The narrative of Lanae's afternoon.....

Our story today takes place at about 4:50PM on a delightful Thursday afternoon. (Delightful at 4PM, although at 7:40AM it wasn't so delightful to walk out and feel the chill of a fall morning and see, yes my friends it's true, the first dew/frost of winter on my car window. Whahaha!Sniffle, Sob.). Ahem, and back to the story...

I was happily minding my own business and trying to clear the piles off my desk before the work day came to a close. As I walked into my Dad's office and started putting away my files I couldn't help but notice him pondering at his computer and then switching his head back to the calendar right before he picked up the phone.

Going on in Lanae's mind: lalala, I'm so glad it's almost five, hmn. Where does this file go anyways? lalala.....

Dad picks up the phone and calls Mom: Hello...bla bla bla... So I got this email from Hawaiian Airlines..bla bla bla..

Going on in Lanae's mind: Oh, Hawaiian Airlines huh? That's pretty cool, Mom has really been wanting to go to Hawaii, she'll be really happy. I wonder if they're taking the kids?

Dad says to Mom: ...November 28 through December 8th......

Going on in Lanae's mind: Hmn. they're going to get back the day after my 19th Birthday, that's pretty cool, hmn. What am I going to do this year? Bleh, I hate planning my own parties, we'll probably do the family thing... Oh, but they're still going to be here for the day after Thanksgiving shopping, I wonder what day after thanksgiving shopping is like in Hawaii....

Dad says to Mom: Well what about such and such dates? If we left on the....

Going on in Lanae's mind: I wonder what Hawaii looks like in December? Now where did I put that file...silly girl. I hope it's nice and warm for them, oh but not too warm, Mason would complain about the heat... Oh to be young again and be able to take off work at such a whim...think savings fund Lanae` think savings fund!!

Dad says to Mom: Oh, you're here, OK I"ll see you up here..

Mom and the kids romp in, Mom goes into Dad's office, Foster goes to see Tori and Gary, Mason and Ashley ramble around the office as I explain to them that they need to sit somewhere and be quiet because people are still here. Der.

I go out to my car to get clothes to change into so that I can clean tonight.

Going on in Lanae's mind: Wow it's nice out here. Now where are my pants anyways? I hope that they get to go, I'm sure Hawaii would be a blast in the middle of winter. I'm sure it's a blast anytime! Oh come on Lanae`, stop that, you are going to go on your Missions trip, remember?! Wow, I really need to vacuum out my car...Don't be suckered into their trip, it won't take too long for you to save up for your trip, and you've been planning this for a while. And don't forget about your other savings accounts, you have plans, and a budget!....

By the time I got back upstairs, 10 minutes later, Dad was clicking all over the place on his computer and Mom was on another computer typing in Car rental sites.

Lanae` says to Mom: So are you guys going?

Mom says to Lanae`: Yes, we are!! Isn't it awesome! Hey, what's that one website address...

Dad and Tori: But School....Great price.....Winter's cold.....Hawaii's warm....

Lanae's says to Tori: Are you going?

Tori replies: Ya, I think so, It's just the right time for Christmas break.... But I wonder if I can afford to do it, with school and all.

Going on in Lanae's mind: Nice. Just go off and leave me in the dead of winter to die! Way to care sis', way to care! Oh, but she would love the sunshine! Well, I like the sun too! Whoa! Hold up there tiger: savings Lanae`, savings! You gotta stay focused.

Tori asks Lanae`: Are you going?

Lanae` replies: No.

Mom says to Lanae`: What? What do you mean? Of course you are, you have to, it will be so much fun!

Lanae` replies: Ya, I know, but I have to work, and I'm going on my missions trip so I shouldn't spend the money, and...bla bla bla.....

Dad says: Well it's not like we go to Hawaii that often....

Lanae`: I know.

Mom: You can afford it!

Lanae`: Well it's not the plain ticket price, it's just that I've already taken off my paid vacation this year so I can't really afford to do it again.

Dad: Ok, so we're going from the 5th to the 18th. Tori, you'll be going from the 12th to the 18th. OH cool, we'll all be able to fly home together.

Lanae`: What? All that for just one week Tori?! I would have to take at least 2 weeks!

Dad: Well you know, there's allways work for you in Hawaii...

Lanae`: What do you mean?

Dad: Well our files are a mess over there and I'm sure that everyone would appreciate if you put together a new filing system... You could work for part of the time....

Going on in Lanae's mind: Wow, did he really just say that? Well Lanae`, you always tease about just wanting to be sent to Hawaii to fix some shipping problem or other. Budget Lanae`!

Lanae`: Whoa, you're right. I could work quite a bit of the time.

Mom: Well, just on the weekdays right? You couldn't work all the time, we have to go to the beach and......

Lanae`: Well, I guess I could, since I wouldn't be losing that much money, I would spend money though. I always do....

Going on in Lanae's mind: Hey there, kill the motor dude! Did I seriously just hear you say that you're going on this trip???!!! What about.....bla bla bla......mind rambles on with logical thinking... bla bla bla....

Tori: Wait, but if you don't go, then I have to pay double in gas to Anc. and what car am I going to drive?

Lanae`: You're not going to drive my car with the way it's been acting!

Dad: Oh with you're disposable money, your car will be in fine shape by then!... You could take my car Tori.

Tori: Oh, ya, that's like better gas mileage than my truck by like double!

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This is the part of the story folks where I seem to have drawn a blank. I know not what I was thinking or what I said, but somehow I was suddenly making plans to go swimming in the ocean, boogie boarding in the waves, spending time in Hilo with the Family and flying inter-Island to work a few days in Kapolei, Mopeding with Tori in Waikiki, going to the water park at least 4 times, getting sunburned, getting crazy tanning lines, shopping at the Aloha Stadium, getting Christmas gifts in Hawaii, Spending my 19th birthday in Hawaii, Need I go on?

I am quite physicked to say the least!!!

So, I'm flying out with Dad, Mom and the kids on the 5th, Tori comes in on the 12th, Tori and I leave and come back on the 18th, and Mom and Dad come back on the 21st. It's going to be marvelous my friends, just marvelous!!!

Well well.

Wow, that's kind of crazy. I didn't realize that I hadn't posted in so long. I kind of see a trend going on too. You'll see on the right hand side next to all of the months that they go up and down and then up and back down. Way to be consistent Lanae`!

Anywho. I didn't really have anything to post about. But then again, I don't usually and I just start jabbering. And Whala! We end up with something that resembles a posting. :o)

I have a ton of pictures that I want to post from last week when five of us girls from Church went fishing. 240 pictures to be exact. And yes everyone, Lanae` did have fun fishing. Actually it was a ton of fun. It was Rebekah, Joanna, Lisa, Tori, my Dad, Pastor, and myself. The water was so warm that we were able to swim (now you know why Lanae` had fun). I love going to that lake. I haven't gone since I was really young and it brought back allot of memories.

I have a temporary girl helping me at the office and it's a big blessing. I get really tired of constantly being behind, and things can get really stressful so it's nice to have another girl to share some of the load.

One of the missionaries that's coming up for the missions conference next week is staying with us along with his wife and 2 kids. I'm really looking forward to it, we don't usually get to spend much time with the missionaries because they are always at the Pastor's, so it will be good to hear about what they are doing over in Australia. Oh wait, maybe not. Now I can't even remember where they're from. Hmn. OK, well I'll let ya know once I find out. I should probably find out before they get here too...

We had a good 4th of July. We went over and hung out at the pastor's house for their annual picnic and water fight. He had a really cool water balloon war game set out too. It would take forever to explain, so I won't. :- ) Oh, but one down side to the day was that we are watching our friend Sydney's 2 dogs and they got out of their cage and decided that it was just about time for Thanksgiving and they somehow managed getting into the turkey's cage and killing 7 of our 9 turkeys. They other two are rather mangled but still alive. So that was a lovely little surprise to have to spend the 4th of July afternoon plucking Turkeys. Well, as dad said. At least we didn't have to look forward to having to do it. There was no anticipation whatsoever, so we didn't even have to dread it! And our friends Aaron and Dave offered to help out so that always makes a job go faster. I'm sure They'll never forget the 4th of July that he helped the Clarks butcher Turkeys!

Well. I did it again. I managed to get 6 paragraphs out. Well I don't know if you can call them actual paragraphs, more like random thoughts. Good night everyone. :-)

I call it Saturday

Happy Saturday everyone. Nothing too grand and exciting going on here. We are having a garage sale today and it ends in like 1 hour. Yup. I'm ready for it to be over. Not that I've really done a ton of work or anything, but I hate how as soon as someone walks up, and you know that it's not the garage sale for them, but yet they still feel the need to walk oh so slowly around the garage and look interested so not to offend you, all the while I just sit there and try to look pleasant. Yes, it's oh so hard for a happy person like me to just sit and look pleasant. :o)

Oh, and in grander news, I washed my car today. Well, I'm not sure who washed it. Tori started to because I was letting her use my car wash stuff, and then I jumped in w/her. But ya, I decided that it's depressing to wash your car. Seriously. You spend all of that time washing, and rinsing and washing and rinsing, and then you have to hand dry it so that it doesn't get splotchy, (just figured that one out) and then you have to spray the wheels and shine them, and then you have to look up and notice that you missed a spot so you wash and rinse some more, and then dry it all over again. And while you go over your precious car with a fine tooth comb (Well not an actual comb, because that would scratch it. Duh.) you notice every little scratch and dent and streak in your car. It's really sad and depressing. I knew that there were scratches on the car when I bought it, but now there's some on my back end that weren't there before. So my deep thought for the day is: Go and pay to have your car washed so that you can remain innocently ignorant about the scratches on your car and just be happy that it's all shiny. Oh, and gee wiz. You are going to save yourself a bucket load of time by going through the car wash. Oh, and since I'm in the mood for dealing, you get that tip for free.

It's Raining!!!!

Yay!!! It's raining, and I mean really raining! I am so excited. I can not believe how much I love the rain. Well, I say that because I haven't lived some place like Juneau where it allways rains, but for now, being in the place that I am, I love the rain! I am trying to talk my dad into going jogging with me tonight after bible school. I have been dying to jog in the rain all week, and Monday when I went jogging I thought that it would start pouring any minute, but it had to be real nice and not rain until I was driving home. Ugh. Such is life, eh?

I have been really enjoying Vacation Bible School at church this week. Phil put me in charge of snacks which is cool. I am rather dissapointed in myself though. I wanted to do food themes to match the bible lessons, but so far only Monday and Friday are going to match. The week theme is High Marks in Mark. And if you'll notice, the high marks in mark are about blind men being healed, and guys who can't walk being healed, Matthew stealing money, ect. So I couldn't think of anything, and my handy dandy google didn't help much either. So, they get all exciting snacks like pop corn, or brownies, yes, I know, so typical. :-]

Well, I need to go and get ready to leave for bible school. I'm not sure what it is that I need to get ready, but I'm sure that I'll think of something! :-)

Oh, and if it's possible. I'm even more happy about the rain now than I was a few minutes ago when I started writing this post. Because it's RAINING even MORE!!!!! Yay for the rain!!!

Graduation!!!

Well my friends, I graduated. And although it was such a marvelously fun time to spend hours and hours with a billion and one books over the last 13 years, I think that I'm glad it's over. Here are a few pictures from the graduation. I enjoyed the ceremony, and we had a really good speaker. Really good, as in we actually were able to get something out of what he said. :o) I would say the only down fall of the night was when I decided to test my speach capabilities, and thank my parents, friends, and God, etc.. Well, let's just make this story short and put it this way, if you're going to say something to a few hundred people, stand a bit closer to the microphone, adjust it to your height, and maybe speak a little bit louder and don't get suddenly emotional and just about cry. There you go, words of wisdom from the Graduate. :o)

I graduated with a bunch of people that I actually knew. (this is amazing for the homeschooler) This is me and Heidi, I think that we got a picture of Tobi w/ us girls, but I am going to have to steal that one from who ever's camera it was on.

Dad and I...

Jenni and I...

Emily and I...

Kassandra and I...

And... The Mommy, the Lanae` and the Dad! (just in case you guys didn't know that)

Graduation Party!!

Graduation was fun, but I think that I had the most fun afterwards at the party at the church. Let's just say that my dad can pick some awsome games... :0)





Kassandra and I bobbing for ding dongs in milk. (our version of bobbing for apples, way funner, and a bit sweeter too.)




We did one of those skits where you have two people behind a sheet, one person is the head and uses their hands for the feet, and the other person is the hands. What they were acting out, was Heidi, Tobi, and I growing up. We (Kassandra played the girls and Mike played Tobi) had to learn how to dress ourselves, feed ourselves, read our bibles, shave, put makeup on, etc. Here's just a few of the pictures:







That's Mike on the left (not the right, silly) with Jordan being his hands, and that's Kassandra on the right, with Tori being her hands.









Apparently Tori thought that Kassandra needed more lip gloss!














Mike learns how to shave.











This is Jordan and Mike "bobbing" for marshmellows in flour. (they had to get 5 out of the bowl)

Note:
"Do not try this at home children"






There were some other games that we played, and other people also played, but these were just the highlighted ones. :-)

Far, Far, Away.

I'm really looking forward to this weekend. My cousin Crystal is graduating from College and Tori and I are going down to see her. It should be allot of fun. Well, that is if Tori and I sign a peace treaty before we leave town... :-) No, I'ts not going to be that bad at all. We have been getting along pretty well lately because we like totaly love each other! :o) We leave some time on Friday. I need to go and talk to Tori about what time, but probably in the afternoon, and then we come back on Sunday night. It's going to be one of those killer fun, jam packed, sleepless, type of trips. It's going to take me at least a week to catch up on the sleep I miss, but then it's going to happen all over again because we are going back for my cousin Maria's High school Graduation two weeks after that. So if we were rich people and could miss two weeks of work, it would make sense just to stay down there. But since we live in the real world, we are going to go down, come back, and then go down. Oh ya, we'll probably come back that time too. Maybe. :-) I've really missed our summer trips to Wasilla, last year I didn't get to go as many times as I would have hoped. Having a job and responsability stinks. Well, not really, I kind of thrive on it but that's just me because I'm weird.

Good night you all!

Almost There......

So nothing superbly interesting has been happening with me. Well, at least nothing that I feel like blabbering on about. I'm really excited about being done with school on Monday. Well, actually. I am going to be done by Sunday, so that my Mom can grade all my stuff and have it in to them by Tuesday. I'm not worried though. I just have one chapter in both English and Biology left and then I'm done. I was totaly stressed out on Sunday, for good reason I guess, but I'm ok now that I've actually gotten some school done and I see the end coming soon.

The wedding went really well last Saturday (the one I played the piano for). It all went smoothly and the decorations were beautiful. I would still like to see the DVD though. I feel like it was just another rehersal or something because I couldn't see anything and it went just like we practiced. (well duh.)

I've sent out my Graduation invitations finally. Well, at least most of them. a few I'm waiting on addresses for. Graduation announcements are odd things. I mean, have you really thought about it? It's like ok, let's take a picture of me and put it in these funny looking cards with two envelopes and two seals. (I wonder if they have a how to open a graduation announcement for dummies book?....) And then send it off to a thousand and one people that I don't even know. Hmn. Americans are weird. :-) And really, do these people want a picture of me? I know that I would like to see a picture of my third cousin, twice removed, but does my third cousin, twice removed want to see a picture of me? Well, I guess it doesn't matter, because I didn't send it to that cousin. :o) Just joking folks. I don't have a third cousin, twice removed. I think it was just once removed, and wouldn't that not make them my cousin... deep thought. I'll get back to you on that one. :o}

Oh ya. and I totaly forgot to tell you all. (who ever you all are) that I finally bought a car. Yae for me! It's totaly cute, it's a 2001 PT Cruiser. I always thought that they were stupid looking, I think it had to do with the color of the ones that I saw here in town. But I just so happen to like mine. I might be a bit biased in that opinion though. :-) Someday I'll have to take a picture of it to show you peoples.

Well it's off to do more Biology for me. WooWhoo it's gunna be fun!! Later.

Ok, so here is a long line of all the pictures that I have been meaning to post for a while. I'm sure there's more that I'm missing, but oh well! Just so you all know, we were all smiling in that picture. :-D Not that you would have know that we weren't with all of our gear on. And I'm still wondering what Ashley and Foster were looking at....

Here's us....

This is when we went out to the cabin. It was alot of fun. Alot more than I thought it would be! It's funny how we got a picture of Tori and I, and then Ashley and I, but not one of us girls together. Ashley added the comment to me that I had to be in all the pictures. Hmn. ok. Well, I guess it does look like that huh. :-) Well, there are two pictures here that you will have a hard time seeing me in. Ya. that's me at the bottom of the pile up. Oh, oh, there's my boots! And there's my helmet! (thank goodness for the helmet!)It was all fun and games when we were playing football and they tackled me, but then they just kept coming and coming. And we ain't no light family! Let's just say that I had a little difficulty breathing!