Ramblings of a very sleepy person

Ok, so we're driving down the road on the way home from Columbus, and I get the brilliant idea--yes, that was semisarcastic-- to blog. So my techno geek dad hooks me all up with his pocket pc and keyboard. Major eprops to him, by the way. Oh, and fyi everyone, I read in some book somewhere that that's how dads love: by doing crazy things like driving sixtyfive mph mostly with knees and elbows to get out stuff so that you can blog at ten at night. Eprops to dads everywhere! (the good ones, anyway).

Ok, so I haven't blogged in, like, ever! But there were lots of things that I meant to do this week that didn't get done, unfortunately. Therefore, I think I can officially label this past week as the week of laziness. Not that I got nothing done, I got lots of schoolwork done, in working ahead for our trip to Florida next week. Sorry everyone! But it's not like we just get to go skipping off to Florida. We're paying for it now in doing 3 weeks of work in 2 weeks. This mainly involves lots and lots of reading. If reading wasn't my thing, I'd be sunk deeper than Davy Jones' locker.

Wow, for all this typing, I haven't written much. I'm now using this jump style of typing. It's fairly easy to pick up on--I bet I'd be a whiz at it by now if I weren't so sleepy. As it is, it's making me choose my words with care. And I might regret not sleeping when I had the chance, but too late now! *the verdict is in: she's crazy.*

We went to an old friend's 40th b-day party today, for which I had to miss youth group. But it was for a very good cause, and once I had some time to adjust to the idea of missing youth group, it was fine. You all better appreciate that: 1, something happened to me that took more than 3 seconds for me to adjust to, 2, I like youth group enough that missing it caused an attitude adjustment, and 3, my parents did something that required one! I don't hold it against you. :)

HI PEOPLE YOU HAVEN'T READ MY OTHER POST BUT OH WELL, I'M POSTING ANYWAY!

It wasn't much to read. I'll try to keep this one within a reasonable length.

So, I'm the only one left with a blog, seeing as everyone else has DESERTED ME! lol. just teasing. I was the first one with a blog and the last one, and I'm going to keep it so y'all had better keep checking it! I check everyone's everything everyday. Which is probably unintellegeble. Which is spelled rong. Which is probably rong. :-p

Can y'all tell I'm a little hyper? I'm just really really super extrememly superlatively happy because tomorrow's sunday!!! And I get to see all my friends! I have said it before, and I will say it again, and again, and again, I LOVE SUNDAYS! I have an extremely Katie-ish outfit for tomorrow. I'm sure you'll agree once you see it. I have a feeling even the guys will notice it, because it sort of jumps out at you. I'm sure no one will check this tonight, so I'll tell what it is: bright yellow (like, highlighter yellow) and Bright green (like, neon green) and then a slightly more muted hot pink. And those are the most beauteous colors. Which I think I'll post in. Cuz those are, like, officially my colors, with some red, orange and neon blue thrown in occasionally.

Well, it's been awhile, but once again I'm posting about running. I ran tuesday night after tumbling, cuz it was really easy, and I was like, wait, I've got my exercise clothes on and I'm about to take a shower after supposedly getting a workout, but I'm missing something: The workout. And I had tons of energy, so I took Relient K and a boombox downstairs and ran. It was actually fun. Then today I was thinking I should probably work off all the doughnuts I ate at the discovering Grace Summit class this morning, so I went running again, and dancing and stretching and foozball playing, all of which took up the entire CD of two lefts don't make a right but three do. Even the silly shoe song after Jefferson Aeroplane. So that was fun. And I watched two episodes of Monk, did two brown belt sudokus (29 and 40 mins, approx.), talked to my grandma on the telefone from Florida, where it is 80 degrees (two more weeks!).

AND I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT: IN SIX MONTHS EXACTLY TODAY WE WILL BE LEAVING FOR LT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And there are only 26 more sundays until the one that we'll be there. Yippeee!

Thanks for reading, I'll let you stop now. :-D Post back soon! :-DD

Hay there

Wow, I really posted only four days ago? Weird. I wonder why time goes so fast and yet so slowly? I'm still trying to figure that out. Maybe it's cuz life changes so fast when you're a teenager. I have no clue.

So, in other news, I'm really happy cuz I'm done with school for the week!! Party time! ha...as if...lol. Too bad this isn't one of those blogs where the writer can say "call me up and we'll do something..."

Oh lookee, I gotta stop now. But personally, I like it when people post short posts often. Or, even better, long posts often.

Hello faithful readers

Ok, so, apparently they've decided to take away my rich text formatting options. What did I do to deserve such treatment! No more colors! No more html tweaking! Why? Why??? WHY????

Moving on, my life is terrific. Except *sniff* my formatting options are gone. But that's the biggest of my worries, except for worrying about my friends. In a manner of speaking. I don't ever really worry, so what I really mean is "concerned. But that's not the same thing." Aha! I've figured out how I can still do rich text. Okay. Everything's hunky-dory. Yay! We'll see how this works.

Oh, if you ever want a cool tattoo that'll last approximately 2 days, with careful handling, draw with a ballpoint pen for outlines and with highlighters for color. It's cool. I've had a butterfly picture on my hand for two days now. :-D I bet that'll come as a surprise to some of my family. *cough* *dad* :-D jk.

Well, I guess I'll keep this short, to make formatting easier. I love you guys, I'm praying for you. :-D <3!>

And boom. I go to edit, and it's working. Sweet. I guess I'll just leave it like this.

What is the deal???

Life is back to normal, weekend festivities over, and I'm dropping a quick line before dance because I was going to do it tonight but we have a meeting after dance, so we're going to be gone for about 5 hours straight.

Go here, it's good--it really is last week's even though it says Oct.16. ...ok...? go here ooh lookie, I changed it so now you can't tell where you're going! ha! Curiousity will get the best of you!! I suggest you read it through. No, this isn't the national treatise on the care of cacti, don't worry. I love having a limited amount of HTML knowledge. :-D Well, I gotta go. So much to do and so little time to do it in! lol

cute or funny pix --of people this time

Pictures from the piano recital...
Ok, just for the record, Erin and I did NOT know that this was supposed to be a silly picture!
A picture from Xmas day--Abby and Doreeeee with their new hats

More Xmas day. My face shines like a beacon over the picture. LOL.

Nails

Here we have the double whammy of my nails and my ring! Tada! The pink nailpolish I got on the date with mom too. OPI for 2 bucks rocks! and the top picture's my present nails. You can kind of tell.

My ring

And here we have my gorgeous ring, which you can see in person. I'm having trouble making a habit of wearing it, though, for instance last night I had the perfect outfit to wear it with, to Jeni's shower I mean, and I forgot! I was rather disappointed. There's always next time!

New addition to the family....

Here it is, the newest member of the family! This one is affectionately known as "The Brown One" and is the same basic type of cactus as the white and yellow ones. Which, I discovered, is Mamarillia, or somthing like that. I wrote it down somewhere. But here it is! I'll try and get a pic of all of them together. :-D

Responding to Gloomy Ruminations

Y'all got pretty lucky there, didja know that? I don't often feel like that and even less often do I display feeling gloomy like that. I don't think the actual post is quite as gloomy as I was. If you ever feel like life's going by too fast and there's nothing you can do about it, smother it with a good dose of Ecclesiastes (meaning read the whole book in one sitting, or at least the first 3 chapters) and Matthew 6:20something-to-the-end and Romans 8:28. It's kind of oxymoronic that when you most feel like it's so important to enjoy life, you end up worrying about not enjoying it and that's not at all enjoyable. :-D

I find it interesting that in y'alls comments, James can't wait to be 17 and Caleb dreads turning 15. I'm sure there's some deep psychological meaning to that, but I'm sure I don't know it, unless it's that maybe Caleb really likes being 14, and is happy with how life is going, and James doesn't like being 16 and doesn't like how life's going. But how am I supposed to know!

Ok then, James, Kara and Bea are going to be seniors next year, except KnB don't really count because they're not in highschool anymore.

I think feeling like life's slipping away too fast makes it more important to make sure you're on the right track and you're not wasting time that you're going to have to go back and do over. that doesn't make sense. I guess I mean it's important to learn the lessons you're supposed to learn now and not have to go back and relearn it later.

OK, ENOUGH philosophy for the day or week or month, I will now return to realms of solid life and my normal blogging topics.

Like TOMORROW IS MY FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK!!!! SUNDAY, CHA CHA CHA! SUNDAY, CHA CHA CHA! SING WITH ME NOW! Youth group starts back up, I can't wait to see what everyone's up to, James and Gina are probably coming, although who knows what we're doing for Sunday School. I guess if worst comes to worst and Matt didn't get a sub (which I consider highly unlikely) we can just HANG OUT!!!

I should probably get dressed now. Or NOT. Ha!

New Year's Ruminations

So, it's like, 2006, and it's the next to last day of firsts--first Monday, first Tuesday, you get the idea.

I made lots of nifty resolutions, most of which have actually made it through the week. Mostly. I have a checklist I go through at night, whcih might possibly make it through next week. I aim low.

What's really on my mind at the moment, however, is how fast time is going. Which I've told like 3 people already tonight, but it's forming such a definite blah blah balh thing in my mind (yeah, I call that definite!) that I decided to blog about it. Oh! Oh! the word I want is list, it's forming a definite list in my mind of all the ways time is flying.

• It's 2006, for heaven's sakes.
• Sophia is a little girl and not a large baby.
• James and Isaiah are going to be seniors next year.
• Doreeeeeee, Bruce, and Fishy are coming to LT.
• I'm learning to drive in a few months.
• I'm sixteen, for heaven's sakes.
• Tonight we went to Jeni's bridal shower, and I realized that there will be very very few of them in between hers and my friends'. Or mine, even scarier.

But, bridal showers don't happen every day, or even every 6 months, so, I'm overfreaking a little bit. But it's still scary how the days turn into weeks turn into years and it's just gone! Well, there I go overfreaking again, but you know what I mean. Oh, Doreeeee just reminded me that I've already done a post like this. But it's merited.

I think I'm scared, like Bailey, of time, and not having enough of it, even though I'm not going to die anytime soon, Lord willin and the crik don't rise.

And on that slightly depressing note, I will close.

Links

I'd like to draw everyone's attention to the fact that I've updated my links list way down at the bottom of the page (why does it do that?)

I'd also like to point out some games: an LT answer game on Meg's xanga, and a currently tied Mafia game on caleb's. Go to those!

Also, I really am going to post about New Year's resolutions and all that. Really. Really really.

no, really.