he sucked at it

Catherine--that was Pippin's chick

this the magic box that the Lead Player almost put Pippin in, so he could set it on fire or something as the finale
finally Theo, Catherine's son, went off to join the Lead Player so he could do that

what a life

Anyways, that was that. now since it's such a positively gorgeous day, I have to go outside.

I WIsh We All Could Win

2008-04-16T10:40:00.001-07:00

okay, so the other day I found this random CD on my dresser, and I was listening to it and I heard this song, which I pretty much love. it's by the Afters.

Someday
Ready or not the years are blurring
Running away the mind is turning
Skip to the end to find the meaning
Thoughts are fading, yet I wonder still
Like it or not your eyes are open
Playing around, the circles going
Face of a child, your mind is old
The clock ran down before I could begin

~Chorus~
I wish we all could win
I wish we all could smile
I wish we all could make our mothers proud

Want it or not you can't just leave it
Throw it away, I can't believe it
Walking for days, I know you'll see that
Times are changing, soon we'll be the same

~Chorus~
I wish we all could win
I wish we all could smile
I wish we all could make our mothers proud

~Bridge~
Someday, Someday, Someday
You'll come around
Someday, Someday, Someday
Your time will come
There's nothing more that I can do
I know we all can make through
I hope that someday you will see

~Chorus~
I wish we all could win
I wish we all could smile
I wish we all could make our mothers proud

~Bridge~
Someday, Someday, Someday
You'll come around
Someday, Someday, Someday
Your time will come
There's nothing more that I can do
I know we all can make through
I hope that someday you will see

Cooper

2008-04-14T20:50:00.001-07:00

alrighty, so last week Izzi and Teia and Kellen got a new little brother, Cooper. and he was born with Down Syndrome. so if y'all could just please pray for Cooper, and the 3 big kids, and their mom Kim, then that would be pretty much fantastic.

The Importance of Being Earnest

2008-04-12T00:56:00.000-07:00

weeeeell, tonight I went to see the Importance of Being Earnest. it's a play about 4 individuals, two of which are girls and two of which are not named Ernest.

ok. so there is Jack Worthing, lost, in a handbag at age 1 in Victoria Station. there is Algernon Moncrieff, who eats when he is feeling particularly strongly about something and so nearly is always stuffing his face. Gwendolyn Bracknell and Cecily Cardew both think rather highly of themselves, both record every important aspect of their lives in their handy-dandy notebooks--erm, diaries--and are both engaged to a man named Ernest Worthing, who really doesn't exist.

the problem here is that Jack Worthing made up a brother Ernest, so he could leave the country for town and have a good time. he's told Cecily, his ward, how wicked Ernest his, and consequently she's fallen in love with him. in town, however, Jack is Ernest, and that is how he met Algernon and Gwendolyn, who are cousins. he tells Algernon he isn't be keeps up the facade for the sake of others involved, namely Gwendolyn.

Gwendolyn and Jack fall in love, and when he proposes, Gwendolyn's rather imposing barge of a mother refuses point blank, on the grounds that Jack was 'born and bred in a handbag!.' after she's left the room, they arrange for Gwendoyln to come visit Jack at his country home, where Cecily lives.

Algernon overhears the address, and being the terrible flirt he is, hurries right over to Jack's country house, where he is informed by Cecily that they are already engaged. he has no problems with this. except there is one, and that is that he calls himself Jack's brother, Ernest.

so when Jack comes home to pronounce Ernest dead (the reasoning is too long to explain, by which i mean i've forgotten) and Cecily tells him Ernest is actually in the parlor or whatever. Jack gets really angry at Algernon, because he didn't want him to come woo Cecily, who was, in fact, already wooed.

oh yeah, Gwendolyn and Cecily both have this thing for men by the name of 'Ernest.' they think it is musical, and produces vibrations. which is why they are both so infatuated with Ernest Worthing who, by the way, still doesn't exist.

Gwendolyn shows up and Cecily greets her. after joyously pronouncing that she has just been REALLY proposed to (instead of in her mind like before) by Ernest Worthing, Gwendolyn tells Cecily that she must be mistaken because Ernest proposed to HER the day before. they have a little cat fight, then Algernon and Jack come in and the girls find out they have been tricked, and there is no Ernest Worthing. they leave, and Algy and Jack have it out over a snack of tea and muffins.

so they go in and make up, and then just as they are hugging, the quite large and frightening Lady Augusta Bracknell breezes into the room and sets them all straight. the end.

aha, just kidding. she won't allow Gwendolyn to marry Jack, who was found in a handbag at a train station, and she won't allow Algernon to marry Cecily because she just won't. then she finds out Cecily is rich and immediately realizes how pretty the girl is.

let me explain this handbag thing. Lady Bracknell's sister had a baby, who she left in the care of a nanny, Miss Prism (a semi-minor character, but semi only because of this). Miss Prism wrote a novel, and accidentally put it in the baby carriage, and put the baby in the handbag. she accidentally left it at the train station, where it was found by Thomas Cardew, Cecily's grandfather. or father. whatever. that's not important. Jack was brought up by Mr. Cardew and then put in charge of Cecily.

so he won't let Algy marry Cecily until he can marry Gwendolyn, but first Lady Bracknell has to find out who he is. Miss Prism just happens to be coming through and between her and Aunt Augusta (she's Algy's aunt) they explain what must have happened. so Jack and Algernon are brothers, and Aunt Augusta is Jack's aunt too. poor Jack.

Gwendolyn however, hates the name Jack and is just curious what his real Christian name is. so he rips out the military records he just happened to have on hand (his father was a general) and tells her that it was, in fact, Ernest. they're all pretty ecstatic, until Lady Bracknell checks the book and tells him it actually wasn't and he made that up.

to which he replies, most wittily, that he has learned the vital Importance of Being Ernest.

~

there. that's what I saw, and now you don't ever have to bother to see it. :) i rather loved it, though. Brennick was a positively smashing butler (haha). he was extremely melancholy and did a wonderful job. he even did the whole British accent thing.

it was a good. so if you ever hear about real people putting it on, then you should go watch. it'll probably be more eloquent than my version :D

weekends

2008-04-09T20:55:00.000-07:00

so, a lot's going on this weekend. on Friday and Saturday, Brennick's in a play--The Importance of Being Earnest. he's the butler. but oh well. he's still in it. so I'm going to that. my mom is costuming it too, which is exciting, but a little hectic at home... :P

then on Saturday, Izzi and Teia (EW ... just kidding. kind of. :P) and i are going down to see Piera's musical... which will be cool... i'm excited because we're going to sleep over too :) it'll be really fun. her musical is Pippin, but i don't actually know what that's about. does anyone else? i think some kind of Roman thing..? but i don't know for sure. oh well. i'll have to get over that.

yep. and last weekend, the weather was SO GORGEOUS, don't you think? i was completely ecstatic. my friend Meghan came over (she rocks) and we went down to the park, and took about a billion pictures and saw an alligator in the river.

yeah. an alligator.

and then on Sunday, me and my family went to Greg's and we saw Zoe... she's so cute and little and I love her. my grandparents, Omi and Grandpa du, and my Aunt Renee and her family were there, and my Uncle Dreas (hot dog!). and really good cookies. it was fun.

anyways, that's all for now, because i sort of lost my train of thought and forgot what else i was going to say.

boil your own spam!

2008-04-02T19:59:00.000-07:00

so, we just finished watching The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's--a Veggietales movie. it's like the prodigal son--Darby is the son of a dental floss farmer, and he wants to go to The Wizard of Ha's amusement park. so he leaves, with his pet pig Tutu. they get stuck in a trailer during a random tornado and land in Munchieland. Splenda the beautiful round blue fairy helps Darby by asking Yellow McToad, who coincidentally is yellow toad, to lead him to the Wizard of Ha's--you know, follow Yellow McToad.

so Darby meets the scarecrow, the tin man (who asks for his oil can, but the scarecrow thinks he asks them to boil his spam), and the lion (the song there is 'Ohioans, fifers, and mares--oh my!'). the witch is Chester the gourd, who is later summoned home by his mom and dad, who ask him, 'why ah ya friends all dressed up as eval menions?' (onions with brooms). the wizard is just Archibald dressed up a long purple coat.

so finally Darby realizes he made a big mistake in leaving and then spending all his money at The Wizard of Ha's amusement park. so he goes home to ask his dad, Farmer McGill, to hire him as a farm hand, but his dad is so happy to see him he tells the farm hands to get cake, ice cream, and one of those bouncy castle things. so it all ends up well, and it explains the story of the prodigal son way better than i just did.

anyways, it's hilarious and really good. you should watch it.

better weather

2008-04-01T20:46:00.001-07:00

this is the view from my bedroom window:

okay okay, it's not always that epic and beautiful. usually it's pretty ugly, with a warehouse and a small empty yard and train tracks. but i just caught it at the right time ;P

it's going to be nicer out this week. im happy. today was pretty sucky and cold, but i think it'll be the last day like that this week. hopefully yahoo weather isn't lying like they did about the snow showers... i would probably throw something at the wall. it's supposed to be in the 40's all week, and then stay that way when it rains next week. yay! i love rain :)

rain

2008-03-31T12:56:00.000-07:00

no... i didn't take this picture. sadly, i left my camera at my friend's house yesterday... sad pandas.

but last night it started raining!! i didn't realize it for awhile, but when i did, i went and stood outside of our house for a minute or two. then once i was inside again, there was thunder and a little bit of lightning. i love rain. ^_^

...
OH NOES!!!!!!!!!
i just checked the weather on yahoo.com and it says rain to snow, then snow showers tomorrow! :(
::crying::

Izzi's blog!

2008-03-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

yay izzi has a blog now

www.izzicb.blogspot.com

it's pretty great. she's my bestest person.

can opener

2008-03-27T15:18:00.000-07:00

i like this picture...

Batiansila blog

2008-03-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

my uncle's blog:

http://batiansila.blogspot.com/

you should go there.

little miracle

2008-03-26T18:32:00.000-07:00

today my mom and i were driving and we saw this rainbow. most of it was covered in clouds, and the colors were pretty faint too.

i don't know why, but to me it just felt like some sort of mini miracle. i thought it was extremely pretty. usually i'm just like, 'oh, a rainbow, whatever,' but today i just thought it was really... specialer. it was kind of cool, but different. i didnt really know why i thought it was so great.

i think i figured it out, though. this Zoe thing is... crappy, to put it mildly. everyone is crappy. (again it's put mildly. very.) but then i saw something normal and perfect and unexpected and beautiful and i felt a little blessed that i got to see it.

it may not seem like it, especially not now (at least for me) but we are blessed. we just take it all for granted and that sucks. we need to... not do that.

and we also need to pray. about everything and all the time.

~praying for Zoe~

Zoe Elizabeth

2008-03-26T18:07:00.000-07:00

my cousin Zoe Elizabeth was born last Saturday, on the 22nd. we knew she had a heart defect, but when she was born we found out it was worse than we thought. she stopped breathing twice after she was born and had to stay in the hospital for another two weeks or so.

then yesterday the doctors told my aunt and uncle that Zoe has trisomy 18 . she has an extra chromosome, and 30% of children who have this don't live past their 1st month, and 70% don't live past their 6th. the ones who do live on have severe brain disease.

please pray for her. please pray, a lot.

With Hope
Steven Curtis Chapman

This is not at all how
We thought it was supposed to be
We had so many plans for you
We had so many dreams
And now you've gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain
The pain of losing you, but ...

We can cry with hope
We can say goodbye with hope
'Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh no
And we can grieve with hope
'Cause we believe with hope
(There's a place by God's grace)
There's a place where we'll see your face again
We'll see your face again

And never have I known
Anything so hard to understand
And never have I questioned more
The wisdom of God's plan
But through the cloud of tears
I see the Father's smile and say well done
And I imagine you
Where you wanted most to be
Seeing all your dreams come true
'Cause now you're home
And now you're free, and ...

We have this hope as an anchor
'Cause we believe that everything
God promised us is true, so ...

So we can cry with hope
And say goodbye with hope

We wait with hope
And we ache with hope
We hold on with hope
We let go with hope

google search

2008-03-24T20:58:00.000-07:00

first, go to google and type in 'french military victories' then click 'i'm feeling lucky'.

heehee.

then go here:

http://clients.arranschlosberg.com/chuck/index.htm?query

that reminds me of this t-shirt i saw--chuck norris roundhouse-kicking a chessboard and a caption that says 'CHUCKMATE--YOU LOSE'

xD

picture

2008-03-24T19:51:00.001-07:00

i pretty much love this picture. i took it at my grandparents, around christmas. isn't it pretty?

heyyyy ::flips hair::

2008-03-24T18:45:00.000-07:00

yes'm, i started over. no more super-boring, diary-like posts for me!

anyways. you know what my favorite Disney movie is? probably Beauty and the Beast. i'm watching it right now and i kind of love it. the whole movie is just awesome. you should watch it--it's pretty much fantabulous.

belle has always been my favorite princess. she's just pretty awesome all the time. she reads and has

and gaston is such an idiot. 'how can you read this? it hasn't got any pictures!'
and lefou, that little twerp with the tomato nose, is possibly the most annoying character ever. seriously. he needs to shut up.

laughter&hiccups

midnight photography

what happened last time?

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Bastille Day!

there and back again

word of the day

words (!) of the day

new word WIN.

dilemma solving WIN

in the depths of boredom...

unrelated 4

salmon fishing--2009

word of the day.

phrase win

win.

now in miniature!

haha.

Michael Jackson

flowers!

the Ballad of Keith the Strawberry

blogging fail.

lo aburre me.

face

photography

superbowl pictures

superbowl MONDAY

superbowl sunday

*BOOM* I can SEE!!

ta-da

oh sketch.

BONE BRUISE

prayer request

muffin fail

STRUGGLE

forget WallyWorld

oh, WallyWorld, how I love thee

A Quick Overview of August

er, hi...

baseboards and Batman and Brennick, oh my!

Robbie Seay Band Concert

fishing

more pics

pictures! (finally)

The Fourth of July

pictures

party woo

the beauty by the bluff

Octopi

a few random things

summer picture

8-3, Fabio's lead

summer reading

People, among other things

picture redo

my chuck taylors

Pictures

Cinco De Mayo

Home

Gone

a bike ride

Pippin: His Life and Times

I WIsh We All Could Win

Cooper

The Importance of Being Earnest

weekends

boil your own spam!

better weather

rain

Izzi's blog!

can opener

Batiansila blog

little miracle

Zoe Elizabeth

google search

picture

heyyyy ::flips hair::

BOOM I can SEE!!