With Love, Intensity

Olympia, Washington

2009-07-18T11:54:00.000-07:00

WOOHOO!

Have I got some stories for youuu...

This aaaaaaall starts the morning of the 16th. My daddy called me and said that he bought me a ticket for later that day. I was like "Okay!" and I packed and Skip drove me to the airport. I get there, go through security, and find my gate. I'm good. So 5:48 rolls around, right? That's when the plane was supposed to takeoff. The plane wasn't even at the gate yet. And then the ticket agent peoples make this announcement and say that the flight is running late, and we won't leave until 7:20. I'm thinking..Okay..I can still make my connecting flight in Georgia! Well. We didn't take off until 8:15. And my flight was leaving Atlanta at 10:10. you do the math.
So i missed my flight.
And the next one wasn't until the next morning at 9:45am. I was stuck. At the largest airport in America. Overnight.
Thankfully the airport people were like OK you can just stay in the unaccompanied minors room for the night. That was just fine with me. It really wasn't that bad. I met some cool kids, Faith and Austin. They were rad, and also, stuck overnight. We played Pirates with the air mattresses.
I got like zero sleep. thennnnn..
I got on my plane, it was on time, (yay!) and then it was like a 5 hour flight. Without Music, Video games, a movie, or anything. Not even a book. So I slept on and off and read my Bible.
AND THEN I LANDED IN SEATTLE!!!!!!!!
Got on a shuttle bus to Olympia, got to Rama's house, then we went downtown to Lakefair!!! I ran into like..everyone I know. Almost. I loooooove Lakefair. It's a local fair/festival thing. Music, Food, Rides, and LOTS OF PEOPLE. It's amazing! Or at least it's amazing to me.
I have to go now! Because Rama and I need to get outta our pajamas and get dressed to go downtown. Toodles my darlings!

Pitman, New Jersey

2009-07-15T20:26:00.000-07:00

The past 2 days have been a semi whirlwind.

Making plans to get back home to Washington, A family emergency, and just random little things that make the chaos larger.

I went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince today with Alana and Katie T! It was awesome! Afterward's we went over to the mall, and hung out there for a few hours. The guy who worked in Spencers was hitting on us. o_o Can you say CREEPY? There was this beanie hat in Hot Topic, oh my god I want it SO BAD! But it's 15 dollars. Yeahhhhh no. Dear Hat, I love you, but you are expensive. (at least to me) I waaaaaaaant iiiiiiiittt! In black.
Katie T's dad took us out to dinner xD We went to Old Country Buffet. It was pretty good. But good lord they're "ice cream" tastes like..powdered milk. Ewwww. 'lana said it actually is like this powder that they mix with water. And they call it "soft serve". Gross. They're salad was yummy though! xD

I'm off to bed. I'm praying all this gets sorted out x)

Westville, New Jersey

2009-07-12T12:01:00.000-07:00

Currently at Tamra's =)

Yesterday I went over to Apple's (that's her nickname) and hung out a bit before Girls Teen Night. =) Some of my very favorite people came! I was excited. We went for a walk, Took a bunch of pictures, Hung out in apple's basement, ate, played pool, and just talked. It was definitely fun.
Alana and I are going to try to get together sometime this week.

The sky was really beautiful last night. there was Lightning on the horizon and it was all purple-ish.

Today is my daddy's birthday! Happy Birthday Daddy!!! I'm sad that I can't be with my family today. =/
I just might go over to my godmothers later..

Westville, New Jersey

2009-07-10T14:47:00.000-07:00

Currently at Tamra's :)

We went to the beach today! AKA Down the shore. And it was pretty fun :) I looove the Ocean. The Kids (we'll call them A1 and A2) had a blast! A2 loved to jump the waves.
I sadly, don't have pictures. I was afraid of getting my phone all sandy so I left it in a stroller pocket so it wouldn't die. 0_o
Right now I'm listening to Owl City, Texting Rama/Petra, and sitting around in my swimsuit. Because I'm just too lazy to change just yet.

Mullica Hill, New Jersey

2009-07-06T17:59:00.000-07:00

I'm still at Sharon's house.
Have I mentioned that Fireproof is an amazing movie that made me cry? It's really a great movie.

I got a my own Bible today! It's bluuuue. Sharon helped me pick it out. :) I also got a few other books about Christianity. Mainly for new-er Christians. Which is exactly what I am! As of like..3am this morning. Sharon and I stayed up almost all night pretty much. I've been browsing through my Bible for most of the day. Ninja has nicknamed me Fallon...from The Door Within trilogy. And I have nicknamed Lydia, Ninja. It very much suits her.
Been an interesting day today.
I fly back home around the 15th! I'm hoping its the 15th exactly like in the middle of the night or something because Lakefair starts the 15th. Everyone goes to opening day of Lakefair! I must be there. >.<
Anyways..not much else to talk about..hmm...

Mullica Hill, New Jersey

2009-07-05T17:10:00.000-07:00

I should honestly stop neglecting this blog. It's just not cool.
Because all this stuff happens, and then I can't blog about all of it at once because it'd be SUPER LONG and take forever to type/read!
Happy Belated Independence Day.
Mine went pretty okay, how was yours? I spent the day at my Godmothers house. :) Then we watched the fireworks! It was pretty awesome. Nothing much really happened.
I'm at my friend Sharon's house at the moment. Her house is always fun because 9 people live here. :D She doesn't have work tomorrow so we'll probably do something pretty fun. hehehe.
I have to go but I'll try to blog over the next few days. I promise to improve my blogging!! To really keep up on whats going on, Follow me on Twitter. I tweet a lot. xD

Westville, New Jersey

2009-06-24T12:11:00.000-07:00

My next few weeks are PACKED. Like seriously, packed.
I'm in New Jersey!!!!!! The rest of the family is making they're way to Washington state while I'm here. My days so far are filled with friends, seeing my godmother, babysitting, hanging out with my godbrother, birthdays, and sleepovers! It's seriously amazing.
My mom just recently did an introduction post for all us kids (and our doggies!) here's the link, check it out. :)
ANYwho's.
I haven't blogged for a while because there just wasn't anything to blog about. See, only about 4 people knew I was going to be in New Jersey. Because I wanted to surprise my godbrother, my godmother, and one of my very good friends! It worked out really well, and was simply amazing. So that's why I didn't blog about it, those people read my blog. :) hehehe.
Yesterday I surprised my godmother, godbrother, and Courtlyn. Tamra dropped me off at Siobhans (Sha-von is how you pronounce her name)..Jenna was there so we went to Target, and Kohls! I have funny pictures from that. After that we went back to Siobhans house, Jenna's mom came and picked her up, and then we ran over to Jodi's, (she's my godmother) surpised her and Zack (he's my godbrother!), visited for a few minutes, then we ran back over to Siobhans and surprised Courtlyn!! She thought that she was going over to siobhans after her summerstage thing to go swimming xD I hid in the deck box! It was SPLENDID! Courtlyn and I spent the night at Siobhans house, then Tamra came and picked me up. Now I'm Tamra's house!

So yeah.

Sorry, that post is ALL OVER the place!! Definitely my bad. I just don't know how to word any of it, I guess.

Buda, Texas

2009-06-12T08:09:00.000-07:00

Why is it that whenever I promise myself that I will blog a few times a week at least, I don't? It's like I don't find the time. I can't believe I haven't blogged since the 29th of May! Jeez.

I'm really, really missing home (Olympia, Washington) the past few days. So much has been going on the past few weeks that I can't remember it all!

We've mainly just been visiting my mom's friends.

But last night is a totally different story...

We went to a mall in Austin which is 10 miles north of where we're staying. (Buda, Texas)

My mom needed to pick up her Mac from the apple store and I needed some clothes, sunglasses and the other kids needed some clothes and shoes. Because we haven't been having much luck with thrift stores lately. Well, Princess got her ears pierced! That's not the highlight though, just one. We were getting ready to leave, I was Sephora, and my mom was at Stride Rite with Discovery, Princess, and Inquisitive.

That's when we found out that there was a terrible storm going on, and there was a tornado.

Heading right for us. The mall was about to close anyway, but we go to the doors to go outside, and it is POURING down rain! Like, seriously. There was lightning and thunder, and it was super loud. I was like "Mom, we have GOT to go NOW" Because the other two kids? Were back at the house. (Camper)

She ran across the parking lot and got the car and drove up to where we were and I pushed all the kids in the car and jumped in. Then we started heading back.

And let me tell you, it was crazy. It was raining so hard that everyone was doing 35 on the freeway and had they're hazards on. It was insane.

We got back, grabbed Free Spirit, and Constant, and went over to the walmart with Clarissa, Josh and they're baby Lukin behind us. Because thats what the park host was telling everyone to do. Because its a bigger, more stable building, and would be safer if the tornado came through Buda. We ended up in the walmart for a while. My mom lightened the mood by helping the kids spend they're allowances. Constant was super excited about the star trek toys they had. Because we don't really shop at walmart..haha.

I was praying like I've never prayed before. That the tornado would go away, or be re directed. God answered my prayers, I think :) The tornado warnings expired a few hours later, it ended up going right around us! Whew. We were pretty freaked out.

It's supposed to be 102 degrees today!!! That's frickin' hawt. There isn't a pool here or anything.

We might just die. mhmm. ;)

Fort Worth, Texas

2009-05-29T11:12:00.000-07:00

We just left the Bureau of Engraving and Imprinting.

It's definitely cool and if your ever in the area, you should check it out!

They make 12.1 million dollars every hour. The work days are 24 hours long, monday through friday, and there are 3 different shifts, each 8 hours long during the 24 hour time period.

There were 60 other school kids on the tour, so it was really overwhelming. Princess just kind of had enough, halfway through.

We've also been to the Mint in Philidelphia so it was sort of like a repeat, but it was cool to see how the paper money is made. :)

Gainsville, Texas

2009-05-28T09:11:00.000-07:00

FINALLY, we're leaving Gainsville, Texas today. This is a nice little town and everything, but there's nothing to do and we've been here a week. I think my brains are outside the trailer on the ground.. xD haha

Anyways, Hi! I'm Intensity. I'm 16..and I love to take photographs, sing, and spend time with my friends when I'm back home in Washington. I'm not a normal teenage girl, so don't expect to read about a normal teenage girl here. I'm unschooled, I have 5 siblings (free spirit(she's 13), Constant(he's 11),Discovery(he's 8),Princess(she's 5 and a half) and Inquisitive(he's turning 4 this summer)) and I guarantee that I'll be in a different state every time you talk to me. My family is something that you'd call a Family On The Road or FOTR. We tow our house behind us. AKA a trailer. I don't know how long we'll be doing this, and I don't always like it. This is not going to be some fluffly blog about my travels, and how much I love them and blah blah blah. This is honest. Here is where my opinions will be, about where we are, where we're going next, what we're doing, and stuff more personal like my personal opinions about just about everything.

My "home base" is Washington state. That's home to me, and to my family. We try to go back home every 4 to 6 weeks. (to me, that is FOREVER haha)

Wherever I am, will be in the blog post subject. :)

I've gotta get off the computer now because it's time to pack everything in and head off to where we're going next. (I actually can't remember at the moment where we're going..haha!) I don't always know where we're heading to, Truthfully, I don't think my parents do sometimes either! hahaha