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
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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)
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)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
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
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
Monday, May 25, 2009
A riddle, An update, a word, a bore...nothing more
Here I sit drinking my cold Raspberry apple zinger tea, listening to the children watching Spirit: stallion of the Cimarron, listening to my Celtic music and typing this out for you.
I realize that I am overdue for a riddle so I guess I should give you one whilst I am here.
Hmmmm…lets see…something a little harder than the ones that I have been giving you would be best…Hmmmm… Ok, here we go:
No- legs lay on one leg,
two- legs sat near on three- legs,
four- legs got some.
Now, you kind of have to stop and think about this one for a moment. Ok, just think about it for a moment and it should come to ya. Like always, I am most happy to give a hint, however, I will not give ye a hint lest ye try and solve the riddle!!! If you know the answer go ahead and put it on, just don’t say that it is the answer. Otherwise just try guessing. Guessing doesn’t hurt because you’ll think and think about it then sigh and put a guess on, then soon as you turn off the computer it will come to ya. Trust me. Well, maybe not for all of you…Oh anyway.
Now, what is going on in my life? Yard work, yard work, more yard work and- yup! You guessed it!- more yard work. The parents are working us all to the bone! We had a tree taken down, and therefore we have many branches to clean up besides the branches that needed to be cleaned up years ago. Also in the process, we have found that we need a new wheel burrow and wagons. The burrow is about to give up on us and the wagons need new tires, but they have a funny tire size that you can’t buy anywhere. (the stupid things that companies pull off on us unsuspecting folk to get more money I’ll tell ya…)
So anyway, it has been interesting around here.
We did get to go to the zoo the other day though! That was fun! I got some really great pictures of the animals. I shall have to post some of them on sometime. I also got some cool shots of some of our friends that went with us. They were posing for me so that I can crop them out and put them in a picture with a dragon which I have already done with quite a few. They look amazing! They would look even better if they had on medieval dresses, but that will have to do for another time. I don’t just put them with dragons though- I can put them in Narnia with Aslan or some beautiful location in Middle Earth.
I have far too much fun with computer art stuff.
Anyway, what is coming up though is really exciting- for me. I get to go to a sort of summer camp! It is so totally way too exciting! I am still in the process of packing, but I have got the major stuff pack. So that’s good. It will be a week long and it is not just fun. It sounds like I am going to be learning a lot of stuff while I am there…that is what I hope for as well. That is one reason that I really wanna go to this: to see if I do learn something. Anyway, I have been warned to be ready for a mini boot camp instead of fun camp. So that sounds promising. Also, this will be my first time ever getting to go to a ‘summer’ camp! That is the reason that I am so excited. Neat. Oh whatever. Anywhoo.
My only concern is that my parents are going to continue to crack the whip over me until I am worked into the dust and I shan’t be able to enjoy my wee little self at this ‘mini boot camp’, but only be exhausted…not likely, but ya never know. I have enough energy around here for everyone but my brothers…a tornado wouldn’t have enough energy for them…anyway. We are also going to get new neighbors too! It is not just an older couple either; they are younger and have exciting creatures closer to sis and my age…children. A girl and a boy the girl being the oldest. She happens to like horses (good girl!) and that is kind of how we got to know them. We let them borrow two of ours as a trial. They are considering buying one of them. How exciting. They also want some cats. Poor people; they have no idea what they are asking for…sigh…oh well.
Anyway, that is the sort of excitement going on around here.
So, I hope that you are able to solve the riddle and I will probably get back on here after camp which is in a week. Not likely before. So I’ll update you whenever I get back on here. Please pray that camp go smoothly and that all stay safe and that many learn to grow in the LORD and that many come to know the LORD. Thanks!
Till then ye brave folk!
Shieldmaiden
P.S.
Also, what is really exciting for me is this: My mom wanted a friend of hers to do the editing on my book and give me pointers for self editing because:
she is really good at her grammar and stuff like that.
She does not like SIFI or Fantasy.
So, I know what you are probably thinking: “But your book is fantasy…why have somebody that doesn’t like that sort of stuff check your book for you?”
The answer: so that she can give it a heart check and make sure that it stays on track with God.
Anyway, the thing is that she has never read this sort of stuff before. She hasn’t read Narnia or LOTR or anything- till now. Heheheheheh! She likes it…She likes it… SHE LIKES IT!!!! OH boy I could just scream! She doesn’t just like it- she really likes it! She says that it is really good! I did all sorts of jumps and cartwheels and flips when I heard that she REALLY liked it….well, maybe not all that (I can’t do flips) but I did do a vigorous dance of joy and began to practice drum measures on the tree stump with more vigor than before. It was great. Then I had to call my friend and tell her. She wasn’t as excited, but that didn’t matter. I didn’t expect her to be excited like I was. I just had to share the news with her before I would explode with the joy.
Oh anyway. I will go now. So- long, Fare thee well…till we next meet. (Hehehe! She liked it!)
I realize that I am overdue for a riddle so I guess I should give you one whilst I am here.
Hmmmm…lets see…something a little harder than the ones that I have been giving you would be best…Hmmmm… Ok, here we go:
No- legs lay on one leg,
two- legs sat near on three- legs,
four- legs got some.
Now, you kind of have to stop and think about this one for a moment. Ok, just think about it for a moment and it should come to ya. Like always, I am most happy to give a hint, however, I will not give ye a hint lest ye try and solve the riddle!!! If you know the answer go ahead and put it on, just don’t say that it is the answer. Otherwise just try guessing. Guessing doesn’t hurt because you’ll think and think about it then sigh and put a guess on, then soon as you turn off the computer it will come to ya. Trust me. Well, maybe not for all of you…Oh anyway.
Now, what is going on in my life? Yard work, yard work, more yard work and- yup! You guessed it!- more yard work. The parents are working us all to the bone! We had a tree taken down, and therefore we have many branches to clean up besides the branches that needed to be cleaned up years ago. Also in the process, we have found that we need a new wheel burrow and wagons. The burrow is about to give up on us and the wagons need new tires, but they have a funny tire size that you can’t buy anywhere. (the stupid things that companies pull off on us unsuspecting folk to get more money I’ll tell ya…)
So anyway, it has been interesting around here.
We did get to go to the zoo the other day though! That was fun! I got some really great pictures of the animals. I shall have to post some of them on sometime. I also got some cool shots of some of our friends that went with us. They were posing for me so that I can crop them out and put them in a picture with a dragon which I have already done with quite a few. They look amazing! They would look even better if they had on medieval dresses, but that will have to do for another time. I don’t just put them with dragons though- I can put them in Narnia with Aslan or some beautiful location in Middle Earth.
I have far too much fun with computer art stuff.
Anyway, what is coming up though is really exciting- for me. I get to go to a sort of summer camp! It is so totally way too exciting! I am still in the process of packing, but I have got the major stuff pack. So that’s good. It will be a week long and it is not just fun. It sounds like I am going to be learning a lot of stuff while I am there…that is what I hope for as well. That is one reason that I really wanna go to this: to see if I do learn something. Anyway, I have been warned to be ready for a mini boot camp instead of fun camp. So that sounds promising. Also, this will be my first time ever getting to go to a ‘summer’ camp! That is the reason that I am so excited. Neat. Oh whatever. Anywhoo.
My only concern is that my parents are going to continue to crack the whip over me until I am worked into the dust and I shan’t be able to enjoy my wee little self at this ‘mini boot camp’, but only be exhausted…not likely, but ya never know. I have enough energy around here for everyone but my brothers…a tornado wouldn’t have enough energy for them…anyway. We are also going to get new neighbors too! It is not just an older couple either; they are younger and have exciting creatures closer to sis and my age…children. A girl and a boy the girl being the oldest. She happens to like horses (good girl!) and that is kind of how we got to know them. We let them borrow two of ours as a trial. They are considering buying one of them. How exciting. They also want some cats. Poor people; they have no idea what they are asking for…sigh…oh well.
Anyway, that is the sort of excitement going on around here.
So, I hope that you are able to solve the riddle and I will probably get back on here after camp which is in a week. Not likely before. So I’ll update you whenever I get back on here. Please pray that camp go smoothly and that all stay safe and that many learn to grow in the LORD and that many come to know the LORD. Thanks!
Till then ye brave folk!
Shieldmaiden
P.S.
Also, what is really exciting for me is this: My mom wanted a friend of hers to do the editing on my book and give me pointers for self editing because:
she is really good at her grammar and stuff like that.
She does not like SIFI or Fantasy.
So, I know what you are probably thinking: “But your book is fantasy…why have somebody that doesn’t like that sort of stuff check your book for you?”
The answer: so that she can give it a heart check and make sure that it stays on track with God.
Anyway, the thing is that she has never read this sort of stuff before. She hasn’t read Narnia or LOTR or anything- till now. Heheheheheh! She likes it…She likes it… SHE LIKES IT!!!! OH boy I could just scream! She doesn’t just like it- she really likes it! She says that it is really good! I did all sorts of jumps and cartwheels and flips when I heard that she REALLY liked it….well, maybe not all that (I can’t do flips) but I did do a vigorous dance of joy and began to practice drum measures on the tree stump with more vigor than before. It was great. Then I had to call my friend and tell her. She wasn’t as excited, but that didn’t matter. I didn’t expect her to be excited like I was. I just had to share the news with her before I would explode with the joy.
Oh anyway. I will go now. So- long, Fare thee well…till we next meet. (Hehehe! She liked it!)
Friday, May 8, 2009
Follow up on the trip/conference
Well, greetings all! I hope you all are doing well. I am ok. I am still a little tired from my trip to the conference and I just got over allergies, still got a cough, but otherwise I am peppy.
We (my mom & dad & I) decided, before I went to the big conference, that it would be best if I did not go to the second conference after it, so I am not all booked up as I was expecting…which is perfectly fine with me!
So I have been busy catching up with things around here and preparing to do some gardening and yard work…otherwise I feel useless…sort of…oh anyway.
I had a great time at the conference! I got to go to a Cabala’s store for the first time! That was tons of fun; though the kids in the family that I went with did not think as I did because they make the stop every year and they spend hours in it- which was great for me! I got a very good preview of the store, but still didn’t get all the way through it! They had lots of taxidermy animals in there that were totally awesome! Anything from elephants to bears and chipmunks to lions you name it! They even had an aquarium with the largest fish I have ever seen! One of the catfish were as big as me! Now granted, I aren’t real tall, but I aren’t short either (sorry for the lack of grammar there). It was totally awesome! They even had a shooting gallery that was huge! It was really fun! And their fudge! Oh their beautiful, wonderful, sugary, chocolatey, smooth fudge! Makes the world go round I tell ya! (not really, but ya get the point)
I got some awesome pictures of the animals. Some of them look like I was right up there with a real animal! I got one of a lion and it looks like he is charging me! They are awesome! I had to get in some pretty crazy positions to get pictures like that, but it was worth it! I shall have to post some on here sometime…just for you!
Well, we got to the conference area at 1:00 am…and we unloaded the trailer and everything and went to bed. I can’t remember what time we got up, but it was considered late. However, it was not a big deal because that day was a play/rest day for the travelers before the week long conference started, sooooo…we went scootering!!! Oh we went crazy! R.S. and I pulled off some pretty crazy stunts a couple of times on those scooters to the point of near death!!! Well, not that close, but we would have been in need of stitches if we had crashed a few of the times no doubt! It was great; though I don’t think I want to try flying off a bridge again for a while…that is a long story of which I would love to tell you, but time and space does not permit me too…nor dignity…
Well, the next day was busy as I had to go back and forth to classes and choir and what not and I found it a great priority on my mind to keep my eye out for cameras…mostly video cameras. I don’t want to be on video unless I am called to become a movie star… period. And this was what I spent almost all my time doing; walking to classes (I estimate that I was walking a minimum of 2 1/12 miles a day), helping the B. family whenever possible and watching for video cameras…
Choir was cool (as usual), but terrible! It seemed like there were thousands of giddy girls there at choir that a bullfrog could have out sang! A lot of them didn’t even try to sing! It was really starting to irritate me (and the choir master) and I could not guess why on earth they wanted to be in choir until I over heard some of them talking…they were hoping to be on TV! How stupid is that! You are supposed to sing for the LORD, not the camera man or the stupid TV! Ugg, it was disgusting. It also did not help matters when this one guy that was signed up as a camera man told me that he would be sure to pick me out in choir and close up on me with the camera…fortunately, he could not find me; lucky for him he didn’t…
Anyway, I learned a lot of wonderful stuff there and I am still in the process of regurgitating it all to my family and I lost five pounds in the process...whoohoo. Bleh. My mom lost five pounds just sitting around eating brownies…grrrr. Oh well! I also got to meet some old friends and get reacquainted with them again…one of them anyway.
The trip home from the conference was interesting as well (I rode home with a different family that time). It did not seem so long for some reason…hmm…anyway, the main thing that was super exciting on that trip was the- uhhh- slight little- ummm- well, little fender bender accident that we had…now don’t freak out like some people did when I told them…ok, I am still alive and well, and nobody got hurt. So don’t pass out in front of the computer, ok? Anyways, our vehicle went undamaged, but the other people had a big ding behind their back tire; that’s all. All the little kids in our vehicle kind a went crazy after it happened and some of them got pretty scared (talk about post panic! Whew!), but everyone was ok afterward.
Also on the trip home, we stopped at Cabalas again…which was fun, but we did not get to stay for very long, just long enough for me to take the kids around and show them most of the cool sights.
I had a wonderful time with the family. When it got dark and we were still driving we decided to sing songs, which was really fun.
My parents came and picked me up from that family’s house that night and I just rattled on and on the whole way home about the wonderful time that I had.
I was very glad to sleep in my own bed that night…I enjoyed sleeping in a tent and in the dorm, but there is just something about coming home and sleeping in your own bed.
Needless to say, I spent the most of the next day in bed with a sore, runny nose and stopped up throat from all the flowers that were blooming…
And you wanna know something weird? Well, I suppose that it is not real weird, but: I hardly missed my book at all…I was too busy to miss it. Ha- ha! That’s funny…well, you may not think that it is funny, but I think it is!
So anyway, I had a great time going down there and spending a lot of time with the family that took me, I had a great time while I was there, I had a great time coming back and spending time with the family that brought me back, and I have had a great time retelling my great times…and I am glad to be feeding the geese again and putting my book characters through more torture…mwhahahah!
I want to give a special thanks to the S. family for taking me down there and providing me food and a great time and like nearly adopting me into their family (even though I am an insane nut!) and I want to give a special thanks to the B. family for bringing me back home and providing food and a great adventure on the way back and treating me as one of their family too!
I also want to thank my mom and dad for allowing me to go on this wonderful trip and for trying to provide as many opportunities for me as possible! Love Ya!
Sweetpea/Shieldmaiden
P.S.
Here are some pictures! Enjoy!
We (my mom & dad & I) decided, before I went to the big conference, that it would be best if I did not go to the second conference after it, so I am not all booked up as I was expecting…which is perfectly fine with me!
So I have been busy catching up with things around here and preparing to do some gardening and yard work…otherwise I feel useless…sort of…oh anyway.
I had a great time at the conference! I got to go to a Cabala’s store for the first time! That was tons of fun; though the kids in the family that I went with did not think as I did because they make the stop every year and they spend hours in it- which was great for me! I got a very good preview of the store, but still didn’t get all the way through it! They had lots of taxidermy animals in there that were totally awesome! Anything from elephants to bears and chipmunks to lions you name it! They even had an aquarium with the largest fish I have ever seen! One of the catfish were as big as me! Now granted, I aren’t real tall, but I aren’t short either (sorry for the lack of grammar there). It was totally awesome! They even had a shooting gallery that was huge! It was really fun! And their fudge! Oh their beautiful, wonderful, sugary, chocolatey, smooth fudge! Makes the world go round I tell ya! (not really, but ya get the point)
I got some awesome pictures of the animals. Some of them look like I was right up there with a real animal! I got one of a lion and it looks like he is charging me! They are awesome! I had to get in some pretty crazy positions to get pictures like that, but it was worth it! I shall have to post some on here sometime…just for you!
Well, we got to the conference area at 1:00 am…and we unloaded the trailer and everything and went to bed. I can’t remember what time we got up, but it was considered late. However, it was not a big deal because that day was a play/rest day for the travelers before the week long conference started, sooooo…we went scootering!!! Oh we went crazy! R.S. and I pulled off some pretty crazy stunts a couple of times on those scooters to the point of near death!!! Well, not that close, but we would have been in need of stitches if we had crashed a few of the times no doubt! It was great; though I don’t think I want to try flying off a bridge again for a while…that is a long story of which I would love to tell you, but time and space does not permit me too…nor dignity…
Well, the next day was busy as I had to go back and forth to classes and choir and what not and I found it a great priority on my mind to keep my eye out for cameras…mostly video cameras. I don’t want to be on video unless I am called to become a movie star… period. And this was what I spent almost all my time doing; walking to classes (I estimate that I was walking a minimum of 2 1/12 miles a day), helping the B. family whenever possible and watching for video cameras…
Choir was cool (as usual), but terrible! It seemed like there were thousands of giddy girls there at choir that a bullfrog could have out sang! A lot of them didn’t even try to sing! It was really starting to irritate me (and the choir master) and I could not guess why on earth they wanted to be in choir until I over heard some of them talking…they were hoping to be on TV! How stupid is that! You are supposed to sing for the LORD, not the camera man or the stupid TV! Ugg, it was disgusting. It also did not help matters when this one guy that was signed up as a camera man told me that he would be sure to pick me out in choir and close up on me with the camera…fortunately, he could not find me; lucky for him he didn’t…
Anyway, I learned a lot of wonderful stuff there and I am still in the process of regurgitating it all to my family and I lost five pounds in the process...whoohoo. Bleh. My mom lost five pounds just sitting around eating brownies…grrrr. Oh well! I also got to meet some old friends and get reacquainted with them again…one of them anyway.
The trip home from the conference was interesting as well (I rode home with a different family that time). It did not seem so long for some reason…hmm…anyway, the main thing that was super exciting on that trip was the- uhhh- slight little- ummm- well, little fender bender accident that we had…now don’t freak out like some people did when I told them…ok, I am still alive and well, and nobody got hurt. So don’t pass out in front of the computer, ok? Anyways, our vehicle went undamaged, but the other people had a big ding behind their back tire; that’s all. All the little kids in our vehicle kind a went crazy after it happened and some of them got pretty scared (talk about post panic! Whew!), but everyone was ok afterward.
Also on the trip home, we stopped at Cabalas again…which was fun, but we did not get to stay for very long, just long enough for me to take the kids around and show them most of the cool sights.
I had a wonderful time with the family. When it got dark and we were still driving we decided to sing songs, which was really fun.
My parents came and picked me up from that family’s house that night and I just rattled on and on the whole way home about the wonderful time that I had.
I was very glad to sleep in my own bed that night…I enjoyed sleeping in a tent and in the dorm, but there is just something about coming home and sleeping in your own bed.
Needless to say, I spent the most of the next day in bed with a sore, runny nose and stopped up throat from all the flowers that were blooming…
And you wanna know something weird? Well, I suppose that it is not real weird, but: I hardly missed my book at all…I was too busy to miss it. Ha- ha! That’s funny…well, you may not think that it is funny, but I think it is!
So anyway, I had a great time going down there and spending a lot of time with the family that took me, I had a great time while I was there, I had a great time coming back and spending time with the family that brought me back, and I have had a great time retelling my great times…and I am glad to be feeding the geese again and putting my book characters through more torture…mwhahahah!
I want to give a special thanks to the S. family for taking me down there and providing me food and a great time and like nearly adopting me into their family (even though I am an insane nut!) and I want to give a special thanks to the B. family for bringing me back home and providing food and a great adventure on the way back and treating me as one of their family too!
I also want to thank my mom and dad for allowing me to go on this wonderful trip and for trying to provide as many opportunities for me as possible! Love Ya!
Sweetpea/Shieldmaiden
P.S.
Here are some pictures! Enjoy!
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