Updates/Ease on Down the Road

WHOOHOO!!! My Exams are totally finished now, and I received a very nice grade on my Spanish exam (thanks Mrs. P!) I haven't gotten my grades for Logic or Omnibus. I would say I'm excited about school being out, but that would be lying, because I still have school to do over the summer. Not all of the subjects, but just a few that got neglected during the school year.

I plan on working for my Dad's business this summer doing administrative things and such. That will be a nice way to learn how things work at an office. :)

We're going on vacation this week! It's gonna be lots of fun. Especially because we get to go to New York City to eat in a restaurant and see a matinee show of Mary Poppins on Broadway. I am very very very excited. The only drawback is that we need to leave for NY at 6:30am. But I'm positive it will be worth it. We also get to go to Hershey Park. I am not a fan of roller coasters, or violent rides. I mean, if I scream on the kiddie roller coaster at the fair, I can't picture myself doing too great on full size coaster. ;) But I'm hoping I get to see some shows they have there as well. :) Plus they have a bunch of water parks and all there. :D I hope to get many a groovy picture while on this trip, and I might post some up here when we get back.

Also, later this month, we are going on a trip to the mountains to see family, and to have a gala for our TV show On the Run News. Now, if you have not looked at the site, or watched any videos, you are missing out. We started it as just a fun way to spend our time and remember it, and with the latest technology and such we have been able to post it on the internet. Fun, right? If you watch these videos and don't like them, that's because you don't understand the point of them. We have no point, other than to make each other laugh, and hopefully others. So please, go check it out and leave a comment!

I watched a movie last night. Guess what it was. It had the king of pop, Diana Ross, and a yellow brick road. I watched The Wiz. I must say though, I hate watching movies on TV because half of the show if commercials. The movie overall though was OK. It's the same old story, Dorothy get's taken to Munchkinland in a "snownado" (as my Dad calls it) and meets the Scarecrow (Michael Jackson), the Tinman and the Lion. It has some parts that are kind of unnerving to me, but the old Wizard of Oz scared me too. The music is great, including my favorite, "Ease on Down the Road". Very well done dance numbers, et cetera. It wasn't the best movie ever, but it definitely wasn't the worst.

Well, I need to move on to other things now, and you probably won't see me till I'm back from our trip. So, adios, au revior, adieu, see you later. :)

AO

10 Things I love...

Lovely Miss Valentine tagged me to do this. :D If you want to do it, go ahead; I'm not in the tagging mood.

1. God, and his sending His son to die for my sins.

2. My Family. They are wonderful, I could not ask for better parents or siblings. :)

3. My friends who have been there forever...while others have faded away.

4. Being out of doors, hiking, photographing nature, experiencing the marvelous creation of God.

5. Listening to a good sermon.

6. Playing tennis with my Father. (and others, but it's awesomest with my Dad)

7. Music...listening to it, but especially when I can make it. :) (I'm working on "It's De-Lovely" by Cole Porter on the piano) =D

8. Old things; clothing, vinyls, cars, posters, typewriters, etc. Anything you could find in Grandma's house. ;)

9. Desserts...especially chocolate ones. :)

10. The Blue Angels. (Can you guess what I went to see today?) ;)



(Picture from here)

So anyway. Yeah, you might wonder about the Blue Angel thing. Well, I've always had this odd hidden passion for airplanes. I don't know why, or how it came to be, but I just love to watch them and I've wanted to learn to fly for quite a while now. We live near an airport and Air Force Base, so we get a lot of planes around here. In the past few days the Blue Angels have been practicing and performing. I couldn't go yesterday, but my family and I were able to go today. It. Was. AMAZING. I loved it. LOVED it. The planes are Boeing F/A-18 Hornets (for those of you who it could mean something too...). They can break the sound barrier. Does it get cooler than that? Nope. If they come anywhere near where you live, go watch them. That's a command. Not a suggestion. :-P

Happy Sunday, and rest of the week to you all.

AO

Musings

I see this blog has not been updated in a while... My Father and Sister have abilities to post...but they don't for some reason. This isn't my blog. It is supposedly my family's blog. Father is busy- Sis is...I don't actually know why she doesn't post. But here is my post, for all it's worth.

I have nothing in particular to tell about so I will catch up on some things I haven't done in a while.

Learn your language:
The word: Friend
Definition: a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.

Synonyms: comrade, chum, buddy, pal

Friends. Everyone has a friend. If you think you don't, look to Jesus and read the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". Nowadays, friends are the people who send you virtual "friend" invites on one of the thousands of social networking sites. One of the reasons I do not have a Facebook is that it completely ruins your social skills to where you have difficulties associating properly with people. Another cause of these bad social skills is texting. I have no cell phone so it is not a problem for me currently. When I do get a phone, I will specifically ask my parents to keep strict rules for texting because it engulfs you without your knowledge. I know multiple people who have their phone with them 24/7. Even when they are with other friends, they still text in front of them. If you think about it, texting in public is like having someone talk to you but another friend walks up and you start talking to the new person while ignoring the other one. And unlike in person, people can be more prone to say things about other people, or things that should never be said even in person. If you text, are you aware of the surrounding world? As Ferris Bueller once wisely said, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.".

Wow, that paragraph drifted off topic a bit. But it didn't really have a topic to begin with, did it?


AO

No More Braces/ Is spring really almost here?

I got my braces off yesterday which is totally awesome. My teeth feel slimy and the retainer feels odd but at least the braces are off. :)

And, (at least here in SC) temperatures are starting to warm up. Not completely though, but the flowers in bloom sure make you want to believe it's spring. Around here, we have a lot of camellia bushes, and when they bloom they are gorgeous. Plus, we live in a neighborhood of somewhat "elderly" folk and a lot of them like gardening and they like to mix flowers so there are beautiful tye dye looking flowers around here. We also get azaleas but they bloom later that camellias. There is also this unknown flower right on our property line which is probably now my favorite flower ever. So here are some pictures for you to enjoy (at least I hope you enjoy them).


The flowers above are my favorites. The on below is a white camellia.


The red flower is also a camellia.


Happy Spring!

AO

Super Bowl

WHOOHOOOOO! I've been watching the Super Bowl(obviously) and it really isn't horrible. But it isn't marvelous either. The commercials are almost the best part, but it's kinda fun watching people run around carrying an odd shaped ball. (I do know more about football than it appears, fyi) So yep. I'm rooting for the New Orleans Saints, even though I like the Indianapolis Colts as well. It's just that the Colts won a few years ago, and it's the Saints time to shine. OH! And the half-time show was awesome. The Who was performing(an awesome group, but they're getting up in they're years, *wink wink*) and there were awesome lighting effects. I mean, AWESOME. So anyway, just a little blurb from me. Sorry about the absence of posts, but keeping the up blog is not a priority on my list. :)


AO

A new blog!

I have marvelous news. As my cousins have been in town, we have pulled old TV show scripts of ours out of the filing cabinet, and decided to remake them. As we made them, we began to fall in love with the idea of making a blog to post our videos on; ergo, we now have a blog. I highly encourage you to follow it, you won't regret it! :)

http://otrnewsonline.blogspot.com/

I hope you like it!

Happy New Year!

AO

Carol's Corner

Please check out my friends blog when you get the chance. She's hilarious, and awesome, but forgets about her blog sometimes... Anyway, hopefully I can persuade her to post a little more. ;)

http://chkcorner.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

AO

did you just say 'party'? shame on you

The US in particular has a very small, pitiful vocabulary that they use daily. One of my teachers this year has inspired me to expand mine, and so here I am ready to help expand yours as well.

Last night, as my family and I were planning for a party, we were trying to think of some word to use instead of party, since it is a word that is used way too much. As I looked in the thesaurus, I came across this wonderful new word, jollification. Have you ever heard it used? Nope, probably not. At least I haven't. All the more reason to use it. Dictionary.com describes jollification as jolly merrymaking and jolly festivity. Now, I encourage you to use this word whenever you have a chance. There are so many wonderful words out there, so why just use a few boring ones?


AO

Check this out

I was reading in a WORLD magazine this morning a review about a singer/songwriter from Texas. So, I went to her website and listened to some of her music; she has a great voice. Her name is BettySoo. I would encourage you to check out her blog and listen to some of her music. I'm sure you won't regret it! :)


AO

I'm......just........

And the last word that fits in the title can be found after you read this wonderful post on another blog: Femina Reformed Blogs


AO

You've gotta love the Fair

I went to the Coastal Carolina Fair yesterday afternoon. The fair is wonderful; all the different sights, sounds, smells, etc.. It truly is amazing all the types of people that come to the fair. :) Anyway, as for rides, my friend and I did the Pharaohs Fury (a boat shaped thing like a swing that goes really really high and makes your stomach fly into your head) twice, and it's....OK. :P We also did the Cliff Hanger ride, where you lay down on your stomach and fly around in circles at different angles. That ride is one of my favorites. We of course did the Sky Ride a gazillion times, and we did the Merry-go-Round as well. If you go to the fair, you have to do the merry-go-round, it's a classic. We did the Swings, and I was brave and did the Swing Tower, which is just like normal swings, except it goes up really high and bounces every now and then (i hope that was on purpose....). We did the Bumper Cars too. And I think that's all the rides we did..... if there were more, I'll tell eventually.
I also had my first Funnel Cake, and those things are delicious! I ate most of it, then my friend decided I had enough and took it from me (of course semi-jokingly, I still ate a few more bites after she took it). :) So yes, Funnel Cakes are great, but you need someone to share it since there so sweet and filling. So yep, that's about all we did. OH, and we did the House of Mirrors too, and my friend almost left me behind, but I still made my way out. :D
If you decide to go to the Fair this year, try (if possible) to go at night time, because it is sooo pretty at night.

AO

Words from Abe

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln


AO

Henry Ford says...

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."- Henry Ford



AO

Not for people afraid of bugs

This is a picture (I took) of a very fascinating bug that we saw at a park. I don't know what kind it is, but doesn't it just look awesome?

My Dream Car

I'm almost positive that not of you have ever had someone tell you that their dream car was an old one. Well, now you have. My dream car is either the 1958, or 1960 Ford Edsel. Aaaaaand, here is a picture of the '60's make. =)

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just a little WAKE UP alarm because you fell asleep reading the previous post. ;)


AO

I'm getting old....: (

'Tis the sad truth. I've always heard elder people saying how life went so fast, but to me life crawled by slower than a slug, but then when I hit 10 or so, life started pressing on the gas. I'm so thankful that there is something to look forward to after this life, that will be greater than anything humanly imaginable. God is good.
Well summer has started, and I'm already halfway through it with not much accomplished (common story, isn't it). I did have the privilege of doing a volleyball camp which was super fun, though my arms and legs hurt like crazy afterward. But as they say, "no pain, no gain". I tried to finish up the reading that needed finishing up, didn't get all of it done, but my wonderful mother gave me a break so now I'm thoroughly enjoying reading Dandelion Fire, the sequel to 100 Cupboards, and both are great books.
I also got the chance to go on a missions trip with my whole family and a group from church which was wonderful. We went to Cherokee, NC to an Indian reservation and we helped at a Senior Center, and a Youth Center, and both were great experiences. We also went to Lancaster, PA for a get together for the students of online classes, so I got to meet some of my classmates, and we had a lot of activities, which barely allowed for time to breath the whole weekend. But I met lots of nice people. :)
Here in SC though, I've just been "chill-axing" as one of my best friends calls it. I got to go to the beach with some friends, which was awesome, I've been playing some tennis in the scorching heat of SC, got to go see the movie Up, which I must say was a masterpiece film, especially when you look at what else is in theaters at the moment. I really want to see Night at the Museum 2, and the Harry Potter movie when it comes out. Yes, I'm a Harry Potter fan, and I find no shame in that. =D
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the goal for my education. There are so many things out there, it gets to be overwhelming! I've settled with being a janitor. KIDDING!
I really have no idea right now, but I don't plan on getting a cubicle job (a job at which I "live" in a cubicle). A lawyer is sounding interesting, but so is architecture, and maybe even some sort of clothing business. I don't know.....
Well, I need to get a shower. I know you were just asking yourself, 'I wonder if shes gonna take a shower....hm....'. Now you know.
I have a joke for you:
What has a bottom on its top?
While you're thinking, I'm gonna introduce you to a reformed Christian rapper, Shai Linne. He's amazing. Buy some of his stuff. And the answer to the joke is, your legs! I know, simply hilarious. :)
Well, I've wasted more than enough of your time, but I can truthfully admit that its not my fault you've been sitting at your computer reading some girls monotonous writing, you chose to do it. Anyway, I'll write later....maybe.....

AO

Quote

"A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements." - Arnold Bennett

New Picture

Also, let me know what you think of the new picture I put up. It is of the hull of the USS Yorktown, that I took, and it just happened to be at the right time, so its looking directly at the front. :)

AO

an early birthday present!

Well, my parents decided to buy me a quilt that I had been wanting for a while, and I got it yesterday as an early birthday present! It is the awesome-est quilt EVER! Also pictured are two of my stuffed animals, Danny Dog (left), and Puckin(the monkey, on the right, and i think when i originally got him, that his name was supposed to be Pumpkin, but was changed to Puckin somehow...)