Weaver - for measuring up to his usual 13 ERA. no wait, it was worse than that wasn't it?
Hargrove - for graduating from idiot to moron
Ichiro - for failing to lead our team to be really good like he could if he tried
Meche - for being good but not playing for us anymore (that's also Hargrove's fault)
The rest of the M's pitching staff - for behaving remarkably like the M's offense tonight
let's see...anyone else? I don't want to get nit-picky here. anyway, I HATE FAIR-WEATHER FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! argggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate it at the top of the ninth when ten thousand people just leave. I can't stand it when one pitcher throws a bum inning or the team has a bad game and people are like, they'll never win anything, woe is me.
but the family section is really nice. nobody is drunk by the third inning or swears through the whole game. you just have to put up with a bunch of crazy 5-year-olds.
Ok something really weird. I saw Sam and Zach and Mr. Boyd on the way back from the stadium. I don't know if any of the female family members were there, couldn't tell, but I saw somebody about ten feet tall with glasses cross the street and I'm like, is that Sam? and then I saw somebody seven feet tall following him who looked like Zach, and then somebody who looked quite remarkably like Mr. Boyd in front. it was very strange...and cool. So here's a wave since you didn't know I saw you peoples! *wave*
that's it for now. I'm going to try to find a golden goose that will make an ever-frowning princess smile; I need it right now.
g'night everyone. thank you for putting up with my rantings about the M's since I know none of you could care less.
April 29, 2007
April 26, 2007
That old man's so inspiring, but the TV's always on, and the phone it won't stop ringing, and these bills they keep on screaming...
1,513 people died on April 14th, 1912, in the North Atlantic. They died when what is considered one of the world's greatest maritime disaster in history happened. They died when the Titanic sank.
Now imagine 53 Titanics.
Every 24 hours, 80,000 people die in India alone without hearing even the name of Jesus.
Eighty-thousand people.
I can't even imagine that many people. The Titanic times fifty-three, and none of them know Jesus! Is there something terribly wrong here?
Dalits – Untouchables
Every hour, two Dalits are assaulted, three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits are murdered and two Dalit homes are burned.
That means that every day, 48 Dalits are assaulted, 72 Dalit women are raped, 48 Dalits are murdered, and 48 Dalit homes are burned.
Read this: http://www.gfa.org/indian-court-delays-dalit-christians-equal-rights-case?motiv=042607
I know I'm being depressing. But Dalits are ignored and mistreated by the entire world. We cannot allow our American shelters to keep us from seeing the truth – and doing something.
Now imagine 53 Titanics.
Every 24 hours, 80,000 people die in India alone without hearing even the name of Jesus.
Eighty-thousand people.
I can't even imagine that many people. The Titanic times fifty-three, and none of them know Jesus! Is there something terribly wrong here?
Dalits – Untouchables
Every hour, two Dalits are assaulted, three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits are murdered and two Dalit homes are burned.
That means that every day, 48 Dalits are assaulted, 72 Dalit women are raped, 48 Dalits are murdered, and 48 Dalit homes are burned.
Read this: http://www.gfa.org/indian-court-delays-dalit-christians-equal-rights-case?motiv=042607
I know I'm being depressing. But Dalits are ignored and mistreated by the entire world. We cannot allow our American shelters to keep us from seeing the truth – and doing something.
April 9, 2007
Home again
Hi all,
We're back! well, most of us...we're all a little tired, but tonight we're going to the symphony to see Anoushka Shankar!!! in like 3 and a half hours. I'm soooo excited!!!!
How was everybody's Easter? Mine was great - my dad and I hid easter eggs Saturday night, and then everybody else had to find them, which was really funny! The last two to be found were one that he hid on the backside of a wall clock, and one that I hid inside a hollow porcelain statue on top of a bookshelf. We had a great time laughing at everyone else trying to find our eggs. We kinda bummed around for awhile...Dad had the Masters on (biggest golf tournament of the year) which was really neat - a Christian guy won who'd never won any tournament before, and he was interviewed a few times and always gave Jesus thanks and praise for his victory. I thought that was so neat; his name is Zach Johnson.
Let's see, then we went to the condo park place and walked by the river and threw a softball and went swinging on the swingset. Came back and made an early dinner with salmon and artichokes and bruschetta and cream puffs for dessert! (My cream puffs didn't turn out, but we made some more and they did) Dad and I went golfing Saturday and I shot a 135, my middle score between a 125 and 137, but not too bad considering how little I've been practicing lately. Last night we went down in the evening and hit 4 more holes just having fun. went hot tubbing all three nights - and last night was the most fun...
So Dad and I went to the hot tub with Mom and my grandma, and then they both went in because it was raining. (By the way, hot tubbing is a lot more fun in the rain than it is regularily, because you don't get so overheated in such a short amount of time.) So then it was just Dad and me for a few more minutes, but then we both got fairly hot too, so we decided to go in. About half way back to the condo, Dad stops and turns off to the side. I'm like, "what are you doing?" and he's like "I thought I'd go for a walk," so I said I'd go with him (it was about 10:00), because the cool night air actually felt really good since we were both so hot.
So here we are, walking down the street in our swimsuits and towels at ten o'clock at night in the rain, and this guy comes walking by. he's just like, how are you doing? like it was no big deal, but I don't even want to guess what he was thinking. Hold on though, it gets better.
there's a par-3 golf course (which basically just means smaller than usual golf courses) that's opening next weekend at this resort, and Dad suggested that we walk on the course. It really sounded like a good idea, so we take off on the first hole (at 10 PM in the rain in our swimsuits, and I forgot to add that we were both bare-footed too!) and walk throught the first sand trap and start laughing at super-weird things and joking around, just having an all-around good time and trying to make sure nobody saw us and kicked us off (oops :P). Then we walked through the bark on the other side of the road and waded in the fountain. dad somehow thought it necessary to dip his head into the freezing cold water, which just proves that he's insane. after that it was necessary to get warmed up again by a second dip in the hot tub, before returning to the condo. I think the thing that made us laugh the most was imagining the look on the groundskeeper's face when he saw two sets of bare footprints going through the sand in his first bunker!
good times...
we laugh, we cry/we fall, we fly/and sometimes we wonder why/we're even here
last night I knew why we're here...
So, that was my weekend, how was everyone else's? What did you peoples do for Easter? Tell me, I'm not just asking because (in other words, this isn't a rhetorical question and I do expect an answer from each of you!)
We're back! well, most of us...we're all a little tired, but tonight we're going to the symphony to see Anoushka Shankar!!! in like 3 and a half hours. I'm soooo excited!!!!
How was everybody's Easter? Mine was great - my dad and I hid easter eggs Saturday night, and then everybody else had to find them, which was really funny! The last two to be found were one that he hid on the backside of a wall clock, and one that I hid inside a hollow porcelain statue on top of a bookshelf. We had a great time laughing at everyone else trying to find our eggs. We kinda bummed around for awhile...Dad had the Masters on (biggest golf tournament of the year) which was really neat - a Christian guy won who'd never won any tournament before, and he was interviewed a few times and always gave Jesus thanks and praise for his victory. I thought that was so neat; his name is Zach Johnson.
Let's see, then we went to the condo park place and walked by the river and threw a softball and went swinging on the swingset. Came back and made an early dinner with salmon and artichokes and bruschetta and cream puffs for dessert! (My cream puffs didn't turn out, but we made some more and they did) Dad and I went golfing Saturday and I shot a 135, my middle score between a 125 and 137, but not too bad considering how little I've been practicing lately. Last night we went down in the evening and hit 4 more holes just having fun. went hot tubbing all three nights - and last night was the most fun...
So Dad and I went to the hot tub with Mom and my grandma, and then they both went in because it was raining. (By the way, hot tubbing is a lot more fun in the rain than it is regularily, because you don't get so overheated in such a short amount of time.) So then it was just Dad and me for a few more minutes, but then we both got fairly hot too, so we decided to go in. About half way back to the condo, Dad stops and turns off to the side. I'm like, "what are you doing?" and he's like "I thought I'd go for a walk," so I said I'd go with him (it was about 10:00), because the cool night air actually felt really good since we were both so hot.
So here we are, walking down the street in our swimsuits and towels at ten o'clock at night in the rain, and this guy comes walking by. he's just like, how are you doing? like it was no big deal, but I don't even want to guess what he was thinking. Hold on though, it gets better.
there's a par-3 golf course (which basically just means smaller than usual golf courses) that's opening next weekend at this resort, and Dad suggested that we walk on the course. It really sounded like a good idea, so we take off on the first hole (at 10 PM in the rain in our swimsuits, and I forgot to add that we were both bare-footed too!) and walk throught the first sand trap and start laughing at super-weird things and joking around, just having an all-around good time and trying to make sure nobody saw us and kicked us off (oops :P). Then we walked through the bark on the other side of the road and waded in the fountain. dad somehow thought it necessary to dip his head into the freezing cold water, which just proves that he's insane. after that it was necessary to get warmed up again by a second dip in the hot tub, before returning to the condo. I think the thing that made us laugh the most was imagining the look on the groundskeeper's face when he saw two sets of bare footprints going through the sand in his first bunker!
good times...
we laugh, we cry/we fall, we fly/and sometimes we wonder why/we're even here
last night I knew why we're here...
So, that was my weekend, how was everyone else's? What did you peoples do for Easter? Tell me, I'm not just asking because (in other words, this isn't a rhetorical question and I do expect an answer from each of you!)
April 6, 2007
Going away
Hi peoples,
We're going over to our condo in Eastern WA for the weekend, and I'm not sure whether I'll have internet or not, so I just wanted to post and say goodbye if I'm not going to be able to get on.
Have a great weekend and a Happy Easter!!!!!!!!!!
~Verya
We're going over to our condo in Eastern WA for the weekend, and I'm not sure whether I'll have internet or not, so I just wanted to post and say goodbye if I'm not going to be able to get on.
Have a great weekend and a Happy Easter!!!!!!!!!!
~Verya
April 5, 2007
If you trust nothing else, trust this...trust us.
Hi peoples! I have a new blog for my web technology class…it's going to be super boring and you probably won't want to go to it, but it's www.webtechclass.blogspot.com.
I doubt it'll see much action.
I really seriously am going to post pics of my piano soon, but I have to get them onto my computer, or post from my Mom's. So it might be a couple days before I can get everything together. There will be something though!
What books are people reading? I was so shocked, Lego you have nothing under the books being or to be read section!!! I know it's just not updated, but still, don’t give us such horrible ideas! I'm reading Jane Eyre. It's very…interesting. I'm not terribly far into it yet. My Mom has this summer reading thing that we started when I was little, so there are like six prizes, and the more pages I read the better the prizes get (i.e. ice cream party, camping, new books, etc.). The list is getting a little updated this year (direct result of you more "classical" homeschoolers' influence, lol). And I'm thinking Dickens. don't know why, just am. Em and i were agreeing and marveling about how wonderful he is with characters! I hope to someday create at least one character half as good as one of his. maybe.
Ok, so here are a couple of songs I wrote like last month and just never posted. since I seem to be trying to set a record for the longest amount of time not posting or something. anyway, here they are (they were supposed to be in honor of Back to Middle Earth month, but didn't quite make it in time):
This one's a non-rhyming poem (obviously). It would sound a lot better in Elvish (practically everything does, right?), so I'll post it in Elvish if I ever get time to translate it [yeah right!]. Don't have a name for it, and I'm open for suggestions.
Sunlight has dimmed, it is gone.
Moonlight has vanished, disappeared behind the clouds.
Twilight has come, and it has come without a star.
Here in the dark, I cannot find you.
There were seven stars clustered around one white tree.
Now the stars are hidden and the tree is withered.
Darkness chokes all that is left of freedom;
In this eternal darkness, will I ever find you?
Numenor has faded, its glory all but spent.
Those true and loyal are no more.
Now black clouds approach from Mordor,
You are lost! I cannot find you.
Here in this eternal night you are lost,
Darkness has swallowed light, and you are lost.
In this one the parts in italics are meant for a choir, even though I haven't got a tune yet. It's kind of like Gandalf's Lament where everyone sings at once I guess. Let me know what you guys think.
(By the way "estelio han" means "trust this", and "estelio veleth" means "trust love". Most of this is stolen from LotR, ha-ha.)
Estelio Veleth…
Ai!
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
Elven maiden, love-bereft. Estelio han…
Arwen Undomiel! (About him cast her shadowy hair)
What is there to trust when hope has left? Estelio veleth…
You will look,
But never will you see him coming home again to thee.
You are…fated.
Silver starlight hidden through the leaves of a dead white tree
(About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering)
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
Here you will linger, after death's bite. Estelio han…
Arwen Undomiel! (And arms like silver glimmering)
Here in the forests of the night. Estelio veleth…
You will look,
But never will you see him coming home again to thee.
You are…fated.
Silver starlight hidden through the leaves of a dead white tree
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
I told you that this day would come. Estelio han…
Arwen Undomiel! (Sorrowing you go)
There is no warmth left in the sun. (Eternal night) Estelio veleth…
You will look,
But never will you see him coming home again to thee.
You are…fated.
Separated from your love, he has gone across the sea. (Never to return…to thee)
Sorrowing you go (yet you are not without hope).
Ai!
I doubt it'll see much action.
I really seriously am going to post pics of my piano soon, but I have to get them onto my computer, or post from my Mom's. So it might be a couple days before I can get everything together. There will be something though!
What books are people reading? I was so shocked, Lego you have nothing under the books being or to be read section!!! I know it's just not updated, but still, don’t give us such horrible ideas! I'm reading Jane Eyre. It's very…interesting. I'm not terribly far into it yet. My Mom has this summer reading thing that we started when I was little, so there are like six prizes, and the more pages I read the better the prizes get (i.e. ice cream party, camping, new books, etc.). The list is getting a little updated this year (direct result of you more "classical" homeschoolers' influence, lol). And I'm thinking Dickens. don't know why, just am. Em and i were agreeing and marveling about how wonderful he is with characters! I hope to someday create at least one character half as good as one of his. maybe.
Ok, so here are a couple of songs I wrote like last month and just never posted. since I seem to be trying to set a record for the longest amount of time not posting or something. anyway, here they are (they were supposed to be in honor of Back to Middle Earth month, but didn't quite make it in time):
This one's a non-rhyming poem (obviously). It would sound a lot better in Elvish (practically everything does, right?), so I'll post it in Elvish if I ever get time to translate it [yeah right!]. Don't have a name for it, and I'm open for suggestions.
Sunlight has dimmed, it is gone.
Moonlight has vanished, disappeared behind the clouds.
Twilight has come, and it has come without a star.
Here in the dark, I cannot find you.
There were seven stars clustered around one white tree.
Now the stars are hidden and the tree is withered.
Darkness chokes all that is left of freedom;
In this eternal darkness, will I ever find you?
Numenor has faded, its glory all but spent.
Those true and loyal are no more.
Now black clouds approach from Mordor,
You are lost! I cannot find you.
Here in this eternal night you are lost,
Darkness has swallowed light, and you are lost.
In this one the parts in italics are meant for a choir, even though I haven't got a tune yet. It's kind of like Gandalf's Lament where everyone sings at once I guess. Let me know what you guys think.
(By the way "estelio han" means "trust this", and "estelio veleth" means "trust love". Most of this is stolen from LotR, ha-ha.)
Estelio Veleth…
Ai!
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
Elven maiden, love-bereft. Estelio han…
Arwen Undomiel! (About him cast her shadowy hair)
What is there to trust when hope has left? Estelio veleth…
You will look,
But never will you see him coming home again to thee.
You are…fated.
Silver starlight hidden through the leaves of a dead white tree
(About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering)
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
Here you will linger, after death's bite. Estelio han…
Arwen Undomiel! (And arms like silver glimmering)
Here in the forests of the night. Estelio veleth…
You will look,
But never will you see him coming home again to thee.
You are…fated.
Silver starlight hidden through the leaves of a dead white tree
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
I told you that this day would come. Estelio han…
Arwen Undomiel! (Sorrowing you go)
There is no warmth left in the sun. (Eternal night) Estelio veleth…
You will look,
But never will you see him coming home again to thee.
You are…fated.
Separated from your love, he has gone across the sea. (Never to return…to thee)
Sorrowing you go (yet you are not without hope).
Ai!
April 1, 2007
(song lyrics may appear here when the author can think of something that fits)
Guess what?
I'm going to the Mariner's opening game tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To see the M's cream the A's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aren't surprises great?!?!?!?!?
-I really am going to post something more substantial later. tomorrow. promise.
I'm going to the Mariner's opening game tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To see the M's cream the A's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aren't surprises great?!?!?!?!?
-I really am going to post something more substantial later. tomorrow. promise.
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