Again time for an update (and it's summer break so I have time, woot!)

School's been going great! Last term was pretty challenging, though. My procrastination was the reason for that haha! But I made it through with good grades! I lost my iPod at school though. Maaan! That really stinks! After losing my iPod, I went for a while without listening or reading the Bible, which stinks even worse than losing the iPod actually. But now I'm using the One Year Bible again. My cats are growing big! Well, they're big in body, but not old in playfulness. Ha! They aren't even a year old yet! But man, do they love me or what!
The biggest things going on this summer are the VBS at our church and the missions trip to Mexico. In fact, VBS ends on the 28th, and I'm leaving for Mexico the 30th! It's going to be a big week! Until then, my schedule has been full of meetings and fundraisers in preparation for both. This has definitely been the busiest summer yet! I'm starting a new blog to write all about the missions trip for this year. Check it out! http://trip2mexico08.blogspot.com/ is the link. Woot!

B i g . SUPER. looooooooonnnnnnngggggg. update.

So these past few weeks have been mostly great. I have some time-management things to work out, but other than that it's been great. Where to begin?

I got an iPod the week before Thanksgiving, and it's been awesome! The highlights of it all have been listening to the Bible while driving to school and whenever else I drive for more than a minute and a half, and compiling a super cool playlist from my CD's that has all of my favorite songs on it! Well, actually I really need to fix the playlist again and turn it into two playlists. I seriously need a playlist for my favorite worship songs, and one for my favorite listen to songs. (All my songs are Christian, but some of them are just kinda for listening purposes.) It's been awesome.

The kittens are getting bigger, and older. They love to play most of the time. We have been letting them out more during the day because they've finally been really good at like litterbox stops etc. Their personalities have become waaay more noticeable. Siren is more vocal than Catapultanian by quite a bit. He also likes to be held and petted way more than Catapultanian. Actually they enjoy it equally, just Siren likes it for longer periods of time than Catapultanian. Cat only likes lubins when it's nap time, and the only time Siren doesn't like it is when he's extremely playful. I bought some higher quality baby kitty food a while back, and I've been noticing that Catapultanian has nice smooth furr now. It may be my imagination, but Siren may be filling out more. His backbone still sticks out a little. He's actually quite fine, the lack of bulk in him is probably just the way he is.

School has been going great! I signed up for more classes for the winter term, four total to be exact. I'll be taking math, art, music, and science. I also finally decided to major in Graphic Design. That'll be lots of fun for me because I'm kind of designey.

Thanksgiving was great this year! Our whole (well, not really WHOLE family, but more than usual) was able to come because we decided to do it at our church instead of any house, because even small portions of our family don't fit in any of our houses anymore. In fact, we had somewhere between 30 and 40 people come! Well, at least half of them were kids, but that's still quite impressive! I helped decorate. That was my job... well, besides helping Mom cook her share of food.

I bought some more toy horses. Ha! When, oh, when will I stop buying horses! Well, they were only like $1.70 each, and I bought two, and they're like a set of 5 horses each... mini horses, like very nearly the smallest in the world! But they were so cute, and they were breeds that I pretty much always wanted! But still, I find it funny. I have like this huge toy horse collection of all sizes. Now, I do, amazingly enough, know someone who probably still has more horses than I do. And I know OF some people with larger collections, mostly those who have their own website devoted to a brand of horses which they collect. Ha! Those guys are nuts... but I guess I'm calling myself a nut, too. Sweeto neato!

A couple weeks ago I had a debate with a feminist/atheist... was really weird.

I went to the Super Bowl a few weeks ago. You might say, "Wait, isn't that in (whenever the football Super Bowl is goes here)?" (Sorry, not much of a football fan myself) My answer to you is, "Ah, but I'm not referring to the football Super Bowl, but the Word of Life Super Bowl." A bunch of youth from around the state came to Portland where we all watched a basketball game, in which the Blazers ACTUALLY WON, amazingly enough. Wooot the game was exiting! I actually discovered I can scream! Imagine that! Then we all participated in a youth rally at the stadium after the game. After the rally, we went roller skating at Oaks Park, then on to bowling. It was a twelve hour event from 6pm on Friday to 6am on Saturday. Upon my arrival home, I totally crashed! Then I had two birthday parties later on that Saturday! It was awesome, but I really had a sore throat for a while after that. I got a totally cool hat, and got to participate in the games at the youth rally! It was awesome!

I get to play the piano for a tea party tomorrow. Um, I haven't really practiced the Christmas songs for long at all... only a couple days. And we're going to sing along to them. Yikes! Actually all this week I totally slacked in my responsibilities. Fun, huh? I got to laze around all day! NOT FUN, actually. Despite the easiness of lazing around, I felt horrible. Well, whatever, it's in the past, and now I get to not do that again. :D So after I finish this blog, I'll be practicing piano some more. Oh, speaking of piano, Dad and I went to the church to record some of the songs I wrote on the piano. It was cool! But I'm afraid we may have wrecked the speaker. Rats! Well, it could possibly not have been my fault. Lol!

Well, I had better get back to practicing the piano pieces I'll be playing tomorrow. TTYL

P.S. My cousin's son is sooooo cute! He totally recites Scripture memory verses and is only 2! Check it out! brianandtanya.blogspot.com

Everybody loves homework!

:-D

You think I'm sarcastic sometimes??? NEVER! :-P
Actually homework isn't that bad... but nasty math problems are. We had some really bad ones today that got everybody confused. Ah well. Off to homework I go!

I have had the weirdest days!

Yesterday and today were quite weird. Yesterday I woke up like an hour before my alarm clock. I think the garbage truck woke me up,
and for some odd reason, every time the garbage truck wakes me up, I feel happy. I have no idea why that is. But I woke up happy, and didn't really go back to sleep for that whole hour - well, almost... it was like ten minutes less than hour. After math class, a friend and I (I have a friend from math class, which is nice because we work on homework together after math class) did our homework like usual. I was keeping track of the time with my new watch sitting on the table like a clock. For some odd reason, I got confused and thought it was eleven o'clock when it was really ten o'clock. So at noon, my friend and I left for our next classes. I had plenty of time because I headed for class like fifteen minutes early. I had my brand new rolly backpack and soda pop in hand and just waltzed right into the room. The teacher was already in the middle of his lecture, which I thought was strange because I was early. I was in the middle of making my way to my seat when I noticed someone else was in my seat. Not only that, but I didn't recognize her. I started looking around the room, and my first thought was that there were either new people there today, or they switched the morning and afternoon class without my knowledge! I didn't recognize anyone! Then I saw the clock... "Ah," I said, and it really sounded quite like Captain Jack Sparrow. It wasn't even eleven o'clock yet! Ha! So I walked back out and sat back down in that other room to continue working on my homework. It was actually quite embarrasing, but I tried to shake it off and continue working on my homework. Actually, I ended up being quite glad I had gone to class way early because when I got back I noticed that I had left my leather jacket on the chair! eeeeek!

Then I was just minding my own business working on my homework when some random guy came up to me and asked if he could ask me a math question! Uh... sure? I don't know if it was because he saw my math book or overheard my friend and I or what. My friend and I talk while working on homework because sometimes she gets confused, and I make careless mistakes quite often. I answered his question, and he went back to his seat. I have never had that happen to me before! Well, actually I haven't had either of those happen to me before!

Later on yesterday I went to youthgroup. But it's not as simple as it sounds. See, it was at a new place this week, one I haven't been to before. Before leaving, I looked it up on a map, but the truth about the online map I use is that the arrow points to the intersection, not the building. But I thought, "Hey, I'll find it easily! I know what intersection it's at, and I'll just look for a bunch of cars when I get there! So I hopped in my car, and drove... but couldn't find the place at all! So finally I parked the car and called Mom, who told me to call Gary, who's answering machine told me to call Mom, who told me to call Courtney, who gave the phone to Rashell, who gave the fone to Micheal, who directed me across the street from where I had parked to call Mom!

Then on the way home I couldn't find the bridge for nothing! I went all around the backroads! Wooot! Good opportunity to work on my directional orientation! I drove around for somewhere between fifteen minutes and a half an hour.

Today I got up and got all ready to go to my piano lesson. I went outside and... there was ice on all the windows! I was like "Oh, no! I'm gonna be late!!" I went in and reported the icey windows to Mom... who told me my piano lesson wasn't for another half hour, anyway! So I got the car all ready, and poured warm water on the windows, and started the car to let it warm up... and I still had fifteen minutes! So I just drove to the school. My piano teacher ended up being fifteen minutes late! Ha!

What's even funnier is that I totally forgot to bring her a check! I drove home, got a check from Mom and instructions to go shopping for eggs (I added cereal to the list because I ate the last of it this morning). I drove back to the school, delivered the check, and drove back to the store. The store has been doing a complete remodel these days, and today they are working some more on the refridgerators, including the one that holds milk, and the rack that holds the eggs. I went on a hunt for eggs and milk that took a while. I looked for the chieper prices, grabbed the chiepest milk, walked down a few aisles, grabbed some cereal, payed, and drove all the way home.... Then I remembered I had gone to get eggs, not milk! Rats! I hopped back in the car, drove back to the store, went looking for the eggs, payed, and drove back home.

Phew! What a weird set of happenings! Um, I guess that's that.

For the first time today....

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I DROVE by MYSELF to school today!!!!
Wooot! Yesterday Mom and I went waaaaaaaaaaaaay up to Astoria to have me take my test, and I passed! Then I had to take a safe driving test, and voilla! I have a license!!!

Woooot shopping!

Ok, so I don't shop very often. Yesterday was a TOTAL BLAST, though!!!!!! After school, Mom and I went to like six different stores just shopping! I had birthday money from stuff we returned and really wanted to pick the right things. We ended up going to Micheals craft, Target, Old Navy, Ross, Fred Meyer, and Walmart! Talk about FUN!!! I thought it was so funny how the stores sold totally different styles of clothing. I got a totally sweet jacket, shoes, purse, and headband! I'm like so exited!

Our kitchen has had a complete makeover! Thursday Mom and I set to work. We painted the whole kitchen a really pretty blue! And we had lots of stuff on top of the cupboards, but now there's fewer things and it's a lot prettier! It was hard work, though, and isn't done yet. It's a multi-day project, you know! Dad's working on finishing the wallpaper now. It looks great!

Today has been interesting so far... I gave the kittens a bath to try to cut down the flea population. It worked some, but not much. Hopefully we can give them some flea medicine like on Monday. I don't know. We'll see. The other large things on my list of to-do's today are homework and cleaning my room. So why am I blogging??? Ha! Back to work.....

Actually...

So now Dad IS pastor according to the legal interpretation of our church's constitution.