Quote Blogging: Jay Bon Goh

This is my first official quote blog!  This means that I am featuring another blogger in their own words.  Today I pick my sister, and I would tell you to check out her blog, but it's invite only.  Sorry you all aren't VIP enough for her.  lol.  don't be offended.  she just doesn't like comments from random people i guess.

So here is a short blog post from her:

I learned from that cupcake commercial that you can say anything is the "world's greatest" when it's totally not. So this is now the "world's greatest" tidbit ;)

The word "Howdy" is short for "how do you do?"

Or at least that is what I'm told. So from now on, whenever someone says "Howdy", which is a daily occurrence, I will respond with "good" or "bad" or something of the sort. They will be confused and I will take their possessions in midst of all the confusion.

I will rule the world and it will be great! Thank you Mr. Mills for that tidbit :)

Reading

I have found a new book that I think might go up on my favorites list.  I will reveal it as a comment on this post, because I want you all to pay attention to the following list of my favorite books before I recommend a new one:

1. Harry Potter
2. Ender's Game -Orson Scott Card
3. Daughter of the Forest (I will rate this mature...) -Juliet Marillier (check spelling)
4. Book of Mormon (number 1 in reality, but 4 is my favorite number, so I put it here)
5. Around the Bend -Nicholas Sparks
6. Dragon and Fat Cat (some children's picture book that is hilarious that my mother knows the exact title of, so look for her comment regarding this book)
7. Callico Cow (another children's book)
8. The Host -Stephanie Meyer
9. Midnight Pearls -[I don't know the author]
10. undecided because I have too many favorite books

Okay, now the new book that i have found will be especially great for people who like ender's game and the giver..books like that.  And the book is:

Kindergarten Kiddos

My little sister volunteers at her local elementary school for about an hour because she wants to be a Kindergarten teacher.  Today, she took me with her for her very own show & tell, a special event for the kiddos there.

Upon arrival, I got a visitor badge!  That was so great.  I remember being in elementary and people would walk around with passes, and I wanted one, and here I finally had one!  It was great.

Then I got to watch a "student of the month" assembly in the lunchroom.  I am not sure how many students were paying attention, because it was very loud with chatter, and one girl was so proud that she knew what orange juice was and she wanted to teach everyone around her...anyway, I didn't know if this was an effective assembly, but all of the children knew when to clap, so I supposed they were just really good at multitasking in Wyoming.

Then we took all of our kindergarten kiddos to the computer lab and my sister said I might have to help them log in.  that was so fun!  They just had to spell their name and hit 4 numbers, but i forgot that the order of the letters on the keyboard is out of whack and you have to work a bit to memorize where they are, so I helped a few kids find the letter r and the number 6.  Then I made my best friend for the day: DAMIEN!

Damien is the cutest little squiggly kid who just loves attention, which I was perfectly happy to give him.  He said he needed help untangling his headset, so I untangled it for him.  I looked at the name on his headset baggie and this was our introduction:

"Are you Damien?" I asked.
"Yes!  Who are you?"
"You know Miss Ward?"
"Yes!"
"I am her sister."
"Oh, okay!" he replied and he smiled really big and continued logging in after I showed him where the backspace key was.

Later, I was talking with my sister and the teacher when Damien raised his hand.  I looked over and he said the cutest thing!

"Her Sister, come over here."

He thought my name was Her Sister, and I was called that for the rest of the time until show & tell when they finally learned my name.  Ha ha.  I love that nickname.  Also, children ask the strangest and funniest questions about show & tell objects.  Also, sometimes their questions are really statements about themselves.  Regardless, they are adorable.

So many great things happened in that short period of time that I cannot write them or type them down today.  I have been working on some crafts for a better part of the day and my wrists are a bit sore, so I'm gonna say thanks for reading now.

Thanks for reading.

P.S. My sorely missed friends returned from China today.  I cannot wait to return to Logan, because I know they will be joining me there shortly!  I am really so bittersweetly happy about the fact that they are back in Utah. The only bitter part is that I cannot see them right this second!  Here's a shout out to you guys!

THE REAL One By One, Hoorah, Hoorah!

Okay, so here's what I was originally going to post a few days back:

I hate ants.  They are far too small and they can climb in any direction.  This makes them the perfect sized-and-able foe that I am currently aware of (please, refrain from making me aware of anything else).  I am sorely afraid of them and whenever I see them, I get extremely nervous (not scared!) because I just can't help but think that soon they will be inside my clothes and they might bite me if I try to get them off of me...

That being said...

I found ants on our counter!  Like 20 of them, no joke.  Ew!  So I quick sprayed them with spider poison while squiggly-squirming and squealing, and I wiped them up and threw them in the trash and hoped that they would not mutate and come out of the trash while I was asleep and most vulnerable.  I felt pretty safe, but you never know.

So imagine my surprise when I wake up the next day and there are probably four times as many ants on the same spot as last night!  I know I wiped that counter off, so I have no idea what they were doing there, so naturally I was taken aback because they are obviously there for only one reason: to get me.

So I quick do the spider poison thing, and the trash thing, and start to make crepes.  By the time I have gathered all of the ingredients, there are the SAME amount of ants in the SAME spot as before.  I do the poison routine, and now the kitchen just reeks, so I go to get a fan.  There are MORE ants.  This must be a nightmare, right?  No!  It is real.  So I poison them and I am seriously confused where these ants are coming from, because our kitchen is in the squat middle of the building.  Holes in the foundation?  Who knows!

Anyway, I grab a mixing bowl from my bottom cupboard and the bottom of the shelf is black and twitching.  Um, yeah.  That thing should be white.  There are ants EVERYWHERE DOWN THERE!  So I jump back and start screaming.  Luckily, I am the only one home, so no one can come to my rescue and tell me not to spray the poison on the ants and all over my dishes.  Stupid stupid stupid.

So pretty much I spend 4-5 hours battling ants who kept flowing from who knows where, then a night and a morning washing and rinse-cycling my now deadly dishes and also my roommate's dishes who happens to share a cupboard with me.

Dreadful day.  Bah.

One by One, Hoorah, Hoorah!

So good news: I saw a dog today.

Actually, it was yesterday.  And also actually, I love that line from Elf because Elf is one of my all-time favorite movies, and when I saw the dog, I couldn't say that line to anyone because the only other person around was the dog owner.  In retrospect, I suppose I should've just said it to the dog owner anyway.  Probably would've made their day.  Or they would've thought I was a weirdo...but if they gave me a weird look, I'd just have fun and give them a weird look back like THEY were the one who said something weird to ME.  Ha ha...

Well, that was definitely not what I planned on blogging about.  Hmm.  Strange how things come out like that, huh?  Okay, well I am not going to change the title of this post so that tomorrow I will remember what I was originally going to post and then I won't forget to tell you all the latest news.

Jam-Packed

So recently, I read a Stargate funny from an episode I'm about to watch.  It is a conversation between some human earthlings and some human aliens (humans from another planet...don't worry about it).  Here is a paraphrase of the funny:

Earthling: This is jam-packed.
Alien: That's good. I do like jam.
[Earthlings stare at Alien.]
Alien: Oh I get it.  That's another of those play on words in your culture.  Okay.

So there you have it.  A simple moment in a simple episode.  I found it hilarious, because it has to do with words, and as an English junkie, I love those words.

The only thing is, I said jam-packed three times in a 1.5 minute interval of time today around 2:30.  Yes, I have documented it for the world to see.  "Jam-packed" is jam-packing my jam-packed vocabulary.

Man, I get stuck on words too often.

Miss Write at Night

I have been sleeping in late very consistently lately.  I admit I could go to bed earlier and I wouldn't sleep in so long, but it's not just about when I go to bed.  It doesn't matter how exhausted I am, lately I just can't fall asleep until like 3 or 4 AM.  This is not good news at all.

But the good news is that I found a way to take advantage of the situation.  Last night I was trying something new: I was trying to write songs until I fell asleep, because solving meter and rhyming problems is kind of like counting sheep, and guess what?  It almost worked, but I liked the lyrics so much that I had to get up and write them down.  Lol.  Kinda defeated the purpose of falling asleep.  But after writing, my head was clear, and I fell asleep like that! (I wish there was a snap emoticon.  Ha ha.) 

So apparently the little writer in my head needs to do something every now and then or she won't let me sleep.  At least, I think that's what's keeping me up lately.  Guess we'll find out for sure next time it happens, right?  :)

Finals Week

I have a pretty easy finals week.  No final projects.  No final papers.  Just tests.  And one of them...well, it's not important.  The other one is super easy, though it's still gonna take a while to prepare for it.

But I am very heartbroken over the fact that I am not in a mad dash to finish all of my papers.  I miss making them perfect down to the last detail, hoping that I haven't missed anything, staying up late tweaking things here and there to get the exact effect I want.

It's a puzzle I've missed out on this semester.  I hope I have more papers next semester.  Ha ha.  I know.  Nerd.

Craft Ahoy!

Don't let the title of this post mislead you.  We are not approaching a sea vessel.  (Ha ha...that was a lame joke...).  In fact, this post has nothing whatsoever to do with a ship or pirates or anything, other than you can catch a glimpse of the corner of my sticker guitar, which has a few pirate stickers on it...

Anyway, disregard all of that, because here's what this post is really about:

I made a box!  Actually, that's a lie in a couple of ways.  I didn't make a box.  I just decorated it.  And it wasn't a single box, it was two boxes. Here are photoss with some captionary action below them.  You are welcome.  : )

This box is the perfect size for my glasses and my phone (which doubles as my alarm clock, so it makes sense to put my glasses with my alarm clock--at least to me it does).

This box is for my journal, scriptures, and bedside literature, such as Daughter of the Forest or Ayn Rand.

This shows the other two sides of the box for my various books.

And this is the inside of my book box.  Sorry for the lack of quality in the photos.