Answers..

So I just Googled the Rockefeller Christmas tree to see if I could get some answers on my many questions from before and I found some pretty interesting stuff:
The minimum requirements are 65 ft. tall and 35 ft. wide, but the manager prefers it to be between 75-90 ft. It is a real tree (usually a Norway Spruce) and since this kind of tree doesn't usually grow this big in forests, it is typically taken from someone's yard. Which is kind of a bummer for the owner, especially because they don't get paid anything, but hey, they get the satisfaction of it being their tree.
The only thing on the tree is lights (over 5 miles of them!) and the star. At the end of the year the tree is recycled and the mulch is given to the boy scouts. Which comes to be over 3 tons!..
The largest part of the trunk is given to the U.S. Equestrian team in New Jersey so they can use it as an obstacle jump.

So I have answered a few of my questions but if you have any more answers let me know.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

This weekend we went and got our Christmas tree. We went super early (before it was even open) don't ask me why because I have no idea.. but anyway it was really nice because no one was there except our family. It was the perfect weather, a slight crisp in the air. You could just look across the rows of trees, with a cold winter fog over them, they looked untouched. We hunted around for a little while until we found the perfect tree. It's said that when you find a nest in your tree it's good luck. My little brother gets pretty excited about this so my sister and I found a nest on the ground and were going to put it in the tree when he wasn't looking. When we went to put it in there was one already there!
After we cut it down we went to have it shaken out, at this point the nest usually falls out, but ours was in there so tight it wouldn't budge. This made my brother especially happy. He even made sure he marked the branch where the nest was with an ornament we have that is a bird in a nest.

My mind was just wandering a second ago, and I was thinking about the MASSIVE tree in New York. I was thinking about how many lights, ornaments and all that stuff. How much do you think they use? and How in the world to they find a tree so big, is it fake? where would they put it in the "off-season"? Well those are just a few questions rattling in my brain, maybe I'll google it.. As for you, have a marvelous Christmas season!

happy happy birthday!

This Friday was my sisters birthday. We didn't get to celebrate very much on the actual day, but she did have her friend Callie come down from Minnetonka then they went out to eat with some of her other friends. On Saturday she had two other friends come over, cooked dinner for them, and they celebrated her birthday. Then finally today, after a long wait, our family went to Greenmill after church to celebrate. It was a good weekend and Samantha seemed to have a good time so all is well in the Petersen household.

The Orange Glowing Light on my Computer

A faint glow comes from the bottom of my computer. The reflection coming from the desktop is no larger than a tip of a pen. It takes many seconds for my eyes to adjust to even scarcely see this light glow. I peer down the bottom of my typewriter too come across an orange oval. Very small indeed. Easily covered by the top of my fingertip. What could be the purpose of this glow? A controlling button or simply for the amusement of the writer? I don't dare push it at risk of shutting down my computer for all eternity. I look. That's all, just look. Wondering my days what this faint, speck of an orange glow does. Will I never find out? I don't entirely believe so. One day, in the distant future I may know. But for now, I simply look and wonder.

Taste the colors of the rainbow

How do you think colors got their names? Maybe some syllables were just thrown together until they made a word that sounded good. But then how would you know which word to give to which color? The whole concept of colors is pretty interesting in itself. How it reflects off the light and everything, it's kind of neat.
Do you ever imagine what the world would be like black and white? I'd like to try it for a day, just to see. Think of how people would react to a change like that. You would look at someone and think they were sick because there's no color in their face. How creepy would that be? But then it would be nice when the colors came back. The world would be so bright you couldn't help but look at it ALL the time!

Do you ever notice how when you are little everything has it's special color. Like plants for example, they are always colored green. Down to the very last leaf on the tree. The sky and water, always blue. The sun, yellow. But in reality the sky can be anywhere from the light blue we all know too well, to a deep red, we usually forget about. How crazy would it be if all the colors switched around day after day? Just to mess with your brains a little. Nothing was ever the same color two days in a row. What would you color everything? I think sometimes I wouldn't be able to figure out where I was, I'd be lost in my own room! YIKES!!
Which one would you rather live in? Black and White or The Forever Changing Colors? hmmm....

it was a late night..

My sister is restraining me from writing this blog. She's REALLY distracting! We go off and talk about random stuff ALL the time. We were just talking about embarrassing moments and then Halloween. And we just realized that in her name, Samantha, has a WhOle bunch of vowels (going every other letter) and then out of the blue three consonants come piling into her name! It'd be way cooler if her name went like this: S-A-M-A-N-A-T-A-H-A. I don't know, that's just my personal opinion in the matter.
I LOVE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!! A whole extra hour of sleep..how much better can it get?? You feel so much more refreshed in the morning. I know it's not quite the same as getting to sleep in as long as you want, but it gives you that little boost to get you through the day. But then within a few weeks you get used to the change and it's just not quite the same anymore..oh darn...and BAM! out of nowhere you have to lose an hour, and everyone starts looking like zombies, walking around with their arms hanging out in front of them.
I'm going to take advantage of this extra hour and go to bed now. Good Night!!

Happy Halloween!

On Halloween I watched a couple scary movies after going to the corn maze. The first one we watched was the Strangers. It's a pretty good movie about this couple that is staying at this summer home after a wedding. Out of nowhere these REALLY creepy people start trying to kill them, for no reason what so ever! It was fun to watch and kept you guessing about whats going to happen next, but then you get to the ending...Oh man the ending....I won't give it away or anything, but it totally leaves you hanging at the end. You don't know if she's going to live or die..what's going to happen to the little kids..or ANYTHING! It was kind of upsetting (if you couldn't tell).

So anyway, after about 10 minutes of complaining we decided to watch the other movie we rented, Dead End. Hoping it would have a better ending. Which it did, but the movie itself was just disturbing to watch! They didn't show much, but what they did was disgusting. The blood wasn't running or anything like you might expect it to. It was like red, melted chocolate. All gooey and disgusting just to look at. To be honest it kinda made me want to throw up a little. I couldn't watch half the movie because it was that strange.
The ending made you feel a little bit better about yourself than the first one, but you pretty much had to make up what really happened yourself. So, all together they were both kind of ridiculous, but we had fun anyway!