Unless you are trying to finish a 50,000  word novel in that one month. Well if that's all I were doing it would be easy! There's just so many other things! There's so much school, and orchestra rehearsals, and speech and debate, and other things that are just fun.

      It's near the end of Novemeber, almost Thanksgiving. This time last year I was on the point of realizing that I only had 5,000 words in my novel. about four days later I was writing solidly trying to make the 50,000 word mark before the end of November... which even with all my valiant work... I failed :)

    Well, so what's happened since I last posted?  I went to my first practice tournament of the year (and only one unfortunately) It was really fun! I won must of my rounds, whcih I wasn't expecting. My impromptu speech wasn't very scary, and I didn't mess up on my DI, it was completely memorized :) It was a really fun practice tournament, and I had a lot of fun. I don't have any pictures... oh well... Afterwards we went out to eat, that was fun too :-)

   For thanksgiving we are going to visiting my grandparents. The whole ride up I will be writing on my NaNo novel, furiously trying to finish it :) When we get back it will be December... think of that. November will be over... We will have our Orchestra concert and the Messiah concert, my first piano ****** (ever!) and Christmas will be approaching...

I also just finished reading ' 'Till We Have Faces '  by CS Lewis  if you've read it tell me what you thought of it! =)

     ~Ness

"Rain Rain go away come again another day..."

For probably the first time in my life I understand how someone could feel this. Not that I do feel that way but I understand how it could be felt :) It's been raining for.... forever. Not quite. I don't really want it to go away but if it was like this all the rest of this fall and winter I probably would. Rain is great in the summer when you can play in it but now it's SO cold!

What else besides rain? I've been memorizing a speech for an upcoming practice tournament, as well as going over my cases. I'm rather excited =) I need to practice more impromptu and apolegetics speeches.

On Sunday I had a violin recital. Then we had orchestra rehearsal which was fun.

Saturday our Youth group had a big angle ball game, which was fun =)  Angle ball is a sport that is sort of like ultimate frisbee except with a volleyball. Instead a goal there are posts with basketballs on top that you have to knock off.

Friday I had a piano lesson and then speech and debate. I slept over a friend's house (hi a friend!!) and it was so much fun! She helped me with my debate cases which needed help :)

So there is my weekend now that I have fullfilled my duty to my blog I will commence with my week =)

 ~Nessy Wessy

So maybe it's time for a new post...

     Well Wednesday the weather was amazing it was all misty rain and cold. Katy and I went to the nursing home with a bunch of other people and we played music. Katy also brought her awesome, so cool, mandolin and we played fiddle music together, whcich was fun! Then we went back to Katy's house and played. (yeah played not 'hung out' that's like the teen age way of saying played... =)

   Yesterday, Friday, I went to piano lesson and I got a new song, a Chopin Waltz in MINOR wich is cool. And then we had speech and debate afterwards and I got to debate in my first LD round EVER! It was awesome and fun. I find it so annoying when you know exactly what you want to say and you can't get it out!

     One more cool thing! I wrote a song for my harp and it's sort fo medieval sounding. I also figured out how to get finale notepad to print the sheet of music properly so that there isn't any big space in between the systems. Anyways that may have sounded like      "kfhlsfgljkgja;tlkdjalk af;gfdjkg;a " but it wasn't it was awesome! 

    Well there you go and other than that I've been doing school, practicing music and working on debate and apolegetics.

           ~Ness

Okay so California!

 Well for those of you who didn't know we spent the last week in California.

My Mom's brother lives in California and we were going to my Cousins Bar Mitzvah slash family get togher. He lives outside of LA.

Okay so from the beging of our trip. We stopped at Beth's house and I borrowed the Circle trilogy from her. I've' finished Black and I'm now reading Red.  Anyway then we drove to the airport got on a bus went into the airport  and sat around for an hour (during which I read Black ) Then we went on our plane. We stopped in Denver. THe airport is really weird there it's like a tent. I'd never been to Colorado ( Idk if airports count! ;-)  before so that was cool. We had a twenty minute lay over in the middle of the night and then they pushed the fligh ten minutes earlier! That was scary!

    It was really weird, because as we were taking off from the airport I was reading the part when Tom was taking off from Denver airport in the story! That was cool :-)

So basically we got there at about 2:00 AM our time, 11:00 PM there time we went back to the hotel where our Grandma and Grandpa were staying and we slept.     

I woke up in the hotel Saturday morning and went outside. All around us were mountains. I was amazing. Like... so cool! I guess I've never seen mountains, or not since I was little. I just wasn't expecting them (don't ask why) It was SO cool! LIke a fortress surronding us...

 We went to the Bar Mitzvah ( A Bar Mitzvah is a coming of age ceromony for a Jewish boy when he turns thirteen and there's a service and a celebration, A Bat mitzvah is for a thirteen year old girl) which was in the rabbi's house. I hadn't seen my Aunt and Uncle since I was a little, little, kiddo.

My cousin Brooke I hadn't seen since she was a baby and she's six now. She looked so much like my little brother Andrew they looked like twins. =) Then there's Ross he's thirteen, and then  my aunt and uncle!

So the service was about an hour long.

Then afterwards there was a big meal. Then we went back to my aunt and uncle's house. Then my Aunt and Uncle took everyone out to  a barbecue place that was really, really, good!

The Next day was my Aunt and Uncle's last day before they left (okay the other Aunt and Uncle, the one we visited in Florida :-)   We hung around the house and played soccor outside. They have a really small backyard but it's really high up and you can see all the houses below, its pretty cool.  We were riding scooters around in the street and then Alex and I went down a hill right off there street whcih ended in a big road. IT was amazing! Okay I have to slow down!   So I was coming down the hill and this view just opened up. I was flying down a hill there were mountains all around me, Palm trees were towering high and bright green grass and brightly colored flowers all interlaced with big fancy houses with Spanish tiled rooofs. It was just the image of CALIFORNIA. Just sort of the whole thing put into one second of time (minus the ocean) I don't know if I got that across but I hope so because it was so cool that I just started to laugh because it made me so happy!

So later that day we went hiking along a nature trail that was behind there development through the mountains. We came to this one part where you could see over the whole valley below it was pretty cool.

Brooke said "I can see very, very far from here"

And Andrew said "I can see the whole world because, I have perfect vision"

Katherine sweet, dreamy, little, voice, "I  can see Jesus"

Continuing on  our walk I decided to run down a hill and I did it was awesom, so awesome that I laughed, and I had enough momemntum to go up the next hill! So I ran down the next hill and Uncle David decided to run down too, and then Uncle Dean ran down too but he fell and broke his finger. We had to go back to the house, so he could put ice on it. So we walked all the way back and we caught up wiht my Mom and Aunt who had were wlking back to the house with Katherine and Malina. So we went back to the house. Uncle Dean fixed his finger up. After dinner we had a chocolate cake that they had got for grandma and grandpa's anniversary. uncle Dean wrote happy anniversary with frosting on a chocolate bar and stuck it on the cake. He messed up the first one so he gave it to me and Ross.

So those were the first two days in California and I'll write more later.

                                            ~Ness

If anyone was wondering why comments are not being returned and my blog is not being posted on, it's because I've been at a Chamber music Festival all week (which is completely awesome) all week. I was meaning to post a really cool 4th of july post...but there you have it :-) I lost my laptop (Ahhhhhhh!!!!) I have no idea where it is, I'm still looking. It has what I was going to post on it :-(

So for right now:    Happy 4th Of July!  

Later today I might find my laptop and post again, but for right now... Good bye and Happy 4th of July!

               ~Ness

My real life friend who has been commenting everywhere for the past month or so has finaly got blog!!! 

  Go say hi and leave a comment =) Wishing On Stars

                  ~DangerousNess

P.S. Isn't that a cool picture?

I liketh it :-D

     Yes we had a crazy week... month actually :-D

My Mom was in the hospital a while ago and then Alex was playing Ultimate Frisbee and he landed on a barbed wire fence, then Monday night or rather Tuesday morning I went to the emergency room. Tuesday was Alex's birthday and we all slept in till 1:00 PM.

On Wednesday we went to violin lessons and the were tired... I think so anyway I can't really remeber :-D

My Dad took us to go watch a 'Iolanthe' by Gilbert and Sullivan in the city on Thursday. It was three hours long and for those three hours there was a storm going on at home that uprooted one of my favorite climbing trees and it tore down the top of a very large cedar elm that landed on my Dad's office roof and it knocked over the play house in the back yard on top of my little sisters flower garden.

Then on friday we had some freinds from church over and that was a lot of fun =)

So the that night we were looking at the weather and the sky was green and the air was still, a tornado was coming straight for us and we decided that we didn't want to be at home since the tornado was coming straight towards us. We packed up stuff for a night and headed out to a friends house two hours away. We got there they had a visitor and my parents got to meet him which was someone they wanted to meet because it was really important that they met this person and then  the next morning we found out that it hadn't even rained by us! So it all worked out for the best.

 On Saturday, after we got home from from our friends where we had spent the night because of the storm, we had another family from church over for dinner that was fun too :-D

On Sunday after church everyone stayed around and we played Ultimate frisbee and then we played Moffia and it was SOMUCH Fun!! :-) Then we went to someone from church's house, Elle came with us and we had fun :-)

Yesterday was rather relaxing and so I didn't blog because I was too busy being relaxed    

  ~Ness

I started this blog when I was fourteen so I've had this blog for a full year now! So many things have happened and I've so many friends on here. It's hard to recount a whole year in a blog post so I decided to just post some memorable events:

Ness and Beth;-)

This picture sort of commemerates all the friends I've made this year. Love ya'll!

 Working with the kids at the boys and girls club. It was a great experiance. We went evrey wednesday after school and taught the kids violin. This is a picture of them at the end of year Christmas concert where they played a song together.

     Here's the orchestra. I'm on the outside, second chair and Alex is the third chair on the outside in the suit.

 We went on a campout with a bunch of people from Speech and debate. That is a picture of me and theriver where we went hiking.

 We replaced a peace sign made out of rocks with 'Jesus loves U'

I'm just one little person in such a big world....and that's just one little tiny part of the whole state park which is just one of many in the state of Texas which is just one of many states which make up the U.S. which is one of many countries which are on the seven continents which make up the land on this forget about the ocean and the planets and galaxies and is that all???

The Jumping Picture!     gARCies

Smileallthetime!!! aka KathrrynGrace

Katy! My loverly debate partner!

researching... boring;-)

 left to right: Beth, Avery, Alex, and Ben

This is a debate round ;-) Lill-Maisano in octafinals.

I got to meet Grace!!!

 That's a weird picture... ;-)

These picture are to commerate me learning how to use the computer... or trying to;-) Thanks Beth and Alex!

I did these pictures of Acacia on Gimp;-)

I got braces in December.

 Our youth group on enchanted rock...

 I took that picture!

 Garcies at the mall after the Alamo tourney

and 'The Boys'

Caution Speech and Debate  talk Below : -)

I just can't describe speech and debate in a blog post so I'll post one memory that sticks out...

It was at regionals when the parents were giving speeches during "entertainment time" before breaks and Bethy and I were bored.

So we went out of the big room and sat down and we were talking when we heard people cheering in the big room below us. We knew that nobody would cheer like that during "entertainment" because it's really not all that entertaining, so we dashed down stairs and pushed our way through the big doors so that we were standing in the back of the room with a clear view of Mr. Larimer. 

He was announcing breaks. We stood there waiting in a large room with people cheering and hugging each other (we were going against the flow and just standing still) until he anounced duo and then Beth started getting tense and I was sort of wondering why and then I remebered that Alex and I had competed in duo and then I started listening carefully and then he announced us and we sort freaked out and we were hugging eachother and it was realy awesome. Then he started announcing OO and he was listing off names and then we heard a name and Beh looked at me and said "was that my name?" And I said "I don't know I couldn't tell." Then we looked over at the ARC table and Mr. Rogers was cheering and ponting at Beth so she looked at me and said "I guess that was my name." WE were so happy it wasn't funny. Then Alex and Daniel broke and that was awesome and  a bunch of other people broke too. So me and Beth walked out of the big room when they were done announcing breaks. and I said "I did't know things like that happened!" and she said "neither did I."

So I tried to write up one memory and took a lot of space! I doubt all you guys actually read it... leave me a comment if you did ;)

 If I didn't get every thing word for word and exactly how it was, I'm sorry, I didn't video tape this, it's just my memory which as most of you who have read my blog tends to make everything so much more awesome than it actually was, but I think that this one was millions of times less amazing then it actually was ;-)

 So ends my blogoversery, end of year post ;-)

     God bless you! 

                       ~Ness

P.S. If your not on here that only means I didn't have a good picture of you or I didn't know if you wanted your picture on my blog, or I knew you didn't want your picture on my blog ;)

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is from Katy's blog ;-)

               ~Ness

P.S. Last night our grandparents took us out to eat at an Italian resteraunt. We were all sitting down and eating and a waiter came by to refil our glasses, my little sister saw him coming and decided to drink some of her water so that he wouldn't refil her cup. The waiter just poured water into her cup while she was drinking! ;-) That made me laugh really hard ;-)

P.P.S.  The line below this is false

              The line above this is true.

That's just cool ;-)

It took me forever but I am now able to easily post pictures. There's a little picture on the bar above where you add an entry. It's yellow with a grey triangle and you click the little picture and it says upload picture OR paste URL in here and you follow directions and you can even make it big and small and then you "click insert picture". It's really easy and I  couldn't figure it out Beht had to show me ;-)                                    I've also been having fun with Gimp. I didn't do anything major, I just took a couple of people out of one of the pictures. It's really fun annilate people! (Don't take that out of context ;-) Well here are some pictures:

We went on a campout this fall. This is me standing by the river.

It was so much fun. I think I wasn't made to live in a house, but in a tent by the river... ;-)

I'm on the left and Beth's on the right.

Here we are climbing on the rocks. I'm on the bottom right. My Mom is on the bottom left and various other people are everywhere else ;-)

Well that's all for now!

                   ~Ness

Sunday May 10 finds me relaxing on a bed with a laptop in front of me, waiting for the teapot to boil and listening to my friend talk to her cat on the floor. She's a cat person, a serious cat person; I'm not. I don't mind them I just don't like pets as a rule. Pondering on the fact that I never write blog posts like this I wonder if it's because I don't usually write my posts lying in a bed with laptop at a friend's house; then I wonder if I should try to write about myself in all three persons and all three tenses since I'm being unsual in th first place, the more the better, right? 

Upon deciding this, she (third person, present tense) notices that the date at the top of her page is no longer the real date; while writing the above paragraph, it has become Monday the 11th.  You (second person, future tense) will now proceed to portray the afernoon of the previous day and you will write in thy normal way of writing. Proceed (first person, past tense):

Well yeah, I'm just a little tired! I'm fifteen now, yes, I thought you should all know that. I feel very old. You see, when you are nine everyone says, "well, just wait 'til you're double digits", then it's, "wait 'til you're in Junior High", then, "sorry, this is only for teenagers", then it becomes, "you're not in highschool yet, Dear", and then I finally make it to highschool only to be greeted with... "your only a freshman!" All I've got to say is, 'whatever!'. Somebody is always going to be older then me, it's always been that way, is that way, and aways will be that way. So that's that. I'm fifteen.

Here's my day in case you were getting bored of my rambling:

Went to church.

Talked to Miriam after church. Miriam gave me a book of piano music from all of the Jane Austen movies. I like it very much.

Alex and I went to Paul and Elle's house to stay the night. (BTW: Elle=Lady Claire, Paul=Black Prince)

Looked up all the local pools in the yellow pages only to discover that they weren't opening 'til May 23. (Little comment here: It's ninety degrees out, that's what matters, not the day of the month, really, don't be stupid city pools and the people who run them, nobody cares about dates, it's true, everyone says it's all about dates, but us no numerical people know better, really. Elle says it was 96 for prosperity...)

We went back into the forest (small junipers lots of underbrush, partly grass and partly old concrete. Its just the area between the subdivision they live in, and the mainhighway, in case you had your hopes up. But for all optimists just think " the forest") in search of dewberries (blackberries) which were really good.

We ate lunch.      

Go back to the "forest"  and play hide ad seek  with Elle's dog. (Let me just describe this for people like myself, who don't just randomly play games of hide and seek with a full grown mutt. I stand with Elle at the end of the street while the three boys(Alex, Paul, and his little brother, Tim) make a mad dash for the woods. Then Paul makes a loud "hoot" sound from somwhere in the woods, and the dog tears off into the forest with Elle and I running and stumbling -I'm not sure which to call it- after the him. Through the grass and blackberry vines, across the rock and concrete patch, and into a small area of closelywooded trees, about my height, growing one to two inches apart. Through this, the dog pulled us with twigs and leaves strewn throughout our hair. Then with another sniff the dog leaped forward, leaving my Elle flat on her face, looking like a murder victim left to die at the side of the highway, hidden in this thickly underbrushed area, where no sane person would dare to venture, ('dare to venture' sounds so much more dramatic then '-go-' ) Anyways she stood up undamaged and we pursued her mutt through the under brush, rocks, concrete, and small stunted junipers. A sharp turn around old pipe and there were the boys, relaxing in the shade of the one and only shade tree. It reminded me of people sunbathing on the beach in California; compared to us sweaty and tired. We were like people who had just hiked across the sahara.

Anyways, after that.... Okay, I'm stopping the narrative just to say that that really wasn't quite what happened; it was a little less !dramatic!  It was fun, and the boys were just as sweaty as we were, and Elle didn't really fall on her face. But you know my blog has to be part fiction or I don't think anybody would read it. You want to know why I think this? Because it's true. When I post the plain old unfictious truth, nobody reads it. Okay, I will now continue the narrative to our next line, in which...

...we play Nertz.

After that we had a water balloon fight which was so much fun. I'll just leave that up to your imagination. I have a couple of pictures, but to tell you the truth, I have absoulutley NO IDEA how to upload them. I'm really bad with computers...

Well, that leaves us with dinner (hamburgers, corn, and salad, but I didn't eat any of the salad ...*hides*) and a movie (Arsenic and Old Lace), and the we played a game, and then I lay down on the bed to write this blog post...

                                                                                    ~Ness

Regionals was so much fun!

Me Katie wrote a duo because we were bored.

THose two lines contradict eachother. sort of...

Oh well It was was so much fun and we broke to semi-finals in our duo and Alex broke in debate.

It was so awesome!

                   ~Ness

*Thinks hard* Well it's a beautiful day outside. Roses are blooming the sky is blue and the rees are green. It's between 90 and 60 degrees and quite wonderful... *Thinks some more*

Oh yes I joined a Jane Austen society! If you like Jane Austen you should join ;-)Just P.M. Evelyn @ IAMlivingforhim       So come and join the fun!

There, what else?

        Oh yes and this made me laugh;-)  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511177,00.html

Well that's all for now,

                               ~Ness

P.S.  when I'm at the Arkansas tournament I might post some about it that is if I don't become way to tired and it doesn't run really late the whole time... which it probably will;-)

 Well I'll post when i'm at Kathryn Grace's house right before we leave and then we get back;-) So check up if you want to know what's happening in Arkansas!

                                     ~DangerousNess

       -- and I qualified;-)

So many great things happened at this tournament it was amazing! Wow!!!

I really learned to trust God. At a tournament every thing seems to be all about you and your abilitys but if you view it like that it is impossible!

It was an amazing time for me. I prayed a lot this tourtament last time I always prayed before each speech but this time I prayed more. Every time I prayed whenever I got nervous and I felt like I was doing this for the Glory of God rather then just for my own benifit or to win. I just felt really surrounded by God's grace the whole time of the tourtament. I really felt excited about sharing things about God not only in apolegetics but in impromptu and other everything else as well!

To start with,everyone did so awesome Congratulations KathrynGrace and David, getting to semi finals!!! That was So cool!

 Anyways, I did TP, impromptu, apolegetics, and Duo. Katie and I went 3/3 which was the best we've ever done in debate! we didn't "fail" any rounds;-)  I used almost all my speech time for all my speeches which was also really cool. We went against Larimer/Larimer the older, which was sort of scary! but we used our time had arguments and evidence thanks to Brian's brief! Thanks Brian! Impromptu was actually fun. I had fun in impromptu, yes. I never thought that would happen, but it did! and the result was I broke my fith and below record getting one second one third and two fourths! SO happy about that!!!  I'm attribute this all to some of my friends Claire and Black Prince (No those aren't their real names;-) they helped me not be so nervous and realize I could use all my time! Thanks guys! apolegetics well nothing new, oh well... Duo we broke to semis!!! I'm really excited about that because we put it together two or three weeks before the tourtament and when we did it at ARC we didn't do it very well. We improved by doing it together three times every day until the tourtament;-)      So anyways I get to go to regionals!

Wow I'm super tired;-)

So inbetween rounds I had a lot of fun just hanging out and talking to Katy about the last debate round or speech round. Grace and I did more dancing at htis tourtament (She taught me how to swing dance at the warm-up;-) Oh and I love this song, Grace was singing it while we were dancing if you were wondering how this would possibly count as being in a post about a debate tourament;-)

The Call                     such a cool song, the tune is running through my head...

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry

I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never
Been this way before

All you can do is try to know
Who your friends are
As you head off to the war

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and now one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger ans stronger
'Til they're before your eyes

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

My parents came to the tourtament which was really cool they came Friday afternoon and had a ton of fun. So that was another cool thing my Mom judged LD outrounds and my Dad judged TP.

Oh and I got to stay with the Hastings and Grace was staying with us it was so much fun. we were probably more tired because of it but it was fun!  Deep conversations like wether it would be better to lie or save someones life or crazy things like Grace trying to wake us up at six in the mornings with the loudest ringtones on her cell phone(didn't work)! 

I left the camera at ahome so no pictures:-(

After the tournament ARC went down to the Alamo and then afterward to the riverwalk. We ate at a Mexican restraunt on the river walk and threw chips to the ducks, at least I did;-) there was this one duck who waddled out of the water and up the little steps and I couldn't help but think of Brent and him being a duck in his duo so I named the duck Brent. Oh well I guess he just did a really good immatation of a duck!;-)

The drive home with the Clarcksons consisted of reading ballots and generally everyone telling everyone else what happened at the tourtament and so on. It was fun;-)

Anyways that was an awesome tournament and I'm looking forward to the next!      If this post is really jumbled it's because it is 12:30 at night and I'm exhausted.

                   Fare ye well wherever ye fare!

                                                            ~Ness