Oh, man, you guys. You’ll never ever believe what happened this past monday. It was freaking hilarious!
Okay, so Leopard lover got a new/used Polaroid HD for her birthday- it’s about twenty years old, but new to her. Anyway, ever since she’s been obsessed with taking pictures. It’s a camera used for taking professional style pictures that turn out amazing!

Well, we got together that afternoon, along with her sister Girlinapinkbathrobe, and we went for a walk, toting the camera. Leo took pictures of Pink and I ‘modeling’ at different, random locations. Like at this amazing, gothic style church, and on some older play ground equipment- wooden and metal teeter-totters, a huge old slide, this ‘merry go round’ thing that people sit on, someone spins, and you go for a wild ride around and around….

According to Leo we all looked amazingly hot. Idk about that, tho…. lol

ANYWAY.

Right next to this playground there’s Bubble Bubble burg’s only skate park, which was inhabited right then with a lot of guys and a couple of girls. We deemed it necessary to ignore them and just kept on taking pictures.

Anyway, when it started growing darker, we took pictures of the moon, which had a rainbow circling around it, and some other random objects. Leo had forgotten her flashbulb, so we could only take pictures of things that were in good light.. Which meant practically nothing. So we sent Pink off to grab Leo’s flashbulb and Leo and I went on the Merry Go Round thingie to spin.

Here’s the fun part. As we were spinning, these two skater guys came up and stood there for a little bit while we spun. Leo and I exchanged looks, and kind of slowed down, but still spun.

Them: “Hey.”

Us: “Hi.”

Boy 1: “So, uh, we have this friend, and he thinks you’re as hot as sh*t..”

Me: -trying not to laugh- “Oh, really.”

Boy 2: “Yeah, and he’s too effing shy to come over here and talk to you guys.”

Boy 1: “So we were wondering if you could come with us to meet him. If you don’t like him you can just walk away. I mean what can it hurt, you know?”

Boy 2: “Yeah, seriously, what can you lose? He‘ll behave. What can it hurt?”

Leo: -to me- “Should we?”

Me: -back- “Like they continue saying, what can it hurt?”

Us: -laughing a bit- “Why not?”

So we grabbed Leo’s cell phone, linked arms, and went around the playground to the skate park and the parking lot beside it.

The guys kept up intelligent conversation all the way- punctuated with many uhs and ums and curse words, lol. We accidentally used a couple of big words-like perchance and sagacious and indolent- and they looked at us like we were nuts.

They asked, “so what’ve you guys been up to?” and I decided to be impish- so when Leo said “Taking pictures” I jumped in to add- “She’s an aspiring photographer. Some of her stuff is online.”

You see, Leo and I had-out of fun- googled her name once, and found this photographer with Leo’s exact first and last name. They were good pics, too. So I told the guys to go onto that website and they said the would, Leo giving me the evil eye the whole time.

ANYWHO.

We found out that Boy 1 was Adam, Boy 2 was Steven (I think), and the guy who thought we were hot was Ryan.

So we talked to them all for a little bit, told them we were fifteen, said we didn’t have any boyfriends, we were home schooled, and no, we didn’t smoke, thank you very much.

Ryan and this chick had driven off because he was shy, and Steven ran after them, trying to get them to come back. We kind of just stood there with our arms crossed, shooting each other looks and trying to make polite conversation while we waited for Ryan and the girl -I think her name was Kate- to come back.

When they finally did, Ryan and Adam got in a little mock fight because Ryan wouldn’t come say hello to us. Finally he got brave and *gasp* came close enough for us to actually see what he looked like, lol. I guess to look cool, he took a cigarette from Kate’s pack and lit it while sitting on the trunk of her car. He took a puff of it and promptly choked, and Leo and I exchanged a meaningful look.

Leo: “Well, we’d better get going.”

Me: “Yeah. Her sister’s gonna come get us pretty soon and we need to be there when she does.”

Leo: “So we gotta leave. It was nice meeting you guys.”

Me: “See ya around.”

Adam: “See ya. Thanks for coming over here.”

Kate and Steven: *Passionate kissing noises*

Ryan: *Cough* “yeah nice meeting you” *Cough*

Us: “Bye….”

We walked away, not talking, trying not to laugh at the stupid-ness of it all and only barely keeping our composure.

But as soon as we were out of sight, I commented: “Well, that was fun.” and Leo said, “It’s very flattering to have the words ’hot’ and ‘sh*it’ used in the same sentence when referring to us, isn’t it? What, do they think we have diarrhea?”

I just couldn’t hold it in any longer: I burst out laughing, long and loud. I know they heard me, but I don’t care. It was amazingly hilarious and I just had to let it out.

So there’s my story of the week. The moral of the story- take risks, they could be a lot of fun; be bold, be brave; and DON’T HIT ON RANDOM GIRLS!!! haha

hope you enjoyed that!

~Allie~

but only just barely, lol.

yeah so I'm way busy and don't have the time to update two blogs, so all of my updates are on my other blog gemstone. Go on, head over there!

for those of you who didn't click on the link...

1. today's song is: In Your Eyes by Nicole Nordeman

2. yesterday was really weird.  I mean, I went to church, worship band practice, and youth group as usual, but those weren't cooky. What was strange was the creepy presence of spirits, evil and otherwise, in and around the church all day. No, I'm nto talking about ghosts. Just hear me out, okay?

A lot of people felt it. My dad sensed something really good was going to happen, but my good friend Lindy and the adult worship leader Todd felt that something was off.  I felt it too.

My mom works as a janitor at the church on saturdays, and when she went into The Home (the mobile home right next to the church where youth group activites are held) she found that it had been torn completely apart. The furniture was tipped over, everything on the 'stage' was tipped over or knocked askew, and papers were scattered everywhere.

She vaccumed around it quickly and left, finguring it was just rowdy teens.

Sunday, The Home looked normal. Everything was in its place and nothing seemed to be wrong. But something heavy seemed to hang over the whole place.

That afternoon when I came to worship band practice, everything, again, was normal. Andrew went out to the main church bulding to get his guitar from the storage room there. Lindy and I were checking our mics, Christian was fiddling with his amp, and Ty was messing with his drum set when Andrew came back, plugged in his guitar, and reached down to tune it. When his hand hit the tuning pegs, the wood gave way under his fingers!

The machine head was snapped clean off, held on only by a peice of metal and the guitar strings!!!!!!

No one knows who could have done it. Only four people have the key to that particular storage closet: Todd, Doug, Christian, and Andrew. That kind of a break wouldn't have been an accident. The only way you could snap something like that is if you applied a WHOLE lot of pressure. The worst thing? That guitar was 2,000 dollars. MINIMUM. It was custom made and designed right nere in America. I swear, Andrew was about to cry (I don't blame him, I was too!), because that type of damage can't be fixed.

It gets worse. Later as we were practicing (Andrew with one of Christian's extra guitars) Ty hit his snare drum to hear a popping sound. We all stopped and watched as he hit it again. it ttly didn't sound right, so he took it off the stand and turned it over... only to find that the bottom had blown out!!  Around the same time an X-box got tipped over with a game still inside, smashing it. Later on that night Doug was playing paintball when his CO2 chamber ran out- despite having been filled just moments ago.

 When Lindy and I were practicing, it was like something was stopping us from singing. Our throats were dry, we couldn't remember the words, we were stumbling, couldn't hold the harmony... it was horrible.

Finally we couldn't stand it anymore. Something was definetly going on, something weird, and we needed to fix it.

SO we gathered all the otther student leaders and prayed, hard. Then we through the whole Home and prayed over it. Same with the main church building.

and that night? We had the best God experience EVER. Lindy and I sounded amazing, Ty's drumming had a whole different quality, the bass and electric guitars worked perfectly. At the end of worship I was crying. It was so cool!!!!

The lesson was amazing too, but this post is already way too long, so I'll finish up now.

The moral of the story? God can do ANYTHING, and if Satan seems to be working, it's just cause God has a plan.

 see ya later!

~Allie~

Today CheekyMonkey  and I got together and... *Drumroll, please!*

DYED MY HAIR PURPLE!!!!

Technically it's called "Chilled Plum" by Lor`eal.

Anyways, it looks great on me! I love it to death... but the true test will be tomorrow....

Why? You ask.

BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BE ON STAGE SINGING WITH THE WORSHIP TEAM, THAT'S WHY!!!!

MWAhahahahahahahahaha.........

So the whole entire church will be able to see my hair in all it's glory when I sing. OOh I can't wait!!!

I'll be posting pictures soon.. either on here or on gemstone, so yeah...

I still can't believe it, it looks so cool!!!

haha okay I gotta go practice for tomorrow, I'll keep you updated on what happens!

C YA!

~Allie~

P.S my song for the day is: Christine Evans - I Know What I Like

> NEED WASHING??

> A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in
> Target. She must have been 6 years old, this
> beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of
> innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain
> that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in
> a hurry to hit the earth it has no time to flow down
> the spout. We all stood there under the awning and
> just inside the door of the Target.
>
> We waited, some patiently, others irritated because
> nature messed up their hurried day. I am always
> mesmerized by rainfall. I got lost in the sound and
> sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust
> of the world. Memories of running, splashing so
> carefree as a child came pouring in as a welcome
> reprieve from the worries of my day.
>
> The little voice was so sweet as it broke the
> hypnotic trance we were all caught in "Mom let's run
> through the rain," she said.
> "What?" Mom asked.
>
> "Lets run through the rain!" She repeated.
>
> "No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit,"
> Mom replied.
>
> This young child waited about another minute and
> repeated: "Mom, let's run through the rain,"
>
> "We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said.
>
> "No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this
> morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her
> Mom's arm.
>
> "This morning? When did I say we could run through
> the rain and not get wet?"
>
> "Don't you remember? When you were talking to Daddy
> about his cancer, you said, 'If God can get us
> through this, he can get us through anything!"
>
> The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you
> couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood
> silently. No one came or left in the next few
> minutes.
> Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she
> would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her
> for being silly. Some might even ignore what was
> said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a
> young child's life. A time when innocent trust can
> be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith.
>
> "Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through
> the rain If GOD lets us get wet, well, maybe we just
> needed washing," Mom said.
>
> Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling
> and laughing as they darted past the cars and yes,
> through the puddles. They held their shopping bags
> over their heads just in case.

> They got soaked. But
> they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed
> like children all the way to their cars.
>
> And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.
>
> Circumstances or people can take away your material
> possessions, they can take away your money, and they
> can take away your health. But no one can ever take
> away your precious memories...So, don't forget to
> make time and take the opportunities to make
> memories everyday. To everything there is a season
> and a time to every purpose under heaven.
> I HOPE YOU STILL TAKE THE TIME TO RUN THROUGH THE
> RAIN.
>
> They say it takes a minute to find a special person,
> an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but
> then an entire life to forget them. Send this to the
> people you'll never forget and remember to also send
> it to the person who sent it to you. It's a short
> message to let them know that you'll never forget
> them.
>
> If you don't send it to anyone, it means you're in a
> hurry.
>
> Take the time to live!!!
>
> Keep in touch with your friends, you never know when
> you'll need each other -- and don't forget to run in
> the rain!

KK- the song today is It's A Beautiful World by Jump 5.

Basically, my life is a mix of good and bad. I'm on the tail end of strep throat, but today was awesome, so that way made up for it.

I found some sweet pics of Ballet dancers en Pointe on the internet today, check out my photo album for the really cool ones.

Today was really busy- I had school from 8:00-10:45, then headed over to the library for my first day of Writing Critique Class. That was a lot of fun. LeopardLover, Girlinapinkbathrobe, and a girl named Jessica are my fellow writers/critiquers, and they're all great.

Then I hung out at the library with Leopard and Pink until 2:30, when we went to their house for a bite to eat; then Leopard and I rushed off to Breakout around 3:00.

Breakout is a christian club thingie for kids third-seventh grade. Leopard and Cheeky are student leaders for breakout, but I have a discipleship meeting during that time, so I only hang out before and after.

At 5:30 breakout and my discipleship is over, so i hung out and helped clean up, then rushed over to "Gravity" youth group  (straight from Breakout!). I got home at 8:00 tonight!!!!!

So now I'm home, tired and a bit behind on school, but otherwise happy. it was a good day.

Oh, gotta go, it's time to catch some shut eye.... so I can be busy tomorrow!!!!!

Love ya all!
~Allie~

So I FINALLY figured out how to post a pic, and I got a pic of me from a good friend.... SO!!!

HEREEEEEEEE IT IS!!!!

I look like I have a big nose, but... who cares?

Meebie I'll post a better one on my other blog.... hmmm...

ANYWHO

The song of the day is One Girl Revolution by Superchic[k].

Today was a pretty sweet day.

I woke up at about nine thirty and watched the 2003 version of Peter Pan (starring jeremy sumpter.... *sigh*) while I waited for my sis to get up and my parents to get back from their walk.

Then I ate, did my chores, took a shower, and waved goodbye to my parents again. They went to Walmart, found my mom's new lab for her blood cultures (long story), went out to eat... the whole caboodle.... didn't get back until late...

my sister left to play with the girl across the street, then went to a birthday party... so I was left, all alone.

so sad. *tear*

haha... NOT! whoo did I ever have fun! I talked on the phone with everyone I knew practically, watched sad movies and cried through them all, listened to my kind of music (really loud), moved all the furniture around in the living room and danced crazily, sang at the top of my lungs.. did everything that annoys my family to no end.

When my parents FINALLY got back, I hung out with my friend Sammy (she lives in the patio home behind mine) and walked up to Loaf n Jug with her, talking all the way there and back. She bought me  Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper and a Dark Chocolate Snickers (OOOHHHHHHHHHH i swear they are the next best thing to Milky Way midnight...). We listened to My Chemical Romance as we ate, drank, and talkd about boys...

*sigh* it was the best..

And now it's time to close another day... Tomorrow's gonna be craziness. I have church, then I'll come home for lunch, go back at 1:30 for a student leadership meeting until 3:30, then I have youth band practice at 4:00, and youth group at 5:15. I'll spend my whole day at the church.

Ooh, ooh, guess what? Tomorrow's my one year anniversiary of living in Bubble Bubble burg! I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and I'm also high on Dr. pepper, so WATCH out...)

Well, it's time to get off and let my mother have a turn.. hope y'all don't think I'm too ugly... lol

see ya!

~Allie~

1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3. A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

 6. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

 7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words " uh oh", it's already too late.

 8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9. A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies. 

 10. Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4- year old Boy.

11. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12. Super glue is forever.

13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

 15. VCR's do not eject "PB & J" sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

 16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

 18. You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is. 

 19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

 20. The fire department in Austin , TX has a 5-minute response time.

 21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22. It will, however, make cats dizzy.

 23. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24. 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids.

25. 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake
fluid.

.. to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back....

haha i'm in a singing mood today. I have about five different songs buzzing aorund in my head, mixing with each other and creating something... interesting. there's Skater Boi by Avril Lavinge, Potential Breakup Song by Aly and AJ, I'm So Sick by Flyleaf,  Gratitiude by Nicole Nordeman, and One girl Revolution by superchic[k]... all buzzing around in there...

weird.

anywho. what i actually HAVE decided is to keep this blog. And Gemstone. hey, don't look at me like that!!! I can do it!!!

So. if anyone is, in fact, reading this, let it be known that forthwith I shall have both

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Cocobabe

AND

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Gemstone

as my official blogs. Fun, huh? oh, and I've also decided that this blog- cocobabe- is going to be my musical blog. every time I post I will name the song that is my theme song for the day (ex: Wishes by Superchic[k] when i feel especially moody over a boy) and categorize it under the TYPE of music (i.e depressing, happy, and the like). I'll be changing my heading, too..... perhaps my picture and the background...

OOH! brainstorm!!!! this blog will be my practice area for backgrounds, pics, subject ideas, etc.... ones that I will use in my more well known blog, Gemstone.

OH, and for those of you who are thouroughly confused, I'm Allie. And I'm confusing.

haha wel gotta go... i can't wait to try some stuff out...

~Allie~

I have no idea what has caused the phenomenon, but after not being able to get into my Cocobabe account, starting another blog (which has been going on for seven months now), and trying, on a whim, to get into this account, I am here. Typing.

I haven't been on in under seven months. Scary, kind of.

Well, if u all want to see the new blog that I have been keeping for a while now, go to http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone.   I'll be there!
In the meantime, I'll try and fingure out what to do with this blog... hmmm.......

~Allie~
~Coco~

okay so my last post "MORE OF CHAPTER TWO" got messed up and won't change back. SO that whole "COPYRIGHT 2006 by *CocoBabe*" is supposed to be at the end of the post....... srry :(

let's hope the next story update will turn out right...

so read on, my friend, and see what happens next....

~Coco~ 

YAY!  My stomach feels sooooooo much better!!!!!! Which is great, just in case you didn't catch my vibe....

anyway.....

GUESS WHAT???

okay so my tues-night youth group is going to Aquire the fire, and I can't go because (of course) I don't have fifty bucks. I really want to go, though, cause one of my favorite bands of all time-Flyleaf- is gonna be there.  

So my good friend Jonathan and I were talking about it saturday and he asked me "if you wanted to go, would you?" "yeah, definetly," I replied. "But I can't so no use stressing about it."

That sunday I saw him again, and when I went up to say hi, he was all like, "So how would you like to go to a Flyleaf concert?"

He spent the money his parents were going to use to buy him a birthday present..... and BOUGHT ME A TICKET!!!!!!!

I love that dude!

so my week has been going great so far.... I'll update my story in a bit.

have the best week possible!

~Coco~

P.S I've been trying to find a template that I actually likes and that works on my comp. so far I haven't found one, so it will be changing a lot. sorry! 

I have been puking my guts out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's horrible but if you go onto leapordluver's, cheeckymonkey's, and possibly girlinapinkbathrobe's blogs, you will findt hat we have sucsessfully passed this horrible bug onto our friends, family members, and fellow puppet goers.

hey...... maybe we four can use this to our advantage... AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!

okay weird psyco moment over. HEY, I've been sick- cut me some slack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway I'm feeling a bit better now. hopefully I will remain in my current state of wellness and not start the cycle all over again.......

pray for me, please!!!!! :P

~Coco~ 

Hey, thanks all for replying to my last post.

I was really sort of writing in the heat of the moment, and when I look back, I realize that you all are right.

I really DON'T know her side of the situation, and before I go spouting off about it to everyone, I need to talk to her. There may be things going on right now that I don't know about. (thanks, Erin.)

and Shelia, you are totally correct. I am in the world (can't change that!) but I shouldn't become of the world. YOu have made some very good points that I will definetly think and pray about.    

And thanks, all, for the encouragement. I will stand in my beliefs and wait for the right man to come my way. I won't find him at fourteen, anyway!!!!!! Ya'll are great friends, you know that?

SO, chris, I was kind of wondering about the comment you made: "it is great that u r standing up for what u belive in (even if i don't agree with u)."
Could you message me and explain what you mean? I'm open to all good critisizim (spg?) and any new Ideas- all of which will be prayerfully considered. I can't wait to hear from you!

And to all of you anxious readers who want to know if Esther is okay.... A story update's coming soon!

~Coco~

uhhhhhhhhh I'm soooooo confused...

okay so there's this girl that I know who was SO against dating, was adamant that she wasn't going to date until she was much much older, and would give us this whole lecture thing on boys.

Guess what? She has a boyfriend. Quote: "It's all about God, there's no physical aspect at all!"   *snorts* yeah right. I was at youth group and she and her boyfriend were there. two of my friends and I were hanging out on the church playground, and we were kind of screened by trees, so when this girl comes out with her boyfriend, they don't really see us. what are they doing? Holding hands and Snuggling up to each other. Ha. the "No physical aspect" has turned into "We're hanging all over each other". It makes me mad, because I looked up to her. I might be overreacting, but it really confuses the heck outta me and makes me steaming!!!

Let me explain a little about myself.
I have always liked boys and have had my heart broken  many, many times. Finally I gave that all up and started dressing modestly, not dating, and commiting myself to staying pure.

Then I moved 100 miles away from my old city into bubble bubble burg, and i have pretty much NO ONE who is commited to absolute modesty and no dating until we're older, if at all. I feel so alone. Up here, they all are saying, "I can't live without abrcrombie and fitch or hollister." "I can't live without Tivo." "I can't live if I don't get the latest styles." It's against my principles to go into those types of stores.  It's making me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kelsey and one or two other gal friends were the only ones committed like I was. Kelsey was the oldest one. I was the second oldest, and so looked up to her.

Now she's gone, I guess, caught up in her boyfriend and school. I don't feel like I have anyone older who I can talk to (my mom really doesn't count in this cause it's kind of hard to talk to her about boys).

I also feel so inadequite and unbeautiful. I have good hygene, actually make an effort to be clean and presentable. I wear sensible jeans, large sweaters, and I have a huge white t-shirt collection. I don't feel comfortable in any tight fitting clothes, so my t-shirts are what I prefer.

Yet, I'm just  a friend to everyone. guys tell me all the time: "I'm so glad that we're just friends. It's so refereshing to have a girl who isn't throwing herself all over me."

thing is... I DON"T WANT TO BE JUST A FRIEND!!!! The guy I have liked for about seven months now said that to me a few days ago and I got so depressed. They all come to me for advice (about girls), talk to me concerning their problems (with girls), and in general think of me as the tomboy I used to be. It's killing me, here! Sure, i used to be a tomboy, but somehow that's changed and I'm now starting to get into makeup and stuff. but no guy notices. barely ANYONE notices except for a few close friends. :(

okay, okay, enough whining. but tell me, am I wrong in my thinking? comment, please!!! I need help!!!!

~Coco the confused~