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.::mE mYsElF aNd I::.๑۩۞۩๑"But I don't want to go among mad people!!" "Oh you can't help it, most everyone is mad here..."๑۩۞۩๑ January 26 bob and cosmoSo yeah here I am again. scary huh. Everybody wants me to get a myspace. I don't really want to tho. I like talking to myself on here better.
As to this Cierra person, if I know you it may have been from Camp CRUSH if you went there this past year. cuz I had a Cierra in my cabin. Can't wait for this year's camp crush. or pinecroft.
Emily is not allowed to do anything for 3 weeks, shes 'quarantined'. IT really stinks big time. Izzy and I are gonna have a schweepober on sunday. which is cool. shes highlaireeous. danielle came to school today. coolness. haha Janyce and I almost broke Mike's copier on Wednesday. apparently you have to to type in a code before printing and we kinda forgot that part and were just pushing random buttons. Tricia saved the copier from an untimely death. Jane Eyre is a purdy cool book. A lil hard to understand sometimes, granted, but... still cool.
I just noticed that I have used the word 'cool' 4 times in a teensie paragraph, my english teacher would be horrified....haha..... mean old guy..... Today we played Pictionary in Spanish class. that class has far too many little kids in it. I mean I don't mind the 11's and 12's bein in a class with me, cuz I AM pretty dumb, but when it gets to 8 year olds........wow. Izzyable and I just talked on the phone for like an hour. she is one of the few people I like talking on the phone too. Lots of people can't hear/understand me and lots of people I don't understand (theres a double meaning to that).
Today I was being plain old mean to all my pals. Tess got so fed up she went off with Heidi for the entire lunch break. Heidi can be scary. when she gets to break dancing its like, whoa there girlie. she has interesting ways of expressing herself...... haha......i sound like a school counselor...... speaking of school counselors.....lol never mind. thats another story.
speaking of being mean...... um.... I don't know where thats goin, as you can tell I am rather tired. I guess I better go torture someone else..... lame Friday nights at home........ havta do matematicas in da mornin, what a fabulous way to wake up.
Isabel wants me to help convince you-know-who to come to the potluck on sunday cuz it would be 'awkward if just she asked him' . what about me feeling awkward here? geesh nobody ever considers my feelings.... sniff........ wow this is such a lame long boring blog. do I get the award for longest ramble now seth? and I am trying to maintain my award for 'title has nothing to do with the blog' lead.
what should I talk about? if you haven't noticed yet, nobody is on messenger and I am quite bored. I wish CIerra would message me or something so I could figure out who she is. I can't think of many Cierras besides my Camp CRUSH one. Camp CRUSH this past year sucked so bad. it was lame. only 3 days. everything was pathetic too. hopefully this year will be better. with me in charge who knows? muahahaa.
austa luego,
-emily January 25 bloggiynessHello.
After reading seths FREAKIN AMAZING BLOG I was inspired to write a blog myelf. however it will not be nearly as interesting because I have no one nearly as interesting as Gabe to inspire my nearly as interesting blog.
THE FOG HAS BEEN AS THICK AS PEANUT BUTTER!!!!! you mean pea soup? YOU EAT WHAT YOU WANT AND I'LL EAT WHAT I WANT~!!!!!!!
well whatever your personal preference is, the fog is thiiiiiiiiick. last night you couldn't see a thing. especially driving over the bridge. the river was just this black gaping canyon below. it was sooo thick you couldn't even see the lights of downtown from the freeway! after youth group when we went outside the plain old pavement was so slick and if you just shuffled your feet a little bit your feet would go sliding all across the ground. it was super cool. today I worked on my essay all day. boring. but i finished and everything is in for this semester except for some math which i will do during advisory tomorrow. wow...... a coyote is roaming on the south hill. cool. sounds like fun ta me.
wow this blog sucks so much. i feel lame..... Isabel hasn't talked to me much lately. very sad. EMily is really sick so I can't hang out with her. I'm bored.... I think i'll go find a movie to rent.... adios....
-emily January 21 sundee day! againUm today I went to church ( big surprise eh?) and I played fiddle at sunday school. i kinda sucked. my fiddle was out of tune which definitely didnt add to the effect. after church i went to lunch at Anthony's with izzy, and mr and mrs lovick. haha, and we didn't even have seafood!!!! the huckleberry lemonade was the best. the weird part is me, izzy and mrs lovick all ordered the same thing, and mr lovick and his carpenter friend both ordered the same thing. whats even weirder is when dani was there last time she had the same thing i had today, and the same drink even. odd...then they took us out and showed us all of the houses they own and 'the castle'. they have a cute little maltese named Dotzi. she is so furry. so yeah... that was today. exciting....... iknow......tomorrow... i am working on my engleesh essay and have a fiddle lesson, i might go to stroh's and i know this entry is suuuuper boring and self-centered. but i have nothing to talk about right now, and anything interesting requires thought which is tiresome. I just got done watching part 1 of jane eyre. its kind of an intense movie..... but cool. i watched half of war of the worlds earlier...... as you can tell i am bored.
im going to go schnoozle.......... wow..... that word is so lame..... you can really tell that i'm tired........ g'night,
-emily January 18 An incredible story.The Not So Simple Life
Once upon a great green bullfrog, there lived a man. This man, he was a simple man, who lived in a simple house, with a simple cow and Three simple sheep. The only thing not simple about this simple man was that he lived on a not-so-simple organism, a great green bullfrog. This frog was great, he was green, not a machine. Sadly, this frog was not-so-simple, and not-so-simple things are often complicated, as is the word complicated itself. Well, this simple man loved his simple house and simple cow, and his three simple sheep. But, he did not love his not-so-simple great green bullfrog. For simple people like things just like that... Simple. In fact, a simple person may not like this narrative, for this narrative is not-so-simple, and therefore it is complicated, or possibly even confusing, which is, much worse than complicated, even though complicated and confusing are often confused and complicated these days. Anyway, this simple man disliked his not-so-simple great green bullfrog, but could not find no way to move that was simple enough. He has tried wishing, dreaming, and even hoping, but nothing seemed to work. So, this simple man lived out his simple existence and simply could not come up with a simple scheme to leave his not-so-simple frog. So he simply lived not-so-simply. Sorta. Maybe.
Will Driskell Found this incredibley awesome story on an incredibly awesome Emily's site. Her friend ^ Will' wrote it. It is incredibly awesome and I lub it to death. Very very groovy eh? I have to go do scholarly work and try to be generally scholarly for the next several hours which is always a great trial, but I make my attempts, do I not? and here I go talking all weird again... it all comes from those durned Shakespeare plays..... Today. I am doin' schoolwork. and tomorra I will go spend the night with my dear shanielle deridan. and on saturday is a lunch at the choich for the high and jr school scrullers. that sentence made almost no sense. but hey... i never make sense even to meeself. I need to get a picture of Tess. I talk about her quite a bit and nobody has seen a pic of her yet. I bet you're starting to think she is imaginary now eh?
yesterday we had a sub at school all day. my main sub was Gene Cunneely. And no he didnt wear jeans he wore slacks. and his last name is pronounced cun-eee-lee. uptight man. not fun a t'all. quite depressing... well i g2g do school works. adios, seth! and maybe izzy!
Mindy better bring me a feather from those rhode island red roosters.......ttyl!!!!!!
-emily January 15 emo girliesYeah so Isabel and I went emo last night. And promptly changed back to our good old normal selves 5 hours later. She came over after church yesterday and we went sledding. lots of fun. there were only 3 guys at the City School hill. They were cussin' their heads off the entire time, real attractive. on our last time down, she wiped out. really wiped out. she got a bad grass burn on her back and grass, mud and snow all over her... quite the 'biff'. so we came home and had hot chocolate and hung out. then we completely covered our hair with gel and went emo. very exciting. my dad was sooo impressed...... haha...... we watched The Italian Job last night. I love that movie. those minis are super sweet. we are going to have a sleepover later this week with emily. she had to go 'cheerlead' at a game and ditched us. ah well. we've got big evil devious plans for the next sleepover....... muahaha. see y'all around, -emilyHere are some pix from our... adventures....... January 08 if Monkeys could fly...they would pick me up and carry me off to the evil witchs castle. But alas, as they cannot, I am still here. Life has been rather ordinary as of late. And i truly have not the slightest idea why I am speaking in such a way. However, it is quite enjoyable so I shall proceed. My musical world has been growing rather too fast as of late and is rather aggitating at times. For instance, Next sunday I must play for sunday school, as my youth pastor commanded me too, and I don't know any of the songs yet. So I must learn 3 songs for that. Next Monday is a holiday and Mike signed Nate and I up to play for 2 hours at some guys coffee shop. We get paid, but..... 2 hours?? how many songs do they think we know? there are only like 2 I can play perfectly in front of people. I hope the guy isn't expecting a fantabulous show, or he shall be gravely dissapointed. And Next sunday I was going to have my dear friend Emily over but dad has decided to have me attend another music workshop. ANd then in March NAte and I are playing for the Saturday Night Thang, and thats only 20 minutes, but the crowd pays to get in, and your up on stage with lots of lights, and if I screw up I'm doomed. I love music and everything, and I started playing cuz I wanted to, but now dad has been kind of forcng me to play i front of people which I absolutely hate. they made me and nate play at some dumb relatives house on sat. and my aunt sat on the couch right in front of me and glared the entire time. ugh. people. yesterday Chris was giving me a hard time and telling me fiddle playing was lame and on and on. Does he think that in some way impresses me? its like, hey she likes fiddling, maybe if I go run it down she'll like me. Guys can be incredibly stupid sometimes. ANd if you hadn;t noticed I'm rather grumpy today. SO never mind this dreadful depressing blog, I'll go back to being cheerful and nice tomorrow. Mom has been nagging me, I've been doing dumb English homework about all the African American stuff you can imagine. Yeah we were mean to them. Its over already... doI have to study every single frickin case they were abused in? Rosa Parks, Linda Brown, theScottsboro boys, so much of this stuff my head could explode.
disheartening..... January 06 A sweet little poem.Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end, Yet the days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is gone. And I never see my old friends face, For life is a swift and terrible race, He knows I like him just as well, As in the days when I rang his bell. And he rang mine but we were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men. Tired of playing a foolish game, Tired of trying to make a name. "Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim Just to show that I'm thinking of him." But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And distance between us grows and grows. Around the corner, yet miles away, "Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today." And that's what we get and deserve in the end. Around the corner, a vanished friend. Remember to always say what you mean. If you love someone, tell them. I got this in my email today..... with the usual forward or bad luck for 5 years, and the send to 5 people and you're true love will call you tomorrow. In spite of those dumb remarks I still thought it was a cute poem.... I haven't been writing much lately except for school. I should start being a poet again.... maybe I'm a poet and I don't know it...... haha talk about corny....
talk to .... whoever may read this.... later.....
emily November 24 Thanks for Givin'!Haha Sweet holiday! Food everywhere. gotta love it. yep so Wed. night I spent the night with danielle. we were both tired and it was raining outside so we didn't go anywhere. She painted my shoes and they look incredible. I'm kind of afraid to wear them in case the paint comes off... And we played Sims 2 for awhile. We were Emily and Danielle Greridan. WE moved into this crappy house did this cheat over and over again and got tons of money, moved into a mansion and killed our dad. QUite exciting. SO then we came to my house at like 10 ish. and we started making the snack trays. And Betty and Myrtle came and Betty combined all our birthdays and christmas and got us a tv, a dvd player and 8 dvds. IT was pretty sweet. And we ate and watched over the hedge, and ate food, and played video games, and ate, and played balderdash, and ate. It was pretty intense.
ANd tonight I am spending the night with Isabel. Tomorrow there is this music thing Sephy and Frank are putting on. I can never tell if Seth is actually gay or if he just wants everybody to think that.
I'm playing with RBFK, playing with Franks kids, and Nate and I are playing a couple songs, (Jerusalem Ridge, Wizards Walk and The Road Lisdoonverna( sweet name, sweet song)). Then supposedly Nate has 15 minutes to himself to do looping stuff which is gonna be awesome.
I gotta go do laundry and practice.
adios,
-Emily November 18 funny stuffThis has got to be one of the most clever
October 27 be cool... stay in school...Yeah so I had a super-awesome day today.. no clue why....
Danielle came to TEC and then came home with us and is having dinner and hanging out 'n' stuff. I just got done playing in the leaves outside, it was so prettyful! and warm too! Before going out I grabbed Nates sweatshirt that was hanging on the hook by the door and its his old one thats apparently 'way too small' for him. Holy crap! it comes down past my waist like halfway to my knee! I feel like a little kid in it. and its super comfy and I love it. who cares if its a guys sweatshirt?
wow so I was just checking this email and I have these online classes right? well I just got this totally random email from this guy and hes like I was looking through the class roster and thought I'd say hi. yeah the thing that sucks is all these web dweebs we're doing online classes with can get our email addresses at anytime! so now I'm gonna go find him and read his intro.
anywho I'm gonna go figure out who this dude is...... I think he's one of the nerds who didn't post an intro even though they were graded 'n' stuff.... blechie.....
-emily October 23 At long last.... A BLOG!!!Wow.. My last blog was BEFORE the retreat.... which seems like months ago...
The Fall Retreat was pretty cool. Sometimes it was fun... sometimes it sucked. mostly cause of the guys. They are capable of making a weekend great........ or completely ruining it.
Moving on... right now I am listening to Coldplay and its pretty much awesome..
Ok so anyhow I got my past map turned in before going on the retreat. And I just finished my future map whic is a 5-paragraph essay. about.... my future. whoopee. how exciting.
Last Friday Isabel had me and emily spend the night. I didn't find out about it till like 5 when I got Carolines message she had left for Isabel. I would've gotten it earlier but danielle called to talk to nate but nate was doing schoolwork so we talked for like an hour. I lobe danny l. she's pretty much the awesomest shistah ever! but anywho.. about the birthday.....Mucho fun! Isabel is pretty much awesome. Yeah we were upstairs in her room talking for like 4 hours. and we did each others nails and it took Izzy an hour to do mine cuz we were like sitting on her bed and talking and laughing and so the bed would shake and Isabel is a perfectionist so she would make a teeny tiny mistake and have to completely redo my nails. she was doing a french manicure... thats what its called right? well whatever. yeah so we watched Sweet Home Alabama it was cute I guess. another one of those ok movies. emily went right out. and Izzy fell asleep about 3/4 o fthe way through the movie. and i stayed up the whole time. it got over at like..... 3-ish. and their new puppy sydney woke us up at like 7 so we was kinder tired...
we took a walk and decorated for her party. it was all superman themed. One reason I like Isabel so well is cause shes like actually a REAL person. it was pretty awesome. then her friends from school came over... they were ok.
Two of the girls were pretty snobby.. blechie.
one of 'em her name was Quinben? pronounced quin bee. she was pretty funny. the other girls were ok. Lindsay was a'right too.
well here is a nice short little blog and I gotta be goin... I'm going to return to the murders and intrigue of sherlock holmes and forget about my life for awhile.....
-emily September 15 saturday in the park.. um...ok forget that. Hey Seth! You are officially( as of right now) the only cool person who reads my little tales of woe.. and fun. which means you get the totally awesome award of the night. ( this is your cue to say "oh gawrsh".)Ok wow I am in this fantabulous amazing good mood and I have no clue why! I mean I got another bad headache in the middle of math class but not as bad as the migraine I got on wednesday.
Yes, I am sorry to say... I have dropped to the ranks of public schoolers.. not completely mind you, but I am no longer one of the powerful and mighty homescrullers. yes sad I know... very pathetic. don't worry other homescrullers have already chided me about it... and sarah has welcomed me to the ranks...
Yeah so I'm a public scruller on wed. and fri. and my mom don't teach me nutin no mo'. I am edurcated by Advisory, Sentences( with Cheryl shes totally awesome) and Spanish 1, which is cool. And then I have to go through a torture no sane person would endure( which is why I am there.) I have..............MATH!!!!((((this is YOUR cue to scream
 bloody murder,k? don't worry you'll get this eventually=)))being the out-going annoying scary-ish person I am I have already traumatized some peoples into hanging out with me so I don't look like a total loser! =). yep yep I know, Emily you are evil.
 Then I have this dumb online English class. that sucks. really bad.
OK theres this one awesome dude named Samuel who is in all 3 of my afternoon classes and get this he looks exactly like Merry out of the Lord of the Rings seriously people the resemblance is uncanny! I mean hes got like that little underbite and everythin'!
esp. when hes studying REALLY hard its awesome! hence forth he shall be one of the coolest people ever but NOT the awesomest people of the world list. there are like only a couple people on there... JayDean, Danielle, Jae....
oh yeah tomorra'! I THINK I am baby-sittin for the womens luncheon biblestudy thing but Idk yet. I hope not cuz we wanted to go to the fair early before the RBFK thing. Nate and Danielle and I are all gonna go. I told nate he should call the Drapers and have them come because they're fun,(((really I'm sick of being the third wheel when danielle and nate are together, I kinda just trail along behind twiddling my thumbs...)))but hey chris and walt are cool.. so them coming would be cool.. since Aimee was too busy too come.. sniff... sad.
I missed the homescruller day so I didnt getta see Kayla and Heather. sadness. or Rachel! I saw her on tues. tho. Rachel is hilarious.
Shes doing this weird course this year too. Its soo funny how me,shere,rachel and rebecca all dropped out of mrs. smiths lame class at the same time.wow she lost a whole group. I feel sorry for the poor kids still stuck in there. =( we escaped while there was still time! haha.
well anyhow this is long enough... I have lots of other stuff ta do.. like my poster for spanish class.. and allll that english stuff....blech........
-emily  (((we got a new computer from the edwards... well actually its their old one.. now our new one.. wow Im rambling.. )))September 10 stuff...heys everybuddy. SO yeah sr high youth group was kinda cool. I missed Stave and Dephanie though...
Isabel said it was fun. Oh have I told y'all about Isabel? Shes 13 and one in a family of 8 kids. and she just moved here from Chicago she's my pastors.. niece... anywho she is really cool. shes still in eighth so shes not up in sr high with me. so Im stuck with kendra and erica... ....sad..
anyhow. On friday night the wards were planning a big campout with a bunch of girls and they asked me to tag along ( like I always do =) I'm REALLY annoying)). So Their grandpa has a bunch of property out on like mt spokane. so we went up there and went down in the woods on his property and camped out. we caught frogs in the disgusting pond... it was like covered thick with this algae sort of stuff and it was like jiggly and stuff... really super gross. Alicia, Amanda and Beth were brave enough to go out in it in a canoe, haha they almost tipped over! man it woulda been awesome if they had...
so we roasted hotdogs up by their gramps house and then we went across da road to their aunts to use her hot tub. yeah we were in it for like 3-4 hours... lol. when we got too hot we would go jump on the trampoline. mucho fun.
oh I guess I should tell ya who all was there.
There was Ashley Amanda who are sistahs who were at fiddle camp and take lessons from jaydean and are in rbfk and go to TEC. Then there is Beth and she is in all that stuff too.. ( haha so am I). and then there is Alicia shes hilarious. ( OCD ) she had to have everything perfect and she had these hilarious little pet peeve sort of things. she was pretty funny.. and then theres Gladys who moved here from Haiti 2 years ago. and then one more... Thaea ( pronounced Tay-a)( unsure of spellin'..) She is a foreign exchange student here from Norway. she was pretty cool.
Yeah we didn't go to sleep till at least 4... yawn. Gladys was being evil and telling hideous stories. and alicia and amanda were screaming. and throwing pillows at her. Like 10 minutes after we fell asleep it started pounding down rain and everybody was awake once more.
and on sat we went hiking on mt spokane. which was tiring. cuz me,gladys,beth and manda who were ahead took the wrong trail that was all downhill and we ran down it and when the people caught up they told us we had to climb back up and go a different way... groan.
But all in all it was fun. and then I went home.
wow and right now I am watching a really scary movie about the vietnam war. its freaky. a dude just ble wup in a minefield.
oh yeah and this afternoon we had our first rbfk pracice. and we play at the fair on sat.... Idk if I will be able to make it though...
but I am tired and had better go.
au revoir,
-emily August 30 um yeah stuff..alright I am NOT going to start this blog with 'wow' because thats how marisa always starts hers.. and us being alike is kinda scary....
anyhow phew.. it has been a LOOONG time since I wrote a blog.. dang..
um.. I went to fiddle camp.. it was pretty much awesome. learned lots of stuff... made lots of friends... hung out with awesome peoples...
then was camp CRUSH.. that was kinda ok this year... I dunno... last year was just so much better... most everybody who was there last time agreed...
and then family camp was last weekend.. wow that was interesting.. too many guys...
Sometimes I think they were created to make our lives miserable but whatever I'm not going to go into what all happened there..
if you really want to know and if I knew you well enough to even talk to you.. then you'd be on messenger and I prolly would've talked to you.. or maybe not..
gosh I love rambling =)
haha ok that was kinda weird. moving on...
This year we are going to be going to this public school for 2 days a week. at first I was like man this is gonna suck.. but when we went to the open house I realized I knew some peoples and would be in classes with them so its all good.
I havta be in Advisory... and this class called "Sensational Sentences"(basically a writing class)and Spanish 1... and.... I dunno what else.. maybe some math thing but we're not sure yet..
And I have this dumb thing I havta be at at TEN in the morning. Gosh. who gets up before 10 in the summer?
I havta go meet with my advisor to figure out my WSLP.. written student learning plan.... its pretty pathetic...
fiddle lessons start up soon. and the evening class... and workshops... and RBFK(Rainbow Fiddle Kids-which I just joined cuz I am finally good enough to be in it...and still I'm gonna be one of the suckiest persons in there)and classes... and youth group=/
but I have to go sleep... ten o'clock.... grrr.....
-emily August 04 GUITARS!Ok first of all the whole water skiing thing was hilarious. On our way out to the lake we got pulled over cause Mike didn't have the current plates on the boat. But the officer was nice and let us off with a warning. while we were at the lake I FINALLY got up on skiis. and I went like.. 20 feet. yeah. it was scary. the cool part was that there was not like any other boats on the lake except for a couple of people fishing near the shore. the sweetest part was when we started up the boat after getting danielle out on skiis and this blue heron on the shore got startled and flew alongside the boat for a LOOOONG time. it was totally awesome. So later after we ate at dick's <MY FAVE FAST FOOD PLACE ON THE PLANET> rachael was taking us home and we got pulled over again! it was cause her brights were on or somethin.. Yeah I think the officer wanted to just make sure us 4 teenagers weren't drunk or something.
Then tonight we went to a guitar concert at the MET. it was like the teachers from nates guitar camp that he went to this week and the students played two songs at the end. the best people were the teacher Melad Abide and James Hunter. It was sweet Celtic stuff that I loved. They even had two Irish dancers come out.. that was kinda cool. but the music was super awesome. and now I am going to go eat. cause I am starving to death.....*gasp*.....*choke*.....*food*..... -emily August 02 life... in general...Wow. Summer is so fabulous.. I loves it so much!
yep so the week before last there was a missionary barbeque at the Murrays house. that was pretty cool, I guess.. and I am going to a girls bible study.. which is pretty sweet...
Anywho today I baby-sat the Wilsons... yes it is quite sad... not the babysitting part..
But Andrew is going to quit his flooring job and start teaching fiddle and guitar full time in the fall which means I lose my job with them...
yeah so Danielle just called and wants me to go water skiing... I really want to go... But I super-need to go get a new set of fiddle strings. I snapped my g-string while I was tuning it the other day... and since JayDean is teaching at fiddle camp this week and doesn't have any strings anyways.. and Lunden's Violins(the most awesome fiddle store) moved to Coeur D'Alene I have like no where to buy strings..I guess I could go check out that little string place by Argonne Cycle but they are probably like super expensive...
so yeah I'm kinda screwed right now... tomorrow night I have bible study...
and then on Saturday I have to go help set up camp with JayDean and a bunch of other peoples.
Frank signed Nate up to play at this thing in a park on sunday so naturally he dragged me and seth and caleb in to it too...
So what we're going to do is go play at this thing for like a half hour and then we'll go straight from it out to fiddle camp.. I guess... at least thats what nate says... and hes usually wrong so you never know what could happen.
Ok so even after CRUSH was canceled now it is back on... which is crazy. Fiddle Camp gets over on Thursday Night. When all the classes have a concert.. The concert starts at like 7 and each class goes up and plays a song.. which totally sucks... I hate being on stage... so it might take like an hour or so? I don't know for sure yet.
Jae totally wants Nate and I to work at CRUSH. What they're doing is since the AOH camp gets over like friday morning or somethin, the CRUSH people are going out thursday evening and everybody is gonna sleep in tents on the field. They won't move into cabins 'till Friday morning and Nate and I will drive out early then. Evidently I can still be a JC even though I'm coming out on the second day. so Danny L. and I will have a cabin.. And this is all so totally crazy... and I am super excited for next week so I will say adieu for now! -emily July 21 I LOVE JAYDEAN!!!!!!!!!!no not like that you sickos. I swear she is the awesomest fiddle teacher that ever lived!
ok so this started out really crappy just now cuz Jae just called and said that UGM had double booked the camp(for crush). so now its not gonna work out and they can't put on the camp!! its terrible and I feel really sorry for all the kids who don't get to go to camp now.
But now I am exploding with joy cuz JayDean knows we can't afford fiddle camp and she made me that offer... so right after I found out about CRUSH I called her and asked her if I could still work for her to earn camp and she said yes! and she wants me to call her tomorrow morning and come over and work all day.
I am quite excited.. people come to this camp from all over the nation. it is huge! with the best teachers in the country! I am so hiped now. so hence JayDean seriously rocks and is my book of
"The Awesomest People In The World".
yes yes.
very happy.. very cool..no hot... but yes very excited...
so I shall go now before I like drive alla yous crazily insane.
adios!
-a super super happy emily
July 18 dum da dum da dumso I got back from camp on sat. very fun indeed. although some teaching there wasn't biblically sound. there were 15 girls in my cabin! man it was insanely cool. very awesome peoples.
sarah,senaida, sabrina and I all got in the same cabin which was pretty much awesome.
yeah so after getting back from camp I had this KILLER coffee craving, and since danielle and nate were here we walked over to starbucks and got frappucinos. cuz it was super hot outside. then danielle,hank,joe and I all went over to Camp Caro,they have some dumb stupid new name for the park now but I can't remember it... it's some weird dudes name that nobody really cares about..yeah so we played frisbee there for awhile. then we came home and went to Seth's bbq at 5... that was kinda... lame... since nobody really showed up. we needed more people. then they set off some fireworks which was quite traumatic. I jumped a mile when they set off that super loud one and they all laughed at me... sadness.
and on sunday we had church and then nate,dani and I all went to the new youth pastors house to help him paint since hes just moving here from chicago. we were there for 3 hours. danielle was very bloody. she had quite the gruesome day. :/ then we went water skiing and nate did reallly really super good. and then I went out and screwed up a bunch.. then I FINALLY stood up and the engine runs out of gas and dies!!!!!!!!!!
some dude had been using the boat so we didnt know for sure how much gas it had so we had to get back to the dock on the reserve tank. yeah and on monday... I didnt do like anything.. yeah that was really cool. :) This morning I had a fiddle lesson at nine. and Allie is having her 17th b-day party from 4-7 and she invited me and I pretty much have like zero clue what to get her... and danielle doesnt either... so we're stuck in the same boat.
darn it all. JayDean said I could work for the next two weeks for her to earn my camp tuition for fiddle camp( which is $325) the only problem is her camp is the same week as CRUSH and since CRUSH is already short on staff Nate and I cant really ditch em for fiddle camp,as much as I want to. I could learn soo much there..
but oh well. I can't do everything I guess.
k so this is all for now.. I must go brainstorm about Allie.. orange.. presents.. groan.. July 07 ~too true~I just spent several hours observing teenagers who were hanging out at our local mall. I came to the conclusion that many teenagers in America are living in poverty. Most of the young men I observed didn't even own a belt; there was not one among the whole group. But that wasn't the sad part -- many of them were wearing their daddy's jeans. Some of these jeans were so big and baggy that they hung low on their hips, exposing their underwear. I know some of them must have been ashamed that their daddies were short, because the jeans hardly went below their knees. They weren't even their daddies' good jeans, for most of them had holes ripped in the knees and had a dirty look to them. It grieved me that in a modern, affluent society like America, there are people who can't afford a decent pair of jeans. I have been thinking about asking my church to start a jeans drive for the "poor kids at the mall." I don't think this group of guys even had much to eat, because as they were walking, their heads leaned to one side as if they didn't have enough strength to keep them up. Oh, they tried. With each step, they tried to lift them up, but to no avail: they always dropped back to the side. This group of guys must be from the same family, because they all walked with their heads bobbing together in the same manner. But that wasn't the saddest part. It was the girls they were hanging out with that disturbed me the most. I have never in all of my life seen such "poor" girls. These girls had the opposite problem of the guys -- they all had to wear their little sisters' clothes. Their jeans were about five sizes too small. I don't know how they could even put them on, let alone button them up. Their jeans barely went over their hipbones. Most of them also had on their little sisters' tops; it hardly covered their midsections. Oh, they were trying to hold their heads up with pride, but it was a sad sight to see these almost grown women wearing children's clothes. However, it was their underwear that bothered me the most. They, like the boys, because of the improper fitting of their clothes, also had their underwear exposed. I have never seen anything like it. It looked like their underwear was only held together by a single piece of string. I know it also saddens your heart to receive this report on the condition of our American teenagers. While I go to bed every night with a closet full of clothes nearby, there are millions of "mall girls" who barely have enough material to keep it together. I think their "poorness" is why these two groups gather at the mall, the boys with their short daddies' ripped jeans, and the girls wearing their younger sisters' clothes. The mall is one place where they can find acceptance. So, the next time you are at the mall doing your shopping and you pass by some of these poor teenagers, would you say a prayer for them? July 05 camping!yep so as the title states I went camping this past week. a full seven days and six nights with Emily and her family. Since our names kept getting confusing we had the kids Alyx and Christian call me Aunt Emma and her Emmo(her usual nickname). it was easier.
we went swimming everyday. there was a log like at least 40 feet out in the water which we would swim out to and dive off of. what a blast! and we went canoeing a couple times. plus tubing which was fun. on friday we caught12 frogs and on sat. 12. on sunday I caught a snake. I loved it when it twined itself around my wrist. it felt so cool!!!!!!
Noah,Jon and Josiah were hilarious. gosh I love those guys! they're so entertaining! they would debate over every little thing which was quite fun.we had the lake to ourselves tuesday and wed. and on mon there were only a few other people in the water. Dan tried to do a pole vault thing and ripped his swimming trunks to shreds. haha. melissa wasnt too thrilled though.
I only got a light burn on my legs once from tubing and a light one on my face but mostly I got really tan.
Im leaving for camp Pinecroft monday morning. EARLY! sarah will be picking me up between 7 and 7:30.
I'm a little nervous. but oh well. its not THAT hard to make friends so I am sure I will find at least one new one before the week is through. when I got home the neighbor girls pounced on me and started talking a million miles a minute. they're so cute! I love them like they're my little sisters!
then they let me throw them in the pool which was very fun for me.
it was 98 degrees in the van on the drive home. phew.
and it is still very hot right now so I will go and do.. something...
-Ẽ мï₤ψJune 25 yawnnnyes as the title ensues I am very sleepy! which is good. cause its a worn-out, sunburned sleepy. and those kind of sleepy's are good. gosh I must have like sun stroke or something....
soooo.. today.. was church. very cool.. yes yes. Jae's LAST TIME PREACHING!!!! sob!!!! he'll only be there for a few more months before leaving to go work somewhere else and get a pastoring..(right word?) job. this is very sad. very sad indeed. because! Jae is the most awesome Korean dude I know! and this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that hes the ONLY Korean dude I know...:)
so after church danielle invited me to come watah skiing with her and her pops. so OF COURSE I said yes.
so shanielle and her mom took me to my house where I grabbed some stuff and changed and then we went to HER house where we ate lunch(yummyness) and then Mike picked us up from there. and we headed to de lake!it was gorgeousful. first Danny L. went out and skiied(Spelling?). then Mike went up and Danielle spun the boat wrong or something happened and he went DOWN. so when we're turning to get the boat back to him Danielle is all Im afraid Im going to get the rope caught and he goes oh just go straight through here and you should be fine. so she does and guess what? yep the rope got caught. so we were stuck in this little cove off the lake for like an hour while Mike tried to fix it. we went swimming for awhile but then there were these weird leech like bug like things that latched on the dani and she and I freaked and didnt go back in. they were quite the scary little creatures.
and they were only over in that area of the lake in those reeds. and so when you take them out of the water they look like dragonflies without wings. and when you put em in the water these gill like sort of things stick out a little from their back and they swim like fish and latch on to your skin. isnt that crazy? I was going to bring one home to try and figure out what they were but I forgot the bottle there...
so yeah we finally headed back to the dock on one engine cuz we couldnt get the rope out. and then danielle worked at it a ton cuz she and I REALLY wanted to go tubing and Shanielle Deridan the amazing girl pulled it off. yay Danny L!!!!!!!!! so we went tubing once me and her.
and so we're going and everything and I'm like.. Danielle Im falling off. and shes all NO hold on stay on! and I'm all I'm slipping and stuff. and then mike does this crazy thing with the boat and both Dani and I go FLYING. wow and when I surfaced there was NOTHING on my left wrist! I HAD had three hair thing-er-ma-bobs and yellow livestrong bracelet but they were gone! it was crazy.
so yeah then we went again and SHE fell off first this time so then I went by myself and wow that was crazy.
I was like bouncing all over the place and almost falling off but I finally held on till I couldnt anymore so I told em to stop and it was Shanielle's turn.
then we headed back to land(phew)and to the hot tub before heading out.
and so we ate at Subway(yum) and then they brought me home. all in all it was a fabulous day in spite of the fact I got sunburned on my face... but its all good.
now this is officially the longest blog I have ever written about ONE DAY(isn't it?) so I shall go!
adios!
-emily June 24 ahh yess. life.. .. its boring.ok just kidding. life is spectacular. wow I like that word. its so much fun to say!
Okey Day. This past week was Vacation Bible School. WHAT A BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow so the first day I went with the yellow group cuz we brought Kennedy,Emily and Madison from up the street and of course they didn't want to go off with people they didn't know in a weird church. So they were there Tues. and Wed. and then they left for Seattle with their Granparents. Vincent and Noah(Grandmas neighbors) came with her everyday. Wednesday I went home with Danny L . and we baked choc chip cookies, and watched a movie and she straightened my hair. then we went to the Park and saw some of her friends.. haha. her friend Logan m et us there(LOGAN ROX!) then we went back to the house for dinner... and drew chalk drawings. Danielle drew a dog yelling hardware and a cat yelling rhinoplasty.. and they drew a gigantic elephant with a wig yelling antidisestablishmentarianism. yeah we had fun. and then we went to Logans house and watched part of a movie... and then we came home! wow fabulous. ok so there were two kids in my group at VBS who live at the Salvation Army Shelter. and I got to know them over the week. gosh they were soo cute and sweet! I love my kids!
so yeah Friday night was the bbq for all the families it was fun.
today hank and I put up the pool. it looks kinda like a hotdog bun instead of a circle.... iye yiy yiy.. terrible.
Nate should be home tomorrow or the next day.. I have had a wonderful week! I hope he remembered to get me a Weiser shirt!but he probably won't... cuz he sucks like that. and if he does get me one I'll have to pay him back for it..
well Sarah just called and is insisting that I go to Camp Pinecrot.. icks. A whole week with Sarah.. crazy.
ok so it is really hot over here by the computer so I am going to go.. watch a movie and eat dinner.
adios!
-emily June 16 haha wowok right now I am like DYING of boredom but I am also super happy.. man thats crazy. I'm bored becuz its rainy outside like its been for the past WEEK! and I am putting off chores. but I'm happy because nate is leaving tomorrow for the weiser fiddle contest and will be gone for at least a week!!! I mean I wanted to go but oh well. this way I can hang out with Em at VBS and get to know all the likkle chids. haha I bought a mute from JayDean last night and so my fiddle is much quieter and everybody in the family cheered when they heard it. cause they're always telling me to go in my room or downstairs to play fiddle. well Marc just fell off the couch.. ouch. poor chid. it was Nates fault of course. he was supposed to be watching him and nate sets marc up there and lets him fall off. idiot. and now hes playing my fiddle without asking. I can't wait for him to leave. wow this week is gonna be great. but I've gotta go watch marc while mom takes nate to work.
adios!
-emily June 12 River City Fiddle Fest!!!!!yesss! that was sooooooo awesome! ok so it all started on saturday. we didn't head over till about 2 in the afternoon and got there about 3-ish. the contest was in this beautiful park on the river. I didn't play till four so Marisa and I just hung out and goofed off and did SOME practicing until then. by some horrible miracle I made it to the second round which was on sunday so I had to practice for that. then Shannon and their friend Josh came to the thang. Josh.. is ...interesting? is that the right word? ok never mind. the champion round was fabulous! man. they rocked. and I think that was all I did sat. then on sun. nate and I drove to sunday school. and left right after that for the contest. since I was playing RIGHT at twelve and I was the first person in the jr's to play.blech. yeah so I went up there and I pretty much sucked. yep, thats the only way to describe it. I mean I played my songs well but they were too simple. meanwhile the other kids go up and play these songs that are like a billion pages long. I'm like ouch..... and then Dustin had to go and sign me up for the Gamblers.. Division.so I in turn signed up marisa and seth signed up shannon... oh yeah. there was this one kid Brandon L. who was a fabulous musician and we see that his name isn't on the list so I signed him up. the thing is once your name is on there they won't let you take it off. wow. that was super fun. what happens is you go up on stage and draw a song out of a box. you can either keep it or draw again. I got Durang's Hornpipe which I 'of course' kept. Marisa got Old Joe Clark of all things. lucky dog. Shannon drew Tam Lin which was ok cuz we had all learned that together. Durang's first verse is super easy but the second verse is rather messed up. but all you had to do was go up on stage and play ONE recognizable verse and you were in so I managed. then in the second round you go up and you draw again and you can either play that song or draw AGAIN. if you don't play the first song you have to play the second one. I got Old South Waltz as my first one and I had NO CLUE how to play it. so I drew again and got some song called Money Musk. whatever that is. so I bluffed and said ok. and played a totally different song called Drunken Piper but of course the judges didn't buy it so I got booted that round. but it was still a blast. Kimber and Amanda were the last two people up there and they kept going back and forth. and Amanda draws a song and Kimber goes" I Taught you this one!!!" and so of course amanda remembered and played it. in the end Kimber won but it was soo much fun! there was a ton of yelling every time the judges would start shaking their heads. once Kimber gets a song and goes um.. I'm gonna warm up. and so she turns her back on the crowd and goofs off for a little bit. then she turns back to the mic and starts playing and the judges start shaking their heads and pointing their thumbs down.. and then she grins and plays the actual song and stays in. man you shoulda heard the cheers when people thought she was out. Amanda was the fave I think..
Kimber also won the Champion Division. she is soo good! but it was a ton of fun. after I had drawn for gamblers I was outside on the grass sitting criss cross practicing Durangs and Mr Sheridan comes up after dropping Danielle off and dumps his water bottle all over my lap so it looks like I wet myself. oohh I was sooo ticked. I was up on stage again in just a little while and now I was soaked! ugh. I coulda murdered him right then. it turned out I still had 20 mins or so before we were back up so I managed to get dry. in spite of that it was a blast. Marisa brought two other friends from her school on sun. one was a tall nerdy guy with a flute and cowboy boots(haha,he was nice though) and then this other girl from their school who used to come to workshops. the last Youth group is this thursday. bummer. but the girls bible study is starting up soon. that should be awesome. mom and dad aren't going to let me go to Weiser cuz they say I need 'adult supervision' and nate isnt good enough for a whole week. I still MIGHT be able to go with the Miller's if I go as their babysitter.or maybe with danielle and mike. we'll see. but if it doesn't work out I can always stay here and help out at vbs. thats about an eighth as much fun as Weiser will be. I might be going to camp Pinecroft if I can find somebody to go with. I mean Sarah invited me but I can't imagine spending a whole week with just her.
ok this is definitely the longest blog i have done in awhile. I'm sitting here doing this instead of working on my paper in which I am supposed to compare/contrast the Amish-Hutterites-Mennonites.
but I guess I should get to it. I missed Aimee's surprise party last night cuz things ran late at the contest. that sucked. I would've liked to been there. oh well.
wow ok I must finish this blog now. good bye to my invisible fans.
-emily June 09 {}On Tuesday ( 6/6/06) there was the end-of-year bbq at Frank's house at 6:00. wow that was awesome. Marisa, Shannon,Jessica, Becky,Seth,Aaron and I were all playing together for awhile. that was fun! ok Stephen totally freaked me out though. he was like standing over by the garage and just watching me for a really long time. talk about unnerving. he gives me the creeps. but other than that it was a ton of fun.
Grandpa showed up for a while. that was cool. Miriah was actually being nice to me too. it was weird but good. Miriah has hated me for like over a year and ya know when people hate me I at least like to know the reason. but as far as I know she doesn't have any particular reason for hating me.
after a couple hours nate,seth,caleb and I were going to the empty front yard to jam up there cuz it was so loud and crowded out back. and marisa and shannon were coming too. so marisa was walking across the back patio and she didn't have her fiddle case closed and it fell out and there was a gianormous crack down the front of her fiddle. it was terrible. it's like a $700 repair and the fiddle only cost $200!!
so now she is iming me and telling me about her new fiddle right now. tomorrow is my contest and I am freaking out. mom is being a .. never mind again. as usual. gosh i cant wait to move out!
I'm gonna go practice and pray I dont totally screw up in front of everyone. dustin is backing me up. so him nate and I are gonna practice all day tomorrow. since I dont play till 4:00.
but I better go so,
adios amigos!
-emily
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