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Mar. 20th, 2004 01:10 pmthere is a random small child in our house. she is in the dining room, learning to play Snood on the laptop. My dad has corrupted her ;) I'm sitting in the next room, also playing snood, and reading webcomics and stuff. . . apparently being so ominously stationary and lurking that small child asked dad "who's that?" Oops. I kind of thought it was implied that I was a daughter of the family by my being in the house and all. Although she's in the house. . . hmmm. I want to find out who she is. lol. XD I suck with little kids, though. whatever. as long as I don't have to entertain.
My house is and has been full of good things to eat. Thursday evening, here is what I ate after dinner, in order:
1 piece of chocolate cake
2 servings of strawberries
1 orange
1 more piece of chocolate cake (the latter two were like, past 10 PM)
Then, on Friday. . . during our day off. . . me and Katie (Katie and I, yeah yeah) went to CVS for candy. It was amusing because CVS is right next to the school, but we didn't meet anyone who'd be interested in inquiring why we hadn't been in school. I just totally splurged. Which I haven't done in a while, so I didn't feel too bad. :) Still--crazy amounts of candy. I think we scared Perin. M&Ms, atomic fireballs, sweet tarts, peanut butter eggs, cadbury creme eggs (CVS is in Easter mode), Katie got some jelly beans but not good ones. . . she also got herself raspberry whip eggs (eggs figure heavily in the easter candy spectrum) and we got ourselfs some small crispy chocolate eggs.
I have a sweet tooth like insanity.
A while ago, Katie got herself some small cross-stitch sets. Basically, cross-stitch is the embroidery version of color-by numbers. You get a cloth, the necessary threads, and a pattern--which may or may not be on your cloth (a special cross-stitch kind of cloth, by the way) as well as a sheet of paper. It's obviously easier having it on the cloth. It's a good period thing to do at Bethpage, my friend Allison was making an alphabet sampler. And Katie got a whole bunch with cute farm animals. They're about 3x4 inches and pretty simple. However. Katie has just gotten herself this one. It is incredibly gorgeous and I love it. However, we ph34r.
I just felt like sharing that. as you may have noticed, Katie is very industrious and good at the arts and crafts stuff. Which I'm not. So I admire her greatly.
My mom is even more good at these things than Katie. She's made us sweaters, and tiny dolls (who have lately been living in an awesome little tikes doll house that came home from the library for washing), and tinier dolls for those dolls. . . and lately she's been knitting all these socks with "magic stripe yarn". This means that a pattern forms, and you can get the stripes on both socks to be exactly the same. It's very cool. It really is like magic. The first pair she made was out of the denim pattern, which I like muchly (those pictures don't do it justice). And i just tried on a paid of them, because she was going to make me some with a different pattern. And it turns out my feet are the same sock size as mom! Slightly narrower, but it's all good. So she gave me the denim ones! :D woohoo!!
I am so in love with my family right now. My parents let me stay home, mom gave me magic socks, and mike gave us a ride to Perin's yesterday--and otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get together! :D wheeeeeee!
Am going to Bethpage tomorrow, which means I need to do homework today. No problem, though, cos I already had a day off tomorrow. Am reading a really good, sweet fic series, though. Makes it tricky.
I feel woefully unprepared for this judge thing. I need to research the relevant laws, because I have to instruct the jury on them. Halp! I am quite independent (that's only a slight non sequitur). Like, I tend to like to do things completely on my own. Sometimes. This is only true in some situations. but, like, one of the other judges sat down with her dad and worked out all the opening statement stuff, because he's an attorney. And the teacher gave me her thing, but I still was feeling hesitant about copying it, even though I don't know any of this stuff from Eve. (ok, that was kind of the wrong metaphor thingie). Anyway. Hoo. I'm wondering what I'm going to have to do during the actually trial, aside from recognize objections or not.
A friend of our english teacher's who is a Vietnam vet is coming in on Tuesday to talk to us about his experiences (because we read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried this year) and we're meant to have questions for him and I can't think of anything.
I've developed the habit of calling cute things either a muffin, or a puppy. Muffin is from someone who was in my sister's photo class. She's a bit of a muffin herself. Puppy just happened naturally for me. XD For instance, Jonas Quinn, of Stargate SG-1 Season 6 (now on DVD! ::bounces::) is a puppy. Whenever we see him, Katie and I are always like "aww! He's such a puppy!" Or sometimes muffin. Many things have been puppies and muffins lately.
small child is the sister of the boy who ran into my brother's car. He and his dad came over to help fix it, and she had to come as well.
My house is and has been full of good things to eat. Thursday evening, here is what I ate after dinner, in order:
1 piece of chocolate cake
2 servings of strawberries
1 orange
1 more piece of chocolate cake (the latter two were like, past 10 PM)
Then, on Friday. . . during our day off. . . me and Katie (Katie and I, yeah yeah) went to CVS for candy. It was amusing because CVS is right next to the school, but we didn't meet anyone who'd be interested in inquiring why we hadn't been in school. I just totally splurged. Which I haven't done in a while, so I didn't feel too bad. :) Still--crazy amounts of candy. I think we scared Perin. M&Ms, atomic fireballs, sweet tarts, peanut butter eggs, cadbury creme eggs (CVS is in Easter mode), Katie got some jelly beans but not good ones. . . she also got herself raspberry whip eggs (eggs figure heavily in the easter candy spectrum) and we got ourselfs some small crispy chocolate eggs.
I have a sweet tooth like insanity.
A while ago, Katie got herself some small cross-stitch sets. Basically, cross-stitch is the embroidery version of color-by numbers. You get a cloth, the necessary threads, and a pattern--which may or may not be on your cloth (a special cross-stitch kind of cloth, by the way) as well as a sheet of paper. It's obviously easier having it on the cloth. It's a good period thing to do at Bethpage, my friend Allison was making an alphabet sampler. And Katie got a whole bunch with cute farm animals. They're about 3x4 inches and pretty simple. However. Katie has just gotten herself this one. It is incredibly gorgeous and I love it. However, we ph34r.
I just felt like sharing that. as you may have noticed, Katie is very industrious and good at the arts and crafts stuff. Which I'm not. So I admire her greatly.
My mom is even more good at these things than Katie. She's made us sweaters, and tiny dolls (who have lately been living in an awesome little tikes doll house that came home from the library for washing), and tinier dolls for those dolls. . . and lately she's been knitting all these socks with "magic stripe yarn". This means that a pattern forms, and you can get the stripes on both socks to be exactly the same. It's very cool. It really is like magic. The first pair she made was out of the denim pattern, which I like muchly (those pictures don't do it justice). And i just tried on a paid of them, because she was going to make me some with a different pattern. And it turns out my feet are the same sock size as mom! Slightly narrower, but it's all good. So she gave me the denim ones! :D woohoo!!
I am so in love with my family right now. My parents let me stay home, mom gave me magic socks, and mike gave us a ride to Perin's yesterday--and otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get together! :D wheeeeeee!
Am going to Bethpage tomorrow, which means I need to do homework today. No problem, though, cos I already had a day off tomorrow. Am reading a really good, sweet fic series, though. Makes it tricky.
I feel woefully unprepared for this judge thing. I need to research the relevant laws, because I have to instruct the jury on them. Halp! I am quite independent (that's only a slight non sequitur). Like, I tend to like to do things completely on my own. Sometimes. This is only true in some situations. but, like, one of the other judges sat down with her dad and worked out all the opening statement stuff, because he's an attorney. And the teacher gave me her thing, but I still was feeling hesitant about copying it, even though I don't know any of this stuff from Eve. (ok, that was kind of the wrong metaphor thingie). Anyway. Hoo. I'm wondering what I'm going to have to do during the actually trial, aside from recognize objections or not.
A friend of our english teacher's who is a Vietnam vet is coming in on Tuesday to talk to us about his experiences (because we read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried this year) and we're meant to have questions for him and I can't think of anything.
I've developed the habit of calling cute things either a muffin, or a puppy. Muffin is from someone who was in my sister's photo class. She's a bit of a muffin herself. Puppy just happened naturally for me. XD For instance, Jonas Quinn, of Stargate SG-1 Season 6 (now on DVD! ::bounces::) is a puppy. Whenever we see him, Katie and I are always like "aww! He's such a puppy!" Or sometimes muffin. Many things have been puppies and muffins lately.
small child is the sister of the boy who ran into my brother's car. He and his dad came over to help fix it, and she had to come as well.
