Cake Decorating again and other stuff

I have officially completed Wilton Cake Decorating Course 1, and even have a nice certificate to show for it. I will start Course 2 in two weeks, hopefully. I enjoy it, but my hands are a little shaky, and I need to practice more.

I want to Role Play with Jeff and Lisa and whoever else! Tell me when and where!!!!

I'm quite addicted to RuneScape, though I wish I could be a member. I think I will become a chef in the game. yeah!

Being lonely and depressed is not fun. I realize I have some serious issues and pretty much no one wants to deal with them. Unfortunately, most of those issues are only made worse by the fact that almost no one wants anything to do with me. I've been a bit stand off-ish toward a really nice person because I'm afraid she will tire of me also.

Helping at Shiloh is great. I am learning a lot about computers and about people's computer literacy levels.

My church is having a night of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs this Sunday at 6pm. Everyone should come if you have nothing else to do. It'll be great. I'll be there happily playing my clarinet in orchestra.

The Adventures of me, Part II

To soothe my poor suffering Razorback pride, my mom and I went to Silver Dollar City today. Woo Hoo! And for anyone who wants to know, you can buy a season pass for $65ish. Sound like a lot? Buy it in December. You get to go all the next year as many times as you want, AND you get free passes to bring friends along. If you go during 4 of the festivals, you also get a pewter ornament at Christmas time. Anyway, that meant mom got in free, and I ended up with some really nice stuff...cookie cutters and a puzzle jewelery box made in Vietnam, among other things.

*vents*
The single adults at my church are entirely too indecisive. They spent over an hour debating whether or not to play volleyball Thursday night. I finally left at 8:30 all frustrated. In the end they played one game...leaving around 9:30 when they were supposed to start at 7. Go figure. What does this mean? It means role playing would be the perfect excuse to get me away from these people! I sometimes work as late as 8pm or so, but not always. I'm in, Ding! They're nice people, really. I care about them, but they seem to be excluding me most of the time. If any of you find this, and you know who you are, I really do want to be a part of the group, but people need to learn to make decisions, and at least act like you miss people when they aren't around.
*end of venting*

Ok, so three great awesome people read this blog. Does anyone else yet? I don't know. Oh, and I downloaded the Everquest II trial, but it's going to take like 98 hours to download everything. help!

Have I mentioned the two really incredible people at my church enough yet? If anyone wonders how God intended marriage/parent-child relationships to be, you should meet these people. I mean that as a COMPLEMENT, if either ever reads this. I've been lacking that in my life. To have the privilege of getting to know Melissa and Bill has been more than an answer to prayer. :)

Oh, and I finished getting the tablet pieces, and I've defeated Terask II again...making the 4th time in all.

Mappin' a temple

So, I'm a little ADDICTED to Neopets. Right now there's a plot going on in the Lost Desert and you have to find pieces of a tablet, then read it and some stuff...you have to do things to find parchments which tell you which door in the Temple of 1000 tombs to enter to find a tablet piece...I've mapped this place and there's like 100 rooms each with 5 doors or passageways. You can only enter the temple once every hour unless ...
ok, anyway, it's been fun so far. I like it better than some of the other stuff they've done, which was either insanely expensive or required killing lots of virtual monsters with your virtual pet.

Cake Decorating class was hard this week. I can't seem to make a nice looking shell for some reason. I must practice...I must practice...

I really want to role play again, but I never know what night I'll be free, so pick a night and let me know! If I'm free, I'll be there with bells on, or maybe a potion of random musical instrument, or wand of lightening bolt...

BTW, I collect musical instruments, (especially odd random ones) cookie cutters, (I have 420) and wooden puzzles.

The adventures of me, part I

It seems posting about every 2-3 days is good for those who seem to be reading it...at least for getting responses, anyway. I've had quite a bit happen since my last post, so here goes:

So Sunday, one of my fellow orchestra members talked to me after pm church. That's odd of itself, as I don't know him very well - he's a trombone player, all brass sit on the opposite side of the stage. It was an unexpected blessing, though, as he asked about my job situation and picked up on the fact that I'm considering elementary special ed after college. No, I'd not mentioned this before to much of anyone.

Another really wonderful person I know in orchestra - oboe player, and I know her better than the other one - left for Laurell, Mississippi to help with the disaster relief effort down there. She's part of the second team from my church to go, each one staying about a week. An interesting thing happened to me yesterday: I met a lady who's two sisters and mother are staying with her after the hurricane. She lives in Northwest Arkansas, but her family is from Laurell, Mississippi. What a small world we live in.

This morning I helped out at one of the disaster relief shelters in Siloam Springs. Of all the things I could have ended up doing, I helped people register online with FEMA. At least I was in the only air-conditioned building there. I was a little cold, but met some great people.

Now I'm at home until cake decorating class tonight, which should be fun, since we are finally playing with icing, not just watching. How does the blog look, everyone? I'm working on this and my neopets user lookup before I eventually start rebuilding my webpage. I'm more for form than function so people can tell I really do know how to design a website.

Be true to who God created you to be...

Does anyone really know me anymore? I've spent so much of my life trying to please others, hiding things that are part of who I am, and forcing things that are not. I've neglected many of my hobbies for the sake of "fitting in," at which I failed miserably. Now that we've settled the point I'm not doing THAT anymore, the picture you see here is one of a few I will post over the next week or so that I like. It's American Gothic, a painting I happen to like for it's down home feel, combined with the 3rd greatest musical instrument God ever created. Note: I play clarinet, but alas, it is 3rd, under the bagpipes and oboe.

Spyware is evil incarnate...

I've been helping out at one of the local schools with computer stuff. Yesterday there was a computer someone asked the regular computer people to fix. Apparently this is a family computer, all the children use it unsupervised, and at least one of them visit some rather...interesting websites...needless to say, it was practically dead from spyware, viruses and other stuff. Now, I have to wonder what caused shortcuts to be linked to open Windows Media Player which was so corrupted it wouldn't load at all, but you couldn't reinstall it because of another problem...we removed 114 adware/spyware items, and it still isn't working well.

Moral of this story: don't let children, particularly teenage boys run amok on the internet...and keep ALL of your computer's CD's so if it DOES happen, you can format the harddrive and start over. Believe me, it's a LOT simplier than trying to go through THAT mess.

The joys of cake decorating

Today, I started learning to decorate cakes. Why would I want to do such a thing, you might ask? Because I like baking, and if I'm going to make a really good tasting cake, then it should look nice, too. Anyway, my mom's paying for it, so I'm not complaining. If you know me and would like me to make you a cake in the distant future, I just might. Let's see how well I do in the classes first, though, ok?

A warning to my readers: Don't give me, "the KJV is the only real version of the Bible". I'll argue with you until you are blue in the face. I'm not anti-KJV, mind you. I grew up on it, but most people don't understand it well, and I think a person should read what they can understand. Do you want to learn Hebrew and Greek or Aramaic just so you can read the Bible in its original version? I don't think so, unless you're odd like many of my wonderful friends, but anyway...Just as an aside, I prefer the New King James Bible because I like how it is worded. I don't like how the NIV sounds reading it, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good translation.

Oh, and I can finally breathe again! My dad basically made me go to the doctor, who gave me a perscription for an albuterol inhaler. Much better than Primatene Mist, which Carl says is like inhaling acid.

Strange things are happenin' to me....

or my blog, in any case. Well, if jm needs an e-mail addy he can take my standard online nickname at the state we live in . the thing you catch fish in.

Now, I do wonder who these strange people are...no, Jeff and Carl don't count; I know them. :P

Anyway, my advice for today is always stay on the good side of the Lion...and don't EVER try to grow up. Growing up is just wrong. You can't help your physical age, but that doesn't mean you have to be a stick in the mud. Having fun is not a crime unless what you are doing is a crime, but that shouldn't be fun anyway.

I can definitely say The Chronicles of Narnia will make you think. If they don't, you should have your head examined.

Not your everyday phone booth user

This is how you get rid of people wanting to use the phone...and door to door solicitators... Note: The Cantina prize department has been unable to begin disbursement of prize to one j.m. due to a lack of valid mailing address. If j.m. is able to provide such information to the proper e-mail address, his prize can begin to be awarded in a timely manner. That is all.

Good job, Jeff Miller

He seems to be the first person to find my lame little blog. Congratulations, Mr. Miller, you've won the adoration of your friends, thousands in Monopoly money, paid at $1/year for thousands of years, and a vacation in Narnia...if you can find it...oh, yes, and I am reading those books currently. Can you believe I'd never read them before now? No, I don't know what rock I crawled out from under...:P

Anyway, I've been given the task of brainstorming for a website, and learning Flash, Dreamweaver, and any other goodies I find learning guides for on this learning site I've been given access too. Woo hoo!

Oh, and asthma is EVIL! Down with ASTHMA!