Recycled Post #1

Here is a post from 'way back in my first few months of blogging. It was originally posted on Sunday, June 15th, 2008, and was my third post. Enjoy!

A Eulogy, For Bob and Larry
By Kiwifruit

There's a lonely place in our house,
An empty space in my heart
Left by my dear old friends
Who last night did depart.

Better pals none could wish;
We had times together quite merry
Just the three of us
(Their names were Bob and Larry).

They were not simple folk,
Rather complicated instead
Not always complying to my wishes
When something else was in their head.

Sadly, the end came soon
On the day Larry met his fate
My brother wanted to play with him
And we got there too late.

A new fan was needed,
One we could not procure
We had to let Larry go that day
His death could neither be nobler nor truer.

Three days after Larry,
Bob bit the dust
A broken heart is suspected
I know I heard it bust.

Now when the office is entered
Two empty spaces meet my eyes
The spaces our computers filled
I hate all these goodbyes.


No new painting news, except that I painted a background for my poem. I mixed up enough grey-green paint to cover the paper (or so I thought). It gave out after I had painted one brush-width stroke across the top and another down the side. So I whipped up another batch of the same color and put a stroke down the other side and bottom, then used what was left to do some wispy cross hatching in the middle where the poem would be written. Once that dried I neatly wrote the poem on it in black ink.
S. and K. are fully recovered now, and the rest of us have avoided getting the bug. I don't want them sick all of the time, but there were some nice things when they were. On the morning of my first post they both slept until nearly 8:00, which is a record for them. Usually they're up and making noise by 6:30.
Did anyone else get some of those big storms on Thursday? They came through our area around 9:45 that night. The tornado sirens went off and the five of us rushed down to the basement and huddled there for a while, then Mom went up to check the TV. When she came back, she said that we could go back to bed, since the sirens were off and the weather maps showed it mostly south of us. About ten minutes later we heard the sirens start up again, so we trooped back down and sat around for a while. It was nearly ten-thirty before we went back up for good. Cedar Rapids got around 6 inches of rain, which is now working its way downstream towards us. That's a Lot of water!
Well, I'm going to go now. We're at my grandparents' house again and a slice of cheesecake is on the table, calling my name. A new computer should be entering our household within the next day or two, so I'll be writing more regularly.
Adios!
~Kiwifruit

HERE's a link to the original post so you can see the comments.
I hope you enjoy recycled posts! Not only do I like saving the web, it's interesting to me to see my old posts.

Adios!
~Kiwi~da~Fruit~

p.s. no song title in here. I'm having a hard time coming up with them. I'll take suggestions, but if I use yours you can't guess. :D Sorry, it'd make it too easy.

PRAY!

We're in need of prayer today, as we move everything out of our house. It's raining, and it has rained a lot in the past day, and we need a dry front yard so we can back up the truck to the door. Sitting here in my grandparents' office and looking out the the window, there is a rivulet coming out of the drain under the road, across the yard, and flowing down the hill. This is bad. There are flash-flood warnings for our area until tonight.
I'll try to write again tonight, so y'all know how everything went. I need to eat breakfast now.
~Kiwifruit
P.S. check out the Comment Blitz Update posted last night right below this!

Wazup?

Here I am again. I was planing to post yesterday, but forgot that that's the day Dad works from home and uses the internet hook-up. It's nice when he's home. Even if he is in the office most of the day, I like knowing that he's just in the other room and not three or four hours away.
So. Yesterday was a hot, sticky day (thank goodness for air conditioning! I don't know how I'd live without it!) and I was hoping it would rain really hard in the afternoon so I could put on my swimsuit and go dance in the rain. But it didn't rain until past seven, and even then it was just a pitiful drizzle. I went and hung out at the baseball diamond with my friend Kim for an hour or so in the afternoon. I don't know what we did for a whole hour out there, with no-one around and not really anything to do.
We devised a way to break into the concession stand (if we really wanted to) and leave no trace, but decided against it.(We couldn't figure out a way to get back over the wall without a ladder.) It'd be bad if we got caught! I don't think there's anything in there to steal since there weren't any ball games this year. Not that I'm thinking of stealing anything, just that if we were to break in and if we were to get caught doing so, I doubt anyone would think we were trying to steal anything.
I might get to babysit Kim and her sister this summer. Kim is 12 (I think) and her sister is 2. Their mom is taking courses at a local college and needs someone to watch them on Thursday nights. I hope I get to do it! Anything just to get out of this house!
We finally got to watch Chicken Little yesterday! That movie was great!! I loved it. I think my favorite character was Fish Out of Water. Especially when he's playing King Kong and flying paper airplanes. It's a good movie.

I have decided to put my butterfly painting project away for now. It's too hot out on the enclosed porch right now to sit out there for long. And the other day while I was putting on the black outlines, my hand was shaking so bad (I haven't the foggiest why) that I was afraid I'd mess up big time. I'll get it out again when it's cooler and I have more time to work on it. Now I can only paint in the early mornings while it's not as hot.

Well, the results from the survey I put up are in. Newsboys won with the most votes (28%), Downhere and Stellar Kart tied for second (with 14% of the votes, each), and in third place is a eight-way tie (Several people commented with their favorites): Air Supply, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Dizmas, Number One Gun, Falling Up, Rotterdam November, and Relient K. Five of which I've never heard of. So what's wrong with Sanctus Real and The Afters, people??? They're great! Listen to them, sometime.

I found a cool website the other day. We were walking through Walmart and I came across a bag of Doritos chips, saying 'guessing the flavor is just the beginning' and telling us to go to http://www.snackstrongproductions.com/ for more details. It turns out that the Doritos company was giving away $100,000 to whoever made it through this big long puzzle game. The contest is ended now, but you can still try and figure out the puzzles. When you click on the link it'll take you to a page with what sort of looks like a city. Click on the mountain labeled 'QUEST' at the upper right-hand corner of the page and it'll take you to the start of the puzzles. To save your progress, you have to start an account, which involves giving an email address. We didn't want to give them our real email, so we made up one and they accepted it. I did have to cheat a little bitty bit here and there by googling certain stuff, but hey, it's just a game and it's not like I'd win anything at the end. Even with the answers, it still takes a lot of work to figure it out. If anyone else wants it, I can give you a web address that'll help you with the first five puzzles.
I'm going to go work on the Doritos Challenge now. Have fun out there in Bloggyworld!
~Kiwifruit
P.S. Wow, this is a long post!
P.P.S. I put up a new poll today. You can pick multiple answers so you don't have to pick just one favorite.

For Bob and Larry

A Eulogy, For Bob and Larry
By Kiwifruit

There's a lonely place in our house,
An empty space in my heart
Left by my dear old friends
Who last night did depart.

Better pals none could wish;
We had times together quite merry
Just the three of us
(Their names were Bob and Larry).

They were not simple folk,
Rather complicated instead
Not always complying to my wishes
When something else was in their head.

Sadly, the end came soon
On the day Larry met his fate
My brother wanted to play with him
And we got there too late.

A new fan was needed,
One we could not procure
We had to let Larry go that day
His death could neither be nobler nor truer.

Three days after Larry,
Bob bit the dust
A broken heart is suspected
I know I heard it bust.

Now when the office is entered
Two empty spaces meet my eyes
The spaces our computers filled
I hate all these goodbyes.

No new painting news, except that I painted a background for my poem. I mixed up enough grey-green paint to cover the paper (or so I thought). It gave out after I had painted one brush-width stroke across the top and another down the side. So I whipped up another batch of the same color and put a stroke down the other side and bottom, then used what was left to do some whispy cross hatching in the middle where the poem would be written. Once that dried I neatly wrote the poem on it in black ink.
S. and K. are fully recovered now, and the rest of us have avoided getting the bug. I don't want them sick all of the time, but there were some nice things when they were. On the morning of my first post they both slept until nearly 8:00, which is a record for them. Usually they're up and making noise by 6:30.
Did anyone else get some of those big storms on Thursday? They came through our area around 9:45 that night. The tornado sirens went off and the five of us rushed down to the basement and huddled there for a while, then Mom went up to check the TV. When she came back, she said that we could go back to bed, since the sirens were off and the weather maps showed it mostly south of us. About ten minutes later we heard the sirens start up again, so we trooped back down and sat around for a while. It was nearly ten-thirty before we went back up for good. Cedar Rapids got around 6 inches of rain, which is now working its way downstream towards us. That's a Lot of water!
Well, I'm going to go now. We're at my grandparents' house again and a slice of cheesecake is on the table, calling my name. A new computer should be entering our household within the next day or two, so I'll be writing more regularly.
Adios!
~Kiwifruit