Wednesday, September 8, 2010

my Wordle World

Wordle: ultraviolet

Saturday, June 12, 2010

I have an announcement to make!

As of yesterday, I AM A SENIOR!!!!!! No more math, and no more honors courses for me!!! Just English and Spanish 3 and 3 science courses and a few required electives... I'm taking it easy my senior year!
And, though it's hard to believe that a whole year went so fast, PVYBC starts day after tomorrow! Summer camp will basically be my vacation since I am working again for most of the summer. So far, in one day I have earned almost $40. And earned some deeply sore leg muscles picking all those strawberries.
I went to bed last afternoon since I was so pooped and I woke up early. So now I think I will go do something useful, like try to curl my hair and otherwise get ready for campmeeting.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Listlessness

Okay, I know this is an ungodly hour to be awake and blogging, but I need to be held accountable for something. I was forced to take a vacation (yes, I have gotten a few chuckles out of that one) and made to go see my loving grandparents! I splashed my feet, and, thanks to an obliging wave, my shorts, in Lake Erie at Presque Isle. And I got to meet my pen pals from NY who are stuffed with AWESOMENESS!!! Anyway, now I am behind in school, and I am attempting to get caught up. Seeing as there is only like, one month of school left, I am not going to give up yet! But there are so many distractions which are, of course, distracting me from what is important right now, which is completing my school and getting good enough grades to go to college. I find that when I make lists, I tend to finish almost as much as I have planned for the day. So I have made a list, and hope to finish everything on it. Basically, my list says:
1. School (Algebra 2 assignments)
2. School (Anatomy assignments)
3. School (Technology assignments)
4. School (Spanish assignments)
5. School (government assignments)
5 1/2. (more government assignments)
6. School (American Literature Assignments)

P.S. You don't want to know the specifics because they are the boring subject matter I shall be slaving over tomorrow morning through midnight.

Summer, I need you so very much right now. I feel too tense.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

My Awesome Citadel made of snow!

I singlehandedly crafted this lovely snowfort! It was a bunch of fun and good exercise... I think everyone should take some time to enjoy the snow!















And there is Alyssa who kindly took the photos. Thanks!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

NUTS

I had this really great post idea and now it is just - GONE! I feel so Dory-like. oh there's my memory stick. The Eggplant parmesan is cooking. I am going to have potatoes and cheese. sorry for all the food references but I haven't eaten yet today and am hungrified!
Well I went out in the woods today while I was waiting for my moody rabbit to decide to hop out of her cage. Sometimes she wants to come out and will practically hop into my arms, but sometimes she decides to play hard-to-get. I can't drag her out because she is ten pounds, and her toes get stuck in the wires if i try and sometimes if she REALLY doesn't want to come out, she will lunge and growl at me. Once I get her out she is usually sweet as pie and snuggly as a fuzzy sausage but it can take some patience to coax her. So today I opened up her cage but she wouldn't come out initially so I decided to take a little walk while waiting for her. It was sunny and rather warm, warm enough to wear a light bright pink jacket and not get frozen. This was fortunate because it is deer hunting season, and if there did happen to be any hunters in our woods, they would have to be pretty dumb to mistake a girl in a bright pink jacket for a deer, so I felt pretty safe. The ground was soggy and wet but I managed to not get my socks wet by tightrope walking on logs over puddles and soon I had arrived at the gushing creek. It was snowing as lightly as it can snow and still be noticable, like one snowflake per square yard each second. I actually saw a flock of 10-20 robins, despite certain people telling me they don't travel in flocks, and maybe they don't, but I definitely saw a bunch of robins. Anyway, I went back to Missy's cage and just as I had predicted, she was out and I quickly scooped her up. I am not quite the nature bug i used to be but i still enjoy short little treks out in nature.

Monday, January 25, 2010

High Horse's Courting

I just read this hilarious story from my English book called, "High Horse's Courting". It made me laugh out loud!!!! I have paraphrased it for your reading enjoyment, but the story in its entirety is even funnier! It's an authentic Native American tale about an Indian boy named High horse who wants to marry this beautiful Indian girl. He talks to the girl and she says that she likes him maybe a little. The Indians would trade horses for their wives, but High Horse only had two horses and her father won't let him have his daughter for only two horses and said for him to quit talking foolishness like that. High Horse's friend offers to let him borrow two more horses, but the father won't let him have his daughter for four horses either. High Horse asks the girl to run away with him, but she says she wants to be bought like a proper wife. So High Horse felt really sick and he felt like he was going to die. His friend Red Deer notices and says he has a plan: they will steal the girl and High Horse and the girl will ride away together and be happy for the rest of their lives. Red Deer waits outside while High Horse sneaks into her teepee after he is sure her and her parents are asleep, but finds that her parents have tied her in bed with leather thongs in case someone tried to steal her, and they thought she might even want to be stolen. So he has to cut the leather cords away with his knife while she is sleeping, and each one makes a loud POP. But she still doesn't wake up. When he is down to the cords at her thighs, he is really nervous and his knife slips and pokes her, which in turn makes her wake up yelling, which wakes up her parents and they start yelling, and her father gets some other men and they go and chase High Horse and Red Deer, who run away like antelopes, but no one is sure who they were because it was so dark. So High Horse is feeling sicker than ever and Red Deer plans another way for them to steal her. He tells High Horse to strip and then he paints him white with black stripes until High Horse looks so terrible that Red Deer says he is almost scared. Red Deer tells him that this time, if he is caught again trying to steal the girl, the village will think he is a bad Spirit and would be afraid to chase him. So High Horse sneaks into the teepee again and Red Deer waits outside while he cuts the cords. It made a lot of noise and the girl started moving around in her sleep and then her mother wakes up. "Suddenly the old woman awoke and said to her old man: 'Old Man, wake up! There is somebody in the teepee!' But the old man was sleepy and didn't want to be bothered. He said: 'Of course there is somebody in the teepee. Go to sleep and don't bother me.' Then he snored some more." (LOL) But this really scared High Horse so he lay still so they wouldn't see him and then he got so tired he fell asleep. Next thing he knew, it was morning and the girl was screaming and her parents were yelling about a strange animal in the teepee and he almost knocked the teepee down getting out! Apparently his friend was wrong about the village being scared to chase him because the whole village chased after him with guns and bows and tomahawks but he ran and hid in a hollow tree and nobody found him. By then the village was creeped out and decided to move out quickly. So they moved and left High Horse behind in the hollow tree. The whole time, his friend Red Deer knew what was happening of course but had to pretend to be as surprised and scared as everybody else. He watched where High Horse ran off to and after the camp moved he went and found High Horse. High Horse wasfeeling so ashamed and sick he said he would go on the war-path all alone and he didn't care what happened to him. But Red Deer said he wouldn't let him do that, and went on the war-path with him. They went and stole a herd of about a hundred horses from a Crow tribe and drove them in front of the girl's teepee. High Horse yelled to the father asking if he thought maybe that was enough horses for his girl (I can just feel the sarcasm...) The old man told him he didn't want the horses, he wanted "a son who was a real man and good for something. So High Horse got his girl after all, and I think he deserved her."

Friday, January 15, 2010

Tiddlywinks!!!

Okay I was just exercising so I feel really happy right now cuz of all those whatchamacallems endorphines? that get released when you exercise :D so that is why I may seem a little too perky lol
Thanks all of you who prayed for Tiddlywinks! Tiddles got his teeth clipped a few weeks ago and he is now just as hoppy as ever! He is going to have a operation to have some of those teeth pulled because thankfully, it was inexpensive enough. :)
The last blog post I did was actually on another blog that is for my honors US government course. It's called "Can We Provide Broadband Across PA?" and you can visit it in the slight chance (ha HA) that you are interested. http://palcsbroadband.edublogs.org/

During winter break I attended GYC (Generation of Youth for Christ) in Louisville, Kentucky. The theme was "Unashamed," and we learned all about being unashamed of Christ! I even went on outreach and invited people to sign up for Bible studies. It was an awesome experience and I am sooo glad I got to be there! I am totally going next year when they have it in Maryland!
And I want to shout out that my friend Christina earned her yellow belt in karate today after a grueling test!!! ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡YAY Christina!!!!
I went to the PA Farm Show yesterday. It was fun and stinky and tiring! Some of the best parts were getting to see this girl do stunts on a galloping horse and watching horses play soccer and see Irish dancing. Not to mention free ice cream samples and fried portabella mushrooms and seeing a bunch of animals. I even got a magic scarf! It is purple and blue and green and so it matches like a lot of my clothes lol... it is magic because you can stretch it into being a shawl as well as a scarf. I also saw a lot of rabbits, a few of which looked exactly like my rabbit Hopscotch (one of them was actually distantly related to Hopscotch because he was from the same breeder that we got our mama bunny from and bred by). Hmm I should go get Missy, she would probably lick me. She loves licking me when I am sweaty cuz I guess I taste good and salty then... yuck? whatever :)
I was gonna call this post "tiddlywinks!!!" before I realized I had a lot more to say than just about Tiddlywinks :P