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Random... the Fish morning show mentioned (very randomly) my voice teacher a couple of days ago... they played the song Days of Elijah and after the song, one of them (D, I think) said that Michelle P (he said her name) of "blank" church sang that song just like Twila Paris... which is probably not strictly true, my voice teacher probably sings it better. :-) Anyway, it was kind of fun... :-)

I am now officially excited about Pirates 3... judging from the trailer it ought to be good... "And I owe them all money"..."Did no one come to save me because they missed me?" I also found a clip of the new movie at movies.yahoo.com [1]

called "Competing Captains"... it's quite funny. :-)

Finished reading "How to Talk to a Liberal" (so good!) and started "Treason" also by Ann Coulter-- which is a truly fascinating read... :-)
I ended up being really sick from Friday night through Thursday of last week... thankfully I was well enough for my party on Saturday, so that was fun... Anyway... we're having Gerry over for a movie night tonight... should be fun. :-)
Friday night was... interesting, to say the least... we ended up being late for the play and missed the beginning... after it was over, Doug asked me what time I needed to be home for my piano-accompanying jobs in the morning... and since my first one was at like 8:45, I told him I wanted to be home before midnight (silly me, I picked the latest time I could think of to be nice, but I assumed he'd want to be home way before that...ahem...) so, we went with Sarah to the house of one of her friends to... hang out... with... people.... ;-) anyway, long story short: I got home around 1:30 am... which means I got 5 and 1/2 hours sleep before my "performances"... by the time we were on the way home, I was also getting seriously ill... I was really sick Saturday morning... the accompanying seemed to go well, (thank the Lord!) and I was seriously reminded how His strength is made perfect in my weakness. After my last piano job was over, I raced home and crashed in bed, where I slept another 5 hours... I'm feeling a tiny bit better this (Sunday) morning, but I'm still not well... anyway...

The social sciences and history CLEP has always had me scared.... It's my opinion that I only passed the Humanities test because of prior "knowledge"... and I don't think I could do that with the Social Sciences and History...

This scripture is my myspace's "Daily Bible Verse" today, and it's one of my favorites: "Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy," 1 Peter 1:8

I've got one more rehearsal (tonight) with the saxophonist I am accompanying...

d it was way better than I'd thought it would be...now I just have to make it through Saturday...

My Dad scheduled his upcoming "sleep test" for next month, so we're kinda' just waiting until then

Church (*is glad to have offertory over with....*) and choir were splendid, and Bible Study was awesomely wonderful (I enjoyed having special-guest-star Pastor lead...) and then the fellowshipping was so much fun!! (lol... I'm thinking about my poor default-friend Sarah...she was my best friend growing up-although things got rocky in our early teens when she'd tell me "I pity you for having no friends,"--since it (A) wasn't true, my friends just didn't live in Ripon and (B) *she* was one of my friends... lol, so anyway, I think we made it through that and have a fun friendship, although with (her) being in college and everything we never talk any more... Anyway, all that to defend (to my guilty conscience) my default friend whom I care about...) :-) Oh! And I listened to/watched "Baby Got Book" this morning-lol... *decides definitely that though anything is better than Jazz music, there is some fun Rap out there.....* *....*

Went to see Amazing Grace last night-- what an awesome movie!! I loved it! :-)

Random mildly interesting survey...

1. What time is it? 10:11 am (CST)

2. What is your name? Ingrid

3. What are you most afraid of? That's tough to answer... I'm a fearful person, so I'm afraid of a lot of things, however with God's help I'm trying not to dwell on my fears.

4. What do you drive? A car. Specifically a '97 Dodge Intrepid. :-)

5. Have you ever seen a ghost? Outside of the mirror? (J/K) No. I don't believe in ghosts.

6. Where were you born? *whispers* Sheboygan, WI

7. Ever been to Alaska? Nope.

8. Ever been toilet paper rolling and decorated trees? No.

9. Croutons or Bacon bits? Croutons... I also like real bacon pieces... just not the fake stuff...

10. Favorite day of the week? Sunday. Hands-down, best day of the week.

11. Favorite restaurant? I have a lot of favorites.... Solly's Grill for hamburgers.... :-)

12. Favorite Flower? Roses!

13. Favorite sport to watch? Football...... and others...

14. Favorite Drink? Water, juice.... Chai tea... :-)

15. Favorite Ice cream? Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough!!

16. Disney or Warner Brothers? That depends... right now probably Disney...

17. Favorite fast food restaurant? Wendy's

18. What color is your bedroom carpet? Beige with purpley flecks....

19. How many times have you failed your driver's test? Never... I passed the first time... not bragging though, I still don't know how I did it... lol...

20. A friend whose name starts with a "J" Well... Jessica Diel, I have four guy cousins with "J" but I don't know them yet, so that doesn't count...my brother Johnny....

21. What do you do most often when you are bored? Bored??? Only boring people get bored... ;-) j/k.... I seriously can't think of when I've had a chance to be bored in recent history... I'm usually too busy... ;-) Although when it happens I usually get silly and hyper with my sisters.... :-)

22. Bedtime? At the earliest 11:00.... I'm trying to get to bed earlier than that....

23. Favorite TV show? I don't have Cable any more, so I don't see any modern shows... I do enjoy old classics like Get Smart, I Love Lucy, Van Dyke Show, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Comedy Hour, etc.

24. Ford or Chevy? Neither?

25. What are you listening to right now? Switchfoot's "This is Your Life"

26. What are your favorite colors? Pink, purple, blue, red, turquoise.....

27. How many tattoos do you have? Ummm, none.

28. Do you have any pets? No

Went to Kohl's last night with my Mom and sister...

I'm off to work now.... we're having the Schroeder (sp?) over for supper tonight...

Quite a full weekend... the MacArthur thing was amazing! Church was great (Pastor's sermons have been SO good lately...) and Bible Study was excellent!! And today I don't have to work, and my voice class was just canceled (I do like voice class, but I needed a break)...*is a happy Ingrid* :-)

The Humanities CLEP is (I think) enjoyable but frustrating since it's so difficult to study for... I remember the "Annotated Mona Lisa" being quite helpful, but... lol... it *has* been over a year... and I think I mainly relied on previous knowledge to answer the questions, I don't know if that helped me or not.... anyway....Humanities CLEP was the first one I took... one of my favorite resources was: "The Annotated Mona Lisa: a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern" by Carol Strickland which is at the Brookfield Library (this helped with the art questions obviously, but also with the architecture ones...)... the music questions were super easy like "What is 'tempo'?"... (for the life of me I can't remember if there were any music history questions... if there were, they were probably just about the major composers of the four periods of music history...but I can't remember if there were any like that...)I think I slid by on previous knowledge as far as the film questions are concerned... sites like "Sparknotes" are good for literature questions: [2] (sparknotes also has sections on Poetry and Drama)....
I was in a skit for the 3rd-6th grade Sunday school class yesterday, I played a "monkey-hunter"...lol...it was quite amusing... My family and I went to our neighbors' to watch the Superbowl, this was the first Superbowl I ever saw, actually the first football game that I ever saw more than a few minutes of... of course I knew nothing about what was going on, so I had my Mom (she used to watch quite a bit of football with her 5 brothers) explain it all to me, and after that it was a lot of fun!!!! (Especially since the Colts won... we were "rooting" for them...) I seriously really enjoyed it, I never realized before how fun football was if you knew (sort of) what was going on! Anyway, I don't have to work today, but last time I checked, my car wasn't starting... oh, well... :-)

Had random and wacky evening with some old friends yesterday... got oodles of fun pictures, which I'll hopefully upload somewhere later... This afternoon I got my first (future) job as a real musician... :-) Some people in my neighborhood are hiring me to accompany (on the piano) their daughters at a WSMA recital thing in March. So that will be cool, but frightening.... :-)

My six-year old piano student yesterday, was very excited about "Ground Frog's" Day (as she called it,) I'm a little puzzled... I wonder how they get the Ground Frog to look for his shadow instead of hopping off....? ;-)
I don't know what got into me this week... I got a myspace and a Facebook (my Dad started that, by getting on and inviting me...lol...) not that I intend to spend a lot of time on either, but it seems to be a good way to keep in touch with people.... Anyway...I've had a pretty crazy week... not working on Tuesday, and then going to work early Wednesday, and then having my car not start when I was supposed to leave work...(I got it to start all by myself with help from the manual... :-) )

Anyway! I'm off to piano shortly, after which I have to teach and then rush off with my family for a movie night....(me want to stay home)...*wimpers*.... lol...

I just went to the library... got How to talk to a Liberal (if you must) (Ann Coulter), The Princess Bride (the book), mmhmm the Relient K CD and Blink (Ted Dekker)... should be fun. :-)
I'm looking into getting an iPod nano (Pink of course!) I can afford it, I'm just trying to justify it to myself now...lol...if I could get it to work with my car I could totally justify it, because I spend a minimum of 6 hours driving each week, so it would be great to not have to listen to the same CD over and over.... anyway....(plus oneplace.com has great John MacArthur sermons...)

AND I could carry my favorite pictures around with me... I think I'm justifying it as I type... ;-)

Church and Sunday School were great... Bible Study was interesting... several people nearly came to "blows" (well not really, but it was tense for several minutes) over the meaning of a word in the passage we were studying, it was quite intriguing to watch, but I must confess I also enjoy/prefer calmer, less tension-filled studies...(or friendly discussions) :-) Anyway, I am currently trying to see if I can study enough US history to take the CLEP this Thursday... it's rather soon to say yet though...
My copy of Malchus has arrived... I'm forcing myself to not read it yet since I want something interesting to read during my 17+ hours of travel time waaaay later this year in June, and would rather keep myself from such an amazing book until said month, so I can get airplane-sick while reading.... so I've hidden it out of my sight... lol...and although I really want to read it, it will be good for me to exercise some self-control, because all those hours in airports and on planes are going to be less than exciting-- but with a good book!

After Christmas the lady we stayed with gave me a Relient K CD (Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek) because she didn't like it (lol).... so I've been having fun getting acquainted with it, not exactly what I'm used to, but fun. :-)

It was the best Bible study I've been to in awhile... (I'm really liking the study of Hebrews too... what an amazing book!!)

I ordered Malchus (by W.G. Griffiths) today... it's been on my "to read" list for quite a while now...

I started a "read-through-the-Bible-in-2-years" Bible reading plan yesterday... The last time I read through the whole Bible it took me like 5 years (*ashamed*) But I've tried one year plans and (sadly) failed... so I'm determined to make this one work.
We got our flight itinerary yesterday for our June trip to Utah... we're going to see relatives on my Mom's side (most of whom we've never met...) it looks like we'll have 16 hours of travel time total... I'm going to have to find a lot of reading material... :-)

Anyway... :-}