Such a happy baby. 2 Months old 

Rachel cross country skiing at 5. 

This is Rachel at 4 years old. 

Sick...Again

Ugh...down at out. Well, last night I could hardly sleep...and was tossing and turing with an upset stomach. I still had work today, even if it felt like I was dying. I am sick of the pain in my stomach.
I worked with the new girl...(I know she is not a girl being that she is older than me...but yeah, that's what I call 'em). She went on and on and on and on and on and on and on about the weather..."I hope it gets sunny" "look at the sun!" "Oh my Its pouring...that makes me need to go the bathroom" (off she runs in the rain to the bathroom, as soon as she enters the office...the rain stops.) She is a very "special" person.
Then I got off work at four and went to the DMV with my MoM in my Aunt El's car. There was no lines, and like no waiting...very very very unusual.
Now, Dad is gone again. I still feel sick. So, I am going to party (not really much) and hopefully watch a few movies tonight.
It looks like I have a few more days here...David and Scott and all the guys who were going to work the show came down sick too. So my Dad is up there...doing what he does. We may or may not be out of here by the 2nd.
Oh yeah, and tonight is New Years Eve...I almost forgot. We are doing what we always do! Sleeping in the New Year! We have never done anything to celebrate this holiday...I did once...but that was in Colombia.

To see my modeling which I talked about below...
Go to symphony's Gazebo Manual

The intersting facts...
We had help
We starting the the afternoon and went til four. You will notice the pictures start dark and get lighter with more sun...Yeah, we did not know what we were doing, so we bulit the thing and the pictures were taken in reverse order. We hope that people will think we are morning people...
Daniel was helping, even with his cast, but that is why I am in the pictures this time and not him. He was in the last one with Rebecca.
If i think of more, I will write it later

and OH, I got an early Birthday present!!! I have had extended birthdays since going to school...last year I had like four parties and LOVED them all. Julie bought me a silver ring with a pretty stone thingy that is all shiny and two white ones, one on each side of the large round one. SO nice! It fits my ring finger...left hand. She thought it was a great place to put it. I could switch it for the frog and put it on the right hand, but after someones comment, i tend to keep the frog off the right hand. Some guy...no names, said that the frog was like my prince, and would be replaced once he turned from a frog into a man...or some such nonesense.

What a bummer of a lame day. Yeah, well, I guess I am just tired...but I don't feel like sleeping...What's new.
I stayed up last night, as usual, pretty late. I had nothing to do today, or so I hoped and planed to sleep in.
at 9:06am my MoM says "Rachel, I said get up NOW! here, this is from Sandie, she wants you to work, so get out there."
UGH. and yay. and hurm whatever.
I had asked for more hours a few days ago, thinking I would get warnings before I had to work. Turned out the note was marked with a date two days before...it just had not made it to me yet.
Well, I get up...and um...Get dressed, well, I think I did, since I ended up dressed later. Andrew in his cute voice reminds me that I promised him I would read him a story...I was on the phone with Jared at the time and sometimes I will promise them anything to be left alone. I read to Andrew every night...but last night...I forgot. He came in...sort of sad, told me his leg was better (he had a cramp which I rubbed out) and asked if I would read a story now instead. Well...I was suppose to be at work, but since I did not care about work at the moment, I went in and read him two stories. I felt I cheated on the first. I pick up this book in the shape of an angel. I was like weird, but whatever. I open the velcrow...yeah, kids book...and find that it just has "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world..." yeah, that song, repeated twice. I think Andrew thought I was making it up, because after glancing at the page I could read it without even looking at the page! And when I started singing it as well as reading it...yeah. So, since that took me all of three seconds, or so, I grab another book. This one is called...."Who's hiding..." I open it up..and guess what I read... "who is hiding in the cave...the bear (which is under the flap) That was not the first one, but the only one I remember off hand. I ended up reading the spot, opening the window and the kid has heard it enough and could tell from the pictures exactly what, so he would yell it out as I got to it. I am such a wonderful sister...ha ha. It is sort of nice to be at the computer without him in my lap. He likes to bounce around a little and it makes typing hard. I do not mind him as much, since he cannot read, so it does not matter if he watches me type. I also like it, because I tell him to keep a watch for people reading over my shoulder and I have him yell out when he sees someone...making it so I can have SOME time to be on the computer without siblings. It's more of a power thing than a privacy thing. I could care less if they read my writing, but I enjoy the power of making them go away.
aye, what a rabbit trail...anyways.
So, after the story I go to grab a hot pocket for breakfast (ha ha, I am at home and can usually find something other than nasty breakfast food in the mornings...like hot pockets, spaghetti, cheese-its, goldfish...I usually have to grab something I can run with, since I am usually late) BUT!!!! There are not any hot pockets left! There are these new hot pot pies thingys...just like the hot pockets but hexagon rather than long and oval. I think, whatever, but they end up having this really nasty taste to go with the weird shape (it took me more than two seconds to decide how to cut it in half) and I tried to eat it. I go half of it down, and gave my sister the other half saying "it is really good, I just cannot get past the special taste right now and have to go to work" After she took it I tell my MoM "those things are nasty, don't buy them again if you can help it!!!!! I like the hot pockets!" My sis still ate it.
Another rabbit trail. Because I tend to have left overs and don't mind feeding the dog, every time I enter the kitchen the dog goes insane! It starts begging, jumping, sitting, whining...and freaking out at me. It is starting to draw attention to us...dumb animal. Maybe it was from when I cut up the pork and stuffing (not liking either) I gave more than I ate and more than me and my sister ate to the dog...sneaking it here and there. The thing loved it, but yeah, she needs to relax a little, I just prefer to make her fat than eat it myself or throw it away.
Oh, then I went to work. I had to listen to Bill being praised, and then to Bill putting "the guys and Jose" down. He cannot stand them...but I agree with the guys and cannot stand Bill. gah...
Then Lunch came. I beat my dad to the table so I stole what my MoM had prepared for him and let my MoM make him something else...like soup. It was leftover meal, so I had the leftover potatoes and meat....mwhahahaha...I LOVE potatoes!!!!! I got in trouble for picking at my meat again. I like it, but I CANNOT eat fat...it grosses me out, so, yeah, got to find a way to separate it so it does not show so much.

Then I was a MODEL...yes, a model. My dad was working on the manual for the new gazebo, and I said if I got paid the same rate as BGN then I would work for symphony and do it. It is suppose to be assembled by two people...HA HA HA. It took five of us. We would work at getting it somewhere, then everyone would get out of the picture except Rebecca and I. My hands were used more than Rebecca's because she had pealing pink nail polish, and I "don't have dirt under my nails" her words, not mine. I like it because my frog ring got in the pictures. Then after over four hours of that. Rebecca, Daniel, and I put all the stuff back in the warehouse. By this time it hurts us all to lift our hands above our heads. We had done so much lifting and yeah, this is why my back has so many problems.
Then at 4:15, I went out to work on labels, came in for an hour un-paid dinner and then went back out and worked until 9:30. The computer out there is SOOOOOOOO slow. I work in Adobe Pagemaker and I would have it sort the pages...and it took it 10 to 20 minutes most of the time.
It is really storming here now. The rain is pouring down, the wind howling. and oh wow. It is late, and I am tired.
Jonathan's and Julie's Birthday is tomorrow...the 30th. Jon, Julie, and I are all going to get our cavities filled...oh yay...I am too tired to spell check totally...deal with it.

Mwhahahahaha...beware you sinners...lol

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Navidad!!!!

Christmas was great. I love my family. Sometimes the things they do annoy me to death! but they are still wonderfully great. I only bought Julie and Rebecca something, and made Rebecca and Raquel something (loosing Raquel's gift before I had the chance to give it to her) and made my MoM some things. I did not get the males of my family anything, and they did not say anything or hate me at all.
Well, the stockings held some interesting things...
Chocolate...always a good thing.
Pringles...gets ya through the day.
Cards...some scooby do and some freaky ones with holes in the middle of 'em.
And awesome magnetic braclet/necklace/whereveryouputitlace.
A orange backpack.
A sketch doddle thingy.
Socks...a must.
Bells!!! Really it was a hair band, but we wore them as bracelets...oh well.
A knitting puppet kit...so cool.
and more...
Then grandma and Aunt El came over and we had breakfast.
David made me yoke-less eggs!!! I gave my bacon to my MoM but then stole one of the extra sasages which I traded part of to Andrew for half of his piece of bacon. Managed to convice the other end of the table to pass me some strawberry juice. Convinced Roger to take Andrew's eggs so that he could get seconds on cinnimon rolls. I got Robert to agree to eat them but only if I would give some of my cinnamon roll, so I picked someone who would do it for free or give me something in the deal. Poured the rest of the OJ in my dad's cup so that he would not be able to finish it and have strawberry juice too. Made my dad toast because he loaths cinnamon rolls. Daniel made one of the only spills of the day at this meal.
The presents were being stored in the front room and we open them in the living room which is the same room different side as the dinning room. So, we carried the presents into the dinning room and filled our table with them so that we could easly hand them to people in the living room. We had some lorge debates about who would be the Santa's bear. MoM started handing the presents to Andrew to run to people but that was slightly hazardous because he could not read.
Presents:
An alarm clock from Jon and Daniel...mine at school all died that last week...
More PJs...really soft blue ones with snow flakes on the pants...I am wearing them now...so nice. Oh, and I am usually the only kid or person that stays in my pjs the entire day. I did it last year and again this year. Maybe thats why I get more pairs of pjs than the other kids...
Green Tea from China...its like all they drink there.
A bamboo scarf...yes, they now make clothes out of bamboo. Usually it is mixed with cotton, but sometimes it is 100% bamboo...which is what my scarf is. The socks and towels had some other sort of materal in them. Who knows...maybe one day bamboo will replace all need of cotton...Oh, and my scarf is so very soft!
Two YWAM books signed by Loren Cunninham to me...I had to do book reports on them in my DTS...but it is still kind of cool to have the founder of YWAM (JuCUM) and a person that has been to EVERY country in the world sign it.
A knitting kit to make a shawl... :-D How did MoM know I had been trying to make one of them?
Slipper/ shoe type things...red with white fuzzy insides.
A beautiful necklace and earrings from Julie.
A handmade pillow from Robert.
More Chocolate...a chocolate orange from Rebecca.
Money from Grandma.
A fleace Jacket...orange and blue!!! so cool
A gigantic orange fuzzy pillow...Julie told me that when you sleep on it your hair gets all frizzy. Should be cool
Yeah, so this christmas I got a lot of fuzzy and warm things which I love oh so much. Chocolate and food which i need to survive. And an alarm clock because mornings hate me.
In amongest opening my presents I also helped the younger boys open thier remote controled cars and put batteries into different things...I also helped Andrew assemble his model airplane...the box says 6 and up...Andrew being 5 did not stop him...when screwing it the screw driver missed the screw and slamed into his hand...little bit of blood...gave him some ice and he felt special.
The boys got guns. Little ones that shoot plastic balls...hurt like heck when the hit you but they are a lot of fun...I will play with them later.
Lunch was next...
I was in charge of pulling out the stuffing filled pork...yuck...and cutting it and making it ready for the others to eat. I did this, the stuffing making cutting the meat a more difficult task than normal. I got the extra potatoe and the last of the sour cream! HA HA HA! Only six of us got sour cream...and I was one of 'em! Ahhh...the small things in life. I also picked through and got most of the trees in the brockley Ha, no trunks for me. yeah, anyways. Then it was desert time. My apple pie was divided up...my dad saving one slice for him later. I ate the pumpkin pie and was quite please with it. My grandma watched me down a whole glass of chocolate milk and a piece of pumpkin pie smothered in whip cream and started in on her talk about how unhealthy I am and I do not eat right and no wonder I am sick...yada yada yada. My MoM said to ignore her...which I did...sort of. I always have trouble when she starts going on about what I eat, how unhealthy I am, and how I really need to loose weight. Of course it does not matter that she was eating the very same thing as me...or she is heavier than me...oh well, my MoM keeps telling me not to let it get to me. *pretending it does not get to me*
Then I start knitting...and knitting...and I want to IM...computer is still busy...I love having David here but I loose my control over the IM and computer. This dumb iMac...the a's and o's look exactly the same...no spell checker, and the keyboard sticks sometimes. gah. I want to call or talk to people...but...yeah, did not want to interrupt anyone else's grand holiday.
Then we watched a home video that someone sent us. Oh my...I saw us at a BBQ, me as Mary in a play, us in a hot tub, and our family out camping. I saw all the kids I grew up with and we were comparing what we remembered. Lots of the kids i grew up with are now married, having kids, or are off doing something cool. Most of them are also taller than me. Speaking of which...we had our measuring time. Yeah, I am still taller than Daniel! Not by much...but I am taller. The four youngest are not even close. And there is no way I am going to get even with any of my siblings. I am so short. But this year...I really do not mind. I just laugh when I remember Julie telling me that all the cute guys were too short.
Then we watched a movie called "Time Changers" Holy cow. Good movie but it pounded the Christian message so hard I thought we would be bruised before it was all over.
Then I took a public shower...not really, but it sure felt that way. The girls bathroom in the back is open...glass shower doors and huge windows leading to outside with no screens. There is also a glass door leading to outside that at night it reflects the person in the shower so if you are passing by the girls room door than you can see the person in the shower. Also, anyone who is in the girls room can randomly walk in on you...and you can carry on conversations with the people in the room...since there are no doors and such. Only a few people walked in on me...not bad I'd say. Also MoM used the sink and took all my hot water. Then when it finally came back in full force it almost burnt me...in the end when I turned the water off steam was rising from my skin. The cats also watch the going ons of the bathroom...which is sort of annoying being that one is Fred. So talking to Fred...well, yeah, whatever.
Then my MoM and I read blogs together...and David continues playing that game that Moore and Ziggy play while I sit at the iMac wishing I did not have to work tomorrow.
Michael comes tomorrow...we shall see how that turns out.
And tomorrow...I get the joys of working with Bill...oh yeah. (gah...why me!) He now has full facial hair to go with his dumb long hair cut...and I will seriously kill him if he pretends to be my best friend or calls me by pet names or touches me or anything!!!!!!!!! And I will pretend that the surfer accent sounds cool...yeah riiiiight.
Anyways. Sorry about the long posts. It is mainly for me...to get out my missing friends and my thoughts when there is no one to really talk to.
Well, it is now 12:00am...time for bed. I miss you people.

Christmas is coming...the goose is dead...we ate him...all but his head!!! (well, not really...we had pork instead...yuck)
Woke up at 8...I was shocked...normally its early morning Christmas day.
We open our stockings, then our presents.
Then lunch.
Then relaxing.
I must go now, we are making plans to travel...again.

Christmas eve was weird. I worked the whole day Christmas eve from 9-4 and it was interesting. We had some strange people come in. It was slow until noon...so I continued working on the computer doing pot labels. Then this guy came in with long hair and hippyish clothes. He started giving us his life story, where he played different instruments, how he grew up in Hawii and layed naked on the rocks at the seven falls. I was generally freaked out by him and sometimes it was hard to talk to him the smell of smoke was so bad on him. Well, after selling him a pot and loading it into his car (he had another long story of why he could not pick up heavy things.) he asked me if I liked another pot better. I told him I did like the one he did not buy better and he asked if it looked like lava...I said, "oh yeah, I guess it does" really I did not see it at all but it made him happy to see it so he bought that one too. Instead of walking back into the office to ring him up, he handed me 60 dollars and told me to keep the change. The pot was 57.34 so it was not a huge tip, but it was my first in a while. Well, after handing me the money he comes and gives me a big hug. I was shocked, although not the first time I have been huged by a random customer...some people who like bamboo are just freaky that way. So it seems that I sold a hug for 2 dollars and change...oh well, anyways...I walk back into the office where my manager is laughing at me but at least he was gone. Then I notice his sun glasses on the desk. darn...a few minutes later I see him pulling up. I run the sun glasses out before he can get out of his car (I am sure he would want to hug me for finding them...ewww) and he was very greatful and reaches out his hand palm up. I have no idea what to do with it so I give him a half high five and half handshake. He finally leaves for good...yay. The rest of the customers were pretty normal. One lady kept making me move pots around...well when i would, sometimes i refused because the pots she wanted me to move took two men to move normally. She seemed to think that because I was being paid to be there I suddenly had all this streangh to move pots for her...some people are just retarded. So, I move some and load it into her car. A few more old ladies out shopping...and then my manager went home early at my suggestion. Then three thirty hit...its was as if I was the only person on the planet. Four came around and I came back to the house. I then sat down and played more computer games until dinner because the house was deserted with everyone out either shopping or in the shop.
Dinner was made by MoM...it was keash...yuck. I made it through it not enjoying it at all. Jon, who wont eat cheese was allowed to have spagetti...so much for equal treatment.
Then we had the Christmas program. I was prepared to be very bored. I went and ended up seeing my friend's family. They told me she was in the bathroom so I ran to find her. I walked in the bathroom and she saw me and screamed. We hug and then she apoligizes to everyone for screaming and we go and beg out parents so we can sit together. She had to stay with her family, so MoM let me go sit with them because our family was already spread out among four rows. I had a spot front and center but it was worth giving it up for a spot in the back right side so I could sit with my friend. The program was boring and repeatitive. Most of the songs I heard last year or the year before...or they were off of popular Christmas CDs from singers like Steven Curtis Chapman, Point of Grace, and the like. Jen and I wispered some, so it was not as bad as it may have been. My grandma asks me later how I liked it and I tell her "oh, it was good" and she starts off about how great and wonderful it was. I picked right and no argument resulted.
We then pull out our stockings and leave them in a pile for Santa. And grab our Christmas eve presents. Girls always get pjs and guys always get boxers...always. We open them then it is bed time. MoM plays Santa while I give my dad a back rub and talk to him about stuff. Then MoM goes to bed and I play Santa. I grab my MoMs blood kit (for her diatbeties) and write with beads "Love you MoM" with the o's being hearts. She loved it! I also gave her a small beaded angel in her stocking. Then I headed to bed at 1:30am.

Crap...I hate macs...I just lost my post because David is on the good computer playing a computer game. So i had too get on this peice of junk and I lost it. I hate macs...I am on the iMac i took to school.

Got to love great internet connections...Sorry, I had to brag...But, of course, that is not hard to do when you live in CA

Well, I have made it through another day. I was going to blog yesterday but a headache took me under. I spent the first half of the day getting up, eating spaghetti for breakfast, brushing teeth, and grabbing shoes, hair brush, and stuff and running out to the car. The first group had already headed out at eight that morning. We arrive at the dentist's office...and they start getting us mixed up. Secretary: "Ok, so that is Jonathan?" MoM: "no, that is Daniel, his look-a-like" Sec: "Oh, ok, and which one is that?" MoM: "Rachel" Sec: "oh, and the little one is Andrew" MoM: "right" Rachel: "Just sort us by last name...it is easier." *The lady smiles at me, looks at the pile of records and the list of names, sighs and sits down* There were only 11 of us Gullmans in there that morning...
We did alright in the cavities section...I having some of the fewest at TWO. Yes, ladies and Gentleman...only two. I was sooo happy. It sure beat the 12 cavities plus a root canal I had last Christmas. The other kids had 0, 1, 3, 4 and um, I forgot but even my dad had a bunch...as the cleaning lady put it...it starts at your father and gets worse with each of the boys. :-D Another reason being a girl is great... Oh, and I got the fun lady...last time I paid my brother to switch with me so I could go to her.
Then we returned home. Julie went to work and Rebecca returned. Then I got to do my only bit of Christmas shopping...I did not get anything. I had a huge headache and was in charge of the three youngest children the whole time. With Andrew disconnecting my arm and Raquel disconnecting my ear and Robert being disconnected...I had my hands full. So, after having more "fun" than I did at the dentist...we went home.
Dad went to La Honda...which means....PPPAAARRRTTTTYYYY...oh yeah.
After sending the kids to bed we grabbed huge bowls of ice cream and sat down for a movie. I like the movie Hidalgo. It was a really cool movie.

Today was pretty lame...
MoM got up at 8 and closed the door so the little kids would not wake me, since I had had a migrane last night...it helped a lot...I had to get up anyways at 8:30. I was in my dad's waterbed since he was out of town. He is here tonight so I get to have the living room...oh yay... I get up and grab a doughnut for breakfast...well, two actually and a cup of hot chocolate and walk to work. I get to work with my MoM who walked out to turn off the alarms and turn on the heaters for me. She was also there to give Sandie her presents. Sandie is my manager. Since I work in the company my father owns and live on the property that the business is on, I get some more freedom than other workers...and sometimes less but that is another story. I work an hour and a half then take off with my little brother to the orthodontist. I have not worn my retainers in months and told him so. He wants to make me new ones...I said no or more like "I will think about it and talk it over with my mother and if she says it is alright than I will give you a call and make an appointment for a new retainer in the next few days, otherwise I will see you in six months" and so he wants to see me back in six months...
I come home to my MoM making spaghetti and we have it for lunch. I also try a new sort of spinach dip...Horrible stuff...only Robert liked it...to give a hint of how bad it really was. It tasted like onions. yuck.
Then I head back to work. I talk to customers, work on making and fixing pot labels, label pots that the guys bring me, answer the phones (they are new and I only hung up on one person, which turned out to be an ex-employee so that was alright) talk to more customers, and do general office work.
After that...I did a really horrible thing...I feel so bad about it. I ignored most of my friends, and played yahoo games...yes, computer games! I spent hours on Jewel Quest getting 106895 points and played Insaniquarium to where I beat every level they had available. Yes, today is a sad day. I sat for hours with Andrew on my lap clicking away. So, I am sorry to all those I ignored.


Another random though...Everyone seems to be complaining about internet...Dial up or something....Well, I just thought you all should know that I have DSL and the internet connection here is better and faster than at school. So, for those who have snow..Enjoy it...for those who have whatever you have been bragging about...Enjoy it...I am enjoying a fast connection and internet all the time whenever I want it, and however I want it. :-D

SNOW!

Well, I just returned from a visit to Lake Tahoe. A very fun but tiring visit. On the way there we took a short cut *ties in with later point* that ended up only taking us out of our way by an hour or so. We stopped for lunch and found out we were an hour north of Sacramento, when my dad kept telling us to keep an eye out for it...We ended up finding a new road to take across so we were fine. It was extremely foggy most of the way, and it was during that time that we were taking the long cut.
We arrive at Moose cabin (Bonnie and Joe's cabin they let us use) and let everyone out. Our dog, Chuddly, does not know what to do with the snow but keeps jumping on it. We shovel the stairs. The driveway was clear since it had not snowed in Lake Tahoe area for two weeks before we arrived. We then carry everything into the cabin and send the little ones out to play. Of course, we did not check to make sure they had snow gear on...so when they showed up a while later, everything they had on was wet. We strip them down and throw everything by the fire, and bundle them up in snow gear and send them out again.
My dad, having just gotten back from China was still having jet lag. We had picked him up on our way to Tahoe, ended up leaving at 7 in the morning...meaning my mom got me up at 5:30 am...uggghhh...and I had been up IMing Jared until 1:30 am. So my dad layed down and pretended to be awake and I went downstairs to my room...that I was sharing with my two little sisters...three of us in a queen size bed...it was...tight...and when I got there...I called Jared back..and talked...for..um...a while. Then I walked upstairs...climbed on the couch next to my dad...and fell asleep until dinner was served...making it hard for him to get up being that I was lying on his chest. :-D
After dinner...we read Sugar Creek, a story of a red-haired, barefoot boy and then headed to bed. Well, sorta. I get in bed with my feather comforter, as does Rebecca and Raquel. We barely fit...but that's ok. Then the house is so hot that no one can sleep...and we are all laying on top our blankets. I talk to Sarah and Jared and get yelled at for using the cell minutes too much. And I try to go to sleep. I was not feeling well most the night, and Raquel woke me..."I need to use the bathroom" "ok, go ahead" Later... "I need to blow my nose" "ok, go ahead" "Rachel, I am having a bloody nose" "ok...um...oh, get in the bathroom!" So, I help her with that. And fall exhaustedly to sleep.
The next day I get yelled at for sleeping in...for crying out loud it was 9 am! ugh. I walk upstairs quite a bit later. My dad gets me into a game of scrabble...and I am like not even awake yet. My mom makes me hashbrowns and hot chocolate...yeah, my mom knows how to make me happy. The end score was my dad with 140 and me with a little over 100. MoM and Jon were a bit less than me. We have lunch and then jump in our snow gear and head to Alpine Meadows, a ski resort. I hate ski lifts...more than anything I hate them. So my dad does not buy me a ski lift but says I am there to switch out with anyone who wants to stop.
Jon makes it down once, and hurts his hand. So we switch jackets and shoes and gloves and he gives me his goggles. I then clunk over to where my dad is waiting to go up the ski lift with me. And I mean clunk...for those who have walked in snow shoes, you know what I am talking about...being the klutz I am.
I go up the "low" ski lift...and being that it was too high for me to be comfortable I freaked the whole way...the way only I can. We get to the top...and I am preparing to get off...the last time the guy had to stop the lift and almost help me out of the way. This time...I fall off and don't make it even a foot away from the lift. The guy does not stop it as I am scooting out of the way...and my sister comes off after me and lands right on me...and she almost gets hit with the chair...my brother, who is behind her...then has to hang on to the chair to keep from falling on her...and we scoot so he can drop behind us...my dad was tripped by me falling and almost had Daniel land on him (Daniel was snowboarding with his broken arm) and yeah, this whole time the guy was standing there...yelling...keep moving...look out for the chair...don't hang on the chairs...yeah, he was so completely useless I was shocked.
After making it down the hill once...it was a long hill with lots of other people...I was so afraid of hitting the little people from the ski school and the ladies sitting at the bottom with cameras...I decided I was done. I do not totally enjoy snowboarding and really do not want to do it again.
I then go with Grandma, MoM, and the non-snowboarders Julie, Roger, Raquel, Robert, and Andrew and we go to a sledding hill for them to enjoy. I later went down the hill...the hill ended on the road...and I almost made it to the road, I had to flip off the board and pray the snow stopped me.
More scrabble, Sugar Creek, and dinner, and talking and then bed. Oh, this night was bad. Raquel was next to me in the bed, and she kept squirming and flopping on me and making groaning noises and aaaggghhhh...I was ready to KILL her! Dumb bedmate...The next morning she was still squirming but my dad saved Rebecca and I by telling her to leave us alone and go give him a back rub...the old man was sore from snowboarding...lol.
We get up early...and they have omelets and I have chopped potatoes...YUMMY! and the cinnamon rolls needed help after the oven burnt the top and left the bottom gooey so I threw them in a fry pan...so I had two of them. Then we get ready for snow. I in my three pairs of pants, two shirts, jackets, gloves, hat, and scarf.
We visit Donner museum and learn about them...seems that they took a short cut...ended up being a long cut and were stranded in that spot and had to turn to cannibalism to survive. Note point above...we teased my dad the whole time...Never take short cuts and keep moving was the advice from one of the Donner party...a Miss Reed.
Then I found something I enjoyed...a winter sport that is fun...Cross country skiing. yeah, ITS SO COOL! We went all around...and I embarrassed my siblings by screaming when I went down hill. We went all around. It was cool.
Then we packed up. And ate lunch. Then we drove home...Hit bay area traffic across the Bay Bridge. I never want to hear a Texan say there is traffic in Texas unless they are sitting behind a same situation as a hundred cars not moving on a one of the longest bridges in California for hours on end, traffic before and after. My dad, wanting to get to the car-pool lane cut across eight lanes of traffic and only one person fought with us. My Grandma was shocked...first at the amount of traffic, then at the fact that no one was honking, everyone was just merging silently. I am used the the traffic and the silence so none of this was a shock.
The grossest event on the way home was Andew loosing his breakfast (he skipped lunch due to not feeling well) So it looks like the flu has hit our house. Just in time for the holidays!
The coolest was seeing a part full of lights and we went and sat in line and paid our 12 dollars to go through it.
interesting conversation. I saw a sign for Hercules (son of Greek God) and I told of how I heard someone trying to tie it into the Bible by saying the son's of God came and had sex with the daughters of men and he was the result. My grandma said that they were fallen angels that did that with the daughters of men since angels were sex-less. My dad asked why since God created everything else with a sex. She then asked...Are you saying that angels have sex!? And my dad could not see a reason they would not. Then we debated about whether our bodies were the physical image of God or just the fact that we can praise, have a spirit, and make choices was the same. Somewhere else in this conversation it was debated whether God had a sex or a body. Same for Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I was entertained by the whole thing, but my grandma stuck to her thoughts, saying she would look it up in the Bible later, My dad said it really did not matter since that does not change the way we live our lives, and my mom was just as neutral. I had my thoughts, but did not say most of them afraid of getting the elders mad at me.
Well, after 6 and 1/2 hours on the road, we made it back. at 9:30 we had Ice cream and ramon noodles for dinner. Now I am heading to bed...Dentist appointments tomorrow...8 am...ugh.

Home...sweet, terrific, wonderful, amazing...yeah, it's home.

So, like, I am back in sunny California. It was nice to fly out of Texas...and the cold. LA was too warm and smoggy...I could not breath. Then I landed in San Jose...it was 61 degrees and sunny. My mom picked us up, Jonathan, Julie (who met up with us in LA) and I. We took of to TB and then drove over highway 17. Talked to family...than went to bed...like 11:30 CA time. Then after letting me sleep in to 9:00 am (grrrrr) my MoM got me up to eat some banana bread and clean up the kitchen. The fridge was worse than the fridge at the Ice Cave...and that fridge is owned by four guys...
I went to a dinner/ concert tonight. We listened to Tim Zimmerman & The King's Brass. It was totally awesome! I did not like the dinner at all. Then we came home.
Now I get the joys of packing for Lake Tahoe. We are heading up there for three days to play in the snow...it should be fun with four or five sick kids...one of them with his arm in a cast... Also we have to get out of here by like 7 am to pick my dad up from the airport on the way there.
So, will write again...in a few days.
Hope everyone is going to have a very merry Christmas... I know I am!

well, I have gone to all the chapels I need...but I am going tomorrow because I did my homework on time today. :-D
My MoM IMed me and said that Daniel (little bro 14) fell...and broke his left arm and hand. How did he do that...simple, he is a teenage boy. I really do not know the whole story. I also finally read my MoMs blog...and found out that my father is in China. Yeah.
Well, I am tired, so I am off to sleep...praying my alarm works...there have been problems (wrong time, roommate shut-off) the last few days...and I pretend I am never late to class...yeeeahh.

It is him!

Ok, so I have had some fun not telling you people exactly who my boyfriend is...most of you know already anyways. (ruining some of my fun, but hey, I am easily entertained)
It is the Guatemalan lackey, the one who gets all the blame, and the one in charge of what we watch and when we watch it.
The one and hopefully only Jared Wheeler.
Yeah, so there it is...weird eh, yeah, I thought so too.
And no, I do not just have a thing for honors guys, as someone so rudely pointed out.
I am happy.

My life just got a whole lot easier!!!
This morning in T&TofC (theories and techniques of Counseling) after my struggle to stay awake (we were watching a movie of a therapy session so it was dark and I was bored) Dr. Hetzel gets up and makes an announcement.
THERE will be a TAKE-HOME final! All Journals (2, and they wont be easy) and exam are due by five on Monday. That means, ladies and guys, that I do not have to go to a 7:30 exam on MONDAY!!!! Now if he would only do that for Human Growth and Development.... :-D.
I must make it through today...I have a presentation and a business law final.
Oh, and so in reference to my last post, maybe he is not a LU nerd, par se, but he is some sort of nerd. Oh, and he has brown hair and eyes. Wouldn't want to forget something important now would I?

Details?

Well, since I am having a bad night...What a better thing to do than blog?
The semester is coming to an end...and so am I. It is all I can do to relax and de-stress. This seems to be my life, stressfulness, sickness, and depression.
Well, I have been asked for details on my boyfriend. :-D *tisk tisk, and some have the nerve to say I talk to much*
Well, what is there to know?
My boyfriend is a guy.
He is tall.
He is a LeTourneau nerd.
He is a Junior.
He is an English, History/poli Sci Major.
He speaks Spanish.
He wears Glasses.
He is a MK (Missionary kid).
He is skinny.
He has gloves that make him look homeless and wears two jackets to add to that look.
He has no facial hair.
He likes libraries (go figure).
He has three brothers and no sisters.
He likes movies.
He has cousins, two that go to LeTourneau and whom are my friends.

Well, you asked for details, there they are. Sorry its a pathetic list...
To be continued...

Hey hey hey...She is not dead yet!!!
Life has been hectic, crazy, and all around...Exhausting.
I have been doing so much, yet so little it seems.
I am starting to get sick again and it seems that no matter how many hours I sleep...I am still just as tired when I wake up as when I fell asleep. Tis most befuddling
I would also like to note in this worthy post, that I have no luck at all. Out of the five netflix I have received, one has been cracked and another scratched. Bah-humbug
Another accomplishment of mine, one that I thought would be difficult but it is not, is I am now able to knit. Yes, that favorite pastime of old grannies (exception to that being Sarah who is a brilliant teacher) is now something I have mastered (ha ha) and I have made my first thingy-m-bob. Yes, this Thingy-m-bob does not look like its predecessor the do-hickey, but yes, it is easy to tell that it is just a second attempt toward the amazing goal of creating a thing-a-ma-jigger. I would also like to note, that I have accomplished one more thing I wanted to learn before I get old.
I have felt so bad for ignoring my blog, that I have decided to have a pity party for myself and it. *has pity party* I shall try to keep it up. I have missed it, yeah, I have.
Other randomness...CHRISTMAS IS COMING...IN CASE Y'ALL DID NOT NOTICE!!! Only 22 more shopping days left people! Did anyone else notice that Christmas is on a Saturday? Yeah, bummer for those freaks that work M-F, I have always had a job where I worked weekends...So, yeah, ppppaaarrrrrttttttayyyyy for me! :-D
Ok, well, this girl has got an 8:15 am class *sigh* ...She finished her worksheet for Pentateuch (Thanks Jared, Sharon, and Sarah!) and then there is chapel...and WEEKEND!!! *Dances, bounces, hops, and jigs*