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Christmas has come to pass....
Merry December 27th! :D
I have been very neglectful of this blog. I had a lot of stuff to do. Mostly sewing because I made a bunch of stuff for Christmas gifts. It was fun but very time consuming.

Emily and I went outside to play in the snow, earlier. It snowed a lot yesterday. I also took some pictures of the snow. I couldn't take as many as I wanted to, though. My stupid memory card got all filled up because I haven't taken pictures off my memory card in awhile.
That's what I'm doing right now- uploading pictures off of my camera and onto the computer. There's 300 pictures and it's taking forever.

Emily and I are going to watch some Psych season three in a little bit. We're waiting for a DVD player to get freed up. That's what happens when everyone in the family gets DVDs for Christmas.

I'm sure everyone has heard it said before that God blesses us in ways that we don't expect. It really is true and it really hit me last week.
There's this poster I got a frame for and it was hanging on the wall of Emily and I's room above Emily's bed.
Not long after I bought the frame, I noticed that one of the hooks on the back of the frame had gotten bent funny and was causing the poster to hang weirdly. I took the poster off of the wall and leaned it against my wall.
A week ago, while I was wrapping Christmas presents, I bumped against the poster. I barely touched it and yet cracks were sent up all through the glass. I guess there was a flaw or something in the glass.
I was sad that the frame was rendered useless and that I'd have to buy another frame.
But then I had a thought that made me grateful that the frame had broken when it had.
What if the frame had fallen off the wall while Emily was sleeping? I could be blogging right now about how my little sister is in the ER instead of telling about my broken frame.
So thank you, God. Thank you for causing that hook to bend and saving Emily from a trip to the hospital.
It's the season of multiple holidays and there's plenty to be thankful for.
From littler things like food to eat to larger things like a failed terror plot, there's an abundance of things to be grateful for.

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Let it SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

It's snowing! It's snowing!
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Snow is awesome. Except for when you want/need to go somewhere and you can't. Then snow is just annoying.
The young and young at heart love snow. Those that have to go hate it though.
^.^
I wanna go outside and take pictures of the snow but I can't right now :( I WILL LATER THOUGH!
:D

I had to make lunch today for my little sister EMily and myself. I made pasta that had olive oil & veggies on it. Emily said she liked it more than Mom's pasta. Yay! :-P

I don't know why but for some reason I keep hitting the wrong keys on the keyboard today. I have had way more typos today than I usually have. It's weird. Yeah.
It's very annoying. I keep having to retype stuff. >.<


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Ch-ch-ch-changes!

I changed my blog backround and the colors to something more Christmas/Winter-y.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

My synchro team has another competition this weekend! We're leaving on Friday. The people that are getting on the bus in WI have to get to the rink at 5 AM! I don't have to get on the bus until... 6? 6:30 ish? Something like that.

I'm going to sew later. I'm making some Christmas presents. I'm also going to do laundry, watch Monk, and possibly make an apple pie. Yay.

The old sewing machine my grandma gave me... died. Well, it didn't die... not exactly anyway. Last night, my mom and I sat down to figure out how to work the thing. The tension is all messed up. We spent forever trying to get the tension right. And then do you know what happened? The knob for adjusting the tension fell off. So then it took even more time just to get the knob back on.

And wait folks, it gets even better.

The sewing store that's like 1/2 an hour away from my house that I could take my sewing machine to to get fixed, is closed. Yeah, after over twenty years of business, the place goes out of business. The closest place now is like over an hour away.
My mom said that if I really want to get the machine fixed, we could. But it could be expensive to fix or they might not be able to fix it so it might just be better to go out and buy a new machine.
So for now I'm just going to continue using my mom's machine.

Advent has started! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

HELLO

My synchro team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XcGbeOm6W8

I'm going to see Hairspray on Wednesday!!!!!!! :D I'm so excited. Hairspray and Joseph and the Amasing Technicolor Dreamcoat are my favorite musicals. And I've already seen Joseph performed so yeah :D
Random lyrics:

Way way back many centuries ago,
Not long after the Bible began
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan,
A fine example of a family man.
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Depended on farming to earn their keep.
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Spent all of his days in the fields with sheep.
Jacob was the founder of a whole new nation
Thanks to the number of children he had
He was also known as Israel,
but most of the time
His sons and his wives used to call him Dad.
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Men of the soil, of the sheaf and crook
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
A remarkable family in anyone's book.
Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel
With Simeon and Levi the next in line
Naphtali and Isaachar with Asher and Dan
Zebulun and Gad took the total to nine
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Benjamin and Judah,
which leaves only one
Jacob, Jacob and sons,J
oseph - Jacob's favourite son
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob Jacob Jacob
Jacob and Sons

Oh, oh, oh
Woke up today
Feeling the way i always do
Oh, oh, oh
Hungry for something
That i can't eat
Then i hear that beat
The rhythm of town
Starts calling me down
It's like a message from high above
Oh, oh, oh
Pulling me out
To the smiles and the Streets that i love
Good morning Baltimore
Every day's like an open door
Every night is a fantasy
Every sound's like a symphony
Good morning Baltimore
And some day when i take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me
Oh, oh, oh
Look at my hair
What "do" can compare with mine today?
Oh, oh, oh,
I've got my hairspray and radio I'm ready to go
The rats on the street
All dance round my feet
They seem to say "Tracy, it's up to you"
So, oh, oh
Don't hold me back
'Cause today all my dreams will come true
Good morning Baltimore
There's the flasher who lives next door
There's the bum on his bar room stool
They wish me luck on my way to school
Good morning Baltimore
And some day when i take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me
I know every step I know every song
I know there's a place where i belong
I see all those party lights shining ahead
So someone invite me
Before i drop dead!
Before she drops dead!
So, Oh, Oh
Give me a chance
'Cause when i start to dance i'm a movie star
Oh, oh, oh
Something inside of me makes me move
When i hear the groove
My ma tells me no
But my feet tell me go!
It's like a drummer inside my heart
Oh, oh, oh
Don't make me wait
One more moment for my life to start.
I love you Baltimore
Every day's like an open door
Every night is a fantasy
Every sound's like a symphony
And i promise Baltimore
That some day when I take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me
Yes, More Or Less We All Agree
Baltimore and me.
Someday the world Is gonna see
Baltimore and me!

And now your life has been enriched with those wonderful lyrics. :DDDDD

THANKSGIVING IS ON THURSDAY! :D
So that means lots of cooking with my mom. Like every other meal at my house, Thanksgiving is always completely homemade. My mom, Grandma, and I always split the cooking. My grandma makes all her southern stuff at her house and brings them to our house. My mom does stuff like the turkey and I do biscuits and table setting and yeah. I'm like forgetting what all the stuff is that we always do. Oh, and my mom always makes a BIG bowl of mashed potatoes. My mom's mashed potatoes go quickly. :D
I wonder if my family is going to have movie night. We always watch a movie Thanksgiving night but we didn't do it last year because no one could think of a movie that everyone wanted to watch. No one has suggested a movie for this year yet :(
I was babysitting last week and I asked the five year old girl that I babysit if she was excited for Thanksgiving.
"No."
"Why?"
"I'm more excited for Christmas."
Isn't that cute?!

Friday is almost here. Now you're probably thinking, "Oh! That's Black Friday! You're looking forward to huge crowds in little malls just to get a good deal like everyone else!"
Nope. Not me. I've never set foot in a store on Black Friday. The closest I've come is ordering my camera from the Best Buy website last year (hundred dollar discount and I didn't have to leave my house to get it!).
So why I'm looking forward to Friday is because that's Christmas Tree Day in my family. My family always goes to a tree farm to cut down a tree the day after Thanksgiving. My dad takes a video and people take pictures. It's always funny because we do like these staged pictures and scripted video.
Ir's funny watching videos from previous years. But now that Stephanie and Christina are adults and have work and college and all that fun stuff, it's not always the whole family anymore. Stephanie has to work on Black Friday.
So we make a trip out to a tree farm, cut down a tree, do the maze and stuff that they have there, come home, and start getting Christmas decorations out. :D

Speaking of Christmas, I should probably get started on making my Christmas gifts.
And speaking of making Christmas gifts, I need to get the sewing machine from my Grandma so I can make gifts.


Yeah
A used ... pink bathrobe
A rare ... mint snowglobe
A Smurf ... TV tray
I bought on eBay
My house ... is filled with this crap
Shows up in bubble wrap
Most every day
What I bought on eBay
Tell me why
I need another pet rock
Tell me why
I got that Alf alarm clock
Tell me why
I bid on Shatner's old toupee
They had it on eBay
I'll buy ... your knick-knack
Just check ... my feedback
"A++!" they all say
They love me on eBay
Gonna buy
a slightly-damaged golf pack
Gonna buy
some Beanie Babies, new with tags
From some guy I've never met in Norway
Found him on eBay
I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa
Got Paypal or Visa, whatever'll please ya
As long as I've got the dough
I'll buy ... your tchotchkes
Sell me ... your watch, please
I'll buy (I'll buy, I'll buy, I'll buy ...)
I'm highest bidder now
(Yeahhh)
Junk keeps arriving in the mail
From that worldwide garage sale
Dukes Of Hazzard ashtray
Hey! A Dukes Of Hazzard ashtray
Oh yeah ... (I bought it on eBay)
Wanna buy
a PacMan Fever lunchbox
Wanna buy
a case of vintage tube socks
Wanna buy
a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre, used by Dr. Dre
Found it on eBay
Wanna buy
that Farrah Fawcett poster
Pez dispensers and a toaster
Don't know why ... the kind of stuff you'd throw away
I'll buy on eBay
What I bought on eBay-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y

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WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE YOUR NAME TO IF YOU DID?!
POST YOUR ANSWER!!

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More Skating

Friday I leave for a competition for my synchronized ice skating team! We compete on Saturday and this is the the first competition of the season. I'm excited and nervous. :D

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