Soundtrack!

I finally bought it! The PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl soundtrack! I'm currently listening to it, in fact. Now all I need is a CD player in my room - or maybe I'll just buy a computer and play it on there. I can't find any headphones, though, which is annoying.
Quizzing registration was fun, though obviously not as fun as quiz practice, because we did have to listen while everything we already know was explained to the rookies. Our new youth pastor was there, too. I can totally not wait to do youth group with him and his wife this year! Oh, and their baby, of course. I'm really excited.

I always burn the top of my mouth when I eat pizza. It's annoying.

Me and my brother (okay, I guess it's my brother and I) did a whole lot of quizzing this morning. We're starting with Acts 1, and he's already got the first thirteen verses memorized. Well, they're a little patchy in bits and by no means word-perfect yet, but it's a really good start. I hope he doesn't lose his zeal as the year progresses - it can be really hard to stick with it, no matter how many verses you're memorizing.
Today has been kinda crazy so far - Dad took a big load of dirt (from digging for the patio) to the dump in a truck he rented. While he was there, the truck broke down, and so of course he called the company to say "um, excuse me, the truck you gave me just broke down, what kind of quality is that?" (well, okay, he didn't say exactly that) and they told him it was his fault for not listening to instructions! This could still be plausible, but the fact is, they didn't give him any instructions. So as you can imagine, he pointed this out. And they told him it was his responsibility to ask for directions, and it turned out that for them to send someone to help him get the truck started, he would have to pay more. So he just called a tow truck - because what kind of policy is THAT? "We'll give you a truck, but no instructions, and if you break it, we get MORE of your money!"
But the good news is, he got a new job, and his old boss gave him the rest of this week and next week off, I think as a sort of thank-you. It makes me feel a lot better about the fact that he's going to Toronto for three weeks for training as part of his new job. We'll be able to help Mike a lot. It really sucks that I'm starting school next week, though, because if I wasn't I could help more, too.
I found a pair of headphones, but the right side isn't working. Which makes the music a little one-dimensional, but it's better than nothing.

~Sil

Rain

Yes. It's raining. Quite hard. And it's kind of depressing, but it does mean I can wear my new cords today and maybe one of my new shirts. I want the snow to come again so I can make snow ice cream!
Yesterday I did, indeed, go to Mike's. He had a ton of stuff lined up so I was kept pretty busy, except for when I wasn't. If that made any sense at all. So by the time Dad came to pick me up at 10:30 I was pretty wiped! I love hanging around with all those people, though, they're so nice.
And guess what else happened yesterday! Well, for starters, it was August 29th, the day the Special Limited Edition 2-disc set of LotR came out. All three movies, so six discs in total. And I bought them! And I can't believe I have to wait TWO WEEKS for them to get here! You can watch either theatrical or extended versions on the same disc and there's an awesome feature-length documentary of the making of the movie. So I'm pretty hyped about that.
I really need to get to the music store. I need to buy my grade 8 books and hopefully a couple more pop books. My uncle did give me a whole stack of jazz/fake jazz books and sheet music, so I'm pretty excited about those.
This year of school is going to be so crazy! I'm working on my grade 8 piano, I'm starting high school, I'm memorizing all of Acts and going to quiz meets and practices, I'm likely going to be helping with the nomination and maybe an election later in the year (?)...but you know, at least I have a life. It would be way less interesting to sit at home, even though I won't have as much down time this year.
Well, I'm going to go shower and get dressed and do something until 6:30 - QUIZZING REGISTRATION! YAY! I'm soooooo excited!

~Sil

Last week!

Oh dear, only four more days of freedom before school starts...sigh. Summer went too fast.

Yesterday we had a potluck lunch at church, which was fun, and hung around until about 2:00. Afterwards I came home and worked on the patio all afternoon (with a slurpee break in the middle). Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was on TV last night, so me and my friend watched it at his house and ate PotC M&Ms (I bought them because they were PotC. I couldn't resist!) and popcorn and marshmallows and other unhealthy, yummy stuff. But they skipped the credits! I was so mad! The He's A Pirate song is played during the credits and it's my FAVORITE! I was so mad! I really need to buy the soundtrack.
Tonight I'm babysitting for my favorite twin boys, tomorrow night I'm think I'm going to go to Mike's and help him with some data entry, and Wednesday night is quizzing registration. I'm already getting busier! And school hasn't even started yet!
I fixed my laundry receptacle today, which made me proud of myself - it's a wooden frame with a fabric bag buttoned on and the bag was ripped, so I sewed it, and the frame had broken in one spot, so I glued it. That has been annoying me to no end, I'm glad I finally did something about it.
And the first youth event of the year is, like last year, a trip to the corn maze. Fun fun fun :)

~Sil

Pancakes

Well! The pancake breakfast was awesome. I met Monte Solberg, which was pretty thrilling, and Mike introduced me as his super-volunteer or something. I mean, come on. I haven't even been there for almost this whole month. But whatever, compliments are ALWAYS a good thing. Boy, I almost feel like not getting any older so that people will keep telling me how awesome it is that I'm involved in politics! By the way, Mike, if you're reading this, I mentioned you again. Now you have three.
Anyway, we had a good time drifting around talking to various people, and there was a fun draw at the end for ten Husky stuffed puppies and two BIG stuffed Huskies. Oh, and six frisbees. Three of my siblings won husky puppies and one of them won a frisbee, but my brother didn't want his puppy so he gave it to me. I didn't win anything. Typical. At the beginning, when I saw the draw was for "Ten Husky puppies and two husky dogs" I was like oh my goodness, REAL dogs? And I was pretty excited for a while until I found out they were little stuffies. Darn. I would be so thrilled to have a Husky, particularly a puppy. My dog would likely be thrilled, too.
I also met Rahim Jaffer, an MP for another part of Edmonton (I forget exactly which), who is pretty cool. We chatted for a bit. I also had a very interesting conversation with Jamie, Minister Solberg's assistant. She was telling me how she got the job and stuff. I love hanging around with political people! It rocks! So we ate pancakes and stuff, and headed home around noon, farming our kids as we went. No, I'm kidding. My sisters went to their friends' houses. So we people with no social lives (tee hee) worked on the patio and my LotR poster puzzle. It's green with Frodo and Sam on it. Now dad is watching football and I'm stealing computer time.

~Sil

It's Friday!

Yes, it is indeed Friday, the best day of the week in my humble opinion. Again, nothing extremely remarkable happened today. That's why I didn't post yesterday - it was essentially the same as the day before. I did, however, find a really good Pirates of the Caribbean web site - www.keeptothecode.com. The messageboard is the best part.
Pancake breakfast tomorrow! With Monte Solberg - YAY! And this week is bible quizzing registration, which is ALWAYS fun, and then we're going to visit some friends for a couple days. So more interesting things are coming up, my life isn't always this boring.

~Sil