thank you.

as you are aware of, im sure, i'm now home.
home from my favorite place...chop point camp.
this post very well could have been a writen picture (if that makes any sense) of myself moping around, so bored my brain is oozing out, and so lonely...well...nevermind....my point being - thats how this blog could have been. but im going to try to make it not like that.
( wow, excuse my ridiculously good grammar.)

and how will i accomplish doing so?
how will i manage not moping around like a walking sadface?
(refrain from mental images please, youre gonna miss the point.)
well the issue isnt "gah im home with no shedule, nothing to do, none of my friends are near me at all...and im sitting debating weather or not to call them up just to say hi..."
thats not the issue.
the issue is this...i just had an INSANELY great 4 weeks with great people doing great things. scratch that last part....doing things doesnt matter...just so long as youre with said great people. and said great 4 weeks makes being with those people that much better.
im so darn thankful for all the times that turned into memories.
all the random people who turned into friends.
the friends that turned into better friends.
as i said at the campfire...
camp is a necessity...
theres pretty much food, water, and chop point.
without it thered be a ginormous gap in my year.

that being said...
im home now.
doing what i can to be thankful.
but i still miss you all.
and i miss the things we did.


body-painiting w. courtney. sailing w/ emma and jagoe. windsurfage (which seemed to always be more like hopping onto each others boards when the wind was low.)
knee-boarding. stepping on that frikkin bee.
learning german from nikolaus and lukas.
the massive mountain of inside jokes i wont even begin to quote.
everyone robbing me of my camera all the time.
making fun of the foreign kid's various accents.(in a completely loving way.)
pixie stix.
being juno.
reid state park.
taking everything the dirty way.
"im gonna cut your throat and use your blood on my pancakes!"
THE TREE.
and many ka jillions more little thingies which decided not to come to my attention just now but are probably somewhat important, i suppose.

THAT was easy.

june 4 - june 10th = a loverly little experience called student project.
(a week long campaign helping out mr.dean scontras who ran for congress.)

now If i described to you the things we filled up our time with during student project you might think something along the lines of "wow, that sounds like a load of fun......NAWT."
but,see, we would only feel that way about all the work we did during SP if we were doing it for ourselves.
for our own pleasure....amusement....etc.
and you wouldn't think things like that if you were doing it for someone other than yourself. someone bigger and better and stronger.
and we had prayed that we'd do all our work for God.
i don't know about everyone else but i know that i did.
because everytime i think about SP i think abotu an amazing time that i miss. clearly, if i were doing all that work for myself, i WOULDN'T miss it whatsoever. I'd be like "wow that was hard and tiring and just blaaaaa."
so, i guess, now ive experienced the difference between how you feel when you accomplish stuff for yourself and when you accomplish it for God.

(btw, i am NOT saying that when you do things for God its NOT hard and tiring. beleive me, student project was tiring.=p
but it was great fo sho.)

another pretty nifty thing is....
no matter what happened it was a win-win situation.
if scontras lost, which he did, you can still know that your work wasnt in vain and you did your very best (still going along with the whole do-it-for-God thing.)
and if he wins....than GREAT. our candidate won AND we tried our best.

i wont go off about summers winning.
cause like i said, this is indeed a win-win situation, so to speak.
so "winners" shouldnt complain.
if you follow me ...?

but anyhow...

here's a link to an album of pictures from the campaign.
dude, how the heck do you spell campaign anyway...?
whatever.
heres the thingy:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sporkly/StudentProject08ScontrasForCongress

I miss all you sp peoples.

sincerely,
me.
=)

change

whoa. whoa. whoa.
I have to distort my brain into a weird position to grasp this.
okay, lemme backup....


I have been homeschooled since I started school.

this spring my parents decided I need more structure and motivation and challange in my schooling.

I decided that I agree fully.

they decided that I'd either end up in a more sructured homeschool program or a certain private school that is about 10 minutes away.

as of about 20 minutes ago.....I will not be homeschooled next year.

x-ray my heart and mind, you'll find all this.

im sorry if i ramble and go on and on or dont make sense.
this just interests me.
its exciting.


my english class/ bible study had been mentioning that we've got to hunger and thirst after righteousness. i have a tendancy to read bible commands and subconciously shrug them off.

you know, this whole deal is really rather ironic....

I finally start to DO something about it. and so by DO something about it i mean, im actually spiritually hungry. as to say that i recogenize how much i need God. and i genuinely want him.
not only have i realized this,
but in the past day or two Ive had more interest in my faith.
im not saying that it bored me before but.....
well, you get the idea. it also seems a bit more real. more interesting. i care more than i did before.


theres two relient k songs that have been kinda going through my head.

everyone doubts....so on that note im gonna point out that while these songs aren't going to be my theme song 100% of the time....they can still be there to remind me.

song #1: I need you.

"I've dug up miles and miles of sand
Searching for something I can't see
And I've just got bruised and battered hands
And a brand new void inside of me
Complete with walls I did create
From all the earth that I've displaced
A mess that I have made from what
I've just let pile and pile up
I have not been abandoned, no I have not been
Deserted and I have not been forgotten

I need you
I need you here
I need you now
I need security somehow
I need you
Like you would not believe
You're the only thing I want
Cause you're everything I need"


and then theres "getting into you."

When I made up my mind
And my heart along with that
To live not for myself
But yet for god
Somebody said
Do you know what you are getting yourself into?

When I finally ironed out
All of my priorities
And asked God to remove the doubt
That makes me unsure of these
Things I ask myself
I ask myself
Do you know what you are getting yourself into?

Im getting into you
Because you got to me
In a way words cant describe
Im getting into you
Because Ive got to be
Youre essential to survive
Im going to love you with my life

(contrary to popular beleif)

I think so much.

if thoughts were water drops i could drown.


spin spin spin goes my head.
la la la.
there's so much in life.


______________


today is gone. today was fun.
tomorrow is another one.

sarcasm^?
good question. not too sure, myself.

oh, the great esoteric-ness of it all.

"Pickled Idiots: just $2.99 at your local supermarket !"

"it's okay i've done stranger things with myyyy =X"

"the only part i remember from it was...actually nevermind. cant say it because I'm a good girl."

and that last part ^^ goes for all the other things i remember ( and could possibly be mentioned) from the past couple days.

woo.

ben&jerry. school&vacation. blah&blahhh

-- Today is / was free cone day at ben&jerry's!
I kid you not.
but did i have a ride to civilization?
noooo. =(

the rest of vacation included such things as a movie, more ultimate frisbee, more playgrounds, sunshine, ice cream etc.
yeah good stuff right there.
you dont have to go the city or the beach or anything spiffy like that to have a good time.

but now unfortunetly vacation ended two days ago.
and Im starting to wonder how on earth I'll ever be able to deserve a summer.

I fail at motivation and productivity but succeed amazingly at procastination and the like.
oh well.

on a different note: this weekend should be fun. as I will be seeing some kids from teenpact. woooot.
and while we're being happy I'll bring up that I'm going to Pennsylvania and Virginia on may 13th for about a week.
(to see a friend who moved down there a handful of years ago. and to see my awesome brother who moved down zhere last year.)

and on a musical note. ( no pun intended , seriously)
let me just say that the following are/is amazing.
bayside.
family force 5.
the shins.
the beatles.
little peice of heaven - avenged sevenfold.
zombie - the cranberries.

the saturday, sunday, and the "ultimate" monday.

saturday-sunday:
*in short, weren't bad either.

saturday consisted of getting up towards lunch hour. what else is new?
zhen heading to a kids play at CMCC with heidi which had my friend playing sleeping beauty in it. I was pleased to see that when I tried to speak in a soft but high pitched voice I squeaked. (I love concerts....)

henyway - following that heidi and I got dropped at governors restaurant. and let me tell you, it was great. and I'll tell you why. i got to pay for my own food! (at a place other than a fast food place) like, they gave me one of those book things to put the tip and money in or whatever. im a big girl now =)
happy
so in a nutshell saturday and sunday were just pretty much me and heidi hangin out.



sunday night = second ever youth group meeting. and of course, it was just me and ashley. (the youth leader) it was a good time though.
I ate captain crunch and she pretended to know how to play drums....and we also found other various activities.

Monday....ahhh....Monday.
It proved that you dont have to be in soviet Russia to not hate mondays.
=D

that day was:
*spontaneous
*adventurous
*enjoyable
*just awesome.

woke up, got dressed, stepped out of door.
got dropped at ashleys with heydi. (not heidi.)
made pizza, went to nearby park to have picnic.
met some people, played ultimate frisbee with 'em for ....maybe 2 or 3 hours.
became buddies with said group of people.
went to target with them, and played hide and seek in the store =D
(on the way there we got gelato. holy crap - its yummy)
(and in the store i bought a stuffed dino. and named him mr.geoffery stegs [like STEGosaurus.])
after target our newfound friends and us went to a school playground.
played some weird kind tag, man hunt, peed in the woods, played the laughing (aka "ha ha") game, played leap frog, got cold, and peaced out.
following that adventure heydi, ashley and I proceeded to put purple streaks in our hair.
heydi's didnt work at all.
neither did ashelys.
and i have a blonde streak now.
dont ask how that works.

basically......it was a good day.

and heres some piccccccs for you.

(showin off our frisbee moves)



(a circular game of rock-paper-scissors)



GELATO



hair dyeing.

sk-k-k-k-killet

friday:
*was sunnyyyy
*really enjoyable
*memorable too
*just awesome.

the highlight, quite clearly, was the concert. (skillet, thousand foot krutch, dicyfer down[sp?])
however a few other minor things just made it that much better of a day.
before le concert we all (the youth group and a tag along - mr. mark stephenson) headed to a pretty place known as the ocean. there was a light house....and a kite...and all that good stuff.

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I told my mother the following day about my head pains the night before, and how there was a frog in my throat from screaming, and how very hot and sticky the concert was.
the right thing do to would be to say " dang, that sounds like it was awesome."
but, of course, being a mom, she sympathized with me. tsk tsk.
*shakes head*

and you can find a larger collection of pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sporkly/ZeeSkilletConcert
=D





we are SUCH rebels.



soooo....some awesome dweeb actually brought a real live skillet to the show. i kid you not. i reckon their arm got tired. ( as they were waving that thing around for the entirety of the show)



the guitarist.



the old album cover.



the show.



frontman - Mr.John Cooper







confetti party on the floor




oh and fer all you daft punk fans - (*cough* me!) - id like to recall how there was one point during a song when the keyboard guy from either skillet or thousand foot krutch did a minute-long little version (of his own kind) of "harder,better,faster, stronger" by daft punk.
honestly....I was kinda excited.

peace out.
sincerely,
- me

hugs,pukage,porcupines,politics and more.

** the other day I had a conversation ive been meaning to have for a long time.( and I really like how it went.)

** autumn G stopped giving hugs(.....im not kidding. THE APOCOLYPSE IS COMING.)

** it looks like there's a better chance of going to first session at CP camp - (awesome much?)

** me and hannah are having a porcupine contest. (I dont even know why....cause mine owns)

** oh and i got sick for a day.( puked on 4 occasions. good times...good times...brightside: i got to watch 3 movies)

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from march 31st to april 4 or 5th....Teenpact happened. Ive only been two years. this being my second. but it owned last time by far.
i realize that the entire point of it was to learn stuff... but the best part was just hangin out with people.definitally
if i had been given a bag labeled " teenpact inside jokes and memories" it wouldnt have been big enough.
unless it was like 20 feet in diamter but thats entirely beside the point.

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if you want ill post some pics. or if youre not lazy you can find them in the teenpact group on facebook. which is either called "
teenpact" or "teenpact maine"

b-b-b-boston. YEEAH

*ahem*
well since last time I guess these are the major happenings:

-Boston science museum.
-Teenpact.

this is gonna be pretty much just pictures so dont be counting on some kind of elaborate novel about my current life.

ACTUALLY....now that ive taken a look at the number of pictures ill be showing off lets just do two seperate blogs.....and im gonna stop thinking outloud now.

okay these first couple may not seem very interesting but have a bizarre fascintion with public transportation.





and this is possibly the best lawn ornement EVER.



you probably cant read it but this is a "brain map."
like : "and over here we have the humor section right on top of where you draw comparisons" and all that fun stuff.



FOUND HIM





a slab of micah...mika....mica? i dont know.



some kind of sick contraption





BEST SHIRT EVER TO WALK THE FACE OF THE PLANET



boggguusss



a hand rail.





having fun in the anatomy section thingy.



mirror fun.

weather, teeth, snowmen, and the world ages ago.

dear weather,
you clearly have forgotten about this thing called "seasons" and how they are , beleive it or not, supposed to CHANGE. I know youre having fun drowning us and snow and i bet its even more fun to watch us think that it'll stop and then BAAMM poor on just a few more inches to make us mad. I'm starting to get used to that. i can deal with it....BUT SNOW THE DAY BEFORE SPRING??
oh ,weather, you are just too cruel.

so cruel.






well on a happier note I went to a movie, 10,000 bc, on sunday with a couple friends. okay well one of them was more of an accuaintence but is that really relavant? no. we didn't have a food plan so we ended up walking a block or two to sams sandwhiches after much debate about where to go in the first place and not even knowing where any food places were to begin with. but I liked that. it made it more interesting. anyways - the movie itself wasn't exactly as good as I thought but it was still good & I enjoyed it.

and on friday I defeated something that was bugging me a lot. actually the doctor guy defeated it for me. no, I dont have cancer, silly. I just got my tooth pulled is all. the best part was totally when the novicane was kickin in and I was alone in the room and I started pinching my chin to see if it was workng. AND I COULDNT FEEL A THING. it was sick. seriously.
anyways so then the doctor comes in with his sidekick (I dono what she really called. nurse? co-dentist?) ans theyre all "so uh, were you pinching yourself."
and I'm all " um *laughs* yes"
theyre like " yeah youve got a red mark on your chin."
I'm like " well hey I just wanted to see if it'd work."

uh what else is exciting....OH YEAH.
I submitted 7 pictures to Jones Soda for their labels.(for those who are noobs, Jones is notorious for putting photography on their soda bottles.) anyhow, I know there's a 1 in a billion and a half chance that I'd get chosen but DANG it would be cool if I did, plus, I figured I would give it a shot.

speaking of me and my best friend stewart (better known as allison's kodak camera) me and him took a walk on the river by my house the other day. and took many pictures. it was a fun time.
recently a few people were walking around on the river and they had made a snowman. but he kind of died. so I repaired him and we hung out and took some pictures.



I was thinking I should have given him a name. suggestions?

oh by the way, I've made a webalbum where you can take a look at my pictures (more than what I post on facebook/myspace)

this is where its at (ha, literally): http://picasaweb.google.com/sporkly

sincerely,
Me

danger! high voltage.

its cold and everytime it snows i think its the last time. who am i kidding? grrr.

today is 28 years since march 6th 1980. oh who cares? i do =) it's my brothers birthday. big age difference but who cares? i dont.

tomorrow is the graduation ceremony of heidi. friend of mine since....well, since birth.

and as for current musical infactuations:
lily allen.
the shins.
the dresden dolls.

sooo good. well they float my boat anyway.

ah yeah: on a more not-so-cool note gravity was mean last night and broke my mirror. fairly large one too. i got over it when i realized i could take sweet pictures of the brokenness.=D/=|

I'll go now seeing as you probably stoppped reading way up there^^.
cause im just thaaaatttt intriguing

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for the most part i definetly agree with this. but the used big words on me! and i dont know what some of them mean. haha. otherwise, I'd say it's pretty dannngg accurate.

realization

over the past couple days I've become more aware and exposed to things that i knew exsisted but...yeah.
today more so than yesterday. this afternoon i went to help out at a soup kitchen with my youth group. and saw some thigs. things i dont normally see in my every-day kind of life. just...the diverse ways of living that people have. one thing that made me particularly sad was the homeless kid who wasn't even over 18. sure we will be on his next birthday...but still. he's a kid.
well anyway, we did a bunch of miscellaneous odd jobs at the kitchen place. in a nutshell: it was great yet awful.

Im not sure how this thought ended up being posted online

I was wondering......how the freak do porcupines mate?


p.s. I apologize for any unwanted thoughts/mental pictures.=)

1993 + 15 years =today

HAPPY BIIIRRTHDAY TO MEEEEEE

YEAH dude

and here we have THE MOST AMAZING CAKE EVER TO WALK THE FACE OF THE PLANET.
(ignoring the fact that cakes dont have legs. actuall this onedoes. but the legs are "extinct." ANYWAYS MOVING ON)




and then suddenly there was a camera in my face,
SUPRISE

...on that note

allison: i just wanna hop out ( of the car) and run around and jump on buildings and take pictures! what about you?
Diana: are you going stir crazy?
allison: whats stir crazy?
diana: kind of like cabin fever
allison:OHHHHH, thanks for defining the past two weeks of my life.

Cabin Fever?

Maybe it's Normal that in your mid-teens you just get bored of your every day life and youre just so flippin ready for a change.
dont get me wrong, i like my house and family and school isn't killing me but ....
let's just say there's a line from a movie that been running through my head. and i dont find it at all irrelevant.

"I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world."
- george bailey, it's a wonderful life.

no offence to my "crummy little town."
I guess im afraid that by the time I get out as much as I want to and see what i want to and create what i want to, so much time will have passed.
and i feel like when Im at home just trying to plow through school, as important as that is, i would so much rather be trying new things and going places and meeting new people...

blog to bore your brains out

Yesterday:

* all my troubles seemed so faar awayyyy.
(okay lets be serious and refrain from singing...)
*school started upagain *dies*

Today:

*I went rollerksating.
*It felt like april. except with snow.
*Autumn called me and we keeled over and died(laughing)
in retrospect...i have no idea what it was all about.

Tomorrow:

*Isnt much to talk about.

this week:

*I dono im only going to camp berea! yeeeeaaah!

pictures to come.

this is the new year

and it was spent with....you guessed it, the other two parfettes
and just for the record: we were sober the entire time. reguardles of what impression the photos give you. ( actually, i didnt post the weirder ones though.)
anyways, there were a lot of pictures that were taken but I'll try to not post a lot.

these are in chronological order.



this was my idea. and it was really exciting up untill when we actually had to do it.




I consumed two of those. out of the four we purchased =D


christy glasses....are awesome.


this part is exciting: at 7 AM we left the house to take a walk and see the first sun of 2008. and then christy was like " well...we should go to the diner...or dunkin donuts and get breakfast." and heidi and I were all " okay sure."




so after walking for a few blocks, in what wasnt anything like warm weather, the diner was closed! but then we saw that starbucks was another block away and they were open.
soooo this is heidi really loving her coffee...



and this is probably the only decent picture of all of us.


and then we walked to macdonalds and met christy's Dad there who then drove us home. yay!


My dad : sometimes the wrapping is prettier than what's inside.
Allison: *recalling the photo above* that's deffinetly true with MacDonald's