I added music, in case you couldn't tell. ;) This is cause for much joy for me.... They're arranged more or less in alphabetical order. I KNOW! ZOEgirl and Rebecca St. James are at the top. I added them first, but didn't feel like scrolling all the way down the page to put them where they would belong to be in order, so I just left them. After those artists though, I THINK the rest are in order. So yeah... Go check out my music and let me know what you think! :D
Heh. Why don't I write here more?? Good question. And this question has a simple answer.
I'M BUSY!!! ARG!!
Sorry. -chuckle- I'm just getting tired of being busy. -_- But also... I like being busy, too... so I'm not gonna complain. Instead, I'll give you update, yes?
First and foremost, I started Karate lessons at last. W00T!! Currently I'm a white belt with a yellow tip. Once I get two yellow tips I'll be ready to take the test for yellow belt. At my dojo the belts are: White, yellow, blue, green, brown, black. Actually... I'm not sure if they have a brown belt, but oh well. -shrug-
I'm also doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), also known as suicide for authors. Whoever thought up the idea of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days should both get a big huzzah for brilliance, and also be shoved off a tall cliff. >_> Okay, not really. I enjoy NaNo, despite my complainings. Wait... didn't I say I wasn't going to complain? Okay, moving on.
Voice lessons are still going grandly. Getting ready for my Christmas recital, where I will be singing Fly Away, by FFH, and Sunrise, by Nichole Nordeman. Perhaps some other stuff.
Aaaaaand.... that's it for my schedule. 'Cept for work of course. Working half days again. OH! AND I'm taking classes on how to teach piano, so hopefully I can quit working away from home completely. I hate being away from home, even just for half the day. =P
So I've been keeping busy! Mostly with writing at least two thousand words every day. x_x
Saturday I went to my first LARP (live action role play) ever. I went as one of my characters. Thea, or Jaella. She's a gypsy. It was a TON of fun, especially once one of my friends got the brilliant idea of starting a thieves guild with me, her, and another friend. We stole a bag of marshmallows, and between two of us, ate them. Then we stole the stuff out of a secret stash that we found, and then some shields from the armory shop. Yes, we were quite busy. In the secret stash, we left a note reading, "You've been robbed by the illustrious Magpie Band. Tee hee.". -grin-
We hid the stuff up in fir trees, then sat and waited for people to notice. No one noticed, and we got bored, so we penned a second note and split up, my friend to deliver the note to someone to give to the person in charge, and me to go and wait for her at our base. (yes, we had a base and everything. -grin- We rock.) Just as we split up, we hear something to the effect of, "Hey! Someone tell (-persons name-) that the Magpie Band stole his stuff!"
Needless to say, my friend hightailed it back to me and we both hightailed it for our secret hideout. XD We made it there, then our other band member got there, then I (gr.) had to go back for my brother, who I had had to bring along to keep an eye on, and who had decided to turn around and walk back to the house. >_< I was irritated.
But anyways, I found him, and headed back to the base, but found that it was swarming with soldiers. So I couldn't very well go back there. So I wandered around the woods, hiding and sneaking and trying to find where my friends were.
The LARP ended before it could be resolved, but it was still fully awesome. B) ... Except for the fact I found skirts and scarves are NOT conducive to running about in the woods. OR dragging a younger brother around. XP But oh well. I still had a blast. And I still have yet to finish picking all the burrs and stickies out of my scarves and skirts. I'm TOTALLY wear pants next time.
Well, farewell until next time!
Hey everyone,
Well, I just thought that since I have been sitting on the couch since yesterday morning I would write and let y'all know what's going on. :) Yesterday at 10 a.m. I had my wisdom teeth removed. :( So far everything is going alright. Yesterday my jaw hurt but now it's fine, up until this afternoon my throat was sore (just from being sick before hand), it feels fine so far. My lower right cheek is swollen on the inside and it's pretty annoying and both of my cheeks are swollen on the outside, it's kind of funny looking, kind of not. ; ] The only thing I have eaten the past two days is basically baby food. Pudding, Jell-O and apple sauce is not very filling so this afternoon my mom made me some instant mashed potatoes and that was GOOD, considering everything else that I had eaten. :) My brother is supposed to bring me some mashed potatoes from Arby's when he gets home from work. Arby's mashed potatoes are BEST! :D So, other than eating baby food I have just been watching movies, facebooking and sleeping. Let's see, what else have I been doing since school started, I started my very first photography class which I am just soaking up, there are so many things that I can do with my camera that I had no idea about. :D I also started violin lessons which I also love. I can already play "Twinkle, twinkle little star" and I am working on another song called "Lightly Row". I got a violin for Christmas about four years ago and wasn't able to take lessons until this year, apparently the wood that my violin is made of is too soft so I doesn't hold it's tune so I'm getting a new sometime this week and I am SSSOOO excited, and so is my little sister because is gets to play around with my "old" one when I get my new one. Anyway, my pain meds are making me pretty dizzy, so I'm to end this post. :)
God bless
Love,
Hannah
P.S. I am very sorry about all of my grammatical errors, I'm just too dizzy to proof read. :/
Oh dear... Been so long... -pats blog-
Well... Lemme think what's happened since the last post...
Full-time job at the sewing place. I really hate working all day, so I'm looking into teaching piano at home so I only work part-time at the sewing place.
Writing is still going just as crazily as ever. Ravenhollow; Get Ready has been finished, edited and all, and sent into a contest. I'm working on two other stories officially, those two are "Far From Present" and "Ravenhollow; Get Set". Then I'm doing "Wading Through" (or something like that, I'm still trying to figure out a permanent title) for National Novel Writing Month. Maybe, if I have time, I'll do two stories for NaNoWriMo, and end up doing "RainQueen" too. After those, I'm doing four co-written novels: "Shadowed", "CharrieMix" (no, that's not the permanent title), "Hunter's Moon", and "Dragonvale". And THEN, I'm kinda half working on about five other stories... Hehehe...
Voice lessons are still in session, and I'm still lovin' 'em. ;D I've have a recital coming up in December, which I'll be singing "Fly Away" (ocapela), then "Sunrise", and a Christmas song or two. And maybe an Italian piece called "Ho Sparse Tante Lagrime". Fun. B)
Well, there ya go! Update! Haha! Hopefully I'll have more regular updates...
Hey everyone,
I know what you must be thinking, "WOW, she's actually posting". ;) I have been quite busy over the summer, as I'm sure most of you were as well. I have been working quite a bit and I have had a lot of church activities. For example, VBS and youth lazer tag all nighter in June, Teen camp in July as well as a teen competition cook out and earlier this month our youth group went to an amusement park (which was a BLAST) and we are going on a hike on Saturday (so excited). This summer has truly been a blessing from God. A few friends of mine (that I was pretty close to before) have become very close friends. They are such an encouragement to me and I couldn't possibly ask for better friends. We even gave each other nicknames (ridciulously funny ones). We have this joke going that it's either mine or my brother's turn to get hurt. Michael passed out (a few years ago), Bethany threw up (that was a while ago too, she's not going to be too happy about me telling this), :) Erica fell off a bike at camp and got bad sracpes on her arms and legs, Liese had an asthma attact (don't hate me because I'm telling everyone this) and Logan cut his hand the other day. These are all acidents that happened at church activities. :D So, yeah, I'm a little concerd for my safety, as well as Gabriel's. But it's ok, God will protect us. I am looking forward to the up coming events at church, including; the Christmas Cantata practice, annual missions conference, the hike (like I menioned before) and several other things. I'm also pretty excited about being a Senior in High school this year. AAaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God bless
Love,
Hannah
August 15th 1959
I LOVE you Pappa and Mamma!
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M- my
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Last night in youth group, we talked about James 3 - Taming the Tongue. My youth pastor said something that really stuck with me.
"You can start a war with one word."
It's so true. I can remember things that have been said to me from when I was really little that stuck with me all through my life. There have been stories of people who were verbally abused so much they killed themselves! And even the ones who are the leaders, the ones who are suppose to protect people, say things that can scar their reputation forever.
It's crazy how powerful we don't realize we are.
When I was in 5th grade, my lovely cousin decided to inform me that I was a dork. Wasn't that sweet of her? Now I'll admit that as far as stereotypes go, I kinda was a dork. But that's not the point. I went through a few years of my life thinking that I actually was a dork, and no one really wanted to be my friend. Whenever that word was aimed at me, even if it was just in a joke, I would feel myself heat up all over again! Thankfully, I had a loving family that encouraged me and a loving God who brought me through that phase of my life. Now I'll willingly admit to being a dork...that is, a Daughter Of the Risen King. 
Isn't it amazing how God can take something that is meant to hurt you and turn it into something wonderful?
There's another interesting thing about our words. We can stop wars with them, too. When we tell someone they look nice, or that we enjoy being around them, or even just saying hello and asking how someone's day was can make a bigger difference than we realize! Encouraging people, making the conversation about them instead of about us, and pushing people towards their dreams are ways that we love others as we love ourselves.
I've been thinking a lot about what I believe in. See, people say they believe in things all the time that they don't show that they believe in. For instance, if someone believes lying is wrong but lies continually, then they must not believe too strongly that it's wrong. If I believe that my words have power, I'm going to be very careful about what I say. If I don't want to cuss, I'm not going to watch movies or listen to music that have cussing in them. If I don't want to speak negatively about someone, I'm not even going to think about them negatively, for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. If I can surrender my thoughts and words to Jesus, then I can do anything. James says that if a man can tame his tongue, he can keep his whole body in check! In other words...it's hard! But if we can surrender it, we'll be amazed at what God can do in our lives. :)
Last night, I surrendered a few different words and thoughts to Jesus. I decided not to say some things I wanted to and not to think some things I wanted to. I told Him I'd be okay with whatever happened. And as I was driving home last night...I felt more peaceful and content than I have in a long time. :)
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart (feelings), with all your mind (thoughts), and with all your strength (actions)."
- Danya <><
I miss writing. lol. My best friend Randi sat down and read through every one of these blogs when she first met me. She got to know me very quickly. I guess I just spill out my heart when I write. I like talking, too. But that gets me into trouble a LOT! It's easier for me to sit down and think out what I want to say and how I want to say it. But don't think that I'm a quiet person. I'm not. And I'll admit there are some things I'd rather talk about. I like face to face more than anything! But there's just something about sitting in a comfy chair with a cup of tea, a laptop, and writing. :)
...there is a random bug stuck between the glass part and the screen part of the window in our kitchen. HOW DO BUGS EVEN GET IN THERE????? ...oh wait...there's a hole. Ok. I feel better about it now.
So Randi has informed me that I need to write a book.
I dunno.
Could be fun, I guess.
Especially after that whole spill on how I love writing.
We'll see.
