...by onedaymore

"Fall Favorites"

1. Favorite Smell? homemade cranberry sauce, cooking...it makes the whole house smell like ginger, cinamon, honey, orange, and cranberries *yum*

2. Favorite Food? carmel apples

3. Favorite Color? green, black, brown, burgandy

4. Favorite Drink? hot apple cider, tea, and coffee

5. Favorite Treat? carmel apples

6. Favorite Place to go? the McPh-----'s house.  (excuse the hyphens--I'm avoiding useing people's names)

7. Favorite Candy? candy canes :) 

8. Favorite Movie to watch? The Client, Sabrina, While You Were Sleeping ...The Lake House is fun too.

9. Favorite Clothing to wear? jeans and a nice t-shirt and sweater.

10. Favorite Outdoor Activity? rowing--I got to go rowing in CT, where I used to live, but there isn't a rowing group/program down here except for if you're at college already.

11. Favorite Football Team? I don't like football.

12. Favorite Fall Holiday? Thanksgiving

13. Favorite Haunted place? *shrug*

14. Favorite Food at Thanksgiving Dinner? homemade cranberry sauce with orange, honey, and cinammon.

15. Favorite Pie? apple

16. Favorite Fall Hobby? sewing :)

17. Favorite Fall Memory? walking in the rain without an umbrella or raincoat and getting completely soaked.  I love rain!!

18. Favorite Fall Sight? heavy, windy rain...and lightning :)

19. Overall Favorite thing about Fall? the rain, the cold ...and the cranberry sauce :) 

20. Overall Favorite Season? Spring, and Fall; I like it when the weather changes, either from warm to cold or cold to warm.

I just realized I forgot to tag people!  I tag:

1) LittleSparrow

2) Ebell1993

3) novelboy

4) QueenFlora

5) forestcrazy

6) Wrangler

7) chickenladyariel

8) stillsmallvoice

And anyone elso who'd like to do this tag is welcome to. 

~Ariel

Well, I have a bunch of things so say so I'll start with the first one:

Guess what?  I'm going to graduate from high school this year, a year early.  I just found out in August that it would work out, and I'm pretty excited!  I'm going to have a senior recital in may, so I'm practicing lots of violin :-)  Oh, I'm taking Calculus at a local community college; it's going really well so far.  I like the class and the professor is very good!

I took this fun Jane Austen heroine personality quiz:

And I figured, since this is a "random post" I would list five random things about myself or my family that you might or might not know.

1) My dad is a pastor.

2) I have a cute, orange-colored, fat hamster named Oswald. (Yes, he really is orange; actually, depending on the lighting he even looks strawberry-colored sometimes.  And he has reddish-pink eyes.) 

3) I have one older brother, two younger brothers, and no sisters.

4) I love to read.  I recently read Mansfield Park which I think is one of my favorites of Jane Austen's works!  And I am reading a series by Stephenie Meyer; I just finished the first book in the series called Twilight; it was good!

5) I've been playing violin for almost eleven years, and I love it!

~Ariel

We got a new puppy!!  She's a black lab.  She was three months old when we got her (and in the pictures), but she's now about four months old.  Her name is Jezebel Joy, but I just call her "Jezzie."

Above: Jezzie after we'd had her for about two hours. (We had to get the camera right away; we just couldn't resist:-)

Below: Me and Jezzie on day 2

Isn't she cute?

~Ariel

I recently saw the movie "Dear Frankie."  It was awesome!!  I think I have a new fav. movie!!

Here are some icons:

Awesome movie!!

~Ariel

This past week we had Shakespeare Camp.  Our group--the "Homeschool Shakespeare Troup"--performed Much Ado About Nothing this past thursday and friday.  It was great fun!!

I played Ursula.  I sewed my own costume, and I had to make an underdress too.  The outerdress alone was ten yards of 60" wide fabric (it would've been 15 yards if it was 45" fabric); I found the fabric on the dollar-a-yard rack at Wal-Mart.

The sleeves were sooo heavy!!  I even had to play violin in that dress for the trio before the play.  It was actually really fun!

The bodice was all lace-up; it has eyelets all down the front.  The sleeves are edged with trim and decorated with silver ties, and the front of the dress is also lined with trim.

~Ariel 

Many thanks to QueenFlora and ForestCrazy for granting me the Beautiful Thoughts Award!!

I would like to award:

1)Elizabeth (Ebell1993)

2)Natalie (stillsmallvoice)

3)Jenny (purplearrow)

4)Ariel (chickenladyariel)

Also, I was tagged by novelboy...

We saw Prince Caspian today! 

It wasn't at all like the book, but Prince Caspian was my least favorite of the Narnia series anyway--I was ready for a new interpretation of the book.  I liked the way they did it in the movie.  They added a whole other dimension with Peter; he struggles with adapting to being a "kid" again in England after he's been a grown-up high king in Narnia.  I thought that was very realistic as opposed to the book, which didn't really get into that.

Also, Happy Birthday to Joyful24!!

~Ariel 

My brother got this new hamster two weeks ago.  It's a Campbell's Russian Dwarf Hamster, and it was supposed to be a male; in fact the store only sold "males."  But, last week Monday, it had six babies, so now we have six adorable hamster pups that we're trying to find homes for :)  The pet store will take them if we can't find homes for all of them, though.  They're very cute.  Their eyes are still closed; so they're still blind, but they're crawling around and making lots of noise! 

~Ariel

Thanks to Ebell1993 for awarding me the "Excellent Blog Award."

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The rules of the Excellent Blog award:

You must to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find that the Excellent Award is worthy of. Feel free to award people who have already been awarded...

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1) onedaymore

2) BrielleCostumes

3) novelboy

4) PurpleArrow

5) Indyjones

6) forestcrazy

7) QueenFlora

8) chickenladyariel

9) Wrangler

10) Bismarck

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~Ariel

My favorite animals are frogs and piglets.  So, I thought I'd post these cute frog icons:

~Ariel

(Many thanks to phlourish icons for the adorable frogs!!)

Well, I haven't posted in a while; there's a lot to say...

My brother Luke and I are auditing a class on Christian Doctrine at a college in the area.  It's really good, but kind of long.  It's three hours: from 7:00 to 10:00 pm, although it's probably that long because it's only one day a week. 

My beautiful dog died in mid-December.  We're hoping to get a puppy in late March because we're going on a trip with my grandparents early in March, and we want to wait until we're back.

I'm doing a Tennessee State History class this semester.  Actually, it's a computer program, and once you finish a lesson on it, you can't see that lesson again.  Every four or five lessons or so you have a quiz, and or course because you can't look over previous lessons, you can't study for the quizes:(  Oh, well.

I've been reading some fun books: I recently read the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, that series was fun, although I liked the last three books much better than the first two.  I finished Emma by Jane Austen obviously.  And I've been reading some books by Georgette Heyer; she wrote mainly regency romances.  My aunt recommended her books to me, and she has such good taste in books, that I'd read anything she suggests.

Also, we have tryouts for our Homeschool Shakespeare Troupe this February.  We are doing Much Ado About Nothing this year; I'm trying out for Beatrice and Don Jon.  It'll be fun to see who gets what part.

~Ariel