Christmas!

Hello! ^_^

Christmas is coming! It's almost here! Ohmigoodness, it's almost here! :) I is happeh. I love Christmas. It makes me want to hug people. hehe. Because it makes me happy.

I love snow, the look of it mostly, and I love cookies, and cream spinach, and christmas lights when the house is dark, and wearing socks to keep my feet warm, and dancing to christmas music, and, and, and, ... hehe, I just love it.

But wait. I haven't done any of that stuff. It's like twelve days till christmas and I haven't made a single batch of cookies. And I've only got my shopping done for one person. *shifty eyes* and not to mention I haven't done anything in the snow, I mean like nothing, I like took a walk for like fifteen minutes but that was it.

I need to do all this stuff. So much stuff. I made a most beautiful tea ring yesterday but Really I most get my act together. I've got so many gifts I've got to buy and so many things I have to do and oh me oh my. I want to go sledding to, really really bad. :D

-Kate

Missing Computer.

Hello, ;)

Blah taxes. Go away.

Yes, I'm very weary of having to think about taxes because to do them we have to find my moms old computer. That computer is the one that we had over at the book store and it has all the records of all the sales we made. It's very important but there's only one problem. It's so very very lost it's ridiculous.

The computer is no were to be found. I think we've pretty much looked everywhere except were it is. It could be in mom's bedroom, the sunroom, the garage, or the basement. All these rooms have been turned upside down but we haven't been able to find it. It's very strange. As if the computer disappeared into very very thin air.

My poor mother has gone quiet distracted trying to think of were she would have put it, her memory is not very good anymore.

So... If everyone could please pray that we would be able to find it and get this tax mess cleared up.

-confused Cait

100 books

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

• 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

• 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible

• 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

• 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

• 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

• 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

• 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

• 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

• 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville (Abridged Version)

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

• 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Oh, dear me. I was expecting I would have read more. This actually seems to be a seriously bizarre list with several books I've never even heard of. Why would anyone need to read "the five people you meet in heaven" is beyond me. It's silly and confusing and not biblically sound in even the broadest sense of the phrase.

The complete works of Shakespeare? I can't believe anyone would read all those. Didn't he write like hundreds of plays and poetry too?

I will probably have read more of these by the time I graduate because a lot of them are on the list of books I have to read.

If this were a movie

If this were a movie.... Music would play during the dramatic moments. The weather would reflect my feelings. The plot would be shorter. Nothing would last for years. After all there's only a hour and a half to wrap things up and end the story happily. Because the story would end happily. I know it would.

I wish my life was a movie.

Oh money, money, money.

*sigh*

life was so much simpler when I didn't have any money to spend. Having to figure out how much money you can use and how much you can't is difficult. When I didn't have any money to spend I only had to say "nope, can't afford it." Now I have to deal with whether actually be able to afford it and whether I wanted to spend my hard earned money on that and how I am going to get the money out of the bank.

I need to buy a winter Coat and A Camera and save up for sixty dollar tickets for Les Miserables in April or May next year.

I want to buy a pea coat with my money but they are so expensive. I found one at an overstock site for forty-three dollars and I'm planning on purchasing it next month with all my money and then I'll have no money left and be poor for the rest of that month but I'll have my coat.

And I don't want to spend all my money on a camera but I really really really want one.

Do you see my problem?

Wicked and, Movies and, concerts and, square dancing, Oh My! (that was really four things so it doesn' work as well if you know where I'm coming from)

*Whew* I just used my entire literary talent on my title. :P Kidding. Yes.

Last Friday I went to see wicked in Madison. That entire experience was amazing beyond compare. Even being subject to experience intense emotions that come from driving on six lane highways and MERGING TRAFFIC!!! Wicked was incredible. The actresses and actors were very talented acting-wise and singing-wise. I was jealous, as I should be. When we sat down and the show began I was so thrilled beyond concentration I thought I'd die. Defying Gravity was the crowning glory of the entire play. It was positively delicious!

The day after that I was off with friends to a Paul Colman Concert and everything was so jolly and friendly. The concert was fun and Someone (I'm not sure who) suggested that we ask Paul Colman impertinent questions and tape his responses. Now we have a hilarious video to show for it.

After that was Sunday. I love Sundays. Every time I think of it I give it mental hugs. Church and then square dancing. Both where grand but square dancing especially. It was the funnest of all of the square dances I've been to sense Barn Dance.

And Yesterday I went over to my friend Lauren's house with Kelsey and Kristen and we watched movies and had too much ice cream and M&M's. The first Movie was Prince of Persia. It was kinda weird and annoying and the guy who was s'pos't to be rugged and handsome and sly was kind'of stupid and very ugly. After that we watched "17Again" Which I liked. It was funny and sweet. Occasionally awkward though. :)

Wicked

Oh, happy day!! Callou Callay!!

I'm going to see wicked tonight in Madison! I'm so excited.

Now I'll be able to connect songs to events in the play. hmm... I don't even know were I'm sitting. I hope it's a good seat, they cost me enough. All the same it's going to be awesome!!

Is this all rather mundane to you? Sorry but I can't think of anything else to talk about.

I'm so Excited!!

Yay!!

:)

I could have danced all night.

I was feeling extremely nervous on the way to the school for some odd reason. I bounced forward into my seat then fell back. We turned into the school and I grinned widely when I saw a couple friends.

I straitened my coat and hopped out of our van and followed my sisters into the school. Already it was familiar. I walked down the hall and into the big room wear we would dance. I was disappointed to see only a couple people were there yet.

I meandered around well we waited for people to show up. One of my sisters made a fool of herself and I ran around making a fool of myself trying to get her to stop for about five minutes and then people showed up and I left her to her own devices well I talked and chattered aimlessly and was very happy.

The rest of the evening was glorious except for one moment between dances were I made a fool of myself all by myself. One of my sisters sauntered up to tease me well I was talking to friends and I fell into a fake ten second temper that I realized only seconds later was probably the silliest most affected thing I'd ever done. And I turned very red and felt like I might die because no one would make light of it and I was told "I was acting like a twelve year old." and he was right, of course.

I was injured but it didn't last because I had the most glorious time of my second dance. We danced the dance very fast and my hair was everywere, and I was probably seriously flushed from heat as well, and I was out of breath and incredibly happy. I probably looked ridiculous, but, yes I was happy.

I got home confided in my best friend of my terrible experiences and my wonderful ones well I was wrapped in the warmth of my covers and as soon as the light went of I was asleep.

Untitled (Or unnamed.)

I shall greet you with a smile. :)

lately as I've trotted around our house I've been thinking what I would do with it if It was my own and I had buckets of time on my hands. Several times I thought of this whilst I struggled in the laundry room (which brings me much pain.)

For starters I'd expand the woefully small bathroom into the laundry and pantry and make the Mudroom into a laundry room. All the stuff from the pantry would go... somewhere, and I would not worry about it. I would not have so many books. Maybe five or six shelves but no more then that. The living room Decor really has potential It can look very Turkish and stylish when there isn't so much laundry and children's toys. If it was my house I would probably convert the green bedroom into a office like it was meant to be and... Well I could really go on forever. The yard gets the same critical eye and mental makeover.

Of course also I see myself cleaning it. Even though house work doesn't fascinate me at all right now I convince myself that if I had the house to myself it would be spotless and gorgeous and I would wear a apron and sing song well I worked and all sorts of rubbish.

Really, this is a fault I have. I condition myself like this all the time. If my situation was better I would be better. "When I'm older I'm sure I'll be more involved in the church", or "If my house was my own, I would clean it," Or "If people just left me alone I'm sure I'd be much more responsible," *sigh* this last one is painfully ridiculous even to me. My selfish heart is convinced that all the evil in my heart is really from outside of myself. I can't fathom anything but perfection in myself.

Yes, this has been on my mind lately and the conviction to do something about it in a hurry. :)

-Mademoiselle Kate (Ah, the french)

((P.S. Square dancing on Sunday! The excitement never stops! ))

I'm trying to do my school in he car so I'm sure I will get car sick. Oh, well.

yesterday was a good day. Church and then Square dancing a Milton school. I had allot of fun but I feel someone needs to tell hat boy that etiquette enforces that you do not ask a girl to dance all of the dances with you because she is in no position to refuse unless she plans on sitting out that dance.
I believe we are going to enjoy taking lessons throughout the year but I'm no really sure. It would be a whole lot of fun.

I was feeling unhappy earlier today because someone who will remain on named was getting on my precious little nerves and I was feeling very stressed about having so much school work to catch up on and so many unit tests that I was sure I would fail horrible I digressed for at least half an hour being very whinny and all together unpleasant. I'd say now I'm feeling less grumpy but really how very terrible to always make everyone else unhappy when I am happy. Very uncourteous to be sure.

The T key is being bothersome and doesn't want to click without pushing it down very hard and ruining my rhythm. I'm afraid I must cut this post short my battery power is blinking. :)

I love hoodies.

"Oh, shine on, shine on harvest moon up in the sky.
I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June or July
Snowtime ain't no time to stay outdoors and spoon
So shine on, shine on harvest moon - for me and my gal!"

I desperately want to do something fall-ish today but I can't think of what. There are no leaves on the ground so I can't rake those or take a walk and kick them around , I want to have a bonfire and make s'mores! Or a Hayride! I love Hayrides (especially when there's lots of hay.) Or Maybe I could make a scarecrow, but there's no hay. I have a hankering to go to a Apple Orchard, but I don't think I could get enough parental support. :(

I could Bake something... If we had any apples I could make apple pie and I could practise my pie crust making skills, or I could make candied apples, or Apple crisp, or pumpkin pie, or apple cider. *sigh*

But... instead I have to do my ho-hum school work like a boring person. Boring people do there school work when there's things to be done and sights to be seen!

I forgot! I'm going threw a corn maze in October with friends! I'm so excited. Please disregard this post!

Singing lessons

:)

Ah, during singing lessons I always feel enlightened and I totally get everything he says and then I go home and attempt to practice but then it seems like I forget everything I learned and am at a total loss. I feel like I'm making no progress. It's very distressing.

Today, I learned about notes, scales, Do, re, me, and all that jazz. As always I was told that my throat must be open. I need to relax my jaw and tongue. I need to let the breath out slowly. And high notes go up the vocal cords and low notes go down. It's all very confuzzling. 0.o

But Someday soon I hope and pray it will *click*. I supplicate that it will all make sense someday.

-ze girl.

Spring fashion.

Did you know hottest trends of 2011 is already a news article and during London fashion week the Burberry Prorsum, Clements Ribeiro, and Jonathan Saunders companies all introduced there spring collection? This all seemed very rushed to me. Why would anyone want to start thinking about there spring wardrob already. This seems to me like a sad case of having nothing to do but design clothes and you run out of fashioning for fall and winter so you work on spring. Pretty soon you find yourself designing for summer 2019 in the year 2015. Reminds me of a hampster but I wont mention it.


Are any of you planning on going to New York? If you stay at the Westin hotel you could get a chance to buy the most expensive bagel in the world. The actuall bagel is quiet ordinary but the topping is made of white truffles. White truffles are the most expensive food in the world, second to caviar. The bagel totalls 1,000 dollars.

Most expensive piece of chewing gum? 14,000! A Ebay seller told his costumers that the gum had been chewed by britney spears. He made quite a profit. Well sort of the price was so high because he was increasing the bid on himself.

Best and Worst

Saturday was smashing. Lots of food, and Dancing at the Barn Dance, and lots Pit playing, and RockBand at the B-pad. I was very happy. I Danced the first dance with Lauren Pharr, (Who is a steller dancing partner 'cause she doesn't take it seriously.), And the next two with Kiwifruits little brother. I had a very good time all in all. After that we drove to the bachelor pad and hung out being awesome.

When I got home I was still gloriously happy and barely slept at all that night.

Sunday was not so magical. I had a very dissapointing morning. Complete with awkward situations and subjects you wouldn't want to touch with a twelve foot poll. After my terrible experience I was suffiencetly distracted by the people around me that I didn't really get a chance to bemoan untill I got home. At home I felt very sad. "But really," I told myself, "Your blowing this way out of perportion and being rideculous as always."

I have nothing else to say but I think I've almost gotten over being sad. I haven't gotten over being happy though. :)

TaTa. for now.

I will right about three things briefly

• Today I officially started school again.

Math, History, science literature, PE. Everything is fresh and I am ready to take on the world. It's good to feel taxed in your brain after a long pause. I know, of course, that shortly I will be extremely annoyed with the whole thing of school but currently I am happy.

I started Biology today. I get along well with Biology. He treats me nicely, not demanding me to do ridiculous math problems or learn pointless stuff such as the decibel level that the ear can sustain or something like that. Instead he tells me things, possibly less important, but definitely more interesting such as the Greek word for carnivore and the meaning of Asexual reproduction.

• My summer debriefed.

"Wanna get a job." "Sure I could use the money." "Lets go." A month and a half, and severel hundred spanish and German lessons, later... "Okay, your done." "Bye."

YEEESH, for those of you that don't now I worked at a soybean farm over the summer.

• Trying to get boys to clean threir room

It's insane tryin to coach little boys threw cleaning their room. It's a little like this. oooooh... she said... put... away... the red sweater... pick it up.. smells bad... stuffitinyourbrothersfaces"ewwwwsmellsbadright"hahafightfightfightfightfightfight... why... can't.. we fight? I'm tired of this... I'm so bored... HeyErickdoyawannasmellthis*stuffinface*insanelaughterallaroundinsanefightingfightfightfightfight..

But... *operavoice* "These things are sent tooo tryyyy us."

Lostie thoughts

I loved the finale I thought it was satisfying and amazing. Very confusing well I was watching it but now that I think I understand what is going on I want to see it again.

Okay here is my two big questions:

1. Is the Alt a place for every one on earth to meet up or just the Losties? I might say everyone on earth but then what about people in prehistoric times? And what about Ben and Alex and Anthony Cooper? None of them Are Losties. And if it's only for the Losties is everyone else figamentations of there imagination? I don't want to believe Jacks son is unreal but how do you explain him?

2. Aaron and Ji-yeon? They go into the light with everybody else but are they the real Aaron and Ji-yeon? Did they live such boring lives that there was nobody precious to meet in the alt? (See why I put this one second?) And WHY on earth would Jin and Sun just leave Ji Yeon in her uterus? They were like crying when they saw her on the ultrasound and then they were like "lets go, James are you coming?"

ten thoughts on lost:

1. It seemed that all the characters went to heaven 'cause underneath they had a good heart. We all know, of course, this is wrong.

2. Jin and Sun's story was king of boring to me except when Jin gets blown up and Sun is screaming. That chilled me very soul. Also when Jin sees the pictures of Ji-Yeon. That was precious.

3. Desmond looks like a guy who could act Jesus in a movie and then we found out he did.

4. I love "Make your own kind of music"!

5. I love Jack in the first and last season but hated him in all the rest.

6. I hated Kate until the last season. Then I love her.

7. I was totally a Suliet. I was so happy when they got together again. They were so cute. He got her a flower and it was sooo sad when she got squished.

8. Richard! My whole family exploded when we found out he was still alive.

9. I despised Micheal.

10. jacks dad was like dead and alive at the same time. :blink:

11. jack dieing turned my gut. It was so real. Other people in lost get blown up or drown or shot or something. Jack was so slow and real. It was terrible.

12. I'm glad Hugo is the new jacob.

'ello! ^_^

"My love is like a red, red rose." I don't know who said that. There's more to it that explains why his love is like a red, red rose but I can't remember it. Maybe it grows the sweeter with the waiting. I don't know.

after that introduction I will say that Monday was my fifteenth birthday and then continue on to explain how it was. Monday was my fifteenth birthday. It was, to be expected, amazing.

It was cold. That detreacted. Espeacially sense we had our lettuce eating contest outside. My jaw was very pained by all the chomping I did. I got bronze among my peers. That was grand. It was even grander considering that I hade twice as much as the person who won gold. The four youngest each at a eigth of a head. lisie and Molly had a quarter and Myself, Miss me, Kristen, and Beautiful letdown had halves. No prizes (What??).

I had strawberry shortcake for dessert. That is what I always had when I was younger and I got so mad because every time I had a birthday they didn't even ask what I wanted they just made strawberry shortcake. So they stopped making it. Recently I remembered how much I love strawberries and cream and little cakes. :P

My mother gave me fifteen dollars to buy anything I wanted with. I'm going to see Ironman 2 with it. I also recieved ten dollars form my grandma. Not sure what I'm going to buy with it. I'll better figure out soon so I can write a thank you note. Lisie got me an amazing jewelry case. Molly, Sport, and the blond all got me a a beautiful pink tray for my hope chest. Can you say cute?

And my Friend Kiwi gave me a chocolate bar. Another friend who lives in town named Lauren gave me a chocoalte bar as well. I waaas very happy. They have my thanks.

Goodness, this post took me a long time to write. I've got to run!

~KatieKate

two posts at once. Can you say spiffy?

Baseball is coming!

Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm so excited to see all my friends twice a week. :) Hopefully The teams will be tossed up a bit so team C doesn't loose so terribly. I feel bad for them. They might do better this year.

If anyone can remember this month was the anniversary of the day I got my arm broken in a car crash. It's been an entire year! :o I can remember what I was wearing too. A light purple knit sweater and a purple skirt with flowers on it and the black shoes with numbers all over the soles that I got from goodwill. I don't have any of those clothes any more. I got rid of the shoes because they were getting really scruffed up but the skirt and shirt I had to get rid of 'cause the ER people had to cut it off of me. Oh the drama!

Being in the hospital was fun! I'm still kind of disappointed I couldn't spend a longer time in there. People came to visit all the time and gave you flowers and teddy bears and such not. The down side was there reading material was pretty pathetic (Women's magazines) and there isn't anything worth watching on T.V. in the middle of the day. There was ice cream. :)

My grandparents left for main this morning. :( I wish I was awake to see them off. Oh well.

~Kate



hello!

I just watered seedlings for the garden today. It's amazing to see God has created the tiniest little sprouts as well as the galaxies of stars. I've known that sense I was a little kid but it never really hit home until recently. I guess I have to discover wonder for myself before I can really see that it's wonderful... if that makes any sense.

So I'm always getting a incredible amount of grief from my younger siblings about how I never spend time with them. needless to say we don't see eye to eye on this issue. I feel like I spend a good chunk of my day running around playing Star Wars or Jurassic Park or train station or the any of the other oodles and oodles of games we play. lemmie think... yesterday we played cafe/house with the kitchen set. The day before we played pirates for like three hours. Sunday I was gone all day at church and volleyball and Scott's house but on Saturday I made supper with Molly, Rebekah, and Gunnar. On Friday we played we were explores fighting blood thirsty natives. That's as far as I can connect dates and games but I feel like I play with them a lot BUT still they tell me I do nothing all day but school. whew!

Okay, I have a short story for ya. Last night myself, Christa Marie, Kelsey, Licia, and Molly all watched a super scary movie. The child like, murderous, maniacally happy, Noah falls into a pit and dies tragically whimpering and giggling all at once. The scene was down right soul chilling but Kristen remarks, untouched by the poor boys death, "No one mourns the wicked."

~Katelyn Jacobsen
fourth daughter of Paul Jacobsen
from Clinton wisconsin.


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A tag. :)

I got a tag! (There is always a first for everything.)

So... I must find the novel closest to me (It must be the one closest to you no matter how strange)... Okay got my book. I had to search far for that one because we don't keep many books in the kitchen.

Turn to page 123 and copy out the first four sentences.

...ago, when they sold all they had, and followed the apostles of the church. I therefor thought that we might, in old scottish phrase, "let byganes be byganes," and begin apon a new account. Yet I resolved, like a skillful general, to reconnoitre a little before laying down any precise scheme of proceeding, and in the interim I determined to preserve my incognito.

Not sure what "reconnoitre" means. I'll look it up. It basically means recognize.

So I'm going to tag anybody who wants to be tagged which is everybody so your tagged. :)

:)

April fools is coming up! Last year apart from the usuall tricks ("Guys there's a goat in the yard!") We went to The Mall with (Not sure how these friends feel about names and such online so I'll call them Sarah and Kayla.) Sarah and Kayla and had a time warp.

Basically, what we did was we performed what appeared to be random acts. exe. In walks a to young girls and they seat them selves at a table and began to talk. Next a woman and a child sit down at another table one the child takes a sip of water and says they need to go to the bathroom. At the same time two people walk up to a Pizzaria and argue about what there going to order. Two more people run in and take the the first to young ladies out to see a dress they found. The woman takes the child to the bathroom and the people ordering decide to try a different food stand. The action is repeated. Over and over and over again. It was VERY amusing to see the people becoming very confused or guessing at there next move. :D

Well we sent out invitations to do the same thing this year and hopefully plenty of people will show up. One of the things we really need is grown ups. Teenagers acting odd is norm but if we have grown ups that upps everything. It's a hard fact of life people take grown ups more seriously. The thing is grownups are so busy. :(

So cross your fingers for us!

Dixie Cajuns Creation giveaway

'ello! *big smiling face*

Yay! I'm so excited Dixie Cajun's Creations is having a giveaway through Feelin' feminine. I'm so excited! I adore Aprons. They make me feel so special when I cook! Like a... Chief. :o The aprons are so cute! You can learn about entering at the Feelin' Feminine site (I don't like encouraging you peeps to join 'cause that's less chance of me winning on of these things. XD.) I don't know when the drawing is. :/ I guess I'll have to look it up. :P

Today Me, Leaci, Kelsey Jean, and Heather went of on a shopping spree. First me and Leaci had to chill out in the car while Kelsey Jean and Heathe trip. :) Charming.

-Kate

P.S. Oh my Chocolate, there is so much to say. I feel as though I've been incredibly busy lately and I have no time to write it all.

P.S.S. Today I walked up and down a LARGE flight of stars sixteen times carrying boxes and loaded and unloaded (Along with Daddy, Heather, and Kristen.) about Thirty-two boxes. Be amazed.

hmmm.... None of these posts have themes....

Helllllllloooo FWIENDS!

I have news today! Big news. A mysterious personage delivered us food Tuesday night well we all slept soundly in our beds. Lots of food. Apples and Bananas and chicken and cereal and bread and speghetti and milk and orange juice et cetera. It's very exciting. All this food was sorely needed and we are incredibly grateful for it.

School is still enjoying the luxury of taking up all my time. But it's not hard currently. Even science is a gentle labor. Enjoyable actually. Math is easy, it's always easy when you first start a new book and it's review, review, review. Still reading the [i] The Count of Monte Cristo[/i] I'm about half way through the second volumn with ab out 300 more pages to go. Thee book is incredibly complex and the movie leaves out so much of the story! Like Maximillain and Valentine's love story is completely left out. My handwriting is improving but it still doesn't look to great.

Oh, and this is something I'm really excited about. Picture twin boys, Charlie and Nathaniel, Almost a year old. There just the most adorable little babies ever. They both have two little teeth on the bottom and are very quick to smile. I get to babysit them! I've babysat them once before with Kelsey when they were about seven months old and I've been dying to baby sit them sense. There mom said that she might be doing something on Thursday!

Cross your fingers for me!

-Kate

a little dialogue exchange

So I wrote some dialogue for a contest I had heard about and then I found out that the contest has to feature certain categories and prompts and such so I have this short exchange and nothing to do with it. So here. You read it so I don't feel like I wasted time.

"Hey."

" 'Hey' "

...

"I'm sorry. I just...."

"Your okay sit down."

"Okay. Look I'm sorry about you and..."

"Clare?"

"Claire? Isn't that a girls name in New Zealand?"

"australia."

"Whatever. It's all the same to me... Don't laugh."

"Short for Clarence. Geeky name, I know."

"Yeah... ugh, I never should have come I'll go-"

"No please- I want you to stay. I'm not much for talking but I want somebody to talk to so..."

"'l'll stay."

"Thank you."

....

"Clare, he's a lier."

"What?"

"He was lying about all of his plans to finish collage and marry me. He had a girl friend back on campus."

"I'm sorry I didn't know. I-"

"Let me finish. I was so angry when I found out. I told him I never wanted to see him again and he could make a blasted hole in the ocean for all I care. and he.... well he did."

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I wonder if I should have caught it of here... It seems like there's more everytime I read it.

Spring is a million miles of... :(

It feels like it should be spring right now. The warm sun and the sound of children playing out side evoke images of green grass and trees bursting with bloom. I think I'm going to purposely avoid looking out the windows and just imagine the green grass and dandylions and fresh cool air to breath and all the other wonderful things that come with spring. I'm going to pretend like spring is here for the day 'cause it just feels like a spring day.

I love spring it is so gorgeous and it comes at just the right time. I wonder if I would love it as much if it fell between summer and fall because I wouldn't be as desperate for something green and alive. Spring is love inseasonafied. My birthday is in May! I'm going to be fifteen years old. I feel like I'm going to be just so much older when my birthday comes. I feel that way every year though.

Autumn is my other favorite season. Autumn makes me think of collapsing into piles of leaves and reading [i]the castaway[/i] by William Cowper and that desperate poem that begins [i]my heart is a handful of dust[/i]. Autumn is a incredibly romantic time of year. The sound of the leaves flying away from me when I kick them and the brisk chill in the air makes me feel more alive then ever and ready to conquer whatever hinders my path.

And another thing I love so much about those seasons that breach winter and summer and summer and winter is there diversity of weather. Winter is always Cold and summer is always hot but Autumn and spring bring all kinds of warm and cold weather. Monotony is none-existent.

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." ~ John ruskin

- miss springsick

Hello peeps!

Mr. Scott Martin is coming over to our house tonight and bringing his cute little doggie Remington (not sure if I spelled that right. It looks like it might need two M's) I'm sure that's going to be just smashing!

And the Rassmussens are coming over after church on Sunday (goodness we're social aren't we? :P)
This hasn't been confirmed yet. We have to call them and make sure everyone is on the same page.

I'm running out of news. Oh! My story... I'm totally stuck on it. I need the King to be imprisoned but I have no clue how I'm going to pull that off. I'm going to clean house to try to get my wheels turning again. Cleaning the house always helps me through problums in my books. Maybe It's the monotony of cleaning. I don't know but it works.

It makes me kind of sad that I only have one follower. And like ten total coments. So You must comment people! Question for comments..... How do you spell Remmington? One M or two? And mega-shame on you if you look it up on line.

Children are so fickle. And there flippant with you. And there indredibly stupid.

Today Gunnar was playing with an outlit and Heather stopped him. She told him the electricity would jump out and bite him if he wasn't careful. Of course Gunnnar wanted more then ever to play with the outlit so he followed Heather around the house with his shoulders drooped telling her that he wanted to play with electricity.

Listening to that I laughed. [i]little children are so stupid[/i]. And they are. Of course thinking about it I realise I do things merely because someone has the nerve to tell me not to. I'm my own person and I'm going to prove it to the world.

I'm always trying to prove myself to the world. I take myself much to seriously sometimes. My sister, my best friend, sees right through me. I laugh when I think about how she always see's when my smile is forced and I'm pretending to myself that I'm happier, or smarter, or braver then I really am.

I'm very much still a child. I still have so much growing up to do.

~Child Katie

A hundred tiny seashells

I don't feel sane enough to write a proper entry but I'm going to try really hard.

The Radio is serenading me with a song I've heard a hundred times but I still don't know the name of it. Rebekah is followiing Heidi arround laughing constantly. Heathers making super. I'm working to finish of my school before the sun goes down. Hopefully before supper so I can play star wars with the kids like I promised. The house is a mess a complete mess. I should have spent my weekend cleaning rather then... Well I can't remember what I did over the weekend apart from going sledding with Kiwi. The T.V. is interfearing with the praise music on the radio. I'm cold, not too bad but enough to want to go back upstairs where it's still kind of warm.

I'm going insane I'm becoming more and more confused in my head. And There's so much presure to sort it out. NOW! Ugh, I want to run around the house a couple times. That occasionally helpes to clear my head, which is in such a tizzy currently. I think people think I'm carefree. I'm really not. Some things even your best friends can't see.

Will that suffice as a post? A bunch of thinks tossed out there because my brain can't handle a train of thought, that's what this post is. Bits and pieces. A couple of Tiny seashells that where tossed in a bowl to try to capture the memory of the day at the beach but they barely touch on the reality of that palce. I can't deliver my world to you through words, I don't have the talent for that. Just take these seashells and be content.

And don't forget to comment.

~Kate

I don't feel sane enough to write a proper entry but I'm going to try really hard.

The movie is all finished! All we have to do now is get around to eediting it together. That could take awhile because we uploaded it to Mom's Computer. I hope yyou are all dying to see it and if you aren't mega-shame on you!

I hurt my ankle today. Not sure when it happened but it's very painful to walk on the wretched thing so I kind of hop/stumble/limp around the house and every one stops me and asks what happened to my foot.

oh, and that Poem that I posted back when and asked you to guess from who's poem I got The rythm or rhyme or hatever you call it so here is the answer..... The Tiger by William blake. It's a capital poem easy to remember. If you haven't read it you should it's Totally Kate. (So you ask why I used that expression. well I'll tell you)

Kate is a synonym for cool

exe. That movie was wicked Kate; that song is totally Kate.... Et Cetera

I think I Shall incorporate that phrase into my daly life along with "Oh My Chocolate" "That's totally snazz" and "skabbkatt (mangy cat)"

Your Darling Kate

Movieland

Where making a movie!

Me, Kelsey, Heidi, Alicia, Amalie, Erick, and David are all in it. It's going to be epic. People will be weeping!

Our wonderful librarian let us use the conference room at the city hall to shoot some scenes. We had a lousy camera yesterday so we'ere going to re-shoot some of those scenes. Espeacially the ones in the alley. I wrote a short desccription of the scenes and there order yesterday. Were not really doing dialogue we kind of sort it out as we come to it. :P

The one big issue is that we don't have half enough people. Teh epic battle we were trying to achieve at the end is more like a small fight... Because the queens royal army consists of two people. Next time we make a movie we're going to have to lasso some other people to do it with us so we can have a less spotty cast.

I'll see if I can conqour Bloggers incredible slowness and post the video when it comes out. (last time I tried to upload a video it took two hours!)

the overworked actress/assistent directors/assistent cameraman/prop-manager Katelyn

Here 'tis

whew,

I helped the boys clean there bedroom this morning. It went something like this;

Me: Erik pick up a piece of clothing and tell me if it's dirty.

Erik: it's not.

Me: okay well then fold it and put it in your drawer. David, why aren't you folding those pants?

David: Well, um. Katie I can't tell if there dirty or not. Can you tell me if there dirty.

Me: Do they look dirty? do they smell dirty? Erik stop messing with your lollipop for the twentieth time and fold that sweater.

David: I don't know.

Erik: I'm going slow 'cause I'm really bored.

Me: Let me see it David. Looks fine fold it up. The sooner you get done, Erick the sooner you can go and play.

*brief pause well I go out and gather up some of Gunnars blocks.*

Me: Erik! David! Why aren't you guys done with those clothes?

David: I can't fold pants.

Me: You can't WHAT?

*sigh* took them about two hours to fold and put away twenty-five items of clothing.

Ericks birthday was yesterday So we had carrot cake with breakfas this morning. I don't know why but carrot cake is always eseacially scrumptous the day after it was cooked. A ponderable question to be sure.

Hey Ho, goodbye peeps.

zee carrot cake lover.

Well...

I wrote a longer blog post on my Aplphasmart and do not fear it will be posted soon. You see I attempted severel times to upload it from My alphasmart on to the computer using one of our more naughty computers. It failed. Horribly. Anyhoo as soon as I have the alphasmart and a sutible coputer together in one place I'll post my post.

the belated Katelyn

hello all you wonderful people of people town!

So hear is a poem I wrote back in 08' for school. It's not very good but I remember working hard on it so I just have to show it to you all. I was supposed to copy the rhyme and rhythm scheme of a famous poem that I liked. See if you can guess the poem I copied it of off. I doubt you'll be able to, the pure lameness of this poem will totally cancel out any association with the other poem.

Rain is falling on my face
dripping on my arms like lace.
Liquid jewels on the grass
puddles are a looking glass.


For the freedom of the wind
I do pine for days on end.
The inhuman songs of heather
played by the wind forever.


Thunder cracks the clouded sky
lightning flashes and then I
run for cover from the gale,
thund'ring hard as flint and nail.


From the safety of the hatch
I do watch the storm dispatch.
To a gentle thrumming rain
all the tempests anger slain.


Rain is falling on my face
resting on my arms like lace.
Liquid jewels on the grass
puddles are a looking glass.


TADAA!Okay, cheesyness! I kind of stuck in some words and phrases throughout the poem that totally didn't work but I needed it to rhyme! Oh well I can't be a genius at everything :P

zee poetess katelyn

:)

hey everyone!

hmm, so we went to our uncle Marks house for a big party with all our family on our dads side, sense we didn't get together for Christmas or thanksgiving. That was fun. OH, And we got to meet Cousin Scott's girlfriend. She's very pretty and she's good with little kids. :)

It just so happened that when we walked into the room the t.v. was playing "the Count of Monte Cristo" wish I thought was just smashing considering that I'm reading that book at this time. It was at about the middle of the first book when we arrived. Faria and Edmund had just met. So we out to see a good chunk of the movie. And of course I had this overwhelming urge to correct everything that wasn't just like the book. But sense I really get annoyed when somebody else is doing that I had to keep all my comments to myself.

We brought a couple of games along with us so we played speed uno and skip-bo and apples to apples, Heather won apples to apples. The only qualm I have about that game is it has way to many old actors and actresses I have never heard of. I would have won though if it weren't for the fact that Kelsey had picked picking your nose over having an amputation for being the most relaxing.

well that's all I have to say...

Have a nice day!

Katelyn

deep breathes

Oi everybody,

I'm not worried about not having enough computer time to write in this because of the beauty of my alphasmart Dana. Alphasmarts look like a key board with a screen attached to the top so I can write my post well I'm in the car of before I go to bed. (I'm writing this one at my desk in our sun room) Then next time I get on the computer I can just upload it and post it then have all this glorious extra time on the computer to do other things.

brrr! It's only forty-nine degrees in here! That's what the heater starring at me from across the room says. The poor thing has bee faithfully heating this room for about two hours and the temperature hasn't changed on degree. It isn't it's fault though... I think I'm going to get myself some tea to warm me up.

I love tea. I drank like six glasses of it today. I practically live off the stuff and we've got some really good flavors in the cupboard left over from Christmas. We have Sugar plum, peppermint, nutcracker sweet, sugar cookie sleigh ride, and wonder of wonders gingerbread spice. A acquaintance of mine once told me that tea tastes like dirty water. I have severed my relationship with said person. It was a sacrifice I had to make. :(

Any-hoo I've got to get some of that tea before I freeze from the inside out.

Have a nice next few days all of you,

Sunny

p.s. I was dying to call this blog great slimy creatures of the deep but some genius out there has it reserved and I was left in the dust. :(