Atchison Auditions went pretty well. I was not overly impressed with anyone's performance--myself included--but nothing went wrong. The judges were very nice, and they didn't say anything very bad (almost everybody got all excellent scores). It just wasn't . . . stellar. Everybody got 1 ratings, but nobody got a 1+ rating. I don't know if those still happen anymore, but it was kind of disappointing. It was just my opinion. However, the event earned everybody a chocolate ice cream cone afterward!

Story!

Today at dinner, Dad was was trying to tell Eric what happened in a movie. This was a heated discussion over a girl's name because nobody remembered what it was.

Dad: Her name was significant.
Eric: Significant? Why was her name Significant?
Lydia: No, Eric, her name was not Significant!! Her name was significant.

the great outdoors...and school

I finally wanted to go outside today. I never really have wanted to before, but it was so nice outside that I couldn't resist. Unfortunately, I had loads and loads of school to do (and still do). So I hastily scanned my chapter in chemistry, called it read, and went outside to play for a couple of minutes. I suppose that means I will be utterly confused in about an hour and a half when we talk about the chapter . . . my fault completely.

One of the reasons I wanted to go outside today was that we have a new mower. It's a Grasshopper, and I love it already! The deck is about 10 inches wider than the John Deere, and the mower has a zero degree turn radius. Sweet! I even got to drive it around some, and that was pretty cool.

Proverbs 23:12--"Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge."

Only about 17 days until the retreat. That's coming up really fast! It's kind of scary, I don't know how we're everything's going to be done by then. I know it will work out just fine, and the pieces are starting to come together, though. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone then!

Skiing was a lot of fun Friday. It wasn't very difficult, either, although I didn't really stay upright well. :P I also have a few bruises here and there and sore muscles, but I want to go again sometime. Maybe we can get the homeschool group to go.

Some of the things I really need to do today include a chemistry test, and English paper, a history paper and test, and practicing the piano. That should last me all afternoon!

I have this really long list of all the things I want to do. Unfortunately, I will never even dent the list. Some of my desires include the following:

• Finish school. I am so close to being done with Typing, and that's cool, but I'm not seeing the end very well in the other subjects.
• Finish reading Pilgrim's Progress. I knew I was bad about starting classics and then never finishing them. I think I'm on chapter 7.
• Write. I had this grand planning at the beginning of the semester that I would write all these papers, enjoy revising them, and they would all be great. The few papers I have written are still hard to read, and they are far from great. I guess I'm still just an aspiring writer.
• I want to research. I want to find out the story behind St. Patrick's Day, I want to know about leaprosy and if there is a cure for it, and I want to criticize Johnny Cash's life. I watched Walk the Line today, if you can't tell.

On a nice note, I get to go skiing tomorrow. That will be fun. I've never been before, so it should be an adventure.

My link of the post is this. It's a link to a website that gives you a bunch of music that is similar to a song or artist's style that you provide. Pandora's pretty cool. I've never heard of some of those artists that they give!

As to my being gone from here for a long time, I've decided that my website is more fun than my blog. On my website I keep lists--lots of fun. You should try it sometime. :) Also, I write very short essays every once in a while that I don't want to get lost in the jumble of a blog. They would fast disappear into the Archives where I would never find them again.

This is Martha's Sister

I didn't take her password or anything like that. It was already in the computer. So, I got on here to change her links, but you know how I am. I can never figure blogger out. I didn't have it long enough to figure it out, so I can't change her links.

All in favor of people who have broken links on their sites change them raise their right hand...never mind...post here and tell us. Great!

Have a nice day! :)

Martha's Sister.