Espanol

Voy a escribir en español. No estoy muy bien, pero...
Tengo el libro Harry Potter y la piedra de filosifal, y yo leer eso mucho. Tengo tambien CDS por el biblioteca, y esos es muy ayudado! I think. Como decí, no estoy muy bien. Por favor, decirme mis errores. No puedo encuentro me diccionario de Ingles-Español. Ah, aquí está.A me encanto Español, aunque no estoy muy bien a hablando en Español.
Me gusta corriendo, caminando, hablando con mis amigos, etc. Which is Latin, not Spanish. Me gusta viajar a un luego de hablando español. Debo ir. Obviousamente, no tengo mucho español, ¡pero probo! Grís es me color de Español.

Running today

I ran all the way arond and barely stopped, just to wave Hannah on and check for cars. It felt good to finish, even if it took 19 minutes!!! That's outraged, not excited. Yeah. So currently I'm running a 19 minute 1.1 mile. And eating lots of M&Ms--we got those peanut darck chocolate ones. They're really good. And we've been practicing throwing them up in the air and catching them in our mouths. Just the little ones, the big ones would hurt if they hit your teeth.

Well, I'm going to turn in early for my marathon weekend.

Love y'all (or yo te amo)
Katie

School: revised

I said I have two tests, in biology and history. Well, now I have to drop the comma: I have two tests in biology and history. And four or five dissections. And a lot of algebra. So Mom's getting kind of stressed. I'm not. But when do I ever get stressed? If I were ever to get stressed, it had better be now. I'll just get bored, doing all the stuff. In fact, it would probably be better if I were stressed, because I'd have more motivation besides just making Mom un-stressed. Yeah. And I think I'm also behind in spanish and piano, as far as the goal of doing 100 hrs this year goes. So, AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH. I think I could get stressed. But it's just not worth it. I've got Mom to worry about it for me :). It'll all get done sometime whether I worry about it or not. Whether I have fun doing it or not. Whether I end up grounded or not. (which might not be a bad idea...oh wait, my parents read this :) ). Well, yeah. Lots of school. Sometimes I wonder if there isn't a better way to do this...

American Idol

The only question (well, ok, not the only one, but the main one) I have left is: Why do I watch this show?

And the answer: If my whole family stopped watching it, I could. But when everyone else is watching it, I figure, "Hey, they're just going to tell me about it anyway!"

Another question: Who is voting for Scott when everyone I talk to says, "Scott needs to go." Hmm?

And I don't know the answer to that one.

The reason I wonder why I watch it is: Last year, Amy Adams, who I liked, got kicked off. Jenniffer Hudson: kicked off. Jasmine Trias, who had potential, but was not the American Idol, got into the top three, over Latoya London.

And this year we're doing it again. Anwar's off. Scott's on. If Scott had to stay on, Maroulis had to go. So that was one good thing. The only good thing.

You know what's really weird, is that on Tuesday they performed in order, according to me, best to worst. What are the chances of that?

Also, I wonder (everyone saying Scott should be off is making me wonder) how accurately the vote reflects general opinion? I mean I know it can't be too far off, but still...

Running yesterday (sort of)

It took Hannah and I 21 minutes. Not exactly an improvement, but we now have a goal to beat. It seems that when we run more slowly with fewer breaks we go faster, but then I don't feel like I got a workout. Hmm. It seems like I had a ton to put on here, but I can't remember anything. Oh yes.

My marathon weekend

If last weekend was movie weekend, this weekend is marathon weekend. Abby has a soccer game in the morning, I get home from that, eat something (hopefully), go to choir (which is always fun), get home from that, and dash to a 6 or 7 hour babysitting job. All fun stuff, but all so close together. I'm surprised none of it conflicts! Oh, and then Sunday, I go to church, pack a lunch, and go do a fundraiser for LT (CAN'T WAIT!!!!) until youth group, have youth group (it's a Breakdown night, which means guys and girls split up) and go home and go to bed. And then it's Monday. Aiee. I would be totally dreading this weekend if it wasn't all stuff that I'm going to enjoy (unless something unforeseen happens. But I don't foresee that happening [ha ha]).

School: I have two tests tomorrow which I am not ready for. At all. And they're already late. Ugh. Biology and History. I've been watching the Incredibles in Spanish for Spanish class, and also got my cds from the library --yay! So Spanish has been good.

Guitar: No time.

Sister's and friend's blogs (and mine, for that matter): No time.

TV: No time.

It's a good thing I enjoy my life, or I would really hate it.

5 movies and a lot of junk food later...

Yup, that's right, I watched 5 movies this weekend. "Ella enchanted" Friday night, "that thing you do" sat. morning, "Big" sat night, "the incredibles" sunday afternoon, and "waking ned divine" for youth group Sunday evening. I would have been perfectly happy to just sit around and talk for two hours, but it was a good movie. And I ate a lot of cereal and pizza. I love cereal!!!!

Ya, and I also got to bed late, so I was totally out of it today, and I also get really grumpy when I'm tired, so I'm going to bed! Good night, all.

Reflections on the world, with an intro of my day

Today I did Monday's school because I did Friday's school yesterday, because we thought we were having piano today, but we rescheduled to monday.

Tonight the Klines are sleeeping over. See Hannah's blog about that (doryack.blogspot.com). I'm excited too, because we rarely get to see them, but it would be a shame to lose contact when we've been friends literally all our lives.

This afternoon we had art and were almost late because I just had to be a normal teenage girl and take my time ...no, that's not right, I was rushing...take forever...still not right...because I had to put on mascara and blow dry my hair. But we weren't. And I had fun listening to my friends pick on each other (they were just joking, so it was quite amusing.

I've been reading Mere Christianity in school. It's very good if you can stick with it. It's not too bad in the way of driness and stuffiness. Not bad at all. And it's gotten me on the subject of the world we live in, and why it's so bad. And also reading my history books has gotten me thinking about it. And the conclusion I have come to is that (and I had a whole long thing here that didn't make much sense and that I wasn't satisfied with) we have to love each other (wow, profound). But it is. Because the world we live in is made up of individuals, and if people in business and government and in school treated each other lovingly and acted in righteousness, think how many problems would be solved. No scandals, no hatred, no murder, no crime, no cheating, tada! Aren't I brilliant! Ok, so I read it in the Bible, but, hey, everyone needs to be reminded. Constantly. So, here, I'll remind you again: act in love and righteousness and everything will be ok. Tada! Voila! Oh, and don't forget to remind other people to act in love and righteousness. If I'm forgetting anything in my equation for a perfect world, let me know. And I'm going to rule out the possibility that I'm forgetting a relationship with God, because the only way people can consistently act in love and righteousness is if they're spending time with him a lot and have him helping them with everything. So, if everyone just does all that, world hunger will be solved! :) But seriously, somebody's gotta do something!

Good things and Bad things about running

Bad things: My legs hurt every time I walk up and down the stairs!!
It makes me really boiling when the sun's out.
I'm not very fond of being out of breath.
I'm not very fond of being dripping with sweat.
If you end up having Dad's knees, they hurt.

Good things: It's very good for me physically and disciplin...i...ly.
It makes me work hard.
It's getting me in better shape.
It reminds me to drink more water.
It's a good habit to get in, because even if I don't run all my life I should exercise all my life.
I can eat more M&Ms!! :)) (just kidding)
(or was I?)
(hmmm...)

My day

This morning I slept in a bit. A very small bit. But that was good because yesterday (yes, I know I'm diverging from my selected topic) we left home at 3:45 for dance, and stayed there until 7:15, when we went straight to a church meeting, and we didn't get home from that till 9:45. So yesterday was kind of a long day.

We went for a walk before we started school, because we knew it was going to get nasty later. (And it did.) I ran with Hannah on the "walk." It took us 20 minutes to go all the way around. Which means right now I'm running a 20 minute mile. Eeee. I hope I improve on that. But I made it all the way around--I always think I won't, which doesn't really make sense, because at the point where I would feel like turning around I'd be over halfway around and I wouldn't really have much choice about not going on. Well, I could walk I guess.

After drinking copious amounts of water, I got started on school. Blah. I wasn't enjoying it, today. I took 3 math quizzes because we always forget that I have them, so they pile up. But they're really short, only one or two problems. If there were more than that I'd still be working! I'm doing the 80's in 20th century day by day (yes, such a book exists, and yes, it's as massive as it sounds).

After I finished my book school I did spanish and piano. I'm kinda at a standstill in spanish until I get my cds from the library.

And we have piano lessons on Friday. I'm not sure I'm ready. But I'll be ok, my only worry is that I'll have to work on some songs again for another few weeks and Hannah won't. We're on the same songs right now. Which means she could potentially pass me. She started before me but I caught up and passed her. Oh well, she's allowed. Hmm.

And that just about brings me up to the present moment, except for the fact that the weather is a little too unpredictable for Abby's soccer practice, so they're having it downstairs in the living room. I'll just let that sink in for a second. Let the silence hang in the air. Picture it: 10 girls running around in cleats in your living room. Kicking a soccer ball high into the air. Using the doorways as goals. Knocking into each other and furniture. Well, ok, they're actually watching the tape of Saturday's game, to see how they can improve. And I'm taking the opportunity to update my blog.

Other little tidbits that don't fit into the regular outline of the day:

Every spring Greta is re-introduced to thunder. When she was younger and more feisty she barked at it. Now she sticks as closely to her people as she possibly can. She cowers under tables by our feet, follows Mom everywhere with her tail tucked between her legs, and mostly makes herself look as pitiful and scared as possible. So cute!

I mentioned before that I wasn't enjoying my work. Which made the day a lot less enjoyable, because a good bit of it was work. "What's the point of wishing away your day wishing you weren't doing work?" I ask myself. Plus, it makes me feel like I've forgotten something. I don't know why, it just does. So tomorrow I'm going to have a better attitude and "find satisfaction in all my work." Which is from Ecclesiastes.

People

Swift0014 is a guy from my church (James) iluvccrunners is another friend who used to go to our church and then planted a church and goes to that one (Meghan), and Claire is my cousin who lives in Georgia. And I hope u know who Han is, or Hannah or however she signed herself, but for those who don't know (if you don't, e-mail me), Hannah is my sister.

More running

I ran again today: yay for me! I have to be my own cheerleader, or I'll never get anything run. I mean done. Ok, so I meant run, but I meant it to be a (pretty bad) pun for run. Aiee. I scare myself sometimes that I can even come up with such a bad pun. Well, growing up with my dad I've been sub-consciously trained to consider any possible puns. You have to crank out a bad one sometimes.
This blog I guess should've been named "more punning," but I will now get back on subject. I ran all the way around and only stopped for about three seconds at each of the places where I would've turned around and walked. I had to stretch and catch my breath or I wouldn't've made it all the way around at all. As it was, I did, and I sat down in front of the fan with a glass of water and stretched a bit more. (The reason we have a fan up this early in the season is because our kitchen sink was leaking a bit. The fan was to help dry it up. And I was glad we had it, cuz it helped me to dry up too! :) ) Then I thought, "That wasn't so bad. I think I'll run around again in the other direction so that I'll run into Mom and Dad and Abby, and then I can walk back with them." So I did. They were pretty close to being done, which was fortunate, I was about at the end of my rope.
That was today's running drama. I've decided this is not only going to be my blog, it's going to be my glog--running log. :)
Oops, I forgot a bit. My neck was getting sore (still is) and was giving me a headache from keeping my head from bouncing all over the place (that would not look normal). So Mom says I should work on keeping my neck relaxed (but my head in place).
Wow, for thinking that I had nothing to write about, I think this is my longest blog yet. Maybe it's just the one about the least, stretched out over a lot.

These are my cacti. In this picture they're out on the deck, but normally they're in my room. I repotted the red one today and added more dirt to the other two, so I thought it was an ideal opportunity to have a photo shoot 

and just one more 

more Ty-ty 

This is my hamster. He's kinda out of focus, but I can't find anymore pix of him. He's standing on his hind legs, if it's hard to tell. His name is ty, but we call him Tizzy too. 

Running

I ran this afternoon. Sort of. I always say "I ran" which really means I ran to the corner, walked back to Mom and Dad who walk, and ran some more. Or it could be jogging, I'm not totally sure what the definition of running is. But anyway, does anyone have running tips for me please? The only ones I know are "If you can't say five words in one breath you're working yourself too hard" and "Run until you think you can't run anymore, and then run a little bit farther." And I made that last one up, so I'm not sure it counts, and the other one was about exercising in general. So any running tips would be !VERY MUCH! appreciated! I only started about a week ago, but I think I'm getting better. Maybe. Maybe I'm imagining it. *Shrug*, who knows? But I am amazed at how much upper body strength running does take--at least, my arms feel tired! Weird. Ok, thank you.

Only Five Months

On Sunday one of our pastors went home to be with the Lord. He had lymphoma, and was only diagnosed about the middle of December. That was about five months ago. It's amazing how fast cancer can strike and poof. A car crash strikes even faster. Makes ya think, huh? But you don't want to start not living life because you're so afraid of death, that would defeat the whole purpose of death, practically. Death is, what: not living, right? so that's my point. I figure, who knows when I'm gonna die, so might as well enjoy what I have now! (See my one of my favorite books, Ecclesiastes)

This is my b-e-a-u, tiful family and my dog Greta after we got home from a wedding and figured it was a good time for a picture. 

This is the background on my computer and I absolutely love it, which is why I'm posting it on my blog. ROCK IT!! 

Abby's 1st soccer game

The results are in from the first soccer game of the season: US-2 THEM-1. They played hard and it paid off! The best thing about the game was that usually in the first game they're a little clueless and stand around a lot, but this time, even if they weren't sure what they were doing, they were doing something! Abby scored a goal and saved a bunch! Yay! Our grandparents were still there, so they got to see it. But it seemed like the longest hour of my life! I don't remember the other soccer games being so long! Hannah and I had fun taping it. Dad had fun pacing up and down the sidelnes shouting, I think. Mom had fun cheering. Abby had fun playing. So. We had fun and won, cool.

Here I go again, 2nd time around

Hi everybody. Today my grandma and grandpa came over for Abby's, my yongest sister's, birthday. I helped my grandma figure out some stuff on her computer, we went out to Olive Garden for lunch, and had some totally delicious and absolutely should be outlawed mousse cake stuff. It was to die for, and I probably will with all the clogged arteries or something. So it was a very nice day.

Whoops. I just erased the first thing I wrote. Well, I guess that was kinda good cuz it was pretty much random rambling about the trauma(oh the drama) I went through trying to figure out a user name. Like I said, rambling. Right now I'm typing during the commercials of the American Idol results show. AAAH! More drama. I like them all at this point. We'll see.
it's back!
ok, between Scott, Bo, and Nadia, I'm gonna have to pick Scott as my non-idol. Bo's totally cool with it, I think Nadia is too from the way she was preachin' it (preach it, sista!). Scott had a little bit of a bad attitude banging on all the people who didn't have the nerve to get to the top 12, so that lowers him yet more in my esteem, even if the off-key notes hadn't. We'll see! oh, I said that twice, didn't I? Well, we will!

Our house just resounded with "NOOOOOOOO!" as Scott went back the couches, then "YEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!" as Bo followed him, but then quickly back to "NOOOO!" as Nadia left the show. Drat. You Clevelanders gotta stop voting for him! (please). Compare his singing to the rest of them and vote ACCORDINGLY. Ya, well, I gotta go to bed. Or I'll fall over asleep tomorrow.

And lastly, please don't comment anything bad on this or I won't be allowed to get onto my own blog. Parental controls and all.

Good night, all.