16 days.

Officially. I haven't posted in 16 days.
Well, I'll try and put a lot in this post. I don't have any excuse not to because:
it's the day after christmas and everyone's home and doing nothing.
i'm sick and have nothing to do anyway.

yep. Just a sore throat, but it's really crummy. I'm having fun though, messing around with my new MP3 player!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the first thing like this I've ever had, and I think I've pretty much got it down. I guess Mom suggested it to my grandma for Christmas (because I was always commondeering her portable CD player this summer when I was weeding at my neighbors). So Grandma got it for me! Then we set it all up at their house (where we were for Christmas) and we were looking online to see where the best deals were for downloading songs (if you're looking anyone http://musicdownloads.walmart.com is great - just $.88 per song and like $9 per CD) and my grandpa's like 'pick 10 songs and I'll buy them for you!' That was really cool. And I got my dad BarlowGirl's first CD, so of course I had to put that on too.
Ok, I'm rambling...How was everyone elses' Christmas? What did you do? What did you get? What are you doing today?
The other things worth great mention here that I hope to talk about without boring you stiff - mom got me a Middle Earth map that's a tapestry...and it's so beautiful! I don't know if any of you knew this, but I collect foreign coins, and also spoons from around the country and around the world. Dad found something that he's been looking for for a long time - an old spoon that's from B- (my last name, also a city in Germany) and has the B- lion on top; and also a 7th century coin from Gujarat - the place I went to in India! That was super-special.
So our exchange student from Germany sent us a package, and we're picking it up today! We sent her a package too, with lots of stuff. Coffee. Very important. ;)
Ah, I'm rambling again. What am I going to do today? I want to just veg and watch a movie. i'm thinking a high-tech spy/theif movie, but I just saw National Treasure this week, and I don't really want Oceans 11 or 12 because I'm just not in the mood....Sneakers is just a tad old...high tech isn't really high tech anymore....
indecisiveness flows/like all my scattered thoughts

I guess that's really it. Not a lot has happened since I last posted actually. I had my mom's family's X-Mas party, which was actually a lot better than I thought it would be, all things considered. We all do this drawing for the kids (I'm still a kid actually, so I shouldn't say 'we') and get each other presents, and we got my cousin who's just getting into sewing, so we got her a started sewing kit thing. And guess what I got? PotCII piano music!!!whichididn'tevenknowwasoutyet!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahem. yeah. it's super good too. i'm in love with the Davy Jones theme. totally.
Hmm....what else? My aunt and uncle from Oregon were spending the night before the party at our house, which is neat, because they're the only other Christians in the family (excepting an uncle who became a Christian a few years ago). It's the same aunt I went to India with, and we all get along really well. I'm making an Indian outfit and my aunt helped my put the zipper in, so it's almost done now and I can actually wear it! (You're right Lego, zippers are a real pain!)
Then we all played cards for a while and watched PotC II which they hadn't seen yet, and my dad made popcorn, and it was all really cool!
Party was good. I brought piano music that I didn't play, but I also brought my guitar, becuase I knew my second cousin had his (he taught himself and has played for like 13 years and he's sooooo good) and my uncle who because a Christian has one too, and he's also very very good. It's really cool too because he totally uses his talents for God: playing on his church's worship team, and he's also composed several of his own songs inspired from the Bible, some instrumental and some with words. He's got access to a recording studio, and he told me that when he gets the time he's going to record some of his songs, and he'll give me a copy. He's got one called "Selah" that is so incredibly peaceful I was just so rested and in awe listening to it. We played a few songs together, and he played and mom and I sang some stuff together too...Third Day and a couple other worship songs too. Do you hate Third Day too Sam? Soooo sad....

I guess that really is it. I've just been sewing and getting ready for Christmas, then doing Christmas (always interesting), and now bummin' around trying not to cough or sneeze and FINALLY blogging!