Who I Am

Beware

Although we are somewhat confused by it, we are told on a regular basis that people find us intimidating. Individually, and especially as a group. We do not feel particularly intimidating, and we do not try to intimidate. But we are willing to use it to our advantage if someone tries to push us around.
Being pushed around, walked on, abused, etc. either breaks you, or makes you incredibly strong. We are notbroken, and we have learned how to pick our battles. We have just chosen this one.

Sure, maybe this time it’s only one person being pushed, but there are ten more people behind that person who have a vested interest.
It is like the foot soldiers who form a circle with shields raised over the center to protect the ones in the middle. You will never reach them and you will be sorry you tried.
We do not have an influential name. We are not wealthy enough to sway people’s minds. We are a family of nobodies from the backside of nowhere, but we are after all a family, the likes of which few have ever encountered. We are well aware that there is no one in the world that will back us up, but we are accustomed to that. It has been a long time since it has been anyone but “you and me against the world” so we are pretty good at it now.
Worldly goods and influence aside, we are quite possibly the most intelligent group of people you will ever encounter. So when you choose to take us on, you are taking on a think-tank like no other.

We have more angles than a dodecahedron, perspectives you haven’t considered, and experiences you’ve never heard of.

Prepare to be intimidated.

(As an aside, this also was taken from Lazy Phil's blog.)

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A. A. Milne

If I had to make a list of my favorite authors, A. A. Milne would rank close to the top.

"That's what Jagulars always do,"

said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."

"Good morning, Pooh Bear,"

said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

And my personal favorite:

A. A. Milne - Disobedience

James James

Morrison Morrison

Weatherby George Dupree

Took great

Care of his Mother

Though he was only three.

James James

Said to his Mother,

"Mother," he said, said he;

"You must never go down to the end of the town, if

you don't go down with me."

James James

Morrison's Mother

Put on a golden gown,

James James

Morrison's Mother

Drove to the end of the town.

James James

Morrison's Mother

Said to herself, said she:

"I can get right down to the end of the town and be

back in time for tea."

King John

Put up a notice,

"LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED!

JAMES JAMES

MORRISON'S MOTHER

SEEMS TO HABE BEEN MISLAID.

LAST SEEN

WANDERING VAGUELY

QUITE OF HER OWN ACCORD,

SHE TRIED TO GET DOWN TO THE END OF

THE TOWN - FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD!

James James

Morrison Morrison

(Commonly known as Jim)

Told his

Other relations

Not to go blaming him.

James James

Said to his Mother,

"Mother," he said, said he,

"You must never go down to the end of the town with-

out consulting me."

James James

Morrison's Mother

Hasn't been heard of since.

King John

Said he was sorry,

So did the Queen and Prince.

King John

(Somebody told me)

Said to a man he knew:

"If people go down to the end of the town, well, what

can anyone do?"

(Now then, very softly)

J. J.

M. M.

W. G. du P.

Took great

C/o his M*****

Though he was only 3.

J. J.

Said to his M*****

"M*****," he said, said he:

"You-must-never-go-down-to-the-end-of-the-town-if-

you-don't-go-down-with ME!"

#27

1 Corinthians 11 (King James Version)

¹Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

²Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

³But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

⁵But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

⁶For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

⁷For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

⁸For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

⁹Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

¹⁰For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

¹¹Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

¹²For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

¹³Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

¹⁴Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

¹⁵But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

1 Corinthians 11 (New International Version)

¹Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

Propriety in Worship

²I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings, just as I passed them on to you.

³Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁴Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.

⁵And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved.

⁶If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.

⁷A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

⁸For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

⁹neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

¹⁰For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.

¹¹In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

¹²For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

¹³Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

¹⁴Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

¹⁵but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.

From these verses in the Bible I gather that it is a glory for a woman to have her natural hair, whether or not it is long. And if it is a glory for the woman, the glory goes to her husband or father, which in turn gives the glory to God.

And there is the reason I don't cut my hair.

Here

Wow

How many times am I going to do this? I keep telling myself that I need to find my own material, 'cuz that would make my blog more me... But, again, here is a something from LazyPhil's blog.

1. Do you still talk with the person you LAST kissed? Hmm, that would be one of the toddlers at Church, so, Yeah.
2. Have you ever seen your best friend naked? Best friend means cousin right? Yeah, maybe when we were little.
3. What was the last thing you ate? Toast for breakfast.
4. Did you get any compliments today? Nope.
5. Where are you going on your next vacation? Where the rest of my family goes.
6. Are most of your friends guys or girls? Girls.
7. Do you own any furniture from Ikea? No.
8. If you could have one superpower what would it be? Probably to be able to fly.
9. Where have you lived most of your life? Oklahoma.
10. When was the last time you took a long drive? A couple weeks ago.
11. Are you moody? I don't think so.
12. What is your most favorite movie of all time? That would be way to hard to answer, I don't have a favorite movie. I guess maybe, Black beauty?
13. Have you ever done anything hurtful to a classmate? No, don't think so.
14. Have you ever played Spin the Bottle? Nope.
15. Have you ever toilet papered someone's house? Nope.
16. Have you ever had a crush on your sister's friend? Yep.
17. Have you ever gone to a nude beach? NO!
18. Have you ever gone streaking? NOPE!
19. Have you ever had a stalker? Sorta, kinda, maybe?
20. Have you ever gone skinny dipping? No.
21. How many hours a day do you watch TV? One or maybe two.
22. Have you ever gone to a party? Yeah.
23. Have you ever been in love? As much as any 15 year old can be, I suppose.
24. Have you ever been betrayed by your best friend(s)? Nope.
25. Have you ever been out of the U.S.? No.
26. Have you ever thrown up from working out? No.
27. Have you ever gotten a haircut so bad that you wore a hat? No, I don't cut my hair.
28. Have you ever eaten 3 meals from 3 different fast food places in one day? No, well, maybe.
29. What’s one item you never leave home without? My backpack. (Just in case you were wondering, my "backpack" is my purse.)
30. Who was the last person who texted you? My cousin Cassie.
31. When was the last time you slept? Two and a half hours ago.
32. What are your plans for tonight? Babysitting toddlers.
33. Who will repost this survey? No-one.

Hmm... in reference to #27, Post upcoming on why I don't cut my hair.

Again!!!

Well, again, here is a thing I got off LazyPhil's blog.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen – x (Like LazyPhil said, do I get extra credit if I have it memorized?)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte – x (Love this book!)

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – (Nope, and never want to.)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee –

6 The Bible – X (Um, DUH!)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte –

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell –

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman –

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens –

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott – x (Another one I love.)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy –

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier –

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - x (Very good book.)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger –

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger –

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot –

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell –

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald –

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens –

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy –

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – (All but the last one, I am working on that one.)

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky –

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll – x (Love this one, too.)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - x (Rather... Interesting. I read it when I was about ten, maybe I should reread it now that I could understand it.)

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy –

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens –

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis – x (I read the first one when I was about seven, found it on the bookshelf and thought it looked good. Found out it was a series three or four years ago, and read them all. Loved them!!)

34 Emma – Jane Austen –

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen –

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis – x (Look up! ^)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – x (Yeah, really good book. And the second one is good too, "The house at pooh corner")

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell –

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery – x (Pretty good, I love it , but not as much as my sister.)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy –

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding –

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -

52 Dune - Frank Herbert –

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen –

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – x (I think I read the abridged, childs version.)

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon -

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera -

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas – (No, but I've seen the movie, and loved it, so maybe I should read the book.)

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville –

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens –

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker –

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett – x (Totaly loved this book!)

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -

75 Ulysses - James Joyce –

76 The Inferno – Dante –

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -

78 Germinal - Emile Zola -

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -

80 Possession - AS Byatt -

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens –

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White – x (Very good book. I also love almost all the movies that have been made about it.)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom –

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle –

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad –

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery –

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas –

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare –

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl – (No, but I have seen both the old and new movie.)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo – (No, But I have seen the Concert at The Royal Albert Hall. Not live, just on dvd.)

Bye

Well, I leave for camp in the morning. No more blogging. For awhile at least. Bye!

Howrse

Zhinni

So, remember this^ horse, from the last post?

Well, she just had twins.

Wanna see 'em?

Here they are!

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Rois Siofra, which means "Rose Elf", ^ She is two months old.

Riona Siofra, which means "Pure Elf", ^ She is two months old.

So, what do you think? Are they cute or what?

Howrses

So, you know how I'm always talking about horses, and Howrse? (Yea, yea, I know, I haven't much, but just bear with me here!) Most of my horses on Howrse are Arabians.

My horses:

Zhinni, which means "Black", She is fifteen years, ^ seven months old. She is my first horse, and my best broodmare.

Potra, which means "Wild Horse", ^ She is eleven years old.

Laban Loup, which means "White Wolf", ^ He is two months old.

Kes Ayala, which means "Favorite Gazelle", ^ She is four years, two months old. (She is half Arab, half Hano.)

Jun Joost, which means "Handsome and Just", ^ He is one year old.

Imad Isam, which means "Strong Pledge", ^ He is one year old.

Homa mi Huela, which means "Pledge my Heart", ^ She is one year, eight months old.

Gyala Guifre, which means "Youth Desiring Peace", ^ He is two years, six months old. (He is half Arabian, half Appaloosa.)

Dumi de la Duha, which means "Inspirer of the Dawn", ^ She is two years, six months old.

Cinnamon Stick, She is five years, ^ six months old.

Brogan, which means "Strong", ^ He is eight years old.

Apache, which is a tribe of Indians, He is six years, six months old. (He's half Arabian, half Hanoverian.)

Edom Eban, which means "Crimson Rock", ^ He is two years, four months old.

Frodo Fruad, which means "Wise Heart", ^ He is one year, ten months old.

So, what do you think? Are they pretty, or what? I think you should all join and put me as your sponser. (Even if you never play it.) :)

Another from LazyPhil's blog.

What is on your desktop wallpaper?
I don't have a computer, but if I did it would probably be a horse.

What is your favorite zoo animal?
The Jaguar.

What was your favorite toy as a child?
My toy horses.

What food do you eat too much of?

Popcorn.

What kind of hairstyle do you have?
Long.

What was your favorite activity in gym class?
Jumping on the trampoline.

What is on the shirt you are wearing right now?
United States of America.

What is the picture nearest to you of?
Vince and Liz.

What kind of salad dressing do you like?
Ranch.

What is your least favorite food?

Meat.

What do you do on a Sunday night?
Go to Church, and take care of my online horses.

If you could only use one condiment on your food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Ranch.

What color are your sheets?
Blue.

How big is your computer display?

Like I said before, I don't have a computer.

What pair of shoes do you wear most often?
None, or tennis shoes.

What is your favorite game?
Online game? Howrse. Board game? Clue. Outside? Tag, probably.

What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?
Candied yams.

What is your favorite pizza topping?
Peperoni.

What time do you plan on waking up tomorrow?
Plan? I don't plan! Well, maybe 7ish?

What is your favorite day of the year?

Anyday that the sun shines. :)

And, like the title of this post implies, this is another thing I found on LazyPhils blog.

Horse

~Make-a-Foal ~
	Foal's Name: Purez Pyrena Gender: Filly Breed: Campolina Owner: Zhinni.dreams Date: 05-22-09
Make your Own

Her name means "Pure Fire", isn't it pretty?

~Make-a-Foal ~
	Foal's Name:Orie Orvar Gender:Colt Breed: Shire Owner: Lenoh Date: 05-22-09
Make your Own

His name means "Gold Arrow".

The Presentation

The Youth service went very well. Like I supposed, none of my group were there. So, on the Saturday before, a very kind sister of mine offered to allow me to read the narrative for her teams skit. I only got to see the lines four hours before I had to say them, and only practiced twice, but, all-in-all, I think it all went awesome! Thanks be to God! Amen.

Not Much.

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