The most non sequitorious post ever.

Hello my adoring public...or just public. There is no semblance of flow in this post, so bear with me. Life has this crazy habit of sneaking up on you and tapping you on the shoulder, but when you turn around he isn't there, but there is tap on your other shoulder. That makes sense right? Anyway, things have been pretty good over here. I finished my Vector Calculus class yesterday, which is a huge relief. Tell me if there is a logical fallacy in this statement: Crazy people go out during the holidays. I was out during the holidays. I must be crazy! Christmas is almost upon us, and our tree is very well supported by presents. I am a very blesséd child. I have winter reading over break: Heart of Darkness and Midsummer night’s dream. Midsummer night’s dream is a funny book to be reading in midwinter but hey whatever. My friend Crystal got married yesterday. She’s eighteen and went off to school only in august, and has now gone and gotten married, but what are you going to do. My sister and I aren’t quite done shopping, so guess what we are doing tomorrow? Oh yeah we went to see Mannheim Steamroller a week and a half ago. Very cool! I’ve now put my application in for USC, Stanford, Yale, a Pennsylvanian school Swarthmore, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, BYU, and MIT. That is a lot of opportunity for “We regret to inform you’s” Cross your fingers everybody that there are only a few if not any! Working the day after Christmas, which means no shopping with mother. I am actually really bummed about this, since as most of you know, and you do now if you didn’t, shopping with my mom is one of the most awesome things to do. N-E-Ways…not much else to report. As things pop up, I’ll let you know. Kieran P.S. You have to take foreign language classes at Yale, and I seem to thing that Italian would be cool. So here is you Italian lesson for the week: O mangiar questa minestra o saltar questa finestra. English translation: Either eat this soup or jump out this window. Idiomatic meaning: Take it or leave it. And Ogni regola ha un' eccezione. English translation: There is an exception to every rule. Ciao!

Merry Christmas Everybody, It's brrrrrrrr cold here in Northern Virginia. No snow, but we did have some rain. Granted it was cold rain. It's really sad when they get snow in Las Vegas and it's only cold and rainy here. The kids had a really busy week. Band concerts, final exams, mutual and such. But we got through it. YEAH!! Brenna's band concert went well. The eighth graders sound great. Sometimes it's hard to believe that she is an eighth grader, especially hearing the sixth graders play and that used to be her a year and a half ago. Kieran had his vector calculus final on Saturday. Yeah that is over with. He also worked yesterday afternoon. He said he had some really bad customers and then he has some real nice ones. An okay day at work for him. Tithing settlement was on Wednesday. Went okay. Finishing touches on Christmas. Really have to work on those Christmas cards. Hopefully we will get them out tomorrow. The kids want to go shopping tomorrow. I have visiting teaching to do tomorrow. I am currently very tired. Maybe I will post again tomorrow or Tuesday. We will definately try to post the day after Christmas. Hugs and kisses to everyone. Me

Merii Kurisumasu!

IT IS ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay. Well, i was actually originally working on photoshop, but Okaasan said that if anyone wanted to be on the computer they had to write in this first. So, because i want to finish my drawing, here i am! Continuing, it is now winter break, which means i can finally get some proper sleep. My friend, Crystal, just got married yesterday, she was my flute teacher. Her and her new husband look so cute together! ^^ My band concert was on Thursday, everyone says we did really good. I know that we impressed the sixth graders. Our favorite song to play and listen to is, no contest, The Tempest by Robert W. Smith. Like i said in the beginning, it is almost Christmas, and of the five people i need to get presents for (Okaasan, Otousan, Niisan, Mizuko(Molly) and Rekai(Deena)) I have gotten three, i need to get two more, and of the three i have, only one is officially wrapped. So, basically, i am a late shopper. Can't wait till Christmas, but the year has gone by so fast! I am so happy! Well, i suppose until after Christmas, there isn't much to say...Oh wait. I forgot, we had a field trip on Tuesday to the Natural History Museum, it was really fun! I liked the fact we had to do a scavenger hunt, only because that allowed us to see the entire museum. They had foxes there!!! YAY! It was an awesome trip. So anyways, Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas! Merii Kurisumasu! Sayonara ~AnimeTink-chan

Hello People! AnimeTink-chan here! ^^

Konnichiwa! Hm...let us see...It has been seven days or so since my last post (i don't know, i didn't check!) Anyways, we saw Mannheim Steamroller couple days ago! It was really cool, i liked the drummer, Tom Sharpe, and the solo violinist, Jeff Yang. They were awesome. Not that everybody else wasn't of course. I just thought that it was so neat that we could see what instruments produced what sounds in their songs! Continuing, yawn, Oops. i really need to get some sleep. i have gone to sleep at midnight for the past three nights. -.- <- that is me. Next, well...not much has happened, some people have presented their spanish, some were really cool, others...not so much. To be honest, of course. Um...have a field trip on Tuesday, to the national history museum. I can't really think of anything else..got quite a bit of math, but most of it isn't due until Jan. Christmas is coming! Yay. I have um...(starts counting) 2 of the 5 presents i need! Yay again. Well...i really don't know what else to type, so... OH! Wait, don't go! (waits as people slowly walk back to computer) Finally..Anyways, i gave a talk in church today, it was on knowledge ^^ I didn't want to do it, at ALL. but somehow my dad pursuade me to... how in the world did he do that?!? Continuing, apparently it wasn't bad to everybody so.. The only problem about sitting up there was A) i was falling asleep and doing that in front of everybody wouldn't be good. And B) i had to sit next to the other youth speaker, Daniel, and well, that was the closest i have ever sat with him. And, i couldn't even look at his face! And my mom kept going on about how we looked cute sharing a hymn book.... -_-' sighs Well... Sayonara ~AnimeTink-chan

It is Me......

Well the kids have blogged this week, so I guess I should too. It was a quiet day today. We decorated the tree after church today. The house is actually decorated inside and out. The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Scott put Christmas lights on the outside, not to many, but it looks nice. We have 4 trees up. We have our Disney tree, our traveling tree, B's Tinkerbell tree, and then our big tree that we decorated today. Very colorful in the house. As you know, we went and saw Kooza on Thanksgiving. It was a really good show. I felt bad that the kids really didn't have a Thanksgiving dinner. Actually the had popcorn, a pretzel, and a soda. I'll make it up to them for Christmas. But they did have a blast. We are going to see Mannheim Steamroller soon. We have been wanting to take the kids for a while, but we have never lived close to where they were performing, until now. I'm looking forward to seeing them. Scott and I saw them a long time ago. We have a ward Christmas party this Friday. I'll be cooking a turkey. I'll let you know how it comes out. I don't have to many cooked turkeys under my belt, so I hope I don't make to many people sick. Brenna will be caroling with the young women. She's also playing on the church girls basketball team. She's having fun. Tchai and Orion are doing okay. Tchai has been sleeping with Scott and I. It's funny, because he doesn't sleep with us in the summer and fall. But the minute it starts getting cold he's right there with us. He's a nice little heater on the feet though. I like him there. Six is just enjoying life I guess. He climbs his stick and taps the top of his cage. Eats his crickets and rests. Life is like that when you are a snake. Kids have two more weeks of school before Winter break. Then they have two weeks off. Brenna will have to think about her science fair project and Kieran will have midterms when he goes back. I'm hoping everyone stays well, especially me. Scott is healing slowly from his laser surgery on his eyes. He'll be off for a couple of more days, considering he really can't focus right now, it's a good thing. Everything is still blurry for him right now. Healing time is going to take longer for him as well. So I guess until the next time, hugs to everyone, take care and we miss everyone. Love you all......Me

Hi?

Hmm... i don't know if this will be posted before or after Niisan (brother, i usually use Ani, but since i use otousan and okaasan, i figured i might as well. it is supposed to be Oniisan, but i will just use niisan. ^^) If i post before niisan then it will make sense by me saying that K hasn't talked bout Kooza yet. if i post after, then saying that is useless. Reason i don't know which one it will be is because Niisan is typing right now as well on a different computer. Just finished decorating the tree, hard to believe it is December! And actually, since i am chatting with my friend, she just reminded me, it snowed yesterday! and stuck! But it is all melted now :( Dang it! I was hoping i could have the day off tomorrow. Phoo. Anyways, not much is happening, off the top of my head at least. I have a 96 in science. a 98 in spanish and a 9 something in history. NO idea what i have in English and Math. I should really ask... continuing, hmm... my Spanish presentation date is on January 7... yay. *cough*not*cough* Now... i really don't know what else! I mean, it has been pretty quiet in my eyes. Don't know what the rest of my family is thinking but...hey, if i could read minds i would not be sitting here wondering whether i have an A in english or math would i? Well...i can't really think of anything else.. Dad got surgery on his eyes, he is recovering. But that is it... Sayonara! AnimeTink-chan

Kieran thinks before dinner

I am the first person to blog in December!!!! Yesterday there was this weird white stuff on the ground. It was really cold and wet, and it made my car not turn over right away. While I may be the first one to post this week, I also haven't posted in a while. Life has been plodding along at the speed of life. And just as the speed of light depends on the medium through which it travels, the speed of life is similarly inconsistent. Big news from the last few weeks. My Academic team is number one in the district, now on to regionals. We may actually get somewhere this year. Who knows. Whatever the case is, this is a big deal. See this school, Hylton, always wins. In fact, until this year, Forest Park had only beaten Hylton in a match once. This year, not only did we beat them in a match, but we beat them for the whole kit and caboodle, (spelt right?). Whatever the case is, WE RULE!!! Also, we went to see a Cirque Du Soleil show, Kooza. Brenna has informed you, I'm sure. My favorite act was the Wheel of Death. We learned about torque in Physics, and this was nothing but physics, this act. They stopped the wheel by balancing their weight, they newton law'd their way through leaps of incredible proportions landing on the wheel as it came back around. I'm telling you, if I was a cirque performer, that would be the act I'd do! Other important events have included the election of a black man to the presidency...and to commemorate this event Prince William County Schools have given the county inauguration day off, and then reorganized exam schedules, robbed of us of a three day weekend, and ticked off a couple dozen teachers. Exams will now be split by a weekend, effectively killing it. President's day will no longer be a day off, much to widespread dismay. subject change I worked on Black Friday. After an eight-hour shift like that, It took all I had not to fall asleep standing up. I might actually have been asleep, I don't really remember. It was quite the experience though. subject change again (You can probably recognize without me telling you, but ah well) For my gifted education class we have to study and dress up as a philosopher. My philosopher is Rene Descartes, father of Incomprehensible Geometry. He is the guy that says "I think therefore I am." The context of that quote though is really weird. He basically says that anything he can't prove, he will consider nonexistent. He disproves everything except himself, and then he basically says that since he doubts, he isn't perfect, and since he isn't perfect, there must be something perfect, and hence God exists. Something kinda like that. Really confusing. I'm fairly confident that if people can understand you, then you haven't arrived at your philosophical potential. That is basically what is going on. I may add more as I think about it. All the Best, Kieran