The year went by so quickly!

Did you ever notice that every year, come June, you realize that well- it's June. And then you realize that Your halfway through the year. "Wow!" you say. "I CAN'T believe that we're already halfway through the year!" Come September, it is yet another milestone in the year. Fall, and the beginning of the school year. "Wow!" you say. "I CAN'T believe that it's time for school again!" It's all downhill from there. About once a month after that you'll most likely repeat your expressions of amazement. Then New Years Eve will come, and then you'll wrap up the year by saying, "Wow! This year went SO quickly!" And this will happen every year. What can I say? It's a tradition.

The nut of the gods, because only they can afford them

So you go to the store one day. You have the intentions of fulfilling the mission you have set out for yourself, which happens to be buying pine nuts. When you reach the "nut" aisle, you look and see that there are no pine nuts, but just darn things like almonds, mixed nuts and the dreadful "nut," which when people think of nuts, they think of this: the Peanut. And that darned "nut" isn't even a nut, since it doesn't grow in a tree! So you go on your way to the baking aisle, where slivered, crushed, and whole nuts are bagged in tiny, expensive packages. You were hoping not to have to come to this, but what must be done must be done. When you arrive, there is not even a mention of pine nuts. There are, once again, almonds and Peanuts ( :P ) and even hazelnuts. But even though the darned "nut" joined the group, there are no pine nuts, not even a walnut! So, frustrated, you push your cart into the bulk foods, squeezing it between the small aisles with the rows of tantalizing chocolates and mouth watering candies. You dodge through the many obstacles and make it to the nuts (most of them varieties of assorted darned "nuts") and finally, dazzling before your eyes: Pine Nuts!! You make a headlong dash to them, throwing aside customers and shelves in your excitement. You just got your second wind. Little did you know that it was about to run out... Here you are, scooping the shining golden nuts by the pound into your little plastic baggy, and then you see the price. $13.95 a Pound?!?!?!

I'm so happy, I'm shaking. A book I've been looking for for almost 6 years, and I finally found it!!!! It's called Journey to the Bright Kingdom by Elizabeth Winthrop. I tell you, tonight I was like, "I'll look again, because the internet is amazing and I'll find it!" AND I DID!! I had to search and search and look and look, but I found it!! And now I've put it on hold at the library. And I'm going to get it. It will be in my hand. After six long years I will read that book. God is wonderful.

I hate those darn Stratus clouds!

You know those days, when all you want is sun? You long to look out the window and see the pretty sunshine flowing over the earth? When YOU JUST FEEL OUT OF SORTS? You just got yourself a stratus day. A stratus cloud is that cloud where it's just a thick layer of gray, covering the sky. It blocks the blue, and it blocks the sunshine. And there you are, your little self, feeling annoyed and with a headache, still longing for sunshine under the roof of endless gray. Of the subject, my hair looks SUPER pretty at this moment, and I'm kinda wishing that I didn't have to sleep on it, since it's 11:17. Why bring up clouds and hair at a time like this? Well, I just thought I wanted to, so that should be a good enough reason for anyone!