WooT!

Holy cow, guys, I just watched the preview for High School Musical 3 for a "good job on a hard day, now go to bed" type of reward. And I could not be more psyched unless I was meeting Zac Efron in person. Huzzah! And Happy Birthday to me! In case you were wondering, that is my plan for the big 25 this year. Go see HSM3. And hopefully make other respectable adults come with me.

Loves!

Happy Birthday Mom and Neville!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful mom. I love you so much and I wish I could be there!
PS-for the non Potterphiles, I am of course referring to Neville Longbottom, who has the distinction of sharing the day of his birth with my beautiful mom. Lucky!

PPS-Gosh, I hope this is the right day! It's not the 31st, is it?

Utah, This is the Place!

Happy Pioneer Day, everybody! I must admit, it was real lame for me. I did get a haircut, I guess, but I don't know if I like it yet. To be fair, I haven't fixed it yet. So here's hoping. And I did make a delicious dinner for my roomies. I threatened to make it while wearing a bonnet, but it was totally idle threat, since I don't actually own a bonnet. But I did sing that ox cart song while we ate. And pioneer children song. Bwa ha ha!

Well, in honor of all things pioneering and Utahn, here is a great song for you.

http://www.classroomclassics.com/filecabinet/Utah.mp3

Enjoy!

My new pet!

Isn't it just the cutest thing you've ever seen? It's a tree kangaroo. I had to read a YA nonfiction book for one of my new classes, and I read about these totally awesome animals. They live in the cloud forest in Papua New Guinea. Like other Kangaroos, they carry their babies in pouches and hop around, but unlike other kangaroos, they hop around in trees!


Anywho, I'm sure it would not actually be a good pet, since I have heard they bite, and since they do not live in the USA. So, due to popular request, here is a picture of my actual pet, the ever exotic and cuddly-at-heart Dexter:
He's not actually cuddly, since he's a fish, but don't hold it against him. He's a good boy. And so pretty!

Feets of strength

I recently went on a DC adventure with my roommate Niki, and we had a fabulous time. It was a walking tour of many of the monuments. We started off at the Jefferson.


Here's me in front of the monument. And here's me and Jefferson himself:

From there, we had a nice view of the Washington Monument.
Then we went on the the World War II memorial. At this point, we are both extremely hot and sweaty, and about to die. The humidity was like 70% or something. So all grossness in pictures must be blamed on that.
Luckily, we could splash each other from the fountains a bit to cool down. Then we were off again toward the other monuments. We had to walk past the famous reflecting pool.
Then we went to the Vietnam memorial. Everyone was very quiet and respectful there, much more so than at any other monument.
After that, it was on to the Land Of Lincoln! No, not Illinois, the Lincoln Monument. Here's me with Lincoln himself!
Look at all your new pennies, I might be there! And here's me outside the monument:


From there, we went to the Korean War Monument. By this time, I'm way tired, but it's a very cool monument anyway. I took this picture in honor of MASH.

I also thought this was arty and cool, but at the same time, really touching. It's a sobering place.


Finally, we went to the World War I memorial. Hardly anyone was there, but it was probably my favorite one. It's really beautiful and isolated.


And just to prove to you that I didn't go by myself (aside from all the pictures of me taken from far away), here's Niki in the WWI memorial.

This was our last stop. We headed back home after this. We were both really sweaty and totally rank smelling, plus we had blisters on these:


Thanks for taking this walking tour with me. I had a blast, and I hope you did too!

Twins like us

I would be remiss if I didn't post about my very favorite twin sister in the world. She's so great and funny, and she thinks I'm funny too, which is a bonus. Miss you, Chelsea! Without you, there'd be no twin like me, just plain old me, and that would be no fun at all. You're so beautiful, talented, and nice, that if you weren't my best friend, I might just hate you. Kisses!

blergh

I have been so tired the last couple of days. All week, really. Well, since last Saturday. This is how I feel.

I will hopefully do an awesome blog about my adventures of this last week soon. Thanks, you're a wonderful audience!