Guess what?

Today is Festivus. So happy holiday to ye. Get out the pole and celebrate!

I'm throwing some avatar chibi goodness at you for this holiday weekend. Catch!(heh, throwing. Catch. heh...nevermind.) My black pencil broke five times while I drew this. Grrr...

Speaking of holidays...

But anyway, I'm really sick of Christmas songs. Just like every year. Why do they have to play them so much? I can almost escape when I listen to country but now they're switching over too. Well atleast it won't last much longer and then I have 11 months until I have to hear all of it again.

Speaking of waiting for months...

Avatar and Lost aren't going to be on until January and Febuary. I'm in the depths of despair. I've been trying to fill the void with looking at merchandise and reading the Anne of Green Gables series again (which by the way is amazing).

Speaking of amazing...

Your mom's face is amazing. =P

Experience the Weekend

That's Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist. It's a pretty sweet show that I recently discovered. No, he's not a boxer...I took some creative lisencing....

Anyway....Tomorrow is an exciting day. Not only is it the season finale of Avatar (I'm so excited!), it's also the day my mom and I are going to the EMP. I've heard it's really cool and I'm psyched to go. So farewell for now. I must go home and eat dinner. I'm hearing those rumblies.

Art update

I haven't been drawing because my favorite pen exploded and I ran out of sketchbook pages. I'm a needy person. =P

Anyway, I drew today. Over to the left there is Ty Lee from Avatar (Weow, shocker). I don't think I've put up any of my drawings on here lately so if you want to see the rest head on over to http://www.Kaitiedid.deviantart.com.

Also, about the drawing on the left. Yes, I know her hands are wonky. I don't like hands and they don't like me. So there.

The week's end and begining

Hey, guess what? I'm updating! Yes, because I know that you're all dying to hear about my weekend. I've decided to break it up into days and give each a title.

Friday - Cramming, Rain, and Thankfulness

I went with my mom to work and decided I was going to cram for the meet since I didn't know chapter 8 yet, (Yes, I'm a slacker. I know.) And since I can't quote aloud in the bookstore I went and sat in the car. I don't know how anyone gets anything done outside. The world is so amazing. I love the sound and look of rain on the window. Especially when I'm nice and warm. I sat in the car under my blanket and studied (I did learn it all eventually.). I was thinking alot about miracles. Acts 8 is mostly about Phillip and the miracles that God did through him. I thought about how we don't really see miracles these days and then I looked out and saw the rain. The rain is a miracle. It's incredible. I witnessed another miracle as we drove to Tacoma.

On our way to Tacoma, My mom, Matt, and I were stuck in horrible traffic. The pavement was went and slippery and the car was unbearably hot to keep the windows defrosted, but we were still pretty happy. Then, suddenly, a car comes out a little ahead of us from the lane to our right. I pointed to which my mom replied: "I see it. I see it." We hit the brakes and missed it by less then a foot. Then I heard that sickening sound that I've heard once before. The sound of tires burning on the road coming right at us. I knew what was coming but still wasn't prepared for the bump. We were already late and I knew we were all thinking it before my mom exclaimed: "Can things get any worse?" She got out and checked the damage while I called my dad...well, tried to call anyway. he didn't pick up. I said a silent prayer that we'd be safe when my mom returned and reported that there was no visable damage on either vehicle and that we could keep going. To tell the truth, I started crying. I was so glad that nothing was wrong. Replacing bumpers is no fun, but even more we were all safe, if not sound. I was shooken up and it showed. My coach told me she could see me shaking during the first few quizzes. It made me really thankfull to God, though. Knowing he was watching out for us.


Saturday - Morning Gladness, Evening Sadness.

That sounds like a song name. I don't know if it's exactly appropriate for that day, but I like the sound of it. Even if it is cheesy. This is going to be way less serious then Friday. Feel free to skip it if you want.

The meet was so much fun. But I say that about all of them. I wasn't nearly as exuasted after this one though, which is good. My arm really hurts right now and I think it's from Becky tackling me. =P I could go on forever about all the stupid and fun things I did on saturday, but I see that Friday was pretty long. Quizzing was fun and I was sort of happy that we didn't win so many quizzes in semi-finals because I was kind of sick of it (Sorry Debbi, but it's true.). So instead I played football....attempted to play....What? I made a touchdown....er......yeeeaaaahhh........

I got second place. That was another happy moment. I'm getting all psyched for Internationals. But after that high note came the low one. People left so quickly. I always feel really depressed at the end of a meet. Ooh, more sadness, Moses Lake wasn't there.

But the night ended on a lighter note because when we got home my mom told me I wasn't allowed to review any material that night and I had to watch the movies my dad rented. So we spent a nice evening watching "The Fantastic Four" (Which was a LOT better then I expected. I liked it a lot.) and "Mision Impossible: III" (I heard it was better then the second one-which I didn't see, but it wasn't nearly as good as the first.).

Sunday - The day of today (Warning: Contains the girly act of shopping)

Today was pleasant and quiet. We had a guest speaker at church who was really good. And then I went over to Debbi's and had lunch with her family. Her boys crack me up. They had me play tic-tac-toe at least 10 times in 15 minutes. Of course I missed several obvious moves. =D After lunch, Amber joined us and we went to pick up becca and Hanna at the Ferry. Then we went to David's bridal. It was quite a drive so we had lots of time to talk. When we got to the store, to make a longish story short: we all tried on the dress we had picked out and took pictures and then purchased them. Debbi and I also ended up with Jane Austen style dresses that were on sale for really really cheap. I like cheap things!

I also discovered a new favorite band tonight: Souldeep. They're really cool. Kinda like a more mellow Relient K but they have a rocky-rappy edge at times too. They're awesome.

I leave you with my favorite song from their cd: Rise up. (The vocal parts are really cool in this song, so get the CD or come over and listen to mine so you can hear it.)

Sing (Praises to My King)

My whole being cries out for You. In words beyond my tongue.
If I praise my whole life I have only begun.
To touch on the tip of what I feel. All of my soul rejoices of You.
Overtaken by Your llove. If I proclaim with all that I am that
You are the Lord of all it still wouldn't be enough.

I will sing...praises to my King. I lift my voice...in harmony to you.
I lift my hands...Holy and true. I will praise You with my life.
I will praise You with my life.

I can't contain. This joy I feel.
Bursting from within.
If I remain silent in attempt to hold it in.
This joy is gonna shine and come out.

I will sing...praises to my King. I lift my voice...in harmony to you.
I lift my hands...Holy and true. I will praise You with my life.
I will praise You with my life.

Who am I. Everywhere I go.
Sold out to You. It's gonna show.
Can't hold back. Won't hold it in.
This joy I know is rising

I will sing...praises to my King. I lift my voice...in harmony to you.
I lift my hands...Holy and true. I will praise You with my life.
I will praise You with my life.

Time to take a stand. Get on your feet.
Taking Jesus to everyone you meet.
Shout it from the roof. Let the earth rejoice

I will sing...praises to my King. I lift my voice...in harmony to you.
I lift my hands...Holy and true. I will praise You with my life.
I will praise You with my life.

Party time!

I don't feel well. Bah. I hate getting sick. Especially because our house is so darn cold.

The annual Bible quizzing dress-up party is next Tuesday and I finally got around to making wings for Josh out of those tights(He's going as Cosmo from Fairly odd parents). I need to go shopping for the material for my costume sometime in the next few days. Hah. Talk about waiting till the last minute.

I thought this deserved it's own post

"Hey Josh, I was in the little girl's department and I thought of you."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah, here are your tights."

My family is weird. 'nuf said.

The ocean, the shore, and so much more.

I'm leaving home for three days...er maybe 4 to help with a catering job down in Ocean shores. My mom and I are leaving at 5 tonight and will be back sometime Thursday evening...unless we end up staying for Friday which is not likely.

But anyway, back to the catering. We're serving 8 meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner, breakfast, and lunch (in that order). It's going to be a lot of work but still fun because Kaelyn and Lauren are doing it too.

Oh, and two more things:
1. I like it when Taget has all their clothes on clearance.
2. I hate finding shoes in my size. Especially comfy black ones for catering. Curse my large feet!

ABC do re mi

I haven't posted in a long while.

The quiz meet this weekend was a blast! I got to see all my friends and I made tons of new ones. I love quizzers. They're so awesome. And as for the quizzing part of the meet. I amazed and shocked myself with getting 1st place. And what made it even sweeter was that Becky got second. =D

Yesterday I forgot that Kent doesn't practice the day after a meet and I went over to Kaelyn's. They weren't going anywhere though, so they invited me to hang out. We talked for a good 2 hours about just about everything and I borrowed "Just like heaven" and the new Pride and Prejudice.

I made chocolate covered pretzels today. They're like the easiest dessert to make ever. And they don't take a recipe.

On a side note, for those of you who don't know. My stuffed Appa came all the way from Ohio on Friday. Joy! He's so snuggable.

Pictures to come from the quiz meet. Hopefully soon.

Drawing up a storm

Yep, that's what I've been doing tonight. Check out all the new stuff here: www.Kaitiedid.deviantart.com

I'm updating more often now. I love to draw!

Just thought I'd share

I had a very strange dream last week and I told Matt all about it. I'm bored now so I thought I'd tell all of you people too. *ahem*

So my brother Josh and I are travleing down this road when we stop at this gas station. It's like a totally run down place and right across the street looked a lot like Gilman village actually...anyway, we get inside and it turns out one of my friends lives there (I don't know who it was though...) and all over the place is this painting that's haning over my piano in my room at home. So I ask about it and she says: "Oh, yeah. My mom painted that you know." And I'm like: "No way!"

Then I half woke up and thought "What?" I fell asleep and my dream continued.

Josh and I were now at Katie Borden's house. Although, it wasn't like her house in real life. We were sitting and talking in this room with like 10 windows and all of them had different kinds of blinds on them. We started talking about how you didn't really need the blinds and proceeded to open all of them. Then her dad came in (But it wasn't really her dad) and stood in front of one of the windows while looking at us and talking. Then these guys in trucks drove up right to the window and poked him on the shoulder. Katie and I looked at eachother and said:"Ooh, that's why we have the blinds." Like it totally made sense.

I awoke at this point too. Later on, this part made me laugh a lot. But, for now it was back to slumberland.

Now I was at some sort of competition thing. It was kind of like a spelling bee but the people could be in the whatever competition or the golf tournement so everyone thought I was a golfer. (yeah, weird.) Turned out I was disqualified for some unknown reason and had to go to some audition to make it back in. When I arrived I was in line behind around 10 other boys and girls about my age. The boy in front of me looked really familier but I can't place my finger on it. Anyway, we're all standing on stage and I realize that the first kid is singing a song. I lean over to the guy next to me and am like:"What? Singing? No one said we had to sing." And he gives me this blank stare. I also noticed that we're all holding a piece of paper. His says "High school musical" on it and mine has a drawing of Snoopy. I could see I was in serious trouble. Then I remembered something and said:"Oh, wait. It's fine. I sang karoke last night." So I'm planning on singing "When there was me and you" from high school musical and I'm all set. The guy in front of me gets finished singing "Breaking free" as if it's a solo,(He didn't sing it all too well either) and I'm up. The music starts, but it's too fast! I try to catch up, but it's too hard. I didn't even finish the song before I woke up.

It was a week ago but I remember it as if it really happened. I hope that was all understandable. Matt and I laughed a lot when I told it to him. =D

I'll maybe blog about the scramble meet later....

The Freemont Troll

So, over in Seattle there's this HUGE troll sculpture under the freemont bridge and it's really really cool. I found pictures today from when we went there like 4 years ago, back when my hair was super long! :O














I really don't like how Blogger does photos. Blech.
Well, that was a fun day anyway. :)

I am so happy right now

And I'm really nerdy.....my loving sister told me so.
I just got back from Burger king with 4 new avatar toys! the lady at the counter gave me a funny look and was like:"You're...just....collecting them..? O.o" That was funny. But the guy at the counter was like:"Oh, yeah, we just got a ton of new ones in." And he comes back with a HUGE box of them. They're so entertaining. I'm having so much fun playing with them.

Yes, I know I'm insane. I like being childish!

A fellow fan

I walked down to the teryaki place to get some california rolls(Yummy!) and the 30-something guy in front of me in line turns around and says:"I love your shirt!" and I'm like:"Yeah, Invader Zim is a great show." It made me smile. ^_^

Babbling. (Like pagans?)

It's so hot today. I've been working at the bookstore and hadn't been outside until a few minutes ago when my mom asked me to go get some drinks. Matt adn I walked to the teryaki place and there decided to get some bubble tea. Man, there is nothing to beat a hot day then a nice tall glass of kiwi bubble tea. Yum! It's the best thing ever. If you've never had one, get one right now! Besides being yummy, you get a cute little picture on the label/lid that you get to punch through with your huge straw. Fun to look at, fun to drink. =D

WARNING: Contains shopping and other girly things...oh, and toes getting cut off..

Sucked you in with the title didn't I? well the toe cutting doesn't come till near the end. So there!

Yesterday Kaelyn and I went to the mall. Hah! I know, me, in a mall? Yeah, hard for me to believe too. Well, as I hardly ever step foot in a mall, Kaelyn took the lead. We went because we needed back to school clothes and thought it'd be fun shopping the clearance racks. Turns out it was! We started at Ross and I almost bought this wicked sweet dragon sweatshirt, but I decided against it. Too expensive. Then, we actually went to the mall and blah blah blah blah....-insert long account of the different stores here- blah blah blah.....

Near the end of our trip we spotted one of those photo booth things and chose to get some pictures. That was kinda to make up for the bad ones we got at wildwaves. =P (I'll try to get the new ones posted soon. They turned out great!) Ok, here's the best part of our trip: We went into Hot Topic (Gasp choke gasp), which is somewhere I would never go except I heard you can get princess bride shirts there. Sadly they had none. But they did have Invader Zim shirts! They were the cutest ever! I was squeeling and people were giving me funny looks. I didn't buy one though. 18 bucks is waaaaay too much for a t-shirt. Phooey on them. But, if anyone wants to get me one for christmas.....

The second best part of the trip was when we were waiting to get picked up inside Burlington coat factory and we were really hungry. Like really really really really hungry. So I was like: "Hey, let's go over here by the baby stuff." and Kaelyn says: "Uhm...ok...why?" I replied: "They have rocking chairs over there. C'mon!"

Ooh, just for the record, mall stores I reccomend: Old navy(clearance), Gap(Clearance), Alley Kat, and Deb.

We returned to her house for pizza and then I got to see the first 2 episodes of Prisonbreak. Totally awesome series. Although, It really grossed me out when they were cutting off his toes. Ewwwwww. I can't wait to see what happens next.

NOTE: I apologize to any guy who read this post and was bored out of his mind or got sick. If this happened to you, I will gladly make it up to you with one day at the mall. =D

*howls*

So my mom and I listen to 107.00 "The Wolf" every morning on the way to work. The morning show is great and the hosts are hilarious! Anyway, at the end of the show everyday, they have a portion called: "What have I learned?" Where they have five people call in and tell them something they "learned" from the show that morning. The last person who calls gets a prize.

Hold on, there is a point to all of this. =D

Mom convinced me to call in (since she was driving) and tell them something. I racked my brain for something witty to say and remembered the interview with Sarah Evans. She had been talking and at one point pronounced Tulalip wrong-like tula lip. I wasn't expecting to get through, but finally someone picked up and I was talking to Fitz! My mom quickly told her boss(who also listens to the wolf) to turn it on. Now I have something exciting to say:

I was on the radio for 10 sweet seconds and I made some people in a studio laugh. What a great way to start the morning. =D

Oh wow.

Tim's sea salt and vinegar potato chips are the best.

An art update

So this is in a new format. Actually, this is the first time I've ever used this program.
Pretty neat program though. Paint BBS it's called.

Oh, if you wanna see my process, (*Thinks that is awesome*) check this out:
http://oekaki.avatarspirit.net/practice/#

EDIT: Ok, I can't find a link that leads directly to the animation process, but if you go to that one and then scroll down until you see my picture adn click animation you can.

Don't worry, if you don't care enough to do that, that's perfectly fine. I'll tell you a secret: "I'll never know." =D

Late night revelations

I made browies the other night....more like yesterday morning because they didn't get done until 1am. I followed a recipe but I added like an extra cup of chocolate chips so they are really really really double double chocolate brownies. So good. I fell asleep waiting for them too cool and woke up at like 2am. I then put them away, went to bed, and didn't wake up for 12 hours. Gah! I'm crazy!

I'm also starting work on my "halloween" costume. I don't really celebrate halloween, (Actually, I might go into that at a later time....) but our bible quiz team always has a dress up party in late October and it's alway lots of fun. Plus, it's an excuse to make a fun costume. =D
Anyway, I'm going as Toph from Avatar. Here's a picture of what she looks like. She's a little blind earthbender and she's totally awesome! I know what you're probably thinking: "It's only July! Why are you talking about October, Kaitie?" Well, this is going to be my first ever sewing project and I want it to come out good. I was up late the other night drawing sketches of the costume and looking for clothing patterns online. It's been a blast so far and I haven't even started sewing yet.

On a side note, we watched "My Neighbor Totoro" last night. (Mostly called just Totoro.) Anyone who has seen that before gets 25 cool points. It's such a great funny and happy movie. I love it. I hadn't seen it for a long time but I pulled it out today. I love Myazaki films!

Drawings

I started a deviant art account so it'd be easier for people to see and comment on my drawings. I love being critiqued and don't mind if you have something negitive to say about a drawing. Just so long as you're not nasty about it. I got some of my Avatar fan-art up there. Have fun.

http://kaitiedid.deviantart.com/

Water, Earth, Fire, Wind....

Time to be nerdy. =D

Lately I've been obsessed with Avatar: The last Airbender. I watch it almost every day and am excited when a new episode is going to be on. I've been really intrested in the art of the show too. It almost looks like a Japanese Anime, but it is indeed American. The whole thing facinates me and I love drawing the charaters. (I'll try to get my sketches up shortly.) Yeah, I've been getting screenshots online and drawing all day. My whole family is sick and I have nothing else to do.

In other news, Highschool Musical was on Disney channel tonight and I finally got it taped. Yay me!

In still other news, I'm going to a dinner theater tomorrow night with Kaelyn. Digging for gold I believe it's called. Anyway, it'll be fun because I get to hang out with Kaelyn for like 5 hours before the show. Fun, fun.

ok, now I'm bored,
Kaitie

Faith like a child

God loves you. He loves you so much he gave his only son to die on the cross for you. Maybe you've heard that over and over, but did you ever think about it? This week I had 2 5-day clubs and the second one was all preschoolers. I was teaching a bible lesson and I got a picture of Jesus on the cross. He had a crown of thorns, blood was pouring out his side, and it showed the nails in his hands. These 5 year olds were so engrossed in this picture. It seemed to draw them like a magnet. Suddenly I had 4 little children sitting less then a foot away from me asking me questions about the picture: "What's on his head?" "Did he get teared?" "how did the blood get all the way to his pants?" and the biggest one: "Did it hurt Jesus?"

You know, that question really got me thinking. I told them: "Yes, it did. But he wanted to be hurt and die so you could be saved." What an amazing thing God did for us! I mean, how many times have we heard that Jesus died and not thought about his suffering. There are movies that show us how it might've been. But I think nothing could really show us how much he suffered. It's awesome to think that he willingly gave up his own life for the wrong things we've done.

Right next to that picture was one of the empty tomb and I told them how Jesus didn't stay dead. He's alive and He loves you! Tell someone. Isn't that the most wonderful news you've ever heard? Sometimes I feel like shouting it from the highest mountain; "Jesus loves me! and he loves you too!" The bible says: "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."(Romans 10:13) 5 young children called on His name and joined God's family this week through our club. I'm not saying that to be boastful or prideful. But I want everyone to know how awesome God is. Prasie him for what he has done!

I'll leave you with that to think about.
Kaitie

The weekend of parties and fun

This weekend was awesome! Friday we went to the Mull's for a game night and I went swimming in the lake with my clothes on. Brilliant idea. Rachel and I had to wear Mrs. Mull's clothes while ours dried. Game night was great though. We sang lots of accapella and had a grand old time. Yes, Friday was good.

Well, earlier in the week, we had gone to Cedar river with our friends the Thompsons and they suggested that we throw a party on account of becca going away-yes, more about that later. We thought it was an excellent idea and started planning. We invited everyone pretty much the day before. A little advice; Don't do that. =)
Luckily people came and we had a big barbecue. Becky was able to come out too and she spent the night. What fun! Next morning was good. I showed Becky everything you did and didn't need to know about preparing the coffee, table and communion for our church. After lunch, Mom, Dad, Becky, becca and I hopped in the car on our way to drop off Becky and go to Indianola to meet with Jeremy's family. When we got there I was practically falling asleep, but I did manage to finish reading the voyage of the dawn treader while they talked in the other room. I really like Jeremy's parents. They're lots of fun. Anyway, after that we stopped for chinese food at Safeway and decieded to take the ferry home. More fun!
That was the weekend. Now, onto today:This morning I was awakened by becca and mom talking in my bedroom and when they realized I was awake, they asked me if I wanted to go run some errands with them. I figured it would be better then hanging at home with the boys and I proceded to get ready. In the car we discovered the rumblies in our tumblies and chose to eat at IHOP. Yum-o! I love IHOP. I can't remember the last time I ate there. *back from rambling*
Shopped some at Wal*mart and Sam's club and finally went home. You see, for some time now becca has been planning to move up to Bremerton to go to school and deiceded to change the day and move this afternoon. Mom agreed and she packed up the remainder of her stuff and left.

I now have my own room. For the first time in 13 years, I have my own room. Ahhhhhhh. So nice. I went right to work putting my books out and bringing a table in and placing my things around. It's so weird knowing that it's all mine. The closet is only half full and the drawers are mostly empty. At least she left me the piano and two of the guitars.

Now I'm sitting in my room, listening to Fiddler on the roof and helping my mom with the sewing. Life is good. =)

Edit: While Becky was with us we went and saw Superman returns. The special effects were sweet. The plot was lacking. That is all I'm going to say.

Haugh!

It's so unbearably hot! It's like we're in the middle of a heatwave.

And I was outside today helping clean/organize the garage.

British accents are fun.

CYIA camp 2006

Ok, This week was super tiring, but totally amazing. So don't fall asleep as I tell you all about it. =)

On Friday, becca and I headed out for camp. We were busy all day and left around 2:30pm. We arrived at 3 and were right on time. Many hugs, highfives, handshakes, and "I missed yous" later, we got on to classes. Pretty much review stuff that first day. Not a whole lot to report. I signed up for the worship team and proceeded to play Tambourine almost every night. Saturday was more review and then the "advanced track" students (myself included) got to practice wordless book face painting, which we were going to do on Sunday for kids at a street fair type thing. Well, they needed 6 volunteers to do something else instead. I raised my hand and Sunday afternoon was sitting in a van, dressed as a clown, headed to invite kids to the 5-day clubs that were happening the following day. We had a blast! The girls went one place and the guys to another. The four girls split into 2 groups and went door to door asking kids to come to club. Not many kids were about because school was just getting out, but we had fun anyway. At one point we were marching down the street singing "Onward christian soldiers" at the top of our lungs. But mostly, we just got to act silly. So much fun.

Then, the work began. =P

Sunday night was a demonstration of what we were to do on Monday for club. I did the missionary story about Mary Slessor. I was nervous. I always get so scared until I get to the club. Then, I meet the kids and I feel fantastic and I love them to death.

I was on a team with 2 other girls: Amanda and Angela. Terrific girls that I adore. They are totally awesome! We had so much fun working together and getting to know eachother better. I loved every minute.

Every night, our missionaries, the Groomes, would speak for a while and tell us about their work in the Caribbean. Amazing people. It was so cool getting to hear from them every day.

So, club. Wow, where to start. Well, on Tueday, I told the bible lesson on Mephibosheth. The reason I was chosen was because: 1. I volunteered, and 2. I was the only one on my team who could say his name. =DI was kinda bummed out though, because when I gave the invitation, no kids came back to talk to me about Jesus. Oh well, I thought. The same thing happened last year. I'll just help them grow in their faith.

The really exciting thing happened the next day when Amanda was teaching Noah. 2 little girls went back when she gave the invitation: Callista and Sara. And both of those girls accepted Jesus as their savior! It was so great and we were all crying because Callista's family is all mormons and she was so sincere when she told Amanda why she wanted and needed Jesus.

Thursday was fun. I taught the missions again. I LOVE telling missions. So much fun. It was the day where I got to talk about the hippo too. I was happy.

Friday was a sad day. We said farewell to all those precious children at our club and were practically all crying in the car on the way back to camp. friday was also a happy day though, because we did skits before club and had our banquet and awards that night. At the banquet, everyone told me I looked like Deb from Napoleon Dynamite. XD That was sweet. My parents and little brother came out for awards and cheered loudly when I went up. I missed them so much. After they went home, we had our Communion service. That is without a doubt the best part of camp. We all come together and pray and worship God and thank him for everything that happened during the week. It's so powerfull.

Last day is always sad and my binder is covered with people's names, little notes, and phone numbers. I miss them all so much already.

Well, that's my summery of the week. I might add some more to it later. I'm really tired right now. Tonight was the first night of VBS and we had to decorate our room. It's Arctic theme and it's lik 90 degrees out. It's sooo hot in here right now I can hardly think. Faugh.

Pictures to come soon....hopefully...

Leaving for a while

Camp is this weekend. I'll be gone from Tomorrow until a week from Saturday so leave me lots of comments so I'm extremely overwhelmed when I get back. :D

I've been reading through the Anne of Green gables series again. I love Anne so much. Even if she isn't real, who cares?

And with that I bid thee farewell

Yesterday and today

I'm not feeling all that well, so I'm only going to write a little bit.

I finally met Elyse! Yesterday she came over to the Small's house and we hung out for a while and played some board games. The game was a fun pick too. We had to decide which things the other people liked best. Sometimes the mind twin thing worked....and other times..not so much.

We also went to see cars and I must say, I was a tad dissapointed. It wasn't exactly laugh out loud funny. The camera angles were cool for the racing scenes and the cars skidding and crashing was pretty neat, but it wasn't up there with all the other Pixar films. However, the short was funny. And that makes it okay....almost...

Today, becca, Matt,a nd I went to Build a bear workshop to buy a present for Cadence. She'll be 1 a week from Saturday. How the time does fly. Anyway, it was really empty and it rained so hard today. Wow. We ended up getting her a monkey named Kaleo with a cute shirt and some daisys for her hair.

Ooh, another update: I watched X-men the movie for the first time today. It was good. I liked Rogue a lot more then I did in the TV show. But not too much. Hugh Jackman is still one of the coolest actors ever in my mind.

There Bethany, happy now? Sheesh. =P

I finished my song

You are and I am
By Kaitie Merker

Jesus, help me see that You're the only one for me
I try to make it on my own, but every single day I'm shown

You are Holy. I'm unworthy.
You are mighty. I am so weak.
You are Holy. I'm unworthy.
You are mighty. I am so weak.

Jesus, I am free because of what You did for me.
Hallelujah Lord, I'll praise Your name forever more.

How great are You Lord!
How great is Your goodness!
I try to comprehend Your awesome wonders.
I cannot understand why you love me at all.

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So, there's a little bit more to it then that, but those are all the words.
I was thinking about "band" names and really liked "Striving". I think it's a keeper. =D

Music

I've been working on writing songs lately. I need to learn more chords on guitar.....

On another note, I just discovered Run kid run (I love purevolume.com) and they are awesome! I'm so excited to see them at creation now.

Cold fishsticks, Guitar playage, and Ballet

Today was good. I don't know why I'm so happy and cheerful today, but I am. I slept in late, took a shower, ate some lunch, and watched a movie. By the way, Remember the Titans is a wonderful movie. It's so great.

Anyway, I've been sitting back in my room most of the day. Writing some stuff. then I pulled out the guitar. I love playing guitar. I stcked up the mattresses and sat down with becca's huge book of worship songs. Then I looked up chords for Casting Crowns songs online. I LOVE music. it makes me feel so good. I was listening to the radio and Spirit was playing really good songs today. They get kudos from me.

As I was filling out a survey, both Matt and Mason came back to tell me that the fishsticks were done. I came out after a little while to get them and they were cold. Oh well. I also found out that fishsticks were all they made. I'm going to go make a sandwich or something.

The play is a week from Friday and I'm pretty sure I know all my lines. I hope it all goes well and a lot of people come. Oh, well. Even if it doesn't I'm still excited for that weekend because I'm going up to visit Becky! Then Camp is the following week and VBS the week after that. Phew. I can't wait for a break.

I'm going to take Ballet in the fall. I've decided that I'm going to save up over the summer so I can take it. It's my last school year before running start and I've always wanted to take dance. It's going to be so much fun!

So, there is your Kaitie update. I hope you enjoyed it becuase that's all you're getting. =P

Little poems that don't always rhyme

Some silly poems and little Rhymes I've come up with over the years.

Haikus:
The City
Buildings rise up tall
Patter of rain on windows
Cars skid on the road

Transformers
Transformers robots
Defeat the deceptacons
Autobots, let's roll!

Birds
Waves crash all around
Birds fly high above it all
No one sees them land

The Alps
Wind blows through the trees
Beautiful mountins are here
I'm almost flying

And now, some bits and pieces:

Promises to write and talk
Melt away like sidewalk chalk

Let this be the day you remember
It's so long until September
Why can't friendships last through summer?

We could have been so much better friends
If the year hadn't come to an end

Living like the world
Has always been absurd
I didn't think you could fall so far
I didn't think it would hit so hard

Leaving me
Why are you doing this
Breaking free
I don't need to listen

But you see inside
You see the person I am
The one who's trying to get out
I thought I had died
But you came and let me live

I don't know why things have to end
Why do all good things end

Yeah, so some of those are pretty lame. Oh well. You read them didn't you? Hah!

Not feeling well.

I think I'll go sit on the couch, sip some tea, and watch a Jane Austen film.


Toodles.

Writing....wrote the first bit and then added more on like a month later

Breathe

Cold Pavement at my back, sweat on my forehead. There's no telling how long I've been lying here. I feel more liquid, blood. memories blur and fade, staying awake seems impossible. Breathe, breathe. Everything is quiet, I can hear my thoughts as clearly as if they were being spoken to me, "How'd I get here? What happened? Don't lose hope. Keep breathing." That seems to be the motto of my life, keep breathing. Life hasn't excatly been a picnic for me, And this is no exception. Even finding strength to get up in the morning I find myself saying daily...keep breathing.

I close my eyes. Thoughts from my life rush through my memory. Then, they slow as they reach today. I see everything happen again. slowly.

"You'll be late for school!" The alarm clock next to my bed is blinking 12. I'm dazed and not quite awake. I roll out of bed and remember that I forgot to set the time after I plugged the clock in last night. "Do you hear me young man?" as if I could avoid it, she was talking so loud, the kids in China were covering their ears. I groan and yell; "I'm up already!" I check my watch, 7:45. I still had 15 minutes before I had to leave. I groan again as I pull on a shirt and a pair of jeans, ruffle my hair, and sit down at my desk. I pull out a clean sheet of paper and a pencil and start writing. George washington Carver, An amazing man and an excellent farmer, A exaustivly reserched report by Kyle Lewis- "I'm not going to call you again!" I'll bet. Check my watch again, 7:58. Time to go downstairs and eat what my mom calls "breakfast". I call it disgusting. Every morning she makes a pot of oatmeal large enough to feed the entire seahawks team, and she makes me eat until 2 bowls are empty. luckily, she doesn't watch me the whole time and I can usually sneak it to the garbage. As I leave the kitchen I grab my bag and stuff my books into it. I'll write the rest of that report later. It's not due until 6th period. But that isn't really what's on my mind as I walk to school slowly. Alone. Someone calls my name as I near the school, but I'm not really paying attention. Just thinking....

When I look at you

I can see the person inside
The person who's not afriad of change
The one who's ready for anything
No matter what comes thier way

I can see the person that is
free from all darkness and sin
The person who's never backing down
The one who the battle will win

I can see God's handiwork
when I look into your eyes
I can see His love abound
when you hold out your hand to the poor
I see His mercy in your life
when you bow your head and pray
I can see His Strength in your soul
when troubles come your way

~Me

What's going to happen tomorrow?

Yes, a question asked far too many times. And it seems to always be accompanied with 5 or 6 others...

What's going to happen to me? Where is my life going? Who am I going to marry? Am I going to get married? How will this job turn out? We all have a million and a half questions that go through our heads. Why don't we leave things up to God? Why do we always have to know?
In the book of James, he says, "Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

And in the book of Matthew Jesus tells us to not worry about tomorrow. If God took so much trouble to tell us not to try to know everything, maybe we should listen. We all want to be all-knowing, it's in our nature. We're all born with that wanting to be better then everyone else.

We're supposed to trust God! Not worry whether he'll pull through or not.

I guess that's all I had to say.....I've been thinking about those verses recently and had to put some thoughts down somewhere.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknoledge him, and he will make your paths straight." ~Proverbs 3:5-6
May God bless you in everything,
Kaitie

Neglecting

Ok, so I haven't updated in a looooong time. The reason is that it's a lot easier for me to blog while checking myspace so I just do it on there and I make less logins. I think I'll post some of the stuff on here though, because I know some people read this that don't read myspace.

56, 72, and 88

Last night I was lucky enough to go to a piano concert at Alliance bible Church. Let me tell you, it was fabulous. The man who played, Sam Rotman, is a trained concert pianist from the Julliard school in New york, and he also is a converted Jew. (He has other concerts this month in Washington so if anyone wants to know dates just ask.) His testimony is really amazing and his playing is unbelieveble! Not only did he play the pieces, he gave us a history of them as well. It was very intresting and I learned a lot more about composers and the piano itself. My entire family is going to one of his concerts coming up, so I get to hear him play again.

That's not the only reason last night was fun though, I got to see Lilli, Katie and Rose! We got to talk afterword and act really weird. Like smooshing whipped cream in Cameron's face.
To conclude it all, last night was fun.

Edit: I just noticed that it said 55 instead of 56. oops.

We've been listening to Philadelphia Chickens a lot this week and it is the best album ever! Written by one of my favorite children's illustraters, Sandra Boynton. It's soooooo funny. Not to mention very catchy and well written, and sung by great people like: Meryl Streep, Eric Stoltz, Kevin Kline...... Got your attention, didn't I? But really they all are on the cd. Get it, check it out, and don't complain to me if you don't like it. Matt and I have been singing "Be like a duck" all day.

hmm...so yesterday I built a pretty sweet lego villa. It's only made out of red bricks and it kinda hurts your eyes to look at, but it's still cool. We put all the Star wars minifigs in it cuz it looks like bespen or something....Boy, do I write about boring stuff on here or what?





..I need a digital camera.

Parent free weekend

Sooooooooooooooooooo, my parents are on a cruise ship off the coast of Ensanada. they won't be back until monday. Paaaartaaaaay tiiiiiiime! ^.^

Nation states update:
My rogue nation of Weird with a Beard is ranked 6th in the region and 57,088th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth.
The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Is my nation messed uup or what? XD

Sandwich

Last night we went to the 2nd annual eastside youth film festival. The films were really good and they had good MCs and it was just plain fun. I got to see some people I haven't seen for a loooooooong time too, along with meeting some new people. It was great.

blech

I don't like being sick. I've been sitting on the couch, taking medicine and watching the olympics since sunday afternoon.

In other news, Maple Valley got snow today.


Edit: Oh, yeah, happy Valentine's day

Pslam 139:7-12

I've been reading these books Dragons in our midst. I think they're great and have met the author twice. But I never asked him how a certain song in it goes. I've been wondering since I read the first one. The today I decided, Heck, I'll make up my own. I love the verses that the song comes from.

Whither Shall I go? (Psalm 139:7-12)By Kaitie Merker

Intro(finger picked)

Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

Chorus
If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.

Vs. 1
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.

(Chorus)

Vs. 2

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee; but the night shineth as the day:

Bridge
The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee(x2) (only sing this first time through)

(Chorus first time through)

Ending:(Finger picked)

Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?(fade out)

*bows*
I guess I need to get a mic so I can record it. :P

This concludes your Kaitie update for the day. Until next time, space cadets. *salutes*

Urk.

It's late...or rather, early. I learned most of Romans 6 today while I was waiting for people to show up for practice. I'm going to bed now.

NSA

I went to the National Security Agency this weekend, it was pretty sweet...What? That's not what NSA stands for? Oops. :D

But seriously the quiz meet was awesome! I didn't do nearly as well in quizzing as the last two, but talking with people and seeing everyone was great as always.

Memories:


Not so good:
-Being stuck in crazy traffic on Friday night.
-2 words: Minty Pasta. >.>
-Not knowing chapters 7-9.
Good:-Being one of the few people there NOT thinking about the Seahawks.
-Quizzing out once and getting a sticker! Thanks Kerri!
-Gryphon and Shari being there.
-Food people:"Meat or meatless?"
Me:"What kind of question is that?"
-The chugging contests at lunch. *looks cautiosly at Andrew*
-Losing horribly at tetris and then beating Chris at Crusin' Usa.
-Everyone trying Alyssa's watermelon club soda.
-Everyone trying Skylar's razzberry club soda. :P
-Being co-coach for Grays harbor during con A champs.
-Jumping in puddles til I couldn't feel my feet.
-"Fish is not potato." -Cyra
-Making Championships!
-Having the same hosthome as last year.
-Playing 5 rounds of mafia on friday night.
-The hosts making me play Psychiatrist and me not figuring it out for like a hour.
-Talking to Christy until 2am.
-Getting my first silver medal.
-Bethany and I being really weird during champs. XD
-Doing a Star wars quiz and actually getting the last one right.
-Lots of people cheering for us during champs!
-Reminissing about World meet and past quizzing years.
-Shuyck knocking me to the floor after demontraiting "possom stance".
-Trying to play T.J's 3 string.
-Playing becca's 11 string.
-Sarah: You're 50% blonde, Kaitie.
Me: And proud of it!
-Almost missing quote Romans 6:23.
-The fun hair things and leis we wore.
-Kaelyn: Oh, look, a wedding!
Me: Or college.....

I'd better get crackin'

Sparkies!

Yesterday was our first week of awana after christmas break. I signed up late and so I had only been there once. While we were waiting for gametime, all the sparks were sitting on the steps trying not to squirm to much. I sat with my group at the bottom and asked them some questions about sparky. Kindergarteners crack me up, they have the best answers for stuff. Well, we went down to gametime and the kids found out that know a thing or too about the games they play. :)
Since I came late and missed handbooktime the only thing left was council time and while we were in there, this little girl named Grace who I had talked to on the stairs came up to me and asked if she could sit on my lap. She was so cute. As we were sitting there, I noticed that most of the leaders sit in the back on chairs while the kids sit on the floor. I wondered why, since at 5-day clubs we're always sitting right next to the kids. Well, Awana was great and now I'm glad my mom signed me up, but I'm sorry I didn't do it sooner.

By-the-by, this is my 40th post. :D