tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294960222012-01-20T15:46:24.114-05:00Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.comBlogger6301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-21367333715346748782012-01-20T09:41:00.001-05:002012-01-20T09:49:27.247-05:00

Well, this semester is off to a splendid start so far. (I mean that both seriously and sarcastically.) Sarcastically because I came down with a cold the beginning of this second week of classes, but apparently that's just life these days. There seem to be some fierce viruses out there this year. I think I probably got it at swing dancing, which is not terribly surprising since there were a lot of

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My house was full of people New Year's Eve, and I think a discussion even came up at some point during the evening about how we all weren't exactly normal...but then, what is normal? :D Not my party, that's for sure. I mean, there was the usual making sure people had food and drink, and making introductions, and taking coats, etc. But start with a game of Catchphrase (guaranteed to go slightly

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This is one of my favorite Christmas songs. From the anguish of: And in despair I bowed my head There is no peace on earth I said For hate is strong and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men To the reassuring declaration of:  Then rang the bells more loud and deep God is not dead, nor does He sleep The wrong shall fail, the right prevail With peace on earth, good will to

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At least today the weather didn't feel like it should have swirling snow flakes to go with it...sun and slightly warmer temperatures are very welcome! I should be doing lots of things. Like baking Christmas cookies, and knitting, and reading, and making things in Microsoft Office. Instead I'm blogging. Because I should be doing that as well. And using sentence fragments. Word would have a fit

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*sigh* If it's not one thing, it's another. Fusion is installed on my MacBook along with Windows 7, but now it won't download and install the updates for Windows. Dad messed with it last night and couldn't get it to work, then I tried it and it immediately started the download and install process. Hehe. My dad was a little peeved that it just worked for me. However, it got all the way to the end

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...sure want an awful lot. They wanna be sedated. And then, presumably after being sedated (judging by the monotone), they wanna be your boyfriend. They also wanna live, want you around, wanna be well, etc. And let's not get started on all the things they don't wanna do!  Whiny, yet amazingly catchy, much? :D

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My family and I went to Ohio for Thanksgiving again this year, and man did it make me feel old.  Last time (two years ago) my cousins and I ran around everywhere and stayed up until late in the night being hyper. This past weekend I couldn't run around because I'm recovering from a hip muscle tear, I was too tired to stay up very late, and added to all that was an inconveniently-timed somewhat

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Well, I registered for classes the other day...Monday, rather. Registration started at eight Monday morning, and I underestimated how many people would actually get up early and how fast classes would fill up. Next semester I'll be able to register online, but the first semester you attend you have to go in person to sign up. As a result I wasn't able to get the schedule I wanted (only going to

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I'm going to try, yet again, to start a blog and actually keep up with it. It may be wishful thinking, but it might also be very good for me. I'm finding myself at a loss for reasonable words anytime I need to write something that's more than three or four sentences and it's probably from lack of practice. Besides...things are a little different now! I'm officially unemployed now and will be

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I was reading this the other night: 23And the word of the LORD came to me: 24"Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 Her

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It's a relatively painless addiction, though, like most addictions it must be fed and that can place a heavy toll on your bank account. You find yourself wandering around used book stores and scanning the book shelves at the local Goodwill for hidden gems, your neck going stiff from reading all the titles sideways. You snatch up even paperback versions of rarer books, just to have a copy, and

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Yes, I'm that OCD. But I read about this sometime back when I used to read more decorating/organizing blogs. You know you have too much time if you read about organizing instead of just doing it. Well, to a certain extent; you can get some helpful tips from reading about it. Anyway, somewhere I saw a suggestion of getting matching hangers and also hanging your clothes sorted by color, to make

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I wrote this some afternoon after relaxing outside in the sun. I'm guessing I was probably half asleep and dreamy when I wrote it because typing it up and editing it just now put me to sleep. "3/9/10" is written at the top of the page, so presumably that's when I wrote it, and since it's written on the back of my January calendar page that sounds about right. It must have been an unusually warm

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Mondays are awesome these days. Well, Monday evenings to be exact. The rest of the day can still be awful, there are no guarantees. But for the past few months Mondays have meant playing ultimate frisbee with my friends. Ultimate frisbee is something like a combination of soccer and football, except with a frisbee. (And technically it's just "ultimate" because "Frisbee" is a brand name...and not

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It's definitely pronounced Or-a-gun. (How you pronounce it doesn't diminish its general awesomeness though.)  Basic Instructions Though, speaking of pet peeves, Blogger has a new image posting system and it's not working. So I had to email this post (.jpg file) in and then edit it. Fix it, Blogger, fix it. It's not like you to be troublesome like this.

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Ever heard of Mumford & Sons? My mom told me about this band after it was mentioned in a podcast she was listening to. I think I have a new favorite band. They're a folk band based in London, and they have a slight Irish sound to their music (probably because of the drums) and it's just amazing! On top of that, they're very good singers as well. (They're not bad-looking guys either, for that

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Here's my dress and jacket combination that I mentioned in my last post: Also note the cat lurking behind my legs... :P Gracie wanted her picture taken too, so I obliged: Doesn't she look happy? And this is what I meant when I said I thought it looked Jane Austen-esque...like this: And now I'm going to go clean my room, because I thought it was clean, but I just realized I

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Apparently I managed to completely irritate my mom with my last post, because she doesn't like any of that song, and I got the whole song (complete with its bad grammar) stuck in her head. On the other hand, I'm going to argue that we're even because later in the week, unable to come up with the name of Lewis Carrol (as part of something we were discussing) she proceeded to quote lyrics from "

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...we've got a hit with this chorus!" Know what song should be better than it is? Danny's Song by Loggins and Messina. I mean, how obvious is it that they came up with the catchy chorus and then had to come up with verses to go with it? And failed horribly? The music is nice enough, but it sounds like they're making up the words as they go, and it ends up utterly ridiculous apart from the chorus

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Guitar chords always make me wish I could actually play guitar. So, on a whim I picked up a guitar and tried again, because it's been something over a year (or two, or three...) since I last gave it a shot. Well...mixed results. Negatives: My fingertips still don't want to cooperate and prefer to drag on all the strings and not switch chords very fast. Switching takes practice; getting my

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Well, I finally got some sleep last night and a chance to sleep in this morning, so I'm back on track after this long weekend! However, I keep forgetting what day it is, so maybe I'm only back on track as far as sleep goes. And it was a busy weekend. Kyle came up here for the weekend and during the course of the weekend we watched the original Star Wars trilogy, because I had sadly never watched

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Since I just mentioned listening to The Avett Brothers, I wanted to share this song I found that cracks me up every time I hear it. It reminds of "Whose Line Is It Anyway" when they do a hoedown or Irish drinking song sketch. :D

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We have a salad spinner. Exhibit A: Said salad spinner is something we got recently and is pretty cool really. However, I haven't used it a whole lot. It's not hard to use, you wash the lettuce, tear it up, put it in the bowl/basket combo, put the lid on, push down on the thing to spin it dry. It also has a brake which doesn't work right anymore because of an unfortunate dishwasher

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...or life is good. In no particular order: Dropping gas prices. At the moment anything $2.55 or cheaper is awesome and Costco has it for $2.52. Getting 19-20 mpg out of a tank of gas...it doesn't always happen, unfortunately. Text messages and emails. :) A clean desk. Oh look, I forgot what color it was... Cool breezes promising cooler weather is on the way soon. Yay, fall! Driving with the

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So I've failed to blog about the Cincinnati portion of my vacation yet, both because I've been busy, and I'm not sure how to split the difference between making a long story short, and talking about the whole thing in details that nobody cares about. However, to make a long story short: I went to Cincinnati, went with my relatives to Chicago for a wedding, stayed up there for the weekend, got

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Dad has been reading to Colin from C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, and they're in the middle of reading The Silver Chair right now. Anyway, the one part I heard last night made me stop and listen because it's been a while since I read the books. For some context (and it will probably only make sense if you've read the books I'm afraid) the children and Puddleglum the marshwiggle are

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So, the beach was very nice, my only complaint being that it was so salty. For whatever strange reason that fact hadn't even crossed my mind, so when I got splashed in the face with salty water something very suddenly (and rather painfully) clicked. Right. The ocean is salty. I knew that. And salty water in one's throat, nose, and eyes is painful. So I didn't end up going in very deep for very

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I unknowingly wandered into Valerie's Happy Restroom in the Charlotte airport, and thanks to the fact that she also self-promotes, I looked up her video on YouTube like she suggested. ;) I've been annoyed by bathroom attendants before, but she was actually keeping the restroom clean and was very nice. A couple of the little kids in the bathroom really liked her singing too. :)

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It is...Tuesday. Yes, Tuesday. I finally figured that out for sure, after wandering around the house for a little while last night, holding my alarm clock and trying to remember if I needed to set it so I could get up in the morning or not. Long weekends really mess up my calendar...yesterday felt like another Saturday because Dad was home. Yes, it's Tuesday, and I'm going dancing tonight, which

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Oh great, I decided to write a blog post and every thought immediately left my brain. Hmm...let's see. iPads: I got to see one in person the other weekend and I was a little more impressed than I expected. Usually I have trouble with touchscreens, and on Mom's iPod Touch, the keyboard is so small I can't use it at all because I always hit the wrong keys. But this had a large enough keyboard on

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This hymn was in my head all day yesterday...I think I read something that referenced Psalm 42 or something, and immediately thought of this. It's a beautiful hymn, both the words and music. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a recording of it anywhere online, so I took a picture of it from my hymnal, so if you can read music you'll have an idea of what it sounds like anyway. 662 in the Trinity

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I made these yesterday afternoon: The sesame ones turned out better than the cinnamon raisin ones...looks-wise anyway. Yum, bagels. They're the most bizarre things to make too, since you boil them before you bake them...

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I finally finished my knitting project! It was going to be a whole dress, this pattern: Little Black Dress but I didn't have enough yarn, plus I knit very tightly, so it was ending up smaller than it was supposed to be anyway. So I made a tunic-y top instead. I finished it last week I think, and finally got around to taking photos of it. (Speaking of which, I'm annoyed at how fuzzy the pictures

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I'm never quite sure what constitutes having been to a state...staying there for a day or more? Staying overnight on a drive through? Stopping for 30+ minutes? Driving through? I've been to 8 states if you count staying there for at least a day/sightseeing, etc. visited 8 states (16%) 15 states if you count driving through or layovers on the way to other places/staying overnight. I'm not sure

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I haven't blogged much about what I've been up to the past, er, month or so, but just last weekend will require a whole blog post to itself. A whole...long...blog post. The homeschool conference was Thursday through Saturday and there were several things I wanted to go to there, plus Mom and Dad and Colin actually ended up going this year too. I think Colin was a little disappointed in the

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So, I mentioned we have a kitten and I thought I should give a few more details on why we got her. Because we needed another cat... Ahh, not so much. An elderly lady in our church has a cat who had kittens, and she had two she couldn't find homes for, so we ended up taking one of them. So we now have three girl cats (girl cats are very catty, btw) and just this week our oldest one (Petunia) is

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"...but I want you, all the more for that." I still haven't seen the movie Once, but I so love this song from it, rivaled in the "Haunting Songs" category (in my head) only by the song Hallelujah. (And incidentally, isn't it reassuring to know I have a "Haunting Songs" category in my mental playlist? No? Yeah, I thought maybe not.) :D (Yes, I have real things to blog about, but I haven't gotten

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I generally sleep like the metaphorical log. But apparently there is one good way to wake me up immediately: tickling. Along with being a sound sleeper I am extremely ticklish...really, act like you're going to tickle me and I will cringe and possibly shriek "Noo!!" About a month ago I was at some friends' house for a birthday party/sleepover, and seeing as it was Friday, and I had had a

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Or what I bought, rather. I wasn't really thinking I'd end up buying a car until this fall, but we went by the dealership Monday night and saw this car. It's a 2000 Nissan Altima, but it only has 81K miles on it! Plus it came with a warranty, so that's pretty awesome too. Dad and I stopped by after work yesterday and test-drove it and the only problem I found with it was that it pulled

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I think I've become one of those annoying adults. You know, one that remembers things from when they were younger and insists on reminiscing about when "they were your age...", to the utter boredom of the kids listening. A couple weeks ago, one of the little girls at church was wearing a yellow dress with a lace collar and I while was looking at it, it suddenly dawned on me that it was "one of

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And I made another vlog. It came out a little rough because it picked up every bump I went over, and I must not have had the iPod strapped to the sun visor very well. Oh, and to make a long story short, when I say "the cheese guy", I'm referring to a time a few years ago when my cousins were here to visit. We were a little hyper, as usually happens when we get together, and we went to the

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Or maybe I'm easily amused. I've heard the ABBA song "Take a Chance On Me" several times before and thought it was kind of a cute song. Heard it at the gym the other day and thought I'd look up the video for it. Okay, I now have a completely different view of the song after watching the video. The video is almost making fun of the song, or making it more ridiculous than it already sounds, and I

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how morbid is it that I was thinking about cremation the other day? I wasn't really thinking about it morbidly though, it was just something that occurred to me, possibly because we've met for church in a funeral home chapel the past few weeks. (While that sounds a bit strange, it's really not...it's a lovely chapel, away from the rest of the funeral home and it's certainly

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I just ran across this blog and entry recently and it thoroughly cracked me up. I'm giggling because she's so spot on! :D How to Impress a Boy by Baking And yes, pie seems to be quite impressive. I don't know what it is, but pie is always raved over. Some guys don't like chocolate things, or cake, or even to bother with cookies, but there's probably some sort of pie they adore! Unless for some

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-70365587854995201082010-04-04T07:57:00.001-04:002010-04-04T07:58:45.654-04:00

Praise the Lord that all our sins were laid on Christ and He died for them...for there's no way we could ever atone for our own sins! He died for our sins and is risen, and in this lies our wonderful hope.Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. ~Romans 8:34

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If you just groaned, that's quite alright...I generally groan/wince/frown when my grandpa says that yet again, but I thought it seemed apropos.(Incidentally I cannot seem to type "groan" properly. It kept coming out "goram" or "graon". Crazy fingers.)I've been thinking recently about this apparent need to be busy. Provided a person isn't honestly overwhelmed with all the things they have to do,

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And another video.The little girl I take care of is so cute and talks a lot. :) (I didn't want to put her on the video of course, so you'll only get to hear her.)When she saw these earlier she exclaimed "Feep! Feep, right there!" Awww!

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-80761596626037650372010-03-27T21:16:00.004-04:002010-03-28T08:39:30.673-04:00

My new iPod has a video camera, so I got the idea to make use of it and do a vlog. (Video-blog, in case you didn't know.)Hopefully y'all can understand me...I really do mumble, I think. Either most people have gotten used to the way I talk, or they don't care if they miss an occasional word, but I'm surprised I don't get more people asking me "What??" when I talk to them. I feel rather sorry for

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-46000114774689232902010-03-25T18:06:00.002-04:002010-03-25T18:08:48.869-04:00

...I can't draw a chicken very well. At least not with a paring knife.

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-76193651257632909992010-03-22T14:56:00.002-04:002010-03-22T15:06:15.567-04:00

I finally psyched myself up to calling the local community college because I had some questions (is that redundant, "local community"?) and because Mom suggested I might need an appointment for what I wanted to talk to them about, as opposed to walking into the admissions office and expecting the secretary to be able to answer my questions.Have I mentioned that I hate making phone calls? Well, I

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I can't remember what I've told different people in person about what I'm doing and what I've posted on here, or on Twitter or Facebook. I guess I know too many people and have too many online outlets.Someone at church asked me yesterday if I was considering buying a car sometime soon, because they'd heard that somewhere. Uhhh... I wracked my brain trying to remember what I've said, and oddly

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-459615551441914552010-03-12T12:15:00.001-05:002010-03-12T12:15:00.209-05:00

Well, I guess since my last post was about my knee pain, I should start by saying that it's getting better. It's so lovely to go through a day and not really feel your knee, meaning it's not hurting. I've been exercising carefully and wearing my shoes more so I have more support and I'm in the middle of trying to find a new pair of running shoes. (I will soon have 6 pairs at home to decide

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-28289136384925250222010-03-01T15:03:00.002-05:002010-03-01T16:13:05.017-05:00

So much for feeling invincibly energetic. I may still be energetic, except I'm limping around with an aching knee, so it's hard to tell. Fortunately after about an hour long nap, the world looks much brighter and I can think a bit more clearly, plus my knee is a little better from the rest as well.A little while ago all I felt like doing was crying because it seemed hopeless, and my knee hurt,

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-26571561011740690672010-02-24T22:37:00.002-05:002010-02-24T23:09:46.994-05:00

I've always been a bit of a night owl, but I'm not sure what's up now. To add to my usual late-night alertness, I'm also extremely energetic and productive, mostly cleaning things. Odd. Not a bad thing, per se, but unusual. The rest of my family is pleased, if rather bewildered as I go scurrying around the house, tidying things, and wiping down counters, etc. The cats are a bit alarmed...they

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-65220645947131279332010-02-18T14:53:00.003-05:002010-02-18T15:23:55.064-05:00

The hymn "Amazing Grace" makes me cry. In a good way. :) It's a hymn that's fairly well-known even in secular circles I believe, because popular artists have sung it. I think we might run the risk of not thinking about the words when we sing, simply because we know it so well. But the words are beautiful.I also have great memories of this hymn from when I was little. I remember Dad singing it to

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-78880891659047357332010-02-03T19:47:00.004-05:002010-02-03T20:17:34.936-05:00

Bleah, famous last words. I didn't want my cough to turn into...something else. Well, it did. I am now recovering from bronchitis.I'm feeling much better today and would have been able to go to work tomorrow if I had to. Yesterday though? Not so much.Also I'm clueless about fevers. Looking back, last time I recall having a fever was when I was probably twelve or thirteen. So I really don't

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-19664176684727575682010-01-31T01:00:00.001-05:002010-01-31T01:14:21.059-05:00

So, I mentioned some of my plans for this year, the main ones being: taking some CLEP tests and looking into selling things on Etsy.com.But I find now that I'm in the middle of a continuous loop of possibilities (all contingent on each other) and I don't know what I should do.First of all I made a list, just to organize the swirl of thoughts going through my head and managed to cross a few

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-46121744332057623652010-01-16T14:21:00.002-05:002010-01-16T14:54:45.477-05:00

So, I mentioned a suspenseful tale of a dying power adapter. Stressful would be more the adjective perhaps. For me. Everyone else was probably sick of hearing me fretting about it.The weekend before Christmas, when it snowed, I got home from work on Friday and realized that the computer hadn't been charging that day, and when I took the power adapter out of the laptop bag I saw why. The wire

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-86113740862460688102010-01-07T21:39:00.000-05:002010-01-07T21:55:28.889-05:00

Well, this is a bit late, but I've finally gotten around to writing my post about Christmas. :) Sadly it didn't snow for Christmas, it just rained all day instead. Christmas was very nice though. My grandparents came over after breakfast and stayed almost all day, so we opened presents and then had lunch...ham, cheesy potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls...all sort of yummy food.

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-59375115343055347742010-01-02T12:05:00.000-05:002010-01-02T12:07:22.069-05:00

At some point this year I lost track of what month I read some books in, so I'm not going to bother dividing this into months. I think on average, for the first 6 or 7 months of the year I read about 4-5 books a month. Then my reading rate slowed dramatically for some reason and I probably only read 5 books after that. In my defense, one of them was War & Peace...so...you know. That was about

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-67148394270896669592010-01-01T11:05:00.001-05:002010-01-01T11:09:57.438-05:00

And so it begins. Writing 2009 and having to correct. It should be interesting to see how long that goes on this year.I'm going to attempt to do Project 365 this year. The idea of Project 365 is to take a picture every day for a whole year. I do tend to carry my camera a lot of places, but this might be a challenge even to my camera-obsessed self. :) I might be taking some with my camera phone,

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I'm a bit late with this, since it's after Christmas and all, but I didn't have time to get to it until this week.This is one of my favorite Christmas hymns and I couldn't really find a recording of it. It's in a key I can sort of handle, so I thought I give it a shot singing it. I apologize in advance because I know it's off in some spots. I'd say I can sing, but not spectacularly. :DThe tune

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They were predicting snow for last Friday, and I was of course rather skeptical about it. It never snows here...not really! Or not anymore at least. But lo and behold, it did! I had to work on Friday and around 11 I heard the sleet start coming down. Sounded like a bunch of falling sprinkles. :) And then it was sleet/rain/sloppy snowflakes; I guess that's what they call a "wintery mix". Finally

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-3942036651836520692009-12-21T21:00:00.001-05:002009-12-21T21:13:10.577-05:00

Heard: It's just the recycling truck, giving me false hope!Brain: Keywords "false hope"...scanning...scanning... "Mother and Child Reunion, lyrics to"Heard: Like jumping out of a plane and trying to fly by flapping your arms, flap, flap, flap...Brain: Keywords "flap, flap, flap" ...scanning... "Flying Sketch, Monty Python"Heard: Name the primary writer of the Declaration of IndependenceBrain:

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-85869679338035249982009-12-17T09:30:00.001-05:002009-12-17T09:32:26.685-05:00

Over Thanksgiving, my cousins and I were joking that we should make "Thanksgiving resolutions" instead of waiting till the new year, because everyone does that. The problem with that being that you have to come up with resolutions earlier, and before the stress of December, I'm simply not able to figure out what I should be doing...or something like that. So, my "Thanksgiving" resolutions are a

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-12858549025953671512009-12-12T17:15:00.001-05:002009-12-13T08:45:17.623-05:00

I see some funny things on the way to work. For instance, in the neighborhood I work in there's a guy who looks like the former governor of Illinois. That...well, I have nothing to add to that.Last week on the way to work I saw a guy waiting in a big long line of cars to turn and he was shaving with an electric razor. And he looked SO bored. Maybe you should shave before you leave, and save the

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-100270870450239002009-12-08T19:39:00.003-05:002009-12-08T19:45:43.868-05:00

I just saw this on npr.org today and thought some of my friends might find it interesting. It's mostly about an auction of some of Hepburn's clothing but it has a little bit about her too.A Hepburn Dress Of Your Very Own"Are you in need of a new ensemble for your sojourn in Rome? Or perhaps some loungewear for serenading the moon on your fire escape? Today in London, Kerry Taylor Auctions will

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-13701540751592360402009-12-07T14:58:00.005-05:002009-12-07T15:09:44.779-05:00

This is one of my favorite hymns, and we sang it at church yesterday, set to this tune.O Father, You Are SovereignO Father, You are sovereignIn all the worlds You made;Your mighty Word was spoken,And light and life obeyed.Your voice commands the seasonsAnd bounds the ocean’s shore,Sets stars within their coursesAnd stills the tempests’ roar.O Father, You are sovereignIn all affairs of man;No

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-90546271148736992452009-12-04T23:40:00.000-05:002009-12-04T23:44:23.083-05:00

I think we're going to put up our Christmas tree tomorrow. I dragged it out of the attic last night, but didn't feel like putting it together, so it's just going to have to relax as we decorate it. (It'll need to be fluffed up a little, I mean.) The three pieces pretty much just slide together and the branches flip down, and then the little side branches have to be fluffed. At least, I think

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Here are the videos I took with my cousins.First, Colin and I (and our cousin John) sword fighting with light sabers:Then us playing the Riki-Tiki-Bear game:And the game from above, so you can see the cool tapping:

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I'm glad to be home. We went to Ohio over the Thanksgiving weekend to visit my aunt and uncle and cousins. Oh and Grandma and Grandpa came too. We had a great time!I must say I was pleasantly surprised by Ohio. I expected it be something like Pennsylvania or Illinois in the winter time, i.e. very gray and depressing, but it wasn't. It's not boring and flat for starters, and it was sunny, and

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-37175622370849619022009-11-25T17:36:00.005-05:002009-11-25T18:46:24.484-05:00

Well...I love hiking, but I also like being able to walk normally, which I finally can now. I went hiking with my friend Laura on Saturday afternoon, and I've been a little sore ever since then. We went up to Hanging Rock...and took the most strenuous trail apparently. It wasn't really that steep, it was just very long. We wanted something challenging though, not just an easy walk, so we went on

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When I was sick a couple weeks ago we got Chinese food for supper one night. There were extra fortune cookies, so I ate two of them...while feeling miserable.The fortunes? "Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence" and "Life's a mountain not a beach". Uhh...I think my fortune cookies just told me to shut up and stop complaining. :0And since when do fortune cookies have sayings in them

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-72115820338826269352009-11-13T11:10:00.004-05:002009-11-13T11:25:25.569-05:00

I don't have any need for a house, but this one sure is cute.On the other hand...unless this picture has been skewed out of proportion, I would kill myself on those stairs, in fact...almost anyone would kill themselves on those stairs:It's a 1948 vintage farm house supposedly, so maybe that explains the blah beige and cream colors, but it really needs some more color in it! Actually...maybe I

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-12986236270809291482009-11-10T16:31:00.004-05:002009-11-22T17:28:32.333-05:00

I guess I'm lacking people to ramble to...thus this blog post. Probably a sign I need to reply to emails. Oh wait, that's my conscience nagging me and telling me that.Anyway, prepare yourself for rambling, and if you're not interested go ahead and stop reading here.Something just clicked. And since I've been bombarded with more Moravian history than I ever wanted to know, it should have clicked

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Sorry, I'm going to link to another article on Boundless.com: Stop Going to ChurchI wasn't sure where he was going with that when I started reading, and the use of U2 lyrics made me smile, but it's a good article."When our churches have more in common with fortresses, shopping malls and cemeteries, who can blame America for not liking the church, for not receiving in her, for not joining the

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So, I think I mentioned I have a cold...yes? Unfortunately it's one that's settled in my chest (which I hadn't had happen yet this year) and I'm now slowly coughing to death. Well, not really. I hope. But I am coughing. In a few hours I can go take some generic Mucinex and hopefully that will help matters some. In the meantime my chest and shoulders ache terribly and I'm utterly fed up with

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-54897921407787742632009-11-01T00:16:00.001-04:002009-11-01T08:27:12.909-05:00

Colin dressed up as a hunter for halloween this year.Getting the stuff for his costume involved going to Walmart...but they do sell camo and orange hunter's hats there.I decided that instead of dressing as gypsy again I needed something a little warmer and that didn't require the massive amounts of makeup that I put on before. So I dressed as a gangster:And I tied that tie myself. :) I did have

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It's October 28th and yet it doesn't really feel a lot like fall today. It's rather warm again. Not unpleasantly warm, for the most part, but warmer than it should be. It was wonderfully foggy this morning when I got up, because it rained all last night. It was foggy and there were a couple of large crows marching down the street. Very Edgar Allen Poe. Of course as soon as I went to get my camera

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-36652375666749724902009-10-26T15:09:00.004-04:002009-10-26T16:53:26.192-04:00

Mom did a meme, and I thought I'd do it also. Google your name with "unfortunately" before it and see what you find. Most of the ones I found involved Natalies being sick or getting injured. Wow. That's not a good sign. But I found a few:Unfortunately, Natalie had no other clothes with her.Unfortunately, Natalie was involved in a huge wreck off the start.Unfortunately, Natalie

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I've almost finished reading War and Peace. All I've got left is 30-some pages of the second epilogue. Yes, there are two epilogues. I've finished all of the story and all that's left is what one Twitter follower warned me was "sermonizing". Yeah, pretty much. Analytical sermonizing. But I'm basically finished with the book. I liked it a lot. It's took me a little while to get used to keeping

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It's amazing how being happy about something can lead immediately to being discontent about something else. Inevitable, I suppose, but one of those things that makes you sigh.I went to church with some friends last Sunday and it was fun. The sermon was alright, although very short, partially because the guy speaking apparently lost his place in his notes at some point. The music was good (I do

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-14274877262893294462009-10-16T20:30:00.000-04:002009-10-16T20:30:15.117-04:00

I hadn't ever watched a whole episode of Star Trek before...I kind of knew the basic idea of the show and had seen bits and pieces of it before.But anyway, Mom was listening to some knitting podcast that mentioned tribbles, and she was telling Dad about it, at which point I was wondering what tribbles were. Star Trek critters. Fluffballs. Sci-fi animate fluffballs, with no discernible features.

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So it's Wodehouse Day...P.G. Wodehouse's birthday. However I have no idea what to do to "celebrate". I could go around talking in a British accent all day, but I really don't feel like doing that. I could watch episodes of "Jeeves and Wooster" (that sounds better, it would be cheery anyway). Or I could start re-reading "The Adventures of Sally", which is a very funny, cute book. Maybe I'll do

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-38695763472148402292009-10-12T21:50:00.001-04:002009-10-12T21:54:00.885-04:00

I like my little black MacBook very much, it's quite convenient, has had few problems, and I'm very happy I bought it. It does have to be dusted fairly often because the dust shows up clearly on the black and looks terrible. But I just cleaned it this weekend with a microfiber cloth and now it's dust-free and un-smudged.But as with any laptop, the fact remains that you simply can't see colors

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I've been looking for glove patterns because I got a new coat for this winter and I want to knit some gloves to go with it.Anyway, in the process I also found this crocheted skirt pattern: Spiderweb SkirtGood: It can be made with acrylic worsted-weight yarn, so not overly expensive or finicky, and look how neat it looks.Bad: It's a whole stinkin' skirt! Am I crazy? (Wait, maybe I shouldn't be

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And what it is right now is this:Yes, it looks tiny, but amazingly it will fit me...it'll stretch some when it's done, for starters.That would be my latest knitting project which is going to be this when it's done, as long as everything goes as smoothly as it has shockingly gone so far. I've never had a knitting project that was so interesting and yet not difficult and completely lacking in wonky

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-16562863883874759502009-10-06T14:40:00.003-04:002009-10-06T14:44:25.490-04:00

"To believe is simply to trust, to depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus." Morning and Evening, Evening of October 5th, by Charles Spurgeon.I read that this morning, and while the section was about repentance and baptism and such and how that is not what saves a person, the line above stuck out for me."To believe is simply to trust, to depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus."Trust. And trust is

Natalie Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161945275478386126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29496022.post-78800797271135708072009-10-05T13:00:00.002-04:002009-10-05T13:05:27.134-04:00

First of all, I didn't realize Jars of Clay had done a cover of "Lonely People" by America. But I saw it on a CD I was thinking about buying and found this cute video someone made to go with it.I like that song...although it really makes no sense. But then, what with the "Horse With No Name" song and all, America wasn't exactly known for making much sense. Although I find another song I like is

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So, the fair is this week. None of us entered anything this year because we just haven't had much time in the past year to get things made, and if we have it's not been fair-quality things.I usually enter some sewing, knitting, photography, and baking, but I've sewn things the way I'm happy with them, which is not always perfect; I haven't gotten any great knitting done; and the baking can be

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My friend Amanda asked me after church yesterday if I wanted to go to an arts & crafts fair (the Stokes Stomp) with her that afternoon, so after deciding I could survive without a nap, we went out for lunch and then to the fair/festival.We ate lunch at Qdoba, which I had never eaten at before, and I got some really delicious tacos. I highly recommend them; they were seasoned perfectly and the

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Nah, actually September's going great so far, I just needed a title.My birthday was last Friday...I am now twenty. Yes. Twenty. I'm pretty happy to not be a "teenager" anymore, but on the other hand for the next ten years I'll be "in my twenties", which is sort of cool, but a little bit scary as well. To a certain extent it hasn't sunk in yet.Singings of "Happy Birthday"? Grand total: 4. I'm not

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Five types of hugs, or rather "church hugs" as defined by the Stuff Christians Like blog:#613 Church HugsThis makes me laugh, because I like giving hugs, I'm a huggy sort of person, except when I don't think my hug will be appreciated. In other words, I don't give unsolicited hugs, because there's nothing more awkward than giving or receiving an unwanted hug. (By the way, the more often you say

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Yes, three videos in one post...I apologize. They're just too funny. :)Old rock star songs....what rock stars will be/should be singing when they're old. :)"If you're a man who wants to live a long and happy life...these are the things you don't say to your wife" :D (Green Day's "Time of Your Life" if you were wondering about the tune...)I Work at Subway (Set to the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It

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The latest Rhett and Link video, with help from Canadian animator Billy Reid.And there's a twist at the end about where the alien is from that I couldn't stop laughing about. :D (No offense to anyone who lives there, I just found it funny.) :)They really took this and made fun of the alien-searching people....and I'm not sure if that's the whole point of the show this aired on (Brink...on the

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Several of my blogging friends have done this quiz, and since it's a little variety from the usual questions on a blog quiz, I thought I'd do it too. :)1. What two qualities do you want most in your future husband (besides being a Christian)? Well, of course I want someone who loves the Lord and is striving to serve Him, and can be an encouragement to me in those areas as well. (Just to add to

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So...as you might have guessed by the title of the post (if you were aware of the movie) Mom and I went to see the movie "Julie & Julia".It is a combination of the story of Julia Child, when she lived in France and decided to go to cooking school, etc., etc. and the story of Julie Powell who 50-some years later decided to cook her way through Julia Child's cookbook and blog about the process. (To

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My friend Amanda arranged an exchange of art postcards every month. So each month, you have a friend you're assigned to make a postcard for and you send it to them on the first of the month, and another friend sends you one.This was the first month, and this is the one I sent to Amanda:This is going to be a bit tough for me, because I don't have a lot of art skills when it comes to stuff like

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Oof...I've had enough talking to people for one day. Or being talked to. I don't know, I don't mind talking some, and I usually prefer people to talk to me, but I'm worn out. Hmm....that sounded terribly unsocial, but I just hit a point where I have nothing left to say, especially if I'm getting tired. (If I'm at a sleepover and stay up past that point, it eventually backfires and I won't shut up

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...you've got to do a mindless post like this.What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Eating supper. And it was very yummy. :)Last restaurant you went to? A seafood place up in Rural Hall. Coronet something or other...Did you have an exciting last weekend? Last weekend? Hmm...I think it was kind of busy, but not terribly exciting.Have you ever crawled through a window? Yup.Where were you at 1AM

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