If Life Were Frozen... - Homeschool Blogger

Ni hao -hello

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:34:00 -0600

Ni hao

Hello there, its ME again.
Basicly I've just been working and studying. What am I working on? Well mostly just serving coffee and etc. Trying to keep on top of things at home has been dificult. Hmm I guess work has been dificult, really. Its not so much that I mind the work but being away from home so much is hard for me. Everything feels so different...like being in a foreign land that you have to pretend is your home. Sometimes I just wish I could wake up, but I know its not a dream. See, I like my job and actually enjoy it to some extent. It pays pretty good and I meet a lot of interesting people. Its just that...well I want to be a homemaker. I don't want to be a career women. I seriously keep thinking maybe I should just get married soon and then I could be home lol. That's another thing, I had a long-distance b/f for 6 months and broke up with him about a month ago. Why did we break up? A LOT of reasons. I feel so stupid and wise at the same time lol. The whole thing was SO confusing I don't even want to think about it...but I'm still confused. Oh well I guess that's all I'm going to go into today I think I'm just going to go laugh and cry and say wan shang hao, masa el khair and goooooooooooodnight.
-Rachel

"The Baronet's Song"

Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:29:00 -0500

I'm reading a book called "The Baronet's Song" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087123291X?v=glance Its really good! I'm about half way through and I love it. Has anyone heard of it or read it? If not, I recommend it. It somewhat resembles the writings of C.S. Lewis and mentions him in the intro. It has a very powerful christian message to it, too. :) The series includes two books and the next is called "The Shepherds Castle" which is about some of the same charactors, I believe, but i haven't read it yet.

FREE Tee Shirt Give Away!

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:40:00 -0500

Yes, you heard it right! I'm are giving away a FREE tee shirt, and you could be the winner! I need help in spreading the word about our summer FREE Tee Shirt Give Away special. To enter the contest, just copy and paste the link to this announcement on your blog, and post this message. Please give it the title, "FREE Tee Shirt Give Away!" Then go to Joe's (my) blog and leave the link to your blog post in the comments section. You may post this to more than one blog, if you happen to write for more than one blog, but please only announce this once per blog. The contest will end when I have 100 submissions. I am giving away a FREE Tee Shirt to one winner! How do you enter? Just copy and paste this information to your blog and leave a link in the comments section on Joe's (my) Blog The winner gets to chose from one of the three designs! If the winner is a male, he gets a Male White T-Shirt. If the winner is a female, she gets a White Women's T-Shirt! The winner is picked by a random picking program, so it is fair. You get entered as many times as you have blogs! So please do post a link to every one with the entry. You can not just make your blog as of now and then post. You have to have viewers. I am giving away the White T-shirt because I personally have it, and I love it! Have fun, and happy blogging! -- Joe McLean --

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:46:00 -0500

Yesterday I went rafting with my brothers and their friend. We didn't go real far but it was still fun :) Today I got called in to work for 4 hours cause one of the girls that works there had a seizure. I've known her for a long time and she's had them before but not since january. I guess she's just kinda hard on herself sometimes and doesn't get enough sleep so that kinda triggered it. So, whoever reads this, please keep her in your prayers, if you would. She needs lots of it right now. Thanks so much! Sorry this is short...I'll try to make it a bit longer next time. :) -Rachel.

Tagged

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:27:00 -0500

Ok, my brother tagged me a while back so I thought I'd do the tag now (lol, I know, I'm like SO slow in doing it...)

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4. This exceptional reproduction of the Castle Defence Crossbow measures almost 4 feet long! 2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What can you touch? My computer. 3. What was the last thing you watched on TV? Jepordy 4. Without looking, guess what time it is 9:30 5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 9:35 6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? My brother mumbling. 7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? Yesterday. Trying to find something to do. 8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? My brothers HSB. 9. What are you wearing? Red long sleaved shirt and blue jean skirt. 10. Did you dream last night? Yes! A lot. 11. When did you last laugh? Yesterday. 12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? dry, white paint. 13. Seen anything weird lately? I'm sure... 14. What do you think of this quiz? Its ok...kinda cool. 15. What is the last film or video you saw? Polar express. 16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? Whatever God wanted me to. 17. Tell me something about you that I do not know. Hmm...if I knew who you were than this would be easier but since this goes to anyone who reads it....I ate a cookie for breakfast. 18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? destroy sin. 19. Do you like to dance? sometimes 20. Comment to George Bush: Give it your best and let God lead you. 21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? Haven't decided. 22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? Gideon maybe 23. Would you ever consider living abroad? dunno 24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gate? well done thou good and faithful servant 25. What one book, besides the Bible, has changed your life? bits and pieces of different books I guess. 26. 3-5 people who must also do this quiz on THEIR blog: Whoever wants to cause I don't know many poeple on here yet. :)

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:13:00 -0500

Well this past week has been an interesting one. Sunday before last I started training at my new job( a coffee shop called "Moxie Java") right after performing with my siblings at a church. So I was there(at work) from about 2:00 pm to 11:30 pm. Monday we usually sing at a couple nersing homes with friends, but that was canceled cause they were out of town...so that was pretty unusual. Then on tuesday I trained a bit in the morning with my sister which, mornings are the buisiest time. After I got home we went to boise, which is about 45 minutes away, to go shopping and pick my friend, Sarah, up at the airport. So we left at around 1:30 and shopped untill 6:00 or so, then we picked Sarah up and headed home. It was kinda awkward at first, seeing Sarah again, cause we hadn't seen eachother for almost a year and that was only for one day and before that it had been almost 4 years. But after we got home and stuff it was cool. The first night we slept outside on the trampoline, which was colder than we had thought it would be but it was still fun. While she was here we rode our bikes to town a few times and sat at the park. Wednsday we mostly just hung around home and talked (guess we had a lot to talk about.) Then on Thursday I trained with Rebecca from 5:00 am to 12:00 pm and Sarah came too. Mornings are the busiest at coffee shops so I learned quite a bit and got some good practise. Friday we hung around home and us girls had a "dress up party" where we all dressed victorian. Then Saturday was Anna's baby shower at Moxie Java (she's the manager there) so we went to that and I took over the counter for mary so I got a bit of practise working over there which was good cause I had only worked in Fruitland before(there's two stores that we all rotate between) and I was supposed to work that night at Ontario, which is where the shower was, so it was kinda fun and I learned some stuff. That night Rebecca had to bake at Ontario so she took me to work. It was actually supposed to be my first night working "alone" but She was there so if I needed help that was nice. Ontario is a bit harder to clean than Fruitland (the stores) cause its bigger but it wasn't to bad. We got out of there about 45 minutes after we closed but I guess that's not bad for my first try. After we got home a little after 12:00, we noticed Isaac wasn't home yet, so we waited for him to get home and then gave him a hard time for staying out so late (he was at his g/f's house and then we all sat around and talked for a while...it was kinda bad cause we were so tired we couldn't hardly go to bed! Or...at least that's how I was :P (goin on 7 hours of sleep and only 6 and 5 the nights before) and so finally we all headed for bed. In the morning we all got up pretty early and went to church. It was cool cause they had some missionaries from South Africa there. After church we sat around for a while trying to think of something to do. We had several idea's but the one we finally decided on was canoeing. SO that's what we did! It was so much fun! I want to do it again. On monday we went to nersing homes and my friend had the idea to dress up old fashion for the old people...so we did! It was kinda funny but they liked it anyways. So then on tuesday me and Martha went to take Sarah to the airport and said goodbye. Then we went shopping a bit and came home. On Wednsday I just did a bunch of stuff around the house (cleaning etc.) oh, I cut my finger and fainted...that was kinda scary but I'm fine now. I didn't really think I would faint but I did. Yesterday we had a really hard wind that came on really sudden. We didn't have much damage here but I guess over where my sister lives got it pretty bad. They said it was almost like a tornado. So now...Today. I'm sitting here typing and have answered several phone calls and I've been up since 7:00. So I guess that pretty much wraps it up. -Rachel.

Guilty...!

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:34:00 -0500

Oh dear...I haven't updated in SO long! I forgot to tell you about my livejournal I got(a while back...) but then I haven't updated that for a long time either. Oh well I feel like updating today (/night) so Here Goes!
The weather has been rather hot and blistering lately but not unenjoyable since we have a swamp cooler that works half decently. Not to say it keeps cool all the time but as for me, I really don't mind the heat all that much so its not so bad(some of my family members might disagree) but anyways.
So I had been wanting to get a nice tan sometime with all this nice sunshine ( ) but hadn't really been able to cause of housework and ect. things that prevented me from going outside...like, its not appealing to sit outside in 103 degree weather trying to get a tan...! But if you're doing something like swimming, then you can get a tan, have fun and keep cool.
So the story goes: Me and my sister were feeling adventuresome on tuesday morning, so we decided to go on a bike ride...which ended up being a very LONG bikeride.
We rode about 2 1/2 hours to our friends' house, who live about 10 or 11 miles away. Which is more than our previous escapades (8 miles) and that doesn't count going home. So it was quite the adventure. It wasn't that we were wore out, really, but the HEAT was a little much. We were glad we brang a insolated waterbottle with lots of ice cause we drank it ALL. On the way we got to go down a pretty fun hill(which I was considering walking my bike down before I saw it and remembered it
wasn't THAT steep...lol and it was so much fun going down, too! I wouldn't have missed it -) but then there was a rather bumpy gravel rode we had to walk our bikes on and then a nasty hill we had to climb. But we did get to dunk our hats in a cannal and we made sure to take enough brakes for water...we actually got a couple pic's but I haven't looked at them yet.
So after the climbing of the big and nasty ( :P) we got to ride it! I think there really is something smart about hills, see when you're climbing up it, you're working up all that swet and then on the way down you've got all that wind and it really cool's you off! its so much fun to ride them. Its definetly worth climbing em' :D.
Thankfully, when we got there they were home...we didn't call beforehand so they might not have been there but they were so we refreshed ourselfs there and got wet with thier hose. I didn't get soaking like my sister did but I wished I had when we got down the road a bit.
When we got to the top of the hill I called home on the cell to let everyone know where we were and how we were(they knew we had gone, but we had to check back anyways.) And it was a good thing we did cause mom (whom we sorta purposely didn't tell how far we were going :P ) was getting kinda worried. But I reasured her we were fine and keeping quite cool and had pleanty of energy(which me and my sis were questioning the truth of that later on) and soon we headed off again.
We had a nice ride down that hill again and the gravel road didn't seem as hard but once we got to that other hill (the one that was SO much fun going down :P ) it was a little ruff. But not unbearable(sp?) so we trudged on. It was SO hot but when we went fast there was wind so it wasn't too bad. Now, before I go any further, let me remind all of you how ammature we are at bikeriding :P Ok.Yeah.< lol.
So we stoped by some friends house but they weren't there so we just sat under one of their tree's and had a nice drink. It was then I realised how VERY sore I was and how VERY very sore I was going to be that night, (hehe!) and so on and so forth- we sang about water and home and everything else that sounded good untill, at last! We made it to the river. We practically droped our bikes and went as fast as we could (which was about like a slow walk ) through the brush to the river. As soon as we got in we were revived and ready to ride. So, on we went about 3 miles home. That last mile was the hardest part I think but it was still great fun. We got home at 3:10 and left at about 10:35 am. So about 4 1/2 hours. We sorta wished we'd gone a bit earlier though and if we do it again(which we prob will sometime) we'll prob leave earlier when its not so hot. But it was an adventure and adventures are supposed to be at least a little painful. So to wrap it all up, when I got home I looked like a slightly discolored lobster and felt like a redhot chili peper that had been chewed twice and spit back out....lol, okay maybe that's a little too graphic. I got a sunburn and was very sore. There, that's better.
Dat's it for now.

Saturday

Sun, 7 May 2006 00:04:00 -0500

Today was kinda boring so I don't think I will write it out.

Friday

Fri, 5 May 2006 18:06:00 -0500

First I'll fill you in on what I did yesterday then I'll tell about today. Yesterday I went to my grandparents to have breakfast and help them pack(they left for CA today) and then my mom and I sorted a TON of shoes. We were trying to decide what to sell at the yard sale and what to keep (yes, we're planing a yard sale, soon.) So it was good to get that done. Now all there is is clothes and 'misc' to sort through(hmm.) I cleaned and tidied up a bit before my grandparents got here and then made dinner while everyone played "Mexican train" (dominos.) I talked to my two brothers about personality types for a while then I remembered I was going to try to go to bed earlier than before(1:30) but it was already amlost 12:00 by that time. So I just read a chapter in my bible and went to sleep. Oh! I forgot to tell, grandma gave me this little touch lamp(which, I have always wanted one) so it was easier to read by and stuff. And today I woke up to my sister calling to see if I wanted to go yard saling' with her, Mom and Lois. She said I had 2 minutes to get ready so I quickly got dressed and fixed my hair as good as I could and rushed out the door. It was fun. I bought a couple things and only spent 1.50...that's pretty good eh? :D So after that I went with my sister and friend to a MaryKay thing (fun!) that was fun except that all I had eaten was a bannana and my sugars were messed up cause I drank some coffee. I was shaking all over and almost had a panick attack but then after that we went to mongolian and I was fine :D The guy there was pretty cool he looked like he was having fun(showing off.) After that we went out to icecream at BaskenRobins and then went home. Ah, its good to be home :)

A picture

Thu, 4 May 2006 02:02:00 -0500

Here's a pic of me in case anyone who reads this doesn't know what I look like. (lol...prob not) http://i1.tinypic.com/x4mcn9.jpg