Jan. 7, 2009 - Real Simple Magazines
Real Simple
August 2006 issue
There are some slightly bent corners and some wrinkly spots on this book. There is an address label on the front with the address scribbled out. The perfume sample has been open.
Real Simple June 2005
This issue has a page that is bent in a lot of places, but it can still be read. It also has one page missing that had a picture of Ellen Degeneris in her PJ's. Ther person who tore it out os a little prejudice against her. There is a address label on the front of this book and the address has been scribbled out. There are some bent places on corners, some markings on the book, and some wrinkles on the pages.
Jan. 6, 2009 - Book Giveaways and blog links
In case the last one you did not win a copy of this book here are some more chances to win by leaving a comment. This was for the book Before the Season End's.
A kindred Spirit's Thoughts
Also
Cecelia Dowdy's My Christian fiction blog has a copy to give away as well
Some other interesting blog posts are here, on Log cabin research. Jeanne Leach posts a great article on log cabins and Deanne Gist writes about her unusual, but fun research while writing her book's in the Trouble series.
Bustles and Spurs
If you have not read her series, you should check it out, if you like fun, western books!
January 6, 2009 - Amanda isn't here right now...
"But if you'd like to hear from her..." HA! Love that line from Batman Begins! :P I feel so out of the blogging world. :( I have been working nonstop on the GGM PDF's for our one year anniversary! They are coming along so nicely, but take up a lot of my time! :)
So I haven't commented or posted for days because of that reason. And I am hardly keeping up with Twitter and Facebook. But it sure does bring a smile to my face to see your comments, tweets, and status comments and wall posts! :D
Anyway, I thought I would stop in and let y'all know I didn't fly away to Krypton or anything, just staying busy! The life of a Homeschooling College Student! LOL! Thought I would share some CUTE pics I found of the LillieGirl! Man, I love that baby! :) I am not even sure when these were... someone just got them...
LillieGirl: HOLD ME! HOLD ME!
Me: REEAACCHH!!
Both: GOTCHYA! YAY!
So happy! SMILE! :)
Alrighty... back to work! gotta get that whip crackin'! You can always catch me at email, Facebook, Twitter, and then you can always comment and I will catch up sometime! :P
While, I'm gone check out the THIRD anniversary of the Carnival of Homeschooling, help some widows and fatherless families, read the January Issue , and check out an AWESOME giveaway.
Thanks for stopping by “Daily” at the “Planet”!!
©AmandaDixon2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Photo of the Day
Jan. 6, 2009 - Yup! I haven't posted in a while!
Hey Everybody! How are you? I haven't posted in a long time! lol! My soccer season is over and I'm doing indoor right now. We are undefeated!!! YAY! We haven't lost a game yet! I player passed for a team last night and they won! On Saturday I had three games! One for the team that I player passed for last night. They lost the game on Saturday though. My team won our two games on Saturday though! I forget the score. We have two more games on Saturday! I hope we win! My sister has a game tommorow. I hope they win!
Did everybody have a good Christmas? I did! What I for Christmas was....
a really nice purse from my oldest little brother (It's leather)
Chocolate Covered Cheries from my second youngest little brother (or Chocolate Chovered Cherries as he would say! lol! I love how he says that!)
Soccer ball fresheners for my bag from my big sister (they look like soccer balls!)
and a green and white bracelet
and of course I didn't get anything from my youngest little brother Quinn! lol! He is about 6 and a half months now! He's so cute! He has learned how to... I'll tell you that later. I'll finish telling you what I got for Christmas!
From Mom and Dad I got...
polka dot soccer socks
A soccer bag
Soccer warm up pants
socks
a dress watch
an Auburn umbrella
an Auburn hacky sack
an electic tooth brush
gum
jelly beans
a dark chocolate snickers bar
a dark chocolate orange
Ande's Chocolate Cherry things
From Grandma and Grandpa (on Dad's side)
I got 20$ and a manatee Webkinz
From Grandma (on Mom's side)
I got 20$ and pajamas
For all the kids from Mom and Dad we got
4 Wii games
Kung Fu Panda
Super Mario Galaxy (my favorite out of the 4)
Star Wars the force unleashed
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
I won't tell you what everybody else in the family got because you are probably getting bored of reading what I am getting! lol! But I will tell you just what I gave them....
I gave Dad some chocolate covered Brazil Nuts that I made3.0
0+I gave Mom 6 matching coffee cups (My sister also gave her those, we split the cost)
I gave my big sister polka dot shoe laces
I gave my oldest little brother a blue soccer ball (he named it Mist)
I gave my 2nd oldest little brother three paint things and a ball that you can throw and it comes back
I gave my baby brother some cute little shoes (they were brlol/////////
Quinn is so cute! He is crying right now though.
Poor Quinn! He is usally so happy all the time! He smiles so much! He is almost always smiling! That is his normal mood! lol! 
He loves to bang on stuff! When ever we go to resteraunts he just bangs on the table the whole time and laughs! That's a +++++good thing! We wouldn't want him to cry while we are eating! 
I just went and picked him up -and now he is laying on the couch playing with a remote. He loves things with buttons and shiny things like, watches, phones, remotes, computers (he tears the keys off of the key board. Now he is climbing up on the couch. He has learned how to grab on to the couch and stand up and now he only holds on with one hand! lol! He looks so funny! Then he tries to walk along the couch. But sometimes he falls and bangs his head. He also just learned how to go from crawling to sitting from sitting to crawling. 
He just learned to clap too. So we always clap for him and say Yay! He loves clapping! He is doing right now! 
Sometimes when he claps it sounds like he is saying yay! I think he is really saying it. It sounds so clear! I think when he heard us saying yay all the time he started doing it. That's what he did *******************************************************************-+about the clapping. *9+ Ah! Quinn just-+ did that! the stars and pluss signs and 9's! lol! He is trying to do + UUUHG! He just messed9*6230.0. 93u
*++up my post! He is 62/-8- /scrolling all through my post and puttin0g plus4/7++++++++66 signs and /thing! Well! I think+ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++this is a good time to -/gO"+===========
Bye!
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Your F=Riend,
Felicity
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Hymn From the Heart - Where Jesus Is, 'Tis Heaven
This world has been a heav'n to me;
And 'mid earth's sorrows and its woe,
'Tis Heav'n my Jesus here to know.
REFRAIN:
O Hallelujah, yes, 'tis Heav'n,
'Tis Heav'n to know my sins forgiv'n;
On land or sea, what matters where?
Where Jesus is, 'Tis Heaven there.
Once Heaven seemed a far-off place,
Till Jesus showed His smiling face;
Now it's begun within my soul,
'Twill last while endless ages roll.
REFRAIN
What matters where on earth we dwell?
On mountain top, or in the dell,
In desert, or a mansion fair
Where Jesus is, 'tis Heav'n there.
O Hallelujah, yes, 'tis Heav'n,
'Tis Heav'n to know my sins forgiv'n;
U.S. or Ireland, what matters where?
Where Jesus is, 'Tis Heaven there.
Jan. 5, 2009 - Oh How Sweet the sound......
Of a new post!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't it lovely?? :)
OK so first off let me update y'all on the wonderful life of Julia. Remember the strung-out-beyond-reality-high girl I rang up a purchase for at my work back in September? Remember Loretta N? The police never took my statement, never contacted me about anything. I figure it was over and she was in jail. Well to my surprise, it is not over. I was informed 3 weeks ago my MOD that day, Jacque, received a SUBPOENA to appear in court to testify against Loretta, well actually against Nicole, Loretta is the name of the ID she stole apparently. Anyway, I felt bad for Jacque and was kind of glad I didn't have to go. I figured the court just needed the manager at the time. About a week passed and again to my surprise I received a letter in the mail from the court. Then inside the envelope, was a bright green piece of paper, I opened it up and in big, black, bold letters it said 'SUBPOENA'. I just about burst out laughing. I got a subpoena?! Must be a mistake. Nope, no mistake. My name was right under the 'Must appear in court...' sigh............ So this Thursday, The 8th, I have to go to court and testify against her. SIGH! I will probably have to meet the prosecuting attorney and then have to sit on the stand and tell my side of the story. I will have to do the whole 'Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth....' stuff... Sigh........ I will have to do an updated after the trial to tell you how it goes down...... BIG SIGH!
Lately I have not been able to add to my four books I am attempting to write. I was able to work on them a lot last year though. I go through phases, I want to write, and I don't, and so forth. I would really like to finish these books because I want to send copies to my family. I have written a few short stories though. I was able to write a story for Toria's contest back in Nov-Dec '08 which made me win my division :) Here is that short story:
It's hot, humid, my hair is clining to my head, bugs are crawling on my arms and legs, in my shoes, I am crouched to the ground like a tiger about to pounce, I even take refuge behind bushes, can it get any worse? Possibly. But I see her, the one thing I have been looking for these past three months. Just through the small forest of savannah trees she sit's calmly on a rock. Her long tail swaying back and forth in the hot wind.
I cannot imagine getting any closer for she will hear me, and attack for her young cubs are near. Twins. They roll around in the savannah grass, one takes a bite out of the grass, the crinkling of disgust soon follows and the cub spits it out just as the other cub pounces on it's twin. I pull out my camera and snap a few photo's. I see another set of bushes a far off, I could hide behind and gets some better shots. But I can't stand up, and scare them off. I guess I will crawl over.
Mud squishes through my hands as I crawl through more bushes and more mud piles. Piles? Mud doesn't pile up, it lays flat. Right? I realized the mud I just crawled through stinks. Really bad. 'oh man.' I think. 'I knew it could get worse'. But it doesn't matter, I want that photo, I am craving for the photo. I would crawl through a thorn bush to get my photo. I probably should have thought of the thornbush for sitting in front of me is a thornush. Around it are more thorn bushes. 'Joy'. I bite my lip and crawl through a narrow opening in the bush, holding back either screams of pain or laughter of stupidity, I am not sure which. I want that photo.
I see a clearing and exit the horrid bush snagging a few branches to my shirt and hair, just to enter into a pile of leaves, that seem to have a weird three leaf to a stalk pattern. Interesting, I'll come back later to investigate the strange leaf's. I see the bush I was heading for, I get behind it and point my camera through the thick bush to the rock. I get ready to take that picture I craved for, when I noticed the rock is empty, nothing sits on or below it. She is gone, with her cubs also. Frustrated I jump up and hit my head on a tree branch, knocking a snake out of the tree and onto my head. I quickly remove the snake, only to find it wasn't actually a snake, but a vine instead. Hah.
I start to walk back north toward my camp, so discouraged and sad I didn't get my photo. I am covered in "stinky mud", I have a few thorny branches attached to my clothing and long hair, there are probably bugs in my shoes and elsewhere. All that, and I didn't get my shot. As I am walking I spot something over a ridge, I can't make out the figure but I know it's an animal. I move closer to see her once again sitting on a rock near the river, her and her cubs. The cubs drink from the river as she watches her surrounding's intently. The wind is blowing again giving her a beautiful calm look. Here's my chance. I pull out my camera, aim, and click! I got my shot! I got the shot of rare King Cheetah. She is looking at me, not moving, just staring. It's almost as if she is saying 'Happy now?'. I nod and smile. Her and her cubs walk away from the river and head off into the horizon. I thank her as she moves off. I thank her.
So that’s one story I have written. I am working on another and I was going to post it but since this post turned out so long I decided to spare you J.
-Julia
Jan. 5, 2009 - Sweet picture
This is a first! On Christmas Eve we put the 3 babies to bed and told the 4 "middles" they could have a slumber party, never thinking they would actually go to sleep. They did, and we played Trivial Pursuit until late. (The oldest cousin stayed up and played with us).
Christmas was an interesting experiment this year. All of the adults chose not to exchange gifts at all. Only the two youngest boys (Andrew and Ryan) got 2 gifts each, and then DH and I bought a couple books for each of the grandkids, and a couple little girls got homemade doll clothes. The result? No paper disaster strewn all over the living room, no lost toys, no crying. Nothing but peace and tranquility. Oops. Well, not quite tranquility. I forgot about the marshmallow guns. I was selling books at a bazaar and some vendor was selling marshmallow guns and ammo (marshmallows). I bought 5 of them, and they were a hit! Indoor playing, with Levi and Julie (both around 2 yrs.) rushing around to find and eat the "Mammo."
Much to my DD's chagrin, the real crazy shooter was her little princess, who refused to wear the scratchy party dress and went after her brothers and cousins in her petticoat. (And Kristel had such high hopes for her girl to be a lady, but I'm afraid she's her grandma's clone. 
Jan. 5, 2009 - Template Drawing #3!
First off, I'm not proud to announce that NO ONE won the last template drawing!
You know why??
Because no one entered!!!!
Come on folks, spread the word!! I don't want this site to be a flop.
Anyways... We'll try drawing that template some other time.
The template that is currently up on the site is the one that will be drawn.
I decided that doing it this way would be easier for everyone.
Let me know if you liked it better when I posted a picture of the template, and then a link to view it bigger--I'm a big fan of input. =)
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Enter yourself in the drawing by leaving a comment, making sure to include a link to your blog.
Jan. 5, 2009 - Sore today....
Yesterday there was a prediction for more snow so my sister and I decided to shovel off the roof. F. had to do something else and my sister's husband was sick. so we put on our snow pants, borrowed a ladder from the neighbors and went at it. We decided just to do the garage and hope the house is okay, as that was scary enough and boy 'o boy, am I sore today! My shoulder mostly, just one side......I know, weird! i did not take any pictures of us up there, although thought I should have later, but it was a bit scary, I hate ladders, and the chance of sliding off was very real the whole time!
It was a fun adventure though and gave us the chance to see our neighbors dog come outside with a big litter of the cutest puppies! They are dark Golden retrievers and so, so cute! I wish they stayed like that! She had nine of them so that made them even more cute to see so many!
We did not get all the snow they said this time, but it may get warm and then cold which makes the snow there heavier, so I am glad we did it!
I took a hot bath with wintergreen oil in it to loosen up the muscles and may go see my friend the chiropractor, again this week! I am now in cozy pajamas and ready to curl up with a good book!
I have been sort of lazy so have not gotten my pictures downloaded, so be patient! You can see all our snow someday!
Brittany/Thanks be unto God... ~ II Cor. 9:15
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