December 23, 2009
Some Christmas music you’ll wished you’d never listened to … but listen to it anyways. 
This one’s rather amusing:
This one is, well, it’s so painful it’s hysterically funny.
Sheesh – after that you really should go find John Rutter to restore your sanity. I suggest this one.
December 22, 2009
A finished product, as promised – though this isn’t the one I need to finish before Christmas. Are you kidding? Get the Christmas presents done first?! That’d just be way too organized. I’ll upload pictures of my next project … whenever I finish it!
I fell in love with this corduroy material – it’s so much fun! I bought it with this jumper for Lydia in mind, and there’s enough material to make something for Emmers as well – if not another jumper, at least a skirt.
The rest of the pictures are of other stuff I have waiting in my sewing room – some friends and I hit JoAnn Fabrics during a sale and we scored big. I got all of the material showed below, plus a dozen patterns at a dollar each! It don’t get much better than that.
December 18, 2009
I hope you’re not hoping for anything to make sense in this post. Do not come expecting flow, or presence of mind, or an organized thought process, because I don’t think the flow of my thought process has been making sense. I’m not awake enough.
All of my Christmas shopping is done! I have one more gift left to make. It’s a fairly easy project, but what do you want to guess I won’t get it done early? I predict (note this is not my intention, but my prediction) that I won’t get it finished and wrapped until the 23rd. It might be Christmas Eve, but I’m guessing it’s gonna be finished on the 23rd.
We had a Connect-Four tournament with another sibling group tonight. Oh wow was that hysterically fun. We managed to get buttery popcorn all over the carpet. The guys had ‘mime boxing tournaments’ to entertain those of us who were not focusing our sole attention on the red and black circles. And I got a lesson in how to scientifically arrange tournament brackets.
Another train of thought:
I honked at 2 people yesterday. That actually is significant because I have, like, never honked at anybody. If someone cuts me off I usually just let them. I tapped my horn at a guy once, I don’t remember what for exactly. I do remember Robbie telling me I hadn’t really honked at him, I had just tapped my horn. 
So this morning, I’m driving along, going 45, about a mile from home and a semi begins to pull out right in front of me. I braked and honked at him. He stops in the other lane and lets me go by. I still don’t have a clue what exactly he thought he was doing.
Then, I’m driving back into town this afternoon … and some car pulls across in front of me, quite slowly and seemingly without even noticing I was coming. I braked and honked at him too. Robbie starts laughing. “That’s twice in a day.” He turned to look over his shoulder. “And pretty much in the same place, too.”
“Yeah … I don’t know what the deal was … I think I’ll blog about it,” I replied.
So, I did.
You can end that thought now.
This is where I like to hang out at the library. Is this room cool, or what? I love the lime green rug. (It really is a bright lime green … it looks kinda yellow in this picture)
Tomorrow begins the Bible-reading challenge. I’m really looking forward to it.
I really like black and white movies.
I also like musicals.
I dislike it when my room is in chaos.
I like fleece blankets.
Our Christmas tree is up, and I like that, too.
I think I shall stop here – the likes outnumber the dislikes and that is surely a good thing. This post is the reason I haven’t posted the last three days … I haven’t had anything better to put on here. 
I’ll try and finish some projects so I can put up something more coherent … and hopefully interesting. 
December 14, 2009
I’m kind of like the Army. Only kind of – not. You see the Army gets more done before 9 o’clock then most people do all day. Now me – I get more done after midnight then most people do all day. My mother suggests that I call myself an Ymra. (Pronounced Eem-ra)
“The early bird gets the worm” – so the saying goes. But does it have any factual value? Because really, what difference does it make if you get up early to get the worm, or stay up late to get it? In fact, staying up late could be even better. If you stayed up late enough, you could get the worm before the early bird was even awake.
Another question would be, why do you want a worm in the first place? Worms have very little value. They are not cute, they do not taste good, and they do not perform any useful tasks. The only thing that they are good for is to feed to my brother’s frogs. And the frogs don’t care if they have the early worm. They’re just as content with a late worm. All they care about is that it’s a worm.
So therefore, dear reader, I ask you: Am I going to get up early, so that my brother’s frogs can have the worm?
I think not.
December 12, 2009
10:00 pm – I realize that if I intend to go to the cookie exchange tomorrow afternoon, I should have cookies to bring along. I therefore set out sticks of butter before going to shower.
10:30 pm – Mom asks what kind of cookies I am going to make. I say ‘oatmeal-doodles’, whereupon she reminds me that it is a Christmas cookie exchange. Oatmeal cookies, though good, are not necessarily Christmas cookies. I decide to make the very Christmas-iest of cookies – frosted sugar cookies. I pull out great-grandma’s recipe and commence.
11:30 pm – the cookies are in the oven. I put butter, milk, and powdered sugar in a bowl and try to make it look like frosting.
11:45 pm – the cookies are cooling in the garage, and I am playing with food coloring. I love food coloring.
12:00 am – I realize the frosting colors I have chosen are not ideal for the shape of my cookies … green and purple stars, anyone? So I keep the green, decide to use the purple for something else, and use red sprinkles on the stars instead.
12:30 am – I finish frosting my cookies.
1:00 am – 2 1/2 hours later – the kitchen is cleaned up, I am on a sugar high, and I have 2 dozen cookies ready for the cookie exchange. The question remains if I will be awake for the cookie exchange. It matters not … I will have cookies.
Or, as my little sister says, ‘tookies’.
December 12, 2009
I’ve mentioned the Rebelution website before – I think it’s linked in my sidebar. The Rebelution was started by Alex and Brett Harris, authors of ‘Do Hard Things’. They define the Rebelution as ‘Teenagers rebelling against low expectations’. Anyway … on the Rebelution forums there was a group started that plans to read through the Bible over Christmas break. It’s a two-week schedule, coming out to about 85 chapters a day. I’m really excited to begin this challenge, and wanted to post the reading schedule here so anyone else can join in.
Sunday, Dec. 20: Exodus 36 – Deuteronomy 17 (34 chapters)
(This day’s reading includes Levitus (27 chapters) and Numbers (36 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Monday, Dec. 21: Deuteronomy 18 – 1 Samuel 19 (31 chapters)
(Includes Joshua (24 chapters), Judges (21 chapters), and Ruth (4 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Tuesday, Dec. 22: 1 Samuel 20 – 1 Chronicles 2 (29 chapters)
(Includes 2 Samuel (24 chapters), 1 Kings (22 chapters), and 2 Kings (25 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Wednesday, Dec. 23: 1 Chronicles 3 – Nehemiah 12 (13 chapters)
(Includes 2 Chronicles (36 chapters) and Ezra (10 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Thursday, Dec. 24: Nehemiah 13 – Psalm 32 (150 chapters)
(Includes Esther (10 chapters) and Job (42 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Friday, Dec. 25: CHRISTMAS OFF!!
Saturday, Dec. 26: Psalm 33 – Psalm 117
(Total of 85 chapters)
Sunday, Dec. 27: Psalm 118 – Isaiah 1 (66 chapters)
(Includes Proverbs (31 chapters), Ecclesiastes (12 chapters), and Song of Solomon (8 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Monday, Dec. 28: Isaiah 2 – Jeremiah 20 (52 chapters)
(Total of 85 chapters)
Tuesday, Dec. 29: Jeremiah 21 – Ezekiel 48 (48 chapters)
(Total of 85 chapters)
Wednesday, Dec. 30: Daniel 1 (12 chapters) – Matthew 6 (28 chapters)
(Includes Hosea (14 chapters), Joel (3 chapters), Amos (9 chapters), Obadiah (1 chapter), Jonah (4 chapters), Micah (7 chapters), Nahum (3 chapters), Habakkuk (3 chapters), Zephaniah (3 chapters), Haggai (2 chapters), Zechariah (14 chapters), Malachi (4 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Thursday, Dec. 31: Matthew 7 – Acts 2 (28 chapters)
(Includes Mark (13 chapters), Luke (24 chapters), and John (21 chapters)) (Total of 85 chapters)
Friday, January 1: Acts 3 – Philippians 2 (4 chapters)
(Includes Romans (16 chapters), 1 Corinthians (16 chapters), 2 Corinthians (13 chapters), Galatians (6 chapters), and Ephesians (6 chapters)) (Total of 84 chapters)
Saturday, January 2: Philippians 3 – Revelation 22 (22 chapters)
(Includes Colossians (4 chapters), 1 Thessalonians (5 chapters), 2 Thessalonians (3 chapters), 1 Timothy (6 chapters), 2 Timothy (4 chapters), Titus (3 chapters), Philemon (1 chapter), Hebrews (13 chapters), James (5 chapters), 1 Peter (5 chapters), 2 Peter (3 chapters), 1 John (5 chapters), 2 John (1 chapter), 3 John (1 chapter), and Jude (1 chapter)) (Total of 84 chapters)
Sunday, January 3: CATCH UP DAY!
December 11, 2009
Looking for new dinner ideas???
Cheerio Zest – put Mountain Dew on your Cheerios
Cheer-Up! – Put 7-up on your Cheerios
There was a lack of soup at dinner, so Robbie pulled out the box of Cheerios. There being an absence of fresh milk – he preferred not to use the sour – Dad suggested he pour Mountain Dew on his cereal. Robbie therefore invented the recipes listed above. He said the Cheerios and Mountain Dew tasted “Interesting.”
The other memorable phrase from dinner, this one from Dad:
“Eating broccoli is like eating cactus. Yup … just like eating cactus.”
December 8, 2009
30 Days.
50,075 words.
Totally.
Today has been so amazingly wonderful and relaxing. I am no longer working on my novel – also, I no longer have to feel guilty about not working on my novel!
I’m looking forward to returning to normal life – if there is such a thing. :S If you have e-mailed me in the last three weeks I promise I will respond to you soon!
(Proof that normal life has not yet returned … I wrote the above a week ago!)
I’ve neglected this blog terribly. My brother mentioned this afternoon, “Man, you’re slacking on your blog.” I know, I know.
It’s not like I had nothing else going on. I mean, in the last week, I did goat chores for three days, was gone for two more, and sewed a dress in the other two. It’s been a little busy.
I’ve already started another sewing project, which I will post pictures of soon. It’s a little jumper for my 2 year old sister and it’s cute. I ran into a minor disaster in the quilting project and will pick that back up eventually. Someday. I. will. finish. that. quilt. It’s really pitiful, because . . . I already have material to make another quilt.
But, I am caught up on e-mails. That’s one good thing.
Talk to y’all later,
Megan
November 29, 2009
It was a pretty big day today, for two reasons. First, I ran 5K without stopping. I was only going 5 mph, but still, that’s 3.1 miles and I was pretty excited about it.
Second, I just hit 44,000 words on my NaNoWriMo novel. I think I have the rest of it mostly planned, I’m not exactly sure what I’ll need to add to finish up the book, but I’ve got a general idea. Today has been full of fun scenes to write. Tomorrow afternoon I should be able to write, and Monday afternoon I’ll be at the library for a couple of hours to finish up whatever is left!
I’ll talk to you all after NaNo.
November 27, 2009
This is a joint post by me and my little sis’ Emmers, we just got back from swimming and are putting our minds together to come up with a fun Thanksgiving post. (Yes I know it’s a day late. But we’re still thankful for these things, so it’s ok.)
Applesauce with cinnamon
Brothers – lots of ‘em
Campfires
Dad – a really, really awesome one
Everything (wow, we’re creative)
Fiddle Music
Giggles
Happy Home
Ice
Jeans
Kittens (this one is so Emily)
Libraries
Mom – she’s really awesome, too
NaNoWriMo (maybe this one wasn’t Emily’s idea)
Oratorios
Piano
Quotations
Reeses – the perfect sister treat
Sisters!
Talking – especially after midnight
Unabridged books
Visitors
Windows
Xerxes – because he makes family Bible studies so interesting
Yankee Doodle (yes, the one who called it macaroni)
Zoos – the word is worth a lot of points in a Scrabble game.
