• Oct. 2, 2008
Come on Over. Get to know me!

"The Get to know me Tag"

Books and movies…

 What are your ten favorite fiction books?(not necessarily in order).

1.  The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

2.  Twilight by Stephenie Myers

3.  The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

4.  Eragon by Christopher Paolini

5.  Eldest by Christoper Paolini

6.  Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

7.  The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien

8.  The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

9.   ?

10. ?


What are the five most influential books on your life?

1.       The Bible

2. ?

3. ?
4. ?
5. ?  

Who are your three favorite authors?

1. J.R.R. Tolkien

2. C.S. Lewis

3. Christopher Paolini     

Who are your three favorite heroes?

1. Superman   

2. Batman

3. Jesus

Who are your three favorite villains?

1. Syndrome (from the Incredibles)

2. The Joker (from Batman)

3. Yzma (from The Emperors New Groove)

What are your three favorite movies?

1. Star Wars (all of them :)

2. The Lord of the Rings (all three of them)

3. The Notebook 
 

Me…

 
What are your three favorite sports?

1.       Volleyball

2.       Basketball

3.       Soccer

What is your favorite non-sport activity? um....does watching movies count??

What is your favorite animal? Lion

What is your least-favorite animal? an alligator or crocodile.

Do you like to write stories? Um...I would like to but I'm not very good at writing : (

What is your favorite genre to or read? Fantasy and paranormal

What is your favorite vehicle? Mustang

What are your five favorite games?

1.       Cranium
2.       Speed Uno
3.       Monopoly
4.       Life
5.       ?

What character in any book or movie describes you best? ????  Well I've taken a couple of quizzes and I'm usually considered the villian lol.

What’s your favorite food? any kind of sea

What are your ambitions? To try my hardest at everything and always perservere.

What ten things do you want to do before you die?

1.       Sing on Broadway!!!!!! Or be on American Idol

2.       Get married

3.       Meet someone really famous

4.       Meet all my HSB friends.

5.     Buy a really snazzy sports car.

6.     Fall in love 

7.       Live

8.       Laugh

9.       Love

10.     Sing as though no one can hear me.

 People to tag:  anyone who wants to do this tag is welcome to.

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• Sep. 4, 2008
Oh we're going to the Fair, fair, fair.......

Well we went to the MN State Fair last Thursday and it was a blast! I made a commitment to eat the weirdest food I could find....I was going to try the chocolate covered bacon but I decided to try alligator instead. Suprisingly it was very good....it was kind of chewy but it tasted like chicken otherwise......

Beverly had a lot of fun when we went through the little kids barn where you got to learn about different animals and stuff. She really enjoyed driving the John Deere tractor.... 

And David? David was playing his air guitar while we were waiting for the skateboard show to start.

I must say that the highlight of the day was when my dad and I went on the Skyscraper.

I had been planning to go on this ride for two years but kept chickening out....this year I decided to actually go. Sorry we couldn't get a picture of the whole ride but you can virtually experience it on this video from youtube. I think it was definitly worth it. I had a blast!

This was taken at the end of the day when we were riding the bus back to where the van was parked. And in case you're wondering David has cotton candy all over his face.....

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• Aug. 26, 2008
I Know.....It's Amazing That I Actually Updated My Blog.....

Sorry to everyone for not updating my blog in so long but life has been kinda hectic. It will probably take me awhile to catch up on all my comments and everyone's new blog entries but I'll make a point of spending a couple of minutes each day on my blog....and I'll try to write more often.

Let's see....since the last time I wrote I went to a family reunion at the beginning of August. It was at my aunt and uncle's house on the lake. David and Beverly got to go swimming for the first time in their lives and they had a blast! They also got to go to the County Fair and rode some rides.

I started school about two weeks ago and I am currently studying the American Revolution and the founding of America.

On Thursday we're all going to the State Fair so that should be fun.....well thats all for now.

<3 Marissa

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• Jun. 17, 2008
Change of Scenery.....

Wow it has been forever since I wrote but this time I have a very good reason. I don't know how many of you knew that my parents were adopting two kids from Haiti (a boy and a girl) but it took us 3 years to finally get them home and now their here!!! Their names are Beverly (almost 5) and David (almost 3). Our house has been very chaotic since they came about three weeks ago. I have a couple of pictures I want to post that I took.

This is David. This picture pretty much sums up his whole personality. He loves to be the center of attention and is always willing to have his picture taken.

This is Beverly. I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of her smiling but she is just as outgoing as David is.

Here we all are at the Beach.......

Besides getting a new brother and sister so much has been going on. I got a job at McDonalds!!! I have been working there about a month and I really really love it. I have been working an average of about 20 hours a week and sometimes I don't get off until midnight but I still love it anyway.

I finished my drivers ed (yes!) and now I am waiting for something from the State of Minnesota saying that I can take my permit test and then I can start driving (look out world!)

That is pretty much all that has been going on in my life but while I was gone Aliveagain13 gave me an award! Whoo-hoo!!!

Thank you so much Kate!! Your a great friend!!!!

<3 Marissa

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• May. 9, 2008
Photography~

I promised that I would post some pictures that I took with my Nikon D40 and here they are! I took like over 200 photos at Youth Group for a couple of weeks but I'm only going to post pictures that don't have any of my friends in them since I don't have anyone else's permission to post their picture on my blog.

Here is a picture that I took of a tree bud in our yard as a sign of Spring. Of course in true Minnesota style, about two days after I took this picture we got 8 inches of snow!

And this is moi! This was taken a few weeks ago at youth group when I was laughing about something (I don't remember what).

This is Maxwell. I took this picture while he was sleeping.....

Unfortunately he stayed asleep for like 2 seconds and when he saw I was trying to take a picture he yawned! He obviously was not very interested in having his picture taken.....

Well not too much has been going on here. I've been learning how to use my camera and I am trying to get a job for the Summer. I've applied at like 10 different places but I haven't got called or anything so hopefully I can still get a job before school is out. Tomorrow I have my last singing recital before school ends and I'll be singing "They Can't Take That Away From Me." It's a song by the Gershwin Brothers. Here is a video I found of Judy Garland singing it.

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