Wednesday, February 3, 2010

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the past two days I’ve had a cold – nothing serious, but it left me tired and groggy enough that it made me feel pretty funky. Yesterday school felt like it lasted forever. I had to deal with annoying teenage boys and work on simplifying radicals at the same time. After school I had rehearsal for my school’s play – we’re putting on Once Upon a Mattress; I’m playing the Queen – and wouldn’t you know it, my character was the only one that had to stay late! I could barely stand up at the end of it all. I got home, had a cheese quesadilla and some chocolate pudding and fell asleep at 4:30. I had a feeling that school would be canceled the next day because of snow – and even if it wasn’t, I just needed the sleep! I woke up at 8:10 and walked out of my room. I asked my mom if it was a snow day. (I feel that it’s impossible to distinguish 8:10 AM and 8:10 PM in the winter.) She laughed and said that it was 8:10 PM. I went back to bed. I woke up at 4:30 (AM) and couldn’t fall back asleep, so I looked outside and saw the snow. It was really beautiful! It was the fluffiest, best snow we’ve had all winter! It turns out that school was canceled! I lucked out! I don’t have to spend my lunchtime learning things I missed in my classes!

I took these pictures at 5:00 in the morning.






I backed up to take this one. The (blurry) clock says 5:06!


I took more pictures at 7:00 (AM) when my parents woke up.

Here’s our backyard.




I thought the big tree in our backyard was gorgeous! :


As you’ve probably noticed with my pictures of snow, I have 2 main indicators of how much snow there was.

Indicator 1: the grill.


Indicator 2: our neighbor’s chairs.


And here’s a third indicator! The light fixture on our back porch!


Look at the snow on these trees!


I took some more pictures at around 11:00 AM.


I just loved how the snow was settled on the tree branches. Isn’t it beautiful?






So how long did it take for the snow to melt?

Here’s our porch and the trees in our front yard at 11:00 AM – shout-out to the awesome flags from Gma C!


Here are those same trees – two hours later – at 1:00 PM.


The snow’s all gone!!!!!!

Here are some more trees:

11:00 AM


1:00 PM


11:00 AM


1:00 PM


11:00 AM


1:00 PM


All the snow melted – the weather changes so quickly out here! I just stepped outside, and it smells like spring! It’s just crazy.

In other news: I was in my mom’s study today, and I was looking at her Hello Kitty calendar. Tell me if you think Hello Kitty is flipping us off.


Here’s a close up:


When three or four fingered illustrations hold up a finger like that, you have to wonder which finger they’re really holding up. Is Hello Kitty telling us to be quiet, or is she telling us something entirely different?
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

50 Jokes (Yes...actually 50 jokes) >> by the *vlogbrothers*



May favorite jokes from the video.

1. So there's this pirate and he's walking around with a paper towel as a hat. And so I ask him, "What's with the paper towel?" "Aargh. I got a bounty on me head."

2. Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Because it was dead. Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree? Because it was stapled to the first monkey. Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree? Peer pressure.

3. I wish to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not panicking, like his passengers.

4. Did you hear about the guy who got the entire left half of his body cut off? Yes, but he's all right now.

5. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? ...Fish.

6. How many psychologists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb has to want to change.

7. What do you get when you mix an agnostic with a dyslexic and an insomniac? A dude who sits up all night wondering whether or not there is a dog.
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Featured Album: Elvis Costello & The Attractions >> Imperial Bedroom [1982]



Track 01. Beyond Belief


Track 02. Tears Before Bedtime


Track 03. Shabby Doll


Track 04. The Long Honeymoon


Track 05. Man Out of Time


Track 06. Almost Blue


Track 07. ...And In Ever Home


Track 08. The Loved Ones


Track 09. Human Hands


Track 10. Kid About It


Track 11. Little Savage


Track 12. Boy With a Problem


Track 13. Pidgin English


Track 14. You Little Fool


Track 15. Town Cryer
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It's snowing again!!!!!








Not as bad as the big snowstorm though.
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Lamingtons!

I've been meaning to write about this. On New Year's Eve (it was only a few weeks ago, can you believe it?) my parents and I had friends over for dinner. They brought an awesome dessert along with them. They brought lamingtons, a popular Australian treat. {Lamingtons are typically cube-shaped sponge cakes with chocolate frosting sprinkled with ground coconut.} They had actually won our neighborhood baking competition with them. They called them "Royal Request" and laid them out on a silver platter - fitting, isn't it? No one had ever even heard of lamingtons and they were a big hit.

It turns out though, that I had already heard of lamingtons from my favorite YouTuber, Natalie Tran. She's a Vietnamese Australian vlogger who makes videos about awkward situations - for example, receiving really confusing directions from someone; the awkwardness of trying to walk past someone who is walking toward you on the same side of a sidewalk as you. But she also loves lamingtons, and his been promising her viewers and subscribers that she'll make them a lamingtons video, but she hasn't yet. She has however, talked about lamingtons in a number of her videos (see below). Check out 1:27-2:10.



Here are some pictures of the lamingtons we had on New Year's Eve!

Before


During


After

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Monday, January 4, 2010

Video of the Month >> Jan. 2010

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An animation for True Panther Sounds (record label) that I wanted to share with you guys.....

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