Short Post in a Long Time

Now with Thanksgiving gone and past, I'm getting ready for the holidays.  I can't wait for advent...and then Christmas of course!

But I guess since everyone is writing about how thankful they are for things, maybe I'll write about my thankfulness until Advent begins.  Which isn't long so...

Starting:

I'm thankful for God most of all.  I mean, He's was/is/will always be there for me.  I've been learning lots about him through experience and I hope in the future I can get to love him even more.  Sometimes I feel like I just kind of keep Him in my pocket and only use Him occasionally when I should be wearing him on my heart wear everyone can see.  I'm thankful that, even though I can be a terrible person in all my sin, God always will love me for me.

I'm thankful for my family, which I have so much of.  I love my mother and my father for always being here for me and caring for me even if I don't act like I care in return.  I'm thankful that they're so understanding of me even when I think they don't.

My siblings have always set good examples for me and I'm so thankful for all their help in my life. I thank them for all their help and love even if I'm annoying sometimes.  I'm also thankful for all the good fortune my sisters have had in their life and that E could come home safely from college.

More thankfulness later!

I have nothing to say anymore...

I just can't seem to think about anything now...Well, I'm sick so that might explain some of it.  Stuffy nose for me equals stuffy brain.  But nothing new and exciting has been happening besides me having a cold.  I guess I would be able to say more if I didn't read my friend's blog so much.  But after I see her post something about something we did, there's no reason for me to post anything anymore.

I drew a picture:

Now that I'm looking at it, it's not as great as I was hoping it would be.  I'm so tired now that I don't even really care.  I don't want to read, I don't have anything to blog about, my nose is driving me insane, and even though I'm tired, I don't want to sleep.  My face feels like it's going to fall off.

Right now I just feel like this

Maybe it is time to read a book.  Darth Paper it is!

And Camping continues....

Mass was normal except for one of the teens sneezed and then there was this chorus of "God bless you!" from everyone at almost exact same time.  I sat next to Princess Purple Mushroom and some older guy I didn't know who wasn't part of the camping trip and was just there to attend daily mass.  But when we entered I felt obligated to sit there next to him because all of the other kids were murmuring about who would sit next to the stranger.

So Mass ended and we got on the bus to go to our destination.  I ended up sitting by myself on the way there because I'm the person that no one ever really wants to team up with.  See, I'm not friends with anyone at my church.  But it's not like I'm not not friends with anyone either.  Everyone has a closer friend or somebody they know better because they go to school together or something.  I'm sure that I would have ridden in my dad's car if there had been more room for me to sit.  But I ended up on the bus sitting next to a window with nothing else but my pens and doodle book.

Which, now you should be a little confused because I said that there wasn't room on the bus for more people which was why they sat in the car in the first place.  It's just my luck that I would get stuck sitting by myself.  There were two empty seats but one of the boys put his guitar in one of them...Except I believe one of the girls ended up sitting next to him so there was really only one empty seat.  Which, of course, was next to me.

But even with seclusion, I refused to let it get to me and ruin my weekend.  I was sure that I would get someone to like me enough to maybe sit next to me.  Thinking about sitting by myself is reminding me about how much I do sit by myself.  It's partly because I choose to.  But I don't want to be sitting by myself, either.

Well, more about camping later.

Hun-Honey-Dew, You Know I Love You...

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhh.....  So this is what I've done for you today:

So about camping.  I told you it rained but I didn't tell you what happened on the retreat as far as meeting new people.  Except I kinda knew everyone... But not like know, know them.  If you know what I mean.  You know?  Okay, I think you know by now.  A nose only knows what it smells from a rose if the rose has arose in an elegant pose.  MOVING ON.

So the two people I ended up spending the most time with (mostly because I ended up in their tent and we all got rained on etc. etc.) I guess will be known as Princess Purple Mushroom and the Red Checker Queen.  It will make more sense in time why I named them these things.  But they're going to pop up a bit if I'm telling you about Camping.

So, first off, we got to the church parking lot and put stuff in the bus we were taking to the campgrounds.  Most of the people arrived while I was packing stuff into the bus, but a couple others arrived during the daily Mass we attended that morning.

After I packed all my junk, I didn't have much else to do so I took to stomping on ice that had dropped on the ground out of a cooler (Yeah, the ice did NOT come from the sky; much too hot).  Then one of the adults volunteered people to go in my dad's car (My dad was the only one of my family members there) because nobody was willing to volunteer themselves and there apparently wasn't room in the bus for three extra people.  So PPM, RCQ, and this other guy (who, BTW, was the only person I didn't remember from Youth Group) ended up riding with my dad in our Honda.

Then the adults dismissed us to go to the chapel for mass after the packing was complete.

I will continue tomorrow when I have more time.

Camping This Weekend...

Went from :P to :\ to :| to :) to :O to X,P to X( to (N N N> Xo to :)

Here's why:  Rain x mosquitoes + (-shoes) + (-tent) = Daddy...can we go home now?

Except then I wanted to stay because people are nice although some of my surroundings were questionable.  See, we thought that the tents would work and thought that the water would stay out but...No.  Our tents flooded and we couldn't go anywhere while the storm was down-pouring.  So I was joking with the two girls in my tent about the duck from the duck song living in our tent and how we didn't having any grapes to give him because the rain killed them.

After a time the rain lightened and we ran for our lives and hid in the bathrooms until stopped enough for us to run to the rec building without getting drenched.  All of the other kids came there too so we could regroup with the adults about where people would sleep.  I ended up sleeping in a semi-dryish tent.

I'll probably tell you more later but I want to read the Scarlet Letter right now.

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy?

I'm in an artful mood today!

Okay Perfectly Apropriate

That's what's going on outside right now :P

Rain, rain, rain again
Why are you such a pain?
Wonder why plants love you
if you turn the dirt into goo

Rain, rain, rain and BOOM
Send those trees to their doom
Down goes one on your car
struck by lightening from the stars

Rain, rain, rain again
Your coming is so plain
By the darkness in the clouds
And the poor sleepy cows

Rain, rain, rain AWAY
So the sun can finally play

The Definition of a Heart in One Picture

I think it speaks for itself.  It was just such a coincidence when I was listening to Windows Media Player and it started playing Average Girl by Barlow Girl.

Good-bye Summer! Hello Summer Jr!

Aka, a very warm fall.  I can't believe it's already October again!  It seems like not that long ago I was dressed up as my sister's twin!  That was a fun Halloween.  But before I drift into talking about past costumes or how beautiful changing leaves are, let's reminisce about this Summer...What happened this Summer:

Tennessee Vacation!

Drama club:

Drama Camp (don't have a photo for this)

Confirmation:

Although, those are the big things that have happened this summer, there have also been smaller events that are none the less important.  Including that my beef jerky went bad last month (Ew!  I didn't know I was supposed to refrigerate it!) and my new discovered love for artists such as J.J. Heller and Barlow Girl.  I love music!

And Ice Cream:

Ice cream is just de-lick-sious!  Okay, that was a really lame joke.  Another highlight to my Summer was DOWNTON ABBEY!!!! Love that show.  *tear* I have to wait until next year to see the next season since it premiers in Britain first.  Which, obviously, I don't live there.

My reading hasn't been very productive this summer, unfortunately.  I've read The Help and I'm pretty far into Twilight but I can't read anymore for the time being since The Scarlet Letter is pleading for me to finish it.  Oh, I also read The Hiding Place.  If you've never read that book, I highly suggest it to you.

Now it's October!  I can't believe it!  I'm going to start tearing up now because it wasn't until the fall that Muppet and I really got to know each other.  That was last year!  It can't have only been a year!  I've known her forever, I swear!  Well, maybe not.  But it certainly seems that long.

October brings Halloween.  And Halloween brings costumes and candy.  I've been everything from a politician to a baby; from cats to bats to spiders to a skeleton to a twin.  I have no idea what it'll be this year.  I'm really not feeling like Halloween anymore.  Last year was when the childhood make-believe and holidays faded for me.  I feel like people lose the true meaning of these holidays.

For instance: Halloween is really about all those who have gone before us and died: saints, martyrs, and just the deceased in general.  It actually has roots to the church and wasn't about candy, dressing up and scaring people.

And Christmas isn't about presents: it's about the birth of Jesus.  People forget that and are just fed candy instead of the true meaning.  These other things that we think of when we think of holidays are just traditions that built up over time until it grew into a national tradition; no, a world wide tradition.

Not that presents and candy are a bad thing.  I love holidays because they bring people together.  I just feel like there needs to be more explanation to these special days really mean and how they came around.  I hope you've learned something today!

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king gives stability to the land; but he who imposes heavy taxes ruins it.

Fruit

Delightfully delicious.

Bistro Photos Soon to be Available

Just as soon as I can get pictures uploaded onto my blog.  I would tell you about the awesomeness I had yesterday, but I don't think it would be as exciting for me to talk about without pictures to show you things like what a mandolin looks like.  I think that's how you spell it.  It's a fluffy pillow-like pastry.  But you can't picture it correctly because there are hundreds of fluffy pillow-like pastries out there lol :)

So until I do, have a wonderful day! ^.,.^ <Meow)

Party and Party and Hey!

Hello young/middle aged/elderly kitties!  It's time to finish the tale of what happened at the awesome surprise party of DOOM (just kidding about the whole DOOM thing).

Dinner was exciting because that's when Muppet's friend laid out the rule.  Yes, only one rule: that we would all act like four year olds at Muppet's birthday party.  If you haven't read very much of this blog or this is the first post you've seen, please read the next paragraph as I explain why:

Muppet was born on a leap year and her birthday is February 29th.  So she's only actually had four birthdays.  And since this is her birthday year, she gets to celebrate all year long (well, would you want to wait four years for your birthday???) lol.  Which is why we are celebrating late (not exactly).

Continuing with the party:  blue food, right?  Okay so then I pull off one awesome feat and one fail at dinner: Feat: I ate the melted chocolate and peanuts that were on a tissue that Muppet's friends were trying to pass off as something disgusting and won a package of Snickers :D (although, when I left, I forgot them :'( ) Fail: I fell for the fake science trick: someone puts butter on a plate and then says something like, "I learned a new science trick" and puts salt on the butter and says, "feel, it's warm!" and then when you put your hand over it the other person smacks your hand down.  Then I had fun smudging it all over Muppet.  If you read on, butter isn't the only thing poor, dear Muppet has smudged on her.

After dinner we went outside and drew with sidewalk chalk on Muppet's friend's house.  And don't go thinking we were surprising her like people do when they swab people's yards with toilet paper.  WE HAD PERMISSION TO DO SO.  Don't try it at home kids...do it at your friend's house like we did lol.

Then we went and colored the cat with sidewalk chalk...well, they did.  I mostly held the cat (and colored Muppet's arm pink with sidewalk chalk lol.  She did it back though, so we were even for the time being)  He's all white so you can actually see the colors on him.  He also has blue eyes.  I love cats with blue eyes...but that's getting off topic.

Next we played this version of hide-and-go-seek except it's in the dark and your only source of light is a flashlight...except we had awesome glow-sticks instead.  I got to be the seeker first.  I didn't find everyone...I couldn't find one of H's sisters :P.  She hid in a pile of stuffed animals.  Ah, but I found Muppet.  Although I can't believe I didn't see her when I first went in the one room because she was only hiding in the closet.

Play continued, H hid behind the couch as did her older sister in an earlier round, some of H's younger siblings hid in the top part of a closet in and empty room, J hid under a bed with a cat, I mistook a pillow for a person until I poked it, H hid in a chest in an earlier round, and one of Muppet's friends hid underneath a bed mattress lol ;).  So much fun.

Then we had cake and ice cream...or maybe that was before hide-and-go-seek...  Anyways, the cake was a big blue paw-print with four little cupcake toes.  It was a good cake, I have to say, and the ice cream was even better.  It took me a while to realize the cones weren't blue plastic and were actually edible.

THAT was fun.  I kept teasing Muppet with my ice cream cone, singing into it like a microphone (I had my MP3 player out at this time: Francesca Battistelli), trying to steal bites of her cake, and smudging ice cream on her arm (she got me back here, too).

After H's younger siblings left and it was just us older girls, we danced to random party music like the cupid shuffle.  After that we started to play spoons (a card game that includes the usage of spoons in the center of the table and in which your goal is to get a spoon before the other players)...SO much fun.  Except my energy was getting out of hand at this point but my energy and how fast I get tired after that is another long rabbit trail that I'll go on another day.

After I went out playing spoons I kept tricking people by taking spoons from the center when I wasn't actually playing.  Then I started going through the cards as though I were playing even though I wasn't.  But, once, when I was playing I lost all the cards in my hands because I was goofing off and passing them all off and looking at cards.

After a time my energy dropped greatly and I was, as J says, a pumpkin...or more like just squash.  And so, Daddy picked me and J up to go home for some sleep.  Here ends the party...until Muppet turns twenty (or five) :)

Kim Seriously!

Okay, so my friend Muppet has started to post some awesome Kim Possible things on her blog.  If you <3 Kim Possible go here:

http://mopheadedmuppet.blogspot.com/2012/09/seriously.html

Have an awesome day!  ^.,.^ <Meow)

SURPRISE! :P

Yep.  H, her sisters (there were four), and a couple of Muppet's other friends threw a surprise party for Muppet.  SO epic.  The theme: Blues Clues.  DON'T JUDGE.  If you do, I'll send my cat to your house to sit on your feet for several hours until your feet fall into such a deep sleep, you'll wish you hadn't said anything lol JK.

J and I were invited to the party because the others knew that Muppet knew us and that I'm her friend.  WHY would I turn down a surprise party?  I haven't so far.  Especially one for my bestest friend in the entire world.

So we went shopping for a gift for Muppet at Walmart and found some of Sally Hansen's magnetic nail polish and I was thinking, "this has Muppet written all over it" So we got it.  Because it looked awesome.  I don't know what Chalkboard Nails would have to say about it's quality, but I know that blog uses Sally Hansen a lot.  But not as much as China Glaze lol.

We go to the party which takes place at one of Muppet's friend's house and help set up.  I brought my MP3 player to listen to later and my camera to take pictures...not that I'm good at taking pictures without them becoming blurry.  But some of H's younger siblings took pictures...not that I've looked at them...and I'm sure Muppet's friend will be posting some on Facebook that she took with her phone.  But enough about pictures!

H and her older sister (but not her oldest sister) make macaroni and cheese but dye the pasta blue.  But by the time they added the cheese; when they had dumped the processed cheese into they blue noodles they turned this frightening green color.  There was also a pot of blue Alfredo which, in my opinion, looked slightly more appetizing.  Not to say that it wasn't green, but it looked slightly more blue.  It matched my green fork perfectly, though!  There was also plain, uncolored hot dogs, garlic toast, and blue applesauce.

We then came up with game ideas since there were no activities planned.  Some of my faves were spoons and telephone pictionary.  Not that we actually played telephone pictionary.  But still!  I think it's an awesome game.

So, then Muppet finally arrived and we all hid.  I allowed H and her sisters to pop out first because, as I figured, they probably would be more expected to be there than me and J.  But when I popped out, Muppet was so excited!  Then she started tearing up when she saw all of the Blues Clues stuff everywhere.  It was AWESOME.

Okay so I'm going to split this post in half because there's a lot to say about the surprise party and I have to go to a Mary Kay thing this morning (not that I'm big on makeup) and then I'm going to this awesome bistro for tea (not that I'm big on tea).  It's a complete girls day (well, sorta) for me.  My mother, J, and I will be popping in and out of our house a lot today and I'm not sure when we'll be leaving.

Have a wonderful Saturday, kittens!

I wonder what would happen....

If I sprayed my cat with catnip.... I think she would go bananas trying to play with herself and she would be drooling everywhere and be SO happy...probably for the rest of her life.  lol.  THAT would be funny to watch.  I would YouTube it and then post it on Facebook and get rich selling Cosmo the crazy catnip cat merchandise lol.

MWA HA HA HA!!!!

Blogular

have you noticed how most of my posts have been particularly uninteresting lately?  I'm sure you probably have.  Well, I have a new task today.  Not for today, but it's something interesting I can do.

See, our homeschool group puts this thing together called The Beam.  It's a bulletin of things that the kids send in.  It can have pictures, newsletters, reviews, or random creative stories you've written.  What I'm going to do is (this is actually clever so pay attention) I'm going to try and get more audience participation by submitting some of my half written stories for people to finish.  The rest of the people in my homeschool group can then send in what they think the ending should be.  I can (at first) send in parts of old stories that I have written in the past for people to fill in.  Then, if I so desire, I could also post them here, on my blog, for you to participate with.  So stay tuned, because this is another one of those things that I say I'm going to do but you'll never know until I actually do it.

What's Going On Tomorrow?

Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow
You're always a day away!

So.  Tomorrow is a teacher's meeting.  Which means all of the other homeschooling moms in my homeschool group are getting together and talking about school and other uninteresting things that we kids don't really care to hear about (but are none the less important).  This is usually the day that I don't get too much school done but I'm going to try to accomplish as much as I can so that I can enjoy my free time to talk to Muppet at the park.  Of course, since the meeting is in the morning, I can't get my stuff done and ahead before going.  Unless I decided to ditch getting any sleep.  And then I would NOT enjoy anything.  What's the point of getting stuff done and having all the time in the day when all you want to do is sleep?

So basically, I have to get all my school done in the afternoon after the teacher's meeting.  Before Zumba at Gold's Gym in the evening.  Which only sucks an hour out of my day, but still.  I'm not complaining here, though.  Just stating facts and telling you what's up (the trees and the sky and the birds...I know).

Yesterday, Como wasn't feeling well at all.  So we took the poor kitty to the vet (which is only, like, two blocks from our house).  She's feeling better today (I think, you can't ever tell with cats; they mask pain so well).  She's very groggy, but I would be too if I wasn't feeling well.

Nothing else interesting has been happening besides school...EXCEPT for Drama Club.  I'm going to be quitting the homeschool drama club that I was doing with my homeschool group because my school is dragging with two days being shot...not to mention the extra days blown because of an upcoming play or field trip.  BUT I am still going to be doing the Drama Club at the community theater.

I'm going to miss people at the other teacher's meeting, but if I'm going to teacher's meetings, I'll probably see them there.  Plus who says I can't help with drama club behind the scenes?  I could still suggest new games to Game Guy to play with the other kids.  Also, I might come back if there's a production next year...But that's a big MIGHT because I might decide to audition for something at the community theater during the time that the homeschool drama club is doing a production.  I don't even know what's happening next year for me.  But who's expected to know things a year ahead, anyways?

I Stayed Up Until 1:40...

...Because I finished watching all of the available Downton Abbey episodes!  I'm sad now because I have to wait until at least January to see the next episodes :'(  Such a good show!  But I shouldn't tell you about the show because then I would start spoiling things that are in the show.  Also, there are a few parts that might be a little inappropriate for some of the younger viewers out there and the last thing I want to do is scar my audience for life on my blog lol.

But of course I slept in this morning.  I probably would have slept longer if I hadn't had anywhere to go today.  I went to my grandparent's house, though, so I couldn't have slept til lunch time unless I wanted my family to leave me home, which I most definitely would not do.  But, anyways, I woke up at 8:34 or something this morning and told myself to role over and go back to sleep, so I did.  And then I woke up at 10:30 and ate my breakfast of glazed crullers (they're just fancy looking donuts).  I think that I may have actually dreamed about Downton Abbey last night...or at least some of the characters were in it.  Not that I really know what I was dreaming about.

Well, tomorrow I have a history quiz to do (yes, the homeschooler has homework to do this weekend), some cards that I really should write, church (not that I know if I'm alter serving or not) and Youth Group.  I'm new to the whole Youth Ministry thing at my church so I'm not sure what I'm exactly supposed to be doing.  We planned the kickoff but there was no planning or anything like that this week.  Whatever.

But I'm quitting alter serving.  I'm not sure I've mentioned this or not, but I am.  I'm not trying to encourage other people to get lazy in their ministry or whatever with their church.  It's just now, alter serving isn't my thing and it's harder for me than I think it's really worth.  I'm just done for a while.  I'm hoping maybe when things smooth out between my school and my drama clubs, maybe I'll start singing in the choir.  It might help improve my singing abilities.  But I'm still debating whether to still do two drama clubs during the week.  I think eventually I'm going to end up quitting the one with our homeschool group.  I don't know if it's worth the time to go there to goof off playing games and reading scripts and having to come home to a pile of school I still have to do.

We'll see.  God always sorts out this kind of thing eventually; one way or another.

Love

I mostly wrote this because I wanted to draw something on Paint.  But I think it looks pretty.

What do you think?

Blog blog blog...What to blog?

NAILS!  I love nails!  Especially Chalkboard Nails.  I wish my nails always looked nice like that...well, they do, but only when I'm not breaking them on a hard surface.  I still want to be a hand model one day.  That's my dream.  Or to be on Broadway...Actually I think it would be cooler to write a script that made Broadway than to actually be in a performance there.  Not that it's not awesome if you make it to Broadway as an actor.  I just think script writing would be awesomer.  But that's not a word.  It should be.

Anyhow.  I don't even know what I've been trying to say here.  I didn't show you one nail picture though.  Or maybe two.  I couldn't find them before.  But after making a few more picture files for things, I was able to find the photos I was looking for!

This is blue nail polish with pink crackle.

 And here is blue nails with a white french manicure.  Which I, of course, ruined by smudging it.

Well, that's all the nails I have to show you currently.  So maybe I'll get my dad to help me to upload more pictures from my camera onto mi computador.  lol :P

La de da de doo!

Nothing much has been happening that's been blog worthy lately.  My nails are still sulking because, even though Muppet is back home where she belongs, we haven't had time to paint my nails.  Which is annoying because my mind thinks of new ideas faster than we can paint my nails.  But Muppet did paint her own nails!  They are so adorable.  I wish my nails could be painted.  *sigh*

Anyways.  Today was Drama Club!  Again!  Nothing too exciting happened.  There are lots of new people, as usual.  And, as usual, I played about a thousand games with them all and I still don't know all their names.  We played lots of this game called Poison.  Which is quite simple but equally fun.

First, to choose who the "poisoner" will be you have everyone stand in a circle and one person who is not playing taps the person of their choice on the head while everyone's eyes are closed.  Then the game begins!  Everyone walks around shaking each other's hands, including the poisoner.  But when the poisoner shakes you hand, they press their pointer finger into your wrist to "poison" you.  Next, you walk around a little while longer and shake people's hands, then you start to act sick.  After a few more seconds, you must die dramatically (not really, you're just acting).  Eventually when one of the living persons who have not yet been poisoned thinks they know who the poisoner is, they accuse the person that they think is it.  If they are wrong, they must also die dramatically.  If they are correct, they win and play may restart.

It's quite fun, but it gets tiresome after about the fifth time.  We also played games such as Freeze and Wax museum (which, if I haven't explained, I will eventually).  Then we went onto doing our scripts.  Next time we're expected to have our lines memorized.  Which won't be too hard for me, I guess.  I just have to find time when J is here to help me with my lines.  Which will probably be this weekend.  I also decided to ditch my southern accent since I doubt it sounds good at all to anyone.  That's my weak point in acting: accents.  I just can't seem to do them.  I can pitch my voice differently for characters and even make my voice sound shaky or stutter, but I can NOT do any accents with my voice.  I can sort of try to do a southern or British accent, but nothing else.

Well, enough of my ramblings! lol :)

Hey look!  Cosmo's winking at you:

Toe nails!

This post is just me showing you my toes since I've run out of finger nails to show you.  I hope you don't have a fear of feet lol :P


 Blue!

Peach

 fuzzy (as in blurry) peach!

  black on white

 red on white

 Altogether now!

Wait, when did I ever have four feet?  Just kidding.  Those are Muppet's feet on the left and my feet on the right.  My left foot is rainbow with a black french manicure thing at the top of my nail and my right foot is crosshatching lines on top of a rainbow of polishes.

 Oh no!  Now I have three feet (lol)!

Muppet's feet!

That's enough feet for one day. Enjoy the rest of your day! :)

Philippians 2:14-15

"Do everything without grumbling or questioning that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like lights in the world."

I'm Finally Confirmed!

But it's only the beginning!  Just think of the things I can do with all these gifts I've received!

Yay! One More Day!

Until confirmation, that is.  Now, you might be thinking, "Confirm-what?"  Confirmation is a sacrament in the Catholic church.  It's kind of like renewing your baptismal rights now that you're old enough to say it all for yourself.  It's nothing weird, really.  Basically I'm just saying, "Now I'm truly Catholic".  It's also about receiving the Gifts of the Holy Spirit (which are different from the Fruits of the Spirit which are produced from the Gifts of the Spirit).  I'm so excited!  But I'm more nervous.  It's tougher than it seems to say "yes" to your Faith at times.  I had a time where I sort of stumbled backwards and crawled on the floor looking for answers to all my questions and looking at simple things like they were the hardest things to see.  Of course I figured myself out now and sorted everything or else I would have turned away a long time ago.  But here I am.

Confirmation, here I come.

What's wrong Cosmo?

Cat got your tongue? lol :D

CHEESE CURDS!

I'm eating fried cheese curds.  Jealous?

It's the Paint Version of Eric Carl!

You've undoubtedly have seen my pictures I've done on Microsoft Paint.  But I want to show you how to do a specific type of my art.  Like these here:

They look difficult to make, don't they?  It's actually not too hard.  I'll show ya how it's done.

First open up Microsoft Paint.  If you're a beginner or don't even know what Microsoft Paint is, it's just a computer program designed so that you can draw on your computer.  If you're uninterested, don't bother reading this post.

Click on a tool.  I like to use the paint brush set on a medium circle like this:

 Next, hold down the left mouse button and move it around.  While scrolling.  If your computer does what I think it should, after a while you should have a page full of scribbles like this:

You probably think that now you're done.  Quite the contrary my friend!  Now layer on other colors.  What ever you wish is fine.  You can use different brush sizes to scribble.  Your finished product should look something like this:

 or this:

 or like this:

 or maybe this:

 yellow:

 light blue

 grrrreeen

I've taken one scribble before and made different files after layering color on to make it a different shade.

Now you're done.  With part A.  Now, make it so that you have two Paints open like this:

Okay, have one of those Microsoft Paints blank and expand the canvas if you must.  In the other Paint, open one of your scribble files.  Click on this tool:

now draw a click and drag to draw a shape.  Now you need to right click on the box that forms around your shape.  Press ctrl. and C at the same time to copy (hopefully you know how to do that).  Now, in your other file, paste that shape into your blank file like this:

And then. AND THEN, you can add details.  I bet you thought you were done.  Continue drawing, copying and pasting until you are content with your artwork.

Ta da!  You're done.

Return Of J.J. Heller! And More

I was on YouTube today and I looked up the J.J. Heller song that I was meaning to find before.  I LOVE IT SO MUCH!  I love Christian music.  Here's my favorite J.J. Heller song:

It's so sweet.  I remember hearing this one a while ago and loving it and then I heard it on the radio a second time and went to see what song it was on the Joy FM What Song Was That? thing.  After that I looked on jesusfreakhideout.com to see if it had the lyrics.  Well, of course JFH did not deliver like I was hoping for (they never show the songs I'm looking for) so I blogged about it and was thinking of going on YouTube to find it so that I could post it.  But I couldn't remember the song title by then so I left it for a while.  But today I found it and now I've posted it and (hopefully) you listened to it.

But while I was looking for J.J. Heller stuff to post for you, I found this music video that's simply adorable:

But what really started it was that when I was looking on YouTube, I found the official music video for This is the Stuff by Francesca Battistelli!

But what really started my going onto YouTube to begin with was that I wanted to post music on blog and I had fun finding the cool song that I had found before by Plumb.  Well, that's all this post is about.  I guess.  But I have one last thing to say,

And this because I heard this one once and I was craving to listen again because I just had one little part spinning around in my head for forever-ever-ever lol.  I don't know what it is about Taylor Swift but I always love everything she does.  I had Wiki-ed her before to see if she had any new stuff coming out soon and the reviews for the lead song weren't very high so I was wondering if I would like it or not...Then my J and mother listened to it and encouraged me to watch it on YouTube, so I did.  And I'm not kidding, it's so catchy I had it stuck in my head randomly during the whole two weeks that Muppet was gone.  I love this song, but that's my opinion.  I just love music videos that can make you smile or laugh a little.

One more little thing about Taylor Swift: I still wish she would stop straightening her hair.  She looks so much better with curls.  Not that she looks bad.  She just looks better with curls.  I think everyone who's a natural curly head looks better with their curls.

I'm Alterserving a Funeral Today But I'm Not Wearing Black

I'm convinced that funerals aren't depressing things.  I mean, what's so sad about going to see Jesus?  I mean, He's like the best known figure in history.  Heaven is such a happy place, and I know you'll never see your loved one again, but I think that your loved one would rather you rejoice that their going to a better place than to start cursing their absence.  I'm not saying that you shouldn't cry at a funeral, but it's a happy sort of thing and black only makes you feel more depressed.  I know that when I die, I don't want anyone wearing black.  I want everyone to be happy when I'm gone.

So I'm wearing a shirt that's swarming with animal print and color and after the funeral, I'm going to wear one of my favorite hats.

I'm just asking you to pray for this family now.  Because a mother shouldn't have to bury her son.  What's even worse is that it was a total freak accident (he slipped in the shower and hit his head).  It's sad that someone so young and healthy could die so suddenly and it just reminds me that I have no idea when God will tap my shoulder and tell me it's my time to go and that I don't know how long I'll know the people around me.

Please, today if you see anyone today, just do something especially kind for them, go out of your way to do something for them.  You don't know how long you'll be around to tell them that you love them and time is so short and passes in an instant.  Everything will come to pass: the grass, the trees, the animals, the people, the mountains, the earth, the solar system, the universe... It will all pass "Like a summer cloud" as Thomas Aquinas said.  All that will be left is God eventually.  Just give someone a hug, a flower, a high five...just tell them or even better show them, that they do mean something to you.  A teacher, a parent, a friend, if you're feeling courageous, an enemy.  Make them feel like they're worth something.

I Like This Song and I Only Just Heard It

By: Plumb

It completely describes how I feel sometimes.

Mario Nails

And now, my final nails until I can empty my camera (unless I start showing you my toes).

There are several things here.  My pinkie, middle, and pointer finger all are a simple freehand-drawn, red, french manicure type thing.  After drawing the simple red line on my nails, Muppet drew a thin white line underneath using her thin polish brush.

My thumb is a coat of red nail polish with a circle of white and the M drawn in the middle of the circle with the thin nail brush.  The mushroom was a little more difficult than the other nails.  It was also painted red (like my thumb) but then was layered on top with a white circle (drawn freehand).  Then, of course, we added spots.  This was accomplished using a bobby pin.  Its eyes were done with a thin nail brush.

STORY TIME!

Can you see how long my nails are in this picture?  This is completely normal for me to have long nails and I'm used to having them even longer than this.  But unfortunately my thumb nail snapped when I accidentally banged it against our dining room table.  This would explain the long absence of nail pictures (along with all my acting and vacation).  But, as with most injuries, it healed up and is now ready and waiting for Muppet to paint it again.

If you haven't heard, I painted my own nails!  I don't do that often, but with Muppet being gone in CA, all the nail blogs I've been reading, and the excessive amount of free time I have to spend (funny how I'm busier in the summer than during the school year), I had to do it.  My nails were feeling very naked without a coat of polish covering them.  Now they're happy again!  Except I think that's a lie because it literally looks like their crying lol.