"the world's first unmanned, flying deskset"

Guess what? I just got a laptop! and I just got a job! no kidding!
ah yes, and I passed the written for my license. :P YAY!!!! I missed all five that you're allowed to miss (they asked me like four questions about drinking and driving, which I don't plan to be doing, and one stupid bicycle headlight question…..), but I guess the important part is that I passed. Please pray for me though, because I'm taking the drive test on April 2nd, and I really really really want to pass it and not have to do it over. really.

so I started work at this juice/smoothie/wrap/panini/soup place on Wednesday. actually it was training, as are tomorrow and this Wednesday, and then I’ll probably start next week with actually working. I'd have you all over for free smoothies…but I would kind of get fired for that. The benefits aren't much and the pay certainly isn't overwhelming, but it's a job and I can work there until we move, whenever that may be. I'm very happy, and it's owned by some old co-op friends so I know people there too. and it's close. hopefully soon I'll be able to drive myself. *crosses fingers* It seems really fun so far.

I'm soooo happy with my laptop too. apparently what I had on my desk is a dinosaur by today's standards (it's like five years old…actually probably less. okaaay….) and so now I'm trying to figure out how to operate Windows Vista, which is supposed to be the same thing but looks totally different. I can't find anything….lol.





there's a new girl in youth group who spells her name exactly the same way I do. she even pronounces it the same way too. I don't think that should be allowed. I was there first – she should change her name to Ichabod or something cool like that. :P



Soon I will be e-mailing all of you who live nearby with info for my recital, in case you want to come and make me really nervous. please keep it in your prayers though, as I’m playing some very difficult (for me) pieces this year which are giving me fits…









life overall has been amazing lately (meaning today – tomorrow I will probably feel like crap but I’m discovering the side effects that come with teenagehood). my mother bought me the Nicholas Nickleby soundtrack, and I have to say that Rachel Portman is about the fifth best movie composer ever! and I’m getting DPS – it’s shipped and coming this week!!!!!!!!!!!!
and Mariner’s Baseball starts in one week, and I’m going to opening night!!!!!!!!!!!!

and by the way, I got my hair cut.
yes, really.
don’t freak out, it’s not that short.
okay, so I cut like five inches off. and got shorter bangs and it’s all layered and tapered and really curly and pretty……anyway I like it and please don’t kill me for not telling you beforehand. ;) it’s not as drastic as last time I did this without telling my friends ha-ha. that was…interesting. she styled it and did it ALL in ringlets so it’s really curly right now, which looks kind of funny….I will have to pull it back for work tomorrow, so we’ll see what happens with it. I’m still trying to figure out what all I can do with it.


and school is going well, and though Easter was very boring because we didn’t do anything, my grandparents were out the day before that and we had a lot of fun, and played LotR trivial pursuit! and today at Starbucks I saw a girl with an Elvish tattoo on her neck (so my mom saw it first and pointed it out, which made me very proud of her that she recognized that it was Elvish)! and our house is back on the market and has had three showings so far, with a few more planned in the future, so hopefully that will turn into an offer…and eventually (soon) a move. *crosses fingers*




I know how you all feel about my really super-long posts, and especially with how infrequent they are, so I’m going to save the India part of this for a couple days. I promise I will try to post much more frequently from here on out. It may be a little easier since I have a laptop now and can draft in the car and stuff like that. we’ll see, but hopefully this works. keep your fingers crossed.

*starts into the highland fling*
*ringlets bounce*

He battled with the Dumbledors, and Hummerhorns, and Honeybees...

" 'Good morning' said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
'What do you mean?' he said. 'Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?'
'All of them at once,' said Bilbo."

just so everyone knows...

I will be gone all weekend. sorry. still working on my post (you may have to read it in several sittings...as usual, ha-ha). I will put it up as soon as I can. I've just been gone and busy so much - it feels like I'm only at home to sleep. if you're seriously going through withdrawls of me (yeah right, just kidding lol) you can e-mail me or call me. that would be pretty cool. I'm almost back to that regular checking blogs every day mode, and leaving comments. so sorry I've disappeared off the face of the earth for two months instead of three weeks (ok, let's be fair, I guess it's really honestly been about four months, with the prep for the trip and everything...). I'm back now but still trying to figure out the meaning of life, etc. I'll let you know what I come up with in a few years.
keep in touch though. I'm not going anywhere (except backwards) in a hurry. not intentionally. i think. I'm quite confuzzled actually.........

yeah. leave me comments and I'll be around as often as I possibly can! you have no idea how much I miss you guys.