This is my blog. Blah blah blah. I will probably post when I'm bored. So expect a lot of posts. X]
Oh and if you don't want the music to play, you can scroll all the way down to the bottom to the music player and hit pause.
I LOVE the movies! With all the really loud carpet and popcorn. That's actually where I'm headed today! Me, and three of my friends, are all gonna go see The Day The Earth Stood Still! I CAN'T WAIT!!! After the movie, were going to Pizza Hut!
The Day The Earth Stood Still was origionaly a 1951, black and white film, but they just made a 2008 film on 15/12/08. Here's the trailer for the old one, just for kix:
Well, I got some good news, and I got some bad news. The good: CHRISTmas was great! The bad: I couldn't find the right cord, so I can't put vids on here that I made :-(.
So, anyway, focusing back on the good, Here are the things I got for christmas! Thank you Aunt Judy and Uncle Pete for the total of $45.00! Thank you Uncle Scott, for the cool disk case, and the anorak! Thank you Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Steve for the Borders guift card, and the iTunes buift card! Thank you Nanna and Grampie for the two Borders guift cards, the Wal-Mart guift card, the laptop desk, Spider-man: Web Of Shadows (PC), Narnia: Prince Caspian (DVD), Narnia: Prince Caspian (PS2), Iron Man (PS2), Ben 10: Alien Force (PS2), The two/four shirts, and the earbuds!
CHRISTmas day, after the PRESANTS (!!!), we went ice skating!!! It was so fun! My cousin Edie was trying her best...I'm sure she's gonna be a great skater!
Major stomach achege. Mom and I made sugar cookies, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies, caramel popcorn, and chocolate covered pretzels with crushed trail mix sprinkled on top tonight. I had WAY too much. But, I suppose I can let myself slide a little, it being CHRISTmas eve and all.
Before we made all of the temptation-on-a-pan's, mom, my dad, and I took the first ski of the year!!! :D WOO HOO!!! Since I've been using the olyptical, I can go a bit farther than last year. But still, when we got home, I was so over heated, that I got into a t-shirt and shorts, and stepped outside on the porch for a few. WHEW did that feel good! Rexaroo had a good time too!
I'm not sure if I mentioned if I'm a new fan of Skillet, but, well, I am :) Here's the music video I found for Whispers In The Dark (It's a little dark [not as in color, as in style], but it's my favorite song by them):
Tomorrow, my family, my grandparents, and my uncle are going to the movies to see, I think, Seven Pounds. Then I'm going to their house to sleep over, and the next day, the rest of the family (on my mom's side) is coming so we can celebrate CHRISTmas.
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Also, I just read a pretty good book! I found out about it using LibraryThing. I looked at the suggestions on the Maximum Ride series. It's pretty good, and it also features winged characters. It's called: Growing Wings. I still prefer Max though.
Well, I gotta go help my mom finish up, so ttyl (Talk To You Later)!
That's right! We have a LOT of good sledding snow! In fact, I just got back from sledding down a snowbank my dad made with my neighbors! MY NOSE IS STILL COLD!!! Brr. Even though there's a lot of it, it's not good packing snow. No good for snowballs and snowmen. Oh well. Still good for sledding, though!
But I'll tell ya. The fire feels great right now! And so did the hot chocolate. Mm-mm-m!
Yesterday, I found ANOTHER website! I find a lot of site that I get excited over! This one is called LibraryThing.com. If you join, you can enter books that you own or have read, and it gives suggestions and stuff! I added a LibraryThing widget to my blog, too! It shows random books from my library. Click here to go to LibraryThing.
Did the music catch you off guard? If so: MUAHAHAHA!!! :D Obviously I found out how to put music on my blog! I used Playlist.com to get an HTML code, which I copied and pasted onto a HTML/JavaScript gadget. FINALLY! Silent night is playing on it right now, but I can and will change it every so often. The music gadget is the first one at the bottom, and it has volume, pause, fast-forward, play, etc. Click here to go the Playlist.
Well on that high note, I have a new blog look for the winter, as you can tell! I think I'm gonna change it every season!
As you know, I am a Warriors fan. I have EVERY SINGLE BOOK! Not too long ago, They made a little Warriors book trailer. It's pretty good! I just found it on YouTube, too. And you just KNOW that that means I have to post it ;D !
Well, as always, more snow means more work. Especially when we have a STANKIN HUGE WRAP AROUND PORCH TO SHOVEL! But, it does have a roof, so that makes it a little easier. Also, my dad, every year, had to tweak the junker plow truck so that it would go just one more day. It got so bad that we finally put a really good plow on our HUGE new truck! And, boy, does that thing do a job! My dad says he's spoiled :). He has a joystick that controls the plow now, so that he doesn't have to reach down to do it. On the other truck, the joystick was way down low, which was a pain.
Last night, It started to flurry at three thirty, and hadn't stopped when I went to bed! WE GOT MORE THAN EIGHT INCHES!!! And we're getting another good storm on Sunday, and another one on Tuesday! We're gonna have like two feet, by dad says! Which means, good cross country skiing terrain! And snowmen! And sledding! And, most importantly, totally pummeling my friends and family with snowballs! It also looks like its even flurrying a little now!
My mom emailed me a video of a funny dog, practically swimming in snow! It's so funny! I re found it on YouTube. Here it is:
Well, yesterday was my last day of school til January 2nd! YESSS!!! TWO FREE-AS-A-BIRD WEEKS!!!
Remember that Widgetbox website? Well, I got a lot of new gadgets from it! Like Maltese, The Impossible Quiz, and two LIVE Pup Cams, which I made myself! The reason the tiger is blue and named maltese is because theres legend about a blue-and-black tiger. Theres no proof currently, but some people believe in it. Ruko☆
So, anyway, my cousin Britt (the one who has the blog here) sent me a link on AIM (by the way: GET IT! And talk with me on it to once you get it! My user name is ruko777) for a cute dog website called: The Daily Puppy. It's sooo cuuute! People there can put their puppies up for public view and "AWWW!"'s. Click here to see my favorite pup! Oh, and click here to go to the website. I also added a The daily Puppy widget to my blog! If you scroll down just a little, you'll see it.
Also on that website, they have a live puppy cam! Which means that you can watch ADORABLE Shiba Inu puppies play and roll around...LIVE!!! I embedded it to this post too! Here it is:
Well, in other news, I'm sick. AGAIN!!! Ugh! I've been getting sick since Monday, but I think I'm getting better!
Oh, also, WE GOT SNOW AGAIN!!! I don't think it's gonna melt this time either, because I think were gonna get some more later in the week! We got around three-to-two inches.
Where did I get The Daily Puppy widget you ask? Well, I found another website called Widgetbox.com, where they have really cool widgets for Blogger, and a bunch of other sites! That's also where I got the Your Art widget all the way at the bottom (which, by the way, is sweeet!). Click here to go to Widgetbox.
We didn't make it to the nursing home on friday. We lost power. More specifically, we lost it very earlie on Frriday morning. We got it back late Friday afternoon. Even in that very short time, we didn't suffer much, because we gotz a generator. We suffer so much in this country.
I love this new Reliant K album that I got on iTunes! It's called: Let It Snow Baby...Let It Reindeer! IT'S AWESOME!!! They have both classic and origional songs on it, and the classic ones they rockified. Wow that's dorky word! :D ...Anyway, my favorite songs on there are: Silver Bells, Sleigh Ride, Angels We Have Heard On High, Deck The Halls, 12 Days Of Christmas, I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, and Santa Claus Is Thumbing To Town. I am currently working on puting music on my blog, here, but I havn't mastered it yet. Til then, heres the music video for Sleigh Ride. It's kinda strange, considering it's a cartoon with bunnies, but it's still pretty good!
We also put up our winter decorations! We love snowmen, and most of our decorations are, or have a picture of, one. I counted thirty-five snowmen! We also put up a manger scene!
Well, it snowed again on Sunday...but it rained on Tuesday, so its all gone now... :'( But it is supposed to snow...oh wait...sigh: today. Shoot. It didn't.
Lately, I've been watching The Cosby Show on YouTube. It has it's own channel! It doesn't have every single episode, but it does have the funniest moments pretty much! Click here to go to The Cosby Show's channel. I LOVE COSBY!!! I'M WATCHIN IT NOW ON TV!!! I can't post the actual videos of my two favorites, because The Cosby Show doesn't allow it or something. But I can give you the links:
We are supposed to go to a nursing home with the homeschool group tomorrow. But we don't know if we'll be able to make it, because we got a lot of ice on the roads, because we got sleet today. At the nursing home, the littler kids were gonna sing, and any kid who wanted to could do a sing or play piano solo. I was gonna play We Three Kings. But maybe next Friday...
The fire station dinner thing was great! I had goulash, this noodle-and-spaghetti sauce-and-hamburger stuff. It's really good! The live nativity scene was good. No real baby, thank God! ;D. But there were live goats and chickens!
Anyway, today, we set up and decorated the CHRISTmas tree at my grandparents! Grampie and I always do the setting up (it's a fake tree, so we have to put it together. It's actually not that artificial as you would think), and Nanna and I do the lights'n stuff.
Also, I just got back from the carol singalong thing at the monastery. It was really good! We sang: O Come All Ye Faithful, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Angels We Have Heard On High, Away In The Manger, Silent Night, What Child Is This, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, We Three Kings, The Fist Noel, The Little Drubber Boy, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Hark The Gerald Angel Sing, Joy To The World, America The Beautiful, and Let There Be Peace On Earth. We all had chestnuts over the open fire. Those were the hot nuts I mentioned. They were really good! Warm and soft. We all had candles too! It was so beautiful! I looked behind us, and there were hundreds of candles swaying! Oh and before we went, I almost forgot, I had some fish chowder and...I LOVED IT!!! My Nanna says it's because I have McKay blood. McKay is their last name, and my mother's maiden name.
So on our way back (we walked), my friends scared the living daylights out of me!!! It was like five minutes before it finally sunk in! It was soo funny!
Well, I am at my grandparents right now. And we need to go in, like, twenty minutes, so I need to make this quick!
So, anyway, where we are going is a fire station, where we will eat. More likely, we will eat food :D! After that, we are gonna walk to a church, and look at a live manger scene, with real people, and, so my nanna says, real animals. Hoping not a real baby, though :-p.
Tomorrow, we are gonna put up the CHRISTmas tree, and then we're going to a place to sing carols and stuff! The last year I went, I had a challenging mission: TO BREAK THOUGH THE STINKIN HOT NUT'S SHELL!!! Seriously, I think they have these hot nut things, which are really hard to break through. OOO and candles!!! I love the candles :)!
If you're wondering why I spelled that wrong, that was Lol speech. I'm not gonna tell you what the point of that is, but I'll tell you where it's used!
I found an awesomly funny website! It's called I Can Has Cheezburger?. It's a really hilarious site, where members can downlode cat pictures, put in text, and post it! It's sooo funny!!! I joined, also. Click here to go to my profile, and my pictures. Click here to go to the site homepage. I put a sample picture to the right.
In other news, my mom and I are going to our homeschool group's CHRISTmas party. The younger grades are gonna sing CHRISTmas carrols! The reason I spelled CHRISTmas that way, is because people are now spelling it X-mas. Notice what they X'ed out? Christ. So I'm spelling it that way, to stick it to the person who started it! Care to join me?
Hey peoples! I'M HAVING MY FIRST GLASS OF EGGNOG THIS YEAR! WOOT WOOT!!! Props to the inventor of eggnog! Have any of you had your eggnog yet? It's not wintertime without eggnog!
Well, I gotta go have dinner. Pork chops!!! Mmm-m!!!
I don't got much to report, but I do have some funny videos to show you! As you can see, I have mastered putting YouTube videos on my blog, without having to put the link! Isn't that much better?
So, without further adue, here's my favorite Abbott and Costello video, "Who's On First?":
That's right!!! We gotz uz some snowz!!! WOOT WOOT!!! It snowed almost all night last night, and I went to youth group (Revive), and my mom couldn't pick me up, so I staid at a friends :D, which is even better! Me and my friend had the first snowball fight of the year! Then went inside to get hot coco! Winter is acomin, sooner rather than later! Then we pelted Nic and my dad with snowballs. I have a cold, wet butt to show for it :D...
I had a great Thanksgiving (WITH LOTZ OF GRAVY!!! WOOT WOOT!!!)! We had turkey, and gravy, and stuffing, and mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce, and yams, and marshmallow, and bread, and butter, and corn, and apple pie, and pumpkin pie, and blueberry pie!!! MMM-M!!!
So how was all your Black Fridays? I went out with my Nanna, and Grampie, and Uncle Donald, to get tickets for the Pirates game on New Years Eve that we always go to. Family tradition I guess :). While out, we stopped at Borders and I picked up the new Warriors book! It's called "Long Shadows." Next up is "Sunrise."
If you are confused about the tital "Birchstory", than, well, it's kinda hard to explain. Birchstory is the tital of a new blog that I made. It's based on the Worriors series by Erin Hunter. In the blog, "Birchpaw" "narrates." (Of course, it's really me narrating, but it's kinda like writing a book, where you write for the charactor.) Click here to view it! I havn't gotten that far in it, just listed all the TreeClan members, and discribed the clan's attributes, and Narrated the first (short) chapter in Birchpaw's story.
Well, scince I won't probably make a post on Thanksgiving, I'll just say it now:
I just joined a really cool website called: Young Writers Online (YWO, as I will refer to it from now on, for that be it's nickname)! Click here to go there. It's a really cool place where people can write stories and other people will critique it! I just authored my first short story on it. It's called "Gryphons." Click here to read it (the story is at the top of the page). If you like to write than you might consider joining too! If you do that, than you can criteque other peoples' work too.
As you may have noticed, I am no longer posting on just Wednesdays! Well, I'm still gonna post on Wednesdays if I havn't posted latly. So...yeah.
Also, just so you know, I would be posting more pix, but somone broke our camara! (Moooooom!) Just kidding, mom!
I just came back from worship at my neighbor's! IT WAS AWESOME!!! And it got me thinking...
How can people believe in the big bang???!!! Do they think that all the AMAZINGLY complex ecosystems and galaxies and, basically, the concept of life came from two tini tiny specs of dust? If so, they need to get a life!!! I mean, c'mon!!! Look at these pictures!
Now how many of you can possibly be dumb enough to believe that all this just happened by chance, huh? I mean, seriously! God! No, seriously! God!!!
It's the only answer! And anyway, in the big bang theory, where did the two tiny specks come from?! HAH!!! Gotcha there, didn't I???!!!
If you're wondering what the flangdoodle "Maximum Ride" is, it's just a book series...A TOTALY AWESOME BOOK SERIES!!! As a quote says on the front cover of the third book:
"THE MOST SIT ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT
UNTIL THREE IN THE MORNING READING A
BOOK THAT YOU CANNOT OR WILL NOT PUT
DOWN UNTIL YOU FINNISH' KIND OF BOOK."
~Bookwormreads-bookworm.blogspot.com
They even have a blog right here at Blogger.com!!! Go here to visit it! Oh and if you think I'ma gonna waista my time telling you the plot, yuz be w-r-o-n-g ;D ! But I will say, in confirmation of the quote, that they is THE most awesomely awesome books of awesomeness that tell of extreme awesomely awesome awesomeness!!!...Awesome! So, yeah, anyway, kudos to the author (James Patterson)! And there's a movie coming out! In 2010!!! A little late, but oh well. But there is a trailer already! Here it is:
Have you ever heard of The Wrecking? THEY'RE SO...AAAWSOOOME!!! (As you can tell, I love that word :) ). We saw them in concert just a little while ago! Here's a like to their site.
So I don't think there's anything else going on worth noting, and not reading my new fav. books is extreme pain.
Well it's...Thursday? SHOOT!!! I'M SORRY GUYS!!! I guess I forgot to write yesterday. Well here we go...on thursday...sigh. Well lets start with the probable reason for me being late: viiideooogaaameees!!! I havn't played my Playstation 2 in a while...I think it felt lonly. So I bought it a videogame! For it. Not for me. For it ;-). So anyway, the game is called Star Wars: the Force Unleashed! It is sooo cool! In the game, you are Darth Vador's new aprentice. You can change you're costume, lightsaber color, and lightsaber handle! And you can use AMAZING Force powers! It's awesome! Here's the trailer (on Youtube):
Somthing else exciting is that Nic and his dad and brother, Alex, might be moving REALLY close! Like, on our dirt road!!! Let's hope it works out, and you can pray too!
So here's what my little teaser leads to: Omega, a guy who used to live with us back in 2001, made us a visit on Monday!!! His brother, Alpha (yeah, that's right, Alpha and Omega :D ) is still in Africa, were they used to live. His first winter with mysterious white crystals falling from the sky, he spent most of his time in a big coat and gloves in front of the fire! We had a really good time with him!
Anyway, he just came by randomly on Monday. He has a wife, who, apparently, is a newish Christian, and a son who is six months old! He also has a step son and a step daughter. He said he was gonna stop by with them this weekend, with his family, so were really excited about that!
Hey guys!!! I know it's not Wednesday, but I just wanted to give you a teaser and show you some funny YouTube vids! Here are the vids:
Yup. So I thought those were pretty funny :-P. My teaser is that someone who we knew came over today, that we haven't seen in like five years! Tell ya more later!
Well, again, it's Wednesday! And it's time for (drum roll please) : "THE WEEKLY WEDNESDAY!!!" Applause, applause, applause!!! So I'm guessing a lot of you prayed for Nic to get out...CUZ HE JUST GOT OUT TODAY!!! It's a week later than we hoped, but hes out now!!! He and his father and his little brother were just here! I have another prayer request: that Nic's brother Alex would keep going on fire for the Lord! He's a new Christian and he really seems to be digging in to the Bible! Also for their big brother. I don't have many details, but he might go to jail. So he needs prayer too. In other news: My cousin got a blog right here on blogger!!! Here it is: http://brittanys-avocado.blogspot.com/ !!! Tomorrow I have no school!!! I'm taking a field trip with my Nanna and Grampie!!! Were going to a river in New Hampshire, called the Swift River! From the pictures they showed me, it's beautiful! NOOO SCHOOOOOL!!! I'm lovin' it!!! Well, I gotta go now. My Grandpa just drove up the drive way and were gonna eat! Talk to you next week!
Yup, it's that time of week again! Right now I am on the couch in front of the fire...ahh so nice! Anywho, that kid Nic who got baptized with me is in a meeting thingy right now. If it goes well, he will get out of jail today!!! He's such a nice guy, and a strong, new christian, he deserves to get out there and make disciples as early as possible! So you can pray for him, that he'll get out today, and I'll let you in on the scoop next week! It's my parent's anniversary on Sunday the 26th! Seventeen years since my folks got hitched!!! "Happy anniversary Mom and dad!" Ummm...I'm sorry to be able to report nothing else :( ...so I guess I'll see you next Wed.!
Sorry, I forgot some things because I was captivised by the thought of pizza. Here we go: I got babtized at my Grandpa's. He lives on Little Sabego lake. I got Baptised with a kid my dad is mentoring in the youth center, his name is Nic. He is realy on fire for the Lord, so you can pray for him, that he'll stay that way and keep growing sronger. Also the name of my book series that I'm writing is called: "The Royal Chronicles". The book I'm on now is entitled: "RoyalThunder". My goal for my book series is eight books. I know it's alot, but I'm hoping I'll be able to do it. I have other book ideas in my vault too, but this will be my first...if I turn into something.
Hey yall! Well it's Wednesday! Which means it's blog day!!! So I don't know why I didn't mention this on my last one, it's important,... I GOT BAPTISED!!! yep, I decided to make a public proclamation that I'm a Christian and I wanna follow him with all my life! I'm going to commit to reading the bible every day now, so pray that I don't forget or procrastinate like I always do :P ! Speaking of serving the Lord, I'm writing a book, in case I haven't already told you that. It's going to be a Christian fantasy book (well, it's a series). of course, now I think it's kinda a Sci-fi book now...it involves other planets and life on those planets. So anywho, I'm writing in it more now, so you can also pray that I don't just stop again like I seemed to do a lot a while ago. Well I have to go now...we're getting pizza for lunch...and we're taking the dog, he gets soooo excited when he goes on rides...my dad just told him...he's jumping everywhere!!! lol...so any way, I'm pretty much better from my fever...I just have a cold now...yep feelin good!!!
Yo guys!!! Nuttin much is going on except Rex got lime a few days ago. Hes fine now, though. Rex is about middle aged, a mutt, and black, white and brown. first he was limping on one paw and wouldn't move much, then he started to not walk that much at all! He would growl at anyone who approached him, except for my dad, who Rex absolutely adores :P ! so we looked up lime on the Internet and found that his symptoms were exactly like what it would be if he had lime! So we called in and took Rex to the vet. He didn't like the vet much, cause he doesn't like being poked, prodded and felt. He generally doesn't like being annoyed period. but he's fine now. Perky, trotting around, and barking false alarms as always!!! In other news, I just started to read The Space Trilogy, by C. S. Lewis! Most people know him best for his widely acclaimed book series: The Chronicles of Narnia, but fewer know him fore these books! If you think I'm gonna give you the whole plot, than you're mistaken, and will have to read them for your self!!! Also, I am sick. I think it's just a cold, I get dizzy when i walk around, I got Flem, a sore throat, and i fell icky when ever i breath or swallow. You know, the usual. Arg
So, I'm gonna try to write every Wednesday now, so I should be more consistent. Til next week than!!!
Hey guys! Sorry I havn't been writing any posts, I've been preoccupied with playing SPORE (!). That's right! I GOT SPORE!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!! IT'S SOOOO COOL!!! Seriusly EVERYONE needs to get this game! IT ROX!!!
So anyway, to follow up on a request ( :-P), here are some pix of the house, with the new porch, and sorta the new barn (its not close to finnished yet, and the pic doesn't show much):
So anyway, that's it! I'll be posting more, now that I escaped the binding and mezmerizing hold the SPORE had on me :-P ! Bed time! Latrz!!!
H everybody! My Spore game is on it's way! I got it on eBay for $33.74! That's a deal! It's usually, like, fifty dollars!!! But the bad part is that it's gonna take THREE TO FOUR WEEKS! I can't believe it takes that long! Seriously! My Dad says maybe it's God trying to teach me patience...I don't have much of that ;P ! So anyway...it's on it's way...and it's Bible time, talk to you later!!!
Hiyall! I just got the Webkinz Dolphin! Hurray! It's the last one I'm gonna get-its my eleventh. It seems so obsessive with some kids! They waist like hundreds of dollers on these little stuffed animals! It's rediculus! So anyway, I named the dolphin Silver and it's a boy. I've been waiting for the dolphin to come out for a while now ever scince I heard of it at webkinzinsider.com. It's great place where you can see all the upcoming webkinz and stuff! Somthing else cool about the webkinzdolphin is that it unlocks an underwater room that you can buy! It's awesome!!! Anyway, here are some pix:
Well it's off to Ridgeway (a homeschool group I go to) for me! Buh~bye!!!
HI PEOPLES!!! Welcome to my first and only blog!!! I hope you enjoy it!
We (me and my dad, my mom, and some comunity service kids) are working on a barn for our ministry's two story, grey house. We just got done finnishing a wrap-around porch on the front of the house so we were already in geer for it! Boy, TEN YEARS LIVING IN THIS HOUSE and were finaly almost done with it!!! We started from scratch and now we have a huge, five bedroom house mostly surrounded my forest, a wrap around porch, and, well almost, a big, honking barn!!! and you know what? we didn't have ANY money to start with!!! Seriusly! It's so amazing living and relying on god with everything we do! He just kept providing and sending checks that were just the right amount of money! It's so amazing! No, HE'S so amazing!!!