Currently Reading Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (Teen's Top 10 (Awards)) By James Patterson see related

Awesome!

God is awesome!

As i looked into my face book yesterday who should i find but my best friend from high school Hannah requesting me as a friend. She wasn't sure it was me but jumped the gun and found me. It's funny because I had been thinking about her during uplift and wishing that there was some way i could talk to her again and try and bring the gospel to her. Now I have that chance! It will take quite a bit of re-getting to know each other..a lot has happened since high school, but it is still absolutely totally incredible. She has gotten married just recently and she's still as sweet as ever. I'm just so happy that she found me it's like Christmas and birthday all rolled into one!

In other news I have seen both Transformers and Ratatouille, both which are awesome! I'm also hungry so I'm going to go and eat!

Currently Reading Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen see related

I've Been Tagged.....Are you sure you want to read this?

So having been tagged here comes ten rather random and definately weird things about moi......

1. I have this random voice in my head which will at random times narrate what is going on in the third person. For example, if I was yelling at one of my brothers my head voice might say.. 'Audra yelled but even as she did this she thought about the impact this might have. Will he listen to what I'm saying, really listen? Or will this blow over his head and happen again next week' or some such nonsense. Whether this means I should be an author or I'm just nuts I'll let you decide.
2. I am addicted to Disney. There is no way around this it is a fact and whoever marries me will just have to deal with a wife who goes around singing Disney songs and quoting the mocvies. In fact, a dream of mine is to sing in one of their musicals..a good one mind you of the caliber of Beauty and the Beast.
3. I am also addicted to Guitar Hero. Trina and I played for 2 hours straight and had to force ourselves away.
4. I am a book addict- nuf said
5. I have discovered that I enjoy working with teenagers in a youth group capacity. I absolutely positively loved Uplift and have loved being with our youth group.
6. I talk way to much but have discovered that I do know when to listen. On that note feel free to tell me to shut up. I really don't mind my parents do it and it doesn't bother me.
7. I don't really like make-up the only reason I wear it is because it makes me look a little older- which helps me look a little more professional. But even then it's minimal. I do not think that caked on make up makes someone more attractive.
8. I want to live in Europe. It's a toss up between the UK France and Italy....I miss it...lots
9. I want to go on an around the world tour that includes several cruises and lots of stops. I'd like to go on every continent maybe even a day in Antartica. I really want to go to Australia New Zealand China Japan Russia Israel etc etc and so on and so forth.
10. I love my family to death. the boys have only improved with age and I get along great with my parents. I like to hang out with my brothers, they like to hang out with me. They don't mind if I hang out with them and their friends and my friends like to hang out with them. My dad and I excell at making corny puns and calton and devon are excellent dinner entertainment! We all love God and life rocks! My extended family is awesome.

I'm sure i could think of weider things but I am tired after spending the day wth preschoolers...to bed to bed i said!

Currently Reading The Misadventures of Maude March By Audrey Couloumbis see related

Hey Guuyys, I'm Baaacckkk!!!

Hello Everybody! Yes i finally decded to make a return visit to my favporite webblog site. As most of you know I am know gainfully employed for the fall so no more interviews thank goodness. I can now make my way to Fayetteville, Hot Springs, Blytheville and Jonesboro. Now that I have north and central AR covered I believe it is time to move on to southern AR....he heh eh.

In other news. I have spent my last two weeks teaching small children...and consequently becoming reimmeresed in little kid talk. We go tee tee and poop is a word that is simultaniously hilarious and forbidden, which of course makes it that much funnier. We get dwinks of water and have nap time. Good times my friends, good times.

On a personal level I truly thank God for my job. It is what I wanted where I wanted and I know that I'll grow there. God showed me the value of patience...a lesson that I have to learn over and over I am sorry to say.

I really can't think of anything else to say, but I want to post this most hilarious thing that my friend had on her blog. For those of you who are staunchly patriotic and do not enjoy english humor sto reading now. I mean it. DO NOT READ THIS SENTENCE. For those of us who have lived in Britain or otherwise enjoy the humor I give the rest of this post to you. Farewell for now.

To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.



Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:



1. You should look up revocation in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up aluminium. Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix ize will be replaced by the suffix ise. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.



Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up vocabulary. Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up interspersed. There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.



2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize.



3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney,upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as Taggart will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is Devon. If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become shires e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.



4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as Men Behaving Badly or Red Dwarf will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.



5. You should relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.



6. You should stop playing American football. There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American football is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays American football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders,your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called rounders, which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.



7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.



8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called Indecisive Day.



9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time,you will go metric with immediate effect and conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.



10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.



11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.



12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer,and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. The substances formerly known as American Beer will henceforth be referred to as Near-Frozen Knat's Urine,with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine. This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen,Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.



13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or Gasoline, as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon- get used to it).



14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.



15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.



16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).



Thank you for your co-operation and have a great day.



-John Cleese

Currently Reading The Lost Years of Merlin (Lost Years of Merlin, Bk. 1) By T. A. Barron see related

Ok guys this has provided me hours of amusment when the office is just plain boring. Just so you know the first song is from my whole iPod mix, the second is strictly oldies, and the third is strictly Disney.

If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...
7. When you're finished post it as a note and tag your friends

Opening credits
Sixteen Going On Seventeen – Sound of Music

Hanky Panky

You’ll Be In My Heart- Tarzan

Waking up
I Guess This Is Goodbye – Into the Woods

Dawn- Frankie Vallie

Just Around The River bend- Pocahontas

First day of school
Wakeup Call – Reliant K

Lollipop

Something There- Beauty and The Beast

Falling in Love
Why Have You Brought Me Here/Raoul I’ve Been There - Phantom

Crimson and Clover

So This Is Love- Cinderella

Fight Song
Who Killed The Roses – Bean and Bailey

Good Vibrations

Girl Worth Fighting For- Mulan

Breaking Up
Red Sea – Prince of Egypt

Walk don’t Run- The Ventures

Looking Through Your Eyes- Quest for Camelot

Prom
Unconditional Love - ????

Working My Way Back To You

My Father’s Wings- Quest for Camelot

Life
The Boxer – S&G

Runaway

Hakuna Matata- The Lion King

Driving
It’s Not Just Me – Rascal Flatts

I wish It would Rain

Human Again- Beauty and The Beast

Flashback
Mayberry – Rascal Flatts

My Boyfriend’s Back

I Stand Alone- Quest for Camelot

Getting back together
Poor Poor Pharaoh - Joseph

Surfin USA

If I Never Knew You

Wedding
On The Steps of the Palace – Into the Woods

I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All

Someday My Prince Will Come- Snow White

Party
Benjamin Calypso – Joseph

Down Town

Go The Distance- Hercules

Birth of a Child
Angel of Music – Phantom

Return to Sender

Thomas O’Malley- Aristocats

Death scene
The Bunny Song – Veggie Tales

American Pie

Love- Robin Hood

Funeral song
Song of the King – Joseph

Dead Man’s Curve

Cinderelly- Cinderella

Ending credits
Loneliness Knows Me By Name – Westlife

Tossin and Turnin

I Wonder- Sleeping Beauty

Currently Listening Michael Flatley's Lord Of The Dance By Ronan Hardiman, Michael Flatley see related

At the request of one of my dearest friends I thus do update my xanga site. I do believe only two people read this, so this one is dedicated to you.

despite the fact that i was absolutely exhausted yesterday i couldn't go to sleep. granted this may have had something to do with the fact that i was crying and had contracted a very large headache, but neverless i had a little time to work through some things.

firstly, my best friend is about to move away and i have no idea when i will see her again. if moving sucks then being left behind is even worse. a quick apology out there to all who i have left behind..I know how you feel. to be left somewhere and to not be able( not yet anyway) to leave and get away from places you have been with that person is truly difficult to deal with. at least when you move you get to start over again. again this position sucks and i again apologize and sympathize with those it has happened to. yet this is a facet of life that everyone has to deal with- it happens and there's not a whole lot you can do except promise to be faithful pen and phone pals.

nextly( yes i know that is not a word!), i actually made a rather abysmal grade on a test last week and while i was expecting it, it still stung. of course it took till the day which i had no sleep to hit me but such is the way of things.

nextly again, this whole starting a job thing is really scary. it's going to take all i have and every bit of strength God can give me to make it. i ready for it and not ready for it all at the same time. on one hand i really want to teach, on the other i really like school. yes i know this may come as a shock but i really do love school. granted it's all i've known but i still love it.

i'm sure there were other things thrown in the melee in addition to the fact that i am sick and hadn't finished my homework and was stressed about that.

today i have a sore thorat and am still emotionally wobbly but the weekend to sleep it off should help..if i can make it through the inferno of homework that has to be completed..wish me luck!!!