Happy Veteran's Day!  My dad took me out for lunch and dinner to collect his deals (there were definitely enough leftovers for another meal or two tomorrow), and Uno's Pizzeria is delicious.  I technically knew that before (I have had a few bites from other people's leftovers), but I just felt it needed to be restated.

Today was my last "lesson" drive, before the evaluation next Wednesday.  It was actually very good; not too nerve-wracking.

We bought Up last night.  Just watched it; it's so good.

NaNo now--then sleep.

G'night!

I'm so boring even my cat won't stay in the same room with me; I call him, I give him treats, and he walks back from whence he came.  So please keep reading, I won't waste too much of your time, and it'll make me feel better.

Being called downstairs this morning with the bait of Panamanian coffee (one of my few souvenirs from the mission trip this summer), I was thinking on a theme track which led to two destinations.  Those are that: I really should type up my journal from Panama before I lose that notebook (assuming I haven't already), and I never finished my second blog entry for my youth pastor--should I try to finish it still anyway, or just let that ambition rest in piece, since no one's probably still looking at the site anyway?  Besides, he never even put up the photos from the last half of the trip (including the finishing of the work project) on the site, so why bother continuing with another project when I'm struggling enough to keep up with my school workload?

Okay, my mom's come back from seeing if we can still get into the King Tut exhibit at the Children's Museum (we can't), and needs me to be her slave for a little while.

See ya!
Alli

Tonight was movie night for CCC (October Sky rocks!).  And I'm excited.  I recently (finally) started Driver's Ed., and drove a little (microscopic) bit this morning.  No one screamed, but my dad yelled a tad.  He does that when he's nervous.

And this afternoon during a little off time from school, I was surfing YouTube.  The sequence of movies went something like: Music videos; Phantom of the Opera clips; Day After Tomorrow clips; And a wacko saying "The World Will End in 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, I Ching, Nasa, Einstein, and the Bible (?!)"

Now, it's quite possible the world as we know it will end in December 2012; God is certainly capable of that.  But HERE is what the Bible says in Mark 13:32-37.

³²"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ³³Be on guard! Be alert^[f]! You do not know when that time will come. ³⁴It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

 ³⁵"Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. ³⁶If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. ³⁷What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!' "

And now it's off for some late night no-bake cheesecake!

TTFN

Well, I have school early in the morning so as to get some done before going to Bible study for two hours. And I'm very tired, so why am I posting? That's a rhetorical question; you don't have to answer your screen. Well, because I have apparently lost my mind, I got an account on Odosketch, and have painted something. Actually, it happened in the opposite order; I painted something I wanted to keep, so of course I had to get an account. I think it's probably a scam of some sort, but I felt like sharing the scam, in the form of my painting.



I give you: scam.  Or Scot, my artgrind character.

I will now count to three slowly, and when I say "three," you will remember reading a glamorously smooth, graceful ending, and be happy that you read this post.

One.

Two.

Three.

=D

That's right, I'm still awake. And here to show you the fruits of my late night web surfing...with humourous background music provided by dad, listening to a comedian convert worship songs to car and Krispy Kreme ads.

Anyway, there was this commercial for Grey's Anatomy which included some really cool snippet of music, so I looked up the lyrics and found Sink or Swim by Tyrone Wells. After listening to it three times, then one or two of his other songs to decide that this is the best, I looked it up again and found this live performance.




The song itself is great (okay, tons of Christian ones beat it, but it still rocks) but this video makes me like the band, too.

Yeah, I'm really going to bed now.

Catch ya later, alligator!

Well, this summer has certainly been busy; to make it into a list, as I so often enjoy:

1. VBS, Calvary, as helper in Arts and Crafts for pre-primaries
2. VBS, Camby, as helper in Games and 3rd & 4th grades
3. Golf
4. Panama
5. Recovery from Panama; in the midst of which was an overnight college visit
6. Florida
7. Leaving my sister at Taylor yesterday

That's about it.  For trivia, on our family vacation to Florida ("I'm going to Disney World!") we stopped to see Christy in South Carolina; it was so good to see her.  Since it a last minute thing, she was already scheduled to babysit; her called her employer to ask if it would be alright if my sister and I came too.  So, I helped babysit two kids on my vacation; the little girl was quite a mischief maker, but she won my heart.

I finally bought the Legends of the Guardian King series, and have been rereading them.  They may reawaken and emphasize parts of my spiritual life, but they destroy sleep cycles.  Last night I stopped to shower at midnight, then continued reading til 3:30.  Which is not a good thing when I want to wake up before church, but I survived.

At four today, the remainder of my family went to a pitch-in/Sunday evening Impact service in the park honor of our Camby pastor having served at Camby for a very long time.  It was fun talking to everyone there; they're a little crazy, but aren't we all?

Can't really think of an unlame way to end this; I'm just plain tired, and have to get over it before my school starts on Thursday.

Love,
Alli

Okay, it's really weird that I found this (I blame newien ; it was a "related video" to one he posted) but I just thought it was a cute presentation. I don't entirely understand what I would need to do if I actually was making a sailor outfit, but her sewing machine is adorable. Thus, you get to see it.





Hhm...it looks weird here, but let's hope it shows up in the journal.

Otherwise, the news here involves the lowest portion of the bookcases my dad has been working on for a couple months with my uncle: it is installed!  Today, I believe they're doing the final shortening of the shelves and trim.  Just so you know, it's beautiful.  That it'll get book boxes off our floor certainly helps.

Also, yesterday night at 9:00 PM, my mother and I had officially survived our second VBS in ten days.  We came home, and my dad had gone out to get pizza, which we ate while watching a Mentalist rerun.  I managed to turn my light off at exactly midnight (which is much better than the 4:00 and 2:00 of the preceding nights, when I had The Last Battle to read).

And today I am packing for my mission trip to Panama.  Technically, I have a week before I life-and-death need to be ready, but it's so much better to have that much time for the inevitable last minute "I need a dozen lightweight long-sleeved shirts, and six pairs of pants would be nice, and oh! a handful of socks wouldn't hurt, but only Wal*mart Super-center is open this late--did anyone remember to withdraw the money I'll need to EAT?"s.

Anyhoo, I should go be doing that.  See ya!

-ca


PS: Also, I should find some time to post on artgrind .  I'm so behind, even I find it funny; but they don't know I have any drawings yet.

Well then, I keep starting to post something, and then being dragged away; actually, most of this post was written a week ago...oh well, the parts you see still apply, unlike with some of the last forgotten posts.

Henceforth, I'm going to be tagging "ridiculous" on every entry in which I use said word, plus the ones that actually are ridiculous.

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Whenever I would've had to have arrived to enjoy life before World War II.  That time period was beautiful, yet comparatively modern (I love bathrooms =D ); plus, I would want to fight in the war.

But honestly, I'm happy now.  Yes, the clothing is full of spandex, entertainment and people are openly filthy, and parents are losing the rights to raise their children.  But there's hope here.  I know the rapture didn't come in the 1940; I probably wouldn't have had a chance to talk to the people I know now if I died in my 70's; and one girl going back in time to change the world...I'd just get myself killed.

Besides, painkillers and computers are terribly convenient.

Well, then.  I failed at trying to post more in April (though two is better than nothing, I suppose).  But for the last week and some, I can at least blame computer troubles.( Read on! )
Love,
Alli

Well, since I've written it here, it'll be off limits; but Sarah Tesh would be something I could easily answer to, besides being pretty common.  I just Googled it--there's quite a few already out there.

Anyway, I keep using different aliases for writing; so eventually the only name available will be something like Yolanda Ben-Judah.

But if I needed witness protection, I'd be dead; I'm too recognizable.

It seems like every time I've been at youth group or in church, I've wanted to post the lesson here, and then when I get home, I lose the inspiration to paraphrase almost two hours of scripture citation.  So, sorry, I'll have to work on that, because they're really interesting, thought provoking (and sometimes entertaining, though that happens less at this church) sermon/discussions and I want to share them with you, but I'm lazy.

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Love,
Alli

This is just so cool, I figured I should share it with you (whoever you are). It's incredible that she can pick songs out like this and play them so well!


And at horsegirl15.blogspot.com, she has posted the sheet music and notes (as she picked out by ear)--hurray!

Tea, aye, double-guh, Ur!

Why him?  Cause he's cute, of course. =D
But also: because I can be bouncy, strange, poetic(?), striped(??), stuffed (yum), and often speak before I think.  Ergo, Tigger.

Well, I have a couple pairs of shoes (I think only two; both of which were owned by people without any foot problems, but who henceforth thought I was weird) and one of my friends' old purses has now served me well for a few summers (all it needed was a little stain stick).  And, on "bulk trash day" I got this great rolling, telescoping, and (unofficially) reclining desk chair; it, unfortunately, didn't make the move with us, otherwise I would use it instead of the hard little boxy thing I have in my room now.

TTFN,
Tigger

Q: If you had to give up one of your five senses, which could you live without?

A: The sixth one.

( the real answer...? )
Allison