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I have never really liked poetry and now that I’m having to study it I like it even less. The rhythmic and confusing patterns which have names that refuse to come to memory are bothersome. However I did have some fun with one of my exercises where I was supposed to write an eight line poem which rhymed. I wanted to write something a lot less depressing than most of the poetry I’d been reading.

Once there was a little mouse
Which lived in a great big house
In that house there was a cat
Much more scarier than a bat

By the cat the mouse was eaten
It would seem that it was beaten
But soon the cat did regurgitate
The mouse ran back to its mate

It’s a good thing my school grades don’t depend on my ability to write poetry…

Which means that I have more school work to do than I thought. But at least all eight lessons and four quizzes and one test of Unit Four are now done! And the were all done in ONE DAY!!! Which is quite an accomplishment for me. So tomorrow, Unit five…

This week I am going to try to get a lot of school done being that it is April and I have only done less than one eight of my school for the year… So this week I am going to try to get quite a lot of schoolwork done. My school is divided into four subjects, Math, Science, History, and Language. Each subject has ten units. I have started on Language and am up to unit five(I started unit five this morning, I’m already halfway through it due to quite a lot of working on it) so I’m going to try the ridiculous school schedule of doing one unit of Language every day and be done with the subject by the end of the week. I have strong doubts about being able to do that but I think I’ll try. However, due to the fact that schoolwork is tiring I doubt I’ll have very much creativity for posts. But I could be mistaken…

Today was a day full of more ups and downs that I can remember in a while. I think I must have drunk at least a gallon of milk… In the morning I think I woke up depressed after having bad dreams. However getting dressed in my favorite pink skirt and a pretty white blouse and my favorite white shoes I felt a lot better. But then on the way to church major hypo-glycimia/lowbloodsugar/depression set in and Dad was kind enough to stop at a gas station to get me a little milk bottle which I quickly consumed. Milk is a great asset in the battle against low blood sugar…

At church I did the “gains” as I think the technical term for it is, though I call it “White Balancing”. At any rate, what most people see in church are the two cameras on their camera platform at the back of the church. Some people may be completely unaware of the camera director in the dark control room behind the camera area… And fewer still know of a small control panel next to the camera switchboard which has a whole hoard of little knobs and buttons, the mysteries of that switchboard is what I am currently trying to unlock…

Since I’ve been at that switchboard, which(in case you don’t know) controls the light levels or the “Iris” of the cameras, for the past several Sunday mornings I’m fairly good at it. The differences in the lighting areas will make things look really dark in the audience and then really light in parts of the choir and everything does not look “smooth” so that is the reason for adjusting the light levels on the cameras in action. Typically the director does this but directing and running the camera switchboard with one hand while keeping up with the changing light levels with the other isn’t too easy… So I’ve been helpful(I hope… and since I’ve been thanked for my efforts most of the time I think I have been useful) in giving the camera director one less thing to bother about.

So after doing a good job during the service I was happy again, though I felt very unstable emotionally. It is rather unpleasant being unstable emotionally, happy one moment, sad the next. Typically I am just happy but today was one of those day which was… unusual. It was kind of like the camera switch board where the director cuts back and forth between the two cameras quickly.

We ate lunch with some good friends of my parents, The Dennings(not sure on their name spelling, I’ve only heard it and not seen it written.) The were celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary. Before they lived here they lived in Alaska and they had quite a few tales to tell of Alaska as both had had some pretty interesting lives… It was a Mexican restaurant we ate at and they had HUGE glasses. I ordered a milk as usual and I drained the whole glass throughout the course of the meal. So already my milk consumption for the day was higher than usual.

Then it was time for a nice long nap at home, after riding home with Andrew in his Porsche. He was driving in a “gas conservative” manor but he still squealed the tires once or twice for my benefit…. I enjoy riding in Andrews porsche… It’s fun and exciting.

The next major low, and I mean major happened just as we were leaving. I had eaten a goodly sized snack, with plenty of milk, and I was getting dressed and I selected a different top to wear with my pretty pink skirt. I was being rushed since I had gone back to sleep when Mom first told me to get up from my nap and go eat something and I was just moving slow. So Dad had the car running and I rushed down and Mom told me in a very briefly that that blouse did not match the skirt and to go change. I became upset. I must confess that I slammed my door when I went upstairs to change… Whatever it is that is wrong with me can make me fairly unpleasant at times, especially when I’m being rushed and I’m hot and flustered and I think that the top I selected matched the skirt… So that was a low.

Although I didn’t not remain upset about that, or anything else in particular, I still remained in a state of general depression and upsetness for the rest of the evening. Though I did have cheerful relapses of course. After the service was over, and it was an excellent service, my parents were talking with Erin’s parents and they decided to go over to their house and I just realized that this sentence is not grammatically correct(I’ve been doing a lot of Language and Grammer school…). To make things clear, we were going to visit at Erin’s parents house where Erin lives and Erin is engaged to my brother John.

Since Mom wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to be upset by little things, or for no reasons at all, we stopped at McDonalds where I got a happy meal. The prize was a cute little fuzzy kitten stuffed animal that I like. It does not usually take much to make me happy but some times, it takes a lot… And I had a milk with my happy meal. And the apple slices, I like those:)

We did have a pleasant evening, or I suppose it wasn’t a whole evening we were there so perhaps pleasant visit might be better. Then again… Oh, I’d better skip it. At any rate when we left there I was happy and cheerful and I still am, a bit, though I think I need a good nights sleep and I probably need to stop typing as this post is most likely long enough… So maybe I’ll just end it, though there still is a lot more that I could say. Although I don’t really like being emotionally unstable I have quite a few more McDonald’s happy Meal toys because of Hypo-Glycemia than I would have otherwise… My little fuzzy kitten is cute:) And as long as I plenty, frequently, and healthily I’m typically alright. But today was an interesting day and in about thirty-three minutes it will be over so I think I’ll try to get to sleep before it is.

It’s a beautiful sun shiney Saturday and I got to sleep in this morning and I don’t plan on doing very much today. So far it has been a nice day. However a storm could blow up before evening as Puddleglum says. However I hope it won’t.

If you are reading this and you haven’t taken care of your taxes yet either A. you are very lucky that you don’t have to do taxes, or B. you are in major trouble and probably should look into the tax situation or C. You don’t live in America…

My taxes were just taken care of about ten minutes ago by my Dad so they weren’t exactly in early. I am going to have a $17.00 tax return!!! Isn’t that grand! I think I’ll buy something with that $17.00…

Once upon a time there were two brothers whose names were Wess and Falgor. Both wanted to be wealthy upstanding members of their community and both wanted to marry the pretty mayor’s daughter. You would think that the competition between the two brothers was very keen, and you would be halfway right. Falgor was very competitive though Wess was not. Day and night Falgor would try to dream up get rich quick schemes and then try to carry them out while his brother would patiently work all day in his father’s business, then go calling on the pretty mayors daughter in the evening.

One day Falgor had some “luck” as he called it while he was wandering around in a cave looking for gold or anything else of value. He found a cavern that was lit with some strange golden light and in it he found a huge pile of treasure. He immediately claimed it for himself and was just figuring out how he was going to spend it when suddenly the dragon it belonged to showed up…

A few minutes later Falgor hastily exited the caves with the poor consolation of having been the richest man in the village for about ten seconds to ease the pain of no longer being so.

About a year or so later Wess, who had worked steadily and saved his money and courted well, married the pretty mayors daughter and he became a somewhat wealthy and upstanding member of his community and lived happily ever after.

As for Falgor… He never could settle down to steady work but eventually he was able to marry a woman who, when she heard his description of the dragon treasure he had found(he had neglected to mention a dragon being on it) she married him at once and then was quite disappointed. So they argued almost all of the time and spent the rest of it wishing for all the things they would buy, get, and have when the dragon stopped sitting on Falgor’s treasure. But the dragon remained in possession of it’s treasure for the rest of its days so, as far as dragon’s go, it probably lived happily ever after. Oh, and for the moral of the story, the dragon worked very hard for it’s treasure horde though I’m pretty sure that quite a lot of fictional and deceased persons wished that it hadn’t…

Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

In the morning I discovered my talents for finding loose change. I found about sixty seven cents worth if I remember correctly.

Apparently praying before going to Walmart is very good. I found some fabric at a dollar a yard that I had been looking for for over six months. Brown fabric for a Jedi robe. I thanked God very greatly for that…

I even was able to find what I came there for, a pattern, some fabric to make the dress with, and a doll to wear the finished product. Since the previous Barbie dress I made turned out so well I’m going to make another dress. And I bought a new doll to wear it:) She is very pretty with black hair and I’m sure she’ll make a good model for the dress. At some point today I plan to make it. Right now I have a few other things to do first…

I vacuumed almost all of the rugs of the house without being asked to! It was purely spontaneous… I have to go now to church so I will not post further at this time.

I made the green and gold Elizabethan dress that the doll is wearing. I’ve been wanting to make an Elizabethan dress for some time but whenever I tried making one in my size it usually didn’t look very Elizabethan. And by Elizabeth I mean Queen Elizabeth the First of England Elizabethan and not Elizabeth Von Fange Elizabethan.

Personally I think the light reflecting off the computer monitor looks rather like the moon…

And a picture of the back of the dress. The skirt is very full and there is a slight hint at a train.

The doll modeling the gown is a MyScene Barbie doll. Though my Mom doesn’t like the larger heads that they have in comparison with more classic Barbies I think that they look rather nice. At any rate I think I successfully made my doll very happy by making her a new dress and perhaps she will forgive me for keeping her unplayed with in a bright pink case for quite some time. She was one of the first MyScene dolls they made. Considering how nice she looks I might just get a different MyScene Doll and make a dress for her too. Any excuse for going shopping and buying something… Though of course my common sense typically will prevent me from buying things I won’t use much. There have actually been a few rare occasions when I went into Walmart and didn’t buy anything!

So I am very pleased with how the dress turned out. I’ve been working on it over the course of the past seven hours or so with very long breaks in-between the stages so I would say the whole dress probably didn’t take any longer than two hours or so to put together. Cutting, pinning, sewing, fitting, and just reading the instructions can take a while if you are intent on doing the dress correctly. Total cost for the dress… I would say about $3.00, and that is including quite a bit of fabric that I didn’t use and will probably use for something else, and some trim too! So I am very happy right now about it. Now all that I have to do is tackle the other things today that I need to get down…