Kiwifruit the Daring and her *notquiteso* Daring Family headed off to SomewhereElse on Mother's Day, past Possum Cave Road, on the Search for the Good Pizza Restaurant. After succeeding and leaving the premises full and happy, they began the journey home. Little did they know that they would not head straight back, they would begin a Quest that would take them Miles and Miles out of their way!
Upon leaving the Good Pizza Restaurant, Kiwi's brother, Jordan Fruit, piped up from the middle seat.
"I wonder what's down 'Possum Cave Road'? Dad, can we go see if there's a cave on Possum Cave Road?"
"Why, certainly, son, I believe we could do that. What do you say, Mother Fruit?"
Mom Fruit agreed wholeheartedly, so they set off in their green van on the Quest (Quest Quest Quest) for Possum (Possum Possum Possum) Cave (Cave Cave Cave)!
They traveled towards the road they were to explore. Then a question came up: Which way to turn? Left or right??
"Right," Dad explained, "will lead us to the nearest hills. I shall turn that way."
Right, they found, lead them towards the nearest dead end, and the lowest, flattest, most valley-like hill they had ever seen.
Retracing their steps, the daring family plunged into new, formerly unexplored territory. Past farm and plain, past horse and cow (and, they believed, a yak), past tree and bramble. On and on they traveled, driven by the urge to find this elusive 'Possum Cave'. Keeping watch to either side of the van were Kiwi, Monkey, and Dad on the left, Rapunzel, Jordan, and Mom on the right.
Not a hill was seen. Unless this famous Possum had dug himself a Cave in the side of the ditch, Someone had given this street, this pathway, this means-of-getting-from-one-place-to-the-next, a very misleading name. Someone should be thoroughly thrashed!
The tired, unhappy, family, saddened by the uselessness of their seemingly important Quest, returned to their home in relative quiet. None felt like talking. Not one had the strength left to smile. All were wearied and disappointed.
"I say," said Kiwi, "I do wish we had saved that for another day. It sounded so interesting, and it was quite nice passing it and wondering what was at the end. Imagining the Cave and wondering why it was named after a Possum. Now, it is simply another road. Just like any other."
Her family nodded in agreement.
~Kiwi da Authoress~
P.S. I shall give my review of In The Hands of God at a later date. Let it do for now when I say that it's great!
P.P.S. None of you ever gave a satisfactory answer to my Discussion Question: Why does the top of the keyboard have a dollar sign ($), but no cent sign?
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
My Life--Monday #3
Huuuh. I think I'll start out this post with a quick overview of my past week.
Tuesday, March 3rd: I.......did.....schoolwork aaand....schoolwork. I don't remember doing anything else. If I did, it was obviously not important.
Wednesday I had a very difficult school day, filled with insightful, meaningful, and sentimental thought-provoking questions, cruelly confusing chemistry, weird writing assignments, and horrible history. Okay, maybe the history wasn't that bad, but I spent an entire beautiful, sunny, warmish day sitting inside working. And illiteration sounds good. :)
We had bible study that night, and afterwards we had quite a few discussions based on the videos: Jordan is not real, the pain from my non-real fist is not real, the crumbs from my tortilla chip? Not real! :D It was Theology, and he grazed that subject. I'm just glad that the teacher didn't go in depth about it!
Thursday was a Day of Firsts! Rapunzel and I went on the First bike ride of the year, I heard the First red-wing blackbird (they don't come up until Spring!), and I went outside in short sleeves for the First time in 2009. We had a simply grand time out in the 60 degree sunshine!
Friday had its Firsts, too. First robins....the robins are back!! First day of bare feet!! We played all over the structure at the park (mostly where we weren't supposed to play--on the tunnel, on top of the enclosed slide....), and I went barefoot because it's easier to clamber with bare feet.
Note to self and all concerned: The first time you go barefoot after a long winter, don't walk on the road barefoot. It's slightly painful.
Saturday we went to the library and unexpectedly ran into people from church, including Friend o' Narnia and Julia. I like seeing people from church at random places around town!
I finally got to hear the videos Downhere put up of the Christmas Album Recording Process. But I forgot/ran out of time to watch the video on Duncan's blog. *aaaaaaaah*
Rats.
Sunday we went to church (of course) and got to see Owan at long last. (Before I forget again, Owan, could y'all send me a few pics from the Winter Jam concert? Especially the one of me 'n' Nirva, and me 'rapping.' Lol! I can just imagine how weird I must have looked! I think Heather has our email.)
We also had Jumbo Shrimp, Kirsten, and their younger brother over yesterday. We made a soap opera, and managed to get two people murdered by the jealous 'Iris'. :D In the next episode of "Young Stomachs Churning," We'll hopefully have another guy in it so we can get a little love-triangle going.
(Please do not think that we enjoy real soap operas. This is making fun of them. Just in case you wondered. :)
Today I rediscovered my detestation of cleaning bathrooms. They're gross and disgusting. (I wish I were in Star Wars or Star Trek. I'll bet Anakin and Princess Leia and Spock and T'pol never had to clean toilets!)
And I made banana bread, which smells quite delicious.
Now I get to spend the rest of my day in relative leisure. I'm gonna paint somethin'!
*aaaaaaah*
I keep remembering. Hmph.
I guess I may as well go ahead and post my thoughts on the Newsboys Stuff. I'm refraining from looking at the official notice until after posting. I'm afraid I might be too upset after reading it to post.
Oh, why do this? If I'm too upset, I'll simply hit 'post' and post what I've got. I can't sit here another minute and keep wondering!
Here goes! *runs over to NBSite with worried look*
*returns*
Hallelujah! (no that's not the Song of the Day:) It's not as bad as I'd feared!! I was scared that Pete was leaving was an "entirely, for-good, ne'er-comin'-back-again, nothin'-to-do-with-the-band-from-now-on" kinda leaving! I'm still horribly sad that he's not going to be at most of the concerts, but hey! It'll still have that 'Peter Furler style' to it! Does anyone know if he'll still be on their cds?
Here's the scoop for those of you who haven't a clue as to what I'm talking about: apparently, a few concerts ago, Michael Tait came out instead of Peter (?) and announced he was the new front-man (lead singer). Without any notice ahead of time. So there's been LOTS going on on the NB Message Boards about that. Every time I've been on them in the past 48 hours there's been at least 40 people on! And the comments on the Big Announcement have been jumping every time I refresh the page!
I'd actually sat down and written out a whole big, long speech about how I don't want Michael Tait to join and Pete to leave, but if the 'Boyz are sure that's what God wanted done, by all means, Do it! but I'm not going to post all that. I am behind Pete 99% in this decision. I'm having a hard time reconciling myself to this, but.....this should be interesting. Maybe it'll be the start of something new, a real good thing.
Rapunzel says to tell y'all that she's rejoicing that Pete isn't leaving entirely by wearing black today. I wish I had some black to wear. I wish I had an NB tee shirt to wear. I wish I could have attended one of the more recent concerts (one with Pete in it) and gone ahead and bought a shirt. I got money for it now! *sigh*
Tuesday, March 3rd: I.......did.....schoolwork aaand....schoolwork. I don't remember doing anything else. If I did, it was obviously not important.
Wednesday I had a very difficult school day, filled with insightful, meaningful, and sentimental thought-provoking questions, cruelly confusing chemistry, weird writing assignments, and horrible history. Okay, maybe the history wasn't that bad, but I spent an entire beautiful, sunny, warmish day sitting inside working. And illiteration sounds good. :)
We had bible study that night, and afterwards we had quite a few discussions based on the videos: Jordan is not real, the pain from my non-real fist is not real, the crumbs from my tortilla chip? Not real! :D It was Theology, and he grazed that subject. I'm just glad that the teacher didn't go in depth about it!
Thursday was a Day of Firsts! Rapunzel and I went on the First bike ride of the year, I heard the First red-wing blackbird (they don't come up until Spring!), and I went outside in short sleeves for the First time in 2009. We had a simply grand time out in the 60 degree sunshine!
Friday had its Firsts, too. First robins....the robins are back!! First day of bare feet!! We played all over the structure at the park (mostly where we weren't supposed to play--on the tunnel, on top of the enclosed slide....), and I went barefoot because it's easier to clamber with bare feet.
Note to self and all concerned: The first time you go barefoot after a long winter, don't walk on the road barefoot. It's slightly painful.
Saturday we went to the library and unexpectedly ran into people from church, including Friend o' Narnia and Julia. I like seeing people from church at random places around town!
I finally got to hear the videos Downhere put up of the Christmas Album Recording Process. But I forgot/ran out of time to watch the video on Duncan's blog. *aaaaaaaah*
Rats.
Sunday we went to church (of course) and got to see Owan at long last. (Before I forget again, Owan, could y'all send me a few pics from the Winter Jam concert? Especially the one of me 'n' Nirva, and me 'rapping.' Lol! I can just imagine how weird I must have looked! I think Heather has our email.)
We also had Jumbo Shrimp, Kirsten, and their younger brother over yesterday. We made a soap opera, and managed to get two people murdered by the jealous 'Iris'. :D In the next episode of "Young Stomachs Churning," We'll hopefully have another guy in it so we can get a little love-triangle going.
(Please do not think that we enjoy real soap operas. This is making fun of them. Just in case you wondered. :)
Today I rediscovered my detestation of cleaning bathrooms. They're gross and disgusting. (I wish I were in Star Wars or Star Trek. I'll bet Anakin and Princess Leia and Spock and T'pol never had to clean toilets!)
And I made banana bread, which smells quite delicious.
Now I get to spend the rest of my day in relative leisure. I'm gonna paint somethin'!
*aaaaaaah*
I keep remembering. Hmph.
I guess I may as well go ahead and post my thoughts on the Newsboys Stuff. I'm refraining from looking at the official notice until after posting. I'm afraid I might be too upset after reading it to post.
Oh, why do this? If I'm too upset, I'll simply hit 'post' and post what I've got. I can't sit here another minute and keep wondering!
Here goes! *runs over to NBSite with worried look*
*returns*
Hallelujah! (no that's not the Song of the Day:) It's not as bad as I'd feared!! I was scared that Pete was leaving was an "entirely, for-good, ne'er-comin'-back-again, nothin'-to-do-with-the-band-from-now-on" kinda leaving! I'm still horribly sad that he's not going to be at most of the concerts, but hey! It'll still have that 'Peter Furler style' to it! Does anyone know if he'll still be on their cds?
Here's the scoop for those of you who haven't a clue as to what I'm talking about: apparently, a few concerts ago, Michael Tait came out instead of Peter (?) and announced he was the new front-man (lead singer). Without any notice ahead of time. So there's been LOTS going on on the NB Message Boards about that. Every time I've been on them in the past 48 hours there's been at least 40 people on! And the comments on the Big Announcement have been jumping every time I refresh the page!
I'd actually sat down and written out a whole big, long speech about how I don't want Michael Tait to join and Pete to leave, but if the 'Boyz are sure that's what God wanted done, by all means, Do it! but I'm not going to post all that. I am behind Pete 99% in this decision. I'm having a hard time reconciling myself to this, but.....this should be interesting. Maybe it'll be the start of something new, a real good thing.
Rapunzel says to tell y'all that she's rejoicing that Pete isn't leaving entirely by wearing black today. I wish I had some black to wear. I wish I had an NB tee shirt to wear. I wish I could have attended one of the more recent concerts (one with Pete in it) and gone ahead and bought a shirt. I got money for it now! *sigh*
Lastly is the Song of the Day. No one found my last little hidden title which was "A Better Way" by Downhere. "There's gotta be a better way to do school work than slogging my way through!" One point for me!
And Avalon gets five points for finally blogging. That brings her total up to (drumroll, please!) 0! Well, it's better than -5, isn't it?
I'd better get off now and do something else. I'll post again on Wednesday.
Ciao!
~Kiwi the Bitterly/Sweetly-Happy/Unhappy-Weirdly-Emotional Fruit
Monday, February 16, 2009
A New Post #2 Five Blogger Points to Whoever can Spot the Song Title in This Post!
Man, I need to come up with a stock of better titles! Lately they've been getting worse and worse. Hopefully this is better than the last one.
I can't wait until Wednesday!! I get to see (hold on a sec. Mom's drooling over a label maker commercial. "I need a lllllabellll maker. Lllllllabelllll makers are my friends! I llllllove llllllabelllll makers!") two episodes of LOST in a row, due to missing it last week for Mythbusters. Oi, I wish They had kept LOST on at 9:00 instead of 8. Now Jordan always wants to see his favorite, Mythbusters, and so we have to take turns. And next Wednesday I have Bible study. Oi, I wish Angus would break this senseless vow of silence! (Oooh, I like using 'oi' as an exclamation! Maybe I really am an Aussie at heart.) The library won't let us watch it, as the computers are slightly too old or they blocked something or whatever. Anywhooze, the *hmph* point is they WON'T LET US WATCH LOST!!
But, Rapunzel is saying that I'm awfully negative, doing a lot of 'hmph'ing and 'drat'ing. She just called me a Negative Person!!!! How does she dare to do that??
"Quite easy. You're dark and depressing. Bottom of a well. With the first ladder rung out of reach. Maybe not that bit but...Kiwi! Not that! No!! *poke jab* I mean it! Don't say that bit!" (that was taken word for word from Rapunzel's big mouth.) "*Raspberry*"
"Right back atcha, 'Punzel!"
Aren't sisters wonderful?
"No, they stink! They're rotten, stinkin', devious little pests! Stop that! I didn't say stinkin'! You want to have hair tomorrow when you wake up, don't you? I'll pluck you bald....hair by hair!...........I should shut up now, shouldn't I?......Okay, you can put down 'clobber clobber!'" (please read disclaimer at the bottom)
um. *contemplates taking that out* *removes some of the more 'offensive' stuff* *disagrees with Rapunzel about what should and should not come out* *Kiwi wins!!*
ANYWHO! Back to an interesting topic.
I can't think of an interesting topic! My life is dull!
Yesterday, while doing research for History, I ran across an interesting (to girls) website: http://www.recollections.biz/. They sell Victorian, Edwardian, Civil War era, and pioneer-style dresses. I'm not going to be able to afford even one for a long time yet (and even then, I have no place to wear it to), but they're pretty to look at.
Hm. Oi, I sure do love to drive Rapunzel nuts! She's busy begging me to take even more of our conversation out. I'll give in a bit, so she'll stop 'jump starting' me.
And now, in the blink of an eye, my computer time is nearly up.
Ah, parting, 'tis such a sweet, sweet sorrow...
Let me know if any of you die so I'll know why you're not commenting. Because if you're not dead, you have no excuse for not commenting!! *coughdagmarcough* *coughmatttelldagmartocommentcough*
Rapunzel says I'm 'starting to babble' and to not 'start that again', so I'll stop and I won't, respectively. Oi. Sisters.
G'day!
~Kiwi
Please note: Rapunzel is not a shrew or a nag, she was not mad, she was playing along. Don't think that she's mean. Just....and older sister. Now she's leaning on me. "BUZZ OFF!"
Goodbye.
Good news/bad news.
Good news: Avalon posted
Bad News: Avalon posted.
*Drat Angus!* We got it up to (hold onto your hats!) 133 comments! Isn't that amazing? Or at least kinda cool? Or slightly interesting? Maybe? *cough* So, she has continued her story some, if y'all want to check it out.
Um. What was I going to say?
I can't wait until Wednesday!! I get to see (hold on a sec. Mom's drooling over a label maker commercial. "I need a lllllabellll maker. Lllllllabelllll makers are my friends! I llllllove llllllabelllll makers!") two episodes of LOST in a row, due to missing it last week for Mythbusters. Oi, I wish They had kept LOST on at 9:00 instead of 8. Now Jordan always wants to see his favorite, Mythbusters, and so we have to take turns. And next Wednesday I have Bible study. Oi, I wish Angus would break this senseless vow of silence! (Oooh, I like using 'oi' as an exclamation! Maybe I really am an Aussie at heart.) The library won't let us watch it, as the computers are slightly too old or they blocked something or whatever. Anywhooze, the *hmph* point is they WON'T LET US WATCH LOST!!
But, Rapunzel is saying that I'm awfully negative, doing a lot of 'hmph'ing and 'drat'ing. She just called me a Negative Person!!!! How does she dare to do that??
"Quite easy. You're dark and depressing. Bottom of a well. With the first ladder rung out of reach. Maybe not that bit but...Kiwi! Not that! No!! *poke jab* I mean it! Don't say that bit!" (that was taken word for word from Rapunzel's big mouth.) "*Raspberry*"
"Right back atcha, 'Punzel!"
Aren't sisters wonderful?
"No, they stink! They're rotten, stinkin', devious little pests! Stop that! I didn't say stinkin'! You want to have hair tomorrow when you wake up, don't you? I'll pluck you bald....hair by hair!...........I should shut up now, shouldn't I?......Okay, you can put down 'clobber clobber!'" (please read disclaimer at the bottom)
um. *contemplates taking that out* *removes some of the more 'offensive' stuff* *disagrees with Rapunzel about what should and should not come out* *Kiwi wins!!*
ANYWHO! Back to an interesting topic.
I can't think of an interesting topic! My life is dull!
Yesterday, while doing research for History, I ran across an interesting (to girls) website: http://www.recollections.biz/. They sell Victorian, Edwardian, Civil War era, and pioneer-style dresses. I'm not going to be able to afford even one for a long time yet (and even then, I have no place to wear it to), but they're pretty to look at.
Hm. Oi, I sure do love to drive Rapunzel nuts! She's busy begging me to take even more of our conversation out. I'll give in a bit, so she'll stop 'jump starting' me.
And now, in the blink of an eye, my computer time is nearly up.
Ah, parting, 'tis such a sweet, sweet sorrow...
Let me know if any of you die so I'll know why you're not commenting. Because if you're not dead, you have no excuse for not commenting!! *coughdagmarcough* *coughmatttelldagmartocommentcough*
Rapunzel says I'm 'starting to babble' and to not 'start that again', so I'll stop and I won't, respectively. Oi. Sisters.
G'day!
~Kiwi
Please note: Rapunzel is not a shrew or a nag, she was not mad, she was playing along. Don't think that she's mean. Just....and older sister. Now she's leaning on me. "BUZZ OFF!"
Goodbye.
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