Life of a Funk

So... twenty years is kinda a long time... It doesn't always seem that way when you look back at your life, but when I look forward 20 years... I get kinda freaked out...   Being as I will have been alive for 20 years in about a week, I thought I would try to share with you some things I did in my lifetime... (I did have some help from my parents for the earlier years... )

1986: um... I was born, duh... not much happened this year... except my family took us to Nebraska in the back of a 2door Tbird with 2 car seats and my mom in the backseat and my dad, aunt, and oldest sister in the front

1987: we got our cat, Snooky, who decided (against my mother's will) that she would take advantage of her 9+ lives and live for over 18 years , took my 1st steps, vacation was in Philedelphia

1988:  developed my love for ice cream and dresses with twirly skirts, went to Rapid City South Dakota for family vacation

1989:  family vacation was in Arizona for 10 days, and then to Canada for a week, and then to San Antonio and to the Allamo

1990:  Went to Gingerbread (preschool), Erica and I made a HUGE mess with makeup and mixed our applesauce and macncheese at lunch... hehe , went to Michigan and saw the Great Sand Dunes, and to the Ozarks

1991: Went off to Kindergarten! "AWW!!", went to Colorado with my grandparents and hiked a mountain

1992:  started taking piano lessons, was one of the 1st kids in my grade to start Accelerated Reader (ready: 'OOOOOOOOOO...') , built on to our house and lived in the living room for 3 months with my sisters during the construction,camped in Turkey Run where raccoons tried stealing our dishes by rolling them down the hill

1993:  got LOTS of sign-and-returns in school cause I was SLOW at doing homework , tried selling origami to kids in the hallway , started an exclusive jump-rope club on the playground with Jean and Leslie

1994:  officially became the "smart kid" in my class , took a 16-day vacation to Oregon by van with the family and played countless games of UNO with my sisters, got very hyper from drinking too much Mt. Dew and hit Hannah on the head with a pancake spatula...

1995:  went camping at Rabbit Blanket Lake in Canada, took my first airplane ride-my dad took us to San Francisco for Christmas

1996: started playing trumpet in band, discovered I am an alto by heart , went to Washington D.C.

1997:  My family hosted an exchanged student from Germany for a year, went to the chiropractor for the first time , took Ari (exchanged student) to South Dakota right after she landed in the U.S.

1998:  learned how to play bassoon for band, I started dying my hair , got my first email address, went to New Orleans and Mississippi

1999:  had my first trip to Cancun

2000: finished Jr. High , (and consequently, started HIGH SCHOOL!)

2001:  Went on my first mission trip to Caracas, Venezuela, learned french horn, went to Cancun again

2002:  Went on another mission trip to Quito, Ecuador, got my driver's license! , was voted Jr. class president

2003: got my truck in July , chopped 12 inches off of my hair

2004:  married my oldest sister off, spent my last semester in high school, graduated, and moved to college, bought my horn, spent a very exciting year rooming with my cousin

2005: finished my first year of college, married my other sister off (and yes-that means I'm the only one left-you don't have to remind me)

2006: I look back at my life... and to some of you it may seem kinda lame...  but i promise you-there's so much more that I cannot put down in words that have made me the person that I am.  Thank you to all of you for being a part of my life and helping me to become the person that I am!

Currently Listening Happy Together By The Nylons see related

Kircher’s Cat Piano

Athanasius Kircher first described the cat piano in his landmark 1650 work Musurgia Universalis.

In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.

From one of our favorite books, with several chapters on Kircher’s inventions, Instruments and the Imagination, by Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman.

This is Elise's wonderful cousin Charlyn.  I am paying her back for all the times that she gets on my computer and messes with my programs. 

So let me ask you a question...  If a cat dies coaking on a dead mouse, who killded who?...

Have a great day!!!

Currently Listening Heatseeker By World Wide Message Tribe see related

I think I actually took some pretty good notes during Ken's sermon yesterday, so I thought I would share some things that stood out to me.  The series he is doing is call "Biography," and yesterday's topic was "Question of Time."

"Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial (or constructive)." ~1 Corinthians 10:23

"Be an example... of good deeds of every kind.  Let everything you do reflect your love of the truth and the fact that you are in dead earnest about it." ~Titus 2:7

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart." ~Col. 3:23 (this one just hit me-it just seems to be screaming that I need to be working harder in school and putting my whole heart into learning all I can about music and how I can use it to help my future patients.  And I suppose it probably means I should not neglect my gen eds, either... as frustrating as they can be)

"We should make plans--counting on God to direct us." ~Proverbs 16:9 (I think this one is pretty straight-forward)

"Your life will always involve people.  Unless you live in Antarctica, in which case it would involve... Penguins." ~Ken

well, those were some of the highlights of the sermon that stuck out to me-I really enjoy listening to him Sunday mornings  I've been blessed with a wonderful church here at school, with wonderful people who have cared enough about a poor college student to get to know me and genuinely care about how I am doing. 

~*Elise*~