2010

Yes, I've made 3 posts in one day...(well, technically not, today's January 1st)yes, it's 1:30 am, no, I am not planning on staying up all night.

Movies (as you probably well know) put me in a rather emotional, poetic sort of mood, and seeing as it is now 2010 and another year has past, I thought I might as well make a New Years post. :P This shall be my first post of 2010.

(and in case you were wondering, we were watching the Ultimate Gift. I love that movie. Always makes me cry. We've been watching a lot of Christmas movies lately because we missed them all at Christmastime...)

Here's what I posted on my facebook, I'm a bit too tired to think of anything else poetic or philosophical. But seeing as I wrote this at 10pm rather than now, it should make a bit more sense...

On a more serious note, for those of you who read my little blog here, thank you so much. :)

2010...is another gift from God. It's a full 365 days, 24 hours in each, 8,760 hours total - from Him to use for His glory. There is so much potential in that amount of time. How much of myself can I give to Him to further His kingdom this year? What can I do during this year to make it count, to make it different, to become closer to my Savior?

Happy New Year!

Love, Hannah

AAAAHHHH!!!!!

Remember this post? Guess what??? BREAD comes in purple too!!!!

I was at the Chinese mall the other day, doing some shopping with my mom. And we passed the bakery. And as we were looking at cakes for my dad, this glint of purple caught my eye. So of course I had to run over to see what it was.

and LO and BEHOLD, it was purple bread!! Made my day. So I showed it to mom, who explained what made it purple (yams, I think. There's also this yummy stuff called taro in it) and proceeded to get it for me. (*squee!*)

I brought it home, gave it a parade around the house to show my family my find, took a few pictures for the purposes of sharing this new delight with my blog readers, and tasted it!

It is... (wait for it)

DELICIOUS! I absolutley loved it. It's sweet-ish, but not like cinnamon sweet or anything. I really could eat it almost all the time. It tastes good plain or toasted. It especially tastes good toasted just slightly brown with lots of butter.

Did you know that toasting purple bread makes it brown? You would hope that such a phenomenal occurrence would turn...blue or something when you toast it. :P But no, it turns brown. Which is to be expected, because it IS just bread, after all.

Still, it's unusual bread, and it's PURPLE, which is just fantabulous. And I get to use my purpleness tag. :P

Sadly, I was unable to get a fabulous, prize-winning, stunning photo...but here is a picture, nevertheless, and just look at that glorious purple...

Aslan's Country Survey!

Most of you know about Aslan's Country, the Narnia forum I co-adminstrate. My fellow admin has written up a lovely survey for the New Year - and if you complete the survey, join the forum, and send him a Private Message, YOU could be eligible to win a FREE Aslan's Country t-shirt! :P

I'd love to hear your responses to the survey, but please don't take it if you haven't browsed the site first... ;) (so please, browse the site!)

Aslan's Country
Survey

Christmas things...

One of my favorite things about Christmas is church. I especially am beginning to love advent - the candle lighting, stories, and all. Our family has been reading "Jotham's Journey", which is an advent story, and I LOVE it. It's so well written and sometimes we purposely skip a day so we can read two the next day because we can't stand the cliffhangers! =P

Last week we sang "Zither Carol" at church. I LOVE this song. I think the congregation really enjoyed it too.

This week our handbell choir played background music. I absolutely LOVE handbell choir. It's so much fun!!

I love this picture. These are the biggest bells, which Raymond and Jared got to play. The smallest ones are about half the size of your hand. [whereas these are about what, twice the size of your head?? =P]

Our little flute trio! I absolutely love our flute group. It makes me happy. =)

Katy and I just learned 4-in-hand about 2 weeks ago. 4-in-hand is where you have two bells in each hand [as opposed to one] and it's really tricky at first, but once you get the hang of it, you feel reeeally smart. :P We had a lot of fun playing and learning together as you can probably see....

Geneva Hall was decorated beautifully - all the trains everywhere and trees and decorations. I loved it.
The train tree

For at least this year, my favorite part about Christmas is definitely church. All the special music, decorations, candles, advent...I love it. =)

Titles are for those with creative minds...

Today has been a long day. And it's not half over. And the rest of the week is going to be long.

I spent this morning playing flute for a Hanukkah party with the Union Gospel Mission. I think I played for a total of 1.5 hours...which is a long time just to be playing background music...in dress shoes and with no food. But I loved it, and the seniors did too. I really love to play my music for people like that...because they love it, and I love to bless others in that way.

One of the seniors is friends with my sister [who's coming home TOMORROW!!] and she was talking to her on the phone during the event - and came up and held the phone up so that she could hear me playing. It was quite funny. (My sister usually plays for this event but wasn't home in time this year)

Tomorrow....is going to be a really long day. And I'm exhausted already. So please pray that everything will go smoothly and I'll have lots of energy. =) I will have lots of pictures and will tell you all about it afterwards!

Love, Hannah

Here come the long string of Christmas posts!

Over the past few weeks I have been very busy with Christmassy things, parties, things ending, gifts, singing for church, performances, and such. And of course I've been thinking about all these great things to blog about. And while I was going to compile it into one huge post....I figured I'd probably lose half my readers who don't like long posts. :P

So here's a nice short Christmas post - the first of many! Oh, don't you love Christmas?

Bracie, who authors the blog the Locket, shared a new Christmas song by Taylor Swift - which I really really like. Not only because it's coming from Taylor Swift, but because I really do like the words.

Awhile ago, I was kind of ::cough:: obsessed with Taylor Swift, but I got over that quickly, and hardly listen to her anymore. But I love this song - and she's talking about Jesus Birth the WHOLE time [no sob/breakup/crush content] - and she says Jesus Christ in the end!!! Which I think is amazing coming from such a popular artist such as herself. And a great message to a world who needs to hear it so desperately. I'll have more on Christmas and Jesus and stuff, but for now, enjoy the song!! =)

I'm bored. And *slightly* hyper.

So! I'm going to make a random post. Because I'm bored and feeling random. And childish and immature. And I will probably look back at this post and be all like, "wow, was I dumb", because I'm not really thinking properly about how my sentences are worded....[see? that didn't even sound right..]

Heeheehee...oh, the joys of being random and hyper. But, there is some cause for my joys, as you shall soon see in the sentences that follow....[boy that sounded lame...]

1) My big sister is coming home for Christmas! In 8 days!! And just in case you're thinking "what in the world?? Hannah doesn't have a big sister", it's true, I do. But she adopted me, and we're not biological sisters. But we're sisters. =)

2)We started a flute group at church. I'm loving it. Immensely. I haven't played with a group of people just for fun in a long time and it felt really good. Plus I got to sing for the first time with the choir, and that was loads of fun.

3) Christmas time is always happy....

4) Did I mention my big sister is coming home for Christmas?

5) It's sunny out. I'm quite happy. And as cold as it is, I really like it. And I think so long as it stays sunny, I shall be positive about the lack of snow. However, if it decides to rain and stay this cold, I might have reason to complain. But So Far, it's sunny, so I'm happy.

6) I had hot chocolate this morning. and it was warm. Oh, and there was a gigantic vanilla bean marshmallow that I had with it. It was lovely.

7) I forgot to tell you that my sister is coming home for Christmas! =P

Love,
Hannah

PS if you're wondering why this post is tagged "purpleness" it's because I really wanted to use the tag, and because this post is random, I saw it a useful place to use it. :P

PPS please tell me if I made a really embarrassing typo and didn't notice it. [I tend to not notice things when I'm hyper] And please comment, because I love comments. =P

What to do??

I am in desperate need of a Christmas background for my blog. I want something green and red and without the reindeer/Santa stuff. And without anything that blocks the text. Yeah. I'm picky. If anyone finds one, or is talented enough to make one [unlike me] it would make my day. =)

As it is...I may have to end up with reindeer. Or Blueish snowmen-y things. But I really don't want something cold looking. It's already far too cold outside. =P