Proverbs 29:4

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

Leviticus 25:10

"This fifteenth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants."

Colossians 2:8

"See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophies according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ."

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.

From Psalms 146:3

Put no trust in princes,
in mere mortals powerless to save.

Bible verse of the week

Acts 17:26:

He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions...

Now I have to memorize it.  :) silly history.

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. 

Figuring out Blogger

So I figured out how to follow people's blogs that have tumblr.  So now, now only am I following them, but now they know I'm following them.  If you know what I'm saying.  Now I can receive updates about other people's blogs!  Besides Muppet.  Who has had the funniest blog titles recently.

So I accomplished something on Facebook, that's that I friended two of my cousins and their parents in one day.  I was surprised since my mom told me that my aunt doesn't go on very often.  Anyways!

I've been writing lately.  But I told you that.  But I want you to tell me if this first paragraph is the slightest bit interesting to you:

It was a cold December evening the day I first moved here.  Florida was gorgeous in the winter.  There was no snow, no red and gold leaves to rake, the sky was crystal clear with only one cloud marbled into the blue of the sky.  I liked it.

What do you think?  My brother doesn't like it.  But Muppet loves it.  Which doesn't surprise me that she would.  And I guess it didn't surprise me that my brother didn't like it.  They have two completely different tastes in books.  If any of my followers actually like that first paragraph, I might post some more.  Muppet has read a lot of what I've already written so she probably doesn't care either way since she knows I'll just send her more.  But I can't do that with all of my followers.  But that's what Blogger is for!

Oh!  Guess what guess what!  My sister came home from college for the ENTIRE summer!!  Oh my goodness I'm so happy she's home!  I still can't get used to her being home.  Just like I can't get used to her NOT being home.  When she's gone, I put six forks at the table at meal time; which isn't correct since there really are only five of us when she's at college.  But when she's home, I put five table settings!  But doing the dishes is a whole ton easier with her being here to take care of the dish drainer.

Okay so I can't wait until next week either because I will be COMPLETELY DONE with this history book!!!  YES!  No more ten page long lessons, no more ten page long speeches, no more three page papers on the French Revolution.  I don't know if I ever even finished that paper.  But my mom said I could stop writing papers if I would do a Total Language Plus on The Hiding Place.

Now I'm going to start using labels on my blog.  I can almost here a joke coming up, "Don't stereotype your blog!" LOL not that kind of label!

I get to go to Zumba tonight!  I want to continue writing awesomeness in the story I'm constructing.  I don't know what to say about my story.  I think I made it more intense than my other stories but it still seems to have a much more plausible plot line.  So I think it might work.

Oh!  check this out:

I run outside while clutching that stuffed animal in my arms as if it were 24 karat gold and worth something.  To me it did.  I fly up the steps to Oliver’s house and I knock on the door with all the force and power that God gave me.  I’m bawling my eyes out waiting for Oliver to answer the door.  But when the door opens, it’s not Oliver.  It’s his father.

Crazy isn't it?  Not as crazy as the last two stories were.  Just crazy as in crazy-awesome.  The paragraph before that is really great, but I don't know if I want to post it until my followers answer my question:

Do you want to read more? 

Five Second Video's and More Mario

So, one of my friends was showing me all of these cool five second videos on YouTube.  Basically, they are five second renditions of movies.

The best ones are the Titanic, the Lion King, Shrek, and Up.  They are hilarious!  Just look for _____ In Five Seconds on YouTube and you'll enjoy five whole seconds of laughs.

Besides that, I decided I would show you some pictures that I altered on Paint.  I think they are pretty funny and they make great desktops for your computer.  You will always laugh when you look at them.

It's best if you click on them and view them on a larger scale.  And look really closely for more laughs.

I was wondering if people would care if I posted the first chapter of the three stories I've been writing.  I've given up on writing them but they have some really good ideas in them.  I just keep writing the same sort of characters over and over and over again, it feels like, to try and get the perfect story.  I keep getting something like thirty pages of each one but I'm not able to write more.  If I post them, maybe I'll read them some myself and maybe I'll get more interested in writing again.  I haven't written anything 'fun' since last year.  Now all of the writing I do, I'm no longer enjoying as much because it's all for my history.

So, I have cocoa to drink since it's so cold today.  I'm going to post the first chapter of my first story to read and you can even let me know how much you like it.

Alone

“I hate both of you!” Amy screamed violently at her mom.  Her mom stopped arguing with Amy’s dad on the phone to listen.  I swear! All they do anymore is argue with each other! Amy’s thoughts screamed at her like a bunch of evil demons.

Amy was an only fifteen year old and now her parents were getting a divorce.  She had beautiful, sleek, molasses-brown hair and eyes the color of the Pacific Ocean.  She was very intelligent, but she never got the eight hours of sleep she needed because she often stayed up and read the books on her book shelf while her parents quarreled.

At school people made fun of her parents and her last name, Castorini, by calling her Out-Castorini.  The cooler kids at school would pull all sorts of jokes and pranks on her.  Once they put an ice cream sandwich down her shirt.  Another time they dropped a frog in Amy’s water.  What made it worse was that everyone at Amy’s school had a boyfriend and wore the ultimate trendiest apparel to school.  That’s what Amy didn’t have. Amy often called the school to tell them she was sick, even though she wasn’t, just to stay away from the catastrophes that happened to her there.  Her parents cared more about their own issues than her problems.

Amy ran to her room and slammed her door as hard as she could, tears of hatred and sorrows streamed down her face like fresh fallen rain down a mountain’s slope.  Amy swept her wavy deep brown hair back into a ponytail.  She picked up her red leather suitcase and opened it with one swift movement.  Inside of the suitcase were a box of crackers, a jar of pickles, a jar of peanut butter, five clean outfits, and a photo of her grandma.  Hurriedly, she shoved a chocolate bar, her favorite red sweater, a flashlight, and a package of batteries into her suitcase.  She stuffed her black leather wallet, her phone, and a pocket knife into her pockets. Amy put on a pair of white and gray socks and stuffed each foot into her worn down, white and blue sneakers. “Now I’m ready.” Amy thought aloud.  Or was she?

            Jack, the house cat was sleeping soundly on the purple corduroy couch, when he overheard the loud conversation Amy and Amy’s parents had had.  Jack stretched from head to toe, cleaned his face, jumped off the couch, and bounded off to Amy’s room.  He scratched at the door until Amy opened it for him.  “What on earth are you doing, Amy?” his face seemed to say. “You know, you can’t go away with me, Jack.” Amy said thoughtfully, as she stroked his thick, warm, black fur gently.  Jack looked at Amy with puzzled, shining eyes.  “I’m sorry Jack, but I have to leave you.  I’m running away.” Jack flopped on the bed and rolled over showing his white, fluffy tummy.  Amy rubbed his silky stomach.  Tears fell silently from Amy’s shimmering blue-gray eyes to the soft cat below her.

            Amy slowly snapped the suitcase shut and shuffled over to her bedroom window.  She looked around her room again to be sure she had everything.  Quietly, Amy opened the window, looked around outside and leapt from the sill to the carpet of grass below.  Amy tried to close the window from the outside, but it wouldn’t budge.  Cursing, Amy crept to the front of the house, unlatched the picket fence and left.  There was no turning back now.

            Amy’s cell phone vibrated in her pocket, making her jump in surprise.  Taking her Blackberry out of her jean’s pocket was easy.  Looking at the caller ID was not.  Amy blinked her eyes rapidly to keep her tears back.  She shoved it back in her pocket.  “Of course, my mother of all people calls me at this time.” She mumbled mindlessly, “I’m not answering it.”

suddenly I'm realizing how old this story is.  I guess it's pretty good considering I was probably twelve or thirteen when I first started writing it.  I remember that I thought that I made the characters really old because they were two or three years older than me.

I hope you enjoyed it.  I'll post the first chapter of another story tomorrow... or maybe Tuesday.  Something.

Nothing Much

I guess the title explains a lot.  Oh, BTW in my last post I'm guessing you've probably figured out how awful my spelling is.  I wrote 'meat' instead of 'meet' but hey, everyone makes mistakes.  It's just that my mistakes show up more when I'm typing.

Cosmo.

Yeah, so...

OKAPIS!!!!!!!!!!

And if you haven't had enough yet.

Yes seriously.

FLUFFY BUNNIES INC!!!!!!

Wow.  I think you get the idea.  I <3 Microsoft Paint!

Time to do something constructive...like playing Solitaire!  Oh wait...that's not really constructive...But blogging is!  Or not.  Or nachos.  I am going to eat the nachos.  See, I'm eating nachos!  Except my teeth aren't that crooked.  I think I should save some of my pictures for tomorrow.

Let's see...what did I do today?  School. Lots of history.  I think my history is trying to eat me.  I should draw history next to that picture up there.  It would be eating me.  But it's so boring that you would be sleeping through the whole picture.  Especially since my art is very realistic.  Well, sometimes...Sometimes I'm just letting go of my day through art.  Or maybe I'm trying to express myself in a limited amount of time.

Stuff--otherwise known as the giant sock monkey from Super Scribblenauts

So I'm happy because I see that my facebook friends are growing.  Oops that sounds weird.  I'm getting more everyday is what I meant.

Sorry I haven't been blogging lately, but I've been gone a lot lately.  My brother had a Gym meet. He did pretty well considering he's been sick.

Sick?  Don't get me started!  Apparently all his friends are sick.  And apparently my friend that we usually do history co-op with has and ear infection and tonsilitis.  Bleh.  Now I get to do twice as many history tests next week since they're given every time we meet.  Every?  Like Everyman?  The play?  Thank goodness I don't have to act this thing out!  Can I just say that I'm getting sick now of English literature?  I can't tell what they're trying to say!  To many Thou's and Ye's.

BODYFLOW!  I CRAVE BODY FLOW!!!  I CRAVE A LONG RELAXATION!!!

I'm better now.

Progressive dinners are fun.  you should try them sometime.  You eat your appetizer at one house and your entree at the next.  Tons of fun.

Listened to Mark Schultz again.  Or at least until my computer restarted.  Stupid updates!

Cats!  Cats are cute!  Ew cat!  Really?  You just HAD to throw up there!  Oh, well the floors need to be cleaned anyways.

Well apparently only one person comented on the last post.  I think you can guess who.  Let me tell you, last night I dreamed that twenty people commented on my post.  How was I supposed to know I had less than two?  Oh well it was Muppet so it makes up for all the posts in the world.  Plus this was only the first time and I'm like the only person to comment on Muppet's blog.  What ever.  One day I'll be rich and famous, oh wait that was my dream.  No, my dream was about Thomas the Tank Engine of all things! And I was trying to save the world from them and these people that looked like tigers and dogs and apparently they were Egyptian mummies come back to life.  But you probably don't want to hear about that.

Pluff

I'm Cosmo!  Cosmo is awesome!  That means that I am awesome.

No, I AM is awesome.  No He is AWESOME.

No, no, no, no:

GOD IS AWESOME!

That's better.

Have a random picture.  BTW.  I drew that.  It's a secret how I drew it.  My only hint: Microsoft Paint. I'm certain my current audience already knows.  But someday I'll have a million fans!  Oh never mind...