the adventures of a scrapbooking pirate named penguinface

yay. i finally did it... i finally got my photos printed! and now i'm going to spend the afternoon scrapbooking ... not the way you're thinking, though. just trust me on that. i may scan the pages when i'm done, or you can come a'visiting and see them!

so many pictures! i hope the book can hold them all!

(this is so those of you who asked can see the headband i just found... and yes, the light by my desk is that awesome.)

watch out, i'm captain scrappy penguinface jones, the pirate, yarrr!

hear ye hear ye if ye have ears then hear ye

i started a ... cringe at the phrase... scrapbook... this evening, as is appropriate for the eve of school. but i'm still not a scrapbooky scrapbooker, like the ones with stickers and weird "inspirational" or "cheeky" quotes to paste onto the page. but, i'm almost ashamed to say, it was fun. really fun. i'm gonna have to watch it.

the very last first time

my last first day of homeschool is coming up in 5 days. though i've always looked forward to this part of "it", i'm suddenly just sad. and thorougly understanding of the phrases "bittersweet" and "mixed emotion" though they are cliched i realise. i also remembered this one day of school that for some reason stuck in my head - i must have been 7 or 8, and caitlin and i were sitting in the schoolroom together, wearing our favorite dresses which were absolutely horrid (the yellow/pink ones with the upside-down tulips sketches. thank you mamadah for trying so hard to get us to relinquish them.), having an eraser war instead of doing our handwriting.

and this time next year i'll (hopefully) go trotting off to the scary world of college, no longer young enough to hypothetically apply to hogwarts or be a part of one of those 80's highschool movies. the teacher won't take pictures of us, or give us butterfly day picnics, or let us paint our faces like celts and stand on our desks yelling war-cries. but on the bright side... it will be different, it will be exciting. i am excited about new things, i am sad about old things, and they are swirling together like the whipped cream and chocolate in my drink did when my little brother stuck his finger in it just now. ew.

this year of school will be most exciting. the most exciting parts are these:

gileskirk modernity

(oh the wonders of george grant!)

spanish II

teaching company physics course

being done with math FOREVER after this fall!

(maybe not forever, but if i can help it...)

greek!

art history class this spring

the amazing literature course mamadah has planned for me

taking piano for the first time

i'm doing more than this (yeep!) but these are the really exciting parts.

this year i'm going to faithfully take pictures and blog... it seems appropriate. and its probably the best thing to do to keep myself from (horrors!) scrapbooking, which i admit myself to have always kind of wanted to do. not cheesy scrapbooking. pretty scrapbooking. maybe i will. hmm.