cream of toad

fail.

2009-08-12T18:22:00.000-07:00

the father killed his old, lovely, faithful truck for the cash for clunkers program, in favor of a spiffy new-fangled dodge.

poor truck. D:

i hate millipedes.

it's rosemary! XD

i made her a few weeks ago. i used an amigurumi pattern from lion brand. (amigurumi is a japanese style of crocheted stuffed animal. *nodnod*)

pictures from tannehill and the evil rat thing

2009-07-23T20:03:00.000-07:00

part i, in which i shew forth pictures from tannehill

a field on the way there.

we went on a trade day, and there was this random statue thing for sale.

'twas quite disturbing...

the wall of a cabin in a field, near all the trade day stuff.

there was a bunch of old junk, wagons, etc. laying in the field.

...including a random rusty stove...

AND THERE WERE DUCKS.

I LOVE DUCKS.

part ii, in which i shew forth pictures of cho's evil rat thing

a few minutes ago i let cho in, and realized too late that she had a big rat-like creature in her mouth. =p (they're blurry because my camera wouldn't focus and i was shaking/screaming the whole time)

rachel had to get it because mother and i ~~didn't want to~~ were having panic attacks. YAY FOR RACHEL. :3

in which my wisdom teeth are yanked out

2009-07-20T20:06:00.000-07:00

i got them out this morning. all day my lips and chin have been numb, but i can feel them now. it hurts to open my mouth, especially if i try to open it more than like half an inch. oh, and the only things i can eat are pudding and applesauce. -_-
the worst part of the actual procedure was getting the IV in (of course, i don't remember what happened after that). i had been breathing in happy gas for a few minutes ("i like happy gas..."), and of course before the excellent surgeon dr. brindley could put the IV in my hand, i was wont to protest ("PLEASE DON'T DO IT NOW!") and i had to hold my mom's hand. the IV spot is still a little sore. (what am i going to do when i'm an adult and my mom isn't with me for every single little medical procedure?) she told me i was in good hands, and then the next thing i remember is waking up and feeling like i had no lower face.
so then i went home and watched tv, played video games, and read firestar's quest all day, while stuffing my face with applesauce, strawberry ensure, and pudding.
WOOPWOOP.

PS: i shall try to remember to consider posting pictures from tannehill tomorrow.

PPS: i think i'm still a little bit loopy...

i haven't posted in over a month

2009-07-18T16:08:00.000-07:00

i fail at blogging, seriously. xP i shall now make a commitment to blog regularly.

anyway, i'm getting my upper and lower wisdom teeth cut out on monday. apparently they're trying to push my 12-year molars out of the way because they have no room.
i had a choice between local anesthetic, happy gas, and happy gas + anesthesia. i chose the anesthesia because i didn't want to remember the whole thing. XD
possible side effects of the procedure include: nausea and vomiting, dry sockets, bruises on face and IV site, broken lower jaw, punctured sinuses, injured nerve under the jaw, and potentially death.
i know none of that will probably happen, that they just had to tell me that so they wouldn't get sued, but i really didn't want to know all that. =p
but i'm in God's hands.

(me, mother, and rachel went to tannehill today, but i'm too lazy to post any pictures right now.)

in which i finally post pictures from the beach

2009-06-23T18:16:00.001-07:00

i procrastinated posting these. yes, i'm lazy. sorry. XD

the bay as we approached the beach.

when we got there, i soon discovered (upon walking under the house) a dead fish, half-buried in the sand and nestled comfortably against one of the house's stilts. and there was much horror among myself and the cousins.

handsome face, no?

madie trespassing on the sand dune beside the house.

the sunset on our first night there.

the ocean. i really don't know why i didn't wait for this guy and his son to pass by...

don't ask.

BONUS. i deem this post as not containing enough pictures. (i didn't take as many pictures as i expected i would.) therefore, i shalt verily shew forth a picture of dad and taylor on father's day.

epic win indeed.

2009-06-14T15:39:00.000-07:00

remember when i created a wikipedia article about myself?
well, this time i made one about cream of toad. XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_of_Toad
the one about myself got deleted, so this one probably will too. however! i took screenshots. (click them for a larger view.)

in other news... i'm going to the beach tomorrow, so don't expect any posts for several days. (not that i've posted for the last week anyway. =p) i promise i'll post some pictures!

...and then jennie had to stop writing and leave for church.
and there was much rejoicing.

food for thought

2009-06-06T20:26:00.001-07:00

i am now 13...

2009-05-28T11:59:00.001-07:00

...and i feel no different.
who knew?
:D

bracing myself

2009-05-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

i'm turning 13 in a day and a half.
i generally don't make much of my birthdays, but i can't shake the feeling that i'm going to wake up on may 28th and suddenly have acne all over my face, be disrespectful to the parents, etc.
XD
...and i just realized that i need to change my motto on the header to "explore the mind of a strange 8th grader." i meant to do that like two weeks ago...

anyway. i was in a weird mood the other night, so i ATTEMPTED to write a sonnet. this is what my strange mind came up with. (and you'll most likely only get it if you're in my immediate family, unless you've been spying on us.)

an unpleasant cat with a fur coat black
who as we know all too well is bad,
once bit me on my rather stiff back
and informed me that i was mad.
"mad?" says i, "why say you so
when you, the cat, consistently leaves
gifts of dead rodents for us to loathe
on the front porch rotting, you infinite sleaze?"
"because," says the feline, "you make a hideous sound -
high and shrill, a twisted victory screech;
'tis rather irritating, i have found,
and i implore you, on pain of death, to cease."
"i'll do no such thing," i staunchly replied,
but she went for my jugular, and then i died.

post #90: in which i cannot think of a title

2009-05-20T10:17:00.000-07:00

this caught my eye at walmart yesterday.

tajin fruit seasoning - "this is not a candy"

fear the refulgence!

"come to the dark side... we have cookies."

post #89: in which i wordle the front page of my blog.

2009-05-07T14:09:00.000-07:00

click picture to enlarge.

i wordle'd the front page of cream of toad (in an act of shocking copycat-ness against my mother).
"pictures" is the most-used word on my blog.
XD
i need to cut down on my use of the word "like." -_-
also... "God" or "Jesus" is not anywhere on the wordle. that tells me something... =/
that is all.

post #88: in which i go to the golf tournament and palisades park

2009-04-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

the church did a golf tournament thing last saturday. the father was playing, so i went to watch him play for a bit and then go to palisades park.

the golf course was beautiful! it was a lovely sunny day. (this picture came out a little bit dark.)

the father gets ready to swing. (swing? hit? drive?)

AAANNNDD... he misses it. note the golf ball sitting undisturbed in the grass. methinks me and the mother were making him nervous by watching him.

he watches the ball fly after a more successful swing.

by the way, what are these large golf balls for? there were several of them, just sitting randomly on the ground. they're a little bigger than a fist. if you comment and tell me what they're for, you get the satisfaction of knowing you made a good answer.

on the way to palisades park.

from the cliffs at the park. the view was beautiful, but i was a bit nervous; i was afraid i might flop over the edge in a final act of utter clumsiness.

i zoomed in and got a little closer to the edge. and then...

i got up the courage to look down.
and then i fell.
just kidding.

oh, and there was some kind of gorge thing. people were climbing up and down it on a ladder. it looked fun.

and then the mother & i went to the cabin where some church people were eating

AND THERE WERE PUPPIES!!!!!!!

i had a cuteness-seizure.

inchworm... :'D

there was a beautiful sunset...

post #87: in which i trash the trussville tea party

2009-04-23T17:37:00.001-07:00

i've been meaning to blog about this for like... a week.
or two weeks?
the last month of the school year generally passes by in an indistinct blur.
which reminds me, the first day of summer i'll have to change the blog description to "explore the mind of a strange 8th grader."
idon'twannabean8thgrader...
...
...ANYWAY, i went to the trussville tea party last week, or the week before, or whatever. i was there for the last half hour; there were two or three speakers and some guy was singing and playing guitar when i left. while i was disappointed to find that there was no actual tea, it was interesting to see what people had to say about the taxes.
but more importantly, i took pictures!

it was at the mall, or whatever you call it. (where the tennis courts are.) there were tons of cars when we got there.

the crowd. there were about 250 or 300 people there.

one of the speakers. i didn't catch his name.
(actually, i probably did, but i forgot it 3 seconds later.)

one of the people had a 76 flag. (for 1776... the year the declaration of independence was signed. for the non-history people out there. :'D )

oh, and there was some girl wearing cat ears there.

and sitting nearby her, an emo boy.

"stop spending our future"

various signs. my favorite is "socialism smells like B.O."

"tea'd-off with government corruption..." there were a lot of "tea'd-off" signs.

"give me liberty or give me death... seriously."

"read my lipstick: no more taxes!"
i hope this lady doesn't mind me posting her picture. cuz, like, i didn't ask her. =D

after a few minutes i went to this playground thing. a bunch of random kids were sitting on the monkey bars, etc. i tried to be friendly, but none of them wanted to talk. XD

"don't tread on me"

a better picture where you can see the snake's head.

"congress: your pink slip is coming!" (i didn't get that one.)
"i'll keep my cash & guns. you keep the 'change'"

"no public money for private failure." i only vaguely get that one.

a big, random dog that belongs to someone else.

as i was leaving, the ice cream truck passed by. i refrained from chasing it down as it taunted me with its cheerful, irritating, repetitive song.

"party like it's 1773" (the year of the boston tea party)

this hundred-year-old tree stood sentinel a few hundred yards from the crowd, aloof from the protests and the issues which seem so huge and vitally important to us.

post #86: in which i post random pictures

2009-04-13T19:40:00.000-07:00

before i unload my random pictures on you, today is my dad's birthday! happy birthday, dad :3

i. pictures of tamagotchis and tamagotchi-related objects.

ii. pictures of flowers, most of them taken in winn dixie.

iii. pictures of easter eggs and james the giant bunny.

iv. pictures of cupcakes.

deliciousness. <3

here is love

2009-04-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

i've probably already posted this before, but the music on this video is so beautiful, i'm posting it again. be sure you have your volume up.

blogging fail.

2009-04-08T13:45:00.000-07:00

i haven't blogged in a long time. D=
so i'm blogging now.

so yes, according to google analytics, in the last 6 days my site has had 8 visits.

all from america...

all from alabama...

all from birmingham...

all from me.

how pathetic. =D

yes, well. here are some random, completely-unrelated-to-this-post, etc. pictures for your viewing pleasure.

1. the soccer game.

this is chloe, my 7-year-old niece. =)

chloe is good at soccer. she's strong too; i'm twice her weight and she can pick me up. (i can barely pick her up.)

her game face.

girls sitting on chairs (middle and left): WE ARE THE LADYBUGS, COULDN'T BE PROUDER! etc.
chloe (right): ARGH. *covers up ears*

her goal at the end of the game!

she was very nonchalant afterward.

2. more pictures of my neighbor's flowers.

and the sunset, taken from the end of my street. (not my end, the other end. where the road abruptly turns into woods.)

i drew people on my fingers.

2009-03-24T18:23:00.000-07:00

this is timmy.

this is mrs. churchlady.

this is pat.

this is gertrude.

this is hugo.

one day the five friends went to the store. some of the party were not enjoying the shopping.

hugo: "i'm getting stressed out here."

pat: "i would much rather be blogging than shopping."

mrs. churchlady: "this is a most unsatisfying, anti-intellectual, and unrefulgent pursuit."

gertrude: "...i love the taste of juicy fruit..."

timmy [thinking]: i wanna be a toys-r-us kid.

eventually, the five friends got to the checkout line. they started arguing about what they should do after shopping.

timmy: "can we go to toys-r-us?"

pat: "let's go to the apple store and buy some macbooks!"

gertrude: "like ohmygosh. let's go to abercrombie."

mrs. churchlady: "i need to go to a south beach diet meeting, you infinitely obtuse imbeciles."

timmy: "i wanna go to toys-r-us..."

hugo: "let's go cow-pushing."

timmy: "WE'RE GOING TO TOYS-R-US! I WANNA BE A TOYS-R-US KID!!"

so they went to toys-r-us and bought timmy a pony.

timmy is happy when he gets what he wants.

ligonier pictures

2009-03-23T16:31:00.001-07:00

i took pictures at the ligonier conference.
because i take pictures everywhere i go.

we left for orlando at 6:00 am, & there was a beautiful sunrise. =)

i was happy when i started seeing palm trees, because it took us like 6 or 7 hours to get to florida. (we went through georgia on the way.)

(i took all the above pictures out the window of the bananamobile [my mom's car].)

when we got to the conference, all during the lunch break i made daisy chains. =D

and decorated sprite cans with them.

these two guys were sitting in front of us for several sessions. at one point, the speaker said something that the bald guy agreed with; he grinned and slugged the other guy on the back of the head.

there was a pretty lake there. someone had tossed a random apple in it...

messy calvinists! D=

i'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

2009-03-21T17:34:00.000-07:00

the ligonier conference was good.
long, tiring, but good.
it took 11 hours to get to orlando. by the time we were there i was languishing in a maddening, carsick boredom. XD but i survived.
my new favorite preacher (except for my pastor) is sinclair ferguson. (scottish accents are refulgent.)
you should read what tim challies has to say about it. he liveblogged the whole thing. =)
(i got to meet mr. challies, by the way; mother, however, forgot to actually introduce me to him. XD)
the hymns we sung were great. there were hundreds of people there, and almost everyone was singing. i actually didn't know the words or tunes to most of them, but they were good.
...
i'm so tired that i'm practically brain-dead. i'm gonna go get a drink.
...
of dr. pepper.

post #80: in which i face the upcoming ligonier conference

2009-03-16T19:07:00.001-07:00

wow, it's almost here.
the day after tomorrow, we will drive to orlando at 5:00 am. whoopee.
(i hope that wasn't an invitation for burglars. BURGLARS, I HAVE DOGS! and two people will still be home.)
i am *really* not looking forward to the long car drive. nine hours, stuck in a car, with nothing to do but read. i love reading, but i can't read for nine hours straight!
but i am looking forward to the ligonier conference. tim challies will be there, and alistair begg. (i love mr. begg's accent. =D) i'm really praying that God will bless the conference, and the people who are speaking.
i'm also looking forward to meeting other kids who are like-minded. at the '07 desiring God conference i met a guy named jordan (who was a year older than me) over pictochat on our nintendo DSes. =p
so yes, VERY EXCITED I AM!
expect no post from me for the next 6 or 7 days. not that i post very often anyway. XD
i'll write about the conference when i get back from orlando.

here are some random pictures that are completely unrelated to this post, for your viewing pleasure. they're of my neighbor's flowers, like from last year.

speaking of the bass pro shop

2009-03-08T13:41:00.000-07:00

last saturday i went with the father to the bass pro shop.
and i took pictures.
many pictures.

there was a big fish tank.

and stuffed animals. =(

and a waterfall. surrounded by stuffed animals.

^ that reminded me of cho when she's about to bite you.

^ and i got really tickled at this guy because it looks like he's laughing. =3

^ this fish was huge. it was scary. i don't like fish.

^ see: twin

^ scary. =(

^ this reminded me of grippey, but 10000x more majestic.

THEY EVEN HAD SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

book review - concord cunningham: the Scripture sleuth

2009-03-07T20:06:00.000-08:00

i enjoyed this book. concord cunningham: the Scripture sleuth, while written on a 3rd or 4th grade level, is extremely engaging and written in a playful style.
the protagonist of the story is a boy named concord cunningham, who's probably like 9 or 10 years old. he knows a lot about the Bible - so much that he can solve mysteries by looking up passages in his concordance. he says he's "never met a mystery the Bible couldn't solve" - anything from theft to chickenpox, the Bible can handle it.
the book's format is interesting. each of the 12 short chapters are written like separate stories - all about the same concord, but about different mysteries he and his Bible must solve. at the end of each chapter, concord proudly unveils the Bible verse that explains his current mystery. then, the book urges you to look up the verse in your Bible, make a deduction on how the verse explains the mystery, and then read the solution in the section found at the back of the book.
while overall i recommend this book as a quick read to any child my age or younger, i do have one small problem with it - concord, the hero, is a perfectly perfect little boy; with his impeccable manners and completely sinless nature, i found him to be more than a tad unrealistic. i suppose there's a slight danger of some insecure young child reading it and beating themselves up for not being like concord (or more probable, laughing their head off and throwing the book away).
still, i enjoyed the book and i'd give it a 4/5.

this be the new blog!

2009-03-06T16:39:00.000-08:00

so i switched to this blog from my old one with the irritating name. you can still see all my old posts from armed.n.glamorous on this blog though. ah, technology, i love it. :'D
but i can't think of a good name for this one. if you're reading this, please give me some suggestions!! if you suggest something i like, i'll give you a million dollars and a nice car and a van down by the river. just kidding. but it'd be really nice of you all the same.
=D

UPDATE. yer too late. i thought of a blog name. =D

i haven't blogged about the snow yet!

2009-03-04T18:11:00.000-08:00

so if you live in alabama (which you probably do since no one but my family reads this =p) you know it snowed last sunday.
IT SNOWED. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIKE 8 YEARS.
i took some pictures, but i haven't gotten around to uploading them until just now.
enjoy =)

(☝ mom took this one and this one ☟.)

(and this one. ☟)

post #75: in which i am singled out for further questioning

2009-03-03T19:08:00.000-08:00

so at school today, during lunch, this guy who was a missionary to vietnam during the vietnam war came and spoke to the 7th grade classes. (the girls AND the boys class, mind you.) he was really interesting, and he asked us questions - like, "why do you think america became involved in the vietnam war?" stuff like that.
so i knew the answers to most of the first few questions, but i didn't answer because i was scoping out the situation - making sure the guy wasn't the type who always asks "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" when you answer a question; that makes everyone look at you and it's quite embarrassing.
so whenever anyone would answer a question he would just go, "yes, that's right" and nobody would stare at the kid who answered. i liked this guy. so for the next question -
"why do you think we failed in the vietnam war?"
- i raised my hand.
"because we just gave up at the very end and withdrew our troops, and south vietnam fell."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
every single man, woman and child turned around and stared at me.
"um... we gave up... at the very end. and south vietnam fell."
"...........yes, that's one answer."
he then proceeded to ask more questions, and whenever anyone else answered he didn't ask what they had said one. single. time.

cowering

2009-02-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

the father and some of his employees are doing some work on the roof of the porch.
what exactly are they doing, you ask? i have no clue, but guess what the only way onto the roof of the porch is? by crawling out my bedroom window.
so for several hours now i've been banned from my room. i can only imagine what they're doing up there - traipsing around with their muddy boots, maybe knocking over a picture frame or two.
i've been hiding downstairs for the whole time because my morning face + a bad cold + extremely bad hair day = ugly jennie.
yes, i'm having an extremely bad hair day. in an attempt to make it more presentable, i washed my hair about an hour ago. in the downstairs shower of course, which happens to be the parents' shower.
so i was in the shower trying to soak my ridiculously thick hair, when i remembered that there's an unfortunately-placed window right next to the shower that looks into the porch. slowly, i turned my head...
looked out the window...
and saw...
a man standing on a skylight.
CAN THEY SEE ME?! LORD, DON'T LET THEM SEE ME!!!
so i crouched in the floor of the shower and considered my options.
my mom has about 451345645.8 bottles of shampoo. and conditioner. and color treatment. i tried to find some shampoo that didn't say "FOR COLORED HAIR" or "FOR SILVERS." i found one, but it was on a high shelf in the shower, right next to the window.
i raised myself slowly, like a periscope, grabbed the shampoo, and risked a glance out the window.
someone had thrown their jacket on the skylight. i should have known it was a jacket, but i was already so aghast at the possibility of several grown men seeing me in the shower that i immediately assumed it was someone crouching on the skylight, using a hammer or whatever.
with a slightly hysterical whimper, i crouched back down on the floor of the shower and shampooed my hair. it took a few minutes to find a suitable conditioner, but i did find one and i used it. i peeked out the window again.
ohhh! it's only a jacket on the skylight...
yes, i know, i'm very smart aren't i? but then i saw someone walk across the skylight.
CURSES!
so i found a random bar of blue soap (it had a small black object stuck to it. i'm pretty sure it was a little fly, but i didn't want to find out for sure). a few minutes later, i vaulted out of the shower, clean.
cho (who had been stalking me all morning and so had followed me into the bathroom) looked at me with utter disgust.

kinda like that.

new layout =D

2009-02-12T18:27:00.000-08:00

hi cheezpeeps. =p i'm sorry for not blogging in like a gazillion years... if my blog isn't set to my homepage i'll never remember to update it.
...
and i haven't been feeling well lately.
...
she turned me into a newt!
...
i got better.
...
but yeah, i got a new layout for ze blog. lovely, yes? =3
...
yes, well, i have nothing to say, so i shall post a bunch of random pictures. *groans from reader(s)*

star gazing affectionately at my mother.

this one picture pretty much describes star's entire existence.

this is chang, my cousin/friend madie's pug. is this not the strangest-looking dog ever? i mean he's cute, but wow. XD and yes, that's my finger on the left side. =p

"DO YOU HAVE ANY CHEESE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

"...but i love you..."

AHH!

2009-01-26T18:47:00.000-08:00

i fail at keeping my blog updated... sorry for any withdrawals you may have experienced these last 13 days.
(i think it's 13. right? *counts on fingers* ...whatever.)
we will now return to your irregularly scheduled post.

today's one of those days when i have absolutely nothing to post. nothing much has happened lately, except for my granddad giving a speech at the library downtown, but mother dear already stole that idea. (read her post. like... now. =) )
so i'm completely out of blog fodder. but posting about having nothing to post is so unoriginal!
so with great reverence, i will now voyage to the wealth of knowledge, to the stupendous page of the one man who knows all that happens and links to it with great artistry...
TIM CHALLIES'S A LA CARTE!
okay. hmm. nothing much of interest for today's a la carte. what about the one for january 23rd?
"the year's weirdest headline"
oh?
*click*
"CLINICALLY DEPRESSED POODLE MAULS FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT CHIRAC"
...how can dogs be depressed?
"former french president jacques chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a dramatic incident that rattled the ex-president's wife."
...anti-depressants? hmm. that's irregular. poodles are the dog breed of evil.
there's even a picture on the fox news site of the horrid little rat...dog.

OH
MY
GOSH.
do you see that huge bikini-wearing woman in the background?!?!
DON'T LET YOUR SMALL CHILDREN SEE IT!!!
...i shall have cellulite-infested nightmares!

odd piano experience... IN PRESENT TENSE!

2009-01-13T19:38:00.000-08:00

i get home from stressful day at school and change out of my uncomfortable school clothes and into pajamas. i sit down on the couch and pass out. five minutes later, the absent-minded mother unit has a brilliant revelation:
"OH! YOUR PIANO LESSON!"
which is scheduled to be in about 10 minutes or so. i run upstairs, grab the nearest hoodie laying on the floor and realize it would take quite a while to pull it over my rather large head. i grab the next nearest hoodie, put it on, put on some jeans, brush my wild hair, run out the door, go back to get my music books, run out the door, put on some flipflops, and run to the bananamobile on freezing feet.
the mother unit drives me to my piano teacher's house. there's a van parked in her driveway. it's 5:05.
me: "oh. that's her student that she teaches before me. they're a little late getting out."
and then an older girl bounces happily out of her van and into the piano teacher's house.
WHAT? END OF WORLD? my piano lesson is supposed to be at 5!
in a stunned stupor, i gaze at the door. the mother unit is talking on the phone, but i can tell she's rather confused. eventually she drives off and wanders around trussville for 10 minutes.
me: "i would just go back."
mother unit: "should i go back?"
yes.
so we go back. and we wait in the car for 15 minutes for the other girl to get out.
then we get out of the bananamobile, and my piano teacher, the mother unit, and the other girl's mom talk and laugh and the whole cacophony sounds eerily similar to a bloodthirsty brood of hens. then somehow my piano teacher saves me and herds me inside and i have my piano lesson.
then i go home and pass out.

and i was like, whoa.

2009-01-07T13:10:00.000-08:00

(you'll have to click on the pictures to see them in their entirety. for some reason blogger won't let me upload pictures, so i had to upload these on photobucket and they were really big. =p)
oh the fun of having a creek in your backyard. :)

the rain the other night made the creek really swollen. yesterday it was like, REALLY swollen. like. really. but i only have pictures from today. -_-

so yeah, i decided to walk through the woods in the other direction. why? i don't know; i'm weird. but then...

BEHOLD!
*cough*

that's better. BEHOLD!
this isn't my cat. it's cho's boyfriend. he's real pretty. :)
(well i think it's a he... he won't let me get too close so i can't really tell for sure. :| )
so anyway, i saw him, and i was like
WHOA.
and then grippey saw him and went berserk. so i ran back with grippey to the basement, locked him up, and ran back to cho's boyfriend, sweating, with grippey yelping madly to be let out.
and i took pictures.
many pictures.
like, an obsessive number of pictures.
too many to post.

the end :)

how to play hymns on your cell phone

2009-01-02T12:09:00.000-08:00

you know how your phone beeps really annoying-ly when you're dialing a number? have you ever tried to play a song on it? no? yes you have. i know you have. i know things.
*cough*
anyway, i just now figured out how to play "a mighty fortress is our God" and "when i survey the wondrous cross" on my phone. 'cause i'm weird.
oh, and there's no sharps or flats on a cell phone. obvz. so i had to alter some notes a little bit.

a mighty fortress is our God

8 8 8 5 6 7 8 7 6 5
(a mighty fortress is our God,)

8 7 6 5 6 4 3 2 1
(a bulwark never failing;)

8 8 8 5 6 7 8 7 6 5
(our helper He, amid the flood)

8 7 6 5 6 4 3 2 1
(of mortal ills prevailing:)

1 5 6 5 5 5
(for still our ancient foe)

1 5 5 6 7 8
(doth seek to work us woe;)

7 8 7 6 6 5
(his craft and power are great,)

6 6 5 6 4 3
(and, armed with cruel hate,)

8 7 6 5 6 4 3 2 1
(on earth is not his equal.)

when i survey the wondrous cross

8 8 9 * 9 * 0 * 9 *
(when i survey the wondrous cross)

* * * 0 * 9 8 7 8 9
(on which the Prince of glory died,)

8 8 9 * 9 * 0 * 9 *
(my richest gain i count but loss,)

* * * 9 8 9 * 9 8
(and pour contempt on all my pride.)

repeat until you have played all of the verses and/or your family yells at you to stop, for their sanity's sake.
...
i have too much time on my hands...

post #68: in which i invade oak mountain

2009-01-01T16:57:00.000-08:00

okay, i didn't invade it. but i did go there, with the mother and the father.
we went to the petting zoo... thingy.

and i saw this adorable pony. AND I WANTED IT.
it was really interested in my camera...

but then it ignored me...

and then i saw this donkey and i wanted it...

and it was also interested in my camera.

very interested.

and then i saw all these goats and i WANTED THEM! I WANTED THEM ALL!

and then i saw a peacock.

and it was scary.

is that santa?!

late Christmas post!

2008-12-26T12:57:00.000-08:00

merry belated Christmas everyone! ♥
my internet died on Christmas eve, and it got fixed on Christmas day, but i was too busy obsessing over wii fit to post. =D
i got several amazingly amazing gifts, such as...

WII FIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *hyperventilate*

a really cute purse!

a webcam! =D

and

EW, whatintheheckisthat?!?!?!

also, 23 and i made cookies on Christmas eve.

first i made a normal cookie.

then they started getting a little weirder...

don't you see the resemblance?

anyway. ~~happy holidays, kwanzaa, hanukkah, or any other religious, secular, or religious/secular holiday of your choice.~~ merry CHRISTmas :)

the graduation according to jennie

2008-12-19T19:26:00.000-08:00

act i
i wake up to find myself in the car going to auburn. oh, sure, i've been awake all morning. but not really. i look down to see what i'm wearing: a mediocre black-and-white outfit. i need winter clothes. coughChristmascough
wait. where am i going? who am i? WHAT ON EARTH AM I HERE FOR?
...
oh yeah. the sister is graduating. (with a bachelor's degree in apparel merchandising, btw.) from auburn university. a.k.a. the evil empire. okay.
me: "when will we get there?"
dad [groggily; checking gps]: "uh, two hours."
me: "great."
so we listen to andrew peterson and then i read my epically long, 800-something page book that i've been reading since thanksgiving break. and then we arrive. at ~~tuberville's~~ chizik's evil empire of ~~doom~~ final judgment.

act ii
i follow the sister's boyfriend and my father unit around the coliseum thing. i have no idea where i'm going, really. i'm surrounded by a confusing mass of extremely tacky orange and blue. eventually we find our seats.
we wait for about an hour and then the deans, or whatever they are, stop slacking off and start the ceremony.
deans: "BLAHBLAHBLAH WORDS WORDS *eats hands* THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING AUBURN WORDS WORDS WORDS BLEAURGH WAR EAGLE."
me: "...roll tide..."
and then the people with doctorate's and master's degrees go up and get their diplomas. one by one. there are about 300 of them and it takes forever. but it ends. eventually.
me: "surely it's almost over. they'll just say a few nice words to the other graduates and mail their diplomas to them. or something."
but no. some other people with higher-ish degrees get their diplomas. one by one. and it lasts like an hour. and my back is hurting and stiff. and i entertain myself by taking pictures of a guy that looks like sayiid.
and then people with bachelor's degrees stand up.
and there are like 800 of them.
me: "okay. no. they are NOT going to get theirs one by one. please. for my sanity."
but they do. like 800 people line up to get their diplomas. and my sister is in the very back.
and so i sit for seriously 3 hours. and i think it'll be worth the wait if we scream really loud when the sister gets her name called out. and so we wait for 3 hours.
and we finally see her near the front of the line. i'm waiting with my finger on the video record button on my camera. i wait for her name to be called.
guy that calls out names: "ra---"
rednecks sitting beside us [screaming at some other person]: "WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"
so we don't realize he had called out her name until the rednecks shut up.

act iii
so we wait for a few more people in the back to get their dumb diplomas. and it finally ends.
deans: "BLAHBLAHBLAHWORDSWORDSWORDSBLEAURGHWAREAGLE."
redneck auburn fans (a.k.a., everyone in the coliseum but us): "WUR AGLE FLY DOWWWN THUH FIEEELD EVURR TO CONKUR NEVURR TUH YEELD... [weird drunk rambling] ...GEEVE IM [HECK!] GEEVE IM [HECK!]"
and it went on and on forever and ever.
rednecks.

act iv
my back is really stiff and fail-ish now. but we still have to stay in the evil empire for like 3 more hours because we're eating at a really fancy italian restaurant.
so we go. and i eat a huge piece of cheesecake and feel a bit self-conscious because i scarf it down in like... 2 minutes.
and then we stay forever to wait for my dad to try to eat the rest of his ginormous salad. and he can't. so then we leave after like 3 hours. by then i'm half-asleep so i just zombie my way through the motions of talking to people.

act v
the drive home is boring, painful (my back is horrid now), and stuff. there's not enough light for me to read or draw. then i come home and i'm scarred for life.

the end.
argh.
congrats to my sister.
roll tide.

thanks, arthur

2008-12-18T14:18:00.000-08:00

ugly pictures of star

2008-12-17T20:59:00.000-08:00

it's 11 pm and i want to post on my blog. because that's how i roll.
hm. what can i write about, i wonder?
cho? no, i have infinity+ posts about cho. (i'm the crazy cat lady...girl.)
my sanity? no, it doesn't exist.
how i've been vegetating, eating, and IMing all day? no, that's too embarrassing.
...OH! there are some ugly pictures of star that i took an hour or so ago.
yes. yes, that will do nicely.

the fat blob. fear. :)

why am i posting pictures of my dog on the internet at 11 pm?
i fail.
goodnight :)

this pointless post is brought to you by:

the smurfish camera of ~~doom~~ final judgment

behold the lamb of God concert

2008-12-16T09:45:00.000-08:00

i was at the behold the lamb of God concert at oak mountain presbyterian last night. =)
(andrew peterson is the main guy. this is his website.)

*swoon*

in other news.

"i detest... ooooh shiny"

in which i rant about photography

2008-12-14T13:13:00.000-08:00

i found these randomly while i was looking through pictures. =]

she looks pretty dang evil in this one.

one of the few pictures in which cho actually looks cute. =3

i take so many pictures. my camera goes with me everywhere.
you never know when a potentially good picture will show itself. usually, though, when it does i don't have my camera. whenever cho or star's doing something funny in the living room, my camera is always in the kitchen. whenever i see a pretty sunset on a long car trip, it was the one time i left behind my camera.
i took this about 2 or 3 months ago. it was a harvest moon, but it had already risen and didn't look yellowish any more. oh well. my dad pulled over into the driveway of a bank to let me take it.

i took these pictures this summer. we were on a ferry boat thingy going to baytowne in florida. madie was trying to talk to me. i ignored her because i was taking pictures.

so. the moral of this rant. don't be afraid to trespass on public property to get a good picture. ignore your cousins on a ferry to get a good picture. be an obsessive picture taker and carry your camera with you all the time until people doubt your sanity.
finis.

O RLY?

2008-12-09T11:55:00.000-08:00

(inspiration)

there's gonna be another twilight book!!

2008-12-04T19:42:00.000-08:00

Christmas meme

2008-12-01T18:35:00.000-08:00

missy posted a Christmas meme. she didn't tag anyone but... i'm doing it anyway. =)

1.) Wrapping paper or gift bags?
i like to get wrapped presents, but i know just sticking a gift in a bag is so much easier...

2.) Real tree or Artificial?
real trees smell good. but they die and all the needles fall off.

3.) When do you put up the tree?
usually around two weeks before Christmas.

4.) When do you take the tree down?
january of february. the all-time record i can remember was march.

5.) Do you like egg nog?
ew no.

6. )Favorite gift received as a child?
a wii, last year =)

7.) Do you have a nativity scene?
yes. it takes forever to set up. =p

8.) Hardest person to buy for?
my sisters.

9.) Easiest person to buy for?
my mom, the candle obsessive.

10.) Mail or email Christmas cards?
psh, i don't care.

11.) Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
when i was 4 i asked for a real tornado and got a toy vacuum cleaner.

12.) Favorite Christmas movie(s)?
a Christmas carol, it's a wonderful life, the grinch with jim carrey

13.) When do you start shopping for Christmas?
uh... a week before?

14.) Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
haha, nope.

15.) Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
cheesecake. apple pie. chocolate pie. M&MS!

16.) Clear or colored Christmas lights?
clear. i remember one year we put clear lights on our tree... and huge, tacky blinking colored ones.

17.) Favorite Christmas song(s)?
God rest ye merry, gentlemen, o holy night, o come all ye faithful

18.) Travel at Christmas or stay home?
stay at home.

19.) Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's?
dasher, dancer, comet, cupid, something, something, donnor, blitzen. and rudolph.

20.) Angel on the tree top or a star?
star.

21.) Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
we open one present on Christmas eve, usually pajamas. we open the rest on Christmas morning.

22.) Most annoying thing about this time of year?
"happy holidays" and all the commercialism. it makes me sick.

23.) Favorite ornament theme or color?
psh. our ornaments have no coherent theme.

24.) Favorite dinner for Christmas?
uh, rolls. and butter. lotsa butter.

25.) What do you want for Christmas this year?
a good easel. roller skates. a webcam.

26). Do you bake lots of goodies during the holidays?
i don't bake. i eat.

27). Do you decorate different rooms of your home?
uh, not really...

28.) What decorations do you put outside?
a wreath. nothing else. we're scrooges.
(i had to google "a Christmas carol" to remember that it was the word "scrooge" i was looking for. I FAIL.)

29.) How do you spend Christmas Eve?
vegetate in the living room, read the Christmas story, watch a Christmas movie, open Christmas eve presents.

30.) Is Christmas your favorite holiday?
yep =)

epic win!

2008-11-26T11:35:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_tanner
=D
wikipedia will probably delete it, so here's a screenshot. click on it to see the whole thing.

random pictures because i CAN.

2008-11-25T12:38:00.000-08:00

the front of bryant-denny stadium. ROLL TIDE.

random sunset picture taken on the way to the game.
(we won, by the way. FACE.)

...my favorite socks...

watch the guts.
thank you.

another watch the guts picture. trey's mom ordered this for us because we always have dead animals on our front porch. thanks, cho.

the front of my science textbook.
(yes, i drew on his face a little. no, i'm not immature.)

kittyloaf is not amused.

this is a common sight in this household.

finis.

a serious post? with capitalization?

2008-11-24T10:54:00.000-08:00

Friendship According to a “Wise” and Slightly Cynical 12 Year Old

True friendship is a hard thing to find these days. This is because people, in this anti-intellectual, fluffy culture, haven’t been taught what friendship is, or what being a friend is.

Friendship is not having someone to compare your new clothes, or new phone, or your money with. Friendship is not just having someone go to the mall with you and freak out over Gucci purses that no one can really afford.

A friend is not someone who makes you feel good all the time, or someone who laughs when you do something wrong.

A friend is not someone who makes fun of you all the time with “playful” jabs that really hurt your feelings. Newsflash – calling people nerds, retards, etc. isn’t cute, appealing, or funny. It makes you look mean and immature, offends the other person, and ultimately drives them away from you. Same thing with guys, by the way.

A friend is someone who builds you up and gives you wise advice, even when it stings. When it does sting, but it’s from solid advice (like this paper), a good friend is not trying to be mean to you. She’s trying to be a good friend. You should do the same.

There is a time for playful jabs, but some people have to be reminded like they’re still 4 years old – do to others as you would have them do to you.

A friend is someone who holds you back when you’re about to do something wrong. She needs the same guidance from you.

True friendship is one of the strongest bonds people can have. 1 Samuel 18:1 says, “As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” David and Jonathan loved each other deeply. The empty-headed, shallow fools that most 12 year olds are today would say they’re gay. THEY’RE NOT. This is how friendship is meant to be.

The aforementioned empty-headed, shallow 12 year olds will think that I’m saying you shouldn’t have fun with your friends. You should. Just don’t do anything stupid.

And above all, do everything to the glory of God.

eye twitch

2008-11-22T11:53:00.000-08:00

i've been playing too many video games lately.
mainly animal crossing: city folk, which i just got.
and then i tried to get past a plant monster thingy in zelda: twilight princess, but i chickened out. those plant things are scary!
and then i played more animal crossing.
and more.
and more.
and more.
and trey made fun of me for playing it so much.
"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ANIMAL CROSSING?" he asked on tuesday.
"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ANIMAL CROSSING?" he asked on thursday.
"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ANIMAL CROSSING?" he asked later that thursday.
"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ANIMAL CROSSING?" he asked on friday.
what's the point your face.

my legs hurt from playing football yesterday. (a few too many tackles.)
i'm gonna go crawl into bed and become a vegetable.

book meme

2008-11-14T13:38:00.000-08:00

mother dear tagged me for a book meme. i'm supposed to find the nearest book with at least 123 pages, turn to the 123rd page, and post the 6th, 7th, and 8th sentences.
okay then! the nearest book? hmm. do plow & hearth catalogs count as books? i suppose they do.
*insert long confused scene here, in which i turn to pages 122, 124, 119, and various other pages in an interesting attempt to find page 123. insert nervous giggles every few seconds until i finally find the right page.*

"the pig's nose is a watering rose for a gentle shower of water. the charming dog has a watering rose for a tongue. the rooster has a precise watering spout for direct application."

ah, yes! watering roses are so hot right now.

i tag... nobody, because NONE OF MY FRIENDS HAVE A BLOG. :)
roar.

for great justice.

2008-11-12T18:51:00.000-08:00

CATS: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

the 21st century odyssey [a weird dream]

2008-11-08T10:23:00.000-08:00

act 1
i went to sleep that night and i dreamt.
the first thing i was aware of was the homely scene which i so often encountered in my waking hours. i, rachel, and my mother were sitting in the living room when rachel burst out --
"mom, can i have a kitten?"
the usual answer came. "no."
and in my dream i had a brilliant (but not startling) revalation - i inexplicably gained the power to speak & understand the animal language! so, obviously, why not steal a kitten from walmart?
i found myself magically transported to that shop of wonders, and immediately saw a small, beautiful black tom in a cage. close by his side were two tiny kittens. i nonchalantly shuffled over to the tom, who informed me that the kittens were his own and he was 3 months old.
"you're a father at 3 months old?"
"yes. my mate died in kitting."
in my dream i was satisfied with this answer, and questioned no further.
"sooooo." i said. "i'm gonna steal you; is that okay?"
"sure."
glancing around, i hastily unfastened the lock on his cage and he and his kittens jumped out.

act 2
again, i found myself magically transported - this time to the creek in the backyard.
my cat friend wanted to explore, so i obliged.
he chose the left direction (when you're facing the creek from the house) and, upon tramping through a few meters of dense green-brown undergrowth, i discovered that a beautiful, isolated, yellow-red glen had appeared there, and that the creek was a picturesque river in that spot. on the other side of the river was a rocky slope, and beyond that a meadow.
the young black tom cat joyfully bounded down the riverbank, magically stepped across the river (which in my dream i thought completely rational) and climbed up the slope; after that frolicking in the meadow.
after either a few seconds or several hours of watching him, i noticed that it was evening and bid him come inside to meet the family.

act 3
the house was in chaos.
everyone was preparing for the coming of lady grandmother, whom i had never met. (she inexplicably carried a connotation of lady catherine from pride and prejudice, and also had a stalker called mr. collins.)
when i & the three young cats entered the house, the first person to notice us was my (very busy) mother.
"who are those cats? take them outside."
i turned to ruefully say goodbye to the cats, but they disappeared before my eyes. (i thought this completely rational too, as they were no longer needed.)
then, without anyone telling me, i realized that lady grandmother was coming to have a critical surgery that would either save her life or kill her. also, it would be performed in my bedroom.
upon her arrival, she looked basically like lady catherine from pride and prejudice, but had a much nicer temper and was a dear, sweet thing that i immediately loved. nothing really seemed the matter with her, that would require critical surgery like this. she brought with her a mr. collins, who was exactly like the one in the book.
the doctor, and various aunts and uncles (including uncle tommy) arrived without really coming (again, completely rational).
somberly, they all went up to my bedroom to perform the important surgery.

act 4
i was the only one who remained downstairs and missed spectating the surgery; i was too nervous and squeamish.
after telling laura to tell me what happened as soon as it was over, i went outside (it was deep nighttime now, and the stars were much brighter than usual, and were more numerous and seemed closer) and ambled up near the road to look at the stars, and to calm my nerves.
after a few moments, i heard mr. collins' voice in my head. (he wasn't there, of course; he was watching the surgery in my bedroom.)
"why do i sometimes see you flying into windows?" he said in a dreamy, singsong voice that made my hair stand on end in my dream (and probably in the physical world as i slept, too.)
at these words, lady grandmother's car (an expensive blue-ish one like in back to the future) started, hovered about 5 feet in the air, and circled the cul de sac. then it spiraled, and flew into the neighbor's huge, open window, where it was enveloped in light and disappeared, never to be seen again. (it's the neighbor with the army of shrubberies in the front yard & whose wife hates the dogs.)
i immediately understood it to mean that lady grandmother had died in her surgery, and it seemed like the road had told me stuff like that before. i slowly and sadly walked inside. cho, grippey, and rocky joined me and pressed against my legs to comfort me.
everyone was gathered silently in the foyer; i asked laura just to make sure, and she said lady grandmother had died.

act 5
a few years later (which passed by in a split second and which i didn't experience at all) i traveled to lady grandmother's old estate. despite there being a grand mansion there, the lady had lived in a quaint cottage with a rounded, pale green door. i walked up to the door, put my hand on the worn brass doorknob, and opened it.
then i woke up.

finis

a true dream - not exaggerated in the least.
do i need help or what?

if i could tell everyone ONE thing about the election -

2008-11-07T10:52:00.000-08:00

it's not about the politicians - it's about what they stand for.
that means it didn't matter whether president obama was cool or not.

but now the damage is done and i shall respect & pray for him.

(teehee... i said "shall.")

the way i think the election should be run.

2008-11-03T16:46:00.000-08:00

step 1: pick random people out of the street to be the republican, democratic, and independent candidates.

step 2: have the republican and democratic candidates flip a coin to see who goes to step 3. (the loser gets 5 dollars because we all feel bad for him.)

step 3: the winner of the coin toss has a vicious battle to the death with the independent candidate; the independent candidate is in a straitjacket for the convience of everyone. he never had a chance anyway. the winner of the fight is declared president of the united states.

step 4: all of this is done in a few hours so citizens won't bore themselves to death by having nothing to watch on tv but political cat fights.

it's so much simpler that way.

happy halloween/fall festival/reformation day/october 31st!

2008-10-31T21:50:00.000-07:00

i dressed up as a cat-girl! :3
(NOT a cat. a cat-girl. learn the difference.)

peace in!

THE HELLO KITTY TOTE BAG. man, i've been waiting for the perfect time to actually use it. awesomesauce.

cho doesn't think it's all that great, really.
in fact, she hates everything.

so anyway, i went trick-or-treating. obviously. *I ATE TOO MUCH SUGAR!!* for the first 10 people i went to, i bid them a happy reformation day.
"happy what?" said a 40 year old witch that was trying to look 25.
"reformation day," i replied cheerily. "when martin luther nailed the 95 theses to the w-wa-war of the church." WAR? WHY DID I SAY WAR?! i was trying to say "door" and "wall" at the same time. I COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING BUT WAR! curse my habit of stumbling over words.
"ohh, okay," the witch said intelligently.
i went away cursing myself. "WAR? WHY DID I SAY WAR?!" i completely ruined it!! i beat importunately upon myself!

ah, well. happy reformation day. :)

forest at night

2008-10-22T13:04:00.000-07:00

october leaves
fey emeralds touched with red and gold
and their trees: obsidian silk strands
finely woven into a tapestry
smokey grey and grey-green
above a dark band of water
gently flowing in a lazy creek,
low now, but not quite gone.
and then the dawning of the sun.

randomosity

2008-10-19T15:09:00.000-07:00

there was once a little girl named jennie. (OR WAS IT?) she was in the 7th grade.
one day she looked at a story she wrote for school in 5th grade and realized that she was a much better writer in 5th grade than in 7th grade.
so she sat down at the computer, opened up notepad, and began to write. she wanted to write a story about her cat.
first she tried to write an adventure. nothing doing.
her mom asked her if she was still writing.
next she tried to write about her cat causing the space/time continuum to unravel. nothing doing.
her mom asked her if she was still writing and warned her not to get on the internet.
then she tried to write a romance, but realized that was pretty weird since she was writing about cats.
her mom asked her if she was still writing.
finally, she tried to write a cat's journal about an economical depression in 2009. it was stupid.
the little girl was frustrated, so she banged on the keyboard with her head.

fvgthbgyhnbjnjhmunhjbhbgbvvfcfdcdxfvgbfyh677ythjn78wqny78ovqqqq458701587nv p q5t8105710 bn84931067489q3tb89q36666666oqb849q0762bpalmt4ip346yblru3nf9f72wkdnd0q4hlz 9058jjjiepw4

the computer flashed in psychedelic colors. the little girl had a blackout seizure, and when she woke up, she saw:

"WARNING: PRESS THE BUTTON BELOW IMMEDIATELY OR THE SPACE/TIME CONTINUUM WILL UNRAVEL"

underneath was a pretty pink button that said:

"CLICK HERE TO UNRAVEL THE SPACE/TIME CONTINUUM"

yay... a pretty pink button. she clicked on the button.
a dialogue box came up:

"NOW INITIATING THE INFINITE IMPROBABILITY DRIVE. YOU'RE IN FOR IT."

she just had time to think, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?" when it happened.

she was a walrus. she was a walrus made out of custard. her neighbor was a vice-cheesemaker candidate. she was in love with a fat taxidermist. her face popped off and rolled onto the floor. thoughts were spinning through her head unbidden at light-speed.

"THEY HAVE A CAVE TROLL ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US I NEED A GOOD BIT OF ROPE GOD BLESS AMERICA I THINK THEREFORE I AM CLAY AIKEN IS GAY ---"

and the like. eventually everything stopped. she was a human again, her neighbor was a 30 year old that lives with his mom instead of a vice-cheesemaker candidate, she wasn't in love with a taxidermist, and she had a face.

there was a dialogue box on the computer.

"WAS THAT FUN? CLICK THE PUPPY FOR MORE."

the puppy was a cute yellow lab. the little girl immediately clicked it, and a nuclear bomb went off in a supermassive black hole and everyone died.

the end

***

the little girl sighed deeply in frustration.
WHY COULDN'T SHE WRITE ANY MORE?!
she banged her head on the keyboard.

fvgthbgyhnbjnjhmunhjbhbgbvvfcfdcdxfvgbfyh677ythjn78wqny78ovqqqq458701587nv p q5t8105710 bn84931067489q3tb89q36666666oqb849q0762bpalmt4ip346yblru3nf9f72wkdnd0q4hlz 9058jjjiepw4

"WARNING: PRESS THE BUTTON BELOW IMMEDIATELY OR THE SPACE/TIME CONTINUUM WILL UNRAVEL"

(THAT WAS HORRIBLE!)
fin

short post about cho

2008-10-17T14:36:00.000-07:00

i'm in yer guitar case,

stealin yer tunes.

YOU DISGUST ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

goodnight

2008-10-10T19:06:00.000-07:00

goodnight trees,
goodnight leaves,
goodnight soft october breeze,
goodnight creek that flows with ease.

goodnight log,
goodnight dog,
goodnight distant neighbor's hog,
be there still come morning fog.

goodnight cho,
evil cat,
goodnight wall-dwelling rats
who keep me awake with squeaks and taps.

goodnight squirrel,
goodnight 'coon,
goodnight alabama dunes.
goodnight God, goodnight world
goodnight, woods.

the phone call

2008-10-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

the sister got a creepy phone call last night. she thought they were whispering "i'm coming... i'm coming... i'm coming..." so she came up here and told me and the mother.

i completely freaked out and just sat there having a panic attack for a few minutes.

then we all went downstairs and made sure nobody was down there and locked all the doors/windows/pet door.
and shut the dogs in their crates and told them to bark if anyone breaks in.
just like they did when the policeman came in the basement after the fire?

then i stayed up til 3 a.m. waiting for someone to break in. the mother eventually made me go to sleep.

it turned out to be a stupid person calling random numbers.

nobody died, that i know of.

fin.

youtube monday.

2008-10-06T08:44:00.000-07:00

i'll write more later. probably. if something interesting happens. maybe.

lawl.

2008-10-05T13:08:00.000-07:00

alabama won last night.
but we looked terrible.
we should have CREAMED kentucky,
but instead we won by a field goal.
A FIELD GOAL.
i'm very disappointed in all my boyfriends (john parker wilson, julio jones, javier arenas, etc.).
BUT AUBURN LOST. TO VANDERBILT. :D YAY!

um. goodbye.

the woods

2008-10-04T10:00:00.000-07:00

i love the woods...

and the creek.

and my treehouse.

it's all so peaceful and beautiful.

...except for that...

how to give a dog food and water

2008-10-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

step 1: get the gross, sloppy dog food from your mother.

step 2: get a bucket. turn on the hosepipe and fill it up with water while guarding the dog food so your other dogs won't eat it.

step 3: error: you need to use the bathroom. try again later.

step 4: fill the bucket with water with the hosepipe.

step 5: error: the hosepipe is a tangled mess and won't work.

step 6: somehow carry both the bucket and the dog food back inside. use your sister's bathroom sink to fill the bucket up.

step 7: leave the dog food inside, slosh over to the dog's kennel, attach her water bowl to the wall and pour water.

step 8: run back inside, get the dog food, and run back outside and give the food to the dog.

step 9: by now your legs will be scratched up from running through the leaves and twigs.

step 10: success! good job. go and talk about it on your blog.

step 11: error: now you're needed at the Bible study to babysit.

memories from the bama vs. tulane game.

2008-09-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

(yeah... i know all this is from a while ago, but this is my blog and i can post old pictures if i want to. so there.)

when i first got there i just had to get a picture of the ducks/geese/whatever that were by the pond.

this one was evil. i swear, it tried to kill me.

the ugly duckling. :(

OH... MY... GOSH.
IT'S JOHN PARKER WILSON. I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT THAT CLOSE TO HIM!!!
i waited in the hot sun for two hours for it, though. o_o i needed water, but no, i wouldn't leave my spot at the front of the boardwalk thingy (whatever you call it) to go buy some. nearly fainted from the heat, but a nice lady behind us gave me some apple juice.
for the record, while taking this picture i proposed to john parker wilson for the second time in my lifetime. the first time being at the vs. arkansas game last year.
i'm such a fangirl.

the tale of the enchanted kitty princess

2008-09-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

once upon a time, there was an enchanted forest next to an enchanted creek with an enchanted bridge. an enchanted kitty princess lived in this forest.

she frequently crossed the bridge into giant-land, where the weird tall creatures that walked on two legs lived.

her favorite giant was the smallest one, who had a paler pelt than most and long, dark brown fur on her head. most nights, the kitty princess would curl up in the giant's bed and sleep on her gigantic feet.

now on the road from the enchanted forest to the giant's castle, there was a prison where a she-ogre lived. the kitty princess and the she-ogre had gotten into a fight long ago over a handsome knight.

one day, on a visit to the giant's castle, the kitty princess found that the giants had invited the she-ogre to live in their castle.

the kitty princess was furious, so she robbed the matriarch of the giants of her purse.

true story.

tis caturday.

2008-09-27T07:21:00.000-07:00

and i have to do yesterday's schoolwork because i didn't do it yesterday.
x.x
INSTEAD, i stayed up in my room all day reading warriors. :D

princess chosifine toadbane.
(cho or she'll flay you.)

i randomly went outside at halftime last week and took this picture. :)
(we're totally gonna own georgia today. i feel it in me bones.)

long lost sisters

mushroom!

rawr. my shadow looks pregnant. -___-

THIS IS SPARTA.

2008-09-26T07:04:00.000-07:00

random title, sorry.

in an hour i'm going to have that surgery.
i really don't want to.
*sigh*
i'll post some before and after pics of my mouth when i'm home.
oh, by the way it'll only be a 48 hour recovery.
so that's good. i guess. the surgeon said so.

UPDATE. okay, it's done. my molar is just starting to hurt, i've complained to my friends about it, i'm drooling, i can't feel my nose or upper lip, i feel horrible, and i look like a freak because i have this weird pink stuff on my exposed teeth.

i'm sad.

teeth.

2008-09-19T11:13:00.001-07:00

i'm going to the dental surgeon today for him to evaluate my teeth.
so yeah, the exposure and molar-pulling doohickey will probably be done over fall break.
OH MY GOOD GOLLY GOSH, HOW FUN. /sarcasm

but my orthodontist said that the molar will be as hard to pull as a wisdom tooth.
i assume that also means it will hurt as bad as a wisdom tooth.
i've seen a brother and two sisters have their wisdom teeth pulled, and i'm scared out of my wits.
:(

UPDATE. so the surgeon guy (who seemed extremely lighthearted) said that i had to get the thingy done next friday. :( oh, and for 7-10 days after i'll have to wear pink stuff on my teeth while it heals. and you'll be able to see my teeth at the top of my gums, which will look odd. then my orthodontist will put brackets on them to make them come down, AND it'll take 2 or 3 months for the teeth to drop down.
/cry

a song of forbidden love

2008-09-19T11:13:00.000-07:00

i loved you.

but then i got mad at you, so we broke up.

and i looked at you,

and you looked at me,

and i looked at you,

and you looked at me,

and i looked at you,

and you looked at me,

and i looked at you,

and you looked at me,

and then for a while we minded our own business,

but then we looked at each other... and said

"I LOVE YOU... BAY...BAY!"

so then. we went out to eat.

AND WE FELL IN LOOOO....OOOVE.

OH, AND WE FELL IN LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*gasp* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

i have rediscovered the lol builder.

2008-09-18T20:44:00.000-07:00

haikus of wisdom, part iii - my day in a bunch of haikus!

2008-09-11T16:17:00.000-07:00

woke up feeling sick
as usual. ate muffins,
went to pits of school.

there was silence in
the carpool. awkward silence.
like always, bahah.

first half of school day
boring as usual, but
i took notes this time.

lunch was interesting
hung out with friends and got chewed
out by a teacher. :(

second half of day
longing for the end of day
i think i took notes.

three o'clock, school's out.
carpool was silent again,
but i'm used to it.

came home at four, ate
macaroni and cheese. now
i'm writing this post.

fin.

BONUS.

creamy shells and cheese
falls in slow-mo through the air
and lands on my leg.

i have good news and bad news.

2008-09-05T18:42:00.000-07:00

good news: my orthodontist said that i didn't have to wear my ~~bit~~ rubber bands any more. YAY!

~~bad~~ horrid news: i have to get my top canine teeth exposed* and my last baby tooth (a molar) pulled because for some reason it sunk into my gum rather than came out.

*exposure: where they scrape away some of my gum so my canine teeth will come down. cause right now my teeth are too crowded for them to come down. can you say BAD SMILE?

i'll probably get it done in the next few weeks. :(
PRAY FOR ME?

"I SCARY DINO! ROAR!"

eat fail.

2008-09-04T20:13:00.000-07:00

look at this blog.
i'm sure the person who writes it is amazing.
...okay, so i write it. =/

"during my service in the united states congress, i took the initiative in creating the internet."

a close-up of the back of my phone. :D

strange picture. me being my nerdy self, i got a web browser for the ds. :]

brb, jail.
o_O

cho's little gift

2008-09-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

i just got out of the shower. cho had been thoughtful enough to leave me a gift.
a half-dead baby mouse, lying right in front of the bathroom door, with two of its legs dislocated, flung out unnaturally to its side. *cries*
i'm so depressed...
goodnight...

new layout.

2008-08-30T20:14:00.000-07:00

you like the layout? :) i'll work out all the kinks later, becauseeeeee...

ALABAMA VS. CLEMSON!
right now it's the 4th quarter with 9 mins. 30 secs left in the game.
alabama's winning 31 to 10. YAY!
ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE. alabama won!! YAY!

random post.

2008-08-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

it RAINED yesterday.
:O
look what i found in the gutter that flows into the creek in my backyard.

A CRAWFISH.
i see them a lot in the creek, but this is the first time i've actually caught one.
I'M SO OUTDOORSY.

when i set him loose he ran down to the little ledge next to the creek, then he saw it was a straight drop down. so he tried to hold on with his claws but eventually fell. i tried to help him but i didn't want to get pinched (and i was laughing so hard) but he ended up okay.

star the pit bull.

"BUT I ONLY HAD 20 RED BULLS!"

cho the maleficent cat.

"i see you."

ds post

2008-08-22T15:58:00.000-07:00

i'm so high-tech.
i'm posting this from my nintendo ds. MY DS, YA HEAR?!
wheeeeee!

the toadbane is angry

2008-08-18T14:17:00.000-07:00

the sister caught a baby frog.

note the sister's finger in the corner.

toadbane: you set free a perfectly good frog? i am displeased.

furnulum pani holo.

2008-08-15T13:43:00.000-07:00

my wonderfully amazing latin teacher always lets us decorate our latin binders on the first school day.

haha, you shoulda seen mine from last year. too bad i can't find it...

the back of my pwnz0rz binder. BABY CHINCHILLA!!!!!!! <3

i'm stellarrrrrrrrrr.

my latin motto because i'm cool.
btw, my latin name is ridicula. =D

BONUS.

cho should totally be a model.

NOWAYIT'SMYEYE. why do i have big freckles around my eye...? =( I'M NOT A PIZZAFACE!!!!

no comment

i fail

2008-08-14T17:14:00.000-07:00

at keeping a blog.
._.
anyway, today was my first day of school.
actually it wasn't, but it was my first day of classes.
twas quite the interesting experience.
my principal decided to introduce all the 7th grade and up in front of the entire school.
so she made us all line up and say our names.
"my name," i said, and walked away.
i was pulled back by my shirt.
"NOBODY HEARD YOU, SEVENTH GRADER."
"MY NAME."
it was horrid.

YOUTUBE MONDAY.

2008-08-11T13:27:00.000-07:00

chocolate rain... o_O

iband.

here is love on the kayagum.

evolution of dance.

thriller... in a philippines prison!

i am being badgered to get off the computer.

my record is twenty seconds.

2008-08-10T11:22:00.000-07:00

this is so addicting.
seriously.
that is all.

haikus of wisdom, part ii

2008-08-07T08:16:00.000-07:00

coke in living room
mother brilliantly knocks
over. on camera.

mom croaks from her den
"daughter! please get me my phone!"
i have to oblige

what? i saw this game
for $40 less on ebay!
gamestop guy looks mad

fighting with my hair
trying to get it in a
good ponytail. failed

loud scratching on chair
the cat desperately wants out
five a.m., no less

BONUS.

hummingboards are cool.

alabama, tennessee, auburn university.

2008-08-05T05:42:00.000-07:00

there is a steady, annoying pain in my stomach.
appendicitis? no...
nervousness? no...
dread of a long drive to auburn? yes.

i'm going with the mom to help the sister move home for her internship. which i'm glad about, except for the long drive and the pain it apparently causes me.

and i don't even like their football.

UPDATE. i discovered shortly after publishing this post that the gnawing pain was hunger, so i ate a biscuit along the way.
everything ran smoothly and nobody died.
the end.

caterwauling

2008-08-03T13:39:00.000-07:00

from thefreedictionary.com:

cat·er·waul (ktr-wôl)

intr.v. cat·er·wauled, cat·er·waul·ing, cat·er·wauls

1. To cry or screech like a cat in heat.

2. To make a shrill, discordant sound.

3. To have a noisy argument.

my mother describes me as caterwauling over the catechism.
o_O
MRRRROOOOOWWWRRR!

"wool-footed and woolly-pated truant."

yard sales are overrated anyway

2008-08-02T05:23:00.000-07:00

so i ended up not going to the stupid yard sale because i was sick. (they're having it at my uncle's house.) -_- i guess i would have had a heat stroke anyway.
but now what do i do? i can't go to sleep because i've already had my caffeine. i can't read, because the aforementioned caffeine is giving me the jitters. (i drank hot chocolate with extra caffeine because i hate coffee. did i mention CAFFEINE?)
i guess i just have to spend the next five hours on the computer. toughing it out because my mom took the medicine i need with her to the yard sale.
*sigh* anyway.

me and grippey, the strange-looking wonder-dog. :3

this is pretty much the epitome of me running around the church building, being stupid with my friends.

my pretty fantasy forest creek in my backyard. it's foggy. =D

wow... what an incredibly depressing picture... i feel the happiness melting... disintegrating... disappearing.

are all garage sales this stressful?

2008-08-01T20:32:00.000-07:00

i just finished helping my mom price a bunch of stuff for a garage sale.
which is tomorrow.
it involved much time and much carrying around of heavy things. my back hurts.
tomorrow my town is having dog daze, which is when people bring their dogs to the mall and walk around and buy things. i wanted to go to it, but no... we have a garage sale.

*sigh* i'm tired and i want to take a shower and go to bed. sorry for the boring post. i have failed you. i'll tell you about the garage sale tomorrow.
goodnight...

o_O

2008-07-31T17:59:00.000-07:00

my friend/cousin made a blog.
it's... interesting. ? go and see it.
that is all.

:D

2008-07-31T11:48:00.000-07:00

today i'm going to see wall-e!
i'm excited. i'm going with my cousin/friend. maybe i'll see... THE GUY there. *swoon*
...anyway, i decided to put my hair up today, which is a rarity. so i got the mom to put a ponytail on the side of my head.

haha, you thought i would identify myself, didn't you? THINK AGAIN, COPPERS. you can't really tell, but the ponytail is in fact on the side of my head.
also, it looks like i have a really pointy chin, but i don't. i was making a weird face. in reality, my overbite is so bad i have a very puny chin.
...anyway, like the hair? i know you do.

BONUS. because i deem this post not interesting enough, here's a picture of a drawing of a cat-girl and one of me trespassing on a sand dune.

drawing manga is fun.

how was i supposed to know it was illegal?

**************************

UPDATE. i saw wall-e. it was really cute. it gets a gold star. :D
that is all.

pictures and power outages

2008-07-30T10:30:00.000-07:00

my power went out last night. x.x for a *long* time. then when it came back on, the cable and internet still didn't work until about 1 a.m.
i can't sleep without my tv on. also, i had the internet withdrawals.
and now i think i have strep throat.
but i did take some pretty pictures last night.

i can't write without my caffeine.
*gets a dr. pepper*

yawn

2008-07-29T05:52:00.000-07:00

i have a massive case of bedhead.
i would post a (face censored) picture, but it's too horrible for young eyes to see.
you see, somehow i woke up at 6:00 a.m. without the help of my cat. it was confusing and my mouth tasted horrible.
oh, my gosh, i think i'm sick. i just now threw up in my mouth.
argh! and i was gonna take more pictures of my neighbor's flowers today!

like that.

or that.

but no, now i'm doomed to sit around miserably on the computer all day with a barf bag, complaining to my friends, finding weird games on google, generally being a nerd.
which is fine with me, actually. except for the miserableness and the barf bag.

haikus of wisdom

2008-07-28T20:22:00.000-07:00

yummy dq treat
i'm lactose intolerant
totally worth it

6 o'clock a.m.
cat scratching my furniture
kick the nuisance out

i am really bored
i know, i'll take pictures of
my neighbor's flowers

mom, why can't i go
take a walk on other street?
snatchers don't scare me

pushing scooter up
the, like, 40 degree hill
i am so high-tech

um, what is that noise?
insanely freaked out, i am
oh, just dishwasher

VAGUS NERVE! mom screams
she diagnosed her reflux
oh, how brilliant

the prodigal cat

2008-07-27T10:05:00.000-07:00

cho? what are you looking at? *sees person with can of tuna* cho! no! come back! I AM YOUR MASTER!!

"fool, you'll never be my master."

rubber bands, day two

2008-07-26T11:55:00.000-07:00

new layout! it's all orange-and-greenish.

the ~~bit~~ rubber bands aren't sore enough for ibuprofen today. which is an improvement, i suppose.

no, i said the rubber bands.

that's better.

so anyway, someone spilled chocolate syrup in the fridge. it's gross. it looks like a dog got in there and... nevermind.

i can't wait for school to start back!

o.o

that probably sounds odd coming from me but it's true. there are tons of new people. oh and they aren't seperating the guys and girls this year! YAY! maybe i'll be in class with... THE GUY. *seizure*

roar.

oh the horror!

2008-07-25T19:05:00.000-07:00

theif! fire! murder!
rubber bands!
yes, this is a picture of me. i covered my eyes to hide my identity from the cops. please don't believe me when i say that.
...ANYWAY, notice the ~~bit~~ rubber bands on my braces. feel their terror.
FEEL IT.
i feel like some twisted, demented creature it trying to jam my jaws into each other. actually, that's pretty much what's happening.
ibuprofen doesn't help.
i keep tensing up my jaw for some reason, which doesn't help.
now i'll look like some kind of weird fish-person who has spit strands across her mouth! EW! what will the kids at school say about me? what about... THE GUY? *swoons*
i'm clearly overreacting. breathe, fish... breathe...

on the brighter side, i bought a cute hello kitty tote bag at target today. i plan to use it to carry books to school. if the ~~stu~~... unusual "NO PICTURES OR WORDS" dress code will allow it.
oh, and i bought some stickers too.
stickers are cool.

*poof*

a hanging

2008-07-13T19:32:00.000-07:00

mmm, dq.

2008-07-06T18:06:00.000-07:00

i just ate an oreo brownie earthquake from dq.
i'm lactose intolerant, but it was totally worth it.
but on the way to and from dq i saw something sad.
a big rottweiler was wandering around my neigborhood and on the adjoining service road. his backside was white. my mom said it was mange.
mange. white mange. all over his rear end.
POOR LITTLE FELLA!
i saw him wandering towards service road on the way to dq, and he was crossing it on the way back. he was obviously lost; he looked confused and didn't go near any of the houses. my mom checked the paper and i checked petfinder, but we couldn't find any ads for a lost rottweiler.
i'm really upset. service road is really busy, plus it's storming. i'm praying that the poor doggy won't be hit by a car and find his owner soon.
:(

some stuff i like. !!!

2008-06-29T10:52:00.000-07:00

kay so wordle is this cute little... thing.
you get to make cute little word clouds with it.
what exactly is a word cloud, you may ask? why, it's simply a big jumble of words with the more used words in big letters and the poor little sad seldom-used words in little letters.
wordle is addictive.
wordle wordle wordle wordle wordle wordle!! <3

here's a bigger word cloud of the first armednglamorous post!

WORDLE FLIPPIN RULES.

anyway, i read a few blogs regularly and i'm making you read them too. OHMYSQUID I READ?!?!?!

suzannemcminn.com - this hilarious romance writer in west virginia. i don't know her one bit, but she's funny anyway. she has an evil chicken.
challies.com - tim challies is a dude up in canada. he's been blogging every day consecutively for five gazillion days now.
tominthebox.blogspot.com - kay so there's a bunch of guys with way too much time on their hands that write religious satire. they're so funny. :D
purgatorio1.com - weird pictures of religious oddities. YAY!

PEACE! AROUND THE WORLD! FOR GENERATIONS!

cho!

2008-06-18T20:08:00.000-07:00

i have an evil adorable kitty.
her name is cho.
my sister named her when we got her five years ago. she said cho was japanese for butterfly. i doubt it, but i have no proof.
this is a very majestic-looking picture of her.

this is not.

one time i was walking from the living room to the kitchen getting a drink of water. i had just watched that old movie the birds and i was a little freaked out. cho jumped out from behind some random piece of furniture and attacked my leg. i screamed really loud. the end.

EHH.

2008-06-16T10:06:00.000-07:00

today my cat woke me up at 6:00 am. nothing unusual, but i was surprised and greatly annoyed that someone had randomly turned on both of the overhead lights and all the lamps in my bedroom. (probably my dad, who took my polka-dotted phone to work today because his blackberry didn't work.) after shutting the cat out and turning off all the lights i went back to sleep.
at about 9 i woke up and opened my door - the cat had clawed at a bit of the already-frayed carpet trying to get inside my room. again, nothing unusual. my mom made a bowl of oatmeal, which i ate in half a minute. slightly unusual.
while i was playing mario kart wii, my mom called my dad, who was at the doctor's for his foot. when i had told my dad he could use my phone, i didn't remember that my mom's ringtone was a very annoying, shrill, startling cat meow that played over and over again. it had gone off in the middle of the doctor's office when my mom called my number. then of course my dad had to pull out the tiny black phone with colorful polka-dots. very unusual. everyone laughed.
it's noon now, and i have to do a math lesson when i finish writing this. ARGHH. i didn't finish math in 6th grade, so unfortunately i have to finish it with my unfortunate guyfriend, who also didn't finish, over the summer. (i homeschool, but unfortunately i go to co-op classes twice a week.)
ehh.