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Nov. 7, 2009
I is sooooooooo sorry is so late!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
"Please Mom?"
Posted By Amy
That is what mom hears when I find another free download of a photoshop program.  So far, I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (yes, it is really old...) and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 (another older version), Adobe's Artweaver, and now Picasa. The other day I found out what neat things Google's Picasa can do. So I downloaded it. (if you do download it, be warned that it can be a headache and you might end up reinstalling it because you did it all wrong...) Probably my favorite feature is the handy "collage" button. You select the photos, and in one click you have a collage. It takes a few more clicks to get the settings right though. This collage was mady with 250 photos, or something close... The only problem is that with so many photos it makes them really really tiny! Well, they aren't tiny until you resize it... But there was no way I was putting a picture that was abut 5000 pixels wide on my blog! 
Here is another one I made with only pictures of Elisabeth's face.
Speaking of faces, Picasa has the neatest feature where it can sort faces! Its really hard to explain, so if you'd like to read about it, go here: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93773 Its really good at it too! Only once did it think that Alison was me. :-) Even the computer thinks we're twins! LOL!
This last one is just a few random pictures that I've taken that I really like. I'll probably make quite a few more collages with my pictures! It's really fun!
I've learned a few things about Picasa the hard way, but now that have figured a few things out not to do, I'll never never NEVER do them again! LOL!
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Nov. 7, 2009
Here we go
Posted By Hannah
Here are the rules: Put your ipod(mp3) in shuffle,and then read each question. Answer every question with the title of the song that is playing at the time you read the question. Use the answer to the very last question as the title of this entry.No cheating!!!!!
Here we go!
1. How would you describe yourself? What dreams are made of
2.What do your friends think of you? He lives in you
3. What do you think about very often? Unwritten
4. What do your parents think of you? When you wish upon a star
5. What do you want to be when you grow up? My heart will go on
6. What do you think about your best friend? Bubbly
7. What song will they play at your wedding?God Rest you marry gentleman
8. What do you think about your friends? Popular
9. If someone says "Is this okay?" you say? Have a little faith in me (Ok that is a good one)
10. What would best describe your personality? So Small
11. How do you feel today?Breakaway
12. What is your life purpose?True Colors
13. What is your motto?Stand by me
14. What do your friends think of you?Girls just want to have fun
15. What do you think of your parents?The call
16. What do you think about very often?God bless the u.s.a
17. What is 2+2? Held
18. What do you think of your best friend? Just a dream
19. What is your life story? This is my now
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Someday
21. What do your parents think of you? Waiting on the world to change
22. What will you dance to at your wedding?Dancing Queen
23. What will they play at your funeral?Miracles happen
24. What is your hobby and interest? I need a hero
25. What is your biggest secret? Apologize
26. What do you think of your friends? Bad day
27.What are you going to name this post? A day has come |
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Friday, November 6, 2009
NaNoWriMo Day 6
Posted By Alison
My word count is 11,725.
And I haven't written anything today yet! I really should, but I've been so busy with tennis and speech co-op... now that is another story. I didn't have my expository speech ready yet this morning, and when I tried to draw an evolutionary tree as my visual (my topic was on convergent evolution), it just didn't work out. So instead of stressing out over my visual, I just wrote a whole new speech!  (And this was like two hours before I had to give it, too.) So I did my expository on CDs instead -- how they work. I was very pleased with the way it turned out, especially since I didn't have a whole lot of preparation on it!
My next speech has to be a humorous interpretation. *dies*
And tennis... it's been great for only day three! Today I took Betsy to the courts for about an hour. She is improving, too. It's fun when other people come to use the courts while we're there -- then I can watch them from a distance and try to imitate their serves. And I only hit the ball over the tennis court fence once this time. Much better than yesterday when I hit like five over the fence (at least). That got to be a pain. 
Um wait... this was supposed to be about NaNoWriMo. But my life this week has been more than just NaNo.
I'll leave you with an excerpt from my (still unnamed) novel. I like this scene, even though I was feeling a little goofy when I wrote it. lol.
At the same time that Joel was getting his fishing lesson, William's spirits were sinking lower and lower as he participated in the classes for the handful of children on the island. This was even more dull than school back in Canada!
The teacher was an old man named Thomas who had no hair, and no teeth (which made him very hard to understand). He never smiled, but he didn't raise his voice, either. In fact, he spoke in a monotone. A toothless monotone. If one of the children misbehaved, he would walk over to them and knock sharply on their head for a good two minutes while the class continued.
The children varried in ages from three to fourteen, and Thomas believed in teaching them all at once. As a result of this way of thinking, the older ones had to review the learning material for the three-year-olds every day. The day started out with a pledge to the island, the ocean, and the sun and moon that William found very disturbing. Of course, he did not know the words yet, so he was not expected to participate, but as he listened to the chant of the other children, he knew he could never join in with them. Growing up in Canada, the idea of saying a pledge was completely foreign to him.
Next, they said the ABC's together. Then they counted to 100. After that, Thomas called the students up to the front of the class one at a time and had them spell simple, three-letter words. William was bored to death with all of this.
After this came Science. This was the worst class of the session, William was sure. Thomas gave the class a lecture on some scientific topic (at least William guessed it was scientific, but he couldn't tell at all what the man was teaching them about). Then he asked each of the students questions which they could not understand because of his missing teeth. When they did not know the answers, he calmly walked over to them and started knocking on the child's head.
This man is crazy, William thought, as Thomas was painfully knocking on his head. Why is he allowed to be our teacher? We aren't learning anything here. At least I'm not. I'm not even keeping up on my multiplucation tables!
"Neh we wih do hiftoree," Thomas said in his usual monotone.
William payed close attention. This was his absolutely favorite subject. Hopefully Thomas would not make it as miserable for him as he had the other subjects so far. But "history" turned out to be nothing more than the children saying a chant that went like this:
China, Japan, Russia, and India. These are the countries of Asia. The men of China built a wall around their country to keep out intruders.
England, France, Switzerland, and Germany. These are the countries of Europe. Long ago, some people rebelled against England and started a new country in North America.
Canada, Mexico, and the United States. These are the countries of North America. The United States is made up of that group of people who rebelled against England.
Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina. These are the countries of South America. These countries are not important; nothing ever happens down there.
Egypt, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Kenya. These are the countries of Africa. The ancient Egyptians built giant pyramids and a strange looking statue called the sphynx, but other than that, nothing much happens here anymore.
Australia. This is a country that gets a whole continent to itself. No one is really sure what goes on here.
Antarctica. There are no countries here. It is cold and snowy, and no one lives here.
William found this exercise very dull, very uninformative, and very silly. Of course it wasn't true that nothing happened in South America, Australia, or Africa. And there were a lot more countries in the world than those mentioned in that silly chant. He started to raise his hand to say so, and then thought better of it. No sense in saying something that would cause Thomas to come over and start knocking on his head again. One time in Science class was painful enough.
Please excuse any improper grammar, punctuation, or spelling. NaNo is about writing, not editing. I'm stomping all over my inner editor, and it's great! *grins*
Oh, and I finished Algebra II this week!!!! We're having cake and ice cream tonight to celebrate. |
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Nov. 6, 2009
Friends
Posted By Emily94
Friends are amazing people....
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." - Randolf
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott
Friendship is born at that moment when one
person says to another, What! You, too?
I thought I was the only one.
- C. S. Lewis
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
I'm glad to call you my friend. Thanks for being one. ;)
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Nov. 5, 2009
Hey!
Posted By ~Karlee~
Hey guys sorry I haven't posted in forever we just got done moving and it's been crazy. The last 3 days we've been here at our new house but we finally have internet now. :) Thanks for understanding. Let's see...the reason why we moved is my dad got a new job(hooray), wait, not the best part, he's a pastor again!!! <3 So we moved into the parsonage and now here we are! I got this really cool new bed from my old next door neighbors right before we moved!! It's like a bunk bed with only a top bunk and underneath is a really nice desk(attached to the bed) and some cabinets, I'll post pictures sometime, but it's like 9 in the morning and I just got up like 15 minutes ago, so I don't feel like it. :) LOL thanks to anyone who has been on my flickr lately and im sorry I haven't uploaded anything. :) I'll get to that eventually...
Well I gotta go, I'll post (hopefully..) again tomorrow with bed pictures.
-Karlee |
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tennis Practice
Posted By Amy
The crowds cheered wildly as I sentt the ball flying back across the net to my dad. Wait--the "crowds" were the high school kids playing soccer, and they weren't cheering for me--they were cheering for their friends. Oh well. The other day a friend of ours let us have his tennis equipment for a while. Today, after an exciting visit to the high school, (read Alison's post about this) we finally got the key but at the time, people were using the courts. So this afternoon we got Dad to take us to play. Well, you can't really call it playing. We had never played before. So dad taught us how. We still aren't very good but it was lots of fun! I can't wait till we get to go again! Sorry there aren't any pictures. Our mom didn't come along with the camera and I was either chasing balls, or hittng them.
I might not change my template soon after all. I think I'll make the header over again. So, keep checking back! |
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Nov. 4, 2009
On a calander, I am weighed down, chained, slowly dragging myself towards December.
So, Taylor, Hailey, and I must have gone crazy. We're typing up Lord of the Ring on our computers. We're going to act it out.
I had a flute competition on Sunday. I WON.
Taylor, Hailey, and I played our instruments at a church.
My birthday's in a few days. about 20-something days. 
Taylor did nursery at church last Sunday. Hailey's doing nursery this week, and me the week after that. 
Taylor also is a little sick. 
We're going to the Annie Moses Band concert this Sunday! 
We have a day off of school today. 
Taylor and Hailey got me seasons 3 & 4 of I Love Lucy for my birthday!
  
-Emma
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Local Prison -- Oh, I Meant High School...
Posted By Alison
Recently a friend loaned us some tennis rackets and balls. We had been wanting to learn to play tennis for a while, but never acquired any equipment. When our friend heard about that, he offered to let us borrow a couple of rackets and a set of balls. Great, we thought, we can play at the high school's tennis courts.
So Mom made a couple phone calls to find out who exactly we needed to see to get the key to the courts, and then we four girls set off in high spirits, with our water and rackets and balls -- oh, and our $5 deposit to get the key.
As we walked onto campus, we were a bit nervous, never having been there before. This place has a high fence all around it, so as we walked inside it was sort of like entering a prison or something. I turned to Amy and said, "It's not like we're entering the Institute or anything!" (If you've ever read The Mysterious Benedict Society)
Of course, we were stopped by security. "What are you doing here? Do you have ID?" I don't know why I was so nervous, it's not like we were breaking the law or anything. We were allowed to continue.
So we made it to the desk where we could pick up the key. Whew! "We'll need a copy of your driver's license to give you the key." Of course I don't have one. So the woman at the desk went to go check with someone else to see what we could do. "I'm sorry, but you'll need an adult to be responsible for you." Frustrated, we left campus and wait for Mom to get there.
Finally Mom showed up (on my bike) and we were able to finally secure our prized key. Our troubles weren't over, however. Mom turns to ask a man (who she thinks is a security guard) if there is an exit out a different direction, and it turns out he is a police officer, leading away a student in handcuffs!
And of course, there were all the weird looks you get from all the high school students who no doubt are wondering what you are doing there. *screams*
And then, the tennis courts were being used anyway! So we had to go all the way back home without playing.
I guess it doesn't sound that bad now, as I write it, but all in all, it was the kind of experience that makes your blood boil. When we got home I put on my iPod and listened to Handel's Water Music to calm down. *grimace*
Oh, and NaNoWriMo! Isn't it something that my happiness depends on a number? As long as the number is up, so am I. If the number goes down, so does my writing interest. Hmm, there's something not quite right about that. Oh well. Anyway, I'm now at 7,341 words! Not as good as some people... but at least I'm ahead of schedule.
I hear that week two can be tough... well, I'm preparing to meet it head on. Now if I could just get a running start -- a giant leap ahead on my word count, that is. *heads off to write* |
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Nov. 4, 2009
Celtic Woman
Posted By Hannah
Guss What!!!!!! Our family got to see the celtic woman. It was so wonderful. They had very good songs, I loved them all. If you don't know who they are, then here is a pic.
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