Someone once told me I was delusional. I almost fell off of my unicorn.

Teenagers Can Have Fun Too…


Hmm. You must be thinking after seeing that picture “What on earth…?”
Here’s the story –
Rain. It was all I could see. Pouring, rain. I sat on the back porch with my Jack Russell and watched as the rain ran off the roof and made a small stream along the back of the house. The small stream ended in a puddle by the back door. It was very clear water, and since here in Florida dirt is replaced with sand, it looked like the beach. I put Jack’s leash on him and opened the back door. My brother sat in a folding chair inside the porch, playing with some little do-hikky.
I hooked Jack up and sat under the outside part of the porch, still under the roof. I ran my finger through the puddle, and watched as my finger made ripples run through the crystal clear pool. I looked over and saw that my brothers still hadn’t filled the hole that they dug a couple of days ago. I started taking some of the loose sand out of the bottom of the clear puddle, and put it into the hole. I kept doing this and realized I was making a hole myself my filling in my brothers hole. That would get me nowhere. I went down a little further, now in the mini stream, and took some dirt from there. My hands were now somewhat dirty, but were easily cleaned my putting them into the puddle. I called my brother out to mess around with me, and after much persuading he joined me. Now we weren’t filling holes, we were just making a mess. I was still pretty clean. I had some dirt on my hands, and part way up my arms, but my pants were clean and all that. Then it happened. I was sitting next to the puddle, and I reached over to grab a stick, and I lost my balance and fell over. Right into the pile of mud I had made. It still wasn’t that bad, it was mostly on my behind anyway. But, while trying sit up without slipping again, my lovely Jack decided it was time to dig, and send the dirt right at me. Now I was dirty. Very, dirty. The picture above does not justify how dirty I am, because you can not see 1 side and my back. I decided right then and there that I was not going to try to stay neat. I even threw a lump of mud at my brother, and then used the excuse that I was trying to toss it into the puddle. I don’t think he believed me, nobody ever does. I “played in the mud” for another ten minutes and then I was done. You should have seen my dog. He was dirt from the nose down. Dirty, and very cute. I put him in the shower with me, which he didn’t like, and washed him 3 times(it took that many times to get the dirt off of him).
Now if you think about it, how many 14 year olds do you know that would play in the mud? 1, 2? Would you? Why is it that you hit a certain age, and that age means that you can’t have fun any more? It’s funny that people may laugh when they see a 14 year old playing in the mud like a little kid. But hey, the Bible says “…and become like the little children, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Perhaps Jesus didn’t have playing in the mud in mind, but I really do think that we need to be more like them. Don’t kids seem happy? If a child is under the age of 10, he smiles more then he frowns. But golly, if your over the age of 13 you have to be Mister/Misses serious. It’s like you hit a “No fun” age. If that’s the problem, let’s just get rid of the age factor. Who needs it anyway? All it seems to do is add more troubles in the world, and less fun. Let’s just become like the little children, and be done with it.
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I’m Bored, So Here Are Some Random Questions

Tell me what your opinion is!

  1. Is Jack Sparrow a good guy or bad guy?
  2. Is cheese dead milk, or is it more alive then ever?
  3. Does the chicken come before the egg, or is it the other way around?
  4. Which is better? Apple or Microsoft?
  5. If we poured red dye into the ocean, would it turn the sky purple?(Wouldn’t that be ugly Sarah?)
  6. Why does the moon look orange sometimes?
  7. Are the tiny stars that I see every night really billions of light years away?
  8. Are pigs really as stupid as movies make them out to be? I don’t think so.
  9. Is it possible for somebody’s eyes to change colors, or is it just me?
  10. Why did we decide to make the flag red, white, and blue.(Spencer, I’m sure you can answer that for me)
  11. Why do people get less and less good looking as they get older?
  12. If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no one around, does it make a sound? Or do the other trees just laugh at him?
  13. Do parents really think that they’re cool, or are they just oblivious?
  14. Is 14 a neater number the 13? Why?
  15. I wonder if when God told Adam and Eve to name the animals, if Eve wanted to name them “Ahhh,” and “Your Adorable”?
  16. Did Adam have to persuade her otherwise?
  17. Why is it that a dog growls at you when you blow in his face, yet hangs his head out the window when your driving?
  18. Am I wasting time?
  19. Are the owners of Coke and Pepsi friends?
  20. Do fish think like this? “Water, water, water, water…”
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Volley Ball – Part 3

Sorry its a little late. :) Click one of these to read part 1 & 2 of the Volley Ball series.

Hmm. How to begin?
Well, Tuesday my mom was sick, as well as 2 of my younger brothers. So, unfortunately we did not go to co-op. :( We were kind of bummed out, but understood and excepted why. Still hoping to be able to make it to P.E., we started asking if she would just take us then(P.E. starts at 2). “Maybe” was her answer, but then Ben(4) became feverish and we knew it wasn’t going to work.
Then my dad got home at around 1:00, surprisingly. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind taking us to P.E., expecting the answer no. “Sure!” was his reply. Ok, wasn’t expecting that, but hurray!! We got ready to go, and left at around 1:45. We got there about 10 minuets early, and talked to the few people who were there. People from co-op showed up in the middle of stretches(as always) and joined us. We did the normal push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and the mile run. Finally it came to the time that made P.E. worth it, Volley Ball. Us girls finished our run before the boys, so we started out practicing our passes, and such. When the boys finally showed up, we did the same thing with them. At 3:30, we started our first game, which we won barely. This time I could hit the ball, but I was still having trouble on my aim, so usually it went flying over to the right. Whoops. All of the sudden Coach says “Alright, this side has 23(us), this side has 24(them). We’ll go to 25 and then switch sides.”
So we serve and it goes over the net and nobody hits it. One more point for us. Then they serve. I’m at the front-right corner, not a very good place to be when you haven’t ever hit the ball over the net. I say “Don’t come to me, ball” under my breath. It must of not heard me ’cause it came flying right at me. “Oh great”, I think. I take a step back, get in position, and hit it…over the net it goes! They hit back over and Joshua(middle) jumps over and hits it back over the net. Spencer goes for it…miss! We win!! Now we switch sides and what-not. In the very beginning of that game Katie leaves, and shortly after that Lizzy and Josh leave too. My dad joins in, and we win again. I learned how to serve correctly in that game. That’s good.

I had a lot of fun, as usual. We’ll do it again on Tuesday, and may be I’ll be able to get the ball over the net. Maybe…

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The Zip Line – Total Fun

Today we had a 4-H project to work on at our 4-H leaders house. She lives about 15 miles outside of town, and has a very nice country home. We went with some friends of ours who also picked up Ele and Korbin who live down the street from us. We get there a half and hour early and nobodies really there, so us kids go in the backyard and start messing around. They have a mini zip-line in their backyard which was about 20 feet long and 9 feet high at the starting point. So we’re all messing around on it, and people keep showing up until we have about 20 kids lined up for this tiny zip-line. I went on it twice and was done, it was kinda boring and definitely wasn’t worth the 10 minute wait. Eventually everybody got there and we did our project(we made a compost pile) and everything. Afterwards we were told that there was a surprise out in the barn.
The surprise was a zip-line that started in their barn loft, about 40 feet off the ground, and ended about 90 feet away. Of course I was at the end of the line, and just ahead of me was Joe(brother), Andrew, and Spencer(Andrew and Spence are brothers). We’re chatting about random things, mostly about how high the zip-line is and making jokes about it and stuff. One of the people who was running the thing said that if you wanted to you could go without the harness. There were a couple of boys who were like “I can do it!”. Guess how long that lasted. Those “tough boys” got up there and immediately said they wanted the harness. Wimps.
I watched Spencer and Joe go down. I eventually got up there and got the harness on. I grabbed the handle, looked down, and jumped. It was SO FUN!! It felt so good to have the breeze in your face, considering it was about 83 degrees and we had just put together a pile of compost.
Afterwards, I decided that I was going to go down that thing with no harness. I went back up, grabbed the handles, looked down, and hesitated. Then I went down. It was even more fun! I was the 2nd person, I think, to go down without a harness. After I did it, Spencer decided he was going to do it too. I followed him up the stairs and stood behind him in line. After a little waiting it was his turn. He stood up there and eventually went down. I followed suit.

After that I went and hung out with Victoria and Christina who were taking pictures of random stuff. That was fun!

It was a lot of fun, and we learned a lot about compost. Whoo. I had a good time.

Made a compost. Zipped the zip line. Hung with friends. Laughed a laugh.
All was good.

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The Office Theme – Piano

Although I’m not allowed to watch these shows, my parents do through the computer(we don’t have cable) and I often hear the theme song. I love it.
I decided I was going to try to find the piano sheet music for it on the Internet. I couldn’t find it, at least not free anyway. So I watched a couple of YouTube videos, and learned it myself.
Now I can play all of it except the very last part, so it ends kind of suddenly.

Here is a video of me playing this totally sweet-awesome song.

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The Office Theme – Piano

Although I’m not allowed to watch these shows, my parents do through the computer(we don’t have cable) and I often hear the theme song. I love it.
I decided I was going to try to find the piano sheet music for it on the Internet. I couldn’t find it, at least not free anyway. So I watched a couple of YouTube videos, and learned it myself.
Now I can play all of it except the very last part, so it ends kind of suddenly.

Here is a video of me playing this totally sweet-awesome song.

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Smile, There’s A New Smiley!

Hey there! Check out this new neat blog!! I really enjoyed taking her challenges and such.

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Template Geek Templates…

Here are some of the templates you can get at Template Geek. I’m adding more right now too.

Your pictures and fotos in a slideshow on MySpace, eBay, Facebook or your website!view all pictures of this slideshow
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Oops…

Sorry. Livie just made me realize that I forgot to post the answer to the last question – Is there a 4th of July in England?

The answer is…yes. Big suprise. :) There is a 4th of July in England, they just don’t celebrate Independence like we do.

I will post the next question in a couple of days, I’m working on Template Geek right now. Thanks!

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New Template Blog

I made a blog just for testing and messing with templates. I will put a post up for every one that I like with the link to it, and how to make it work on blogger. Right now I’m messing with it, but I’m going to start posting the ones I like. Go to templategeek.blogspot.com to see what I’m talking about. Thanks!!!

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