Saphira!

My new parakeet that I got a few weeks ago.

The Zoo

On Thursday some families from our homeschool group went to the Columbus zoo. I had to do my latin class that morning at a Panera in Columbus, so I missed the 1st hour and a half of the zoo, but during the 2nd hour and a half I got some really sweet pictures!



I know I'm kind of obsessed with these onetruemedia video's lately, but it's the easiest way to put a lot of pics on one post, and I have so much trouble picking which ones to post otherwise!



So here's a video of our trip to the zoo. The 1st one is a cool pic of my two friends and my shoes. If I ever make an album..that'll be the cover. ;-)

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Stubenville Day 1

I got to go this year!! (and yes. This is VERY LATE!)

But I'm still going to post all about it. By request of Aunt Sarah.


Friday morning I woke up..I think I actually woke up! I wasn't woken up! Anyway, I hurriedly packed the rest of my stuff into my duffle bag and crammed my purse full of stuff. We drove over to Emmanuel at about 11:30. There were a lot more kids going than I had expected, and I only knew like 2 of them. I quickly found my friend Rosa and met a group of girls (Allison, Celia, Mary Kate, and Maddie) that I ended up hanging out with the entire weekend.
It was pretty chaotic in the youth group room, but eventually they got us all outside and our bags in the vans. Then they made us get a big circle and pray..welll..they didn't make us pray. Then we had to go around and introduce ourselves. Next they assigned vans to people. I was lucky because I ended up in a mini-van with Rosa, her cousin Mary Kate, a leader, and two girls named Brenna and Amanda. It would have been kind of special if I'd had to ride with a bunch of people I didn't know. Anyway...we started driving, but were quickly interrupted because the youth group leader, Mr. Popp had to stop and get something at his house.

The drive there was pretty boring. We sang with the one girl's ipod, stopped at McDonalds for lunch, got gas, stopped to give motrin to someone in another car...and FINALLY....got there!!


We were late, so we had missed mass and some of the opening talks. The leaders in our group gave us wristbands and happened to make mine really tight. (Oh well..it was pretty loose by the end of the weekend.) We tried to remain inconspicuous when we entered the fieldhouse, but heads turned and stared. The students helping with the conference quickly found us seats in the VERY back, but that was ok, because we were right by a door, and we could see just fine.


The MC talked for a while and then we sang a little bit. Next they started Eucharistic Adoration. It was really powerful. The group in front of us were dropping like flies; being Slain in the Spirit. Only, I didn't know what being slain in the Spirit was, so I thought we had a special needs group kneeling (well actually laying) in front of us. There was this one guy who fell over, was given smelling salts, taken away in a wheelchair, and came walking back perfectly fine....only to fall over again when the Eucharist passed us in Adoration.

After Adoration, they let us go for the night. We got some pizza because we had missed dinner, and then we went to our dorms. The girls all had to crowd into one dorm room..well..two bedrooms, 4 beds, a little living space, all hard floors, and about 30 girls. I slept on the floor. And that was the end of Day 1!

School, sleepovers, and skinny jeans

I can't believe school is about to start! It's ridiculous! I mean..I haven't even finished last year's work! Latin started last week, so I've been busy trying to remember how to decline nouns. grr. School starts this Tuesday, and we went to orientation last Monday. It was a lot of fun! I got my uniforms!!! (I need to stop using exclamation marks..I think I'm just a little too excited about starting school)

Anyway, after orientation..I went to a good friend's house for our 1st annual 'BM back to school bash'. (BM stands for Best Mate..unless you're a member and you know the secret meaning) We made t-shirts and died...no...dyed our hair with kool aid. It was fun..even if I had to sleep with tin foil in my hair all night..and even though I had to wash my hair right away the next morning because it was so sticky and greasy from the conditioner/kool aid mixture. Maybe next year we'll use real hair dye..but a week before school starts is not a good time to streak your hair red when the dress code says "No unnatural hair colors". We felt safer using kool aid, after being assured by several friends and cousins that it would rinse out on the first try. (and the BM budget couldn't afford real hair dye) Anyways, the only place it really showed up was my freakishly blond streak in the front..left over from my blond days (when I was little..).

And you might be wondering why the title contains 'skinny jeans'..some of you may remember, and I confess that I have been heard to say "I hate skinny jeans", "I'll never wear those", and even"We should start a flare rebellion against skinny jeans and wear flares even when they go out of style, which will hopefully be never!". *sigh* Yes, I did, in fact, say all of those things. And I'm paying for it now. I've been teased, tormented, and stared at (ok..maybe not the last two). But, while I was in VA..I broke down..and...and...and...I got a pair of skinny jeans. And the worst part is..I LIKE THEM! Anyways..you'll probably see pictures of me in them later, but I'm not a model (despite all my self pics in costumes) and I refuse to post pics of me in them specifically for the purpose of showing off my skinny jeans. HA. (if you look carefully in the upcoming "zoo" post, you'll see me wearing them.

So, now I'm off to keep writing up new posts (I got over a blogger's block all of a sudden and have about 50 posts planned for the next few days before school starts..oh....I guess that'd be only a day. *sigh*), but not before I post a few pics of the BM t-shirt I made. (pics of my uniform will appear sporadically throughout the year, I'm sure)

And the 2nd half..

of our trip was when we went to the Clancy's house. Everyone (except me) was pretty homesick by now, so Mommy drove home with them after day at the Clancy's and I stayed a whole extra week! I got to spend a lot of time with two of my best friends, Caitie and Allison (well, not a lot of time with Allison, but a day and night) and I got to see some other great friends.

Here are some pictures:

Us at the Clancy's right before my mom and siblings left. Mei mei wouldn't appear for the pic because she was mad that I got to stay an extra week.
The National Shrine/Basilica that we saw on a field trip with Caitie's Youth Group

Christina, Me, and Caitie in front of the Shrine

Caitie and I, and our failed attempt at a self-pic. Actually, we did have some where it wasn't off-center, but we both look best in this one.

Allison and I had better luck with our self pic.

So remember..I went on a trip

Well, I've got lotsa pics. Here's a slide show from our trip to Aunt Ali and Uncle Sean's.

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The property

So they're building a new bridge on the property now. (We still don't know if we're moving there, but the owner needs a bridge anyway) We went there last weekend and I took some pictures...

The beginning of the bridge

Choo choo, Charlie, and Nastia inspecting the bridge

A little fishing hole created when they dammed up the stream

The driveway

Chaser likes it there..no electric fences

I got a...

cell phone! Yay!

Riddles

Here are a few riddles Caitie and I found while looking on this site. 

1.

I have hands that wave at you,

But I never say "Goodbye."

It's cool for you to be with me,

Especially when I say, "HI."

What am I?

2. 

The man who made it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it.  

3. 

I am weightless but you can see me. Put me in a bucket and I make it lighter. What am I?

4. 

You do not want to have me

But when you have me

You do not want to lose me.

What am I?

5. Take away the whole and still be left with some. What is it?

Answers

1. electric fan  (hee hee ;-D)

2. a coffin

3. A hole

4. a lawsuit (haha)

5. The word wholesome 

Survey thingy from Emily

Name: Eomer, son of Eomund

Age: 24ish

August is: A time when spiders infest my sister's bedroom and I am constantly having to go assist in the squishing of them.

Crocodiles or Alligators: These outlandish sounding names seem rather Haradrim-ish.

New obsession: Staring at my amazingly handsome face in the mirror for hours on end.

People always say to me: "Eomer, thou art the most handsome and brave Rohirrim ever to ride the plains Rohan."

I wish: I had a mirror with real glass instead of burnished silver.

I love: Gazing at my reflection.

I want it to be: Spring, so I can hunt for Warg meat. (my sister doesn't like it, but I think it has a nice healthy dirt taste to it)

I don't have: A purpose in life.

Money is: What exactly is that?

Jenny is: ummm...some type of exotic plant?

Emily is: Orc-ish for Stinky Foot.

Nailpolish is: A kind of fluid mixed by the elves and used to polish the iron nails that hold their boats together, when they're tired of singing Gregorian-like chants and acting strange and mystical.

A/C are: some kind of crude dwarf runes.

Icebreakers are: large axe-like objects that are used by the strange people of the freezing North, to break their drinks into bite size pieces. 

The Yankees are: more unusual dwarf runes, which, unless I'm much mistaken, mean "overlong fingers."

Who will repost this: My good friend, the unfortunate plain faced, Aragorn.