hi.

Hi everyone! 

I just wanted to stop by and tell you what I've been up to:-) 

I've been working on a book.  for the last 3 days, I've been writing pages at a time!  I still haven't thought of a proper name for it, but have been calling it, "Beyond The Tree."  It's sort of like The Magicians Nephew...  But then it's not.....  I'll have to give you a preveiw one of these days!

My poor wrist has been worn to a frazzle:-D  I've been crochetting lot's and lot's! 

My cousin Perry let me borrow, "Out of the Silent Planet." by C. S. Lewis!!!  It's the first book in his Science-Fiction trillogy!

Are you excited about Thanksgiving?  What are you going to do? 

Hey, as soon as I reach 10 followers, I'm going to have a writing contest! Deal?

Panda bears are my favorite animals.  I don't like snakes.

If you ask nice, i might design something special for your blog<3

Okay!  I'll let you get back to your day!!!!

Oh and Storyteller, I promise that I'll post your "tag/award" thing you awarded me!

Blessings!
Maddie

Really quick! I found my ipad!

Hi! 

I've finally decided that i want to get an iPad.  A black iPad. The only problem was, it didn't have a key board...  Or a USB port.... Or an SD card slot....   But!  I found a keyboard (i want one so i don't have to be touching the screen ALL THE TIME!), black of course, an SD inverter, and a USB inverter (the USB and SD inverter are on the same little device).  SO I'M SAFE:-D  YAY! 

Here is the link to the iPad i want:-D  And the inverter I would need.  And the keyboard i would like to have:-D

later gators!

Love,
Maddie

Storytellers design contest. My entry!

Hi! 

I'm entering in a design for Storytellers design contest!!!!  YAY!  Here is my entry!!!

 

Simple I know...    But that is what I'm all about!!!!  I like more simple styles:-D

Hope ya'll like it!

Maddie

Why the change?

Hi!

I know!  I'm posting the next day!  WOW!  

I was just thinking about how 2 years ago, or even last year, I would have been happy with some little 5 dollar trinket from Wal-Mart....  

But now, now that I've sorta figured out what I want to do, I want some pretty expensive things....

That Canon Rebel camera I want, that is like $1,248.99.  Alone.  With one lens.  Ouch.  

I'm going to buy that though.  I think it would be better if I bought it, then I would have a sense accomplishment.  

And as for Apple iProducts, I've been wanting one of the iPods.  But after a while, i decided on a tablet of some sort.  I would have been happy with beads, books, books on tape, a CD, or new headphones.

Why the change in expense and style?  Why the sudden choice?

Curious, isn't it?   What kind of things have changed for you?  A series of books, or change of color?  

Maddie

P.S.  I'm in just an odd mood....  wanting to jot things down that have no real importance.

Hope I'm not boring you to death!!!!  :-D

silliness.. My opinion about my post!

This is going to be, most likely, boaring...  I just want to tell a little about myself.

I was thinking of things I could post about last night as I tried to fall asleep.  I finally decided to tell what kind of person I am.

I am a girl with a vivid imagination.  I love to sing in my head, and dance in my heart.  I have many types of hobbies.  Some of the charectors I've made up are my best friends.  I keep a journal and she is named Mary Jane Joyclyn.  I address her as Mary, or Jane, or Joyce:-D 
I love to crochet:-D  I'm setting up a little hat shope!  I want to get a really expensive camera. It's a Canon EOS Rebel T4i Digital SLR Camera
It's big, heavy, and my dream!

I can't decide between an iPad, or a Microsoft Surface...  Which do you think?
 Here's the ipad. Yes I want a black one:-D
And here is the 'Surface.^

Which one?????  I'm going to try and weedle one from my parents for an early birthday present!  LOL, maybe.  My dad was the one who said I was going to need one for my crochet shope:-D  As long as he buy's it, I'm fine:-D  Jk.  I can buy one....  After I buy my really 'spensive camera!

So, was it boaring?

Love,
Maddie

I adore I love Lucy:-D

Hello everyone!  I'm such a bad poster!  I'm afraid I'm not the funnest blog in the world....  Oh well!  

Before I say anything, I would like to ask you all to pray for the East-coast!  Hurricane Sandy is hitting it bad:-(  I have family that live over by Wash. D.C.!  Please pray!  I heard that they have been calling the hurricane the "frankenstorm."  Not on national news of course...  Heard it on a Canadian radio station.

Okay.  I love Lucy.  Seriously.  I. Love. Lucy!  I got a cute thing off of Chatty Kathy's blog!  I'm not close to most of these yet, but I'm pretty close!

• Whenever you see a golf game or someone watching golf you feel the great urge to tell out, "Dormie!"
• You randomly find yourself saying "dun't" instead of "don't."
• You often find yourself sawing "dawnsy" when someone asks you, "How are you feeling?"
• The word "Tropicana" does not evoke thoughts of orange juice,  but more appropriately, a nightclub.
• You find that you can sing along to every Ricky Ricardo song word for word.
• Whenever you hear a saxophone playing it sounds like "Glo Worm" to you, even if it isn't.
• "I tippy tippy toed through my garden..."
• You keep waiting for "Real Gone With the Wind" to come out.
• The last name "McGuilicuddy" holds a special place in your heart.
• The names "Flo Pauline Lopos", "Marian Strong", "Carlotta Romero" and "Joe Harris" all sound familiar to you.
• You teared up when Lucy and Ricky cried at the end of  Ricky's "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me".
• You have always wanted to stomp grapes with your feet.
• You have ever wanted a bottle of "Vitavetavegamin."
• Forget about Tennessee Williams; it's Tennessee Ernie.
• "623 East 68th Street, Apartment 3D" is more than just an address to you. (If this address was real, then the Ricardos and Mertzes would be living in the East River!)
• You know how to speak Martian.
• "The time has come" sounds really familiar.
• You always wonder who the real Madame X was.
• Lucy Ricardo wasn't born in Jamestown, New York. She was born in West Jamestown (which, in reality, does not exist).
• The words "hatchet" and "water cress" go together.
• Stealing John Wayne's footprints from Grumman's Chinese Theater makes a lot of sense to you.
• When you think of a nightclub, you do not think of dimly lit lounges with techno music pulsing through it, but Club Babalu.
• "Black lace blue jeans" rings a bell.
• You know all the lyrics and the dance steps to Lucy and Van Johnson's "How About You?"
• You stopped subscribing to TV Guide when they put "I Love Lucy" second on their list of "The Greatest TV Shows of All Time."

Isn't it funny?  I dun't understand how people CAN'T love that show!

Okay,  time for me to go:-(   

Goodbye folks!  And thank's for the awards...  I'm sorry I don't have time to post them!

Love,

Maddie

Hello, hello!

Hi everyone! 

Remember a few post's back I told you that there was a shooting not far from here?  And that the guy who did the shooting didn't get caught?  Well I come with glad tidings!  They caught him today!  Phew!  It seem's like the guy has been in jail before....  That makes me feel 2x better about him being caught.  Thank ya'll for praying!

We watched the Avengers!!!!  You CAN NOT tell me that you haven't seen the preveiws for it!  Well, IT'S AWESOME! 
All of you know that I'm a big Star Wars fan.  My 2nd favorite series in the WORLD is the Marvel movies!  The movies I've watched in the order I watched them:  Iron Man 2, Iron Man (don't ask why I didn't watch the 1st one first.  My parents actually forgot we didn't wacth it.  How does that happen?), Thor, Captain America, The Avengers. 

Two days after we watched the Avengers, my dad bought the movie!  There was one part I almost died over:  Hulk crashes through the Stark building and charges Loki.   Loki yelles: "Enough!  All you lowlife are beneath me!  I will not be bullyed by-..."  Hulk grab's Loki by the foot and beat's him on the ground 3 times lookes at him and then beats him on the ground twice more.  Loki lays on the ground stunned and moans.  Hulk walks away and says,"Puny god."  And Loki just lays there.
I laughed SO HARD!  Yeah, yeah I know it's brutal...  But, Loki saying that Hulk couldn't "bully" him and then getting smashed.  It's just to much!  You've got to watch the movie folks, but I recomend a clear-play dvd player...  There weren't lot's of bad words, but there where a few...
Here are the actors who played in it:  Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Cap. America), Mark Ruffalo (Dr. Banner), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson), Cobie Smulders (Agent Hill), Stellan Skarsgård (Erik Selvig) and Samuel L. Jackson (Nick fury).

My little sister Rebekah is going to be 7 on the 19th!  She want's to be an actress!  She want's to act with the folks from The Avengers:-D  Silly girl.  I'm making a video with her as the lead charactor:-)

Soooo, on my side-bar I've got my "followers" gadget.  Is it showing up right?  Like, is it configuring?  Will everyone following me leave a comment?

Love,
Maddie

P.S.  Hey!  It's my 40th post aniversary!  Thank you for following me!!!

I'm back!

Hello hello hello!

I'm finally back!  I'm sorry it took SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long!!!!!!!! 

Our campout went great.  And right after that we started school!  So I've been busy with school:-D  Just in-case you where wondering, I am home-schooled!  I'm going to put up a page about my photography!  I'm not sure how soon, but I will!

Bye!
Maddie

Week Of Silence...

Hello!  So one of my blogger friends is having a "Do A Week Of Silence" contest thing...  And I'm going to do it!  You either limit yourself to 30 min. OR you get off completely...  I'm not promising that I can get on for an half-hour, but I'll try to keep an eye on posts!
Fortunately, this makes a good excuse for me...  My family is doing a week long camping trip.  So I won't be STARVING for blogger!

So I guess this is goodbye for a while *sniff*  I'll still try to, like, publish comments and little things like that... Bye folks!  I'll miss ya!

Maddie

P.S.  Okay..  This is the girl who posted about the "week of silence." Go there for instructions:-D
P.S.S.  Can i ask a favor?  Everyone who has awarded me, will you please a comment for each one?  I'm awful at re-posting them but I'm going to try!  Thanks!

13

Hello!

Yesterday was my little brother's 13th birthday.  He's not so little anymore.  He's a young man. 

My brother reminds me a lot of King David.  My brother is like a Shepard.  He guards and makes sure nothing happens to our little sisters, and, even myself.  I am very blessed to have his as my brother.

Be thou blessed my brother, as Ephraim and Manasseh.  May you be a blessing unto Israel and all  mankind.  Amen. 

(I kinda edited this blessing^....  It's a Hebraic blessing for the son's of Israel.  I changed it to brothers.) 

Well, sorry it's not that exciting.... 

Maddie

The post ya'll have been waiting for....

Hiya!

I'm here and I'm going to do a long(ish) post!!!

Okay.  My brother and dad came back from their hunting trip.  They didn't get anything.  BUT!  They went hunting with buddy,  and he did:-D  And he gave us half of the Elk as a hunting deal.  Then came the really (NOT) fun project of butchering the elk.
Since I've been around this all my life the sight of raw meat, slimy and bloody, it really doesn't bother me.  Actually, I'm used to watching deer being butchered.  It takes around 8 hours to butcher a deer...   It took around 15 hours to butcher the whole elk.  We can butcher and wrap meet almost as good as a pro. meat shop.  This is the process;  Cut meat, clean meat, cube meat, wrap meat, freeze meat.  A very long and tiring cycle.

Very quickly I must tell you that my dad works at the Fire Department closest to where we live.  Last year, we hosted a Fire Department potluck gathering.  This year we weren't sure if we would host one again.  Well....  The day after we butchered the elk, we found out that we were going to.  And it was planned  on the 16th.  5 days after the elk was taken care of.  I hadn't been able to post because there was ALOT of cleaning to do.  We had to clean my dad's garage.  Oh. My. Word.  We don't use our garage for cars like normal people.  My dad and brother use it as a shop.  Wood working and painting and metal working.  Messy, messy, messy!!!
After 5 days of non-stop cleaning, the party went off with out a hitch.  PHEW!  Last year we had, like, 70 people show up.  This year we had, maybe, 45 people here.

Two days ago, we had a grass fire up on our hill (we are, like, right at the bottom of a mountain.  So the "hill" is like halfway up the mountain.).  The smoke surrounded our house.
Because my daddy works for the Fire Dept. he went up with the fire engine's and got to see the fire.  Thankfully, it was small and farther away from our house than we had thought.
Before we knew anything about the fire except that it was there, it's hard to think what means the most to you.  Or what you have that you didn't know meant the most.

Yesterday there was a *gulp* shooting a few houses down our driveway!  Yipes!  My dad was at a class and on his way home he had let PILES of police cars past him.  Then he seen them pull up our driveway.  He called my mom and was like,"Why are the police coming up the road?"  Mom had no idea.  My dad was stopped by the police at the bottom of our road.  The cop said,"There was a shooting.  No one is allowed up the road or down."  Yeah.  My dad felt helpless.  My mom was freaked out.
We wouldn't have minded as much if my brother and my sister Allison hadn't gone hunting that morning.
The shooter was thought to have run up towards where my siblings where hunting!  So, my little brother and sister are hunting up on the hill, we had no way to contact them, AND there was a crazy shooter running around our property.  Creepy!  So my dad is stuck at the bottom of the road, and my siblings aren't safe.
We had the FBI, ICE, border patrol, and 2 different groups of  P.D.s at the bottom our road, and creeping and crawling around with their dogs.  AND we had a News 'chopper and a Black Hawk flying over and around our house.   *Shivers*  One of the Police officers finally let my dad come home.
"Do you have a gun?" The officer asked.
"Yeah, I have lots of guns." My dad replied.
"No, you don't understand. Do you have a gun?"
"Yes I have a gun."
"Go home, get a gun, and go find your kids."
"Thank you!"
And so my dad pealed up the drive, ran into the house, grabbed a pistol, and drove his jeep up the hill and found our missing kids.  They were safe and just coming home on our quad.  They jumped into the jeep and came home.
We where confined to our house.  "Keep doors and widows covered and locked at all times.  Stay inside."
So yes.  All-in-all it was a really stressful day.
So please pray that the shooter is found and he doesn't harm anyone. BTW, the guy only shot someone in the hand.  Nothing deadly.  Just painful!
After a while, we decided to go do some shopping, so we didn't have to be home.   We had to go through a check-point at the bottom of our road.
The cop who stopped us asked,"Going to town?"
"Yup."  (Okay, my dad really said,"Yes sir.")
"Just the kids in the back?"
"Yes sir."
"Alright."
Then he peeked in the windows all around the car, just to make sure.  I was like, I" can open the door so you can see better."  But he didn't hear me.
We got home safe and such.  And today nothing happened.  I'm going to ask again if you can pray that the shooter is found!  Where I live, it's only a little city.  Like everyone-knows-everyone- type of city.  And if the guy is desperate, he's dangerous.

Sorry it's such a long and a (possibly) REALLY boring post!

Bye!

Love,
Maddie

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Okay!  So who likes my new blog design?????  Go check out Meena's design blog!  http://inspiredbyyoudesigns.blogspot.com/

I promise you will NOT regret!

P.S.  Do you think it's odd that I have mustaches for my design?  I don't!!!  I LOVE THIS DESIGN!  I've been in love with this style for a while now!  Retro, is it?  I think it's DARLING!

Maddie