An elder sister observation

When the lil kids are doing school:
C.I. goes into a state of mental non-existence and if he is disturbed from this state of mind, he goes into another form of it which results in crying, whining and fussing.
K.R. suddenly grows exhausted at the thought of school or goes into grumpy mode.
L.E. goes into a state of panic and gets claustrophobic because he must be contained for school. L.D. colors on her color book, then a loose paper on the table, then a nearby math book, then a reading book, then mom’s planner, then the walls, etc. etc.
Sis… she disappears…. for a really long time….
ME?…. don’t ask….

Book update, Life update and general ramblings...

I am sorry that it has taken me so long to get a post on here.
Okay, the answer to the riddle is nothing! Yay! Way to go!
And now…I suppose that you all would like a little book update? Okay!
Here is the count on my book:
441 pages
7913 paragraphs
&
168685 words
Impressive huh?
And let me tell you…you all are going to hate me when you read it and get to the end…because then you will want the second book which wont be out for a while. Mwhahahahahaha!!!! (Thankfully, yours truly, does have the second book already started.)
The book I am working on right now though is fixing to get really exciting!!!! The Princess was captured a little while back and the Hero and co. set out to retake her from the evil witch. Now they are preparing to enter into the dark forest known as the Dragon’s Forest and when they get through its vast territory they will come upon the witch’s realm which is full of evil creatures and traps. They will then have too…..oh…I can’t tell you that…But I will say that it is going to be on the edge of your seat action!!! I have already got most of it written down in notes and stuff. But they are on my old computer…which needs a monitor….and I have a monitor but I cant find the power cord and the cord that plugs it into the computer and therefore that means that I can’t get my notes and other things off there because I lost both cords and so….(breathe in, breathe out) so I don’t know what I am going to do….OTHER THAN JUST SCREAM!!!!!!! (slaps self) I can’t scream…I need to keep my whit about me and just find them…(yeah right)…
Anyway. I hope that I can get a new computer soon, because I am about to fry the poor little laptop and my old one is kind of already fried…I hope that it will turn on when I do finally find the cords to the monitor so I can get my notes…knowing my luck it wont…
So now. You wanna update on my life? Naw…its boring…okay I’ll tell you anyway.
Well, we have the most adorable little pigmy Billy goat now. His name is Snort and he is such a sweetheart! He doesn’t stink real bad and he loves attention and HATES chickens. They are not allowed to enter into his pen. He helped Sis kill a snake today…interesting.
And we sold one of the horses to a good home a while back…Rocky the grey one.
Oh yeah. A few friends, Sis and I have started a movie production club and we are gonna start making our own movies and stuff…Its kind of slow going right now, but we are making progress with our first ‘movie’. It’s so much fun and we are learning a lot from it.
What else is there???... Oh yeah. My close friend moved to China…for a whole year. Sigh. I is really sad about it…I helped her with bake sales and cleaning her house before she left at least. Please pray for her while she is over there.
And…let me see…we have new ponies now. Four of them at the moment: Angel, Scout, Dusty and Dreamer…Dreamer is probably going to leave though…we don’t like her. Scout is K.R.’s birthday present.
None of them are broke, but they are taming down very nicely and are really starting to fit in with the rest of our family and farm.
And my Birthday is coming up soon. And then…wait a minuet… My birthday is coming up soon?!?!?! (A dawning of reality) Gaaaah! Not just soon! It’s up in a few days!!!...Oh wow…Now I am emotionally confused about this….should I be happy, sad or scared? What about all three? Because that’s what I feel like right now….Slap me.
I’m sad cause I am going to be a lot older now and because my friend is not here with me when I take a new step into age, but I am happy cause I am older and I know God has great things planned for me at this time, and at the same time I am scared about this new step slightly and wanna curl up in a corner and die….that is SO not okay….that is not even like me!!!!
Oh gish…I am a messed up person right now…For those of you who are not eighteen yet and wanna be there, think twice…because its not as glamorous as it seems. It’s a confusing time in life, and it comes sooner than you think it does. It sneaks up on you.
So many things to do, so many choices to make, and so little time to do it; its messed up.
You have colleges calling you and sending you stuff all the time, a vehicle that needs fixed (or bought) opportunities that you want to take, opportunities that your parents want you to take, recital and graduation to plan, money you got to have for any and all of it and etc. etc. etc…. Can I hibernate?????
And then! You are at that age that people are going to be raising their eyebrows in suspicion every time you walk by a young, unmarried person of the opposite gender. Somebody please lock me in a closet till I’m eighty!!!!
Then you’re torn between school, work and family…hopefully you younger people out there will be very intelligent and have life easy and have lots of self discipline so you graduate before eighteen…
Oh sigh….what’s next? Please do me a mercy and shoot me before it happens….
Though I do have to admit I enjoy most of it, but a lot of it I don’t…its too complicated and messed up and, and, and!!!!
OH SNAP! Another realization just came to mind…SUMMER IS ALMOST OVER!!!! Okay…shoot me…
Sigh…this is not good…well now that I bored you to death with my ramblings I will say a few last words then go.
I want to wish a happy birthday to Olivia N. and I hope that it’s a blessed one!
Well, goodbye and farewell!
Shieldmaiden
P.S.
I was reprimanded by a certain Celtic Woman fan in my family for pronouncing Celtic as Seltic...So I thought I would put down the correct pronunciation: it is Kail-tic. Good luck with that...she still gets mad at me because I don't 'do it right'. (honestly,I don't think it really matters)

A New Riddle

Well, lets see if you guys can get this one! Take a guess- a guess won't hurt even if it is the answer!

I can be found where anything cannot;
Dead men eat me all the time,
But if a living man eats me he will die…what am I?

Ok! I gotta run!
Good luck all!
Me

The Celtic Woman Concert

Ok, before I actually get to the concert, I must express to you what the reactions of the people going were like: and before I get to that I must also explain who was going:
There was my mom, me, Sis, Diane, Jen, Heather, A.C. and K. R.
Ok, now I think the most excited people were Kris, Heather, and Jen. They were like scream and yell and jump-up-and-down excited. Mom was excited, but she doesn’t show excited well; neither does Diane. A.C. and K.R. are just wee folk and were excited in their own way. Me…it didn’t hit me that it was really happening and that it was not just a dream till half way through the concert. After all I had just got back from camp (another dream-come-true) when I heard about it and it was just like “Oh that’s nice.” And then half way through the concert I realized that I was excited and I was like “Oh well that stinks. Half way through and only get to feel excited for a moment.” Sigh. Such as it goes I suppose.
And now, the trip and concert: For one thing I must let you know that we found out that my mom was a drag racer at some point in her life because we all thought we were going to die on the freeway with her crazy and fast driving. We all started yelling “WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!” and she said “No! Don’t say that! Think positive!” And there was a moment of silence then Heather yelled “YAY! WE ARE ALL GOING TO HEAVEN!”… I think you can imagine the response to that…
Anyway, we got to the hotel room and got all dressed up (and sis wore a pretty pink dress and even let Heather put makeup on her...and she did not wear her boats with the dress!) then we went to eat at a Japanese Restaurant which was awesome. It was fun to watch him cook the food in front of us and do his different tricks and what not, but the greatest part about it was when the guy who was cooking at the table right across from us started flipping shrimp tails over his shoulder…Hahahahaha! It was great….He flipped one back and it almost hit Heather, then he flip another back and it went clear across and hit mom in the head!!!! It was hilarious!!! Heather was like “FOOD FIGHT!” and we all nearly died laughing and he just glanced back at us to see what we were laughing at! He had no idea what had just happened! That was great!
Anyway, we get to the concert and when the lights go out the drummers make their way up on stage first and this lady way clear in the back yells “I LOVE YOU RAY!” (who is the long haired drummer that has been with the group since the beginning) and he stands up and waves with a great big smile (you could tell that he enjoyed that). Then Mairead (who is lovingly called ‘the fiddle fairy’) starts playing and the first song they do is ‘The Sky, Dawn and Sun’ It was totally awesome! The rest that they did before the interlude were mostly pop songs then after the interlude they started doing the more traditional songs. It was freaking awesome!
The singers were: Chloe, Lisa, Alex and Lynn, who did not appear to be feeling well or something because she was just not up to snuff…she tripped on stage and her voice gave out a couple of times in a few songs…oh well, she tried and it was still good!
Mairead was ornery! The normal director, David Downs, was not there this time and I felt sorry for the poor fill in director, even though he seemed to be having fun (but not as much fun as the singers, drummers and fiddler!)
There was this one song where Mairead plays along with the piano and she starts adding in all these extra notes- doing her own thing and the poor director is trying to keep up with her on the piano. She watches him for a moment with this mischievous look on her face and he finally throws up his hands and crosses his arms because he couldn’t keep up with her and she just giggles and starts bouncing all over the stage with that fiddle!
You could tell that they were all very enthusiastic and sincere about what they were doing and they just loved playing for their audience. I think if there would have been steps going from the stage into the crowd, they would have gone right out into the crowd.
By the end of it, when they all take their bow, the audience is crazy cheering and clapping. The girls began walking off stage with Mairead being the last. She pauses a moment and looks back at the audience then at the director then back at the audience and she smiles and shakes her head and starts playing on her fiddle and bounces back on stage and begins another song. The drummers were thrilled and began drumming happily, the singers all turned around and came bounding back with huge smiles and soaring voices and the poor director sat down shaking his head like “we went through this already” and they played an extra 30 min. for us! It was awesome!
It would be well worth it to go again, get VIP tickets and back stage passes. It so totally would.
Now, here comes the truly ironic part: we did have an oprtunity to get an audograph and pictures…Ray the long haired drummer walked right by us, waved and said hi and would have stopped had we had some paper and pens for him to use…then we are half way back to our vehicle and Jen halts and almost literally screams “I HAD A CAMERA WITH ME! I COULD HAVE GOTTEN PICTURES!!!!!”
I know…we are terrible…no- horrible…we are just a bunch of country hicks who are no good at the groupie thing!...oh well. Next time will be different! Next time Sis says she is gonna take her rope and lasso the drummer and hold him for ransom so that we can go to every Celtic Woman concert for free…that’ll be the day.
Anyway, there is so much it seems that I left out, but that is the extent of it…it was awesome and well worth going too! We have one of their live concert DVD’s and it cannot compare! You HAVE to go to a concert to get the full effect of this group!
Well, now that I have made you all sick with jealousy and I have given you the important facts, I must away.
Hopefully I will post again soon!
Till then,
Shieldmaiden
P.S. You can become a fan of each woman in the group on facebook just to let you all know!
Name pronunciation:
Chloe (Cl-ō-ee), Mairead (Mar- Ade), Celtic (Sel-tic)

The Camp post..finally!

Hello one and all. Sorry that this has taken me a while, but we tore up carpet in our dining room which is where the computer is (therefore putting the computer off limits) and we had an aunt come and spend a week with us which we enjoyed immensely, but because of all these little interruptions, I could not find the time to sit down and post anything about my adventures at camp.
And just to let you know: we have been making cookies for the past few days, in spite of the heat, and I tell you, we are all now guilty of gluttony… Sigh… I feel guilty…and fat…
Now that I have confessed my sin and made you believe that others are guilty of the same (which they are, they just won’t admit it) we will now move on…
Well, now….about camp…It was awesome. That is about all I can say. It was awesome!
I think that my favorite thing about it was the God focus atmosphere without it being stuffy. It was a place where you could play and focus on God. I felt like a little kid while I was there just basking in God’s truth. It was awesome!!!!
My favorite time of day during camp was Devos or Devotions. That was the most awesome time of the day. It was so quiet during that time and so many things were made clear and impressed me harder than ever like: Jesus loved us so much that He died for us to have eternal life. We get to have God’s mercy, love and salvation. But, as if that wasn’t enough for the sinners that we are, God has given us the power that raised Jesus from the dead! Get it? We have that power in us! Seriously. I don’t know how I can express this, but we do have this power if only we believe and have faith, even if it is faith the size of a mustard seed. Now, I don’t know what you think about that, but I think that it is pretty freaking awesome!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t know how else to express it!
My next favorite time of day was swim time…but that was because I was usually sweating and ready for cold water by that time…
Next, I learned while I was there that I had the spiritual gift of Faith. Not many people have the gift of Faith, so the camp staff were surprised to find that a lot of the kids at camp had the gift of faith, which is really encouraging.
My seconds on gifts were teacher and evangelism.
Anyway, I learned that because I have the gift of Faith, I can literally change the world…that is only what my mother has been telling me for-um-years…but anyway, this just put it in a way that I could totally understand and it got me so excited. I had never thought that I could actually change the world! I am someone who wants to jump in and break down barriers and traditions. I am the one who wants people to get excited and get going for God and the great thing is: I am the one who can make it happen! That is so exciting!!!!
It was actually funny how we learned. See, they passed out these test papers for you to complete then they separated the different spiritual gift people into groups. Of course I was in the Faith group. When our teacher finished explaining to us our gift and what we were capable of, we felt like we had just been told that we had super powers. So we were rather silent a moment trying to figure out “Uh, ok- so what next? What am I supposed to do?” He then went on to explain different things that we could do and he began to encourage us in different ways and I could just feel the excitement build up in our group, even though we were still silent. By the end of it, when we had finished asking questions and discussing things, we were dismissed and I felt like jumping whooping and screaming for joy! I don’t know what it was, but I was so excited that I COULD make a change and do things for God.
Well…I don’t know if you think that is exciting, but it is to me! Why right now I feel like I could jump up and down and yell for excitement!!! I just wish that I could somehow explain this to you all better or somehow transfer my feelings through the computer to you! It is so exhilarating!!!
Besides that I had fun at the late night activities, and canteen (which is sugar up snack time after resting time) and I still have not decided if Four Square is a fun game or a losers game …and I liked worship…I didn’t like the OFF that everybody was spraying on themselves every evening. That set my asthma off…
…the OFF set my asthma off…hehe…never mind. Random thought.
Anyway, I had a very grand time at camp, but getting the feeling and what I learned into words is impossible. So sorry.
One thing is for sure: I am really looking forward to going next year!!!!
One other thing about it was this: When I first set out to go to it, I thought that it was going to be a “just fun and hang out camp” and I would probably learn nothing…Boy was I ever surprised! It was awesome. Completely and totally awesome and I feel so refreshed and renewed after coming back from it. It was great.
And well, guess what? I have run out of time. If you have got any questions or something I guess you know where to leave em.
I will hopefully post again soon and even perhaps give you an update on how my book is coming along!
Till then,
Shieldmaiden
God Bless you all!!!!
P.S.
We went to a Celtic Woman concert the other night!!! It was totally neato! But that is another post for another time…which I will hopefully post soon…
P.P.S.
And before camp something amazing happened...I finally past my driving test and I received a little plastic card with my mug shot on it that says I have the ability to drive now...Oh wow. But that was almost after I had a wreck with the examiner in the seat beside me and all that good stuff...
The end.

I'm back!

Hello everyone! I am back from camp and I must say that it was an amazing experience! I can hardly wait to tell you all about it, but I can't right now, because I am trying to hurry. I will put a post about my thoughts and notes on here soon though.
As to the riddle...No legs is a fish who sat on a one legged table and a two legged man sat near on a three legged stool and the four legged critter got the scraps...confused yet? Hehe. We had a really really close guess! That was great Granny!
As to what SIFI and LOTR stands for: Science Fiction is SIFI and LOTR is Lord of the Rings...
OK. now that we got that all straight (or at least we hope so) I must go.
I just wanted to drop you all a quick note to let you all know that I was doing great and had a great time and that I am planning to let you in on my adventures soon!
Sweetpea