kris

i'm really bad at saying things right, so i dunno if this'll work. but - it's been really great having you next door so i can pick up and leave my family and my troubles and spend an hour or 3 laughing at the world and myself. just so you know, if i am stupid enough to lose contact with you over the summer, i shall count it as one of the biggest mistakes of my life so far. honest. maybe that sounds funny but i can't afford to lose friends. so i won't. i am very determined to write all of you regularly.
see you when i see you. pray for me, eh?

i have done 2 irresponsible things in the last 12 hours and from a combination of all these things i am feeling very very nasty. shit. double shit. life should be perfect. right?
on a much nicer note, i was sitting in a tree grumping this afternoon and i counted 19 lady bugs. cool, eh?

here's an overview of my last couple days.

tuesday - rach and sarah and i went and got wood with erich (horse dude, we got a ride in his wagon and then in his carriage)
- we ate lunch
- we took sarah's viola student and went up to c creek and built a fire and cooked empty oranges with chocolate cake inside and went swimming
- i banged my tailbone on the rocks cuz i was bumping down the creek on my bum
- rach and i did our income tax and it gave me a paper cut (stupid taxes)

wednesday - was boring except recorder (with erich the horse dude and others and we actually sounded okay for once) and bible study (see what i mean about boring?)

today - sarah and i went riding up a mountain with erich for more than three hours ( it was supposed to be 7 but we ran into deep snow) and that was really fun and then he started to teach us how to drive his horses
- we ate lunch
- i am now on the computer

here are some interesting (ha!) things i shall write down so you feel obligated to read them.
#1 jeans burn red when you stick them in the fire
#2 i ate like a king for 5 days in a row. meatballs, pork roast, steak, beef roast, yummy leftover pork........
#3 riding horse really isn't that hard on your tail bone. you sit on the other parts of you mostly.

we almost went skinny dipping

i took papa's truck and maria and sarah and i went up in the bush (sort of) and built a fire and would have but there wasn't really a swimming hole and we were sort of worried other sunday afternoon pleasure seekers would drive along and us and it was really cold. there was snow on the ground. so we just stripped most of our clothes off and went in up to our necks just to say we'd done it. a repeat of yesterday except with colder water and more preparation. maria planned it all and bought us our supper at dq. don't buy their cherry misty thingys. they're bad. speaking of which, papa's cherry trees are blooming. he was hopeing they'd hold off a bit, but oh well.

wooooooo!

heeeheeeheeee. i love the plaid piano keys. i kept trying to imagine what you'd come up with ess but my imagination kept failing me. thankyou thankyou!

ummmm

i'll be babysitting for my brother in calgary for a couple months or something.

lovely, just lovely

my parents are idiots. my mother says my father is blackmailing her. my father says he doesn't want to be swayed by her moods. we get to hear about it. even me, and the issues don't even involve me. see, mom is getting married to an american, and my dad doesn't want to give permission to take the other kids across the border. mom says every important issue is completely taken care of. he disagrees. she says how wonderful her fiance is. i wonder if he knows what he's getting into. i'm staying here anyhow, it's not my issue. but it is, cuz they talk to everyone and expect me to take part just the same. i'm running away. kris, about that hitchhiking plan of ours?

i shock myself!

guess what i did yesterday? i was sitting in the sun, having a nice boring time, when my little brother and his friend came out and started tossing a frisbee around. sudenly i though - i want to join them! so i did. and they had no problem letting me join. so then another kid that mom teaches came, and i made this amazing catch where the wind brought it back to me and dropped it in my arms after i thought it was lost over the van. and johnny is really bad at being sneaky when it comes to retreiving things from the neighbours yard..... he'd sit there on the fence and contimplate his naval till we yelled at him to hurry up before we got in trouble. so then we decided to play soccer. and i wanted to! and johnny wanted to play with me, and we won. i made up for my pathetic soccer skills with my bigness. johnny kept letting me do all the work though cuz he said he was playing goalie. on a two person team. huh. it was really good fun though, and the neighbours never did catch us retrieving things from their garden. maybe it's time for me to start learning to enjoy more things like that. last summer it was swimming. i've always known i guess that i could probly enjoy sports in a very casual way, i've just been to darned lazy. and so far it's never bothered me. but maybe it's time to broaden my horizens. or maybe not. we'll see.
today we're going up to jen's house for supper and then bible study. should be fun. oh, and guess what? another very exciting thing. i found a hunting knife (real small, the blade is only about 4 or 5 inches) for 6 $ and 50 cents at a second hand store. and it seems to be pretty good quality. i was like dude, 6.50? i'll show it to jen's dad tonight and he can tell me a bit more about quality, before i get a case made for it. i knew i wasn't spending lots of money on one for a reason. being cheap is a good thing sometimes, eh?

random

bloody nose. weird. maybe it's the cows. i decided kris was right and changed the name. :)

my eyelid hurts......

either i've been rubbing it to much or i have a pimple there.
i decided not to jump the horse, cuz i wasn't used to the english saddle and was bumping around like a cork in a storm. maybe next time. we got a carriage ride though, and got to ride the horses through a river, and sarah got her feet wet.......
today i drove tractor while sarah and bear planted trees. they sat on the back tree planter thing and i tried not to knock them off when i lowered and raised the planter and turned corners and such. i think there was 2000 trees, which after planting needed to be straighted out and tamped down. it was great fun. maria mde me change my pants when i went inside which i thought was unkind as i'd only been wearing them for a couple weeks and i did offer to dust them off. :) speaking of weeks i've been happy for most of 3 of them, is that not dandy? i think it is.

humph

elly says finaly is spelled finally. i suppose withmy history i should beleive her, right? i wonder if there's an easy way to change it.
so. it was between this layout and the lime green. the lime green would've been more exciting, but this is...... not lime green. so. today i go horseback riding, jumping. maybe i'll survive. maybe not.

okeydokey folks

i gave in, peer pressure at it's greatest.... and sheer boredom. i think i should've gone with the lime green template though. they are all bad. essy? what shall i send thee? (what's it with songs today?) will you make in interesting? lime green is soooo..... lime green. what i've got is so..... something. can something combine hickishness with pianos? :) again, what kind of gum do you liketo get notsorandomly in the mail?

dude....

did this work? wowzers.