Saturday, November 8, 2008 - I should post more often
Greetings, Earthlings!
I'm sorry to my (probably former) readers for the prolonged gap in posting. You know how it goes; you procrastinate until you get out of the habit, and then you're so humiliated by your failure that you hate to face the people of that online community again.
But I have so much I could say on a blog. So much has happened, and so much - maybe - is about to. We shall see. As the the Lord wills.
I don't know when I will be moved to blog again, but blogging has been in the back of my head for several months now, and I think this is the time to officially say that I shall, Lord willing, return here again.
If anyone ever continues to check this blog, however infrequently, bless you. You're far better at keeping up with blogs than I am. :) And to those of you whose blogs I should have been reading and whatnot, well, all I can say is sorry. I'm just not good at that, and I hope I kept in touch with you in other ways. Some of you, I know I did... however infrequent it may have been on my part.
Just know that I think about you all more often than I express by e-mailing or posting. :)
Be good, be well, be holy.
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Saturday, December 1, 2007 - NaNoWriMo Day!
By the time I finish writing this post, it will be past midnight, and I will be able to start writing my novel. Yay. :)
To give you an idea of what I'm up against, I have a list of how many words I have to write during certain periods of time. All numbers are not exact, and do not account for rest, food, etc.
50,000 per month
1,622 per day
[100 sentences per day]
67 words per hour
(4.25 sentences per hour)
1.13 words per minute
Yup.
That's that.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 - Oh. I've been tagged.
I guess I should be flattered, actually. I didn't know anyone was aware enough of my existence to send a tag my way. :c) Woo, me. Ha.
Anyway. I'll work on this now and then and post it when I get around to it. :c)
Tag Rules:
1).The player starts with 8 random facts about herself or himself.
2).The person who is tagged must post on his/her own blog his/her answers and post the rules first.
3).Then the player must pick 8 people and tag them. Also leave them a note on Message that lets them know that you tagged them. You can write who you tagged on your blog also!
1. I know I should save the strangest for last, but this one is so interesting that I'll just say it before I forget it; I know I must be a pretty unusual person, who should have no problem thinking of weird facts about herself, but the fact is, I can't think of anything at all. 
2. Um...Oh, yes, here's one. I sometimes mispronounce "mustard" as "moose-turd", for fun.
3. I once wrote twenty-one poems in a day. And no, not all of them were great.
4. Why can't I think of anything really good? I may just have to resort to funny stories from my childhood. Okay, then, here goes. When I was very young, I once made "soup" on my little plastic stove - here's the recipe in case you want to make it: water, add ketchup until red, and stir in one leaf of lettuce.
5. Even now, I still nearly go into hysterical laughter when my father tells the story about that plastic stove. (Excuse me if I chuckle as I type.) On the stovetop was a toy toaster, with plastic bread in it, which, when you pushed one slice down, which push the other slice up, with a *boing* noise. He says, and i fear it is true, that I would sit for 20 minutes at a time - oh, dear, here comes the hysterical laughter - and push the bread down, over and over. Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing......and so on.
6. Whenever I say Goodbye to my sister, almost without fail, we both say "Drapes." The story behind this is long, and since I have tried explaining to people before, including my own parents, I somehow doubt you would fully appreciate it as my sister and I do. 
7. I have never finished a book. I love to write, I....well, I just love it, I guess. I don't write all the time, but I have been a writer since the age of ten. Still, I have never finished a book. A bit sad, really.
Anyway. Ah, I think this is a good one to end with. I love notebooks. The ones with projects in them are my buddies. The ones that are blank are treasures. I have trouble tearing myself away from the paper aisle in the store, or leaving without buying a notebook...Or buying just one notebook. You may think this would leave me with a big stack of notebooks I never use. HAHAHAHAHA! *ahem* Erm...no.Check out my post below, about NaNoWriMo.
Farewell, until we type again.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - NaNoWriMo
Before I say anything else, I just want to let the person who tagged me know (who was it? Earthling? Ack! My memory!) that I know I have been tagged, and will stop procrastinating with the draft post one of these days.
Now. Has anyone here heard of NaNoWriMo? If you have, raise your hand and jump up and down. Just kidding. But anyway, if you hadn't heard of it before, now that you've clicked on the link, you HAVE heard of it, and I can continue.
I didn't become excited about this project until I saw others participating in it....when it was half over. And if I wait until next year, I'll probably forget about it, or lose my enthusiasm, or both.
So,...anyone want to do something crazy this December? You wouldn't necessarily have to write a 50,000 word novel (which is what I'm going to try). You could set some other writing goal for yourself. Maybe to write a 10,000 word novelette in the month, or to write a short story or poem for every day of the month. Something to keep you writing. Whether you want to join me or not is up to you. I'll be posting my (hopefully) daily progress on my blog, so keep watching, especially when December comes.
I have the basics of my novel planned, so read on if you're curious.
I decided to go with a character-driven plot, so that I will hopefully not waste time agonizing over plot-development and just keep writing. I have five rather diverse characters, named Ryt, Tate, Vil, Khananeia, and one other chacter whose name I'm having trouble with. I was thinking of calling him Kerr, but that most unfortunately sounds like "cur", which isn't his personality at all. He deserves better. I wish I was better at making up male names. Wait there a second.
Hm.Here's a possibility: Crwk, or Cruik. Or, failing that, perhaps Nettle or some creative version of it, like Netl or Net'll. (Yes, the apostrophe is on purpose, and don't make that face, it's been done before, and not just by Anne McCaffrey.)
As for other information, the story would probably be classified as fantasy, since it's set in some unknown country without a name. And that's about it. The characters decide the rest. I can hardly wait!
So, anyway, the first of December, if you want to start with me then. If that isn't a good month for you, maybe we could plan something in an early month of next year. We'll see. But I probably won't be writing another novel, I'll tell you that! Not in a month, anyway. Not for another year, at least.
I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. Until next time we type, fare well.
"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness,
Come before His presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord, He is God;
It is He that has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations." (Psalm 100)
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Monday, October 15, 2007 - Be Thou My Vision
Sorry I haven't been around. We sang this hymn yesterday at church, and I started thinking about this, my favorite verse. It's a perfect anthem for a warrior. This is one possible way of interpreting it.
Be Thou my battle shield, sword for my fight -
Give me the strength to do what I need to do.
Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight -
Give me a warrior's spirit of dignity and joy.
Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tow'r -
Give me hope, protect me.
Raise Thou me heav'nward, O pow'r of my pow'r -
Help me to grow in Christ
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If I die in this battle, take me to heaven, where I long to be.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 -
Greetings, Earthlings! Well, why not. Greetings to you aliens, too.
I wanted to apologize for not keeping up with everyone's blogs lately. Life has seemed hectic. It probably wasn't as bad as it seemed, I guess (I tend to overreact) but still, it's hard to find time to do something whe you've convinced yourself that you don't have time for it. And if I was right and I didn't have time...I could have made time. But again, same problem. In the future, I'm going to try to do better. So keep an eye out for my comments on your blogs one of these days.
Some of you know that I'm now a member and poster on The Backyard. Rather than explain, just go to my list of friends on the side of the page and visit the blog.
See you around.
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Monday, June 18, 2007 - Narnia Video: A study
*cough, cough* Yes, ahem, just ignore the date of my last post. 
Please do...
So I saw found this video on YouTube. I love it, it's great. Clips from the 2005 movie, to some music from Lord of the Rings. Ah, bliss. But seriously, I was analyzing it while listening to it on earphones (stereo earphones, which you might want to do as well, in order to get the full effect of the music) and I just had to write down my thoughts, and I figured I may as well share them. So if you want to watch it, click here, and my standing recommendation for YouTube videos is to not read the comments, as you never know what someone might have posted.
Now. I would like to note that the music is, in fact, on edge most of the time, but I tried to look past that to more subtle moods within the music, and coming to my own conclusions.
We begin with a sort of general introduction to the music, and a general introduction to Narnia. Then Peter's part begins.
The music of Peter's part begins very uncertainly, full of questions and feeling very much on edge. the uncertainty grows, and somehow gradually subsides into something that sounds more like determination. This is not the Peter I know, from either movie or book, but considering that in the movie Peter was uncertain most of the time, it isn't a bad representation.
With Susan the music becomes louder...obnoxious, perhaps? It changes slightly towards the end, but not enough. Book fans, don't say anything to spoil it for people who might want to read the book.
With Edmund, the music remains loud, then changes to a hateful, repetitive version of the tune, full of hate for others, a hate so deep that others cannot help but look at him in sorrow and pity - but then you suddenly realize at the end that the sorrow has become his own.
Lucy's begins with quietness, a respite. But the rest of it is as on edge as the rest of the music of the video. The only way I can explain this is that she is full of the feelings of others, and those others aren't always as innocent as herself.
Now we come to Aslan. (hooray!) I think this is the best-fitting music of all the characters in this video. Aslan's music begins quiet also, but you can hear grace and strength and looming power underneath the overtone, just like you can see, can practically feel with your eyes the grace and strength in the muscles of a big cat. Then it changes to show his wisdom and gravity, with the power under all, then changes again for his sorrow - sorrow for Edmund, for one thing, but broader than that somehow, like his sorrow for the burdens of all mortals. (What a run-on sentence that was.) Then a strain of outside sadness, sadness of the Pevensies (especially Lucy) as He dies.
Then we come to the White Witch. This is the second-best-fitting music, in my opinion. It is loud to signify that she is so unacceptably evil that the world itself, if it is good, must reject and attempt to destroy her. It has a second or two of lovely sinister music. Perfect. Then there are clips of the world rejecting her - the battle, and properly suspenseful musical moments. Then during the charge, in about the same place as it happened in the original movie, and with similar effect: the breath before the plunge.
Now we get into a lot of clips, out of order, from all over the movie, and since it took me this long to explain just six sections of the video, I had better not comment on the whole thing, but I may call your attention to some points.
Such as: A clip of the three children entering Aslan's Camp. In the movie and movie soundtrack, a respite - here a slight respite as well.
A few clips of the time with Father Christmas. A slightly less menacing tone here, almost triumphant and uplifting if you listen closely. (More clipsare used a few seconds later when the music has changed back to its usual on-edge-ness, but that doesn't work well at all, though I commend the video as a whole).
During a climactic moment in the music, there is a montage of screencaps of the characters, which I like a lot. I like how it dramatically portrays one aspect of each character's personality. Aslan, serene yet shrewd. The White Witch, enjoying causing pain. Peter, the very young-looking king, training for battle. Susan - well, I don't care for that picture too much: not a screencap. Edmund, looking typical of him early on in the story. And Lucy. I love that picture, because you can see her excitement, her curiosity, her hope, all in one. And it signifies her love for Narnia. Tumnus, looking sinister as he plays a lullaby on his pipe. Professor Kirke, looking serious.
A clip of Peter reaching up to grab his sword to keep from falling off the ice. I just love that clip and the way it comes out so dramatically in the video.
During another musical climax: Lucy, Susan and Edmund looking lost and alone. Then some random clips of Narnians and happier times. Then wolves, a prebattle clips and - YES! - Edmund breaking the Witch's wand! Then Peter and the Witch fighting, the cavalry arriving and then, Peter hugging his recently healed brother, and a family moment.
Then the music continues rising - the Stone Table, broken. Aslan, rising with the dawn, and the joy of Susan and Lucy.
Then silence. Again, congruent to the movie, because we have a quietness while Aslan says, "It is finished." Then continuing quietness, for no musical emphasis is needed for the joy of the coronation - a nice cut from Susan's coronation to Peter's, the angle being almost the same and their crowns the same color, it flows almost seamlessly.
And we have a clip of the Kings and Queens as adults. Then a roar from Aslan. 'Nuff said.
Well. I've never done that before, but it was fun. Anyone have any thoughts? If you do, please comment. I, however must be running along as it is far past my bedtime, and I'm behind on my sleep as it is.
Oh, and I meant to post on my birthday with something like this:
Happy birthday to me. Sixteen years on this earth, and all things considered, life is pretty good. Thank you, Lord.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 - Congratulations, Evan O'dorney (My apologies if I got you name wrong! :D)
Well, i haven't posted in ages! Sorry, people! Since sweetpotato so kindly demanded a post (it's nice to know you care ) I knew I had to write one. I knew I had to write one anyway, but...well, a little encouragement never hurt, I suppose. Hehe.
Evan O'Dorney is the winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. He likes math and music. He has composed his own piano concerto. He said he doesn't really like spelling bees, but that he kind of had to do them. (He prefers MATH, can you imagine?) After Evan won, the guy standing next to him (sorry, fella, I don't know who you were) asked him if he liked spelling bees any better now. Evan paused a long while, and after some prompting, said "Maybe a little bit."
Evan is homeschooled. (YAAY! Go homeschoolers!) The third homeschooler to win the national spelling bee. His parents seemed very - how does one say this? - They seemed to be a closer family than most you see. It was nice to see. Evan's parents were, of course, very happy when he won. His mother cried tears of joy.
Go do great things, Evan!
I enjoyed the spelling bee more this year than I ever have before. I laughed for pure joy whenever one of the kids spelled a word correctly. I even tried my hand at a few of them myself. (I refuse to tell you how I did. Though you can probably guess...) Anyway, I enjoyed it immensely and the two hours flew by like nothing. I was sick a few days ago, and I'd brought out a few DVDs to watch to take my mind off things, but I enjoyed this spelling bee far more than any of them. I never knew I liked words this much.
I related to the people too, the kids, the parents, even sometimes the guy with the bland voice who reads off the words.... I recognized Jonathan from last year. Also a homeschooler. Poor guy, he got spelled down on his first word. (Sorry, I don't remember your last name!)
I enjoyed the idea of Isabel wearing all the bracelets she owns (twenty-five!) for good luck, even if I don't appreciate her superstition.
Well, that's enough jabber for now. Sorry I never posted to tell you about Night At the Museum and O'Charley's restaurant. Or Daddy's birthday...on May 8th... :D
On Saturday, some of my neices and nephews will be visiting for six days. Also my sister an brother-in-law and my other sister who is acting nanny and assistant housekeeper (so to speak) for them, are coming. I'll try to post during that time and tell you about all the dear, dear children. As kindly as I can while they're pulling on my arm and bouncing on my head...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007 - Name Acronym
Here's a name acronym I got the link to from a random blog. I don't think I can post HTML on my blog, so I'll just copy and paste and see if it works. (Note: Mantirwen isn't my real name. So there. 
) I'll post about today and yesterday tomorrow, Lord willing. See you then.
| M | Mesmerizing |
| A | Adventurous |
| N | Nutty |
| T | Tame |
| I | Intense |
| R | Relaxing |
| W | Whimsical |
| E | Enjoyable |
| N | Nutty |
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Friday, May 4, 2007 - Tomorrow will be better
My mother recently finished reading a book called "Tomorrow Will Be Better". It's about the people in a country (it wasn't Germany, but I forget now what it was) who were being oppressed by the nazis during WWII. Anyway, my mother read a quote to us from near the end, about how tomorrow will be better, and the sun will come out in the end. It reminded me of a quote from "The Lord of the Rings", where Frodo and Sam are traveling, and Sauron has blotted out the sun, but as the sun is about to set, one ray of light breaks through the dark clouds, and falls on a statue they had been looking at. It is a statue of a king, but the head of it has been cut off, and the orcs have scrawled their writing on it. But the ray of light falls on the head, and reveals a crown of flowers growing there, like a wreath, and the light makes it shine and twinkle. And Frodo says, "They cannot conquer forever." And it's true. It's hard, it is very, very hard, but it will not always be. If you are a Christian, there is always something to look forward to, even the only thing is Heaven. Someday, maybe not tomorrow or the next day, but someday, things will be better. Things will be right. Because they cannot conquer forever.
Does anyone have any quotes or Bible verses they'd like to share on this subject? I'd be very interested to hear them.
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Monday, April 30, 2007 - Ugh. (And writing experiment)
What a day. I had to answer the phone several times - which I don't like much - and call several people - which I like even less. Oh, well. As a friend of mine pointed out, it could have been worse: I could have gotten a wrong number. And I didn't - not once. I'm quite glad for that. Heh. I tend to be an optimist, when I can. What's the point in not being optimistic, after all?
Well, I should think of something else to write, but there doesn't seem to be anything else. Hmm...perhaps, well, I feel like just writing nothing: just spitting out whatever I'm hearing and seeing and thinking. So I will.
Sounds waving, and rolling,
Crashing threateningly like
The waves on the shore,
On the rocks.
Voices
Speaking words unknown,
Rising,
Falling,
Uncaring
If I am listening
For they are perhaps long-dead
And I never to know.
How strange. It ended up describing the song I was listening to. How fascinating and intriguing! I've never tried this before, but I must be sure to try it again.
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Friday, April 20, 2007 - Thank you!
I just want to thank my mother and father. I was feeling kinda down today, and they did something extra-special for me, and made me feel a lot better. Thank you both very much. For today and always.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Stupid goats!
So yesterday. *groan* Mommy (that's my mother, you know) comes inside, and says the goats are nowhere on our property. So we run about, Mommy calls their names, and we get in the car and go up and down the road looking for them. So we come back, figuring maybe they'll come back when it's milking time and they start getting uncomfortable. Then Mommy decides to go down the road again on foot one more time, and Daddy (that's my father, you know) says to me, "Why don't you go over to the pasture and check the buildings." Well, it was something along those lines. My apologies to him if I quoted inaccurately.
So anyway, I go over into the pasture and check inside a bunch of these shack-type buildings that the previous owner threw together, and I hear a thunking sound from inside one of them. Sure enough, when I open the door, there they all are: four white goats. A gust of wind (there were several yesterday) must have blown the door open, and then, being a heavy door, it probably just swung back into place and the STUPID *ahem* goats couldn't figure out that you could just push it open and hop out... Caused all that fuss...
Well, that's the way it goes, and it's all in God's providence. Plus, it was yesterday, so I'm so over it.
This orange color definitely does not complement the lavender background. Hmm.
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 - Real-life quote! (#2)
Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Over two weeks, arg! But...
Yes, that's right, another real-life quote! The second ever! This time it's courtesy of...The tax form!
"Print your [Blogger's note: file this word away for future reference] first name and middle initial here."
Okay, that's not so bad, right? But look at the next thing on the line:
"Check [i.e. put a mark here] if deceased."
Oooookaaaay......
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - Laundromats
You know, laundromats? Where you wash your clothes, for a variety of reasons? Well, you know what Bilbo said about Rivendell (sorry for those of you who aren't LotR/Tolkien fans), "Time doeesn't seem to pass there: it just is." Well, ironically, in laundromats, time may seem to pass, but there is, in fact, NO TIME WHATSOEVER. Sure, go ahead and laugh. But next time you go to a laundromat, take NO watches or timepieces of any kind. Yes, I'm serious (what can it hurt?). You will find that there is no way to tell time. Because there is no time. The most reliable way to tell how much time there is in the outside world is to keep track of how many things you've done: i.e. how many loads of laundry, how many pages you've read in that book or magazine you brought, how many times you've looked out the window and sighed, etc.
Try it or forever wonder if I'm right....
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Monday, March 26, 2007 - Real-life quote!
Thanks to my mother for summing up the weirdness today! Maybe tomorrow it will be someone else who will say something weird, but for now, my mother gets the credit for this first real-life quote on my new blog.
"I gotta go get some geranium leaves. I'll be right back."
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Monday, March 26, 2007 - This is my problem with blogging...
Okay, so here I am, right? I have great material for blogging. Spring is here, there was a baptism at church yesterday, I have recently met a good friend, etc, etc, etc. But here is my problem: I don't know what to make out of it. I have no smart remarks or wise conclusions. Most of my smart, interesting remarks come to me at night while I'm laying in bed at night, staring at the bottom of the bunk above me (which, by the way, has no one sleeping in it due to the fact that all my sisters have left the nest), and of course, my choices at that point are a) get up and write down this smart remark, probably harshly waking myself up by turning on the bright light, or b) try to remember it and probably fail to remember that I even had anything I wanted to remember.
Thus I come to actually posting, and I have two choices here also, a) wait until I come up with something smart and/or interesting (fat chance of that, or of remembering it) or b) sit down and write something randomly and hope it turns out okay. Best case scenario: so silly and random it ends up amusing. Yeah. Like that's gonna work.
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Monday, March 19, 2007 -
So here I am....Mommy's back is sore from last night's family adventure, which was helping a goat get back on the correct side of the fence...*sigh* Goats are so stubborn. And of course it had to be the goat who acts like a shy deer, even to us. But anyway. We managed to lead her through a gate in the fence, which we had never opened before and had to saw through the chain with a hacksaw. That was my evening. Just another day on the farm...uh, homestead.
I wrote a poem today to help me focus my mind on the book I'm writing. (It's a novel) I wrote it to sort of ground that part of my brain in the point where the story is right now, and maybe help me get out of my writer's block.
I'm still poking around the blog, figuring out what you can do with it...Did you know you can change the size of the smileys? Ooo....
Pixely...
Teeny. Haha!
I'm in a poem-writing mood, but I can't seem to think of a good subject. Ack. Maybe I could try haiku again, but I haven't been very good at them...all the more reason to try again, I suppose. If anyone reads this and thinks of an idea for a poem, post a comment, and if I write about it, or it gives me an idea, maybe I'll post it!
I need to think of a good signature, too.
~Mantirwen.
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Friday, March 16, 2007 - My third post in one day...Don't get used to it.
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Friday, March 16, 2007 - Cool Wedding!
I just got back from a wedding, and it was the best one I've ever been to! Okay, I haven't been to many, but it was still cool. The ceremony was good. The pastor preached a sermonette, and then there were the vows and all, and as the pastor said the benediction, the suns came out from behind the clouds (and shone right in our eyes, but I don't think anyone cared). Also, when the bride walked up the "aisle" (it was an outdoor wedding), it was to a collective accapello rendition of "It is Well With My Soul", and when the couple walked back down, it was to a recording of the theme from the Rocky movie(s?). And then there was a reception immediately following, and a bluegrass band played. There was a fiddle and a banjo and some weird-looking stringed instrument that was like an oddly-shaped guitar. Sort of. And there was a base fiddle, too, I think.
Anyway, once it got dark, some kids from church, including me, got some cans out of the garbage and "decorated" the new couple's car. I'd never done that before, and was a lot of fun. We had tin cans on the back so that they'd drag along, and draped some toilet paper on the inside, and put flowers and flower petals on the seats and stuff. (See? Flowers. We're nice. ) Anyway, it was all in good fun. I hope we'll get to hear a funny story about what they think of our decorating.
Then we went back to the barn (which was where the reception was and the band was playing: I really need to explain myself better) and there was lively music playing, and I started swaying and moving my feet, and after awhile, my friend Caroline came over and said "Come on, you're going to dance with me." So I figured, why not? I'd feel uncomfortable dancing with a guy anyway. (Too awkward.) So we danced, even though neither of us know how, but that's part of what made it fun. And when we left, they hadn't even started the planned bonfire yet, and so I imagine they'll be there until at least 11.
Wow, this is probably the longest blog post I've ever written, and there's even more I could have told you, like the different ways people were dancing. But the main thing is, it was fun, and it was different.
Also, it was a celebration of the holy union of two people in marriage, and it was a celebration that went on long enough for it to really seem like a celebration. It felt like a celebration, which is what really makes it stand out from other weddings and receptions I've been to. It was special. Maybe my wedding will be like that.
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