I'm not totally sure whether this is the end or the beginning.  I really don't like goodbyes (honestly, I cried everytime one of you guys left your blog) but as you can see, I am just not a regular blogger anymore.  So this leaves me with a very hard descision, do I stop blogging right now or do I "revamp" my blog with a regular posting schedule?  Well, I'm not exactly sure quite yet. 

Although I loved you guys a lot, I have been so out of touch with the blogging world that I'm not sure if I can just fall back in.  I feel like my life has changed this year.  I used to have only a few friends and you guys (my fellow bloggers) sort of filled that hole for me, but now I feel like I know a lot more people within the homeschool community in my area.  I also don't have a lot of time for blogging

But I really enjoyed blogging while I did it regularly.  I enjoyed making new friends and posting about my life.  I always liked blogging better than journaling because I had an audience.  And if I'm going to be a world famous writer someday, I need an audience and a place to write my thoughts!

One of the main reasons I stopped blogging is because I had so many friends to keep up with.  I felt terrible whenever I didn't read someone's blog or reply to a comment.  And I like to actually read what you guys are up to, not just post comments saying "come to my blog!"  I have 150 friends and if I spend an average of 6 minutes at each of your blogs it would take 15 HOURS to read about and comment each of you!  And honestly, I don't have 15 hours every day or week.

So, either I will quit or I will "revamp" my blog.  Maybe I'll start a new one, but I'm not sure.  I will try to get back to you guys within a month or so!  Because I really do love you guys and the memories I have!

And for those who are wondering: my recovery from surgery has been very good (thank you Lord!)  I am now eating SOLID food!  Ecstacy I tell you!  I am pretty much back to my normal self even though I'm not totally healed yet (I've been really tired this past week, we think because of recovery.)  Other than that I have been blessed beyond measure and am so glad this is behind me!

I hope each and every one of you is doing well!  If I get a chance I will try to visit some of your blogs, but first I think I need to spend some time deciding what I will do with this blog.  Love ya guys! =) 

Hey all!  Well my surgery well.  It took about three hours and I was in a lot of pain afterwards.  The first few days in the hospital wasn't much fun and I had a few rough days when I got back home but I'm feeling pretty good right now! 

My jaw is rubber banded together so I can only drink liquids with a syringe.  It's really hard to find stuff that tastes good blended down so right now I'm living off of soup, pudding and milkshakes... yea! lol!  Well sort of.  My jaw will probably be banded shut for about 6 weeks which is a long time. 

I can't stand up for long periods of time either and won't be able to participate in my Tae Kwon Do class again for about 2 months.  It's going to be a long recovery.

Thanks so much for the messages of encouragement and the prayers, they mean a lot!  I'll try to visit some of your blogs within the next few days!

:::Jo::: 

Hey all my wonderful bloggy friends!  Well as you probably guessed from the title (unless you’re one of those people who completely ignore titles because you find them to be very random, in most cases) I am going to be having mouth surgery! 

If you read my blog regularly (not that I post regularly) then you probably know that I have had a retainer, braces and several frightening visits to the orthodontist.  All that leads up to Tuesday December 23 (tomorrow) when I will be subjected to having the lower part of head cut open and rearranged (Hey!  Maybe I will be a Picasso when it’s over with!  Not sure I’d like my nose to be on my forehead and my left eye on my chin though...) Anyway, I have to have this surgery because I have a back between my back teeth, which according to my orthodontist means that I have to grind my food, instead of chewing it.  So pretty much my back teeth would wear out and become gum-level by the time I’m 20 years old.  Then I’d have to get dentures, not high on my list of priorities lol!

I will be having surgery tomorrow in the early afternoon.  The surgery will take about 4-5 hours and I will be in the hospital for 3-5 days, which means I’ll probably be in there through Christmas.  I won’t be able to walk through Wal*Mart for two weeks (don’t worry, I’m allowed to walk to the bathroom though!) and I can’t start my Tae-Kwon-Do class again for eight weeks.  I’ll probably be living off of soup, milkshakes/smoothies, and hotdogs blended down with mustard for awhile.  Okay, maybe not the hotdogs, although the doctor has said people have eaten some pretty strange stuff after this surgery.
I probably won’t get back to comments right away, or private messages, so sorry about that!  Oh well, you guys understand, right?

So all in all, I’d really appreciate some prayers!  I’ll try to give you another post sometime after my surgery, when I feel up to it, or perhaps mom can hack into my account and write something.  Just hope she doesn’t mess up my purtyfull new template with her HSB saviness =P lol jk

PS Anybody heard of the band 33Miles?  I bought their cd, One Life, which was awesomeful.  Tell me your fave songs, or ones you think I should listen to.  It will give me something to take my mind off of my mouth!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a cheer-filled night!

Wow, has it really been two months since I last posted?  Guess it has!  I guess I wouldn't even have realized this but KatieCutie posted a comment saying 'come back!!!' and I was thinking, it really hasn't been that long has it?  Then I looked at the date which read September 5.  Yeah... it's been awhile.  I'm sorry about that.  It's just been super busy here.

You know it's funny, last year I knew a lot of people who left HSB because their lives were too busy and I was thinking "how could you be to busy for HSB???"  Well now I know  =)  Never fear however!  I am NOT leaving HSB!  I just have trouble finding time to get on!  Usually when I have gotten on it is to help people with their templates and I haven't had time afterwards to post/comment.

I want to thank every one for leaving all of those kind comments even though I haven't been reading your guys' blogs!

I'm taking a new class called Model United Nations.  Pretty much we study current (and past) issues and write reports or analysis' about them in preparation for a competition at the end of the year held at a local college.  At the competition we pretend to be a country in the United Nations and pass resolutions and stuff.  The class is fairly fun but the homework... boy is that hard!  Actually it's mostly just time consuming, I've even fallen behind on my regular school!

What else am I doing?  Just school and those random little things that pop up.  Last Saturday I went to a home school homecoming with a group of friends.  It was pretty fun!  I'm not a great dancer (lack of rhythm and knack of stepping on toes) but you can't help but dance to 'I Like to Move-it Move-it' or 'Cotteneye Joe' (yes, they did play that!) lol!  Of course mom managed to get lost on the way to the dance and was 1/2 hour late.  That was so weird because she NEVER gets lost, or if she does she finds a shortcut and arrives early!  She didn't pick us up until 11:30 and then we took all the kids home so we didn't back home until 1:30.  It was a very late (yet fun) night!

Oh and one of my bloggy friends, Renee (aka CrochetCrazy or TemplateTidbits), is holding a free template drawing.  She encouraged me a lot when I was making my RecycledTemplates blog.  She is offering a beautiful blue dolphin template on her blog.  ALL you have to do is go HERE and leave her a comment with a link to your blog telling her you want to be entered!  How cool is that???  Plus, if I haven't already mentioned (oh, I see I have, oh well it's worth mentioning twice...) the whole skaboodle is FREE!  Yup.  I'd greatly encourage you to go enter.  Oh and the best part?  If you don't win this month she will be holding another one next month!  AND to increase your chances you can post about the drawing on your blog and you will be entered TWICE!  Go HERE to see the complete details.  Please go over and check it out!  Oh and if I'm not a convincing sales man (or sales woman I should say...) perhaps this lovely banner will convince you =)      

Okay I wrote this post awhile ago just in case I had a day when I needed to post was to lazy to write anything =)  The day has come.  Plus I want to comment some of ya'll, hopefully I'll have time!

I got this from somebody else's blog and thought it was cute!

Psalm 16:9-11
No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.
My body rests in safety.
For you will not leave my soul among the dead
or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.
You will show me the way of life,
granting me the joy of your presence
and the pleasures of living with you forever.

Message;;
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone.
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it when we traveled?
What if we used it in case of emergency?
Is this something to make you go…hmm…where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill. Makes you stop and think, "Where are my priorities?"
And, NO DROPPED CALLS!!!

I don't have a cell phone but I get the point!  lol!

This is also from somebody else's blog also (http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/peanniebuttercup/)

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you love.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (I read part of it at camp but never finished it...)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I just got this from the library, including A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courts)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (I read a few pages before deciding that the exciting adventure book in my book pile was calling my name)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I THINK I've read this but I'm not sure so I won't add it)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (maybe)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (when I'm older)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (one of my favorite 'classic' books!!!)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (urghhh!!!!!!!!  I wasn't required to read it but I plowed through anyway.  I don't like Dicken's anymore <.<) =)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (I'm not so sure after Oliver Twist however...)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (when I'm older maybe, I saw the movie and it was intense.)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (can't decide, I saw the movie and it was a bit strange but sorta good)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (ooh, I've been meaning to read this ever since I heard it mentioned in another book!)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (never heard of this book but it certainly has an interesting title)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (I got half way through it but then I couldn't renew it from the library anymore)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 15!!!  And I was planning to read some of Jane Austen's works.  Does anybody have any suggestions????

 Now I will do an iPod tag!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELF? On Our Side by Chris Tomlin

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS? You Are the Answer by Point of Grace (you are the answer to my insanity, you are the reason why)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Gone by Switchfoot (whaaa...??? No, don't leave me!!!)

WHAT IS YOUR FIRST THOUGHT WHEN YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING? The Lullaby League from the Wizard of Oz (interesting...)

WHAT DOES THE PERSON YOU LIKE THINK OF YOU? Take You At Your Word by Avalon

HOW DO RAINY DAYS MAKE YOU FEEL? Help! by dc Talk (haven't heard this before)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY? Beautiful World by Leigh Nash from Charlotte's Web (great song!)

WHAT'S YOUR THEME SONG? Jaws-The Barrel Chase from Jaws (huh?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CURRENT PRESIDENT? About You by ZOEgirl (um, well he should think about the country not himself)

WHAT DO YOU WANT MOST IN THE WORLD? Isengard Unleashed from LOTR (ummm, is that a good thing?)

WHAT SONG WOULD YOU DANCE TO IN WAL*MART? Red Ragtop by Tim McGraw (never heard this one before)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT SCHOOL AND LEARNING? This Land Is Your Land by Pete Seeger

WHAT'S YOUR DREAM JOB? The Park from Finding Neverland (okay, either I want to be a rainbow, a park or suds in the bucket.  I need to make up my mind!!!)

WHAT WILL YOUR LAST WORDS BE? Concerning Hobbits from LOTR (ooh, I'd better watch out for the little buggers)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT LIFE? Do You Want Fries With That by Tim McGraw (yes!!! yummy!!! lol)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK ABOUT YOU? Be Prepared from The Lion King (prepared for what???  My horrible attitude? ;)...... )

WHAT CHEERS YOU UP MOST? Gather At the River by Point of Grace (hmmm...)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Pray by Avalon (what???)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS TAG? Nothin to Lose by Trisha Yearwood

 Take this tag if you want it!