Sweet Maggnolia

Oct. 9, 2008 - Tagged Again!

I was tagged by Cousin Breezy

Rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about yourself.

1. Today (the 9th) is my 15th birthday!

2. If I could choose a language to learn in school...it would be Hebrew

3. I have a Rooster named R2( who is just learning to crow) and is just like a dog or cat to me...he is very sweet...Here is a picture of him...

4. I don't like going out to eat...I do like restaurant food....but actually going into a retaurant and eating in it just bothers me....neither myself nor my family has no idea why

5. For breakfast nothing can beat homemade bread for toast....I could live on toast

6. I just entered a giveaway by Joy
The prize is the book Pure by Rebecca St. James and here are the rules:

1. You need to have permission by your parents to enter

2.You must be a residence of the United States or Canada and have an address...no PO boxes

3. You need to post the rules on your blog and if you do not have a blog you need to tell someone outside of your family about the giveaway

4. Leave a comment on her blog telling her you would like to enter.

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Oct. 5, 2008 - Tagged by Farmgirls

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Have you ever seen a tornado before? No, but I have seen a funnel cloud

Have you ever been in a landrover? No, to tell the truth I really didn't know what one was, but I do now:)

Has a tornado ever hit your house? Nope

Have you ever ridden a horse? Yes

Have you ever been in a castle before? not really, but I hope to before I die...it's on my list

Have you ever lived on a farm? Yes

Have you ever explored a secret passage? No, but that would be so much fun!

Have you ever explored a ruined castle? Once again I must sadly hang my head and say no

And tripped over a gravestone in a graveyard? Oh yes! Of course not the newer ones because they are about the size of the church they are next to, but the older ones are great for tripping

What is your favorite type of tree? I really like Willow trees and Birch trees

1. Favourite Animal: Any farm animals...except sheep...they are not my favourite

2. Favourite Color: Lavendar or calm green

3. Favourite Food: I enjoy many things that are Mexican

4. Favourite Dessert: Fruit Smoothies...strawberry and banana

5. Favourite Book: (Other than the Bible) I really liked Frankenstein, but there are others...Little Women, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Scottish Chiefs, etc.

6. Favourite Movie: I enjoy North and South (BBC) and Pride and Prejudice

7. Favourite Instrument: I play the piano and can tinker on the mandolin, but I REALLY want to learn the cello, and as far as listening to...the Celtic flute

8. Favourite T.V. Show: I really don't watch TV shows...except the OLYMPICS

9. Favourite Song: Anything...practically that Hans Zimmer composes

10. Who will you tag? No one

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Sep. 27, 2008 - A Literary Tag...Finally

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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they have printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you love.
~~4. And I crossed out the ones that I have no real idea of what they are...but I do know a few~~

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
~~2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein~~
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
~~4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling~~
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7 Withering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Works of Shakespeare- A few plays here and there
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
~~25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams~~
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (when I'm older)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
~~48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood~~
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
~~55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth~~
~~56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon~~
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
5~~8 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley~~
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
~~66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac~~
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
~~71. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett~~
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
7~~4 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson~~
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
~~79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray~~
~~80 Possession - AS Byatt~~
81. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Webb by E. B. White
~~88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom~~
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
~~90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton~~
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
~~99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl~~
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have read 13. How many have you read?

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Aug. 16, 2008 - ~Tagged by Anna93~

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    I have been tagged by Anna93.

1. What's your two favorite movies? I have plenty of favourite movies, but I will name only two: Pride and Prejudice (either new or old), and probably Road to Avonlea, which is really a show from a while back.

2. What's your favorite food? I really enjoy chicken fajitas

3. What are two of your favorite songs? Hans Zimmer is my favourite composer of the modern age and all of his songs count as one, and probably 'Summer' by Vivaldi

4. What are your two favorite books? The Bible, which suites ANY situation and of course is our 'letter' from the Creator to His children, and...oh....Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, currently

5. What's your favorite color? My favourite color is probably a lovely feminine lavender

6. Did you enjoy this tag? Yes, I enjoy almost all tags

7. Am I going to tag? I will not be tagging anyone this time. Sorry...

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Mar. 11, 2008 - Tag by BreezyTulip

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Rules: If you have been tagged, you must copy and paste the tag and rules onto your blog, delete my answers, and fill in your own. After that, tag 6 more people! Don't forget to inform your "tagees" that they've been tagged!

1. What's your name spelled backwards? ailonggaM teewS

2. If your name is added up two digits? 14

3. What did you last eat? I really can't remember

5. What is your favorite website(s)? The Time that Has Elapsed Mom's

6. Do you know how to do the hula? With a hula hoop yes, not the real swaying dance with the grass skirts

7. What's your favorite color? pastel yellow, green, and lavendar

8. What are your initials? SM

9. What's your favorite Scripture? I enjoy reading Titus 2 for inspiration a lot of time

10. What was the last movie you saw? Pride and Prejudice, the old one

11. Do you floss first or brush your teeth? Floss

12. What shoe do you put on first? Left

13. Ketchup or mustard? Ketchup

14. Who did you last talk to? Mom

15. What's your favorite season? Early fall

16. What is the weather like outside? Chilly, and overcast with building showers across the desolate fields

17. Soup or salad? Soup...salad is for rabbits

18. Chair or booth? Chairs are good for posture, but if I wanted to have fun...a booth

19. What is the color of you pajamas? I have many pairs, but my favorite is the red, gray, and white plaid pajama pants with a comfy white shirt

20. Right now what time is it? 10:15 a.m.

21. What did you have for breakfast? Didn't have any

22. Look left what do you see? a window facing a neighbor

23. How many window's are in your house? 6,7, or 8

24. Do you wear glasses, contacts, or neither? glasses

25. Flip flops or gym shoes? this is a really easy question for me....um.....FLIP FLOPS

26. Favorite place to take a vacation? Hobby Lobby, and Camping

27. If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be? Scottish Hillsides, or Prince Edward Island

29. How old will you be in the next leap year? 17?

30. What's your favorite number? Lately the number 9

Okey Dokey, now I can hear your eager questions for whom I am going to pick.

Meg
Renee
Leah
Desi



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Feb. 5, 2008 - Tagged By Leah, SimplySaid

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   I have been tagged by Leah, and I must answer that calling.

  Here are the rules!

1. Link to the Person that tagged you

2. Post the rules on your blog

3. Post the six non-important things about yourself

4. Tag six other people by linking to their blog

5. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment or PM, but comments are much funner to receive:)

Now for the drumroll...

1. I can tolerate almost any music, excluding some types: rap, hip hop, etc. Musical and Orchestrated preferred

2. I can not stand wearing a full mask of foundation, for I feel like I am suffocating, however lip gloss, eye liner, and eye shadow are okay...but I still don't wear any make-up

3. I come up with a new story to write everyday, however I may hardly finish one, so that means there is an excess of 365 stories swimming in my brain...and my family can relate to this

4. I don't like to shop, because my size in different that what they call 'normal' and it is just so frustrating to shop! But I love to shop for shoes...not that difficult

5. I have a fear of eating in public...what I call...cibiphobia

6. Unlike some other teens, I really love to clean my house! Sweeping, vaccuuming, dusting, mopping, and Pine Sol-ING

There it is...my deepest secrets out in the open!

I will tag....Rose, BreezyTulip, Robinlyn! Everyone Have Fun!

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Dec. 19, 2007 - More Tags!

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I received this tag from Emily, vintagegirl but I am not going to tag anyone else. So enjoy!

8 Things I'm Passionate About

   1. The Lord God Almighty, for without Him I would have nothing else to care for and without Him I would have nothing

   2. My Family, and their salvation

   3. My Friends and Church Family

   4. Music-mostly mandolin and piano music

   5. Reading exciting novels…and just recently writing advanced children’s books

   6. Writing and Imagining New Lands, Characters, and describing them

   7. School- I enjoy doing school and spending time with my Mom

   8. Listening to Hans Zimmer

8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die

   1. Lead a Godly Life that influences others

   2. Marry a Godly Man who has the same convictions as I do

   3. Have a houseful of kids, and always be on my toes keeping them out of trouble

   4. Own a Farm with everything except sheep

   5. Tour Europe with my cousins

   6. Publish a small children’s series, and write a novel

   7. Take an art class to majorly improve my artwork

   8. Visit Prince Edward Island

8 Things I Say Often

   1. “What’s that?”

   2. “No I didn’t”

   3. “I had it in my hand a few minutes ago…”

   4. “So….are we doing anything today?”

   5. "Do I have to do Algebra?”

   6. "Hello?”

   7. "Are we going to the library today?”

   8. "Do I need to feed the chickens?”

8 Books I've Read Recently

   1. The Bible - God's Word

   2. Two from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes

   3. The Sea King by Albert Marrin

4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini

   5. Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

   6. The Second Mrs. Giaconda and I can not remember the author’s name

   7.Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

   8. Before You Meet Prince Charming by Sarah Mally

8 Songs I Could Listen To Over and Over

   1. Up is Down - Hans Zimmer

   2. Tell Me Now by Moya Brennan and Hans Zimmer

   3. Parlay by Hans Zimmer

   4. One Day by Hans Zimmer

   5. Budget Meeting by Hans Zimmer

   6. At Wit’s End by Hans Zimmer

7. Tia Dalma by Hans Zimmer

8. And some others that I can not think of

8 Things That Attract Me To My Best Friend

   1. Is a Strong Christian

   2. Enjoys my sarcastic humor

   3. Is Understanding

   4. Seems to Love My unconditionallyJ

   5. Always gives hugs and kisses

   6. Is a Picky Eater like Myself

   7. Will Always call back or email back when I am desperate

   8. Teases me with a warm kindness

   9. Has a Good taste in clothes, which is nice because I usually get them when she is doneJ



8 Things I've learned This Year

   1. Not everything I say people want to hear

   2. Almost everything in school

   3. WWI was triggered because of an assassination, that was from Emily’s Blog and I just learned that

   4. How to decoupage with a goal and achieve that goal

   5. What not to do at a chicken show (personal experience, if you hold a chicken a certain way and they start to flap, you might end up messy all over)

   6. That going to a high school basketball game…you can see every kind of person there…the lovable and the ones that must be pretty hard to love

   7. A whole lot of things from Answers in Genesis Magazine Answers

   8. That if you put White Out on your fingernails , trying to make them look like a French tip…it is really hard to get off!

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Dec. 13, 2007 - My First Tag!

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My cousin BreezyTulip tagged me!

1.How many brothers do you have? I have one half brother and one step brother

2.How many sisters do you have? I have two half sisters and one step sisters

3.Can you whistle? Occasionally, sometimes when I am goffing around I can whistle a tune

4.Do you like "Silly Songs with Larry"? YES!, Well, let me take that back, I enjoy SOME songs!

5.How often do you wear black? When I am at a funeral and that is not very often

6.Do you like to wear black? Why not

7.How about pink/purple? Of course, as long as they are the right shade of color

8.What is you favorite veggie? Corn, arranged any way...almost

9.How often do you lose your hairbrush? Not very often...but I know Larry loses his a lot

10.How long is your hair? A few inches past my shoulders when straight, but when it is curly right at my shoulder...that gets annoying sometimes

Rules: If you are tagged you must copy and paste my questions and answers onto your blog, delete my answers, answer as you would, and then tag some more people! (You must notify your tagees by comment or message, and don't forget to include these instructions.)

I tag: CrochetCrazy melarooski and Jo

Well Everyone Have a Nice Day!

Maggnolia

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