"...Dreams are dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds." ~Hattie Big Sky

I used to be a good blogger, correction, I used to be an amazing blogger.

At least compared to the blogger I am now, which is a lowly, idiotic, lazy, I'll-do-it-next-week-probably blogger.

I am sincerely sorry.

But really I'm not all to blame. The big culprit?

This dude:

I admit, it does steal my time some, but more than that, it uses up my creativity. I prefer my statuses to be a bit on the witty side, or at the very least somewhat amusing, and hopefully never boring. It my fb status is ever as dull as "I'm going to bed now." You have my permission to fine me for dullness. It seems these past few months when ever I would have a creative urge, I would sit down to write a post, (and since it had been so long since I'd updated it would have to be a good long one) I'd eventually run out of time, and rather than publishing a half-finished or fragmented post I'd post the gist of my idea on fb.

For instance, the name of this post is my current fb status, I thought about writing a review about the book I just finished Hattie Big Sky, but I didn't have time, so instead I published one of the my favorite quotes from it. (BTW, I highly recommend the book, it's a Newberry Award winner!)

Since Facebook is daily stealing from my blog I thought it was time for my blog to steal back (considering it's all in the family anyway). Here are some of my status in no order at all since... as far back as I decide to copy/paste before I get tired.

Enjoy!

Lydia Margaret hates getting her hopes up only to have them dashed... :-(

I'm the type of girl who will walk 4 blocks in the pouring rain to avoid parallel parking.

Luke has renamed the Big Pond, it is now the Athletic Ocean.

IMHO middle aged women should NOT have Hannah Montana ring tones.

Sometimes I forget that when I'm talking... people listen to me occasionally.

Our house is currently layered gray over yellow with orange dots with the occasion patches of white. Seriously.

Apparently Grace University thinks I should try out for a music scholarship. ME! The girl who plays piano by ear, and can't carry a tune in a bucket with a handle. *dies laughing*

Sometimes all I want is be ultimately special to someone....

My "oh-so-strong-oh-so-superior" little brother just asked me to open a jar for him. *savors this wonderful moment*

Soup: It's what's for lunch.

A warmed-up car, cute tights and stylish boots, a little coffee in my cream.... I'm ready to start my day! :-)

I pride myself on being a person who can laugh at her own mistakes (and believe me they many and often) but I'm afraid someday soon I'll do something incredibly stupid, something that won't ever be funny, something I can't laugh off. It scares me....

"Do you ever feel like the whole world is a tux and you're a pair of brown shoes?"

I had the whole gas station and the cafe next door laughing at my attempt to back my car to where I could pump gas.... *sigh*

"TEA." = The Jane Austen equivalent of "How about them Cubs?"


"I'm like a facebook flair, little, round, and occasionally goofy."


Seriously, I have the most selfless, strong, caring, loving, understanding, sweet Mother ever. She's the BEST!

So...

I haven't been blogging much in the last 3 weeks... not since I turned 18. Not that I think I'm too old for it now or anything, don't worry. Some of my non-blogging has been due to play practice and performance taking up most of my creative energies. Some because I haven't had much to blog about since the play ended. Mostly it's probably because I have a facebook now so when I want to spout about something I put it on my facebook. But I still miss blogging, I miss getting the brilliant post ideas, the hammering out of the words, the anxious wait for comments, I really just adore it. The writer in me loves the words and the and the freedom to express myself, and the sister in my loves the opportunity to express an entire thought without being interrupted. :-)

I have anything of terrible interest to tell you about but here's an update of my life:

What's happened this week:
After a long search (I've been keeping an eye open since fall)I finally bought a dress for Banquet yesterday. It was agonizing because I found a dress I LOVED but well... I'm too practical to spend $200 on a dress I'd wear once :-( I found another one that I liked a lot but there was one problem: I had vowed to not wear pink, it seemed too typical for me. Guess what color this dress was? Pink guess which dress I bought? You guessed it, the pink one. It's princessy and poufy and all around fun. I'll post pictures after banquet on May 8th.

What happened today (or more appropriate, what failed to happen):
Geometry. Why can I not understand axioms and postulates???? ARRRGHHH! *pulls hair out* I also looked at maybe taking some classes next year at a local tech school. School never ends does it??


What's up for me in the coming weeks:
Next week Joe and I will be in Cincinnati, Ohio for NCFCA Region 6 Regionals competition. If you didn't see our duo before here's the video of it (this was taken a couple of months ago, we're much better now.)

What I've been Reading:
Now that I've actually had time to read I've devoured 2 books for history and 4 for pleasure in the past 2 weeks. For School I read: Journey to Topaz, which was an interesting story about a Japaneses family during WWII it amazed me how honorably they stood up to such
injustice: being imprisoned when innocent of any wrong doing. I'm also reading about the Vietnam War which is very interesting and very sad. For fun I read the first book in the Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events I have a feeling I'm going to become as addicted to them as Becca is. I just finished The Highwayman's Footsteps which was an interesting spin of the poem The Highway Man by Alfred Noyes well written, good story, clean, my only problem was the author's addiction to ending chapters with cliff hangers and foreshadowing. It's wouldn't be so bad except that every single chapter ends that way and there are 60 chapters, usually about 2 pages long. Drove me nuts.


What I've been Learning:
I learned that sometimes God answers right away, even before you had know that you asked. Sometimes when you ask for something and are very specific and lay out your entire little plan for God he smiles and nods and then says politely "No, I know better than you do." Sometimes you wish for something and then you forget about. Of course low and behold months later you get it you wanted and complain to God because of course it's NOT what you thought it was. Then God reminds you in his own ironic way. *sighs* Be careful what you pray for...


What I've Been Thinking About:
How odd being 18 is. I was going to blog about it the other day and Joe said: "You're blogging about that AGAIN??" Have I been obsessing over it? I just thought that this is a pivotal point in my life and I thought my dear blog readers might like to share it with me. I have been 18 for over 3 weeks now. A jam packed 23 days of new experiences, new feelings, new knowledge and a better understanding of God. I guess I've just realized that I can't stop time. The play is over and as far as I know I will never act on the stage again, this is something I just have to hand to God. I do have to Graduate on May 16th and I do have to move on after that and agree with the noble (ha!!) lyrics of High School Musical 3 "High School won't last forever". I have a life waiting for me planed out by God. I need to move into it. I might put my heels down but I'll move slowly and surely.


Fact:
This post is too long.

Post One Hundred and Sixty-Six

It's been 1 year and 117 days since I started my blog and I have 166 posts. Not bad I guess. On average I get 4 comment a post. So I was wondering:

What makes you want to comment?
What would you like me to do on my blog?
What more of?
What less of?
Any Ideas?
What annoys you on my blog?

What do you like that I do?
Is there anything I should change?

Be honest!I really want to know!

Sorry...

I'm sorry for posting nothing but videos. I promised myself after the 2 logic ones I'd stop, but I couldn't resist the video below. Amazing.

I've been really busy, but hopefully never too busy for all of you. I have a lot of posting ideas lined up, but most of them involve a camera, which is now at sister's house all the time and impossible to get to. Also when I do have time on the computer I've been enjoying our debate at Katie's Blog, fun, fun. I really think we ought to have a forum, just to have fun with.

Here's that thing everybody has been doing:
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:1. Lydia
2. Lyddie
3. Henny

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU'VE HAD
1.AnOldFashionedGirl
2. HennyMusgrove(youtube)
3.None other

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. my hair, sometimes
2. my smile
3.who cares...

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1.my weight

2.my brain
3.my height

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE
1. German
2. Irish
3. English

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU
1. Snakes
2. Messing Up, that's funny because I mess up all the time yet I'm really afraid of it...
.3. Being alone

OUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS
1.Someone to talk to
2. my family/friends
3. God

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. Black skirt and shirt
2.ring and necklace
3. robe

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS/MUSICAL ARTISTS
1. Nichole Nordeman
2. Vivaldi
3. 40's musicals

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS
1. I only get three?!?!?!?!?!??!?
2. no idea at all
3.ask me later...much later

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. actually finishing writing something
2. real acting
3.growing:-)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP
1.humor
2. laughter
3.knight in shinning armour things
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE1. I love Sarah B.
2. I love Lukie D.
3. I love chemistry! (my nose is growing)

Well I have to go, I guess you'll get the rest of it later:-)

Welcome!:)

Greetings!!!!! Welcome to my blog! *waves* I'd like to thank my parents for permission to create and maintain my own blog, and for agreeing to oversee it. I don't have a very busy life. The only things I do most days of the week is: eat, sleep, do school, chores, and think. I know you'd be bored with the eat, sleep, do chores part so the majority of my posts will be from the "think" part of my day. I enjoy composing stories in my head, so a few of them might make their way here. Or I could just post about how good God is to me. Also, I greatly enjoy reading quotes from Founding Fathers and such; it's so interesting to read what people thought about way back when, and how it applies to life today. For example, Thomas Jefferson said "I have come to the resolution myself, as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may." Sound like China, anyone?
Another one of my favorites is from Abraham Lincoln. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Good news, if you want to be miserable, you can!
If you were not at all interested reading that, you most likely won't like my blog. I will once in awhile post something interesting that happened to me, but most of the posts will be stuff like that, quotes, things I'm learning, scritch scratch I write, and maybe a bit of humor, something I think is funny. Like this quote from Abraham Lincoln "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." hehehehe...
Cheerio,
Lydia