i was all excited that i had time to post and now i am just sitting here trying to think about a topic to blog about. i could tell you about my day, but that would be very boring. we went to Friendly's for lunch. it was okay :/ now we are just sitting around the house being bum's. i can't believe that tomorrow is Christmas Day. we are going to the Christmas Eve service at church and then to my gramma's house. i am looking at my email and realsimple sent me the "prettiest cookie ever". it looks pretty good.





Lace Cookies

Makes 36 cookies Hands-On Time: 10m Total Time: 1hr 00m Note: Total time includes cooling time
Ingredients
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
pinch of salt
1/4 cup all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
1/2 cup finely chopped almonds
Directions
Heat oven to 375° F.
In a medium saucepan, heat the butter, sugars, corn syrup, and salt over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove from heat and mix in the flour and almonds just until incorporated.
Drop level teaspoons of the batter onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing them 4 inches apart. Bake until golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes.
Cool on the baking sheets until firm, 8 to 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
By Susan Sugarman, December 2009


that's all i have to say today. so, merry christmas eve :)

etsy finds - n.2

here are my picks for the week. i tried to find scarf, and don't get me wrong there were tons of scarfs, but i didn't see amy i liked and the pictures didn't look very professional. sorry, i have a very bad case of OCD. i really liked these ones though.

shesitsbytheseashore

curlywire

tialeyvintage

wonderthunder

ouma

dear computer,

i really like you. you are useful for many things. such as, writing my english project, talking with friends and famil, and even blogging. but, lovely computer, why do you do this to me? why do you decide to not work on the day that i am already feeling pretty lousy? i hope we can set aside our differences and be friends again :)
~eliza

you don't know how much i want to rip my hair out... okay, so maybe that is an exagerattion(i don't even know if i spelled that right). but i am really annoyed. i just tried to publish a post TWICE!! and i don't even know if this will work. maybe i will copy and paste it into word... this is really frustrating i thought that i would post a christmas video. i haven't put a song on in a while... well the computer decides that it doesn't want to upload a video.

i haven't been feeling great. just a cold, but cold's can feel like the worst thing on earth. i feel like sleeping all day and i don't want to get the rest of my family sick :( i could go on and on complaining...

christmas came really fast this year, has it not? i can't believe that christmas eve is tomorrow. by the way: did you know that today is christmas adam? tomorrow is christmas eve, and adame comes before eve. so that makes today christmas adam. we are going to my gramma's tomorrow and i am going to see my baby cousin for the first time(!!!) i would put a picture but i feel like that would be weird. or matbe i am just weird? anyways he is the cutest baby ever! and no, i am not lying ;)

click here if you want to hear the song that i was trying to post earlier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8xB1opuQ8

i heard the bells on christmas day-casting crowns
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I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet their songs repeat
Of peace on earth good will to men

And the bells are ringing
Like a choir they're singing
In my heart I hear them
Peace on earth, good will to men


And in despair I bowed my head
There is no peace on earth I said
For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men

But the bells are ringing
Like a choir singing
Does anybody hear them?
Peace on earth, good will to men

Then rang the bells more loud and deep
God is not dead, nor doth He sleep
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men

Then ringing singing on its way

The world revolved from night to day
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men

And the bells they're ringing
Like a choir they're singing
And with our hearts we'll hear them
Peace on earth, good will to men

Do you hear the bells they're ringing?
The life the angels singing
Open up your heart and hear them
Peace on earth, good will to men

Peace on earth, Peace on earth
Peace on earth, Good will to men
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
i was thinking about doing vlogs(video blogs) instead of regular blogs. or maybe doing a little bit of both. i don't quite know yet. leave a comment with your opinion :)

edit: i just looked at my posts and was saying in my head, "are you serious?" because all those posts i tried to publish got saved as drafts :tide

it is sometimes so hard to come up with a blog name(or maybe its just me??)

i feel like i keep on saying i want to blog almost every day(if you haven't guessed yet--i am a procrastinator). i always start to write and feel like it's pointless or have nothing to write about. for all i know, i could be writing these to myself. this december has been very busy so far. my days look like this- school, basketball, dinner(or should i say, food shoved down my throat on the way to scrooge rehearsal)scrooge rehearsal, check computer fast(if not to much homework)homework, get ready for bed, B.E.D.

by the way:
-CHRISTMAS IS NEXT WEEK
-SCROOGE THIS WEEKEND

blog give aways :)

so, i was reading Real Simple® and they have an article called "Your Words" which is Q and A's. well this issue the question was-- How do you stay on budget during the holidays? someone answered they enter blog give aways to win stuff for Christmas gifts--or for yourself--either way. well i looked at the website and found a lot of cool sites. one of them is an Auntie Anne's pretzel kit. the blog link is http://melindajoy.blogspot.com/2009/11/holiday-hoopla-series-10-auntie-annes.html#comment-form. also you can check out a give away for Food Network: Cook or be Cooked. blog link: http://momstart.com/2009/11/food-network-cook-or-be-cooked-video-game-review-and-giveaway-for-the-wii/comment-page-4/#comment-86550. i'll let you know if there are anymore i find or just check out www.bloggiveaways.blogspot.com :)

my not so usual exciting saturday....

...or to me at least. well today some teens from my youth group rang the bell for the salvation army(the little red things that you can put some change inside). we got lots of money.. and then i went to see New Moon!! it was awesome. i loved it, so much better than twilight. write again tomorrow :)

etsy finds - n.1

I have been buying/browsing etsy for a while and i l.o.v.e. it :) i just have a nack for homemade/vintage things. well, will keep you updated every saturday(or maybe every other saturday. lol) with things that i find our buy. hope you enjoy :)

ButtonsByLouLou

thegrandmatouch

lireca

KristinFriesen

wall painting illusions

so... i haven't been up to much lately. just rehearsing for the musical (here) and i joined the basketball team. my days have been very long, getting up at 6am going to school for six hours and right after musical rehearsal for 2 1/2 hours then basketball until 7pm and then i get home and have lots of homework to finish.

anyways... i wanted to share these cool illusions. Nothing is photoshopped. All paints and line work were strategically placed to create 2 dimensional illusions in each room.

pretty cool, right?

once on this island jr.

my school is doing a production called once on this island-- and of course it's the jr. version because we are in the middle school. we have two weeks left of rehearsals and then we go on to the stage! it's lots of fun so far. i really like the songs, they are so beautiful sounding :) The story is a little weird. The basic story line is--a girl is found in the middle of a storm, she is saved by an old couple, she saves a boy in a crash(the boy is from the other side of the island), she wants to go looking for the boy when she is older, the boy gets married to a different women who lives on their side of the island, the girl dies and turns into a tree :) if that makes any sense..... we are showing it the 13th and 14th of november. so far it has been lots of fun!

update

i decided that i would start trying to post more often. my blog is pretty sad right now-- i haven't posted sence august. i am a procrastinator :( i don't really know if anyone reads my blog, but i guess it's good typing practice for me(?). i just updated all my blogs features and things(i hope you like). i get t ired of the same thing after a while. anyways i will try to keep you updated.

i am so excited because my family is expecting a baby every month until february. i am so excited! last week i went with my mom to a sonogram and she is expecting a boy! we made a registry on friday at target-- lots of fun.

my class went on a field trip to ellis island two weeks ago. i loved it. the trip was so...educational(does that sound corny??) ha. i learned so much about immigration and i was able to look up family names. after about 6 1/2 hours at ellis island we took a ferry over to liberty island. i took around 150 pictures so here is just a few...

i was going to write something else, but i forgot. so, have a good day and don't forget to leave a comment :)

Ocean City...

is AMAZING!!! the end.

haircut

i got my hair cut on tuesday...it is to about my shoulders and layerd a little bit :) i like it! later at tfc, there wasn't a lot of teens so we went out for ice cream and played games! we saw a movie on wednesday. here is a pic of my new haircut :)

Schools Out For the Summer.....

and i am sooo bored. School has been out for two-almost three weeks. it has been a slow summer, except the wedding. It's been the same thing everyday- get up at 10:30/11, go on the computer, get dressed at 12:30, eat lunch..... so boring! a teeny tiny part of me wants to be in school- teeny. I have also been reading books but because i forgot it at tfc on tuesday, i have not been able to do that. i feel soo lazy. i can't wait to go to camp next week!!! i'll try to write again this week. i was going to post a video, born again by third day, but it won't work. check it out at http://www.youtube.com/ ; ) you should also check out, more beautiful you by johnny diaz, awesome song!! <><

25 things in my room

i made this video the other day...

25 things in my room

*right now the video isin't loading but i will continue to try*

here's a picture of all the things i used:

DSi

aaron, brett and i got a new DS. it is called the DSi. it is really cool. it has internet, and you can take pictures and listen to music and a lot of other things. i enjoy using it :)

yes, i know...

it has been a month since i have blogged. i am so busy! lately i have been studying for finals and cleaning my room(although it is already clean). I have been wanting to move my furniture around but i haven't got to it...so yesterday i moved it wear i wanted...it didn't fit! so i moved it around and around and around and now it is back to the way it was, except for my bookshelf! i am so sweaty now...ugh...i might be getting new sheets though :) here is the bedding set i like if you want to see: http://www.pbteen.com/gift/thm/thmgrl/thmgrlblu/ my little bro broke his wrist on fri. so now he has a blue cast...i was the first to sign it :) there is a middle school concert tomorrow and i am in band and chorus...we are siging the lion king...there were auditions for solos today...i might get one :) wish me luck!

real simple

i was looking through the real simple magazine and i found a page of gifts for under twenty-five bucks. there was some really neat things like a jelly lens for your camera phone http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? (i dont know why there is aquestoin mark, if it doesnt work just go to www.spoonsisters.com and search jelly lens) and there was a wallet made of ties http://narwhalcompany.com/store/tie-fold-wallet/1/ (www.narwhalcompany.com) there was also a music box that you can create your own songs with at www.baldwinandco.com . There was lots of other cool ideas in the magazine(real simple june 2009)

Penguins

Samuel Morse

Samuel Mosre's Birthday

today is samuel morse's birthday. Samuel Finley Breeze Morse was born in Charlestown, Mass. on 27th April 1791. He was not a scientist - he was a professional artist. Educated at Phillip’s Academy at Andover, he graduated from Yale in 1810 and he lived in England from 1811 to 1815, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1813. He spent the next ten years as an itinerant artist with a particular interest in portraiture. He returned to America in 1832 having been appointed Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of the City of New York. It was on this homeward voyage that he overheard a shipboard discussion on electromagnets. This was the seed out of which the electric telegraph grew. Morse is remembered for his Code, still used, and less for the invention that enabled it to be used, probably since landline telegraphy eventually gave way to wireless telegraphy.

information found on http://home.clara.net/rod.beavon/samuel.htm

sorry.

sorry i haven't blogged in a really, really, really long time. i have many things going on and haven't found the time to blog. nothing too exciting has happened, though. i did get baptized on sunday, that was exciting. Here is one of Aesob's Fables to read. enjoy :)

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Now you must know that a Town Mouse once upon a time went on a visit to his cousin in the country. He was rough and ready, this cousin, but he loved his town friend and made him heartily welcome. Beans and bacon, cheese and bread, were all he had to offer, but he offered them freely. The Town Mouse rather turned up his long nose at this country fare, and said: "I cannot understand, Cousin, how you can put up with such poor food as this, but of course you cannot expect anything better in the country; come you with me and I will show you how to live. When you have been in town a week you will wonder how you could ever have stood a country life." No sooner said than done: the two mice set off for the town and arrived at the Town Mouse's residence late at night. "You will want some refreshment after our long journey," said the polite Town Mouse, and took his friend into the grand dining-room. There they found the remains of a fine feast, and soon the two mice were eating up jellies and cakes and all that was nice. Suddenly they heard growling and barking. "What is that?" said the Country Mouse. "It is only the dogs of the house," answered the other. "Only!" said the Country Mouse. "I do not like that music at my dinner." Just at that moment the door flew open, in came two huge mastiffs, and the two mice had to scamper down and run off. "Good-bye, Cousin," said the Country Mouse, "What! going so soon?" said the other. "Yes," he replied;
"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."

Music Video

Josh Wilson~Savior, Please


Josh Wilson~Savior, Please
Savior, please take my hand
I work so hard, I live so fast
This life begins, and then it ends
And I do the best that I can, but I don't know how long I'll last

I try to be so tough
But I'm just not strong enough
I can't do this alone,
God I need You to hold on to me
I try to be good enough
But I'm nothing without Your love
Savior, please keep saving me

Savior, please help me stand
I fall so hard, I fade so fast
Will You begin right where I end
And be the God of all I am because
You're all I have

Hallelujah
Everything You are to me
Is everything I'll ever need
And I am learning to believe
That I don't have to prove a thing
'Cause You're the one who's saving me

happy birthday dr. suess

today is the 105 birthday of Theodore Geisel a.k.a dr. seuss. many are celebrating Read Across America in which people all around will be reading in honor of dr. seuss. you can go to http://www.seussville.com/ to find out more about dr. seuss or play fun games!

Sock Monkey

in my home and careers class we have been sewing all kinds of things... the last project we did was either ordered or brought from home... i brought in a pattern for a sock monkey and have been working on it for the past couple of weeks and now it is finally finished!!! by the way, his name is Bobo... i took a few pics of him today... hope you like!!!

snow, snow, and more snow

for the past couple days we have gotten a TON of snow... yesterday we had a snow day and today another snow day... the weather forcast says it is supposed to continue to snow until 1:00PM tomorrow!!! but i love it!!

Wrong Jobs

i was looking at optical illusions and found these, i saw pictures like these before but they were trucks!! These are some old (but still clever) ads for a European job search site, with the tag line: "Life's too short for the wrong job." lol :)

try and read this, i bet you can!

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

When you first look at this, how many colours do you see? Some might say they see 3 or even 4 colours, but there are 2 - red and green! People usually think they see 2 shades of red, but there is only 1. Look closely and you will notice on one side that white boxes surround the red boxes, and on the other side, green boxes do! Due to the placement of these boxes you get the "illusion" of different colours. Since white is not considered to be a colour (it is the presence of all colours in scientific terms) we can safely say that there are 2 colours present here!