Like, wow

God does not disappoint--Lt was AMAZING. :-) I could probably write a post that would take you an hour to read about every little detail, but I'll try to stick to the highlights.

Just to get me warmed up, I'll write about Anonymous. Almost every night, someone banged on our door. They didn't knock. BANG BANG BANG. We were like, what in the world? We discovered that somebody was leaving us gifts. There was always a note in the same capital handwriting, and it said something like, "Candles for you" or "Sorry, we thought they were journals. Enjoy!" The note was always signed -ANONYMOUS. We got planners which they thought were journals, two boxes of candles, brownie mix and an egg, cinnamon rolls in the tubes that you can get from Pillsbury (cinnabun GRANDS), and chocolates. DOVE chocolates--my favorites. We were completely stumped. We knew it had to be guys, because guys would be much more likely to buy planners without flipping through them and realizing they were journals, and it wasn't our guys. They're good liars when they have to be, but they're not THAT good! We also knew it couldn't be the Rock girls because Kara and Bea, who were staying with them, knew nothing about them and anyway we didn't think it was girls. Finally, at the end of the last night, there was an announcement: "Would the Grace Summit girls please go to the back: Anonymous has a gift for you." There were Jacob, Joey, and Alec with pink carnations for all of us!! That was so much fun, so sweet, and so inspiring. :-) I must admit, the Grace Point guys are good liars too. We were so confused. We didn't have a clue who it was. :-P

I had such a great time getting to know everyone better. It was truly a life changing week. I've said it a few times and I'm sure I'll say it a few times more, you wake up on your birthday and think, "I feel exactly the same as I did yesterday." You don't feel a year older. But I think we all feel a little older now--I can see the change in everyone. Wow.

I'm so excited to talk to the church next Sunday--to hear what everyone else has to say, too. And to do worship with everyone. I'm also really excited to see how God works through everybody and in everybody in the coming months. I think this LT is going to make a lasting difference. It's really exciting.

LT:
awesome worship
crazy boys
Kevin jumping on Caleb
crying our eyes out
using half a box of tissues
inspiring teachings
goofy announcements
BANANA MAN
we <3>
twins/triplets/quadruplets...octuplets!
Angie
Cayley
Hannah
Elysia
Rachel
Kara
Bea
Meg
Liz
Jen
Lori
Mr. Dad/H-Unit/Mr. H
Tony
Tom
Jeremiah
Caleb/C2
James
Kevin

I love you guys! You all rock and I can't wait to see you saturday!! (Or e-mail you in the coming days, or see you soon, or whatever.)

=0) :-P

Sin has lost its power
Death has lost its sting
From the grave you've risen
Victoriously!

Here I am waiting
Abide in me I pray
Here I am longing
For You.
Hide me in Your love
Bring me to my knees
May I know Jesus more and more.

Come live in me
All my life take over
Come breathe in me
And I will rise on eagle's wings.

And they're off!

I'm going to post really quickly in the lull before going to Wal-Mart-- You can't go on vacation without a last trip to the store! We're leaving in less than 6 hours to go to church to drive to Columbus to get on a bus for Myrtle Beach. Oh yessss. <):-D I'm so excited I"m not even letting myself think about it or I might explode. Here comes the best week of the summer. Yeah. I don't even have anything more to say. Or I might get so excited that I'll explode. :) I'm almost all packed--everything is in the general vicinity of the bags, if not in them.
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Ok, if you don't know what all the excitement is about, HSLT!!! High school Leadership Training. Our entire youth group and several others from our association of churches are going to Myrtle Beach to learn about leadership etc. I CAN'T EVEN WAIT. So I'll stop thinking about it and go to Wal-Mart.
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I'll miss you all, when I have time to think about you!! :'(
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Adios, amigos!
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Oh, here's the LT website, if you want to check it out!
http://hslt.tv

i have way too much to do to be posting. so I won't.

life is just crazy.

Well, we just got back from our week long vacation, check out Doreeeee's blog for more details. All I have to say is: Clue is seriously more fun than I ever knew before! I'm addicted. Also, food rocks. But we knew that already. And, the mosquitoes are biting me again. Right now I have a total of 7 bites, 2 of which have a tendency to swell. Not bad bad, but I haven't gotten more than 1 at a time in the last 5 years.

I seem to forget vacation completely when I get home because the "rushing around life mentality" gets shoved back on immediately. Not that that's bad, I don't really mind, I'm just submerged in life again. I think it's going to take a lot of discipline to do everything I want to accomplish, but discipline brings peace. That's just a fact. I can prove it if you challenge it. :-D

4 days of babysitting this week, ok never mind I"m not going to think about how much is going on this week. One day at a time. :-)

It's so good to be home. Vacation was seriously fun and I wouldn't exchange it for anything (except LT) but it's still so good to be home. I can't imagine leaving for more than a week.

Oh and Ted if you read this, I am endeavoring to work in piano somewhere. It's getting worked in so far! :-D Also, my aunt, whom we visited, is a piano teacher, and she said we have a really good teacher. And HER teacher said we have a really good teacher. Well, we knew that! Our family is sweet because everoyne's so musical, there's always a recital somewhere in there. There was also a "jam session" when my uncle was playing the bass, Evan was playing the drums, Anthony on electric guitar, Dad and, um...the pope's grandma? on the piano, and Aunt Lou on the keyboard. Can you say wow?

Anyway, off to praise and worhip/ice cream social night. Does it get any better than this? I don't think so.

Spontaneity is a fun word.

I wouldn't be posting if I wasn't feeling spontaneous. Wait, say spontaneity. You don't say spon-ta-nay-it-ee, you say spont-nnn-a-it-ee. Wow. That's really really funny.
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Anyway. This has been a pretty crazy week. I'm going to do a little research from last year about this time. Ok, August 22. I made a list of babysitting statistics. Check it out. All I have to say this time is: I babysat 3 families in 4 days for 29 hours. And did VBS in the evenings. I don't remember too much of it, actually. haha. I was still pretty tired from RELAY. See guys, I got 5 hours of sleep because I knew I would be recovering from it for a week anyway, even though I didn't stay up all night! Read Fishy's or Gina's or Dory's Xanga if you want relay details.
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Today Meghan's coming over!!!! For a whole week!!! Well, probably not a whole week, because we're going to be in Atlanta this time next week. haha. Yup that's right, we're doing a TN/GA trip this year for our family trip. It should be fun. Scratch that, it WILL be fun.
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Ok, books everyone needs to read.
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The Anybodies/The Nobodies.
The Barbarian way.
There's a boy in the girl's bathroom. Sounds immature, I know, and it was written for kids who are younger than I am, but I still really liked it.
Small Steps. Decent book. you don't have to read this one. if you don't want to. The rest are all mandatory if you want to be my friend. Haha, just kidding. :O)
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I'm wearing a new outfit. Or did. To church this morning. And, I'm wearing a new outfit to YOUTH GROUP tonight. I'm adding more blue and green into my wardrobe. I love the thrift store. You'd think we spend thousands of dollars on clothes, if you look at how many new things we get, but when every item costs about 3 bucks.... and when your mother trash picks--I mean recycle bin picks--I mean recycle bin peeks-- for coupons...like I said, I love the thrift store.
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And. I don't know what else to say. So the spontnnnneity wore off. Byez!

Hi, guess who...me again!!

I guess I don't really have to post if I have nothing to say...oh yeah, I ran around the neighborhood twice this morning--13 mins and 16 mins. Let's just say I was pretty tired the second time. I felt awesome the first time, I could've run really fast if my lungs had just cooperated. They weren't so awesome.

Youth group last night was spectacular, we did a scavenger hunt--mostly scavenging in Jason and Angie's house, but that worked out alright because we could return things. =0) Well, my team (and my half of my team) mostly looked for common things in their house. It was quite fun to just hang out, but yall were right, I do think too much!! Haha! I drove there and back; it was nice to have somewhere to go that wasn't just driving around aimlessly. It'll be a happy day when I can turn smoothly, though!

And today we went shopping for dad, but we all got something for us (of course!!) I got a pair of socks with monkeys and bananas that say "Go Bananas" on them. ILOVEUM. And I got foundation that I can actually use. =0)

I think I'll keep this shortish, one cuz I can't think of anything else to say and two because I still need to practice piano and send several e-mails--both of which I fully intend to do today!!

eh...alrighty then...send me an e-mail, leave me a comment, IM me, give me a call, y'know. =0) Y'all rock! Luv ya!

Oh, and comment on Hannah's xanga. You all forgot about her. Dudes. http://www.xanga.com/theultimatelove or http://doryack.blogspot.com Either is fine, they say the same thing. =-D But you have to have a xanga account to comment on xanga. *=0)

quick checking in...:-D

Today I did a lot of cleaning. Cleaning the K's house (she paid us A RIDICULOUS amount of money, but we're grateful :-) and cleaning out closets for the garage sale. Oh, and my piano lesson today went quite well, surprisingly...I don't know why I was expecting it to be so bad...haha. AND Dad told my piano teacher my blog address, so welcome Ted! haha! I like having new people read my blog. :-D Maybe if I have Gina AND Ted reading I can talk about piano more, since it might interest some of the audience. haha. Not Gina Ted's wife, Gina...um...James' girlfriend. :-D But somehow I wouldn't be surprised if they knew each other. It would be surprising, but it's a small world.

Anyway, I'm kicking off babysitting tomorrow in a grand fashion--9ish hours. Lovely. But it'll be fun. And the garage sale is this weekend, most of which I'm missing, because once again, I'll be babysitting. :) And right now, Katie has to check out her SAT course. One of the balls to juggle, you know. You guys rock! *mwah*

Dudes and dudettes awaken...

So I guess I'm joining the circus this summer. Where else would you juggle a million and two balls while trying to keep everything balanced (on a high wire)?

Oh yeah, my life. *:0p

The title mostly refers to the fact that NO ONE (except my sister, of course) has commented, despite the fact that you were all clamoring for me to post...haha

In other news, tomorrow I'm going to have the worst piano lesson of my high school career, and there really isn't anything I can do about it. Yeah, that is as depressing as it sounds. Like, seriously, Hannah's more ready for her lesson and she just had one. So. Yeah. This whole summer, no-school thing has me really wrong footed, hence less practicing. What happened to my routine?? What happened to my predictability?? I guess you could say my boat just got rocked and it'll simply take awhile for it to stop and for me to get my balance. At least, I hope so. And I hope I do nothing to further rock the boat. We shall see...luv you guys!!!! *hugs and kisses* (e-hugs, not air hugs! haha, Kay! :-D) *mwah*

Oh and let's not forget that we still get Harry Potter and Ice cream at night--some things never change--at least, not along with everything else.;-)

Ok, really truly now...

Right, I don't know why this week has been SO crazy, but it has. Well, just a lot of things that mean I"m not on the computer, like a rummage sale, which took 6 or 7 hours, the dance rehearsal, which took 3 or 4 (or 5 or 6--haha, jk) hours, and baking for the rummage/bake sale, which took 1 or 2 hours, haha I'll stop now. Oh, and a PAR-TAY, which took 3 or 8 hours, depending on when you left. *:0) Maybe I'll just post about all of those.

The party was so awesome! If you couldn't come, don't worry, we're definitely going to try to do that again (at least I am, haha), and if you could come, thanks for making it SO MUCH FUN. We basically played 4 hours of Mafia, an hour or so of Ultimate Frisbee (which ROCKED) and ate and talked and ate some more. And then later we played Apples to Apples. Muy divertido. Oh, and I think it should probably be recorded on my blog that I won my first ever (and probably only) game of Mafia where I was the Mafia!! I had to totally lie to Hannah's face, but that's the only time I'll lie (or kill, haha), so it's ok! I finally had enough practice being a townsperson to know what I'm like when I'm a townsperson. That way I could act like it without looking suspiciously different than usual.

Let's see, the dance rehearsal--I wouldn't call it "fun," but it was enjoyable. I love seeing everyone's dances, you all looked awesome! lylas! Everyone looks a lot more grown-up than last year. I still don't feel like I'm completely ready, but I think we'll do ok. I wasn't as nervous as I've been at past dance rehearsals, I think I'm not taking it as seriously. It'll be serious for the recital, though! Like, I guess what I mean is I don't feel like it's the end of the world if I mess up, just really disappointing.

Bake/Rummage sale: It went really well, we made an amazing amount of money, considering that I think the biggest amount any one customer spent was about $9. I think it was because business was slow but steady all day; I think there was a customer there the entire time except for the beginning and ending hours. I think too much. Hopefully things are going as well (or better) today, on day 2.
I baked banana chocolate chip muffins on Thursday for the bake sale, and you probably won't believe this, considering that I make them all the time, but it was the first time I've ever made them without Mom helping! haha! She usually puts them in the oven and/or washes dishes, you see. And then I made some oatmeal chocolate chip cookie batter (Abby helped :0) )and she helped us bake them after she got back from shopping. :-D

I can't believe school's over! Well, it's not truly over until Mom quizzes me on history questions and MY REPORT IS DONE. And then I'll start SAT/ACT courses and stuff, so I guess school's never really over, but, all the same...I'm still half-considered a junior now! I won't think about that for now...too weird! Oh, and since Copley doesn't get out for a few more days, James, Gina, Cayley and I can all be considered juniors at once! haha!

SUMMERTIME!!! wow............... ........................ IT'S GONNA SO TOTALLY ROCK, DUDE! I'm super super superrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!! looking forward to LT! I can't wait to get to know Bruce and Fishy better and meet all of Meg's friends (again) and have Angie going along (why have we always known more about LT than our leaders?? lol) and I really hope the guys can find a leader! I know they will in the end. :-) We should totally have a pre-LT lock-in/sleepover thing, maybe just for the girls!!!!!!!! I'm glad Gina can come too!!!!! yippeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm super super excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like, super super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(this is abby just standing by and she uses lots and i mean lots of exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) WELL YEAH! IT'S LT! :-D I don't know how I'm going to make it another, um, 48 ish days!!! YIPPEEEEE!!

Ok, I should probably reply to allayall's e-mails now!LYLAS! *:0)

fake post, made ya look.

I'll post soon! Like, guaranteed before Thursday and probably sooner, but I can't guarantee sooner. =-> I've just been partying all weekend and I haven't been up here on the computer much because it's been so hot upstairs, especially in the computer room because it generates so much heat. But I'll get on the ball tomorrow or Wednesday, answer my e-mails, get back on track.

I must say though, (so maybe this isn't such a fake post,) I've had so much fun partying this weekend! Sunday was awesome, I haven't gotten to just hang out and have fun like that for tooooo long! So thank you thank you everyone who could come, and everyone who couldn't, call me/e-mail me/talk to me and we'll get together! :-D Then today was second verse, same as the first, but this time with family and shopping. :-D And a little less mafia--ok, no mafia. But sunday definitely made up for it. =->

Enough of a post for you? I gotta go to bed, so I hope so!

LAUGH.

http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook.html

go here, it's so funny...if you like rap, I guess. The funny thing is my Bible's pretty small. But it's getting "worn and torn."

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly I

The Good

We went to DC for 4 days! I'll try not to include every little morbid detail, but I am going to include quite a lot of them, so bear with me, because this is going to be a LONG series of posts.


Thursday: We drove in, which was really pretty boring and I have nothing to say about it except three things. 1. We listened to Magician’s Nephew on CD—very interesting, what with all the allegory. 2. I did about 3 Sudokus. 3. A vacation is not a vacation without coke icees!! They rock!

Thursday evening we drove into DC and went to a bunch of memorials: The Washington Monument, which is HUGE. I mean, HUGE. When you get up close to it and look up, you pretty much can’t see anything else. I really liked how you could see it from everywhere.
Then we made our way to the WW2 memorial, which was really cool: lots of fountains and running water, and pillars with all of the states’ names on them. I liked how they had famous quotes from that time all over it too. There were Middle schoolers (probably 8th graders) EVERYWHERE.
We hiked up to the Korean war memorial, which has statues of men in gear with really expressive looks on their faces. There was also a sort of fountain, a flat fountain I guess, with “Freedom is not free” above it.
Next on the route was dear old Abe. The Lincoln memorial is really huge! Ginormous! Again, there were tons of school kids, and so many flashing cameras you would’ve thought Lincoln was a celebrity on the red carpet! Hannah and I acted out the scene from National Treasure that’s on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and just as we were both saying, “Not SHOULDN’T, be done, it CAN’T, be done,” a gaggle of girls walked up and asked if they could get a picture with us. “Uh, sure…?” Our best guess is either that they were doing a scavenger hunt (not likely) or that they wanted a picture with the crazy girls re-enacting National Treasure (not very likely either).
Then we went to the Vietnam Memorial, with the looooooooong wall. It was ridiculously long. With an incomprehensible number of names, it was just too much to even take in, much less to imagine all the men and all the families.
That was pretty much Thursday.

Comment at will. :-D

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly II

Friday

We rode the metro in to DC. It wasn’t a smooth ride, but at first I couldn’t tell when we went up or down or turned corners, just because it was so wobbly the rest of the time too. I also got very good at riding escalators in and out of the metro stations. Some of you may not know this, but I used to be afraid of riding escalators, especially down. Once when I was little I stepped on with one foot and not the other and almost fell down the steps, so I haven’t liked them too much since.
We started out the day at the American History Museum. It was a lot more interesting, since we had just read all about most of this stuff. We saw a copy of the Declaration, one of the original 30 or something. It was very interesting, because it was a lot clearer than the real one and you could examine it at your leisure. We also saw videos about the presidents, very interesting, especially one that interviewed the last few presidents about the presidency—Ford, Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton, etc. I think I forgot one. Anyway, we started making our way to the Capitol after eating at Subway, but we made quite a few detours on the way. We stopped at the National Archives and saw the real Declaration and the Constitution, etc. They were amazingly faded, I mean, I know they’re 250 years old and all, but having just seen a copy I didn’t expect them to be so weathered. We walked through a bit of the National Gallery of Art, which was really exciting—we saw so many of the pictures we’ve seen in books. Like, Renoir’s A Girl with a Watering Can, and one of a dancer; two of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Series, a Japanese bridge, and a sunset. There was also a whole exhibit of Cezanne that had a mile long line the next day—we just buzzed through and didn’t think it was all that impressive. What was the other exciting one? Hmm, can’t remember. Oh, Renoir's Oarsmen at Chateu or something like that, names don't mean much to me! We did see Cassat’s painting of the two chubby toddlers playing in the sand on the beach, that one was cool.
Anyway, we walked past the white house too. It would be SO. WEIRD. to live there.
I think those are all of our detours. When we finally made it to the Capitol, we just sat on the wall in front of it and looked at it and ate our snacks and relaxed awhile. I quite liked that part of the day.

We took the metro back to the hotel and ate a small dinner at Applebee’s. Nothing too extraordinary.

Keep going! I suggest you read these one a day, or you're going to get bored. haha. I don't expect any extraordinary commments, but I would like to know who all read this! You get extra Katie points if you do!

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly III

Saturday:
Second verse, same as the first, a little bit longer and…about the same. :-D This time we started at the Air and Space Museum, saw the Spirit of St. Louis and some cool exhibits on the Planets. Then we started wandering around DC again, usually with a purpose. I can’t really remember what order we did these in, but we went back to the Art museum to see Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. We just finished studying her. We also saw Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de Benci, which I’ve also examined in a book. It’s a portrait of a bored looking girl, the only Leonardo portrait in America. It was pretty cool—it didn’t look like a painting, but neither like a photograph. Georgia O’Keeffe’s were SO COOL. They were the Jack-in-the-Pulpits, 2-6. They were HUGE. I really like her style of painting. If I painted, which I don’t intend to, my style would be like hers a bit or a lot.

We visited the Botanical Gardens, mostly because we ended up there. That was pretty cool, to see all those different plants in one place, and all different places too—a jungle in one room, and a desert in the next. Needless to say, I loved seeing all the sweet cacti in the desert room. The flowers were GORGEOUS, definitely worth the stop.

We went to the Natural History museum and saw a million animals. I don’t know how God thought of all of them! That was pretty sweet, and then we went to the gems and stones section and saw the Hope diamond, which was spectacular for a diamond but nothing compared to all the sparkling crystals in the next exhibit! Those were seriously magnificent, I don’t care if they’re pretty common, they were huge and sparkly. Some were just giant jewel-type-things, some were plain looking rocks that had a portion cut away to show the crystals coating the inside (never judge a rock by its cover). Some looked like mini sculptures, like something you’d see on the streets of DC (they have these random, abstract sculptures every few blocks). One looked like a painting of a tree, surprisingly enough. I really really liked that section.

After the Natural History museum, we were about done in, so we went back to the American History museum to sit outside and rest like we did at the capitol on Friday. That was quite nice too; we bought an ornament at the last second from the gift shop so that we’ll have something to remember our trip by every year. We stopped at Arlington Cemetery on the way home, it’s a stop on the metro so it was right on our way. It was about to close, so we only stayed 15 minutes and didn’t get very far in at all, but the amount of headstones and crosses was still astounding. Especially when you imagined a man standing in place of each one, that is a multitude of people.

Sunday:
We had only a couple more things we wanted to see: The FDR memorial, and the Thomas Jefferson memorial. Like so many other things on this trip, we stumbled across the George Mason memorial as well. He drafted the Articles of Confederation, which was the pre-government of America that didn’t work out so well. The FDR memorial was quite nice, quotes and waterfalls everywhere. I think he probably would’ve rolled over in his grave if he knew how much it cost, I think it was something like $42 million. I could have that completely wrong, but I think it sounds right.
That was our awesome amazing superlative trip to DC. The weather was wonderful the whole time!! Everything worked perfectly, without even having any major disasters!

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly IV

The Bad

Our feet hurt so badly by the end of each day! Hence the sitting around at the Capitol and History Museum. My back also started to hurt on Saturday, just a little bit. By Sunday we were quite ready to sit in the car for the long trip home, listening to The Magician’s Nephew and the beginning of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And eating more Icees. But that was the only bad (and also unavoidable) thing in our trip.

The Ugly

I haven’t run or driven in almost two weeks! I was going to run tonight, but when we went for a walk and my legs and back started to hurt again, I decided to write this novel instead. So the next time I run it’ll be Wednesday, and I won’t be driving till after that.

I also need a haircut—nothing major, just a trim! You won’t even be able to tell! Well, Bea will, haha!

So, my life's going well, trying to get back on track and catch up with everyone. I've heard about youth group and church from several people, but I'll ask again, how did they go? If you've already answered once, you don't have to answer again. Love you guys, talk to you later! Call me or e-mail!
(If you read all this, you win the Katie Prize of the Week. :-D There’s no reward, just my gratitude. :-D)

Driving and Running, Driving and Running

Last night we ended up driving. It was fun, but I never think it's fun until afterwards because during I'm so tense! But it went pretty well, I didn't hit any mailboxes or cars or cats or pedestrians. =0D AND at the end I went on the expressway(as seen below)! Just for like, a mile and a half, but it was still kind of freaky. lol.

And then this morning I went for a run, just around the neighborhood once with no cul-de-sacs. 13 mins. Not bad, considering I haven't run in almost a week, but not good, considering when I did run a week ago it only took 12 mins. Well, last week I ran by myself thursday (that was the 12 minute route) and then on Friday Dad, Hannah and I ran around twice. That one was closer to a mile route, which was about 10 and 14 mins, I think.

Anyway, I have to keep moving but I felt like posting a short little something. =0D

CHRIS WAS IN THE BOTTOM 3!!!

WHO NEEDS A BOYFRIEND

TO HAVE INTENSE

EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT

PROBLEMS WHEN YOU

DRIVE ON THE

EXPRESSWAY

FOR THE FIRST TIME AND

WATCH AMERICAN IDOL'S

RESULTS SHOW ALL IN

THE SAME NIGHT???

HEY PEOPLES

Guess what?????

Huh? I don't know.

2 exciting things:

1. Angie and Jason are having a baby!!!!
2. I had SO MUCH FUN last night! We had a 40 Days small group party, and Elysia, Hailee and Erin, plus their cousin Emily, plus me and my sisters, played APPLES TO APPLES. It was rocking awesome. I was in a really weird mood though...I think I was just high on life from actually getting to have fun with my buddies. Which would explain the raucous singing of Home on the Range...

GET YOUR HSLT APPLICATION NOW! It takes longer than 10 mins to fill out, unless of course you have a photocopy of what you sent in last year, in which case just white out the age and send it in again...I don't, but it's not a bad idea. www.hslt.tv. do it now.

Oh and this is the post that all the people who read my blog but don't comment have to comment. If you read this, take 30 seconds and comment. You click on "__ comments" at the bottom, and then you have two choices: you can either be anonymous, but sign your name, or you can be "other." I don't care what you comment (I recommend a sweet smiley face o algo en espanol) just say something! :-D

If you can't tell I'm a little boisterous at the moment...well, let me just tell you, you wouldn't be able to see it by looking at me! I look like a bump on a ...desk chair, with really fast moving fingers.

Dance tonight. There are actually few enough weeks left that you could count down pretty easily. Speaking of which

UNDER 100 DAYS TILL LT! SO GET YOUR FORMS IN! AND GET READY TO WORK HARD AND EARN SOME MONEY!

So I should probably go outside and run or something. It's too hot to run! I should run today, but I don't see when I'll have time, because we're eating soon and then I'll have dance. Maybe possibly afterwards, if I don't drive. Driving or running...possibly neither...because AI's on. We still haven't watched the last 3 people. *sigh* somebody good's going to get kicked off...unless it's Ace...in which case I won't shed I tear. I told you I'm not your average girl! lol.

I'll stop rambling and let you resume your average, normal, uncrazified lives now. Oh wait, "average"="crazified." Hmm.

Don't forget to comment! =0D

So what I'm not your average girl
I don't meet the standards of this world
Chasing after boys is not my thing
See I'm waiting for a wedding ring

No more dating
I'm just waiting
Like Sleeping Beauty
My prince will come for me
No more dating
I'm just waiting
'Cause God is writing my love story

Boys are bad; that's certainly not true
'Cause God's preparing one for you
If you get tired waiting till he comes
God's arms are the perfect place to run

Sleep - that's the only thing for me
'Cause when I sleep God's preparing one for me


All the Prince Charmings go after enchanted princesses. Who ever heard of a Prince Charming who didn't go hunt down a princess who was locked up in a tower or in an enchanted sleep? He wouldn't have to hunt her down, if she wasn't locked up in a tower, and that would take all the fun out of it. And the drama out of the story. :-D So stay in the tower, ladies. :)

Warning, drama ahead. It comes with the dragon.

If that didn't make any sense, I'll revise it...lol. Just think about the analogy between a fairy tale and nowaday's "romance."

Leme explain...no, there is too much to 'splain. Leme sum up.

Try running with a limited supply of oxygen, small and infrequent sips of water, and a small meals at weird times that leave you hungry. That's what the past 4 days have been like. QT's (oxygen) have been rushed because I've been sleeping in to make up for not getting enough sleep (small meals). And then I haven't talked to my friends for a decent amount of time all week--lots of water is recommended. If that doesn't make sense, read it over again slowly, and that's just proof of what I'm trying to say.

So somehow there were two Tuesdays this week, and I'm hoping Thursday gets skipped because they're not usually all that great anyway. Today was the equivalent of a Wednesday, if that makes any sense. Wednesday was the second Tuesday, because we were in the Falls all day, from 10 mins after I finished school to bedtime. Past bedtime. So I'm way behind on sleep. And I've had a cold. Not a bad one, but that doesn't matter, I've still only been about 80% of my normal self. If that. Seems like I've been so worried about all the little details I've forgotten about the essentials! Well, I haven't forgotten, I just haven't stayed totally focused and so I run out of time. But hopefully things will go back to normal, Friday will be Friday and not Thursday....

Oh, here's what Wednesday looked like--I don't have time to edit it, so I hope it makes sufficient sense. This is what my away message was, before Dad turned off the computer, at any rate.

We're going to a friend's grandma's calling hours tonight at five for a little bit, dropping dad off at a country-music-station music-survey at 6, and getting dinner somewhere. Then Hannah, Mom and I occupy ourselves for half an hour (ended up being Goodwill, I got a purse and a belt, $3 total!) before my dance class at 7, Hannah's piano lesson at 7:30, I get picked up at 8 and Hannah at 8:30, but our piano teacher'll run late. Then we pick up dad. Sometime, no one knows quite when. Hopefully before Hannah so that we won't have to wait around some more. So that's what I'm doing, and yes it is as crazy as it sounds!

Night all. :-D