My Own Scripted Page

So, I've been in this Yellowcard phase, starting... yesterday. But I can't stop listening to them! My favorite being One Year, Six Months. I could listen to that guitar intro for the rest of my life. It fits every emotion of mine, for example skipping home from school because a paper got pushed back, or if I am distraught and I feel like things are just caving in. I just love it. This morning I listened to it in the car as I was driving to school, it fit as I was freezing it made me think of a beach.

Speaking of the beach, yesterday with the 30mph winds and chill that catches my breath, I remembered why I spend the Utah winter months down in the Southern Hemisphere. Where I live in Australia it is starting to get into the high seventies and eighties. Not fair.

The other Yellowcard song that I've been loving is Rough Draft. It's a great shower song. I love listening to music while I lather my hair with blissful white nectarine.

I also have to confess about my angry music. I love blasting Muse. Must be that Warren is always pumping it out on the surround sound, but it's a great band to just blast and release emotion!

xoxo Lena

ps Computer Says No, *cough*

Lines, Vines, and Trying Times

I watched War of the Worlds the other day and loved it as always. "They came from somewhere else" "What like Europe?" "No Robbie! Not like Europe!" Ahaha. Any way I love end of the world movies. It's maybe one of my favorite genres. The think is I always wonder what I would do in those situations and how long I would survive. I think/hope I would survive for a long while. I'm not afraid of dying, but I think I would be more concerned about other people and getting them out of there. But there is a catch, I would like to have a guy with me, running nay sprinting away from danger and dodging the evils. My dream come true.

So, another movie I've been obsessed with, Anne of Green Gables. Oh my be still my heart Gilbert Blithe! If you want to watch it with me, I'm at the the will of Gilbert.

Emotional

This week I have had my emotions leading me this way and that. Everything I see and do makes me want to cry. I watched 101 Dalmations and when dogs get reunited with their people and all the puppies start running into the house I felt a welling up of tears. What the heck, I love dogs, dalmations especially, but to the point where I cry?! I'm not the mushy, let the tears flow, kind of girl, but I see something sentimental and my heart gets all tight. It also happens when I look at pictures, especially pictures of me riding, even thinking about riding gets me a little choked up. Jane Anne mentioned the smell of horses and saddles, fml, I almost needed to hide my face I wanted to cry! So true! AHHH!

Though I did get to the point of tears laughing Saturday night! Shout out to my ingenious pals!

peace - LENA

The Second Week of School

So school so far has been Hell Fire for me, but this is what I entertain myself with... Drawing horseback riding jumps. That's right, I doodle horse jumps. I like it a lot, and it's pulls me through the tough times with the Prince aka Cesare Borgia, who was he again... Anyway I have quite the collection going on now.

The middle is my favorite


Swedish Oxer


Thank You Western Political Heritage "A King just a tyrant with good PR"

Planks, I'm obsessed with planks.

P-Town

Well I've been home over a week, I've started school, and I'm riding. I'm part leasing Cody from a friend, and it's going so so well! I can't wait to take him to a few shows! Well life back at home is good. I've missed the quirks of mormon society. Just like not being phased when someone says that they are getting married after 4 months of dating, or talking about wards and zoobies. It's great!

Quotes from the first two days of school:

- "well at least it wasn't one of the date for four hours engagements"
- "Let's hear it for Tuesdays!"

Love & Logic

There is this technique of parenting and working with kids called love and logic. I recommend everyone to really look into it. So we use these methods to work with kids not against them. I just want to mention some of my gem phrases that I love saying to our girls.

When they are whining about something and they want you to solve their problem you say: "Hmmm what are you going to do about that"

"Everyone at Birchwood knows... eg we use good table manners, we don't swim under the dock, we include everyone"

Or there's the "play dead". When they keep keep whining you just shrug your shoulders, "hmm sad-day" that's a classic.

Camp Updates

So I will be writing a succession of updates from my life here in Camp Birchwood!