Hehe yessss. :P Notice the shirt I'm wearing for the occasion too lol

( the topics )

A couple of my coworkers like to listen to country music (I hate it, but of course everyone needs their turn in what they like to listen to)..I've heard some weird lyrics about tractors and stuff LOL, but the one I heard today was so funny: "all the Ajax in the world ain't gonna clean your dirty laundry." Omg lol..hilarious. :P There was also "people say I got a drinkin' problem but I got no problems drinkin' at all." O_o Sorry if you like country music, but it can be so ridiculous lol

( pokemon update )

Today's trivia: Redondo Beach, CA adopted the Goodyear Blimp as the city's official bird in 1983

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This is my new favorite song right now, "The Reckoning" by UNSECRET. I kept hearing it in a commercial and had to look it up because it sounded intriguing..which it definitely is, even though it's pretty short. I love finding new music I instantly just love lol (I also rediscovered "Stand" by REM, and I think I like it even more than before..it reminds me of adventuring!)

( pics for june 25-27 )

Today's trivia: The name of the asteroid that was believed to have killed the dinosaurs was named Chixalub

I love doing this at the end of the year lol: Post the first sentence of the first post of every month in 2016 (as usual not counting the books I read lol)

January: 1. When were you last up on the house top?
February: This list may seem small compared to my lists last year, but The Worst Journey in the World was over 500 pages long haha
March: Reading "longer" books makes my monthly book lists look sad :P
April: That's more like it :D
May: Only one book finished this month?
June: The Fur Person by May Sarton (May 16) (I read this one in less than an hour..I read May's book in May!) [Well nevermind, I guess that one does count lol]
July: How is June over already? D:
August: Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson (July 8-24. Loved!!! A novel, but full of Antarctic history, and lots of mentions of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who wrote The Worst Journey in the World)
September: Crossing Antarctica by Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster (Aug 23-31). This book sounded like a modern Worst Journey in the World..I'm surprised Cherry was never mentioned!
October: I probably could have finished a 7th book this month, but it just didn't happen lol..darn :P
November: Some guy in the introduction to The Home of the Blizzard said that book outshone The Worst Journey in the World..umm no lol
December: Also, my job is awesome

I love that The Worst Journey in the World was the first book I read this year. :D I didn't know it would change my life so dramatically though!

I just discovered the song I've been loving on the radio lately is "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. It's weird to Google a song to see if you've heard it before and it's one you hear all the time haha

( dashing cherry is DASHING )

( Day 17-Handwrite on something other than paper )

Today's trivia: Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers

YAY I finally caught some new ones! I read they increased the spawning rate of certain ones or something (like Zubat and Ghastly, for Halloween). Good, I was getting tired of the same guys (*cough*DROWZEE*cough*) all the time lol

( bold = new )

I was doing a music survey a couple days ago and about fell out of my chair when I saw these lyrics from "Speedhoven" by Edguy:

Welcome to this wonderworld
Everybody take your sledges
Winterland Plutocracy
Down the slope don't fear the hedges

Sledges?? Like..Antarctic sledges??! Now that's a word I never expected to see in a metal song haha. I didn't think it was even widely used anymore. I kept putting that part on repeat haha..awesome :P

( Day 3-Handwrite your LJ headline )

Today's trivia: In Disney's Fantasia, the sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards)

I discovered this song this weekend, and I really like it..the lyrics are interesting and it just sounds happy..it gets stuck in my head easily though :P

People must be doing spring cleaning, cause we've had a crazy amount of donations come in these past few days at work. There was one day last week where we probably got over 100 boxes! Wow..

I'm seeing a new clinical psychologist now..today we were just talking about things that interested me to get to know me. He asked me what music I liked and when I said metal he was like "me too!!" He likes Blind Guardian (he saw them in concert once, jealous!), Rhapsody, Nightwish, etc. AWESOME lol. He was like "you have a great taste in music!" I can see we're gonna get along very well :D

( Name one store you like )

Today's trivia: Queens, New York, was established in 1683 and is named after Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of King Charles II of England (1630-1685)

Wow, that is so beautiful!! Interstellar will always be amazing <3

Their Game of Thrones tribute is pretty cool too:


( next meme: music )

Today's trivia: Cinnamon is native to Sri Lanka

FAIRBANKS — Summer is here, and it’s even a bit ahead of schedule this year.

The temperature at Fairbanks International Airport hit 70 degrees for the first time on Wednesday, a milestone that should kick off a significant stretch of warm weather in the Interior.

The first 70-degree day came a week early, compared to the average arrival on May 20. However, it didn’t quite get to the record of 76 degrees, set in 1930.

National Weather Service meteorologist Ben Bartos said a ridge of warm weather is heading into Interior Alaska and the Yukon, bringing rising temperatures with it. The forecast calls for weekend temperatures in the mid- to high 70s, with only slightly cooler weather forecast after that.

Temperatures could possibly hit 80 degrees this weekend in the Eastern Interior, with the hottest areas between Tok and the Canada border.

“It’s hanging on for the foreseeable future,” Bartos said.

Wow, it got warm fast! I hope it doesn't get in the 80s though, it makes my apartment feel like an oven. D: I'm really thankful the pollen has been mild too, last year mom and I were so miserable..

I'm listening to the new Kamelot album, I'm really enjoying it so far, especially "Citizen Zero" :D

( Day 8: A question that you hate being asked )

Today's trivia: The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument

"Cooper, what are you doing?"
"DOCKING!"
BOOM! OMG I can't believe how epic this music is. I can't get enough of it!! It was so awesome in the theater too. It's been a long time since I've found new music THIS epic. Last night I was squealing and dancing around my apartment haha! I can't BELIEVE it's not on the soundtrack though..seriously?! It's one of the songs I wanted most on it! Definitely one of the best pieces of music everr. I'm glad my love of glaciers made me see the movie haha :D

Day One Dark is epic too:

OMG I can't help squealing when at 0:40 it just explodes with epicness after a sweet build up. *SWOONS* Music is amazing haha

( day 10: what If you could have only one food for the rest of your life (assuming that this strange situation would not affect your health), which food would you choose? )

Today's trivia: A tortoise drinks through its nose

Cool, Of Monsters and Men has a song on the Catching Fire soundtrack! Just another reason to see that movie haha. Their woman singer has such a unique voice..


19. What do you collect?

Glacier books/postcards/pictures/etc, cat books, rocks from places I've been (especially at glaciers), pins, etc



Would you rather in a fight, be armed with only a ping pong paddle or a Wiffle bat? A Wiffle bat

Today's trivia: The longest siege in military history was the Ottoman siege of the Venetian ruled city of Candia, Crete, which lasted 21 years, from 1648 until 1669

Ummm..what the heck?? Haha. I'm rather enthralled/amused by this video (and I don't even LIKE rap music! Glaciers make everything better ;)). The lyrics are so amusing, like "sweating so much, man they thought I was an iceberg!" haha! In Alaska, we rap about glaciers :P (I love the way he says "glacier" too haha)

( 4. A .gif of someone that is excited )

Would you rather be very clumsy or very forgetful? Clumsy..I am anyway :P

Today's trivia: The first job of a newborn queen bee is to kill the other newborn queens so she can rule alone