Ouch.
I got spacers in yesterday in preperation for the braces I'm getting in two weeks and they hurt. I couldn't even eat a peanut butter and jelly (not grape jelly!) sandwhich for lunch! So I'm not feeling all that good....
In other news, I finished that play I've been working on. I don't like it all that much, but since the deadline is tomorrow, I guess I'll enter it anyway. I'm also going to be entering "The son of God" story I wrote two years ago and I started work on a poem I just might finish and enter. *shrugs* who knows. Or maybe I'll work on a short essey and enter that.
I can't think of anything else to write. I've written too much today.
Friday, June 14, 2002
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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Wow.
That's probably the best way to describe Knoxville. All the people, all the info., all the speakers, all the insights into Scripture...it just defies description. But I'll try.
Monday morning we got up at 4:30 and Ethan and I made breakfast for everyone (egg and toast sandwhichs...yum!!). We hugged Mom and Naomi goodbye (they were the only two up) and headed out at 5:30. We had planned on leaving at 5:00, but I was supprised we got away before 6:00 or 6:30, knowing how Dad is about leaving. There's not all that much to tell about the trip: we drove, and drove, and drove and finally got to Nashville sometime around 6:00 or so. We had supper, showerd, called Mom and went to bed. Next morning we got up at around 5:30 (or something like that) and packed, ate breakfast and left again. It was a short drive to Knoxville (two or three hours) and we got there sometime between 10:30 and 11:00.
Ok, it's probably time for a new paragraph. Once we got to the dorm, we checked in and brought our stuff up to the rooms. We had two rooms with a bathroom connecting them. Each room had two beds, and we had a roll-away for Ethan. The rooms were pretty small, but we spent such a small amount of time there it didn't really bother us. We called Brian's cell phone and found out that he was wondering Knoxville, lost. We had arranged to meet at a park near our dorm, but he couldn't find it. So Dad managed to direct him to us and Anna, Ethan and I went down to meet him. Ethan and I did some juggling, figuring that it would make us more visible. It was also a good chance to show off! :) So Brian pulls up in his Firebird, blaring heavy metal music, smoking something that gave off green and yellow smoke and sporting a skull and cross bones tatto on his bare chest.
Ok, so I made that last part up.
So Brian pulls up and we try to find him a parking place. HA! Those of you who have been to the ATI conferance probably understand how hard that was. Finally we had him park in a "staff only" parking place and hoped he didn't get shot. We went up to the dorms and found out that we had missed BonnieJean while going up on the elevators! So we introcuded Brian to Dad, who didn't seemed too shocked by the look of our crazy internet friend. After BonnieJean came back, we went down stairs, parked Brian's car in a legal parking place and went off to get registered for the conferance.
That was pretty funny. Brian had never even heard about ATI until a few weeks ago, when some people on the RI started talking about it. And when he first came out to meet us he was thinking it was going to be something like a couple hundered people there. So seeing all those people in navy and white and then being told that there were going to be several thousand there really supprised him. We could barely manage to talk to him, he was so busy staring at all the people!
After that, we decided to find a place to eat.
HA! Yea right. It sounds so simple in type. Just go find a place to eat. Well, let me tell you, Knoxville was built to keep people from eating. As we drove around, hungry people begged us to stop and give them food. I even saw the bodies of ATI'ers who had died of starvation during previous conferances. We drove around for half an hour (I'm not making that part up!) before findally finding a Burger King. YES! I was pretty happy about that, because that's what I had wanted all along, while Ethan kept up a constance "Taco Bell, Taco Bell, Taco Bell!" chant in an attempt to affect Dad's choice. So we go into the Burger King and ordered our food. And I'll be you can't guess who was there in the Burger King.
It was the Tall, Broad Shouldered Girl. Maybe you don't know who she is. Well, to tell you the truth, neither do I! I don't even have any idea what her name is, but I swear she has been following me ever since I was in Flint. Honestly, she has been at EVERY SINGLE ATI funtion I've been at since Life Focus. No, I am not making that up. She has been at every one! BonnieJean worked with her while in OKC, and said she was nice, but I just wonder if she has some sort of sinister motive. Why? Because it makes a much better story if she does.
Anyway, where was I, and how did I get here from there? Ah, yes, Burger King. We ordered our food (I got a chicken sandwhich...man, those things are soooo good!) and sat down and talked. Mostly about Tolkien stuff at first. I found out that Brian really likes the story of Turin. Anna just about died when she heard that, because she HATES!!!!! the story of Turin. Personally, I hate Turin, but the story is somewhat interesting. I really like the part at the end where Turin kills himself. Yea, I know that sounds horrible, but Turin deserved it times ten.
So, we talked about horrible things like that and ate our food. Then we took pictures. (see below) Then we took Anna to her first session. The conferance hadn't really started yet, but since Anna was going to be helping with COMMIT she had to go to a kinda "this is what we'll be doing, and this is what you should do" type session. Meanwhile, we dropped Brian off at his car, said goodbye and parted ways.
Hereist we have Brian and Anna and myself.
This is Anna and Brian.
Samuel and Brian.
And all of us, minus Dad, who was taking the picture.
We then sat around in our dorm room and picked our noses and wondered what we should do until it was time to go pick up Anna. I think something interesting happened then, but I can't remember what, so I'll just skip ahead to the first session.
I got to see Kalen! Yes! That was really fun, because I hadn't seen him since Focus, and since he got back from Focus phase 2 (which I didn't go to) I hadn't had much of a chance to talk to him. I actually didn't really get to talk to him much until the next day, but it was fun seeing him anyway.
The next day we all had breakfast and then Dad and Ethan headed off while BonnieJean and I drove Anna to COMMIT. We then went back to the dorms and did various things because our sessions didn't start until 9:00. BonnieJean did the Christ Centered Business track and I was in the Law and Gov. Policy track. I LOVED the Law and Gov. track! I wish I had time to write about all the stuff we did and the speakers we had, but I can't. I got to sit with Kalen most of the time, which was an added plus.
Then, that night, after all the sessions, I went outside and started juggling. A couple guys asked if I could show them some stuff, so I did a Christian routine. They liked it, so I did another. I ended up doing about a twenty minute show and had at least 50 people by the time I was done. After I finished, a little kid came up to me and asked me if I could do some more for him, since he had missed most of the show. I told him I had to get to bed (it was 9:00) but that I would do a show the next time. So I did. Anna counted and I had at least 70 people this time! I did it again on Friday night and had even more people! I'm not sure how many, but it was alot. That was really fun!
Maybe I'll be able to post more about the sessions and such latter. I need to get off now. God bless and bye!
Posted by Samuel at 4:03 PM 0 comments
Sunday, June 09, 2002
Sunday, June 02, 2002
'ello, 'ello, 'ello! This blog will probably be pretty short: I'm just posting to say that we'll be heading out for Knoxville early tomorrow morning. I'm very excited! Oh, and Dad finally decided to rent a mini-van for the trip. He got to working on the car on Saturday and just decided that there was too much to be done in too little time. For one thing the AC doesn't work, and that really could have been horrible in the heat. And we're going to have a ton more room, which will making packing much easier. And so we can pack clothes for each day and won't have to do laundery! Man...I really need to learn to spell...
Not much else to say for now. I'm really looking forward to going. And meeting up with Brian. So I guess I'll close this blog and see you sometime next week!
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Friday, May 31, 2002
I am tired. Very tired. I think I'm fighting getting sick too. Last night I stayed up until 12:30 working on the van, which wasn't fun, but WE GOT THE VAN FIXED!!!
Yes, yes, yes! Dad drove it to work today,and as far as I know it hasn't caused any problems yet. So Mom will have a car when we go to Knoxville (we're leaving Monday! Ahh,so soon!).
Our library is having a writing contest and I'm trying to write a play to enter. It's interesting. It's a comedy about a couple actors and a playwrite. One is very high strung (like my brother Isaac), the other, dude, he's like...you know...dude. And the playwrite is an emotionall unstable "artsty" person. Maybe I'll post it when I'm done.
Math is driving me nuts. Two days ago I tried doing and simply couldn't do it. My brain just wouldn't work. Then yesterday I got 3/4 of the problems wrong. I think I'm going to die. And I've got to get off too, so good bye! God bless!
Posted by Samuel at 9:35 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Good afternoon...if it is a good afternoon. I'm feeling sick. I got almost no school done. I have to do my biology test on Friday and I can't even think enough to study for it. I'm amazed I can think enough to stare at the computer screen.
But, in spite of all that, I had a BLAST at my party yesterday. Tim and Amy and Amy's mom came at about 11:30 and didn't leave until 6:30! We juggled, and talked and ate (and ate and ate...) and even put on a little juggling show. It was the first time I'd seen any of their show, so I really enjoyed it. The best part was when Tim juggled Caleb (three years old). He had two balls in one hand and Caleb in the other. He almost started and then decided he should practice yet, so he got out a baby doll and juggled it, finishing with throwing the doll high, spinning around and not catching it. He then kicks the doll out of the way and declares he is ready for Caleb. Mom was freaking out. He threw the two balls up, switched Caleb from one arm to the other, caught the balls, flashed them again, switched....etc. It was really good and Caleb loved it. They also passed six clubs with Dad in the middle, which was very funny...for us anyway! I don't know if Dad liked it that much.
Then I did several of my Christian routines and probably had one of my best performances ever. I got almost every trick on the first try. I even did one routine were I was supposed to drop on the first try and ended up catching it! :)
It looks like we're not going to get to see Ep.2 until after Knoxville...that was a real bummer. But I guess we'll live. Dad actually said that once we got the van fixed that Mom could take ALL of us kids (even Caleb!) to see it! That should be a blast: I think Caleb will probably be going nuts, yelling things like "BEN JEDI!! BEN JEDI!!!!" and such.
I got my cavities filled this morning. It was actually pretty quick, I just didn't like having my mouth be totally dead for several hours afterwards. It's fine now though, so I guess I'll live. I hope I'll live...
Posted by Samuel at 5:38 PM 0 comments
Sunday, May 26, 2002
Hello, hello! I know, I haven't blogged in awhile. But it's not my fault this time! Don't look at me like that, honest, it's not! Caleb spilled some coke on the keyboard and killed it, so we have been without a keyboard. But this new one has got all sorts of hotkeys and such on it, so I don't mind too much. It actually came with a CD that we had to install to run it! That was nice though because we got Windows Media Player with it. Friday night we had a fun time playing the LOTR soundtrack and looking at the different visualizations they had!
The van is not working right now. As it has been for the past week almost! Dad is having a horrible time getting the fuel pump to work. I spent most of Friday (Dad has every other Friday off) working with him on it. It was miserable. I soaked my pants with gas twice, and got an awful headache. Half the time was spent under the van laying on the pavement! And to top it off, I couldn't really complain, because Dad was going through the same thing. And it had to be done, so I couldn't really ask to be let free! I managed to survive it (barely!) though.
Oh, which reminds me of what I did on Thursday night. We were trying to get a siphon to the fuel pump with a little pump that Dad had gotten at Wall-Mart. We were both under the van, Dad was pumping and I was holding the hose into the big pickle jar we were using to catch the gas in (don't worry, it didn't have any pickles in it!). Well, I got to looking at something else and didn't notice that I had ended up pointing the hose right at Dad! He gave a mighty pump and got it full in the face! He had his glasses on,and wasn't breathing in at the moment, so it wasn't too bad, but I sure felt awful about it! He took it well though and things went fine. I just hope he doesn't decide to get even one of these days and spray me! :)
BonnieJean has been working on her application for the Paralegal program alot lately. She's done 6 of the 8 essay questions. She says their pretty good question, although I think a couple are kinda dumb. "Describe how your beliefs are consistent with the statement of faith." Describe? It either is or isn't! ;) She will be taking the English CLEP in the next week or so, which she needs to have for the program (she needs a score of 55 or higher). Next week she has to write an essay for the application as well.
Let's see, my walk with God has been interesting lately. Much as I hate to admit it, I am not the most regular with my Bible reading. But in the past several weeks I've been making sure to read at least 5 chapters everyday. I'm trying to read through the Bible. It's been kinda a test of if I am willing to work on my relationship with God. Will I read my five chapters today? I would rather do my history and I've REALLY got to make sure to do my biology...but will I read it anyway? And the next day? And the next? Through Leviticus? Numbers? I've only missed one day so far though, so things are really going good. I was reading in Ex. not long ago, and something really stood out to me. After they left Egypt and went into the wilderness, the people got thirsty. So the complained, and then Mosses asked God what to do and he gave then water. And the same story with food. And later, with water. And again later. And again. And again. Several times Moses tries to make them see that they should be going to God when they have needs, yet they never do. I wonder what God would have done if they had turned to him instead of murmuring against Moses. Oh, that reminds me of something. Remember when Lot was leaving his home and the angles told him to fly to the mountains? He didn't want to, so he asked them if he could go to a small town near by. They said he could and so he did. You know what the name of that city meant? Leanness. It's interesting that God will often give us what we want when we insist on it, yet it's never as good. And guess were Lot ended up before long. The mountains. Lot makes an really interesting study. He was what we would call a carnal Christian. You can see through his life how he always ended up in trouble somehow. He was saved, sure, but he didn't let God be the Lord of his life and he paid the price for it his whole life. \
I'm really cramming so I can graduate next May. I've fallen kinda far behind and am paying for it now. I'm pretty certain I can have it all done in time though. The only thing that really worries me is math. I'm going on at a pretty good pace right now, but I don't know if I'm going to have to slow down. I hope to get two more math books done this year. I figure I should be able to get one book done in 4 months. I've got about twenty school days per month, and with two lessons a day (which I can manage without much trouble) I should get 40 lessons done a month. With about 140 lessons in a book, that should take me three and a half months. So if I make sure I get it done every day I can do it.
Don't you hate that when your writing someone and you know you've just got a million things to tell them, and not a single one of them will come out of the dark deep caverns of your mind? Their hiding back in there somewhere, but you don't dare actually go in there and look for them because there's this huge beast called Confusion and Disorder in there and it just might eat you! So you have to sit outside the cavern and wait for a thought to peek it's head out of the door and you try to grab it, and sometimes it even bites your hand. And then the sun goes down and you get tired and go to sleep and all those thoughts come and dance around you, and if you wake up you're too sleepy to grab them, and they sing songs about how stupid you are. I just hate that.
Saturday morning we got some chickens! Some friends of ours were getting rid of some of theirs, so we took them. We have 13: a roster and 12 hens. We're hoping that the foxes don't get them: there are alot around here. We will be getting the chicken coop as soon as we can get the van working, so we can get it out of the driveway into the back yard!
Church was pretty good today. I'm not going to the College and Career Sunday school class anymore. They didn't want anybody who hadn't graduated in the class, so I went to the adult class for awhile, but their teacher is REALLY boring. He always talks about the same thing. So now I'm going to the high school boys class. I hadn't been able to get to know anybody in the adult class (it was weird, even people who would normally talk to me acted like I didn't exist while in that class), I figured I'd rather have a good teacher and no fellowship than a boring teacher and no fellowship. I'm really starting to wonder if this church is really were God wants us. I know I wouldn't mind if we left it. There's only one other guy in my class who seems even remotely interested in Spiritual things. It really is annoying. Oh well...I guess I'll just have to servive...and if I don't, oh well. Such is life (dieing? Life? But if you're dead, then your not alive...but dieing is a part of life...now I'm really confused!)
Ok, here's an interesting question. Look at the last sentance above. It's all one sentance, but there are three inside the (). So, do I put a period after the ), or do I not because I've got that ! in there?
Christina, go ahead and post! We won't eat you....right away.
Oh, btw, let's all keep Mike in our prayers, he's heading off to WA DC today.
Posted by Samuel at 3:23 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
I am feeling great! Why am I feeling great? I don't really know. That's actually a question that David just asked me over AIM and I still haven't figured it out. But who cares why I'm happy? I am! And that's great! :)
I'm really getting excited about Knoxville. We will be meeting up with Brian on the 4th (YES!!) and spending some of the afternoon with him. That should be real fun.
I am having an interesting talk with somebody on AIM. They m'd me and asked what I thought of Abe Lincoln and so I told him/her I didn't like him. And now he/she thinks I hate all northerners. Strange.
MIKE, WE LOVE YOU!
What was that? I just thought Mike needed that. And it is kinda fun to look at a blog one day and see your name written in big blue letters, don't you think?
And now I shall leave you. That's right, it's yet another empty post. I'm doing lots of this lately. Ok, next time I get on, I promise I'll have something to say!
Posted by Samuel at 5:10 PM 0 comments
Monday, May 20, 2002
Hello, long time no blog!
I have gotten next to nothing done today. And yet, strangly, I'm not feeling as down as I normally do. I did a lesson on the Industrial Revolution this morning, which was fun. Naomi and Mom kept on interupting me, but other than that it went ok. I got my biology done and my math and Spanish, and that's about it! I still have to do some of the work sheets for wisdom booklet, but that doesn't bother me too much, 'cause I can probably do those next Sunday. Actually, I was going to do them yesterday, but I took a nap instead!
Dad is working on the car still. He's trying to get the fuel injection system working and it's really driving him nuts. We were trying to prime the fuel pump (or something like that!) yesterday evening and our pump thingy didn't work. So right now we are without the van and Dad has the car with him (he seemed to think he needed to go to work today). I hope he gets it fixed pretty soon, 'cause we would REALLY like to go see Ep. 2, but without a car we can't, and I very seriously doubt that Dad would let us go in the evening after he's home from work.
Dude, I'm going to be 17 on Thursday. Can you beleive that? I can't. Wow, 17? As in one ten and seven ones? That's not right...that means it's only one year 'til I'm 18 (one ten and 8 ones)! That just can't be!
I haven't blogged in four days. I honestly ought to have something to say here. I should be bubbling over with things to tell you. But I'm not. I'm tired I guess. I slept awful last night, maybe that's why.
God bless!
Posted by Samuel at 4:52 PM 0 comments
Thursday, May 16, 2002
Hello, hello, my dear fans! Today is a very imporant day in the life of all Samuel-fans. Why? Because, once again, I have lowered myself to your level and am posting a blog for you to study. Use this gift well! Study it! Learn it! Think about it! Talk about it! It is not every day that mere mortals get something like this. It's a little bit more like every two or three days.
Today has seemed in one sense very long and in another very short. I don't feel like I got enough school work done. I still have to do some history review, study more for the my biology test tomorrow, work on memorizing the presidents, the capitals of the states, Matt. 5, read some in the book Mom wants me to read and lots of other stuff that I can't remember right now and it's already 5:18! I'm going to die! Oh well, I guess I should have realised that a long time ago. *note: in case you haven't learned this yet, you will die one of these days, unless Christ returns. That's why I called you a "mortal" above. Why am I putting this note in here? It's just distracting you from the main topic of this paragraph!* On the brighter side, I got my history done and my math (all correct!) and some of my biology and some of my Spanish and finished my wisdom booklet and got my Bible reading done. I also got to read some of the Two Towers this morning, which was lots of fun, because it's been lost for a long time. Still is actually, Mom had to buy a new copy yesterday.
As I was reading, I got to wondering about why Gimli tired before the other two did. As Aragorn said, Saruaman was putting out a spell to slow them down. But Dwarves were made with this very type of thing in mind. Even the dwarf rings didn't bring them under the will of Sauron. So why did it effect Gimli the most? Or did it? Was he simply the lest hardy of the three? But I find that somewhat hard to beleive. Legolas, yea, I think he was probably hardier, but Aragorn? It's possible, but I still think that a dwarf in his prime like Gimli would give a man, even a Ranger a good run for his money.
Well, I have to get off now. God bless y'all!
Posted by Samuel at 5:25 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
I haven't posted here in *checks* 4 days! Wow, that's way too long! Actually, I tried to post yesterday, but it wouldn't let me. I loaded it, and then it had an error. So I tried refresh, and it had an error. Then I tried blogger.com and it loaded after a long wait. Then I tried signing in and it had an error. So I tried again and it had an error.
Caleb just did something that should be done in the restroom in a room that is not the restroom, so I had to clean him up. Ick. He is laying on his bed now, because he knew what he was doing was wrong too.
I've figured out what it is that Brian does on his blogger to make it look like he's actually posting alot. Most of us have bloggers that take up most of the page. Like mine has that little table on the right *points to the right* and the rest is blog. Well, Brian has got only about one third (if that) of the page as blog. The rest is blank space. He's CHEATING!!!! Yes, that is right, and we thought he was just such a nice guy. *shakes head* Hey, speaking of Brian, WE WILL PROBABLY GET TO MEET HIM NEXT MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, that's right, we're going to Knoxville! Dad finally decided on Sunday. It will be Dad, BonnieJean, Anna, Ethan and myself. I am SOO excited! I've never had the chance to go, and have always wanted to.
Let's see...what else. Oh, we might be going to New Mexico to do a VBS for some friends and their church over there. That would be really fun. We might come up with our own stuff for it, or maybe use some CI stuff. Personally, I'd like to make our own. I thought it might cool to do the spiritual armour or the fruits of the spirit or maybe the creation week.
BonnieJean was reading to Joshua today and I was listening some. One thing that stood out was the comment about the Old Forest attacting the hedge near Buckland. And I got to wondering: did Old Man Willow have the other trees under a spell, like he used on the hobbits? Or were they all bad? And if so, what happened to the good ones? Remember, Fangorn used to be part of the same forest and it still has some good trees. Could the bad trees have actually killed the good ones?
And on that happy note I will leave you.
Posted by Samuel at 4:53 PM 0 comments
Friday, May 10, 2002
THANK YOU HANNAH!!!
Hannah got the comment thing working for me! Yes! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
I have two cavities. I am going to die. And I HAVE been brushing my teeth, so quit looking at me like that!
Dad will be getting home tonight. Hopefully we can to to see a creationist tonight! take a look at drdino.com that's the fellow who will be there. He's the fellow who offers $250,000 to anybody who can give him any proof of evolution. Nobody has gotten it yet, and he first made the offer in 1990!
I can't wait until Ep.2 comes out!
Posted by Samuel at 3:30 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
I think it's totally dumb and stupid.
The above is what happens when you read posts on message baords and try to post on your blogger as well.
Anyway....I just killed a wolf spider! *sniff* I was trying to catch it and take it outside and I stepped on it by mistake! Poor guy...and it was a REALLY cool spider too! Oh well...
We went to a see some interesting reptiles today with our homeschool group. The had a bunch of snakes and lizards and such, but my favorite was the box turtle. Most turtles run and hide when you come at them, but this guy would let you pet him and everything! He was so cute!
Have you ever gotten up in the morning and had your day ALL planned out and then you find out that it's going to be totally differant? Today was like that. I woke up and was going to really hit the school work and get it all done as fast as I can, but then we go on this field trip and that took the morning and then we watched a movie and that took the early afternoon and I really wanted to get on the computer...so I'm still going to try and get my math and biology done before bed....
God bless and bye!
Posted by Samuel at 5:45 PM 0 comments
Monday, May 06, 2002
Good morning! And how art thou today? Hmm...you can't really answer that, can you? Man...I need to get that YACCS thing working. No, I have no dropped off the face of the earth Hannah and I honestly will get around to that!
We had more storms last night and the weather alert radio was screaming half way into the night, until Mom turned it off. Then when Dad got me up in the morning we had no power! So I made his lunch by the light of our oil lamp and had to try and keep the frig door opened for as short a time as possible.
Yesterday Ethan went over to some friends house after church. That's about all there is to say about yesterday actually...oh, I wrote part of another song! I also fenced some more with BonnieJean...it was funny, we got so silly we could barely talk! Then Mom and Anna and BonnieJean and I go to the store and get chips for lunch.
Dad is going to be working out of town for several days, so he packed yesterday and this morning. He isn't really even sure how long he'll be gone.
Don't you just hate all these dating service adds? I was just looking at 'nika's blogger and there's this add with some girl looking at the camera like "I want you so bad!" and I'm thinking, can you imagine looking at a camera like that? Yes, I am strange. Good bye!
Posted by Samuel at 9:41 AM 0 comments
Saturday, May 04, 2002
Another day....another ramble....
Today I mowed again. It seems like that yard just cannot stop growing! I don't mind it really....it's kinda fun...having a little guy sitting in your lap, singing or just yelling for no reason. *g* When Isaac was riding with me he starting just screaming at random. I asked him why and he said he was just screaming!
Last night when BonnieJean and Anna and I were in the car, I was telling them that I would really like to write songs if I could, but I just didn't have the ability to do it. Well, guess what I did while mowing the yard? I wrote a song! Yep! It's got three verses and a pretty tune! BonnieJean and I worked out the main melody on the piano and we're going to be writing the parts soon. I'll post the music and words when we finish it!
I've been writing out some of the history for a story I've come up with. It's pretty fun. I'm writing it in the same style as the Silmarillion, 'cause it seems to be the only way I can get my brain juices flowing!
The party last night was not really fun. Anna and I got stuck with a team who didn't really want to be doing anything and then the Gastapo got us and we were all killed. :(
And on that cheerful note I will leave you!
Posted by Samuel at 4:40 PM 0 comments
Friday, May 03, 2002
This is funny! I had this chat a few minutes ago
princess24chic (4:28:16 PM): hey jugglin jesus freak
JJFSamuel (4:28:29 PM): hello
JJFSamuel (4:28:39 PM): and might I ask who I have the honor of addressing?
princess24chic (4:29:01 PM): Shana Rene Thomas
JJFSamuel (4:29:32 PM): ah..that clears it all up!
JJFSamuel (4:29:35 PM): umm....sorta
princess24chic (4:29:49 PM): who might u be??????
JJFSamuel (4:30:17 PM): *grins* I was wondering a little bit along the lines of what is your relationship to me (stranger, friend, enemy, long lost sister, ect)
princess24chic (4:30:33 PM): i be stranger
princess24chic (4:30:36 PM): lol
JJFSamuel (4:31:26 PM): and I would happen to be the one and only me
princess24chic (4:31:46 PM): obviously lol
JJFSamuel (4:32:21 PM): I like to state the obvious, it gives up something to agree on and so we are less likely to become mortal enemies
JJFSamuel (4:32:31 PM): us, not up, I mean
princess24chic (4:32:40 PM): oh okay
princess24chic (4:32:44 PM): thats great
JJFSamuel (4:33:50 PM): but I am also very flexible.....if you wish to become mortel enemies, then we could take our relationship in that direction
princess24chic (4:34:04 PM): no thanx
princess24chic (4:34:08 PM): jus friends
JJFSamuel (4:34:50 PM): well, if you wish, we could take the "long lost sister" road mentioned before...perhaps Bin Ladin is our father and your leading a rebellion against him?
princess24chic (4:35:04 PM): huh i doubt that
princess24chic (4:35:08 PM): i g2g
Posted by Samuel at 4:57 PM 0 comments
Goodness, I haven't been very good at blogging lately. I'll try to do better.
Today was pretty fun. We spent most of the morning doing pretty much nothing. Mom, BonnieJean, Anna and I spent alot of time just talking, which was lots of fun. I love my family! Last night BonnieJean and I did some juggling: mostly stealing. Of course BonnieJean can't do much, but we had a blast anyway: we got to laughing so hard we could barely juggle. Then we got out the swords (ok, sticks) and worked out a little bit of a routine, which was also a blast. Except for the time I got hit in the wrist that is.
Tonight Anna and I are going to a party at church that the young adult class is throwing for the youth. BonnieJean is going to be helping too. The whole thing is a big mystery and so BonnieJean has been hiding off in closets on the phone finding out what she's doing! LOL!
We went to church Wen. night to a good bye fellowship for some people leaving church. That was fun.
I can't wait until Ep. 2 comes out! I've been downloading and saving the TV things from the sites....the clone trooper trailer is really cool!
Posted by Samuel at 4:34 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
BONNIEJEAN IS HOME!!!!
That's right! We left Tulsa yesterday at about 12:30 and got to OKC at about 2:45. We went to the Murril (sp?) building site (were they had the OKC bombing in '95) and then had supper at the training center. Afterwards I helped some in the dish pit. I did tri-sinks. What it is with me and tri-sinks? I mean, that's almost all I did at both Indy and Flint and now I"m doing it here...I did it at north woods...man, I just need to do tri-sinks in Dallas and Big Sandy and at headquarters and I will have covered them all! I left the pit at 7:10, ran upstairs and got ready for my performance. BonnieJean talked a bit, they gave her a gift and then I juggled. It went really well: one of my best performances probably.
We spent the night there and then left at about 10:30 this morning. We got home at 1:10. Of course, I'm leaving lots of stuff out, 'cause Mom want's me to get off now. God bless!
Posted by Samuel at 5:01 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
WE'RE GOING TO GET BONNIEJEAN TODAY!!!!!!!
Well, I think I should be able to actually write something this time. I had a show on Sunday morning, which went really well. I added a few differant things to some of my routines, but I won't bore you with that. I will be doing a show at the training center either tonight or tomorrow morning, which I am really looking forward to. I'm going to be trying to do a routine on the life and ministry of Jesus, which I am somewhat nervous about because it's got a couple tricks that I don't really have down very well.
Sunday we had our annual "spring sing", which was a potluck (yum!) and then a time of singing and music. It was a blast! The food was great and the church was totally PACKED when they did the sing, lot's of people had to stand outside the door!
I've got only got a limited amount of computer time today, so I'm going to close this and do some other stuff. God bless!
Posted by Samuel at 8:35 AM 0 comments
Monday, April 29, 2002
IT'S ONLY ONE DAY UNTIL WE GO GET BONNIEJEAN!!!!!
Man...I can't seem to think of anything to write here...I couldn't think what to write this morning either...or yesterday....this is bad...I'll try again latter.
Posted by Samuel at 4:07 PM 0 comments