1. How many hours a day/night do you usually sleep? Around 8 or 9 I think
2. What do you do when you can't sleep? Drink some water, take Xanax if I'm really anxious, toss and turn lol. I actually do sleep better in a four-poster, the curtain definitely makes it a more cozy and secure feeling!
3. How often do you devote time to just thinking about something? My mind is always going haha
4. If you had to choose one person to never talk to again, who would you choose? A really annoying customer at work who is oblivious to how annoying he is..one time he told me I should be fired, and told Donna it looked like she hadn't slept in two days, etc..he's driving me and Denise crazy lol (he THINKS he's being funny, but it's not, especially when he slapped my hand when reaching for his money!!)
5. If you had to choose one person, NOT your significant other, who you would speak to every day for the rest of your life, who would you choose? Mom

LJ still lives!! I'll probably keep posting there as long as I still have friends there..DW definitely is a good backup though!

I finished Latin on Duolingo (it's a newer course, so it's pretty short. I hope they add more in the future!), so now I'm learning Norwegian..why not lol :P

( march 10-11 )

At work Heidi wanted us to do a strengths assessment test, and my top five strengths were Context, Empathy, Adaptability, Input and Positivity. Here's what Context says (I'll bold what I especially agree with):

People who are especially talented in the Context theme enjoy thinking about the past. They understand the present by researching its history. Chances are good that you periodically investigate some of the events, policies, or people whose actions contributed to worldwide wars. You might delve into materials that reveal how these global conflicts were brought to an end. It’s very likely that you really like to read about past events and the key people involved. By accumulating lots of knowledge regarding days gone by, you regularly anticipate the opportunities and pitfalls you are apt to face in the coming months, years, or decades. Because of your strengths, you create a vision of the future by unraveling what happened in the past. You strive to understand the what, when, who, where, how, and why of events. You are determined to create a framework of facts so you can put things in perspective. Instinctively, you welcome opportunities to hear historians share their thoughts, stories, or theories about prominent people. Your interest probably extends to important events. Driven by your talents, you routinely gather historical facts or artifacts — that is, pictures, tools, books, artwork, correspondence, or documents. You often wait to determine whether this information is useful. Your interest in history probably has no purpose other than to answer your own questions. You are simply intrigued by the past and its people. The future starts to take shape in your mind as soon as you begin to rummage through your collection of historic truths and objects

Wow! I love how accurate this is, especially the collecting of historical artifacts and stuff (Cherry has taken a lot of my money LOL). Heidi said she also scored the most in Context, and had never met anyone else who had. Cool!

( the other four..yay quizzes :P )

5. How far should a government go to prevent its citizens from causing harm to themselves? Umm..we should have things like building codes and stuff, at least

6. If time travel is possible, would we have met time travelers already? Who knows lol, maybe they haven't revealed themselves yet :P

7. What is something popular now that annoys you? For some reason, there are authors that don't put what people are saying in quotation marks, which drives me CRAZY. I read a book like that once and it annoyed me so much I can't read any more like that..too bad, there are books like The Road I've wanted to read but seeing no quotation marks makes me groan. I don't know what they're trying to accomplish with that, but it's not "cool" lol

8. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction books? Why? I like both! Just depends on what I want to read at the time lol

Today's trivia: The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based on Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

Pretty sure Abby is enjoying my bed as much as I am LOL..so cozy!!

I wish I kept up crossposting here (just in case), because LJ for some reason doesn't allow that anymore..thankfully I have entries up to 2018 saved, but I guess I'll have to do the rest manually. LJ is my first home, but I definitely want a second place for my posts, just in case. I'll try to remember to keep up with Dreamwidth haha..it might take awhile to manually put the rest of my entries over there though :P

Since I still have my ovaries, I still get symptoms of PMS, which is annoying lol..my face is breaking out like crazy! D:

( feb 12-16 )

Today's trivia: Sony's first product was an 1945 electric rice cooker

I just saw 1917..wow, what an experience! It was filmed all in one shot, and you never knew what was coming. That just took it to a whole new level. I was also pleasantly surprised to see Cherry's brother Benedict Cumberbatch! He's awesome lol. Definitely one to get on DVD, and I hope it wins some Oscars! For some reason, most of the trailers at the beginning were scary, and the insanely high volume of the IMAX theater didn't help either *shivers*

I'm finally moving my pics to Flickr, which is going to take awhile, but I can't wait to get rid of Photobucket (it's STILL down for a lot of people, a month later!). I've had trouble using it for years, especially on a Mac! I HATED that it wouldn't keep my pictures in order, and put them somewhere random, like page 34..ugh. I feel better each time I replace the link from PB to Flickr haha. PB might struggle to stay alive after this..

( Day 11-13 )

Today's trivia: The White House was designed by Irishman James Hoban who won a competition in 1792, which lead him to create the building

I'm totally freaking out..I think someone hacked my Photobucket account, because many pictures from different albums have been deleted, including pics from this trip. If I wasn't convinced to abandon Photobucket and use just Flickr, I am now..it seems to function better anyway (for some reason Photobucket puts the pics out of order, even with its filters, which is EXTREMELY annoying to me). I doubt I'll be able to get the pictures back (but I asked anyway :P), so I'll have to upload them all over again (luckily Flickr is very fast at uploading lots of pics at once). Ugh. Maybe I'll do a little each day, so I don't get overwhelmed. Stupid hackers!! *glares*

Anyway, mom and I made it to Cambridge just fine yesterday (beware, I'm going to freak out a lot in this entry LOL)..we had to take the train to London, the Underground to King's Cross (I indeed saw Platform 9 3/4, but the line to get a pic was too long..the Harry Potter shop next to it was cool though!), the train to Cambridge, then to a bus stop near SPRI. Like Wheathampstead, I had butterflies first seeing Cambridge. If I thought the past few days were cold, it was NOTHING compared to Cambridge..I sure felt like Scott of the Antarctic as we walked to SPRI..cold wind was COLD!!! I squeed when I finally saw SPRI..another dream come true! I couldn't believe I was there! Their museum was kind of small, but OMG the treasures it had..artifacts from many different expeditions (Shackleton, Franklin, Amundsen, etc), but of course my favorites were from Scott's expedition. They had a sledge, some of Scott's and Birdie's last letters, food tins, and..and..THINGS CHERRY HAD USED ON THE EXPEDITION, ESPECIALLY ONES TO CAPE CROZIER!!!!! I was completely freaking out haha! That was insanely awesome!!! I told the people at the front desk how happy I was to finally be there, and told them Cherry was my hero..both of them were like "heck yeah, we love Cherry!" and the guy said "The Worst Journey in the World is the best book ever right?" Ummm, YES lol. The lady said she was TEACHING A CLASS ABOUT CHERRY AND THE WORST JOURNEY!! OMG I didn't even know such a class existed!! I bet I'd get an A++. :P I told them I wondered if there was anyone still alive who knew Cherry, and the lady said some of her colleagues had, and one of them might be there today, and would I like to talk to him on the phone? Umm YES PLEASE haha! The guy was a past archivist or something like that..he said he might have seen Cherry once before he died, but he knew his widow Angela very well! He said she was very nice. Wow, that was an incredible treat! I was starstruck and so honored he took time out to talk to me! Everyone there told me Cherry was very shy and felt so bad about not being able to save Scott, which I knew (I'm always afraid to ask that..I'm worried someone would say he was mean or something like that, which is ridiculous..he didn't have a mean bone in his body!). The lady also mentioned twirlynoodle, who is making a Terra Nova graphic novel! I was like "yeah, I know her!!" Awesome. :P I'd love to go to their archive room where they keep the letters and diaries and stuff, but you have to make an appointment..someday hopefully! I was jealous of the school having a field trip there lol..awesome. :P Their gift shop was awesome and dangerous LOL..they had so many awesome looking books, including an edition of The Worst Journey I didn't have (I couldn't justify buying it though, my suitcase is only so big and I had bought a lot of books already LOL), and all FOUR books of the South Polar Times!! Wow, what an amazing place, an amazing experience, and a great end to my Cherry Pilgrimage. :D This trip was amazing!

Today is the last day of our vacation..we're still not sure if the flights will be messed up because of the weather though. We'll just have to see what it's like tomorrow. I'm very happy to stay home out of the cold today though :P

Today is also Jack's 96th birthday!! Wow, impressive lol. Mom's going to get him a yummy cake later :D

( pics from spri! )

Today I met the sci-fi author Ian C. Esselmont! He paid with a credit card and I thought I recognized his name..so I was like "you're an author right?" and he was like, "yep, I write sci-fi books! I'd sign one for you if you had any of them." Whoa! I Googled him after he left and it said he's married to Gerri Brightwell, who is also an author (which I knew) that shops at the bookstore all the time. Double whoa! I did see Gerri, but the store was too busy to focus on just one person lol. I totally didn't know she was married to another author, whose books I've definitely shelved in the bookstore. Wow! That was really cool lol. You never know who you'll meet at the little bookstore in Fairbanks, Alaska :D

How cool is this: Gulkana Glacier in Interior Alaska is a testing ground for equipment intended for use in space. Wow!! That is super cool! (I've hiked on Gulkana Glacier before, so it's even more special to me lol)

I really wish I knew why Photobucket pictures aren't working for me on LJ (they work on other sites!). It's upsetting to me, since I have hundreds (thousands??) of pictures on here, and replacing them would take forever. I emailed LJ and Photobucket, in the hope something can be fixed. Guess I'll have to use Flickr for now..

( pics for sept. 15 and 16 )

Today's trivia: The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks

Today was the Pre-Algebra final..I was lost on some questions at the end but a bunch were easy too. I hope I did ok haha. I may take the next level of math, especially since the same teacher will be teaching it..he's a really good teacher

There's gonna be Internet sales tax? Weird :/

( Day 7: Favorite Friendship )

Would you rather be stupid and rich or smart and poor? Smart and poor..then I'd be smart enough to get rich. ;) Haha

Today's trivia: The world's largest stained glass window is in the mausoleum at Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois. It contains 2,448 panels and is a whopping 22,381 square feet

The Fairbanks International Airport reached a low temperature of 35 below zero at 1114 PM on Tuesday. This sets a new record low temperature for November 15, breaking the previous record low of 33 below set back in 1969

The first cold weather outbreak of the season has settled in over interior Alaska. Unusually frigid temperatures for mid-November have been observed across much of the region. Temperatures colder than 40 below zero are being reported in valleys in the central and northeastern interior. Infrared satellite images also indicate temperatures under 50 below zero in some of the coldest valley locations.

Several record low temperatures were broken overnight in the Fairbanks area. This includes Eielson Air Force Base which bottomed out at 42 below this morning... shattering the previous record of 37 below set back in 1956. Record or near record low temperatures are possible again Thursday morning. The record low for November 17th at the Fairbanks Airport is 39 below... and 40 below at Eielson Air Force Base.

Temperatures from 15 to 35 degrees below normal will persist over much of the interior the next several days. A slight moderation is expected on the weekend... but temperatures climbing above zero across interior Alaska are not expected any time soon. Long range models indicate another shot of reinforcing cold air arriving early next week... and possibly hanging around into the Thanksgiving weekend

*turns into a glacier*

I'm not really a politics person but this Internet censorship bill is scary. I signed this and you should too: https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173

( Day 138- A picture of your country's flag )

Would you rather have an extra mouth placed in the middle of your stomach or have six fingers on each hand? 6 fingers

Today's trivia: A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off

Safari has been slow and annoying..at work I use Firefox and yesterday it had gotten messed up. The computer guy installed it again and that gave me the idea to download it..I did and it's fast! Yay haha

Fred Meyer already has stuff for Valentine's Day! Ahhhh :P

( pic of the day )

Athabaskan: The collective name for the Indians of interior Alaska and northwestern Canada. Thought to have come from Asia by the land bridge some 9,000 to 16,000 years ago, they lived by hunting, fishing and gathering, activities that continue today. Alaska's Athabaskans are closely related to the Navajos of the southwestern United States (I wonder if the Natives I see here are Athabaskan..)

I couldn't get on the Internet yesterday. Mom called today and now it's fixed...for some reason the router was reset. Mom got me doing yardwork haha. I trimmed plants, sawed trees for firewood, and raked leaves. Yaaay :P

I also have pics of Ryan and I on the bear skin thingy haha

( piiiiics )

Today's stupidest quote: Ideal for use with CD markers and felt tip pens. Not recommended for use with...CD markers and felt tip pens (label on a box of Mr. Data CD-Rs). Yesterday's: Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied (model Jerry Hall)