Hi everyone!
Do y'all know that I have moved??? Across the country??? Yeppers, my new home is several hundred miles away from the original Hundred-Acre-Wood.
I use that for my I'm-sorry-I-have not-blogged-in-forever excuse. Does it work for you?
Now for the news:
We moved March 15 into the home of our friends, the Chrissy-Robbinsons. We live in a 5 bedroom house with one uncle, 5 children, my set of parents and Chrissy's mom, 2 cats and 3 dogs that hate each other. It has been very interesting...luckily we left the 23 surviving fish back home to be taken care of by a fish rescue center. Otherwise known as our local pet store.
However, the excitment is never ending. How many of you live with your best friend????? I am sure that if I could see you, my faithful readers, that I would not see very many hands up!
Chrissy, Piglet and I went camping with our club over the weekend!!! It was AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!! I am a teen this year, so I got to go to the Teen Zone and do the Teen Challenge! MWAHAHA!!!
There was a giant zipline, a drama ministry and the evening and morning worship. Bible bowl and parades, good food and FOOD FAIR! was all so much fun!
I will save details and pictures for a later post... and I WILL get back to blogging! I just got a Facebook, and that's where I've been spending all my time!
Now I have some strawberries to pick!
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Excuses, Excuses...
Hi peoples!
I know, I know. I have been really bad about blogging! But you see, I have a huge line of excuses, such as:
I am not even in the same state (then again, I brought my laptop and have Wi Fi)
My time is split in between bunches of people wanting to see me, not to sound braggy (but, I have had plenty of my Facebook and e-mail, time)
Let me think...
And Lissa is icing a birthday cake!
(I threw that one in because my "huge line of excuses" is running out...)
I'll be back, don't worry. I have a lot of things on my mind right now. But I will be back.
Just to throw in another obscure fact, I have stayed up past mid-night every night since Friday of last. Mostly around the 2:30/3:30 central time.
"I can't believe I'm saving you after you tried to kill me!"
Do any of you recongnize this quote?
Yes, it is one from Ella Enchanted, the movie. You really should read the book, though. The movie may be funny, but the book is just plain awesome!
Nighty night night!
Marina
I know, I know. I have been really bad about blogging! But you see, I have a huge line of excuses, such as:
I am not even in the same state (then again, I brought my laptop and have Wi Fi)
My time is split in between bunches of people wanting to see me, not to sound braggy (but, I have had plenty of my Facebook and e-mail, time)
Let me think...
And Lissa is icing a birthday cake!
(I threw that one in because my "huge line of excuses" is running out...)
I'll be back, don't worry. I have a lot of things on my mind right now. But I will be back.
Just to throw in another obscure fact, I have stayed up past mid-night every night since Friday of last. Mostly around the 2:30/3:30 central time.
"I can't believe I'm saving you after you tried to kill me!"
Do any of you recongnize this quote?
Yes, it is one from Ella Enchanted, the movie. You really should read the book, though. The movie may be funny, but the book is just plain awesome!
Nighty night night!
Marina
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Did y'all ever notice how cute Puss-in Boots is? His voice does not suit him, though. He needs a cute little kitty voice, don't you agree?
Here we are, practicing for the "Iron Man" race. You started outside, swam back-stroke to the black line, breast-stroke to the inside line, free-style to the black line, breast-stroke to the outside line, choose-what-you want 
to the black line, then you went
to the black line, then you wentunder and held your breath to the finish-line.
Our pre Iron-Man picture.
As you can see, Eeyore is holding up bunny ears behind Roo.
The black wall thing-y that you swam under to get outside. SO COOL!
Here is the indoor part of the pool. To get to the outdoor half you swim under that black-wall thingy (or you could just use the door, but who wants to do that?)!Sorry 'bout the kind of confusing way the pictures are set up. I am still working on learning how to put pictures on the blog.
I am watchin' Shrek the Third. Whatcha doin?
Friday, March 6, 2009
Lamberts, Dead Fish, Overnight Trip. You Are Now Caught Up!
Hello snowed-upon-Maconites and non-snowed-upon-Missourianites!
I would love to blame my lack of blogging on being on a trip, but that trip was only one night, two days.
But the trip was a lot of fun. We woke up at five-thirty to leave, and then drove in the car doing schoolwork and watching movies in turn until around three-o'clock.
Then the fun started. We went swimming in the most wonderful pool! Which was half-indoor half-outdoor! It was so much fun! And it had an awesome hot tub! That, when you flipped a switchy-thingy, bubbles came on! Full force!
We dragged ourselves out of the water at dinner time. Actually, we were sorta glad to get out. Because we got to go to Lamberts!!!!!!!!!!
So after we stuffed our faces full of yummy dumplings and meatloaf and chicken and hamburgers and, of course, fried okra and fried potatos, we went home happy with lots of leftovers. But what's a fancy dinner without ice cream?!
So we stopped at a ice cream parlor. Which of course, was delicious. And we went home and watched Little House on the Prairie re-runs. By then we were exhausted, and drifted happily off to sleep...
The next morning we ate a big breakfast, did some school, got in a final hou of swimming and headed out the door. It was so sad to get into the car, so we went to a honey-tea room and ate some candy.
Oh, and Daddy texted me! Can't you just imagine my excitement?
We went to a Chinease buffet for dinner. And we went home and went to bed.
The end...
Not really.
When I walked in the door, I greeted the kitties, and went to check on our new fish.
I regret to say, not one, but two fish layed on the bottom of our tank.
One of them was Baby Kraken, which was the smaller version of Kraken, the biggest fish in the tank.
And you know who the other one was.
Yes, Zoe Blue the II was flushed away last night. Single teardrop.
Not that I want to leave you with that sad note, but my time is up. I will get some pictures up of the awesome pool and Lamberts.
So long farewell, a...Oh!
Forgot to mention, if you look at the time my posts are, well, posted, they are two hours ahead. I really don't post at six-thirty, am.
I would love to blame my lack of blogging on being on a trip, but that trip was only one night, two days.
But the trip was a lot of fun. We woke up at five-thirty to leave, and then drove in the car doing schoolwork and watching movies in turn until around three-o'clock.
Then the fun started. We went swimming in the most wonderful pool! Which was half-indoor half-outdoor! It was so much fun! And it had an awesome hot tub! That, when you flipped a switchy-thingy, bubbles came on! Full force!
We dragged ourselves out of the water at dinner time. Actually, we were sorta glad to get out. Because we got to go to Lamberts!!!!!!!!!!
So after we stuffed our faces full of yummy dumplings and meatloaf and chicken and hamburgers and, of course, fried okra and fried potatos, we went home happy with lots of leftovers. But what's a fancy dinner without ice cream?!
So we stopped at a ice cream parlor. Which of course, was delicious. And we went home and watched Little House on the Prairie re-runs. By then we were exhausted, and drifted happily off to sleep...
The next morning we ate a big breakfast, did some school, got in a final hou of swimming and headed out the door. It was so sad to get into the car, so we went to a honey-tea room and ate some candy.
Oh, and Daddy texted me! Can't you just imagine my excitement?
We went to a Chinease buffet for dinner. And we went home and went to bed.
The end...
Not really.
When I walked in the door, I greeted the kitties, and went to check on our new fish.
I regret to say, not one, but two fish layed on the bottom of our tank.
One of them was Baby Kraken, which was the smaller version of Kraken, the biggest fish in the tank.
And you know who the other one was.
Yes, Zoe Blue the II was flushed away last night. Single teardrop.
Not that I want to leave you with that sad note, but my time is up. I will get some pictures up of the awesome pool and Lamberts.
So long farewell, a...Oh!
Forgot to mention, if you look at the time my posts are, well, posted, they are two hours ahead. I really don't post at six-thirty, am.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Someday, I will have another Dwarf Gourami, and I will name her Zoe Blue the III
Guess what?! Eeyore got a late-birthday present!! And it really was quite wonderful!
He got a tank of twenty-six fish! I tried to get some picture up here, but Blogger is acting up.
My favorite fish is Zoe. We need to get her a friend; she just hangs out by herself next to the heater.
Then there is Molly the Malli. Our Guppies, Two Fin, Puffer, and Goldie, love her! They won't hang out with any Malli but her!
Wait, big news, just in...
Molly the Malli is'nt a Malli. She's a female Guppie!!! The other three are male!!!
That explains a lot. ;O)
More big news in, this one is tear-wrenching. Zoe will probably die. She seems so sad, and her friend died less than a month ago. She stopped eating, and the lady we got her from says that they stop eating and generally a week later they die.
She is my favorite.
He got a tank of twenty-six fish! I tried to get some picture up here, but Blogger is acting up.
My favorite fish is Zoe. We need to get her a friend; she just hangs out by herself next to the heater.
Then there is Molly the Malli. Our Guppies, Two Fin, Puffer, and Goldie, love her! They won't hang out with any Malli but her!
Wait, big news, just in...
Molly the Malli is'nt a Malli. She's a female Guppie!!! The other three are male!!!
That explains a lot. ;O)
More big news in, this one is tear-wrenching. Zoe will probably die. She seems so sad, and her friend died less than a month ago. She stopped eating, and the lady we got her from says that they stop eating and generally a week later they die.
She is my favorite.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
God-ly friends
Hi guys!
I just got done talking to one of my best friends on the phone. Chrissy-Robin and I talk a ton, email and visit each other for weeks at a time. We have known each other for five years, and we love each other like sisters. We are still the best of friends, even when I moved seven hours away and we only got to see each other three times that year.
But there are some things we just don't agree on. Like whether the word Applachian is pronounced Apple-a-chin or Apple-A-shin; or whether Primer is pronounced pri-mer or pry-mer. Sometimes, its on issues like if those pants go with that shirt, or whether purses and make-up are cool.
One of the issues we don't exactly agree on is religion. I don't believe that Jesus will come back in the same way she does, and she doesn't believe about the Sabbath the same way that I do. But either way, we are still best friends! We still both eat sandwiches, even if she likes ham and I like turkey. We still both like American Girls and Barbies. We both still like to lay in bed at night, talking tell we drift to sleep at sleep-overs.
The main thing is we both worship the same God, we both believe Jesus will come back, and that the only way to heaven is by accepting Him as your Savior, which we have both done! Thursday night we were talking on the phone. Somehow the subject turned to God and the end times. We both expressed our views on the subject, and then came to this conclusion: Jesus is coming back. Maybe one of us is right. Maybe one of us is wrong. Maybe we are both wrong on some points and both right on others. But we need to respect each others view points and know certain things about each other's beliefs on that subject. If we were missionaries in another country, that is exactly the skills we would need to survive! We would need to build friendships with the people we are witnessing to, then start to talk to them about our religion. But to do that we need to respect them!
That is what I got from our conversation. Maybe Chrissy-Robin got a different point. I would like to hear your view on the subject. I don't really know how to work the comments :o) but please send me an email with your belief about approaching other people, believers or non-believers, about the end-times, or any doctrinal thing. I am so glad I have friends I can talk with about God. Really, it is fun to debate on things like this!
I just got done talking to one of my best friends on the phone. Chrissy-Robin and I talk a ton, email and visit each other for weeks at a time. We have known each other for five years, and we love each other like sisters. We are still the best of friends, even when I moved seven hours away and we only got to see each other three times that year.
But there are some things we just don't agree on. Like whether the word Applachian is pronounced Apple-a-chin or Apple-A-shin; or whether Primer is pronounced pri-mer or pry-mer. Sometimes, its on issues like if those pants go with that shirt, or whether purses and make-up are cool.
One of the issues we don't exactly agree on is religion. I don't believe that Jesus will come back in the same way she does, and she doesn't believe about the Sabbath the same way that I do. But either way, we are still best friends! We still both eat sandwiches, even if she likes ham and I like turkey. We still both like American Girls and Barbies. We both still like to lay in bed at night, talking tell we drift to sleep at sleep-overs.
The main thing is we both worship the same God, we both believe Jesus will come back, and that the only way to heaven is by accepting Him as your Savior, which we have both done! Thursday night we were talking on the phone. Somehow the subject turned to God and the end times. We both expressed our views on the subject, and then came to this conclusion: Jesus is coming back. Maybe one of us is right. Maybe one of us is wrong. Maybe we are both wrong on some points and both right on others. But we need to respect each others view points and know certain things about each other's beliefs on that subject. If we were missionaries in another country, that is exactly the skills we would need to survive! We would need to build friendships with the people we are witnessing to, then start to talk to them about our religion. But to do that we need to respect them!
That is what I got from our conversation. Maybe Chrissy-Robin got a different point. I would like to hear your view on the subject. I don't really know how to work the comments :o) but please send me an email with your belief about approaching other people, believers or non-believers, about the end-times, or any doctrinal thing. I am so glad I have friends I can talk with about God. Really, it is fun to debate on things like this!
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