words

Yesterday was Haak day. It was really fun, even without Kira and Brittni (sniff). We had some pretty good times, playing pecan : P. It was good. I won (of course!). Yeah, but then I was promptly given some of the other players' cards : ), they were so great, they gave me cards!!! By the end, we were all pretty dead. So I had Justine and Cassie's heads on my lap. I was giving them head massages. It was cool. We were talking about the longest word in the dicitonary, which happens to be antidisestablishmentarianism (and you can take that to the bank!). So, I had to say MY word... flauccinaucinihilipilification. It is so much fun to say. Really, try it. Then, try teaching it to a bunch of crazies. It's really very entertaining. By the way, it means something about the act of doing nothing. OH and antidisestablishmentarianism means that you don't like the government.

There Justine.

Adjectives on a Typewriter

So, my brother,Dan, was listening to Cake on the computer just now. And he was strummin' his guitar along with it. I love it when he does that. It makes me jealous. I wish I could do that. Just like, sit there and listen to music, strummin' a guitar. Sigh.


I started learning a piano book. Well, I'm going to attempt to teach myself how to play something on our keyboard. We'll see how far I get : S

the fuddy dudster

So, my parents got a new car because our old one got a little smashed. Me and my sister have nicknamed it "the fuddy dudster". It's the exact smae year as our old Maxima, but this one has special doohickeys. It's a '92 black Maxima. It has a fun lock thing. Under the door handles, it has numbers and you have to push a code in order to unlock the door. It's fun. And amusing. Also, the gas gauge is electronic! AND (this is in a tone of ridiculous incredulity) the spedometer is digital, with a thinger on the corner of the dashboard that says the speed you're going so you don't have to look down all the time. This is like the supreme FUDDY DUDSTER! It has power seats and everything! The rear-view mirror is enormous, and it maeks everything smaller, so you can see more! PLUS, you can switch the spedometer from miles/hour to kilometres/hour to miles/hour to kilometres/hour. I like it. Yep, the all-new supreme-o FUDDY DUDSTER!!!

carols

I wore a long blakc/white jacket to church today. It was nice. I like jackets. Especially because it means that snow is coming! I really want snow to come. Snow is a great thing. Right now, I'm listening to Christmas carols. Maybe I should go carolling this year...hmmm. Anybody up for it?

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
brown paper packages tied up with string
these are a few of my favorite things.

cream coloured ponies and crisp apple strudel
door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
these are a few of my favourite things.

girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
silver whie winters that melt into spring
these are a few of my favorite things.

when the dog bites
when the bee stings
when I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favourite things
and then I don't feel so bad.

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So, today I found an amazing picture , but I don't know how to put it on here, so one day someone will have to teach me how...


I feel like doing something. Something like, running in the snow, so your cheeks get red from the cold and from the happiness of being outside. But, I want to run with someone, and then fall over from laughing. And just lay there and smil, for the sheer joy of lying in the snow with someone beside you who you now you can't live without.

It's kind of like laying in the rain. You lay there, not caring if you get wet or dirty. You just watch, as the rain falls gently on your face. And sometimes you cry, because of the beauty of it and how you're the only one who took the time to appreciate it.


Hey Ben, thanks for the conversation on the bus. It was cool.

Today we had lasagna for supper. I can't even begin to tell you how good it was.

So, today I have learned soemthing. And so, I am going to give you, my exquisite readers, some sound advice.

I realized just seven short minutes ago that although some things are very good on their own it is not always a good idea to eat two very-good-on-their-own-items together. Often, it ruins the taste of not only the first, but also the second very-good-on-its-own-item. It quite takes away from the joy of eating the very-good-on-their-own-items. I have a very good example. I happened to be a little chilly so I fixed myself a cup of tea. I sat myself down at the table and found that I felt like eating, I was not especially hungry I just wanted to eat (I was having a conversation which required me to eat something in order to feel sorry for myself). So I proceeded to get an apple (that good kind that aren't too small, but just big enough to top of your stomach when you feel like eating). Then, I sat back down at the computer and ate my apple, while alternately delicately sipping tea. I realized, halfway done my apple and tea that it tasted quite off. So, I decided to write bit of advice for you, my avid readers : never eat an apple and alternately delicately sip tea. It quite ruins the taste of both.

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By the by,

What is a jig?

My new motto is:

Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

I do NOT speak from experience.

It was good

So, today I went shopping. And I bought a saxophone. And winter boots. And scarves(two!). And a sudoku thing :) . And toffees. And headphones. And batteries. And...maybe something else but I don't remember off the top of my head. But yeah, all in all a good shopping spree, and I'm talking spree-to-the-fullest-meaning-of-the-word-spree. Yeah, that kind of spree. It was good, but bad. Just like wthe witches in Macbeth say "Fair is foul and foul is fair". Apparently that is refering to how some things appear good but are actually bad, or appear bad but are actually good.

This made me think of how God made the earth and everything was GOOD. I don't thinkg we realize the full meaning of that word. Good.
"Good 1. serving its purpose well, having desired qualities, morally excellent, virtuous, well behaved, dutiful 2. that which is morally right"
That is our dictionary's definition of 'good'. But, I wonder if this is the same as God's definition of good. Because, God made us good and nature good and the animals good. Does that mean nature was morally excellent? I thought nature didn't have morals. I don't know, It just makes me wonder if we have the same idea of what is 'good' as God does. Just something to think on.

apprehensive

So today was a good day...except I didn't get my English test back...I'm a little apprehensive about it...

apples

I have this apple in front of me. (It's actually more to the side, but that's beside the point) (HAHAHA BESIDE the point! That was a good one) Anyways. So there's an apple in front of me. It's amazingly good. Crunchy, yet satisfyingly juicy. It's like perfect. Good size too, not enormous, but not too small either. Just the right size to top of your stomach when you're not really hungry, but feel like eating. Heehee, Julia just put on The Emperor's New Grove, and those of you who have the DVD must know the song that it plays on the menu screen. It's great. DOO doodoodoo duhduhduhduhduhduhduuuuuh! Anyways, so right when it started I like started dancing a jig! (Aside: what is a jig???) So, anyways. About this amazing apple, that I'm now almost half-way done. It's really good. It had enspired me to say something and I was deep in thought until the music from The Emperor's New Groove came on. So, I lost it. Yeah.

By the by, sorry about the last post, I don't really know what happened there.

good thing

Always be positive! There may be a downside, but there is also an upside! Sometimes it's hard to findthe upside, but there always is one! You just got to find it. It might take work, and it might be hard, but it's there. You can find it.

Lesson!!

Yesterday...

Love was such an easy game to play....


Yeah, anyways. So yesterday was pretty much superfuntastico. Renae, Julia, and I went to see my Opa. We brought him some KFC : ) And we ate supper with him and we visited my oma. After that we went to Booster Juice in Burlington and got Boosters...BAHAHAHAHA...(sorry, can't get over the name of that store...) Anyways, so after Booster Juice we went to Blockbuster and we were going to get a movie, actually we got a movie (Chasing Liberty) but ew didn't watch it. Then we went to Dantuma's house and we watched Josie and the Pussycats. It was all right. Well, it was pretty good, I guess. Yeah. It was fun times. We had Milos. They were good. And pop corn (two words).

Guess what else? Apparently I am now a wombat-possum. Cool,eh? Bet you have never seen one of them before! Yesss!! One of a kind, that's me!

Why Chapstick?

here's an interesting fact for ya:

Nadine = hope (Slavic)

Jacqueline = supplanter (Hebrew)

Muis = mouse (Dutch)

That's what my name means.

Is that not an interesting fact?

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Allo.

So, today I didn't have school. It was niice. We(my mom, Christopher, Kira, Aunt Jackie, and me) went to St. Jacob's market today, just for fun. It was grand. Me and Kira pretty much had these amazing cinnamon buns for lunch, they were insanely great! Indeed, I don't think I've ever had a better cinnamon bun. Yeah, it was good. Then, we went and got wine gums and Oh Henry bars. They were good too. After that, we went tooo...ermmm a glass and metal workshop thinger. There was a glass sink with a swirl of red in it...it was entitled "The Shaving Accident" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...it makes me laugh... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...it was funny, okay? After that we went to an antique store, that was pretty neat too. I bought a cool bracelet and I pretty much really like it. Yeah. That was my day. Oh wait, after that I went home and tried cleaning my room. But that didn't work very well. I did clean it a bit though. Not all the way. I'll have to finish tomorrow, after work...WOO.

Andyways, i'm going to go now.

L.W.

So yesterday there was a Living Worship, it was fantastic. I love you guys! It was so pretty, like, to hear all the voices all joining together to praise our God. It is absolutely incredible. You can really feel unified at these evenings. It's grand.

Also, I got to see my beautiful cousin Justine, finally! (She was in Europe for ages! She has to show me all of her awesome pictures...I'm excited!) And she was taking pictures of everything(at LW) and so she tried to take one of me but I dodged...heheheh so you can only see like a little bit of my face : ) I'm proud of myself. But then she was like "Haha, I'm going to put this one the internet" Yeah, it was funny! I think you had to be there...

AND I met this sweet guy named Gus, he's pretty much splendid, I mean his name's Gus, how can you go wrong?

love

I've finally decided what I really love.

Random, unexpected encounters with people I love. They are amazing. Like, just now, one of my cousins (who got married last month) just dropped by. Her name is Candice and I love her a lot. She's really an amazing woman. Very smart, brilliant actually. And she is amazing at piano and she has numerous other talents. Just seeing her beautiful face made me smile. I gave her a hug. She makes me happy.

Yeah, that's what I love.

One thing

So...I was wondering aloud to myself...

If I could have one thing in this life, what would it be?

So, I have come to this conclusion:

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Don't ask...there really IS a method to my madness...I'm not even joking!

Allo!

Bonjour! Je n'ai pas un bon apres-midi parce que mes lunettes ne viens pas. Translation: Good day! I did not have a good afternoon because my glasses did not come. Yep, that's what it says. I'm a French student through and through...except I don't think I translated it properly...so forget the whole French student through and through part.

Funny story, me and my friend Maria have decided that we are going to be old maids together (when we're old, obviously). But my other friend Kathryn has promised us that she would send us on double dates every Friday night until we find someone who is right for us. And so, we've retaliated in saying that if she is going to waste all that time to arrange dates for us...we may as well return the favour. And so, we are officially going to plan her entire wedding for her, so as she doesn't have to worry about it. : )

argh

So, I have to wait until Friday for my glasses now...They tried three times with their lens thinger and it messed up so now they have to send it someplace and yeah...BUT I got a new set of contac lenses(does contac have a "t" on the end...contac or contact...wierd) Anyways, I got a new pair for FREEE!!! Thats' right, absolutely NO CHARGE!! WOOT WOOT! You can't go wrong with free stuff! But, I don't have my glasses : ( Sigh, there's always a downside...but if you look at it the other way...you could say there's always an up side...wierd eh? Have you ever thought of that? Whenever someone says there's always a downside you can tell them that there's also always an upside.

So, my sister is now most likerly giong to the Maritimes and Montreal with my Australian cousin next week! I'm so jealous! Sigh. Instead, I get to go to school...woooo(that was a sarcastis woo)

But, yeah...I'm supposed to be studying for this massive French test I have on Thursday...I should go! Procrastination...boo!

Discuss

Don't you think it would be good if we learned about the other religions(Muslim, Jehovah Witness-ism, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, even Buddhism) at school? Then we would know exactly what they believe and we can compare our religion to theirs, and we can compare our religion to theirs, and we can convince them (or ourselves) that ours is the true faith. Also, they might actually listen to us better because we would be able to see where they are coming from, we will understand what they believe, and not just be like "No, this is what I believe, and it's right, no matter what you say." We should listen to them and softly (after all, God spoke in a whisper) point out to them where our belief differs from theirs and where it explains better, not just outright tell them, "No. You're wrong!"

I was discussing this at work with an extremely brilliant co-worker named Rosalyn (I hope that's how you spell it), it was great!

So, right now I'm doing a fiendish sudoku, it's pretty fiendish all right! Very difficult! I have like, not even half filled in yet...but that's okay, because I'm not giving up...yet.
So, yesterday I was having an amazingly difficult conversation with someone I know. It was really wierd, because I was asking all these hard questions about how she could believe how she does (never doubting and strong). So I was asking questions about how she knew He was there. And she answsered me by saying:
He is right there with you, Nadine even if you don't feel Him. If you draw really close to Him then you can know that He is there. It's different when you pray about things and watch for God to answer them. You can ask God to do things in your life and then trust that He will answer them according to what He thinks is best for you and then wait and see what He does.
I made some random replies in there, but I thought it would be best to leave it out. After that, we went on to talk about how if God wasn't upholding this earth, we would all be nothing.
She said something later, that really struck me,
Faith is only confusing when you are running from the truth.
I think that is well worth remembering. When she said that, I objected and said I wasn't running from the truth, but I guess I kind of am, I'm not really accepting that God is there, I'm not taking the step to trust in Him completely, for everything, because it's too scary and I'm a wimp. My mind is full of questions like "What if we're wrong and there is no life after death?" And then there are people who are so amazingly strong, and always there to help you, but maybe you don't want to talk to them, because they make you feel inadequate...if you know what I mean?

Another thing, she told me to look at the text James 4:8a. It shows exactly what you (or me) should do in this situation.

Come near to God and He will come near to you.

les lunettes

I went to the eye doctor today and my left eye is now worser. So, I'm getting glasses again.

Yeah, I also got my health card done(finally!)

AND, I went to school again, as usual.

Now, I'm attempting to learn my catechism...but to no avail. And, I'm eating a stroepwaffle, which is marvelous. So, all in all, an all right time, except that I really need to learn my catechism. So, I must depart with serenity and equity and everything else that means speed.

Today

So, I finally went home today...I've only been away from home since Thursday, so it's not that long, but it feels long to me! It was long. Deziree and Christina are over and they are a blast, I love it when they come over!

I have this amazing book, called One Pink Shoe, my friends, Maria and Kathryn, bought it for me for my birthday, it's a level one reading and it's about Barbie and her one pink shoe. It was amazing, I would even reward it with astounding, or incredible. I was most happy about it.

So, right now I'm going to Grade Eleven(sound so much bigger than Grade Ten!!!!) And I have English, French, Latin, and Chemistry. Chemistry is my best class I think...from what I can tell at least. I think French is going worst rightnow, but I am still trying to remember all the things I've forgotten from previous years. So, French should get better. Latin is pretty easy, for now, it should get tougher, but it's pretty good. English is English, it's not bad, it's not especially good, I'm not complaining. I think I should try a little harder though, just because I know I can. Maybe I should just be happy with what I have now...but I think I should try harder.

But, for now, that's all I've got

See you!