Update

I've been such a bad blogger. :P So here are some updates, written super quickly before bedtime:

First off, I've decided that I'm not going to update this blog much. I might do random posts every now and then... I am keeping my ART BLOG up and running regularly, but I don't have enough time/energy to keep this one going. :/ I might post random things that pop into my mind, though.

This past year has been extremely stressful-- even more so the past few months (when I haven't been posting). It was really tough for Dad to commute, Mom was completely overwhelmed, we had to show the house all the time to people who weren't even qualified buyers, our realtor is (to put it very, very gently) oblivious, etc.

This summer was not much of a vacation! Even hanging with friends was a rarity. We were so busy doing nothing-- or, rather, dealing with the house, fighting colds, and keeping our sanity.

But this will all be over in a few weeks' time! We've sold our house and have bought a new one that is AWESOME! Its the same size as our current one. I find it paradoxial that we are getting more country when we move to the city-- 3 acres of land, backing up to a huge nature park with equestrian/bike trails and playgrounds... (Can anyone say MUni-- mountian unicycling?).

It's going to be an exciting adventure. It still hasn't sunk in that I'm leaving all of my friends... (considering that we've been ""moving"" for over year now...), so I am hyped about new things to do.

These next few weeks are going to be tough, though. We have to get everything packed and work on school. Very little free time and lots of stress. At least there is a definite end! :D

Anyways, that's what's been going on... I have lots and lots more I could say but its bedtime.

Random Things of the Day

1) Please check out my art blog: www.shealynns-faerie-shoppe.blogspot.com I just redid the entire layout! I need to figure out a better way for organization. You shouldn't have to click "Older Posts" twenty times just to discover one of the older posts.

Please let me know if it takes forever to load or if it looks funny in your particular browser.

2) Today we watched The Importance of Being Earnest! Wow, it was randomly hilariously awesome.

3) I still intend to write up a quite long post about The Hike III, but in the meantime, please see THE HIKE III BLOG.

4) We just discovered that Marcus' vocabulary includes the word "exciting". He's two. My next plan: teach him to say "grandiloquent."

5) I do such a terrible job on this blog. I never keep anything organized and I never keep to any set posting. I don't get pictures up for months. This is a cross between a family blog, a blog, and randomly random things...

6) My latest catchphrase: This is manifestly absurd. From St. Thomas' Summa Theologica.

7) Please pray I survive exams! I'm freaking out. Just a little bit. Especially about math.

8) I'm sure I've posted this before, but my aunt has been in an out of the hospital with some complications with her pregnancy.

9) I'm still hyped from the HIKE! It looks like I have only one toenail in serious danger. In fact... I got relatively few blisters. Only four little ones and one medium one (under said toenail). I managed to hurt the outsides of both my feet, though. It appears to me to be either a numb cramp (get those there alot) or else a very tightly wound tendon right by that fifth metatarsal. (OOOH! I sound all medical-like.)

10) We're showing the house again soon. I hope we can 1) sell it, 2) get it clean without everyone freaking out, and 3) not get very behind in school!

Hike

Yesterday was the Hike III! It was SO MUCH FUN. I'll post about it later, right now I need to study!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

My mom is so awesome... She's so awesome that she makes me actually keep a bedtime so that I get enough rest... (bedtimes... why must they exist?) therefore I can't write a long, awesome post about her. Maybe I can do that tommorrow. :D

Interesting...

So Sorry!

Apparently all those blog posts I'd written over the past week or two didn't publish... this is what I get for not checking. So there are a gazillion new posts. If this clutters up your Blogger Dashboard, I'm sorry!

Turning Off Nick's Brain

I'm beginning to wonder if my brother's brain has an on and off switch. Because his brain seems to be turned off alot...

[PICTURE]

A few days ago, we were playing a Lord of the Rings game. I had my Evenstar necklace out, and we took the One Ring out of the LotR Risk game.

I hung the Ring on my Evenstar chain. My brothers asked to use it; I said yes. "Put the chain on my desk when you are finished!"

"Okay! C'mon, lets go defeat Sauron. We should recruit Ulme."

The next day we hurried around the kitchen, attempting to make a lunch out of quite old leftovers. Everyone was stepping on feet, knocking chairs over, being loud, and generally increasing noise and commotion. As I put my sandwhich of leftover meat in the toaster, I noticed something on the counter.

My chain! After practically knocking a milk jug onto the day's mail, I reached across the fruit bowl and grabbed my chain.

Only half of it came. (click read more)

Are YOU the biggest fan of FTN?

Are you the biggest fan of Regina Doman's Fairy Tale Novels for teens?

This summer...

beware of thieves.

Alex O'Donnell and the Forty Cyberthieves

a fairy tale retold 

(this is the fifth book in the Fairy Tale Novels series)

As part of a promotion for these books, the author is holding a contest. Details can be found HERE. Prizes range from free MP3 downloads, signed books, and a copy of the student film The Shadow of the Bear when it is completed.

These books are among my favorites. I wrote... not a review, per se, but some kind of post on them HERE.

The official website: www.fairytalenovels.com
The fan-forum (the forum I am constantly talking about): www.fairytalenovels.proboards.com

My idea for the entering contest: design my own fairy tale novels T-shirt, and get a picture of me riding my unicycle with it on. Mmmhmmm. That sounds cool. 

To all my friends: If you haven't read these books yet, I strongly suggest doing so! I have extra copies at home, which I am only too happy to loan. HOWEVER, if enough people request them at our library, they might actually buy the books. When I requested them years ago, I had to wait a YEAR before they got one of them in from inter-library loan. And it was the second book in the series. Come on, lets get our library to get some good books-- not the overwhelming majority of Scholastic stuff!

Non Euclidean

I spent a good deal of time drawing little triangles on a marble today.

Why? I'm learning non-Euclidean geometry. It is FACTINATING. A little hard to grasp, but so cool. Yes. I actually like something in math. Non-Eucldian geometry is cool.

Hopefully I won't have to do a bunch of boring proofs. Those proofs are what killed regular Euclidian geometry for me.

A Good Blog

I have been reading the Conversion Diary blog for a couple of months now. It is the blog of a women who grew up athiest, became interested in Christianity, and eventually converted to Catholicism.

As a "cradle Catholic," I've always taken my faith for granted. Seeing from the view of a convert is really something. The author has some truly amazing insights-- even in posts about everyday things like messy purses or scorpions in the house. (AHHH!)

I could write for ages about what I like, but I think I'll just post the link. :)

CONVERSION DIARY BLOG

Read through the posts on the left-hand sidebar first. You'll probably spend a good amount of time reading through the gazzillion posts on the blog-- I know I did!