Happy First day of ADVENT!

Yes. Christmas. is nearly CRUSHING us. It's that close. oooh yes. But this makes me happy. I love being crushed by Christmas, of all things (along with other happy holidays, like Thanksgiving, birthdays, New Years, Easter...etc etc.)

But yes. If I HAD to choose. Which holiday. Christmas would TOTALLY be my pick.

Christmas holds...many many things. Things that aren't normally "Christmasy"...in everyone's book. Um. There's normal things like...shopping. food...ing. ish. lol. partying. cleaning. and um...deep cleaning?

Let me define "Deep Cleaning". In my house. This means ripping apart your room, cleaning, throwing away, giving away, putting away. things like that.

When I was younger. Deep cleaning only happened in the summer. Seeing as then we had the most time. But now looking back? I'm now thinking that I had WAAAAY more time THEN then I do NOW. Hm. "Funny how that works, aint it?" (I JUST FIGURED OUT WHERE THAT'S FROM! HAHAHAHAHA. I've been quoting that a lot lately. and I couldn't remember where it was from. lol. It's from...*drumroll* Pirates of the Caribbean! Jack is eating an apple when he says this.) Wow, side track.

ANYWAY. Also when I was young. I majorly enjoyed stuffing things under and behind my bed. I made the excuse that, "Hey, I have a bunk bed...things fall down easily. " such as cats. And yes. Um. Yes. actually, many cats have fallen down behind my bed. It's just sad. *shakes head* THIS WAS NOT OF MY OWN DOING. All of you know that I would NEVER EVER EVER do a thing like that...to a cat. Especially my baby squishy little angel. *ahem* Bertie. *gets the kitty-kitties* Duuuude, SIDE TRACK. Or dide track...as I just typed. Um. where was I?

BEHIND AND UNDER MY BED. YES. Ok. So yes. I would...be told to clean up my room. And I'd solve this hard, and labor full task by shoving everything under my bed. or "dropping" things behind my bed. Please don't imagine what under my bed was like. It wasn't pleasant.

Anyway. Every time deep cleaning rolled around, I would crawl underneath my bed, pulling everything out as I went. Which made a huge pile on my floor. This job, of going under the bed had a special name. it was called...

"Going to the core."

Feel free to laugh. Um. yes. As in the core of the earth. Um. Yes. Yeeeep....

Anyway, I'm doing that now (how many times have I said "anyway"? This means I get side tracked waaay too easily.)

ANYWAY, lol. I'm deep cleaning.



That's a picture. Of my floor. That's a mix of stuff from...my closet, one shelving/bookcase behind my bed...thing, and things I use on a regular basis.

I love deep cleaning (I used to hate it...going to the core was a horrible trial for me.) it reminds me of how many awesome friends I have (I just found all these pictures from the first few Little Parlor plays...Oooh my goodness we were all TINY.) and it's like a free Christmas, almost. I found so many things that I had forgotten about, thought I didn't even have (which I was just TOTALLY redundant...hahahahahahahahahaha), and things...that I had...um. Lost. I guess.

Like, this ring that my uncle and aunt gave me. When I was uber uber little, cause I remember wearing this ring on my pointer. And it fit really nice. Now...it'll only fit on my pinky.



Yep. That's it.

Oh, and memory lane has been my most frequent stop lately. Found all my old dress up clothes. My old costumes from my first ballet recital here in Houston (Silkworms FTW! Yes, I was a silkworm. A neon pink silkworm. Bask in the glory of neon pink silkworms. loooool.)

Yep. And this turned out to be longer than I expected. Yessssss

Happy First Sunday of Advent!!

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I'm trying not to feel too depressed that I won't get to see awesome people this weekend. See how many socks I could knit in 11 hours. Go and watch and listen to amazingly weird people.

*sniff* *cough* *sounds like a congested Rachel Ray/Miley Cyrus*

Next big thing coming?

THE BALL.

I'm trying to think about that a lot (along with being with my family. just the 4 of us. for Thanksgiving) to help...lift the damp, and sneezy spirits.

Just a min ago. I browsed the Barns and Noble Christmas music section online while my mom did some flowers. We have the following list to get (seeing as we all have coupons and we're going there later today :-P)

Third Day
Straight No Chaser (OH MY GOODNESS. CHECK THESE PEOPLE OUT. )
Yo-yo Ma (*bliss*)
MercyMe (I wasn't really expecting that I'd like them. I thought they were...a really rocky Christian band. Which didn't really appeal to me. The rocky part, not the Christian part, lol.)
BarlowGirl (BARLOWGIRL FTW!!!!)
and yes, David Archuletta...

I think I just killed his last name with my spelling. But I don't really care, cause he is uber creepy looking. He's ok...better than I expected. once again. But I mean, American Idol. Eh. People from there usually only have one or 2 songs that are awesome, and the rest are...well...horrible, lol. Mostly. singing skills there are pretty much close to 0, except the rare amazingly awesome singer that comes along.

ENOUGH RAMBLING. Sorry. it's gotten into a habit.

What are YOU listing to for Christmas? Any favorite albums? Anyone you just HAVE to listen to? Or anyone that you absolutely hate. Wait, don't answer the last one, lol

Thanksgiving Thankfullness #13 - Out of 14

Who/what am I thankful for today?

Rain. Beautiful. Glorious. Rain. Ooooh my goodness.



This. is our door. Half of it anyway. The window beside the door. Bask in it's glory. Woot. It's all wet. The pavement, I mean.

Rain in Houston.....is like a drought in Egypt. Wheee.




We get pretty big hunkin storms too. That storm (see picture) was amazingly awesome. Any storm with clouds *that* dark has to be amazingly awesome. Hmmmmhm.

I love the rain. It's raining right now. Life is awesome.

I <3 Rain!!!

Thanksgiving Thankfullness #12 - Out of 14

Who/what am I thankful for today?


I'm thankful for a break-ish thing off of school.

The actual fact of our break, is that we do just geometry, writing, and all our online homerwork on Monday -Tuesday then we LEAVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (*cough* sorry.) But then thinking again...now since we have a lot of online classes this year, that kinda pretty much takes up our whole....school time thing. The rest that is extremely important is writing. and geometry. Hm. So yeah. We have vocab (which I also really detest with a passion. I'm not against words of anything, but THIS BOOK IS EVIL.) and Greek....something else. Oh, and biology. Which isn't my favorite. Usually...my friends will agree with this....is that whenever anyone mentions any kind of injury....or like shots, or anything that hurts/goes in your body. It makes whatever part was hurt/stuck, of my own, feel funny.

"Hmmhm. I was sleeping? And like this scorpion came and like stung my upper lip..."
me: " >.< Owwwwwww...now my..whole face feels funny...."

And yes. I do have a friend who this did happen to her. I didn't know her when it happened. But yeah. Talk about painful?

What was I talking about?

OH. right. thankfulness. lol. Sorrrrry.

So yeah. could be doing this.



Yep. So. Hmmhm. Yeah.

I <3 break-ish things!! Even though I STILL have to do geometry, lol. I'll live....just barely.

Thanksgiving Thankfullness #11 - Out of 14

Who/what am I thankful for today?

I am thankful for....candles.



Especially ones that smell good...

I think it was last month....we went out to do a couple of errands. And stopped into this place...that had all this old stuff. But it was cool. Majorly cool. The main reason why we went into this place (Anne's) was that they had a big selection, and a sale, on Yankee Candles. I got to pick out a big one. And....a lot of little ones.

My big one. I luuuuurved. It was Whipped Cream. Which you might imagine to be waaaay too sweet. But it wasn't. It was really nice. That's now gone...:-(. Alas. So, last night I got one of the small ones that I picked out called "Oatmeal Cookie" WHICH I LOVE. almost as much as Whipped Cream.

So yeah.

I <3 Candles!!

Thanksgiving Thankfullness #10 - Out of 14

Who/what am I thankful for today.

Wow. Is it really....only 4 more days? This thankfulness dealibopper made it go faster, lol.

Um. Not to be obsessed with anything or anything. But. I have to be thankful for something today.



Caaaan anyone guesssss? (I know Haley would, lol. )

It's. NORO. I'm thankful for Noro today. But especially. Noro Sock Yarn. I lovey this stuff. For this. I shall quote one of the workers from Yarns 2 Ewe on her opinion of Noro.

I LOVE Noro! It keeps me occupied. I'm always like OOOO it's BLUE. and then OOOO it's red! Yeah. Noro keeps me out of trouble, haha

I think her name was Kate. Or Katie. Or something like that. Some form or Kate.

Got a lot of it. Cause, of THANKGIVING. OH MY GOODNESS. OOOOOOOOH MY GOODNESS. And I get to see some EXTREMELY AMAZING PEOPLE. OOOOOH MY GOODNESS. and yes. And we're driving. As you can imagine, the car ride from Houston (which is almost on the gulf) to Tulsa OK, then Topeka KS, then PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA!!!! It's around 11 hours to Tulsa. 3-4 ish hours to Topeka from Tulsa. Then....that and may be plus a little more for Ponca from Topeka. The major good thing (besides that I have TONS OF SOCK YARN. WHEEEEEE!!) is that we'll be taking our new car. So. it'll be comfy. We'll have 2 DVD players that..Joey and I can watch separate things on...(they're kinda attached to the head rests of the front seats.) Um. and yeah. Oh, and Katie will be with us! We're picking her up in Dallas. On Wednesday. Around lunch :-D I'm UBER UBER UBER UBER EXCITED.

So yeah. That's me speel...about not really Noro Sock yarn..but mostly about our travel plans...whoops, lol. sorry.

I <3 Noro Sock Yarn! (especially uber colorful kind :-D)

Thanksgiving Thankfullness #9 - Out of 14

Who/what am I thankful for today?

My cat. He's pretty famous. You most likely know his name. Because, someone who I will not mention, loves to call him obese (and that kinda gave it away, lol.) And...yeah. He's mentioned in Latin, in Logic, at church, with friends, at prayer group...and just with the family. But that doesn't really count to be listed because the whole family already knows *someone's* perspective on Bertie, lol.















And yes. One of those pictures is NOT of Bertie. But of Jeeves. But today can also be thankful for cats in general. But this...is for Bertie, lol. And see? His raccoon! EDDY. Not...whatever. lol. But yes. This is prof that he does sometimes sleep with it. and other times Joey is throwing it around and Bertie tries, and fails, to catch it and eat it.

He makes me happy, makes me sad. Makes me annoyed/angry. Wakes me up when I REALLY don't want to get up. Spills water everywhere. Loves anything I touch. Likes to eat/drink the following. Pizza. Any diary product (and no, no matter what you think about cats and milk, it's horrible for them.) gatorade. Dr.Pepper. Any bread product. contact solution. (yes, this is true.) and root beer.

I still love him anyway. When he was just brought home from the humane society. He could sit in my two hands. He couldn't see me, cause his eyes were still closed. Covered in flees. (which I had to pick off of him...igh. Oh well, totally worth it :-D) and the list goes on..

And now, he thinks I'm his mother...type figure. And I love it :-)

I <3 my baby angel little boy...Bertie Wooster :-)
(and if you're wondering. Well, if you're not wondering too. His personality. Fits his name. Like perfectly. Just imagine Bertie Wooster, as in the dude. And then just imagine him...as a cat. And that would be my cat :-P)