Girls' Night Out

Thank you, Elizabeth, for your comment. My family and I do have a lot of fun and keep fairly busy.

Last night, the Sabetha/Seneca homeschoolers put on an end of the year program. After the program a bunch of guys started a game of basketball. I was in a dress and couldn't play, but I was in there and was talking to one of them. All of a sudden this ball comes spinning through the air, directly at my head! I ducked. It was very fortunate that I did because the ball smacked the wall right behind my where my head had just been and went bouncing off towards Justin. I guess being short is a good thing: I would have had to duck a lot farther and might have done more than just sloshed my lemonade in my cup.

On the other hand, being short is slightly awkward. I took Dad out to the field in his pickup this afternoon. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the seat to slide up so I could reach the pedals. So all the way out to the field I perched on the front of the seat and hung on to the steering wheel whenever we went up hill. Dad fixed the seat once we got to the field, and I sat normally on the trip back.

This evening Lydia and I went over to a friend's house for a game of volleyball. It was fun. Poor Molly, playing on a high school volleyball team then coming to our party where no one really knows how to play volleyball. Afterwards, we sat around and had s'mores and cookies. Yum.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a wedding! :D

Major or Minor?

Haha, I keep trying to change all my songs in a minor key to a major one. During my lesson, it is not unusual for Mrs. Wenger to say several time that IT IS NOT IN A MAJOR KEY. She's really nice about it, though. I just don't learn that it's okay to play in a minor key. :)

Geometry is over!! Finally. We did find my book, too. It was in the closet. I took the semester test just to pass the time and because I didn't want to do the funny looking worksheet everybody else did. I got a 91% on that, but the grade already in the gradebook was the 100%, so I just tossed the one I took this morning. It was fun, anyway, and I finished before everyone else. :)

Now, I suppose I'd better finish school, and dinner's ready. :)

Swing, batter! ...oops, that's baseball. :P

I love basketball. This evening (kind of spur-of-the-moment), the Rippes and the Scobys went into the city hall to play a game of basketball. Well, pretty soon there's five other guys who wanted to play. None of us had any idea who they are, but it was a fun game of ball. Four of them couldn't have been older than thirteen, or else they were small for their age (i.e. they were not taller than I). Even so, it was a very well matched game. The Rippe/Scoby team lost to the Stranger team by one point (29-30). I didn't even know we were keeping score until halfway through the game! :D

School's going alright. I suddenly tired of vocabulary, but then I did more history and Bible, so that's okay.

Jacque's in Louisiana right now, hopefully in Cameron. She'll be gone all week, and while she's gone, I have her computer in my room. Unfortunately, I also have to creat a PowerPoint presentation for the Shakespeare class we've "started." Fun, fun. :P

One Hundred

One hundred posts. Wow, that's a lot. I can't believe I've actually spewed that many words in less than a year.

I went to summer band in Atchison this evening. I've been looking for more of a challenge with my bells and feeling like the homeschool band isn't enough. So I went tonight, and I'm looking forward to all the work I'll have to put into this music.

Two more periods of geometry class, two more chemistry classes, three days until the end of the year program, and two months of school. Actually, I could get school done in a month if I wanted to badly enough.

Psalm 95:

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.

3 For the LORD is the great God,
the great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.

5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
Today, if you hear his voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the desert,

9 where your fathers tested and tried me,
though they had seen what I did.

10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways."

11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
"They shall never enter my rest."

Spring Picnic

The spring picnic was so fun last night. Yesterday, Jacque's car got serviced in the morning. Dad went in over the noon hour and switched it for the Bravada. So Mom took the Concorde into work, which left Jacque's car and Dad's pickup. Since we couldn't fit two drink coolers, and large cooler, bucket of softballs, a box of tableware and hotdog buns, and a crockpot full of baked beans in Jacque's small two-door, we put everything on Dad's huge diesel and rumbled down to Fairview. While most kids ran around in the blazing heat, *martha, *jacquie, and *i (we mixed up our nametags for fun) sat in the shade and ran the softball throw. It's interesting to see that some homeschoolers are extremely athletically driven while others just do whatever strikes their fancy. I most often fall into the latter group. :^).

Eventually, supper time rolled around, and even more families showed up. I was happy to see a family from KC there. It had been a long time since I'd seen them! After a plateful of hotdog, baked beans, and various other dishes, I headed over to the basketball court to see what was happening. I played for a while, but then I finally got thirsty and left after Moose made a basket. Then I came back and watched Austin and Mr. Bryant go at it. Those two are quite the match when it comes to basketball. It doesn't matter that they were on the same team--they're still really good.

I also played a little volleyball and some baseball. I even tried to hit left-handed. I can do that better than I can throw with my left hand. Trust me.

Funny story: Justin was bouncing a basketball around before supper and accidentally hit Liz in the nose. She threatened to take revenge. Several minutes later, Dustin looks over and says to Liz and her sister, "I know what the difference between you two is. Liz is always smiling, and Chris just has this weird look on her face all the time." He put on such a funny face that I laughed. As payback, Liz and Chris decided they should take the boys' food for themselves and make them go to the end of the line (which was really long at that point). However, they must not have liked the food choice because the two girls decided to wait until later to eat. :)

That's pretty much it.

It is amazing who you see and what you learn at Wal-mart. It's also scary what you learn.

Jacque's home.

School's happening.

Yay for homeschool picnics! :)

Another Spring Day

I love spring. It was pretty cool this morning, but it really warmed up this afternoon. After music class, I went outside and enjoyed a game of soccer. In case you didn't know, playing soccer with a bunch of 10-12 year old boys is very scary. No, it's not just scary--it's dangerous. Strangely enough, it's even worse than playing football with them. There was a lot more contact in soccer than there ever is in football.

Guess what? My glasses are officially broken in. I smashed them twice, and they fell off my face twice in that rowdy game of soccer.

Once I warmed up there, I was ready to go. I went to band. According to two of my three sources, band was to begin at 5:30. Austin said it started at six, but I foolishly did not believe him because Mrs. F. said to be there at 5:30. So I went and got there at 5:20. One person was there. I helped him get the microphones working and everything (I talked :D), and finally people started showing up at about 5:40. I finally figured out that we were supposed to be there at 5:30 to set everything up and to start rehearsal at 6:15. If I had known that, I wouldn't have left home before 5:30! I couldn't even go to the library because it closed at 5:00. Oh well, it's over.

Somebody called me a (dumb) blonde today. Can you believe that? :D

Who is my conscience?

The end.

Nearing the Middle of May

Wow, the weather sure has been weird lately, especially the temperature. Tuesday it was kind of hot, and I was in flip-flops most of the time. Mom even turned the air conditioner on! Then today it was freezing. I wore a long-sleeve t-shirt and definitely not flip-flops. Halfway through the morning, Lydia informed us the reason it was so cold in the house: nobody had turned off the AC. Fortunately, it has since warmed up.

I'm doing school--lots of it. Summer, come hither!

I ate fish for supper tonight, and it wasn't that bad. The funny thing is it didn't really smell very fishy. Maybe it's because in comparison to the fish I usually handle (live and slimey) it wasn't very fishy. Or maybe it's because I drowned it in tartar sauce before I took a bite.

Guess who will be home in six days? :D

My Birthday and Surrounding Events Thereof

When I awoke three days ago on Tuesday morning, I soon discovered that we would have additional goats on our farm. What I did not know, however, was that Sparkler was going to have three kids! Unfortunately, two were breech. The vet came out about 11:30 Tuesday night and pulled them. He discovered that while Sparkler was trying so hard to have the first kid, she puntured her uterus. It got infected, and she died yesterday. It was a sad event. On the other hand, all three kids are doing very well. We were all surprised that they made it. Now they're bouncing all over the place. I would put a picture up, but it is unbelievably hard to get a picture with six kids and four kittens. The kittens constantly join in the fray, and Twinkletoes habitually takes her naps with them. :)

Tuesday morning we went to see A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was really good, I enjoyed it. Not only was the play funny (Bottom and Puck were hilarious), it was well done. I cannot imagine having the energy of those actors. We should see more plays.

I did have a really good birthday. It is so great to be seventeen! I even got two phone calls wishing me happy birthday, and I enjoyed them immensely. I don't have any pictures of my phone calls.

Yesterday morning I woke up with an incredibly sore throat. It was enough to make me wish it was my birthday every day. I sent my brother to the store for cough drops. He also came back with Mountain Dew and Whoppers. I am beginning to enjoy the taste of Mountain Dew again, but it sure wasn't good yesterday!

This morning, I determined to make everyone believe I was well. We went to hear the Br. Co. extention agent give a presentation on the Columbia shuttle recovery. It was really neat to see since he was pretty heavily involved in it, helping to run the GPS and GIS systems.

Afterwards, I went and picked up my new glasses. They're pretty similar to my old pair except for the fact that the lenses are about twice as thick as before.

Finally, our bathroom will soon be in working order. Yesterday morning I listened to a really loud noise as Dad cut apart our shower. When the dust settled, he set to work putting in our new shower. It is a good deal smaller, but it's pretty and unmarred.

I thus depart to prepare for a pizza party!

What I did today...

I went fishing this evening. Lydia was the only other person who caught more than I did, and I reeled in five fish. Three of them I unhooked myself. :D

1. Lydia: 7
2. me: 5
3. Dad: 4
4. Austin: 2
5. Eric: 2
6. Brandy: 1

Total: 21 fish.

I also went to the optometrist. :(

I'm going to see A Mid-summer Night's Dream tomorrow. The only other Shakespeare play I've seen is Hamlet. However, I have also read Romeo and Juliet and plan to read Julius Caesar--sometime.