Sister Road Trip 2009

Well Katya and I embarked on our first ever road trip on Monday. It was quite an adventure. We headed to Hanover P.A. around nine-thirty in the morning with a small Agenda list thingy.

We listened to all our favorite music, sang along at the top of our lungs, and we talked and talked and talked.

Katya became quite the photographer in the car...I suspect she was a little bored. So here is the world from her perspective.

Oh and did I mention that red lights are perfect for sister photoshoots?

Katya seemed to like the yellow cars. I, however, am still partial to gunmetal gray.

Another Duckie Truky as we call them.

Well I forgot to take pictures I guess of our time with Aunt Joy. Haha somehow we managed to complete the entire road trip with only pictures of ourselves...anyways, we had a lovely visit and then around five went to my grandparents house for the night. (But before I go on I must state that I hate one way streets and think cities should learn to function without them. They make for very long, confusing trips through town.)

Ah yes...a sleepy picture for you.

And a silly one.

Coloring in the kitchen.

I was excited to be going to bed while Katya seemed a little less thrilled

Tuesday morning we spent time with Aunt Phyl and Uncle Bill and watched the inaguration with our grandparents. Then we headed home...and listened to all the same music. =) We don't like change.

We had an uneventful drive home and will be planning our next road trip soon. Probably sometime in June. Maybe next time we will venture farther out. China is still in the planner for my 35th birthday!!!

(I just like this pic and pretty much had to include it.)

Christmas post

May I just say, that this is absolutely my favorite Christmas movie. I hold a special place in my heart for anything Dr. Seuss. I first learned the English language from reading, Go Dog Go, and have been hooked ever since. It finnally feels like Christmas now. Perhaps the delayed feeling is due to lack of time for Christmas cheer...but now that classes are done, (until January 27th) I have sought to emerge myself in Christmas. This morning as I was baking Christmas cookies with my little Cheif. (Gus gus) I enjoyed listening to Christmas music and singing completely opposite carols at the top of my lungs. Next on the agenda; placing my ornaments on the Christmas tree. (I missed the official decorating night due to callbacks...alas.) And after that I'll probably go buy some eggnog and watch the Grinch again.

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Mother!!!! I love you Mommy!

I really should post...

Well if my all my sibs have blogs and post regularly I figured I should at least put up one post every once in a while. I was just in NYC with my dear friend Anna S. for her eighteenth bday celebration to see Phantom. (Gotta love the cell phone pics) And Tomorrow...I'm going back! This time with the Poalma's and my wonderful mother, to see Janice in Dear Edwina. It's going to be a wonderful and cold day!!! Can't wait. =)

My life the past month or so...

Here are my picassa web albums....

http://picasaweb.google.com/rubberduckie823/Banquet2008

http://picasaweb.google.com/rubberduckie823/PhillyAndGraduation

And you can click on "...public gallery" to see the rest.

Okay thats all.
~J

edit: And this one too...http://picasaweb.google.com/rubberduckie823/17thBirthdaySurprise

First time

I took the trash out for the first time in my life today. And I felt like everyone should know.



~Josie

Happy People =)

Jeremy and Angela are engaged!!!!!

It's Just About Time....

Wow.....I am suppose to be writing a five page essay on the Spiritual Journey of John Proctor in the play The Crucible....but I don't really want to....lol....

School has been crazy busy...but great! I was so stupid this summer. Everyone told me that Junior year was going to be really really tough...and in my ignorance, I didn't believe them. My thought process was, "Well....I am taking a ton of Junior classes this year....so next year will probably be a little smoother, probably not quite as busy." Haha...it's almost amusing...almost...but not quite. Oh well. I am still really enjoying school. Everyday I am filled with the realization that I am a weak vessel in need of God's help. =)

Advanced Biology is absolutely my favorite real class. (I don't think Piano counts as a class....) Mrs. Ellis is the most amazing teacher and my classmates are awesome! We have class at Starbucks.... today Mrs. Ellis treated us all to a drink of our choice. I will confess that the coloring pages get a little tedious, but they are the only homework that I can do while watching tv....so I like them.

My dad took Jesse and I to see Tower of Power on October 14th, and Grace and Janice came. They are simply the most amazing funk band around. (40 years together would probably do that!) Yeah, I can't really find the right words to express how I feel about T.O.P. Basically the song, "Soul with a Capital S" is the first music I ever remember hearing....listening to it with my dad is actually my first memory now that I think of it.

Buy tickets to see Signature in concert on December 16, 2007!!! http://www.purevolume.com/signaturemd
(You can find ticket details under, "Shows." And yes, there isn't any music up currently...but there will be very soon. So keep checking!)

Okay...time to write a paper.......then go on a vacation.....(ugh! I wish)

~J

~School is better than I thought.......

Ahh...the last day of summer. (Like what the calender would say.) I must say this school year has been awesome! I can't wait until it looks like this outside!!! Today after my piano lesson, Anna and I took a back path as we walked to her sister's house to meet up with her mom. Its our favorite to take the backpaths as when the leaves change it is absolutely lovely! Then in November when they are all laying around on the ground, we will get to hear the crisp cruching noises as we walk over them. My glasses will fog up when we reach Jessica's house and soon...her baby will be born!

Hm....I love most of my classes...and tolerate the others. Homework isn't terrible yet, so when I have a smallish amount of homework, I spend my afternoons singing. I have been working on some show tunes...which are hard because I am not skilled enough to accompany myself yet. So it's awkward to stand in front of the piano and have to pluck out the melody lines...and hope I am singing it in the proper time signature and such.....oh well, perhaps one day I'll be good enough at piano...but not yet.

I can't wait until it gets colder. Today I put on my winter coat and walked around outside for a bit. But then I realized it was way to warm to be wearing it. (Though I really, really wanted to.)

Well that's just about it.

~J

Cape Cod!!!

On Monday, Anna and I leave for Cape Cod!!! We will be driving up with Uncle John and Aunt Nancy to meet up with the Silards and Kristen to spend six days at the beach...shore...whatever. Ahh! I can't wait. Yesterday, Anna and I went shopping to get last minute things and I finnaly used my Boarders gift card to purchase the O.C.R. soundtrack of Beauty and the Beast! We are going to wait to listen to it until we are in the car on the way to the Cape so that we have something to look forward to about the eleven hour car ride. It is very tempting not to open it up, and stick it in my cd player...but I think it will be all the better if I wait. =) Lizzy has a blog full of beautiful pictures of the water, and the sand and the dunes and stuff. http://sandyneckfotos.blogspot.com/.

While I am away, I hope to read through All Things For Good, by Thomas Watson. It's a wonderful book that Anna let me read while we were at the beach together in the beginning of the summer. Then she bought me my very own copy, which I have been saving to read for Cape Cod. I highly recommend it! (Though I have only read the first twenty pages or so.)

Summer has been amazing...I have like ten hours now, so that's good. My dad finnally let me put on the radio while driving!!! So that was exciting.

Enjoy your summer!
~J

Summer is Here!!! =)

I realize it has been quite awhile since I've posted. Summer has been awesome. Way greater than I ever expected! God has blessed me soooo much! I actually just got home from the beach yesterday. I did a wonderful job of allowing the sun to burn me...hopefully the swelling will die down soon. (And yes, I did put on sun screen...it just didn't work I guess.) It was so great to spend time with my mom, sister and my mom's sisters and thier kids. I have like 27 cousins on my mom's side and every year we get this great beach house for two weeks. We don't all fit in it anymore. So for the first four days of the two weeks, it was just my Grandmother, my mom's two sisters and thier kids and us. One of my cousins is living in Ocean City this Summer but other than that I was the oldest cousin there. That was just strange, cause I'm like ninth in the line up. But we had a blast. It was good to be at the beach with everyone again. On the way home we listened to the Orginal Broadway Cast Recording of Les Mis. I forgot how good it was. I found myself in tears most of the time because of how beautiful the music is. (Is "is" a preposition? Cuase if it is then I just broke a grammer rule.)


I got my permit about a month ago, but I still have 57 hours to go...so it'll be awhile! But driving is fun. My dad is constantly telling me to use the gas pedel...cause I forget about it. (scary....I know.) And I cannot understand how to fill in the manuel thing that keeps track of your hours....so I have to like figure that one out still....

I've been zipping through my booklist. Right now I am reading Lost Moon. It's about Apollo 13 and written by one of my mom's friends who writes for Time Magazine. It's quite good.

~J

Edit: I just realized I said, 57 hours to go...what I meant was 53...

Blaah! Dis is Cwaziness!

So much school! Yikes, I'm drowning. (Actually I'm not, especially not if I am posting on a blog. Goodness! )

Anyways...Studying for my final bio exam. Kristin had Lindsey, Anna and I over to go over all the info for a few hours. Fun times. And guess what? We actually studied. I love biology and I am going to miss my wonderful teacher. But I get her next September for Advanced Biology. (I can't believe I ever didn't like Science. What was up with me?)

After Thursday, the business of school ends and another loaded weekend shall commence. It's packed with rehearsals, parties, concerts, sleepovers, meetings, shopping, and much to my liking, very little homework. Then I will fall back into my packed school week when I wished I did more homework over the weekend again. And so on and so forth and the pattern will continue. Until June 1st when I take my final drivers ed class, throw some clothes in a suitcase and drive off into the horizon with my Daddy, to meet up with the rest of my fam, off to vacation. When I come home, the seniors will have graduated, and I shall be an Upperclassmen...upperclasswomen...
upperclassgirl....upperclassperson whatever!

Back to today. After totally boring myself with nearly two hours of piano practice, and too much History reading for my own good. I went purevoluming and discovered some new bands. Grey Holiday is one of them. They have a very unique sound, but I enjoy them.

Okay, enough of this.
~J

A Year Ago Today....

I was on my way to Sienna....::sigh:: I feel old. Man, that was a year ago? Go to www.tic-tac-tantor.blogspot.com if you feel like reading about my travels.

This is a pic that Josh Tucker took of me and Joanna Jones on the first Saturday Night of Godspell. I am deff gonna miss singing backround with her! =(

Well, this is my first Saturday since sometime in September that I haven't had any type of Godspell rehearsal. Last night I stayed up extremly late...(for me anyways.) and watched Maroon 5 DVD's with my brother. I must say they are extremely talented.

It's strange...it hasn't hit me yet that Godspell is like, over. Maybe it never will...

Oh, here is a super funny video that makes me laugh really hard everytime I watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJOr2z0kkcg

Okay well, I'm sick. I've had three cups of coffee and six and a half cups of tea today and I still can't sing! Ahh! I need my voice back! Time to go watch more movies...bye.

Another Moday....=)

Okay time for some music!!!

www.purevolum.com/yellowcard2

This is one of my all time favorite bands. I recommend the song believe. It honors the firefighters who served on 9/11. Listen to it if you are reading this and have a chance.

Okay, another song I really like is this.

www.purevolume.com/emery

Listen to Returning the Smile You Had From the Start. It's a beautifully written song. (thanks to the mikes for showing me this band.) It can be a little instense for some ppl though....haha.

Okay, so...Godspell is going really well. We have completed Act I and Act II! (Yaye!) So I guess we'll be working fixes and running the show until it starts. The Proformances are March 23, 24, and the following Friday and Saturday.

Here are some Godspell pics. http://weddingpixel.com/slideshows/Godspell/
That weeked I was understudying for Britt. K. and Roger...(Anna Somerville) was understudying for her sister Sylvie.

Okay then, I should be going.
-J