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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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.

IT'S ONLY THREE DAYS UNTIL BONNIEJEAN GETS BACK!!!!!!

Mom and Dad went to see Lord of the Rings last night: it started at 9:45! I can't beleive that Dad actually wanted to stay up that late! He didn't really like it that much: he said the evil was just SOO evil and the good seemed kinda weak. I can see what he means: in FOTR you don't see the might of Gondor or Rohan and in the movie they cut out the fact that both Rivendell and Lorien were really strong. Oh well.

BonnieJean called last night and I got to talk to her some. She said my request to perform at the trainng center there is being considered in Mongolia! It seems the director of the training center is there right now! LOL!

Man...it seems like forever since I've posted here! Could it really be just a day? You know, the more I think about it, the more certain I become that somebody is messing with a time warp machine somewhere.

I mowed once again today. It was pretty cool, so I enjoyed it. Isaac spent most of the time sitting on my lap and had a blast! I got kinda silly, yelling at the top of my lungs about what we where doing. "And a sharp turn to the left! Wow, but here comes the wall! Quick, left turn! Now strait, and then a 180 and we're goin' the other way! Between the hedge and the bricks! And another turn to the left! Now STOP! And back up! Yes, get those wheels strait, now forward!" All yelled, most of the time we mowed. It was fun! Then after I had finished I gave some of the kids rides. Naomi and Joshua both got to steer, but I kept my foot on the brake and controled the speed as well. Joshua was so excited when he got off he could hardly hold still!

IT'S ONLY FIVE DAYS 'TIL BONNIEJEAN IS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spent most of this morning working in the yard. I moved some dirt, tore down some stuff Mom wanted out of the way and got things ready for the compost this summer. Then I came in and did math while watching Caleb and Star Wars Ep. 1. Think it's impossible? Ha, I got a 98! I went ahead and did two lessons today (practice set, practice set, problem set) 'cause the first lesson was actually just review of some stuff I'd learned last year. Actually both lessons were pretty easy.

Ethan posed an interesting question today: when Fatty saw the gate open at Crickhollow, and yet didn't see anybody opening it, was it just too dark to see the Nazgul in his black cloak, or had he left his body behind somewhere? I would say the first is the most likely. For one thing, he had no real reason to take off his body. And secondly, if I remember correctly, they beat the door down and searched the house, so I kinda think they would need their bodies for that. I heard another interesting one today: could the "new" trolls (I can't remember what their called, but their the ones who could withstand sunlight) actually be corrupted Entwives? Obviously there is no final answer to this, and I'm not really sure which one I think is correct, but it is completely possible that it could have happened. Morgoth did it with the elves and made the orcs.

Dad has started talking about driving to Knoxville with BonnieJean, Anna, Ethan and I this year. I'm really hoping he decides to, 'cause I've never had a chance to go and also Brian is only about 45 minutes from Knoxville! Yea! So I would get to go to the conferance (which I've wanted to do for a long time) and get to meet Brian at the same time! (For those of you who don't know what I'm talking, ATI has an annual home school conferance in Knoxville. Brian is a friend of mine from The RI. He's the creator of the RI actually.)

I've got to go now. God bless y'all!

Ok, maybe now I can think of some stuff to write for my blogger. Mom is no longer talking behind my, so I should be able to actually pay attention to what I'm doing!

Some friends of mine are going to be performing at the Tulsa Zoo on Friday evening and I was hoping that Ethan and Mom and I could go watch them, but I just called the zoo today and found out it would cost 60 BUCKS for all three to go! Can you believe that? So, as you probably guessed, we will NOT be going to see them! Oh well, we'll probably meet up with them again sometime: their live only about 45 miles away.

Ethan and I have been working alot on our choreographed fencing routines lately. I'm having a blast with it! We've been working on a routine where I've got large staff (like Darth Maul) mostly. I like that sword alot, 'cause I've got twice the options for both defense and offense. I also worked some with Anna this morning, using the same weapons, but a differant routine. Anna is really good at making a right hack and then a left hack really quick! Am I boring you?

I just finished reading the Silmarillion again. One thing that really stood out to me was the voyage of Earendil. Just think about this: he is the morning star: Christ is the morning star. Is bore the cause of the problems in of Men and Elves (the Simril): Christ bore our sin. He was the intercesor for Men and Elves before the Gods: Christ is the intercesor for us before God. Cool, huh? I got to thinking too: wouldn't it have been weird to have been Elrond and look up in th sky, and see the morning star and think, man, that's my Dad! :) I also noticed that Elrond and his wife are actually some sort of cousins, a million times removed. Just thought that was interesting. Also, Feanor was Gil-Galads great uncle.

I got a math lesson done today! Or, part of one at least. I've still got one problem to do, but I have to wait until Dad is home to help me with it. After I finish this book I'm on now we're going to starting to do something other than Saxon, 'cause it's not really working for me.

I've got a show on Sunday for Ethan's Sunday school class. Then I might possibly do a show at the OKC training center when we go to pick BonnieJean up...that would be fun! Anyway, got to go now...God bless!

It's Wednesday. No, it's not Wednesday. It can't be Wednesday! I mean, this is crazy! Somebody has gotten ahold of a time warp machine and is messing up my week! AHHH!!!

Oh well....I guess I'll live.. and if not, who cares?

Let's see...I've got writters block....surely I have SOMETHING to write here....OH! IT'S ONLY 6 DAYS UNTIL I GET MY SISTER BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES, YES, YES!!!! It seems she's been gone FOREVER.

man...I honestly can think of anything to write....probably 'cause Mom is talking behind me and I'm half listening to her....maybe I'll blog more latter.

I think I'm going to scream! I just typed in this nice, long ramble and pushed the "post" button and it had an error and got rid of everything! So, I'll just post a shortened version here: Thunder (rambling about), math (update on) jack and stand (trading of), Beren and Luthilien (story: quality of). Hmm...ok, maybe that wasn't good enough! Let's try this:

We had a GREAT thunderstorm. It started about 3:30 with a CRR-ACK!! that sounded like it was right outside my window! It was soo cool! I love thunderstorm: I know some people think their scary but I say their one of the coolest things God made!

Well, I got almost nothing done yesterday. Ok, so I got nothing done at all yesterday! Since Mom had the car for the first time in a long time she spent most of the day running around town doing stuff, so I watched kids. Not that it was hard, it just took up most of my time!

Last night Dad and I took apart and put into his car the engine jack and stand that we bought for when we took the engine out of the van. He's going to be trading it in for some sort of "fuel injection" thing, which he is pretty excited about. I'm not excited about it, 'cause I don't want to have to work on the car! I hate working on cars!

I just finished re-reading the story of Beren and Luthilein (sp?) yesterday. Man, I love that story! I am not a liker of romance stories. In fact, I am a hater of romance stories! But something about this one is just....I don't know, so cool! I love the part where Beren says to Thingol (sp?) "Even now it is in my hand" and holds up his arm without the hand (yes, sounds gross, but if you know what was going on you'd think it cool too!) and I just LOVE Haun. And when Luthilien escapes from that tree house: THAT is the REAL story about the maiden who let her hair down! Anyway, your homework for this week: read the story of Beren and Luthilien!

And here I am. It's Monday morning and I'm sitting here on the computer, thinking about all the millions of things I have to do. First on my list is math. I have to get a math lesson today....I don't want to take a math lesson! I hate math! Another thing on my list is calling my friend David, 'cause I just learned yesterday from another friend that his wife finally had their baby! I'm SOO excited! And I'm mad at David too because he didn't tell me right away (I mean, I'm the center point in his life, right?).

We had company yesterday. They had four young boys who liked my juggling alot and I had a fun time talking to their parents. Then after they left everybody but Ethan and Caleb and I went to go see some friends from Washington and visited with them for three hours. I would like to have gone, but Caleb was napping and we didn't want to wake him. Oh well.

Our van is still giving us troulbe. Mom is driving Dad into work right now so we can have the car today. I hope they can get if fixed soon!

And that is pretty much all the news from the random ramble...bye, and God bless!

Isiaih 42:

5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles;

7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

8 I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I knot give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let the wilderness and that cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12 Let the give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.

I was just reading that and it just jumped off the page at me. Esp. verse 9: "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare..." Oh God, that is what I need so much. I have been lukewarm for so long, I long to burn, to yearn for you. Give me the grace to do these new things which you declare. Give me strength and endurance. Help me face every tomorrow, give me strength to bear the load, give me signs that I can follow, set my feet upon the road. And me he who walked on water, give me courage where I tread, and when I kneel down at his alter, may my hungry soul be fed!

Please pray for me guys. I have been lukewarm for...man...forever! The last time I was really on fire was almost nine months ago! Pray esp. that I would have the grace to battle the lusts of the flesh and that I would always turn to God for my strength and spiritual nurishment.

I wrote the above last night. I've been reading a lot in Is. since then: it's really coming alive!

Today was pretty busy. Ok, so today was VERY, EXTREMELY busy! It felt that way anyway! I spent most of the day working outside with Dad getting out yard swing into the ground. We had the worst time getting it level, but I think we managed it. After that we worked on just general clean up 'cause we've got a family from church coming over tomorrow.

*sniff* I miss my BonnieJean! She's in Oklahoma City this month and we're all really missing her!

I've got to get off now, Dad's calling for me. God bless!