Tequila rocks. (The song. Not the drink.)

Just got home from the PI vs. Caribou girls' varsity basketball game....

Needless to say, PI won. (No offense to you Caribouians out there.)

Ha. I just made up a new word.

I am so tired right now. And I really was glad to get these new contacts out of my eyes... They're these new "PureVision Toric" ones...I guess they have more silicone in them for some reason...and they let your eye breathe more. But they stung every now and then, and the new prescription made driving interesting...

Okay, time for a decongestant and my pillow.

Too bad I'll be sleeping with one less blanket thanks to the fact that my cat puked on it...

POTW

"The Rockstar"

music to your ears

A couple of fairly new bands...
I'm pretty sure I like their sound...
I'm especially fond of Monday Morning's "Next Year" and StorySideB's "Everything And More".

Check 'em out:

StorySideB
http://storysideb.com

Monday Morning
http://www.mondaymorningmusic.com

White Ninja is a godfather

I feel like such a good big sister

This evening I helped my 14 year old brother set up an email account and do his profile and fix stuff on his new MSN space.

He was very excited.

And then, to make me feel all the more heroic, one of his best friends that moved away a couple of months ago signed-in to MSN and they got to talk for about an hour. :)

I was so happy for him.

Why does everyone end up moving towards the Portland area...?

*coughdaniellecough*

I mean, what?

I, I, I, I'm Staying Alive, Staying Alive...

The 70s:

Arguably the most ridiculous time in dance & clothing history.

I LOVE this song...

And I also love the fact that I won front-row tickets to the Chris Tomlin concert back in October.

The Way I Was Made - Chris Tomlin
Caught in the half-light, I'm caught alone
Waking up to the sunrise and the radio
Feels like I'm tied up, what's holding me?
Just praying today will be the day I go free

I want to live like there's no tomorrow
I want to dance like no one's around
I want to sing like nobody's listening
Before I lay my body down
I want to give like I have plenty
I want to love like I'm not afraid
I want to be the man I was meant to be
I want to be the way I was made

Made in Your likeness, made with Your hands
Made to discover who You are and who I am
All I've forgotten help me to find
All that You've promised let it be in my life

I want to live like there's no tomorrow
I want to dance like no one's around
I want to sing like nobody's listening
Before I lay my body down
I want to give like I have plenty
I want to love like I'm not afraid
I want to be the man I was meant to be
I want to be the way I was made

the sun is shining...icicles are melting...

What a beautiful day it is outside…
After a couple of dark & slightly stormy days, it’s nice to see the sun. I guess it’s supposed to be 34 on Saturday! Too bad the only thing I’ll be doing on Saturday is going to Fort Fairfield for piano lessons at 2… I’m really wondering whether or not I should continue to take piano lessons.
Because, honestly, I don’t know if I really need them anymore.It’s not like it would save mom and dad any money, because they’d still end up paying 20 bucks a week (10 bucks per kid for 30 minutes.) because my two youngest siblings are taking lessons. That Ethan, my word, he is a natural. He’ll soon be more advanced than Nicole (my sister)…
I wish I could be going to church on Saturday night… but… I would have no place to stay afterwards, because Nicole (my friend) will be down at her mom’s place. So. I’ll just sit at home and be a hermit for the weekend. But, honestly, that sounds pretty good. As much as I would love going to church, I’m looking forward to just relaxing and enjoying a weekend with my family. That doesn’t happen that often.

This is a pretty uneventful post...but...feel free to comment if you so desire.

sbemail 51....

A website even the most devoted homestar runner fans might not know about...

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sadjournal/

Breathing, You and Me, Everything, Blind...

I just have to say that I love Lifehouse.

I could listen to them all day.
Well...almost all day.

Do we have any other Lifehouse fans out there?

photo of the week

It's a little late , I know. This is our family photo for this year. Actually...it's our first official family photo ever. The reason behind our taking this is the world-renown Turner family reunion that takes place once every 4 or 5 years. So, out of 12 different shots, this is what we ended up with.

(My cat's eyes look much freakier in the original colored photo, so I changed it to black and white so you all won't have nightmares...)

attention please

who likes my new template?

it's definitely not done yet.

and i don't know if i'll keep it.

i'm trying to figure out how to make the header and the space above my profile info not be so huge, and i want my sidebar to be wider...

but right now it's time for me to go make biscuits to go with our chicken stew.

yes. that's right. i cook.

As I am finishing cleaning-up my room, I realize something...

The majority of my shirts are either black or red.

Hopefully this doesn't mean anything...

I want to be a mythbuster

I just got done watching an amazing hour of Mythbusters. In this episode they tested the old proverb of "A rolling stone gathers no moss" (Confirmed); a myth that an unsuspecting scuba diver could be sucked up into one of those water carriers and then dumped on a forest fire (Busted); whether or not a vacuum cleaner could be turned into a jet engine (Busted); and, my personal favorite, whether a wine glass could be broken by the human voice (Confirmed).

It was absolutely hillarious seeing Jamie and Adam try to break the wine glass. Adam actually managed to do it with the help of an amp, but Jamie's voice was an octave too low. Then they brought in the ex-rocker Jaime Vendera. And he, after a few tries, was able to break it with simply his voice. No amplification whatsoever.

As the Mythbusters all cheered, I did as well. Actually, I started laughing and cheering.
It was awesome.


Last night my mom was put on-call so we called up my dad and asked him to bring home a couple of movies. So when he got home around 6:00 he had rented The Pacifier and The War of the Worlds. The Pacifier was hillarious, and I was totally not expecting it to be so. It was meant for "the kids" (my siblings), but my whole family ended up watching it. It was great seeing Vin Diesel in a role like that.

War of the Worlds was amazing. I was expecting it to be really lame and boring, but it surpassed all of my expectations. I'm not an especially huge fan of Tom Cruise, but he did a great job. And man! that Dakota Fanning is one great little actress! I would love to tell you my favorite part, but just incase you haven't seen the movie, I will refrain.


Well, today consists of some much needed organization in my room, watching the extras on War of the Worlds, and most likely church. Praise God that the weather is okay today....I was really getting tired of not being able to attend church functions because of stupid weather.

a word of advice

When one drinks a cup of green tea, one should not leave the tea bag in the mug for a week.

"Hey, nice van."

Well, as I was driving my* sweet van yesterday, it hit 88,000 miles.

That is insane. But when I think of when we took it to Ohio and back, and then up & downstate so many times in 2004 it really makes sense.

Poor van. Maybe I'll take it to the carwash as a special gift.

Thank you, beautiful Oldsmobile** Silhouette for providing us with movie-watching, cd/cassette listening, power-door opening, and the oh-so-perfect for winters in Maine: heated seats.

You are my friend, even though you freaked out that one time on the Centerline road and fishtailed and spun around and then put me in the ditch. I have forgiven you, and all is well. And, uh, I'm sorry about almost snapping part of your belly off when I went over that really weird driveway on Dudley Street.

And who could forget the crazy bicyclist at the Niagra Falls parking lot? We were going about 5mph, and then *WHIZZZZ* *CRASH* *people in van gasp*. The bicyclist was literally going 20mph, and then wanted to blame us and say that we weren't watching where we were going. Hogwash. We knew better. I hope you have recovered from the shock of that experience.

You have served us well, and we love you for it.


*- not really "my van"...more like "my parents' van".
**-my heart breaks when I think of how Oldsmobile is no longer....

Earlier this week it was Skillet and Michael Buble (weird combination, I know) but over the past few days I've been giving the latter half of my David Crowder cd a listen to. It always seems that I get to the 5th song and then either I have to go do something, or when it gets to the 5th song I have just arrived at my destination in Presque Isle. But I started on track 5 today and let it play for a good long while as I read stuff for school. How can you NOT just worship listening to this cd?!!
There's one song in particular that has really been touching my heart yesterday and today: Oh God Where Are You Now. Although I'm not, (that I'm aware of), in a particularly hard place in my life right now.. And I know where God is...haha. But just the humbleness and sincereness in this song astounds me.


O God, hold me now
O Lord, hold me now
There’s no other man who could raise..the..dead
So do what You can to anoint..my..head

O..God, where are you now?
O..Lord, say somehow

Da da da, da da da...
Da da da, da da da...
Da da da, da da da...da...da...

O..God, hold me now
O..God, touch me now
There’s no other man who could save..the..day
There’s no other god who could raise..the..dead

Da da da, da da da...
Da da da, da da da...
Da da da, da da da...da..da..

...no two people are not on fire.

I actually managed to wake up on time today. It's surprising seeing as how I was up until around 11:30 last night... Do you ever start reading a book and you can't put it down, but then all of a sudden you wake up, look at the clock, and you've been out for at least a good 15-20 minutes? Well. That was me. I'm trying to read 5 books at the moment. 2 of which are re-reads, but I love them just the same.

Here'sa da books:
1. The Hadassah Covenant - Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen
2. Emma - Jane Austen
3. Boy Meets Girl - Joshua Harris
4. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

It doesn't really make sense that I'm trying to read them all at one time, but hey, I can do it.

Though...I have been working on the last two for about 3 months now...

Happy 300th Birthday wishes go out to, MY man, Benjamin Franklin.

I love this woman for writing this...

One of the things that I am most adamant about in life is the usage of correct grammar. It bugs the CRAP out of me when people use it's as a possessive form of it. Or using they're when they really should be using their.
But, anyway, this is a funny article, and you should read it. It's worth your 3 minutes.

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/columns/?article=embarrassinggrammar&GT1=7538

ramblings...

Can I just say that I'm slightly perturbed that all of my friends have today off from school and I do not? Can I just say that? I guess I just did.

Right now I'm realizing that my desk needs a very thorough cleaning-out. Or rather..."cleaning-off". My desk does not have drawers.

My idiotic computer has been having problems recognizing my IP address...so I have to do this little trick with the internet that my dad has taught me, but it's still annoying.

I'm wondering if my obsession with the Dilbert comic strip has gone too far. Is it a bad sign when you have Dilbert all over the front of your door AND! have more comic strips on your bulletin board?

I'm also trying to find the fastest way to do my hair. Ever since I got it cut last Thursday it's been taking me 30 minutes to do my hair. But then....perhaps it's because I'm actually doing my hair. Before, I simply blow-dried it and left it the way it was. But now, if I do that, it looks like I have a dog sitting on top of my head. Thank you my naturally-wavy hair. Now I actually have to style it. What the crap? Who does that? Ah well, it looks good (or at least I think so), so I'll have to manage.

I played Balderdash with my whole family last night. Now...if you have ever played this game in your life, you know that it's best if the players are all around the same age. But in this game we had a couple of 40somethings, a 14 year old, an 11 year old, a 9 year old, and myself. I could not BELIEVE how well my two youngest siblings played! They used words that someone my DAD'S age would use. It was crazy. And, yeah, Daniel (the 14 year old) is a crazy-smart kid anyway, so he always fools me, but Nicole and Ethan... My word. Go them.

Well...I suppose I should stop writing now...this is a huge post.

Happy Trogday, Everyone.

Photo of the week

This picture pretty much sums up my first experience on skis...

I have no problems whatsoever with this result

You Should Drive a Jaguar XK 4.2

You don't care how you get there as long as you get there with class. And having a little power doesn't hurt either!

What 2007 Car Should You Drive?

Yesterday was great.
I went skiing for the first time ever. I fell over SEVEN times. Yeah, be quiet and stop laughing.
Then when I was done skiing my mom wanted me to snowshoe with her, so I was like "*sigh* okay." But we ended up having a great time. I love my mom.
Then on the way back through PI we picked up my glasses. I'm getting a whole new frame and pair of lenses free because some idiots at the lab bent my glasses completely out of shape. The eye doctor's secretary, Sue, was so mad. She was like "I am so sorry. I didn't get a chance to look at them when they first came in. And I'm making them give you a whole new pair."
So I was happy.
And at this point it was 4:45pm and mom had to rush home and get ready to leave for work at 6. So I cooked a couple of pizzas and sat down and pretty much just watched tv all night. I watched Everybody Loves Raymond from 7-8 and then I switched between the WB and What Not To Wear from 8-9. Then as I drank some nice hot cocoa, I watched The Wedding Planner while I taped NUMB3RS on the tv upstairs.
It was a really productive night. Haha.

In other news, I am in love with Matthew McConaughey.
It's sudden, I know, but I think this relationship is going to be the one.

HA! I'm kidding.
But seriously. He is awesome. As an actor at least. I don't know how he is when he's out of character. I would hope he's just as lovely.

Hahaha...

Skiing and Snowshoeing Extravaganza

My two brothers are the tiny dots far ahead of the rest of us.

Ethan, Nicole, Daniel, Gram (I really like the color of Nicole's jacket against the blue sky.)

Nicole Ethan and Gram

lil brudders (Daniel needs to stop getting tall. He'll soon be taller than I am.)

Daniel pretending to be skiing perfectly down the hill, when infact, he is standing in one place.

Ethan, the ham of the family.

Hahahahahaha.........That would be Ethan...and his first try on skis...

My mom and me :)

A beautiful sunset

Yeah, I am safe to come near now...

A list for your viewing pleasure:

1. Talked things over with God about the topic of my last post. Things are better.

2. It is incredibly warm right now. It's supposed to reach a high of 44° F today.

3. Going snowshoeing/cross-country skiing today in Easton. It should be fun.

4. Man...am I looking forward to a Friday night without anything to do but a cup of green tea, and my favorite show: NUMB3RS. Yes, I did actually type it that way. Shut up.

5. No piano lessons this weekend. It's a nice break. After 11 years of playing every single weekend (except during the summer) it's nice to give the poor old fingers a rest.

6. Church Saturday night. Should be awesome like always.

Okay, now it's off to Easton. Have a great day!

golly, gee-willakers

I find that I am very prone to getting defensive and angry.

And right now, I'm trying very hard not to be that way.

I wish I could say what this is all about, but I'm sure that if I posted it on here that there would be an uproar and more anger would ensue.

Thankfully I have a God who hears me out about anything and calms me down so I don't do anything rash and idiotic.

He's helped me a lot with that over the past 2 months.

I should probably go read my Bible for a little bit now.

Sorry that this is so vague, but it really has to remain that way.

Euuugh.

I seem to have had an allergic reaction to something in the new ring that I bought. But it makes no sense because it's sterling silver, and my other ring is sterling silver and I wear it 24/7 and that finger has been fine for 3 years.

My mom thinks that I may have gotten something underneath it and it irritated my skin.

All I know, is that I cannot look at my right ring-finger without having my stomach churn. (There are little bumps where the ring was.)

Euuuugh.

I am such a sissy.

"And when we weren't debating the existence of mysterious..."

It's a miracle!
Homestar Runner has finally been updated!
It's just a sbemail, but, it is so much better than nothing.

Check it out.
No, seriously, check it out.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail140.html

This is a venting post.

Homestar Runner has not been updated since the 5th of December.

I went there today, and as it was loading, the title of the page was "20X6!!!" and, for some strange reason, I took that to mean "2006!!!" and I got all excited.

Well...when the page completely loaded (0.5 seconds later) I saw that it still had not been updated, and the "20X6!!!" referred to the blobbish, huge-mouthed Homestar....

So...needless to say I felt like a dim-wit.

Some of you may argue that I actually am a dim-wit, but that's your prerogative.

"snow blossoms" on a tree

A Collision (or 3+4=7)

Okay, when I get a new cd, it takes me a few good, uninterrupted, listenings to decide what I think of it. And I have finally been able to listen to David Crowder's A Collision a few times, and I have to say, it is amazing...

My favorite tracks on this album have to be "Come and Listen", "Wholly Yours", "Foreverandever Etc...", and "The Lark Ascending Or (Perhaps More Accurately, I'm Trying To Make You Sing)"

It's an amazing praise & worship album, and I really want to get the sheet music to these songs.
This is a really crappy album review, but, if you value my opinion, go buy this cd.
You won't be disappointed.

This is pretty cool...

As I was closing the door after my parents left this morning, I noticed a frost-covered spiderweb. And I took a picture of it.

good news

I managed to sleep through the night.

No dreams of friendships falling apart.
No dreams of me being lost.
No creepily huge mansions that have secret doors. (creepily...ha.)

I woke up refreshed and ready to start the day.
Thank you, God.

Goodbye 2005...Hello 2006

Happy New Year, Everyone!