bam

so i am m.i.a. no longer!

anyways, i love these dudes...

please ignore the brief language :P
sorry i keep posting videos... personally, i don't like watching videos on other peoples' blogs... lol
and then this. thaaank you :) i love this site (link)

and this one :) (link)

yeay :)
lovelovelove, naomi

snow, mon iPod, and... i think that's it.

we got a couple more inches of snow to add to our bajillion x} i am loving it:

 it's kinda beautiful :D and it's really hard to show how much it is in pictures... but it's up to my brother's waist in most places ;P:

i think we enjoy this webcam too much...

and about mon iPod! i turned it on the other day and tried to "slide to unlock" it, but it WOULDN'T MOVE!! then through further investigation, i verified that it is the screen itself that doesn't work :( so i have to bring it to the Apple store to see if they can do anything about it... i doubt it because the screen is basically the iPod, and it would probably cost a bajillion and 10 dollars to replace it, so i'll probably just end up buying a new one... sad day... i've had this one (1st generation bay-be!) for... three years? maybe? and recently it's been having annoying little quirks... that are annoying... haha yeeeah... so! the newest iPod touches are cool... they have facetime and a video camera! and plenty of cool editing apps :} yeah, so, we'll see. i'll probably just get a new one...
anywho, happy snow day- OH! i totally forgot! we've had midterms this past week! and i completely forgot to mention them... k, now i will! ;P lol...
so monday we had off because it was mlk jr day, then on tuesday we had our first exam- Bible! it was kinda easy, but my uber fab teacher put everything we had ever learned on it... but it was basically what i believe... so! then wednesday was English and Math. YUCKEE!!! i reaaaally can't stand mathematics. really. the night before, when i was doing the review pages for math, i got suuuper duper frustrated with oh, say, ALL of the problems so i told my mom "hey mom, i'm just gonna wing the math exam." and she said "ok!" lol ;P it was really funny... so i wunged the math exam and it was UBER easy (praise the LORD!!) and English wasn't that hard either... actually, i can't even remember what was on the English exam... lol that just shows how much i care ;P i have an A+ in English, so i kinda just wrote fluff in the essay... haha ;D THEN thursday (yesterday WOAH! it does NOT feel like friday...) was history. ah boy that was fun... there was a semi-big essay on that exam, so i outlined the entire thing the night before. and there was a big matching section with a bunch of people, and i started memorizing those at the beginning of the week. History is my lowest grade, so i had to do well on that... but when i got it, there was a whole section on the governments of Athens and Sparta, and my teach had told us we didn't have to know that!! argh! i checked my answers when i got home, and i got like all of them wrong D: ick... we'll see! today was supposed to be Physics and French (which are my two easiest subjects), but because it snowed this morning, we'll have to take the exams on Monday, which was supposed to be a day off :P oh well!
i feel like i always say bravo if you read all of that. and the reason i say it is because i don't have patience to read anyone else's long posts, (i just skim) so i don't think anyone else does either ;P lol but if the post has pictures, i like it ;D haha ANYwho, i'm hungry, so i'm going to go eat something yummy. maybe pretzels and Nutella...
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ancient lovers

this is something i read about in my history book last week...
in ancient egypt, two lovers would call each other "brother" and "sister". there was a little bit of a poem by a dude who was lovesick for his "sister". as Christians, our lovers (i know, it's an old-fashioned, soppy word ;P) should be our brother or sister in Christ. i kinda don't have anything else to add to that, but i thought it was really interesting...

life as we know it now

watching A Knight's Tale on tv xD i heeeeaaaarrrrrtttt heath ledger!!!! *OUCH* rufus is beating up heath!! noooooo!!! i love rufus in Amazing Grace... not so much in this movie *grimace*
holy cow, there's so many people i know in this movie!! james purefoy (the philanthropist), paul bettany (dustfinger), rufus sewell (amazing grace), alan tudyk (firefly/serenity)... woooow!

anywho! school started last tuesday (WOW it feels like i've been going to school for a couple years already...), so i've had 4 days of school. i'm taking French 1, Foundations of Christianity, Foundations of Language & Literature, Algebra 2 Honors, Foundations of the Modern World, Physics, Intro to Theatre, and Art 1 Basic Design. i've had atleast one of all of my classes. and i am LOVING it! it's been soo awesome! people always ask if you have any friends when you start school... no, i don't have any friends. i haven't even talked to anyone in my grade. JK!! i've talked to almost everyone and (it's so weird saying it) but i think of most of them as my friends! what classifies them as friends? if you've talked to them more than twice, or have hung out with them more than twice... lol then, yeah, they're my friends ;D
so it's been great! and i love it! :}
i'm playing soccer, and guess what?! i made varsity!!!! normally i play keeper, but they already have one. yesterday we went to a jamboree in maine (it's like a tournament, but there's only one round). there are four schools. i played forward (sooooo much fun!!) in the first game against the pretty tough home team and we tied 0-0. the second game i played midfield against a team that i seriously thought was jv and we beat them somewhere around 7-0. the third game i didn't get to play at all (it was tough), but we won 2-1. so that was a good start to our season! it doesn't actually count for anything, but it's encouraging!! :D
have an awesome next week!
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quickie!

soooo sorry i haven't updated, like, at all! this is just to say i AM alive, i'm just so busy with school starting next tuesday, and i don't really know what i'm doing because i've never been to school before... so prayer is awesome, i love prayer... and i'll be praying for all of you with school and everything else... that's happening... in your... life. so! tata!
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random things that are of no significance... ok, maybe they are

oh my goodness, i'm so sorry i haven't updated in forever!
updates:

• one of the reasons i haven't been posting is because SCHOOL STARTS SEPTEMBER 7th and i am freaking out! my first year of "real school"... D:
• we got a macbook pro :} mmm yeay
• i damaged the soft tissue in my left wrist last week playing soccer, but thankfully it's healing super duper fast (i'm a fast healer ;P haha it's very helpful), and hopefully i'll be fine by soccer preseason so i can play goalie again!
• i was looking through my pictures from vacation, and (if i do say so myself) there are some good ones! i am utterly satisfied... maybe i can make a slideshow (haha somehow...) with our new mac :}
• is the annoying malware thing gone?
• omb threadless.com has some amazingly gorgeous shirts... for example: this one, this one, and this one! :D

k, i gotta go :( see ya!
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update on my knees...

so ya know how i told y'all about my knees swelling up? well yesterday i went to the rheumatologist. she did some tests an' stuff... apparently i have hypermobility! which means that i can move my joints (mostly my knees and fingers) farther than other people. meaning my joints are slightly less tight than others', which can occasionally cause inflammation... haha i sound really scientific ;P lol soooo that's a possible explanation. when i get the other results, we'll (hopefully) get actual explanations ;}
k, see y'all later :)
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"Battles, battles - how many make a war? And when you have won one, then what have you won?... It is entirely possible to win against the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle."
-The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.

ok, this is really the last one! ;]
what color do you think i should do the headers etc? this minty one is kinda BAM and clashes with the purple tlw... hmmm... maybe i should just change the entire template? whaddya think? :)

independence day and something else...

last night, a bunch of my friends and family went in to Boston to see the fireworks there. first we had dinner at my aunt's house in somerville, then some of us walked and some of us drove to cambridge to watch the fireworks over the charles. mr scott (my sunday school teacher ;P) used to work at the marriot, so he found "his favorite spot" on a welcome mat sewer cover (it's an inside joke...). seeing as we left somerville at 8.30, we stood in cambridge, on our welcome mat sewer cover, for 2 hours. lots of fun, let me tell ya. goodness, some people! they would like shove past you so they could stand on your feet, block your view, and blow smoke in your face! golly, obnoxious to the max... but eventually they would move on ;P mr scott and my cousin are sooo rambunctious, my goodness! haha right before the fireworks started, mr scott yelled (and those who know his yell, i was standing right in front of him... *ouch* lol ;D) "THE BRITISH ARE COMING!" we did a clapping game where you go around the circle and every person claps one more than the person before them. people around us kept looking at us weird ;D hehe i love confusing random people... we kept trying to make people think there was something to clap for by starting to applaud and yell. haha everyone started looking toward the barge to see if the fireworks had started or something ;P so we entertained ourselves for 2 hours by being obnoxious (lol some people enjoyed the show ;P). the fireworks themselves weren't that exciting... the finale was pretty good, but everything else was kind of same old, same old. but that's ok, because it was fun! ;D haha... _ now i need to stick the "something else" in to help explain this next part: last tuesday, my left knee was hurting, wednesday it started to swell up, and thursday morning it was a balloon. i went to the doctor, they did xrays, blood tests, etc. and it turns out i either have lyme disease or rheumatoid arthritis. we'll get the lyme test results tomorrow, so... i'm hoping it's lyme because then it can be treated and done away with... i think i'm going to have to make the type smaller for this post! lol ;P sorry... _ anywho, back to last night. most of our group (sleep-)walked back to somerville (by now it's like 11-something), but me (because my knees were killing me from standing and walking for 3 hours), my mom, my cousin's grandma, and my cousin's grandma's friend from canada (hehe i love the 's ;P) waited for my aunt to pick us up in her car that she parked in kendall square. we found the intersection down the street from the charles where we were supposed to meet her, and... sat there for 1 1/2 hours. there were plenty of things to entertain! the building across the street's alarm was going off and some fire trucks came, then left, then came again... i loooove people watching... and there were some short-of-patience police officers directing traffic... so the reason she was so late was because the police were directing traffic away from where we were. so finally, at about 1 o'clock (haha july 5th) my dad and uncle came and picked us up. we were even considering taking a cab away from where we were... and we didn't have a phone, so we borrowed some random guy's... fun time! _ i finally got in bed (and straight to sleep ;P) at 2.20am this morning and woke up at 11.13am :) _ now that i've wasted probably your whole day (bravo if you read the whole thing! i would feel loved...), how was your independence day? _ signing off [[zoomzoom]] flo on the go

::edit:: sorry this thing is so obnoxious! it won't let me have seperate paragraphs! D: uuuuugh...

i can go the distance from hercules

i can go the distance

i don't care how fat

i'll turn out to be

i know every bite

will be worth the fight

i will eat most anything

to reach my destiny!

haha sorry i started halfway through the song ;P lol

my brother and i just made that up while eating chocolate frozen yogurt and cookie dough ice cream :} mmmmm bliiiisss....

color creatures! :D

zebra

shrimp

fishie

dog

eh, horse?

yeay :} i discovered this new brilliant thing called "scanning" ;P lol duuuuh 'course that would help...
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aw yeaw

so guess what guys! next year (probably going through the next, like, 5 years) during my daily quiet time thang i'm going to read the Bible along with Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, "complete and unabridged", all 2485 pages, originally 6 voumes! :D check it oooouuuutttt!

and sorry i'm not posting any pictures, i have to send my camera away to the camera doctors :( but i think i'm going to take a picture of my awesome flip-flop tan ;P hehe

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"We're not gullible, we're open-minded!"

-Manny Spamboni and Annie Scrambler

from The Electric Company

ooh... ooh... OOH!

aahh the things you can learn when you pay attention...

hehe

i absolutely love paper people:

• Paperwink
• Rifle Paper Co
• Night Owl Paper Goods
• SusyJack*
• Good on Paper
• Papermash
• Little Jane St.
• Scout Books (ok, not really...)
• Nina Rowan, Creativity Cards, and Two Trick Pony on Etsy
• Also, Design des Troy on Etsy

Funkiness: HERE!
Cuteness: HERE!
Awesomeness: HERE!

AND WHERE I FOUND IT ALL: http://www.modishblog.com/modish/

*note: this is not all censored and there may be an occasional bad joke, etc*

and my 2 faves are Papermash cards and Little Jane St. magnets and you should all buy me an adorable something from one of those XD haha love y'all...

lol hope you enjoyed all those links!! :]
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so has anyone who has a blog seen the template designer? it's really cool! (that's how i made this template-whaddya think?)

i kind of don't have anything to say... have an uber-awesome day!

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random mumblings...

• only 228 days 'till VoDT is released :D soooo stoked over here...
• pulling out hedges causes injury no matter how skilled you are
• i regularly check spareoom.net and ms webmistress still hasn't updated!
• my sis finally updated her blog: clicky!
• the other sis has not...: clicky-squared!
• the sabres (who are amazing btw) finally won again to keep the bruins (bears: laaaame...) from going on to the next finals round
• rebecca's bro was at church today and i didn't even recognize him... i thought he looked like john cooper from skillet ;P lol
• i am the master bball knocker-outer of the world
• it was supposed to rain today but it didn't and i am overjoyed!!!
• i am soooo hungry and i already had a roast bf samich, an apple, and popcorn... and some angel food cake (looooovelovelove)
• tonight my second favorite show is on!! guess what it is! ;D
• i'm writing a persuasion paper on abortion for my amazing-but-awful lit class... maybe i'll post what i have so far in a minute...
• the revs traded 2 of their best players (and 2 of my faves :( ) to the col rapids!! golly, who on EARTH came up with that idea?!?!?! and somewhere around 6 of their vets are out (injuries), including the MOST-AMAZING-GOALIE-OF-ALL-TIME!!!! yeah, i'm a little frustrated... i didn't even want to watch the game yesterday... D: and they lost. brilliant.

aaaaand that's about it for this minute! :D signing off [[zoomzoom]] flo on the go

my pretty people...

this is my creation for today:

hehe :)

and the quote from last post was from the song Bowling Ball (Not That Into You Mix) from Superchick :)

the new cd it's from (Reinvention) has a bunch of their most popular songs "reinvented". they made different mixes of them from the movies/shows/etc they were used in: example- Hey Hey (Vampires vs. Cheerleaders Mix), etc ;P lol they're great, you should check 'em out :)

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Carrot Cake Recipe

2 c. sugar  

1 1/2 c. Canola (or Wesson) oil

4 eggs

2 c. flour

2 tsp. soda

1 tsp. salt

2 tsp. cinnamon

2 tsp. baking powder

1 c. chopped walnuts (optional)

3 c. raw shredded or grated carrots

~Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

~Beat sugar and oil.

~Add eggs and cream well.

~Sift flour, soda, salt, cinnamon and baking powder.

~Add dry ingredients to first mixture. Blend well.

~Add nuts (optional) and carrots.

~Bake for approximately 45 minutes.

FROSTING

1 (1 lb.) box powdered sugar

8 oz. Philadelphia cream cheese

1/4 stick oleo, softened

2 tsp. vanilla

~Beat well.

(Recipe for frosting may be cut in half.)

This is an amazing recipe I made the other day... well, twice. The first time I made it in cake form and it was awesome! It was really moist, but my mom thought it was too sugary. (We didn't use this recipe for frosting, we just used Betty Crocker whipped cream cheese frosting...so I don't know how good this recipe is.) So the second time I made it, I only put in 1 1/2 cups of sugar, and it was less moist. Personally, I liked it better the first time (following the recipe), but that's just me :D Y'all should ALL make it, and tell me what'cha think. Everybody needs a little carrot cake in their life :)

[I got this recipe from an old book called "Recipes", hehe lol, and probably you can't get it anywhere because it's "contributed by friends of Bethany Home in Lancaster, New York". I think we probably got it from my grandma or something...]

Aaaaaaand... I really hope Kate Gosselin gets kicked off DWTS.... let's be honest, she stinks.

haha signing off

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