I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all I have created
I'm longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
Won't you take me away from me
Tomorrow we clean, have church at 7 and Theiss/Michalk people over 'till latelate. Christmas Day we're opening "Santa's" presents here and then heading up to Frisco to spend Christmas Day (and the day after) at my aunt and uncle's house. All of mom's family will be up there, so it'll be good.
Monday I pack, Tuesday I leave for Tim's! :-D
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Nathan and Kelsey were here Sunday evening through Tuesday morning... that was FUN. I'm glad they got to come down. And now I'm further addicted to Evanescence... thank you, Nathan. ;-)
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I think... that's all... Oh wait. Here's a FUNNY quote from Devon, Bekah's best friend:
"Guys, think about Mary for a minute. I mean. She was pregnant... but she was a VIRGIN! I'd be like... 'Dear GOD, *PLEASE* send an angel to my MOTHER!!!'"
You've got me feeling hella good
So let's just keep on dancing
You hold me like you should
So I'm gonna keep on dancing
Happy daaaay!! :-D I made a 1250 on my SAT! Not that... it matters... since I'm not going to college. ;-P But it's still awesomely cool. And m'love Timothy still has a 4.0 GPA. Mwahaha, we're gonna have genuis children... his math and my history/english. ;-)
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Anybody know the average rate for puppy training classes is? The Casters have two 5-ish-month-old puppies that are really hyperactive and need training. They're good dogs, they just don't know that jumping all over people is bad. Heh. I'm thinking about offering to train them, but I have NO clue what to charge...
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Got my Amazon order today! Weee. It got here fairly fast, for getting free shipping (on orders $25 or more ;-)). So now my Christmas shopping is done, except for Annaloo, who still hasn't given me a list. *pudge*
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Off of schoool! w00t w00t! Yesterday was our last day. Off 'till sometime in January, hehe. We all get home from our various winter destinations on the 9th... so we may start the 10th, but we'll see.
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I need to spend some time with my driving book... I HAVE to get my permit by January 10th... I don't wanna take an actual driving test with an instructor, which is what I would have to do if I get my licence after I'm 18. Bah. 20 chapters by December 28th? I can do that...
Come on baby, baby let's go
Where we get the money honey I don't know
One more baby's alright by me
We'll just add another limb to the family tree
Frederick Wilhelm David Thomas Stuckwisch was booorn this mooorning!! :-D I'm a godsister! ;D Happy days!
And yes, that song is the Stuckwisch's theme song. ;-)
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Took off of school today to clean house. Everything's nice and sparkly now! We decorated the ADVENT tree (it will magically become the CHRISTMAS tree on Christmas Eve ;-P) and the living room/entry/etc last night - it looks so puuurdy. :-D Getting into the mood now, finally. Tomorrow mom's taking me shopping for people's presents. :-)
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I took the SAT last Saturday... I think I did pretty well on it, I'll get my scores back on the 17th. I made a 1330 on the practice test, so hopefully I won't make much less than that on the actual test. Not that it matters, since I'm not going to college anyway. ;-) But still, it'd be nice.
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I reallyreally like Creed. Not such a fan of Alter Bridge... but I love Creed. I want their Human Clay CD. Speaking of CDs, I also want the Village soundtrack. I've almost bought it like... twice... but I keep talking myself out of it due to lack of money. ;-)
Lately I've rediscovered Baroque choral music. MAN that stuff is gorgeous! There's these two pieces on my Norton's Anthology of Western Music CDs that are just... amazing. I LOVE classical music! :-D
Hello, hello (hola!)
I'm at a place called Vertigo
It's everything I wish I didn't know
Except you give me something
I can feel
I can feel your love teaching me
Your love is teaching me
How to kneel
I'm baaaack! :-) I had a TON of fun at Anna's... *grins* If you wanna know stuff we did, you can IM me - I'm too lazy to type it out here. ;-P
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I got caught up on all my stuff except MH mail... 199 emails. *groan* I s'pose I'll work on that today or tomorrow... I also need to do email totals for, what, November? Maybe October, I can't remember.
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Nathan and Kelsey are coming!! w00t! :-D December 19th - 21st. Then there's Christmas, and then I go to Maryland the 28th! I'm so loving this fall/winter. Got to see the Stuckwischs in October, Anna in November, and Nathan, Kelsey and Tim in December! Mom, dad, Bekah and Hanna are driving up to South Bend in January for the baby's baptism (mom and dad are going to be the baby's godparents) while I'm in Maryland... I'm kinda disappointed about not getting to see the baby (and Beeean!), but hey. I'll be with Tim, so yeah. ;-)
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Right when I get back from Maryland I'll get my permit... I have to get it before January 12th or I'll have to do some sort of different test because I'll get my liscence after I'm 18. As long as I get my permit before the 12th, I'll be able to get in the 6 months of driving time and get my liscence before my b-day in June. Sooo, I just have to read the Texas instruction book thingy before I leave on the 28th, and it'll all be good.
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Current reading listish thing...
Jerusalem's Heart (finish)
Thunder from Jerusalem
War and Peace
Mandie books 35-40 (light reading)
The Book of Lost Tales I
The Shaping of Middle-Earth
Somewhere in there I may read The Ark and The Black Arrow, too, since I've been wanting to re-read those for awhile. And I'm also being pestered to read Watership Down and the Series of Unfortunate Events, so those will get thrown in somewhere in the middle, or at the end. ;-) I need to get going, though... I haven't just sat down to read in quite awhile. Hopefully I'll have some time to do that over Christmas break.
Aaaand I believe that's it! PANTS! :-D
We'll take it slower than a broke-knee'd turtle
Yeah, we'll get tighter than your grandma's girdle
Oh, I want you, I need you, and I'll never do you wrong
If you're feelin' what I'm singin', baby
Sing along
Well, I made it to choir practice, and I did fine yesterday and playing it in church today. :-D It was awesome being able to accompany the choir. But man, those TENORS. They do NOT shut UP! It's hilarious! They were making comments throughout the entire service. Badly funny...
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Tomorrow we have the Thanksgiving Day service (I think we've got to be the only church that does that... and like 20 people show up), which we're playing a bell piece in, doing change ringing to start the service, and patterns during two hymns. I love bells. :-D After that I s'pose we'll head off to Na Na and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving. Mom's entire side of the family will be there, which is awesome. We haven't all gotten together in awhile. My uncle Bruce and aunt Jennie are spending the night with us Thursday and Friday night, too.
Then Friiiidaaaay I go to Anna's!! :-D I can't wait. I'm almost done packing except for the obvious stuff, since I won't have time to do it tomorrow. Reeeally excited.
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NutBut and Heidi. Not altogether unexpected, but shockingly CUTE all the same. ;-D *ahem*
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It's... so cold here. It was in the 50's today. Yes, that's cold for us, it barely gets any colder than that in the dead of winter! :-P It was DREADFULLY windy, too. But sunny, which was good, since it's been raining for at least five days straight. Everything's drying out nicely, tomorrow it should be really purdy out. :-)
So, this'll probably be my last blog before I leave - Happy Thanksgiving everybody, have a good week! I'll be back December 1st. :-)
"Rainy Night In Georgia"
and "Kentucky Rain"
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again",
"Blue Eyes Cryin" in the "Early Morning Rain"
They go on and on, and there's no two the same
Oh, it would be easy to blame all these
Songs about rain
Heh, that song was the first song that came to mind while thinking about the stupid rain. :-P
We played bells for the matins service of the teacher conference at church this morning... on our way home at about 9:30, it started pouring. Took us forever to get to our area, and when we did, half the streets were flooded. We weaved around, turned around and re-routed at least six different times in the Winchester Country, Willow Lake and Willow Pointe subdivisions (ours being the latter). I've never seen those streets like that before... most of the intersections were flooded up to the curbs and sometimes into people's yards, and since it's trash day there were trashcans and trash everywhere. On one street in Winchester while we were driving through a flooded intersection there was a pool of red water. It was nasty. The bayous are all over half-way full, and our backyard is half a foot deep in water in the low spots.
Basically, we've had rain for about a week. Then starting yesterday, it pours. And pours and pours. So the ground decides it doesn't want anymore water and it's flooding like crazy. Plus there was a tornado scare around 2:45 - the sky got rather green, we had pea-sized hail and the news had rotation markers right on top of our neighborhood, basically. I shut down the comps to be ready to haul the CPUs downstairs if need-be and sat in mom's room and watched the sky. No fun, I tell ya. And it's s'posed to do the same thing tomorrow...
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Yesterday during the sermon Justin R. got up and left his seat (right in front of us) and didn't come back. Nothing unusual, he tends to wander during church... it's a little weird but we don't pay attention. After Sunday School I come out to the car and find out that Justin up and disappeared. No one had seen him after he left during the sermon. Come to find out he's bi-polar and hadn't had his past three doses of meds, so his mom said he was really unstable and had threatened to run away the night before. Bekah, dad and I helped search the church, while some other elders searched the school. We didn't find him. Called the police and the whole nine yards, of course. So while we were at church this morning mom talked to the secretary and she said that Justin called home yesterday evening around 5 - he was at the Sam's at the intersection of I-45 and Rankin Road. That's 30 minutes from church on a good day, in a car. It was raining yesterday and he was on foot (unless he had money, in which case he could've taken the bus). It was just... really... scary... and weird...
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I gotta head off to teach piano in a few minutes, and then there's the chat tonight. :-D Tomorrow I have choir practice at church... I really, really hope the weather's fine, because I HAVE to go. I NEED to practice with the choir again before we do it in church on Wednesday evening.
Take me back to where the music hit me
Life was good and love was easy
Mr. Armstrong asked me to accompany the choir on the piano for the Thanksgiving Eve service, and me being me, I couldn't say no. I wasn't really looking forward to it, but I'm really happy now! I've actually been sitting down for 30 minutes to an hour every day and practicing this 15-page piece, and I'm getting really comfortable with it. I went and practiced with the choir last night, and I did pretty much fine, so another week of practice should be perfect. Now in a couple weeks I'll pick something else up and work it up all nice. ;-) I've been wanting to do Mozart's Rondo a la Turk... I should do that...
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Anna comes home tomorrow!!! :-D :-D Happy nea (and, er, uber happy Nathan? ;-))! I miss(ed) her. *sniff* In a week and one day I'll be at her house, too! w00t!! :-D I'm leaving Friday the 26th and I'll come home Wednesday the 1st. Then on the 4th I take the SAT... eek...
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Hanna... has walking pneumonia. Fun. She's had a fever over 100 for about 6 days, and it was up to 104 a couple times. Mom took her to the doctor on Tuesday and he gave her an antibotic, so now she's much better, but still not feeling up to par. The rest of us better not come down with it... mom's not convinced it's pneumonia, she thinks it's just an advanced version of what us and the Stuckwischs have/had, but Dr. Wilkerson said he "heard something" in her lungs... soo... who knows.
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I went to the mailbox three times today. That's not a hard thing to do, it's one of those "community" ones or whatever they call them, but it's right across the street from our house. So yeah, it's close. Buuut, when I went to let Charlie out this afternoon, mom sent me to get the mail. So I did. Then, when I came back, the maillady was there. Okaaay, what I got must've been a day old, so I went back after she left and there was nothing in the box. THEN. Later. I look out the window and the mailMAN is out there. I waited 'till he left and went BACK out there and checked, and there was mail. Sigh. Why must they be so CONFUSING?! It's all a plot to make me go crazy... it has to be...
*glances around suspiciously*
Should I be posting this? Maybe I have a stalker...
*nervously clicks "publish post"*
Take my hand
Live while you can
Don't you see your dreams lie right
In the palm of your hand
I got this thing in the mail today... the National Guard is trying to recruit me. ;-) "In the Guard, you'll train to be a citizen-warrior... ready to serve anytime, anywhere." What... the heck... is a citizen-warrior? Can you get any cornier? For pete's sake... ;-P
It kinda hit me though, after getting that thing, that I'm actually graduating this coming spring. I'll be 18 in June. And no more school unless I want to do it (aka: taking GERMAN!). It just seems reeeally weeeird... plus I'll still be living at home. Out of school, but still at home... I never really thought that would happen, either. ;-)
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So, did school today, finally finished the seemingly eternally long chemistry module I've been working on. Starting Jackson's presidency in history which is supposedly interesting. I need to take a shower in a couple minutes, practice piano, go teach piano, play Halo 2, have supper, and then chat. Wee, typical Monday.
Wash away the thoughts inside
That keep my mind away from you
Why does music affect me so much? I s'pose some people are just musically inclined and others aren't, but still. It's... weird... but cool. Josh Groban's Remember When It Rained affects me like nothing else... except Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis... and God Bless America. But there's a story that goes with that last one.
Remember When It Rained... is... this song. First, Josh Groban's voice gives me goosebumps ANYWAY, but this music is just incredible. Plus it has piano and who can deny I'm a piano addict. ;-P It's not so much the lyrics... just the combination of his voice and the music sends me off to music heaven.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is my all-time favorite classical piece. Ever. Ralph Vaughan Williams was a 20th Century composer from England... I love all his stuff, but this piece is what turned me on to him. It's entirely strings (in and of itself awesome), separated into two orchestra groups. They basically serenade each other through the entire piece with cello and violin solos. Gah, cellos are so relaxing. It's amazing.
God Bless America... the story. I was watching the news on the evening of 9/11, and a lot of the senators (it might've been the entire senate, I'm not sure) were outside giving some sort of news conference or something, I don't remember exactly. After they finished and Fox was about to cut out, they spontaneously began singing God Bless America. I remember being absolutely chilled to the bone. It was just so fitting and beautiful. Ever since then the song hasn't failed to give me goosebumps and 9/11 flashbacks.
I dunno what all that was... just some sort of musical ramble, I s'pose, but hey. Rambling about music is one of my talents. ;-)
So. Trying Blogger 'cause Nathan says it's awesome. ;-) I'll post here and on Xanga for the time-being 'till I decide to move or not. Good thing is you don't have to be a member to post, so yeah. :-D
We shall seee...