Then Sings My Soul

Well we're comin' to your city
Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song
We'll all be flyin' higher than a jet airliner
And if you want a little bang in your yin yang come along

Merry Christmas everybody!! :-D

Brief update - the part I needed to fix my computer FINALLY came, so my computer is now fixed and up and running!

Today we're going up to Lufkin to my cousins' house, coming home again tonight, and then going to church and having my mom's side of the family over on Christmas Day. Nice full weekend. :-D

Have a wonderful Christmas, y'all!

There's gotta be something more
Gotta be more than this
I need a little less hard time
I need a little more bliss
I'm gonna take my chances
Taking a chance I might
Find what I'm looking for
There's gotta be something more

Nea's back! Not necessarily better than ever... but back! ;-)

Um... well... a lot of things have happened... here's the most recent things. :-P

Been spending most weekends at Mark's, so if you guys don't see me on during the weekend it's because he's at my house or I'm at his. ;-)

My motherboard chipset fan died, so my computer is currently out of commission. I'm using Bekah and mom's computer for the time being, which stinks, and cuts down on my overall computer time somewhat. I also can't get my Road Runner email - so if you need to, email me at lynealeia@gmail.com

My Uncle Bill from Germany who's getting his teaching certificate here in Houston is moving in with us... either for a few days, or as many as three weeks when he goes back to Germany... that doesn't really affect much, just a random fact of my life at the moment. ;-)

Mark's got me reading Harry Potter... I borrowed the first two books from him, and I'm a chapter and a half away from finishing the first one. I'm enjoying it so far! Nice, light reading... a lovely escape from War and Peace. ;-)

Thanksgiving was awesome, the boys came over along with a bunch of other people from my dad's side... 17 people total.

I went to Mark's Friday morning to Sunday night, and now I'm home doing not much of anything recovering from a stressful week last week... Bekah came home from Pookie's today!

Other than thaaat I can't think of much... So, be happy, I posted. ;-D Perhaps I'll make it regular again. ;-) PANTS!

Oh. My. GOSH.

WE DID IT!!! We're GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!! I KNEW my man Roy O could do it!!

Anna - I beg to differ. :-P Baseball isn't about who deserves to go. It's about who DOES go. And we kicked some Redbird tail, so we're goin'. ;-)

I daresay that THIS was the best comeback ever. The 'stros stunk in the first half of the year and come back to win the pennant! What an awesome night... oh man... I won't be sleeping...

Shit. How the hell did that happen?

I freakin hate the Cardinals...

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Won't you take me away

I don't really feel like typing out a blog post, so insteeeead, I'm just gonna post a ton of lyrics/songs that have meant something to me over the past... say... four months. Gotta love music...

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I'm going under
Drowing in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe I can't keep going under

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And if I bleed, I'll bleed
Knowing you don't care
And if I sleep just to dream of you
I'll wake without you there
Isn't something missing?
Even though I'm the sacrifice
You won't try for me, not now
Though I'd die to know you love me
I'm all alone
Isn't someone missing me?

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I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I’ve held so long
(Erase all the pain till it’s gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real
I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

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Her feelings she hides
Her dreams she can't find
She's losing her mind
She's fallen behind
She can't find her place
She's losing her faith
She's fallen from grace
She's all over the place

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Well you filled up my head
With so many lies,
Twisted my heart
'Til something snapped inside
I'd like to give it one more try
But my give a damn's busted
You can crawl back home
Say you were wrong
Stand out in the yard
And cry all night long
Go ahead and water the lawn
My give a damn's busted

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For every heart that's been broken
For every kind word left unspoken
Every promise not remembered
I'll not forget
I'll not surrender
'Cause I'm the only
Soldier for the lonely

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Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow
So then I took my turn
Oh what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow

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Come on now won't you
Ease my mind
Reasons for me to find you
Peace of mind
Reasons for livin my life
Ease my mind
Reasons for me to know you
Peace of mind
What can I do
To get me to you

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I don't wanna live without you
And I don't wanna live a lie
We'll never know till we try
Yeah we'll never know till we try

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What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time
Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

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I am the sound of love's arriving
Echoed softly on the sand
Lay your head upon my shoulder
Lay your hand within my hand
I give you all that I am
And I breathe where you breathe
Let me stand where you stand
With all that I am

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Close your eyes, and I will be swimming
Lullabies fill your room, and I will be singing
Singing to only you
Don't forget I'll hold your head
Watch the night sky fading red

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Whenever I hold you tight
This crazy world of mine falls right in place
Whatever the trouble is
You find a way to give back what it takes

Holding you holds me together
When holding on gets just a little to hard
When this tight rope I travel
Begins to unravel
And I feel like I'm falling apart
Holding you holds me together

Never seen a blue sky
Yeah I can feel it reaching out
And moving closer
There's something about blue

Well, we survived Hurricane Rita. There was some damage in the Houston area... a really good example is this picture.

Honestly, we didn't get anything. ;-P Quite a bit of tropical storm force winds and a leeettle bit of rain. All that prep for nothing... oh well. A bunch of people lost power... we didn't, it just flickered a looot on Friday night and drove me nuts. ;-P North of Houston now, though, they're having rolling blackouts 'cause they can't seem to get everything working properly again... which means Mark's power having issues, pfft.

Speeeeaking of Mark... not that y'all didn't see this coming, but, we're officially together. :-P ;-) :-D For almost two weeks, now... some of y'all may kill me, but hey, it's not rebound. I promise! He came over on Monday (no school in the Houston area on Monday and Tuesday, since all the people who evacuated had to come back), and we watched Pirates (he hadn't SEEN it all the way through!) and went out for lunch with mom, Bekah and Hanna and went to wal-mart and had FUN. :-D Woohoo!

So. Oh em gee. Lost and Alias premiers. AHHHH!! I freakin' despise J.J. Abrams! I'll kill him if I ever see him for all the nervous breakdowns he's causing me. ;-)

Thaaat's about all I can think of to blog about... oh, one more picture. For all the yankees wondering why Texas didn't have any looting... THIS is why. And with that, I bid you goodnight! PANTS! (And because I didn't say it last time, PANTS again!) (:-P Mark.)

I am the sound of love's arriving
Echoed softly on the sand
Lay your head upon my shoulder
Lay your hand within my hand
I give you all that I am

And I breathe where you breathe
Let me stand where you stand
With all that I am

So I talked to Mark on the phone today. Talked for four hours straight, we did! Woohoo! He got off today and Friday 'cause of the hurricane... along with every other school district anywhere in south Texas... instead of snow days, we get hurricane days. ;-) So that was fun... and hilarious... but apparently that figures. *nudges Mark* ;-)

I was pretty worried/paranoid last night... but after talking to Mark online 'till 2 AM I was pretty much fine... ;-P When I got up this morning I was fine, even though I was drafted to help move all of dad's potted plants into the shed. The patios are CLEAN. It's freaky lookin'! ;-) So, all of the potential missiles are safely stored, we've done all our laundry, Grandma's here just in case, we filled up a ton of containers with water and put extra ice in the freezer. And now they're saying it'll probably make landfall around Port Arthur, which is to the east of us, so we won't get the dirty side of it. Probably just a lot of rain and a little wind. Our electricity might go out, so don't be worried if I don't get online... Mark, Anna and Nathan all have phone numbers to reach me at if y'all need to talk to me. ;-)

My allergies/swollen vocal chords turned into a nice sinus infection. Which isn't terrible, it's just... ow the pressure. I'll be fine in a couple days, as usual. This is getting routine now. :-P

Thaaaat's about it, methinks! If I don't talk to y'all... have a nice weekend, everybody!!

Call me, Call me
Let me know you are there
Call me, call me
I wanna know you still care
Come on now won't you
Ease my mind
Reasons for me to find you
Peace of mind
Reasons for living my life
Ease my mind
Reasons for me to know you
Peace of mind
what can I do
to get me to you

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

Bekah picked the song, don't look at ME. ;-)

So! I forgot to tell most of you that I'm going to be gone for the weekend. Heh. Me and my memory, eh? ;-P

I'm leaving in about 10 minutes to go to a lockin at St. Mark Conroe (joint lockin between Zion and St. Mark - PB's church!). I'll be home for about an hour between 8 and 9 in the morning on Saturday, and then we're leaving again for Burleson for Beer Brats and Bride IV at the Heimbigners. We'll be staying overnight at the Fischers (woohoo!) and going to church probably with them, and then coming home. So I'll be home sometime Sunday night! If you need me, call my mom's cell number, because Bekah's going to San Diego and will have her cell phone. (Which used to be part mine but I gave her "full control" of it because... I don't use it. ;-P)

So, I'll talk to y'all... Sunday! :-) PANTS!

I don't wanna be lonely no more
I don't wanna have to pay for this
I don't want to know the lover at my door
Is just another heartache on my list

I don't wanna be angry no more
You know I could never stand for this
So when you tell me that you love me know for sure
I don't want to be lonely anymore

Gotta love Rob Thomas...

Sorry for not blogging, y'all. ;-P I haven't been in the blogging moooood lately. But that's okay, I am now! Mainly because Anna and Mark forced me to be... ;-)

So I went to the TCL free conference last weekend! That rocked. PB and Landon recruited me as soon as we got there to man the LiGW booth with them. So sitting with them during the whole conference was... insanely hilarious. ;-) A bunch of Zion people were in our room 'till midnight or so drinking beer with my mom and talking, and then PB and Landon stayed 'till 2. Lutheran adults are just like Lutheran teenagers, man... it's funny. ;-)

Um... other than that... just been schooling and stuff. But OH EM GEE. They're CLOSING ASTROWORLD. *sob* And WHY are they closing it? So they can sell the land. It STINKS! It just stinks. I'm so mad... but it is giving us an opportunity to go. :-P They're closing it at the end of this season (which ends on October 31st) so we're going the 8th or the 22nd of October, probably the 8th. Not quite sure who's going yet, but it should be fun regardless... :-D

This week... we have bell choir/regular choir/confirmation/supper/Bible study at church, which is always fun, and then FRIDAY! Oh Friday... Friday is THE LOCKIN. St. Mark and Zion joint lockin at St. Mark. :-D I lovelove lockins! Especially looking forward to this one... ;-)

So, after the lockin, I get picked up, we drop Bekah off at the airport (she's going to San Diego with my aunt), and then we drive to Dallas (Burleson to be exact) for Beer Brats and Bride IV at the Heimbigners! We'll spend the night with Kelsey :-D, go to church... either at the Heimbigners or Redeemer in Ft. Worth and then drive home. I... will be... a zombie. But it's gonna be so FUN! *bounces around*

So... that's all folks! PANTS!

When you are with me, I'm free
I'm careless, I believe
Above all the others we'll fly
This brings tears to my eyes
My sacrifice

I'm blogging because... Mark told me to! And it's 2:30 in the morning and I haven't blogged since Sunday.

So uh... there's tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of refugees here. There's 600 in Tomball alone, and 24 at our church. This is... rather amazing... I feel so bad for all these people. And I can't help but think of what would've happened if it had hit Galveston instead of New Orleans... then we would've been refugees. It's just... it's all somewhat mind-blowing.

Other than that, just been schooling and reading and chatting... I'm addicted to iTunes now. It rocks. I looove the way it sorts stuff and stuff and yeah! It's sweeeet. Now I want a bigger hard drive so I can load all my CDs onto it and sort them all! Yay. ;-) Also, that'd be nice, since people keep asking me for copies of my CDs. *eyes her siblings* I went through 60 CDs in two months, sigh. :-P

I love Fridays. Why? Because I get to stay up REALLY late and talk to friends!! :-D And then on Saturday I get to sleep in nice and late and catch up on all the sleep I lost over the past week. Woohoo!

Tomorrow... I'm getting my hair trimmed. Or cut. And layered. I'm actually not quite sure what I'm doing yet... it's at least getting trimmed, anyway... perhaps I'll post a picture when it's done. ;-)

Sunday is nothing in particular, and Monday we're off of school, woohoo! Going to Na Na and Grandpa's for dinner, and that's about it...

I convinced my parents to let me to go the Texas Lutheran free conference!!! :-D YAY! I'll be the youngest person there by 8 years (Landon's the next youngest ;-P), but it looks really awesome. Pr. Daniel Preus and Pr. Bolland from Kansas City are gonna be speaking, plus my former pastor, Pr. White from OSL. And that's next weekend, the 9th and the 10th (it's an overnight thing). I'm exciteeeed. :-D

Okay, that's all I can think of for now, so PANTS!

She's automatic, she's automatic
She turns on when she wants to
Don't give her no static, she's automatic
She turns on when she wants to
Automatic

I lovelovelove Zion so much!! Went to a potluck dinner tonight for the families of kids in confirmation, and it is SO refreshing to hear a pastor talk like Pr. Teichmiller did. He's awesome! The church is awesome, the people are awesome, Landon's awesome... it can't get any awesomer. ;-) Thank the Lord for places like this...

I'm just being lazy ol' me lately, as usual... bought Lynyrd Skynyrd's 30th anniversary CD, Thyrty - it's AWESOME. (Must be the word of the day, eh?) I'm getting addicted to Lynyrd Skynyrd, now. :-P Speaking of CDs, my 48 CD-holder-thingy is one CD shy of being full. And I've also got another 12 CD-holder-thingy full of CDs I've burned... I'm a musicaholic. And I need more CD-holder-thingys!! Can everybody say "Wal-Mart trip!"? :-P I also want the Batman Begins soundtrack. Because, oh-em-gee, James Newton Howard AND Hans Zimmer did the music!! That's, like, sock-rocking awesome! My two favorite soundtrack composer dudes...

Been talking to the Mop a lot lately. *waves to Mark* I got him hooked on Coldplay, and in the process my passion for them has been renewed. So in my 5 CD changer stereo system I have the two Lynyrd Skynyrd Thyrty CDs, Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y. w00t!

Oh yeah, and get this - Mark's a German Lutheran in southeast Texas, right? But we're NOT RELATED. How weird is that?! There's actually German Lutherans in southeast Texas that I'm not related to! ;-)

The youngins (Matthew and Aaron) didn't drive me insane, and we actually saved enough brownies to send home to Andrew! So yay. ;-) We played Halo 2, of course, and Bekah, Matthew and Aaron played poker. I think Matthew won... he's a good bluffer. ;-P

So okay, that's all I can think of to blog about... if I forgot something important, somebody remind me. ;-) This is Lynea the Happy Packsquirrel, saying PANTS and goodnight!

I live this life 'til this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk, yes, I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life 'til this life won't let me live here anymore

Um... again, not much has happened. :-P I've been feeling kinda icky - can't sleep, not hungry, braindead, etc. I hope I'm not coming down with something...

BUT bell choir started yesterday, WOOHOO! :-D I love bells so much. And the Zion choir people are really nice. Bekah and I also decided to join regular choir, and they're nice too. ;-) I'm alto and she's soprano.

Went for a walk on the bayou with Laddie today... now he smells and my feet are dirty. We both need baths. I'll get mine tonight and he'll get his... next week. ;-)

That's about it... The Boys (or, Matthew and Aaron, at least) are coming down on Saturday, so that'll be fun! Andrew has to puppy-sit. Meh. Hopefully the youngins won't drive me insane. ;-)

I'm going to see Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson in concert on November 4th!!!!! :-D OH EM GEE. I'm like so excited. I'm having to part with almost $30 to go, but... hey. It's a concert and it's BIG & RICH AND GRETCHEN WILSON. How could I not go. ;-) Me, Bekah2, Lauren and Hanna and maybe a couple other people are going... so it'll be awesome!!

Okay, that's all I can think of, so... to wrap up this rambling and probably slightly incomprehensible post with the almighty post-wrapper-upper...

PANTS! :-D

EDIT: I posted at the SAME EXACT TIME tonight as I did three nights ago. Freakified, dudes!

When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through

I don't typically like the All-American Rejects, but this song is just... awesome. I dunno why either. ;-)

Sooo not much has happened... again... But I've been commissioned by Landon (youth guy at Zion) to spread the word about Lutherans in God's Word (LiGW). It's... well, just go see the website. ;-)
http://www.ligw.org Mainly the sermons section, I think he said. Stupid bad short-term memory...

You know, I love my students, but sometimes it bugs me that they're so dang disorganized. :-P I went over to their house today for lessons, and both the boys were gone to the dentist to get their cavities filled. So it was just Sarah, AGAIN. And she hadn't practiced at all. Sigh... I hope my new students are more motivated, and remember which days are piano days. :-P

So my computer needs a new CPU fan, Nathan made me want a Nintendo DS (just so I can play Nintendogs!), I want a digital camera and now I think I wanna go read. PANTS, y'all!

In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light

Not much has happened over the past couple days... just school stuff mainly. Zion has a Wednesday night Bible study which is TOTALLY awesome that mom and I have been going to (everybody else has stuff going on) - next week, choir and confirmation also start up, and they're on Wednesdays, too. So Hanna'll go to confirmation, then there's supper, then Bible study and Bell choir, then regular choir, and then we go home! I can't wait to start bells again. :-D

I had a spur-of-the-moment desire to re-read Exodus by Leon Uris. For the, what, 4th? 5th time? Whatever it is... dang it's a good book. It's about the birth of the state of Israel in 1948.

I've rediscovered braiding my hair lately... I took a shower at 10:30 the other night, and braided my hair (otherwise it makes me even colder at night). So I got up in the morning, and left the (somewhat disheveled) braid in my hair all day. I forgot how nice it is to have really long hair out of the way like that. ;-) Not that I don't like my long hair - I love it! But it is nice to have it pulled back and not requiring maintenance for once. ;-P It's probably not the best thing to do to thin hair like mine, but oh well...

Tomorrow is Rally Day at Zion after late service! They're having a big lunch thing (which mom already got recruited to help do, haha) and I think they're gonna recognize the new members. Yay. ;-P Then after that, at 5, we're going to Papadeaux for my Na Na's birthday. And then we're coming home for torte and presents. I LOVE torte. It's like the bestest dessert evar, except maybe ice cream.

So! Busy day tomorrow... then school next week and piano lessons Monday and yeah. Regular ol' stuff. PANTS, y'all! :-D

It's songs about me
And who I am
Songs about loving and living
And good hearted women and family and God
Yeah they're all just
Songs about me
Songs about me

Yay Trace Adkins! Here's your promised blog, Hididi. ;-)

Okay so. A lot has happened. (That could possibly be the understatement of the year...)

Pookie has come and gone, we've transferred from Our Savior Lutheran to Zion Lutheran, started school again, Hanna's turned 13 and I broke up with Tim.

... wait, what? Yeah. I broke up with Tim... suffice to say, I'm not going to Maryland and I'm not getting married in two years. I'm not going to type out all the bloody details here, but basically... we don't have anything in common anymore (except for being Lutheran and homeschooled), and there was a lot of... unsolvable issues. It just wasn't working...
Don't worry about me, though, I'm okay... I actually feel more relieved than anything.

Other than that! Um... life marches on. I mentioned we started school... well, Bekah and Hanna did. I sorta did - I'm doing consumer math, history (I will never NOT do history! ;-)) finishing chemistry and also doing this home economics course my mom found. I'm having fun. :-D

We transferred to Zion, finally, officially!! YAY! :-D Our transfer went through in literally two days. We were shocked. ;-) I love Zion. It's just so... different from what we were used to, in a veryvery good way.

Here's my current books, just because I feel like listing them:
Hammer of God - Bo Giertz
Why Is Feminism So Hard To Resist? - Paul Harris
Bismark - A. J. P. Taylor
Plus history reading. Once I'm done with Hammer of God, which I almost am, I'll be plunging back into War and Peace! Yay! Hopefully THIS time I'll finish it, haha.

So, that's about all I have to blog about for now... I'll try to start blogging every other day again, so Hididi gets her fix. ;-) PANTS!

She wants to go home
But nobody's home
That's where she lies
Broken inside
With no place to go
No place to go
To dry her eyes
Broken inside

One of the few Avril songs I like...

So I finally finished unpacking today. (I almost left it all in my suitcase - I mean, I'm leaving again in two weeks!) I stuck my hand in the front pocket of my backpack just to make sure nothing was in it - I hadn't put anything in it this trip - and I found a card-thingy. Sorta a business card I s'pose. And it had Benjamin Mann's info on it. :-P So uh, is this one of THE Manns? And if it is, is it one of the sons? And... hoooow the heck did it get in my backpack?!

Just a leeeeettle bit creepified...

Don't it feel so good
Flying high without a net above the neighborhood
I love to cross the line
I get a running start and I go five steps at a time
Oh wouldn't it be scary
Just being ordinary?

I'm baaaaack! Have been back. Since 5 PM Saturday. It's sad, but at the same time... I do love my bed. ;-)

The conference was so absolutely and completely awesome, and not just because I got to see all my friends - including Bekah Koch, who I haven't seen in years! *hugs Bekah* But man, all those wonderful sectionals and sermons... that gooorgeous cathedral... dang, it was just an incredible experience. Colorado Springs, here we come! ;-D

Well, not much has happened since we got back... Pookie came back with us, so dodging him and Bekah's flirting has been... interesting. ;-P I can't see too much or I miss Tim really bad. SPEAKING of which!

I GET TO GO TO TIM'S HOUSE IN AUGUST. :-D I'll be gone for 16 glorious days, August 13 - 29. That's only two weeks and 5 days awaaaay!! *BOUNCES* It helps to have something to look forward to after coming home from something you miss terribly...

Well, I can't think of anything else to blog about... and Pookah (that's Pookie and Bekah combined - I'm tired of typing out both names ;-P) wants to watch The Forgotten. Yay, scary movies late at night. ;-) PANTS, everybody!

Ooo life's so sweet right here in the passenger seat
Ooo yeah life's so sweet
When I look to my left, see his suntanned hands
His muddy river hair and his thousand-acre plans
I'm all shook up like a quarter in a can
Ain't life sweet in the passenger seat

So I'm just about packed! And we're LEAVING TOMORROW!!! :-D I'm sooo excited. I absolutely adore road trips.

My aunt's coming to house-sit... but I'm still kinda worried, 'cause Laddie sometimes throws fits when we leave. Oh well, I s'pose he'll be okay... I just hope Hurricane Emily doesn't decide to hike up to Galveston while we're gone, either. ;-P

If you need to contact me while I'm gone... well... tough cookies. ;-) We'll have all our cell phones (mom's, dad's and mine/Bekah's), but I have no idea who reads this, so I'm not posting any numbers. ;-P If you REALLY need me, email/IM Tim and he can give you my number. ;-)

We'll be back Saturday afternoon or evening sometime, so talk to y'all then!! :-D

Someday baby, you and I are gonna be the ones
Good luck's gonna shine
Someday baby, you and I are gonna be the ones
So hold on
We're headed for a better life

Keith Urban is reallyreally good. I just sort of realized that after Hanna got his Be Here CD. ;-) Time to burn a copy!

So today is laundry-and-cleaning-house day. I cleaned the downstairs (minus the bathroom, Bekah's room and the kitchen - those are Bekah and mom's responsibilites, respectively ;-)), and of course my room I did yesterday. My room is very sparkly now. :-D I moved posters and stuff around... I still need to move Aragorn over a couple inches and put up my Battle of Geonosis poster. I also shoved my bed back up against the wall, instead of angled like it was... my room looks so HUGE now! Dang. My furniture is so dark and heavy that it's always made my room (the biggest bedroom in the house besides the master bedroom) look tiny. But now with the bed against the wall it's... yeah. Huge. ;-)

I'm JUST about done with laundry, upon which blessed event I can begin PACKING! So. My project after I finish this post is to make a packing list.

So yesterday we went to Wal-mart and got a bunch of stuff we need for the trip... and I found these REALLY nifty "mounting squares" to stick pictures to the wall with. They don't hurt the picture and they don't hurt the wall paint - can you get any better than that?! ;-) So now I've plastered a bunch of pictures up by my comp desk. Which, btw, is new - I bought it with some of my graduation money a couple weeks ago. :-D

Tomorrow the Borghardts come over! :-D And then there's only TWO DAYS until we hit the road! YAY! By the way - we'll be getting to St. Louis around 2 PM Monday. We're leaving Sunday after church, spending the night just outside Little Rock, and then heading up to St. Louis. :-)

You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid, turned it blue

"Looks like I've lost my will to carry on, my friend", she said
And you can hear it in my whispered cries for love
I need your blissful touch to carry me away again
So can we roll tonight, roll through your desert, can we start over and just...

Run away, run away tonight
It ain't no victory, but I don't care,
I don't care if it's wrong or right
We can just run away, run away tonight
It ain't no victory but I don't care,
I don't care if it's wrong or right

LOOK LYNEA'S POSTING OMG EVERYBODY FREAK OUT NOW.

:-D

Sorry for the hiatus, y'all. ;-) So um... I changed the template... it miiight be temporary because I'm severely tempted to learn CSS and mess with the layout myself. But we'll see how that goes. At the moment I have absolutely no desire to relate my life of the past several months, so perhaps I shall do that tomorrow. ;-P

But. :-D *BOUNCES AROUND ECSTATICALLY* I GET TO GO TO JONES HALL. AND SEE A SYMPHONY. Specifically - my once-in-a-lifetime-chance to see the LORD OF THE RINGS SYMPHONY. I cannot BEGIN to describe how absolutely THRILLED I am. I begged and pleaded both my parents to go with me, but neither one is exactly a symphomaniac (haha). But then mom had the idea to ask Grandma! And Grandma said she'd go! :-D AHHHH.

Okay. I'm calm... really...

OH YEAH! AND IT'S RAINING! Praise the Lord! I love rain soso much... plus we're in a shtoopid drought. Pfft. BUT, it's raining and thundering and yay. :-D My mom got the van washed yesterday. I told her it'd rain today. And it did! Hehe... thank God for costal showers...

Well I'm an eight ball shooting double fisted drinking son of a gun
I wear my jeans a little tight just to watch the little boys come undone
I'm here for the beer and the ball busting band
Gonna get a little crazy just because I can

You know I'm here for the party
And I ain't leavin 'til they throw me out
Gonna have a little fun gonna get me some
You know I'm here, I'm here for the party

My poor baby Laddie got attacked by a German Shepherd last week. :-( The stupid thing grabbed Laddie by the back and threw him over on the ground before our neighbor got ahold of her dog. We didn't find the wound until Monday (his fur's so thick I didn't notice until I was petting his lower back), and we took him to the vet on Thursday when it started looking REALLY bad, even after I cleaned it really well, shaved it and everything on Monday.

So the vet said that the bite was a lot deeper than they thought at first. They put Laddie under, flushed the whole wound out really well and then sewed two tubes into his back to drain out the puss. So he's locked in the laundry room, and every so often I have to go and clean his fur and whatever he's been leaning against where the blood's been draining off. On Tuesday I guess they'll take out the tubes and sew him back up, and he'll be on an antibiotic for 10 days... poor T-butt...


I'm SO EXCITED about the rodeo. :-D *dances around* I got myself a cowboy hat yesterday, so now I'm all set. It's gonna be so much fun. I just LOVE rodeos. :-D Too bad I'm the only one in my family who does... I don't get to go as much as I'd like. I mean, seriously, I'd go two or three times every time it's open if I could! (The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is open for about 3 weeks every year in the beginning of March).


Other than that stuff... not much has been going on. I recently got obsessed with genealogy, which made my mom re-obsessed with it, so we've been down to the Clayton Genealogical Library twice this past week researching mom's grandparents' side of the family. We've gotten a few things we didn't know before, and thanks to mom's fourth cousin once removed (my fifth cousin) we found more out about my great-great-grandfather's cousin. Well, we think they're cousins. But it makes perfect sense. Anyway, that's all very confusing so I'll spare y'all. ;-)


Mr. Armstrong recruited me to accompany the choir in one piece on Palm Sunday, so now I'll be uber busy on Holy Week! But accompanying the choir and playing handbells is fun, and I love it. :-D Music and church... you can't get much better than that!

God blessed Texas
With his own hand
Brought down angels from the Promised Land
Gave ‘em a place where they could dance
If you wanna see heaven, brother, here's your chance
I’ve been sent to spread the message
God blessed Texas

It's Go Texan Day in Houston! The official kick-off of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the biggest rodeo in the country. AND I GET TO GO! w00t w00t!! March 7th. The day that Big & Rich perform. :-D

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Okay, so I haven't posted at all in forever. :-P Almost NOTHING interesting has happened. Other than depressing things like my great-aunt dying...

BUT! I'm having much fun in school (yay for Texas history, world geography, Whatever Happened to Justice for economics and Hammer of God for lit!), my piano students are practicing, I've been GASP exercising and I'm very much in love with my boyfriend. <3


I've also read a ton in the past... week. Ish. I read two Mandie books (finished the series after 7 years' worth of books!), The Second Summer of the Sisterhood and now I'm half-way through The Black Arrow. :-D I feel accomplished.

Oh yeah, and I'm DOING LAUNDRY. Woohoo!

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I'm subbing in the adult bell choir for someone who's not gonna be here for Holy Week... so I'm playing Palm Sunday and Easter. Our homeschool choir is playing Maundy Thursday. I LOVE handbells!

Um. I think that's it.

I hold my breath as this life starts to take its toll
I hide behind a smile as this perfect plan unfolds
But oh, God, I feel I've been lied to
Lost all faith in the things I have achieved
And I

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

(I know it's the same song - it fits more now than it did last time I blogged. ;-P)

Well... Christmas, New Years and Epiphany came and went, I flew to Tim's for 12 days and came home to a hellishly chaotic life. I finally got caught up on everything four days after I got home and I've been trying to adjust to normality again since then. Not that I like normality anymore, but I s'pose I'll have to make do...

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The Schecks was great, what can I say? ;-) I love his family. :-D We spent most of our time playing Halo 2 on their XBox (free-for-all swords on lockout, anyone? ;-D), watching movies, doing a little touring and playing games. The Bourne Identity and the Bourne Supremacy are on my I-could-see-this-several-more-times-and-not-be-bored movie list. ;-)

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I have *most* of the computer parts I need to upgrade my compy. I have a new motherboard and an Intel Pentium 4 3.0 ghz processor, so now all I need is 256 mb of DDR memory and I'll be set. :-D I should get that sometime this week, so I'll have a niffy new comp by the beginning of next week, hopefully. w00t! (Bekah's also gets an upgrade - she gets my old parts. A Pentium II 400 mhz processor and 256 mb of RAM, a far cry from her current 233 mhz and 96 mb of RAM. ;-))

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Random stuff...
We started school on Tuesday, which isn't really interesting, but it's another step towards normality. I got a total of five CDs for Christmas that I'm now addicted to... the Village soundtrack, Big & Rich - A Horse of a Different Color, Creed - Human Clay, Montgomery Gentry - You Do Your Thing, and a CD Pastor Stuckwisch made for me and sent home with my family. :-D All of 'em are awesome.
Bekah and I got a cell phone! Mom called and got the Sprint people to give her three free phones (new ones for her and dad and one for Bekah and I) and add a new line, plus get 200 more minutes on her plan for only $10 extra a month. lol. She's good at getting people to do stuff like that. ;-) So yeah, IM me if you want our number!

That's pretty much it, I think... I don't have anything major going on in the near future... I get to go to the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and also see Big & Rich in concert afterwards on March 7th, though. :-D *bounces*

PANTS!