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Hello, peoples.

Sorry for the lack of blogging lately. On Sunday we almost didn't have volleyball. The two guys who normally set it up and tell everyone where to be and when to be there, weren't going to be there. So I went over and asked Alex if he knew anything about volleyball that day. He did all the conferencing and I just showed up. Dad brought the boys along to play with a family from church who were having a picnic. So dad played, too, and he's pretty good. It was a good day for me; I served first for my team in every game, but only my first serve went wild! After that I scored at least 2 points every time I served. :) It made me happeh.

My teams only won one game out of 6, but that wasn't for lack of trying! I dove more on Sunday than ever before. And I really think I'm better than I used to be.

Monday we went down to IA to clean house. Oh. My. Goodness. It was a MESS! The kitchen had crumbs and food all over the counters, food left in the fridge, caramel corn in a sticky little pile by the wall....At some point in time, a feather pillow ripped open in the master bedroom, adding feathers to the pizza crusts, socks, and doggie mess on the floor....Baby medicine and dog mess in the baby's room....Piles of crumpled-up newspaper and dog..stuff in the basement, along with dirty laundry and the dogs' blankets......Oh. It was awful. I have never loved rubber gloves so much in my life. I'll have to ask Mom about putting a few pictures of it on here.

But we got it cleaned, with the help of Avalon, Catfreak, & their sisters, my Grandpa, and my friend Megan, who I hadn't seen in 10 months!! I'm so glad we have good friends.

Tuesday we cleaned house more. I surprised another friend, which was so much fun! she had no clue I was going to be there! so we hung out for several hours, cleaning house, goofing off....

Today I haven't been doing anything of importance. I watched "Chisum" starring John Wayne. As soon as I get around to it, I'll put reviews of that and "Bye Bye Birdie" on my Old Movie Blog. It was a decent movie, although it seemed that the tv station cut it.

So that's what's happening, in a nutshell.

I finished another card front on Sunday. Here's a pic:

It belongs to the same series of cards as that Zinnia one. I think the third card will be a pink rose, perhaps, because that means "friendship."

Hm.
I'm playing a lot of the multiplayer games on www.gamesgames.com. If you ever join the site, my player name is thatKiwigirl.

My friend Avalon and my other friend Catfreak want me to re-introduce them to y'all. Go check out their blogs! They don't have much on them *ahem* but with a bit of encouragement... I'd suggest going to Avalon's first post, because she started a mystery story there. BUT she needs to CONTINUE the STORY because she just LEFT US HANGING there...Perhaps we should comment blitz her again.

okay, I have nothing left to say, except remember that the Feelin' Feminine Challenge starts this Monday!

Baibaiz

~Kiwi~

My Life Since Last Monday:

Hi!
Thanks, all of you who voted in my poll. It made it slightly easier to decide! I'll tell you what I got on Tuesday or Wednesday, when I can put pictures on. :) Let's just say that the little gift was a good choice.
Last week was rather long. Jordan and I went to the park on Monday and Tuesday with JS and Kirsten. We did cartwheels and handstands and bridges, and we played the 'trust' game. Y'know, the one where you fall back into a friend's arms? That was entertaining.
Wednesday was....Wednesday-ish. Nothing important happened.
Thursday was looooooong. I didn't get all my schoolwork done on Wednesday, so I was trying to catch up on Thursday. My instruction sheet for Wednesday said "read Carry A Big Stick" and then Thursday's said 'write a book review for Carry A Big Stick'. I figured that to catch up, I'd have to read the book and write the review. So I curled up with the book and started reading. At first it was interesting, but after two hours I had only gotten half-way through. By the time I was finished, I was thoroughly sick of Teddy Roosevelt! It took me all day to finish the book. Carry A Big Stick is a good book, but you may not want to try to read all the way through it in one day.
Oh, and Josh Havens from The Afters was on one of the local radio stations! Just over the phone. "Ocean Wide," which apparently is a new release, was played.
Friday we drove down to my grandparents' house! I counted about 100 red-winged blackbirds, we saw two 'rafters' of turkeys (why 'rafter' and not just flock?), and a pair of swans in an over-sized puddle in a field. The field was just outside of our old farm, and there's a sunken spot in it that always fills with water. Why the swans chose to land there, and not in one of the nearby ponds, I don't know. I wish I'd had a camera, 'cos then I'd've taken a quick shot of 'em.
Saturday I slept in till 9:30 because I hadn't slept well. We went bowling for my friend's birthday, which was jolly-good fun! I can't remember my scores. They weren't terribly high, but who cares when you're just playing for fun? (by the way, hi Race! 'Twas nice seeing you again!)
Saturday night I opened the small present. I'll show you pictures of what I got when I get them loaded on here.
And we had Lime Cheesecake!!!! O, I want more Lime Cheesecake! I would be supremely happy if I could have more of that scrumptious Lime Cheesecake! My grandma made it. If any of you want to order one from her....;D I told her she needed to sell them, but she's "not sure" of the price she'd charge. :P
Sunday we went to our grandparents' church. We used to go there, too.....twelve years ago. Rapunzel and I saw a few people we recognized, but not many. Mostly they were adults who had taught our Sunday School classes when we were little.
I got to drive some on the way home, about 45 minutes. Man, I need to drive more often! I have trouble paying attention to every single thing: speedometer, mirror, mirror, mirror, make sure you're still on the road, slow down, speed up, mirror, oops, drifting to the left, don't over-correct, etc, etc, etc. That brings my time up to about 4 hours, 45 minutes.
I finished a new post on my Old Movie Blog, which you should go check out. It's for The More the Merrier, a 1943 movie with Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn. Hilarious.

Today, Mom baked me a second cake! Lemon with creamcheese icing. :)
Avalon, Catfreak, and family are due to arrive shortly. I can't wait! We haven't seen them in 6 months! :) :) :) :) :) :)
Tonight, Daniel Kirkley is doing that live show/chatting w/ fans. I wish that a Certain Computer *coughFritzcough* would suddenly find it's sound stuff working so I could watch it! That would make my day *hintFritzhint*.

An' that's what's happening here. What's new with y'all?
Does anybody know what to do with a "Friend Request"? I looked at the 'help' page for it, but it just got me more confused. I dislike this new Following Thing that Google/Blogger came up with.

The Song of the Day Contest: Owan and Skittles both got it! (Surprised you, didn't I Skittles?) Owan guessed the whole song title/artist, so she gets 5, while Skittles found the title and recieves 2 1/2. The song was "The Motions" by Matthew West.

Now I must go prepare for Avalon and Catfreak's arrivals. Adieu!
~Kiwi da Fruit~
P.S. There is no song in here, 'cos I couldn't come up with an easily-hidden on. Sorry!

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!

A New Post (duh)/Comment Blitz

This is (obviously) a Brand New Post. I figured it was because of the title. With a title like that, it has to be a new post. :P

Here is my first announcement: my friend, Kirsten, has started a blog! I told her I'd introduce her to the rest of my bloggy friends. Bloggy friends, THIS is Kirsten! Kirsten, welcome to our part of the Bloggosphere! On the right side of my screen I have links to most of my other readers, but a few are not linked so you'll have to go to the comments section. Skittles, Guitargirl, and Judi comment fairly regularly, so you can meet them on there through their profiles. Welcome to my bunch o' bloggy buddies! You ought to receive a beginning blogging welcome packet, but it hasn't quite been invented yet, so you'll have to do without. But feel free to ask me any questions you may have about blogs!


Here is my second announcement: As of 9:27 last night, The Old Movie Blog is updated and you are all invited to stop by and visit HERE if you want to read my latest post! And I have another movie review coming up later this week or sometime next week, as well. Feel free to drop in anytime!

Here is my third announcement: the new Newsboys site is finally up and running!!!! I just found that out, and I'm glad. :^D They now need to fill it out a bit more, as it is rather bare. I wish I could get on the message boards! If I had an email address of my own....
I can't wait 'till the new album comes out! If I only had an extra $14 lying around, I'd pre-order it and get In The Hands Of God and Houston We Are Go. RRRGH! WHY can't I just SNAP MY FINGERS and have ALL THE MONEY I WANT?!? probably because then everything would be way too easy and I wouldn't be misrable so often. :-P

Here is my fourth announcement: I have a quick, painless, three-question survey I'd like all y'all who read this to answer.
#1. What is your fun little weakness (such as chocolate, coffee...)?
#2. Where is your favorite place to visit?
#3. Are you a morning person or a night owl?
I asked Skittles two of the three questions this morning, but didn't get to the third. To numbers 1 & 2, she said "CHOCOLATE!!!" and "Greece."
I asked one Adam Agee the same three questions, and here is his return comment:
"kiwifruit...
1. espn
2. grand cayman, cayman islands
3. hoo hoo"
Please respond, readers! Surely if Adam, who is a very busy dude, has time to dash off a quick reply, so do you!

Here is my fifth announcement: I have run out of announcements. Drat. I like to announce things.

Here is my sixth announcement: This is my 60th post! Which sounds great to me, until I look at Skittles' latest post...400th post. It makes me feel sad that I'm so way far back. *counts up posts* *tries to figger out a way to reach 100 posts by her 1 year anniversary* I have to post every 3.15 days in order to reach 100 posts by June 11th. That shouldn't be too hard (famous last words....)!

Here is my seventh (and final) announcement: I have no more announcements to make.

Let's see.... Oh! One very last announcement!

Here is my eighth (and very last) announcement: I am starting a new comment blitz! for the same person as last time, HMS Avalon. Here are the instructions: THE INSTRUCTIONS. Same place same person as last time. It has been over a month since her last post. Beg for more story, more about her life, anything, just ask for more posts!

Well, that's all that I can think of to post right now. Except that, at the Winter Jam concert, I got to meet Nirva, Shon, Brian, and Todd from the Diverse City Band, and Hawk Nelson. Nirva is very nice, and pretty, and I wish we'd been in a position to talk for a bit more. Shon was hawking their wares:
"Ice cold posters! Git yer ice cold posters he-ere! Oh, we have cd's, too. Do you want a cd?" he asked me.
"Sure," said I, playing the smart alek, "Give me some money, and I'll buy a cd!"
Shon laughed and 'bapped' my hat. Yes, Bap is a word. It's the sound that was made when my hat was hit. :D
And then Jason (?) from Hawk Nelson (whoever the lead singer is) signed by book "To [Kiwifruit], (heart) Jason, (smiley)" so we were playing around afterwards, pretending to be crazy fan-girls, swooning over the fact he signed with a heart. :D It was fun. I just wish we had been able to meet The Afters.

Well, I'd better go ahead and post this. See y'all later!
~Kiwifruit~