Adventures In Repairing DVD Scratches (Part 1)

Months ago, our copy of the Veggie Tales episode The Wonderful Wizard Of Ha's was scratched really badly. I mean, beyond repair.

(This picture doesn't do it justice. There were more scratches than that.)



Or at least, so I thought.

Saturday night, Keegan tried to watch the DVD, and though it didn't go to the menu and the end wouldn't play, it basically worked.

Then I realized that there might be some way to get rid of the scratches. I asked my dad if he knew of any, and he said that he didn't but that we could look it up on the Internet. So I did, and I found out that (among other things) you can use toothpaste to remove those annoying scratches! I tried it an hour or two ago.

I used a new tube and applied it few times.



I tried it 3 or 4 times, the last time waiting a few minutes to see if that would do anything, but all to no avail.

So I tried again, this time with another kind of toothpaste.



Again, it didn't work. It did, however, remove a few of the smaller scratches (at least I think it did).

So I looked it up on the Web again, just to make sure I was doing it the right way. Along the way, I found another method for removing scratches involving toothpaste, peanut butter, seltzer water and paper towels. I'm probably going to try it, so I'll let you know what happens.

On a side note, the VBS musical was last week, the video that I made was shown and I gave out DVDs of it, we (the VBS choir) got to lead worship in church Sunday morning, my birthday is next Monday, my friend is coming over to spend the night on Friday night and I will be working in the 2nd grade Sunday School class again this next school year!

Oh, and get this: you can use a banana to repair DVD scratches!

Not many words in my mouth today

I don't really have much to say on this blog post, except that my cousin (my cousin's daughter actually) turned 2 years old the week before last week, my aunt turned 50 yesterday, I saw Tomato Sawer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (a.k.a. Huckleberry Larry) last week (it was awesome!), the VBS video that I am making is almost finished (just a few little things left to finish up this week), the qubo picks (Zimmer Twins movies that will be shown on TV) will be annouced in about 4 weeks and I feel pretty confidant that one of mine will be chosen, and Justin, you won the vocabulary contest because no one else entered. Here are the meanings of the words.

• Sybarite - a person devoted to pleasure and luxury (according to Wikitionary)
• Juxtapose - to place side by side or close together
• Chicanary - deception by trickery
• Moiety - a half or a part, portion, or share
• Soporific - drowsy

I've also had some pretty weird dreams lately that I'd like to share, but I will do that on another post.

And that is all that I have to say today.

A New (and silly!) Blog

Tressa and I just started a new blog at twosistersstories.blogspot.com where we are going to write silly stories like the game where one person tells one part of the story and another person tells the next part of the story etc. I will probably post some poems and stories that I write too.

I get to start making my VBS video tomorrow night!

I waited waaaaaay too long to blog about this...

I should have blogged about this a long time ago...Two weeks ago (yes two weeks!)
Keegan and Mathias and Tressa and I went to our grandparents house in Altus. We went skating, saw Prince Caspian again, rode bumper cars and go karts at a mini amusement park, went to this park called "Imagination Station," and went swimming.

















Fun with the Slip 'n Slide









Oh, and I have been given permission to make a video about VBS! It's going to be a lot of fun!

Switched

Let me explain the post title.

So yesterday we had just gotten to VBS, and our coordinator came up to me and said, "We're going to switch you to 1st grade, if thats ok with you."

Then after the opening, I ended up getting switched back to the 2nd grade class.

But VBS was still really fun, even though I was EXHAUSTED afterward. I was working alongside a couple, and we had 10 kids in our class. It was fun.

All-Star Camp starts tomorrow! It's going to be AWESOME!

Big News...

...I just saw Prince Caspian last night! It was really cool! Even though they changed a lot from the book (I won't tell you what they changed because then you would spoil it for you). It reminds me a lot of Lord Of The Rings. Otherwise, it was really good, though just a little bit scary (scary as in battles and hags and werewolfs. I wasnt' scared though. I promise! I just gasped whenever someone got killed or almost got killed.). It was also really long. It started at 9:30 and ended at 12:00! What a way to spend 2 1/2 hours, watching battles and talking mice and King Miraz trying to kill Caspian and....

WHEW!

VBS starts this week! YAY!

Last post today...

Mommy and Lathen and I got back a few hours ago from a VBS meeting. VBS is going to be really cool this year. Instead of it just being every day for 1 week, it will be every Wednesday night for nine weeks starting in June. 3 of those weeks will be family nights. One family night will be a cookout, one will be a family bowling night and the last one will be a cookout/music performance. I will probably be a Crew Guide for the 2nd grade class. That means I will have a group of kids assigned to me to oversee during our different activities. Its going to be a lot of fun!