WARNING may contain swears

In hish school I had this annoying little rhyme my cousin and I would do. I would ask, "What's up, buttercup?" The usual response was "not a lot apricot."
Every time I asked my friend Tony, "what's up, buttercup?" his response was, "not a lot ass face."

dancing with my self.....so lonely

Adia is 100% girl. I tried to get her brown boots, she would have none of it. She wanted bright pink with fur trim.

My friend showed up with a ballerina costume and shoes. Adia is in love.
WARNING: The video is loud!

nightmares

Big Sis: Chrissssiieee?
Me: What!
Big Sis: Can you sleep with me?
Me: No!
Big Sis: You can wear anything of mine tomorrow...

Me:...fine.

I had to sleep on the outside so that I would be captured first.
So that is how my my night went up until my sister was in tenth grade. Then my little sister was big enough to protect her and I was no longer needed.

My older sister is terrified of aliens. My siblings and I were obsessed with watching Unsolved Mysteries, which meant that my older sister continued her fear of ET. Although my dad would chase us downstairs to ensure Big Sis would sleep, we would peek through the railings and watch as aliens tormented humble folk with their googly eyes.

Big sis is still afraid of aliens now, mixed with a fear of Ted Bundy.

Me, I'm terrified of spinal cords. Last night I had this creepy dream that I was laying on top of a spinal cord. I woke up sweating and sighed. What a relief. It was only a dream. It wasn't until I woke that I realized it was not a dream and I slept on one all night. Gah, it creeps me out there is one inside me.

hoop dreams

I was hanging out with my cousin Elliot this weekend. At a farmer's market here in Bellingham, I picked up some balls and started juggling.
Elliot: remember when you juggled Uncle Richards billard balls.
Me: no
Elliot: Yeah you did and one hit you in the mouth and you started bleeding.
Me: oh now I remember!

Later that day I hula-hooped longer than anybody in the world. I am full of talent.

we will just be watching a movie today

Text in movie:
Ode to my hair
When someone says to name my best feature
I say my hair
It's not pristine or full or $30 shampoo
It's usually very messy
I love to curl it
braid it down the back
pig tail braids
my favorite, fishtails
and braiding it around my head
I even like it straight

At 3pm Saturday Nov. 8th
I had it "trimmed"

my beautiful hair, you will be missed


Music:
Samson by Regina Spektor

weight coming off through optimism

Spencer: Chrissy my belt feels tight! . . . I'm just gonna assume it's muscle.

smack down

There is this person who through the election have butted heads with.
They are very pro McCain and I like Obama.
So when the election was over I called and told them sorry their candidate lost.
They responded with, "People voted for Obama because he is black."
I've been hitting my head against a wall all morning because of that.

I don't think McCain is evil but if Obama had McCain's past he wouldn't have made it past Hilary.


What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe
disfiguring car accident?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while
he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?(The Keating Five
were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major
political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s
and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on
many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters -journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in
the land as well as our standing in the world.

Hulk knows about music

I found this beautiful hoodie. Charcoal green with gorgeous stitching. There were more than ten on clearance and this was a Lucky brand (they are normally devoured, especially one on sale.)
Sadly there was a large "Rolling Stones" printed on the back.

"errg," I tell my sister. "Why did they put Rolling Stones on the back? No one listens to them."
"My husband and I love Rolling stones," interrupted a crazy woman. "They are classical music, classic rock. Anyone who doesn't like them doesn't know anything about music."

Had my name been Bruce Banner I would have turned green.

now for a funny story.

My little sister was about three or four when she lovingly carried her goldfish around the house. Her toddling rocked the water and the poor fish soon flopped out onto the floor. Screaming in sheer horror, little sis started stomping on the fish, assuming that water was a drug laced pool which sedated the demon fish who, now on dry land, would seek revenge. The fish did not survive.

NOT DADA

Last night Spencer held Adia while I was trying to plug something in. Adia cried, "not dada, MAMA!"If anyone wants to make me this toy for Christmas you will forever be my BFF.

I'm trying to get Adia use to the idea that one day we will start toilet training. I showed the sign for toilet, I talk about it and I read her books. The books make me cringe. I hate saying potty, wee wee and poo poo. For some reason every book I've read had the idiotic child putting the "potty" on their head as a hat and ending with the tot triumphantly bringing the beloved "potty" filled with the joyous site of poo poo and wee wee to the parents.

Sadly when it come to the actual training I will probably put the mini toilet in the corner surrounded by newspaper, "Theres the poop bucket, and don't you go bringing it to me."

Trannya Heartblow

I was babysitting today. The 5 year old wanted to play dress up and she names herself Princess Trannya Heartblow of Wishblow.
It goes along with my 7 year old dream of having a pony named moonshine.

The other day I found my dental floss case broken and Adia licking the ball of floss inside. She's like a puppy with opposable thumbs.

Music

Could Zooey be any more darling?
I need more music. I'm listening to classics again like Clash but I need something new.
Recently I've been listening to Cold War Kids, Iron and Wine, Spoon, Radiohead and the Frames. These are the same bands I've been listening to for at least two years! I need some new stuff so please post some bands for me to look at or re-visit. (Nothing too hard even Thrice is hard to listen to after a day of whining baby.)

grandma's tats

I had a dream my grandma who has been senile for almost ten years (Wondering Wanda) lived in a rough Hispanic district in the city. She had tattoos of Link, Megaman, Samus Aran (metroid), and A big one of Princess Peach. I complimented my grandma's tattoos and admired that she waited to get them since they wouldn't fade or wrinkle. The dream ended when my grandma's neighbor cross-dressed as a woman and read bedtime stories to her.

Today Adia picked up Spencer's cookies and threw them on the floor.
"Adia these are sacred!" he tells her. "They are not to be touched by mortal hands."
"How do you eat them?" I ask.
"Angel's feed them to me," he says.

To clarify a couple posts back... Spencer did not work over the summer because he was studying for comps. Spencer and I joked a lot about him being a deadbeat. It paid off he passed his comp. exams hooray Spencer.

Fantasy into reality

Spencer has been wanting me to dye my hair red. He tells me: "I've always liked red hair and you can call me tiger like Mary Jane calls Spider-Man."
"Maybe you should recreate my fantasy," I tell him. "And provide for us."

oh this is fun

This was a lot of fun to play
http://www.crappycat.com/

POST 100 and it's AWESOME

I was studying for my lesson to teach the teenage girls in my class. Suspiciously, the other teacher was sick. I say suspiciously because it was the most ridiculous lesson.
The subject was fine--keep your standards high, don't misbehave, but in the manual there was a list of us vs. them types of examples to share The last of the opposites was Astrology vs. Astronomy, with astronomy being a gospel principle.

I'd like to bear my testimony on the gospel truth of astronomy. I know Galileo was a all into that star stuff and he was really cool. For all of you that have dappled in astrology there is still hope you may come back.

(The lesson went fine. I ended up talking a lot about using Christ as a standard for loving everyone, but the next time I look up in the sky and see Leo I'll be calling my bishop.)

I like paperclips Gladys

Sometimes when I am mad at Spencer I want to post about it so I can get responses like,

"You poor girl. I want to vomit I am so annoyed with him right now. You are completely justified keep this grudge till he changes everything about himself into the perfect person."

Sometimes when I want to let my frustration out I wait till he is asleep and hit him with a pillow.
Then I giggle and sleep well.
Stupidly once I told him.
Last night I got smacked hard with a pillow to the face.
So to end this pathetic fight I will post some things I like about Spencer.

• Spencer is very passionate about writing and music. I've always liked that he has been very driven.
• Spencer loves food trying new food, especially making food and he does an excellent job at cooking.
• Once as a Valentines day present he organized my closet. His gifts are very thoughtful.
• Spencer likes to be outdoors but also going to plays and orchestras.
• He has big shoulders which make him look all big and strong. I think he is very hot.
• His chin looks like Dudley Do-Right but his smile looks almost demonic.
• Sometimes he will even watch cartoons with me. Isn't he nice!?

You disgust me

Spencer was feeling guilty about his candy dependency.
" I was just thinking," he told me, "If I could see the mound of candy I've eaten in the last year, I would be so disgusted with myself I might eat less.

"But then I concluded I would probably just eat it again."

Tim Burton

What do these two have in common?

For the most part Tim Burton's followers are intensely fanatical. It feels wrong to say I like Tim Burton movies because since there are some I didn't like (Mars Attack) and there are some I didn't see (Sweeney Todd), am I poser?
I do enjoy watching Burton movies.
Big fish is one of my favorites so I am very excited to find out that he is making Alice in Wonderland.

Titty Twister

So PETA asked Ben and Jerry to use breast milk instead of cows. Supposedly. I don't believe it, but when I was breastfeeding last year I thought of what I would name breast milk ice-cream...
It would be called titty twister and there would be chocolate boobs with marshmallow filling.

Talking dirty

"DON'T DRINK THAT! IT'S ADIA'S. "
I screamed this at Spencer last Sunday when he drank from Adia's water bottle.
It's almost fascinating watching a 1.5 year old drink. The amount of debris that goes back in it almost double what was taken out.
You can swirl the once water and watch the crumbs that almost look like star clusters.
It wasn't until three hours after I finished it did I realize I drank the whole bottle that I warned Spencer about.


Also last Sunday I had a note past to me by one of the girls which only had "poop cheese" written on it.