Misunderstanding

This past Wednesday my mom (who doesn't normally sing with our church's choir) had been told that at the end of the rehearsal the choir would be going over the Messiah, the one thing my mom would be doing with the choir. So my mom told me (who was staying for the whole practice) that she would come at around 8:30. 8:30 came and went, and soon it was 8:50 and still no mom. So in the middle of practice I ducked out in the hallway and phoned home. My dad picked up, and I asked him why mom hadn't showed up yet. He replied, "Hannah, your mom left ages ago." So we both started to freak out. My dad said he was leaving the house to search, and I hung up and hurried through the sanctuary towards the front of the church, intending to meet my dad there. My horrible visions of my mom's car flipping over into a ditch or her being in a terrible accident were confirmed false, however, when as I dashed into the foyer I noticed one person standing there. Mom. Turns out she had been standing back there forever but just hadn't popped her head into the sanctuary because she had been waiting to go in when the Messiah started. She was in a pretty irritable mood by this time since she had wasted her time sitting in the foyer for a Messiah rehearsal that never came. Anyways, she called my dad before he had left the house, and everybody realized it had been a false alarm. Next time before I panic, I'll be sure to check the foyer. :)

Well besides that interesting experience, which prompted me to unload the dishwasher without complaining two times in a row, the rest of this week has been pretty normal. Now I'm just ready for a relaxing weekend free from Wednesday nights, spanish practice, piano practice, and the like. Also tomorrow night is our church's annual father-daughter banquet, so I'm hoping my dad will decide to take me. :) haha. I'll wrap this up by saying what I've said several times before, thank goodness it's Friday.

My Kitty

Well I just got back from an hour and a half choir rehearsal at church and from babysitting a few kids while their parents were in a bible study. Let's just say I'm officially pooped. Having two kids blabber their heads off to you at once plus having to sing for a verry long period is no picnic. :) Well I don't really have anything else to say right now so I thought I'd post a few pictures of our family's cat Charli. Enjoy!

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Horrible Heat

I am literally about to burn up. This heat down here is making me long for winter again. :) I've just been out riding my bike and after about 15 minutes gave up trying to pretend it wasn't hot, came in and started glugging water. Luckily I haven't had to spend too much of my day outside so far, though, cause this morning I was asked to take pictures for a local children's reading program. (If you don't know this about me already I looove taking pictures.) Unfortunately there were only nine shots on the camera, so I had to spread out the shots over the whole morning. (Luckily the thing only lasted about two hours.) The irking thing about being a photographer, however, is that lots of people simply refuse to get their pictures taken. For instance, my brother warned me that if I took any pictures of him at this thing he would never forgive me as long as I lived, and one woman remarked , "You can take all the pictures you want, but you better not dare to take any pictures of my backside." :) So yes that's the kind of people us photographers have to deal with. haha

Well I am getting more and more excited about next month for several reasons: 1: Church camp is in about a week and a half (more on this later), 2: The next Harry Potter movie and the final Harry Potter book come out, and 3: We get to travel a ways up north for my cousin's wedding. So yes I am very excited about all of these things and I will tell you more about them in due time. :) I'm also excited about going up north and getting away from this heat. It'll be just my luck though if it's as hot up there as it is down here. *sigh*

Cat Fights and Other Stuff

Yesterday morning while I was lazing around eating breakfast, I noticed a strange gray cat in our yard. This cat is our cat Charli's sworn enemy seeing as how it's always coming over to our garage to steal our cat's food. Normally Charli will just sit in the yard and stare at the gray cat for a while, and then the gray cat will saunter off and go its merry way. This time was different. Charli's tale got about the size of a spiked club first of all, and then she suddenly jumped on the gray cat. They scuffled for a little while during which my mom raced outside to try to put an end to it while my brothers ran to grab their water guns. (My mom won't admit it but she really does like our cat. :) ) After a few minutes the cats stopped fighting all of sudden and stared at each other nose to nose for a little while. Then they went right back to fighting again. When my mom raced forward to try to break up the fight, the gray cat took off with Charli chasing right after it. Obviously Charli was a bit tired of the gray cat stealing her food all the time. :) A few minutes later Charli showed up back at the garage fur all rumpled, and favoring her left paw. Luckily her paw looked a little better than it did yesterday, so there's probably nothing seriously wrong with it. There's been no sign of the gray cat since, and assuming that it survived the fight I don't think it'll come around here anytime soon. :)

Well tonight is our homeschool group's teen social thing that I was telling you about earlier, so I'm pretty excited about that at the moment. We finally found me a dress at about the tenth shop we looked at (okay more like the fourth but still. ) and I'm actually pretty satisfied with it. I had to end up getting a kid size but oh well. It doesn't even look like a kids dress anyway so who cares? :)

Dermatology and Sickness

Today I had to go to the dermatologist's office to have a rather large annoying mole cut off my back. I was a little bit worried at first about the whole thing, but the procedure itself involved the doctor numbing it in some way and then just digging it out. (It couldn't have taken more than about 10 minutes.) I was rather interested in going to the office as 1: I've never been to a dermatology place before and 2: I'm considering being a dermatologist when I grow up, so I thought it would be interesting to see what they really do in person. :) When I was younger I had orginially wanted to be a doctor who delivers babies, but I decicded against that since I'd probably be a tad bit squeamish when it comes to that kind of stuff. :) I'll just stick to skin.

Well this past weekend hasn't been the most pleasurable as I've been sick with some kind of bug. All Friday afternoon I felt thorougly exhausted for no apparent reason and my limbs felt kind of achy. Then I developed a temperature and just barely managed to have the strength to crawl into bed that night. haha. Don't worry I wasn't quite that weak. Then the next day I developed a sore throat that I'm still getting over right now and is quite annoying to say the least. :) One of my friends was supposed to have come over to spend the night Friday, but she never showed up which worked out for the best seeing as how I was sick and all. I never exactly figured out why she couldn't come...but oh well. :)

Random Topics

*Well today's my younger brother's birthday, so of course he forced me to wake up at about 8:00 AM (which is very early for summer) just so he could open presents. *sigh* I shouldn't really be talking though. :) Anyways, since a local pharmacy is about the only place that us kids can do shopping of any kind, I ended up getting him a bag of candy and a chocolate bar. He seemed pretty pleased with it (I mean who wouldn't). As long as he doesn't eat all of it at one time we'll all be good. :)

*About my grandma, as far as I know she seems to be doing a lot better. She'll be going into rehab for several weeks I believe, so hopefully that will do her a lot of good. I'll be sure to let you know if anything else happens with that.

*Recently I read the fantasy book "The Mantle of Abbadon" and its sequel "The Thorns of Tulumar" both by G.T. Hesse. Though the books had a few similarities to the Chronicles of Narnia, (the High King was a Lion), I still throughly enjoyed them and for the most part they were very different from most fantasy books. I thought it was neat how both of the books were obviously Christian allegories. For example, the characters Efenlo and Dymar represented Jesus and the Devil, while the mantle and the thorn,which imprisoned many of the common people, obviously represented sin. I could find a lot more symbolism to mention here, but I don't want to ruin the story for you. :)

Prayers Please

I would appreciate it greatly if everyone could keep my grandma in your prayers. Over the past week and a half she has fainted three times, and is now in the hospital. Fortunately, the doctors think that she's been fainting only because her potassium levels are really low. Hopefully it's nothing more than that and not anything serious like a blood clot or anything like that. I'll be sure to keep you updated.

On a lighter note, nothing else is going on with me except two weeks from today our homeschool group is having a formal end of year social for the teens that I'm really looking forward to. Unfortunately, I simply can not find a dress that fits me at all. I'm a tad bit on the skinny side so when something fits me height wise the waist is too big and when something actually fits me in the waist the length is always too short. Plus, half the dresses stores sell today are completely ridiculous looking and wayy too revealing if you ask me. *sigh* Maybe I'll find one eventually. :)

Well I'm going to stop writing now as I'm going to go outside and ride my bike a little bit. Hopefully I won't die of heat stroke considering that it has been ridiculously hot down here. :) It has been in the 90's for a whole week. If this is how the weater is at the end of May/early June, I'm going to hate to see what it will be like in mid-July.