Busted Nails

They hurt a lot.  Just saying.  And they aren't fun.  But it's these sorts of things that make you realize how much you use things.  Not just busted nails, but also braces, a broken air conditioning or a week and half away from your computer.  Sometimes I try to think of things, not as torture but as times to learn and times to pray.  Times to hope.  Times to grow.  Times to strengthen.  See, God isn't just trying to irritate you or punish you, God is simply testing you.  God is testing you with little things so that later on you can handle the bigger things.

These are the times when you just have to let go and except your circumstances and believe that it is going to get better with time.  Sure my thumb hurts right now, but I'm not going to let that bother me too much.  I need to learn to use my left hand occasionally so that if later on in life, if I get my right hand bitten of by bear or a shark or something large and dangerous like that, I will be able to handle it and learn to be left handed instead of right.

God also uses these moments to hear you pray.  God wants to hear you, perhaps you haven't prayed in a while, maybe God is using this catastrophe to bring you closer to him.

"What if blessings come through raindrops?" Laura Story

Lots to Say Here!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So much to get caught up on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our performance is really coming together.  People are mostly remembering their lines and the choreography is great.  Today I was feeling particularly under the weather and drowsy and I found it more difficult for me to conjure up lines that I knew existed but couldn't remember how they went exactly.  I think I wasted all the energy I had for out first run threw so I was left feeling exhausted.  I tried napping in the car and I felt like I could have napped longer.  But now I'm much too awake to think about sleep.

As for my teeth, they feel fabulously fresh if I do say so myself.  I know longer have to deal with pesky braces and I'm supposed to wear my retainer for three days.  But that was Tuesday so I should be able to practice lines without this thingy in my mouth easier.

I'm really enjoying the Edge Chronicles, just to let you know.  If you're looking for good books to read this summer I highly suggest this series (and this is coming from someone who is very finicky about what she reads).  I'll (try) not to spoil anything from the series on my blog, but no guarantees.

I watched the Avengers TV show today.  I like it for a cartoon show.  I think right now I'm just entranced with all of the old TV shows that my mother used to watch like The Dick Van Dyke show, Emergency, and that sort of thing.  I don't know why I like them so much, I mean, they're really fake.  But there's just something so warm and inviting about old shows.  New shows, like the ones on Disney Channel, kind of shut me off.  I just don't feel any attachment for the characters and the plots are dry like Disney is running out of ideas for good kids shows.  And not just Disney, there are other channels with annoying shows too.

So I guess that concludes this post.  I thought I had more to say, but apparently my mind decided otherwise.  Well, my book is calling me...

MEOW

I'm listening to lot's of good music right now: Trout Fishing in America, John Denver, Simon and Garfunkle, Cat Stevens... and as they say in The King And I: "etc. etc. etc."

It's incredibly hot right now.  Too bad my shorts are in the laundry.  I'm stuck wearing long jeans right now.  We have all of the fans on and even though our air conditioner is fixed, it's still hot.

We watched Captain America last night.  I loved the movie but the ending was annoying because Captain America wakes up after being frozen for seventy years in a shock when he realizes that his surroundings have changed and then it's the end of the movie.  I was left wishing there was more.

I'm hoping to put more pictures and videos on my computer after I finish playing Heroica with my brother.  Then maybe I'll convert some videos so I can watch them on my computer.

And in the end...

Long story short:  my favorite instructor will no longer be doing Zumba anymore.  Now that LA Fitness has taken over, they are forcing Zumba instructors to use only Zumba music that does not include a Warm Up or Cool Down Track.  They were contradicting what Zumba said which was that you could use as much variety of music as you wanted as long as you use 70% Latin music.  The instructor said that she could not do that.  Part of Zumba is that people get to pick their music and choreography so you can see how differently they shine.  LA Fitness won't allow these differences.  She asked to just teach this finale class and LA Fitness told her that they no longer need her services.  Then she asked if perhaps she could just tell everyone that she wouldn't be doing Zumba anymore.  LA Fitness wouldn't even allow that!  There is just no justice, respect, or compassion for anyone.  They did they even think that maybe that this move would be losing many customers?  And it gets worse!  We checked in to see what they would say and they told everyone that the Zumba instructor called in sick last minute and that there would be no class.  Which is the lamest excuse since, this is the Zumba instructor who has never called in sick and even if allergies were restraining her voice she would still make it.

I really, really, really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really,really, really am not happy with L.A. Fitness.  For being so mean to not only the instructors, but the customers too.

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If blogger cooperates they should look like an owl, cat and bunny.  If not...I'm not sure what they'll look like...

Not much to say...NOT!

Hey there! I don't have much to say right now.  Mostly because I'm really tired from being at Drama Club all day.  I keep thinking today is Wednesday because I can't get over the fact that Drama Club is on a Thursday.  Except next week.  Then we'll be spending most all of our time there at Drama Club practicing over and over and over again.

Today acting went pretty well.  People mostly remembered their lines.  But Game Guy didn't show up again.  He said he wanted to do this, so why didn't he come?  For two Drama Club days in a row?  Oh well.  And the person playing the angel didn't show either.  At first I thought maybe she was just late, but she didn't show up at all.  At least everyone else was there.  But Game Guy has to be there on Tuesday because our director is going to be out of town for some reason that I can't remember because I was exhausted by the end of Drama Club.  And worried.  About costumes.

My mom found me some shoes to wear and we're going to return the Faded Glory converse whatevers that I wanted to wear originally.  She told me if I really wanted them, I could pay her for them, but I'm trying to save up some cash to go to Down Town Disney with Muppet in between the end of Homeschool Drama Club and the start of the Drama Camp we're going to do together.

What was I saying?  Oh! Costumes.  The director wants me to put my hair in a scarf or something for my part as Mary Magdalene.  I don't know how that's going to work since I'm not really a hair person.  I can put my hair in a ponytail and a headband.  I can't braid hair.  At least not my own.  And I just learned how to braid friendship bracelets.  Muppet ended up with the only one I've ever made.  I know, you think I'm strange now because I've just learned how to braid.  Hey, I never played with dolls when I was little.  The only two I've ever owned were a Bitty Baby (which of course doesn't have hair to braid) and a doll named Logan.  I never took her hair out of the pigtails they were in.

Rather than dolls, I much preferred stuffed animals, plastic animals, and plastic dinosaurs.  I remember when I was four or five and I slept with a large plastic flamingo.  I don't remember what I had named it.  But I would pretend it was the mother of Pinky the flamingo Beany Baby.

Whoa.  that was strange.  My mouse turned off.  I freaked out for a moment thinking that I had lost my entire blog post.  But here I am!  What was the subject of this post anyways?  La de da...  Ah, Drama Club, Costumes, Braids, dolls, plastic flamingos... Um...  The subject was RANDOM that's what all of my blog posts should be labeled.  Then I would just spend I second labeling them all.  Hmm...  Maybe I'll do that.  from now on, my blog posts will be labeled random.  Because I would hate to go back and relabel things that I spent so much time on labeling.

My posts vary so much.  One minute I'll be telling you about something boring like how I hate school and the next moment I'll be going on about how annoying the new Discover.com commercials are.  Then I'll begin reciting it for you, "Free range chicken, pancake stack, baked Alaska, 5% cash back..."

Point proven.  Except I can't remember what I was proving because now I've spent so much time conveying my point.  I think I was saying something about labels.  Labels can be mean...if you use them on people.  But they're helpful for organizing spices.

Wow.  I thought I had nothing to say.  Apparently I'm always talkative even when I'm tired.  Except I already knew that was true because I'll start talking when I'm exhausted just to stay awake.  And then I get really loud and annoying when I'm tired because I'm also trying to not fall asleep.  I'm naturally annoying.  Like that Trol lol lol guy on YouTube.  Or Nyan cat.  Wait a second.  What's with YouTube and annoying videos?  Maybe it's just me being annoying and liking annoying things so watch them.  Like the Duck Song.  Or Honey Bear.  Or when I go on and on with the "Crazy? I was crazy once..." thing.  And half of this is Muppet's influence so maybe that explains why she doesn't think I'm annoying but my siblings do even though I'm just as obnoxious for both.  Maybe it's because she's an only child so she doesn't know the meaning of annoying because she doesn't live with an irritating baby sister like my two sisters have to put up with.  I don't know.  Can you tell I'm confusing myself now?  Ouch, my brain hurts now.  I think I need to go and untangle my mind now...

What mind is like on the inside: shades of gray and rainbow.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! HAPPY 101!!!!!!!!!

I'm highly distractable if you haven't noticed.  I missed post 100.  So, Happy Blogg-iversary To Me!  I just turned one hundred posts old!  Hooray!  Now lets try for 1000...