A Little Change

Well, we are not buying the house that we were looking at at first, but there is another house in woodville that we looked at, and we all like it. the first house we looked at looked nice and all that, but it had one little problem... no insilation. yea. so we nixed that idea and moved on to this house, and this one is a bit roomy er (or however you say that) and a lot newer. it also has a bigger yard, tho not enough room for a volley ball net, and nicer bedrooms. i think mom and dad are thinking a little more seriously about this house than any of the other ones we have looked at, even tho it is a little to early to really tell. it is going to be SOOOOOO weird to move again! i havent moved in eight... maybe it is nine... years, and then we were moving often enough so that it was not a really big change. its not the house i mind leaving so much, tho, it is the land. i dont know what il do in a town yard! il feel sooooo cramped! but we will have friends close, so we wont be totally confined RobOle's ( is that right Mos?) will only be a five minute bike ride from our house. i just want to find a house, move, and be done with it!

Possibly Woodville?

Well, we found a house in Woodville that we looked at yesterday. dad wasnt there, but the rest of us are ready to move in right now. it is right in town, but it is a really nice house, and could feel like home if we made it that way. it is kind of funny, tho, because the way the upstairs is designed makes you feel like a giant. i can put my chin on the top of the windowsill, the guard around the stairs is only just above knee high, the door into the master bedroom is so short even i have to put my head sideways to get thu. i can look down on the top of the book shelf, and everything combined makes the lamp look especially small. nonetheless we love it, and there is a decent sized shed in the back to boot (the shed gives us a chance of dad liking it). mom and dad are going to look at it tonight, so we find out tonight. plus, where we are, we will only be about three blocks from where Roble's live, so we wont be moving away from everyone. il try to post again when we find out what dad thinks of it.

Little Smarty Pants!

On monday we had some friends over from switzerland... yes, mom has a friend in switzerland and we still have not been there. Anyway, they were over here, and it is really somthing else to know them. we have not exactly met Mr. Beal, but let it suffice to say that he is a member of mensa. Mrs. Beal is moms friend from highschool, and that is the only reason we know them, but their kids are the ones that we (meaning andrew, aaron and i) really know. the youngest two are Elizabeth and Victoria. they look so much alike that they could almost be twins, but lets just say that their dad rubs off on them. typical 4 and 5 year old girls, they were talking over eachother faster than i could comprehend about their stuffed animals that they sleep with. amidst the endless babble (that i actually enjoy listening to) i caught that Elizabeth has a stuffed sheep named Ariel (i think... i could'nt really hear) that is named Ariel not only in english, but in german, and italian as well. ITS NOT FAIR!!! she is 5 and already knows enough italian and german to name things!!! but thats not the half of it... there is still Christopher. lets just say he is also a future member of mensa. he is seven, and whenever i am around him i feel like a dummy. i always feel like i need to use big words that i can hardly spell, like deliberately, and derilict... and he never asks me what they mean. he already know how to use the word 'evidently' correctly... yea. not only that, but he is the possible world record holder for youngest published author, and his book is called "This And Other Summer Excursions" yes, he even used a big word in the name of the book that he wrote when he was six. if you would like to read it, you can check it out at the Baldwin public library (i dont think i spelled that right). like i said, you kind of feel like a dummy when you are around him.

Event are moving so fast!!!

WOAH!!!!!! WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!! we had previously been trying to sell our house, but it never sold, so we took it of the market... and then, months later, our neighbors decide to buy our house off of us!! WOW!!! nothing is set in stone yet, but we would like to sell... dude... so here we are again, looking at houses to buy. some of the in or by Baldwin, others in or by Hamond. i would MUCH rather the former than the later... hamond is soooo not my kind of town, i mean, i HATE that town. but then again it is not my decision, so whatever they choose (if we sell) is good enough for me. mom and dad are kind of excited about a house between baldwin and hamond. it is in the country, small, pea green, and posesses an unfinished basement, but woth a little tlc it coul be a 2700 sq ft house. i should quit ranting before i know for sure what is going on, so il keep you updated.

Busy, Busy Week...

This week is a VERY busy one. we had monday free, but tuesday we had sten over, wed. we are going to have sten over again to put the go-cart together, (i think that i said that the parts were going to be here on tuesday, but i lied.) so that should be interesting. on thursday we are... ahem... WERE planning on having Roble's over, but those plans got busted (as usual) and now we are trying to get over there. on friday we are going to andy's house to help him move stuff from one house to another. on saturday we are going fishing on little or big sand lake, we have'nt decided yet, and saturday evening we are going to have our cousin over night. yea, busy.

A new project to keep us busy

this summer we plan to totally tear apart our rooms and connect two of them (mine and aarons). thos process (i dont know how to spell that word) has already begun, and we are finished with the first step of it: cleaning all of the... well... THINGS (for lack of a better adjective) out of our rooms. this included gutting our closets, both of which cover an entire wall of our rooms. yea, it was awful. now we get the pleasure of ripping the wall out of our rooms and replace all of the old panneling with sheet rock. this is all going to be sooo much fun, and we get to sleep either outside is a tent while wer're gutting, or one of has to share a room with a andrew, and one of us gets to sleep in the basement. lots of fun. lots and lots of fun. now is the part when i start looking around for some simpathy, and giving the puppy-dog eyes.

I HATE spending money!

Well, its over and done with, but i still hate doing it. the go-cart parts are on the way, and i spent 80 bucks on them. the parts i needed were a clutch and a chain. they are on the way. what i still need is a smaller sprocket. the sprocket that we have is 84 teeth, and that just wont do. the sprocket i am going toget eventually is a 60 tooth, and we'llbe able to milk a little more speed out of that. the new sprocket is going to have to wait a while, tho, because as much as i hate spending money, i hate spending it all at once more. but i cant wait until the parts get here! then we can finally fix the darned thing once and for all. with the current sprocket, we shouldnt br able to go any faster than we gave before, but when i get the 60 tooth sprocket, i expect 60 or 70 will be our average speed... this is going to be so much fun!

you would not believe how much more a clutch for a 1 inch shaft is than a clutch for a 3/4 inch shaft... its insane...

Frequent name changes

Call it weird, but i got sick of my blog name, so i am changing it. on anything like this that i do i get sick of the first name that i give myself, and i change it. i may change it again in the future, so be prepared...

Cold and wet... The life of a strawberry picker

Picking strawberries is sooo much fun!! you get down on your hands and knees and fill five quart pails with strawberries, in the cold wet plants. when you pick you need to be prepared to get wet from you toes to your hips, and from your fingers to your elbows. somtimes there is even frost on the plants, so by the end of the first hour your hands are so cold that you cant get them out of the grasping-strawberries position. but i have made fifty bucks in two days doing it, so it is not like it isnt worth it or anything. we pick at the red cedar valley farms, so the stawberies are prime quality... much, much, much, much, much better than those processed, rubber, unripe, molding, poor excuses for starwberries that wal-mart sells. so even though it s a rough job, it pays to get wet... quite well... 2.50 a pail... ten pails a day... six days a week...

Newfound get-up-and-go!!

we are finally fixing our go-cart once and for all... and we do it by replacing the piece of crap engine that was on there. the old engine was a four horsepower, and the new one is a whopping eight horse... just wait till we tell john we beat his five horse motor... hee hee hee! :-}
all we need is a clutch and a chain... things i plan to pick up this week sometime. its kind of funny that we dare upgrade so much, given the fact that we were able to milk thirty mph out of the crappy four horse, and now we are going to gear it even more for speed with the new clutch, and we are doubling the power... we might die before the beginning of next year...

My book progress

I have finally finished typing the first chapter of our book. It is not as easy as it sounds to come up with a woking story that keeps the reader interested in what is happening now, but builds up to another pouint in the story. Professional authers do not have an easy job! It is fun, though, and I dont have to force myself to keep writing it. I have started the second chapter, and am introducing another character, so from this point forth there will be a lot more conversation. That should make things interesting!
Andrew has officially started editing the prologue, so I should be able to post that on my blog pronto, maybe a day or two... maybe three... IDK, it will be done when it gets done I guess. I will keep you posted for the future progress on our book.

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Thats done

Andrew finished th ACT and said that he didnt think it seemed to hard... guess wel find out when his grade comes in. said he had a few problems with the math saction... learned how to do the probles as they showed up on the test. :-{

Good Times?

Andrew is finally taking his ACT... we're all expecting somewhere around a four, maybe a five... HA!!!! if he gets lower than a twenty five i'll be darned! oh well, he gets... or HAS to bum out of the parade to do it. he left at seven this morning and wont get back till one, and when he left he though he would be getting back around eleven or twelve. LOL, he is in fo a rude awakening. he is, or was pretty confident going into it tho, so i think he'll do well. Tests are SOOOO much fun!

My book...

i found a pass time that i will be working on for the next few year if i can keep focused on it. andrew and i (with some input from aaron) are writing a book: Karn. it is kind if of sci fi sorta deal, but i have put a lot if thought into it over several years and dont think it will turn out too cheesy. it is a good brain exercise, tho, and it should keep me young over the summer. if andrew ever gets around to editing the prologue il post it on my blog for you to read. until then you are going to have to be patient. :-) i only have the prlogue and part of the first chapter of the first book done so far, and i have been writing for close to a week... IT IS SLOW PROGRESS!!!

Correction...

YES Mos, i know i spelled BORED wrong.

Time moves so slowly :-(

AHHHHH!!! this minute, day, and week seem to tick by SOOOOO slowly! summer is great when one is doing things... not to say there is nothing to do around here, i simply have not figured out what to do with all of my free time yet.
I AM SO BOARD!!!!!!!
i spend a lot of time playing piano, tho, and even more time sitting around. sitting here typing nonsense is the best (not the most productive) passtime i can think of at this point in time.
I AM SO BOARD!!!!!!!
iv got to get that out of my system after wanting so badly to shout that at the top uv my lungs all those long hours at school, even tho i am not really board given the fact that i know of plenty of passtimes, i just have no ambition right now.

I HAVE GOT TO FIND SOMTHING INTELLIGENT TO WRITE ABOUT.........

Anthony Burger is SOOOOO Awesome!!!

Seriously, yoov got to see him play to believe it. check this video of him playing sumthin or other... i cant think uv the name uv the song right now... one moment... i have to change my font color to an ugly mustard yellow... there we are... anyway, take a look at this video.
HE IS SOOO AWSOME!!!
sorry. i rant on and on when i come across a piano player that makes me drool.

Fluff, fluff, fluff...

Hi all... you are about to see... no wait...read... maybe it is see... IDK... all of the fluff that built up over the course of the school year pour out uv my BraIn...
Anyway, there is lots uv it and it could take a while. LOL. im feelin a little bord for the first time... im lackin in things to doo. no, i will not do more school, so no one recomend it. :) IDK uv anything we are doin special this summer... maybe i should get a job... il find sumthin to do...