so my mother told me the other day that I needed to update my blog.

so did I? nope.

Instead put it off even longer. but here I am so it's all wonderful right?

Well, I had a wonderful weekend. Tennis is starting up in about a month (give or take) and we (as in us senior tennis players) decided we wanted to raise some money to help pay for new uniforms. Sweet no? Yeah... anyway... so one of my dearest friends is a rather good cook and her mother is absolutely fabulous. Soooo... we decided to have a bake sale!! sweet... good thing she can cook because all Kynley can do is follow the directions and stir when someone tells her to stir and add eggs when someone tells her to add eggs. I can't really cook by myself at least unless I have well written instructions... like -turn the nobby thing (the one that has the big numbers on it) on the oven to 345 degrees... etc.

We asked all the girls planning to play tennis to pitch in a help us bake some sweet treats. banana bread, cookies, muffins, candy, toffee... the like, you know. So I arrived at Clairien's house (the good cook) at around... uh... 6ish... (I think). Anyway, they had a lot done by the time I got there and they were eating pizza (homemade, can you believe it?) So i helped eat the pizza and package everything that was done into adorable little heart covered bags. We made this fabulous hard candy that I thought was absolutely fabulous... just strawberry candy covered in powdered sugar... mmm-mmmh...

Then we discovered that the banana bread made by the group of freshman girls tasted absolutely horrible... bleck... they had put in a tablespoon of baking soda and tablespoon of salt into the batch instead of a TEASPOON of baking soda and a TEASPOON of salt. sick sick... so Clairien gave be the recipe and I made two batches of banana bread (and I accidently broke the measuring cup... how? I have no idea. I was just drying it out and snap! there goes the handle... I felt so bad I almost cried). The banana bread was really good. I brought home a loaf for mom and dad and they said it was really good... I know how to make banana bread guys!! (if I have a instruction sheet with me)

*chuckle* then my dear friend Toni showed up and everything feel apart from there. at one point we were all laying on the couch (five of us... the rest had gone home) waiting for the stuff to finish baking so we decided to take pictures... LoL... I MUST post those pictures as soon as I can get my hand on them. They are on Toni's camera... it wasn't a very big couch so everyone is losing the circulation in part of our body because we are all so squished together.. did we care? no... we were laughing so hard that we couldn't breath and we were taking the funniest pictures in the world. At one point Toni decided she was going to take pictures with the camera upside down... LoL...

hehehe... my friend Liz does not like to be hugged a lot so I grabbed her around the waist in a funky hug (I'm short okay!) and I picked my feet off the ground... and what happened? she fell down.. I hit my nose really hard... she fell down on top of me and I hurt my side... lol... She was crying over the chips she had broken... I was holding my sore nose and we were all laughing so hard none of us could breath... I had tears streaming down my face... LoL..

Then we shoved Toni inside one of the empty cabinets (which smelled like brown sugar and flour she said) and wouldn't let her get out until she let us take her picture. funny? yes... lol... we are all crazy goof balls.

hehehe... I didn't leave her house until like twelve at night... I was so tired. : )

Much love,
Kynley

p.s. we sold everything we made today (we did pretty well we thought... we are doing it again in two weeks) then we went to the basketball games and both our varsity teams won... woohoo!! : )


Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 150:6

sooo... I feel justified when I say that I just took the hardest high school final known to man. I've been studying for roughly two weeks... but this past week almost all I did was study... (and post one entry)... : ) Anyway... let's describe this final shall we?
Okay... first off 25 matching... no complaints there...
25 true or false... no complaints there...
10 thesis analysis... again no complaints...
40 fill in the blanks... uh, complaint! She took sentences out of the textbook (10 chapters... 300 some pages)... took out some of the words from those sentences and made us fill in the blank... No Key. Most (okay all) of the sentences had at least three words missing... problem? I think so...
BUT it doesn't end there... she also had an essay question for a 3 page essay (I'm not complaining about length.. it was handwritten and on only one side of the paper)... she was going to grade for grammar and we could use no passive.

I think a part of me died in that classroom. It took me almost three hours.... stupid thing.. I'm still queasy and shaky from the stupid thing...

At least it's over and I can recover... OH... I have a three day weekend. Thank the heavens!! He was definitely looking out for us when He gave us a longer weekend. . . the only problem is I don't know what to do with myself anymore. I've been studying for the silly thing for almost two weeks and now... I don't know what to do... hmm... so I decided to post... so ... yeah : )

... but I can't blog forever... you guys would get so bored after a while... start thinking I'm a crazy rambler with no life. ... yeah... anyway. LoL

I'm going to call it a day... I love you all!!

Much love,
Kynley Michal

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
Psalm 119:1-2

I believe I made the best decision last year when I was signing up for classes. I love little kids so much. (I just cannot handle freaky parents and all that politics that goes on with teaching.) I go to the elementary school for the last period of my school day. I work in a third grade classroom... It's so much fun. The little kids adore you and they find it so fun to tease you in such silly ways... like today a couple of the boys thought it was funny to call me Grandma. LoL... I wish high school boys teased like that... it would be so much easier to handle (not that I get teased a lot... just a broad, general statement).

Lately I've been testing the kids on their phonetics... so I'm going to two other classrooms to test all of those kids. Some of the kids are so cute. I get all sorts of silly questions... like do I have kids... or am I married... or am I really old... LoL... some of the kids see me when I go get my baby brother from Kindergarten so they think he is my son. And since I wear my purity ring on my ring finger (and since it looks kind of like an engagement ring) they assume I'm married. I also get questions like... why am I not in school... or am I in college. : ) They once even asked me if I was the teacher's daughter. They are just so cute.

They are my therapy... They make everything happy after a really hard day. The teacher I usually work with is absolutely fabulous too. She is so fun. One time we were helping kids write funny poems, and we noticed that some of the boys were laughing about stupid words like poop or toilet. So the teacher got this real sly look on her face and turned to me. "Watch, you can get kids to laugh in such silly ways." So she got the kid's attention and just said "Underware." That was it... The kids just stared at her in complete shock for a moment before bursting up into hysterical laughter. It was so funny. (she doesn't do stuff like that very often... so it was so completely unexpected... LoL)

hehe... ahh... the innocence of children. Don't you miss it sometimes?

*chuckle* I pray you all have a fun little outlet that you adore... and that is like therapy for you.

much love,
Kynley Michal

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.
John 14:21

means "in the place of a parent" (it's Latin). I'm not calling my parents 'loco.' My parents flew out this morning for San Francisco at five. So my grandparents are here in loco parentis. (it was one of my vocab words from College Comp)

So it'll be an interesting week, not bad or anything, just interesting. It's always interesting to try to mix my grandparent's general routine with our general routine. For example, they eat a lot earlier then we do on a general basis. So I always wake up really, really hungry... but then they also make huge breakfasts that my poor body isn't used to. LoL... so I'm don't get hungry by the time lunch time roles around.... so it throws my whole routine off. It's fun to laugh about it. My body is used to eating a very light breakfast(because I rarely have much time in the morning), eating a light lunch (because school food is sick), having little snacks when I get home from school, then eating a substantial dinner (around 6 or 7 ish). Then when my grandparents are here we eat big breakfasts, not being very hungry at all during lunch, have a substantial dinner at around 5... then waking up very hungry. : )

but it's all good...

this week is final exam week at school. woohoo... how exciting. I only have two finals to take. but they are both very scary finals. : ( Pre-Calc shouldn't be to bad... but you know... still a little intimidating. On the other hand... College Comp.... scary? yes. life-threatening? yes. study my brains out? yes. I think I'm going to be sick. The teacher is very honest with us. Generally she says, "oh, this test isn't to bad. don't worry to much." but then... it's turns out to be a yucky test. on this test she honest with us.. "Everyone, this is a very very difficult test. Study for it." oh gosh... if we all think that the tests she doesn't think are to bad are bad... then what are we going to do about a test that she thinks is really difficult?! Goodness... goodness... *sob* excuse me while I break down... lol... prayers anyone? : ) I would so appreciate it sooo much. ; )

want to hear... see.. some more fun, vocab words?
non compos mentis (Latin) - not of sound mind
hoi polloi (Greek) - the common people
requiescat en pace (Latin) - a prayer for the peaceful repose of the dead (usually seen as R.I.P.)
faux pas (French) - social blunder
hara-kiri (Japanese) - ritual suicide by belly cutting
respondez sil vous plaît (French) - please respond (usually seen as R.S.V.P.)
joie de vivre (French) - a delight in being alive
tempus fugit (Latin) - time flies
quo vadis (Latin) - Where are you going?
que será será (Spanish) - what will be, will be.
veni, vidi, vici (Latin) - I came, I saw, I conquered.
amor vincit omnia (Latin) - love conquers all
mea culpa (Latin) - my fault

yeah... my vocab for College Comp were phrases and words from other languages that our English language has been using... it was kind of fun... those were just a couple of my favorite ones that we learned about. eh... sorry if there are an misspellings or not completely "technically" correct meanings... those are the spellings and definitions my English teacher gave me. : )

Much Love,
Kynley Michal

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Isaiah 52:7

sooo... school starts tomorrow... I cleaned my room all day today.... and yeah... I'm glad my room is clean. It smells really good to. I got this sweet spray stuff for your house at Bath & Body Works... its the Pink Grapefruit scent (which is almost my all time favorite). If you could smell my room right now you would agree that it does smell good. Its not really strong... just nice and fresh and... yeah. LoL

Bath & Body Works is coming out with this new scent called Midnight Pomegranate. Holy Mercy... it smells good. They were selling sample bottle for $1 so I got one... It comes out "officially" on January 22. : ) Sweet.

I'm sorry this post is short.. but I have to head to bed. Remember.. I have school tomorrow. *sigh* Oh... and I forgot to mention.. I got all teary eyed and upset when mom told me I had to take down the Christmas tree.. then she told me to just get it down and over with... : ( I'm horribly sad.

Oh... and I posted a couple pictures from Winter Camp.

Much love,
Kynley Michal

God bless through this next year!!

Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me -- put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9

Happy New Year!!

My family drove down to town to be with my grandparents and aunt & uncles for New Years Eve. We played Cranium (which was a lot of fun) the guys kept beating us. : ( Oh well... oh... and we were going to watch Chris Daughtry BUT my aunts found this movie about Queen Esther... in was kind of good, but they funiggled so much stuff that it was kind of confusing... and the story of Esther didn't seem like it should be to confusing.

Anyway, I have to help mom take down the Christmas lights... I'm pushing it off because I despise taking down the Christmas decoration... : ( I think I may start crying!! Not to mention I have to go back to school tomorrow... BLECK... it's horrible.

Much love,
Kynley Michal

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Daniel 4:37