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Saturday, April 29, 2006
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Graduation Party
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yeah...after laughing as much as we did....we were all in pain!.jpg)
a theme perhaps?.jpg)
don't ask me! *looking elsewhere*.jpg)
Lydia, Taefe, Sarah, Livia, Chelsea, Sara, Licia and I.jpg)
some random little kids I found ^_^.0.jpg)
awwww..aren't they the cutest!?!? *wink*.jpg)
glasses reek havoc on nice pictures...oh well...my own dear T-bin!.jpg)
Isaac in the foreground, and Douglas and Euro behind...it looks like the cat is up to something....jpg)
The apprehensive pianist.
Christian's Purple Belt Test!
Bowing in..jpg)
Pattern.jpg)
Doin' his moves!.jpg)
Going through the board! (I was pretty proud of my timing with these!).jpg)
360 circulating kick!.jpg)
Mr. Alex's forearm break!.jpg)
Mr. A's back kick break...it looks kinda like a side kick though.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
English Lesson #3
How To Write Good
by Frank L. Visco and others
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:
1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague--they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English
quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Don't be redundant; don't more use words than necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
15. Profanity sucks.
16. Be more or less specific.
17. Understatement is always best.
18. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
19. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
20. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
21. The passive voice should not be used.
22. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
23. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixed metaphors--
even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
24. Who needs rhetorical questions?
25. Don't use commas, that, are not necessary.
26. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
27. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
28. Subject and verb always has to agree.
29. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
30. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
31. Use your spell checker to avoid mispelling and to catch typograhpical errors.
32. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
33. Don't be redundant.
34. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
35. Don't never use no double negatives.
36. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
37. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
38. Eschew obfuscation.
39. No sentence fragments.
40. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
41. A writer must not shift your point of view.
42. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
43. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences,
as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
44. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
45. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
46. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
47. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
48. Always pick on the correct idiom.
49. The adverb always follows the verb.
50. And always be sure to finish what
by Frank L. Visco and others
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:
1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague--they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English
quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Don't be redundant; don't more use words than necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
15. Profanity sucks.
16. Be more or less specific.
17. Understatement is always best.
18. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
19. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
20. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
21. The passive voice should not be used.
22. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
23. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixed metaphors--
even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
24. Who needs rhetorical questions?
25. Don't use commas, that, are not necessary.
26. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
27. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
28. Subject and verb always has to agree.
29. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
30. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
31. Use your spell checker to avoid mispelling and to catch typograhpical errors.
32. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
33. Don't be redundant.
34. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
35. Don't never use no double negatives.
36. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
37. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
38. Eschew obfuscation.
39. No sentence fragments.
40. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
41. A writer must not shift your point of view.
42. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
43. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences,
as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
44. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
45. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
46. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
47. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
48. Always pick on the correct idiom.
49. The adverb always follows the verb.
50. And always be sure to finish what
English Lesson #2
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and like wise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling,so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y"replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j"anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and"th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform,wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xeIngliy-spiking werld.
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and like wise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling,so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y"replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j"anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and"th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform,wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xeIngliy-spiking werld.
English Lesson #1
A linguistics professor was lecturing his class.
"In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."
"However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up. "Yeah, right."
"In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."
"However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up. "Yeah, right."
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Easter Week
The lot of us!
The R. family
Three wood elves I stumbled upon in my ramble through the woods...
....the fourth seemed rather too interested in the burning weed...
Under the large oak tree
My one and only red headed relative (living/related by blood)
Silly little men...
My Grandpa!!
Jonathon and Chipper...they are inseperable! (which makes teasing rather easy..I didn't say that)
Me and my Daddy!
"The Littles" at the Easter Vigil service
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Help Me!
I am in great need of a new profile picture...for all of you that read both of my blogs, which I suppose there aren't many, but I would appreciate your input as to which one is best to put up, thanks in advance!
Abigail Marie
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I am PRO-LIFE!
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~Mother Teresa
Friday, April 14, 2006
Thompson Greenery
I love the variety!
our "carpet" of leaves
we tipped up all those trees...and they were delivered in piles...literally piles...
some sort of pretty leaves.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Reasonable Frustration
It was the day of the big sale. Rumors of the sale and anadvertisement on the net were the main reasons for the long line that formed in front of the store by 8:30, the store's opening time.A small man pushed his way to the front of the line, onlyto be pushed back amid loud and colorful curses. On the man's second attempt, he was punched square in the jaw and knocked around a bit, then thrown to the end of theline again. As he got up the second time, he said to the person at the end of the line:"That does it! If they hit me one more time, I won't open the store!"
Oh, no!" he gasped as he surveyed the disaster before him.Never in his 40 years of life had he seen such devastation.How anyone could have survived, he did not know. He couldonly hope that somewhere amid the overwhelming destruction he would find his 16-year-old son. Only the slim hope of finding Junior kept him from turning and fleeing the scene.
He took a deep breath and proceeded. Walking was virtually impossible with so many things strewn across his path. He moved ahead slowly."Junior! Junior!" he whispered to himself to keep himself steady.
He tripped and almost fell several times. He heard someone,or something, move. At least he thought he did. Perhaps, he was just hoping he did.He shook his head and felt his gut tighten. He couldn'tunderstand how this could have happened.
There was some light but not enough to see very much.Something cold and wet brushed against his hand. He jerked it away. In desperation, he took another step then cried out,"Junior!"From a nearby pile of unidentified material, he heard his son."Yes, Dad," he said, in a voice so weak it could hardly be heard.
"It's time to get up and get ready for school," the man sighed."And for heaven's sake, clean up your room!"
He took a deep breath and proceeded. Walking was virtually impossible with so many things strewn across his path. He moved ahead slowly."Junior! Junior!" he whispered to himself to keep himself steady.
He tripped and almost fell several times. He heard someone,or something, move. At least he thought he did. Perhaps, he was just hoping he did.He shook his head and felt his gut tighten. He couldn'tunderstand how this could have happened.
There was some light but not enough to see very much.Something cold and wet brushed against his hand. He jerked it away. In desperation, he took another step then cried out,"Junior!"From a nearby pile of unidentified material, he heard his son."Yes, Dad," he said, in a voice so weak it could hardly be heard.
"It's time to get up and get ready for school," the man sighed."And for heaven's sake, clean up your room!"
Friday, April 07, 2006
The Siblings
Peter Douglas
Claire Renee (I would have posted one with Peter AND Claire...but as Peter is almost always BEHIND the camera I found out I don't have a postable picture of the two of them...*makes mental note to remedy that eventually*...
Ingrid Renee, Lewis Christian and Michelle Suzanne (Peter and Claire's three children...sure they're not sibling..but I couldn't resist!)
Andrew Robert and Bethany Corinne!
Jeremiah Andrew Konstantin...One of Andrew and Bethany's two sons (Little Andrew went to be with the Lord in Jan of 2002)
Stephen Abraham!
Elizabeth Anne!
Yours truly: Abigail Marie
Michael Felix Jordan
Christian Lucas
Douglas Alexander
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