I'm Still Alive....and Will Be For The New Year!

Been a long time! Once again, I forgot I had a blog until Mom brought it up the other day...."So when're you gonna post more on your blog?" "..........what blog?"
But hopefully I won't forget again. It would motivate me more to write if I actually knew that people were reading this thing, but since I only average about 1-2 comments per post.....I really don't know.

As far as school goes--its just going. I've got about 2-3 weeks left of Algebra left, and when I say that I mean Christina weeks....as in more than just one lesson a day. Spanish has long been done. For chemistry....I've given it up until I finish Algebra.

English is going well. I've read some good stuff and some horrible stuff. Paradise Lost. I pray that my readers will be able to pass through high school without having to read it. Granted, it is an amazing literary work and very well written but....boring and confusing. DO NOT READ! A recommendation: Frankenstein. Did you know that the monster isn't even named Frankenstein? I didn't.

I suppose that since it's December 31st, I should make some comment about the New Year. In short, I'm not very excited for it. I don't have any resolutions I plan on making, and I don't feel like anything is going to change. The New Year should be after every school year, not smack in the middle of it. But I'd rather not get into that...no need to get shot for trying to change the traditional calender.

And while we're on the topic of holidays, we just had a very important one, didn't we? Christmas. The celebration of Jesus' coming to Earth. Much better day to celebrate than a 'new year' that really isn't all that new.
Leave me a comment and tell me what you got. I got green Converse XD, among many other amazing things.

And I'll leave on that note. Hopefully I'll have another post out at the end of break. Fun times, Happy Belated Christmas and a Merry New Year.

--Christina

FINALLY!

As of this week, I have officially started ALL of my school work. Yeah, funny, huh? I'm such a homeschooler!

I got my English in the mail while I was still sick, so obviously it was a few days before I started up. When I first looked, it seemed like I would have a lot of English to do on top of all the other stuff I was doing, then I remembered: Now I don't have to do five lessons of Algebra and Spanish each day! WOOOOOOOOOOT! I can actually do NORMAL amounts of school! I'm just about floating over here with happiness.

I also won't be taking chemistry at County. :'( sniff. I'm doing Apologia (*GAG*). I swear, Wile made those books just to torture teenagers. That's the only reason. He doesn't really care about our education. Don't be fooled!

This is the part where I go on to talk about things that have nothing to do with school, because I decided that this blog isn't just about HOMESCHOOLING; it's about a HOMESCHOOLER. Therefore, you get to hear all about ME, and ALL of me, not just the school part. So be prepared for the worst!!!

FINALLY official Twilight trailer is up. You can watch it in HD at myspace.com/trailerpark. I HIGHLY recommend watching it, even if you HATE Twilight, and everything about it, because you are OBVIOUSLY possessed by some kind of mental disease if you do, and this trailer will cure that.

Seriously, I stopped breathing. I didn't breathe for the whole two minutes and twenty three seconds of the whole thing. And then, of course, when it was over, the hyperventilating started. No, this isn't like the Beatles. All those girls who were fainting all over them were FAKING it, becuase THIS is the real thing to faint over!

Okay, I'm done with by exaggerations, but you should still watch it. Happy watching!

-Christina

At Long Last!

I have finally posted on the other blog. Yes, I know it took forever, but certain complications do that sometimes. So feel free to mosey over and take a look at it if your day so permits you.

I've been horrible sick this whole past week, thus resulting in NO school getting done. I was in bed basically all day. So now I'm actually getting back into the swing of things and I REALLY don't want to be. Shoot me now.

So this weekend I get to go away on a retreat and all that fun stuff. Fun stuff...haha. They're taking my phone away, and we all know that can NEVER be good.

I WILL be going to Faith Center and Schlafly's this week. See, I was rushing around in my sick state trying to do Schlafly's homework and I didn't even get to go to class! The world has turned against me! *sniff*

I hope you all still love me. XD

-Christina

Fiction and Nail Polish

I'm considering starting a webzine. This is currently just an idea, so don't go getting all excited. (Actually, I wish some people WOULD be excited about it.) I need to talk to a few of my friends to try to get them to help me. It'll be hard work, but I have a feeling it'll really hit off.

I've had a serious writer's block lately. I can't seem to motivate myself to do anything. It's like school is sucking my brains out. And seriously, it really does. It was never like this before A Beka. Then again, I didn't really do any writing before A Beka. But still, I'm convinced it's of the devil. I keep trying to make myself write but it just isn't working. It's getting to be a little depressing. I'm hoping this is temporary, and I'm not losing my touch or anything.

So I was three lessons shy of finishing Module B of my Algebra and I was secretly hoping that my dear Ms. Colette would take a little longer to give me Module C so I'd have an excuse to have some time off from math, but no. The day I am to finish B, dad announces that he picked up C when he was at their house the other day. So onward with Algebra!

I've recently been appointed to co-write another blog for my youth group. It's on my profile page, so feel free to go read. Thing is, I haven't posted anything quite yet, but I should have something up in the next few days. I wanted to run the first post by my youth pastor so he could 'approve' it before it went up. So I'll let everyone know when my first post goes up officially.

Mrs. Oehme's class is proving to be just as it was last year. HARD. We got a piece of music last week, and a new one this week. All to be semi-memorized. And it doesn't help that I'm always forgetting to practice (cough like today cough). I've been managing so far (it's only been a week), but I have a feeling I'm going to start having to put in some SERIOUS work to keep up.

Currently reading "Do Hard Things" by Alex and Brett Harris. They're these twins who are all about using your teen years to do things to prepare you for later life. Right on! I was checking out their websits (therebelution.com), and for their 9/11 post they mention that a certain classmate/friend, had organized a 9/11 tribute. GUESS WHO THAT STUDENT WAS? None other than dear Rebecca Beach! I was so shocked! I was like OMG I LOVE REBECCA! I left this big long comment about it. So go check out their website, they're smart kids.

NEWSFLASH: Has nothing to do with homeschooling. I FINALLY got blue nail polish!!!

I guess that's all I really have to say for now. Again, I apologize for the lack of humor in this post. I'm very tired. Soon!

-Christina

Long Time Coming

It's been 9 days since my last post, and I sincerely apologize to the few readers I have. I sort of forgot I had a blog...wasn't really the first thing on my mind.

In recent news, three of my family members had birthday. Nikki is now 9, and she's still the same size she was when she was six. I'm beginning to think she'll never grow. Mark is 14 now, and the same can be said for him, but he doesn't even have an excuse for it. Dad is officially an old man now, somewhere upwards of 90...kidding. I think he's 45? I stopped counting after 40.

Rosetta Stone is getting a little boring, and it doesn't help that I have to do it on the computer, which happens to sit in the middle of my house. For the most part of the day, everyone is making more noise than you hear at a Twilight midnight release party, and it's VERY hard to concentrate.
Since I've been procrastinating with Spanish, I've been making up for it by doing more math than usual. I'm averaging at upwards of 6 lessons a day, and it looks like I might be able to finish up by Christmas. That would be a surefire miracle.

I wish I had the resources to start a magazine. I have all these ideas for some, but I'm just not artsy enough for all the design stuff. Any volunteers? No?

I decided that I've DEFINITELY established my previous rep in Mr. Schlafly's class. If I may quote..."If you know anyone's names, it should be these girls" in reference to Deborah and myself. The sad part is, she's known because she's just so adorably sweet and nice, and I'm just evil...

Funny story! My youngest brother (who is now taller than me...but I'm still stronger), is doing the science program that I did a few years back. (I swear Dr. J Wile is born to send all teenage science students to mental hell.) He was doing one of the experiments, which basically consisted of pouring baking soda out of a balloon into a 2-liter bottle that had a bit of vinegar on the bottom. I'm sure you can guess the result he was SUPPOSED to get. The balloon would fill up with gas and tada look how cool you are. But due to a malfunction in dear brother's brain, along with too much vinegar, the balloon began to fill up before all the baking soda was out of it. A second later, little bro was met by an explosion and a faceful of baking soda. He immediately started screaming about Dr. Wile's setting the experiment up to do that on purpose...

Sorry that this post and the last one weren't as humorous as my others. I'll be back on track soon, I swear! Lots of love.

-Christina

A Little More On The Random Side

So guess what? As I've said before, I'm doing Rosetta Stone - Spanish as my foreign language this year. I ac;quired levels 1 & 2 from a friend, but she failed to give me all of the program right away (on Tuesday), so I was left with the language disc, and the workbook for a few days (until Thursday). Let me clear something up before I go on. I took Spanish 1 from A Beka, so I was already familiar with Spanish, plus when I was younger, I did some dumbed-down Latin. As a result, European languages come a little easier to me than they would to a complete beginner. Anyway, on with the story. Since I only have Spanish and Algebra to do, obviously I'm going to be doing a lot of them since I'm so incredibly bored. So I got right along with Spanish--and it really is fun--and spent a few hours on it daily for those few days. I finished Unit 1, and got halfway through Unit 2 by Thursday, when I got the rest of the program. Along with it came a teachers book, with a few suggested schedules, depending on the students acclimation to the program. I was shocked when I saw how long Unit 1 was SUPPOSED to take me. Anyone care to guess? NINE WEEKS! A WHOLE QUARTER! Can we say extremely bored homeschooler with way too much time on her hands? Good.

Along with that, I'm also done with Module 1 of Algebra, roughly the same effect as the Rosetta Stone. I need a life...

As I promised, this post was SUPPOSED to be a little on the random side, but it seems like I've done nothing but ramble on about school, like I usually do. I guess the only random thing I can think of saying is that I was surfing through DeviantArt.com, I came across a link to a musicians Myspace. Her name is Kat Tingey, and she wrote a song based on Twilight (Edward's perspective at least). It's called Undone. She has it for sale on her website, but there's this nasty little thing that keeps troubling my life--no credit card, which goes on to mean that I can't buy things on the internet without dear Father's consent...and he would just go on a tirade about all my 'pagan' music. And since Tingey just isn't that popular, Limewire doesn't have ANYTHING of hers. I'm in a jam.

Funny story! The second class of Mr. Schlafly's was just yesterday (although Schlafly himself failed to make an appearance due to another engagement). Two of the students (one being Mr. Schlafly's daughter) taught the class. Impressive, I know. We were going to do Salem Witch Trials, reenacted, of course. So when the time comes for Sharon to pick who plays which part, she says "Christina...would you like to be the witch?" The whole class burst out laughing. Even the new people knew me well enough from just that first class to haul out in hysterics at Sharon's supposed implications.

On that note, I won't bore you any more. And so we go...

-Christina

Move Along, Move Along

No, that actually wasn't a Rejects quote. I was thinking more along the lines of Star Wars. Can you just picture a storm trooper in his plastic little outfit, waving his gun..."Move along, move along..."

I really surprise myself sometimes with the things I come up with. By moving along, I meant more like with the school year, but then I was struck by the title's reference to Star Wars. I guess by saying that I may as well just stamp myself with a big red mark--"I AM A HOMESCHOOLER." Up until the third (as in Revenge of the Sith) Star Wars came out, I was a fan...mostly because I was younger. They still hold a place in my heart, but ROTS definitely tarnished my view of it forever.

Wow. I just went on a tirade about Star Wars. Now, MOVING ALONG to the real topic of this post. I'm moving along with my school work, slowly, but surely. And when I say slowly, that means I STILL don't have all of my work. I acquired Rosetta Stone - Spanish today, and have started full speed ahead. Since I have all this time on my hands that ISN'T occupied by the school I don't have, I've been trying to get as much of the other stuff done as I can. I'm averaging about three lessons of math a day. I could do more; it really isn't that hard, but I just get so bored after an hour of algebra...

Spanish is going well. I'm doing about three lessons per day of that too, so I'm hoping to get levels 1 and 2 both done in one year. Things are looking good...

Today was the first day of Faith Center. Well, not really a 'first day.' More like freshman orientation. That's really what it should be called, because even though everyone is 'required' to go, it's just for all the new people who have absolutely no idea what to do with themselves. Not the uber-seniors like me...can we say ten years plus? Good.

I'll be doing Mrs. Oehme's Musical Scenes class again, which will be continuing Pilgrim's Progress where we left off, moving on from the end of Part 1 on to the rest of Part 2. The original cast will be performing Part 1 again in January, when our graduated seniors will all be back from college. I'm a little anxious about that because I sort of don't know where my script went, and I've just about forgotten my lines...I think I still have the music somewhat memorized. I hope she'll be gracious enough to give us lots of rehearsal time before the performance.

Alas, once again, I'm procrastinating with Mr. Schlafly's homework. I have a feeling everyone else is too...from what I've heard, no one has started yet. That makes me feel a smidgen better. I'm hoping to get to it tonight--at least to read the lecture. And then there's the daunting task of figuring out how to post it on Conservapedia. I hope it's not TOO complicated, or I just might have to hand it in hand-written. I bet he'd appreciate that. *Sarcasm*

-Christina

The Start of Something New

Like my little High School Musical touch? HA. I don't. It's a joke. Don't worry. I haven't gone all air headed on you. Well, not yet.

But this IS a start of something new. Just nothing that has to do with screeching adolescents. This is my first year of high school not using A Beka! I'm just about bursting with joy. I'm doing a wide splay of curriculum for different subjects. Honestly, it's a relief. I don't think I'd be able to get through another year of A Beka. Last year was positively awful. I think I might actually get good grades--I'll be motivated by the light schedule. I even get to go to college! Woot! Only one semester of chemistry! I'm ecstatic. And only one semester of history, thank to our dear Mr. Schlafly. It's made my workload much easier.

I'm getting over the whole Midnight Sun thing. At least I don't think about it all the time now and it doesn't bring me to tears every time I do... If you'd like to hear one of my favorite people in the world's opinion on it, check out Kaleb Nation's blog. It may do you some good. It sure made me feel better.

I'm almost positive that the majority of my friend's has NOT started school yet. A few are aiming for Monday...others are hoping for the end of September. I'm proud to say that TECHNICALLY, yesterday was my first day of school. Schlafly's DOES count as school. The rest of my school should be underway by the end of next week. I'll probably be done early this year, again. I will actually be able to do double days without killing my self. *coughABekacough*

I'm a little exasperated with some of my friends who I know are READING this blog, but refuse to COMMENT. I encourage you--COMMENT. I like it! It makes me want to put up a new post sooner. And it assures me that YES people REALLY ARE reading this. So comment, friends!

-Christina

School Is Almost Here! (+a Little News From The "Unsheltered" World XD)

Goodness! Only a few days left until school starts. Well, maybe for all of you. Mom has this idea that we can start as late as she feels necessary, regardless of whether it makes me finish sometime in August 2009...

Ah well, hopefully it won't come to that. I'm trying to make this year's workload as easy as possible. After doing A Beka for two years straight, I'm just about ready to shoot myself whenever I even think about school. But this year, it should be easy. I'm studying for a clep test so hopefully I can get out of English for the rest of high school. Maybe even math. But as Mom says, "Don't be looking too far down the road..." And why not? I'd LOVE to graduate this year...
Schlafly's class starts in only...what? Six days? AGHHHH! Too soon! I'm not ready for school! I hope I'll survive this class. Writing at least came easily to me; I have no idea what I'll do with history...ah, history--the bane of my existence.

A side note (nothing to do with school), someone leaked twelve chapters of the incomplete draft of Midnight Sun onto the internet. If you don't know what that is, then you've obviously been living under a rock. It is Twilight from Edward's perspective. Look it up, read it, whatever you need to do. Anyway, Stephenie Meyer (author) has stopped writing, and put off the project 'indefinitely.' I don't know exactly what that means, but I'm pretty sure it's something like Christina's going to have to wait a LONG time to get to read Midnight Sun. Meyer has posted the twelve chapters on her site, because she says she doesn't want her fans to feel dishonest while getting the chapters some other illegal way. She'd rather just hand it to them on a silver platter. Well, you won't see ME reading it. I'm loyal, thank you very much.

Okay, I'm done ranting. Have a nice five days before your life is ruined by the dreaded disease we call 'education.'

--Christina

Hopefully A Good Start

First post! Quite an accomplishment, if I do say so myself. I must admit I'm a little scared about starting this because...well...I'm afraid no one will read it and then all my efforts will have been for naught. But no fear! I have faith in home schoolers. We do actually use the computer you know. *Gasp* Never would've guessed, huh? In fact, the majority of us sport Facebook, Myspace, Xanga...you name it, we've got it.
But I'm exploring new turf here. I'm the first of my close friends to experiment with Blogspot, so we'll see where that goes. Forge on to new territory!
Mostly, I'll be taking in suggestions of what to do with this blog to make it more interesting to my home schooling community. I'm open for anything at this point...bring it on!

-Christina to the World