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if it says 'Not Responding' one more time..

i have an annoying computer. :D but anyway. Im almost done with Blue Noon already. im excited! And then im thinking about finishing this story*, so i can enter it in something.  Hannah actually just entered a poem into this contest to win $100. She says she'll know if she won sometime soon.. but she really wants me to actually 'finish a story' that i start. OKAY! IM GUILTY. SHEESH. it is not my fault i  loose interest in stories really quickly. It is not my fault i get half-way through chapter fifteen and find out that i totally lost the plot while i was sleeping. SEE! ITS NOT MY FAULT! I do have a very interesting iea for this story, soo..

i found a camera im insisting on saving up for. and if the link doesnt work, its a Kodak Z1015 IS on Costco.com, for $229. But its really nice.

click this and see if it shows the camera.

school was fun today! i cant believe i keep saying that. But math has been really enjoyable. just dont tell anyone i said that.

so! without further waiting, i give you my story x]

Chapter One - Like any Monday night at exactly 10pm, the big five story museum loomed over the city. Crammed with ancient history that nobody ever read. The windows were exactly the same, five of them on each wall, staring out over the horizon. The big wooden doors that looked like they were shipped here on the express train from the medieval times was still locked up and shut tight. The walls were still the color of stained teeth, and it still had the odd smoked salmon smell. And like always, it was still sitting on Main Street, a block and a half from my apartment. All the lights were off, all the curtains were closed, every entrance was locked. So where the heck was the sound coming from? Everyone thinks the place is ’haunted with the history of Miller Grove’, but seriously, its just there for teenagers to study the history for school reports, and for the tourists to find out about the lovely town they dropped into on the way to wherever they were going. But that sound still buzzed, and there was still heavy footsteps inside, like someone didn’t realize they hadn’t given out the closing warning, and locked somebody up inside there, to stay angry until tomorrow morning, bright and early. I crouched just below a window and sat on my knees. Then slowly tried to peer inside. But of course, like any other night, the curtains were closed along with everything else. So I’d never know what was going on. I circled the building, scanning the walls. Maybe they forgot to lock the back? I walked quickly to the door and tried to open it. But just as my hand touched the knob it turned. Somebody was opening it from inside. I jumped back and ran to the corner of the building, trying to stay out of sight. The door opened, revealing a rather large figure. And by large I don’t mean muscle. I stared at him, watching as he walked outside and shut the door quietly, and walked back around front. I glanced around, then took a step forward. Right onto a twig. I jumped back behind the building just as he turns around. He scanned right were I was standing, then slowly walked back to the door. He bent down and examined the twig, then turned back around and walked back to the front of the building. A few seconds later, I heard a car start and crept out of my hiding spot, glanced around to make sure nobody was left, and then walked slowly back to the door. I tried to turn the knob several times, all to no avail. Then I smelt the oddest smell. Like sour milk mixed with coffee and bad bananas. I gulped, turned around, and came face to face with the big guy.

i want icecream.

ahh yes. the secret is out. even though it looks below 40degrees outside, i want icecream. it isnt my fault that i love it so much :/

soo. todays been fun. i got up at 9AM. (ack) after being up listening to cyotes create a mob in the vacant lot across the street from us. stupid wild dogs .-. sigh. then i took a shower, drank two cups of coffee.., had some Reeses Puffs cereal for breakfast while nicole was singing the commercial and wondering why my allowence didnt double and why the concert wasnt in our house yet, and then i did school. and get this. i actually enjoyed math today. i wanted to do more math today. and then i slapped myself when i said it was fun, and my head hurt for a few minutes. and i wrote another chapter to another story, which ill post on here soon, cause i had to write a mystery. yay! its actually really good. my dad thought it was funny, and nicole was literally screaming at me to wirte more. so i dont know, maybe i will? dont want to wake up to that every morning. and hmm. im already half way through Blue Noon. but maybe thats cause i started where i left off when the first two books got here in the mail [:

and im having somebody make me a really awesome template, that ill use for either this blog or my writing/song/poem thing. but it'll be cool. and tomorrow's awana, which means i get to see Jake again. If he's back from his thanksgiving day trip yet. Im sure he is, since his public-school-ish-ness says he has to be there. at school, i mean. so i dont know if he'll be there yet.

my mom and andrea just started throwing a fit cause mom lost a game on Wii Fit o.o it was this huge roar and then andrea complaining. it was quite funny, actually. and im watching nicole get mad at toontown cause she needs these tires for her toontask, and all she's getting is clown fish and rotten boots.

hmm. we watched treasure island today. the original. with all the shooting and fighting and stuff. it was interesting.. i enjoyed it. [: and im working on getting done with the series im reading so i can read, brace yourselfs , Narnia! YAY! cause i started it a long time ago, and i havent gotten to finish it. so yeah. exciting [:

and i just found out from the lovely Tinuviel that Hannah and i missed National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which i didnt realize came up so fast! The lady at the library said we'd be able to participate, but i totally forgot and left the folder in my binder and havent opened it since October. *tear*

and now! A tag i stole from Tinuviel (:

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
"Ive been working on the railroad, just to pass the time a-way,...." Wee-Sing Sing-Alongs. dont ask. xD

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you reach?
the pencil sharpener.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Treasure Island.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is:
4:05pm.

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
4:09pm.

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Nciole playing toontown, my mom putting away dishes, and andrea playing the wii.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Yesterday. either heading over to the store, or standing on the porch listening to the Cyotes have a party..

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Vmkmagic.com.

9. What are you wearing?
A Snoopy tee, and these really odd green colored capris, white socks, and i have a hairband on my wrist.

10. Did you dream last night?
Of Course! Life is nothing without dreaming..

11. When did you last laugh?
Just now. Talking to ryan.

12. What are on the walls of the room you are in?
All these pieces of paper with names of books on them, a few posters for math, and the calander.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
Nope..okay, yes. On tv last night people were sticking snakes through their noses.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
Its a fun thing to try to do while talking on the phone.

15. What is the last film you saw?
Treasure Island..

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
a Laptop, a really really nice camera, a new bed, probably a house.. may i go on? x]

17.  Tell me something about you that few know about.
Ahh. Most people know everything about me. There really isnt many secrets down in the depths of darkness. But hmm. Hannah knows almost everything, why dont you call her or something? Okay. So. When its pouring down rain and our parents arent looking, Nicole and i will go get some Rain-boots on and go run around in the puddles.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
WELL.. only one? Okay. Hmm. I'd help TWLOHA stop teenage depression. hands down thats my choice.dont even have to think twice about that.

19. Do you like to dance?
I love to dance. Though mom took me out of classes because we couldnt afford it anymore. But i loved it. The last preformance i did was at Suessical, but when i was in tap and ballet with some of my friends, we did this supposedly really great dance, and killed it on the stage. it was just way to many dance steps. And i didnt practice it like i had practiced other ones.

20. George Bush:
What in the world are we talking about him for? We should be talking about Obama.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Charollette, Novelaa. Probably something totally unrelated to those two names, but thats the first two that popped into my mind besides Kelly. And personally i dont love that name. No offense.

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Oh, so many choices. I dont know. 

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Abroad..i thought you said Aboard. and im all.. aboard what?! But yes, all the time.

24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?


I tag:
1. DoingHardThings

Ghost

Something my friend wrote....

i feel at times in my life that i am invisble
i am nt seen as who i am
so why look at me at all
i would walk these lands as a ghost
i would bring just to the to the unjust
i would care for those who cant for themselves
i would watch over my loved
and appear and lay down my furry on the ones who would think of putting them in harms way
i would make them feel there own doings and add a lil rage of my own
i think to myself how life would be easier if no one seen you
but everything has to be balenced
the down fall of this would be you are never seen again by those who love you and need you
for you are only a ghost
invisible to all but need to see
i will protect
i will love
i will bleed
i will hold
whoever need it
for i am only human
and to be human is to have error
i may want to be a ghost at times
but i have other plans

voicecomment thing is up !

WELLL. today's been interesting. at 4:27am ((exactly)) my dad decided to go shoot some cyotes. soo.. my mom and i got freaked out cause all of a sudden there were these gun-shots outside o.o i had weird dreams after that, lol.

then today at school was fun, actually. Cause i got to do lotsa story writing and stuff. YAY! lol. and then we went to the post office and got alot of junk mail, and then we went to the little market on the hill and i got decaf sugar free French Vanilla coffee stuff. yay!

and i finished Touching Darkness last night! I was so stinkin excited! Cause when nicole and i were sitting in the kitchen drinking tea with way to much sugar&honey, and reading our books, i realized i had 70 pages left in my book, so .. i decided to finish it! Which i did, around 11pm while watching Benji Off The Leash. I actually watched Alot of movies last night. I watched.. Virginia's Run ((horse movie)), Benji Off The Leash ((Dog Movie)), and The Twelve Dogs Of Christmas ((my personal favorite dog movie )). so yupp. got home from the store and ate Raviollie and drank coffee, while watching The School Of Rock, and daydreaming about cameras.

AND THEN, this is sad, i went to doinghardthings' blog, and i started to leave a voice comment.. and so far it didnt show up D: lol. but i hooked one up for mee! So its prolly over.. -->

there somewhere.

I found out Sara wont be able to come visit me from texas, cause she'll be busy while she's here. its sad ]: but she said we might have a reunion sorta thing with Alena because we all havent seen eachother for more than a few minutes since forever.. lol. but plans change, so it wasnt that big of a deal. And my mom found a nice camera on craigslist? Idk if ima get it though.. and its DECEMBER! i was actually up when it turned into december. i didnt get to bed until around 1:40am. So yes. leave me a voice comment? i dont know!

FIRE!!!!!

What Matthew Said ~ Pink

Tonight in Jr. Church we were practicing for the Christmas Play, which is actually going to be switched around and not a play, just some songs mixed in with the adult specials, but that's beside the point.

The two kids I had, Collin & Matthew, knew the five or six songs really well, so half an hour later, we were done with the music. So they just played games and such for another 45 minutes till church got out -haha!

Here's a quick conversation that happened between Matthew (age 6) and me. I thought it was funny/cute. :)

Me: Matthew, if you had $100, what would you do with it?

Matthew: I'd save it up for $1,000.

Me: And what would you do with $1,000?

Matthew: Save it for a million.

Me: And with a million?

Matthew: Save it for a trillion.

Me: And with a trillion?

Matthew: I don't know.. I guess I'd buy something.

Me: What would you buy?

Matthew: The whole entire Star Wars collection!

...silence.

i almost typed sience x.x

ANYWAY! im having weird dreams all the time now. like, i had a dream about friends on facebook the other day, and today i had a dream about none other than..... doinghardthings. mmhmmm. i must eat sweets before bed or something, cause first we were floating in a pink bucket in the ocean ((click the link :D)) and then we were at Royal Ridges with all these wild horse-like-people and talking about cameras. it was odd xD

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i didnt go to church today, for reasons i dont wanna type about, and last night was alot of fun, for me, cause i got to sit in my room and watch The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbalina. and im writing this story about a book lover. yayy. lol. and i just realized its the 30th.. TOMORROW'S DECEMBER! soo, happy december.. early (: lol. okay, well thats really it..maybe ill post more later, cause we might go to the park or something.

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im talking to hannah right now, we're looking back on when ryan was here. like when hannah &&  ryan were fighting over music, and nathen and i were trying to break up this huge fight..

and we're fighting over David Archuletta, and talking about the uglies recording she's listening to.. and talking about Push Play (♥). AND SHE'S COMPLAINING ABOUT LISTENING TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC. D: i cant wait until my stations start playing that music! .-.

uber short intake of breath.

heyy guys. today's been boring. i mean, its saturday and theres ntohing to do. YAY! but its like.. wow. its saturday. tomorrows sunday, which means that in two days it will be december, which means then we'll only have twenty five days (four weeks && four days) until christmas. which means then it will be like.. the fastest year for me since last year, which went by way to fast.

sigh. well, mom and andrea are making apple pie and stuff, then nicole is going to try out a new recipe, and im gonna go play the sims2, because im bored, and im feeling a little better since i took some advil at like, 1pm. and as you can tell, im sure, my template has been fully decorated for christmas. i did it myself. -clap clap- because i needed to get it done. if you listen, i even have the christmas music playing. which you know.. stinks . im sure ill change it and put the christmas music on around december 10th. because i dont want to listen to christmas music for four weeks and four days.

so yeah. today has been boring. havent talked to anyone on facebook, went and updated my socialvibe.. oh, and thanksgiving pictures are on my facebook and my photobucket for those who want to save them onto they're harddrive (( my aunts, my grandparents.. the links will be up in a few.)) so yeah. thats mainly it (:

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kayy. ive officually started reading the old entries, and im crying. cause im reading the ones about Royal Ridges... -sigh- 

I MISS SKLYER D: i dedicated my penguin i made to him, cause he loved penguins. and im seriously crying. because its like.. i havent talked to him or chris in forever D: im also watching the video that Chris (CUJO) made. okayy. im missing them like crazy now. and now i miss Hannah, cause we havent talked in ever. blehh. why cant weekends be full of friends hanging out upstairs in my bedroom with the windows open and the music turned way up loud? and gah!! i need a camera. did i tell you that i found one? its expensive, but i love it so much! if we cant get mine fixed ima go buy it. and guess what? Carolynn, my photography teacher, is gonna let me take her family photo. which means, its all on my shoulders....

nananananana.. rotfl. nahh. its gonna be fun, and ill be able to learn stuff, and she's going to let me mess around with her stuff and take pictures (: so yeah. even the MORE reason to get a camera before december. i can do without a bed, i cannot do without a camera.

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North To Alaska

video by mitchell davis.

Widescreen Randomness

"What Everyone Wanted To Say About The New Youtube "Wide Screen" Player / My First Time Making My Video Be Wide" - Mitchell Davis

and now im like.. wanting to make a random video, since i dont have HD, but im all.. oh wait. i gots no camera..

Christmas Giveaway!

This post will stay at the top of my blog until December 15. 
Please scroll down for my most recent entries.
Thank you.

Guess what? It's Christmas time! And I'm holding my very first giveaway!

From December 1st to 12am December 14th you will have a chance to enter the giveaway. On the 15th I will randomly select 1st and 2nd place winners.

1st place will receive:
(pictures & discriptions coming soon)
The Revolve Devotional Bible for Teenage Girls
"Cadia" CD by Cadia
Something else that's Christmas-y

2nd place will receive:
(pictures & discriptions coming soon)
Necklace & Earrings
Something Christmas-y

To enter, all you must do is leave a comment on THIS post containing one of the following:

-Your favorite Christmas song and why it's your favorite!
-A Christmas memory!
-Your favorite Christmas food!

You may enter up to three times by leaving separate comments for each of the above categories.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE AN HSB MEMBER TO ENTER!
Just make sure you leave an email or some way to contact you.

I will contact the winners either by email or PM on December 15th to get mailing information. 

Merry Christmas!!

Black Friday ~ Black (so very, very black)

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Mine was very relaxing.. I was so excited to be able to watch Elf last night.. Elf is one amazing movie. :)

However, it is late and I only really want to write about Black Friday... indeed, it was very black.

I don't do black friday, ok?

I never have. I would never be able to stand it...

I don't do crowds.

I don't do waiting-in-line-for-like-three-hours.

I don't do lots of people.

And I don't do well in crowds.

Have I mentioned I'm not a big be-around-lots-of-crazy-people type of person?

Several of my friends told me that they were participating in black friday...getting up at 4am or earlier. CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!!! I'm proud to say (ok, maybe a little embarassed, too) that I slept until 9:30am.

I had to be at work around 12. It was so dead at work.. if felt like we only had 5 calls all day. Around 2 or so I arranged to go to LifeWay because they were, of course, having a big sale, and I wanted to get a few things. A few of the things I cannot mention, as they are gifts and I don't want anyone to find out who may read this.. ;). But one of the items was Jeremy Camp's new CD, Speaking Louder Than Before. It came out a few days ago, and LifeWay put it on sale for only eight bucks today and tomorrow.

I thought that by the the afternoon it wouldn't be so bad.. not as many shoppers.. that people might have gone home to nap. I left around 2:30.. probably got to LifeWay 20 minutes later or so. They don't have a big parking lot...and I had to park at the end of it because it was so jammed. Not a good sign.

So I went inside and I found the things I was looking for. The lines were very, very long, even though they had all three registers open. I was having a hard time, though, figuring out where the lines were because they ran into the main aisle and people were EVERYWHERE looking at stuff. Getting in my way, more accurately. I knew what I wanted and evidently, they did not.They were browsing... right in my way.  

I had finally figured out where to stand in line when an employee came up and said he'd take people in the back at the customer service counter. Several people opted for that and headed back there... and I was hoping that enough people would go back there that the line up front would dissapate and I'd get through quicker. But not enough people went to the back, and it didn't, so I went to the back, and only two people were ahead of me.

I waited.. somewhat patiently.. and finally it was my turn and I put my stuff up and he tells me the total. I had exactly fifty dollars, because I had figured it all up at church before I left and wrote a check for cash. I had it figured up in such a way that I had a little bit extra, just in case. But once I got to LifeWay, I swtiched up on some of the stuff I got, but I was sure I'd have enough. He told me the total... $50.35. I was like "yes!" and I gave him the 50, telling him I had the 35 in change in my purse, and I started digging around. But guess what? I had switched purses about two days ago and had only 7 cents on me. ARGHHHH I was like, I cannot believe this. So I had him take off the CD and just got the other stuff.

Then I took my stuff out to the car and looked between the seats to scrounge for some change so I could go back in and get the CD. Turned out there was some cash, so I went back in and back the same window. There was a couple being helped and no one in line, so I stepped right up and started waiting.

And I waited.

And I waited.

It seemed the couple had some scruple with a purchase and were trying to figure it out. Pretty soon a pretty big line started forming and I was getting frustrated with waiting and getting pretty bored, too. So I went back up the front registers. There were only two lines, but three registers. Both lines were the same size, so I just picked one. Neither line moved for what felt like 15 minutes.

By this time I was going crazy. I sent out a couple text messages to a few friends.. only one responded. I told her about my woes and she told me what she got while she shopped. Finally, the line started moving. By this time it was about 3:30. Yeah. An hour after I'd left. I'd been in LifeWay, in LINE, for nearly 40 minutes altogether.

Evidently, the credit card machine had been down. Evidently, all three people being checked out were paying with credit cards. And evidently, the people were just waiting all that time. I was paying cash. So I was a little ticked.

Finally it was my turn... and I noticed that the other line was ..gone! The other two employees has made the line disappear that fast. Why hadn't my line gone down so quick? Because evidently, I picked the one where the lady liked to talk. Yeah. I was so glad to pay and be out of there! I finally made it back around 4pm.

That was my first and last Black Friday shopping experience.

I have since vowed to never, ever, EVER go to any store on Black Friday EVER again. 

Even if it is "just" LifeWay.