yay for updating!

guess it’s about time i updated here! i’ll actually be updating again a lot more frequently now, cuz once again my internet time has been limited, so i’m back to what i used to do, type this up in a word document and post it when i have internet access. no more spending all my time on my Shoutlife. my mom decided to take over, and she doesn’t believe me when i say that i have planned out all my school to be done in the middle of April, so she’s decided to limit my internet time to make sure i’m spending enough time on school work. at least after April, i’ll be done, will know what school i’m going to, and will shortly after then get a laptop, WOOT!
so yesterday, when i got back from my violin lesson, i had two letters on my bed...... hahaha! both from colleges telling me i’ve been accepted! now i am accepted to 3 schools! (well.... sorta 3 and a ½ :D) PBU was the first to accept me, the two new ones were Houghton and DePauw, Uconn is the ½ they’ve accepted me to the school itself, they haven’t contacted me yet about the music school. Wheaton is actually the only one i haven’t heard from at all. mom called them the other day, and they said they won’t contact anyone til after April 1st, grr. at least i’m getting close, not much longer to wait. YAY!
so after a winter of no snow, we’ve actually had a lot of snow the past few days. we had this one day of snow, then freezing rain, turning it all to slush, then freezing. then a little more snow on top of that. yesterday we got maybe 3 inches of snow, and we got another couple overnight, and it is still lazily snowing right now. i’m getting this crazy craving for a snowball fight! i haven’t actually played in the snow for sooo long! i don’t think i went in it once last year, except to walk thru it to the car. not sure about the year before, might have shoveled it once or twice. i haven’t gone sledding in forever tho. we have this tiny tiny “hill” in our backyard, but i’ve actually never gone sledding on a real hill. must do that someday.
well i must be getting to some work now. i shall post much more frequently now.

i know i haven't updated in forever.....

i've been so busy lately. i should say rather that i have let myself become too busy with too many things, many of them meaningless, and am not spending my time wisely. quick update on happenings in my life. i have visited PBU (Philadelphia Biblical University) and was accepted there, and will be travelling to Houghton on Sunday, my last audition, finally! after that is just waiting to find out where i'm accepted, and all the financial junk. hm..... other stuff..... we got snow wed., it was crazy! it actually wasn't much snow, it started as snow during the nite, got maybe an inch, then it was freezing rain till morning, and all thru the day, finishing with about 3 inches of pretty much ice. i had work wed, so i went, even tho it took about 20 minutes to get there, instead of the usual 7. it was a 6 hour shift, and sooooooo dead! i was so surprised that there were some people who came out in that weather at all, it was horrible out! we never had more than two people on register at a time. at one point, it was so dead, we had already picked up all the green baskets, and straightened the magazine racks, so Nancy comes over, tells Jay to clean all the registers, and she hands me a feather duster, i ask her what that's for, she tells me to go dust off all the candy! now yesterday morning, Dad had to go to court about the accident he had a while back that totalled his car. the accident that wasn't his fault. on his way, this ginormous 18 wheeler had this huge slab of ice slide off its top. my Dad had just enough time to see it flip thru the air towards him, no time to move anywhere, think "oh how much damage can a bit of snow do?" before the ice hit the windshield, and totally smashed it! my Dad was fine, but had to drive home in all that glass to get the van and rush over to court for the other accident. the windshield is fixed now, we had someone come over in the afternoon yesterday. i had work yesterday too, and it was pretty busy, all these people getting in their shopping they missed the day before. then i had the Uconn symphony concert last nite, sooooo fun! i'm actually having a hard time getting my thoughts together right now. just wrote on my shoutlife about something i've been thinking about, and am kinda blogged out now. i'm putting a link to that post here if'n ya want to read it. thing is, not sure if you can see it. i know you have to have a shoutlife to read the blogs, but i think i linked to it in such a way that you can access it.
http://www.shoutlife.com/profile_view.cfm?uid=4342&blog_id=29185&view_mode=blog
i need to go eat now, and spend a good several hours practising, haven't done that in a while, soooo bad.

snow!!!!!! (and silver pennies)

so we finally got snow! i was afraid we'd end up with no snow this winter, sooo wrong, a New England winter with no snow, absolutely depressing! granted, it's only about an inch and a half, but that's still enough to make a few good snowballs with, hehehe! i have yet to lure my siblings out there...... actually tho, not sure i want to go freeze again myself yet. i was out in the coldness from 7 till 10 this morning at the barn, it was gorgeously white, well, not for long, i mean, how white can it be at a barn, seriously, but it was freezing. just watch, we didn't get snow till Feb. but watch it keep snowing into April or even May, just watch it! that would crush me. oh and Mom's poor flowers! a few weeks ago we saw that her crocus were already popping up cuz it was so warm, and now they're gonna die! ohhhhhh! crocus always symbolized spring for me, it was never really spring, no matter how late it was, until the crocus came up. and last week, at my violin lesson, there were robins all over my teachers lawn, poor things, now it's cold.
other news: silver pennies. yesterday at work, during my last half hour, it had finally slowed down in the store, and between customers i opened a thing of pennies cuz i was running out, and as i dump then into the coin drawer, i glimpse something silver before closing my drawer to take care of the next customer. i was thinking, huh..... did a dime somehow get wrapped up with the pennies??? after my customer left, the store was pretty dead, so i opened me drawer and went searching for it, and it wasn't a dime, it was a penny, but it was silver! it was from 2002, it wasn't just copper that was old and worn out, it was silver! i took it over to Josh to show him, he was examining it and testing it, it certainly looks real, and is real metal.... then i showed Naomi, and Trisha hears us talking about "silver penny" and comes over to see it, then Linda comes running over cuz she heard us talking, she takes one look at it and goes, "oh that's a dime you knuckle-heads!" Trisha says no, it's a penny, just look at it. then Linda actually takes it and looks closely at it and exclaims, OH! it is a penny! then Josh says, and we let you be on register? oh it was such fun! i asked if i could switch one of my pennies for it, and now i'm gonna keep it forever! anyway, that's all for now, must get some stuff done before i lose the whole day. i am copying this to my shoutlife too, i love that site!

lyrics

arg wu sentafinticate nar dunderford/ bida menti kosticated interserd/ thorphilliate stinded yilla billa zay/ wentora yate paravillintiniay/ paravillintiniay
dorga orpha dorga billa/ dorga orpha stifaleare/ dorga orpha dorga billa/ tonalation fonamere
stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking/ stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking/ stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking/ stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking now
if i had one wish/ well i don't know what i'd wish for/ but if i had a million zillion wishes/ i'd use one to let you know that gibberish is/ not a nice way to talk to all your
mork sawx ippen reeby yufftabar/ higgerd quillip ernigrade du wellinshar/ lirp crawn xyfa gourk jawinstabray/ venaldo urp paravillintiniay / paravillintiniay
stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking/ stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking/ stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking/ stop talking gibberish/ or just stop talking now
if i had one wish/ well i don't know what i'd wish for/ but if i had a million zillion wishes/ i'd use one to let you know that gibberish is/ not a nice way to talk to all your friends
(that is Relient K, gibberish, you can scroll down to the bottom and click on it on my playlist to listen to it)

i was sitting on a bar stool/ in a barbecue joint in Tennessee/ when this ole boy walked in/ and he sat right down next to me/ i could tell he'd been through some hard times/ there were tear stains on his old shirt/ and he said you wanna know what you get/ when you play a country song backwards
you get your house back/ you get your dog back/ you get your best friend Jack back/ you get your truck back/ you get your hair back/ ya get your first and second wives back/ your front porch swing/ your pretty little thing/ your bling bling bling and a diamond ring/ you get your farm and the barn and the boat and the Harley/ first night in jail with Charlie/ sounds a little crazy, a little scattered and absurd/ but that's what you get when you play a country song backwards
well i never heard it said quite like that/ it hit me in the face cause that's where i'm at/ i almost fell flat out on the floor/ he said wait a minute that's not all there's even more
you get your mind back/ your nerves back/ your first heart attack back/ you get your pride back/ you get your life back/ you get your first real love back/ you get your big screen TV, a DVD and a washing machine/ you get the pond and the lawn/ the bail and the mower/ you go back where you don't know her/ it sounds a little crazy a little scattered and absurd/ but that's what you get/ when you play a country song backwards/ oh play that song/ Woo!!!
we sat there and shot the bull about how it would be/ if we could turn it all around and change this c-r-a-p
you get your house back/ you get your dog back/ you get your best friend Jack back/ you get your truck back/ you get your hair back/ ya get your first and second wives back/ your front porch swing/ your pretty little thing/ your bling bling bling and a diamond ring/ you get your farm and the barn and the boat and the Harley/ first night in jail with Charlie/ you get your mind back/ your nerves back/ your first heart attack back/ you get your pride back/ you get your life back/ you get your first real love back/ you get your big screen TV, a DVD and a washing machine/ you get the pond and the lawn/ the bail and the mower/ you go back where you don't know her/ it sounds a little crazy a little scattered and absurd/ but that's what you get/ when you play a country song backwards
(that is Rascal Flatts, Backwards, again, you can listen down at the bottom)

i know, a very pointless post....... but i'm in a weird mood right now, and have nothing else to say, so there ya go! listen and enjoy!
(btw, don't you dare, any of you, tell either of my brothers about backwards! they will tease me about it for the rest of my life! they make fun of country enough as it is, and Geoff has his own thing about playing a country song backwards, he would love this just too much!)

more memories

again, i'm pasting from my shoutlife. i know it makes two posts in one day, and both long, but oh well, you don't have to read them.
gosh, do you know what a wonderful feeling it is to come back from a shopping excursion, having gotten what you wanted, and having saved more than you spent?? haha! =D yay! it was awesome. but i won't talk about shopping, that's a kinda boring topic anyway. i was having a good time with memories again today. (i actually wrote about memories in my other blog, here is a link to that post if ya wanna check it out: http://flppnsweetviolin.blogspot.com/2007/01/memories.html ) i was remembering with my parents about my surgery 9 years ago, and it wasn't hard memories, they were fun, just a bunch of little things. it's kinda funny the different things we each remembered about that time, i had such different memories from anyone else. i remembered HATING that catheter with every once of me, absolutely insisted they get rid of it, i was perfectly capable of using the bathroom myself, thank-you-very-much! i remembered this nice nurse who came in my room, reclined me back a little, and washed my hair in this lovely warm bucket of water, it felt wonderful! then when going home, i was not allowed to lie down for a while, i have no idea how long, but it felt like absolutely forever that i was confined to that recliner, escept not reclined, and actually had many many pillows stuffed behind me..... oh how i wanted to just be FREE! and when my best friend came, we palyed with barbies *blush* and my mom says we painted our toenails or something, i don't remember that. i also remember going to my neurosurgeon when he was going to remove the staples, and i wanted to see the tool he was using, and he let me have it, actually, i still have it, i've kept it all these years! my Dad said he remembered me talking to my surgeon about how long did it take, and then why did it take that long? i figure it should take maybe 10 minutes to cut in, 10 to remove the tumor, 10 to close it up again, so it should therefore take about half an hour, not however many hours it took. something like 4 or 5, can't remember. but anyway, i do not remember that at all, but boy does my Dad! he remembers Dr. Gham's twinkle in his eyes as he listens to me, and how he laughed, but not in a mean way, and how much he just enjoyed that all! but anyway, this time, i have plans for my time in confinement. MARATHON TIME!!!!!! LOTR marathon, Matrix, P&P, maybe Star Wars, North and South, Wives and Daughters, there was another i'm forgetting right now...... oh well, i actually have to get to bed now, nighties!

random thoughts

ok, just a bunch of random thoughts that have been going thru my head lately, and other stuff. i spent a good part of my morning today planning (shocker!) my school work for the next couple months. i actually went thru it all and figured out what i'd need to do in order to be done before my surgery, and right now, i'm either going to be done on April 16 or 18, depends on if i decide to take off these two Friday's Nathan has off, cuz i usually go by his schedule. so this way, i will be done a week before my surgery, and have NO MORE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA! gosh but that will be fun to tease people about! college friends who won't be done til the middle or end of May, and HS friends who won't be done til the middle of June, haha! anyway, that's a happy prospect. other stuff going on...... let's see, me and my best friend are going to get together to celebrate valentines day, cept it's going to be a week late cuz of scheduling, but we're going to go see a movie, and maybe eat at the mall, prolly do some shopping, just have a good girly time, so i'm looking forward to that! oh oh oh!!! guess what i found out yesterday! did you know that trampoline is an actual sport? an olympic one at that???? at church last nite i saw Mr. Craig helping his 12 year old (i think) son Howie with his posture, hands straight up above his head, getting him perfectly straight, and i asked him what he was doing, and he started talking about how Howie was on the trampoline team. so i asked him about that, and found out that it's a real sport, an olympic one at that, he showed me a video he had on his palm pilot of Howie doing a double backflip at a meet that he won first place for, and told me about how this girl who was the olympic gold medalist was at their school and was helping Howie, and the coach doesn't let anyone under 14 do backflips, but he let Howie do it! it was such an interesting topic! we got talking about what we do on our trampoline, the games we've made up, the one we do blindfolded, ("now you guys are just crazy!" was his response hehe) but that was really cool. i seriously did not know it was a sport. you guys prolly all knew that already tho..... i'm always the last to find things out, it's rather depressing..... ok fine, so maybe it's not :+) anyway..... i love the Easter cantata we're working on right now, another new compostition by Mr. Shaw, it's such awesome stuff! i have to agree with my Dad, Easter is my favorite holiday, and part of that is from the music. course i love Christmas music, but Easter music is so amazing! in this cantata, there are such moving peices, mournful ones, i can't even begin to describe some of them, like when Jesus enters the temple that has been turned into a "den of thieves", the music is amazing. and of course, all the music for the resurection, oh my gosh, so incredible, it just fills you with this wonderful joy! during and after the Christmas cantata, i would go around the house, and work, and everywhere, singing parts of it, cuz it was just stuck in my head, i've only been to two rehearsals for the Easter one, but already, i'm singing some of the music randomly. course, i already know some of it. Mr. Shaw had written a few pieces for Easter a while back, and we've sung some of them in choir last year, and he used some of them, either in whole, or in part in his cantata, so that helps members of the choir who did them already. i can't wait!!!! it's going to be amazing, i'm telling you! i think it's going to be recorded, they recorded the Christmas one anyway. which is actually kinda sad, i know it was the premiere performance and all, but still, our choir is not exactly the greatest. oh well. i'm actually really tired right now. i was exhausted yesterday, so i took a 2 + 1/2 hour nap, which felt amazing btw, but of course, made it so i couldn't fall asleep till about midnite last nite. mrph. so now, i'm feeling in need of a nap, but i'm not going to do that to myself again. alrighty then, now it be's lunch time, so i shall end now.
(grr, ok, once again, the clock is messed up! why it doesn't stay with the same time, i will never know. first it was an hour off, can't remember in which direction, then it was an hour off in the other direction, then it was half an hour slow, then like 20 minutes slow, now it's something like an hour and 10 minutes or so slow, it does not make sense..... so right now it is 12:18, so i'm not eating an insanely early lunch or anything.)

surgery

i'm pasting this from my ShoutLife, i love that site! i have so much fun there, and have made many friends. anyway, here it is:
so...... i now have a date set. i go in for brain surgery on April 25th, 4 days after my b-day, but that's ok, i'm kinda thinking of it as a birthday gift, cuz i just want this to be over, don't want to be dealing with it any longer. i will be staying in the hospital for 3-5 days, but that's what they said last time and i was only there for 2...... but maybe that's just cuz i was so young, and now that i'm old :) it'll take longer. and then they say an estimated recovery time of 4-8 weeks. i'm personally hoping for more like 3..... and no one in my family can remember how long it took last time. but anyway, so there's that. something to look forward to and dread at the same time.

profile pic

so i finally changed it...... and this time it's not all washed out from too much sun or flash..... darn it. oh well, so that's from when my fam went to get our picture taken, and we did a few individual shots, and that's one of me. obviously :) anyway, that's all for now. me is tired..... and have a million things to do, so i best get busy.