Happy Memorial Day!

Remember the heroes...if it weren't for them, our country wouldn't be free.

Izori

Typical Saturday

This is SO not it! First off, we're dog-sitting! The dog's name is...I'll still code her, even though she's a dog...her name is Easter, and she's a great dog. She's at our house, and I just took her for a walk.

Then we had an Alpaca meeting. =( It went okay.

It's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO muggy! It's hot too, and I'm very miserable. My hair is 100% flat.

We had a thunderstorm recently. I love thunderstorms. They're just so powerful. I feel, incredibly, very secure with the lightning and the thunder and the pounding rain. I don't know why. It also makes me feel poetic.

I finished 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' yesterday. The ending surprised me a little. It was kinda like Lemony Snicket was building up, and building up, and then it just ended. There were some things that weren't necessarily holes but certainly went unanswered. However, it leaves room for the imagination, and I can certainly imagine what happened after.

(You might not want to read the following if you haven't finished the books. Just sayin')

The strange shadow-thing was really a hollow ear of corn, and it had sucked up the Baudelaire parents who really hadn't died, and the Quagmires, Fiona's family, and the Baudelaire parents had steered the thing and had met up with Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Kit's daughter and lived happily ever after! If you were to inquire after Violet Baudelaire though, you would be unable to find her. On the other hand, the famous inventor Violet B. Quagmire is famous and was recently in the news. Her husband, a successful cartographer, often works with Klaus and his wife, Fiona, to write the history of the V.F.D. That organization, in the meanwhile, is thriving and helps capture stray elephants for the zoo. All the other characters have happy endings, even Esme Squalor, who became one of the most generous, welcoming people in the city, and who now lives with her husband and their adopted, reformed child, Carmelita. TA-DA!

Er, at least that's what I think.

I'm not going to do the Writer's Daybook now. Maybe sometime later.

TTFN!

Izori

Guess what's coming up!

That's right, summer! I"m really looking forward to it, particularly because, for basically the first time ever, I won't have to do school work through the summer! All I basically have to do is complete Latin, but we're right on track for everything else.

That's probably the only downside to home schooling: if we aren't careful, we get really off track because we don't have a rigid schedule. However, not being tied down to the public school year has way more ups then downs, including being able to vacation when no one else can. =) We can also take sporadic weeks off, like we did during Dad's cancer treatment.

I had an extensive to-do list for summer, including brushing up on my Russian and being more fluent in sign language. And there were some things even more ambitious than that! Then I decided that this summer I'm not going to be stressed out. I might not get as many things accomplished, but at least I won't feel like a spread a mile wide and an inch deep.

Here is my drastically toned down summer to-do list:

1. Completely finish and publish my NaNoWriMo novel.
2. Finish Latin.
3. Be able to run 4 miles.
4. Get my Vitamin D level up to normal.
5. Become a better swimmer (I'm a good swimmer, but not a fast one)
6. Become better friends with Luthien.
7. Practice soccer every day.
8. Cut down on sugar intake.
9. Read my Bible every single day.
10. Choreograph to 'The Butterfly' by Mairead Nesbitt
11. Relax and have fun!

And my before summer to-do list:

1. Finish the script for my friends (ha-ha, that's funny).
2. Do a good Gollum imitation (I'm actually good at that already)
3. Finish my school work

Yes, not a very long list.

Stuff that didn't make these lists were things like work more on two other novels and improving my foreign language skills. However, I still want to improve my sign language.

Well...now that I've made known my goals, I might want to start working on them. Like finishing my school work.

Can't wait 'till summer!



Izori

P.S. Thanks everyone for praying! I'm am 100% better now, and my mom, who had it on Sunday/Monday, is better too. Erestor has caught it now. Please pray for him, and also that no one else will catch the stomach bug. Galdor would be absolutely miserable if he had it!

Thanks!

Prayer Request and a notice

I'm still not feeling 100%, which means that unless I suddenly feel great in a couple of hours we'll have to postpone my birthday dinner...again. So can you guys please pray that I'll get over this really odd stomach bug? Thanks.

Oh, and mom has declared that computer use must slow to a trickle, so if you don't see much of me then don't think I got abducted by aliens and am desperately trying to escape from a Martian winery with help from an undercover spy from Neptune involved in a plot to overthrow the government on Jupiter. Just in case you would think that. =)

One last thing: I know that I've been awarded by a lot of people...sorry that I haven't done those. I'll try, but I doubt I'll have the time.

See ya!

Izori

Today's a holiday...

...because, at 5:30-ish today, I turn 14!!! I'm really excited, especially because I'm on the very verge of finishing editing my NaNoWriMo novel! So if I get that done before early evening, I can say that I have completely written a novel when I was 13.

Thanks, everyone, for you great comments! I woke up feeling great today, and just in time! Dad took me out to Caribou Coffee. The only thing wrong with me is that my neck hurts from falling asleep on the couch yesterday. =)

Izori

Prayer Request

Ugh. I am absolutely miserable. My stomach started hurting yesterday (Tuesday) night, and it progressed until I threw up at about 11:00 PM. I threw up at about 3 AM after that, and I still feel pretty bad. Please pray that I feel better, especially because tomorrow's my 14th birthday and I really don't want to be sick then. If you could also pray that I won't get grumpy and take it out on my family, that would be super awesome.

You know, watching a cooking show didn't really help. We were watching the Nationals lose to the Cardinals (that was kinda funny when Niger Morgan lost his glove, even though it cost us two runs =) and our go-to channel was, as usual, Food Network. Usually I really like watching stuff such as Iron Chef, Ace of Cakes (it's hilarious, although sometimes it can get kind of weird), although I honestly think that Unwrapped is boring. But anyway, Chefs vs. City was on, with the two main chefs facing Duff and Geoff from Ace of Cakes. I was rooting for Duff and Geoff =)

Well, in this episode of Chefs vs. City, they had to go cook an ostrich egg sunny side up, and then they had to eat a whole, hard-boiled ostrich egg. That's equal to 24 chicken eggs. It was disgusting, and it completely ruined my appetite and caused my stomach to feel even worse. =(

You know, actually I do feel a bit better then last night. I've taken ginger, which I think helped. And when I usually get stomach bugs they only last half a day or so. I think this one's starting to go away.

Unfortunately, this means I'll be missing soccer. At least it wasn't a game day or something. And I also don't have to do schoolwork! Lol.

This is nothing compared to about five years ago, though. It was Sunday, the day when our family was going to become members of our church. During Sunday School, I started to feel really nauseous. And then, right in the middle of a hymn, I threw up. All over my poor mom. Erestor basically scooted over to the next pew. =) But I was completely miserable.

And then I got the flu when I was 3. Oh man. That was...horrible *shudders*. I still vividly remember throwing up into my tomato soup.

Not to mention the 3 day stomach bug Mom, Erestor, and I caught once. That actually wasn't too bad.

Well, I should probably get off the computer now. Sorry if I ruined everyone's appetites! lol.

Izori

Great News!

We just got the results for my Lyme Disease/Vitamin D test, and it came back negetave for Lyme! However, my Vitamin D level is kind of low. I'm glad about these results because it should be really easy to cure.

Thanks for praying!

Izori