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I'm not sure where this bout of creativity came from, but all of a sudden I was composing alternate lyrics to Jingle Bells, Antarctica style haha. I had to write it down before it left me..they may not be the best lyrics in the world, but I think it's pretty awesome :P

Dashing through the snow
With a one-ton sledge in tow
O'er the sastrugi we go
Grunting all the way
Spoon on stove rings
Making sledgers hungry
What fun it is to stare and wonder
At the Southern Lights tonight

Cracking ice, cracking ice
Cracking from the Barrier
Oh what fun it is to ride
On a dog-driven sledge

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take the ponies over the ice
And soon, Cherry
Was standing next to me
The pony was falling in the sea
Misfortune seemed to plague him
He got onto stable ice
And then we got rescued
( the rest )

That was really fun and I think it turned out great lol. :D The "ponies over the ice" references to when Cherry, Birdie and Crean got stuck out on an ice flow with the ponies (with killer whales circling around them!), and of course the Cape Crozier one is when they went to get the penguin eggs. Sastrugi are wavy ridges cause by the crazy Antarctic winds, and hard to walk across. Yay, random creative streak :P

Denise said we made over $600 yesterday too!! Wow. I'm glad today was slower though, we needed a break lol

Welcome new friends!! I hope I'm not too boring :P

Today's trivia: The females of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth

Create Your Own Visited States Map
I've only been to the airport at Missouri and North Carolina, but I guess that still counts lol :P

( pics for april 6, 8 and 9 )

Some random observations recently:

The bookstore will be dead for a couple hours, then a whole bunch of people will come in like 5 minutes before closing. Sometimes they take forever checking out, and you're standing there smiling politely but inside you're like "HURRY UP I'M HUNGRY I WANT TO GO HOME!" haha

Available is NOT pronounced "a-vail-ee-a-ble," which is how dad always says it. I kept thinking it was spelled wrong (I thought it had two I's) when I saw it at restaurants. Thanks dad. :P LOL

My vision, at least in my right eye, is much worse than mom's. I went with her to her eye checkup when I was off on Friday and the assistant (??) lady said mom's vision was -3 and -4 something. She was completely shocked when I told her my right eye was -7! (She was like "already?!?") That's impressive when even people who work for eye doctors are surprised LOL (I love the reactions I get when people try on my glasses.."wow, you are blind!!" Yep :P)

I go through more watches than anyone I've ever known (after a couple or so years the band eventually breaks..I could get a new band, but it's cheaper just getting a new watch lol)

Mark Gatiss' husband (Ian Hallard) played one of the characters in The Worst Journey in the World docudrama (for some reason it took me this long to find that out LOL), and he played in an episode of Sherlock. Cool!

Mark Gatiss is amazing as Mycroft Holmes, and totally swoonworthy LOL:

Guuuuuh he wears the best suits LOL *swoons*

Yumm. He and Sherlock are completely different from one another, and it's hilarious watching them interact with each other haha (in one episode Sherlock went to Buckingham Palace wrapped in just a bed sheet, and Mycroft was just like "seriously?!?" haha). It amuses me how he's usually carrying an umbrella with him :P (hmm, this turned into a Mark Gatiss list LOL)

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Today's trivia: The world’s first nuclear reactor was built in a squash court beneath a Chicago football stadium on December 2, 1942

Haha..love it :P

( Day 9: A picture of the people you spend most of your time with )

Would you rather live in a world without grass or roads? Grass maybe..other plants could still grow

Today's trivia: The first automated pop-up toaster was invented in 1926 and went for a staggering $150 by today's standards

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Kings of the Nordic Twilight"-Luca Turilli

Nicee :P

Aaaand it's snowing again. Like we haven't got enough winter haha

( Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book )

Would you rather jump into a bathtub full of ice water or full of really warm spit? *shudders* Neither

Today's trivia: In her entire lifetime Queen Isabella of Spain (1451-1504) bathed twice

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Morgenstern"-Rammstein

Would you rather be able to fly or be able to turn invisible? Fly

Today's trivia: Olympic downhill skiers reach 80 miles per hour

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Dragonfly"-Edguy

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Would you rather eat 10 pounds of cheese in one sitting or eat a bucket of peanut butter with nothing to drink? 10 pounds of cheese..peanut butter is disgusting

Today's trivia: The youngest know soldier to die in the Civil War was 12

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "White Pearl, Black Oceans"-Sonata Arctica

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Would you rather come face to face with a ten foot tall praying mantis or with a 5 foot tall weasel? The weasel

Today's trivia: The world's oldest restaurant is Casa Botin in Spain. It's been in operation since 1725

Heather's parents get a D- for originality.
Ranking: 'Heather' was the 15th most popular girl's name in her birth year.
Rarity: 80% of girls had rarer names that year. (Grade: D-)
Peak year: 'Heather' peaked in popularity in 1975.
Current rank: 'Heather' is currently the 487th most popular girl's name.
Current name: Heather's parents might name her 'Alexis' today (current #15).

Would you rather always have to write with your "wrong" hand or always have to write with your eyes closed? Write with my "wrong" hand

Today's trivia: The flashing light on top of LA's Capital Records Tower spells out "Hollywood" in Morse code

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: "Blinded No More"-Sonata Arctica

At the state fair we went by the Curves (a work out place) booth and the woman there talked mom into going. Today I walked in there with mom and I was like.."noooo" haha. Mom worked out while I was at work and the lady said she has a daughter that doesn't wanna work out either and that we'd get together and complain to each other haha

Also..OMG IT'S SUNNY AND SORT OF WARM AND NOT RAINING *dies*

( pic of the day )

Today's stupidest quote: Where can I get a map of the uncharted lakes in the area? (rafter to a tour guide, Alaska)

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Ride of the Valkyries"-Wagner

So there ARE church bells in Texas that ring like the ones in Europe (every half hour and hour). I saw it on the news..this guy lived across the street from the church and were annoyed with it (they used to ring only on Sunday). The church has an electric carillon..what would Frank think of that?? Haha

Pic of the day:

Hanging out in Galveston

Today's stupidest quote: Last year, the vice president launched a new efffort to help make communities more liberal (President Bill Clinton, during his 2000 State of the Union speech. He was meaning to say "more livable")

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Drunken Sailor"-Frank DellaPenna

Here are several very important but often forgotten rules of English:

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren't necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don't be redundant; don't more use words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be avoided.
21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
23. Who needs rhetorical questions?
24. While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must nevertheless keep incessant surveillance against such loquacious, effusive, voluble verbosity that the calculated objective of communication becomes ensconced in obscurity.
25. In a sentence, the nouns has to match the verbs.
26. Don't use no double negatives.
27. In writing, few things are, so to speak, more infuriating, than, say, commas, at least when there are too many of them, or when they should be, say, semicolons.
28. Proofread your work, so you don't leave some out or forget to finish
29. Run-on sentences are really bad because the reader saturates and what you really should be doing is using commas and semicolons and even periods to break the sentence up into more digestible chunks.
30. To have been using excessively complex verb constructions, is to have been bopping the literary baloney.
31. A friend I spoken with recently told me he been forgetting his helper verbs.

Today's Latin: pecunia non in arboribus crescit (money doesn't grow on trees)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: "Heart of the Darklands"-Rhapsody

A few years ago I talked to this guy online and after like one conversation he said he loved me and I also said I did and then like a week later (after only talking once in between) I told him he was my boyfriend..but then like two months later we didn't even acknowledge the fact that I had said I was his boyfriend (he asked if I had a boyfriend and I said I was single). Should that count as having a boyfriend? I was like..14 or 15 and apparently didn't know what "love" really is..

Last night there was a spider in my hair (or near it at least)...ewwww omg..

( wisconsin )

Today's Latin: circulus vitiosus (a vicious circle)

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "How Long"-Gamma Ray

It's supposed to SNOW on Saturday. WHAT?? In April? The north must want revenge or something..

Things to do this (long) weekend: go online, watch ER episodes, laundry, church, get supplies for the project in tech theater (we're making a model set of a part of a play), maybe see 300..

Whoever started the trend of TYPiNG LiKE THiS...please tell me just WHY you don't capitalize the I cause it's really annoying...even my favorite magazine Muse is doing it! *seethes*

Today's Latin: quid currus passus est? (You did what to the car?)

Current Mood: surprised
Current Music: "Rage of the Winter"-Rhapsody

These are actual excuse notes from parents (including original spelling) collected by Nisheeth Parekh, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

My son is under a doctor's care and should not take PE today. Please execute him
Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot
Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33
Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating
Please excuse Roland from PE for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip
Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part

Today's Latin: perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum (the check is in the mail)

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Armageddon"-Gamma Ray

I was going through the emotions list to see what my little dragon icon would so for each of those emotions. OMG, some of them are hilarious! (But how is hot, cold, and working an emotion?)

Someone posted this in my journal, and I can't get over how funny it is!
"Wow, a song quote that doesn't contain the word 'steel', 'battle' or 'warrior'! :P" (About the quotes at the end of my posts.) *cracks up*

Shades! It's almost Thursday already! Wow...(And if ya don't know what "shades" is, it's an expression from the Shannara series by Terry Brooks...it's fun to use!)

"Kiss me once and I will surely melt an die. Kiss me twice and I will never leave your side"--"Dreams Come True," HammerFall

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Dreams Come True"-HF