You told me I was a Princess
And not to settle for any other name
Any time you were there, you'd insist
Your respect and care was far from a game
I cried one night and wished for you
As soon as possible, you came through
Any hour, no matter how close the day's end
You were willing to be there. Truly a friend.
I remember your words of stars
How we'd catch them, they'd be ours
What the stars are, I now begin to realize
Seen now through new and different eyes
Some shine on my ceiling, some in a box
It was only recently I let them out of their locks
You kept your promise. Each star a glowing, happy memory
Each bright light seems to echo: "Remember me."
Granting their call, to their light I began to stare
Then dared to think you probably still care.
At least enough to turn a smile my way
I hope that care decides to stay.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Filled
A flutter of emotions enters into my heart
When wanting to express them, I think: Oh, but where to start?
I cannot always figure out if it's good or bad to reminisce
Is it happiness or sadness I feel when I read of that bliss?
Does anything I hold dear last?
Will everything repeat the words "It's only in the past" ?
I then remember that glance of genuine care and worry
Those words that tell me you will hurry
To stay up late and listen
To advise and console
And all those things I'm truly missin'
Feel like less of a black hole.
When wanting to express them, I think: Oh, but where to start?
I cannot always figure out if it's good or bad to reminisce
Is it happiness or sadness I feel when I read of that bliss?
Does anything I hold dear last?
Will everything repeat the words "It's only in the past" ?
I then remember that glance of genuine care and worry
Those words that tell me you will hurry
To stay up late and listen
To advise and console
And all those things I'm truly missin'
Feel like less of a black hole.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Leather Band
I open the door to those familiar eyes
The way they're fixed takes me by surprise
Before the door is pushed closed behind
More surprise and wonder I find
A warm and comforting circle surrounds
"I guess he missed me." are the words my mind found
Is it possible, even now, Still Aflame?
I'm careful to believe, tired of my heart's game
But everything is falling slowly back in to place
And I can't seem to keep my mind off of that face
That same look I remember, that outstretched hand
All of those thoughts and memories.. sealed in that leather band
Now my heart sings a song
That it knew all along
Is the tune a bit wrong?
... No matter, I'm out of that shell
Things are going quite well
I'm happy as ever - as anyone can tell.
The way they're fixed takes me by surprise
Before the door is pushed closed behind
More surprise and wonder I find
A warm and comforting circle surrounds
"I guess he missed me." are the words my mind found
Is it possible, even now, Still Aflame?
I'm careful to believe, tired of my heart's game
But everything is falling slowly back in to place
And I can't seem to keep my mind off of that face
That same look I remember, that outstretched hand
All of those thoughts and memories.. sealed in that leather band
Now my heart sings a song
That it knew all along
Is the tune a bit wrong?
... No matter, I'm out of that shell
Things are going quite well
I'm happy as ever - as anyone can tell.
Psychedelic!
Choir(?)
I have decided that speaking in a rediculous english accent makes things much more fun! Especially if, along with previously mentioned accent, you use and excess of words. Preferably intelligent sounding ones, but that's not always the case.
A few weeks ago there was this spark of a thought in me that I should join choir. Every other time I had thought about it all year, I thought: No, I don't have enough time.. or money.. or my brain came up with another excuse. And I didn't feel like it, I really just didn't want to. Then randomly and all of the sudden I wanted to. Quite badly actually.
So I emailed the choir teacher and told her I'd get with my counselor and tell her which choir classes my schedule would allow me to take. That appointment with my counselor will be on Monday. I'm kinda anxious to see how it goes.. because I really do want to be in the choir program again. I did it my freshman year, and Loved it. I had reasons for stopping rather than auditioning.. but now I've changed my mind.
I had another thought but I forgotted it. OH! Forgotted. That reminds me of Scales. Who I've finally been talking to and hanging out with again. I just gotta say, I've missed that girly. A LOT! I pretty much always have super duper fun times with her.That's all for now folks. See you next time on
Kiki's Incredibly Random Posts!
da da da duuuuum! :D
-- Love,
Kiki.
A few weeks ago there was this spark of a thought in me that I should join choir. Every other time I had thought about it all year, I thought: No, I don't have enough time.. or money.. or my brain came up with another excuse. And I didn't feel like it, I really just didn't want to. Then randomly and all of the sudden I wanted to. Quite badly actually.
So I emailed the choir teacher and told her I'd get with my counselor and tell her which choir classes my schedule would allow me to take. That appointment with my counselor will be on Monday. I'm kinda anxious to see how it goes.. because I really do want to be in the choir program again. I did it my freshman year, and Loved it. I had reasons for stopping rather than auditioning.. but now I've changed my mind.
I had another thought but I forgotted it. OH! Forgotted. That reminds me of Scales. Who I've finally been talking to and hanging out with again. I just gotta say, I've missed that girly. A LOT! I pretty much always have super duper fun times with her.That's all for now folks. See you next time on
Kiki's Incredibly Random Posts!
da da da duuuuum! :D
-- Love,
Kiki.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Maui!
I've now realized I didn't ever blog ANYTHING about Hawaii. Bad Kiki. No cookie.
SO!! This post is about Hawaii! :D (I'll probably be copying out of my journal for a lot of it.. edited, of course.)
Thursday, July 15 2010. Reno, Nev. to Sunnyvale, CA.
Day of the Dog Lufa
This morning we were in Reno [not Rino] at Steve's house. We started traveling just after 10 AM and arrived in Sunnyvale (close to San Jose) around 3:30 PM. I got all sicky in the car. We think it was sour milk... whatever it was, it wasn't fun. We arrived and were attacked by Sheila and her boys. Grandma came out too, but she doesn't attack. TallTanGeek [I know, uber creative nickname.. I'll think of a better one when I feel like it] isn't here, he's working... at a big state scout camp or something. I MISS HIM! It's enough to almost make me cry. I LOVE my geeky cousin. :) He'll be here when we get back from Hawaii :)
We went to the park with Ben, MasterMind, Sam, and OBaby. They were playing Lava Tag (or something of a similar title) and.. a 'new friend' joined in. Definitely a very.. friendly.. friend. We didn't stay long.
We then went to Sweet Tomatoes. YUM! I ate too much.. but not as much too much as I usually do there. And of that I was proud.
Friday, July 16, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Warm Ocean
We are IN Hawaii! In an island called Maui. It takes all day to drive around it, but we're only going to go that far when we go to the other side of it to the black sand beach. It's black because of lava rocks :D Anyway I'm SUPER excited! Sometime, The Muffin is going to take my senior pics outside in the beautiful flowery/ pooly area. Yay! And the ocean is WARM! I heart it! I want to spend a LOT of time on the beach. We went to a fish restaurant today. The Sands of Kahuna [spelling may be incorrect] and I had swordfish! It was tasty. And I discovered that I like shrimp (after years of not liking it at all). I wouldn't try mushrooms though. No, no. I already get easily queezy these past couple days. P.S. I need more sleep.
Oh, P.S. again. I wrote a postcard to my friends, I just have yet to send it off because I need to look up the address and get a postage stamp.
Another P.S. Plantation. Tour. Learned a bit about different foiloage here. Coconuts actually have coconut water, not milk. If it's white [instead of clear] it will give you diarrhea.. eeew..
Saturday, July 17, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Water in My Air.
...and cute boy :D
Today we went to a boring orientation at the hotel... but they had pineapple and fruit drink and donuts. After that we went to the beach! Yay! I Love the water here! So warm and stuff. And the sand isn't all ouch to your feet like it is in Oregon... After beachness... oh wait, go back. While we were enjoying the ocean, we got salt water in our eyes and mouths... "Salt water on YOU, salt water on ya FAMILY, salt water on ya COW!..." hahaha :D
Then we went shopping. I bought a sarong (which ripped D: exchanging it tomorrow) a shark tooth necklace, a plumeria ( a flower that's like a frangipani only I learned frangipani's are Tahitian, not Hawaiin) bracelet, and we got shell necklaces free when we walked in with a friendly Aloha. I Love Hawaii. :) At random stores around where we ate I got an Abalone necklace (very pretty) and two aqua marine shells to put on necklaces for Twin and I (at the Lahaina Scrimshaw - carving of ivory ~ bone of elephant, mammoth, walrus and such) the shells screamed Claire. :D I also got pineapple keychains for friends and a surfboard keychain for LittleSis at the ABC store. While shopping downtown Lahaina, we passed a fiddle player. We gave him our spare change. He made his fingerboard out of abalone! So beautiful! He also let mom play his fiddle!! The fiddle had a place for 5 strings. there were 4 on it. We saw a painter, too. He asked if we were from 'parkasity' ... huh? OH, Park City... haha. He painted very well. Another incident down Front Street... :) ... as we were walking we hear someone say "Aloha" and my grandma says "Aloha" back. I turned to see who it was and.. well refer to the subtitle of today :D Yes, he was really cute. Muffin agreed. :) She "took a picture of me" [but was really trying to take a picture of him] but we were too far away by then to get a good one and then he walked away. Sad day :( It was a puppy pout moment. Muffin then resolved to take pictures with every cute guy she saw there.
Monday, July 19, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Happy Milk.
Why? Mostly because MasterMind waster feeling good and she thought RiceDream would help. that, water, and deep breathing DID help. But Mind said it's her happy milk. Also! We had fresh coconut water (which people think is milk.. but if it's not clean it will actually make you sicky. Although! The meat in the coconut can be made into a milk. And THAT isn't the sicky stuff :)) It was good! We also went to the beach. Again. :D And... lunch at the plantation. But we all agreed it wasn't very good. Grandma said it used to be much better.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Maui, HI.
Picture Day.
Senior pics.. were like any photoshoot, really. Some shots I liked a LOT and some.. not so much. but it was good :) Later, we made leis and had a pro photoshoot here at the resort! It took a laaarge chunk out of our beach time, which The Muffin was really unhappy about.. but I liked it. We even bought the photos. Well, grandma did. Thanks grandma :) We got the CD too, so I'll be posting later.. some in my senior pics album because we took some individuals. :)
Later we went to K... something beach. It was kinda rocky but cool Muffin and Mind swam with turtles! Awesome!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Maui, HI.
Snorkel day!
Now I've swam with turtles too! :D I got really tired and sore though.. we went to another K... something beach. It's been my favorite so far. Sand - not rock - even in deeper water. Soft on the feet :D That night was.. some preteen drama. Oh MasterMind...
Thursday, July 22, 2010. Maui, HI.
Trip to Hana!
We went to the black sand beach! It was cool! We also went to Ohaio [spelled wrong I know it..] Gulch. Otherwise known as the seven sacred pools. COLD and windy.. but so so beautiful and fun to climb! The road to Hana is a hard one. Narrow, up the mountain, windy, makes you very carsick, scary, people needing to pass on a one and a half car size road.. it was quite the adventure. :)
Saturday, July 24, 2010. Sunnyvale, CA.
The Day of the Opera Truck
So we have now come back to California! It was sad to leave HI... but I'm going to be glad to be home. AND while we're still in CA for a day I get to see TallTanGeek! [That name keeps making me laugh.. maybe I'll keep it after all :D]
We attacked TTG as soon as he was in the garage :D We talked for a bit and got on the subject of Toy Story 3. TTG had seen it, but Muffin and Kiki had not! So....
"I have a truck!"
"I have money!"
"I have money too!"
And we were off :D I absolutely adore last minute adventures! :D
On the way there Phantom of the Opera music came on TTG's Mp3 and Muffin and I sang with it. We had the windows down and TTG told us later people were looking at us really funny. :D
This reminded me of an earlier incident that I don't think I've written about yet... We were coming back from shopping or something and we drove through a smallish parking lot. I see this guy (a couple of guys, actually) and I don't really look at him [note to self, smile at all cute guys while on vacation. (or anywhere..) Especially if you know he's looking at you. Eedoy. Now if I could actually have the unshyness to make myself start doing that, that would be an accomplishment.] but anyway the next I really see of him he's bumped into his friend (who was right in front of him...) Muffin then laughs and says
"That guy was was totally checking Kiki out, didn't pay attention, and ran into his friend."
my mom added
"That's what it looked like to me, too."
It was all rather flattering and thinking back on it I do kinda remember him looking like he was looking at me. Woah run on sentence. :P So he could have been looking at me. Now you understand my note to self from earlier.. :)
Hang on. Wrist stretch. Ow. Don't wanna get carpel tunnel.. or however you spell it..
Anyway, back to Toy Story 3. SO GOOD! It made me cry.. but I'm such a BABY lately that that's not much of a surprise. It was all so cleverly made and the dialogue was bery bery goot. :) Great job Disney Pixar!
I'm going to miss TTG. A LOT! I don't know when I'll next see him.. probably years from now! He's moving! And going on his mission probably soonish. I Love this guy :)
I miss my friends at home! I can't wait to see them!!
That's the end :D There's your HI and Cali update. I Love you all!
--Kiki
SO!! This post is about Hawaii! :D (I'll probably be copying out of my journal for a lot of it.. edited, of course.)
Thursday, July 15 2010. Reno, Nev. to Sunnyvale, CA.
Day of the Dog Lufa
This morning we were in Reno [not Rino] at Steve's house. We started traveling just after 10 AM and arrived in Sunnyvale (close to San Jose) around 3:30 PM. I got all sicky in the car. We think it was sour milk... whatever it was, it wasn't fun. We arrived and were attacked by Sheila and her boys. Grandma came out too, but she doesn't attack. TallTanGeek [I know, uber creative nickname.. I'll think of a better one when I feel like it] isn't here, he's working... at a big state scout camp or something. I MISS HIM! It's enough to almost make me cry. I LOVE my geeky cousin. :) He'll be here when we get back from Hawaii :)
We went to the park with Ben, MasterMind, Sam, and OBaby. They were playing Lava Tag (or something of a similar title) and.. a 'new friend' joined in. Definitely a very.. friendly.. friend. We didn't stay long.
We then went to Sweet Tomatoes. YUM! I ate too much.. but not as much too much as I usually do there. And of that I was proud.
Friday, July 16, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Warm Ocean
We are IN Hawaii! In an island called Maui. It takes all day to drive around it, but we're only going to go that far when we go to the other side of it to the black sand beach. It's black because of lava rocks :D Anyway I'm SUPER excited! Sometime, The Muffin is going to take my senior pics outside in the beautiful flowery/ pooly area. Yay! And the ocean is WARM! I heart it! I want to spend a LOT of time on the beach. We went to a fish restaurant today. The Sands of Kahuna [spelling may be incorrect] and I had swordfish! It was tasty. And I discovered that I like shrimp (after years of not liking it at all). I wouldn't try mushrooms though. No, no. I already get easily queezy these past couple days. P.S. I need more sleep.
Oh, P.S. again. I wrote a postcard to my friends, I just have yet to send it off because I need to look up the address and get a postage stamp.
Another P.S. Plantation. Tour. Learned a bit about different foiloage here. Coconuts actually have coconut water, not milk. If it's white [instead of clear] it will give you diarrhea.. eeew..
Saturday, July 17, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Water in My Air.
...and cute boy :D
Today we went to a boring orientation at the hotel... but they had pineapple and fruit drink and donuts. After that we went to the beach! Yay! I Love the water here! So warm and stuff. And the sand isn't all ouch to your feet like it is in Oregon... After beachness... oh wait, go back. While we were enjoying the ocean, we got salt water in our eyes and mouths... "Salt water on YOU, salt water on ya FAMILY, salt water on ya COW!..." hahaha :D
Then we went shopping. I bought a sarong (which ripped D: exchanging it tomorrow) a shark tooth necklace, a plumeria ( a flower that's like a frangipani only I learned frangipani's are Tahitian, not Hawaiin) bracelet, and we got shell necklaces free when we walked in with a friendly Aloha. I Love Hawaii. :) At random stores around where we ate I got an Abalone necklace (very pretty) and two aqua marine shells to put on necklaces for Twin and I (at the Lahaina Scrimshaw - carving of ivory ~ bone of elephant, mammoth, walrus and such) the shells screamed Claire. :D I also got pineapple keychains for friends and a surfboard keychain for LittleSis at the ABC store. While shopping downtown Lahaina, we passed a fiddle player. We gave him our spare change. He made his fingerboard out of abalone! So beautiful! He also let mom play his fiddle!! The fiddle had a place for 5 strings. there were 4 on it. We saw a painter, too. He asked if we were from 'parkasity' ... huh? OH, Park City... haha. He painted very well. Another incident down Front Street... :) ... as we were walking we hear someone say "Aloha" and my grandma says "Aloha" back. I turned to see who it was and.. well refer to the subtitle of today :D Yes, he was really cute. Muffin agreed. :) She "took a picture of me" [but was really trying to take a picture of him] but we were too far away by then to get a good one and then he walked away. Sad day :( It was a puppy pout moment. Muffin then resolved to take pictures with every cute guy she saw there.
Monday, July 19, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Happy Milk.
Why? Mostly because MasterMind waster feeling good and she thought RiceDream would help. that, water, and deep breathing DID help. But Mind said it's her happy milk. Also! We had fresh coconut water (which people think is milk.. but if it's not clean it will actually make you sicky. Although! The meat in the coconut can be made into a milk. And THAT isn't the sicky stuff :)) It was good! We also went to the beach. Again. :D And... lunch at the plantation. But we all agreed it wasn't very good. Grandma said it used to be much better.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Maui, HI.
Picture Day.
Senior pics.. were like any photoshoot, really. Some shots I liked a LOT and some.. not so much. but it was good :) Later, we made leis and had a pro photoshoot here at the resort! It took a laaarge chunk out of our beach time, which The Muffin was really unhappy about.. but I liked it. We even bought the photos. Well, grandma did. Thanks grandma :) We got the CD too, so I'll be posting later.. some in my senior pics album because we took some individuals. :)
Later we went to K... something beach. It was kinda rocky but cool Muffin and Mind swam with turtles! Awesome!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Maui, HI.
Snorkel day!
Now I've swam with turtles too! :D I got really tired and sore though.. we went to another K... something beach. It's been my favorite so far. Sand - not rock - even in deeper water. Soft on the feet :D That night was.. some preteen drama. Oh MasterMind...
Thursday, July 22, 2010. Maui, HI.
Trip to Hana!
We went to the black sand beach! It was cool! We also went to Ohaio [spelled wrong I know it..] Gulch. Otherwise known as the seven sacred pools. COLD and windy.. but so so beautiful and fun to climb! The road to Hana is a hard one. Narrow, up the mountain, windy, makes you very carsick, scary, people needing to pass on a one and a half car size road.. it was quite the adventure. :)
Saturday, July 24, 2010. Sunnyvale, CA.
The Day of the Opera Truck
So we have now come back to California! It was sad to leave HI... but I'm going to be glad to be home. AND while we're still in CA for a day I get to see TallTanGeek! [That name keeps making me laugh.. maybe I'll keep it after all :D]
We attacked TTG as soon as he was in the garage :D We talked for a bit and got on the subject of Toy Story 3. TTG had seen it, but Muffin and Kiki had not! So....
"I have a truck!"
"I have money!"
"I have money too!"
And we were off :D I absolutely adore last minute adventures! :D
On the way there Phantom of the Opera music came on TTG's Mp3 and Muffin and I sang with it. We had the windows down and TTG told us later people were looking at us really funny. :D
This reminded me of an earlier incident that I don't think I've written about yet... We were coming back from shopping or something and we drove through a smallish parking lot. I see this guy (a couple of guys, actually) and I don't really look at him [note to self, smile at all cute guys while on vacation. (or anywhere..) Especially if you know he's looking at you. Eedoy. Now if I could actually have the unshyness to make myself start doing that, that would be an accomplishment.] but anyway the next I really see of him he's bumped into his friend (who was right in front of him...) Muffin then laughs and says
"That guy was was totally checking Kiki out, didn't pay attention, and ran into his friend."
my mom added
"That's what it looked like to me, too."
It was all rather flattering and thinking back on it I do kinda remember him looking like he was looking at me. Woah run on sentence. :P So he could have been looking at me. Now you understand my note to self from earlier.. :)
Hang on. Wrist stretch. Ow. Don't wanna get carpel tunnel.. or however you spell it..
Anyway, back to Toy Story 3. SO GOOD! It made me cry.. but I'm such a BABY lately that that's not much of a surprise. It was all so cleverly made and the dialogue was bery bery goot. :) Great job Disney Pixar!
I'm going to miss TTG. A LOT! I don't know when I'll next see him.. probably years from now! He's moving! And going on his mission probably soonish. I Love this guy :)
I miss my friends at home! I can't wait to see them!!
That's the end :D There's your HI and Cali update. I Love you all!
--Kiki
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Petals Forget
I wrote this a while ago, and put dried up rose petals that looked like tears on it. Here ya go.
Those who quickly fall in
Just as easily fall out
The head of my rose droops down
The petals fall, forget them all
Forget
Them
All
These petals
are as tears
There are those who take the petals...
Press them
Try to save them.
Should I try too?
Or when they fall
Forget
Them
All?
Forget each fall?
Those who quickly fall in
Just as easily fall out
The head of my rose droops down
The petals fall, forget them all
Forget
Them
All
These petals
are as tears
There are those who take the petals...
Press them
Try to save them.
Should I try too?
Or when they fall
Forget
Them
All?
Forget each fall?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Stomach Bone Stew
or Pig Limb Stew
My mom told me to help make dinner. Ok. What do I need to do? Well, you chop up some of the usual stuff [carrots, celery, onions] and then put the ham bone in. I did a double take - wait what? Ham bone. Seriously? She showed it to me.. yup. A ham bone. So later after the beans have soaked for two hours - yeah, this soup is weird - I chop up the stuff (well, The Muffin does as I got sharp pains in my wrist every time I tried to chop.. THAT'S from my rifle, but I Love Colorguard anyway. Plus I'll have super strong wrists!) and take the ham bone out of the bag. Yummy! :P I held it over the pot and told The Muffin to look over.. 'ew.' So as I stirred the stew and ham bone, I commented
"This bone looks like a limb... because it is!"
That cracked The Muffin up a whole lot, as most of you can see by how she put it as her status. Then, my mind already in rediculous mode or something, I said
"At first I thought it was like, a stomach bone, but no, it's a leg or something."
THAT really got to Muffin as well. STOMACH bone?! BAHAHAHA! Hey, I meant rib okay?? It's kinda close...
And thus the beginnings of the Stomach Bone Stew! Doesn't it look so good?
Yeah, not really, I hope it'll taste differently than it looks... :)
My mom told me to help make dinner. Ok. What do I need to do? Well, you chop up some of the usual stuff [carrots, celery, onions] and then put the ham bone in. I did a double take - wait what? Ham bone. Seriously? She showed it to me.. yup. A ham bone. So later after the beans have soaked for two hours - yeah, this soup is weird - I chop up the stuff (well, The Muffin does as I got sharp pains in my wrist every time I tried to chop.. THAT'S from my rifle, but I Love Colorguard anyway. Plus I'll have super strong wrists!) and take the ham bone out of the bag. Yummy! :P I held it over the pot and told The Muffin to look over.. 'ew.' So as I stirred the stew and ham bone, I commented
"This bone looks like a limb... because it is!"
That cracked The Muffin up a whole lot, as most of you can see by how she put it as her status. Then, my mind already in rediculous mode or something, I said
"At first I thought it was like, a stomach bone, but no, it's a leg or something."
THAT really got to Muffin as well. STOMACH bone?! BAHAHAHA! Hey, I meant rib okay?? It's kinda close...
And thus the beginnings of the Stomach Bone Stew! Doesn't it look so good?
Yeah, not really, I hope it'll taste differently than it looks... :)
Friday, June 11, 2010
Three Rings
[[I decided to find a couple of pictures to better illustrate. Sorry for the bad quality of figure 2:)]]
This is the tale of a cloud and three rings
These seem like they'd be three entwined things
You'd think they would all be connected, like so: [[see figure one]]
but the resistance from 1 to 3 may only grow
So when these rings seem stuck like this: [[see figure two]]- can you fiddle?
...Imagine the delicate balance for the one in the middle
Ring 2, linked with both, and 2 & 3 find
That maybe ring 1 is differently twined
Now ring 2 is forced to split it's design
A certain way for ring 3, for ring 1 another twine
Sometimes it seems 2's twine mirrors 1 - like one may expect
And when this happens, ring 3 can't connect
So down ring 3 drops, to a cloud who softens the fall
3 is only slightly damaged, and back up begins to call
Then a notion comes in a small, painful burst
"Maybe ring 1 will always come first"
But after the jolt, ring 2 is soon to follow
To reconnect with ring 3, who feels hollow
It now becomes clear: ring 1 liked the change
So up it pulls, keeping 3 out of range
At the sight of ring 2, 3 had started to jump
Only now, too far away, lands with a thump
But it's not too bad, as it soon figures out
The cloud is there to help stop the pout
Thankful for the comfort and lift, 3 then ascends
Now in sight of ring 2, and they make amends
Still, 1 wants to lead, and when 3 comes to click
1 pushes on with a defiant kick
Hoping this unit won't much longer estrange
Rings 2 and 3 work for a change
3 has a piece of the cloud, tied on for a constant reminder
That something's on her side, should doubt again find her
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Atlanta!
Oh goodness there is a lot to write. I apologize for this post being SO long! Just think of it as six posts shoved in to one, because that's just what it is. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and today. Here we go!
I just gotta say - I Love my cousins! Quentin, Ciena and Guenith are SO cute! Quentin is quite the performer, and almost always has something funny to say. What makes it even better is that sometimes he puts on that he's not trying to be funny - which, in reality, he is. Once, after
I laughed at something he said, he demanded:
"You think I'm bein' FUNNY?"
"Yep."
"WELL I AM!" It was hillarous. I think Quentin is um... six or seven now..? Maybe. I could ask but I'm too lazy.
Georgia has been super duper awesome! An adventure every day. No such thing as bored while I've been here :)
Monday - Renaissance Festival! They had a whole big wood village and everything! It was so cool! People dressed up, too. Some of that was.. scarey. Some people were wearing way too many layers and corsets and such for this hot, humid, southern weather.. and some.. well, weren't wearing enough. Yuck :P My aunt observed that going to these things makes her feel better about her shape, because some people really shouldn't wear midriff (I know I spelled that wrong..) showing clothing. -shudder- One thing that I'll never forget about going to the Renaissance Festival is meeting the queen. A few minutes after we walked in, this member of the royal guard or something came up to Ciena and gave her a coin. He asked her to give it to the queen when she saw her, and tell her it was for shopping. Well, a little while into our travels of the town, we found the royal pavillion. (Of course it was the most shaded area of the whole establishment. It was *Almost* cool [temperature wise]. Almost.) After the queen wqas done talking to some other royal subjects, Ciena went up to her, all shy like she does, held out the coin and very quietly said "This is for shopping." The queen got a huge smile on her face and yelled "Shopping! Shopping!" If I didn't know she was acting I'd be a little concerned.. all of the queen's ladies in waiting came around, very excited. Ciena was startled by the flurry of bright colored skirts and turned around to hide in mommy's arms. The queen said she must give this beautiful little girl a gift for giving her shopping money. (Bronwen and I were confused, shouldn't the queen get enough shopping money already? I guess not in this town. But it was still pretty cool :)) The queen gave Ciena a little plastic pink ring. Ciena was overjoyed. She wore it the rest of the day. And the next, and the next. And who can blame her? Wouldn't you be excited if you got jewelery from the Queen herself? :) There was also a joust, acrobats, flexible daredevils, fire jugglers, glass blowing, and much much more. Also, as you can expect in the south, there was tons of fried food. Fried pickles, fried chicken, even fried mac and cheese on a stick! Ew. (Most of the stuff at the festival was 'on a stick'... as if that made it any more awesome...? Haha I guess it does. Go sticks! :P) Later, Ciena and Quentin both got wooden swords. They would later decorate them with jewels and gold ribbon. It was a fun experience :)
Tuesday: Six flags! Roller coasters, roller coasters, and more roller coasters! It was so much fun! I'll tell you about the most exciting ones. My favorite was: Superman, Ultimate Flight. This wasn't just any old fast roller coaster with large hills and loops. No no, it was a fast roller coaster that you rode HORIZONTAL with high hills and loops and stuff. And even my favorite aspect of new roller coasters, which I call the "DNA twist" because it looks like a piece of DNA. At the start of the ride, you're vertical. Then they lower the little platform under you and switch the seats so you're in a position to fly like Superman! It's really awesome :)
Another strange but thrilling experience was that Scorcher. A standing up roller coaster. That's right, you stand up. You're still perfectly locked in, but the weight shifting is quite different, especially on loops. My legs were all tingly afterwords. We also went on there tallest ride, Goliath. Fairly named, I think. No loops or quick turns, just a lot of really really REALLY tall hills. It was awesome :) And guess what?! After that we got pictures with Bugs and Daffy! :D Daffy is my favorite Loony Tunes character! We almost missed them, but then I saw Bugs' long ears over the fence they just went through behind the picture taking area. I yelled, there they are! Daffy then opened the gate, saw us, hid behind the gate, popped back out and came over to greet us. It was pretty great :) I got a squished penny of the Superman coaster. :)
Wednesday: World of Coke! Old commercials about coke, info about the making of coke, a little reading about the guy who came up with coke, learning that most of the soda's and fruit drinks I know about are owned by coke, and a tasting room, full of unlimited coke products. In other words, a lot of coke. And sugar :) The best part is, we all got to take a little bottle of coke home with us :) I like coke, but it always reminds me of being sick because my mom and dad would always get it for me when I was little when my tummy was upset. The syrup helps it or something. We later learned it's just the sugar that helps. All in all, too much soda for me that day, after being used to not drinking any maybe more than once a month. Woof. I hope Tiave isn't reading this.. haha.. but he'd probably understand. I mean, WORLD of Coke?! Seriously, how can you not drink soda on World of Coke day? :)
Thursday: The famous and fabulous Georgia Aquarium! It's the largest in the world! More than like 8 million gallons of water or something. Das a lot a aqua. :P It was majorly awesome!! Tank tunnels, otters, whale sharks, scary fish, cute fish... etc. There were SO many different kinds of sea creatures! My favorite there was the Balooga. Yes, Balooga. It's a real animal. It's a mammal, too! It's a kind of whale. It's white, big, and simply beautiful. I have a little plush toy of one :) I think this is also the day we went to Ariel's soccer game. And her team won, of course :) Go Atlanta! haha :) And Ariel really does look very young and beautiful. You wouldn't think she had three little ones and had been married for ten years :) That night I got online and chatted with some friends. I miss you all so much! I can't wait to be home!
Friday: Was a pretty relaxed day. We went to this barbeque place where I discovered, again, that I like pork better than stake.. BUT they had these really really good cheese roll things. Yum yum yum! We also went swimming, in the rain! Ok so it only rained for a little bit but it was still cool! The water was all spotty and awesome :) Later that day we watched Gone With The Wind. Good, but LONG. And I will never be like Scarlet Oherra. :P The only characters I actually liked in that film were Melony, Mammy, and sometimes Rhett. Sometimes.
Today: Also a pretty relaxed day. We went to the pool, but I didn't feel like swimming. I was the target thrower and ref for the game TheMuffin and FunagendaE were playing. And.... I got a sunburn. On my legs! That never happens! My legs never burn! But I was sitting on the edge of the pool, exsposing them to the hot georgia sun... They hurt a bit, but it's still kinda awesome. Haha first sunburn of the season! :D
COMING HOME TODAY! Late, but I'm coming! Being away made me realize even more how much I Love home! I miss everyone! I miss guard, my friends, and good ol' dry Utah. I'm excited to be back!
Thanks for reading through this SixDaySmashedTogetherPost. See you soon :)
--Kiki
I just gotta say - I Love my cousins! Quentin, Ciena and Guenith are SO cute! Quentin is quite the performer, and almost always has something funny to say. What makes it even better is that sometimes he puts on that he's not trying to be funny - which, in reality, he is. Once, after
I laughed at something he said, he demanded:
"You think I'm bein' FUNNY?"
"Yep."
"WELL I AM!" It was hillarous. I think Quentin is um... six or seven now..? Maybe. I could ask but I'm too lazy.
Georgia has been super duper awesome! An adventure every day. No such thing as bored while I've been here :)
Monday - Renaissance Festival! They had a whole big wood village and everything! It was so cool! People dressed up, too. Some of that was.. scarey. Some people were wearing way too many layers and corsets and such for this hot, humid, southern weather.. and some.. well, weren't wearing enough. Yuck :P My aunt observed that going to these things makes her feel better about her shape, because some people really shouldn't wear midriff (I know I spelled that wrong..) showing clothing. -shudder- One thing that I'll never forget about going to the Renaissance Festival is meeting the queen. A few minutes after we walked in, this member of the royal guard or something came up to Ciena and gave her a coin. He asked her to give it to the queen when she saw her, and tell her it was for shopping. Well, a little while into our travels of the town, we found the royal pavillion. (Of course it was the most shaded area of the whole establishment. It was *Almost* cool [temperature wise]. Almost.) After the queen wqas done talking to some other royal subjects, Ciena went up to her, all shy like she does, held out the coin and very quietly said "This is for shopping." The queen got a huge smile on her face and yelled "Shopping! Shopping!" If I didn't know she was acting I'd be a little concerned.. all of the queen's ladies in waiting came around, very excited. Ciena was startled by the flurry of bright colored skirts and turned around to hide in mommy's arms. The queen said she must give this beautiful little girl a gift for giving her shopping money. (Bronwen and I were confused, shouldn't the queen get enough shopping money already? I guess not in this town. But it was still pretty cool :)) The queen gave Ciena a little plastic pink ring. Ciena was overjoyed. She wore it the rest of the day. And the next, and the next. And who can blame her? Wouldn't you be excited if you got jewelery from the Queen herself? :) There was also a joust, acrobats, flexible daredevils, fire jugglers, glass blowing, and much much more. Also, as you can expect in the south, there was tons of fried food. Fried pickles, fried chicken, even fried mac and cheese on a stick! Ew. (Most of the stuff at the festival was 'on a stick'... as if that made it any more awesome...? Haha I guess it does. Go sticks! :P) Later, Ciena and Quentin both got wooden swords. They would later decorate them with jewels and gold ribbon. It was a fun experience :)
Tuesday: Six flags! Roller coasters, roller coasters, and more roller coasters! It was so much fun! I'll tell you about the most exciting ones. My favorite was: Superman, Ultimate Flight. This wasn't just any old fast roller coaster with large hills and loops. No no, it was a fast roller coaster that you rode HORIZONTAL with high hills and loops and stuff. And even my favorite aspect of new roller coasters, which I call the "DNA twist" because it looks like a piece of DNA. At the start of the ride, you're vertical. Then they lower the little platform under you and switch the seats so you're in a position to fly like Superman! It's really awesome :)
Another strange but thrilling experience was that Scorcher. A standing up roller coaster. That's right, you stand up. You're still perfectly locked in, but the weight shifting is quite different, especially on loops. My legs were all tingly afterwords. We also went on there tallest ride, Goliath. Fairly named, I think. No loops or quick turns, just a lot of really really REALLY tall hills. It was awesome :) And guess what?! After that we got pictures with Bugs and Daffy! :D Daffy is my favorite Loony Tunes character! We almost missed them, but then I saw Bugs' long ears over the fence they just went through behind the picture taking area. I yelled, there they are! Daffy then opened the gate, saw us, hid behind the gate, popped back out and came over to greet us. It was pretty great :) I got a squished penny of the Superman coaster. :)
Wednesday: World of Coke! Old commercials about coke, info about the making of coke, a little reading about the guy who came up with coke, learning that most of the soda's and fruit drinks I know about are owned by coke, and a tasting room, full of unlimited coke products. In other words, a lot of coke. And sugar :) The best part is, we all got to take a little bottle of coke home with us :) I like coke, but it always reminds me of being sick because my mom and dad would always get it for me when I was little when my tummy was upset. The syrup helps it or something. We later learned it's just the sugar that helps. All in all, too much soda for me that day, after being used to not drinking any maybe more than once a month. Woof. I hope Tiave isn't reading this.. haha.. but he'd probably understand. I mean, WORLD of Coke?! Seriously, how can you not drink soda on World of Coke day? :)
Thursday: The famous and fabulous Georgia Aquarium! It's the largest in the world! More than like 8 million gallons of water or something. Das a lot a aqua. :P It was majorly awesome!! Tank tunnels, otters, whale sharks, scary fish, cute fish... etc. There were SO many different kinds of sea creatures! My favorite there was the Balooga. Yes, Balooga. It's a real animal. It's a mammal, too! It's a kind of whale. It's white, big, and simply beautiful. I have a little plush toy of one :) I think this is also the day we went to Ariel's soccer game. And her team won, of course :) Go Atlanta! haha :) And Ariel really does look very young and beautiful. You wouldn't think she had three little ones and had been married for ten years :) That night I got online and chatted with some friends. I miss you all so much! I can't wait to be home!
Friday: Was a pretty relaxed day. We went to this barbeque place where I discovered, again, that I like pork better than stake.. BUT they had these really really good cheese roll things. Yum yum yum! We also went swimming, in the rain! Ok so it only rained for a little bit but it was still cool! The water was all spotty and awesome :) Later that day we watched Gone With The Wind. Good, but LONG. And I will never be like Scarlet Oherra. :P The only characters I actually liked in that film were Melony, Mammy, and sometimes Rhett. Sometimes.
Today: Also a pretty relaxed day. We went to the pool, but I didn't feel like swimming. I was the target thrower and ref for the game TheMuffin and FunagendaE were playing. And.... I got a sunburn. On my legs! That never happens! My legs never burn! But I was sitting on the edge of the pool, exsposing them to the hot georgia sun... They hurt a bit, but it's still kinda awesome. Haha first sunburn of the season! :D
COMING HOME TODAY! Late, but I'm coming! Being away made me realize even more how much I Love home! I miss everyone! I miss guard, my friends, and good ol' dry Utah. I'm excited to be back!
Thanks for reading through this SixDaySmashedTogetherPost. See you soon :)
--Kiki
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