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1. What’s something people cautioned you against that turned out not to be dangerous or bad at all? Middle school and high school..all the elementary school teachers were giving us warnings and freaking us out lol but most of it wasn't as terrible as they said it was going to be :P
2. What’s something you wish someone had cautioned you about? Umm..I'm sure there's something, but I can't think of right now..
3. What’s your favorite non-English word of warning? The Slovenian word for caution is "previdnost," which looks like a super cool word lol
4. What’s a really stupid thing you’ve done that could have resulted in your demise? I was distracted by a tree and walked in front of my brother when he was doing archery LOL..oops :P
5. What should you probably stay away from this weekend? Negativity?

The governor of Alaska had a meeting at the hotel across the street from me yesterday, and there was a huge protest outside. It was fun to watch for awhile, then it just gave me a headache LOL

Everyone must be doing spring cleaning, because we've gotten an INSANE amount of books donated to us at work..March is also our book drive, so we have to count all of them. At least we won't run out of books anytime soon :P

Scott's volleyball team is playing Long Beach tonight and tomorrow, the # 2 team in the country (they were # 1, and somehow another team beat them! That doesn't happen often. Hawaii is now # 1. I'd like to see Long Beach and Hawaii play each other, that would be epic lol). I really hope they don't get slaughtered like in the last few games, it's so painful to watch!

On this day in 1912, Robert F. Scott made his last ever journal entry..wow. Crazy to think they're still in the ice shelf, buried until it calves into the sea..

( Day 83-87 )

1. Do you make up a dinner plan for the coming week? I buy frozen dinners, if that counts lol
2. Do you make up a grocery shopping list and stick to it when shopping? In my head, but I don't always stick to JUST those things :P
3. What is one thing that you always buy, but never write down on a list? Vitamin Water
4. Is there anything that you always think you are out of and come home with it to discover you already have a year’s supply on hand? Not a *year's* supply, but yeah..at least I'm stocked up haha
5. Do you get your groceries delivered? No

I finally looked through the copy I had of The Last Place On Earth..OMG. Not only did the author trash Scott, he trashed everyone and everything relating to his expedition..apparently Cherry was weak and a coward and needed to go to Antarctica so he could toughen up (*huge eyeroll* I LIKE that he was shy and sensitive!), and Scott would have rather just had Cherry's money than Cherry himself as well..umm, Scott accepted him because when Cherry was rejected, he gave Scott the money anyway, and he thought it said a lot about who he was as a person..he said nothing but good things about him when they got to Antarctica. Apparently Birdie was ugly and his legs were too short and his nose was too big..he was not ugly, and his appearance had nothing to do with how he fared in Antarctica..he was one of the strongest people there! Wilson and Scott apparently couldn't learn from their mistakes, and the "pointless" journey to Cape Crozier made Birdie and Wilson too weak to survive the journey to the pole (then why did Scott and the others die??), etc etc. And Amundsen was 100% perfect (which he wasn't). Ugh! I'm not even kidding when I say I threw it in a dumpster on the way to work haha..I can't believe I had that awful thing in my apartment all this time. Most of Scott's expedition sounded like a lot of fun, while Amundsen's just seems boring to me lol. I will always stick up for Scott and Cherry and all the rest, they really were a great team <3

Yesterday I found someone's FINGERNAIL CLIPPINGS in a book..EWW. I thought I had seen it all..yuck D:

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This weekend mom and I watched The Last Place on Earth, a miniseries about Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole (it's been on my list, but for some reason haven't watched it until now :P). Hugh Grant played Cherry!

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Guess I'll never look at him the same way again LOL

It was extremely biased against Scott, and showed him always angry and impatient at his men, which made the men hate him. Sorry but no, every diary or book about the expedition written by one of his men praises him highly, especially the fact that he chose men that got along with each other. He absolutely cared about his men, and his men knew it. Of course Scott made mistakes, but he was not the tyrant shown in this miniseries..ugh. I wish Cherry had been it more too, besides like 2 second glimpses of him..siiigh. :P I'm glad they showed the mistake of Amundsen setting out for the Pole too early, to show he wasn't perfect. Someone should make a new miniseries that shows Scott in a more positive light lol

Rhapsody's coming out with a new album, and out of curiosity I watched the new music video, "Rain of Fury." It's..not HORRIBLE, but it's not the same at all with Fabio and Luca gone. I wish they'd change their name, because they don't even feel like "Rhapsody" to me anymore..siiigh again :P

( Day 19 and 20 )

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I've never seen it hail like that here before!! It was awesome and epic and I was having the time of my life watching it. Eventually the hail stopped and it poured rain instead and there was such cool thunder..it was amazing! The clouds are building up again today..I hope we get another fun storm :D

Here's Elias today!

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He's gotten so big! Now he'll look up at you and give you the cheesiest grin ever haha. I love how happy he always is! He can say a few words, but mostly babbles..he sounds like a Minion LOL

Today is Robert Falcon Scott's 150th birthday! Cheers, good sir! Haha

( June 6 - What’s your highest education level? )

Today's trivia: The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year was Charles Lindbergh in 1927

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Today mom and I saw Terra Nova, the play Denise got us tickets for at Christmas. Excellent!! The acting was great..I especially liked eccentric Birdie Bowers lol. The flashback scenes with Scott's wife were kinda boring, but the rest was good. The actor who played Evans did an outstanding job with his death scene. I squeed when they first came in pulling a sledge LOL. I wanted to ask what they were going to do with the props after the play is over..I would have loved to have a coat and those iconic gloves with the straps they wore around their neck. :P I got shivers when Oates said "I'm just going outside, I'll be some time," where he walks into the blizzard, never to be seen again..wow. They did a great job and I can't wait to tell Denise about it haha

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Yesterday mom and I went to dinner with Denise..somehow we got on the subject of how observant Paulette is, and how she immediately sees the thing on her desk that's different..Denise said "yeah, that would be like if Heather wrote 'Cherry' and stuck it on her computer." Mom was like "yeah, I saw that my cherry seeds bottle says 'Apsley' on it..I could tell Heather had been there." I was like "YOU KNEW ALL THIS TIME AND NEVER TOLD ME?!?" She said she saw it a couple weeks ago and wanted to keep me in suspense..that's so mean!! Haha! I told her there was another one that says "Garrard" on it, which she hadn't seen yet, even though I put it there in October! She was amused when I showed her later haha. I asked her if she was going to keep my "Cherry graffiti" lol, and she said "of course!" Nice :P

( feb. 10 and 11 )

Yesterday Yanina came over to my parents' house and we hung out before she had to go to the airport. She made us enchiladas..cool, authentic Mexican food, and not "Alaska-Mex" as dad called it lol. She us such a nice lady and I'm glad we got to hang out these past couple of weeks (I think she had a great time :D). I hope she gets into a better living area too, yikes! Maybe we'll meet again sometime in the future :)

( *another* new cherry pic??! )

( January 6 - What was your least favorite class in high school? )

So, Denise gave me my Christmas presents, and I just DIED when I saw what she had gotten me:

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Two tickets to the play in February, TERRA NOVA, BASED ON ROBERT FALCON SCOTT'S EXPEDITION!!!!??!! In Fairbanks??! *FLAILS!!!!!* OMG that is AMAZING (she asked my mom first if she thought I would like it..how could she even have any doubt haha??). I wonder if Cherry will be in it?? I so can't wait, I bet I'll just be smiling stupidly during the whole play LOL. Denise, wow, I don't think I could get her a gift that cool! I gave her a giant hug. :D What a perfect gift!! <3 (My expression says it all LOL)

She also got me this cool penguin blanket:

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LOVE IT. She always finds the perfect gifts!

( 2017 survey )

Here is a passage from Emperors of the Ice that pretty much takes the words right out of my mouth (though probably more eloquently lol) as to why I love Scott's Expedition so much:

"Robert Falcon Scott was a giant, a man of irresistible vision, energy, enterprise, and charm. He was not a bad leader, or a good leader; he was an exceptionally great one. His keen insight led him to pick men who got along with one another. His genuine interest in every problem and activity made everyone feel valued: if he had finished quizzing Silas Wright about abstruse geomagnetic experiments, or chiding the biologists for not being clear about what they meant by degenerate form, he would turn around and start a conversation with Trigger Gran about Norwegian literature or politics. The reserved and brittle man of myth was actually exactly the opposite. If you read the diaries and letters of his men, even the private writings into which people naturally spill their irritation or anger, what you find for the most part is loyalty based on admiration"

Yes!!! I love when other people get it! Scott did make mistakes, but so did Amundsen, which usually get left out because he "won" and was "better prepared." Well..Amundsen forgot to bring a shovel, had arguments with his men, and left for the Pole way too early, causing him to get caught in a blizzard and having to turn back..so he wasn't perfect either lol. I really loved reading that passage, knowing I'm not alone <3 (I might be a bit passionate about this subject LOL)

I'm always amazed at how awesome my coworkers are..I had lunch late, so I was thrown off my routine and super hungry, which makes my brain malfunction lol. I made a mistake on the register and kept trying to talk to Paulette, but I just couldn't make it make sense haha! Paulette knows that happens to me though, and is amazingly patient..she also saw when I got back on track, and I was like "about time, right?" and she said "no, I only concentrate on what you do right, not wrong." Wow..she really is amazing!!

( pics for nov. 26-29 )

Today's trivia: German chocolate cake is named after an American baker named Sam German, not the country

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: "Out of the Ashes"-Symphony X

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On this day, 105 years ago, the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Birdie were found by Cherry and other members of the expedition. What really touches me about it is that Scott's hand was resting on Wilson's bag..they lived as friends and died as friends, and they didn't regret it. He was right in his Message to the Public when he said "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman." The tale definitely tells about all those things, even though he didn't live. I will always be amazed at how well everyone got along with each other. When they got back to the hut they erected a cross nearby with the names of the lost party (along with Oates and Evans, who died earlier on the trip back) and "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," from the poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson, which I think was Cherry's idea. RIP to some of the greatest guys who ever lived, you'll never be forgotten <3 (It's weird to think their bodies are still buried somewhere on the Ross Ice Shelf O_o)

( November 12: Nature Finds )

Mom and I are going to Anchorage tomorrow for Labor Day weekend (yay!), so I'm going to do the books I read for August today:

High Country by Nevada Barr (July 29-Aug. 1)
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America (Aug. 2-7. I loved reading this after going to Glacier Bay!)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Aug. 7-10)
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (Aug. 11-15)
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Aug. 15-17)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (Aug. 18. One of the DUMBEST books I've ever read..no zoo would just casually send a penguin to someone's house in the mail!)
South with Scott by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans (Aug. 21-27. And I thought "Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard" was a mouthful O_o)
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (Aug. 28-30)

Woohoo, 8 books, my second highest month! As you can see, I'm devouring Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries lol..every one of them has mentioned Antarctica and/or has described something as glacial. I love how spunky Flavia is too..impossible not to love :P

I wish people wouldn't talk so badly about Robert Falcon Scott..he did make mistakes, but after reading multiple sources, I can say for a fact Scott's men looked up to him, and Scott cared for them as well. I'm always amazed at how well everyone got along with each other. I've read other books about better prepared expeditions, but they just fell apart because the men hated each other. And how can I not love Cherry after reading something like this??: "A fifth pony was sacrificed to the hungry dogs--'Michael,' of whom Cherry-Garrard had only good words to say--but then the altruistic Cherry only spoke good words." *swoons* I love reading about Cherry from the other expedition members lol

It'll be nice to get out of town for a few days (when I asked Denise if I could go, she was like "yes, you work too much!" haha!) We're staying at a hotel at the float pond (we got the last room! Oops lol)..it seemed nice anyway. I'll hopefully get to meet

hopefulspirit too!

Today's trivia: Great Britain briefly had a Cones Hotline in the early 1990s. It was a special number citizens could call if they saw traffic cones on the road for no reason. It was disbanded after three years because almost no one ever called it

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Hmmm..I might like the Terra Nova Expedition a bit LOL. That isn't even all of my books relating to Antarctica, but the stack was already high enough haha. I just can't get enough of Scott's expedition..it has grabbed me and won't let me go lol. I wish I could accurately put into words how deeply the expedition and The Worst Journey in the World has affected me (and to think I just casually saw it on a list of best travel books on List Challenges! It caught my eye because there's a glacier on the cover lol. My love of lists is useful after all :P). I know I keep saying this, but those guys were amazing and they make me happy and inspire me <3

The Lost Photos book also confirmed my Cherry suspicions in this picture LOL:

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Yikes, that looks rough. My Cherry senses are now super sharp now ;)

( April 13: Say Cheese )

Today's trivia: The BBC banned Bing Crosby's  "I’ll Be Home for Christmas" during World War II, worried its "sickly  sentimentality" would lower the  morale of homesick troops

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Current Music: "Flames of Revenge"-Rhapsody

Here is an interesting article I came across: The 10 Most Doomed Expeditions in History. For some reason I was surprised that I recognized half of them haha. The writer totally trashed Robert F. Scott though..yeah he made mistakes, but I've read about other expeditions that were better prepared, but totally fell apart because the men didn't get along. Scott and his men were friends till the very end (when Scott was found, his hand was resting on Wilson's bag *tear*). I'll always be impressed by how they well he and his men got along with each other..they were amazing <3

The article about S.A. Andree's Arctic Expedition was almost as funny as the one on Goodreads haha ("Plus, his drag ropes would persistently snap, fall off, become entangled with each other, or get stuck to the ground, which could result in pulling the often low-flying balloon down into a dangerous bounce. Sounds good! Let's go to the north pole!" LOLOL)

And the poor Franklin Expedition.."Evidence suggested that a combination of cold, starvation, and disease including scurvy, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, all made worse by lead poisoning, killed everyone in the Franklin party." Eeesh (I keep wondering why Crozier's ship was named "Terror"..weird name for a ship, unless you're a pirate :P)

( pics for march 11 and 12 )

Today's trivia: The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City

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Current Music: "Templars of Steel"-HammerFall