It's Like That Lockhorns Comic I Saw Not That Long Ago

It was the two Lockhorns with their car getting it fixed and one of them comments, "If we buy any more car parts, we'll technically have a new car!"  That's how I'm feeling about our car lately.  Granted we've had it for years and years since the car's year is 2003.  That would make it nine years old, give or take a few years.  I don't understand cars, nor do I want to really.  Except I sort of do because then I could fix my car myself, except I don't want to have to fix my own car.  Nor do I own a car, but none of that matters.  The point is that our car broke down.  Again.  Fortunately we still have our little red dwarf car, as I call it.

Here's the story, we were on our way to our grandparent's house (under the river and over the woods to grandmother's house we go, just kidding) and our car broke down.  Something about transmission fluid exploding all over the car so that would explain why the car didn't want to go anymore.  Of course we called a tow truck and what not, but we're sitting there on the side of the road sweating to death in our car.  Fortunately I brought my DS to pass the time and distract myself from feeling gross.  My mom is thinking of possible people she could call to get us to our grandparent's house for lunch like we promised (well, of course we called our grandparents and begged them to please, pleASE, PLEASE, not put the pasta in to boil yet, lol).  She got the idea to call an old friend of hers from highschool (or something like that) who lived in the area and who had room for four people (my older sister, my brother, me and herself) in their car (and weren't busy that day).  So she said yes she could come and rescue us.  What I didn't know was that they brought two cars with them because their son and daughter wanted to meet us (which was pretty cool).  Her husband also came along (well, someone had to drive the second car lol).

So we all (except my father who had to stay with the car to get it towed) went to my grandparent's house and everyone ate spaghetti.  My mom's friend stayed late enough to drink coffee before she and her family left.  But in the time they were there, I doodled some pretty dresses which at some point in time I'll show my blog fanatics.  I showed my doodles off to my mom's friend's daughter (whoa, if she's going to pop up in the story anymore I need to give her a blog name) and anyone else interested in my dress drawings.  I really should show you my drawings sometime.  I'll take pictures of them for the future.

Maybe after I finish with my nail blog posts, I'll start blogging my dresses for you all to see.  I promise you'll like at least one of them (except if you're a guy, you might not be interested).  But the bottom line of this post is that our car isn't working and I met some cool new people.  And we ate spaghetti lol.  And ice cream.  But that was later on after people left.  When we got home we watched the next new Doctor Who episode.  I still laugh when I think of the line, "Dinosaurs...On a space ship!"

Well today, I'm going to be busy at my Youth Group's kickoff and since I'm part of the Youth Ministry Team my job is to make people feel welcome.  I just hope people will show up.

Things to be excited about and other randomness

One thing to be excited about is that my confirmation is in exactly two weeks!  For you who don't really know what that means: I'm going to be officially Catholic.  If you still don't understand, don't worry about it.

Anyways, another thing to be excited about is that the new season of doctor who premiered yesterday.  Although I have not seen many of the new episodes, I think that Matt Smith is one of my favorite doctors.  The episode was sad and I felt really bad for the dalek person.  But it was a really cool episode!

I'm not going to over-blog about Doctor Who because I'm certain there are a thousand people out there blogging about it.  But I do have to say that the "newtowho" commercials are hilarious.  Just saying.  You know, the one with the celebrity nerd?  Lol.

Something else I'm excited about is that tomorrow is a Youth Ministry Team meeting.  Basically, it's a meeting with a few of the teenagers at my church that are planning this huge kickoff thing for our Youth Group.  This year, we're trying to make it more open and friendly and just better in general so that people will actually stay.  A lot of the people my grade just kind of dropped out before.  The first few times I saw plenty of their faces but right before summer started I saw, like, three-five people my grade.  I'm certain at confirmation there will be a whole bunch but when when the kick off starts, I doubt many of them will show up.

But whatever.  People who don't care don't come.  So, obviously the best people to talk to are the ones who actually care about their faith and coming to church occasionally.

Another Adele song...and an Amy Grant one...and Cosmo joins in!

There's your next song for you.  This is the one that my brother's always singing.  The other song he constantly sings/hums is Doctor Who theme but that has nothing to do with Adele.  I feel like posting another good song today:

Look it's Amy Grant!  Also a great Christian artist.  This song is very touching.  I have to say this is probably one of my favorites of her songs.

I also have a picture or two for you:

Or maybe three, or four or five... but Cosmo is just so adorable.  I think I'm going to have to start taking pictures of that cat again because eventually I'm going to run out of my old Cosmo pictures.  Let's get down to business [To defeat the Huns (From Mulan)] !

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Hi.  I'm back.  Sorry, I haven't been blogging lately.  There are five reasons for that, I assure you!

1. I was cleaning the house.
2. doing school
3. looking up awesome old video games for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and all video games featuring Mario (which it included a golf game in which the golfer looked like Mario)
4. brainstorming ideas for my book and for what I will do when Muppet comes to visit
5. going on Facebook normally for the first time in what feels months

Okay so maybe I've mostly been procrastinating.  But it's not procrastinating.  I was simply waiting for a good subject to blog about.

I have the hiccups.  Now there's a good subject (rolls eyes).  It's hard to type or eat or read or anything with the hiccups.  It's worse when you're coughing, sneezing and hiccuping at the same exact time.

So I was looking up old video games as I said above.  I don't see why school can't give you fun subjects to write reports and things on.  Like the history of video games.  Or the science behind making the perfect pasta.  I don't know, it just sounds funner than writing about the French Revolution or Carbon Dioxide.  Not that I've ever written a paper on Carbon Dioxide.  But it was just an example of something boring.

Oh!  Like I was saying...Um, what was I saying?  Oh, yes *ahem* video games...

UGH! My music!  I love this song!  But it's distracting me.  The Last Night of the World from Miss Saigon.  Not that I've actually have seen that musical.  I just like the song because it's on some CD my family got from Sam's.  Mozilla Fire Fox is weird.  It doesn't think Sam's is a word.  But when I typed Sunny's, it thought it was a word.

Ugh.  My mind.  Ah!  My brother has a Sonic Screwdriver for his birthday!  The Fourth Doctor, that is.  As in Tom Baker as in the best Doctor in the history of Doctor Who.  Oh, I'm sorry.  I don't know if you know who Doctor Who is.  He's a guy in a cool TV Show that's on Netflix.  So if you're on Netflix, try him out.  Just once.  For me.  Tom Baker is cool.  Trust me.  Even if the show is from the 60's.  Trust me.

VIDEO GAMES!!!! I CAN'T KEEP TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND!

So I learned a lot from this article about Donkey Kong the arcade game.  I learned that Mario was formerly known as Jumpman and Princess Peach was called Lady.  Then Jumpman became Mario.  And Princess Peach.  But Princess Peach took a long time to evolve into Princess Peach.  First she was Lady, then later changed to Pauline, then was just Princess, then Princess Toadstool, then Princess Peach.  And Mario has always been Mario ever since and Yoshi was Yoshi and Luigi was Luigi and Wario was Wario and so on and so fourth.

Then I looked up a whole bunch of Video Games that I realized that I've played before but didn't realize what they were.  So apparently I really do know video games from the 80's.  I realized I've also seen the original Donkey Kong video game before.  Granted, it didn't actually do much else besides eat tokens and frustrate me, but that's besides the point!  Wait.  What is the point?  Is it a pencil tip?  Isn't that the point?  Don't you know it's not polite to point?  Look ! <-- an exclamation point!  That's the point.

Anyways.  I'm reading this awesome amazing book called The Hiding Place.  It's really cool.  It's a true story about this person living in a watchmaker's shop during World War 2.  And she tries to hide innocent Jews in her home so that the Nazi's won't come and take them to those awful camps.  You learn a lot from reading.  I highly suggest that you read a good book.  Like The Hiding Place.

So this is a long post so I should stop here.

That's right!  Don't Panic!!! I'll be back tomorrow with more random happiness! :D

Someone Like You

This is also a good song.  But I guess I wouldn't be posting any songs that weren't good.  My sister at college had a talent show thing that she was doing with her friend and they played this song.  They didn't win, but many people congratulated them for their performance and some people said that they should have won.  One of those people being me.  My sister at college plays the piano when she comes home from college for Summer, Winter, Spring break.  She's really good at playing the piano.  But then you have Al who is almost a pro at playing the piano.  I went to one of his piano concerts and listened to him play and he definitely has some talent.  Well, so does my sister, but she just doesn't put on concerts.

My brother is humming Dr. Who theme rather loudly now and is making it difficult to write about Adele.

Adele is awesome because she's British.  British people have such pretty accents.  I wonder if I have an accent to British people.  I also wonder if British people sit at home trying to talk in an American accent like I sit at home trying to use a pitiful British accent.  But I think I can nail an accent of some kind when I'm doing my three lines as the judge in the Four Angry Pigs script I'm doing with my Drama Club.

So I wanted to write yesterday and instead was drawing pictures on Paint.  Today I'm going to do the opposite.  I really want to draw a good cover for Muppet's book that she's trying to write but I can't draw what I want to draw and it's frustrating.  Oh well.  I'll write instead.