*cough cough* my throat hurts

really bad!!! well, it feels a little better at the moment b/c i took some ibuprofen (did i spell that right??? hm...) and drank some hot tea with honey...yum! i usually don't like hot tea, but i liked it today!!! lol :) yeah, i like, can't talk! so i'll just get it all out through my fingers ;) haha
anyway, hey, i just dicovered that i can't do use the 'tab' button to make an indention :( sad. oh well, i'm just getting too accustomed to using 'word' haha.
anyway again ;) um...yesterday was jaymee's birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAYMEE!!! yeah, i went home with her after church and then went back to church...wait, i'll just give you the layout of my day, i was gone ALL DAY!!!

ok, so we left home to go to church at 9:10 am. we were supposed to leave at nine, but i won't go there ;)
then we went to church which lasted until like, hm....12:sumthin pm. and then mine and jaymee's fams went to moe's for lunch. and then went back to church for our piano recital (wahoo.). and that was finally overwith at like, idk...um...maybe like 3:somethin pm.
then i went home with jaymee and we hung out and did stuff on the computer while mrs. w was getting ready for the afterglo last night.
then we went back to church for the praise gathering. and that ended at like...hm...7:15 or so. and then we went back to jaymee's (accompanied by matt and lizzy and jasmine).
then jaymee's afterglo lasted until 10:00pm. but i didn't get home until like, idk, 11:30 or later! so yeah, it was a very full day! i loooooooooooooove days full of fun with friends!!! hahahaha, that was some good alliteration, huh? haha :) i love socialability (is that a word? if not, it should be.)
well, oh! i just realized that i'm listening to the cheeseburger song from veggietales!!!! AAAAAUGH! why in the world do i have this on my playlist??????? it's sooooo funny, but mr. lunt's voice disturbs me....i'm gonna change it....whew! now i'm listening to 'lost' by red. oh! there is this amazing song that for some reason always makes me want to cry, it's called 'tears of the saints' and it's by leeland. it is sooooooo amazing! also, i just discovered this awesome song by skillet that's called 'hero'. it's really cool :)
anyway, um....hm.....ho hum...haha, that was treebeard talk lol ;) oh! we're having a tipo camping trip in exactly a week!!!! i'm soooooo excited!!! it's gonna be at my house cuz we have our own little 'camp site' haha, daddy made it, it's pretty sweet. ooh, i need to send an email to all the tipos and tell them to bring their swimsuits cuz we're going to the pool! i'll have to do that, wait i should make sure we're still doing it...nevermind! haha, um....oh! i get to have an afterglo at my house sometime in july! i'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D in case u don't know what an afterglo is, it's like a party that the teens at our church go to after the evening service. we just hang out, eat (of course ;) and play games. it is so totally awesome!!! lol :)
let's see...what else could i talk about? hm.....well, i can't - oh! i just remembered, we finally found a good home for pippin!!! i'm very happy :) it's a family that goes to our church. they're really nice. they have three kids, pippin will get lots of love :) and they decided to keep his name the same!!!! YAY!!!! lol :) ok, what song is this??? strange...i don't recognize it, let me go look...oh, it's called 'your touch' and it's by kutless...ok, i recognize it now :)
anyway, i'd better get off now, bye!!!

~beth

this is such

an amazing vid!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have to watch it. i am ordering you to. you must. wow, i almost typed 'you mush'. moving on. watch the video. now. NOW! I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!!!!!!!! WATCH IT! DUDE! I'M SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok, now i am going to allow you to watch the video. so i will stop typing....AUGGGH!!!!!!! i can't stop typing! my fingers are doing this against my will! i can't control it!!!!!! fj;oiau; noi;oiajj;oin; ok. i'm done. goodbye. i have regained control. :D



wasn't that sweet??? well, adios!!!!!!

~beth

so...well, i feel like doing a

random story, but that would be copying monkeypower :) so yeah.....hm....i could do a story that is 'not random'. oh! it could be about a cricket! jkjkjkjk!!!! haha :)
anyway, let's seeeeee......yeah, ben is watching a garfield show thingie right now. i'm trying to drown it out w/music from my playlist. ya know, it's not very good when ur trying to work on writing a story and there's a movie going in the same room. but, now that i think about it...i'm not working on my story at this very moment...yeah, i'm kinda stuck. it's really hard to come ut w/good plans for freeing ur friends from ur enemy's dungeon! especially when u only have like, a three thousand-strong army while ur enemy has like, seven thousand men at his disposal!!!!! not cool! yeah, that's when u have to use stealth. and good distractions...believe me, i KNOW!!!!! haha, well not really...that's why i'm having problems...
"we know exactly where u are and you're gone....don't know exactly where ur coming from...have you gone aaaastrrraaaay? nanananana and you're gone....nananana so long! we'll see you some day...nanananana my frieeeend!!!!!!!" sorry, yeah, i love that song!!! dc talk 'my friend (so long)'
ok, well this is probably very boring to read. even though it's pretty fun to type....well, ttyl!!!! ipml! lol! (hm...are there any other abrev. that end in 'L'?) nvrmnd. bye!

~beth

right now i'm solving for y

in terms of x!!!!! it's awesome! i'm kinda liking this! but unfortunately i'll have to do saxon next year, and that prob won't be as much fun b/c it'll be much harder....according to matt...whom i do not usually believe....well, i'll believe him in this matter.
ok, now i'm solving for x in terms of y! i like solving for x better than y, so this is good!
"you are lost...you can never go...home. you are lost, you can never....go....home." sorry, i looooooooooove that song! gollum's song. it's soooooooooo pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!! it makes me want to cry!!!!!!!!
oh!

y = 3x
___
2

!!!!!!!!!! isn't that awesome??? jkjkjkjk! i don't really think it's awesome, but "it's been confirmed that the aliens have landed" ok, i know, totally random, but not really if you're me listening to 'alien youth' by skillet. ok, back to algebra...."come on freaks, let's go!" once again, please excuse my random outbursts.....maybe even ignore them! wait, did that make sense??? idk. i don't care.
holy cow!!!!!!!!! i just randomly decided to check my email, adn it said 'receiving message one of fifteen'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! adn i think that most of them are from laura! wow. no. actually ALL of them are from laura. holy cow!!!!!!! that's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
dude. that was stupid! i accidentally solved for y instead of x! i even typed it on here and i didn't notice it!!!!! wow, that's really sad.
i just realized that the problems in 'solve for x in terms of y' are the same as in 'solve for y in terms of x' that stinks.
ok, here's my word problem:

Parisian sewer #1 contains 9 fewer gigantic rats - rats bigger than cats, some might say - than Parisian sewer #2. Parisian sewer #2 contains 5 fewer giganitc rats than Parisian sewer #3. If there are 56 gigantic rats in all three sewers combined, how many gigantic rats are in sewer #1?

i hate word problems! oh well. this one seems easier than most of the ones i get. hmm....ok, i'm gonna try to work it out now :) ow! my jaw hurts really bad right now! holy cow! that's weird. grrrrr! idk how to figure this out! i'll prob have to look it up on the cd...i figured it out!!!!!! ok, just in case you for some reason, decided to try to figure it out, i'll put the answer in 'invisible ink' so you have to highlight it to see it! ;) here it is: 11 gigantic rats.

ok, now the color of my font prob isn't right...oh well. ok, i'm done w/algebra now, so i want to go eat dinner and watch a movie w/ben! see ya!

~beth

i just finished listening

to 'la la land' by demi lovato. i just added it to my playlist recently. i LOOOOOOOOVE that song!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah, i wanted my mom to see the music video, but my computer says 'we're sorry, the video you requested is no longer available' to EVERY video i try to watch on youtube!!!!!!! it's soooooooo maddening!!!!!!!
ankyway (ok, that is sooooo my new word! i accidentally typed it while emailing one of my friends, and i think it's awesome....in a weird sort of way...), today i got my swimsuit for this year! YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!! do you know how incredibly difficult it is to find a cute but modest swimsuit??? i mean, it's ridiculous!!!!!! almost every swimsuit in every store is a v-neck! grrrrrrrrrrrrr! and it's soooooooooo annoying b/c all the immodest swimsuits are the cute ones, and the modest ones are lame! but we finally found one that is adorable AND modest!!!!!!! yay! i'll have to put a pic of it on here sometime :) i looooooove it! which makes me very happy b/c last year, my swimsuit was modest, but when i looked at all the other girls with adorable swimsuits, i felt totally lame. i know that's not what is important, but it's REALLY hard not to put the cuteness of a swimsuit above the modesty. i must admit, if i had been shopping by myself, and i didn't have my mom there to tell me that it was too low, i prob would've bought one of the cute v-neck swimsuits. i mean, i KNOW that modesty is more important than fashion, but it's just so hard to remember that when i have this adorable swimsuit on and i'm looking in the mirror thinking 'wow! i actually look cute!' ya know? *sigh* i wish there were MORE modest swimsuits (and ppl!), but there aren't. at least all of MY friends wear modest swimsuits so i'm not by myself!!!!!! :)
i didn't finish my math today, so i have to do math tomorrow! yuck! but it's my own fault. i knew that we were going out this afternoon, and yet, i chose to feel ADD while doing my math. well, i didn't FEEL like i was CHOOSING to feel ADD, but i guess i could have tried HARDER to focus. oh well. i'll just have to work really hard on focusing tomorrow :)
yay! the youtube la la land video worked on my parents computer! i think mommy liked it :) i looooooooooove that song!!!!!!!!
ok, well.....ipml!!!! lol :)

~beth

right now i'm bored

b/c jessica just left and now i have nothing to do except...ahem...read 'the return of the king' which i don't particularly want to do right now. AND NOBODY IS EMAILING ME!!!!!!!!!!! i'm sad. my friends don't like me....jk :) they'll prob all email me later tonight....save the best for last!!! jkjkjk!!! lol :)

anyway, this is driving me nuts b/c jessica changed the resolution on the computer and i want the font to be bigger, but i can't change that unless i have the parental controls password (which i don't have). and right now daddy is busy and my mom is in another room. yeah, so i'll just wait till later i guess. yeah, i like the resolution thingie, but i just want the font bigger on stuff. i guess i'm just used to everything being big.

oh! here's the pic i decided to put on my desktop!!! it's sooooooo awesome! jessica copied it onto my computer.

isn't it soooooooooo cute??? there's a bunch more, but i like this one the best i think :) it's cute!

ok, sooooooooo......hm.....'rebirthing' by skillet just went off. i like that song. now the spiderman theme song is on! i loooooooooove it!!!!!!! it's awesome! it wasn't what i waslooking for when i searched for spiderman music, but it's awesome! i wanted the music from the movies, but playlist.com didn't have that. the spiderman movies are my all time favorites, but now they have some competition! lord of the rings :) haha

today jessica fixed my parents' computer. so now it's working! yay! lol :) we also went to international buffet for lunch. i like that restaurant. it's chinese. i don't like chinese, but this place is awesome! (oooh! i just thought of something! i wonder what my blog looks like....i'll have to look at it after i post this...)

right now the part i'm at in return of the king is where sam is trying to find and rescue frodo. the part right after frodo gets stung by the spider...yuck! that part is seriously nasty!!!! oh! i remember the orcs' names!!! the captains of the orcs. one is named 'shagrat' and one is 'gorbag'. yeah, shagrat sounds totally disgusting! i was picturing him as being one of the better looking orcs (well, NONE of them are even close to being good looking), but he sounds like one of the worse ones!! eewwww! yeah, orcs are sick, but i think i'd rather meet a couple of them than shelob (the spider). i HATE spiders!!!!!! they are sooooooo creepy!!!!!!!! i have one though, that is my friend. his name is walter. well, he's gone now, but he WAS my friend. i hope i haven't already told this story, but if you've already heard it you can just skip over it :) um, so i was carrying symon from the basement back up to the house. and at the bottom of the stairs on the wall, i saw something just like, stuck on the wall. so i looked closer, adn it was a spider!!!!! so i freaked out and ran upstairs and was like "MOMMY!!! THERE'S THIS HUGE SPIDER ON THE WALL!!!!!! CAN YOU PLEASE GET IT OFF??!!" and then she was like, "oh yeah, i squished that one this morning. it's dead." and i was like, "well, can you still get it off b/c i don't want to have to look at it every day when i scoop the litterbox!" and then daddy was in the kitchen and he was like "if it's gonna bother you that much, YOU can get it off!" so then i decided that i would protest this by just leaving it. so i named it and it became my friend. but then finally it had been there so long that it dried up and fell off the wall :( i was sad! walter was my friend! i said 'hi' to him everytime i passed him!!! oh well. there is still a little bit of him left on the wall...hahaha! i know, it's disgusting. but I'M not taking care of it!!!!!!!!

ok, well i have to get off now, so bye!

~beth

today i wanted to share

this awesome recipe that i made up! well, ben and i think it's awesome :) but don't even bother reading it if you are the type of person that doesn't have taste buds (like, you don't like spicy stuff; when you go to subway, you don't get hardly anything on ur sub, etc). ok, all the ingredients are 'to taste'. just sprinkle on as much as you want :)

one egg (ok, that's the only one that is not 'to taste :)
hot sauce ("frank's red hot" is awesome!)
taco seasoning (we use "tone's", but idk if it matters or not)
pepper
ur favorite grated cheese (i use some kind of yellow cheese...idk exactly what kind it is though haha :)
two pieces of bread (or a sandwich roll or something)

that's how i always make my egg sandwich!! it's soooooooooo yummy! oh, and i almost forgot, if you want to, you can put bacon on it too! i usually do two pieces. and you could prob put like, red peppers in it...wow, that would be good! and spinach...yeah, ok, i am so trying this next time! at least the spinach part, i don't think we have any red peppers at the moment. and i think i've tried oregeno b4, i can't remember if it was good or not....well, i'll assume that it wasn't that great since i didn't do it anymore! oh! onion! like, as long as you're not going anywhere that day...haha :) green onion is good, i've done that b4. i've also done little cube thingies of ham. we had those in our refrigerator and no one was eating it or anything, so i was allowed to put it in my egg sandwich! it was soooooooooo good!!!!!!! yeah, u can pretty much put anything in it! i wonder if chocolate would be good........jk!!!!
anyway, i just felt like sharing my beautiful recipe :) haha! oh yeah! today i added two songs to my playlist: 'red is blue' by ben folds (who, btw i would not recommend as a favorite singer. i just heard that song on a movie and liked it), and 'the return of the king' it's a ten minute song! it's soooooooo pretty! it even has the part from the movie where aragorn is singing right after he is crowned king of gondor! and it also has the m(oh! he's singing right now! i love his voice)usic that they always play when they're showing the shire. (oh! now someone is 'oo'ing! it's pretty! ok, i think it's about to go to a 'shire sounding' part of the song!!! maaaaybeeee....ok, maybe not)
oh yeah, i've decided that (oh! now it is a shire sounding song!!!!! i love it! for some reason it makes me want to cry even though it's happy sounding!) well, first of all, i want to have a lord of the rings bday party for my sixteenth bday! we (ben and i) get bday parties for our even numbered bdays. so, i want to have my friends that would actually appreciate lord of the rings (so i guess erin is not included...jk! she hasn't seen them yet, and if, by that time, she still hasn't, she HAS to come to my party!) and we'll watch all of the movies (the extended editions of course)!!!!!! that would be sooooooooo much fun! i'm getting excited just thinking about it!!!! i also decided that i am going to have a lord of the rings wedding. that would be amazing! i could wear the dress that eowyn (ok, at the moment i am thinking that symon is possesed! he keeps glancing at the ceiling and then darting to another section ot the room) (OUCH!!!!! i had my headphones turned up really loud so i could hear the lord of the rings music, and then it went to a newsboys song! wow. that was painful!) wore in 'the two towers'. the white one that she is wearing when grima is talking to her. it's soooooo pretty! plus, it's white! yeah, i think that would be amazing! i prob wouldn't have thought of it if grandma hadn't told me that one of jessica's friends at one time wanted a lord of the rings wedding. but she didn't end up doing that. when grandma told me that, i was like "wow...can u say 'obsessed'?" haha, but now that i've seen the movies, i think that would be sooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then of course my wedding ring could have something written in elvish, but it would have to only be visible when it was put into fire. man, that would be amazing!!!!! haha :)
ok, now that you prob think i'm completely insane, i'll type about something else....hm....."WITH SPOONS HELD HIGH, WE BID OUR BROTHER 'CHEERIO' when the toast is burned and all the milk has turned and cap'n crunch is waving 'fare well', when the Big One finds you may this song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in hell!" i love that song!!!!!! ('breakfast' by newsboys) now i'm listening to 'ignition' by tobymac.
hm.....i should copy/paste the email i sent to my friends last night, onto here. that would be funny....nah, it was stupid!!!!!! part of the email was about toothpaste. and another was about plucking my eyebrows, so yeah. i'm sure you don't want to read it.
um......let's seeeee......OH MY WORD!!!!!!!!!! i just remembered! ok, so wednesday nite i was talking to matt, and he was like "oh! come here!" and then he ran off to the old jr high room. so i followed him, and then right outside the door he was like "stay there" and then i was like 'okaaaay'. then he came back out with a book and he started reading something out loud and i immediately realized that it was 'return of the king' and i was like "MATT!!!" and he was like 'it's the last paragraph!' and then i was like 'noooo!' and i ran back to base camp. but he followed me and read loudly so i had to hear at least part of it. grrrrrrrr! oh, and guess what? apparently he had started 'fellowship of the ring' on like, tuesday. and then he stayed up until three in the morning so he could finish the whole series. so then when he had finished ruining the book for me, he closed it and was like "and that was the eleventh time i've read it"!!!!!!!!! holy cow!!!!!!! that is like, major obsession!!!!!!!! even though i didn't hear alot of it, i now know a couple things that are in the last paragraph! i won't write them here in case anyone is reading this who hasn't read the series yet (like nathan :). i wouldn't want to ruin it for them :) and matt, if YOU'RE reading this, i'm still mad at you.
ok, complete change of subject here, i can't wait until summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the pool, the reading contest, the absense of school!!!!!!! not having to wear a jacket!!!!!! not having to wear socks all the time (ok, i'll admit, i'm not wearing them right now, but i should be...my toes are purple. i'll go put some on right now.....much better! :)
oh!!!!!!!! i discovered my new favorite store yesterday!!!!!! it's called 'rue 21'. it is soooooo awesome!!!!!!!!!! i'm shopping there from now on! well, first i have to get money.......speaking of which, i also decided yesterday that i am gonna start saving up for a mustang now. that's my dream car, and if i really want one, i should prob start putting aside some money for it now! yeah, i just decided that i want a 2009 mustang! i looked up some pics of it and it's soooooo cool!!!!!!!!! ok, i'm gonna do another post with the pics.
ipml (lol :)

~beth

right now i'm adding songs

to my MP3 PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just got it last night! i'm soooooooooo excited! and the best part is, it was free! lol, jessica gave it to me b/c it came with something she bought, and since she already has an ipod, she didn't need it! thank you jessica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had to wait until after i was done with my school and chores to play around with it. so i'm just getting to do that. it's soooooo awesome!

oh yeah, pls go down to the bottom of the page and then go to the bottom of my playlist and listen to the song called 'gollum's song' it is soooooooooooo cool!!!! it's beautiful! it has this haunting sound to it, it's sooooooooo amazing! i LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! man, i wish i could put it on my mp3 player!

anyway, i just wanted to share my awesome news! i'm soooooooo excited! :D

ipml!

~beth

last night in youth group

when we were singing, one of the songs we sang was 'your grace is enough'. all i could think about while we were singing was how for all those people in mexico (and all over the world) that have nothing, God's grace REALLY is enough! they appreciate Him and his grace so much more than i do. the chorus just says:

your grace is enough
your grace is enough
your grace is enough for me.

and i kept thinking, "ya know, for ME His grace isn't enough! i always want MORE! it's always ME ME ME!!!" but i shouldn't need more! God's grace is amazing, and it SHOULD be enough for me! i don't know why i'm so selfish! i seriously need to start focusing more on God and others around me more than myself. and by 'others around me' i don't mean focusing on boys, and my bffs, i mean, i need to pay attention to them, but i'm talking about people that are in need. going to mexico and seeing all the poverty just really opened my eyes. i just can't get over how most of the people there that were so poor still seemed to have so much joy! the kids were thankful for getting a little sticker on their hand, for cryin' out loud! can't you just imagine trying to give a sticker to a kid here in america? most kids here wouldn't be satisfied with that! they need more! and i'm guilty of that exact thing, i'm not just talking about OTHER ppl. like, i EXPECT to get stuff for my bday and christmas, and when i don't get what i was EXPECTING i'm always disappointed. that's just how it is here for most ppl, we always need MORE! enough is never enough....
and the sad thing is that i'm writing all of this b/c i'm thinking about it and i'm in a 'godly' mood. ya know? like, i'll go to church this sunday and i'll be focusing on all the same stuff i always focus on - my friends, what the popular girls are wearing, who i'm just dying to talk to after the service is finally over, and so on. and i always feel bad for thinking like that, but i never DO anything about it! oh, and i just realized that i'm sitting here at the computer and i haven't even done my quiettime today! i'm going to do it right after i finish this post.
i just don't know how to get myself to WANT to focus on God! like, i WANT to have an amazing relationship with Him, but i just DON'T!! and i don't know how to WANT to do my quiettime, and WANT to think about Him when i'm singing during praise and worship, and WANT to actually pay attention to what the speaker is saying and think about God. i've asked Him to help me in these areas, but i guess i'm not actually trying. i think that's the thing, i always EXPECT Him to do things FOR me, and He can, but He wants me to work at it too.
anyway, i'm gonna go spend some time with Dios (God). sorry for totally dumping my feelings all over this post =)

ipmt (lol =)

~beth