Back by Popular Demand

...Well, maybe not popular. Maybe just one person said she missed my blog. But I'm back, anyway!

I'll not even try to catch you up on everything that has happened since I last posted. Just a brief overview.

In February, we went to the Rock & Worship Roadshow in Madison. That was a lot of fun, especially because that morning, we visited Redamte Coffee House and had the privilege of singing with Tenth Avenue North for their upcoming album, The Struggle. Then we spent hours and hours in line, waiting for our awesome seats.
You can access the entire Facebook album here. If you ask nicely, I'll even do a full post about the concert!

Spring has come very early to this neck of the woods, and I have to admit, I'm enjoying it fully. 80* days for the past week! Can the weather get any better than this?
The trees have their little green flowers, ready to burst into leaves any day now. Lilacs have leaves as large as my thumb, and the tulips have begun to bloom. I discovered today that we have a daffodil in the middle of the yard. Nobody knows what it's doing there. The former owners seem to have scattered random flowers at random throughout the yard, with no plans or flower beds. I had never seen this plant flower before, so I was very surprised to see one solitary bright yellow daffodil!

My job has been interesting, and busy, and tiring, and boring, and everything rolled into one. This morning I wrestled with wire baskets, inserting or removing dividers, reinserting, re-removing... Once I had them all in, the task went quickly. (I was just putting new products on the pegs or in the baskets.) But we didn't have enough dividers to make as many basketletts as we needed, so I had to Improvise. Hopefully my improvisation goes over well, otherwise....
I'm not doing that section over again! I am NOT!

And then the last thing I'll tell you about are my Plans for Tomorrow.
Because Tomorrow just happens to also be my Birthday.
It is my Twentieth Birthday, in fact.

And Tomorrow, in Waukesha, the Called To Love Tour is making a stop. (CTL Tour consisting of Downhere, Jason Gray, and Aaron Shust.) If you have been reading my blog for a while, you'll remember that I saw DH and JG on December 14th, 2008. You will also know that Downhere is pretty much my favorite band, and Jason Gray my favorite singer.
And even if you haven't read my blog before, that paragraph should give you a hint about how excited I am!
I'm trying not to use too many exclamation points, but a few more than necessary might slip out.

From what I've heard, the CTL Tour is going to be amazing. Not only are two of the three my favorites, I like the third, too. AND, I'm meeting some 'Downhomies' that I've only ever talked with online. After knowing some of them for over a year and a half, I'm eager to actually meet face-to-face.

I'll let you know how it goes!

And hello to Abbie, who demanded my return to blogging! Now you must surrender to my demand to write a letter back! ;)

Adios,
~Kiwifruit~

Spring Fever

It's Spring! It's Spring

The bird is on the wing!

Now isn't that a funny thing?

I thought the wing was on the bird!

(stolen from the back cover of a magazine.)

I have a serious, possibly deadly case of Spring/Cabin Fever. I want to leave this house for a looooong time (like, all day, or something. ;) because I'm sick of it, and I want Spring weather so that I CAN get away from the house. I want to take a bike trip--and entire day; sun-up to sun-down. I want to perfect (or at least improve) my volleyball skills. I want flowers, sunshine, and green maple trees! I want short sleeves and flip flops. 

I know, I know, this is sounding like a selfish rant (I want, I want I WANT!), but it's not. Yes, it's a rant, but I'm wanting Spring for you guys. I want you to have lovely weather, I want you to have the pleasure of playing volleyball with me! 

I was looking at pictures of me from this past Summer and now feel like a ghost. I was so dark compared to now! Not saying that I 'need' to go tan, I'm just surprised at the difference between now and a few months ago.

I'm trying to decide what to look forward to the most this Spring/Summer. Graduating? Volleyball and softball games? Getting my driver's license (finally)? Hmm.....I think it's close to a three-way tie.

What are you looking forward to this spring?

~Kiwi~

Untitled Poems

I haven't tried to chose names for these poems as of yet, although I have a few ideas. These are just the preliminary titles or, as they call it in the land of lyrics and songs, "Working titles." (had to say something professional-sounding there)

March Fourth:

"March Fourth!"

They told me

So I marched forth

While they laughed behind me.

I asked "Why?" 

They laughed still harder

Till I thought they'd die

And then laughed harder!

They never did say why...

Spring:

Snow keeps falling

Piling up around us

Rays of sun may melt it

In time, in good time, in distant time.

Nevertheless, I continue with my live

Grieving over the cold, and dreaming of

Spring.

That poem that I just wrote the other day:

Like a cat

I follow the sun's beams

Curling up to read

Despite its best schemes

To run away

And steal the light;

I'll follow the sunbeams

Until the night.

~Kiwi~

New Background

I decided it was time for a change in backgrounds. I got bored with the other one. It was too wintery. Why should I have a winter template during winter? It just reminds me how cold and dreary it is outside. (okay, it's not all that dreary, it's actually quite sunny, but cold, yes!) In the winter, one should have a Spring or Summer template to help one remember how warm it used to be, and how warm it will be again. Having a cold-paletted Winter background just increases one's awareness as to how cold it is, whereas warmer colors help cheer and warm one up! Come Summer, I might stick a cold, snowy picture on here to cool you down.

I had all these quotes from books I've read recently to show y'all, but left my notebook with the quotes in it at home. (I'm at the library. And yes, I'm just that lazy!) =P So that'll be my next post on here: book quotes! Perhaps I'll have y'all try to guess what book each quote is from...make it into a contest.

~Kiwi~

My Life--Monday, #2

This past week, my life has been interesting, boring, entertaining, and just plain dull. And everything in between. And so on and so forth, etc.

Wednesday night we had Bible study at a friend's house. It was interesting, although I sometimes have a hard time keeping my mind from going off on something else. (We're watching video-lectures.) And we stuck around for an hour afterwards, talking with friends Jumbo Shrimp and Kirsten and Noah.

Thursday we were bored. I had to slog my way through school, especially my half-hour-turned-hour-and-a-half chemistry lecture. Ugh. As I worked through the rest of my stuff, Mom said to me "You get your work done while I make us some comfort food. When you're done, we can watch a movie." Once I was done, we ate popcorn and no-bake chocolate/peanut butter/oatmeal cookies while watching Ballet Shoes. I enjoyed that movie because it was so true to the book! I thought they'd find a way to morph it, but they didn't. Posy was a bit older than I thought she should be, but other than that.... I'll tell you more about it on my Old Movie Blog sometime soon.
We were supposed to have thunder storms that day, but all my area got was a few feeble rumbles. I like a good thunderstorm during the day. And, since Spring is coming, we ought to get a few of those. :D (Once again I must say...Melikee Spring!)

Friday, Mom and Da Boys had to go out shopping, so she gave Rapunzel and me permission to go to the MALL for the day! :D We decided to invite Short Stuff and another friend to come along, so Rapunzel forced me to wait until noon to call. I did a lot of impatient foot-tapping. At last, we got to go. Short Stuff was picked up at 12:15 and we were off (the other friend couldn't make it)! I already told you all about the mall experience. We decided to see what was upstairs at Sears, just as an excuse to ride the escalators. We found a lovely little sale up there, in which I found my $60-reduced-to-$7.50-dress. Somehow, riding the escalators isn't quite as thrilling as it used to be. Huh.
We also had way over-priced ice cream cones ($2.42 for a little itty-bitty one-scoop cone. But oh-well, we didn't spend anything else, and it was good. :)
I was also thinking 'hallelujah, Sunday's not that far away!' because I hadn't seen Owan in two weeks.

I had a women's Quilting Bible study to go to on Saturday morning. We got instructions for a new quilt block which shall be altered for me due to it's difficulty. My friend Anna is coming over tomorrow afternoon to sew our blocks. I sure hope they go together well! I'll post a picture of my two on Wednesday or Friday. Maybe. If I get around to taking one.

Sunday we went to church. I got to see Owan at long last. Which reminds me: has anyone else (Blueh?) heard anything about In the Hands of God's release date being moved back to Jun 1st? I was listening to 20, The Countdown Magazine, and Jon Rivers said that he thinks ITHOG is being released then. I wish they wouldn't move it back, but if they have to, I guess they have to.

Today I had school. I tried to scan a painting onto Angus to make another card set, but the pale green background was turned to a sickly yellow by the scanner.
We warred more with the squirrel-who-eats-the-woodpecker-suet, and tried mothballs beside the feeder, which (according to Birds and Blooms Magazine) is s'posed to deter the squirrel. *raspberry* It don't. It looked at the mothballs, laughed, and ate the suet. So I threw rocks and sticks at it. (I did, too!) It just looked at me, smirked, and ate more suet. (I could almost swear I saw a little pink tongue come out and go 'Tbtphbpbh!' at me!) The stupid squirrel is so stupid it don't even know it's stupid!!! It's so stupid it doesn't even know when to be scared of something (i.e, a ROCK hurtling at its [empty] little noggin!!!). *raspberry* I'll git 'im eventually, and tack his mangy little pelt to the garage door.
ASPCA, I plead temporary and justifiable insanity. STAY AWAY! This one deserves what ever I do to it!

An' that's what I did today.

Song of the Day: Friday I snuck it past y'all! The line you were supposed to look for was "Every Little Thing" by Hawk Nelson, found here:
"Just about every little thing in the mall caught our attention. Even the ugly, huge-belt-buckle kiosk that was being set up...."
Hee hee hee. I just love sneaking it by. One point for Kiwi!
And, I don't normally put in a song title on weekend posts, but I did yesterday to see if you were looking. You weren't. So I'll give y'all until Wednesday to find yesterday's and today's.

badeebadeebadee, that's all folks!

~Kiwi da Fruit

P.S. Tomorrow's Duncan's birthday! Happy Birthday Duncan!