10.26.2005
WHERE DOES ALL THE TIME GO?
Tyler H. can read, Leah Hr. is in Sunday School, next month is Thanksgiving, which is when we put up the Christmas decorations, and in between Christmas and Thanksgiving I'm turning sixteen and I'm going to be learning to drive soon, half my friends are turning seventeen shortly after the new year (isn't Kailee L supposed to be 17? She's part of the older crowd of the highschoolers in my homeschool group). Doreeee's starting highschool, we have a job, the half of my friends that are turning 17 is also graduating from highschool at the end of next year (aren't Patrick and Adam doing that?). I just don't get the teenagers who can't wait to be adults or 18 or 21 because time flies just fine all by itself without us blowing on it.
Another Snapshot of my current life.
My life is soooooooooooooooooo crazy, like...sooooooooooo crazy. I'm doing school in four days in order to have Wednesday off, which really isn't that bad, it just makes Thursday and Friday a little busier than usual. Usually they're my "easier days" which end up being just as long as Monday and Tuesday because I have the mindset that I don't have as much work to do so I kind of take it easy.
Then piano's crazy because I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to learn all this scales and arpeggios stuff when he said only to spend 15-20 minutes on them. I could easily spend half an hour learning all the stuff I'm supposed to learn. Plus there's the stuff to learn for Wednesdays which is really only one song a week but I've only got 2 or 3 songs, so adding another one is adding quite a bit. Learning my lesson songs is going quite well though.
Then there's choir, which isn't all that crazy, it just takes up mindspace sometimes trying to remember to look up a skit...hmmm...what was it supposed to be about? BAD Katie...at least some of you are in my group.
Dance is good, I've been trying to really try, because that's what my teacher looks for. Even if you do the step right, if you don't do it with everything you've got she doesn't...like it? appreciate it? And half the time --no, actually, 99% of the time--it's when you DON'T have the step right and you're not giving it everything you've got that she doesn't like it. So that's not just energy expending, it takes up a lot of CPU too. I like that, I think CPU will be my new code for mindspace. And then I'm trying to make friends with the girls at dance too, so there goes more CPU.
It would be cool if I could see a little window like the CTRL-ALT-DEL one that has all the processes and how much CPU they're taking up for my brain. Ha. That's really tangential. Oh boy, I just made up a new word. Yay.
UMMMMMMwhat else. I don't know. All that other stuff. :-D Whatever. I don't have CPU to spare at the moment :-) Oh, I did have something else but it's so nifty (nifty, huh?) I'm putting it in a separate post.
Then piano's crazy because I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to learn all this scales and arpeggios stuff when he said only to spend 15-20 minutes on them. I could easily spend half an hour learning all the stuff I'm supposed to learn. Plus there's the stuff to learn for Wednesdays which is really only one song a week but I've only got 2 or 3 songs, so adding another one is adding quite a bit. Learning my lesson songs is going quite well though.
Then there's choir, which isn't all that crazy, it just takes up mindspace sometimes trying to remember to look up a skit...hmmm...what was it supposed to be about? BAD Katie...at least some of you are in my group.
Dance is good, I've been trying to really try, because that's what my teacher looks for. Even if you do the step right, if you don't do it with everything you've got she doesn't...like it? appreciate it? And half the time --no, actually, 99% of the time--it's when you DON'T have the step right and you're not giving it everything you've got that she doesn't like it. So that's not just energy expending, it takes up a lot of CPU too. I like that, I think CPU will be my new code for mindspace. And then I'm trying to make friends with the girls at dance too, so there goes more CPU.
It would be cool if I could see a little window like the CTRL-ALT-DEL one that has all the processes and how much CPU they're taking up for my brain. Ha. That's really tangential. Oh boy, I just made up a new word. Yay.
UMMMMMMwhat else. I don't know. All that other stuff. :-D Whatever. I don't have CPU to spare at the moment :-) Oh, I did have something else but it's so nifty (nifty, huh?) I'm putting it in a separate post.
10.20.2005
The Piano Job and other Random Excerpts from My Current Life
This Wednesday, Doreeeee and I went to our first day of the piano job. Another pianist was also there to help us out. It went really well. We both got rave reviews and had fun doing it. The only thing I'm not completely happy about is I don't think I did my very best, but there's always next week. And we need a few slower songs, so this week I'm focusing on maintaining the songs I've learned and learning my lesson songs and Beauty and the Beast for a slower warm-up song. Not that we did a bad job playing or anything, but I think the reason we got such rave reviews is that we were nice and open to instruction, not because we played complicated amazing music.
UMMM I was going to mention something else on here but I forget what it was. OHHHHH welllll.
UMMM I was going to mention something else on here but I forget what it was. OHHHHH welllll.
10.13.2005
Aiee, life is insane
So today was nonstop, mostly because when I was sick I just did the bare necessities, so I'm not behind in reading or anything. But there was a lot of extra stuff like a history test and art paper that I didn't do, so I did a lot of that stuff today.
And, this is good, but the current application to real life is bad, I got a job. A good job. A job that pays well. A job I think I'll like. If I can just get some piano music into my fingers. Doreeeeee and I are both doing it. There's a dance class in the public schools that has acommpianists, and the accompianist for the Wooster one is out of town for awhile, like a long while, like moving away for awhile then coming back later, so Doreeeee and I are going to do it. It's on Wednesdays, like all schoolday. We went to a similar class Monday, and I loved it, it's 4th and 5th graders, like my favorite age of kids (ok I like a lot of ages of kids), it was really high energy and I think I'll really like it, but learning at least the beginnings of at least 5 songs (really hopefully a lot more than that) by next Wednesday is a daunting prospect. I like the learning songs, but then if I practice piano for half an hour longer than usual I pretty much don't get done with school till dinnertime--at least I didn't today. And I had a lot of extra catching up stuff to do, so that didn't help. Actually I think that was mainly responsible for how late I got done. So piano didn't help.
And this Saturday, on top of everything else, I'm taking the PSAT. But as Mom said, that's done Saturday and I don't have to think about it again. I really hope my brain is in good working order Sat. It's all in there if my brain just dredges it out. Everything seems so logical when you've got the right answers in front of you and you can see what you did wrong. But it's so confusing when you don't know what the most logical thing is.
I have to go to bed, because you really get the effects of a good or bad night's sleep the day after the next day. So. Yeah. I just keep listening to my music (JUMP5, Newsboys, ZOEgirl) to keep me from going completely insane and I think I'll be ok.
And, this is good, but the current application to real life is bad, I got a job. A good job. A job that pays well. A job I think I'll like. If I can just get some piano music into my fingers. Doreeeeee and I are both doing it. There's a dance class in the public schools that has acommpianists, and the accompianist for the Wooster one is out of town for awhile, like a long while, like moving away for awhile then coming back later, so Doreeeee and I are going to do it. It's on Wednesdays, like all schoolday. We went to a similar class Monday, and I loved it, it's 4th and 5th graders, like my favorite age of kids (ok I like a lot of ages of kids), it was really high energy and I think I'll really like it, but learning at least the beginnings of at least 5 songs (really hopefully a lot more than that) by next Wednesday is a daunting prospect. I like the learning songs, but then if I practice piano for half an hour longer than usual I pretty much don't get done with school till dinnertime--at least I didn't today. And I had a lot of extra catching up stuff to do, so that didn't help. Actually I think that was mainly responsible for how late I got done. So piano didn't help.
And this Saturday, on top of everything else, I'm taking the PSAT. But as Mom said, that's done Saturday and I don't have to think about it again. I really hope my brain is in good working order Sat. It's all in there if my brain just dredges it out. Everything seems so logical when you've got the right answers in front of you and you can see what you did wrong. But it's so confusing when you don't know what the most logical thing is.
I have to go to bed, because you really get the effects of a good or bad night's sleep the day after the next day. So. Yeah. I just keep listening to my music (JUMP5, Newsboys, ZOEgirl) to keep me from going completely insane and I think I'll be ok.
10.12.2005
A conversation between friends
I just thought this was kind of funny.
ktyack: i think my left eardrum is about to burst
sonikid: IT IS!?
ktyack: i dunno
ktyack: lol
ktyack: it might be
sonikid: DUCK 'N' COVER PEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ktyack: rotfl
sonikid: kidding
ktyack: i think my left eardrum is about to burst
sonikid: IT IS!?
ktyack: i dunno
ktyack: lol
ktyack: it might be
sonikid: DUCK 'N' COVER PEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ktyack: rotfl
sonikid: kidding
American History Essay
I find it interesting that many people (such as the founding fathers) in my American History readings are described as knowing how to use their minds. How many people today know how to use their minds? How many people think about and talk about politics and society and people in general?
People back in the 1700's and before didn't think that people could rule themselves, but I look at some of the kings and wonder if they could rule themselves, let alone an entire nation. People didn't think that all men were created equal, even those who were the ones at the bottom of the ladderbelieved that they weren't as important as the noblemen. All people are equal? Even slaves? Even women? Even peasants? They're just as important as men or kings? All are created equal?
How many people think that radically today? I don't think many do. I think people still think that some people are better than others--whether it's between blacks and whites or freshmen and seniors or the janitor and the CEO. People don't show other people the respect they deserve.
And I know I'm criticizing society in general, and that there are people in society in general who live up to this nation's claim that all men are created equal (and, Meghan, I mean all mankind, I'm just quoting the Declaration of Independence), but I wish they'd be more prominent and more radical. It's much more noticeable when you see someone do something wrong than something right, and therefore it takes a lot more of people doing things right to make everyone notice.
So I wish everyone would use their minds and make things happen and make people notice, make people notice that you treat everyone with respect, whether it's the janitor or your boss. The revolution truly was first in the minds and hearts of the people. Because when people use what they've got in their heads, big things happen. Unless you call the forming of a nation an incident not to be noticed or remembered.
People back in the 1700's and before didn't think that people could rule themselves, but I look at some of the kings and wonder if they could rule themselves, let alone an entire nation. People didn't think that all men were created equal, even those who were the ones at the bottom of the ladderbelieved that they weren't as important as the noblemen. All people are equal? Even slaves? Even women? Even peasants? They're just as important as men or kings? All are created equal?
How many people think that radically today? I don't think many do. I think people still think that some people are better than others--whether it's between blacks and whites or freshmen and seniors or the janitor and the CEO. People don't show other people the respect they deserve.
And I know I'm criticizing society in general, and that there are people in society in general who live up to this nation's claim that all men are created equal (and, Meghan, I mean all mankind, I'm just quoting the Declaration of Independence), but I wish they'd be more prominent and more radical. It's much more noticeable when you see someone do something wrong than something right, and therefore it takes a lot more of people doing things right to make everyone notice.
So I wish everyone would use their minds and make things happen and make people notice, make people notice that you treat everyone with respect, whether it's the janitor or your boss. The revolution truly was first in the minds and hearts of the people. Because when people use what they've got in their heads, big things happen. Unless you call the forming of a nation an incident not to be noticed or remembered.
10.08.2005
New antibiotic and the "PPSAT"
Last night I had my first dose of my new antibiotic, a liquid this time, in my most cherished shade of pink. I was going to wait to take it until after consuming my delicious french bread pizza, but I decided that the pizza would taste better without the threat of medicine hanging over it, so I took all two tspfulls.
IT WAS SO YUMMY! I mean it tasted like someone had dissolved sugar into water until it was thick with the sugar. Then there was a nasty aftertaste, and that's when I was glad I had taken it before the pizza, cuz I could just eat and therefore it didn't taste bad at all. So that's a GIANT relief.
And then today, practically first thing in the morning (all of 11:45, but it was the first serious thing I did all day) I took the Practice PSAT that they give you when you sign up for the PSAT. I'm not sure how I did. I answered all the questions, and I scored above average, but I made some seriously stupid mistakes on the math stuff (90x2 isn't 80, and 2+3, my arch nemesis of arimetic, is, once again, not 6!) So I did ok besides those. And I need to be a little more thorough in checking my answers, but I had plenty of time to check on the word ones.
Time to go take yummy pink stuff!
IT WAS SO YUMMY! I mean it tasted like someone had dissolved sugar into water until it was thick with the sugar. Then there was a nasty aftertaste, and that's when I was glad I had taken it before the pizza, cuz I could just eat and therefore it didn't taste bad at all. So that's a GIANT relief.
And then today, practically first thing in the morning (all of 11:45, but it was the first serious thing I did all day) I took the Practice PSAT that they give you when you sign up for the PSAT. I'm not sure how I did. I answered all the questions, and I scored above average, but I made some seriously stupid mistakes on the math stuff (90x2 isn't 80, and 2+3, my arch nemesis of arimetic, is, once again, not 6!) So I did ok besides those. And I need to be a little more thorough in checking my answers, but I had plenty of time to check on the word ones.
Time to go take yummy pink stuff!
10.04.2005
Update on sickness
I woke up this morning seriously thirsty and dehydrated (even though I drank A LOT of water yesterday). Then Dad checked my temperature and it was 102.9. Not good. So I took some Advil and ate a popsicle and went to the doctor. She said I have a sinus infection. I'm the only one in our family who gets them. I've only gotten one once before, in February 2004, right before our trip to Florida, but it was more like a never ending cold then.
It's really not too terrible to be sick--I mostly feel ok if my head's resting on something, and I just get to lay around and listen to HP on tape and eat popsicles. The bad parts are: I'm going to have a lot of schoolwork to catch up on and I have to take antibiotics. I hate taking medicine, though I'm sadly getting good at it. It's not a pill, it's chewable, and it tastes better than "the purple stuff" (which is my ultimate medicine nemesis) but it's still medicine.
I'm going to watch the Princess Bride this afternoon I think, because the boy in it is sick. :) It seems like he had what I have--fever and a bit of a cough. But until then, Jelly Blobs of Doom, Kiko Match, and Freaky Factory await.
It's really not too terrible to be sick--I mostly feel ok if my head's resting on something, and I just get to lay around and listen to HP on tape and eat popsicles. The bad parts are: I'm going to have a lot of schoolwork to catch up on and I have to take antibiotics. I hate taking medicine, though I'm sadly getting good at it. It's not a pill, it's chewable, and it tastes better than "the purple stuff" (which is my ultimate medicine nemesis) but it's still medicine.
I'm going to watch the Princess Bride this afternoon I think, because the boy in it is sick. :) It seems like he had what I have--fever and a bit of a cough. But until then, Jelly Blobs of Doom, Kiko Match, and Freaky Factory await.
10.03.2005
Random things about my current life
1. I'm sick. I had a fever of 101.5 this morning and I lost my voice over the weekend. I took some advil and my fever went down. But that's not much fun. I just did reading stuff for school today.
2. I had a really fun weekend. Ok, actually about half of it was fun. The middle half. With a fourth on each end not-so-fun. All day Saturday we cleaned. I actually got off pretty easy, but cleaning is just tiring. Then Saturday night we had the annual church hayride, which marks the beginning of the fun half. The weather was soooo nice. I took off my sweatshirt for the sunny parts. It was pretty amazing. We had hot dogs (I did mine and it ended up being cold by the time I got to the end because I wasn't patient enough to stand by the fire that long) and S'MORES!!! so yummy.
We brought brucedashark, tinkerbell6458 and supergurl101 home from the hayride and played MAFIA! That was fun. By this time my voice was well gone. Yes, it is twisted that the church youth group's favorite game is Mafia. Don't ask me why that is--actually, I think it's because we're just good at it, and have lots of fun playing it.
Sunday morning was church, which is always fun, we had a lot of people in Sunday School this week (it's been going every other: 5, a lot, 5, a lot), which was fun, and the songs were good.
Then we got home and I crashed (here begins not-so-fun second fourth). I think I had been having so much fun that I didn't notice that I wasn't feeling so great. But when all friends were gone, I was just dead on my feet. So I read HP6 all afternoon, got through about 2/3 of it. I haven't reread it since the first time. It wasn't a thouroughly unpleasant afternoon, when I was just laying there my head didn't feel funny, and HP6 is a good book, even if Swift says it's not. The ending might be a bit sad and mean, but that doesn't mean the rest isn't good.
Ummmmm this concludes my random (sort of) things about my current life. I think I'll go read more HP6 and eat some frozen fruit stuff (which is like a popsicle cake, I suppose). Good for someone needing fluids and Vitamin C. :)
2. I had a really fun weekend. Ok, actually about half of it was fun. The middle half. With a fourth on each end not-so-fun. All day Saturday we cleaned. I actually got off pretty easy, but cleaning is just tiring. Then Saturday night we had the annual church hayride, which marks the beginning of the fun half. The weather was soooo nice. I took off my sweatshirt for the sunny parts. It was pretty amazing. We had hot dogs (I did mine and it ended up being cold by the time I got to the end because I wasn't patient enough to stand by the fire that long) and S'MORES!!! so yummy.
We brought brucedashark, tinkerbell6458 and supergurl101 home from the hayride and played MAFIA! That was fun. By this time my voice was well gone. Yes, it is twisted that the church youth group's favorite game is Mafia. Don't ask me why that is--actually, I think it's because we're just good at it, and have lots of fun playing it.
Sunday morning was church, which is always fun, we had a lot of people in Sunday School this week (it's been going every other: 5, a lot, 5, a lot), which was fun, and the songs were good.
Then we got home and I crashed (here begins not-so-fun second fourth). I think I had been having so much fun that I didn't notice that I wasn't feeling so great. But when all friends were gone, I was just dead on my feet. So I read HP6 all afternoon, got through about 2/3 of it. I haven't reread it since the first time. It wasn't a thouroughly unpleasant afternoon, when I was just laying there my head didn't feel funny, and HP6 is a good book, even if Swift says it's not. The ending might be a bit sad and mean, but that doesn't mean the rest isn't good.
Ummmmm this concludes my random (sort of) things about my current life. I think I'll go read more HP6 and eat some frozen fruit stuff (which is like a popsicle cake, I suppose). Good for someone needing fluids and Vitamin C. :)
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