Last Night
The candle light service went well, I guess. I mean, I played fine, was super nervous though. I'm not sure how good our song in general sounded.
The party was a blast! At first it started out kinda slow and awkward. I mean, it was hard to interact with all the younger kids around. The ages went from 25 down to 11. (that was the people who were actually there for the party. Then there were some younger kids who were just there, tagging along.) But anyway, we played ping-pong, ate, then tryed to start a game of Taboo...but it took a while to get going. There were so many people wanting to play, and it was soooo loud, we couldn't here each other. We did end up starting it, but only got half way around, then we had to stop for the gift exchange! :D
The gift exchange was a LOT of fun! We played White Elephant, or Dirty Santa, whichever you wanna call it. It was hilarious. People kept stealing everyone's gift! I got to keep mine though! It was one of the nicest too. A c.d case filled with chocolates! (which was of COURSE the best part!) Actually, that was what Camela had brought, and she ended up getting what I brought, a jewelry box. (I'm suprised I found it! The price limit was 3 bucks, and the box was exactly that amount, on sale! It was cool.) Then after we were done, the guys went. Most of the stuff was dumb. But some of them had had some cool ideas. Like someone had brought giant tennis balls, and Scott wrapped his entire gift in duct tape, complete with a duct tape bow! It was awesome! He wrote something about a 'red neck holiday' on it. I'm gonna have to do that next year to someone's gift. :D Lisa would love it!
After the gift exchange, we were all just sat around, not sure what to do. The party was suppposed to be over by 10:00, and it was 9:30. Me, josh (he went too btw!!) Camela, Rebecca, Scott, Quinton, and Laban were all sitting together. At first we were just talking about dumb stuff, and being crazy. Scott and Quinton were showing us some pics of their older sister and brother (we've never met them) and they had some pictures of themselves when they were kids. It was hilarious! We were all laughing at them and "making fun" of them. They took it well though. ;P Then one thing led to another, and before we knew it, we were having this big debate on theology!! LoL! Josh loves to argue, and so does Scott. And it happend that Josh was beliving something different than all the rest of us. So we were like all ganging up on him, trying to convince him to our point of view! It was so fun, and he loved it too of course! It was so fun! Ya know, most peeps wouldn't think so, but I LOVE to debate! I guess I get it from josh, or wherever he got it from. But he and I used to go at it all the time, over anything we could think of. It's so fun to use logic and your head to try and convince people of something. It's really cool when you've got a whole group of people going, who know what they believe, and know how to argue! We weren't mad at each other or anything last night, but we did get going pretty good! It's awesome to be able to talk about the Bible with other people my age. Then you're not really using logic, just the Bible, and your head too of course.
I would have wrote last night, but alas, I had to go to bed. To tired to write. But anyway, now you know it all. :D

I'm bored...so I'm gonna talk to you
Yeah, it's rather quiet around here. Mom had to go to work, josh went to the library, and dad is watching sports. Soooo, I don't know what else to do.
We stayed up 'til 1:30 last night watching 'White Christmas'! I love that movie! We always start our marathon of all-time favorite Christmas movies right about now. Let's see, what are some of the other ones we watch. 'Christmas Carol', 'Little Women', 'Jesus of Nazareth', 'Miracle on 34th Street, and of course 'It's a Wonderful Life' My ALL time favorite Christams movie. That's the one we always save for Christams Eve! :D
Tomarrow evening our church (funny, I've started calling it that) is having it's candle light service. I'm playing 'O Holy Night' again on the flute. I had forgotten about it until just now, and now I'm really nervous! Yikes! My stomach just went flop. I know it'll be fine though, everyone said we sounded awesome.
Anyway, after the service the youth/college kids our having a Christmas party!! I'm really excited about going! It's gonna be fun!
Oh yeah, and speaking of holiday get togethers...Camela told me the other day that their family is wanting to have us and the Whitakers over New Years Eve. It's not definate yet, but I hope they do, and I hope we can go.
Well, now that I've finished ROTK, I need to find something new to read. I haven't come up with anything yet. I'm in the mood for a mystery, I think. Actually, I'm in the mood to WRITE! But I dunno what. I have all these great book ideas, but I'm not good at sticking with them, and finishing them. Maybe I should just start writing anyway.
I need to sew too. I started working on some quilt squares last week, and need to do some more. There are 12 in all, each a different flower, one for each month. But I don't know if I'm in the mood for that.

I FINISHED READING...THEN SAW RETURN OF THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WoW! It was so awesome! I stayed up until 1:30 last night reading. I had to find out what happend to my dear little Pip! When I got to the part where you find out that he didn't die I was SO wanting to jump up and run around the house cheering, but nearly died restraining myself, seeing that everyone else was asleep, and I didn't think my mum and dad would be sympathetic to my joy. None-the-less, I was so happy! I love the little fella! Anyway, then I got up at 8:30 this morning to read the last few chapters. I DID run around hollaring then!!!!! It was sooooo good. Reading the book first definatly made me appreciate it more.
Last night josh and I watched FOTR, then this morning we watched TT. I was so pumped by 2:30 when we left to go see ROTK!
Okay, my thoughts on the movie. Yes...it was amazing! But reading the book definatly made me a critic! First off they left Beregond out completly! He was cool! And what's more, because of that, they left out a lot with Pippen, and Gondor. I did think Gondor was awesome! They did it very well, and the major battle was really good. I thought they dragged the second battle and the part where Sam and Frodo destroy the Ring. I mean, that was the climax, things were supposed to be racing, and it was like "okay, let's pick up the pace! People are dying out there!" They completly left out the romance part with Faramir and Eowin! And The Scouring of the Shire. That part was sad, but it was a BIG part. Without it, it leaves people who haven't read the book wondering what in the world happend to those creeps Saruman and Wormtongue? I mean, if I hadn't read the book...I wouldn't be sleepin' easy! Okay, maybe not that bad...but you get the drift. I like Shelob, she was great! I didn't like the part leading up to her though. Sam should have gone into her cave WITH Frodo. And the whole web/mummy thing was a little wierd too. Oh yeah, and one other thing and then I'll be done slamming it. Who in the WORLD was that moldy potato looking ork at the battle of Gondor?!?! He wasn't in the book! He was so dumb!
But enough of that! That's what comes of reading the book first. 'They'll be no living with me after this!' :P I really did like it though! And I plan on seeing it several times. But I think the extended edition will be MUCH better. It will take of most of the problems I have with it. Well, all except Mr. Potato Head!

PS~~~Wasn't Pippen AWESOME when he sang?!?!?!?!? I love him!

Many Meetings *tee hee!*
Sorry, I couldn't resist saying that. But it's true! I finally got to see my girlfriends again, for the first time in just almost two weeks!!! I hadn't seen them since last book club. Lisa, Jasper, Beth, I luv you guys!
Lisa bought me this really cool necklace/braclet, really perty colors.
Anyway, where did I see them? At the Y of course! Finally went for the first time in I dunno know how long.
oh and guess what? TOMARROW I SEE RETURN OF THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I can harldy wait! At the same time though, it'll be kinda sad. 'Cause once I see it, then all the anticipation is over. I mean, I've been doing this for three years now. But it'll be worth it. Anyway, I have GOT to finish the book tonight. Where I left off Pippen supposedly dies. But I keep hoping that he didn't really, that maybe it was another mean move on JRR Tolkiens part, like what he said about Eowin and Frodo. He likes making you think people are dead! But Pippin can't die!!!! He's my favorite character! Poor little tyke!
Well, I'll find out tonight, for tonight, I shall stay up until the last page is read and for better of worse, I know the fate of my little friend! And then tomarrow... *shivers with anticipation* It's bitter sweet, but that's the way it goes!

Catching Up....
I haven't posted in ages!!!! It's been kinda busy and crazy around here lately, but in a good sorta way. It's all part of the holiday season! I love it!!! It snowed for the first REAL time this year! Almost two inches, I loved it! It started snowing saturday night, which was really cool 'cause we had friends from church over!
Speaking of which...it was the Whitakers and the Milyards (you've heard me talk about Camela? Well, this is her family. She has three older brothers too.) We had been wanting to have the Whitakers over again, especially since Josh is home. They have all been really wanting to meet him, and he did to kind. Actually, he wasn't very enthusiastic at first about the idea. But it turned out that he hit it off really well with Scott (which is cool, since they both go to Cedarville) and liked Quenton and Brent too. Which btw, I finally got to met Brent! Anyway, it was so much fun with all the peeps that were here. At first it was kinda weird, 'cause it was just me and Camela with EIGHT guys! But it was still fun. We played Pictionary, Taboo, Dutch Blitz, and Clue. And we talked and just hung out. Fun stuff!
All the guys are really nice. They talk to me like they are really interested in talking to me. And they are fun to joke around and have fun with.

Nothing Much
Let's see, what can I catch ya'll up on? I haven't written for a few days, have I? Well, for starters, I'm sick. *sniffle* I know! It's terrible! I think I caught it when I was working at Susan Denlingers (the lady who owns the greenhouse)because she was feeling bad that day. And, ya know how I was supposed to work wednesday and thursday too? Well she called and cancelled 'cause she was sick. So anyway, I'm not feeling my best right now, but that's okay. I just hope I'm better by next sunday for the play. We had practice last night, and I didn't do to hot. Have you ever tried playing a flute with a head full of snot, a dry throat, and a cough? Well, if you haven't, then I don't think you can sympathise! It's not a fun thing! But it is very interesting, I'll give it that.
I did work at Susan's on saturday though. From 9-4, talk about a long day. I worked with her and Camela. (I dunno if I've told you about her or not, but she is Rebecca's cousin, goes to the same church we do, at works at Susan's *duh* She's really nice, and a lot of fun. I've known her for about the same amount of time that I've known Becca, but I've only started to really get to know her in that past few weeks.)We cleaned the entire day, and I mean CLEANED!!! We had to do the boy's bedroom, girl's bedroom,the hallway, and the bathroom. We started by picking up all the stuff from the floor, which was a major job in and of itself! There was stuff everywhere! Then we moved all the furniture around, cleaned behind it, wiped them down, washed the walls, vaccumed, sorted thru stuff, throwing things away, finding places for it. It was a huge job, and if I had been by myself, I would not have been having fun, but Susan is a lot of fun to work for and with, and Camela and I were cutting up too. So it made the work easier and go quicker. I'm going back week after next, and we are going to clean the rest of the house, and I think put up new wallpaper in the hallway.
Let's see, I went to bookclub last friday. That was sooo much fun! It was the last one of the year, and we had just finished Christmad Carol too, so we watched The Muppet Christmas Carol (my favorite version btw!) and gave each other our Christmas gifts! It was a lot of fun. Beth made some awesome stuff out of clay for me! I'm telling ya, she is good with that stuff! She made Arwen's pendant, Aragorn's pipe (tee hee! I reeeaally liked that one!) and a picture frame with Josh Groban in it! We pigged out too, as always, on my pumpkin roll (Oh yeah, I made one for the first time! And it was a big hit too. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.) cheese nips, apples, all that good stuff.
Also, the Christmas banquet at church was this friday. It wasn't what I wanted to go to that evening, but I still had fun. I made a pumpkin roll for that too. :D I'm going pumpkin roll crazy!!!

Loooooong day
I am so pooped! I've been up since 7:00 this morning, and working since 8:30-5:00.
I went over to a friends house last night, well actually it was Rebecca (Mast). Me, her, and her younger sister (susannah) are all going to play a O Holy Night for the Christmas play going on at our church (well, it's not really ours, we've just been visiting there). And anyway, they had been having a lot of trouble with counting and stuff, and I hadn't even had a chance to play with them ,so we really needed to practice, because the play is about two weeks away! Becca's playing the piano, Susannah is playing the violin (which I was gonna play too, but decided not to) amd I'm playing the flute. And to add to the hardness (that's not really a word, is it?) of it, Quenton (told ya about him to) is supposed to be singing with us!
So anyway, to make a long story short, we needed to practice, had been wanting to have a sleepover (I've known her for over 3 years, and we've never done that!) and we both had to work at the greenhouse today. So it all worked out just dandy! I had a really good time at their house, especially after everyone had went to bed. She and I stayed up talking until 2:00 a.m!!! Which was fun at the time, but it was awful having to get up this morning!
Working at the greenhouse was fun though. The lady, her name is Susan btw, who owns/runs it is German Baprist, and really nice. The work is fun too, this was only the second time I've worked there, but I'm already learning a lot about flowers, and taking care of them, running a greenhouse, that sorta stuff. It's really cool. I had no idee that so much went into it! I worked with Susan, Becca, and another girl who happens to Becca's cousin, and also goes to the same church we've been going to. Her name is Camela. :D Those two only stayed until 12:30ish. After that it was just me and Susan. We kept working in the greenhouse until about 3:00. then we went inside, and I graded papers (she homeschools two of her kids) for TWO HOURS! My brain was a veritable (don't ya luv that word?!) Jello Jiggler by the time my dad picked me up. But it beats working someplace like Burger King.
I'm going back to work there all day tomarrow and Thursday, and both of those days we are going to be cleaning. *groans*
Maybe I should explain...Susan is in a wheelchair. She isn't exactly paralysed, but her legs are kinda small and don't work like normal legs. I think she's had some kind of disease, but I'm not exactly sure what. But anyway, with that, trying to run the greenhouse, take care of 4 very energetic kids (not to mention homeschool them) she needs extra help around the house sometimes, in addition to running the greenhouse. So anyway...
I don't mind thought, seriously. Even though the work can be hard sometimes, I'm glad to get to do it. Right now it's supposed to be her off season, and she only calls people to help on an as-need basis. And she pays pretty well too. Like today, I think I prolly made around 45 dollars. I dunno for sure, cause she isn't going to pay me until thursday, i think. But when I worked before, I was only there for four hours, and she payed me 21.00. So, that's not to bad!
But i was so tired when I got home, I took a long veerry hot bath. And *tee hee* I started Christmas Carol!! It's about time, seeing I have to have it read by Friday...

Dum de Dum....
Mom and I spent the day again today cleaning, but we finaaally got it all done! Even my room is clean. YaY!
This afternoon we picked Josh up from Cedarville, I hadn't seen him in about two weeks. I'm glad he's home, I miss him not being here all the time. I mean, we are still close and everything, but it's not the same. It's hard to "bond" (for lack of a better word) when he's only home for the weekend. Because I've got things going on, or he has things that he wants or needs to do while he's home, or we want to spend time doing stuff together, but usually it's just hanging out having fun watching a movie or something like that. There really isn't any time to talk like we used to. We can't do it over the phone, I guess we're too close for that (I know, that sounds weird! But when you're as close as we are, talking on the phone just doesn't work to well) And there isn't a chance to really talk, 'cause you can't force these things to happen. But anyway, he's home until Tuesday morning when we have to take him back. then after two more weeks at school, he'll be home for almost a month! So that's cool.
Anyway, what else did I do today? Oh, I called Jasper. Well, actually she called me first and left a message, then I called her back, but let's not get technical about it! She wanted to know if I had gone to the game last night, which I ended up not going to.
Anyhoo, we talked for about an hour! It was fun. It's weird though, we always get on the bizzarest conversation topics! And we never have any clue how we got there! It's really quite funny. But I won't go into all that, don't want you to think I'm anymore crazy than I'm sure you already do!

Let it Snow!!!!
Yay!!! We had the first snow of the year today! Okay, maybe I'm being a little too over eager, after-all, it was just flurries. *grins* But hey, they were steady flurries! I love it when it snows, and now is just the perfect time for it to start. I like it to get cold around Thanksgiving, and start snowing soon after. I'll admit, i was starting to get a little worried when we kept having nothing but warm weather for the past weeks! It's hard to get in the holiday mood when it is close to 70 degrees outside! Christmas is supposed to cold and snowy, it makes having to stay inside all the more fun. And i dunno, there's somehting romantic about it. *sighs* Ya know, I'm beginning to find that deep down, I'm a hopeless Romantic at heart. Most peeps prolly wouldn't think so, but it's true! I can't help it.
But anyway...that's not what I got on to talk about. :P I've been spending the whole day helping my mum clean the house. *groans* Not fun at all! But oh well. I think (or hope anyway!) that we are almost done for the day. But we still have a bunch more to do tomarrow. Hopefully though, I'll be able to go to the Saints basketball game in the evening though! (Btw, in case you're wondering, the Saints are a homeschool team that my bro played on last year, and I know pretty much all the guys on the team. So anyway, that's why I talk about them fairly often. So, yeah...)
LoL! I just noticed that this entry and the one before it show up as on the same day! I didn't even realize that I wrote my last entry so late last night that i counted as one for today! Kinda funny, at least I thought so. But just so you know, that was Sunday (sorta) and this is today (monday) :D

Blah blah blah....
Let's see, what did I do today? Well, we went to church...the same one we have been visiting for about a month now. (we are develpoing quite an on going record here!) Actually, we visited there once before, a couple of years ago, but at the time didn't go very long, only a couple of Sundays. However, we did "hook" up with a family who goes there (called the Masts)and have stayed in touch, and done things with them ever since. Well, three or four sundays ago dad suggested that we go back there again to visit. But before that, let me say that for quite awhile now the Masts have been telling us about one Whitaker family that has apparently been attending there church since early this summer. Most of the talking comes from Rebecca (their oldest daughter, who also happens to my age) who apparently thinks quite highly of them. She had told me a lot about them, including that they have a son who is 18, named Quentin.
Now when I first heard this I thought "hmm, I used to know a Quentin in 5th grade", (for those of you who don't know, I went to a private school for a little while when I was in 5th grade) but then I completely forgot about it. Anyway, to make a long story short, when we visited there about a month ago, I saw Quentin, recognised him as the same Quentin, completely shocked him, myself, and subsequently everyone else who happened to be standing there when we were introduced by blurting out "I KNOW you!". And in the time that we have been visiting the church (Covenant Baptist is the name, just f.y.i) we have had the Whitakers over to our house, and have gotten to know them a little.
Like I said before, they have 5 boys and also 1 daughter. But anyway, the oldest boy is married, and is going to Cedarville (haven't met him) the next oldest is Brent (21)and is going to Word of Life in NY (haven't met him yet either) then there is Scott (19) who is also going to Cedarville, but living at home, and is preparing to be a minister. Then of course there is Quentin (18), and finally Doug (14). Doug is hilarious, a lot of fun to be around. Quentin, when I knew him in 5th grade was really shy and quiet. He is still quiet, but not really shy anymore. Scott is really nice, and I respect him. You don't have to hang around him very long to find out that he not only loves God very much, but is very passionate about Him. It's so cool to be around a guy, who's pretty close to my own age, that's like that. He's so caught up in the things of God.
So anyway, back to church. The others that go there are nice, the pastor really seems to have a heart for God. His preaching style is different than my dad's, which is hard to get used to. But I guess you can't have everything, and if it was up to me, I would keep going there. And who knows, we may!
Well, this afternoon I went with the Masts, Whitakers, and another familiy to a nursing home to help with a worship service for some of the residents. It was a lot of fun! Normally, I get weird at places like that. I'm not scared of old people or anything, but i dunno, i just never know what to say! It was different this time though. they seemed really glad to see us, and to have an oppertunity to "go" to church.
After that, we all went back to the church, because the youth and younger kids are putting on a Christmas play, and they had practice this evening before church. And guess what? I'm going to be in the play too! Imagine that! (some of you might know that my first encounter this summer with theatrics was rather interesting! For those of you who don't know, you can ask about it when you leave a comment! (*hint hint*) I, along with Rebecca, and one other girl, are going to be narraters. Which in one aspect is cool, because we don't actually have to memorize any lines! *sigh of relief* But on the down side, we don't get to wear costumes either, which would have been fun. Anyhoo, I'm also gonna do a duet on the piano w/ Rebecca, and play the violin with Susannah (the next to oldest Mast daughter, who happens to take violin lessons from the same lady i do!)along with Rebecca on the piano, and Quentin singing. It should be interesting. :-D
Anyhoo, we were all at the church for about an hour before everyone showed up for play practice. It was fun hanging out with them.
Well, now that I've practically given you a State of the Union Adress, and prolly numbed you all into bordom, or insanity by my babbling, I need to get off now! So toodles!