Spring Break
since i've been doing such a good job of blogging every day, i don't feel too bad about having missed a few days. i suppose that's just what spring break does to you. so what have i been up too?? let's see...
on friday of course i slept very late, as you may have guessed. unfortunately i slept all the way through my 12 o'clock class. i was entirely ashamed of myself. i assure you it wasn't deliberate. i fully intended on thursday to get up the next morning and go. ever will just have to fill me in on any important details i might have missed.
so i got up and went straight to studio class. that was good, as usual, and i didn't have to play but just listened to wonderful music.
went skating with my family and the homeschool group after that. went home and ate dinner and watched a couple of movies. let's see, we watched the stepford wives (weird show), and hero. the stepford wives was supposed to be totally hilarious, but i didn't really think so. it certainly has it's funny moments. let's just say it was so-so. hero was pretty good. one big negative about it for me is that there's not a word of english in it. the dialogue is chinese in it's entirity. so for mono-lingual people like me, the whole film is spent reading sub-titles. as for the action, if you don't mind a bunch of super natural stunts thrown into the fighting sequences it's pretty good. the whole thing certainly has a rather mystical quality to it though. aaaaanyway...
on saturday evan and i went and helped cody with his eagle service project. woo-hooo!!!! i didn't even know until the day before that he was about to do it. very pleasant surprise. apparently he's doing like so many of us, and finishing up right at the wire. he has one last merit badge to complete and his birthday is on march 31st. he's carrying on the sad legacy of procrastinating eagles. :-P the project consisted of building benches and picking up trash. and eating bbq. that was my favorite part.
went to work at jebco for a while. we were making a bunch more of those wonderful little oak baseball bat end blocks.
then home again home again, jiggity jog, TO PLAY PING PONG!!! got some good evening ball swatting. had a delicious steak dinner (courtesy) of the jones family. the ron and jerri jones. :-P i do believe they slaughtered some sort of a bovine beast and were kind enough to treat us to some of the delectible cuts. ahhh, much thanks for the delicious meat!
sunday we went to church. josh, who fortunately got to have spring break at the same time as sfa, came over for lunch. we goofed off, played ping pong, did a little dancing... yes, that's right. we danced. we had to get josh in on a little of our civil war as well as revolutionary era dancing. he liked it so much he decided to come with us the next day (that would be today). but i'm getting ahead of myself. we ate a splenditious dessert of brownies. then went to church again in the evening.
since we were so anxious to get the spring break celebrating started, evan and ben and josh and mary and sam and victor and me and i hope i didn't leave anyone out went out to eat. at first we were going to the hayter house, but, since it was closed we settled for auntie pastas. it was a wonderful evening of chatting and gorging on pasta. though i think mary-ruth felt a little out of place with 6 boys and no other girls. :-P
then, since we still were anxious to keep the celebrating that we just started on going, we went to sam's house. we ended up watching gladiator. it was actually the first time for me to see it. i rather liked it. at the end of the movie it was at long last time for us to disperse and head to bed.
and at last, i'm brought to today. actually monday. soooooooo.... this morning josh and i went to the caddo mounds. okay, wow. that was so totally random. he was one of us unlucky people who have a little bit of school work to do during spring break. he must write a paper, in this case on the caddo indians. so we went to the little museum and looked around, asked questions, he took notes, i took a bunch of pictures for him.
then we zipped to his granny's house for a bite of lunch before heading over to my house to pick up evan. once we got evan, we turned right back around and drove to tyler. we instantly turned in to the tyler skate plex and began skating around like crazy. the giant rink and relatively smooth floor just puts it way above and beyond the lowly nacogdoches skatarama. we chugged around for about 2 hours. we practically had the rink to ourselves, except for a few little kids, and it was wonderful.
from the skate place our little trio found it's way to the frazier's house where we had detected the aroma of home-made pizza. so we had a fine dinner. and we hooked up with the rest of my family who apparently had similar ideas. :-P
our next destination from the frazier's residence was some history building, or the history section of the library or SOMETHING. upstairs we found a bunch of home-schoolers. so we brought our music out and taught them all the civil-war and revolutionary war dances and stuff. we had a blast. at the beginning of the month they're planning to have a ball, or they might have said a "barn-yard dance." so we had to teach them a bunch of stuff to prepare them. i have now decided that i really want to try and teach a bunch of the people at sfa how to do this stuff. i'm willing to bet some of the music people would get a kick out of it.
since a night of dancing always calls for ice cream, josh and evan and i directed ourselves to braums. after getting large quantities of ice cream, and stopping at a gas station and getting some energy drinks (monster) we were headed home.
once there, we booted up joshed comp and downloaded the pics i took this morning. then there was nothing left to do but say our tearful goodbyes and wish eachother happy sb.
and if you made it through this whole "story," congratulations. this is probably the longest blog post i have ever written. that's what i get for putting off (or forgetting) to post. now, for your word of the day...
bloviate \BLOH-vee-ayt\, intransitive verb:
To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
on friday of course i slept very late, as you may have guessed. unfortunately i slept all the way through my 12 o'clock class. i was entirely ashamed of myself. i assure you it wasn't deliberate. i fully intended on thursday to get up the next morning and go. ever will just have to fill me in on any important details i might have missed.
so i got up and went straight to studio class. that was good, as usual, and i didn't have to play but just listened to wonderful music.
went skating with my family and the homeschool group after that. went home and ate dinner and watched a couple of movies. let's see, we watched the stepford wives (weird show), and hero. the stepford wives was supposed to be totally hilarious, but i didn't really think so. it certainly has it's funny moments. let's just say it was so-so. hero was pretty good. one big negative about it for me is that there's not a word of english in it. the dialogue is chinese in it's entirity. so for mono-lingual people like me, the whole film is spent reading sub-titles. as for the action, if you don't mind a bunch of super natural stunts thrown into the fighting sequences it's pretty good. the whole thing certainly has a rather mystical quality to it though. aaaaanyway...
on saturday evan and i went and helped cody with his eagle service project. woo-hooo!!!! i didn't even know until the day before that he was about to do it. very pleasant surprise. apparently he's doing like so many of us, and finishing up right at the wire. he has one last merit badge to complete and his birthday is on march 31st. he's carrying on the sad legacy of procrastinating eagles. :-P the project consisted of building benches and picking up trash. and eating bbq. that was my favorite part.
went to work at jebco for a while. we were making a bunch more of those wonderful little oak baseball bat end blocks.
then home again home again, jiggity jog, TO PLAY PING PONG!!! got some good evening ball swatting. had a delicious steak dinner (courtesy) of the jones family. the ron and jerri jones. :-P i do believe they slaughtered some sort of a bovine beast and were kind enough to treat us to some of the delectible cuts. ahhh, much thanks for the delicious meat!
sunday we went to church. josh, who fortunately got to have spring break at the same time as sfa, came over for lunch. we goofed off, played ping pong, did a little dancing... yes, that's right. we danced. we had to get josh in on a little of our civil war as well as revolutionary era dancing. he liked it so much he decided to come with us the next day (that would be today). but i'm getting ahead of myself. we ate a splenditious dessert of brownies. then went to church again in the evening.
since we were so anxious to get the spring break celebrating started, evan and ben and josh and mary and sam and victor and me and i hope i didn't leave anyone out went out to eat. at first we were going to the hayter house, but, since it was closed we settled for auntie pastas. it was a wonderful evening of chatting and gorging on pasta. though i think mary-ruth felt a little out of place with 6 boys and no other girls. :-P
then, since we still were anxious to keep the celebrating that we just started on going, we went to sam's house. we ended up watching gladiator. it was actually the first time for me to see it. i rather liked it. at the end of the movie it was at long last time for us to disperse and head to bed.
and at last, i'm brought to today. actually monday. soooooooo.... this morning josh and i went to the caddo mounds. okay, wow. that was so totally random. he was one of us unlucky people who have a little bit of school work to do during spring break. he must write a paper, in this case on the caddo indians. so we went to the little museum and looked around, asked questions, he took notes, i took a bunch of pictures for him.
then we zipped to his granny's house for a bite of lunch before heading over to my house to pick up evan. once we got evan, we turned right back around and drove to tyler. we instantly turned in to the tyler skate plex and began skating around like crazy. the giant rink and relatively smooth floor just puts it way above and beyond the lowly nacogdoches skatarama. we chugged around for about 2 hours. we practically had the rink to ourselves, except for a few little kids, and it was wonderful.
from the skate place our little trio found it's way to the frazier's house where we had detected the aroma of home-made pizza. so we had a fine dinner. and we hooked up with the rest of my family who apparently had similar ideas. :-P
our next destination from the frazier's residence was some history building, or the history section of the library or SOMETHING. upstairs we found a bunch of home-schoolers. so we brought our music out and taught them all the civil-war and revolutionary war dances and stuff. we had a blast. at the beginning of the month they're planning to have a ball, or they might have said a "barn-yard dance." so we had to teach them a bunch of stuff to prepare them. i have now decided that i really want to try and teach a bunch of the people at sfa how to do this stuff. i'm willing to bet some of the music people would get a kick out of it.
since a night of dancing always calls for ice cream, josh and evan and i directed ourselves to braums. after getting large quantities of ice cream, and stopping at a gas station and getting some energy drinks (monster) we were headed home.
once there, we booted up joshed comp and downloaded the pics i took this morning. then there was nothing left to do but say our tearful goodbyes and wish eachother happy sb.
and if you made it through this whole "story," congratulations. this is probably the longest blog post i have ever written. that's what i get for putting off (or forgetting) to post. now, for your word of the day...
bloviate \BLOH-vee-ayt\, intransitive verb:
To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
posted by quirky at 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
Dude man, cool awesome, only.... YOU DIDN'T INVITE MEEEE!!!!! Yup, those of us who are stranded in central Indiana are finally beginning to feel like the lowly high schoolers we are, no real vacation destination. Well, all the more reason for you to show up at my graduation, to that I can gripe in person and tell you to shave your beard. :P
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