Thieves Make Off With Three-Bedroom Brick House

StarTribune.com

"Everybody drove by and waved at them.''

Camping

Ok, kiddos, its official, we are going camping this summer! We all need to pick a date and then plan around it. We also need to pick where to go. May I suggest Ludington State Park. We should probably make reservations as soon as possible because if we were to go here, since its really popular it fill up like, half a year in advance or so. We could probably still get in since we would most likely be using tents and a lot of people take their campers there, so there might be tent sites open. Um, but yeah, everyone throw some dates out there and we will see what happens. Tom, no whining about sleep and obligations and work, you will be out of school and you need to do something before you go off to college. Plan to plan around this if we decide to go. I plan on getting off work for it.

What's up!

Just wondering what's going on in everyone's lives. I heard about the meeting tomorrow, but can't make it because of track. Aaa track, I dread it everyday, yet love it. Quite a strange thing. It was so beautiful out today. Too bad we had a hard workout. Our first meet is Wednesday, sooo I'm pretty excited about that! I did an awesome book talk today and Wednesday, I'm doing a presentation on the Ukraine. Next week, I'm off to New York City to play at Central Park and of course see the city!! Ooo and I have a job interview Thursday. Most everyone knows that, but I thought I'd tell about it anyway. There were 45-50 applicants and they have 5 job openings. Yikes, I'm one of the 18 "semifinalists" I guess you could call them. There's my life in a nutshell.

Solar Death Ray

solardeathray.com

I will say no more.

Weird Words

Ok, I am finally doing it. For no particular reason, all of you need to post any words that you can think of that are either weird, humorous to you, sound weird to you, or are annoying to you (or all or a combination of any). Here's mine: Giblets, Abominable, Quack, Stoichiometry, Glutenous, Defibrillator, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Ballet, Wigwam, Dubious ...........um, don't worry, I'll think of more.

air violin

Rose air violin
Originally uploaded by Wozhinazhinga.

Only Marnee and I can understand this....wow I thought we were alone in the air violin playing world. I probably should have posted this on my blog. Too late now!

Grad party

I need to know when everyone's parties are. Mine, I think, will be on June 11th or 12th. You all can come. Funny, if you do, it will be the first time some of you have even been to my house. Anyway, if you guys are having a party and inviting people, we need to be sure that three people don't have their parties on the same day. That would be dumb, like some people.....

Taste Loss

"It is estimated that approximately 2 million adult Americans have a taste and/or smell disorder."

In commemoration of me finding out that Rachael is not the only human on the planet with taste loss (known in some regions as no after taste), I've decided to provide some links on the subject.

Diagnosis of Taste Loss

Preventing Taste Loss

UConn Taste & Smell Center

Cricket...Cricket...

Ephippiger cruciger
Originally uploaded by Pine Marten.

Where is everyone?

Yahoo Acquires Flickr

FlickrBlog: "Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr"

March for Life 2005

a photoset on Flickr

You have to do this today.

If you havn't heard, Terri Shiavo is a woman in Florida whose husband wants to take her feeding tube out, which will cause her to eventually die from starvation. He claims basically that she is in a coma like state, which is untrue. He is currently engaged to another woman, and he has already had two children with this other woman. There is currently a bill in process that will protect Terri and people like her. This is to be considered in both chambers today in Florida. If nothing is done, the feeding tube will be removed tomorrow. See http://www.glennbeck.com/ and http://www.terrisfight.org/ to find out more information and to see how you can contact the Florida Senators. Remember, this needs to be done today. At the very least, pray that the right decisions will be made.

Poetry

I know there was a previous post about poetry but here is another one. I've noticed that there has been a lot of negative energy around this site (yeah I m a hippie) and I wanted to make a place to creatively express our inner turmoil, hatred, love, joy, love, fears, hopes, dreams, wants, problems, solutions, opinions, jokes, anytime you want. I wrote a poem so here it is to get things kicked off. (keep in mind that all of the ideas expressed are not of me, merely added for dramatic effect)

Will I? Should I?

Jennifer Schrauben

Will I be me,

or will I change to someone else?

Should I be me,

or should I stand up for myself?

Will I be good enough,

or will I fail to measure up?

Should I try a little harder,

or should I give in, give up?

Will I find what I'm looking for,

or will I let it slip away?

Should I die tonight,

or should I live another day?

Will I captivate your heart,

or will you pass me on by?

Should I stand out of the crowd,

or should I not even try?

Will I be who I am?

Should i be who i am?

Who am i inside?

Prostitution (gasp)

Sorry guys, my computer is going insane. It posted this post many many times. :( I thought once was good enough. Hopefully, they all go away soon. Once again, I got into a friendly debate today with some of my classmates about a moral issue. They wondered why prostitution is illegal. Hmmm...I guess I had never thought about that. Therefore, I did the best I could with what I had. First off, I tried to explain to them that I believed that sex was meant exclusively for after marriage and I went into some detail on that. Also, in prostitution, someone is severely being used. Where is the love? Nowhere, someone wants someone else’s body for pleasure. Someone comes out feeling used, well, because they were and sex has a language of love. In that situation, there is no love. However, they don't believe what I do about premarital sex, so I tried a new angle. I next tried to argue that prostitution opens many doors for bad things like STDs, murder and the degradation of women. At this angle, there wasn't much ground to stand. As I was arguing though, I realized that in our society, premarital sex is "ok", but premarital sex where someone is paid is illegal. Where is the logic in that?? Then again, a line has to be drawn somewhere. The government can't go into peoples' houses to see who's doing what with who and who is married to whom. The line has to be drawn somewhere, so the government should at least try to stop the people on the street. Anyway, that was about the extent of my argument. What do you think? How else could I have argued it, keeping in mind that they believe that premarital sex is ok?

Cool Off, Cool Down

Update
To address some of your comments...
The meeting is Thursday morning at 7:45am.
Don't complain because it won't get you anywhere. If it means that much to you, you can probably make it. I'll be missing school.
This was a seperate post because I couldn't get the comments to work on the previous one.
I would like to apologize for jumping the gun myself (though I received somewhat false information). Tiffany is on our side, Craig talked to her today. She told him that she thought the color scheme was just a joke (i.e. a name like "Hothouse Tomato" does sound pretty fake). The GM workers told Craig that she didn't like it. Anyway, she also suggested that we push to re-paint the cafe side as well; furthermore, she mentioned that she has designed some Beaner coffee shops in the area.

My final words would be to say a little pray for our cause everytime you think about it tonight, tomorrow, whenever.
______________________________

When I said not to get angry, I meant it. Getting mad about it will not help anything. Hopefully most of you can come to the meeting (I still don't have a time) Thursday morning so your voice can be heard, but we would be foolish to get angry. Most of us had some sort of problem with the color scheme anwyay. The way I see it is that getting Tiffany involved will benefit us. She had other ideas for the other side's color scheme, but some people did not want it. We have to tell HER our ideas, because I bet that she will be very open about it. Plus, I think we need to come into the meeting with a much more calm attitude. We can't build a youth center through quarrels and arguments.

My first day dead and I am doing alright.

I was very sore after our track workout today. And then during milking I stretched some and I feel much better. I didn't have any cramps yet, but I might.

For more on cramps and how to minimize them in the future, go here.

I did drink lots of water in between running though if that will help.

Riddick

riddick
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

Has anyone seen "The Chonicals of Riddick"? I just saw it a few minutes ago. I dont usually go for the sci-fi releases but this time I did. It was kind of long, but I saw the director's cut so I guess it would be. It is a strange movie. It talks about faith a lot, not our faith of our world but of other worlds. One man claims to be a god and forces the Universe to convert or lose their soals. And Riddick isnt really even a good guy, so it is the bad against the worse. It probably doesn't teach a good lesson, but it is just an interesting movie to think about. Sci-fi is weird haha, or maybe just Vin Diesel is weird.

The Story of A Paint Scheme

I just thought I would let you guys know that Craig is in the process of scheduling a meeting with the GM workers for Thursday morning. I guess there was a big hubbub when the workers saw our color scheme. Tiffany Klein also stopped by to look at it and was also in favor of a different scheme. Now I mean it when I say, "do not get angry." I started to get a little mad when Craig told me, but there is no reason to get mad because some of us had mentioned that we weren't sure about the colors anyway. So, I will keep you posted on the time of this Thursday's meeting. All I know right now is that it will be in the morning during school, so you will have to miss school if you want to make it (alas). But please, do not get angry about it.

Stations of the Cross in Shadow

For anyone who isn't quite sure what to expect, this is basically what we're doing. Remember, practice Thursday @ 7:00 pm.
Shadow Stations

MSU is awesome.

I assume that all of you got Craig's e-mail about the pro-life thing at MSU.
So should we go? I'm just don't want to be the only one who goes or doesn't go. Yeah I'm a wimp. Please comment like mad, and don't start any fights.

Music

violin w flowers
Originally uploaded by crazygermangirl.

Hey Rachael and Jennifer,
Marnzipan and I were talking the other day about how we are all awesome at music stuff. ( Rachael piano, Jennifer singing, Marnee viola, Sarah violin). So we thought that sometime we should try to play some music and see if it sounds awesome or not.
If you have any other music things that you do we could use that too. ( harmonica!!) So yeah, think about it.

Anyone wanna dance?

Some people hear voices in their heads, I hear music. Sometimes, I hear it when I'm bored or trying to take a test. Other times, I hear it when I'm trying to sleep (it's not some type of soothing music like Beethoven's Pathetique rather something like Rondo Alla Turka). Sometimes, I just randomly hear it, like today. All day, there's been crazy pop/techno music in my head and it makes me want to dance. Now you all know that I'm not a person that dances, but if somehow you hear about me dancing in school, you'll know I couldn't handle the music in my head any longer. Maybe deep inside I'm ecstatically happy, I don't know.

Yeah those are underpants

Yeah those are underpants
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

Well as many of you know i've been sick. i have been sick for about 2 and a half weeks now. I went to the doctor a week ago and they sent me home telling me to rest it off (which i dont have time for, i have to sing a solo on easter and believe me the song needs practice and my voice is utter CRAP right now and has only been getting worse) but i went to the doctor again today and Dr. Messanger (different from the other doc) said i have broncitis and gave me an inhaled steroid and some codene laced cough syrup. he said i shoudl be back to normal in two weeks (which shoudl be good enough... i guess it will have to be).
another wellness problem going on in my family is my grandma. during x-mas break i spent most of the time in the hospitol with my grandpa, he had a lot of things wrong with him. at that time my grandma began complaining of stomach aiches. the doc can't find n e thing wrong with her but she is going crazy. my mom says she is getting worse by the week now and she is going to be put in a home. it will be a nice home (the masonic home in alma and no ben i dont want to hear about masons being the devil) my grandma is a life time member and poor so she gets to stay for free but my grandpa is not and therefor cannot.
my dad had a heart attack last tuesday and just got back from the hospitol tonight at 8. he had a triple bypass on friday and never had a history of high blood pressure. he is a pain in the butt since he hasn't smoked a cigarette since he went into the hospitol.
my mom is going insane from the stress and she has had a cold for over a month now.
so yeah, i dont know if i m going to school tomorrow. i dont know what is going on. thanx for your prayers.

eye

scary
Originally uploaded by PantherModern.

Hey, Kenric and Tom and Rachael and Jennifer and Ben and Marnee....guess what this is and where it's from.....no cheating.

'Wishlist"

Going off of the "I wish I was a ___" post...you can post here your own wishlist song. If you need some help, part of the Pearl Jam song is shown below.

"...I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining off a camaro’s hood

I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on
I wish I was the verb ’to trust’ and never let you down..."

Just like that. I'll post mine later, I need to get to religion class (we have a pro-life speaker coming in).

For fun...monobrows (I didn't check out the site past the intro page, so beware of what lies within).

Eagle

Eagle and Boat
Originally uploaded by Aleutian Fox.

There are eagles in and around Fowler/Pewamo! Maybe you already knew this. I didn't till today.
We were cutting and transporting wood to our house from a farmer's field, for our wood stove, when we saw eagles in the field. They were so close, one, a younger one, stayed on the ground while we drove by it and didn't fly off till after. Bald Eagles, here, who woulda thunk it.....

The Depth Perception Pool

Spaced Out

The Grudge

Village

"Kenric is just trying to make the movie as scary as possible. However, I will not be scared, reguardless of the noise volume and the amount of talking. Since Kenric never reads this anyway, we should all talk as much as possible during the movie. Not that I'm afraid that I'll be scared of it, but it would really annoy Kenric."

Hmm, I guess that I don't need to say anything more. Well, I'm going to anyway. Sarah, I thought that of all people, you would know better. So, lets ruin the movie for everyone just so we can annoy Kenric? Thanks. Thanks a lot. Really nice of you.

Cyber Wishing Well

Fill in the blank
with what you think of
when you read this:

I wish I was____.

Shangri-La Photoset

Possibly the best photo ever.

The Shangri-La Photoset