Uno: Happy Thanksgiving all! Hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday. Mine was quite nice. Saw family for the first time in three months. Didn't see some friends which dampened my time at home ( Read more... )

Another year is almost gone. It feels like it has gone by so quickly... 2008 has been wonderful, hard, sad, and full of surprises. I am thankful for the things God has taught me this year (through good times and hard times); my family and friends, and the new ones I've made; the library; being able to return to camp last summer; and being able see ( Read more... )

"I was hoping you'd write something," was my mom's first comment after she proofread this for me. I wrote this little piece in memory of "Father." *sigh*

( Gone...but not Forever )

The weather hasn't changed: we had a strange winter, now we have a strange spring. It was in the 70s during the beginning of the week. Then it plunged into the 30s Wednesday. And yesterday we had six or seven snow flurries. Weird ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is just a week and a half away. I just realized that. But it doesn't feel like it should be that soon. (Maybe I'm all mixed up because this is November and last week the temperatures were in the 50s and 70s, warm for this time of the year.)

I have finally found a good Rosamund Pike fansite here. Best known for playing Jane Bennet in ( Read more... )

I've been sick since Sunday and I don't see the end in sight yet. First it was a sore throat, then a runny nose and headache, and finally a cough. Mom thinks my cough is going, but I still feel it way down in my chest. Colds are so annoying.

I say good night with a cute pic to cheer me -- and anyone else having a hard time -- up. *waves*


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Smeagol - the family computer - has issues again. Poor guy, and he was doing so well after being knocked out by a thunder storm for two weeks at the beginning of the summer. It wouldn’t start up correctly this morning and I had to keep restarting it. When it finally got all set up, we discovered e-mail was not working, and is still out of service. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I have a job interview -- my first ever; I applied to work at the library. Right now I'm not nervous even though I have no idea what the interview will be like. I could use a lot of prayers that it will go well and I'll be able to answer all the questions to the best of my ability.

My mom took me to Boarders this weekend. I hadn’t been there for a number of months. It had a great performing arts section (DVDs) that took up about ten shelves; they had ballets, operas, concerts, etc. Awesome stuff. So we go in. They’ve redone the DVDs. The performing arts now don’t take up five whole shelves, the number of DVDs is less than ( Read more... )

Five years…I was 14, a homeschooled freshmen. I was cleaning my room that morning, my brother offering assistance. It was sometime after ten o’clock when my mom came in and told us that two planes had crashed in the World Trade Centers, another into the Pentagon, and that there had been an explosion in front of the Treasury. We didn’t have cable; I ( Read more... )