This is a blog of a christian teenage girl who is big into awsome music like Rush (which is my number one fav), Journey, Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Super Tramp, Michael Jackson, Superchick, Reliant K, Toby Mac, Matalica, Icon for Hire, Fireflight, Good Morning Midnight, ForeverAtLast, and tons mor that I can't even think of right now. Anyway hope you enjoy my blog. Jesus Loves you. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:16:00 -0500 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:16:00 -0500 Okay everybody, as you know, I do a lot of weird things, and a lot of weird thing happen to me. Well, this time it was a weird, unfortunate thing that happened to me. Maybe it was one of those serendipitous kinds of things   My friend Chandler and I are at the top of our math class, don’t ask me why, I guess we are just smarter than the rest of the class, or something, I don’t know. Chandler and I usually get done with everything before the rest of the class does, and so we just sit around bored for the whole rest of the period. So I decided that I was going to pass the time by drawing. I got out a piece of paper and a sharpie. I started drawing, and with about ten minutes left to go before the bell rang, I lifted up my paper. Boy! What a mess I saw on my desk! There was this huge puddle of red sharpie juice all over my desk! Just then Chandler and Lexi turn around and see it. “Oh my gosh Maddie, what did you do?!” Chandler exclaimed. So I explained to him what had happened.  He and I start frantically trying to clean off the desk. We spit on it, we scribbled on it with pencil and tried to erase it that way, but nothing worked. The whole time I was thinking to myself, “I’m going to get an after school; my mom’s going to kill me. I won’t be here tomorrow because I’m going to be dead.”   Then Matt, a kid that sits near me, raises his hand for the teacher, because he needed help with his paper. I hurriedly stacked my books on top of the huge red stain on my desk as the teacher came over to help Matt. As this was happening, two precious minutes were wasted that I could have been trying new ways to clean up my desk.   The teacher went back to her desk and I immediately took my books off the stain and started scrubbing away.   With only two minutes to go Emily suggests to me, “Try some Germex, it’ll take off anything.”   “Are you sure?” I asked.   “Just try it, what do you have to lose?” She asked.                I was thinking, “My life, that's what I’ve got to lose, my life.”   Well I tried it, and it worked! The Germex took it right off. I cannot even begin to describe the relief I felt when I saw that it came off.     But there was still a problem. I had this huge puddle of red Germex on my desk. Just then Matt raised his hand again. I quickly set my books on my desk, thinking to myself, “Great, now my books are going to have red stains on them, now I’m really in trouble.”              The teacher came over to help Matt then went back to her desk. I picked up my books and to my surprise my book covers kind of shed the liquid so nothing got on my books.              Then about one minute before the bell Chandler pretended to sneeze and acted like he needed a Kleenex. He grabbed me about six Kleenexes and we got it all cleaned up just before the bell rang.              If I had not gotten it cleaned up I would have confessed to the teacher, but since I got it taken care of, I didn’t see the point.     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/738993/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:16:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/738993/   This last weekend my mom and dad and I went on this short vacation to Missouri. The reason we went there was because this one gardening place that we buy seeds from was having this festival were some plant vendors and other vendors came to sell their stuff.  On the way there we went right by St. Louis and got some good pictures of The Arch. We went through some pretty short mountains on the way, too.  The motel that we stayed at was Munger Moss. How great is that? Anyway, when we got there my dad went in to get the key while my mom and I waited in the car. After a while of waiting my dad came out and told us to come in and check “this” out. “This” was a bunch of old toys that this old lady that owned the place had collected. She also had a whole bunch of turquoise rings and stuff in her little shop too. My dad asked her where to get good barbeque and she said that this place down the road called Dowd’s was a good place. Of course, being me I thought that she said the place was called Doubts and had some barbeque.  After we ate we went down to the state park and fed trout fish.  The next day we went to the garden festival and got some plants and there were these bluegrass bands then there also was this accordion, guitar, and harmonica playing yodeling old cowboy that was singing, playing and yodeling. We also got these yummy apple fritters.  After that we came back and hung around the motel room for a little while. Then we went to this town that had a Bass Pro Shop, and we went there. This place was the mother of all Bass Pro Shops, it was the very first one and it was ginormous! It had fishing poles and stuff that you could buy but it also had these various water critters in fish tanks. Like one of the tanks had these 6 ft. long fish that looked kind of like sword fish only their noses weren’t long enough.   Another was open on top and had big trout and ducks in it. One of the ducks was bored I think because it was diving down in the water and chasing these 2 ft. long trout then coming back up again. In another tank there was this huge snapping turtle that was about 3 ft in diameter.  When we left there we went to this barbeque place called “The Buckingham” and had this picture of this guy riding a pig. The funny thing about was that when we used to have pigs my mom and I would ride our pigs until we fell off. It was lots of fun.  The next day we went to a store that had a Starbucks and we got donuts and coffee. Then we went to the park and hiked a 7 ½ mile trail. At the end of the trail there was this natural tunnel that had a spring just before you went in and we were sticking our faces in it, it was ICE cold yet really fun.  When we got done hiking we headed home and for lunch ate at this retro diner, it was kind of fun. We got home around 9:30.   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/686337/ Wed, 6 May 2009 15:59:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/686337/  Mushrooms! I’m soooooo excited because the morels are up! Just incase you don’t know what morels are, they are really yummy mushrooms that you go and hunt for in the woods. They are soooooooo good! And here are some pictures…………   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/681707/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:31:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/681707/ I am soooooooo excited my dog had puppies almost three weeks ago and they are extremely cute. They’re starting to move around a lot. Usually our puppies are black and white but there is one in this litter that is black, white, and brown. They are adorable. Here are some pictures………   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/681498/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:41:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/681498/   So the other night I had this dream that I was a robber. Except instead of the ski mask and robber suit being completely black I was dressed in bright white with a bright white ski mask.    So now you’re probably asking “So what did you steal?” I’ll tell you what I stole, I stole the last three rolls of toilet paper that some old couple had in their bathroom. Now mind you this wasn’t any old toilet paper that I took, this was the super deluxe super thin floral print kind. After I got the three rolls of the super deluxe toilet paper out of the cabinet I put them in a white plastic bag.    After that I woke up. Who knows what I ended up doing with the toilet paper? Maybe I used it for myself or maybe I sold it to the local pawn shop. I might have even been caught by the old lady and she beat me with her cane till I gave her back her toilet paper. Or maybe just maybe I was like the Grinch and brought it back, because if I remember correctly, I even took the small roll which was in the dispenser. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/664685/ Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:37:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/664685/  Well the other day it snowed like 10 inches and my mom and I went outside to play in it except the snow didn’t want to pack so instead of throwing snowballs at each other we were throwing snow flurries.  Since it wouldn’t pack we decided to get the sled out. But we don’t have very big hills at my house except for one that is all the way back in the woods. So we went back there and started sledding. It was hilarious! Once we went down the hill we couldn’t get back up on our feet again. So while the person that just sledded down kept trying to get up the person on the top of the hill was rolling around in laughter at the sight of the other person.  So after about an hour of that we went back up to the house. That was a workout! Talk about trudging through 10 inches of snow uphill both ways hauling a sled behind you! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/652410/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/652410/   Guess what I did this last Thursday! I went to a Stellar Kart concert! And not only that but I also got to feed them supper before hand! This was my second time seeing them live. My friend and I got matching tee-shirts and had them sign them. It was great!   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/651424/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:19:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/651424/ I went back to harp class in Bloomington for the second semester after Christmas break. And all was normal until it came towards the end of the class where usually if somebody brought their favorite CD the whole class would listen to it. Well I was the one who brought the CD so we played mine. The CD that I brought happened to be the band that my friend is in which is a screaming Christian punk band. My teacher didn’t know what a screaming Christian punk band was, so I warned her not to turn the volume knob up very high. The first song came on and by this time one of the Paris Girls had this dirty look on her face and looked like her panties were in a bunch. So we listened to the song for like five seconds then Teacher turned it off real quick. And by the way I don’t know if you remember but when I first started going to Bloomington I posted and there were this girls which I call The Paris Girls that had just gotten back from a harp competition in Paris, France.  Then I gave her my other CD which was a fairly mellow Christian rock CD. So we listened to the first song and then turned it off.  Then I don’t know how the subject got brought up but Teacher didn’t know what the Chicken Dance was, so my friends and I got up and did the Chicken Dance for Teacher. Right as we finish Paris Girl says in an offended voice, “This is why I don’t go to school”. And my friend and I are like we are home schooled too. At this point I’m thinking “Get a grip Paris Girl it’s the Chicken Dance!” of coarse then I tell my mom this story and she starts busting out laughing about uppity Paris Girl being all against the Chicken Dance. Plus I don’t think that the screaming Christian punk music helped either. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/646673/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:58:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/646673/    So you ask me, “What did you do for New Years?” What did I do for New Years? I went to my youth group’s Superhero Lock-in!  Just in case you don’t know what a lock-in is, it is basically the youth get together and stay up all night. And when I say all night I mean ALL NIGHT! Anyway we stay up play games eat and hang out.  But as you can tell by the name of this lock-in, it ain’t no ordinary lock-in. First of all we weren’t in plain clothes we were all dressed up as a superhero that was real or we made up. Like there were people dressed up from shower curtains, to Mullet Man, Madame Mullet, to Chuck the chicken and the duck, to Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, Madame Marshmallow, etc. And guess what I was! Gravity Girl! And when ever I threw things they fell to the ground! The whole thing was hysterical!  Now the main activity was a superhero scavenger hunt. Where most of us were in our costumes and got into cars drove around looking for things on a list we got. And for proof of it we had to video tape it. Some of the things on the list were pumping gas for a stranger, washing a stranger’s windshield, singing happy birthday to a stranger, giving a stranger a valentines card, then we also had to find things to like cold stone, for rent sign stuff like that. And you would not believe how hard it is to get someone to let you pump their gas! My team didn’t even get to do it!  We had to go back to a friend’s house after the scavenger hunt and watched the ball drop. Then we headed back to the church.  At the church we did some games like superhero relay and coke relay.  In the superhero relay all of us got separated into 3 groups and how it went was the first person of our team had to put on spandex pants, a superhero mask, and a cape, then they had to run to the other side of the gym pick up a baby doll and take it to the pastors wife (The mother), stand there and say the pledge of allegiance then run to the other side of the gym and go over and under, over and under these white tables and back to their team then the next person would go. And which ever team went through everybody won. It was hysterical!  Then how we played the coke relay was we again were split into 3 groups and lined on one side of the gym. Each team had a 2 liter bottle of Root Beer that they had to drink and it was on the other side of the gym on a table with a person there to pour it for you. Now the first person would run as fast as they could up to the table and get a cup of Root Beer drink it then run back then the next person would go. And again the team who finished their Root Beer first won. My team won that one! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/644540/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:23:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/644540/  This last weekend I went to this place called Pumpkin Works with my youth group. And if you’re not from around here you’re probably thinking, “Pumpkin Works? Is that like a place that you learn how pumpkins work?” No, instead Pumpkin Works is this place that has corn mazes and straw bale mazes and different stuff.  So we all got in groups and went on these mazes. Well the first my friends and I did was this one dark maze called Mind Teaser. And boy was it a mind teaser! Besides running into stuff like concrete walls and getting a concussion, every time we thought we had found the exit we were at the entrance. This happened three times before we were able to find the exit.  The first time my friend looked out of the doorway of the maze and asked the girl in charge, “Is this the entrance?” “Yes.” So we go back in and try it again and end up in the same place. Then the 2nd time we go in we come out of what we thought was the exit and we come out all happy snappy when the chick in charge goes, “Got bad news for you, that doorway over there is the exit.” So we go back in and do it again this time we come out the exit, and believe it or not, I was the one leading it that time. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/611211/ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:58:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pielegs/611211/