There's a light up ahead...

This is a nice blog post because I forgot to post before we left.

I'm still in California, and I'm still having fun, but I'm feeling sort of bittersweet because we're coming home tomorrow. I'm going to miss everyone here, but I miss my friends at home. Yeah. It's sort of melancholy.

I love you, Iowa friends!

Mara Tenille, the butterfly child

She's a drama queen, if you know what I mean...

Sophie got the Family Force 5 CD while she was at Lifest, and that makes me happy. I like them a lot.

Yesterday I got a new hair straightener and these weird health food chip cracker things that Liz said were amazing. They were actually pretty good.

I am drinking a FuFu Berry Jones. Yum!

I think I'm going to go visit the amazing magical kingdom of Harmbadison today. Actually, I think I'm going to do that right now.

Mara

We're all gonna die, but we're all not meant to die young...

The computer is doing much better today. It's all de-virused and stuff.

Kacy and Andy came over. They got bored, I guess, so they ended up over here. We started a magical kingdom. With a password and everything. It's pretty sweet. And I learned to ride the moped! I'd never been on it before. That was fun too.

It's sort of weird that I can type faster than this computer can make the little letters show up. I type really slowly, too. That says bad things about this computer. We should get a new one, but not with Vista on it, because I don't think I like Vista. I haven't really used it much yet, but still. And Mr. Vespestad says it's lame, and he's a computer guy, so it must be dumb.

I have a friction burn that the scab came off of earlier today. It's pretty gross. Hopefully it won't scar all nasty like the other one I got from ice skating. This one's from riding horses without jeans.

I like Blindside.

I'm tempted to make another MySpace, but I'm not going to.

I'm getting bored pretty quick here. *sigh* Maybe I should go get a candy bar or something from Kum & Go. That would be sort of fun. But I don't really need a candy bar. But I want one. Hmm. Tough decision.

Mara

Save our souls from all our dreams come true...

Today I have so far slept in until 11, determined that I'm a hippie, eaten a ton of grapes and some pork and ham, and sat mindlessly at the computer doing absolutely nothing. So, I've basically haven't done anything productive yet. Except maybe the hippie bit. That could potentially be productive.

I'm listening to Yellowcard, according to Zach. I like it. It's got a neat sound. Violins. Yep. Violins rock. So do cellos, and I am determined to learn how to play one someday. I should add that to my list of things to do before I die, so I don't forget to do it. To forget something like that would be quite a shame, and we like to avoid shame.

On Wednesday I leave for California. Then we get back on the next Wednesday. I'm too distracted to be excited at the moment, but I'm positive that it will set in eventually. It will be neat to meet people that I've talked to and stuff.

Yep.

Mara

Look me in the eye so I know you know...

Here are some photos. I almost lost them forever, along with all the other photos I have, because our hard drive got screwed up. But Dad fixed it. And now it's saved. Hooray. Anyway, here is a boy and me sitting at Jermaleah's wedding. There were other people there at our table and stuff, so don't get weird looks on your faces. Then, there's a picture of all the girls and Kacy Bass, because he wore the light blue disco suit to the wedding. That was awesome. Bass is a cool guy. He's fun. Then there's a picture of me and Zach, who is at my house right now. We got caught in the rain. He's from Wisconsin. He's pretty cool, too. Yep.

Today I'm going minigolfing! In the cool blacklight place at the mall. Kacy, Andy, Em, Elise, Zach, Tanner, Sophie, and probably more people are going, so it'll be pretty good stuff. I don't know that I've ever minigolfed. I think it'll be fun.

Gotta go make mac'n'cheese.

Mara

On the way down I almost fell right through, but I held on to you...

I have Ryan Cabrera stuck in my head. [/teenybopper]

I need to find someone a birthday present. I can't show you my ideas though, just in case he were to see this before then. I don't think that'll happen, but you never know.

Bible study was pretty good. It was interesting. Daniel is an interesting book.

Tomorrow I'm watching the Simpson kids while Matt and Marisa go on a date. Yay!

Gotta go clean floors.

Mara

I could sing of your love forever...

Well. I don't really feel much better, but at least I can keep myself busy. That helps some.

Is it possible not to have any habits? Of any kind? I don't think so. I was pondering this whilst I swept the kitchen floor. It's sort of an interesting thought. No habits. Could eliminating all habits become a habit? How would that work? Hmm...

My fingernails have still not fully recovered from my manicure. Emily's acrylics are still on. She's insane. Mine are long gone.

I think I'm going to go read my book now. I'm reading Obsessed by Ted Dekker. I think I like it. It creeps me out though. Nazis and stuff. Scary.

Mara