The Needle

the needle
Originally uploaded by world_of_noise.

Guys, guess what? I gave blood for the 1st time yesterday. I know it's pathetic that I'm so proud of myself, but I'm afraid of needles and blood. It's actually not that bad except for how you feel afterwards and I had to be poked twice.

Funny Christian Music Video

Hey, check out this music video!
Maybe some of you got the e-mail I did. If so, watch it again! It's called Baby Got Book
http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook/index.html

A Linguistic Profile

What Kind of English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

"Many Catholics" Disappointed by Pope Pick....whatever

CBS's Early Show

Couric played up Nazi questions: "Father Greeley let me ask, let me, let me just move on and ask you about Pope John Paul II. He was credited for his commitment to Christian-Jewish reconciliation as you know. The first Pope to visit a synagogue. He apologized for the wrongs committed against the Jews throughout history by Christians. But Cardinal Ratzinger's past includes a brief membership in the Hitler Youth movement, service in the, with the German army in World War II, which was mandatory. But given his past associations do you think that will create a rift between Christians and Jews and what can he do to fix that?" Again, Greeley demurred, saying young Ratzinger resigned from the Hitler youth and deserted the German army. Couric somehow missed what ABC did not, that the Anti-Defamation League welcomed Pope Benedict as a friend of Jews and a foe of anti-Semitism.

BenedictXVI

BenedictXVI
Originally uploaded by DianaTrent.

Here's a whole photostream with pictures of the new pope.

We have a new Pope.

Just like Craig said at Bible Study, Ratzinger is in. He chose the name Benedict XVI. Go Germans!

Summer Breeze

amy (light on her feet)
Originally uploaded by romanlily.

Mmm..this is how I feel. I'm lovin this summer weather. In fact, we have our hammock up in the backyard now and I can take naps in it.

G4TV.com

I know I am going to be the one coming out of this looking like the bigger geek but here goes...

I have noticed that some of the cool sites we have been seeing on this blog have also been spotted (by me) on G4 Tech TV. Monobrow and Dreath Ray (especially Death Ray) have been featured on a show better known as Screen Savers (original i know) but now called Attack of The Show . And i was wondering (not that it really matters) if you (Ben and maybe Kenric, i can't find the monobrow post to see who posted it) got the sites from the show of somewhere else. (lots of links i know, i am bored)

OK, now you all know what i do in my spare time, besides beeing cool by blogging.

The Meaning of Life

There's just one question now, is this the end? All of the doctors, covered head to toe in their pale blue scrubs, exchange looks of worry and hopelessness over the situation before them. One by one their eyes return to the patient in front of them, and they each try, despairingly, one last time to think of anything more they can do. They each ask themselves the question, was there anything I could have done differently? This moment becomes, for each of the five surgical professionals, including myself, a time of deep person reflection. We realize we will have been failures in every aspect of our lives if this procedure should fail. What will we tell our husbands and wives, when we come home tonight and and we know we have failed?
Suddenly, we are pulled out of our silent reveries by a low beeping sound, followed by a soft humming. There are five short gasps heard around the room as the humming is followed by a quick procession of clicks and beeps. We begin to laugh out loud as the 2005 Black Dell computer that we have been trying for the past 5 hours to save from almost certain shut down comes back to life. Can this be happening? Is it real? We did it! We saved it after all! The small room is filled with celebration as the monitor screen flickers on. Now we won't have to live without our computer! All our files will be saved! There wasn't a dry eye in the room as we all beamed with joy.
This was a moment that changed my life forever. You could never know the full impact unless you had been there, but nonetheless I have tried to describe it to you, exactly as it happened, so that maybe you can share in the experience as I lived it, and learn from it as I did.

Another Waste of a Website

Road Sign Math

Who are you?

Wanted: True identity of the anonymous poster.
Reward: Tom F-10.

Last seen refering to himself as "CHINA TOWN", "anonymous", "urdumb", "america", "Anonymous" and to me as "Kenny". He talks strangly, using words such as "peace out" and "yo". That is all of the information we have for now. The general public will be updated as more information is discovered. If listeners have any leads, they may comment on this post. Warning: the suspect is considered retarded and annoying. If you see him, stay away from him and call the authorities immediately. For blogger news, this is Kenric F-10. Now, back to you Tom F-10.

Graduation Songs

DSC03566
Originally uploaded by supersloth.

Rachael and I are supposed to play piano/sing at the Graduation Mass and i want wondering what some of your suggestions for songs might be. I've talked to Sarah about a few: "Changes" by David Bowie and "Break Away" Kelly Clarkston" please give suggestions of any appropriate graduation songs (preferably not Vitamin C's "Graduation Song" because that is lame and not Greenday's "Good Riddance" because its been done)
PS- Great picture ain't it?

Obnoxion

My cat "Useless"
Originally uploaded by astrovine.

Obnoxion should be a word- as in the collectiveness of being obnoxious. Yeah, I typed "obnoxious" in flickr and this is what I got. Anyway, obnoxious, immature people in my class are bothering me a lot today, but it's Friday, so it's all good!

News Flash!

Kitten Killed In House Fire
World Mourns

"At 2:31 this morning the unthinkable happened. In the heart of suburban Michigan, where tragedies strike about every 2.3 seconds, a young kitten was found dead amongst the aftermath of a house fire. It was thought that young Furry had escaped, and was safely in the arms of a bystander. No. Furry was lost this morning in what is being called the worst cat-house fires in decades. Our hearts are with the cat family and all of their loved ones. More on the story at 5:00."

This is Dog

Ok this is just my opinion, but I think that Jennifer needs to have a random blog. This also applies to Kyle who needs to start posting. Man do I feel like being extraordinarily mean to someone all of the sudden.

News Flash!

Man Bites Dog
Dog In Serious Condition

"Sources tell us that the suspect is a white male in his late twenties. We advise all dog owners to lock their kennels, the suspect is armed and salivating. We'll have more on the story at 10:00."

Comparitive Essay

Hey people, I have to write a 7 or 8 page comparitive/contrasting essay and can't think of a topic! Actually, i have, but I can't find enough info on any. (I've tried comparing how parents raise the oldest and youngest children. I've also tried comparing dating in high school opposed to not and lastly, I'm trying to find information on how religious people live/think compared to athiests.) All of these topics have not turned up much information. Does anyone have any ideas for me? I could compare 2 religions, but I feel like that would be a little too easy and most of these essays, I feel I'm too biased on.

Flying Skier Video

It's Completely Safe

Ellie Rose

My niece, Ellie, has pnemonia (however it is spelled). She went to the hosipital on Sunday night. And now she is on IVs until tomorrow night. I ask for prayers for her. Thanks.

Nadja Obradovich Art Piece

Nadja Obradovich Art Piece
Originally uploaded by jamacdonald.

And you guys think that mine are freaky. I really like this painting. Hows that for a pointless post.

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

Uses for Duct Tape

http://www.koolpages.com/hokuspokus/ductape.html

Some of these uses are dumb and sometimes these uses for duct tape I have actually seen.

Also, share your experiences of using duct tape.

Tom Owns A Business

Battle Creek Enquirer

I thought you people might find this link interesting. Notice that Tom's grandfather farmed near Fowler.

$Money$Money$Money$

$2 at Taco Bell

Check out this story of a man trying to use a $2 bill at a Taco Bell.

Also, have you ever wondered if, say, a $100,000 bill exists? If so, look below. Follow the link to view other bills of much worth.



Other Bills of Much Worth

Anyone want to go to Outer Space?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/24/un.population/index.html

We might just have to. 2.6 billion people increase in 50 years. That's insane. Just about as insane as our national debt going up by the billions each day.

For that website, go to http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Interesting stuff. Yes, Sarah, I have yet to post a long, serious post. But then again, this is serious, and the numbers are long, too long.

Tom & Tyler's "Anime"

Tom & Tyler's "Anime"
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

How much of Tanime is actually anime? Aside from the "brilliant" idea of making the title Japanese, I would say nothing.

The fight post

Ok due to the fact that the arguments and bad blood between people on this blog have swamped the other posts to the point where we can't even talk about normal stuff anymore. This is the post that you can fight on. Anything you want to say that you know will cause a fight should be posted on this post. So you people know who you are.
Follow through with this please. OR ELSE. Tom and Jen if you didn't pick up on this before, pick up on it now. please confine your fighting to this post ( and the spider post which now has 100 comments on it) Thank you.

Flowers For Flickrs

A Photoset For Flickr

"As you Flickrs have all been so inspiring with your wonderful images, the children of Hummingbird decided that you all deserve some merit and honour and hereby present you with this delightful collection of bouquets. Just choose a favourite for your collection!"

This photostream reminded me of the kids in Honduras who sold paintings. These kids are from Brazil.

Mmmm...Just Like The Mints

Laguna del Inca, Andes Chile
Originally uploaded by Marcelo Tomas.

Are the Andes Mountains cool or what? I think they may be my favorite mountains.

Who wants to go to Chile and Argentina???

Stonehedge

Stonehedge
Originally uploaded by SparkyCola.

I was thinking today on the way to school. (in my half-conscious state...had trouble waking up this morning)People always build snowmen, snow people, igloos, generic stuff like that. I've decided that I want to build a snow stonehedge. How cool would that be?? I think it would be flippin' sweet. By the way, I think I have enough people for the shadow drama and have gotten things rolling (annoucement in bulletin, childrens choir etc.). I'll wait a couple weeks for a practice, then we'll have a practice with the choir. If anyone has seen it and has some innovative ideas for improvement, they're welcome.

Retreat

For anyone who doesn't know about it yet, there's a 24 hr. retreat this weekend Saturday 12(noon)-Sunday 12(noon). Dan is putting on the retreat, it's free, people from out of town can come and it's going to be a lot of fun. (that leaves no room for excuses) Any questions, call me.

Days of our lives

Hey people,
Well I know I've probably talked to all of you before about this stuff, but I have a bad memory so humor me.
What are each of you planning to do after highschool? College? Which one? What degree? You know stuff like that. Remember that time we sat around the fire at Rachael's and we each told what we thought each other should be? We passed the flaming stick around and who ever had it got to talk or be talked about. Good times, I miss em. Wow, I sound like an old person. Speaking of which......

stick handling

stick handling
Originally uploaded by iceemaster.

Ahhh guys I'm going to miss hockey...they better have it back next year. Speaking of which we should get a huge hockey game started and I would beat you all because I'm the only one who ( i think) that's ever played it before. Anyway the NHL had better get their act together.

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

Does anyone want to see the great movie "cold mountain" at the ark tonight? (we need John's lap top) it is a great civil war movie. It is said to parallel homer's odysey. n e ways, its great.

Pedro

Perdo
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

Pedro cleans up nice, hehe. Efren Ramirez is his real name. He is a composer.

Gmail

I have Gmail now.

Does anyone want an account? I have 50 invitations, so ask for one, and I will send an invite.

batfog

batfog
Originally uploaded by igknition.

Is this not cool? I love flickr. Tom it is completely up to you whether or not you are scared of bats. I'm not, I like them. I don't pick them up though, because they could have rabies or something worse. Anyway bats are cool.

Jon Heder

Jon Heder
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

Here is a place to post information about Jon Heder or just random Napolean things.
here are some things i've found:

*He is 27 years old as of October
*He lives in California
*Is originally from Oregon
*He is Mormon
*Looks QUITE different than ND
*He has a twin brother
*Is married
*Likes Jamariquai (the group he danced to in the movie)
*Likes Futurama
*He's NOT Dead
*He went to Brigham Young University in Utah
*studied 3D animation (geekiness is way to cute to me)

READ THIS! (Tom, that's my yelling voice.)

Goodness, I didn't mean to post that many "tots". Ben, you made me laugh out loud. "I like tots, but not that many." See, flickr kept telling me that it didn't post and it wouldn't show one the site, so I kept clicking the button.
Anyway, this post has a higher calling. I need everyone's help please. For the past 4 or 5 years, dad has been putting on a "shadow drama" of the Stations of the Cross with his 8th grade class. This year he's too busy, so he can't do it, but I told our DRE that I could round up some people and put it on. That's where I need your help. I need about 6 people to act, 1 person to do lights, and 2 readers. The actors don't have any lines and no one even sees their faces. It's all done with shadows. This is happening on Good Friday and we'll probably only need 2 practices. We usually get a full church for this. Yeah, so I need your help please. Leave a comment if you can help.

The Forerunners of the Women's Movement Were Pro-life

Forerunner.com

Alice Paul, the suffragist founder of the National Woman's Party and author of the Equal Rights Amendment [1923], objected to combining abortion arguments with the fight for the ERA; Paul termed abortion "the ultimate exploitation of women."

This is really interesting. Last year during that week or month that we celebrate women's history we watched a movie about Alice Paul starring (none other than) Julia Roberts. The film wasn't really that bad, but they made her come across as a staunch feminist. This is quite interesting because I've heard about things like the above quote that would suggest otherwise. Public schools and hollywood, a lethal combination. Let's just hope they don't make people watch Kinsey in the classroom.

Coming to the Warten Center!

Lord of the Dance!! Is anyone else as excited about this as me? Has anyone else seen the Lord of the Dance? Sarah, you are definetly already up on this. Anyone want to go? It's in May I think. I hope no Graduation parties conflict.

Poll:

What do you think about depressing music, ( example: good charlotte, evensceance, ...whatever else you can think of)
1. It's evil, never listen to it.
2. It's not evil, but I don't like it.
3. It's not evil and I like it.
What do you agree with and why.
P.S. I'm not telling you which I agree with yet.

"Tots"

garlic mashed potatoes
Originally uploaded by second hand rose.

Yeah, that's what's for lunch today. Turkey gravy over mashed potatoes...mmm...I can't wait. I know, I complained about school lunches, but this is good. Oh, and if you go the the picture on flickr, it tells the recipe to make the potatoes in the picture. (we make that kind at my house sometimes) Mashed potatoes are definitely good with garlic.

Tom & Sarah

love
Originally uploaded by JenSchrauben.

In love? At eachother's throats? Both???

Guess What....

Well you probably can't guess, so I'll just tell you; I now have seven brothers. My newest brother was born last night and weighed 9pd-2oz. We haven't thought of a name yet . (any ideas? ) Sorry none of you are getting cigars.

A Cool Catholic Website

Godspy: Home Page

I just found this today. It is a very informative Catholic outlook on very modern issues. Check it out, it's awesome.

Godspy: About

Napoleon

napoleon_pr
Originally uploaded by Jen0825.

Anyone want to comment? Good, bad? Funny, lame? Boring, I-could-watch-it-over-and-over?

Poems

Does anyone want to publish a poem? I feel like someone should.

Random Acts of Kindness

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad
Originally uploaded by Mr. TRONA.

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." -Aesop

This is Random Acts of Kindness week and I encourage you to do something. (By the way, I am Rachael and I endorse this message.)

http://www.actsofkindness.org

Interview

Aaaaaa! Tomorrow morning at 8:15 sharp is my interview, about 20 minutes long. I'm really quite nervous, although I shouldn't be. I hate having to say stuff about myself like, "I'm an organized person and I work well with people," etc. I feel so fake. Also, I feel like I have to think of stuff too quickly it ends up sounding dumb. This weekend, I have to go to the sholarship competition at Aquinas, so once this interview is done, I'll have something new to worry about. Life is great. I have to finish my 5 page english paper on obesity in the US yet tonight, so good bye. Happy Valentines day!

I just remembered that it is Valentines' Day. So Happy Valentines' Day!!!
( btw. When is St Patrick's Day?)

Michigan Campround

Michigan Campround
Originally uploaded by CaptPiper.

"Morning at Turtle Lake Campground just south of Traverse City."

Well, this is a pretty good Michigan pic. Maybe Michigan can be photographed...

Sickness

Well due to weather conditions my "school" was cancelled for the first time today. Except I don't think that the plague counts as weather. Yeah we all have some weird disease that probably isn't going to kill us, although this morning at about 4am I was thinking of ways to make sick and half-asleep children be quiet. And not scream. I am lucky so far in that I have yet to get the flu and a major headache. I'll probably be next though.

Snowy Church

New piccy
Originally uploaded by Paul French.

Flickr is the coolest thing ever. I've got to get a digital camera.

I Know You Guys Like Photography

Alex MacLean Portfolio

Check out this awesome aerial photography

Squash

Squash
Originally uploaded by Philosopher Queen.

Does anyone else think some words are just weird. Squash for example, it's a food named with a verb. Apple fritters, that's also a strange word. Try saying fritters, 10 times fast. Or apple "dumplings".
The spelling of some words too just bothers me. Box has always seemed to me like it should be spelled like "bocks".
Has anyone else come across words like this or is it just me?

Warning, this is a dumb post. ( not depressing though)
I really, really like the new comment system....so fun for some reason. I like that you can see the comments other people have made while you yourself are commenting, it's nice for refering back to. Tom will really like this because now he doesn't have an excuse to miss-quote me. I thought it was special to this blog and that some smart person here had made it, but I found that it's on all the blogs so I'm happy. ( I've been happy all day since I found out that I'm a month ahead in British Lit.)

Afterthought

Does anyone know what happened at The Ark Sunday night? I just found out about it now and am completely shocked.

Small Towns

Sorry, I'm going to post something "depressing" according to the standards of some people. I've noticed that our community build this little-very little box for every one of its members. Stay in this box your whole life, don't think outside of the box, don't act any way that would be outside the stupid box of their confines of thinking and acting. They expect everyone to think and act alike. Anyone who is a little too religious, too musical, too geeky, too passionate about something, too reflective, too "out there", too whatever, I don't care, if you don't act like you're supposed to, they'll make fun of you and gossip will be all over town before you can say "little box". At this point, some people may be thinking that I'm talking about myself, but I'm not. I'll use an example. Every once in awhile, we have this certain sub. She wears a big silver peace sign around her neck. No, she's not a hippie, she just wants peace. Her station wagon is arrayed with bumper stickers such as casiNO. She talks to us in Spanish sometimes and tends to ramble off on stories of a protest she was in or her missionary work in Mexico. People call her annoying and give her a really tough time. If they ever tried to get to know her though, they would learn that she's very unique. Today, we talked for quite a while I was in the library during choir and she's really cool. I think it's interesting to meet someone so different than everyone else in our town and I just wish that people wouldn't judge so harshly. Come on. Be a little different.

My teacher needs your help!!

http://wiog.com/ and then click The Chains of Love picture. It should be the one in the middle of the page.

102.5 WIOG is hosting a chance to win a free wedding for these couples. One happens to be my shop teacher's (Klamy) relative or something like that. The rule is to pick the person you want to leave the contest. Klamy's relative's name is Dana Wasek. But however, you can't pick her, unless you want her to leave the contest, but my teacher wouldn't like that. Instead, you should take Molly Hartley out of the contest. She has 46% of the votes, but Dana has 33%, which could be not enough. This goes on until Valentines Day so, they will keep clearing the votes each day or so, and start over with the votes but one person is eliminated. That's all.

Video Games...Yeah

Ok, I'm sure most of you have heard me talk about the problems of video games. Well, I'm taking sociology this semester, and the teacher has offered some great insights regarding excessive video game, as well as internet, usage. The main problem with violent video games (swearing, shooting, breaking the law, etc.) is that they truly do de-sensitize people. I won't bother citing studies, because I doubt anyone would care who did the studies and all that stuff. Anyway, I'll just say that I'm not lying and that I'm not saying they always de-sensitize peoplel; I would just like to open up discussion regarding other peoples thoughts.

By the way, the thing that struck me the most was the evidence that more and more video games are putting the stereotypical "bad guy" into the stereotypical "good guy" role. For example, in the Grand Theft Auto series, the main character recieves "street credit" for shooting as many people as he can, running things over, etc. He's even allowed to pick up hookers and do things like slap them up. But it's not only in GTA. It's happening in other games where nobody is the good guy, and the aim of the game is simply to kill as much as possible.

the cure for boredness

Well, since the last brilliant post I was going to post got deleted, you will now get this version of it.
Ok, all of you girls ( as in not guys), we need a hobby besides talking. I was think about this for a while and came up with.........................nothing. Except that sometime we should make a movie. Or we could knit, or not. Ok, before I go insane, or become sane again, we should find something that we all like, that is fun, and that we could all do together. The guys have their computer games ( except Ben who thinks that all computers are the devil) and their scary movies that aren't scary. So we should have something........any ideas? Guys, if you think you have a good idea either post anonymously or post as yourself, but be fore-warned, if you post as yourself I will probably make fun of you.
Note: Any references to the Grudge will be ignored.

Thanks

Who fixed the template?? Whoever did gets a hug. Thanks, you just made my day!

Photo Contest!

kabouter
Originally uploaded by stink zus.

How much you wanna make a bet you can't guess what this is?

Worry no more, Sarah...

I will still win.

Most likely it was Rachael who saved the archives. The (screaming of terror) spider post is back up. It is in the January archive.

I will win. Bwa ha ha ha ha!!

Insanity

Hey people! I'm going insane. Seriously, I've been trying to fix the template for an hour and a half with no progress!!! Anyone know what it feels like to go crazy? I do. Anyway, I'm taking a break. If you feel like looking at some very interesting political sites done by people our age that (I randomly found by clicking the next button on the top right of the screen), here they are: (and I'm too lazy to make a good link so deal with it)

http://www.torchblog.blogspot.com
http://neoconservativeamerica.blogspot.com/

What tape makes the best sculpture?

This is, well, a rediculous question. Blogger asked me this question in my profile and I found it to be pretty darn stupid. What does the answer to this question have to do with me? What would you learn about my feelings, psyche, or being from the answer i give to this question? So now i ask you, what kind of tape makes the best sculpture? What does the askwer say about you? Why would any one care???

Update Stuff

Everyone should have gotten Sarah's e-mail that I sent out. Other than that, ugh, all of the little phrases and important junk stuff is congregating bottom of the blog. How did that happen? Anyone who wants to tweak with the template, have at it, with caution of course. (Copy the original template into word before messing with it, so you can always go back to what you had if it's not working.) The other night, I watched Farenheit 9/11. It disgusts me to think that the American people take the complete movie as truth. Use some common sense people! And how Michael Moore made fun of Bush so much for sitting in a classroom reading to children when he found out about the Trade Center tragedy. That really bothered me along with many other parts of the movie. I could only stand watching half the movie before I had to go to bed, it was so dumb and rediculous. I recommend the movie to no one.

Super Bowl

Are we doing anything for the super bowl? It's this sunday right? Is there Bible Study? Who's even playing in the game? Who do you want to win? Why do you want them to win?

Mask

Mask
Originally uploaded by Kenshiro.

Ok guys, who does this look like? There are no wrong answers.....I think anyway.

Pope is Hospitalized

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/international/europe/02rome.html

The Vatican says he was ill enough to be hospitalized, but "it's not very, very serious." The Pope is suffering from influenza and a fever and he had trouble breathing.