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Googly awesomeness!!!

Involved doodling

So I've been doing some involved doodling lately.

I also got mixed up with the names of certain things at first.

For instance, that thing there is an ouroboros, a snake eating it's own tail. I had thought that the actual loopy design was an ouroboros. I didn't know what the actual loopy thing was until today when Fiona told me it was some sort of Celtic design like on her Irish dance dress.

The borromean rings are rings that are connected but don't actually go through one another. It's kind of hard to see there so I drew them for you.

I also drew what you could call the ouroborromean rings, just the borromean rings made out of 3 ourobori (?).

Then i made some tangled up rope/yarn and experimented with different ways of drawing rope.

I also made a one sided thing! I was going for just  a two-sided thing that crossed over itself a bunch, but instead ended up with a one sided thing with a Mobius twist (which you can't see very well here).

Then I saw I hadn't made anything using blue and since blue is already a sad color, I didn't want it to feel left out, so I made this thing.

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Spring Break

I had a pretty fantastical one myself. We went to Springfield and stayed in a hotel where we got to swim and have and awesome time, got to meet my 4-week-old baby cousin, and got to have a tour of Lincoln's home! And guess what, I got to use something Lincoln himself used everyday: the handrail! And the steps! Cool huh?! :)
So then we celebrated my dad's birthday yesterday and that was fun too because we got to eat peanutbutterchocolatyawesomeness and ice cream and all kinds of deliciousness.
And now the weather is just amazing and it's kinda freaking me out, being March and all with temperatures of like 80, which is awesome.
AND just down the sidewalk we have new neighbors moving in and they have a DAUGHTER MY AGE!!! And she is very nice and I am really excited about that.
Today might have been the luckiest day ever; I found 3 FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS!!! Not even kidding a little bit. I found all of those today.

I hope everybody had an awesome spring break and is having an awesome spring!!

Hair all gone

All coming soon!

More posts coming soon as I have time and am not feeling so lazy... More about those books, about doodling and interesting things, about googly eyes, and things that are happening. Stay tuned for more!

Favorite smells

Continued from the last post, which was about how old books smell.

Old book smell is definitely the favorite here.
After it has just rained or is just about to
Fresh laundry
The spring-y smell
And of course, cookies baking. Or anything baking. Unless it is getting burnt, in which case that is one of my least favorite smells and sounds because the smoke detector will go off. Beep.

If there's anything that will make me happy...

... it's a box of old books. The smell, the old book smell is prefered over new book smell. Like the inside of my mom's jewelry box, a very old jewelry box that was her mom's before her. A unique fragrance that is among my most favorite. It's hard to find books with a good smell these days, although I do have a few that are perfect, they were my great-grandmother's and they are Wizard of Oz and Frank Baum. I am not even joking about this, best smell ever.

Not all of these are old enough to have the right smell, but that red one there has the ideal scent... you may think I'm crazy but I bet your favorite smell is wierd too.

A Good Weekend

 Had a sleepover on Friday with Fiona and Bree after choir/a cappella (which were both awesome). We had pasta for dinner and donuts for breakfast. Now I still have the many mumbling mice song stuck in my head and it is getting really annoying.
On Sunday we went to church. On Sunday afternoons, our neighbor's granddaughter (we'll call them Alice, Isaac, and Petunia) Petunia comes over and likes to play with Cassie. So we had a bubble party.

I took pictures of trees...

The sky was especially blue, don't you think?
I even got to wear my favorite shoes.

And the weather was beautiful. Perfect.

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Today it was back to school. It was about an hour too long, which says something. I must have been bored or something. The people at my table are crazy. 

Out of it

Out of blogging I mean, among other things. I was sick with strep throat all last week but I'm better now. I'm so excited about lots of things! For one, I'm excited about being back at school this week! I'm also really excited about friday, cause you know Friday is always good. I think I'm having a sleepover with Fiona and Bree. If that turss out it is really going to be lots of fun!!! I haven't heard back from Bree yet though so I hope she can come! I'm also excited to go back to Youth Group tomorrow. It is always so fun to see everyone there and just hang out and enjoy eachother's company. Buy what I'm REALLY excited about is my girl scout trip to the smokies this summer. I hope I don't explode with excitement before June comes around. Because you know then, I wouldn't be able to go because i would be exploded already.It's going to be so awesome!!! Not exploding, I mean the trip.

Better than Cable

I can't remember if I've said this here yet, but I often say that life at my school is better than cable. Us kids are hilarious.

Today we were washing hands in the kitchen before lunch, like we always do. One of the teachers is heating up his lunch. David is standing behind me and I hear him say, "Hey everyone, Mr. John told me his mom calls him Johnny boy."

Mr John replies playfully, "Hey, man, you said you wouldn't tell them."

"Okay, Johnny boy."

Girl Scouts

I just realized I haven't really written about this.

This summer we (Cadettes and Fiona) are going on a Big Trip to the Smokies. We have planned a lot of it at our last meeting and I am SO excited!!! Although it's a 10-hour drive, I still think even that part should be fun. We're camping in tents. We're going hiking, rafting, eeeee! it's going to be so much awesome. I absoulutely can't wait.

But right now, before that, right now, we sell cookies. And sell cookies. Does anybody want cookies?

AND today is Cassie's birthday. I can't believe she is THREE already!!!

I'd say it was a pretty awesome weekend

A long one. And a fun one.

Bree came over on Sunday. We played spoons all day. And we laughed all day. I seriously think it might be the most I've laughed at one time. It was so much fun.

When it probably would have been time for us to take her home, we called her parents and asked if she could stay. And sometimes, things just work out. It seems like those are the times that always turn out the best with and those are the times you remember. Like that one time when a pipe broke at school, we had a snow day without the snow, and since we were taking Ruth to school anyway, we just 'stole' her for the morning. Then we went over to her house (within walking distance literally around the corner) for the whole rest of the day. Anyway, to prove my point, that was last school year and I still remember it, which means something.

Anyway, we drove Bree over to her house to get her pajamas and items nessecary for a sleepover. When we got back to my house we made our own pasta (Gnocchi) from scratch for dinner. It was surprisingly easy and surprisingly tasty.

I guess in terms of sleepovers, it was pretty perfect. I love it when you just call, Zelda says, yes, she can come over, and then she ends up staying all day. And then all night. And we giggle untill we're all giggled out and get the hiccups and then because we have the hiccups, and hiccups are funny, we continue to giggle despite the fact that our sides hurt and Cassie is taking a nap and we might wake her up. The best.

Delayed Archery Post

I have no excuse for this one. I'll be honest, I've just been lazy. (sorry)

But, I did very well shooting left-handed, which I didn't think would turn out well.

Delayed Etc.

This should have been posted a few days ago but some how the draft got deleted. Arrg.

So, happy New Year! 7 days late, of course, but still. I haven't posted anything on here since last year! My year is going super so far, and I hope everyones is too.

As far as pseudonyms go, I have them all ready and will tell you now I guess. My two younger sisters are now Abilene and Cassie, listed from oldest to youngest. My parents are Chelsea and Carl. I'm still Emma, of course. So yeah.

As far as resolutions go, being a new year and all, I am going to try and read my bible every day this year, and to read the whole thing. Simple, but yet so complex, if you know what I mean. Ask me about it in 2013.

All my Would-Have-Been Christmas-Related Posts Combined into one (complete with pictures!!!)

(Chronological Order)

My cousins came over and we ate awesome sandwiches.

Grilled cheese, with fancy cheese.

It. Was. Awesome.

Then we mad puff cars. Here's whatcha do: each person/team or whatever gets 4 straws, 3 paper clips, 4 mint life savers, tape, scissors, and a sheet of paper. You have to make a wind-powered car. As in you blow it. With your mouth.

Mine didn't win, but it was hilariously fun. You know, with cousins and all.

Christmas Eve.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

And the artificial fireplace was also turned on.

And in the morning,

Christmas puked in our living room.

And on my desk.

And now I have this!

But unless you are in my family or someone very awesome, you porobably have no idea what that is. It is my unstrung bow that won't be re-strung until tomorrow when I go over to Bree's house (someone very awesome. But don't feel bad if you didn't know what that is. You're still aweosme.). She has a bowstringer. And arrows.



Truly a nerd

I didn't know I could be so extreme.

Art class today with my awesome art teacher. We're doing color theory and color schemes. We were drawing geometric solids and coloring them with color patterns (primary, monochromatic, tetradic, triadic, complementary or analogous). I made a whole bunch of spheres. And because I am nerdy and awesome, I colored them using the binary extension of the Fibonacci numbers.

And it was awesome.

And my blog now has a tetrad color scheme.

Thinking About Pseudonyms

I really should be more careful about this. And Pseudonyms really can be quite fun. Hmmmm.

But I can still be Emma.

Awesomeness

It seems like I haven't put anything on here for awhile. Gee, I guess I haven't. Sorry folks! I should be more regular. It's been busy.

Let us start where I was going to before I wrote that part. Ahem, on I-can't-remember-which-one-it-was-it-was-kinda-long-ago-and-I'm-lazy Friday I went to a Chris Tomlin concert! It was so awesome I can't hardly explain it. I won't, actually, because I will end up making it sound less awesome than it was. See other blog.

Zoom zoom all the way to, erm, Wednesday. We cooked. All. Day. Seriously. Not. Kidding.

Thursday was delicious with so much food I wish you could see our fridge.

Then on Friday we shopped and I guess you could say we dropped. First time I've ever done that and it was pretty fun.

Phew!

Mad or Something

I hate being sick. Especially when it's just a cold and you go to the doctor because you think that it's something and you have to pay money for them to tell you to gargle with salt water and take ibuprofen even though you already knew that and they try to use big words to, I don't know, impress you or something and then you know more about it than they think you do and yeah. It stinks. Especially the snot. And I'm kinda mad because I had to miss school when I wanted to go and now I have to go to school tomorrow and I don't want to at all! It's horrible.

On the other hand, I'm very excited because Thanksgiving is going to be delicious (so is Christmas. I feel bad for people who don't know my grandma. She sure does make a kick butt ham!) and the house down the sidewalk from me is for sale and I really hope someone with kids moves in! Scratch that, someone with kids MY AGE. Kids are never my age. They're always either significantly older or significantly younger or live far away and we never will see each other but I think you get it. It would be nice.

So I'm kinda mad or something close to it, like mappy. There.

Shawnee National Forest and Stuff

So my weekend was awesome. I went to Shawnee National Forest with nine girls from my girl scout troop.

Garden of the Gods was my favorite although I've no idea why it's called that. It was beautiful but the toilets were the worst I've seen yet. There were these other old-fashioned ones at camp Cedarledge, but they did not have electricity so I could not actually see them. Ha ha!

The iron furnace was creepy. And that's exactly what it is. An iron furnace. In the middle of nowhere.

So was Dickson Springs. Kinda like a creepy old weird abandoned place that maybe people used to go there and maybe it wasn't creepy then. But it did have a very good hike.

Oh yeah there was Cave in Rock. It was a cave in a rock. But it was very cool. And the Ohio River was right there. So now I've touched the Ohio River.

Bridgett's blog has pictures.