Scripture Mastery Songs

So for Seminary, we have to memorize some scriptures. For those of us who are musical learners, there are songs to help us memorize them. I needed something to do to take my mind off food since it's Fast Sunday, so I made of video of them here. The songs are very helpful, but a little... well, wierd. Let me know what you think!

Arg.

I hate spacers. I've had them since last Tuesday, and I still can't eat anything besides soup and pudding and yogurt. What a boring diet. And braces...well, I really hope they aren't much worse...grumble. :S

Streaking World Record

So I was just getting my History book from upstairs when I heard the wierdest story: Some guy wanted to set the world record for highest altitude streaking, so he climbed Mt. Everest and at the top, took off all his clothes. Interesting...

And of course the song that they picked to play for that story was "Top of the World" by the Carpenters...

Christmas

I want it to be Christmas right now...

I miss the feeling of having it be freezing outside but you're inside and warm around your friends and family, maybe around a fire curled up in some blankets....

I need some Christmas music. Ah. That's better. Still, Still, Still... it's a kind of wierd song, but whatever.

I miss the feeling of Christmas. When the world stops and remembers what one perfect man did for all of us.

Yeah. That's what I miss the most.

Sure, the lights and cookies and parties are good...

But there's nothing like the Christmas spirit.

And nothing makes you feel like Christmas more than Christmas music.

Days until Christmas: 87

Bah... stupid fall. Can we at least skip to Thanksgiving?

I am agitated

Okay, Mo and I were talking about the old testament today, specifically the story about God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son to prove his devotion. I have a problem with that. This is supposed to be the same God who is loving and good and caring and everything, right? How does killing your children factor into the equation? The whole "God never meant Abraham to kill Isaac; he just wanted Abraham to prove his allegiance" argument makes no sense. If he were such a good God, why would he need his people to prove their faith by sacrificing their own children in the first place? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. And I don't intend to offend any of you Christians, this particular story just really bothers me.

I Have Found My Theme Song

Top of the World

Such a feelin's comin' over me
There is wonder in most everything I see
Not a cloud in the sky
Got the sun in my eyes
And I won't be surprised if it's a dream.
Everything I want the world to be
Is now coming true especially for me
And the reason is clear
It's because you are here
You're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen.

I'm on the top of the world lookin'down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.

Something in the wind has learned my name
And it's tellin' me thatthings are not the same
In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze
There's a pleasin' sense of happiness for me.
There is only one wish on my mind
When this day is through I hope that I will find
That tomorrow will be just the same for you and me
All I need will be mine if you are here.

I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.

EFY!

Oh wow... EFY was so amazing...

So we met at the church for rides and rode down there... and we got there and found seats and all that good stuff...

And then the first guy spoke and MAN! was he good... at telling stories, acting, piano and guitar... he was funny! And his songs were... wow. Really touching. The whole stadium was silent. It was amazing.

And then we took a break...

And then the second guy talked... and that was cool. His stories were funny. He was a good speaker too. I kept noticing what thier habits were and I could tell that they were both very nervous at the beginning. Speech and Debate is already affecting me...

And then we had dinner. And that was fun. It wasn't windy; thank goodness. And Jessica still has her Mary Poppins bag.

After that we went to the concert. And it was REALLY loud. So I we ended up going outside and talking to the boys.

And then was the dance.......... What can I say? Michael wasn't there. I danced with guys I had never seen before... they played some good songs, some really lame songs.... and the dance was really long.

And then I fell asleep in the car on the way home after being driven crazy by the song I hate more than any other ever written. Seriously, I loathe this song with a passion. Good Morning Baltimore is of the devil, I'm sure of it. Oh yeah, and we listened to some Michael Bubble. Er, Buble, I mean. Whatever. It's Michael Bubble. And then I fell asleep. And then I woke up and went home. And then I fell asleep.

Today Brooke brought Mallory's old elementary school yearbooks to church. And guess who was in there? A certain bear. And, you will all be shocked to hear that in fourth grade....................... He did not have a bowl cut. He looked nothing like he does now. Wierd...

Anyway, that's it. Time to go clean my room.
Love you all!

And may you all have Moriah-endings.

The Wierdest Combination in the World

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates = wierd enough.

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates + classical instruments = what were they thinking?

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates + classical instruments + Japanese girls = Ookaay...

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates + classical instruments + Japanese girls + headbanging = REALLY REALLY WIERD!

Thank you to my mother for the translation of what the heck this is.

Haha, My Troll House!

Well, after all the business with McRiley, I decided to create some fun of my own.
Starting Monday, my locker will be completely decked out with a lower-level troll house!!!
It is beautiful, and full of fun-loving inhabitants.
The mother of the family is named Smurf, and is married to *coughs awkwardly* AJ.
They have a few kids, named Lil' Perp and Princess Diana. Their youngest is handicapped, wears a diaper and blue hair in braids that stick straight up, sleeps in the barn, and is named David.
Li'l Perp is in love with Fabio the Naked Musician, and Princess Diana is in love with their foreign exchange student Bruno. They have a pet cow, named Cowie.
Please don't go around telling people that I have tiny naked men in my locker. Because really, only one of them is completely nude!
On block days, we can spend passing period playing trolls!!! Haha.


Also: the list of memorable quotes from this week

"Part your legs please!"
"I have THE biggest, longest, thickest...ankle!!!"
"YOU! Pants off, NOW!"
"No heifer in here!"
"Please don't go around telling people that I have tiny naked men in my locker."
"Then you could weed the soccer field wearing nothing but tennis shoes!"


Please comment.
Well, that's aboot it.

Have a lovely night- I sure will!

Suing God???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_fe_st/odd_suing_god

This link is the story of a Nebraska senator who sued God.
LOL!!! Okay, this totally cracks me up. A guy actually thinks he can SUE the Almight Creator of the Universe?!?!?! Wow.

Audition Tape Update

Ugh. That was not fun. I hurt. My head hurts because that gave me a headache... my neck, shoulders and back hurt from stressing out. My arms hurt from bowing and playing. My hands hurt from shifting. My fingers hurt from vibratoing. (Is vibratoing a word?) My leg hurts because it just does. My left foot hurts because I just stood on a wood floor for about two hours with all my weight on one foot.

I made my tape in my front room. My front room is perfect for practicing. Why? Because we're still remodeling. The whole thing is wood and paint. There's no carpet or furniture anywhere. And it's bright. Which means that it's acoustics are wonderful... So that's where I made my tape. And why my foot hurts. The floors are wood.

D flat major scale: If only I had gotten the one I didn't record! That was the best... oh well. You can sort of tell that I'm playing a major scale, it only really dies in the third octave. Slurs... well, they're slurs. I suck at them.

B flat melodic minor scale: Dreadful. But I gave up. I'm not getting in anyway... At least you can sort of tell that I'm supposed to be playing a scale.

Overture to Russlan and Ludmila: Actually not horrible. For once I sounded better on the tape than in real life.

Solo piece: Pretty good. Better than usual. Phew.

I still hurt. And I'm tired.

Good night.

Oh No!

Guess what I just found out? My audition tape for Western State Orchestra has to be sent tomorrow. Which means that I have to make it today. And possibly drive to Loveland. Ack!

Wish me luck, I'll need it.

Why did DiGiacomo assign so much homework?

I am irked.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Eternal Perspective

I know that some of you don't believe this, but I feel that this song really helps me keep an eternal perspective. It makes homecoming and school and all our big worries seem so trivial. And it's uplifting, too, to know that God is out there for us.

Yay!

Arg.

Arg. I just finished my story of a carbon atom, which took forever to write and is pretty satirical. Then I looked at the worksheet that actually explains the assignment. Guess what? You're supposed to actually demonstrate the carbon cycle in your paper, not write about an atom that floats through deep space to 4 billion years, get stuck in Mars' crust for 2 billion more years, then gets blown up in a nuclear fission lab. Aren't I a clever little student?

oh, btw

By the way, I think I'm gonna make that newsletter every two weeks, so bimonthly. That way you'll all have time to contribute if you want! Or you can take a breath of fresh air between the surges of nerdiness, either one. lol, l8rs.

You're Know You're a Theatre Geek When...

You go see a musical in the theaters and stay throughout the credits dancing and singing to the music.
You already own the soundtrack and blast it through the car speakers on your way home from said musical.
You see said musical with "the cast"
It's a requirement for your friends to be fluent in "theater lingo"

add your own!

Yarg

I invented the word yarg yesterday. And I have decided it perfectly describes today, which was, to say the least, bizarre. I know Mo's already blogged about it, but I feel like reiterating what she said and adding a few things of my own. Here's my day:

1. Got up, babysat for an hour for these two adorable twin girls who live in my neighborhood.


2. Went berry picking - best season EVER. The raspberries were as thick as thieves, and they're SOOOOOO good. Definately my favorite fruit. I must have eaten at least a pint of them all on my own.


3. Went home, went to Broomfield Days with Mo. That was bizarre. The sequence of events went something like this:

Run into Matt, Mo's stalkers' accomplice. Avoided him for the most part; he was talking to someone else.

See Michael, Mo's stalker. Attempt to climb a tree to avoid him; fail miserably. Forced to talk awkwardly to him for about five minutes before he goes away. I would swear to goodness I've seen him before, a long time ago, but I just can't think when.

Glimpse the back of Teddy Bear's head. Mo starts to hyperventilate. We run away before he sees us. (Mo just happened to be wearing her A/W t-shirt. Brilliant.)

My sis get's thirsty, so we go wait in line for lemonade. Guess who else wants lemonade, and appears out of nowhere RIGHT BEHIND US? Teddy Bear, of course. Mo did a pretty good job of acting normal. We talked about Debate, since he's on the team, and where everyone lives, which was awkward, because I live in the same neighborhood as he does. Mo starts hyperventilating right after he leaves, and suffers severe heart palpitations.

Run into Michael and his friend again. Escape him pretty quickly with the excuse that our sisters have disappeared and we need to find them.

Run into Michael and co. AGAIN. He was stalking Mo, I'm sure of it, even though he acted all surprised to see us.

Leave Broomfield Days.


4. Then we went to the mall to meet Kenz. Her disguise was AMAZING. I honestly didn't recognize her until I heard her voice, I thought she was one of Mo's crazier church friends when we first saw her. She could have been Audrey from Little Shop, with the wig and the skirt and the makeup. That was very amusing :).


5. Went home, and am now blogging about today. What a day it has been.

Yarg.

My Amazing Day!!!!!

Oh my gosh today was so amazing!!!!

Okay so I woke up and posted about how I was grumpy...

But then I had a violin lesson and I played really well! And my pinky vibrato was the best it's ever been!

And then I stressed out about getting together with people.

But then it all worked out and I went to Broomfield Days with UC1, Ariel and UC1's sis.

So we got there and walked around... First we saw Matt... we managed to avoid him.

And then we saw Michael... had to climb a tree to get away from him; it still didn't work. Eventually he got the hint...

And then we walked over to another section... and I was looking at who was there... and who did I see? None other than Tuberculosis.

So we ran away... because I happen to be wearing a shirt given to me by Hannah and Olive...

And we wandered some more

And then UC1's sis was thirsty and wanted lemonade, so we stood in a really long line waiting for it...

And who came over to us while we were in line? You guessed it... Tuberculosis. (Why does he have such an awful name? Tuberculosis is a disease... I guess Olive would say the same of the person though... Anyway...)

So he came over (he was there with his mom) and talked to us... About Speech and Debate and Oratory and where we live and impromptu and theatre and lots of stuff...

And I only freaked out for the first two minutes...

Out of about ten....

And I was happy the rest of the day.


Quotes from today:
"It looks like the red spot on Zeus!" ~ UC1
"******, stop ruining the lawn!" ~ UC1
"I live in Broomfield! I really do! I promise!" ~ Me and UC1

I'll think of more sometime...

So yeah

May you all have Moriah-endings.

Any contributions?

Hey, if anyone has any contributions for the newsletter, then can you e-mail them to me? I'll put them in if I get them in time! Thanks, Kenzer

Reasons I Am... Grumpy

1. Middle of the night last night, 3 in the morning, I wake up in agony. No kidding. My left calf totally tensed up and it hurt like crazy! I just sat there, unable to move in great pain, and then it went away. Apparantly that's called a charley horse and apparantly that means I have a magnesium deficiency. What the heck is magnesium?
2. My teachers are mean. They have given me sooo much homework. I am annoyed...very annoyed...and if it wasn't a weekend I'd be downright livid.
3. I'm hungry, but we have nothing to eat in the house. Well, actually, that sentence needs a correction: I'm hungry, but we have nothing to eat except for disgusting decomposing fruit, soggy waffles and chocolate/brownies/pudding that I'm not supposed to eat. *tummy rumbles* I always get grumpy when I'm hungry.
4. It's the weekend. I want to go to school and be with my friends and have orchestra (which is my new favorite class this year! It's millions of times better than Concert Orchestra was last year.).
5. I can't figure out what music I want to listen to.

I don't know why, but I'm going to try that readability chart we did yesterday in English. Maybe I improved!
100 words/1o sentences/164 syllables
Now that puts me at....

Somewhere between the big gaping hole and 11th grade... That makes a lot of sense.

Well, adieu!
Love ya lots!

May you all have Moriah-endings.

As Long As You're Mine

This is the best song!

Well, both of them, actually...

Can you feel the Expo marker symbolism???

I hope so.

Arg.

Arg. Everyone in my family is grumpy right now, and it's a Friday. You're supposed to be happy on Friday. I mean, it is the weekend, after all. And I can't think of anything good to post. The world is fatally flawed.

Chronicle of a life well lived

Well, here it is, the story of my life. Part of it was created by me, part of it by friends. Let me tell you, it was very fun to write :).

Chronicle of a Life Well Lived

0. Is born. (Duh)
1. Reads first book. (well, technically memorizes book, doesn't
actually read it, but that's just a technicality).
2. Moves to Colorado.
3. Actually learns to read.
4. Gains sibling.
5. Attends kindergarten.
6. Starts Irish step dance.
7. Enrolled at Pioneer Bilingual Elementary School; learns Spanish.
8. Goes to Japan.
9. Goes to Italy.
10. Starts playing viola.
11. Enrolled at Peak to Peak Charter School.
12. Starts coming out of bubble of introversion.
13. English IV Honors. What's more to be said?
14. First lead in a play.
15. Goes emo for a day and claims to be a new student – convinces everyone.
16. Unwillingly attends first school dance.
17. Wins State in Value Debate.
18. Graduates Peak to Peak and starts college.
19. Starts college.
20. Makes millions with first solo show tunes album.
21. Meets President Bush and tells him my opinion of his policies.
22. Fall in love at a friend's wedding
23. Starts dating future husband
24. Stars in Broadway Musical - Guys and Dolls
25. Stars in more Broadway stuff.
26. Drastically cuts hair for a starring cross-gender role on Broadway.
27. Actually marries said not-future-anymore husband!
28. Gets mugged while shopping in New York with Olivia and Moriah. Sues muggers.
29. Almost divorces husband, changes mind the day before signing to agreement. Husband is very happy.
30. Learns to tapdance.
31. Finds a cure for allergies.
32. Works for the CIA – discovers vital information that results in the impeachment of current president.
33. Changes name.
34. Wins Tony award on Broadway. Wins Oscar for same role.
35. Develops perfect pitch.
36. Writes autobiography.
37. Plays viola at Carnegie Hall.
38. Adopts a little girl from Ghana.
39. Learns Japanese.
40. Gets first Phd (Microbiology)
41. Discovers new species of penguin on trip to Antarctica.
42. Guest appearance on a reality-TV show
43. Suffers poisoning. Recovers.
44. Starts teaching viola.
45. Succeeds in expanding vocal range to five octaves
46. Learns to play the saxophone.
47. Takes a vow of silence for a year and fulfills it.
48. Is mysteriously given 2 billion dollars from an unknown benefactor and donates half to Amnesty International. Keeps the rest.
49. Gets sued for giving Ms. Gannett emotional damages with my rebelliousness in high school.
50. Is cleared of all charges.
51. Figures out how to make cryogenics actually work. Refuses to tell anyone else.
52. Becomes an anarchist.
53. Gets second Phd (Quantum Physics)
54. Forges the Mona Lisa and doesn’t get caught.
55. Is kidnapped by Russian Mafia.
56. Makes bold escape with the use of only a piece of string, a hot air balloon, and a field full of turnips. Refuses to explain it.
57. Kidnaps the Russian Mafia leaders back.
58. Lets Mafia leader go after he promises to change his name, move to Zimbabwe and devote the rest of his life to the preservation of exotic species of marsupials.
59. Teaches a course at CU on the epic poem Gilgamesh.
60. Admitted to a mental institution for hallucinations/mild schizophrenia.
61. Forces president to resign by bombarding him with angry letters.
62. Clones self.
63. Gets third Phd (Psychology)
64. Publishes a memoir of Boof's Lair
65. Gets sued by Mike Chilcoat (Ms. Bunting’s old plagiarist boyfriend) for trashing his name.
66. Cleared of all charges.
67. Accidentally develops breed of talking, man-eating plant. Barely avoids being eaten; kills plant by electrocution.
68. Abducted by aliens for nine months.
69. Works as a bricklayer for a year.
70. Kicks a bucket. But not the bucket.
71. Spends a year as a hermit in Madagascar.
72. Invents airplane that runs on sawdust.
73. Works as a peacock farmer.
74. Takes a year off to travel the globe barefoot.
75. Writes first book to sell over a billion copies.
76. Becomes a grandmother.
77. Wins Nobel prize for medicine.
78. Fakes death.
79. Is knighted.
80. Last acting role.
81. Survives assassination attempt.
82. Moves to Cambodia to work in Peace Corps.
83. Arrested for political demonstration in Saudi Arabia.
84. Cleared of all charges.
85. Adopts a three-legged cat.
86. Retires to Iceland.
87. Becomes oldest astronaut to fly to Mars.
88. Sponsors building of a university in Namibia.
89. Speaks only in old Latin for a year.
90. Develops rheumatism.
91. Moves in with Hannah and Mckenzie, becomes senile old lady who putters around and steals traffic cones (we then set them up to make people think there's construction going on. then we get entire lanes to ourselves)
92. Loses limb in freak gene-splicing accident.
93. Gets dentures.
94. Spends a year training fleas for flea circus.
95. Suffers nervous breakdown.
96. Gets a tattoo on sole of left foot depicting the British Isles.
97. Writes will.
98. Rheumatism mysteriously disappears. Climbs Mount Everest.
99. Takes a senior trip to Hawaii. Dies when a coconut falls on head.

harvey is dead.

well, apparently dramatists' play service didn't want us to produce it- something about stealing thunder from broadway. yeah, as if. To make a long story short, we're doing instead The Importance of Being Earnest. Hilarious! Of course, I'd still be an understudy. Instead, tonight I'm auditioning for the Christmas Musical at my church! It's called No Wonder, and someone wrote it. Well duh, but it's not like a well- known one or anything. Thankfully, the part I'm auditioning for doesn't sing! Even though she's the choir director. Ah, whatever. I hope I get it!
but that's up to God, now isn't it?
I finally made that CD i'm bringing to English class on Friday.
Track One: KNOCK THREE TIMES!!!
yes, I AM going to listen to that in public. lol

Kenz's Newsletter

So, I came to school today, pretty tired and feeling sorta okay. And then, Kenz totally makes my day with: A newsletter!

She was bored last night and wrote one! To us! It was incredible! I hope she'll keep it up!

Anyway... I'd better stop neglecting my math. Ah well.

Peace
Love
Good Stuff
Love you all!

And may you always have storybook endings.

Oooh...

If we post six more posts on this blog and then another one for every day that passes, we'll have posted once for every day this year! Cool!

(Not including this post.)

WOW!

Wow! Everyone updated... Well, except for AJ and Olive and my sister. But whatever. AJ and Olive have forgotten and my sister's watching My Fair Lady... Sweet sweet!

So I have a question for both girls and guys:
What would you consider the difference between having a crush and being in love?
Please be specific! Thanks.

Happiness

I got a new notebook today. That was fun. My youth group switched service times, so now we get to go to big church, and then on the third floor, we "apply" it. It's so much fun!
I'm so glad it's cold. I love fall. It's amazing- and the leaves are so beautiful and fun to jump in but then some days it's still warm- AAAAH! When I was little I wanted to start my own raking business. lol And the weather changed at the perfect time too!
Yesterday Matt had his birthday party- so fun! And then after everyone left me, matt, cindy, and someone else all went to Panera and then sat in the back of Cindy's car and played mind games. It was really fun. I'm glad it was sunny then though because his party was at a local park for four hours. It was really amusing.
Busy as ever I am- this homework load is insane! I'm not complaining, just noting that. I hope I get better at taking Cornell notes, lol.
People can be so dumb sometimes. I mean seriously, they think they're all cool and all that, but they're just killing themselves. And I sit by and there's nothing I can do to stop them. Talk about painful.
It's been a good weekend, but now I have to go shower, and then soon it will be Monday. Ugh. I like Danni's idea- they should put a huge plasma screen tv on the wall between the stage and the auditeria, and then every Monday at lunch they play a movie, as inticement for coming to school. that'd be cool.
Have a great week!
Good
Night
God
Bless

I have found my theme song :)

I heard this song last night, and decided it was perfect. The name's ironic, isn't it? And please don't be offended by it if you are a guy, you have to admit that it's really funny!
I Hate Men (Kiss me Kate)

KATHARINE:
I hate men.
I can't abide 'em even now and then.
Than ever marry one of them, I'd rest a maiden rather,
For husbands are a boring lot and only give you bother.
Of course, I'm awfully glad that Mother had to marry Father,
But I hate men.
Of all the types I've ever met within our democracy,
I hate most the athlete with his manner bold and brassy,
He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
Oh, I hate men!
I hate men.
They should be kept like piggies in a pen.
Avoid the trav'ling salesman though a tempting
Tom he may be,
For on your wedding night he may be off to far Araby,
While he's away in Mandalay is thee who have the baby,
Oh I hate men.
If thou shouldst wed a businessman, be wary, oh, be wary.
He'll tell you he's detained in town on business necessary,
His bus'ness is the bus'ness with his pretty secretary,
Oh I hate men!
I hate men
Though roosters they, I will not play the hen.
If you espouse and older man through girlish optimism,
He'll always stay at home at night and make no criticism,
Though you may call it love, the doctors call it rheumatism.
Oh, I hate men.
From all I've read, alone in bed, from A to Zed, about 'em.
Since love is blind, then from the mind, all womankind should rout 'em,
But, ladies, you must answer too, what would we do without 'em?
Still, I hate men!

Today

So today was pretty good....

Got up.... ate banana oatmeal.... got ready for church

Went to church... It was Ward Chastity Day, I think. Everyone over 12's lesson today was on Chastity... Thank goodness guys and girls are split.... Yep...

Got home from church... that's it.

I think Olive has forgotten about the blog... we should all send her angry e-mails...

I really want to take a bubble bath today.

I'm listening to "Lonesome Polecat" from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers right now.... "Can't make no vows to a herd of cows..." Fun song. AJ, Thomas, Tom and David should sing it... That would be fun. We should do Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as a musical.

Yep... That's it!

Love you all!

Bye!

Well, Kelsey Asked...

I hereby resolve to update the blog at least every school day!

Now that that's done with....

Unnatural Child 1 and I went and collected cans of food for FISH with my church today... that was fun. We got 3,380 pounds of food total! It was very cool. We sang a lot and yeah... what else? Um... I was half-relieved, half-dissapointed that we didn't get assigned to an area by the water towers..... I've heard that they have a lot of tuberculosis there.... (Just kidding. Well, sort of. You know what I mean.)

Um... I spent like, an hour talking to Matt last night... One of those "Why are girls so wierd?"-"Why are guys so wierd?" conversations. Apparantly guys think that girls are heartless cruel people who will rip your heart out, throw it on the floor and stomp on it.... If only he knew. Kelsey, you know what I mean. So yeah....

And then Michael rode by twice and didn't notice us. Well, my dad says he did, and I guess my dad's been a teenage guy... Boys are so wierd.

An extraordinary guy: kind, caring, sensitive, adorable, talented, musical, can make people feel good about themselves and life, great smile, hardworking, socially skilled, well groomed, smart, gentlemanly
~A chat with Matt

So yeah, that's about it!

Update folks!

Someone needs to update this blog. Thomas needs to update. AJ needs to update (seriously, it's been like 2 months here). And Moriah needs to post about something again...maybe her iPod woes. Or teddy bear. Or anything really. The blogs are loosing their pizazz. We need to bring them back to life

My Multiple Intelligences Results

Well, we haven't posted anything in a while (or at least I haven't), so I'm putting up the most mildly interesting thing I can think of: My Multiple Intelligences Test Results. (In order of score highest-lowest)


Verbal/Linguistic - 37 (Well duh. I love to write, I'm a languages nerd, be it Spanish, English, Latin or German or any other languages. I love history and words in general. No surprises here.)

Musical/Rythmic - 36 (Okay. Not surprised. I love music too. Only thing I didn't get 5s on were the singing voice and composing. Yep...)

Interpersonal - 32 (I didn't see this coming. I guess it's because I love everyone. Somehow I think they should put something in here about other people liking you....)

Intrapersonal - 31 (Yeah, okay. I've always been pretty cool with myself.)

Visual/Spatial - 26 (Okay. No comment really.)

Naturalist - 24 (Great.)

Kinisthetic - 22 (I am so uncoordinated.)

Mathematical/Logical - 13 (I've never been too logical.)

Back From Camping!

Well, we just went camping for the past two days. With the Whipkeys, our camping buddies! And Drew Shellnut, Sam's friend. It was good times, yo's!!!
The Whipkeys:
Tracey the mother
Greg the father
Elise Sam's age but my friend too
Josh one year younger than me he used to be a jerk but not so much anymore...
Aubrey 8 and in 3rd grade really annoying sometimes

Drew Shellnut- Look up white afro in the dictionary, and it's his picture. i'm not even kidding, his hair is DANK. lol...

Moraine Park: we always go camping with the whipkeys either there or in Moab, at a certain campground...good times been there too! Anyways, we visited our old playspots...the "big" rocks that are so hard to climb, the ridge behind the ridge, the field where we always play capture the flag, the tree where we found an elk skull, the river where we spent hours building elk booby traps and making elk mating calls...We wandered along the river one day for nearly two hours, an ended up climbing this miniature mountain...well it was cool. We had airsoft wars and whittled canoes, and today we even went swimming! Well that was interesting...

You'll never guess who I saw in the Moraine Park Museum and Gift Shop. And yes, you all know him.

BRIAN KRACHA!!!
yeah....lol

Anyways, posting done for now. Please comment!!!

Interesting Quizzes

This is an interesting quiz that you've probably seen before, but the results were actually very accurate for me... E-mail me if you want them.

http://www.gagirl.com/quiz/whodo.html

Same with this one:

http://www.gagirl.com/quiz/lovetest.html

Buying A Music Player

Buying a music player is hard. Especially when you don't want to just march into the Apple store and fork over a year's worth of savings. So you go to Overstock. Where the cheapest iPod is 90$. So you look at generic MP3s. That apparantly don't work. So you go to eBay. And spend an hour poring over ipods there. But don't find anything. So you go back to overstock. And look at the generic ones again. And then you're so frustrated that you just blog about it instead of more research. The end.