A Bunch of Random Things

Well, it's almost October and I figured that it was about time to post again. I don't know what the length of this one will be. Where to begin? Let's begin with two weeks ago Monday. We had to go eat with the same guy that had us come to his house in Hollywood and he likes to eat at the Nugget. After we got home I was complaining that my throat was hurting. The next morning my throat was killing me and then the next day I had the regular bug symptoms. It wasn't very fun to have a virus. Then Lauri caught it on Friday and then Mom got it on the next Monday. We are almost cured but are still kind of recovering from it. Since we were all sick on Saturday, we got to play risk! I fully enjoyed it even though I'm not sure the rest of the family did. We also watched Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and Benchwarmers while we were sick. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 wasn't as good as the first one but it was still good. I enjoyed it. As for Benchwarmers, I didn't really enjoy it. It had it's funny parts but the majority of the funny parts were in the preview. The kind of humor that the preview had, I enjoy, but they didn't rely on that kind of humor in this movie. It was kind of gross. Alright. I'm finished with that section.
I am excited that Dad and Mom decided that next week we are not doing school on Friday and we're driving down to Granddad and Grandmom's on Thursday evening. We do have to go back on Saturday of course but it's still really cool.
I'm really glad that it's Saturday. In some subjects, school has gotten better but in others it hasn't. I read the Negotiator in English for an oral book report and I enjoyed it.
I'm probably going to try to clean the fish tank today. Ewwww. Snails, Slime, and uh, something else that starts with an "s", (oh my!)
I wanted to end with the words to Receive the Glory last time but I couldn't find them. This song was on my iPod last night and read it like Glad sings it on their latest cd. :)
Be still, my soul: your God will undertake
to guide the future, as in ages past.
Your hope, your confidence let nothing shake;
all now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know
the Christ who ruled them while he dwelt below.

Faux Planets, Fictional Planets, and Surprise Visits

Time for my first long post in a while. The reason for the length being that I have a lot to talk about. To begin with, I've just recently found out that everything I know is wrong. Well, maybe not everything, but did You know that there are no longer nine planets???!?! I know, mind boggling. They (whoever they are) have decided that Pluto is no longer a planet! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060828.html This is a site that Dad gave to me to see them. Ceres and Pluto are good names but that other one is bogus I'm convinced. Anyway, that's the first cool/crazy thing on my list. The second, by my title, is Fictional Planets. Now, Star Trek is not my forte and I know very little about it but we did go to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas and it was pretty fun. Anyone who's been anywhere with me will attest to the fact that I have trouble doing new things. Thankfully, I didn't overload and the two rides were actually pretty fun. One was kind of like the Muppet thing at California Adventure but more Borgy and less Gonzoy. You sit in a theater type thing and put on your 3-D glasses and the seats poke to and stuff spits at you to provide the "Fourth Dimension." The other was a simulator ride that took you through areas where plenty people had gone before. It almost made me sick but I was able to ward off the motion sickness. The third and probably greatest thing over shadowed the Star Trek stuff. Two and a half people came to visit: Zachary, Brenda, and Other!!!!!! Yay! I think most of the angles have been covered by Brenda and Lauri's blogs but I had to mention it anyway. We had a whole bunch of fun even though they only stayed for one whole day. It was extraneously fun! Again, I would appreciate your comments on the Faux planets or whatever. Have a good rest of the week!

A Full Post

I decided that I'd write more than a few sentences this time. A really exciting thing happened today! We got a G5 Tower!!! Yay!!!!!!!!! I'm excited but also am kind of bummed that we have to get rid of our old compy. Dad said that we won't get around to selling it for a couple of months now but I'll still miss it. Just so you're not wondering, I'm not making this post on the new one. It's on the table because we wanted to check to see if it worked all right. Everything but the disk drive worked fine the first run then Dad poked around inside it and fixed the disk drive so that was good. Nothing else that was really amazing. Happy Labordabor. We're not going to take it off so that we can go camping again on the fifteenth. Talk to y'all later.