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Christmas day

this is brought to you by tracy, who sums things up better than me.

Ah, it's Christmas morning.

We got late start to the morning.
I didn't get any brother-sized shapes poking me out of bed until almost 8am.

I contributed to my part of making the world a better place by taking a shower. Apparently I missed Mom opening her gift of toothpicks, Sam being awarded one minus-present point for not knowing where the camera was, and Eric being given a Christmas face-squish from Dad.

Apparently, we're combining traditions for Christmas and Easter. No more "stockings" - or whatever. This year, we had Christmas socks! .. but we had to look for one of them among the other clean socks on the couch.

Then we received our Christmas rations of 1/3 cup of water.
(ok, ok, it was to take with some vitamins)

Dad wanted to know who had the Sharpie last because he wanted to write on the plastic cups, so for the rest of the morning, as presents were unwrapped, much attention was paid to who had written who's name in what kind of marker. We suspect that Sam was the last one to have the Sharpie.

Dad clocked the gift-unwrapping phase at approximately 1.5 hours.

The title of this post is inspired by the sauce cookbook I got for my Dad.

Apparently, someone got us a membership to the Ice Age trail. So we're going to go on a Christmas walk to claim it for our own. ha ha ha.
also here's a pic of what i believe Calvin and Hobbes' Chocolate covered sugar bombs would have resembled.


Overhearing my brother playing Halo on Xbox Live

This isn't killing... it's slaughtering! On Christmas! Oh, I feel so bad!

I'm so sorry! It's Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
killing spree!

Christmas Eve

unlike most people, this is how we did Xmas Eve mehoke style.
we woke up at about 8 ish to go out and hope we have some kind of little tree outside that we can cut down. afterward, we all picked a bucket of corn that most would not believe we should feed to our sheep, if only for our sheeps' sake. then the family went into town for a last minute gift.
i wish i had some pictures to put up, but the camera isn't in sight, so there's none of those yet. oh, i had a huge bowl of puppy chow today. and when i say that, i mean as in i used puppy chow for cereal. amazing. but you can only eat one bowl without feeling slightly off. hard to explain.
with the week off, i'm hoping i have some time to edit movies, finish some comics, draw, read, and post some good looking stuff up here.

HAPPY CHRISTAMAHANAKWANZAKA!

: D

youth group

i just got back from an awesome time with my sisters youth group. we got into groups and got a scene, and how we had to do it. our scene/characters were the shepards going to meet Jesus. the twist was we had to be slowly dieing. so we saw that as like "i have have AID's.. i'm slowly deteriorating!" or "iiiiiii'mmmmm sllllllllooooowwwly diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieing." (slo. mo.)
in the end it was hilarious. once i find out how to upload video i'll get that on here. so basically we improv. rapped and used a large patch of fur to represent a character's chest hair...which we used to warm the baby jesus. that sounds so strange typing it, but when we were doing it, it just seem hilarious.
with school finally out of the way you'd think i'd get some Xmas shopping done.. but i just bought one thing.. i'm waaaaAAAAAay behind.

just to say i said it before xkcd, i'm going to try to get comics for these soon

-when i wake up sometimes i can't help seeing a little health bar in the top left of my view and flashing words that say "force powers depleted"
-when i get out the doctor's and they tell me i'm normal, i get depressed that i still don't have super powers.
-some songs sound like paintings that i'd never be able to draw because it's an emotion that is impossible to describe without linking my brain to a canvass or some one elses brain.
i've got more but i need to remember them.

webs

short today. just thought about stuff today and realized life would be SO much easier if people just told other people how the felt about them. whether they just walk and say "i hate you" "your voice annoys me" "i really like you" or what ever. it just seems to me that if we all just said what we feel the world would be easier. but inorder for this to work the people you tell need to actually listen and not become a defensive ball of emotions and be opinionated or spiteful about the whole ordeal.
so yea.
my little insight rant for the day.
by the way the new movie 300 looks amazing.

character flaw

i've decided i arrogantly have no self confidence. let me explain before i'm told i don't understand what i've just said. for instance; i like to be arrogant once in a while. it's just fun to just say things like " i'm sooooo great!" in fact, i generally start my school years by going outside and declaring myself, at the top of my lungs, that " i AM the the model of perfection!" it's just fun. if other people don't compliment you, you can. and yet, despite these claims and titles i like to give myself, when i'm in groups of people or public, ...... i think timid is the word. either that or passive aggressive. i generally find i can manipulate people to do what i need them to do if i have to. for instance. say Jerk A is in my group. Jerk A does not really like to take anything from anyone. or the task could be done by either of us given the situation. in those instances where i COULD do said task, but i can persuade others to do so on about 70% of the time.
so i find it very peculiar that i can act pretty high and mighty by myself and rather passive with other people. there are still times where in the back of my head i can't help but think something like:
"how dare he insult a master jedi!/(any other of titles that if i wrote them would just sound like i'm copying things from home star runner)"
it's hard to sound smooth in come backs when your so focused on trying to force choke them.

*waves* (by Alex!)

I'd like to dedicate this post to a really good friend of mine
Alex Severson
he's going to be an exchange student in either Australia, Japan, or Taiwan sometime either this year, or the next school year.
honestly, alex, you better start praying you get Australia. you could come back with a sweet accent and also, you'd actually understand them. i'm pretty sure you would starve in Japan/Taiwan because you can't conjegate their verbs correctly to ask for food... or know which sushi is poisonous.. just stay away from things that look like puffer fish.
also in my movie reviews for today
Eragon:
this is my quote.
"Eragon is the equivalent to Episode III without lightsabers"
and for those of you who know him: " the actors are about as good at delivering classy lines as nick venn" (sorry venn...your just not good at geh-toe talk..or from what i hear, dancing either. just put some ice on those moves for about 10 years)(again, that advice will help you more than..well, not help you)
oh and for Nick severson (identical twin to Alex) you should be fine. i'm still under the idea that you two can save on postage by just telekinetically speaking to each other over sea's.

anonymous

there's nothing really to report, but i'm going to just type what's on the top of my head. and also whatever comments go with the appropriate pictures. so for today.

Today: morning: my house: 6:45 am
there's not much to do really in the morning. i can barely really understand what's going on or what's going to happen, and the things that go on that may affect later happenings. things i do respond to in the morning are 1)temperature changes: such as getting out of bed. ick. 2) taste: breakfast can be amazing if it tastes amazing.. or rather days can be amazing if they have the breakfast to compliment them. and 3)colors: i may not see it clearly, but i know pretty colors when i see pretty colors.
so for breakfast i had some eclair custard on bread. it's so good!

also in the morning there was a very pretty sunrise. it disappeared soon after this, and my hands were really shaky. but here it is



and then to sum things up, i put my hat back on.





oh, and now i'm on the computer eating more eclair filling

Hat

this is an amazing hat

LARGE people

people that need canes because they are too fat to walk, have a problem. people that have to be in wheel chairs because they can't walk have a problem. people who have trouble getting into elevators, escalators, car doors, and doors in general, have a problem. that problem is that if you divided them into 3 you would have 3 pretty chubby people. my solution. you don't need a diet plan, you don't need pills, or even medicine stuffage.
what america needs is
narrower checkout aisles.

if you can't fit into the checkout aisle, your not going to be able to buy food, your going to lose weight.
that way all people who don't weigh 500+ pounds can actual get a chance to check out instead of waiting for and hour and a half just to get a few items so they can get home and wrap xmas presents!!!

i had a bad encounter and now i've corrected it. the world is a better place!

now i'm going to eat some milkshake. yes i EAT milkshakes

Attack Kitten

this is our awesome attack kitty. be afeared .
i have no idea how it's this fat and yet so deadly. you'd understand if you could see the carnage immediately after the above photo.

a casual time

this is a post to follow me around my day and get to know me better. i WISH i had kept a track of things that i was going to right down, so you just have to bear with me and my poor punctuation skillz. firstly, i was tricked (as i manage to be more than not), but this time coming from authority, our american histroy teacher. under the belief that we had to do a survey on how much drugs we have knocked ourselves up with in the past 12 months for the first 2 periods, i figured (along with many others) "oh, i have spanish first hour. guess i don't have to do that homework..but just in case.." so i did appoximently 1/2 of it. that would be just copying down the sentances leaving blanks for the appropriate verb conjugation.This...was not to be. arriving at school early, i studied for an up coming shakespear quiz, and walked around the halls with friends who gave me hugs. i was happy. tired, but happy. cold because i only had a t-shirt on in wisconsin winter (it's not so much i'm "cold" but i like to keep the warmth that i had while i was in bed to follow me about my day. it may explain why hugs are awesome.) so, coming to spanish class with the full certainty that we are merely there to say we are here and then we will proceed to the computer lab to figure out how abusive we really are. somehow, the surveys were only to be done during the earliest required class....american history...2cd hour...not first hour...which was now..so, hoping for the best pressed the claim that my homework was done, but at home.which actually true upon checking. spanish teachers tend to believe you more when you actually tell them that in spanish.
so the survey.. this is the up part of the day. for the most bit, i find this surveys very amusing. for instance, if you tell someone something long enough, they believe it. that is what i think of when i see this list of questions:
-when have you taken drugs?
-how many drugs have you taken in the last 2 weeks?
-how many drugs have you taken in the last 4 weeks?
and so on. eventually, it is my impression that even if a kid hasn't taken any drugs, after the 15th question on the topic, they begin to crack and think "will....i may have taken drugs.. until they just answer 'yes' so that the questions stop. then it moves to -how many times have you had intercorse in the last month? like i said. i'm waiting for some one to just scream: "YES I'M SOOOO SORRY! IT WAS MEEE!" or something.
then, we took a career survey, and apparently i have no interest in anything, yet i have the same job projections as some of the study-study oriented people and the closest i got was either an artist, or a psychiatrist. i was very pleased with this. especially seeing how my class mates recieved jobs like "cab driver" "cement mixer" and "the person who tells people their jobs due to survey results". also, this means that i will get the amazing salary that i would prefer, and i can do things like "when you wake up, your going to make me a sandwich and give me a very nice tip" person wakes up "hm...oh uh,hey do you ...want a sandwich or something?" "yes, why thank you"
now, i may be a nerd, or just brilliant in a particular field , but the Halo 3 commercial that was linked in my previous post is, not only amazing, but by my conservative count, i've watched it 30 times regularily, 10 times frame-by-frame, and 3 times on max volume to try to make out some of the whisper dialog. i like my halo. for those of you too oblivious to super-amazing plots be critical of a great game. it's beautiful.
we'll talk more about my obsession, and my plight to prove how good it is later.

Saint "Nicks" day
well, at our house this holiday is rarely practiced. when asked about why we didn't get little laser pointers or goodies, while other kids did, my father would answer "you got to sleep inside, i figured that was your present" sentimentality isn't really his strongest point. so, we actually got to celebrate it by buying 5 dollars worth of food items at the grocery store on the way home. i went for candy items, several candy bars and a few pounds of gummy worms (drools). my little brother decided to buy some actual food. .. and got sick. he always gets "sick" somehow. sleep over at a friends house just about guarantees he's not going to school the next day. so, now that was a while ago, and my supply of iced tea and gummy worms are running low. i just realized i should cut up the gummy worms, and use them as a substitute for gummy bears in suudsu
apart from that, i just got back from a halo 2 LAN and after playing about 12 hours of halo, tried to sleep. and when i woke up, i do as i usually do. i don't move at all, control my breathing to try to keep it exactly the same as it just was, and very slowly and carefully open one eye (i'm kinda paranoid and heavily influenced by martial art flicks) i heard a shuffle that sounded a bit to carefully placed to be stepping over me, and waited half a second to decide that it was someone about to try to draw on me with a marker or something stupid while i was asleep. making up my mind i kicked with my nearest foot toward the sound at about shin height (i was sleeping on the floor) and was rewarded with audible "holy s***" and "i knew it was only a matter of time before his ninja instincts kicked in!"
the seversons showed up and that made the whole time pretty schweet. nicknamed by me the sever-twins (they're identical twins) they moved away about a year ago and it was nice seeing them.. me and alex still haven't gotten that hand-shake down.
wow.. it's only 2-ish weeks till chrismahanakwanzaka...seems i've let time get away from me yet again. sometimes i swear that guy has it in for me.

happy day

why are you here..


when you should be Here?

new things

i've been tempted with making a profile for this site. that way for the off chance some one is like "hm, who IS this?" there would be a site dedicated to informing them about my person. problem, would be that i'm terrible at realizing, in what paragraph, what i'm like. it's much easier to just question others about me, and put up there responses. i mean, it would probably be easier for the person in question to just read a few of these posts. i write how i talk, or i would like to think i do...although i'm pretty sure i'd write things i wouldn't neccisarily say to people..anyways, i will,in the interest of the viewing audience, attempt to make a short bit about myself. other problem that i have not stated is my reluctance to let people i don't know, know about me. living on a farm where, to this day i doubt the existance of my neighbors, and will continue to believe their machinery works only threw some law of magic, doesn't teach you how to be very social, or the skills to be so.
soo... (this is about the best Matrix quote set up i'm going to get.)
let's just see how far the rabbit hole goes..

a winters night

Snow where it belongs

we finally got some long awaited snow, only to come to the realization that our school will never cancel. despite 7 inches or so of white persuasion, so somehow, we all got trapped in the school until we could shovel out the cars and leave. several times we were tempted to walk home for lunch and claim we couldn't get back due to the snow. one of these seasons i'm going to realize that i desprately need some kind of digital picture taking device so that i can picture-ize the pretty landscape.
this being the first REAL snow fall, means that hot chocolate experimentation has begun. so far, i'm mixing cinnamon, dark chocolate, and one of those little red/white minty mints. i don't think i needed the dark chocolate, but it was still amazing. previous attemps involved liqured chocolate mousse, powdered sugar and, some kind of candy substance that currently excapes me.try them, their amazing. if you have powdered hot chocolate, use swiss miss.

They are here

oh, the first one, is my idea of how things should work once i get to a certain level of anger. i would so go hulk/gandalf. and the one with the "squeeze!" is what i want to do to people who just continue to talk despite obvious cue's that they should stop. of course the 2 can be combined as well.
finally i got to a scanner that works....and yet doesn't. some how it managed to scan one huge part of some of the longer comics, and completely missed others. out of the near 15 pages, this is what i can account for. once i get things into a regular routine, there should be more of where this came from.
feel free to comment on these so i can do bettah!!
(*snaps in her direction*) this ones for you Jen!