Random

Anyways, TAFA was pretty good yesterday. I think I did okay on the evaluations. I still hurt all over from the retreat. I was one of two girls on it and a bunch of boys came. We played football, ultimate frisbee(which, may I say is one of the best games ever), wrestling, volleyball, nuke'em, boogat(a new game in vented by Logan), moogat(still another game invented by Logan, four square, soccer, Taboo, and other games. Ow. I hurt. But mainly from that wrestling game. Me and Jamie wrestled and we had to tie becasue we were just pulling on a t-shirt thing trying to get it from eachother for like 5 minutes. My forearms were killing me.


I must admit. I hadn't had Oreos in milk in forevah but I had some today. Yum. I love that.

Ice Ice Baby

Well, friends, I had a pretty average day today. I drank two cups of hot tea because I was so cold and icy. Hannah L and Whitney taught me how to do a swing dance step. I can say I kind of know how to dance now! Yeah, I've pretty much never danced in my life. Seriously. When all you cool people that are going to prom see me...you are probably going to laugh. Really hard. You see...my name means graceful. All my friends always make fun of me because,well,...I am not. I pretty much trip when I am just walking. That is why I made a decision. I will not wear heels to prom. I will wear flats so I can walk.

P.S. I took this post from my xanga because I didn't want to retype a different account of the same story. So, for all you xanga people that read this(which would probably be nobody) I will probably do this many times. Thank you and good night.

Funny Fears

Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats. "Nice Kitty. AHHHHHHH!
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic….Dracula has this one
Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia…I forgot who has this one
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc
Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.."Honey…I got you thses flowers to show how much I love you." "NOOOO! GO AWAY!!!
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights…."Next months new horror movie…AURORA BOREALIS!!!!!!"
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks….I think Captain Hook has this one
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations…."So, the weather has been nice…AHHHHHHHH!"
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women….BWAHAHAHA
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables…No Mommy…NOT THE GREEN BEANS!!!!
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers….NOT THE ISLAND OF PERPETUAL TICKLEING!!
Scolionophobia- Fear of school
Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.. Ben has this real bad
Technophobia- Fear of technology. But I love technology.But not as much as you you see
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow. YELLOW! NOOOOO!
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat…I think this one speaks for itself

So...About Camp

I sent in my camp application recently and it got me to thinking about past camp experiences...good and bad.

Good Things: I love camp. It is a time to spend with your old friends and a time to make new ones. I love to hike when I don't have Dustin as a brother cabin counselor. I will tell about that in the bad section. At Kadesh, there were about 500 kids there and I promise, like 425 of them could sing really well. It is SOOOOO much fun to sing with people who can sing. I had a little thing with this boy named Aaron at Kadesh, but I wasn't allowed to "date". I told the kid that but he still followed me around everywhere. It was kind of fun though:). The banquet at Blue Haven has always been a fun time. Even if you don't get asked, it is still great. I love singing fun songs at CBH and the Talent Shows at every camp. I love Twins Day and swimming. All the great Bible lessons. Trading Post, Nuke'em, archery, air riflery, and much much more.


Bad Things: Okay. About Dustin. I really like Dustin as a person but as a hike leader...I despised him. Okay, maybe I'm over-reacting a little. Our 2 cabins left after every one else's cabins. We hike(or should I say ran?) 4 and 3/4 miles and then hiked back. So all in all we hiked 9 1/2 miles. Our cabin got back before everyone else's. We hiked more than any other 2 cabins in less time than every one.(3 hours). Yeah, it was pretty crazy. I had a blister the size of a quarter and I am not exaggerating. And one time, my sister Taylor entered me in a pie eating contest right after supper. I ate half of it and started crying. It was an apple pie. Ugggghh. I will try to post more on this subject later. I have to get ready for church. :)

Good News!!

I'm going to homeschool prom!!! I just purchased my tickets online! It's going to be soooooo much fun. I hope I get to go to the dance lessons because I can't dance worth a flip!

A Fairy Tale by 7th Grade Me

Once upon a time, far, far away in a little country called Rakso, there lived a little boy who would never mind his parents. He was always too busy reading. Whenever his mother or father would ask him to do something, he would say, "Why should I? I should be studying!" This boy's name was Koden.
One day, Koden's mom said, "I'm going to the village to buy some food. While I'm gone, feed the pigs and muck out the stables and please don’t go into the woods!"
As soon as his mother left, he ran outside and into the woods. Joyfully, he skipped among the leaves. All of the sudden, he came to a pleasant little cottage. "I've never seen this cottage before. I wonder who lives in it?" Koden thought to himself. His mother had told him to never go up to a stranger's house, but of course, he never minded his mother. Boldly, he knocked on the door. A beautiful maiden answered it and squealed with glee, "Oh, what a handsome and strong boy! You must be worn out from you journey. Why don't you come inside and have some tea and cake?"
Koden grinned and ran into her house. She slammed the door and locked it. In horror, he watched as the beautiful maiden transformed into an atrocious witch! Cackling, she said to Koden, "Ah, you will make a strong new servant for my house?" She stared at his head, like she was reading his mind. "Aha! You know how to cook! An excellent find, wouldn't you agree, Merelda?" she spoke to the parrot in the corner.
"Bwakk! You are right! Bwakk!" Merelda answered.
The witch grinned at Koden with her revolting teeth, "That’s the only thing she knows how to say. You'd learn well from her." She chortled maliciously. Viciously, she snatched Koden's collar, yanked him down her hallway and hurled him into a dungeon with a girl his age. He could see her because of the light that came through the caged roof.
Grabbing the bars he howled at the witch, "Won't you give us anything to eat?"
"Why should I?" screeching with laughter, she locked him in the cage.
In sorrow, he turned to the girl beside him in the cage only big enough for two people to lie down. "What's your name?" she asked him
"My name is Koden Bayard. And yours?"
"I am Princess Emilia Whitebeard, only child of Jakob and Patricia Whitebeard, King and Queen of Rakso." Emilia answered.
His jaw dropped, "You're the missing princess? Everyone's looking for you! Even though those who have looked for you say you must be dead, your parents continue to look for you."
Emilia smiled, "That's good except for no one can find this cottage except for disobedient children in Rakso."
"How do you know that? And are we the only disobedient children in Rakso? Surely there are more!" Koden was puzzled.
"Merelda told me. Robella can't read animal's minds. She thinks Merelda is a stupid bird that can only say, "You are right", but Merelda has picked up on a lot of things and she told me that because I gave her some food. I felt sorry for her. Robella only feeds her every other day. And to answer your other question. No. There are forty other cages that hold 2 children each. She doesn't want us conversing and conspiring against her so she separates us. I was the newest before you!"
"So Robella is her name. Hmmm, is she a wicked witch?" Koden asked Emilia.
She gave him a look like he was crazy. "Yeah, she's a wicked witch, but you better go to sleep now because she will wake us up early in the morning to work." Emilia curled up on one of the two narrow stone slabs one foot apart that were supposed to be beds. Koden took off his jacket and laid it on her shivering shoulders. She gave him a shy grin and rolled over and went to sleep. He lay down on his own slab and he fell asleep immediately.
Koden awoke to the bars shaking. "Wake up, stupids! It's time for breakfast!" Robella screeched and continued down the hall.
"Yes, breakfast, something to eat!" Koden popped out of bed.
"Eat? Before Robella? Nope. You’re the new cook. I'll tell you what she expects. Two roasted turkeys, a crown of lamb, seventeen scrambled eggs, twenty half bagels with cream cheese, a glass of goat milk, and one gallon of orange juice." Emily explained the long list of food.
"That's masses of food!" he lowered his voice, "I have a plan to get us out of here! At home, I read a book on herbs. There is a plant called Moonlick that tastes, looks, and smells like salt, but if a wicked witch eats it, she’ll shrivel up like a snail!" He walked out of the jail and up to Robella. He cleared is minds of all thoughts of what was about to do so Robella wouldn't read his mind. He thought of food. "Robella, may I go outside and pick wild vegetables out of the forest? It will make your roasted turkeys 100 times better!"
Robella was pleased that he had asked her. "Sure! You are much better than my last cook. Well, you'd BETTER be better than my last cook."
He walked outside and picked vegetables. A little deeper in the woods grew wild onions and Moonlick. Silently, he walked back.
"Why did you go so deep in the woods?" Robella asked suspiciously.
"To get wild onions." He answered simply. Robella seemed to accept that answer and so Koden washed the vegetables and Moonlick. He then cooked a delicious meal. Carrying two trays at a time, Koden set all the food in front of Robella. She ate ravenously, gulping the eggs, lamb, and milk all at once. Koden's heart raced as she picked up both turkeys at the same time. Not to give himself away, Koden thought of his horse Gallopatrot and how much he wanted to ride him. As soon as she put the turkeys in her mouth, she began to scream. Her skin started to bubble and eighty-one curious faces peeked out of their cages. Soon, she was a puddle on the ground. The children cheered and stampeded out the door, all back to their home where their parents missed them very much. None of them ever disobeyed again. Well, almost never.
Koden and Emilia grew up, fell in love, and were married. Koden became king of Rakso and they lived happily ever after.

Super Bowl and Super Fast Playing Theory Man

I don't know about you...but I was sorely disappointed in the Super Bowl commercials this year. Usually, there are only 4 or 5 not so funny ones. This time, there were only 4 or 5 funny ones. AND about half of them were nasty. The Seahawks deserved to win that game though. They had one touchdown and one potential touchdown taken away from them by the silly referee.
I am so glad Ben Roethlisberger didn't get MVP. He so didn't deserve it. He had a pretty stinky game. Well, readers, you didn't come to my blog to get the stats on the Super Bowl. Other stuff did happen today. I took the Fort Worth Music Teachers Association theory test. On all the practice tests I made 98's and 99's. WELL, when I got there I pretty much breezed through the written part of the test. When the theory test guy did the melodic dictation(where you have to write down the song he plays) he did four measures at a time instead of my practices 2. AND he played it and all the other ear trainings at super speed. I have been taking the theory test for five years now and EVERY teacher has done it by 2's and fairly slowly. I tried my best but probably bombed that melodic dictation part of the test. Then to make matters worse...it was time for the bonus point. I will tell the bad part after this. I will tell a fun story first. The man said, "Who will do sight singing?" and I saw a guy and a girl raise their hand. I didn't really notice the guy(I had turned around to look to see who would sight sing). Well, the guy turned around and said, "Hannah, what in the world are you doing here?" It was Thomas Shivone! Totally random! He said, "Yeah, I saw your brother staring at me in the window and I was like 'who's that freak staring at me?' then I realized it was Ben. Then I saw you." and I said. "I take this test every year." Then he went and did his sight singing. You could hear him through the wall and it was hilarious. Everyone in the room stopped taking the test and stared in amazement. I was just laughing. Oh, Thomas. All the basses at TAFA miss you. Anyways, it is time for me to tell the bad part. I had been made so nervous by Mr. Speedy Gonzales Ear Training that I totally bombed the bonus point too. It was rhythmic dictation and I don't do well with that when I am nervous. I do it fine when not trying so hard. Sheesh, so I struggled to hold back tears(how lame is that...who cries over theory?) and went home. I felt so sad, Dad got me a blizzard from Dairy Queen. Then I felt better. :)

My Favorites

Color: green

Holiday: my birthday

Month: December

Food: shrimp

Movie: The Four Feathers and Pride and Prejudice

Book: The Anne of Green Gables Books

Male Bible charachters: besides the obvious Jesus...I've always liked David and Joseph

Female Bible Charachters: Hannah and Ruth(haha...what a coincidence)

Date: I'd have to say April 25 because it's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. (just kidding. that's a line from one of my favorite movies Miss Congeniality)

Niece: Mary Alice...haha

Nephews: Landon and Major...hehe

Bible Story: Hannah praying for Samuel

Camp: Camp Blue Haven!!!

Book Charachters: Anne Shirley and Aslan

Pizza topping: pepperoni

Bands: Relient K and Coldplay

Song: It changes all the time but for now..."Fix You" by Coldplay

Cartoon Charachter: Larry the Cucumber

Drink: Pepsi

Dessert: Pumpkin Pie or anything chocolate

Ice Cream Flavor: pumpkin...mmmmm