Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells, Rabbits All The Way

Today has pretty much been the complete opposite of last week. Last week was crazy... My birthday Monday, which was pretty good. My parents got me some cool stuff, like a capo for my guitar and a 2 gig CF card for my pocket PC. After presents and a delicious dinner involving egg foo young, egg rolls, popcorn shrimp, and rice, we went to Dairy Queen for Blizzards (hmm...that reminds me...I still have leftovers of that. gosh. I should eat that tonight...). So not an overly eventful birthday, but the latter part of the week makes up for it.

Tuesday was insane... I left the house at two to go to basket ball/Ultimate Frisbee and didn't come home until 7:15 because directly after Teen Teams my youth group was working at the soup kitchen. It was awesome... we only get to do it twice a year, but I love every chance I get at it. Hanging with friends, making the food, and serving it is quite fun 'cause I always like to smile and say hi to all of the people in the dinner line. We had prime rib that night with mashed potatoes and gravy. It was DELICIOUS! Haha, when I got home my parents asked what I had there and when I told them they were like "What!?? You've gotta be kidding!" But no, as sure as I sit here and type this out to you all, that is what we had. No lie :)

Wednesday was another fairly busy day...School in the morning (like all the rest of the week, really), then in the afternoon from 3:30 to 5 I was volunteering at the library. That's going okay...for the first time ever I had a REAL conversation with one of my fellow volunteers. So, I guess that is progress. Ever since Dwight left and the newbs started, I've pretty much kept to myself and been fairly silent...sad, I know. I mean, you're probably thinking "what? Sarah Iddings not talking?" but yes, it's true.

Thursday wasn't real busy...sort of. Actually it was busy in it's own way, just not really outside of the house. Most of that day we were preparing for my big birthday bash that would happen the next night. Clearing out our basement, vacuuming, yeah. That sort of thing. And playing songs on my guitar with the capo I'd gotten earlier in the week! yay.

Then there's Friday...absolutely amazing. I went to choir in the morning with my friend David...this gal named Abigail recently started a small choir of us homeschoolers. There's only like 12 of us, but oh well. It's fun. We're learning songs from The Sound Of Music and are hopefully gonna perform them in February in the PCHE talent show. That would be cool. I'm discovering more and more that I enjoy performing like that. It's pretty cool.

The afternoon I was fairly busy... well, internet part of the time (hehe, can't go a day without chatting you camp hopies :) ) and then for two hours strait I was baking and frosting birthday cake. Whew! The cake was strawberry with chocolate frosting and pretty darn tasty, even if I do say so myself :) lol. Then there's that evening. now THAT was AWESOME! Totally the best birthday of my entire existence here so far. I had 11 friends over here around 6 and we played Apples to Apples and Dance Dance Revolution and had pizza....then at 7:15 Mrs.Gunkel & Mrs.Miller, two of the moms of some of the people I'd invited, drove us up to the Miller's house in their vans. When we got there, everyone headed into the garage where my friend's band, The Iron Chickens of America, put on an hour long rock concert for us all. It was great! They even wrote a special song for my birthday and had a dance contest, complete with prizes! First prize was a mountain dew, second was a mountain bar, and then they made up a special honorable mention award which they gave to me because they said I had "Sweet moves". haha actually I really can't dance. Or at least I don't think I can. But they awarded me any how, and I got the coolest award out of anyone =) They gave me their band poster which they've had for the past three years and taken to all their performances. Now it's hanging in my room on the wall :) A rather special piece of my room decor, really.

So, there was most of my past week....in summary. Actually I could just go on and on about my birthday party. lol.

Have a good day...or night...or afternoon....or morning...or whatever....haha