Pictures I have done from new software recently:

 

 

Hope you like them!

 

Hannah

It has arrived:

Just guess if you can. Imagine if you will. But this is for real. Check it out:


Finally, after too many days of waiting in anticipation, just wishing that whoever was working at FedEx or U.P.S. was super-fast, when Novacom was all I could think about, it finally came! However, first things are first in my family. Before I could open the Novacom box, I had to wash a big sink of dishes.
           

Broken dishwasher+ lots of dishes+ Novacom just staring at me, waiting to be opened= The fastest and most frustrated I have ever washed dishes in my life!
Yah, you could say that I got the Novacom box in only 10-15 minutes after it’s arrival. I was pretty pumped.
Alright, so I was able to open the Novacom box, but did I say I would be able to actually listen to it?

Before I could actually listen to Novacom, I had to organize my school desk, which had a lot of stuff to organize. As you can probably imagine, I finished that task pretty quickly too. So, then, the moment I was, and had been waiting for was finally here. Until Mom asked me to do the evening dishes. But I was able to listen while doing the dishes!
      
Everyone was upstairs, getting ready for bed, while I was alone. Downstairs. By myself. (frown)
But it really didn’t matter. I was listening to Novacom! The best AIO saga ever!
       
    
It wasn’t so bad to do the dishes anymore, because I hear other people talking! Most of the time, it was Whit giving Connie a pep-talk, or the younger children in Odyssey, always getting in trouble. Funny! Soon enough, I shall have to write you all a post about the roller coaster I was working on. I finished! And I got extra credit for turning it in so early! I am calling it the “Paper Tiger,” which is the name Mom thought would be appropriate. You can probably imagine what it will look like. I will try to post a video of the roller coaster in action. I will be writing you again soon! Thanks for reading!
Hannah

Warm Eggs and Roller Coasters:

This is not a formula for instant nausea. There is no need to panic. I would just like to tell you about two different things I have been doing lately. Let me first tell you about the “ Warm Eggs” part. This a tip for when you are making cookies: When I make my chocolate chip cookies, I always leave the eggs that I will be using in the recipe out so that they become  room temperature. For some reason, this makes the cookies you are making to be light and fluffy. Before I learned the egg trick, my cookies were as hard as a rock and as flat as a pancake, until now! Now my horror cooling in the oven has turned into light fluffy cloud cookies, which equals to “brownie points” for me, coming from my family.

The other thing I would like to tell you about would be the “roller coaster” part of my title. Where I have to build one. For school. Whoa.

I have an assignment for school to build my own “roller coaster.” We have been studying how roller coasters work in science. The roller coaster I am building will be done in a very tiny fashion. As in a marble will barely fit to roll down the track. I am going to have some assistants help me, though. There is nothin’ like a helping hand! As I rolled on down to Office Max to make some copies of the blueprint to build the coaster, I couldn’t help but think, “ How in the whole wide world am I going to do this???” I had glanced at the directions a couple of times, but never read through them completely. Let me describe how, even in the short glances I had, how I could sum up the blueprint. CONFUSING!

 

< just to let you know, that is NOT the roller coaster I am building, this is just and example of a roller coaster.

 

Anyway, I will most likely take a picture of the hopefully on-time and finished assignment. Oh, and Novacom still hasn’t come yet. It was supposed to come yesterday. I wish could make a magic button to speed up FedEx deliveries. There is always a first time for everything.

Your Author,

Hannah

I love my brothers!

Watch this video of my baby brother, Levi, laughing:

Hey, check out the SQUARE Favicon at my mom's blog:

My mom's blog:
http://kerrybraintree.blogspot.com/

The Favicon just popped up! It is a tree, but instead of leaves, it shows a brain!
Check out my mom's blog if you are interested. I helped with the design of her blog.
Thought I would just give you an update!
See " A "Little" Technical Assistance," which I posted before hand:

Hannah

A “Little” Technical Assistance

Ever since I was young  younger, I would help my mom with stuff. Like “making” dinner with her, “helping” with laundry, etc. Well, recently, I have been helping her a lot on the technical side of things. Even when I was 8 years old, I would show mom how to use features on her phone. It was kind of funny. I have worked my way up from helping her with cell phones. Now it’s computers. My family calls me the tech geek of the family.  I learned how to operate computers by earning up for one with my brother,  and working on it by trial and error. On one of my recent blog posts, you found me talking about earning up for a MacBook Pro because Apple is so direct and simple.

Anyway, I have been helping my mom out with her blog (on my Dell).  I was working with her about 5 minutes ago by making her favicon square. Man. Favicons are really annoying. Really. Mom chose a favicon for her blog, (which is that icon looking thing some people have that is right by the web address for whatever website you are visiting).

 

On  Blogger, at least, when you want to have a personalized favicon for your weblog, it always has to be square. Well, Mom found a favicon that suited her blog and style, but it wasn’t square. Goody. I love a challenge.  I pulled up the Paint program on my computer, and pasted the favicon image over.  I had to resize the image by clicking on Resize, then had to figure out sizing nonsense for a while. Bummer. With all that said and done, I figured it out. Finally. I then transferred it to Blogger and… it hasn’t popped up yet. Bummer again. Well, it takes about a day or so. I guess I’ll be waiting. Thus the technical assistant carries on in her never-ending wading waffling through the technical world.

Hannah

Obsession Confession:

Ok, so you who read my blog know that I have been posting a lot about adventures in odyssey. Well, at my house, the adventures in odyssey radio is on almost all the time. If Focus on the Family has a counter for how many people visit their whitsend.org website, it probably has gone up a little bit. = ) Especially while I am feeding Levi his baby food.

 

My mom said that Focus on the Family should have me paying rent to be on their website, because I go there so often. He he. Ha ha. Very funny. But, I have also found out that Focus on the Family has a website now called radiodrama.com that has radio drama episodes about books of the bible, important events in history, most common family issues, and much more. One of my good friends old me about it. I am going to might listen to a seven part series biography on Dietrich Bonheoffer today. Maybe.

SO, I might be a little obsessed with AIO. A little. Tell me what you like to do when you are bored. Maybe I am not alone. Maybe.

Your Author,

Hannah

Novacom Part 2! … and Computer Questions

Well, yesterday I finished earning up for my Novacom saga, and I came downstairs and asked my mom if I could order it. She then turned around and said, “ Actually, your aunt is ordering it for you as a late Christmas present, so you can keep the money you earned!” I was so excited! Now, I am counting the days until I get the saga. I can’t wait!!! The money I earned is going toward my savings for my own laptop. I am earning up for a MacBook Pro. It will most likely take me the whole summer to earn up for the laptop because I want the laptop for the new school year. I am going to wait for the new OS X Mountain Lion to come out for it, also.

Please give me your suggestions to whether or not I should get a Mac. I have been using Dell computers for a while, and I was a faithful follower of Dell, until I went exploring on the Apple website. Wow. I showed some videos to my parents of tutorials on how to use the software for Apple, and my parents love it. Apple explains things much better, and the appearance of their programs and displays are much more cleaner than Dell. The only downside to Apple is the cost. Like $1,800 for a laptop. But, I found out that there is a homeschool discount… and guess what? I am homeschooled! Anyway, I will let you know how everything works out. I will definitely take pictures of the Novacom box and stuff too! See ya!

Your Author,

Hannah

AIO Get In The Show!!!

Adventures in Odyssey is now holding a contest for a spot as an actor or actress for AIO! They just released the script, and I think I was one of the first to read the script. At 6:30 am. AIO is going to hold auditions at every Family Christian Bookstore on July 1st through 14th, I think. They will have the top 12 actors and actresses narrowed down by October 1st, and from October 1st to 9th, all AIO fans will vote for who they think is the best. From the top twelve, the fans will narrow the contestants down to the top three. Then, AIO will fly the finalists to Colorado Springs. There will be a global web audience watching as the finalists perform for the producers, and the winner will be in the Odyssey album #58. And guess what? I am auditioning!! Most likely with thousands of others, but it is worth a shot!!! I will check back with further information. See ya!



Your Author,
Hannah Messer
; ) P.S. We just bought the new AIO album, the Deep End!!!

Novacom

Novacom is probably my favorite AIO saga. It talks about  a conspiracy with all the normal characters plus a few more new people. It all begins with an “answer to prayer”  for Tom Reilly, who runs the Timothy Center, as he begins to start having financial troubles, then an unknown company called Novacom offers Tom a decent amount of money for a plot of his land to build a radio tower on.

Tom decides to accept the offer, but “Whit” has a bad feeling about it. I won’t tell you anything else. It might ruin something for you if you haven’t heard the beginning of the series yet. AIO just aired the two first episodes, “Opportunity Knocks,” and “Red Herring” online at whitsend.org, which is already a link on my website. Anyway, I am earning up for the saga right now. I can’t wait until I listen to the whole thing!
Your Author,
Hannah Messer