It's about time I posted, lol!

 Well it's about time I posted on here, lol!  It's been nearly a month sincemy last entry but that is because things have stayed busy for me around here.  I am back into full swing with my piano lessons   and practicing all kinds of stuff.  Along with learning my favorite music pieces from the "Lord of the Rings" movies, I am also practicing some church hymns, along with starting a new recital piece.  I need to keep up with the hymns since I will be taking over playing the piano at church later on when my mom has my baby sister.  Speaking of baby sister, I have gotten to lay my hands on my mom's stomach and feel the baby moving around several times.  Lol, with the way she kicks, I think she is going to be a future soccer star .  Homeschooling is going along fine, I am doing well with my Bible, U.S. History, and American Literature courses.  I have also been busy looking at colleges again, although I am still not sure where I really want to end up at.  But there is no hurry on that anyway since I will probably be starting off with community college first and then transfer to another college later on......but where to transfer to....that is the question , lol.  As I said, no hurry for now.  I can't believe I will be in 12th grade this Fall, I am so excited!  My mom has already sat down with me to help me plan out what all I am going to study this Fall.  Since I will only have Bible and Government/Economics, I will have plenty of room to further explore my other areas of interest such as missions, British Literature, art, and music.  Sounds like fun!  Of course, I will also need to make room for some test prep stuff in Math.  I want to re-take the college placement test to see if I can test better in the Math and not have to deal with that many Math pre-requisites....that would be nice, lol!  But for now, I will stay focused on what I need to be doing and not worry over anything else.

Catlover

Back to schoolwork

 It's the start of a new year and so has another semester of homeschooling.  This is our second week back, so I have been a little busy getting back into the swing of things.  Last semester, I finished British Literature, so now I am studying American Literature...not my favorite area but I guess it's ok, lol.  So far I am doing well with my school work and practicing my piano music.  Things didn't work out for me to get to do college classes this semester since they've made stuff so much stricter.  I had to have passed into all three areas....math, reading, and english...in order do their associate degree program for high schoolers......and I only passed into freshman English (although I was close to passing the other areas).  So, I think it will be easier for me if I just wait until I graduate from high school next year and then get started on my Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education.  This way I can just skate on thru the next year and a half of school. 

I had a great Christmas and got some of the things on my wishlist....."The Last Airbender" movie, a Christian music CD, some gum and candy, a hand lotion/soap set from my sister, a sweatshirt from my brother, and a paint set from my other sister.  I also had my 17th birthday last week  , complete with an ice cream cake, yummy!  I got a paint-by-number set (picture of cute kittens), some candy, a Hobbit calendar, and some nice smelling shower gel.  It was great!

We had my birthday a day early because it was time to take my big brother back to college, so I went along to help carry his stuff into his room (plus I happen to enjoy the trip up there).  But on the way back home, I started feeling kind of bad, thinking it was maybe something I ate.....turned out to be a stomach virus....ick !  But I am glad that is done and over with, hopefully that is it for sickness.  And speaking of sickness, our poor cat Oscar  must have had a hairball, seems he barfed up a good-sized hairball...right on the hood of my brother's car....ick!  Thankfully that barfiness is done with and things are back to normal, lol!

Have a great day!

Catlover

Christmas Religious Pictures

The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Some excitement

Things have been kind of slow around, you know, the usual schoolwork and music practice, but there has been some excitement.  Yes, we had a nice Thanksgiving and my big brother was home from college for awhile....it was nice to get to see him again.  Breaktime was over all too soon and it was back to the usual stuff.  But today I got a break from the usual routine of things.  I got to go to the community college to take the Compass test, their college placement test so I could see about getting to take a college class or two next semester.  I was really nervous about the whole things since I don't usually do well on tests like this.  But I was totally surprised by my test results.  I placed into freshman-level college English, and almost placed into the freshman Math as well ....better than my brother did the first time he took the test, lol...and yes, he was impressed that I did so well.  So, I am looking forward to getting to take at least one college class soon...fun!

Oh, we also found out that my mom is going to have another baby girl.  I have to admit I was hoping for another brother since I already have two sisters , but I did eventually warm to the idea, lol.  My mom reminded me that baby sister will have her own personality and probably not be like my other two sisters, lol.  And, upon hearing how active baby sister already is, I found a soft soccer ball at the Dollar Tree I plan on getting for her, lol, she seems to already be practicing her kicking.  Oh, and I laid my hand on my mom's tummy and got to feel a little bit of the fluttering that baby sister is doing inside my mom...it was neat!  So, I look forward to seeing baby sister, but it will still be awhile til she is born since my mom is about 4 months along now.  I've already been thinking about the fun stuff we'll get to do with baby sister...I think she will be one spoiled little sister, lol!
 
Catlover   

On Break...yay!

Yay, we are Thanksgiving break this week!  To celebrate, I thought I would post a funny Thanksgiving picture (kind of looks like my fat cat Oscar, lol).  Enjoy!

 

 

Catlover

Brrrrr!

It seems the cold weather has blown in now and is here to stay for awhile.....brrrrr, it is cold!  We didn't get a lot from Hurricane Sandy, just and lot of wind a rain over the weekend since we only got the outskirts of the storm.  But I've definitely been staying warm with yummy hot cocoa....and sometimes some decaf. coffee, lol.  I've been doing pretty well with my schoolwork and music has kept me very as well.  My music teacher has assigned me four different pieces of music to practice, sigh.  I am also learning to use the foot pedals on the piano too, so that is taking some extra work on my part as it's a little harder to coordinate all that.  I throughly enjoyed the symphony music concert I got to attend with my music teacher.  She and I went to Goldan Corral for supper first....loved it!  Then we went to the concert, so much fun!  I also enjoyed seeing my big brother again, he was home from college on Fall break.  I have been busy shopping for a birthday present for him, his birthday is Nov. 20.  I have finally figured out what I am going to get for him, I think he is going to love it!  Other stuff.....my fat cat Oscar got into my lunch today .  I had made a nice salad for myself, it had Ranch salad dressing on it.  I guess Oscar must like Ranch salad dressing, I had stepped away for a minute only to find him licking the salad dressing .  Sigh!  Well, sorry this is so short, lol, not much else going on!

Catlover