Catching up

I think I should actualy post a few things once in a while, don't you?

Well, since my last post, several tings have happened.

My dad died.

I had my last drama performance with my drama club.  And my drama club closed.

My brother graduated.

My little brother's baseball is over (finally!).

My uncle M came for a visit with his kids.  Morgan went home after spending one night.  Steff went back to collage after spending a night.  Then the next day we found out that Morgan was in the hospital.  The cause? Attempted suicide.  Please pray for him.  My uncle thought my sense of humor was great.  He loved my one liners that I just shoot off.

My grandma M came for a visit as well.  As did my uncle J.  And my uncle L and aunt MS and their two boys.

My mom's friend K came for a visit as well.  We floated down a river on tubes for fun while she was here and also went riding tenasee walking horses.  Fun!  The river was freezing and my horse was short and just being trained.

I'm taking riding lessons again. (finally).  Rosie will now canter both leads pretty well on a circle that's about, oh, say, thirty feet diameter?  Good for her!  She'll also do turns on the forehand either way, we tried getting her to do the two-track but failed.  And now we're teaching her to do turns on the haunches.  She'll also run around on the lunge line both ways, even at a canter. 

Two lessons ago, I almost fainted.  I had a belly ache prior to the lesson and then it sort of went away, but so did my vision, hearing, and sense of direction.  Needless to say, that lesson was canceled.

I've been playing around with photoshop (I call it PS.  Do not mistake with PlayStaion).  I'm getting better each time and my most recent project is a pegesus.  He's supposed to be Artham P. Wingfeather from the Wingfeather Saga in horse form when I'm done.

I watched the Jurassic Park movies.

I wrote several poems that turned out decently, if I do say so myself.

I came up with most of the main plot line for a book.

I read about fifty books.

I still havn't finished science.

I took a Spanish course.  Learned a lot and can now sort of reconize several phrases when they're spoken to me.

The wheat fields are harvested. (yay!  Easier to ride Rosie in now)

I've quit feeding Rosie hay because she needs to slim down a bit and there is PLENTY of grass for her to eat since she is the only four legged beast in the pasture.

The pups have grown and are now nine months old and still very cute.

The lawn is turning brown since we can't really water it since we're on water restriction, just like any summer.  Other years have been worse.  Once we could only water between certain hours on certain days.  Otherwise people WAY down the pipeline will have nary a trickle of water.  The pipe system was not well thought out.

I've babysat a ton.  Six kids at once for several hours once.  Earned enough money to buy a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet to aid me with my art.

I'm going to turn the things I do with PS into a class for school and get credits for it.  Same with having Rosie.  I'm taking Western Rider 1 this year and getting credits for that.

I feel a little spoiled since my mom bought me TWO pairs of LuluLemon pants.  So comfy!!

And I think that's it.  Expect most of my posts to be like this.  I kinda forget I have a blog sometimes. :p

Sweet Girls, Chemo, and Some More of the Tiny Island

On Saturday, the three little girls next door came over with a handful of flowers they had picked for my daddy.  I managed to keep from crying at this so sweet little act until they left.  They are so wonderful!!!

My dad is getting chemo right now.

Once we got to the youth retreat, we stuck our bags in the "Mator Gator" (a John Deere golf cart thing decorated like Mator from "Cars").  Then we went and were the first ones registered.  After that, we got whisked off on a tour of the campus.  We went to the dock (decorated as 'Finding Nemo') where a guy in a wet suit asked us if we had seen Nemo, cause he had lost the little fish.  We hadn't, and he jumped off the dock.  Then the rules of the dock were quickly told and we continued up the path.  We saw the soccer field and then went to the Lodge, where the girls stay.  The boys were told that that was as close as they would go to the girls' dorms while they were there.  After that, we went along the path and came across a 'Surfs Up' lemonade stand.  there was a homemade penguin surfing thing that you could stick your head into and get your picture taken.  Nobody wanted to do it.  So Jessie (a girl dressed up as Jessie from Toystory) grabbed one of the girls in our tour and stuck her in it.  Then we went to the boys' cabins.  The girls were informed that that was as close as they would get to them for the rest of the weekend.  We participated in the making of a 'movie', then went back down to the main part of the campus.  We passed the field of Smoochie the lama on our way.  Smoochie was at his fence, so Jessie and Woody informed us that he lives up to his name and we could kiss him if we wanted.  No one wanted to, so I was just like, "Sure, whatever."  I kissed Smoochie.  Then we finished up by seeing the Up Office, Guestou's (the dining halls, yes, plural.).  After that we were free to do whatever until lunch.  A and I found her sisters and talked with them for a bit.  We wandered around for a bit, then found A's parents a few minutes before the ferry left to take them back to the big island.  A's sister, J, was there also with a friend and I learned a secret that I can't tell ANYONE!!! ;)  Don't worry, it's a good secret.  Well, I'll finish up some more later.