Emma from Literature and Laughs tagged me in the following post. :) Here goes...
What are six names you go by? Ruby, Rubert, Rubes, Rubix-Cube, Ruby Jean, Rubs.
What are three things you're wearing right now? A shirt, pajama pants, and blankets. :P
What are three things you want very badly right now? Halfchaps, snow, and a willing spirit.
What are three things you did last night/ yesterday? Wrote an essay on early Britain, folded laundry, and cooked meals.
What are two things that you ate today? Black beans with chicken and rice, and chicken soup.
Who are the last two people you talked to on the phone? Mother, and Candice (my riding instructor.)
What are two things you're going to do today/tomorrow? Finish school essays, and books. :D
What are your three favorite beverages? Water... ginger ale... and rootbeer. :D
And now I have to tag people! I tag Chloe at Life In My Strawberry Patch, Jordan at Ramblings of a Princess, and anyone else who wants to do this can say that I tagged them. :) Copy and paste this into a post, delete my answers and put in yours.
~Ruby
Ruby J. Hopkins
Me
About Me
- Ruby Jean Hopkins
- "Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling with." - G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Cicero
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters [books] is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
Wendell Berry
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Samuel Davies
The greatest number of mankind beyond comparison are sleeping under ground. There lies beauty mouldering into dust, rotting into stench & loathsomeness, and feeding the vilest worms. There lies the head that once wore a crown… There lie mighty giants, the heroes and conquerors… the Caesars of the world… There lie the wise and learned, as rotten, as helpless as the fool.
Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Arthur W. Pink
The apprehension of God's infinite knowledge should fill the Christian with adoration. The whole of my life stood open to his view from the beginning. He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed his heart upon me. Oh, how the realization of this should bow me in wonder and worship before him!
C.S. Lewis
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
9 comments:
Now I wish I had a blog to do this :-( although it is rather frivolous.
Rubert, Rubes, and Rubix-Cube are somewhat derogatory names for you.
What is halfchaps?
And rootbear! Oh that makes me think ... "he wanted that beer and he wanted it bad....."
Halfchaps are "clothing" or "gear" that riders use on their lower leg when they ride. They are usually leather or something like that, and zip up the sides. They protect the shins and the thin layer of skin between the bone and the saddle from getting pinched and stuff like that. :)
But I enjoy being called them. :)
Yes, that was good. :)
"A Hobbit's tale"? For some reason, You really don't strike me as 3 feet tale and a pipe smoker. on second thought, you are taller than me. And I will continue the tagging process over at homeschool.mysawdust.com.
Did you or did you not do a post on the merits of of rootbeer? Oh, that was Ryan. ;-)
-James
Oh, and Happy Durins Day!
Oh my James! for some reason it just isn't right looking up at a girl! :-( There is one girl I know who towers above me and I don't like it one bit. I keenly feel your pain friend....
Yes, that was me who penned the remarkable poem on Ruby's Rootbear Revel. Delightful memories.
James -
Well... it's a term of speech, okay? I guess I refer to myself as living more of a hobbit's life instead of being an actual hobbit. :) Is Durin's Day today? I couldn't figure out when it was. :P
Ryan -
Are you calling your poem remarkable?
~Ruby
Yeeeeees Rubert, let us ratiocinate. You readily remarked on its risibility. It was recalcitrant, recitativo, recapitulative, and redolent of a little rotund rarity. It was remarkably Ryan.
At least it was more remarkable than your piano piece at your book study last month ..... A rubix-cube works best when BOTH hands are at work, Rubers. Tootles.
Well, if you are so self-confident... I shall leave you in your state of "blissful pride."
I don't remember that?!
Pish Posh
Now you do! :-)
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