Picture and Random Things

Began my day with a huge bloody nose and a run. Instead of my usual run 2 minutes, walk 4, I ran 3 and walked 3 completely on a whim. I was astonished at how well I did. "I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me..." Of course, on the second cycle I felt like I was going to throw up, and it was getting kind of hot out (I run early in the morning). It was great! I felt like a true runner. I also did my Bible Study time in my head, which was the first half chapter of John. I memorized it. =)


That is one of my pictures. It has an autumn-y feel to it. =) I'm sorry it's so small...I'm not a techie kind of person, and I've already been on the computer too long. Blogger/computer has been kind of weird lately...=(


So far, my cold has gotten a lot better. Now I'm starting to feel my run, as well as notice pinprick bruises on my shoulder from shotgun shooting. I guess I wasn't holding the gun right. You have to hold it really tight so you won't get bruised. And, as usual, I hit no clays. I guess I'm more of an archer/.22 shooter then a skeet shooter. =( A pity because I LOVE shooting skeet.


By the way, Awel Prince is working on my blog design. I love it! It looks so gorgeous. She's doing an awesome job. =)

Hugs & Blessings,

Izori

A Most Interesting Tag from The Cornet Crazie!

I'm back! Obviously! Had a smashing time on vacation, but it was ruined when I got home because this font won't go off bold. Humph. lol.

1. How many toes do you have?
Uh...let me think, here. Possibly...ten.

2. How many bones have you broken?
None. However, I have made up for it in sprained ankles.

3. Name an epic thing that you have done.
Played a soccer game on a sprained ankle, 'tore' the top off my toe playing soccer barefoot on asphalt, sung higher than Meav Ni Mhaolchatha, etc. I'm an epic klutz, too.

4. If you had a pet lemming, what would you name him?
Excuse my ignorance...but what is a lemming?

5. What color are the clothes you're wearing right now?
Navy sports pants with silver stripes running vertically, and my ultimate shirt! (meaning, my paint-splattered, stained, butterfly shirt from the Southern Shores) :)


6. How awesome are orca whales on a scale of one to ten?
Well...all of God's creatures are awesome...

8. How old do you want to be when you die?
Idk. Never really thought of that.


9. Name a pet peeve and an addiction.
Grr. Politically correctness makes me absolutely sick. That is why I hate studying the Civil War. Whenever I say that I'm a southern sympathizer I get called a racist. THAT is a prime example of racism right there, and political correctness, too. Was is RIGHT to tax someone extra because they weren't paying your price for your item?!? When one side of the country taxes the other dry to the other side's benefit...there's something wrong. And then saying they can't leave when they get fed up...now that is just cheap. Yes, both sides had faults (like slavery for Confederates, although that wasn't the main cause of the war UNLIKE some biased text books would have you think, and waging war on the woman and children of the South, like the Yankees), and I'm very sorry, but I'm a Johnny Reb. Actually, I'm a copperhead because I was born in Yankee territory. :)

Oh, and my addiction. WRITING!! Can ya guess? And LORD OF THE RINGS!!! YEEHAW! SHOW THAT MUMAKIL WHAT YOU CAN DO, LEGOLAS!


10. Write a paragraph detailing your life. 100 word minimum.
*ahem* I was, well, born. When I was five/six, I grumblingly took up piano, which would later become my hobby. Although I was a fairly slow reader at first, I fell in love with fantasy and writing at around age eight, and have been faithfully scribbling and banging out tunes ever since.

11. Name one thing that isn't really a secret, but that you haven't really gotten around to telling anyone.
I don't really like chocolate ice-cream.

12. Name another pet peeve.
People who think they know a lot, but they really don't. Seriously, there was one archery 'instructor' who once was telling me to do something that I already knew how to do, and then he went and strung the bows completely wrong. Then he started teaching a left-eyed kid how to shoot with my bow. Which is for right-eyed people. It was HILARIOUS!!!!

13. Sprechen Sie deutsch?
No, hablo Espanol, mucho gracias. A little.

14. Tell a joke.
I don't know any.

15. How many of the questions have you answered in a witty manner so far?
A couple.

16. Compose a haiku.

I don't write haikus.
I write epic poems.
Is that good enough?

17. Have you ever noticed how sour candies taste even more sour if you rub them on the side of your tongue?
No.

18. What book(s) are you reading at the moment?
'FotR'

19. How many doors are there in your house?
A lot.

20. How would you solve a problem like Maria?
BONK HER ON THE HEAD WITH A RUSTY SABER! No, not really. Blondies are incurable. Jk, lol. I wouldn't dare to insult a blondie, seeing as my three siblings have blond hair, and I myself am a blondie at heart.

21. Think of something about yourself. Anything. Go on, think of it.
Okay.

Now think of something more interesting. Write it down here.
The top of my right big toe has no feeling, because, well...I epically 'tore' if off in a game of street soccer.

22. What's wrong with your hands?
They're very thin, my fingers are, from exercising them about two hours a day.

24. What's your favorite show tune?
?

25. Okay, you can tell us what that first thing you thought of for number 21 was. We all want to know.
I do sign-language with my left hand, even though I'm technically right handed. I think it was because when I first learned the basics of ASL I didn't know that the teacher was doing a mirror-image of what I was supposed to do. So...I did it left handed. Which is fine with me.

That was a very interesting tag!

I tag anyone...

...who is absolutely driven bonkers by political-correctness!

Izori

P.S. Guess what! I get to do the 'American Legion' Air-Rifle Competition! It's kind of low-key, but it's the qualifier for States! Please pray that nothing terrible happens. Like, for my gun to work all right, and for me to get a score over forty on my standing target.

Thanks!

Izori

Prayer Request

Yes, ANOTHER one! Anyway, in a little while I'm going to do this thing called Presentation Day. It's with 4-H, and it's where you get to stand up in front of everyone and talk. Oh boy. But please pray that I don't mess up, or that I don't say 'um'. Oh, and tomorrow afternoon I'm doing an archery contest, so if you can pray that that would go well...that would be awesome.

Thanks!

Izori

BIG Praise!

Y'all know about the big shooting contest that's coming up on the 24th? The one that is the qualifier for States? Well, if you do remember, Dad signed me up for that. However, we were a little worried because my gun wasn't working properly. It went through three cylinders of air last shooting time...and that's bad. What it was doing was letting out puffs of air (i.e. it had sudden spurts of leaking)...very, very bad. Well, it did that again tonight. An instructor shot it, and it was doing the same thing with her. She passed it to another instructor, and guess what.

It worked absolutely FINE with him!

We figured it out--neither me or the first instructor was fully cocking the gun.

DUH!

How we were both doing it, we'll never know. But I am SOOOOO glad we figured that out, because it would have badly affected my scores if we hadn't.

Whew. God is really great.

Izori

*sigh* Public Speaking. And dragons really existed.

My family does 4-H. And this year--guess what. We get to do Presentation Day. Where you go and talk, in front of judges, about something-or-other.

Yeah. Not my thing.

Until you add my topic, of course.

I think my topic will be 'Are Dragons Real?' And I will try to convince people that they actually WERE real.

BECAUSE THEY ARE!!! Or were. Whatever.

First of all, the word 'dinosaur' wasn't thought up until around the 19th century by an English dude. Not really a dude, I think his title was Sir. The word 'dragon' may very well have been the ancient/medieval word for dinosaur.

Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze his limbs like rods of iron.
Job 40:15-18

His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
Job 41:15

His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn. Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
Job 41:17-21

Well...a creature with a tail like a cedar and limbs like iron. Sounds a wee bit like the diplodocus or apatosaurus, no?

And notice Job 41:17-21! This creature breathes fire!

The stories and references about dragons--Beowulf, St. George and the Dragon, the dragon emblem of China, the murals of the Native American Indians--are too wide spread to be made up.

Therefore, I believe that dragons--or dinosaurs--really did exist.

Sorry if I had a bunch of holes in my argument, it's time I should be in bed.

Either the dragon topic, or I'll do one on trolls.

Goodnight!

Izori

We have a pet! Or rather...Luthien does

We went to our 4-H recognition banquet (wow, we're getting pretty good here--banquets in our honor :) just now. Grandma and Grandpa stayed with Erestor, Luthien, and me while Mom and Galdor and Dad stayed home. Erestor and I are both greatly involved in 4-H--we both got 1st place on portfolios and were outstanding members for two clubs!!

About the pet thing...

There was a sort of contest, where everyone who was sitting on a chair that had a 4-H clover sign on the bottom would get the fish (with a fish bowl, of course) on the table. Well, little-sister Luthien was the one for our table! She named her fish, which is a neon tetra, Ana (the shrimp-thingy that goes with it is named Vestus).

We are no longer a no-pet family!

(Boy, Mom and Dad were thrilled when we all burst into the house, shouting that we had a pet!)