Shooting/ Scrapbooking/ (and just for the S theme) Sign Language

EDIT: We went shooting again! -11/18- Here are the videos and pictures of that! Last weeks shooting is below today's shooting.

 Here are the videos. The first one is of me shooting the shotgun for the very first time.. It was awesome!!!!


This one is of Brandon shooting his first time. Turn the volume on low, me and mom starting cheering, it's kinda loud :D

 

Last Weeks Shooting!

First off several weeks ago Me, My Mom, Mike, and Brandon went out in the middle of the desert with a few boxes, a globe, and a milk carton and played target practice! It was rather fun. My mom has two guns. a 3.80 and a .38, if you don't know what those types of guns look like go see my friend Google. Anyway, we went shooting and I hit the target a few times, and other times I just sent dirt flying. It is very hard to aim and shoot, especially with a gun with a fairly good kick. Mom took a ton of pictures and then there are two videos of me shooting and my mom.

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Scarpbooking- The art putting random pictures on a piece of paper and making it look half way decent.

Ok so that was my definition of Scrapbooking. I haven't been scrapbook for long and I am not clever or artistic in any way possible. I don't have a "knack" for anything. I just enjoy scrapbooking as a hobby. I wanted to share my scrapbooks and my ideas that I put in those scrap books.. And of course with everything else I post about I have pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My random scrapbooks, I have finished 5 of them...


What I do when I don't really have stickers or something to go with the pictures, I just place pictures in some kind of weird order and just write or draw something on the page:

One of the first scrapbooks I did was redoing Brandon's baby book, which was falling apart, so every picture that was in the album went in a 20 page scrapbook. I quickly ran out of room so I decided to glue a envelope on the page and put random pictures in the envelope, that way it was with the rest of the pictures (like in the album) and it looks kinda cool.

Of course everyone wants pictures of mom, daddy, and baby so I just put this page together with some scrapbook stickers (so fun!):

Now I collected every magazine that had anything to do with Steve Irwin after his death, intervuews with Terri,etc... I had so many magazines my drawer was breaking so I eventually put all the stories together under on cover and made my own magazine, but I wanted to protect them and read them whenever I wanted to, so I put them in a scrapbook! :)

I also collected High price fashion magazines. so put some collage together:




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I have been learning American Sign Language for the past 3 months and I have really been enjoying it. I am learning signs that I can sometimes put to christian music. I now know the basic sign language for "How Great Thou Art" and I have been really enjoying it.. *oh did I say that already?* Well whatever! If anyone else knows sign please let me know and maybe we can enxchange videos of us signing to each other :D Anyway, I have found a great sign language website. Now there are some inappropriate things on the website but otherwise they have a whole bunch of religious signs and etc...... It's called:

ASLPro

Edit: I got to talk to a deaf man yesterday! It was so nerveracking and exciting, we actually were able to understand each other and "talk". He told me all about his family and I told him about mine, and we talked about church and God,etc. During sign class he said to my teacher (in sign) 'She is a very good signer', talking about me. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to have him say that about me cause it gives me hope that I can learn more!!!!! :)

Check it out!
-Julia

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Croc Toria's Contest

I entered Croc Toria's Write About Animals contest. Please Join her on the 17th to announce the winner of the really awesome prizes or enter yourself! Like I said awesome prizes!!!! :)

-Julia

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I don't - I do

Let's make a few things clear about me because I don't like being called crazy ;)

I don't like drama
I don't like people who create drama
I don't like people who call themselves American's but don't support our country's decisions
I don't support abortion
I don't support child neglect (who does?)
I don't support hunting (get it through your head)
I don't support/agree with TAXIDERMY
I don't support wearing of leather, fur, or a dead animal around someone's neck
I don't support the  use of dead animal's as rugs!
I don't support the eating of non-farm raised animals (goes back to hunting)
I don't support Veganism
I don't support a roadside circus, they abuse their animals
I don't support keeping an exotic animal as a pet
I don't support cosmetic's tested on animals, neither do I where/use them (shampoo, makeup etc...)
I don't support whaling, or seal hunting
I don't support puppy mills


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I do support our President (no matter who they are because we are suppose to support/respect authority)
I do support adoption
I do support the KJV
I do support a college education
I do support alternative testing
I do support zoo's, if they animals are proven to be well taken care of and are happy.
I do support no-kill animal shelters
I do support the ASPCA
I do support Organic living
I do support spaying and neutering of shelter pets
I do support animal conservation
I do support world conservation

There is alot I don't support and although I don't have as much 'I do's" I basically support the anti of everything I don't support, does that make sense?

Julia


Oh I will not be responding to negative comments :) Thank you very much! Reminder, this is my blog not yours. :)

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Loretta N.

Monday, September 15th, just a normal day at work, ringing up purchases, handing customers their purchases, approving credit cards, having people telling us to [bleep] off, etc, just the typical day at work with the angry customers. One thing we also get alot are customers who are high, strung-out-beyond-reach-of-reality high! (We have even had customers who have gone into the fitting room and snort their cocaine or shoot some heroin. Well on monday I had such a customer. She had gone into the fitting rooms and shot herself some heroin. She came out with nothing (went in with nothing I might add) and was soooo strung out. I watched her, with no proof and logical reason we could not have asked her to leave, long story short she had gone into the baby section and gathered up a whole bunch of stuff to buy. She also went into the womens section for a few things.

As I started to ring her up she put both elbows on the counter and started laughing at nothing, then she started twisting her arms all around and laid down on the counter, etc. I just ignored her actions and continued to talk to her. She pulled out a check book and I mentioned to her about how our check processing works, she said "fine, like walmart." I asked for her ID, and she began looking in her check book, purse, pocket, jacket saying "I hope I didn't leave it in the car", but she eventually found 5 minutes later in the first spot that she had looked, which I didn't understand why she had overlooked looking at her ID. Probably the drugs, I thought. She handed me her ID and the ID and the check name, address,etc all matched and I processed the check and scanned her ID and everthing went through fine and she left with no problems, well she more like stumbled away dizzly.

I left soon after that to head on home, as me and Mom are heading to the post office BEFORE we went home I had mentioned this crazy girl to mom and I said I kept feeling like something bad was going to happen, I just had a bad feeling about her and such. Get home 20 minutes later and there is a message on the phone from my boss Jacque, telling me I need to call her right away. So I did. Jacque starts asking me If I had processed a check earlier that day, and I said yeah I processed two of them, and she says "two?!" I go yeah, one from a little old lady and another from a younger girl. Jacque says "the check was fake and the police had showed up to the work with the customer in custody and her boyfriend." I asked if she had blonde hair (drug girl) and she said yes. I said 'Yeah I remember processing her check because she was very high. Jacque again explained the check was fake and so was her ID. Remember me mentioning she had gathered a whole bunch of stuff from baby's and women's? Well her total was $145.19 which was purches with a fake check. All-in-all Jacque told me the investigating police officer wanted to talk to me and That i needed to call him. So I quickly hung up and told mom and then called the police. Eventually I left I message for the officer and he called me back 4 hours later and asked me do I remember a customer writing a check and I said yes, he said her name was Loretta N****Z (I don't know who's Identity it is so I won't say the last name) and I said yes I remember her because she was very high. He laughed and said yeah she is. He also told me her real name was Nicole C******* and that she had done this before but they never caught her. He asked when I worked next so I could meet with him and fill out a statement. He never showed up at GAP when he said he would and he never got my statement (not my problem). I don't think he needs it so thats why he didn't call or come but if he does I have to meet with him and fill one out.

I felt soooooooooooooooooooooo horrible and so embarrassed that this *druggie* had scammed me cold! Meanie bo beanie! She's in Jail now, we have our merchandise back, and I still need to fill out a statement. I wonder when this will happen again, I hope not soon.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time! (BTW, That's my dad in the picture, he is not really in jail, although you can tell already,)

-Julia

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Conservation 101- The Legacy of Steve Irwin

 

 Today, of all days, is a grim reminder that the world is without the greatest Wildlife Warrior ever. Sept. 4th, 2006, Steve Irwin was tragically killed when a sting ray barb pierced his heart. My heart wishese he was still alive saving wildlife. I want to see NEW Episodes of Croc Hunter, with his determination and enthusiasm to save wildlife. My ehart aches for his family who I know miss him more than I do. He is my hero, my idol. I want to do everything he did. I want to save wildlife. I want to stand up for whats right. I want to be something in the world of animals.

But I know I cannot possibly be him and do everything he did for wildlife. But I want to hope. I want to know that my dream is not out of reach. You all must think I am silly, but how would you feel if your idol died suddenly? You would be crushed to, and you would grieve for years later. Nobody understands how important I saw him as. There are a few people I know who have lost a loved one, and to me I loved Steve and everything about him, I saw him as a distant uncle. I would watch his show regularly and would always cheer along whenever he caught a snake or a croc. I do not know if he was saved or not, or if he is in heaven or hell. I don't want to think about it. I just hope at some point in his life he was presented with the gospel and maybe I will get to finally meet him in heaven. I can hope can't I? You can never loose hope, not one inch lost.

His legacy of being a wildlife warrior will continue forever.  His Australia Zoo in beerwah, Australia, will forever be an attraction throughout the world. I AM going there someday. His love of crocodiles told the world that they are not mean,ugly creature's but they are magnificient and poweful.  He also was able to purchase Australian land that is now a habitat for crocodiles and everything else to survive in, however that land in under threat of strip mining. I signed  a petition the other day to help save the land in honour of Steve. Go here to help Save Steve's Place.

I didn't know what I was going to do for today's post, so I guess rambling on was good enough. I have this song on my IPod, it's called 'Goodbye Crocodile Hunter' and whenever i need a good dose of crying I listen to this song over and over and over again. I also have a VCR tape (yes they still exsist) full of Crocodile Hunter episodes and I watch that along with listening to the music. Sometimes I think he is still alive and is in the outback of Austalia, hiding from the world, but thats just my imagination. Here are the lyrics to 'Goodbye Crocodile Hunter'

1. Wasn't he a beauty
Crikey what a gem
A dinkum Aussie treasure
A khaki larrakin
Throwin' it all out there
Doin' what he'd do
You'd better duck for cover
Cos Steve is comin' through

2. Crazy as a cut snake
Bold as any man
He'd dive onto a crocodile
Hold spiders in his hand
Dodge a deadly brown snake
With big-eyed, "Holy Smoke!"
You could like him
You could loathe him
But you couldn't miss the bloke

CHORUS
And wasn't he a beauty
Crikey what a gem
A dinkum Aussie treasure
A khaki larrakin
Throwin' it all out there
With his heart upon his sleeve
Goodbye
Crocodile Hunter
Farewell Steve

3. He loved those deadly creatures
He gave the bush his all
The nastier the moment
The more he had a ball
1000 miles a minute
A showman to the core
He'd take a bit of bark off
And keep comin' back for more...

CHORUS
And wasn't he a beauty
Crikey what a gem
A dinkum Aussie treasure
A khaki larrakin
Throwin' it all out there
With his heart upon his sleeve
Goodbye
Crocodile Hunter
Farewell SteveGoodbye
Crocodile Hunter
Farewell Steve
Farewell Steve

 

It hit's home for me.

-Julia

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