New Backround

So I want to get a new backround, although I love the current one, which Erica wonderfully put up for me. I thought it was time for a change of scenery. I was looking on Pyzam and found three that I really like. I can't decide between them, so I thought I'd get you people's opinion.
Here's a flip-flop one:
http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/preview/my-flip-flops-be-poppin
A cute kiddie one:
http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/preview/simple-day
And one with chocolate:
http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/preview/chocolate-is-life

Tell me which one you think suits me the best.

"MY MOUTH'S BLEEDING!"

Ever since I can remember we've watched "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve. Whether we're in a lonely hotel room in a random town in "Kain-tuck", or home next to the fire on a snowy Wisconsin night, We always watch it. Not that we plan it or anything, it just always happens. Some people call "It's a Wonderful Life" depressing, but I don't. I love the part on the bridge, when George Bailey says "Please, God, let me live again." At that moment, it's starts snowing again. It makes me feel wonderful! It reminds one that no matter how small a difference one seems to make, one has still touched 100's of lives, if they know it or not.





George Bailey : What the...Ha, ha, ha, ha! My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals... Zuzu... George Bailey There they are! Bert, what do you know about that!

"They always kneel down"

I'll admit it, I'm a romantic, I love movies and books where the right guy and right girl get married at the end. (Key words there right.) I mean who doesn't? Finding Mr. or Miss Right is a life journey, everyone does it, and there's a story to every couple's marriage. When/where they meet, first impressions, dating/courtship, who first knew, and my personnel favorite- the proposal. I LOVE proposals, romantic ones, funny ones, odd ones, old-fashioned ones, creative ones... I LOVE them all. A proposal is a big step that changes the rest of a person's life.

A few days ago, we were watching a movie, at the end the guy came riding up, jumped off his horse knelt in front of the girl and proposed, I, being me, became quite excited and cried, "HE'S KNEELING, HE'S KNEELING, I LOVE IT WHEN THEY KNEEL!" Of course, since I love proposals so much, I have a very solid opinion on what makes a good one. One of the great elements to a proposals is when he bends on one knee. It's perfect. Pouring rain is pretty neat too, roses are always good too (kudos to David.)


So, I'm ridicules, but, everyone has their quirks and hobbies. I just happen to like proposals. Everyone laughed at me when I yelled at the movie, but, like I said, I'm me.

On of my favorite proposels is from the 1940 film "Mrs. Miniver"

5 year old Toby: "Vin are you going to marry Carol?" (Note: Both Vin and Carol are present)

Mrs. Miniver: "Toby finish your dinner."

Vin: "Well Toby, I really..

Toby: "Well are you?"

Toby's older sister, Judy, about 8 years old:"Don't be silly Toby, people never propose at Dinner, it's not romantic."

Carol :"Toby, you forgot to ask me if I was going to marry Vin if he asked me."

Toby:" Well are you?"

Carol: "If he does"

Mrs. Miniver:"Toby, please finish your dinner."

Vin:"Well Carol, I was going to wait for a romantic time, like Judy said, but, oh well. Will you marry me?

She says yes of course:-)

Yes, I'm still here...

I know I haven't updated in awhile. Life has been pretty busy. Hopefully the holiday break will give me some time to catch up on school, laundry, housework and writing.

Not much news, I work at the library (which I love!!) Do school, Joe and I just finished homeschool choir, debate and speech. We compete in January, so we're looking forward to it. The big news is.... PETER PAN!! Mrs. Schmaedick picked the play for this year. We're doing the original play by J.M. Barrie, not the musical (thank goodness...) I'm very excited because I LOVE acting. The play is going to pretty much consume my life for the next 4 months. Auditions are the 1st week in January, so I'll keep you update as to what parts Joe and I get.

So I don't have any pretty pictures or funny stories to tell you, just wanted to do a quick up-date. God Bless You!!

More Ultra Condensing...

The Nancy Drew Series
By Carolyn Keene
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard, David J. Parker, Chris Curtis, and Carol Curtis

Nancy Drew and her friends EAT. Her mother died when she was three.)
Someone
Nancy Drew, help me with this mystery.
Nancy Drew
Ok. Friends, let's talk about the mystery and eat food.
Hannah Gruen
Nancy Drew, be careful. Here, have a new car and an all-expenses paid exotic vacation.
Nancy Drew
Look. That guy I saw being rude before seems to be involved in this mystery. (Nancy Drew and her friends EAT. They find a CLUE. They EAT. Nancy gets CAPTURED, but she ESCAPES with information that SOLVES the mystery.)
Someone
Thank you, Nancy Drew. Have a reward.
Nancy Drew
No thanks.
THE END

Mission: Impossible II
Directed by John Woo
2000
Ultra-Condensed by Faron P. Cedotal

Cast
Hi. We're--
John Woo
Enough plot development. Fight in slow motion. (People SHOOT and pull their FACES off.)
THE END

^That is soooo that movie. NO plot, NO character development.

Yes, this is from Rebecca's Blog

The Hardy Boys Series
By Franklin W. Dixon
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard and David J. Parker

Joe
I'm the fair-haired rash one.

Frank
I'm the dark-haired studious one and a year older than Joe. (A MYSTERY happens. The Hardy Boys find a CLUE. They go to an exotic LOCALE with nothing but POCKET CHANGE and INVESTIGATE it. Chet Morton gets KIDNAPPED.)
Official
Stop! You're not allowed in here! Oh wait, you're Fenton's boys. Let me give you a tour of our top secret restricted area. (The Hardy Boys witness a SHADY DEAL taking place.)

Joe
Our case seems to be related to the case our father is working on, just like last time. (The Hardy Boys suspect a SUSPICIOUS guy, but he turns out to be INNOCENT. They solve the CASE, and they capture the BAD GUYS.)
THE END

Encyclopedia Brown
By Donald Sobol
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard

Someone
Alas. Something is wrong.
Encyclopedia Brown
Never fear. I will solve the mystery by employing my repertoire of obscure facts as a thinly disguised device for teaching kids educational information. (He does.)
THE END

The Collected Work of Jane Austen
By Jane Austen
Ultra-Condensed by Christina Carlson and Peter da Silva

Female Lead
I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.
Male Lead
I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know. (They find out.)
THE END

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
By C. S. Lewis
Ultra-Condensed by David J. Parker and Samuel Stoddard

Caspian
We are sailing to find some random people. (They sail to a BAD place and escape. They sail to a GOOD place and have fun. They sail to a BAD place and escape.)

Eustace
I hate this. Oh wait, I like it now.
THE END

I thought those we're funny... I'll post some MOVIES-IN-A-MINUTE tomorrow.

In Memory of Those Killed In Colorado Shootings

I don't like to think about death, just not a pleasant subject. But yesterday something happened that forced me to think about life and death, forced me to realise that every split second I live could be my last. A shooting occurred in a Colorado Springs CO. church, and someone I once knew was killed.

She's dead at 16. I hadn't seen her in over a decade, but I knew her. I've tried as hard as I can to recall her face to memory, but I can't. A young girl killed in the prime of her life, killed senselessly. She had years of life still to live, plans, dreams and goals, but a man engrossed by hate cut it short, because he was angry. The whole idea makes me sick, nobody is safe these days, it proves that being young and healthy doesn't protect you from death. What is going on?

I guess one just has to live each day as their last. Did they, I wonder? Were these two girls ready to die? We can only trust that God is in control, we can only trust that he has it always in his hands.

Thinking about death is something I avoid, but sometimes one just has to sit back and realise how fragile life really is, one has to thank God for every moment, every breath.

Sutton Foster - Astonishing

I love this show, Little Women~ The Musical. Sutton Foster played Jo, when it was on Broadway, she's amazing, and this song is wonderful. Sorry about the bad camera work...

"Walk walk walk..."

"Good-bye, Said the Man, I will be back soon."

"Walk walk walk the Man walked down the road..."

So begins Sarah's Favorite book, I have it memorized. Originally named "Who Will Help?" or The Good Samaritan. It's a book intended for children just learning to read, so it has only 21 words.One of the pictures depicts "the man" right after he is beaten and robbed, Sarah always points at that picture and says "OWWWIE". Since the first time Sarah has read the book it has been called "The OWWWIE Book".

Last night at Katie's concert, a man played a horn to accompany the song. While he as playing Sarah turned to Mom and said "Man, Owwie, head, man owwie hair." The man was bald.

Saturday Mornings

Saturday morning, I love my Saturday mornings. I do one of my favorite things on Saturday mornings. I look forward to doing it all week. My shrieking alarm wakes me up at 7:15 on week days I roll over and push the snooze, and I daydream about Saturday morning, the day I do not set my alarm. The morning I SLEEP IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, sleeping in is one of my favorite things to do. I know you are all laughing at me, and thinking me terribly lazy, but think what you like. I enjoy my sleep.

So last night Mom told us we had to move wood this morning before it snowed, so that means, no sleeping in. *sniff* *sob* So I wasn't exactly happy about it when Mom woke me up this morning. I really don't like moving wood. But I kept on thinking about the convention. One of the meetings we sang a song about rejoicing in the Lord, and I'd decided when we were singing that the point of the song, at least to me, was that if you rejoice in all circumstances, it will all work out, so I decided to try it out this morning. Now I wasn't terribly happy, but I didn't complain, even inside. Complaining inside is my normal occupation during wood moving. So at first, it was pretty hard, I had to work all by myself in the basement and it was moving really slow, besides the fact that Luke almost hit me with wood a couple of times. There was only Mom, Luke and Debbie upstairs, Joe and Susie were over at the neighbors, covering their roses so they wouldn't freeze, Dad's leg is hurt so he couldn't help. The moving process was going veeeeeeeery slow, But we plugged away. It had started to snow, when our neighbor got home, (remember 'the biologist' Wood girls?) well, he saw us in all our pitifulness, and offered to help. Do you know how much help a young strong guy who likes hard work is??? Lots and Lots of help, thank you Lord for Mr. Morse. Sisters came over about half way through and then we really flew and believe it or not we finished the load of wood in about 2 hours. Now we have a whole Saturday to do just as we please. Well, we can't sleep, but, we can watch old movies together and drink hot coco. Well, if we have any that is.

Sorry this is so long, I always get an urge to write when it storms, the problem is my wrists always hurt when it storms too. I guess my point is, when I'm happy about things, they go better. That's what I learned this morning. Very fundamental lesson, but a very true one.