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Nov. 23, 2009
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Books
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Nov. 3, 2009
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Flower Meanings
I have a book that my grandma gave me with a ton of flower meanings. I think they're fascinating and have read this book countless times. I always liked it in the old movies and books when a girl would get flowers and they meant something...
A secret admirer might send a bouquet of these to the girl he liked.
Yellow Acacia = Secret Love
White Clover = Think of Me
Celandine = Joys to Come
Some of my favorites are:
Blue Bell = Constancy
Four Leaved Clover = Be mine
Dead Leaves = Sadness (Kind of an obvious one, but still very fitting.)
Fern = Sincerity
Forget Me Not = True Love
Pansy = You occupy my thoughts, thoughts
Honeysuckle = Bonds of Love
Lettuce = Cold heartedness (I think this one's funny. :D )
Purple Lilac = First emtions of Love
Marigold = Grief Despair
Peach Blossom = I am your captive
Petunia = Never despair
Red Poppy = Consolation
Rose = Love
Bridal Rose = Happy Love
Christmas Rose = Relieve my anxiety
White and Red Roses Together = Unity
Yellow Rose = Decrease of Love, Jealousy
Full Rose Over Two buds = Secrecy
Red Rosebud = Pure and Lovely
White Rosebud - Girlhood and a heart ignorant of Love
Rosemary = Remembrance
Snowdrop = Hope
Dwarf Sunflower = Adoration
Red Tulip = Declaration of Love
Yellow Tulip = Hopeless Love
Blue Violet = Faithfulness
White Lily = Purity and modesty
Zinnia = Thoughts of absent friends
Those were all taken from The Language of Flowers
Love, Shay |
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Mar. 3, 2009
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"From Hope To Higher Ground"
I just finished reading "From Hope to Higher Ground 12 STOPs to Restoring America's Greatness" by Mike Huckabee. I really enjoyed it and thought he had some really good points. I don't agree with him on the issue of public education and I think he could be a little better about illegal immigrants, but other than that I think he is amazing. :)
These are some passages that I found particularly interesting.
"There are 700,000 physicians in the United States, and the number of accidental deaths caused by physicians per year is 120,000, making the accidental death rate per physician 0.171, according to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Using that same logic, if there are approximately 80 million gun owners gun owners in the United States, and the number of accidental gun deaths per year among all age groups is 1,500, then the same calculation reveals the number of accidental deaths per fun owner to be 0.0000188. In other words, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Not everyone has a gun, ut almost everyone has at least one doctor. Yet, I hear no one suggesting we ban doctors because of how dangerous they can be!
We certainly should be harsh with those who abuse firearms by employing them in the commission of a crime. But abolishing firearms because there are reckless abusers makes as much sense as abolishing cars because some people drive while drunk. Most firearm owners are not only responsible but, because they know the true danger of a firearm, are exceptionally careful and safety-conscious. My own membership with in the NRA something that I cherish and value. This is not so much because I love guns but because I love freedom, and I believe to trample on one part of the Bill of Rights is to trample on all of it."
"Now that we have gone to Iraq, one thing is certain--we need to make sure that we finish the job and finish it right. If we were to pull out prematurely and allow tyranny to be restored to that nation, the ripple effect throughout the Middle East and the world would be profound. America would be exposed as a nation who had great power but lacked great resolve, making us more vulnerable tahn ever. Terrorists would view our lack of perseverance as our Achilles' heel to be exploited. We would be more vulnerable than ever to upstart and wannabe powers who would be willing to engage us in a battle they were convinced we would tire of, bringing greater division within our own country, and giving otherwise ally nations less of a reason to trust our commitments and believe in any of our promises."
I'm not sure where he got this but he thought it was good and I do too. :)
"Communism--you have two cows and the government takes both cows and gives you part of the milk.
Socialism--you have two cows and the government takes one of the cows and gives it to your neighbor.
Fascism--you have two cows and the government takes both cows and sells you the milk.
Nazism--you have two cows and the government takes both cows and shoots you.
Bureaucracy--you have two cows and the government takes both cows, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain.
Capitalism--you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull!"
Capitalism ROCKS! :D :D :D
I think he should definatly run for president again!
Shayleen |
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Feb. 9, 2009
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Been a while... :P
| Well, let's see what happened since I last posted... We got a pet rat! :D We don't know yet, whether it's a boy or a girl, but it's very sweet. Though at the moment it's got a cold. :( It's very young and is greyish white with black eyes. We had a dance last month. It was a lot of fun and I finally learned to waltz. I have never been able to get the hang of it before now. :P I also got to swing. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures. I brought my camera, but I completely forgot all about it! >:P Very frustrating! I recently finished this book called "Getting America Right" by Edwin J. Fuelner and Doug Wilson. It was really good. It was about what is wrong with our country and what we can do to fix it. Though it was very depressing, (There's a lot wrong with our country right now) it did give me a little more hope that it could be fixed. One of the things that they talked about was that America should have a flat tax. "All of us could save time, money, and trouble with a flat tax. Our current tax code is sixty thousand pages long and includes more than eleven hundred forms and publications. American businesses and individuals spend six-plus billion hours keeping records and filling in tax returns, and the code is so confusing that taxpayers are forced to shell out more than $200 billion each year for accountants, tax preparers, and do-it-yourself software. Even IRS employees don't understand the laws they're supposed to enforce. Several years ago, a GAO survey found that IRS employees gave incorrect tax advice half the time. Compare that quagmire of confusion with the simplicity of filing your return on a form the size of a postcard. How exactly would the flat tax work? Like a beautiful dream: Individual taxpayers would add up income from wages, salaries, and pensions only, subtract a standard personal allowance (more for families), and multiply by 17 percent. No need to worry about how to treat dividends and interest income--those taxes would be withheld and paid at the business level--or whether all your deductions were allowable or whether the Alternative Minimum Tax applied..." Now, wouldn't that be amazing? My voice lessons are going well. Right now I'm working on this song called "When You Believe" from the movie "Prince of Egypt". (Minus the Hebrew part.) I really, really, like it. :D It's a lot of fun to sing and I can get really into it. This week, she might get a mic and I can practice with it. I'm really looking forward to it. I've never really been able to get dramatic enough with a song. I'm hoping I will this time. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gur8ccqrQ9c That's the link to the song on Youtube. Lately I haven't been able to fall asleep till at least 12 o'clock. So I've been doing a lot of reading. I actually really like it. I haven't had as much time to read during the day, but I can get more reading done at night then I could during the day anyways. Besides the "Getting America Right" I also recently finished a book called "On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction" by William Zinsser. It is soooo good. This is probably the fifth time I've read it and I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to write better. Even if you're aren't going to write nonfiction it's still very good. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Shayleen/ http://www.scrapblog.com/shayleen http://www.playlist.com/user/7484987/dashboard http://www.imeem.com/people/hgsaKCZ Those are links to some of my accounts. If any of you have accounts to them too, you could add me. :) Shayleen |
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Apr. 30, 2008
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Reading
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Jan. 26, 2008
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Randomness...
I have recently been reading a new series of books by P. G. Wodehouse. They are really funny and interesting. I've read three of them now. They're about this man named Bertie Wooster and his "Gentleman's Gentleman", Jeeves. Bertie is always getting into the most impossible of messes and Jeeves always thinks up a wonderful plan at the very last minute and everything turns out right. The one I have just finished is called "Very Good Jeeves!" But there are a couple of things that kind of bug me about it. First of all, the cast of characters is really limited. There is Jeeves who is VERY smart. Then all of the men are stupid, eat and drink too much and fall for a different barmaid or waitress about every two or three weeks. The women are all either fat, stupid, fickle, and ugly, or gorgeous, thin, scheming, and way smarter than the men that they are trying to entrap into marriage. All of the relatives are mean and boss their poor nephews and grandsons around and if they don't do what they say, they cut off all their allowance. Also the women are so disrespectful of their husbands. And the book protrays women as unfaithful. "The danger, as I see it, is that after a bit more of this, Mrs. Little will decide that tinkering is no use and the only thing to do is to scrap Bingo and get a newer model." Jeeves (Jeeves and the Old School Chum) Fortunatly in THIS chapter the man triumphed over his rebellious wife. And I really do like them. They're really fun, easy, light reads. Here are some cartoons that I thought were funny. : ) 
Buttercup |
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Oct. 6, 2007
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Fairytales
I was just recently reading over some fairytales and I noticed some things. First of all they are all traitors. For example "The Norka". In it there are three brothers. The youngest goes down this hole (Which happens to be enchanted) He finds three enchanted princesses and takes them back to the mouth of the hole and his brothers pull them up. When they see the princesses they decide to pull their brother up half way and then drop him so that he dashed to pieces. Now does that sound like a very brotherly thing to do? Especially since there were three princesses and three brothers. Next the fathers never take care of their daughters. like in Snow White, Cinderella, and the three dwarves. The fathers all remarry and their new wives abuse their stepdaughters. And the fathers do nothing. They aren't even there for the whole rest of the book. I don't like the idea that stepmothers are all evil ugly witches. And all of their daughters are ugly lazy things. Next the youngest of the three siblings is ALWAYS the smartest, strongest, kindest, wisest, and best of the three. That makes me very mad because I happen to be the oldest. I also know several oldest in the family and they are all hardworking, and smart. It just makes me SO MAD when the story starts out "There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called the Simpleton." Then the end of the story is "It is not always the one who sits at home and dabbles his toes in the ashes who is the stupid one. I mean the other two have been out working for their father and creating careers for themselves. They have prepared themselves to raise a family and have something to live one and the youngest just happens to get the princess and half of the kingdom besides. Buttercup |
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