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| Wow. Shockingly enough I chose NOT to read Dracula. Again. I've tried probably 5 times, and haven't succeeded yet. Instead I read The Scarlet Pimpernel for the second time. It took ... 4 1/2 hours. That's more time than it took to read it the first time. No wonder I couldn't remember it!
I started a NEW family tree...a Royal family tree. I know there's always been a lot of intermarriage in the European royal houses, so I'm working on entering them all into the computer to see exactly how everyone is related. Unfortunatly our family tree making software doesn't give much of a place to talk about the politics of the marriages or the various alliances that they promoted....I'll have to write it all down someplace else. Maybe after I finish my other rather ambitious history project...my timeline that is now taking up one whole wall of our basement, covering the whole world all through history. 
We actually started putting up Christmas decorations today. I got to do all the (fake) garlands on the stairs, and my mothers and brothers but out her snowman collection and a bunch of candles.
I'm playing the piano for our SS Christmas program (SS meaning Sunday School, not Secret Service, or anything intersting....) It's just hymns and Christmas carols....nothing too complicated, but I'll have everyone singing along, which makes it intimidating, at least for me. I'm not used to accompanying people...I play for my own amusement. I'll survive, I imagine.... Somehow I doubt anyone has ever died because they played the piano with *GASP* other people listening!
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| At the urgings of a few, pitiful people (who will remain nameless untill I choose to reveal that they are Bean and Drew) I am actually going to blog! So blame them.
I need to be careful, since right now I'm talking to Rachael and scaaaaaaaaaary things tend to happen when I do that.... Like going on midnight library raids in Matrix costumes. And no, I haven't had sugar since this morning. I've been thinking about it though.....*hyper laughter*
I'm being sucked into the world of SW fanatics and geeks.... and it's all Rachael's fault (or is it Nick's....I can't remember anymore!!!!!) I just got finished putting aaaaaaaaall the X-Wing books on hold at the library. Well, almost all of them. Someone at the library either thinks one of the books is greek lit., or they just don't have it.
I had an organ lesson this morning...a partial one, anyway. I was 10 minutes late because of traffic, and then we had to quit early cause one of the seminarians needed Kantor Hildebrand's help with some chanting. In the time we did I have I managed to learn how to relax my fingers. I don't know how long I'll remember how, but as of right now, my hands are completely calm.  After organ there was chapel, but we *GASP* skipped it and went to breakfast. I had crepes with cottage cheese and peaches....good, but a little too sweet for me (well, too sweet for me to eat that early in the morning....I could eat them now!)
I'm being told to get off, so I won't get to finish....alas. That may be a good thing.....If I remember, I may blog again sometime this month,
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| I this dream last night that I got my SAT scores back, and they were dismal...like, 300 on math and 400 on verbal. I got my *real* test scores this afternoon.... Much better.  Now that I'm sure I won't have to take the SAT again (since apparently, the chances of my score going up are veeery slim) I can stop thinking about math. *huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge sigh of relief*
Patrick and I watched Van Helsing yesterday, and again tonight with my mom, who had been told by some of her friends that she HAD to see it.
My mom and Patrick and I had to make a trip to Val-mart today to get the final pieces of our Halloween costumes..... I got a length of really cool gold fabric for my oh-so-stylish (in an early 19th century way) turban, and some gold cording to sew onto my dress.... so cool... | | |
| <croaks> I can't believe how long it's been since I've blogged! I knew it had been a while but.....goodness.
We've been busy. Imagine that! Lemme see...since I last blogged I took my blasted SAT, went to Seattle, got addicted to caffiene, came home from Seattle (of course), applied for a job at Starbucks and got an interview scheduled, and countless other things I can't even begin to think of right now.
I'm excited about getting to vote, but I am sooooo ready for this election to be over. Unless Kerry wins, in which case I would wish the election had never taken place.
I had a babysitting job this afternoon that was only supposed to be 3 hours long, and it ended up being over 5 hours long. Of course, I couldn't be stuck 2 extra hours with children I actually like. I *had* to be the devil-monkey brats. After I had been there about 2 hours, I got whacked in the head and almost blacked out...not what you want to have happen when you're watching a 1 1/2 and a 4 year old. When their mother *finally* got home, she paid me almost twice my usual rate, so, apart from the brain damage and everything, it was almost worth it.
Organ lessons are going well. I could use some more practice time, though. So far I've only been able to manage getting over to Redeemer once a week to play. I feel *painfully* self-concious when I practice. It's not like practicing with the piano, where I can play quietly if I like. The organ is loud no matter what, and it seems even louder in an empty sanctuary. | | |
| I have no idea what I'm writing, so be prepared for anything.
I'm in love with a house.  It's over in one of the gorgeous old neighborhoods near our church and it's wonderful. The house was built in 1930 (if I remember correctly) and it has *so* much character... arched doorways, really great woodwork, amazing hardwood floors, a nice finished walk-up attic....I'm going all dreamy-eyed just thinking about it. It's even better than the house I saw last winter (the one we actually almost bought.)
This Sunday, my grandparents are throwing a "last hurrah" party... meaning, the last party at their current house, the house they've lived in as long as they've been married. That whole side of the family will be there and we're all having our pictures taken outside in THE tree. THE tree being the one every grandchild has taken it upon themselves to climb at some point. Everyone's in mourning because Grandma and Grandpa are moving away from the tree. *sniffle*
The SAT is coming up soon...I'm taking it on Oct. 9. From what I can tell, the english portion should be a piece of cake...the math, however....Seeing as math freezes my brain even in a no-pressure situation, I'm rather worried about what it will do to me in test form.  (That's me, looking at a page of math problems...Really, it does bear a striking resembalence...)
My mom and I are going to Seattle Oct. 12. I'm sure that sounds rather odd... going to Seattle twice in a few months, but my mom was going for business and I thought, hey, I liked it a lot before and would love to go back, why don't I just fly out with her? It can be a business trip for me too (me? on business? Unlikely, but true) and the tickets were cheap. PLUS, it's gotten me out of several obnoxious babysitting jobs already.
Patrick and I like to coordinate our Halloween costumes, and since this is probably the last year I'll go out trick-or-treating with him we decided our costumes have to be super cool. I think we've decided on Martin and Katie Luther....Ambitious, yes...I'm not exactly sure how my mother and I will manage the dress, but I'm sure we'll pull it off. We had considered going as, like, James Bond and a Bond girl, but I'd much rather parade around the neighborhood in too much fabric than too little.  I think I'd be cold, anyway.
THIS is a fascinating book. I stole it from Patrick (shhhhhhh!) The first essay talks about the Assyrians attacking Jerusalem and, unfortunatly, the author chose to take a VERY critical veiw of the biblical account (basically, contradicting everything it says, other than the fact that the Assyrians lost.) He talks about how the account is sooooooo shaded by the "fanatical" religious ideas prevailing in Jerusalem. He goes on and on about how *sensible* it was of all the other cultures to encourage multiple deities, and how unreasonable it was to think that the was one all-powerful God. But then, I didn't read the essay for the author's veiws on religion, and apart from that it was interesting. The next essay is on what would have happened had Xerxes and the Persians won against the Greeks. I tried reading it tonight, but I was entirely too tired.
I woke up at 7:00 this morning (after getting to sleep at 1:00) and went over to church to squeeze in some organ practice before my lesson. The lesson was at 9:15 up at the Sem. and afterwards we went to chapel. After chapel the boys had choir, so my mom and Patrick and I just hung out. It was rather cold and windy...Arwen, Aragorn, and Legolas were up near the chapel () and I kept getting the urge to burst though the chapel doors and stand out on the ledge, letting the wind whip my hair around.....*giggle* Luckily Dr. Just was standing out there for a while, and then there was another anonymous seminarian out there preventing me. | | |
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