100th post!!!!!!!!

On a blogger's 100th post, it is customary to post 100 random things about yourself. Here's my 100 things. I hope you don't get too bored!

1. I know and can sing many many songs. Most of the songs played on Air1 and K-love in 2008 I know by heart.
2. I love to read. (P.G. Wodehouse, Shannon Hale, Christopher Paolini…)
3. I have been home schooled since birth.
4. I’m going to graduate in ’010!
5. I am hopelessly addicted to blogging.
6. As I write this, I’m listening to “Protest to Praise” by Downhere.
7. I simply adore biking.
8. I’m contemplating getting a bug-shield for my bike.
9. I nearly had a bike crash earlier today.
10. One of my favorite hobbies is painting.
11. My “Old Movie Blog” is fun to do research for!
12. I have met 15 famous people: Daniel Kirkley, Jason Gray, Jason Germain, Marc Martel, Glenn Lavender, Jaime Jamgochian, Lanae Hale. Brian, ’Nirva, Gabe, and Tedde from the Diverse City Band, and Hawk Nelson.
13. Concerts are great fun to attend!
14. But I’ve only been to three: Newsboys, Bethlehem Skyline Tour concert, Winter Jam ’09.
15. I don’t have a boyfriend, and don’t really see a need for one right now.
16. I really need to build up my “Artiste’s imagination”
17. No, I don’t have Facebook, Myspace or Twitter.
18. I should be doing chemistry right now.
19. I love to run, but I haven’t got any endurance.
20. My name doesn’t actually have a ‘k’ or ‘w’ in it.
21. “Rockstars need money,” and so do I.
22. I really really really want to see Paul Colman in July!!
23. I have one of the starring roles in The Play.
24. I used to sleepwalk on occasion. Who knows if I still do so…
25. I have two brothers and one sister.
26. I know at least the choruses to 80+ Newsboys songs. By heart.
27. I was ecstatic to get a letter from my friend the other day. AND it had a picture of her in it!!
28. Writing 100 Random Things about me is harder than I originally thought!
29. Sometimes I (randomly) burst into a (random) song.
30. I used to have a sheep that I showed at the fair. Her name was Mandy, and then she had a lamb named Freddy. I still have a 3rd place ribbon that Freddy won…
31. I was in 4-H once, but didn’t like it.
32. My sister and I are NOT twins!!
33. I like having my nails brightly painted.
34. I recently memorized the first stanza of “What is so Rare as a Day in June?” by James Russell Lowell.
35. I prefer geometry to chemistry.
36. I am quickly running out of things to say.
37. I really really really want to enter Downhere’s tee-shirt contest!!! Really!
38. I don’t get to wear pj’s to school. Horrible, isn’t it? :-P
39. I have a stuffed turtle.
40. Flip-flops rate higher with me than tennis shoes.
41. I have never broken a bone. (Of my own, that is…)
42. Volleyball is amazingly fun!
43. I do a lot of diving in volleyball.
44. I have 6 cds: the Newsboys’ GO, Thrive, In The Hands of God and the ITHOG EP. Michael W. Smith’s Live the Life, and Avalon’s Testify to Love.
45. My dresser top is always a mess ‘cause it’s my “catch-all.” But more on that later.
46. I can’t believe I accidentally skipped this one!
47. I love the Newsboys’ Going Public cd.
48. I want a new pair of shoes.
49. I can’t wait for consistently warm weather.
50. I have a “Zits” cartoon taped to my door that describes me perfectly! I’ll have to give y’all a pic of it sometime.
51. I cannot brain today. I have the dumb.
52. Sadly, I appear to be the “Teasable Type.”
53. Colors are cool!
54. I don’t like washing dishes.
55. My occupation? Dishwasher, scullery maid, bathroom scrubber. Oh, and most-of-the-time student.
56. My plan for this summer is to stay as active as possible. That means bike rides, volleyball, double Dutch jump rope, anything else that’ll keep me moving!
57. This has been 57 random things already!
58. One of my friends ‘owes’ me $31.64 already. It’s a long story…
59. I went horseback riding once in Tennessee in ’06.
60. Skip-bo is a good card game.
61. I don’t play any instruments.
62. I accidentally skipped #s 46-49! Oops!
63. Hopefully I’ll be able to hand out awards to my faithful blogreaders soon…
64. I learned that it is possible to start a Twitter account with a fake email.
65. But I either deleted the account or forgot the password. I forgot the password, anyway. The account may still be there. *runs off to check* Nope, it’s still there! www.twitter.com/kiwidafruit. No updates, though. Unfortunately, I can't get in to delete it because of the forgotten password.
66. I luuuuuuuv my digital camera! (Thanks, grandma & grandpa!!)
67. I have been hit in the face by the ball in the following sports: soccer, baseball, dodgeball, and basketball.
68. I have been knocked down in the following sports: dodgeball, soccer, basketball, football (LET IT BE KNOWN: I was not playing football voluntarily. It was entirely against my will that I was standing out there in that field, watching everyone else know what to do!), tag, and, as of Sunday, volleyball.
69. I used to be quite accident and injury prone.
70. I enjoy beading earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, but haven’t been ‘inspired’ to do so lately.
71. Writing is fun, but not ‘on demand’ writing.
72. Geometry was so much better than chemistry!
73. I like the game Bomber Penguin. (Skittles, you'd like it! give it a try.)
74. I just found two cool videos of Marc Martel that I'll have to post soon!
75. I am ¾ of the way done with this thing!!
76. My toenails are pink right now.
77. I want to visit my great-grandma (and Skittles!) in Florida!
78. Have you ever played ‘Pit’? I have.
79. I am 17 years old, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days old.
80. I want my own email address. (Hinthinthint)
81. Blogger frustrates me!
82. I like music videos.
83. I want to make a music video to “Praying for Sunny Days” by Hyper Static Union.
84. Catchphrase is a good game to play with friends, especially when it gets rowdy!
85. I’m going to give 25 points to whoever reads all of this!
86. I think I’ve been on blogger for about one year.
87. I just read through a year’s worth of my life in my diary.
88. I have had one of my watercolors sold at an art auction.
89. I want to see Dagmar soon ‘cause I have a s’prise for her…
90. My room is a wee little bit messy right now.
91. I had no school today.
92. My middle name is Elizabeth.
93. My hair, after being twisted up in a bun for 24+ hours, looks really odd!
94. I am/Praying for sunny days to return to me…..
95. I don’t have a best friend…I have about 20!
96. If you looked at my dresser right now, you would find: 3 porcelain dolls, a crystal bell, four cds, a Willow Creek angel, a little-bitty doll, five glass bottles, perfume, Mary Kay product, four ponytail holders, an IOU note (from my friend, now worth $31.64), a library card, four barrettes, two pairs of earrings, a cd insert, two batteries, song lyrics, bangle bracelets, two necklaces, flattened-out foil from a blue Easter crunch-bunny, a ring case, bookmark, a radio, and $1.33 in small change. I hope you found that fascinating!
97. Three houses ago, ‘Punzel and I chased the landlord’s cows around. (I was 6-7)
98. I have a signed Newsboys poster with a large, long haired hole in it…;D
99. I am very very very distantly related to Dan’l Boone. I think.
100. I survived my first 100 Random Things post!! Hallelujah!

Okay, I'm going to make the rest of this brief. I owe a big thanks to Dagmar and Matt, because they got me started in blogging and have answered numerous questions about it.
Thanks to Mom & Dad, for letting me get a blog.
Thanks to everyone who reads this blog and comments.
A smaller 'thank you' to the people who read this but don't comment. Comment if you want to get a big thank you.
And thanks to my followers, just for following.
Basically: THANKS ALL Y'ALL TO EV'RYONE WHO READS THIS!

So long, readers!
~Kiwi~

99th post/AIRSHOW!!!

Hey, y'all! I'm back after two weeks of non-vacation-y-vacation. The only reason it was 'vacation' was because I didn't have school and Dad was off for a week. BUT I'm not going to go into all that. Let's just say that Mr. and Ms. Renter paid...on Friday. And now it's a new month, so we're praying that God provides them with the money they need to pay us and everything else they need to spend money on. Especially the 'money they need to pay us' part. :)

What did I do last weekend? shall I tell them, or shall I not.?.....I think I shall.

We spent last weekend avoiding being hit or scared by Blue Angels. They fly right over our house during the practice and shows. It was awesome! I was sorry that we missed vacation, but at least we got to watch the airshow....three times over, plus practice, plus when ev'ryone left.

Here are some pictures & videos taken from my camera:

This video was taken on Thursday from our driveway. Don't you just love the sound of them?
*waits ten minutes for the video to load...* Why must it take so long to load a video? It isn't that hard to get one off of Youtube onto here!

Five of the Blue Angels.

Three of them. It's true, there are three there.

Three of them...in black & white.

Four of them. In color. STOP looking at me like that! Okay, YOU come up with better captions!

Four, two INVERTED! Can you imagine flying upside-down at 500+ mph?? Cool!

Um. So last weekend was the airshow, and on Sunday we ('Punzel and I) played volleyball again. Man! I love playing that game! It's perfect for me; fairly easy, fast-paced, and doesn't include much running. Perfect! And everyone here is nice. I don't feel (horribly) embarrassed when I miss the ball or do something wrong. They give me tips on what to do next time this happens, or that changes suddenly, or whatever.
And several people have commented on how I've gotten a bit better since we began playing. "The first two weeks, it was a cause to celebrate when you just get it over the net! Now you do that regularly." That's good. I'm glad I'm improving. But I still feel bad next to some of the others! Right now I am desperately hoping that it is dry enough tomorrow to play some. Today is cold and rainy, and tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, too!
"Hey mister weather man
I don't understand
I think I said clearly clear skies should be the forecast tomorrow
I'm lookin' west,
I see cloudy skies at best,
And to the east storm clouds are headed this way...."

And I leave you with this: The next post from me shall be my 100th! There'll be a party, balloons, prizes, and CAKE! You're all invited. See you then!

~Kiwi~

Hey!

hey, all! I'm at my grandparents' right now. They live close to our IA house, so we're chillin' here for a few days. Things aren't looking too brilliant at the moment. Mom and Dad talked to an attorney today, and if all goes well Mr. & Mrs. Renter are going to be leaving in the next few days. Ugh. Here we go again. Anybody want to buy/rent-to-own a house in Iowa? Pleeeeaaaase?? I thought we were all done with the 'house-thing'! Hrmph.

Sunday, instead of leaving for Kentucky, we went to the annual church canoe trip/picnic, minus the canoe part. I wish we had known we weren't going on vacation in time to rent a canoe. But we didn't. I must get over that.
The picnic was fun. I played a lot of volleyball. The difficulty was that the sand wasn't sand. It was sand with a wholelotta sharp pebbles mixed in. So diving wasn't easy, and after a while I felt like me feet were going to start bleeding if I took one more step. But they didn't, and I just had to deal with dried-out feet all the way back home. (I don't know about any of you, but I absolutely can't stand dried-out, sandy, gritty feet! Yich!)
That's mostly what I did: played volleyball. There really wasn't much else to do, other than eat or talk or watch other volleyball games. But I soon ate my fill, and the majority of other people were playing volleyball.

Um.

Today my Grandma, Rapunzel, and I went flower shopping. Grandma ended up getting some New Guinea Impatiens, vinca vine, and ornamental grass for her flower pots. I really like the Impatiens! And tomorrow we'll be planting geraniums along the flower beds. It was Florida-ey all day (hot and muggy), and then just as we started planting the flowers, the heavens let loose with a deluge of rain. And then got hot and muggy again. Huh.

Ummm.

I'm now one (or is it two?) posts away from 100!!! I think it's two, 'cause there's an unpublished post in my post list, which doesn't count. I'm going to do 100 random things about me if I can come up with that many. I'm up to 30. And possibly some awards....we'll have to see. :D

Okay, well thusly ends a dull post.
Have a great day, folks! Go do something other than reading my silly little blog!
~kiwi~