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) :)

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.

Some more music

Grab a ticket in your hand; the ride will soon begin.  Try your best your very best, go round and round again!  That's how the Ferris Wheel song goes.  Annoying.  Absolutely, positively, completely annoying.  That was only part of the song.  The last line.  Before it goes into a whole bunch of vocal exercises or what ever you want to call them.  To me, they're annoying.  I don't know why.  It's just annoying and that's all I can say about this subject.

Music.  Like this music:

Anyways.  I don't know what to blog about.  Maybe it's because Muppet is gone in California now :'(  Although, if I were actually showing emotion right now, it would be more like X'O  Or maybe more like this:

Wow.  That was actually fun to draw.  Maybe I should do what my cat feels like now that Muppet has left for a while.

Oh my word, that's fun.  Well I have no other school today so maybe I'll hang out on paint.  Well, actually Cosmo would look like this:

That's enough for one day!

So This Is What Happened yesterday

I went to a teacher's meeting today for my homeschool group.  It's the first one since before summer started so it was exciting to see people again.  Although, certain Drama Club people were missing (gasp).  But that's not something to gasp at.  What's really to gasp at is Z-man's (most commonly known in drama club as game guy) new hair cut.  Originally his hair was down to his shoulders...or at least the last time I saw him it was.  But now it's at a normal guy's hair length.  Which, it hasn't been that short since I can't remember.  But Muppet also has a stunning new haircut and dye.  SO PRETTY!!!  It makes me wish I were blonde.  But the only blonde I ever have is my stupidity at times lol.  And the paint color in my room called blonde.

I also got the chance to see someone I have not gotten to see in years.  Literally.  I haven't seen her since 6th grade or something like that.  But we talked some at the beginning.  Ha ha!  And she still owns chickens.  My mother always wanted chickens when our deed restrictions went up but then they decided to say that you can't have farm animals unless their so-and-so yards away from the edge of your property yadda yadda.  Basically, if we wanted chickens, lambs, goats, cows etc., etc., etc. they would be living on our dining room table.  I doubt anyone would want a chicken staring at them while chowing down on KFC takeout.

So after I talked with her a while I felt obligated to meet and get to know Muppet's friend who, for safety precautions, will just go by H for the time being.  H kind of reminds me of the shyer version of Muppet.  She has plenty of siblings of whom I don't remember all their names.  But a couple of them came over to our little friend group (Muppet, H, and I) and drew random doodles in my doodle book.  H preceded to draw strange and cute creatures in my doodle book while I demonstrated what Cosmo Pluff from my new DS game looks like.  We mostly talked and listened to Francesca Battistelli, of whom H has both CD's of so we both knew what we were singing.

After the teacher's meeting ended we left H to go to our History co-op at the community college.  We discussed our history questions and answers after eating our lunch in the lunchroom there.  During this time my older sister went to her class and my brother read a random book.  So they were both preoccupied.

After history co-op we all went to Rita's to eat Italian ice.  Everyone except me seemed to have gotten mint chocolate chip, I choose lemonade because I felt very warm and sticky from the heat.  Also, lemons supposedly relieve stress.  Or at least smelling lemons does.

We went home and I finished up my history and TLP for the day and we went to Zumba...at Gold's Gym.  We have memberships now which is great because LA Fitness basically abducted all the fun out of Lifestyles.  Gold's Gym has a much warmer feel to it than Lifestyles does.  Maybe it has to do with the colors being so warm in there, but it just seems like a nicer, bigger, happier place than Lifestyles was when the LA Fitness stuff was taking over.  The instructor is pretty easy to follow and she has a great choice in music too.

Overall, yesterday was fun.  But now I'm a little sad because Muppet is going to California for a while.  But she'll be back soon enough.  In the meantime, next week is the first day of Drama Club.  So I'll be having fun with H that day.  But, unfortunately, I'm going to be quitting our homeschool group's Drama Club for a while because I'm already going to be using all of my leftover time to do the drama club at the community theater.  Plus, Drama Club isn't even going to be doing any performances of any sort for a while.  I'm not going to miss Muppet there because I'm already doing school with her plus we'll probably have a good share of opportunities to get together this year anyways.  I'll see the rest of Drama Club at the other teacher's meetings.  I'm sure I'll join it again eventually, but I don't have the time to do something so committing of my time right now.

My Best Friend is a Rainbow Kitty Cat

Now what I really wanted to blog about was my last post...er...the post before the Winnie the Pooh post.  Yeah, the crazy one.  I don't think you are really reading those long rambling posts.  So just to sum up that post for you (so you don't have to go through the trouble of reading that whole thing), it's impossible for me to combine my ideas into one single story.

You know how I can't ever finished any task I assign myself?  It shows in my blog because there are several past posts that I say, well I'm going to add this to my blog, and I'm going to this ___of the day, and I'll post pictures and stories and garbage from my computer so that the world will understand and...it doesn't really work.  The only sure thing about this blog is that I'll always post regularly unless I say otherwise.  But I remember back in the beginning of this blog, I was all like, "I'm going to blog everyday!" and then I couldn't.  Because I'm a busy girl.  In fact I probably should go and write a summery for my science experiment right now.  But I'm not going to because I read one chapter in the Scarlet Letter and answered the rest of my history questions this morning.


I want to post more music, but I can't get myself to go on YouTube.  I don't feel like searching for things online right now.

Look at that!  I lied.  I realized that I did have an urge to look something up.  It needed to happen.  Eventually.  Because this is such a cute song and now that I've seen the music video, I have to agree that it's adorable.  I blogged I while ago about this song and I wrote the chorus' lyrics because I loved the song so much.  It's called Don't Have Love by Holly Starr.  The whole thing is just adorable.  The tune, the lyrics, the music video; heck, even the song writer has an awesome name.  Not that I don't (tee hee).  But you'll never know my real name...except if you actually know me.  But this is getting off subject!  Well, then again, when does this blog ever stay on top of things.

Main point:  I love music and I had the courage to go on YouTube today so that I could find my (new) favorite song.  I can't just say this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE or something in bold, because I love so many good Christian music.  And I don't really care if people think I'm psycho because I don't listen to anything new besides whatever they have on Spirit FM.  People really aren't writing very good music anymore anywhere else.  I mean, some of the stuff on Christian Radio (in my opinion) is dragging a little more lately.  I mean, there is a lot this year that's good and catchy and like, but most recently, I haven't really been jumping when the radio says "New Release" or something.  But I have to say that, if I had an Ipod, I would purchase this song off of ITunes.  But I have a MP3 that has an almost full memory and I don't know how to take songs off of.  So I'm stuck with whatever junk I put on it three or four months ago.  But at least I think I know what I'm getting for Christmas this year.

I'm also sad that my speakers aren't working for some reason.  Stupid technology.  Everything looks the same: phones look like Ipods, Ipods look like Tablets, Tablets look like Ipads, Ipads look like miniature flat-screen HD TV's, HD TV's look like 3D TV's.  Soon our world will be paved in electronic, touch-screen, tiles.  I hope DS's don't turn into little dual screen tiles.  I think I would cry.  Not that we even own that sort of technology, nor do I care right now for it.  I wonder when they'll move from flat surfaces to round balls.  Then people will be kicking balls to call their friends and burn calories at the same time.  They already make ice cream machine kick balls so my idea isn't too far fetched.  Well maybe it is but anyways.

Oh and if you are interested in finding out more about Holly Starr (like I do) go here:  http://hollystarrmusic.com/about/

I love it when people use the gift of music to spread the word of God, it's so touching.  Not just Holly, but people like Jamie-Grace, Matt Maher, Matthew West, Stephen Curtis Chapman, and Francesca Battistelli, to name a few.  Speaking of Jamie-Grace, I still have an unsigned picture of her.  Maybe I'll get it signed by her one day.  I love day dreaming.  With imagination you can fly when you're grounded, travel the world while you remain in your bedroom, walk when you know you can't even stand...But sometimes imagination can be a terrible thing, you can see the worst that hasn't even happened yet, hurt yourself on words you don't mean, rest in a past of pain...The worst thing about imagination is also the best, sometimes you can't control your thoughts and sometimes you can.

Wow, I've said a lot.  I guess this is what happens when Muppet's not here for me to pester her with my strange ideas and theories or whatnot.  I'm going to go do something constructive.

It's time To Plan For Summer, It's Time To Print This List, It's Time For Awesomeness On The Cosmo Show Tonight!

I wrote a list of Summer Things to do.  Now that I've finished History (except for a stupid exam) I think it's time to look forwards to what I want to happen this Summer.

1.       Blog

2.       Facebook

3.       Paint (and a lot of it)

4.       Office Word (and a lot of that too!)

5.       Summer Camp w/ Muppet

6.       Go to Down Town Disney with Muppet

7.       Do the Musical with Drama Club (if there is one)

8.       Watch the Dick Van Dike Show and Fractured Fairytales

9.        have a Veggietales marathon w/ Muppet

10. Eat Rita’s

11. Go to Disney World! (just kiddingJ)

12. Take more pictures and/or movies w/ my camera

13. Finish reading The Kingdom Keepers or The Help

14. Get new T-shirts to replace the too small ones

15. Geochache

16. Tie Dye shirts since my old ones don’t fit

17. Zumba!

18. Do something fun with just my two sisters

19. Draw more

20. Watch a good movie, that I haven’t seen, with my two sisters

The most important ones are 1-5.  The others are a given or something extra that may or may not happen.

Hi.  For some reason the font is being funny.

I want to post another music video:

Ta-da!  I'm amazing like that.  WHAT'S WITH THIS FONT?

Hi.  Is that better?  I'm going to post some pictures now too.

What the???????? Blogger doesn't like me today.  It won't post anything else.  Let's try again.  

There we go. Wow.  The font.  It's weird. Look!  Pokemon!

 Yes seriously.  Cosmo needed to be included in the making of these Pokemon.  AUGH! THE FONT!

Now stay like that.  Thank you.  Ooh.  It's thundering.  I should go read.  It's the best weather to do so.  I like the font being purple.  I should label my last post.  and this one.  But I'm craving books right now. 

Rolling in the Deee-eee-eeep and Video Game Images

The last Adele song that I know and it's right here.  Or more like above here since the word here is not actually where the music video is but...

So I finished my school for today (or what I can do of it right now since my sister has the book that I'm supposed to read a Ronald Reagan speech from).

I kept checked my email today and then realized that I wouldn't have anything new since Muppet is at some Drama Meeting that only a few of us drama people are going to (excluding me).  Muppet, her mother, her friend, Al, and our director were the only people at the meeting.  Apparently their talking about this summer's musical.

I feel like listening to good music now... Ah, Matt Maher!  That's good music!  Or at least to me.  Jesusfreakhidout.com isn't very fond of him.  Hence the fact that they only show two of his CD's.  My family owns three of them.  It shows Empty and Beautiful and Alive Again but it's missing his newest CD.  It also does not show the newest Francesca Battistelli CD or anything from Mike's Chair.  But they have the lyrics for Jamie-Grace's EP on their website.  Seriously?  And you don't have the newest Francesca CD?

Anyways.

I'm trying to animate a cat as shown below in these two pictures:

and yes I know that Mario is in the picture here.  He was mainly there for sizing the cat correctly.  As you can see, I have set pictures for the cat walking, moving its head, sitting, and jumping.  I feel like I could make a video game with these images.  I've tried making video-game-like images before as shown below in these Blob Adventure games:

These I never attempted animating because I don't really have a real way to animate image beyond scrolling through images on Microsoft PowerPoint which is what I've been using for the cat.  But it's still cool.

One day I'll make a videogame and I'll be famous and...Yeah, that will happen.  Just like it'll happen that I'll have 1,000 followers on this blog and lets not even mention numbers of Facebook friends or friends in general.  Oh well, I'm pretty happy sitting here creating junk on Paint that only I look at ever.  But I think that the junk is pretty.  Look a lady with a cat!  That one's old.  I don't think I've drawn something like that in years!

Look!  They even have different hair and the cats have different fur colors!

So now you know what I've been up to, I'm going to go do something fun for a while...

Now that Mozilla Firefox works again, I can blog normally

Yeah so an unfinished Windows Vista update occurred so Mozilla wouldn't open for me.  I had to use Internet Explorer and, I guess you can say that me and Internet Explorer don't get along well together, since on my Grandparent's computer it refuses to let Gmail work and on this computer, it is obstinate about letting me look at my blog or Facebook.  So, Mozilla is my friend since EVERYTHING works on it.  Plus, Mozilla instantly spell checks what I write.  This way my blog posts have less mistakes.

So, music...

That my friend is Jamie-Grace.  My dream is that she'll follow my blog.  She's so cool.  TobyMac is awesome too!  But I'm sure I've said that before.

I GET TO FILM TOMORROW!  Hooray!  I get to be in my first film!  I get to be one of the main characters in it.  So, I'm nervous about remembering my lines.  I've only done stage performances before, and I love the stage.   But I might like filming better since, if I mess up, I can be filmed again.  It's unpredictable about how this will turn out.  Oh cool!  I love that song!

So, YouTube is stupid and doesn't have Unpredictable.  I'll settle for this Francesca Battistelli song instead.

Mostly because technology drives me crazy.

Oh look!  My favorite Nyan Cat video!

Muppet showed me it on Thursday when I was waiting for my newly nail-polished nails to dry.  Now my nails look like ladybugs.

My brother had a gym competition on Friday and won fourth over all in the state on pummel.  It was cool.  Then I had a fit because I lost my pen in the great unknown and then got home and realized I had it all along.  I hate that.  So anyways.

I CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW!!! AND FILMING!!!  I feel so lucky to be in a film for some reason.  Even though it's not that big of a deal.  Like, people filmed me doing the Murder Mystery play last year and it's not on DVD or something.  It wasn't that big...so will this.  But I think it's cool that I'm going to be in an actual movie type thing.  With Muppet.  And this amazing girl who posts amazing things on Facebook.

Like: "A real girl isn't perfect.  But a perfect girl isn't real."

That one is one of my favorites.  Well, I have to go, I can't possibly blog ALL day.