A few things: 1, the 50 theme art challenge I'm doing is now doubling for extra credit in my art class. yay!
2, HALLOWEEN IS COMMING AND I STILL CAN'T THINK OF A COSTIME! I have old costumes in my closet, but I don't really want to re-use them this year. Though that's what I probably will end up doing if I can't think of anything. Also, I can't do anything very complex because I honestly don't have time to spend on a complex costume. I bet I'll end up pulling something together at the last minute. I always seem to be doing that.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
SORRY!
Yeah, yeah, I know. I haven't posted in forever. Not that it matters because I don't really think anyone reads this.
Anyways, this college semester thus far has been very busy. I'm taking four classes so I'm a full time student. yay! I'm taking Sociology, Drawing 1, History of American Freedom, and English 102. So far, history is my favorite class. Why? Because I've got an awesome instructor! If anyone can make history interesting, he can. ^_^ Art is good too. But I seriously dislike my soci instructor and my Eng instructor looks like a football player...
This wasn't a very long update, but I've got to get back to my homework. Ta Ta!
Anyways, this college semester thus far has been very busy. I'm taking four classes so I'm a full time student. yay! I'm taking Sociology, Drawing 1, History of American Freedom, and English 102. So far, history is my favorite class. Why? Because I've got an awesome instructor! If anyone can make history interesting, he can. ^_^ Art is good too. But I seriously dislike my soci instructor and my Eng instructor looks like a football player...
This wasn't a very long update, but I've got to get back to my homework. Ta Ta!
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
quick update
Today is my last day of classes before final exams and the end of collage! until fall that is. YAY!
ok I've been really bad at keeping up with this blog. mostly because no one really reads it so don't feel obligated to do anything. Plus, when you have piles of homework lying on your desk that demand attention, blogging isn't exactly a priority.
It's been raining. A lot. My mom doesn't like it. I don't really have an opinion on the matter. If it rains, it rains. besides, it smells good.
I haven't been writing a lot recently. I need to start doing that again. especially since I have friends that are interested in reading my stuff. I just need to get myself to do it. I'm going to try to work harder on that over the summer possibly.
ok I've been really bad at keeping up with this blog. mostly because no one really reads it so don't feel obligated to do anything. Plus, when you have piles of homework lying on your desk that demand attention, blogging isn't exactly a priority.
It's been raining. A lot. My mom doesn't like it. I don't really have an opinion on the matter. If it rains, it rains. besides, it smells good.
I haven't been writing a lot recently. I need to start doing that again. especially since I have friends that are interested in reading my stuff. I just need to get myself to do it. I'm going to try to work harder on that over the summer possibly.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
MusicMusic
I love spring. The main reason is because it's WARM! compared to winter anyway...
Moving on, I got bored yesterday so I arranged a few songs with my music maker. I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just sort of throwing things together. maybe someday I might sit down and work through all the complicated buttons on my music mixing computer program, but honestly, I don't have enough patience for it.
Moving on, I got bored yesterday so I arranged a few songs with my music maker. I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just sort of throwing things together. maybe someday I might sit down and work through all the complicated buttons on my music mixing computer program, but honestly, I don't have enough patience for it.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tomorrow Will Be a Repeat of Today
I like patterns. When washing dishes I like washing the plates best because they're all the same and they stack nicely next to each other in nice little rows in the drying rack. When folding laundry, I like to fold the towels best because they make neat little stacks. I hate the socks. It's so hard to find matching socks. They must disappear in a black hole or something.
I also hate patterns. Especially when my days are an endless pattern of the same thing over and over. My typical week looks something like this: Monday: Get up, go to collage, sit through long boring classes, go home, eat dinner, do chores, read, do homework, go to bed. Tuesday: Get up, do lots of homework, do chores, read, do more homework, go to bed. Wednesday: Get up, go to collage, sit through long boring classes, go home, eat dinner, do chores, read, do homework, go to bed. Thursday: Get up, do lots of homework, do chores, read, do more homework, go to bed... Do we see the problem here?
These kind of patterns I can't stand and yet I find myself trapped. Living the same basic outline day after day after day after day. It's sooooo dull. I'm sort of reminding myself of that one thing from the Nightmare Inspector: "Tomorrow will be a Repeat of Today." Except, I don't want tomorrow to be a repeat of today.
I can't wait for winter to be over. It's a bit easier to have a little bit more of a variety in one's life when one can actually go outside and do things without freezing to death.
I also hate patterns. Especially when my days are an endless pattern of the same thing over and over. My typical week looks something like this: Monday: Get up, go to collage, sit through long boring classes, go home, eat dinner, do chores, read, do homework, go to bed. Tuesday: Get up, do lots of homework, do chores, read, do more homework, go to bed. Wednesday: Get up, go to collage, sit through long boring classes, go home, eat dinner, do chores, read, do homework, go to bed. Thursday: Get up, do lots of homework, do chores, read, do more homework, go to bed... Do we see the problem here?
These kind of patterns I can't stand and yet I find myself trapped. Living the same basic outline day after day after day after day. It's sooooo dull. I'm sort of reminding myself of that one thing from the Nightmare Inspector: "Tomorrow will be a Repeat of Today." Except, I don't want tomorrow to be a repeat of today.
I can't wait for winter to be over. It's a bit easier to have a little bit more of a variety in one's life when one can actually go outside and do things without freezing to death.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
My Too Smart Stupid Cat
Theo, my white Turkish Van, loves hair ties. He likes to chew on them and bat them with his paws around the house. I'm constantly having to pick them up and put them back where they belong or throw them out if he's managed to snap them.
Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk when I heard a scraping sound behind me. I turn around and Theo is pawing at my jewelry chest. It's a foot and a half tall and has little drawers to put things in and two panels on the sides that open where you can hang necklaces. I watched as he opened the top drawer with his paw and pulled out one of my hair ties and ran off with it in his mouth. Apparently, he knows where I keep them. I managed to get it back from him and closed the drawer.
Five minutes later, he's at it again. After watching my cat open the drawer five times, I moved the hair ties to a different drawer hoping he would stop trying to get them. It only made things worse. He started to open the other drawers and tip them on to the floor.
Right now I have a cloth bag over the top of the case so he can't get in to it. I'm hoping he will eventually loose intrest in it and go terrorize something else. Neither of my other cats have any intrest in hair ties and they don't bother looking for them. Theo not only looks for them, but he figures out how to get them. Whoever said cats weren't as smart as dogs never owned one.
My sister and I caught him on video if you don't belive me.
Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk when I heard a scraping sound behind me. I turn around and Theo is pawing at my jewelry chest. It's a foot and a half tall and has little drawers to put things in and two panels on the sides that open where you can hang necklaces. I watched as he opened the top drawer with his paw and pulled out one of my hair ties and ran off with it in his mouth. Apparently, he knows where I keep them. I managed to get it back from him and closed the drawer.
Five minutes later, he's at it again. After watching my cat open the drawer five times, I moved the hair ties to a different drawer hoping he would stop trying to get them. It only made things worse. He started to open the other drawers and tip them on to the floor.
Right now I have a cloth bag over the top of the case so he can't get in to it. I'm hoping he will eventually loose intrest in it and go terrorize something else. Neither of my other cats have any intrest in hair ties and they don't bother looking for them. Theo not only looks for them, but he figures out how to get them. Whoever said cats weren't as smart as dogs never owned one.
My sister and I caught him on video if you don't belive me.
Friday, December 31, 2010
The Very Busy Year of 2010!
Christmas has come and gone and I am sitting here watching the new year roll in. 2010 has been one heck of a ride and I don't think 2011 is going to be any slower. Here's a little summary of what happened within the last 365 days:
January: I started taking college classes. I only took two and one of them was on a subject I'm rather good at, so it wasn't very stressful. I loved my teacher even if I wasn't terribly fond of some of the other students.
February: My dad went to Fort Worth TX because he had gotten a job there. The rest of of my family was planning to move there after I finished my classes. We did some packing, not very much and I buckled down and worked on finishing up high school as well as college.
March: Very busy month. My Home school group put on Pride and Prejudice and I was Mr. Bingly's snobbish sister, Caroline. We learned eight dances from that time period and although I could dance all of them, the director thought that my character would not care for dancing, so I did fill-ins for missing actors during practice, but did not dance during our final performances.
April: I found myself home alone a lot. Or mostly. With dad still being in Fort Worth, my mom was kind of miserable. Dad was miserable too I might add. Mom went to visit him a few times and took two of my siblings with her each time leaving me home with one of them. The reason we did not all go is because we had animals to take care of.
April was pretty boring. I read Abby the story of Pinocchio and decided that for once, I liked the movie much better.
May: Spent a lot of time with Rebekah. I also graduated high school with other homeschoolers my age. I find it funny that I went through school without once setting foot in a public or private school classroom. Hats off to my mom for putting up with schooling me for 18 years.
June: I spent most of this month reading. That tends to happen in June. June seems to constantly be my best month for reading. Haley finally got me to read Harry Potter and I read books 1-5 during the course of this month.
I also did a lot with Sarah and Rebekah. Dad was STILL in Fort Worth and we were no closer to moving there then we were in February.
July: My lovely dear friend Jen and her brother Adam spent two weeks with us. We went all over the east part of New Mexico (the part where we lived) and into west Texas.
I also turned eighteen during this time. Truth be told, I still don't feel like eighteen. But I'm not really sure what eighteen is supposed to feel like.
August: Here is where my life slows down and speeds up at the same time. Dad came back from Fort Worth. It wasn't possible for us to live separated like that anymore. It was KILLING us!
Of course, Dad didn't have a job anymore and wasn't able to find one where we were living. We literally lived on Faith during August. And obviously, I'm still here, so God was good to us and provided. During this month we found Theo and Sophie. Or rather, the two darned cats found us.
September: I've always liked September the best out of the months of the year because it is a transition from summer to fall. But September has never liked me. I have Four journals to prove that.
It was clear we were not moving to Fort Worth anymore. Every time we tried, we were met with a closed door. So instead, we went back to our original idea of moving back to Maryland. We started packing more boxes and fixing the house up so it would be ready to sell. We also found our buyers.
October: Packing and lots of paperwork. Here's a tip, when selling a house, use a Realtor. they are worth their weight in gold.
I'm not sure when Dad and Nathan started to work at the Calf Ranch. It might have been in September, it might have been in October. My journal doesn't say. I guess I failed to record it.
Anyway, October was very full of packing and painting and packing and more packing and even more packing...and my dad and brother's smelly clothes. Cows stink and are often times dirty. Having to wash smelly laundry made my dislike of cows grow considerably. We also said good-bye to our livestock. The Goat, the Llamas and the Chickens. We had to give Sophie to some friends, but were able to keep Theo.
November: More packing. And then finally a very very very long car ride. In Indiana, Dad's truck got backed into by a grain semi. It was pushed it back a few feet and the front of dad's truck was all smashed up. We had to leave it and the trailer my dad was pulling behind and get a rental van to finish the move. Dad went back to Indiana a few weeks later when the truck was fixed.
We moved into a rental house and have been here ever since. I think packing is a pain, but unpacking is even worse. I will be very happy when we find a more permanent residence. This rental is kind of small for Six humans plus 4 dogs, 3 cats, and two rabbits.
December: Holidays. Christmas. Friends we haven't seen in ages. Christmas Shopping with Jen. Complete and utter exhaustion. That has been my December. I keep waking up in my new room and expecting to find myself back in New Mexico. Being back here after having been in another state for nearly four years is kind of weird, but I'll get used to it.
2010 has been a very full year for me and my family, and without God, I wouldn't be sitting here writing this. I'm not sure what I would be doing. I'm not sure I want to know.
January: I started taking college classes. I only took two and one of them was on a subject I'm rather good at, so it wasn't very stressful. I loved my teacher even if I wasn't terribly fond of some of the other students.
February: My dad went to Fort Worth TX because he had gotten a job there. The rest of of my family was planning to move there after I finished my classes. We did some packing, not very much and I buckled down and worked on finishing up high school as well as college.
March: Very busy month. My Home school group put on Pride and Prejudice and I was Mr. Bingly's snobbish sister, Caroline. We learned eight dances from that time period and although I could dance all of them, the director thought that my character would not care for dancing, so I did fill-ins for missing actors during practice, but did not dance during our final performances.
April: I found myself home alone a lot. Or mostly. With dad still being in Fort Worth, my mom was kind of miserable. Dad was miserable too I might add. Mom went to visit him a few times and took two of my siblings with her each time leaving me home with one of them. The reason we did not all go is because we had animals to take care of.
April was pretty boring. I read Abby the story of Pinocchio and decided that for once, I liked the movie much better.
May: Spent a lot of time with Rebekah. I also graduated high school with other homeschoolers my age. I find it funny that I went through school without once setting foot in a public or private school classroom. Hats off to my mom for putting up with schooling me for 18 years.
June: I spent most of this month reading. That tends to happen in June. June seems to constantly be my best month for reading. Haley finally got me to read Harry Potter and I read books 1-5 during the course of this month.
I also did a lot with Sarah and Rebekah. Dad was STILL in Fort Worth and we were no closer to moving there then we were in February.
July: My lovely dear friend Jen and her brother Adam spent two weeks with us. We went all over the east part of New Mexico (the part where we lived) and into west Texas.
I also turned eighteen during this time. Truth be told, I still don't feel like eighteen. But I'm not really sure what eighteen is supposed to feel like.
August: Here is where my life slows down and speeds up at the same time. Dad came back from Fort Worth. It wasn't possible for us to live separated like that anymore. It was KILLING us!
Of course, Dad didn't have a job anymore and wasn't able to find one where we were living. We literally lived on Faith during August. And obviously, I'm still here, so God was good to us and provided. During this month we found Theo and Sophie. Or rather, the two darned cats found us.
September: I've always liked September the best out of the months of the year because it is a transition from summer to fall. But September has never liked me. I have Four journals to prove that.
It was clear we were not moving to Fort Worth anymore. Every time we tried, we were met with a closed door. So instead, we went back to our original idea of moving back to Maryland. We started packing more boxes and fixing the house up so it would be ready to sell. We also found our buyers.
October: Packing and lots of paperwork. Here's a tip, when selling a house, use a Realtor. they are worth their weight in gold.
I'm not sure when Dad and Nathan started to work at the Calf Ranch. It might have been in September, it might have been in October. My journal doesn't say. I guess I failed to record it.
Anyway, October was very full of packing and painting and packing and more packing and even more packing...and my dad and brother's smelly clothes. Cows stink and are often times dirty. Having to wash smelly laundry made my dislike of cows grow considerably. We also said good-bye to our livestock. The Goat, the Llamas and the Chickens. We had to give Sophie to some friends, but were able to keep Theo.
November: More packing. And then finally a very very very long car ride. In Indiana, Dad's truck got backed into by a grain semi. It was pushed it back a few feet and the front of dad's truck was all smashed up. We had to leave it and the trailer my dad was pulling behind and get a rental van to finish the move. Dad went back to Indiana a few weeks later when the truck was fixed.
We moved into a rental house and have been here ever since. I think packing is a pain, but unpacking is even worse. I will be very happy when we find a more permanent residence. This rental is kind of small for Six humans plus 4 dogs, 3 cats, and two rabbits.
December: Holidays. Christmas. Friends we haven't seen in ages. Christmas Shopping with Jen. Complete and utter exhaustion. That has been my December. I keep waking up in my new room and expecting to find myself back in New Mexico. Being back here after having been in another state for nearly four years is kind of weird, but I'll get used to it.
2010 has been a very full year for me and my family, and without God, I wouldn't be sitting here writing this. I'm not sure what I would be doing. I'm not sure I want to know.
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