This is my place to write as I please. Most of my posts are long, so beware, lol. Everyone is welcome. Hail to my fellow writers! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:07:00 -0500 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:07:00 -0500 I've missed you all while I was gone. Our computer literally fried, so we've been without for over a month.. just recently got a new one, a Mac, which I'm still getting used to. Sorry about not posting:) I don't have much to say... school's getting harder, life's getting crazier, and I'm having lots of fun. Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll be able to go to Homecoming dance this Saturday, and friday night Em and I are having a sleepover at our friend Angel's house- she's older, but not married (until I find her perfect guy, haha) and still helping out her parents at home. Her dad's gonna be out of town, so it'll be just us and her momma, eating popcorn, watching movies, and getting good advice:). I can't wait! Yesterday was a rockin' day, too.. literally, to be truthful. Jadon took Emily and I up to hang out with him and his guy friends- Gus, Ben, Matt, Mike, Justin, and Eric- out in the middle of the National Forest hunting grounds, where there are these huge outcroppings of rocks, some of them over 100 feet high. Em and I were the only girls, so we had our own fun, bouldering and hiking around, looking at all the cool dead trees and finding hidden caves and stuff. The guys' idea of a good time was getting on top of the cliffs and throwing as many big rocks as they could off the side. (Woohoo.) lol. Jadon wanted us to stay with the guys more, but they were being all.. boylike. (Big shocker, there.. hehe) So we were like, ehh.. no. haha but we graced them with our presence every once in a while. If they weren't being too annoying. :):):) After about two hours of doing our thing, we found them again and all went back to the car, where we shared the generous foodstuff (a bag of cheetos) and blasted music. Ah, the luxury of being miles and miles from the nearest person, seperated by thick pine trees and dense overgrowth. :) I tried to convince the guys to come with us to youth, but only Gus ended up coming (and truth be told, he's the most annoying of them all. *Sigh*). Thankfully, youth was chill. We just played volley ball, sang worship songs, and had a half-hour of prayer time. All in all, a good day. Well... I should go.. but I'll update more often now I've got a computer:). Later! ~Lyssa~ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/735559/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:07:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/735559/   Well, as I haven't written in like, a month, I've decided to break my silence and tell you all about my Labor Day adventures up in Small Town USA. haha.     I'm not sure if I told you that I got my permit this summer (yes, a permit at sixteen. I know, I know, my parents were kinda slow on the uptake there;)...) Which has DEFINETLY been a bit of an adventure. So if you ever come drving around "Bubble Bubble Burg" you'd better watch out! Lyssa's on the road and moving fast! haha.     This summer has been crazy. I know I left it on kind of a depressing, selfish note with the last post and all, but really, my summer was AWESOME. While it lasted at least. I started junior year two weeks ago, and it's really been nose to the grindstone ever since. Thankfully, today I got off cuz of the holiday. Guess what IIIIII diiiiid????? HA! I drove over a HUNDRED and THIRTY miles along the highway! Not one way, lol, to and from, but still. I got three hours of driving over with and got to see a frikkin sweet ghost town while I was out and about as well! My mom took me. And actually, except for one incident where I didn't turn hard enough and ended up almost in a ditch, and one incident with a trucker trying to pass me, I did very well. Was rather proud of myself, actually. I want to do it again, driving's soooo much fun!       Well. In other (definetly less exciting) news, I got to see an Indian Pow-Wow in town on Saturday, which rocked. There were tourists everywhere, which didn't rock. Our town is built around a main highway through the Rocky Mountains, and people come in from all over for holdiays and weekends. Tell me... if it's called Tourist Season, why are we not allowed to shoot them? lol. Sorry. Some mountain humor for you there. Everyone up here think's it's hilarious.. you're missing out:).   Anyway. Pow-Wow. There were all these dancers and people on the drums doing their chanting thing, and all these artists from the reservations. Oh, there was this one woman from the Apache tribe- she was drop-dead GORGEOUS. High cheekbones, proud nose, full lips, smooth black hair, and a itty-bitty waist. It was awesome. She was holding a baby on her lap, both dressed in full costume, and the baby was playing with this ornament at the end of her hair. A photographer lady I know got some amazing pictures that I wish I could show you. It was awesome.     Yesterday I went down into the big city for my Grandma's 80th birthday party. My mom stayed home with our dog, who doesn't do well on car trips and is kinda sick, so my boyfriend Jadon came along. Yeah, the whole trip was really quiet and generally not so awesome. Our family's very quiet and reserved. We talk about history and civil war battles and the latest article in Times magazine and my Gran's memories of her life growing up on a farm in Canada as we properly eat our (very good!) roast pork and mashed potatoes and salad on the good dishes. Then my uncle washes the dishes as my dad plays the piano and everyone else settles down to read in the living room.   Jadon's family, however, is BIG and LOUD and just all together crazy- his uncles swap stories (one does engineer stuff for the army, the other's a policeman in San Diego, Cali), his five little brothers and sisters run all around the house, the women all bring out the casseroles and paper platesand get in each other's way in the kitchen- just a rollicking good time. So sitting with my family was definetly an experience. It is anyway. haha. We ate until we were fit to burst, then all slept in the car on the way back. Well. Excepting my dad, of course, who was driving. haha.   Sigh. Okay. It's kinda late. And as my father keeps (insistently) pointing out, I have school in the morning, and I need to go to sleep. YES, dad, I KNOW what time it is. lol     I'll try and be better at keeping up, K? Have a great week, you guys!!   ~Lyssa~ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/724871/ Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:48:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/724871/   Today is a beautiful day, but I'm not really enjoying it. All my friends have left me because they weren't willing to wait, so I'm alone in the house, listening to music and writing. I've decided that while I don't really like being left behind, today I'm in such a mood that I wouldn't have been able to enjoy myself anyway.     We finished VBS yesterday, after five VERY long days. I did the sound board stuff, which was confusing and kinda hard because of everything we had to do to fix it after lightning struck the church and blew out most of the equipment last Sunday afternoon. (I know, crazy, huh?) But I made it through with nothing more than a repeat of VBS songs stuck never-endingly in my brain and a couple of sore muscles from helping the girls who were doing the motions to the songs every once in a while. So all in all, it wasn't too bad.   Yesterday evening was amazing, though.. I went dancing with Jadon and Emily (who got back yesterday as well!) and had a ball (lol no pun intended). I learned how to samba and perfected my waltzing and cha-cha skills:). I love dancing with Jadon's dad, Mr. Torin, who was leading it. He's such an amazing dancer- I can just close my eyes and let myself be guided. As long as I keep to the rythym of the music, he can lead me in almost any step and I'll transition smoothly. I feel like such a princess when I'm dancing with him, and apparently I look amazing as well (or so says Jadon, but he's kinda biased, lol). I could dance forever... Oh my goodness. you have no idea how much I love it.       *sigh* I don't have much else to report. I may go for a run. I need to shake myself out of this mood...     ~Lyssa~ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/709116/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:01:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/709116/ I wrote this today. I'm not sure what the backstory is yet... but I like the girl character. Tell me what you think. It's a bit wierd.. but when is my writing normal? lol.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   He looked at me, a queer gleam in his eyes. “How old were you?”   “I was eleven. He was fifteen.”   Murphy sighed. “Jeez, I’m sorry, girl. We guys can be real idiots sometimes. What happened?”    I looked him in the eye. “I learned to grow up. Murph, I don‘t entertain silly romantic ideals anymore. I’m not looking for love, or chemical soup, or whatever you want to call it. I live day to day. I take affection and boyfriends because it gives me at least some semblance of security and it‘s expected of me, not because I particularly enjoy it. I hook up and I break up. I‘m not what you would call an average sixteen year old.”   “Then what are you?” He wasn’t making fun like most adults would have. I appreciated it.   “Honestly? I don’t know yet. I look in the mirror and see a teenager with too-pale skin, too-big brown eyes, and too-long brown hair. Some look at me and see a pretty, well-adjusted, nice teenager who sings at church and volunteers her time at the middle school youth group, leading games. Some look at me and see a moody, intense girl who writes poetry, reads fantasy, and has a needle-sharp wit she’s not afraid to hone on your blunders. Both would be right.”   He watched me, that look still on his face. “What if I told you I don’t see either of those?”   I laughed, a sharp sound to my own ears. “What do you see, then?”   “Hmm. I see a smart, charming, witty young woman who has a lively personality and a temper to match. She can turn anything you say around on you; make you think, really think, about things you never wanted to before; and has no problems making her opinion known. I see a girl who’s slightly cynical but all caring, and while she may have a sharp tongue, she knows how to really listen. That’s what I see.”   I stared at him, for once unable to come up with anything to say.   “Curtain call, you guys, come on!” Tim stuck his head through the green room door, and everyone inside quickly put down what they were doing, heading out to the wings for the final bows.   I was grateful for the interruption. My eyes had chosen that moment to start watering from the air-conditioner being so close and set on high. As we walked with everyone else backstage, I used the opportunity to wipe them. I wouldn’t want Murph to think I was crying. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~Lyssa~ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/707172/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:32:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/707172/   This past weekend rocked my socks off, haha. Oh my goodness, I had sooo much fun!!!     Thursday night I went with Jadon, Mike, and Melissa to see Transformers 2 at a big movie theater down in the springs. An absofreakingloutley AMAZING movie.. it was very perverted, though, so big warning about that. But we had so much fun!! Jadon got us tickets for a 7:50 showing, and we had gotten there around seven, so we walked around the parking lot for a while, just talking, then crossed the highway and went to Target. Mike and Melissa bought Skittles and Sour Patch Kids and Jadon and I bought Twizzlers. We were going to sneak them into the movie, but I had left my bag (our mode of candy transportation) in Jadon's car, so Melissa and I ran back to grab it so we could get them inside.   Jadon had gone mudding (where you drive your car through huge mud puddles and splash your car so it gets all dirty) the day before, and while Melissa grabbed our stuff, I decided to be impish and wrote "Just Married- Leave Me Alone To Dieeeee" on the back (lol it's an inside joke). Then we ran back to the theater just in time:).   We got out around eleven thirty, and had a total music jam on our way back up to town:)     Friday Jadon came down to get me around lunch time, and we drove up into the boonies to meet with Tyler, Mike, and Jadon's family so we could all go canoeing. At first I thought Melissa was going to come, but it turned out that I was the only girl- and the youngest teenager, to boot:). Tyler, Jadon, and Mike are all eighteen*rolls eyes* haha.   Tyler was the first one there, so we hung out with him for a while, just joking around and laughing. Then Mike got dropped off by his mom. I hate to say it about anyone, but she was just annoying! She kept repeating herself over and over and over, talking constantly and nagging Mike to put on sunscreen and don't scratch up her car and don't get into poison ivy and don't do anything that would make her have to come back out here and ON and ON. lol. Wow, we were all glad when she left, me especially. She kept addressing me, mostly because I was the only other gal there. Yikes..   The boys immediately put on their swim trunks (making sure I was far away first, of course, lol) and dove into the river, which was swollen to almost four feet. It's normally like one and a half.. the current was so strong!!!   They all wanted me to come in and join them in the water, which was freaking cold. I refused plenty of times, but they all have little sisters and my "No's" had almost no effect. They resorted to trying to pull me/ push me in, constantly faking me out, haha. Finally, when I ran out of excuses, I went back to the car and put on my extra set of clothing, then came back out and started wading into the water. Jadon, just for another laugh, went to fake me out again, and rushed at me, pretending like he was gonna shove me in. I stepped backwards with a gasp and my foot slipped on the rocks...SPLASH, in I went, spluttering and coughing! hahahaha it was GREAT. We were in stitches for minutes, lol.     After hanging out in the water and playing splash-fights (apparently for a wimpy little sixteen year old girl, I'm pretty intense about splash fights XD) we all got out and walked a ways up stream so we could float to a small island in the middle. Tyler and Mike went the wrong way in the maze of bushes and long grass, so they ended up farther down-stream than Jadon and I, which was SUCH a good thing!! We start wading into the water, and all of a sudden I'm just caught in the current. I can't fight against it. All the guys were okay- Tyler's six foot and built like a football player, Mike's six four and wiry, and Jadon's five eleven and he's got muscles, man.  But me? A little five-four svelte ballerina? I had no chance. My feet were swept out from under me, and down the river I went! Jadon shouted for Tyler to catch me, and he reached out and got a painful grip on my arm, holding onto the reeds by the side of the river to steady himself. Mike swam down next to me and helped Tyler drag me into the shallows. Ow.   From then on I stayed at the edges of the river, holding on to the plants growing there so I didn't get my feet swept out from under me again. The boys had somewhat of a hard time fighting the current, too, after a while, so we eventually all came back to where the cars were parked and just waded around for a while.     Finally Jadon's family came with the canoe and some old friends, and we all had watermelon and took turns both riding down in the canoe and drving down to pick the others up just before the rapids. It was so much fun, I got so tan:).    Around six-ish, maybe earlier, we teens left and all went to Tyler's family's campsite just a few miles up the road, Mike and Ty in one car and Jadon and I in the other. Of course there were huge mud puddles everywhere, so the guys decide to start mudding while they drive. Both cars start speeding up, Tyler's in front and Jadon and I behind him. We're both going at least sixty when Ty hits a huge puddle and slows way down, too late for Jadon to see. All of a sudden, we come up out of the mud and Tyler's Jeep is RIGHT THERE, two inches away from our front bumper, and we're still doing sixty! I scream and Jadon cranks his steering wheel to the left as Ty cranks his to the right- the collision was avoided, just barely. OH my FREAKING gosh, I was hyperventilating!!!  Jadon's Explorer locked up, and we skidded like crazy, but were able to get back on the road behind them. As soon as we could, we stopped.. the guys all looked really concerned about me, haha, I was just sitting in the front seat with my hands cupped over my mouth and nose, trying to stop hyperventilating, my eyes wide. I was so scared, I swear my heart stopped... I made them all swear to never do that to me again. We got a good laugh out of it later, but my gosh... whoo.     Anyway. We got to the campsite without further harm, and had some hamburgers with his family. Hahaha ohh another great story- so we're all drinking sodas, and Mike and Jadon both burp really loud. Tyler's like "Hey, you guys, you're in the presence of a lady." And all of a sudden I let loose with the biggest burp of my life, totally by accident! Hahahaha we were laughing sooo hard!! Woooowww.. lol.   After dinner the guys went mudding again, and Jadon's car got so much water up in the engine that it refused to work after a while. So we all sat out there and talked until he could get it working again, and decided to go to Jadon's youth group after saying goodbye to Ty's family.     Youth group was fun, too. They all were eating, so we had some fries with them and read out of the book of proverbs. Then all the guys (there were only three girls, including me, and like fifteen guys) went outside to play football. So Rachel and Emily S. (the other two girls, two of my best friends) took me out to their house (Rachel is married to one of Emily's four older brothers, and they live on the same property) to see their new horses!! We talked and walked around and fed the horses, then went back and watched the boys kick each other's butts, haha. It was GREAT. Jadon took me home around ten thirty, on the way we got to see a spectacular storm off on the horizon. It was the greatest day:).     Saturday was July Fourth, so I got to sleep in and eat a really rockin' breakfast of sausage and pancakes before going down to our town's annual festival thing at the park. MM, cotton candy and music and booths galore. SOO much fun. Unfortunately, it started raining, so the fireworks were cancelled. BUT.   July FIFTH, our town all comes out to the middle school's football field to listen to a big symphony and watch this amazing display of fireworks. The army comes out with their cannons, and at the very end, before the fireworks, the symphony plays the William Tell Overture and they shoot them off, haha. Thankfully, no storms came to rain on that parade!!      Mike, Melissa, Tyler, Jadon and I all met up there around six, along with Tyler's sister Tory and their friends, Brock, Key, John, and Taylor. It was so much fun. We just walked around everywhere and talked to lots of random people. We were right next to the cannons when they went off, and saw the fireworks up close. It was spectacular! I love this town:).   Afterwards Jadon took Mike, Melissa and I out to Taco Bell, and we hung out for a bit before I had to go home, and listened to lots of metro station.. I've been addicted ever since, lol.      Haha so that was my weekend! I had a BLAST. How was your fourth of july weekend??   ~Lyssa~           http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/705746/ Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:32:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/705746/   Lots has happened in the past however many days of not-writing, lol. Wow. it's been a WHILE, hasn't it?? Gosh!     So I went to a revival meeting on the seventeenth (a Wednesday) with Katie, Emily, and Sammi. We got a ride from our newest friend, Tyler, who graduated with Katie and Jadon in May. It was actually his dad and grandpa doing the preaching, and WOW they were amazing! It was definetly a new experience- They're southern baptists, so they did all the "hallelujahs" and "amens" in agreement to everything, haha and they called each other "brother" and "sister." I was Sister Alyssa, hehehe. Some things they said I had a bit of a hard time with, but that's just because I'm more of a liberal christian than most people. I don't think I could ever be Southern Baptist.. I was raised Presbyterian, which is almost completely opposite. But it was cool to go.   Afterwards we all ran around with the other kids and played zombie, lol. It was so much fun!     Friday night Jadon, Emily, Katie, Sammi, Tyler, Jesse, Donnovan, Tory (Tyler's cousin and little sister) and I were all supposed to go dancing, but it was cancelled. So Emily and Katie and I had everyone over to their house for chips and root beer floats and movies. We watched Hurcules, then went to the park and acted crazy. Haha it was so much fun.     The next day we all went down to this indoor theme park thing called Mr. Biggs and hung out. Tyler and Jadon both brought friends of all sorts, so we were enough to fill three cars to the bursting by the time we all met up. I swear, we were at Biggs for five hours, playing all the arcade games and go-carts and miniature golf. We ate nasty pizza and ran around having a grand old time. Unfortunately, I got a migrane after lunch that kinda laid me low for a while. I took some ibeuprophen and drank caffiene, but still. Ick.     Emily and Katie left Sunday after church. They're on the East Coast, hanging out with family. I think currenly they're somewhere in Vermont, probably having lots of fun without me, haha. Sammi's back in Denver, but I may visit her soon *crosses fingers* I hope! I've been babysitting this past week, finally, so I'm getting some cash flow. Let's hear a Woot! for Dr. Pepper and Sunflower seeds! haha. Emily also left her bright pink iPod with me, so I've been listening to all her up-beat, peppy songs. I still miss her, though.  :(               Wow. Today is such a pretty day, I can't waste any more of it indoors. I'll talk to you guys later!!!   ~Lyssa~     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/703083/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:38:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/703083/ .. *sigh* I'm in the strangest mood. Maybe it's from being overly tired, who knows. Last night I went to Sammi's to spend the night, and we ended up watching strange movies until three in the morning.. Only to be woken up around six by her brothers fighting and the sound of her mom's heels thumping hollowly across the floor above. Ugh.   But we drifted back off until about nine, ate breakfast and had coffee, got dressed, and walked down to my house with little Jon (Sam's youngest brother) in tow. They veered off to do some shopping at the farmer's market and I went home to help my mom with the house work. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before but she fell and broke her foot a couple weeks ago, and with the stroke stuff it's been really hard for her recently. So I do a lot of the housework.     Anyway. At about three-ish, Emily, Sammi, and Katie all came back to my place (Jon was shipped off to a friends house) and we started walking to the park. Jadon came and picked us all up half-way, and we went and swung for almost two hours, talking and laughing and singing. Then we played Cops and Robbers on the actual play set, which is this massive old wooden castle/fort thing surrounded by a four-foot fence. Sooo much fun! But Jadon had to go, so we girls set off to do our walking:).   We went to Sonic and grabbed a peach tea, strawberry shake, popcorn chicken, motzerella sticks, and some tater tots.. *hungry much? lol* then walked back up main street to Emily and Katie's house, laughing hysterically the whole way. For some reason everything was funny to Em and Sammi, which started Katie and I off.. I swear, we looked drunk, we couldn't even walk.. hahaha my stomach hurt for ages afterwards. :)     Tomorrow promises to be even better. We're all going to Emily's piano recital to cheer her on *GO EM!!* and then we'll hang out for a bit and have even more fun. Mwahahaha. *lol* I love it when the Samemalykates are all together again, which has been happening less and less.. When Sam and I start Junior year, it'll be way tougher. She won't be able to come up as much and we'll all be soo busy.. *Sigh*. Oh well:). Might as well enjoy this summer while it lasts:). Oh, that's such a depressing thought. Moving on.   I should probably get some sleep. I didn't get very much of it last night, and I think I'm paying for it, haha. TTFN! hehe.   ~Lyssa~                  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/698572/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:28:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/698572/ 1. What was the highlight of your life?: I’ve had a lot of those. June 3rd was one such day… As is any day I get to be with my friends. 2. Who's truck were you in last?: haha Jadon’s. 3. When is the next time you will kiss someone?: Probably whenever I see my Dread Pirate again:) 4. What color are you wearing?: brown and dark green and blue and black. 5. How long is your hair?: just past the middle of my back 6. Who do you have a crush on?: Oh, no one in particular:) 8. Last thing you drank?: an amazing Suicide (mixed drink, lol) XD 9. Where did u sleep last night?: On Sammi’s couch 10. Are you happy right now?: more pensive. 11. What did you say last?: “You’re welcome” 12. Where is your phone?: in my pocket 13. What was the last muesuem you went to?: Denver Museum of Nature and Science. 14. What color are your eyes?: brown 15. Who came over last?: The Samemalykates 16. When was the last time your heart was broken?: This past Christmas. 17. Who/what do you dislike?: stupid people. 19.If u could have one thing right now, what would it be?: To have Em and Tyler live happily ever after:) 20. What is your favorite smell?: boy-smell:) 21. Who makes you the most happy?: Mah Samemalykates, Jesse, My Dread Pirate Roberts, Rachel 24. Have you ever liked one of your brother/sister's friends?: Ew no.. Anna’s nine. 22. What were you doing at midnight last night?: Watching Tristan and Isolde 23. Are you left handed?: noo 25. What is the last Alchahoulic beverage you had?: Peppermint schnapps. 26. When is your b-day?: January 27. Who was the last person to text you?: Sammi 28.When was the last time you jumped in a swimming pool?: Ohh… a long time ago. Maybe the last time I went to see Kim in Denver, like two years ago ish 29. Where was the last place you went shopping?: Walmart 30. How do you feel about your hair right now?: Really, really sleek and straight. Wow. 31. Do you have any expensive jewelry?: Eh, I wouldn’t know. 32. AIM or MSN?: how about this one- IDC 33. Where does most of your family live?: In Colorado.. I guess. 34. Are you an older child or do you have siblings?: An OLDER child? Do you mean ONLY child? No, I’ve got a little sister. 35. Name 10 of your fave songs?: Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop, Gratitude, Sorrow, One Flight Down, Yellow, Lose My Soul, Song For The Broken, Overture, Hey There Delilah, Come Away With Me. 36. What did you think when you got up?: Nooo… it’s too early, why am I awake? Go back to sleeeppp… UGH 37. Do you drink beer?: Nasty things, beers. 38. Facebook or Myspace?: Facebook. 39. Do you have kids?: lol NO. 41. What kind of boy/girl do you fall 4?: A total sweetheart:) . If he romances me, I’m basically goners.. And if he’s tall and thin with expressive eyes, musical talent, and great hands, it’s all over. haha 42. Do you have any talents?: I dance and sing, and write a little. 43. Have you ever been IN a wedding?: Not yet, technically. 44. Do you have a fave cartoon?: Popeye, haha. And anything from that era. 45. Did you take a nap today?: Today? Nope. It would’ve been a good idea tho. 46. Ever met someone famous?: Hawk Nelson Band, oh yeah baby. 47. Do you want to be famous?: No. I’m okay with being just me. 48.Are u multi-tasking right now? Nah. 49. Do you think you could handle being in the military?: I don’t have what it takes.. I’m too caring. 50. What is your favorite color? Purple:) 51. Have you ever been to Las Vegas?: Nope 52. What are you doing today?: I hung out with the Samemalykates and Jadon all day. 53.Have you ever been gambiling?: Uhm.. well, I’ve played poker. 54. What's your pets name?: Nanuq. 55. Do you miss anyone right now?: Kind of. 56. One book you've read over and over?: Little Women 58. Last thing you cooked?: I cooked? Supper last night… Chicken stroganoff. Blech. 59. Last time you were sick?: I don’t really remember. 60. Last person you fell 4?: Some guy…:) 62. Who are you gonna tag?: Eh. Whoever. 61. Do you think anyone will re-post this?: Yuup SAY EXACTLY WHATS ON YOUR MIND, AND DON’T CHANGE IT 1. you & your ex: Ew. 2. I am listening to : Sorrow, Flyleaf 3. Maybe I should: talk to Jadon 4. I love: My Farm Boy 5. I don’t understand: myself 6. I have lost my respect for: idiots. 8. The meaning of my display name is: it’s from the Psalms. IS YOUR/ARE YOU 1. Is your hair wet? nope 3. Do you miss someone? Not really. 4. Are you wearing Chap Stick? Kinda. It’s wearing off. 5. Are you tired? yeah. 6. Are you wearing pajamas? Noo 7. Are you mad? Eh. HAVE YOU 1. Recently done anything you regret? A bit. 2. Have you ever kicked someone? Duh. 3. Ever tripped over your own feet? hahahahaha have I tripped over my own feet… that’s funny…   TODAY HAVE YOU: 1. Have you cursed? hell yeah;) 2. Have you gotten mad at someone? Uhm. No? RANDOM Q: Is there a person who is on your mind right now? A: You-know-who Q: Do you have any siblings? A: Uno Q: Do you want children? A: OF COURSE Q: Do you smile often A: Yeah. When I’m around my friends. Q. Do you smell your shoes every time you take them off? A: Who does that? Seriously? Q: Do you like your handwriting? A: Mmhhmm Q: Are your toenails painted? A: Kinda a metallic white. Q: whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in? A: Em’s. Or Katie’s. Or Sam’s. Or even Jadon’s. But as he sleeps in a room with two brothers, that would be hard to do. Q: what color shirt are you wearing right now? A: Brown and green and black. Q: What were you doing at 7pm yesterday? A: Seven.. Worship Practice. Q: I can’t wait till: A: Tomorrow. Please God. Q: When did you cry last? A: A couple days ago Q: Are you a friendly person? A: Oh yeah. it’s been ingrained too deep. Q: Whose bed did you sleep in 2 nights ago? A: My own Q: Do you have any pets? A: A dog and two birds Q: Do you think that someone will repost this? A: Eventually. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/698567/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:24:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/698567/ Okay, two stolen tags, and BTW- I posted three new poems in "The Witching Hour" so if you wanna see them, go to my profile, scroll down, and click on my other blog:)     :::::About Me::::: Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Brown:) Favorite Color: Purple Your Grade: 11th! Your Style: Comfortable and clean  :::::Can You:::::: Write with both hands? I wish! Whistle? Yuup Blow a bubble? haha of course Roll your tounge in a circle? Si! Cross your eyes? Oh yeah  Touch your tounge to your nose? Nope  Dance? All the time! Stay up a whole night without sleep? Yes Speak a different language? Bits and pieces Impersonate someone? kinda, haha Prank call people? on occasion Make a card pyramid? Nope....  Cook anything? Oh yeah! I'm good  :::::I tag::::: the loser reading this   FUN QUESTIONNAIRE 1. What is your middle name?  Joy 2. How big is your bed? big enough:) 3.What are you listening to right now? Hermione screaming. Anna's watching Harry Potter. 4. What are the last pair of clothes you wore from? probably walmart. 5. What was the last thing you licked? Excuse me? 6. Last person you hugged? My parents:) 7. How is the weather right now?  Cold and dreary. 8. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Mi Madre 9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? eyes/smile, then hands, then attitude.  10. Favorite type of Food? Greek, Portugese, Chinese.. 11. Do you want children? yes:) 12. Hair color? Brown. 13. Do you wear contacts? I wish. 14. Favorite holiday? Christmas 15. Favorite Season? Fall and Spring 16. Have you ever cried over a love lost? Oh yeah 17. Last Movie you watched? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 18. What books are you reading? The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire aloud to Anna. 19. Piercings? Ears. 20. Favorite Movie? Waking Ned Devine, Benny and Joon, A Walk To Remember, The Wedding Singer 21. Favorite NFL  team? I'll go with the home team- Denver Broncos:) 22:What were you doing before this tag? Writing poems:) 25: What is your favorite drink? Dr. Pepper 26:favorite flower? Yellow Roses, White Carnations, wild-flowers.   27. Have you ever loved someone? Yes. 29. Who would you like to see right now? Emily. And Jadon. We need to talk... 30. What color are your bedroom walls? Yellow. 31. Have you ever fired a gun? nope 32. Do you like to travel by plane?  YES! 33. Right-handed or Left-handed? Righty 34. If you could go to any place right now where would you go? Brasil. Or Ireland. 35. Are you missing someone? Yes 36. Do you have a tattoo? Not yet. 37. Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday mornings? No, we don't have television. 38. Are you hiding something from someone right now? Haha nooo... 39. Are you 18? *sigh* nope 40. What is the wallpaper on your cellphone? A picture of the inside of the Denver Collesium during Revolve Tour. 41. Are you afraid of the dark? No way. 42. Favorite hangout? The park:) 43. 3 things you can't live without? My friends, my Bible, and my writing stuff. 44. Favorite songs? OOh, too many to count... 45. What are you afraid of? Heights. And rejection 46. Are you a giver or a taker? both. 47. What are your nicknames? Lyssa 48. What is your dad's middle name? Charles 49. What do you sleep in? Pajamas. 50. Stuck on a deserted island, and can only bring one thing? A computer with internet access 51. Favorite TV commercial? The Sprint and Mac commercials 52. First thing you'll save in a fire? My family 53. What is your favorite color? purple 54. What are the things you always bring with you? Makeup, a notebook and pen, my cellphone, a book. 55. What did you want to be when you were a kid? A professional ballerina. 56. What do you usually do when the alarm turns on? Turn It Off 57. What color is your bedsheet? Sheet? White. 58. Who do you want to meet? Jesus:) 59. What do you think about before you go to bed?  Anything and everything. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/697998/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:13:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/697998/  *big yawn and stretch* mmmmm good morning, fellow bloggers! I just felt like coming on here and saying hello.   Today is a windy day, kinda cloudy, so going outside won't be much fun, unfortunately. My sister, Anna, is bringing over a friend that I really don't like- Erica, the biggest spoiled brat ever. Seriously, it's true. She was adopted from China and now her parents give her everything her little heart desires, including shopping sprees, a Wii, anything she wants for dinner, new dolls, a new computer... and both her parents are out of work. The little bugger.   On a normal day I would walk up to Em's house, but IDK if that'll work today. *Sigh*     Oh oh, something I wanted to share with you, it made me laugh!      What Is Butt Dust???   What, you ask, is 'Butt dust'?  Read On and you'll discover the joy in it!  These have to be original and Genuine. No adult is this creative!!     JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom Breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he asked: 'Mom why have You got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?'     MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, 'If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six.'   STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good Night. 'I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you Outside my bedroom window.'     BRITTANY  (age 4) had an ear ache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know it's me?'   SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got The hiccups. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough.'   DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale And asked: 'How much do I cost?'     CLINTON  (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in it?'     MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple That were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, He asked his dad: 'Why is he whispering in her mouth?'     TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they Met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a While and then asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'     JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named   Lot  was warned to take his wife and flee out Of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?'   The Sermon I think this Mom will never forget   This particular Sunday sermon...'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'   Lol hope you enjoyed that. I did. Haha. Man, I've got nothing else to say... It'll come to me later:)   ~Lyssa~ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/697979/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:25:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/gemstone/697979/