My New Babies

    Yep, you read right. I have some new tykes in my life. Five of them to be exact. The funny thing is, they kind of look like...superheroes. But I promise that they are not, in fact, superheroes. Perhaps to me, because I'm they're mommy. They all have strange birthmarks on their chests, and some of them have eye problems that make it look like they're wearing masks, but I love every little flaw of each of my babies.

    Giggly Zap is the oldest, and he's a great brother, even if he looks a bit like a pug. He can run faster than my eye can see, almost like he's transporting in a flash. Fluffity Glow has a strong personality. Others have said it's like he has his own lantern in his heart or soul. My only girl, Huggly Awe, has a stop-dead appearance that leaves you in wonder, and a empathetic personality to boot. Sparkly Night is a prodigy genius who loves to play with all my technological gadgets. He's also very quiet and stealthy like a bat in the night. The baby of them is Cutie-Pie Soar. Although he's young, he can out jump any of the others, almost like he's flying. The kid has super-stamina like none other.

    I love these kids so much. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life being with them. They're the best family I could have asked for (or chosen...ha! Adoption rocks.).

Good News

I obviously fixed it. Or maybe not so obvious if you never saw the other format. Thank goodness I solved these problems. They were driving me nuts! I'm still deciding whether or not I want to go through the old posts and  un-italicize them all. I don't even know how I switched them to italics, every single post.
Anyways, quick, rather pointless, update. I'm just proving that I'll take better care of this blog.

So Much For Promises

    Yes, I had promised to keep this blog updated. No, I did not keep it updated. I am very ashamed of myself. However, I am here to make amends.
     First off: When you update your Blogger profile, you can generate a random question to answer. The below paragraph is my response to one such question, but my answer surpassed the word limit and wouldn't allow me to save it, so I decided to post it for your amusement.  
Random Question: Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?    
    You know, many people have asked me if I believe that forks evolved from their admitted distant relatives, the spoons. I believe that forks are an entirely different species; however, when they get together with a spoon, a spork is created. Think horse...donkey...mule. Sporks don't mate. Just their parents. It is known that all species evolved from one common piece of silverware: the caveman hands. As their brains adapted, cavemen created stick- and stone-ware. They were still very greedy and often threw their stick- and stone-ware at each other, hence the "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" saying. They had no insults due to the small size of their brain. Unfortunately, the phrase is not true because words hurt in places that sticks and stones could never reach. Therefore, I have reason to conclude that spoons and forks are nothing more than pieces of silverware that are attracted to each other. For more information, you can read my new bestseller, "Curves and Spikes: A Memoir of Modern Silverware."
    Ach! My blog is acting up again (the font does not obey me). I'll fix it (or attempt to) and will perhaps do a book review if I can figure out why my blog won't shrink down pictures.

Forgotten

Forgotten by Cat Patrick

London Lane has a problem: Every night (well, 4:33 AM), she forgets all her memories of the day. She relies on her phone, notes she writes every night, and her mom, to keep her in check and acting as if she does remember the days she leaves only in ink.
    The strange-slash-awesome thing is that she does have memories, but they're from the future. So she depends on her notes and memories to get through the day. She doesn't seem to have too many problems until a new guy shows up and happens to be absent from her "memories."           
    What ensues is a book of mystery and surprise as she gets to know the guy who happens to have a few secrets of his own, learns of her mom's deceit, and begins to question her own life.
I enjoyed this read. I started it, but then had to drop it in favor of schoolwork. I eventually hunkered down and read it, finishing it within the day. I loved the idea and the concept, and the characters were pretty well rounded.
For lack of time, I must end this review, so I sum it up with saying that this book offered a good read that left me awaiting the second (and I still am), so I give it 5 stars. *****

Back And At 'Em

Wow, I was not expecting this year to be so busy! I have been reminding myself over and over to type up a post, but I just couldn't find the time with University back in session and whatnot. I haven't been able to read as much either, unfortunately, so I only have a few books to review on here, so that will hopefully up my post count to make it look as if I'm actually visiting this neglected site. Anyways, I have made a post, so this was successful.

12.12.12

It's 12.12.12! This won't come around for, what, a hundred years? Longer than I'll be around, methinks. I am done with my finals, so hooray! I am so ready for Christmas. But done with the frighteningly-cold frigidity that accompanies pre-dawn. I wish I had more time to post reviews for the books I've just finished. I finally found time to start reading again (and am hoping writing will soon follow), so I'm way past due on book reviews. To hint at reviews, I just "finished" Darkness Before Dawn. Too bad the f-word made an appearance. It messes up every fifth book I read. Give or take. Anyways, my duty here is done, so I'm departing for a short spell.

What To Write...

I said I would keep up, but I have nothing to say. On the upside, it's December, and my Christmas countdown has officially begun! To update my reading side of this blog, I am currently reading "A Fractured Light." I'm just starting it, but it's already growing intense. And that leads me to my question: what the heck am I doing typing when I can be reading it?

Back Again

Okay, I have completely revamped this blog, and this time, I'll try to keep up. The thing is, now I may have little to talk about, but I will be able to put up all my goodreads reviews (this blog will be my book review blog as well as normal blog), which is why I have all the goodreads sidebar widgets. Anyways, just a little post before I start up again...

Long Time No See

Wow it has been ages! Whoever reads this, comment on this post or I'm closing it down!

Well, this is going to be a very short post because I am typing this all on my nook that I got for Christmas. But a late merry Christmas and early happy new year!

Snow Day Finally!

Well, I can say that it is truly a snow day and has been since yesterday at around six AM. It didn't stop snowing all day, into today, and stopped about an hour and a half ago. The snow looks to be 1 and a 1/2 to 2 feet tall. I love it. I have already been out there for about and hour or so, and during that time spent outside, I started to construct a small, tester igloo. It is very small, but it is at least standing up. It is about a foot tall so far, but I plan to start doming it in and round it after another 6 inches or so. Right now I am taking a break (even though I wasn't cold) to eat some of the cobbler I made.
Lately (okay, since yesterday) I have been cooking a lot. So far I have made taco soup, banana bread, coconut macaroons, peach cobbler (from Jamie's recipe!), and scones. And I must say, they are all pretty de-lish. At least, I have gotten some compliments, if that means anything. But since I don't have anything else going on, I don't have anything else to type.
Oooh, except for my grandparents, they have three 3-D tvs, and man do they work good! They are so much better than the theater screens, and they are actual 3-D glasses, not plastic frames with a thin sheet lens that looks weird. No, these are really nice glasses that take batteries. You see, they only work if you are looking through each lens individually. Saying that, I learned that the batteries make a flash of sorts in the lenses. Each lense gets an alternate, every-other-flash flash. They blink 150 times each per minute. So what I mean to say is, the lenses take turns blinking. It has a very beneficial and awesome effect.

New Year, Amongst Other Things

Today is my last day in the class that I am typing in right now. Luckily, we get a break and it is a free Thursday or whatever it is going to be called. I am going to update this all now. We get a prize and certificate and treats!
Yesterday we went to a care center to make cookies. This is what happened: we get to the place the address tells us to go to and we go in there. The lady tells us that there activities manager or whatever the person is called, and says that there isn’t any activity about frosting cookies with the elderly. It is probably up at Kolob, she said. So we go up there and they say that it isn’t them, unless we have cookies to frost for them. We wait for half an hour, then the president comes and says the only way we can get in is if we sing for the old people. So we go in and sing, but we can’t frost cookies for them because they are about to eat dinner. We have to go outside in the freezing cold to frost cookies. Then we finish, ask the lady if we can go in and wash our hands, and she says no. So an hour wasted for five minutes service. And I didn’t even have my jacket. That’s Christmas for you!
I am so dang excited for Christmas and Christmas break. It starts tomorrow (well, actually it starts on Monday morning) at exactly 2:39. And then I get to go up north on Saturday. And finally make my igloo. I just can’t wait. Tonight I have a Christmas party to go to, and then my last day for the semester, and I will be done until next year.
I didn’t even consider the next year, 2011. I have some great lines to say at 12:01 on January first. Here is my awesome list. Have fun with it and tell everyone these:
• I haven’t ate since last year!
• You stink! Go take a shower. Bet you haven’t since last year!
• I haven’t slept since last year!
• I haven’t seen you since last year! It’s so good to see you!
• I haven’t went to the bathroom since last year! I gotta go!
Anyway, those are just a few of my own, so have fun coming up with more. They are quite amusing!

Tests and Christmas

I took a state test today…and I was very confident during the test, but nervous of the score. It turns out that I got 97%! I am so glad. Also, I took a big 85 (the state test was 76 questions) question test on Europe, and man it was easy as well. The map was a little challenging, but nothing I couldn’t handle. Anyway, now I get a certificate for the state test because I scored over 80%. It looks good on job applications and whatnot, so thank goodness my good work is going to get mostly paid off.
I am so so so excited for Christmas. I know that I have been spouting all this Christmas spirit junk and whatnot, but I just can’t wait. My total of four countdowns isn’t helping. Also, it’s no so much Christmas as it is that I get to go up North and build a small igloo. I will succeed. I will also get to cook (which I love to do) and watch movies on my grandparent’s 3-D tvs, of which they have three, two upstairs and one downstairs. Anyway, I have some stuff to do, but I did an update, so hopefully whoever is reading this will be amused enough to keep reading.
In spare time, check out these websites:
 mylifeisaverage.com……funny stories from average people
 jellotime.com……wiggle and jiggle jello with sound affects!
 figment.com…..read others’ stories
 Provo Utah Girls on youtube…..version of California Girls (Mom, if you are reading this, don’t look it up, I will show you it up North)
 Charlie is so cool like on youtube….British dude that is hilarious
 Bieber Blast on youtube….no clue, but it’s funny, my friend says
 kevinandamanda.com/fonts…..free fonts of all types; people write up the alphabet and symbols, then submit it to these people, who upload it for all to enjoy
Merry almost Christmas!

Christmas Ramblings

Okay, so today I was talking to a janitor, and I realized he had blue earplugs in them, and he is one of the janitors I talk to when I see him, so I asked him about the earplugs, and he said he had them, and so I followed him into the office and he told me not to tell anyone of his secret stash, and he gave me a pair! So now I don’t have to listen to my teachers if I don’t want to! I was just kidding…but still, it would be fun.
I am very excited because I made yet another Christmas countdown. It is a sweet one, and when you mark that day off, you put on a letter, and at the end of the countdown (Christmas day), it spells out “Merry Christmas!” I did it with my stamp set, markers, etc. and I must say that it is pretty dang sweet.
Last night we went to the North Pole and visited Santa’s workshop. We made a bunch of little care packages for the little children on the Indian Reservations in surrounding areas. I swear, we made over two thousand, and that is not a lie. I had the job of tying little stuffed animals like Beanie Babies to the bags and socks that held hygiene kits, coloring books, crayons, candy, bouncy balls, and all sorts of other things. It was really fun. And during all of this, Santa came around and handed out a special treat to those who were “working really hard”.
I have a list of Christmas music that I really love or have heard that is good. Here it is:
1) Mannheim Steamroller
2) Where Are You Christmas
3) Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
4) Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
5) Better Do It Right (it’s off of the Jim Carrey Grinch)
6) The Miser Brothers (from the Year Without a Santa Claus)
7) The songs that Buddy makes up on ELF
8) Do You Hear What I Hear
9) All I Want for Christmas is You
10) Feliz Navidad
11) Believe
12) Grown Up Christmas List
13) Jingle Bell Rock
14) Last Christmas
15) Mary Did You Know
16) Mr. Grinch
17) Put One Foot in Front of the Other (off Santa Claus is Coming to Town)
18) Chipmunk Song
19) Christmas Is (by Run DMC or something)
20) The Little Drummer Boy
21) Toyland
22) We Three Kings (my version-down below)
23) Many more :)
Okay, here are the lyrics for my song. This song is We Three Kings, but I learned it from an old fart at an old person house where we went caroling last year. Here it is…to the same tune as the old one:
“We Three Kings of Orient are
Outside smoking a rubber cigar
It blew up and now we are
We two kings of Orient are”
Stun many a person with this song…especially your parents!
Happy Holidays!