Moving...and other stuff...

First off, let me apologize (AGAIN) for disappearing off the face of the earth. This is what summer does to me. But I think summer is a good enough excuse...sort of... When you're homeschooled, Summer can do dangerous things to you...

And secondly, I'm not moving literally (thank goodness. Not planning to move anytime soon...). I've decided to 'move' to a different blog, for a number of reasons. I'll give you the url in a bit - it only has like, one post so far. I'll miss this dear blog that I've started four years ago in '07, with all its weird and childish or childlike compositions and ramblings. But I think it's time to grow up a little bit. And there have been a lot of other changes in life too, so I thought, 'oh, might as well'. (as if I couldn't handle one blog enough XD)
In my new blog I will try to post more meditations and the like (I never knew how much improvement it did to my writing skills), as well as music videos and maybe some book reviews. But I'm afraid I don't have time to post my old "saints' stuff" like I did when I was...er, younger. That was fun, though. And even though I stopped that a long time ago, I'll miss that as well...

Another big change is that I have changed my username to 'Akalei'. That is my name in Hawaiian, and Charity Therese is/was only my pen name. I go by Akalei in a lot of other things and places, and it's also my artist name. So it should be easier to recognize me...sort of. I'll miss being called 'CT' though!

So...if there are any readers left out there, thank you for your patience! This will be one of my last posts here. All your sweet comments (if there are any left, lol) and sharings and such have been much appreciated. Thank you for taking your time to read this neglected blog. :)

I'm still alive...

I totally apologize for the disappearance (AGAIN). You have no idea how many times I tried to get into my blogger account! I even tried commenting on my previous post to let my readers know that I couldn't access my account, but then realized that I had 'locked' my comment box so that I could only publish it once I was logged in as blog administer. (Yep, epic fail.)
So there I was furiously typing in my password again and again and again and again to absolutely no avail, when I FINALLY saw those three little words and a question mark.

Forgot your password?

Thank God for people who have pity on airheads like me.

Anyway, I will get back to posting soon. Thank you for your amazing patience, and I apologize again for the inconvenience!

It's quiet here...

Yeah, sorry about that... I've been getting over this horrible stomach flu. I'm still recovering. But I can manage to sneak in a post. ^_^

First off, it's my first post of 2011! :D Yay! Happy New Year friends!

So, do I have lots of check marks on my old "New Years Resolutions for 2010" list?
Yes...and no...noooo......but it turned out to be so much better. :)
I got to develop my writing and art skills quite well. So that's a check. But no, I did not join the Honolulu Marathon, and I barely ran all year... :P And, as you can obviously tell, I did not give an amount of two posts per month. I posted more than I expected I wouuld, but not as much as I'd like myself to...
But I learned a lot. A lot more than what I had expected. And that's got to be the biggest check on my resolutions list of 2010 than any of them.
I guess that's another funny thing...We can make our goals, but God takes them and makes them awesomer beyond our imagination. He takes what we have, and replaces it with something MORE.

I won't lie, it's been a difficult year, despite all the joys and accomplishments. My family and I had to move again, and that hurt just to know that after four years, we STILL haven't found the right home/house for us. I know God does indeed have that home prepared for us, but sometimes the waiting just tears me apart...
Anyways. Concerning school, 2010 didn't kill me. I think it decided to give 2011 the honor...
Emotionally...and in personal issues... There were quite few of those things that were difficult. Those stuff never bothered me before. I've always just avoided them. 2010 showered me with lots of things to think about - I'm a growing teenger. I'll spare you the drastic boring details, and well, the whole story, but I stepped into the great teenager world (if you're homeschooled, your launch happens late =D). But no worries, I've got a frying pan at my side to whack the weirdos who decide to stalk me. ;)
I basically did say a lot more in my other posts, so I'll go on. :P

I thought last year was going to be different...no, this year would probably have the most changes.
My sister is going to college. College! Noo, I didn't think we'd still be alive by then!!
I'm supposed to be a senior in highschool this year. I was thinking about enrolling in a homeschool program called Seton, so I could fly to Virginia in 2012 to receive my diploma. It'd be fun. But if you know Seton, then you know that I probably won't get there alive...lol. ;) But, we'll see...I still have to do a PSAT and then an SAT. Please keep me in prayers on that school stuff... Oh right. And I'm going to start driving this year. =] Yeah, you might want to pray for me on that too.

Anyways, that's enough for now. To close this little update, here's a favorite song of mine. :) It's helped me so much. I hope it touches you as it did to me. :)

absence

*gasp* It's Friday the 13th!!!!

Ok, now that we've got that out of the way let's get back to what I was going to say about my absence...

:(

Yes...I haven't posted anything for a while. I've been sick with this cold that hasn't gone away yet :P
I still have to post the 2nd part of St. Damien that I promised, and all about the relic procession that took place on Nov 1st. I'm still sick, and my laptop isn't functioning properly (I've been borrowing either my mom's or older sister's) but hopefully I'll have those up by next week...
Hope everyone's having a blessed Fall and month of November!
Mahalo everyone who wished me a happy birthday :)

Blogging update...again

Okay... I'm going to try to make a few changes again. You've might've noticed that I've added a blog motto "Not your average Catholic teenager." That's because I'm planning to post more things... Though here's a quick question to my readers: Do you have a hard time reading this because of the colors of this template? (I'm thinking of changing the template colors to lighter ones)

Let me know what you think of the new Blogger Header, by the way! :) I've been working on it, (yes, I designed it with my own mechanical pencil - don't have photoshop on this computer :P ) but unfortunately, the last 's' of Spritus got cut off while I was scanning the picture. (nooo)

Here's a few things that I've been into lately: (pic)

As well as two other styles of drawings and helping with Mom's book (more on that later...), and of course, highschool. We're slowly getting back to our 'regular school schedule' but Cy and I have been spending a lot more time on the computer lately to help mom with her book. Being homeschooled is sweet, but it can be confusing. I'm also preparing for a SAT test...:(

Again, I'm really hoping to do more blogging... I miss writing about the Saints, but I don't think I can really get back to doing that - instead, I hope I'll be able to write a bit about the life of the Saint for the day, and a bit of reflections (at least, that's what I'm hoping to do :) ).

Also, you've might've noticed that I put up the 'comment moderation' fence in the comment box. I thought it might be better (not to mention safer) to do it that way. You can still comment - I do appreciate your imput and what you think!

One more thing... I've added another poll to the sidebar. Hope you don't mind, but could you please vote? I'd like to know who's reading this blog, even if you don't comment, that's alright. Thanks :D

Sidebar update

Okay, I just finished updating the 'Great blogs 2 visit' gadget! (took me sooo long to finish that...) I also added a poll, so please be sure to vote! If someone I know is out there and has a blog, and commented here before, and I haven't added your link, please let me know so I can add you to the 'great blogs to visit' links. Or, if you're going down to the sidebar to check the blog links, please also check the blogs I'm following because I'm terrible at remembering these things... :-P

Also, I might change the image behind the blog title. It's not because my sister said it looked 'dark and creepy and could scare readers off' (Gee, thanks 'Francisca Clare' :-P it was early morning when I took that picture in the church...) but also because of the reason that I like to change things around once in a while (if I ever get around to it and if I ever ever remember :-P )
Anyway... thanks so much to those who said that this template looked nice! Like I said, I really liked it, particularily because it was blue (or dark blue...) :-P so I think I'll keep it this way for a while. :-) I'm also adding on another quote gadget, this time for books. It'll be mostly from fiction books, because most of the quotes on the sidebar will be saint ones.