It’s National Novel Writing Month! (Or NaNoWriMo) There are a couple of websites where you can attempt to write a novel in just 30 days… or, seeing that I’m so tardy in telling you about this, in 24 days. I’m going to http://ywp.nanowrimo.org to write my story & you can find my profile and some information on my book by looking up ramblinrose506 on that site. Please drop by if you care to and maybe even give it a go yourself! I have two buddies so far, and I’d love to have more!
Every Promise Monday, Nov 2 2009
Misc and My Life and Uncategorized 10:44 am
This is a song that I first heard at camp and I have been thinking about it a lot. It was written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. I don’t agree with their music standards, but many of their lyrics are powerful. Here is Every Promise (also known as From the Breaking of the Dawn):
From the breaking of the dawn
to the setting of the sun
I will stand on every promise of Your word
Words of power, strong to save,
that will never pass away;
I will stand of every promise of Your word
For Your covenant is sure
and on this I am secure
I can stand on every promise of Your word
When I stumble and I sin, condemnation pressing in,
I will stand on every promise of Your word
You are faithful to forgive,
that in freedom I might live
So I stand on every promise of Your word
Guilt to innocence restored;
You remember sins no more
So I’ll stand on every promise of Your word
When I’m faced with anguished choice,
I will listen for Your voice
and I’ll stand on every promise of Your Word
Through this dark and troubled land,
You will guide me with Your hand
as I stand on every promise of Your Word.
And You’ve promised to complete every work begun in me.
So I’ll stand on every promise of Your word
Hope that lifts me from despair; Love that casts out every fear
as I stand on every promise of Your word.
Not forsaken, not alone
for the Comforter has come;
And I stand on every promise of Your word.
Grace sufficient, grace for me;
Grace for all who will believe.
We will stand on every promise of Your word.
Fall Pics Thursday, Oct 29 2009
My Life 3:22 pm
Hey, ya’ll! I’m still blogging! Hurrah! =D We’ll see if I can keep up this good streak, huh? Thanks so much to those of you who have been leaving me comments. I appreciate it so much! I think that comments always make people happy. Here are a couple of questions for you to answer in the event that you don’t have a comment to leave after reading my post:
- What are your plans for this weekend, if any?
- What do you love about fall?
My answers to these questions are: For this weekend I’m hoping to be able to hang out with my good friend Erin. She lives about an hour away from me, but there’s a family who goes to our church that live out near her. So what I’m hoping will work out is this: There’s a youth activity tomorrow night and the M’s are planning on coming. So I’ll ride home with them, spend the weekend with Erin, then get a ride with the M’s back to church on Sunday morning. The only thing that might ruin my beautiful plan is the weather… We’ll see how it goes.
My favorite part of fall is pretty much everything, but especially the weather. And leaves crunching under my feet. I love the colors all around and the crisp air. I love drinking hot tea or apple cider on a fall morning. Fall is just my favorite season! I just now realized that I keep saying ‘fall’ in spite of the fact that I think the word autumn is much nicer… Anyhow, on Monday I posted and mentioned to ya’ll what a gorgeous autumn we’re having. I don’t recall whether or not I actually said this, but it was inspiring weather. The type that makes me want to go outside and write poems or stories. As I hadn’t taken any pictures yet, I determined that I would post later in the week with pictures of our lovely fall. Here is a sample of what procrastination does to such a post:
I had wanted to get some pictures of the trees and snowdrifts in our back yard, but our back door was frozen closed… so I went around to go through the gate, but this is what I saw:
The ice didn’t show up too well in the picture, but the gate is pretty stuck, too.
Not the most flattering picture I’ve taken of myself, but here is yours truly, blogger (on occasion lol) and photographer. =D
What’s still visible of our raspberry bushes. I guess we won’t have fresh raspberries ’til next summer. =(
The next part of my morning was to warm up -
So… Happy Fall, everyone! =D
My goals for this week: Monday, Oct 19 2009
My Life 7:42 am
Perhaps no one is really interested, but I thought I’d do a post on my goals for the week. On Saturday I’ll try to do a post on my success!
- Finish my first history book
- Memorize one chapter of 2 Timothy
- Clean my bedroom and bathroom
- Finish reading Hope Rising
It doesn’t look like much, does it? It might be harder than it looks, though.
Anyhow… I hope ya’ll have a great week! See you around!
Fourth of July Weekend – Friday Tuesday, Jul 14 2009
My Life 1:23 pm
Thursday night I fell asleep on a trundle bed at Mrs. Larson’s house, listening to Jim Brickman’s album Picture This, reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini (book review to come). I woke up in the morning with a pain in my cheek. May I just insert a little advice to ya’ll? I do not presently recommend going to sleep with thick hardcover books in your bed, for if you sleep soundly enough, the corner can stick in your cheek all night and leave a painful indention in the morning. For what it’s worth.
Anyhow…
On Friday morning we went to visit Miss Grace, a dear elderly lady whom we used to give rides to church. She’s in a nursing home now. She was one of the people who prayed very hard that Seth would be a boy. So we decided to get a picture of Grace and Seth together. Well, although some of the pictures that I have posted on here might lead you to believe otherwise, Seth generally does NOT like to have his picture taken. So in the end, Dad and Seth went out to the car, and I was left with only one picture… with Seth obviously not cooperating.
Yeah. Not very flattering.
After our visit, we went out to Johnny B. Good’s for lunch. I ordered the BLT and think I should’ve ordered the turkey sandwich instead. LOL I usually love BLTs, and I used to get one every time we went to JBG’s, but the bacon didn’t even really taste like bacon and was mostly fat… so it wasn’t the best I’d had there. Anyhow… After that we went to Fish Creek Falls.
This tree was taller than anything around it and was up kinda high… so I took a picture, but the picture doesn’t really do it justice at all.
Not the greatest pic… but I guess it’ll have to do.
We went back to Mrs. Larson’s house and helped get supper ready. The Sistos came over (Mrs. Larson is Mrs. Sisto’s mom) and we spent the evening together. It was lots of fun! We played (or started to play) Chinese Checkers, but then we got off on the topic of iPods and Narnia and youtube and converting videos and all that jazz. I’m always afraid that people will get mad if I’m always taking pictures, so I generally don’t even end up with a group picture. Which I always regret, but never fix. So I don’t have any pictures. =( Maybe another time.
Well, that’s all for now, folks!
Soli Deo Gloria!
P.S. If you want to sign a letter to Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, and Will Poulter… (Main cast of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)… go to http://www.narniaweb.com =D
Fourth of July Weekend – Thursday Monday, Jul 13 2009
My Life 4:01 pm
Hey, everybody! I love blogging so much… I really don’t know why I sometimes just let it go! But here I am to tell ya’ll’s about our trip to Steamboat Springs for the 4th.
We left Thursday morning and had a good trip. We made it into town in time to go to Music on the Green. The Meridian Quartet was playing some “humorous” classical pieces. We hadn’t had time to stop for lunch, and it was rather hot, so we didn’t stay for the whole thing.
We went to Qdoba for lunch – one of our favorite places to eat! Wanna know what was really cool about it, though? There was NO loud, obnoxious music. The service was great – friendly people. And… drumroll, please….
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Everyone spoke ENGLISH! I only had to give my order ONE time, and they got it! Woohoo! I was instantly ready to move back. hehe
After lunch we went to Mrs. Larson’s house and unloaded the van. Now for those of you who don’t know, our van has storage under the seats. I love it! The back (where Erin and Seth ride) was still a bit crowded, but it totally helped keep the front rows clear. Sweetness. Anyhow… where was I? … Oh, yeah… So after chatting for a bit with Mrs. Larson, we decided to head on out to our old house. It was kinda sad to see all of the new houses that have been built up. It kinda ruins the countrified air of living out in the country. We were getting pretty close to our old house when we saw a rattlesnake in the road. No big deal… we’ve seen dozens of them in the past. I mean, come on! We lived with them in our back yard! BUT I have a little brother who is a city brat. He’s scared of grasshoppers and has little to nothing of the country boy in him. So Dad pulled up near the ole rattler so Seth could have a look-see. Dad spun the wheels a little to try and get the snake to coil up and use the little music-maker on the end of his ugly skinny body.
Suddenly we realized that there was a car coming up behind us, so Dad had to get out of the road. It was some good friends from church that happened to be our closest neighbors. (They lived 1/2 a mile away from us… oh, to live out in the open spaces again!) Now here’s the part that we all laughed about later… They drove over the snake and killed it, thus preventing Seth from being able to hear it rattle. HAHAHA! The snake probably deserved it anyhow. =P
We continued on our way down the road and went around the old, familiar corner. As we came around, there were 4 or 5 gasps as we saw… a barn! And horses! Two things that we all would have liked to have had, but didn’t have the money for.
The yard had also changed somewhat – the willow tree was a lot bigger than it used to be! The driveway had also been changed and there was grass where we used to park.
Yup, folks! That’s where I growed up! Pretty little place, isn’t it? So beautiful and green!
Anyhow… we went and chatted with the Sistos some. (The neighbors who crushed Ole Mr. Znake) After that we went and had supper at Mrs. Larson’s and… went to bed? That doesn’t seem right, but I don’t recall doing anything else. So I’ll just say that we went to bed, and someone can come along and correct me if they wish.
And I think I’ll bring this to a close for now! It’s kinda short, but hopefully the pics will make up for it. More to come!
My beautiful sis taking pictures out near our old house
My wonderful parents at the Botanic Gardens (where Music on the Green is)
Seth ready to go get some lunch
Five years ago out in the country… Friday, Jul 10 2009
I was in my bed fast asleep, the windows open so that I could hear the sleepy tones of the crickets chirping. I suddenly found myself being pulled from my deep sleep into a semi-consciousness – and from semi-consciousness into a rather sleepy wakefulness. My dad was massaging the back of my neck. I looked at him in sleepy wonder, maybe a little irked that he had woken me. “I need your help,” he said softly, not wanting to wake my sisters. A thousand confused thoughts went through my brain, but I finally landed on the most logical – and the correct idea. Mom was going to have the baby! Now fully awake, I climbed down the ladder of the bunk bed and softly followed him into the living room. He handed me the phone and said, “The midwife is at another birth, so she’s not going to make it out here.” He handed me a business card. “This is her number. I may have you call her in case I need some directions…” I looked at him in surprise. So my DAD was going to play doctor and deliver the baby all by his lonesome? Realizing that he was still talking, I refocused. “… thought this might happen since the midwife is so far away anyhow, which is why we’ve been reading a lot about it. Do you know how to dial 9-1-1?” I bit back a sarcastic comment. “Sure, Dad! I’m 12 and I’ve only known that since I was like… 6. Besides that, if I didn’t already know, you would’ve just told me by asking the question!” Instead, I just nodded mutely. He asked me to put in some relaxing music, then said that I could just sit on the couch and be ready to do anything else he needed. I walked over to our CD selection and picked one of my favorites – Piano Cascades.
As I sat there on the couch, I studied the midwife’s number, running my fingers over the buttons in order to practice dialing as fast as I could. I didn’t even think about 9-1-1. I didn’t want to. I looked at the clock and wondered how long the process would take. I prayed for Mom. I prayed for Dad. I prayed for the baby. And prayed that it would be a boy. I wished that it was a more earthly hour so that I could call my good friend Erin and tell her what was going on. Then I realized that I couldn’t do that anyhow… Not if I was supposed to keep the phone line free. The clock struck 3. I was hearing a lot from Mom and Dad’s room, but I don’t remember all of it, but just as the clock quieted I hear a cry. And Dad’s very happy, “I think it’s a boy!” Dad called me in a moment later, and I stroked the top of the baby’s head, then ran to get my sisters. We all looked at our minutes-old brother, and fell completely in love. Or at least I did. Now I’m not sure that I should have prayed so hard for a boy. He’s quite a handful. I hardly remember what life was like without him.
My brother’s name is Matthew Seth – though everyone knows him as Seth. I believe that Matthew means “Gift of God” and Seth means “Appointed” but I may have got the meanings switched. As we celebrated his fifth birthday on Monday, I thought about just how much I love him – in spite of his numerous and often-displayed faults. And I thank God for my little brother, praying that some day he will be mightily used in the service of the King.
(Hmm… all the baby pictures are on the laptop, so I guess I’ll get on there later and add some)
A post about posting… (And a giveaway!) Friday, Jul 10 2009
So, I’ve realized that my camp post isn’t up on my site… Did it go to anyone’s blog feed? Did anyone read it? I’m not sure what to think about that… but right now I’ll just let it go and talk about other things.
First of all, there’s a giveaway over at YLCF! The book is Pajama School by Natalie Wickham. Go here to enter! I had the privilege of talking to Natalie at the CHEC (Christian Home Educators of Colorado) Conference in June. She’s such a sweet person! I haven’t been able to read the book yet and couldn’t afford to buy it from her at the conference, so hopefully I’ll be able to either win a copy or get it on paperback swap.
Next up… I have load of book reviews that I’m about to drop here! I should’ve been posting them sooner, but I haven’t. So I’ll start trying to remember to do one (or maybe two) a week. I have – as always – been reading like crazy. A quick review preview: The DragonKeeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul, The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix, and the heartbreaking story of Whitney Cerak and Laura van Ryn in Mistaken Identity.
Last, but not least… I’ll be doing a fourth of July post about my family’s vacation and one about my little brother who just celebrated his fifth birthday. Not sure what order these posts will come in, but they ARE coming! Until then – Soli Deo Gloria!
I seriously need to get back into this… Wednesday, May 20 2009
My Life 12:10 pm
Okay, so the whole blogging thing kinda just stopped happening for some reason. I’m sure that nobody missed me, ’cause nobody is even reading this… but I’m going to try blogging some more anyhow. I wish I knew how to increase my traffic. If I had people commenting or something, I’d definitely have more motivation to blog!
So… here’s a quick overview of ten things that are happening in my life right now:
1. I am working on math and science because I am rather far behind
2. I am memorizing 1 Timothy for Bible Quizzing. This year’s passage is “The T’s” and includes 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus. It’s the shortest quiz passage of them all, and I’m hoping to do well as this is my last chance. (Senior year!)
3. Working on several piano pieces. I’m supposed to play offertory at church in two weeks and am hoping to have an arrangement of There is a Fount ready. It’ll take some work though…
4. I’m worried about my wonderful iPod nano. I took it to a friend’s house this weekend and it disappeared. I know that I did not take it out of her house, so it’s probably somewhere in her bedroom or living room, or something like that. But I want it back. NOW! lol
5. We are trying to get everything figured out involving camp this year. It’s beena complicated mess because… well, never mind. Let’s just say that we’re finally getting it all worked out. Three weeks before camp.
6. I am trying to make a list of all of the books I have read in the last few years. Mom was curious about it, so I’m working on trying to remember them. There’s a LOT. I’ll post the list here, perhaps.
7. I got a job this summer taking care of a neighbor’s lawn. I’m going to try and get a couple more lawns because I still owe over $100 on my camera. *sigh* (Donations are being accepted!!! LOL)
8. I have been doing some cleaning, but have a lot more to do. Funny how I’ve managed to hang on to so much useless junk over the years.
9. I’ve added another elephant to my stuffed elephant collection. I named him Edison. So now I have three… and hope to add more. For anyone who reads this blog and doesn’t know, I read a children’s story about Harry the Elephant, and fell in love with stuffed elephants. I want one that’s just like Harry, but I don’t know if I’ll ever have one. Anyhow, my Dad and Sister have both given me elephants, and I found one at the thrift store, too. Donations are also acceptable here. =D
10. I’m going through my music after reading some books by Kimberley Smith. I would recommend that anyone read these books. I have always had high music standards, but after reading her books, I’m seeing some areas in which I’m slipping up. I believe that the three titles are O, Be Careful Little Ears, Let Those who have Ears ot Hear, and Music and Morals.
So there you are. Now please leave me some comments to encourage me to keep blogging! 
So… Thursday, Apr 2 2009
I only missed one week of March. Not too bad, I guess. Right now I’m kinda at a loss of what to post about. Maybe I’ll share another school assignment with ya’ll. But my last one didn’t get any comments… so probably no one liked it. Or even read it.
Before I ramble on too much, I want to quick post a link for you Rebelution forum members to check out.
Okay… I guess that’s it. I’ll just leave you with a picture I took for my little brother. hehe I love the things he asks me to take pictures of!
