I believe online chatting is a great way to speak to someone in real time and get to know them and hang out and have a good solid conversation. It’s the next best thing to a “real” conversation. As in, phone or the next best thing to that which is a face-to-face conversation. I think, though, that sometimes IMing can get to be way to much. Some people jump on you the minute you sign in and you talk for several hours and neither wants to tell the other person “Look, I’m bust. Get off my back for an hour, please.”

And I don’t think much of chatrooms at all. I was actually just going to make a blog post about this. Not sure if I will or not, though… I’d probably just end up confusing myself.

CCM isn’t all that popular any more. The CCM Magazine is no longer in business. I like listening to Christian music. I like music that I can relate to and has a meaning I understand. If it has that and a tune/style I like it’ll be on my iPod sooner or later. I’m going to Winter Jam ’09 next week. For that I’m pretty excited.

I dunno what kind of computer I prefer. I’ve used PCs all my life. I think I’ve only used a Mac twice and that was for no more than five minutes. Though, if you count my iPod Touch, I use them all the time. We currently have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, I believe. I might be remembering those numbers wrong…his name is Clive and he hasn’t got a very nice video card.

I’m fairly eager for my eighteenth birthday. I’m not allowed to have a computer of my own ’til I’m eighteen. And even then I’d have to buy it for myself… *cough* Anyways…

And you can use iTouches.

Currently reading An Infamous Army. It’s due at the library tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll have it finished then.

Abook called Pearl Maiden. And, having read past the first five chapters, I do not like it but press on all the same.

It made sense to me too. German roots, Alyosha? What fun. The only thing I do that has anything to do with my roots (Norwegian) is ask if we can have kransekake. See Wikipedia.

We don’t set up our tree until about. week before Christmas and take it down two or three weeks after. It’s. real tree. I sort of envy you people with fake trees. Sacriligious, I know. We each trade names for which sibling we have to give a gift to. We generally trade names in, like, June though. My grandparents (on my dad’s side) often come over on Christmas or Christmas Eve and we have dinner and open presents together. We also go down to my uncle’s around this time and my grandparent’s pass out presents (they give presents to their children and their spouses and their grandchildren but the rest of us don’t give presents to our cousins and aunts and uncles or neices and nephews. We usually play White Elephant but this year we will not be playing it.

Um…I think that’s probably all.

That’s no fun, Sarah. :wink:

Uh…not a good idea, Jordan. These cousins of mine have a strong dislike for books.

*doesn’t actually like cranberry sauce, turkey, or stuffing…* So I avoid it all except I tolerate the turkey and hope for a wing.

The best part of Thanksgiving is cream spinach.

We’re going down to my uncle’s house this week. It tends to be pretty boring. I have thirteen boy cousins who are all video game addicts and don’t care at all for their girl cousins. I have one girl cousin but she and her three brothers live in TX so aren’t going to be there, and she’s some six years younger than I. Most of my nine aunts and uncle’s (two of them won’t be there) and pretty boring and for conversations just ask questions that normal grown-ups ask homeschholers “Are you socialized? Did you have class today? Do you even know anything?” Except one of my uncles is fun. He likes some books especially LotR so we might spend the day watching those movies in between eating turkey, sweet potatoes, cream spinach, rice pudding (blech, sorry Gramma!), and apple pie (way better than pumpkin pie (and my grandmother makes it with “sugar in the raw,” Alyosha, invade, EDIT: the iPod’s automatic spell check hates me, you were wondering). What fun, eh?

Amazing until you have to go out and shovel it.

Alyosha: You may bow at this point, Owan. Speech is optional.

*bows as directed* Thank you for making the speech optional, BTW, I *squeaks* contracted a cold yesterday. Funny how it is, I hit fifty (it’s not finished, you know), you give me apple cider vinegar, and I get a cold. :roll:

I’m sorry, Pip. *apologizes* The use of “Amen” (pronouced: ah-men) gets rather crazy on the NB boards and, of course, other places too. For instance someone will say “Wouldn’t it be great if Peter and Summer did a duet? I think it’d be pretty” and someone else comes and replies to the thread or message with “Mmmm, amen!” They use it in terms of hearty approval (and it is always after a series of Ms), which is perfectly fine according to the dictionary (“Mmmm, I agree!”) but I would rather “Amen” be used as a way of saying “Hallelujah.” Or at the ends of hymns and prayers. *shrug*

Umm…yeah. So that is why, unlike my friends on the NBBs, I would not readily say “Amen” in reply to Alyosha’s comments on rap and tobyMac but would instead give a hearty “I agree!” which means the same thing but…uh, yeah. If you can make any sense of that they I suppose I’ll share you a little bit of my apple cider vinegar.

Alyosha: But yeah, anything that happens to America’s economy is going to affect Canada’s too.

Hmm, reminds me of something Paul Colman said once. He says that Australia’s entire defense system and foreign policy is “stick with America” and that the two of us are great allies. Infact, as soon as the Aussies heard about the Iraq War they immediately sent their entire army of thirty-seven guys over to help. And a bunch of kangaroos. That’s a fun interview, one of PC’s best. Even if you don’t like Paul Colman (shame!!) or Newsboys (shame-in-the-shape-of-snow-balls!) the interview is still a lot of fun. Paul’s a great (and funny) guy, seriously.

Alyosha: (You are my fiiiire/My heart’s desiiiire — Insert whiny vocals throughout.)

Oh! Oh! Yuck. *cringes* I can just imagine how dreadful that would sound, and the fact that those are very similar lyrics to The Mission only makes it worse! “I wanna run with fire/It’s my heart’s desire/Lifting Your love higher…”

Alyosha: And for me said rate is pretty high to begin with.

Oh shush! *hits Alyosha over the head with a copy of Twilight* I really have difficulty believing your book is as bad as you say. Love your cover, BTW.

Pip: Rap is noise if it’s not God-glorifying,

Isn’t that true for any type or genre of music?

It’s getting cold here, too. It snows quite often. Most is just flurries or a light sprinkling of snow but this morning we got like a inch.