Bethjoy.com

I don’t know why I chose that title, I guess it is because I want to write about ten things and I also have just made a discovery which will enable me to have an about me post. (Clout conversation is going on about me, posting in the living room is not too good of an idea if you want to post in silence.) I am currently not posting fast enough. Now where was I anyway? Oh yes, subjects an an about me section. All I have to do is make an “About me” post(which I will do after this post is over) then Daniel will be very nice and put a link on my website.

Today a very interesting thing happened. I walked into four different stores and didn’t buy a thing. And that is a very strange thing considering the fact that (I have had another long pause and conversation, I wonder just how long this post will take?) one store sold DVD’s, two stores sold dolls and etc, and one was the biggest fabric store I have seen. It had some of the most beautiful fabrics I have ever seen, and the ugliest prices. I mean even if something is the most gorgeous embroidered fabric I have ever seen and 60″ wide I still think that $20.00 is too much. Oh well, I’ll probably be back anyway. Most of the fabric was in the 5-10 range, which is till expensive to my dollar a yard thoughts.

Next subject is Project Gutenberg an amazing website. They have many books, older classic books, on there. It is very nice because you can search for an author or a book, then find it. Daniel used his amazing brains and put the books in Text edit(this is a Mac thing, if you don’t have a Mac I am very sorry for you. You ought to get one so you can do this.) and had the computer read it. It’s saves a lot of money on Books on cassette, and I enjoy listening to a book while playing Neopets. I have probably made 50,000 neopoints while listening to books and that is no small sum to earn in just two books. I heartily recommend books authored by G.A.Henty because you can say that you are doing school while playing. They are historical fiction from a military point of view and if you ever want to find out how the British think of the American revolution I would advise you to read “True to the Old Flag”. It was very interesting as I had never read the account of the war from a British point of view. Plus you get to find out what to and not to do in case you have indians prowling through the woods looking for you.

I had several other things to write but I think that since I have forgotten what they were I’ll wait and write about them later.

Which is rather amazing, considering the fact that I am only fifteen. It is a gorgeous dress, white, but with bits of red. My previous wedding dress was completely white, with a raised waist line, and very lacy. This one has a point waist, very full skirt, separate train, pearl beading, different material, and is very, very lovely. At the current rate I am going I’ll probably have at least 25 wedding dresses to choose from by the time I actually get engaged and probably at least ten more by the time I get married. I like to collect beautiful dresses and jewelry and etc.

So, as Daniel probably knows, I went to the Thrift Store today and I had a very enjoyable time. I bought $35.00 dollars worth of stuff(wedding dress included) and got Christmas presents for two different people. My Christmas shopping is far from over though, I still have a few more things to get all though I have checked of Daniel and John. I know exactly what I am going to get Andrew and Mom, and a slight idea about what I am going to get Dad.

Saturday went very well, I meant to post but I was too tired. Sitting for four hours, knitting, and paying attention to an older lady can be very physically exhausting when you are all ready tired. She was very nice, although I did hear some things about twenty times with very slight variations, and found out that she calls the TV a “Squawk Box” but I did have fun

So until next time I post, Good bye!

In the vulgar, sorry about forgetting to post. A few things of note have happened lately, I have a new vaporizer in my room, The annual family photo torture session has occurred, I have a new part time job, and I have just received news that my brother John went Christmas shopping… Which shows what a nice brother he is. Andrew probably won’t do any Christmas shopping, and he isn’t very free with his green portraits of dead presidents(my favorite is actually not a portrait of a dead president because Benjamin Franklin never was president of the united states.) but I may get some loose change or something. Daniel, maybe but I’ll find out on Christmas day what all happens. Which is 13 days from now and that is a long time to wait when you are fifteen, or at any age for that matter. I have done some of my Christmas shopping, Ink pens… And since Daniel will read this and won’t be surprised I will probably add some surprises, but it won’t be a small piece of paper saying that I will iron 10 items, I try not to make the same mistake twice. Or if I do, it will definitely have an expiration date. I may knit something, I know John wanted a seven by five foot swiss flag knitted but I doubt he’ll get it, I don’t think I have time enough to knit it. But I’ll get him something…

The vaporizer was first on my list so I should mention it, we finally went to Walmart and I was amazed at how the toy section was rather empty until I realized it was only a few days until Christmas. I bought a new pattern and I have been enjoying making it. And while at Walmart Mom bought Beethoven’s 5th on DVD. It is about a very large Saint Bernard and I will recommend it all though it is suspenseful at times, and the little girl has a bit of attitude. But it does have many humorous parts. Also we got some Lassie DVD’s, I had never seen the Lassie show before so I had some cultural education watching them. It was very interesting… But that is all I’ll say on it now.

Next is the family portrait section. Taking pictures has always been a part of our family and I have learned to smile, and keep smiling. Most people just take one or at most two pictures but Mom takes at least eight and if it is an important picture, sometimes double that. We all dressed up, and that part I enjoyed, but… At first it was all right, I had a seat pretty much to my self and I was not sitting next to Buckie. Mom was running back and forth running the camera and posing. After many pictures were taken we looked at them(digital camera) and sadly, the only picture where everybody else looked nice I had folded my arms. In every other picture I was smiling and looking at the camera but that one picture I didn’t look nice. So I had to pay the price for not posing right in that picture and we had to sit down all over again, this time I didn’t have as nice a seat. There was a bench and a stool/chair shoved together and before I had been sitting on the stool, but now I was sitting on the bench and Buckie had all of the stool to himself while Mom, Dad, and I were sitting on the bench and I was sitting on the end. And the worst part was that Dad(who was sitting next to me) was running to the camera and every time he sat down, I slid off the bench. It was very uncomfortable and unpleasant. Mom finally let me stand up but I didn’t enjoy that photo session.

Just one thing left:) My new part time job. John is trying to go to the Olympics on the Air pistol team(I think…) so he goes to a practice range on Thursday nights and one of the people he shoots with has a 95 year-old mother(I wonder how old he is?) and he doesn’t like to leave her home alone. So I am going to be over there and keep her company. I met her today, her name is Elizabeth too! I think we’ll get along all right and since it will mainly be sitting down and keeping her company I think I’ll do just fine. Tomorrow will be the first time I am going to her house and it will be interesting to see how things work out.

That is about it, Other than the fact that I am currently sewing an outfit but I’ll probably save that for the next post. Sadly I can’t think of a parting joke… But since I can’t go to dilbert.com and read something funny.

Yesterday was Sunday, since my computer is not supposed to be used on Sunday I did not post. However a very interesting thing happened yesterday, I ran camera at our church. Our church is very large and since everyone can’t fit in the sanctuary there are two cameras, camera one(my favorite) and camera two(my second favorite). Camera one is the best seat in the whole building, I really enjoy running camera one. Camera two is much more challenging and I don’t enjoy it so much, but I’ll run it if I have too. Last Sunday I was scheduled to run to camera and despite being slightly sick I ran it. Sunday morning I ran camera two but Sunday evening I ran camera one. The Children’s and preschool choir were doing a play/concert. It was very interesting, one of the children became very ill and… I don’t want to talk about disgusting things so I will just say that there was a large area cleared and a lot of people were cleaning something up. Also one or two lines were forgotten. But the major mistake of the evening was made by the director, the whole play was being recorded onto a DVD but due to a mistake I think the whole thing was lost which was kind of disappointing to me because I wanted to see the play. When you are running camera and really really trying to do a good job it is very hard to pay attention to what people are saying and doing. But… I had a fun time.

Whinnie the Pooh was passing by Rabbits hole one day and was wanting to see him. So this is what happened. “So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out: “Is anybody at home?” There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silence. “What I said was, Is anybody at home?” called out Pooh very loudly. “No!” said a voice; and then added, “You needn’t shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time.” “Bother!” said Pooh “Isn’t there anybody here at all. “Nobody.” “Hallo, Rabbit, isn’t that you?” “No,” said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time. “But isn’t that Rabbit’s voice?” “I don’t think so,” said Rabbit. “It isn’t meant to be” Oh!’ said Pooh. A lot more conversation happened but I don’t feel like typing it. Eventually Rabbit invited Pooh in and he ate so much that he got stuck coming out.

I am in my second formal dress of the evening, wearing jewelry, listening to lovely music and using my laptop. Very Very pleasant. I have my glasses on and I can actually see my computer screen! All thought of illness is banished, everything is pleasant and I really like velvet all though my other dress is nice too.

All though Daniel(who is sitting next to me) will know what I am talking about(Although I am not sure that I do…(I think I do though and that is enough)) any one else probably won’t so I will explain. Today we got most of the Christmas tree up since we are using an artificial one. It is very pretty with the lights on and I am looking at it while I type instead of at my typing so I expect spell check to have a lot of working to do because of my inattentiveness. We also have a little village up on the piano. I was looking at the village and the tree and thinking how nice it would be if we had some Christmas music to listen too while we were looking at the lights on the three and the lighted up village. So since we couldn’t find some Christmas music immediately we(Dad and I) put in a CD that we had bought on the Cruise ship. We had listened to the artist at several classical music concerts on board the cruise ship and that brought back many memories. So I thought a formal dress would be fitting for the occasion and I ran upstairs and got into the formal dress that I had worn on the cruise ship. You can see a picture of it if you search for “Picture of me” on my website. So after getting into it and some jewelry I came downstairs and began to listen to the lovely music(there is a very pretty song playing right now). After a while Daniel located some Christmas music and we switched CD’s so I thought I’d better switch my formal dress since I usually don’t have an excuse to wear my formals I thought I would wear my blue velvet, it has silver embroidery of flowers on the front and looks lovely, So I changed clothes, then since Daniel was using his computer I thought I may as well use mine. So here I am typing away and all though we switched CD’s again I haven’t switched dresses yet. (Not the “yet”) I may not because I do like this one and I don’t have too many others that are modest enough to wear.

In case I haven’t mentioned it all ready, I collect a lot more than swords. I also collect formal dresses and since we have a very nice thrift store it isn’t too expensive a hobby. I also have a beautiful black rabbit jacket that I got there too. (writers block is upon me, for a full minute I didn’t know what to type until I thought of mentioning that I had writers block because when I am typing I can think of things to write usually.) The Thrift store is nice.

So maybe I should ask Daniel something so I could have a direct quote to post on my website, that might be nice. I think I may ask his opinion of Bethjoy.com and see what great wisdom pours from his mouth. And I wonder what he’ll think of that introduction. Now to interview him. (me) “Daniel, I am going to interview you for my website. What do you think of Bethjoy.com ” (Daniel(after several tries and he really said more but we finally agreed on this.))”I like reading her funny takes on things.” Which is nice to know. I think I am feeling better and more able to post, I think I should use my computer on the recliner couch more often. It is very fun to be able to lean your head back, relax, and still get something done. I suppose I shall have to start writing a story because I can’t really post forever, all though I am doing it almost.

I have done fairly well since I started posting again, I posted four days in a row before leaving for Arkansas. When I got back, after being sick for a bit, I have posted for five days in a row(including this one) even though I really didn’t feel like it. I wish I practiced the piano as regularly. I’ll have to work on that. Dad has fallen asleep and I know that because I hear noises that one hears when a person has fallen asleep coming from his direction. I do believe I have posted enough so I will stop so that I can hear the great Daniel’s comments on this post.

I have been listening to a recording of “Sense and Sensibility” as my eyes are not good enough to use my computer all day, and it has been very interesting. All though I think the romance between Marianne and Colonel Brandon to be extremely short and uninteresting, not even a written out proposal. I dislike it when, after enduring through a book of great length at the end to have a few paragraphs have all of the good parts. You don’t even get the pleasure of reading a proposal, it just says that they were sitting down to dinner together and everybody was happy that he had finally proposed(Actually it was three or so sentences longer than that but still not much more information.) I’ve read books considered much less romantic that had a good deal more romance in them but I shall not be too harsh. I did enjoy the book and tomorrow I’ll have to try to find another book to listen too. Any way I hope I shall never fall in love with somebody like Willoughby or Whickham. Amazing isn’t it how the villains names start with a W. It is also amazing how after listening to Jane Austin my writing style should be slightly similar to that style which she used. Actually it isn’t but I have only used () once, although now twice. I do recommend reading “Sense and Sensibility” but even more do I recommend “Pride and Prejudice” and “Mansfield Park”.

As it is 11:30 and I am still sick and I have a feeling that staying up late is not going to help me recover. Anyway today I felt well enough to think about a project that I have been thinking about, which is a Renaissance Costume that I plan to sew. So I started today and I didn’t finish because I didn’t feel up to completing it, how ever it should look very nice when it is done. It is Gold and Dark Red(I don’t know why I capatilize(now I know spellcheck is working, for a moment I was afraid it wasn’t, I think I will leave that word there. All though of course it should be capitalize) certain words, I guess it is personality or something) It will be very pretty(I hope). I still haven’t decided on what trim yet but I know what I want it’s just I don’t know if it will match… Fortunately I can apply most of the trim later so I don’t have to decide right now. The dress is going to be Renaissance style(The sort of dresses in “Ever After” which is a movie I do not recommend but the dresses are lovely though extremely low in the neck.) I do not have great powers of description when it comes to dresses so I will just have to take a picture when it is done and post it, I think I can post pictures again, I’ll have to test that.

I really want to put something funny in so here is something from Winnie the Pooh. It is Eeyore’s birthday and he thinks everybody has forgotten him, as Everybody probably would have if there is such a person, Piglet wants to be very thoughtful so he plans to give Eeyore a balloon. Unfortunately Piglet is a very small animal and he choses a very large balloon and sadly he cant see in front of himself while holding the balloon. So the inevitable(Which reminds me, “Anything that doesn’t break you only postpones the inevitable” your de-motivator for the day.) happens and Piglet trips and the balloon bursts. Piglet picks up the fragments that remain and goes to Eeyore and breaks the news that the balloon burst. And this is the conversation happening right now. Eeyore speaking “What color was it, when it, when it was a ballon?” “Red” “Red, my favorite color.” After going on like this in a very gloomy sort of way about what size it was and so forth Pooh came by to save the day by bringing Eeyore a Useful pot to put things in(He had accidentally eaten the honey that was in it.) and Eeyore found that he could put his piece of balloon into the pot and take it out of the pot. And he was very happy I am sure. And I do heartilly recommend the Winnie the Pooh books by A.A.Milne.

And now I really must go to bed.

It is amazing how you can think in pig latin and when think of a title write it in pig latin and have it look very nice. I have been playing neopets.com for most of the day, as well as just lying around in bed and listening to an unabridged recording of “Sense and Sensibility” All though I don’t really see why the family of Dashwood should have been so long settled in Sussix and I just forgot how I was going to finish that. Anyway I am rather tired despite the fact that I have done almost nothing all day. I kind of enjoy being sick, it has done wonders for my neopets bank account, except when it hurts, like a serious sore thought and a bad headache, but fortunately(or unfortunately) it means that I am getting well which also means School, Housework, Waking Up Early, Not Playing as Much, Work, and Other Things Unpleasant to Lazy Minds. Actually I hope I am not too lazy but I do enjoy spending spending my time in my own way. I really need to learn spelling again, Spell check has really been working hard lately and some words are very similar in spelling to other words and very different in meaning. And since it is rather late I shall close this post and I have a feeling that tomorrow I will probably be very close to well unless something unexpected happes. Osay, Oodgay Ightnay, or orningmay or afternoonpay. (I really do like Igpay Atinlay in case it isn’t obvious enough. Hopefully I will soon be well enough to do some really funny post again.)

And being Icksay(If you don’t know what that word means, read my post on Pig Latin) is not very pleasant but I brought it on myself so I really shouldn’t complain. But first things first, my trip to Arkensas(Considering the fact that everybody pronounces the word as “Arkensaw” I don’t see why they don’t spell it that way…). We went out to visit my mothers relations, she is the only girl in a family of four brothers which beats me being the only girl with three brothers. We usually go out for a Christmas celebration all though we seldom go at Christmas. This time we were fairly close to Christmas as we went out for Thanksgiving. We ate a lot(which is why I am sick, more about that later…) And we had christmas presents. That was rather fun, I got a neckless and a huge bag of beanie babies.

Okay, the trip out was really fun. We watched videos almost non stop. I think we watched “Wizard of Oz”, “Harvey”, “The Adventures of Robin Hood(Errol Flynn)”, “Monsters inc.”, “Eloise”, “The Parent Trap(Halley Mills)” and one more but not in that order. The one more that we watched was “The Princess Bride” which my brother John(he may not be mentioned much but he can be nice some times) had just given me as an early christmas present. We nearly went into Oklahoma because we were watching it and Dad was paying more attention to the movie than he was on the road and… Any way we got to our hotel a little after midnight but we hadn’t gotten to the end yet… We finally checked in around 1:10. Most of the movie was very funny and I must confess that I enjoyed it thoroughly, but my Mom considered some parts as too scary so I feel that I can’t really say “Get it and watch it if you haven’t all ready” as I feel I can do with “The adventures of Robin Hood”. And Mom didn’t even like the sword-fighting in that… But personally, I REALLY like the sword fights, I can hardly wait until I can learn how to Fence(sword fight). The reason I am not learning fencing right now is 1. I don’t think I am up to it physically because fencing is a lot of exercise and I am rather lazy and a little out of shape. 2. I can’t drive or plan my own schedule yet and I doubt my parents would like me to add anything more to what we have to do in a week. 3. It cost money for lessons. Those three reasons are enough to keep me away from learning how to fence, but until then I have enough swords to keep me fairly content. I really like the one I just bought on the way to Florida. I have it on my bed right now and I enjoy taking it out of its sheath and pretending I am in the middle of a sword fight… or something.

But now to what I mentioned in my title, being sick. Sugar is not good for you and it is definitely not good for me. I don’t know whether it is the fact that I don’t eat it often or whether I am naturally very allergic to it but I usually get very sick whenever I eat, and unfortunately I really like ice cream, cakes, chocolate candy… and a lot of deserts. Well, in Arkansas they really know how to put sugar into deserts(and into everything else too my Mom says) and I snacked a bit. I had some Fudge(pure sugar, but I only had a little) and some ice cream(I usually eat no more than a little nibble when I eat deserts(I forgot which is which desert or dessert, I know one is something that taste delicious and the other is usually associated with sand and barren wastes but I can’t remember which is which. Oh well.)) but this time I had a whole bowl full of ice cream! It was sooo good though, I really like soft serve Ice cream and it was delicious. But I think I would have still been all right if I hadn’t eaten so much white flour(also a great detriment(I hope that is the right word…) to my health) and snacked on a few more deserts while there. Any way I am now sick. I had a very painful sore thought yesterday, I couldn’t even breathe with out it hurting and as for swallowing… It still hurts to talk and swallow but not nearly as bad. Today I mainly suffered from pains in my head and a runny nose but I didn’t notice too much because I was using my computer instead of napping. Neopets.com is very fun and is a nice way to forget you are sick. Any way I hope that I will be better soon and I also hope that I will be able to remember not to eat too many things with sugar in them.

I doubt this post had a lot of humor in it so I suppose I ought to put some in here for those who were kind enough to read the rest of this post. “I am so glad to see you’re back, especially after seeing your face.” which is not a polite thing to say but looks good in a list of insults and “I did know once but I’ve sort of Forgotten” is a good way to seem like you knew something when you actually didn’t. And since I have been unable to find a joke book and since it hurts to think too deeply I think I shall close this post and I hope it wasn’t too despairing or boring. But I really wasn’t in a writing mood.