Haircut

I got a haircut and perm on Monday. I really like this new style! It's my first perm ever!

before...


atfer...

Today I did my homework. After I finished I headed down to the laundry room to put some loads in the wash, we have a lot of laundry to catch up on, after I cleaned my room (under the bed) and the closet (in the corners) so we have like 6 large loads. Been trying to keep the washer and dryer running all day. Then I cleaned Jeffery's (my rabbit) cage out. He has to be kept indoors in the cold weather so we recentley bought an indoor cage for him and he stays in the launry room. Then I came upstairs and worked on more homework. Then I baked potatoes and made potatoe salad, and did I mention I folded all the laundry, well, that was clean... I'd better go do some more so I g2g... God Bless!

Did you know?

The main use of coal in the United States is electricity! That's right!
yeah, that's the kind of stuff I'm learning in Earth Science class... and that's where I learned about carbon and diamonds... go to previous post: http://alyssas-place.blogspot.com/2007/11/diamonds-and-graphite.html

Christmas Quiz

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
wrapping paper
2. REAL OR FAKE TREE?
fake, the real ones are too expensive, and they just die, it's killing the poor beautiful tree!
3. When do you put up the tree?
sometime after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down?
Sometime in January or February or whenever we have time

5. Do you like eggnog?
not real eggnog, but I like holly nog, a soy alternative
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
carpenter set
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
no but my mom does
8. Hardest person to buy for?
dad
9. Easiest person to buy for?
mommy
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever got?
a puppet
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
both
12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
Unaccompanied minors
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
December, last minute! that's me, always procrastinating
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Don't know
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
cookies
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
red and white
17. Favorite Christmas song?
The First Noel
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
stay at home, maybe invite friends if they're not too busy
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
no, just dasher and vixn and oh yeah rudolph!!! the one with the red nose! you know, the red nosed reindeer song thing... oh its SO annoying neways...
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Definitely a gold star!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
ASAP as soon as dad gets home from work... usually evening
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
people ripping the paper before chirstmas and trying to peek in when you're rapping and noesy little bros and sisters telling you what mom got for you...
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Remembering Christ's birth


Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Season!

Dry cleaning

On Friday my sister came out of the closet with a dress in her hand. "It says dry clean only, what does that mean?" she said.

Little Women

One of my favorite classic stories is Little Women. I've been a member on Flixer, a movie site for awhile. I just decided to go on today and make a quiz about the movie "Little Women." I took the pictures from the 1994 version of the movie Little Women. So here it is:
My Little Women Quiz

Thanksgiving

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I did, except for being a little sick in the stomach and a slight headache. I did not get sick from over eating though. I have been a little sick since like tuesday. Maybe it was a good thing or I might have over eaten! We made 4 pumpkin pies and 2 apple pies. Sorry no pics I was too lazy to take pics lol. Please vote on "your favorite holiday" poll. Mine personally are:
#1 Christmas
#2 My birthday
#3 Thanksgiving

Free Rice

I just helped give a hungry person 500 grains of rice. I didn't get off my chair, or even spend any money. I just went to this website Free Rice and answered 50 questions correctly. It wasn't hard, I did use this website to help me... help As you're enjoying all the food and fun at Thanksgiving time, think of the hungry people all around the world. Go to this website and help!

YEAH!!

Mom and Dad have decided if we're going to move or not. The answer is... NO! Yeah!!!! I am so happy, as is my sister, and I think everyone is happy the decision is made.

seagull slideshow

Mandy throwing away our good bread

Mandy wanted to see the seagulls up close, but then they got a little too close! lol

at virginia beach

I'm in the motel room at virginia beach. It's the first time we've had a room with a beach view. I'm not going swimming. The pool is only 4ft deep. :( We had pizza last night. We had a whole pizza leftover so that's what we're going to have for breakfast or maybe lunch. There's a pizza place across the street from the motel so we just walked there. I have school today but I don't know if I'll be able to do it depending on what mom and dad decide. Well at least monday is a holiday so I'll have time to catch up then. We're leaving sometime Sunday, hopefully be back in time for fall festival. We should be. ttyl

official poll statement

so the poll is closed now.

5 people voted swimming
3 people voted skiing

Hey guess what! I like swimming too! You can even do it all year round (well, if you have an indoor pool).

Check out the new poll: Favorite time of the Day

random stuff in my life

My life is pretty random right now. So tomorrow we're leaving for Virginia Beach. Can't wait to go swimming! (in the hotel swimming pool of course!! haha tricked you!!) hehehe anyways.

So there's this house, another house. It's a bit bigger then the one we're renting right now. And it's got more land. And it's cheaper. and it's "nicer"... all around... so if they let us, if they say yes, we are going to... well my parents are going to rent it so you know what that means... ANOTHER MOVE

yikes.

(I don't like moving) And another thing. They don't allow pets. I don't want to give my rabbit and dog away. But it's looking like we might have to... :(

Diamond Park

MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.

Johnson, 36, made the dig Saturday at the park and left his equipment in a locker. When he came back Monday morning, he made the discovery.

Crater of Diamonds State Park, which opened in 1972, is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public, and visitors can keep the gems they unearth. The largest diamond found at the park was the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight, a white diamond found in 1975.

Johnson's find is the second-largest diamond uncovered at the park this year. In June, a Louisiana man found a 4.8-carat stone. More than 700 diamonds have been found there this year.

Since moving to Arkansas from Iowa in February, Johnson said, he was living off money made by selling diamonds. He only recently took a job at a convenience store, partly because he "got tired of selling diamonds to make ends meet."

Park officials declined to speculate how much money Johnson could get for the diamond. Johnson suggested he expects much more than what he is used to getting.

"If someone offers me that much money, it's theirs," Johnson said.



I would love to go to that park!

Diamonds and Graphite

Did you know that diamonds and graphite are made out of the same chemical, carbon? How then are they so different? Graphite is used in Pencils, and diamonds, well, we all know how valueable diamonds are.

Diamond is the hardest mineral known to man, Graphite is one of the softest.
Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator, Graphite is a good conductor of electricity.
Diamond is the ultimate abrasive, Graphite is a very good lubricant.
Diamond is usually transparent, Graphite is opaque.
Diamond crystallizes in the Isometric system and graphite crystallizes in the hexagonal system.

Okay, most of that is probably all Greek to you, if you haven't heard of words such as "opaque" and "cobalent bonding". But it basically means that they are made out of the same element, carbon, but their atoms are bonded together in a different structure.

Graphite Diamond

Okay, now you might think I'm weird, but I like to take objects lessons from everything, even my earth science schoolwork! So, what I got out of this is we are all made out of the same element, human flesh. But we can use what God has given us to become something useful for him. We might have talents (carbon) that allow us to become a diamond. Or you might have different qualties and gifts that allow you to become a different gem, maybe a quartz. Your job is to do your best with whatever gifts God has given you... no matter if you're a diamond, or graphite, or a quartz or a pearl, you're all beautiful in God's eyes, and you have the ability to do wonderful things for his glory.

Loves Comes Softly

I have 3 of the Loves Comes Softly movies:

Love Comes Softly

Love's Long Journey

Love's Enduring Promise

And I'm planning on getting the two newest ones:

Love's Abiding Joy

Love's Unending Legacy



Click here for a review: http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0002914.cfm

My dad won a free trip to Virginia Beach. We'll be gone from the 8th-10th. I'll be taking my laptop with me to try and fit in some schoolwork. Don't know how well that will work. We'll be staying at a place called Dolphin Inn.

Nov 5, which is next Monday, is the last Day of the first nine weeks of school. I have managed to keep all my grades pretty good. My school's grade book has gone wacky so I don't know my exact grade, but I should by Monday, the day when everything is SUPPOSED to be graded, but PAcyber school has been having SO many tech problems, it's very annoying sometimes. Sometimes it won't even let me go in to do my homework! oh well... at least it does today...

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I don't like Science class, not one bit. Algebra class is okay, but challenging. English is lots of fun though. And Civics (government) that's pretty fun too. Maybe my grades will reflect my dedication... lol... we'll see.

A true friend is someone who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked

These egg shells were cut with a high intensity precision Laser Beam. This gives a very good idea of what can be achieved with a Laser Beam. From this can be surmised what laser surgery performed on one's eye is all about. Is it any wonder how one's vision can be improved in just a few moments? Science is sometimes wonderful, and it's still on the frontier of gaining new knowledge.

Watermelon carvings

I got these pics in an email forward today and thought they were so cool.


the horse is my favorite! :) there are more... but I didn't want to post too many pics.

So Cute!

Did you ever feel like the ducking who just didn't fit in? Just know you're always beautiful in God's eyes.

Big Full Moon

This is from a space website CLICK HERE
Thanks for forwarding this to me mom.

Left: A big, bright perigee Moon. Right: A lesser apogee Moon.

Tonight's full Moon is the biggest full Moon of 2007. It's no illusion. Some full Moons are genuinely larger than others and this one is a whopper. Why? Read the answer below.

The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with one side 30,000 miles closer to Earth than the other. The full Moon of Oct. 25-26 is located on the near side, making it appear as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we've seen earlier in 2007.

In the language of astronomy, the two ends of the Moon's orbit are called "apogee" and "perigee." Apogee is the farthest point, perigee the nearest: diagram. This week's full Moon is a "perigee Moon" with extra-high "perigean tides."

The Moon is 14% bigger, but can you actually tell the difference? It's not so easy. There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. A fun experiment: Take a friend outside Thursday night and ask if they notice anything unusual about the Moon. Explain perigee after they answer.

So small - Carrie Underwood

And yes, that is me.

dead fish

My/our (mostly my sister's) betta fish died today. He was pretty old. He wasn't too special, just an ordanary fish who ate fish food and swam all day, and got mad at his reflection in the mirror. Well my mom came in our room and was like "what smells so bad in here?" He was a small fish and he is in the far corner, so I didn't notice. Anyway now he's traveling down the water slide in the bathroom. And that's that.

I wrote your name

Only in Texas

Shelter in the Storm

I've been reading the book "Shelter in the Storm." I just want to share a little of what I read this morning.
page 46
As your conscience has been quickened by the Holy Spirit, you have seen something of the evil of sin, of its power, its guilt, its woe; and you look upon it with abhorrence. You feel that sin has seperated you from God, that you are in bondage to the power of evil. The more you struggle to escape, the more you realize your helplessness. Your motives are impure; your heart is unclean. You see that your life has been filled with selfishness and sin. You long to be forgiven, to be cleanesed, to be free. Harmony with God, likeness to Him, what can you do to obtain it?

It is peace that you need- Heaven's forgiveness and peace and love in the soul. Money cannot buy it, intellect cannot procure it, winsdom cannot attain it; you can never hope, by your own efforts to secure it. But God offers it to you as a gift "without money and without price" (Isaiah 55:1). It is yours if you will just reach out your hand and grasp it. The Lord says "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit also will I give you." Ezekiel 36:26

You have confessed you sins, and in your heart put them away. You have resolved to give yourself to God. Now go to him, and ask that he will wash away your sins and give you a new heart. Then believe that he does this because he has promised. This is the lesson which Jesus taught while He was on earth, that the gift God promises us we must believe we do recieve , and it is ours. Jesus healed the people of their diseses when they had faith in his power; he helped them in the things which they could see, thus inspiring them with confidence in Him concerning the things which they could not see - leading them to believe in his power to forgive sins. This He plainly stated in the healing of the man with pasly: "That ye may know the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. Then he said to the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up they bed and go unto thine house." Matthew 9:6 So also John the evangelist says, speaking of the miracles of Christ, "These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." John 20:31

yawn...

Well it's a school day tomorrow so I had better go to bed now...

later...

Going to go shopping now with my mom, will be back later, and will have the video posted later this week. My mom wants me to get a haircut. Do you think I should?

This morning for devotionals I read the whole book of Ruth. I really like my new bible that I received at my baptism with my baptismal certificate.

High Sabbath

Today was the best Sabbath of my life. I'll be posting some videos and pictures soon.

preferences quiz

I got little quiz this from my friend A.J.'s Mom's blog.

Lace or Ribbon? Ribbon
Mountain or Beach? Beach
Reading or Writing? Writing
Cookie or Cake? cookie, usually more healthy
Baked or Mashed Potato? baked, with soy sour cream
Scrambled or Fried? Scrambled
Fruit or Vegetable? Fruit
Spring or Fall? Spring, My birthday is in Springtime!
Roller Skating or Bowling? Bowling, I'm pretty good at it
DVD or Theater movies? DVD
Wood or Glass? wood
Blue or Green? Green
Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla, with chocolate syrup!
Quilting or knitting? Quilting
Early Morning or Late Night? Early Morning
Coffee or Tea? Tea, coffee is awfully terrible tasting and it's bad for you, who would want to drink that yucky stuff?
Watermelon or Strawberry? Strawberries definatley! They're fun to pick and eat.
Lunch or Dinner? Both!
Cold Cereal or Oatmeal? Oatmeal
Song or Dance? Song, I love to sing!
Carpet or Hardwood Floor? Carpet, it's softer.
Red or Pink? Pink
Cat or Dog? Dog
Pretzels or Chips? Chips
Iced Tea or Lemonade? Lemonade
Non-Fiction or Fiction? Both, if they're Christian
Rose or Daisy? Daisy
Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset
Comb or Brush? Brush
Pottery or Basket? Basket
Pen or Pencil? Pencil, they come with erasers, and unfortunately, pens don't.
Couch or Chair? couch
Country or Victorian? Country
Farm or Ranch? Ranch
Braid or Ponytail? Braid
Cash or Check? Both are nice
Chocolate Bar or Jelly Bean? well a small bean has a lot less calories then a chocolate bar, so I'll go for the bean, as long as it isn't a yucky purple one! lol
Coke or Pepsi? Neither, they have caffeine! yikes!
Hot Dog or Cheeseburger? Big Franks, cooked over a campfire! yummy!
Blinds or Curtains? Both
Dress or Pants? Dress
Sun or Moon? Moon, it doesn't hurt your eyes when you look at it.
Adventure or Comedy? Adventure mixed with a little bit of comedy!
Cloud or Star? Star
Lake or River? Lake
Half Full or Half Empty? Half Full
Truck or Car? car, perferably a volkswagon beetle!
Bath or Shower? Shower
Clothesline or Clothes Dryer? Clothes dryer
New or Second Hand? New
Gum or Lifesaver? Lifesaver
Email or Handwritten? Handwritten
July or October? July
Barefoot or Shoes? Shoes, I've cut my feet too many times going barefoot, but I do go barefoot around the house.

Baptism

My sister and I are going to be baptized this Sabbath. I'll be posting a video and pictures. :) Hopefully anyway. If I can get somebody to take the video. Maybe Korah will...

Another Picture

A picture I took of myself.

I collect pennies

I have 27 pressed pennies, most of them from zoos.

Stop taking my picture!

no, seriously I asked my sister to take a picture or my hair cause some of you wanted to see the highlights.

My sister and I

Banana Creme Pie

I made Banana creme pie for the first time. I got the recipe out of the vegetarian cookbook. My mom has had the cookbook even since we became vegetarian and she's never made it so I decided to make it and boy and I glad I did! It's delicious!

Banana Crème Pie
10 whole graham crackers, ground into fine crumbs (I used a blender to grind them).
¼ cup sugar
6 TBS melted soy margarine

¾ cup sugar
5 TBS cornstarch
1 ½ cups regular soy milk (or rice)
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt
2 TBS soy margarine
½ pound firm tofu
4 large bananas
1/3 cup coarsely chopped, roasted almonds (opt)

Combine the first three ingredients and mix thoroughly. Press along the bottom and along the sides of a 9.5 inch pie pan to make crust. Bake at 350 degrees until lightly toasted, about 20 minutes. Let cool.

Combine the sugar and cornstarch, then add the soymilk, (or rice) vanilla, and salt. Whisk until well blended. Add the soy margarine and boil over medium heat, stirring frequently, until very thick. Refrigerate until chilled, and then blend in a blender with the ½ lb tofu until smooth and creamy.

Slice the bananas over the cooled crust. Pour the custard on top. Sprinkle with the toasted nuts, and refrigerate until firm, at least an hour.

Photobucket is working again!

Here's sone of the videos we took of the fireworks. The voices you might hear are Korah, Levi and my sister.

fireworks

I was going to post some pictures and videos of the fireworks we watched saturday night. But apparentley photobucket is having some matience issues so I'll have to wait until later today or tomorrow...

Fun with Ally, AJ and Mandy

Here's a little mix of some of the videos and pictures of my sister and I in Indiana. You can see I added a few things to the pictures, I hope you think they're funny. I didn't do any of them to be mean, just to be goofy.


Hope you enjoyed watching us have fun!

I hope to visit AJ again next year!

wooooohooooo

comments

oops I was just moderating the comments and actsadentally hit reject instead of accept. I only got 6 hours sleep last night. Keep posting comments and next time I'll try to hit the right button!

Disturbing news

You know how I've been babysitting gabby all week. Well, on the last day, just half an hour before korah came to pick him up, he was murdered, by GUY! I am still in shock. I will never forget our beloved gabby. He was so cute and sweet and so innocent. Here are some videos of him enjoying the last few days of his short life.
Guy, my dog, didn't mean to kill him. He was just trying to have some fun, he wanted to play with him.

Big Guy

This is my Father's World

Beauty in the backyard

Even though we live in town were you normally don't see a lot of wildlife, we can still find beauty in nature!

Pet sitting

gabby the male dwarf hamster



and this is where he landed when he jumped!

in the trash. lol hahaha

Chomp the Lorikeet

I love fish

Maybe because I am one. lol.

Yesterday I passed level 3 in my swimming class. Moving on to level 4. I've never taken swimming lessons before in my life so I've taught myself how to swim.

I've decided what to name my fish. The orange and black one is Jasmine. The speckeled on is Taylor the 2nd.

Climbing trees

Two girls that love to climb trees! Do you know who they are?

Platies

My 2 new fish



My fish swimming

One wish!!!!!!!!!

If you had one wish what would you wish for? Something you've always wanted, money, a car, or something else???

;)

wow! just 7 days.

Family camp begins just a week from today!!!!!!!

Trading watches with Curtis

What a look

Teasing Curtis about something

http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=6gl1v6f

Video of my plane ride looking out the window

http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=67yzfau

no pictures

sorry no pics or videos yet. :( Maybe I'll just post them when I get back. :) Yeah, I know I'm a cheapskate. (sp?)

A quote for June 15

This quote is soooo true! I wish I wouldn't have gone out in the corn field for fun cause now I have a puncture wound on my foot!!! :(

"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures." Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I've arrived!

Hi Everyone,
I'm having a blast. We played soccer this morning and I have a scrape on my elbow/arm but it doesn't really hurt. I hope you have a great time at camp Maranda. Curtis is REALLY tall! As tall or taller then my dad! My flight was lots of fun.
I wish I would have brought my laptop with me though because they have wireless internet connection here!
We might go swimming at a pool. Their creek is more like a pond because it doesn't flow. But I haven't seen the other one which is farther away from the house. Well I have lots of things to do today so I'd better go.
Pictures later...
Alyssa

Gorillas

You can read more about them on http://www.koko.org/

I can't wait!

over worked, under payed too stressful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm quitting my job. wayyyyyyyyyyyyy toooooooooo STRESSFUL!!!!!!!!!!! makes me wanna pull my hair out and go swimming in the ocean!!!!!!!!!!!!! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!HHHHHH!

I had to do that.

I'm tooooooooo stressed out.

as you can tell.

I need a new job. if anyone knows where i can get one please let me know.
And I HATE bratty kids who don't liste to anything you say and steal bananas.

Lately

Well I got my hair cut 3 inches on Monday. I got an ID card with all my info and my right thumb print. Pretty cool.

On Tuesday I had a doctor appt. I had a hearing test and I passed! PTL!
I'm leaving to visit my friends in MN in just 6 days! I'm very excited! It'll be my first time on a plane alone. I don't know if I'm more excited about the flight or about spending 19 days with my friends. I'm more nervous then excited about the flight.