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EIGHT Lasts
1. Last cigarette: November 16, 1812
2. Last beverage: Blueberry Smoothie
3. Last phone call: Jaclyn
4. Last text message: Jenn or Jaclyn don't remember
5. Last CD played: Jars of Clay "Much Afraid"
6. Last bubble bath: Spring break last year.
7. Last time you cried: last night
8. Last meal: Cornflakes with fresh strawberries and peaches.

EIGHT Have You’s
1. Have you ever dated someone twice? sure haven't
2. Have you ever been cheated on? nope
3. Have you ever bought condoms? lol no
4. Have you ever kissed someone & regreted it? umm no.. I am a selective kisser
5. Have you ever fallen in love? not really
6. Have you ever lost someone? comes with living
7. Have you ever been depressed? unfortunately yes.
8. Have you ever been drunk and thrown up? no can't say that i have

Name SIX things you did in the past three days
1. Cleaned out my room..particularly under my bed
2. Went recruiting for Pisgah to Greenville, NC with Dad
3. Bought new shoes
4. Looked for music for the banquet at camp
5. played? worked out? whatever you do to Sudoku
6. Put new spark plug wires in my car


List FOUR people you can tell pretty much anything to
1. Jaclyn
2. Waddlesworth
There are others but then I'd have to choose only two of my friends

List THREE favorite colors
1. Red
2. Brown
3. Green

List TWO things you want to do before you die

1. Travel Europe
2. Go cow tipping.... but I'm sure I never will because APPARENTLY it's harmful to the beasts... who knew?

SO FAR IN 07′…

Been to school – My dad had the opportune statement... Is the Pope Catholic?
Made a new friend - yeah probably
Fallen out of love – no
Done something you swore never to do – actually, yes
Laughed until you cried - surely have
Went behind your parents back - Umm not that I can remember. wait, they read this... NO NEVER :)
Met someone who changed your life – this year? not coming to mind
Gotten close to someone- yup
Found out who your true friends were - well that happens every day. but then well I already knew that. it's just reinforced

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF……

1. Bush
He's human.

2. Gay Marriage?
short answer, depends on your view on separation of church and state... ask me later.

4. Straight, Gay, Bi?
Straight and very happily so.

5. Do you have a crush?
only for fun.

6. Who is the best hugger that you know?
ummm I don't know... I've never hugged anybody... EVER ha ha ha

7. Do you believe in love at first sight?
it's a possibility

8. Is there something you want to tell someone?
yes...probably. but I forgot.. Oh yeah, Jaclyn I have a Drs appointment June 21 (I think) so I'm coming over. Hey maybe I'll bring your duffel bag then. taking into consideration that it fits into Sparky...

9. What brand of shirt are you wearing?
GAP

10. Would you kiss someone on your top friends? (this is a myspace survey...)
refer to the question about being in love.

12. How many people on your top friends?
twenty something... couldn't tell you

13. How many kids do you want to have?
four...although I recently heard about a woman that had 16 and that's pretty won...yeah no...horrific.

14. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
yup

15. Do you wanna change your name?
right now no... but watch me get some horrible last name when I get married. could be a deal breaker, you never know. ;)

16. What did you do for your last birthday?
Painted pottery with Tanya and Grace. and had like three parties because I am just that loved.

17. What time did you wake up today?
the first time? in the sevens probably. But I didn't get out of bed til 9 something

18. What were you doing at midnight last night?
waxing eloquent on biblical philosophy with my parents.

19. Name something you CANNOT wait to do:
eat supper (I'm exciting I know)

20. Last time you saw your dad
10 minutes ago

21. What is one thing you wish you could change about yourself?
I am not at liberty to say...

22. Which hand do you like better?
Are you serious? is the is real question? my left because it's the underdog. I DON'T KNOW

23. What are you listening to right now?
banging in the kitchen, my typing, and the humming computer.

24. Have you ever talked to Tom? (inventor of Myspace for those of you that haven't entered that universe.)
not been on my top priority list.

25. Have you ever donated money to a good cause?
I'm a social work major...

27. Least favorite month?
September, schools hitting full swing and it isn't Christmas yet. There's nothing exciting about it.

28. What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed from anyone?
Something of Jaclyn's probably

29. Who’s getting on your nerves right now?
This survey...why would I answer that?

30. Most visited webpage?
myspace

31. Would you help your best friend fight if he/she is losing?
well that's a deep question..what are they fighting for? Do I believe in it? are we talking about a fist fight? Or are we talking along the lines of a cat fight? OK yeah most likely.

32. Coke or Pepsi?
Coke, but really neither unless I need to wash my windshield.

33. What’s the worst day of your life?
Lets hope I've forgotten about it. either way I'm not going to try to remember

34.have you kissed or been kissed by anyone in the past week?
Probably by my mother but nothing juicy no...

35. Do you disagree with a lot of things going on in the world?
don't we all? Again, I'm a Social Work Major! but then at the same time, people are human.

36. Do you think there’s some models/people out there, that should lose a few pounds?
NO! feed them, feed them more! models that is. as for people, yeah maybe if we're talking about super size me or something of the sort. Healthy is a good thing

Vacation

This weekend Mom and I headed up to Virginia, DC, and Maryland to see some family. We neglected to bring a camera for that part of it...sorry. We spent Friday evening and Saturday at Uncle Kit's and then Sunday we managed to see the other 3 siblings that live around there. It was pretty exhausting but a lot of fun. I spent 2 hours learning to play pool like a pro. The main shot I spent my time on was just hitting it straight. He'd line up three balls (almost touching each other) on one end of the table, take out the middle one and I'd have to, from the other end, shoot it between the two without touching them. I wish I could show you how almost impossible that is. But I'm proud to say that I got the trick down...pretty much. My uncle competes. I didn't know it was possible to get that sore; my back and neck were killing me the next day.

We also spent time in DC with my Aunt Sharon. If you haven't ever been into the Willard Hotel you need to go. It's gorgeous. Lincoln and...somebody else important stayed there. Well really a lot of important people have stayed there. Its definitely the place.

Aunt Kathy helped to bring out a lot of childhood secrets about Mom... I found it to be very enlightening. :) But don't worry Mom, I'm not telling, I promise.

Sunday night late we arrived in Williamsburg where Dad met up with us. And Monday was devoted to Jamestown, which if you don't know is the first American settlement.

With the arrival of Dad we now have pictures! This is in the model of Jamestown...

They've rebuilt the ships and actually sail them every-once-in-awhile. This is the largest one, I think called the "Godspeed"

Mom, and Dad up at the bell.

I don't really remember who's house this was but I know that it is built on the original studs that they found. They have been excavating the fort and this is the actual sight. The day I was there they found antlers and a bowl.. Not terribly exciting I know, but I got to watch them dig it out.

This is the rebuilt church on the original foundation. Looks like they used churches for burial grounds even then. They were required to go to church 15 times a week or suffer the consequences. Oh and if you so much as picked a butter cup you might get sentenced to death. Hows that for conservation?

This is supposed to be pretty much exactly what John Smith looked like. What a disappointment, he looks nothing like the dashing young man in Pocahontas...lol The whole movie is totally wrong anyway. It's like another Santa Claus story that the kids grow up to find out is not true...

Tuesday was Yorktown, which is the battle that basically got us our freedom from Brittan. Those tents behind us that you can't really see housed 6 men. I don't know how you'd get four in there, and that's without belongings.

The surgeon's tent... yeah lets just be glad we live in an age of technology. They had no clue what they were doing for the most part and the disease sounds better then the cure if you ask me.

Each...section...for lack of the real term was required to make their own food so they each built one of these everywhere they stopped, and that's how they cooked their food.

Of course their's lots of shooting going on... I wish you could see this guy's face. It's priceless.

This is the field the battle was actually fought on. So peaceful now.

These are actual "redoubts" which basically means trenches...

It's amazing what they still have. George Washington's tent is still in tact and they have Cornwallis' table... Makes you kinda wonder what people will be digging up of ours later. Probably nothing, we're not that exciting and who knows if there will be people around that long.

Picture Perfect

Once during every rainstorm I always go through the bit about sitting inside by a fire with a good book watching the rain come down, and hearing it bounce of the roof. A classic sentimentalist I know but one could always wish. I think everybody wishes about that kind of thing but never really expects it to happen. I mean does it ever? Not in America where doing nothing is a crime. Maybe that's harsh but that's sometimes how I feel. True true I bring it on myself.

But tonight, sentimentalist me got my wish. Not in the picture perfect way I expected, but none-the-less extremely refreshing, and honestly, much better then my daydreaming. I'm in the middle of a two week break, which never means that I can totally do nothing, but it's the calm between the storm anyway. I decided to bring my book out on the porch and read for awhile. Let me just describe it to you...

Slightly reclining in my chair, digesting a gripping book, cool night with a slight breeze, crickets chirping, and two little green tree frogs uttering rumblings of happiness as they sat under the light catching all the bugs that would occasionally disturb my utopia, but for the most part enjoyed blasting themselves off of the light in drunken attempts to reach their beloved brilliance. It was almost perfect. And then to top it off, it started to lightly drizzle. It was so perfect I could hardly contain myself. The phrase "drinking it all in" would probably most adequately describe the situation.

If I were a doctor, which thank goodness I will never be, I would prescribe that to any and every patient that came by. If I didn't have a life I would have stayed out there forever. And for years to come as I'm slaving away at whatever the grind of choice is for that day, I'm sure I will look back at my picture perfect night and be absolutely jealous of myself.

To The Farm

This weekend Sarah and I went to Dean Kim's house. It was quite the excursion but the best weekend I've had in a long time. Friday afternoon we all went strawberry picking right before the torrential rains hit. We picked 14 buckets between the five of us. They sold fresh homemade strawberry ice cream that was AMAZING!

Strawberries bring fruit flies so Sarah went on fly patrol...


While we cut and froze Todd and Jessica (Jessica is Todd's daughter from a previous marriage. You'll see a picture of her later.) went to got get some vanilla ice cream to have with the strawberries. They came back with two half gallons of vanilla, one peach, mint chocolate chip, pralienes and cream, and chocolate.... Needless to say I have eaten more strawberries and ice cream this weekend then I think are digestable. Don't worry I didn't try the Pralienes and Cream with strawberries combo.


Kim has TONS of animals. This is Abby who used to be a lot of fun. She was our dorm mascot. Yeah well she's apparently gotten old now at her 7 years and doesn't do much but this.

This is Rosie the psycho who plucks all of her feathers and her boyfriend Harry who likes to say "peak-a-boo and whatcha doin?" But he isn't very friendly. Rosie ate breakfast with us at the table. When she ran out of food she'd yell "HELLO!!" until she got more.

I don't have pictures but the farm includes 5 sheep, 4 more birds, 6 rabbits, 5 ducks, 10 chickens, a sheep dog, Abby, 5 horses, and I think that's it... The sheep were all bottle fed so they follow Kim everywhere. As do most of the animals.


Sabbath afternoon Kim, Sarah, and I went riding.

Sarah is on Brave and I'm on Tony. Brave decided to be a little stupid and ended up bucking Sarah 3 times. But she was amazing and stayed on. Kim took care of that situation rather fast.

So Sarah ended up on Luke and we took off. We did a lot of trail riding. Probably a good 1.5 hrs. The dogs came with us. That's Mac the sheep dog. The dogs ended up extremely gross cause we went along a stream they loved playing in it.



Next came riding in the arena... if I wasn't sore enough. We'd been doing a lot of trotting and Tony has an interesting trot that is hard to post with. So I was a little bruised.






Tony likes to abruptly stop at the gate when he gets tired. Was not very exciting but Kim broke him of that as well. She's so good with horses, all animals for that matter.




I hurt so bad today it's amazing. You wouldn't think riding took so many muscles. I need one of those inflatable doughnuts to sit on and a good massage.





After all the riding we were exhausted. Todd and Jessica had made Haystacks and lemonade which were amazing at that point. (well they would have been anyway but when you're that tired, hot, hungry, it was more then amazing.) Of course there was more strawberries and ice cream. Then we all crashed on the couches. Todd slept the longest even though all he'd been doing was laying out in the sun.... hmmmm.

After feeding all of the animals we ate strawberry shortcake and popcorn and watched Emma while Kim made us three girls PJ's.

Sarah had to be at work this morning so we headed home about 12. Kim gave us more strawberries for the road home. There's probably a trail of strawberry tops from Kim's house to Southern. Note to self, never eat strawberries, drive a stick shift, and have Sarah in the car with you at the same time. With that combination strawberries have a tendency to want to come out your nose and well you can only imagine how that influences driving.

In The Studio

Tanya, my lovely film major friend, has be been doing some recording and editing this week and I went down to help her with some voices.

Writing the script...

This is inside the sound booth. It's pretty cool actually. This screen is attached to the computer shown above so we can see the script and what's being recorded etc...

And recording... Looks like this would later become part of the blooper real...

Good times...

What's Your Label?

I've seen these before. Even used them in my presidential address. But it's one of those ones that it's good to recirculate.

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In case you needed further proof that the human race is doomed through stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods:


On a Sears hairdryer: Do not use while sleeping. ( that's the only time I have to work on my hair).


On a bag of Fritos:! ..You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside. (the shoplifter special)?


On a bar of Dial soap: 'Directions: Use like regular soap.' (and that would be how???....)


On some Swanson frozen dinners: 'Serving suggestion: Defrost.' (but, it's 'just' a suggestion).


On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): 'Do not turn upside down.' (well...duh, a bit late, huh)!


On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: 'Product will be hot after heating.' (...and you thought????...)


On packaging for a Rowenta iron: 'Do not iron clothes on body.' (but wouldn't this save me more time?)


On Boot's Children Cough Medicine: 'Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication.' (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just get those 5-year-olds with head-colds off those forklifts.)


On Nytol Sleep Aid: 'Warning: May cause drowsiness.' (and.. .I'm taking this because???....)


On most brands of Christmas lights: 'For indoor or outdoor use only.' (as opposed to...what?)


On a Japanese food processor: 'Not to be used for the other use.' (now, somebody out there, help me on this. I'm a bit curious.)


On Sunsbury's peanuts: 'Warning: contains nuts.' (talk about a news flash)


On an American Airlines packet of nuts: 'Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts.' (Step 3: maybe, uh...fly Delta?)


On a child's superman costume: 'Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.' (I don't blame the company. I blame the parents for this one.)


On a Swedish chainsaw: 'Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.' (..was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)