Sorry I didn't do my post yesterday, all! I found out yesterday morning that we have Wi-Fi here at the condo, which is, yes, nearly on the beach here in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
So, all I really have to say is that Alabama has been stinkin' AWESOME! The beach is gorgeous, jellyfish are scary, dolphins are awesome, and seeing the sun rise over the ocean is amazing!
And hiding a very fuzzy coconut in a teenage girl's bed after feeding her a cockamamy story about Alabama Sand Rats is a very funny experiment. :)
Alright, well, I will check you all when I get back!
Keep on smiling!
Friday, March 30, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Heather: Red? Blond? I'm confused.
Myyyyyy hair. It confuses me(thus the title of this post).
Once upon a time not so long ago, an older lady stopped me in the library to tell me how much she loved my hair. The conversation went something like this:
Randomlady- *Stopping me* I'm sorry dear, but I would just like to tell you how much I LOVE your hair color!
Me- (Thinking: Well, thanks. I worked really hard on it.) Thank you! I rather like it.
RL- Yes, yes. Its just lovely. A beautiful red. You know, I once dyed my hair that color. But it didn't turn out that pretty.
Me- Well, I'm sorry it didn't work out for ya!
RL- Yes, but oh well. Your hair is just beautiful! Gorgeous.
Me- Thank you again!
RL- *Holding me by the elbow* Mmm. *Stares at my hair*
Me- *Feeling rude to tear my arm away from her death grip, I just stand there.*
...Yup. She ended up just walking away after 4-5 minutes of staring at my head.
But anywayyyyys, I'm guessing(by her comments) that she voted it red.
Now, I'd be happy to agree with that! But MANY of my friends get touchy when I call it red, seeing as though its not a true REDred. ...They then have to point out the fact that it really is more of a blond than a red. Hey, TAKE IT UP WITH THE LADY AT THE LIBRARY. She'll knock some sense into you I'm sure. ...Not that I really agree with her that its that red, just, well, I dunno. :P Oh well. You tell me! Red? Blond? Maybe a calmed auburn. So confusing.
ANYWAYS. So, the last time I posted I told you about my friend and I writing songs together, correct? Well lucky you, I'm gonna post the lyrics to one of our songs. :) ..I guess without the music, its just a poem. But its still hackin' awesome. xD
Neon Forest -JN&HH
The mice are called to follow
To leap from cloud to puffy cloud
With no restrictions but cuffed to ball and chain
Falling through a red sky in my thoughts again
Landed on a burning cannon
A destroyer being destroyed in what time?
(pre-chorus)
Memories of past and future what feeds the false of life
A realm of blind to see with an open mind
(chorus)
The lovely lady stands over the modern sky
Inviting to every living thing but will deny
Life of a creative bus, rolling through a neon forest
In the distant dimensions of earth
Reality is for the works of surrealism
Oozing out an open wound of not flesh but soul
My mind wanders and looks
Tis what I see the man, or is it the devil?
Surely no, just his helping hand (chorus)
Yuuup. :) It sounds really cool with the music.
Well, I guess its time for me to go do something productive! Toodles, don't spray paint your poodles, and smile. :) <3
Once upon a time not so long ago, an older lady stopped me in the library to tell me how much she loved my hair. The conversation went something like this:
Randomlady- *Stopping me* I'm sorry dear, but I would just like to tell you how much I LOVE your hair color!
Me- (Thinking: Well, thanks. I worked really hard on it.) Thank you! I rather like it.
RL- Yes, yes. Its just lovely. A beautiful red. You know, I once dyed my hair that color. But it didn't turn out that pretty.
Me- Well, I'm sorry it didn't work out for ya!
RL- Yes, but oh well. Your hair is just beautiful! Gorgeous.
Me- Thank you again!
RL- *Holding me by the elbow* Mmm. *Stares at my hair*
Me- *Feeling rude to tear my arm away from her death grip, I just stand there.*
...Yup. She ended up just walking away after 4-5 minutes of staring at my head.
But anywayyyyys, I'm guessing(by her comments) that she voted it red.
Now, I'd be happy to agree with that! But MANY of my friends get touchy when I call it red, seeing as though its not a true REDred. ...They then have to point out the fact that it really is more of a blond than a red. Hey, TAKE IT UP WITH THE LADY AT THE LIBRARY. She'll knock some sense into you I'm sure. ...Not that I really agree with her that its that red, just, well, I dunno. :P Oh well. You tell me! Red? Blond? Maybe a calmed auburn. So confusing.
ANYWAYS. So, the last time I posted I told you about my friend and I writing songs together, correct? Well lucky you, I'm gonna post the lyrics to one of our songs. :) ..I guess without the music, its just a poem. But its still hackin' awesome. xD
Neon Forest -JN&HH
The mice are called to follow
To leap from cloud to puffy cloud
With no restrictions but cuffed to ball and chain
Falling through a red sky in my thoughts again
Landed on a burning cannon
A destroyer being destroyed in what time?
(pre-chorus)
Memories of past and future what feeds the false of life
A realm of blind to see with an open mind
(chorus)
The lovely lady stands over the modern sky
Inviting to every living thing but will deny
Life of a creative bus, rolling through a neon forest
In the distant dimensions of earth
Reality is for the works of surrealism
Oozing out an open wound of not flesh but soul
My mind wanders and looks
Tis what I see the man, or is it the devil?
Surely no, just his helping hand (chorus)
Yuuup. :) It sounds really cool with the music.
Well, I guess its time for me to go do something productive! Toodles, don't spray paint your poodles, and smile. :) <3
Friday, March 16, 2012
Becca: Eureka!
I have no idea what the post title means. It's just there, okay?
I logged on today to find that Heather posted this week! :) It's like my whole life got a little better in that one moment. I'm gonna cry ...
The sad part? She got my reaction exactly right.
I slept for all of maybe 3 hours last night. So I made up for that by accidentally taking a nap that ended up being about 3 and a half hours long. So ... we'll see if I can fall asleep tonight. Heh. Heh. But I kind of have to, because tomorrow Heather and I are going to be making phone calls for the Ian Hauer for County Council campaign. (Can I hear a "Woot! Woot!"?!) So there's that.
The weather here in Southwest Indiana is being stupid. I mean, here it is, mid-March, and it's 80 stinkin' degrees outside?! Don't get me wrong, I woke up one morning this week and realized that I was actually feeling energized and pleasant, and then made another happy realization: my winter fog is officially over and I will start operating like a human being again! Woo-hoo!!
Explanation: Every winter, I go into a funk where my mind doesn't quite work properly, and I find it nearly impossible to be in a mood higher up on the "Good" scale than "Moderately Tolerable". Not that I'm depressed or angry or sad all winter, I am just not a cold person. My body and brain (which is a part of my body, yes, I realize this ...) rebel against it. Or, rather, rebel against me when the cold sets in. I have been told that in order to suit my body's preferences (read: non-negotiable demands), I need to move to California. But, I won't. Mostly because I love the people here too much. :)
And yes, of course I am procrastinating on my math homework to write this post. Why else do you think I write here? ;)
(No, seriously, I am actually procrastinating on section 5.4 of my MyMathLab homework right now. It's open in another tab. But who really needs to know how to square binomials anyway, am I right?! A-heh. A-heh. ... A-heh.)
So ... I'm going to be seeing the midnight premier of The Hunger Games Movie next Friday! It's a-gonna be a double date with me, Ian, and our friends Grace and Landon. You want to hear a story? (Ofcourseyoudodon'tlietome.) Well, when the boys took us out to dinner a couple of months ago, Grace and I made a passing comment that we ought to take them out some time. So the boys said, "Yeah! You guys should do that! For the Hunger Games. Yeah. You two should take us out." So Grace looked at me and then turned to the guys and said, "Alright, fine. We will!" And I looked at Grace thinking, We will?! and then jumped in, head-long, without looking to see whether or not I was going to hit something made of concrete, with "Yeah, that's right! We will!" So we're taking the boys to the midnight premier of the Hunger Games, which we want to see and they will tolerate, and we're going to make them dinner. :) (Note: If you were to ask either of the boys how that conversation actually went down, they would probably give you a moderately if not very different account of the discussion. But, this is my blog post, and I'm gonna tell it like I'mprettysure it is. Yeah.)
And then I'm going to Alabama with Grace and her family next Saturday (the 24th)! So yeah! Busy busy busy.
Two things: 1) Why is "busy" pronounced "bisy"? 2) I think "moderately" is my word of the day. How many times have I used it in this post already? Honestly.
As you can probably guess, the Alabama thing means that I have to kick it into high gear this next week and do two weeks worth of homework in one. Which is, of course, why I am working 4 sections ahead in math this weekend. (That's right, I don't actually have to be doing sections 5.4 and 5.5 tonight. I'm just doing it because, while I am quite an accomplished procrastinator, I might actually kill myself if I start out next week with any more than two sections left to complete before Friday on top of that English paper.)
Today I paid 3.25 for a bottle of contact solution at the Dollar Store, when I know for a fact that I can get a bigger bottle for 1.25 at Wal-Mart. Would someone please explain this to me?
And the reason I didn't do my blog post for this week yesterday is that my schedule got all thrown out of whack, so instead of having to leave at 4:00 pm, I ended up leaving at 1:00 pm, and didn't get even half of the stuff I wanted to do, done. But, it's all working out. (It'll all work out, eventually ...)
Okay, I'm done now. :)
Keep smiling, everybody!
I logged on today to find that Heather posted this week! :) It's like my whole life got a little better in that one moment. I'm gonna cry ...
The sad part? She got my reaction exactly right.
I slept for all of maybe 3 hours last night. So I made up for that by accidentally taking a nap that ended up being about 3 and a half hours long. So ... we'll see if I can fall asleep tonight. Heh. Heh. But I kind of have to, because tomorrow Heather and I are going to be making phone calls for the Ian Hauer for County Council campaign. (Can I hear a "Woot! Woot!"?!) So there's that.
The weather here in Southwest Indiana is being stupid. I mean, here it is, mid-March, and it's 80 stinkin' degrees outside?! Don't get me wrong, I woke up one morning this week and realized that I was actually feeling energized and pleasant, and then made another happy realization: my winter fog is officially over and I will start operating like a human being again! Woo-hoo!!
Explanation: Every winter, I go into a funk where my mind doesn't quite work properly, and I find it nearly impossible to be in a mood higher up on the "Good" scale than "Moderately Tolerable". Not that I'm depressed or angry or sad all winter, I am just not a cold person. My body and brain (which is a part of my body, yes, I realize this ...) rebel against it. Or, rather, rebel against me when the cold sets in. I have been told that in order to suit my body's preferences (read: non-negotiable demands), I need to move to California. But, I won't. Mostly because I love the people here too much. :)
And yes, of course I am procrastinating on my math homework to write this post. Why else do you think I write here? ;)
(No, seriously, I am actually procrastinating on section 5.4 of my MyMathLab homework right now. It's open in another tab. But who really needs to know how to square binomials anyway, am I right?! A-heh. A-heh. ... A-heh.)
So ... I'm going to be seeing the midnight premier of The Hunger Games Movie next Friday! It's a-gonna be a double date with me, Ian, and our friends Grace and Landon. You want to hear a story? (Ofcourseyoudodon'tlietome.) Well, when the boys took us out to dinner a couple of months ago, Grace and I made a passing comment that we ought to take them out some time. So the boys said, "Yeah! You guys should do that! For the Hunger Games. Yeah. You two should take us out." So Grace looked at me and then turned to the guys and said, "Alright, fine. We will!" And I looked at Grace thinking, We will?! and then jumped in, head-long, without looking to see whether or not I was going to hit something made of concrete, with "Yeah, that's right! We will!" So we're taking the boys to the midnight premier of the Hunger Games, which we want to see and they will tolerate, and we're going to make them dinner. :) (Note: If you were to ask either of the boys how that conversation actually went down, they would probably give you a moderately if not very different account of the discussion. But, this is my blog post, and I'm gonna tell it like I'mprettysure it is. Yeah.)
And then I'm going to Alabama with Grace and her family next Saturday (the 24th)! So yeah! Busy busy busy.
Two things: 1) Why is "busy" pronounced "bisy"? 2) I think "moderately" is my word of the day. How many times have I used it in this post already? Honestly.
As you can probably guess, the Alabama thing means that I have to kick it into high gear this next week and do two weeks worth of homework in one. Which is, of course, why I am working 4 sections ahead in math this weekend. (That's right, I don't actually have to be doing sections 5.4 and 5.5 tonight. I'm just doing it because, while I am quite an accomplished procrastinator, I might actually kill myself if I start out next week with any more than two sections left to complete before Friday on top of that English paper.)
Today I paid 3.25 for a bottle of contact solution at the Dollar Store, when I know for a fact that I can get a bigger bottle for 1.25 at Wal-Mart. Would someone please explain this to me?
And the reason I didn't do my blog post for this week yesterday is that my schedule got all thrown out of whack, so instead of having to leave at 4:00 pm, I ended up leaving at 1:00 pm, and didn't get even half of the stuff I wanted to do, done. But, it's all working out. (It'll all work out, eventually ...)
Okay, I'm done now. :)
Keep smiling, everybody!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Heather: Oops.
I'm sure you look at the title and go "Whaaa? Oops what?". Unless you're savvy(*coughcoughpayattention*)enough to guess that it means I'm about to APOLOGIZE for not having written a blog post recently. ..Recently being a REALLY long time.
So, dear readers, I am sorry. *Sniffle... *Tear.. *Sob.
Mkay, so maybe I don't feel THAT bad. Cause really, if you're reading this you most likely haven't died from lack of Heather posts. Thass right. I went there. ;)
Ahhh, I can just imagine how our dearest Baxter would be reading this now. ^_^
Becca- ..Went where? 0.o You didn't go anywhere except to point out the obvious...
Heather- Yeahyeahyeah, but still. ITMADETHEMFEELBAD.
Becca- Did it now.
Heather- Yesh. Yesh it did. *Starts to talk like Sean Connery*
...
And on it goes.
BUT ANYWAYS.
I dunno 'bout yours, but my last few weeks have been SOOOOO terribly busy, I almost don't have any time to brush my teeth. ...Except I do... 0.o Because if I didn't that would be gross.
But yeah. Busybusydays.
Well, despite all my business, I have had time to go hang out with some awesome friends! And it turns out one of my friends is an EPIC poem writer(I did not know this about him before..obviously. >.> Anyways, on with the story). So, he asked me to write some music for one of his poems! And of course I felt completely flattered by this request.. so, I did.
AND GUESS WHAT.
...IT SOUNDS FREAKING AWESOME.
So, we've been writing songs together for the past couple weeks! And I must say they all sound dang good.
Well, I'll try and keep you updated by all that, and maybe we'll record one and put it up here. :) But till then, Toodles! Don't spray paint your poodles, and smile. :)
So, dear readers, I am sorry. *Sniffle... *Tear.. *Sob.
Mkay, so maybe I don't feel THAT bad. Cause really, if you're reading this you most likely haven't died from lack of Heather posts. Thass right. I went there. ;)
Ahhh, I can just imagine how our dearest Baxter would be reading this now. ^_^
Becca- ..Went where? 0.o You didn't go anywhere except to point out the obvious...
Heather- Yeahyeahyeah, but still. ITMADETHEMFEELBAD.
Becca- Did it now.
Heather- Yesh. Yesh it did. *Starts to talk like Sean Connery*
...
And on it goes.
BUT ANYWAYS.
I dunno 'bout yours, but my last few weeks have been SOOOOO terribly busy, I almost don't have any time to brush my teeth. ...Except I do... 0.o Because if I didn't that would be gross.
But yeah. Busybusydays.
Well, despite all my business, I have had time to go hang out with some awesome friends! And it turns out one of my friends is an EPIC poem writer(I did not know this about him before..obviously. >.> Anyways, on with the story). So, he asked me to write some music for one of his poems! And of course I felt completely flattered by this request.. so, I did.
AND GUESS WHAT.
...IT SOUNDS FREAKING AWESOME.
So, we've been writing songs together for the past couple weeks! And I must say they all sound dang good.
Well, I'll try and keep you updated by all that, and maybe we'll record one and put it up here. :) But till then, Toodles! Don't spray paint your poodles, and smile. :)
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Becca: So? I laughed.
You know what you used to be able to do with Blogger? Start a post, finish it even days later, and it would still post as if it had been published the day you began writing it. I miss being able to lie to my readers like that. Sigh.
So, I'm pretty good at English. I'm not the best, and I'm not amazing, but I get words. It just comes naturally to me. Because of that, I am almost literally skating through my English Composition class this semester. (It would be much more close to being literal if I could, in reality, skate.) I will be honest with you and say that it has, at times, become boring. But I want to tell you about the very not boring part of it!
Every week, we have an online journal to write, along with our regular homework. The first few journals were a lot like mini book reports, but on speeches - Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and the like. However, the last five are on online articles written by humorist Dave Barry (one of his articles).
Yesterday I was working on catching up on my journals, as I still had to write comments on some of my classmates' entries ("to stimulate thoughtful discussion" or some such thing), and went ahead and wrote all but the last journal. :) And I had fun, because I personally find Dave Barry hilarious. Even if I don't get anything out of this class except for an A+ grade and having been introduced to Dave Barry, I will be very happy.
So now I'm a month ahead in my English homework and laughed for about half an hour yesterday.
And seriously? You should click on that link. You will laugh, I promise. :)
Keep on smiling!
~ItsBeccatastic!~
So, I'm pretty good at English. I'm not the best, and I'm not amazing, but I get words. It just comes naturally to me. Because of that, I am almost literally skating through my English Composition class this semester. (It would be much more close to being literal if I could, in reality, skate.) I will be honest with you and say that it has, at times, become boring. But I want to tell you about the very not boring part of it!
Every week, we have an online journal to write, along with our regular homework. The first few journals were a lot like mini book reports, but on speeches - Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and the like. However, the last five are on online articles written by humorist Dave Barry (one of his articles).
Yesterday I was working on catching up on my journals, as I still had to write comments on some of my classmates' entries ("to stimulate thoughtful discussion" or some such thing), and went ahead and wrote all but the last journal. :) And I had fun, because I personally find Dave Barry hilarious. Even if I don't get anything out of this class except for an A+ grade and having been introduced to Dave Barry, I will be very happy.
So now I'm a month ahead in my English homework and laughed for about half an hour yesterday.
And seriously? You should click on that link. You will laugh, I promise. :)
Keep on smiling!
~ItsBeccatastic!~
Friday, March 2, 2012
Becca: We'll Keep Marching On!
Happy March, everyone! :)
I would like to take this opportunity to add some items to my ever-expanding bucket list!
What are some things you want to do before you die? And, as a bonus question, how do you want to be remembered when you're gone? What can you do to be that person now?
Keep on smiling, everybody!
I would like to take this opportunity to add some items to my ever-expanding bucket list!
- Take a TV and VHS/DVD player outside (using a very long extension cord), and lay on the grass while watching a movie. :)
- Make pancakes or waffles at 3 a.m., just because.
- Take a solitary road trip to somewhere that I really want to visit - just me, music, and a map. And money, you know, to buy gas and food and maybe a place to sleep at night. :)
- Go out dancing with friends, and not allow myself to care about whether or not I was dancing well.
- See Stonehenge, up close and in person. :)
- Buy a dress from a little boutique-type shop, on a whim.
- Get to the point where I can share the Gospel with anyone, any time, anywhere. And be comfortable with it! :)
- Learn to read music.
What are some things you want to do before you die? And, as a bonus question, how do you want to be remembered when you're gone? What can you do to be that person now?
Keep on smiling, everybody!
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