Lizzie: October 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

SNOW!!!

Aw, come on man. You really can't deny it this time.
Yo.
Today was (is- I'm not dead yet) a wonderful day. Over and over again, it just kept getting better.
For instance, when I got to school today on day one of wearing a coat (woot!), I found out that our school today would play host to a busload of Japanese exchange students that spoke no English whatsoever. They were all really cool- I had a handfull of each of them in each of my classes.
Then I got 98% (you can't really do that with caps lock on, but if I could, it would be in huge letters) on a big map test after the librarian helped me. She told me the weirdest story ever to help me, but, hey, it worked. Same thing with Logan and Cameron's weird ways of remembering the physical features of Western Europe. I mean, come on- "Py likes apples, so he will take nine from his ballpoint pen" is supposed to help me remember that the four mountain ranges are the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Apennines, and the Pindus mountain ranges.
I will admit that it helped me (don't ask me how) on the test.
For those of you just joining us here on Lizzie's blog, my name is Jill and this is where I talk my guts out. It doesn't have to make sense and nobody has to listen.
Lizzie is the amazing cousin of my aunt's brother in law. Like I said, my name is Jill.
So, anyways...
I scored 98% (in all caps) on a big test today.
Then we had chocolate rolo cookies in foods.
Then it snowed in Seminary.
This is not something to get casual over. Snow. You think I just say it like it happens everyday.
Well, it doesn't.
Snow is the beauty of life.
The reason for water.
The reason for hands.
The reason for gloves.
The reason of winter (besides oranges).
Snow, people. SNOW!!!
S
N
O
W
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I kinda like snow.
Anyways...
Snow.
:)
And now I am dancing around my house, eating cookie dough and rocking out to Basshunter.
I mean...
I'm doing homework and the cookie dough is all in the oven and not in my tummy.
:)
My mother reads this blog.
Yeah.
I gotta go. I really need to, uh, finish my essay.
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: ~
What's your favorite letter?
Mine's the squiggly.
~

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Joke

What was the first argument between Adam and Eve?
Who got to wear the plants.

Quote of Today: You just got it.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

A Cupcake Day

Yo.
Today is the one-year anniversary of the carcrash. May you live without pain!
Anyways...
I had a cupcake day today.
Every now and then, I got a sprinkle, but for the most part, there way too much frosting (unless they were Lizzy's Mom's cupcakes- yummmmmmm!), however, the moisture was almost perfect.
Do you ever have those?
The sprinkles of today: Jon Schmidt finally released Love Story Meets Love Story (you thought I'd forget about that, didn't you? But an elephant never forgets)!!! Yeah, they renamed it, but who cares? It's on iTunes for only 99 cents!!! Ahhhhh!!! As soon as I get money I'm buying it!!!!!!!!!
Psyched.
They also gave the cello an amazing solo. I loved it and I think it turned out really good. The first one wasn't doing the cello any justice.
Now that I think about it, the cello is in almost every song in this new album.
I'm not complaining- it turned out beautiful.
Then, we played volleyball in PE. Normally, that goes terrible, but it was actually okay today.
For lunch, I had Cup-o-Noodles. Total sprinkle moment!
And when Jessi and I were (as usual) bugging the librarian and she started talking to us and asked us if we could do some service for her. We said, "Why, we'd love to!" and she took us to Mr. Whitaker's office (Vice Principal- I know, at this point I was pretty scared) and we had to wheel these book carrier things into her office and...
Yeah.
We did service!
In Biology, Katie and I were goofing off. Fun!
Too much frosting moments: Jessi had a moment today! Oh my gosh, in her third and fourth period classes, she was teased because people found out who her crush was!!! I know that when you come to my blog, you're expecting stuff about me, but this totally applies to me because I am greatly affected by her moods.
And we had a test in math today.
That's defiantly too much frosting.
And then...
Oh yeah!
Moisture!
SNOWWWWWW!!!
As in... snowBOARDING!
I had a dream last night that I went snowboarding and saw-
For those of you (who probably don't snowboard or else you'd welcome the snow) who are screaming at the computer screen right now because you think it didn't snow the other day, I'd like you to know that, first, I can't hear you, and second, it really did snow.
I swear it did!
I don't lie!
Okay, maybe I make exceptions to that philosophy, but not on this blog!
Okay, maybe I do every now and then, but not about this!
Okay, maybe I would lie about this, but I'm not this time.
I'm not.
You still don't believe me.
Skier.
Humph.
Now you've added to my "too much frosting."
Anyways, I need to get back to... what I do.
Shoutouts: Saturday is BRYCE'S BIRTHDAY! I swear he's just thirteen. There is no way that he's just a month younger than me. HE'S NOT GOING TO BE A TEACHER UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
Wow. Caps Lock is getting tired from this post.
Tomorrow is my first stake dance. I was excited for Cole to take me, but there's a PG Varsity game that night in Salt Lake and it goes until late.
Apparently there's a Princess Dance the next morning, but there is no way Jessi and Janessa are going to drag me into that. No way!!!
Additional news: We got our school picture. Ahhh!
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Muffins are just ugly cupcakes.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Introduction

I apologize, but my cousins just came over and Nash and Quaid are complaining about how they don't have pictures on my blog (and yes, Quaid, I think that fully qualifies as "complaining"), so, here are their pictures. This is Lagoon. Nash was practically a baby. Awww...This is at Grandmom's house, playing a game. Quaid thinks he looks very "sexy" (that's how he put it) in this outfit.This is Quaid's amazing chin. It's a square.

And those are my cousins. Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Life is like an artichoke. I don't know why, it just is.

MAJOR UPDATES: Everything Else!

Yo.

Well, what haven't I covered in MAJOR UPDATES? There was the end of EJ Super Summer Camp and an awesome slip-n-slide. We had a youth party and stuff. It was pretty fun. We played human bowling and there were treats and everything. It was pretty cool.

This is our last move as the Founders of EJ Super Summer Camp. Doesn't it make you wish it was still Summer?

The next day was my Dad's Graduation/Birthday Party. We did the same thing.Oh, did you know that tarantulas eat crickets? Yeah, we've been trying to feed him grasshoppers for two weeks (probably why he tried to bite us every time we tried to reach in). He ate and he's happy now!

I saw August Rush! It was AMAZING!!!

I think we've covered everything. I didn't miss anything, did I? Oh, well. Hasta luego.

Quote of Today: Girls can do everything boys can do. They just do it in high heels.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

MAJOR UPDATES: Logan's Eagle

Yo.

Hola.
Wassup?

Hello.

Kunitchiwa.

Winngapoe.

Chao.

Shalom.

Buenos dias.

Qwertyuiop.

Asdfghjkl.

Not working for you?

I didn't think so either.

We'll just stick with "Yo."

Yo.

We have now moved on to one of the last portions of MAJOR UPDATES.

In this segment, we will be reviewing Logan's Eagle Project.

We made these packet things for the upcoming election and delivered them to every single house in Cedar Hills. Woah.

I got there a little late because I had piano. In piano, I'm taking a Theory course that ends out being college level material. You never get college credit, but if you want to study music when you grow up, it helps you prepare.

Anyways, I was late because I was taking the end-of-level test and I got 100%!

I'm not sure you heard me correctly. You're not screaming out with joy.

One hundred percent!

100/100!

100%!

A+!

Ace!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Am I scaring you yet?

Oh, well.

Where was I?

Oh, yes. Logan's Eagle Project.

It was fun.

Logan (duh), Jessi, Janessa, Tyson, Tim, Taylor, Channing, Davis, and Jacob were there. It was fun- At one point, Brother Seegmiller brought down a bag of skittles and I took out all of the green ones. Jessi followed me and took out all of the yellow ones (in memory of her old crush- I know! Something about Pears!)...

And then Tyson got all mad at us and took out all of the purples. Then Logan took the reds and Channing took the...

Yeah.

Don't even get me started about the Jolly Ranchers.

His Eagle Project ended up being more of a party. We had contests to see who could get a hundred packets done first (Janessa totally cheated) and we played music and karaokeed the whole time, and Jessi and I took a million videos and pictures.

And then there was this one time where Logan and Tyson took my camera and ran into the back room (while it was still recording- Thanks, guys, just what I needed- a beautiful shot of Logan's room. Talk about tornado) and everybody ran back to look at all of my pictures while I was the only one left working. I want credit when Logan actually gets his Eagle! Who was it doing the work while he was back there playing around?

Humph.

Which reminds me...

Pictures!!!

The star himself. No, this is not actually during the project, this is on the way to Youth Night, it's just that all of his pictures of the actual Project were blurry and this is the best clean shot of him I could find.

See? Blurry.

Janessa. She claims to have been babysitting. I think it turned out to be being babysat rather than actually doing work.

I think it's important for you to know that most of these pictures Jessi took, so they are very blurry. Yes, Logan's picture was taken by Jessi.

Me. WORKING!!!

Channing. It's okay. She can take a small break to smile at my camera.

Sarah. I love, love, love Sarah!!! We're birthday buddies. September ninth!

Jacob. I'm curious to see how this kid will end up...

Tim.

Taylor.

Tyson. Staring off into space. Ha, ha.

Tyson... SMILING!!! It took me so much effort and work to get this picture, but after an endless process of fixing and revising and everything, it paid off. He's so proud of his record of not letting me have a smiling picture. LOOK WHO GOT THE LAST LAUGH!!!

Muahahahahahahahahaha.

Us. With Jessi Blocking my face.

Hasta luego. Stay tuned for next time (I'm not really sure where to stop with MAJOR UPDATES).

Quote of Today: I am a bomb technician. If I am running, try to keep up.

MAJOR UPDATES: Our New Pet

Yo.

I know!

It happened!

We got a pet!

And he (we're just calling it a "he"- we're not quite sure) is the wimpiest thing ever!

I'll let you guess.

Hint No. 1: All of the movie make him look scary, but he's more scared than scary.

Hint No. 2: He bites, but it hurts a little worse than a bee sting. It's not poisonous.

Hint No. 3: He eats crickets.

Hint No. 4: You only have to clean the tank, like, every six months.

Hint No. 5: We named him Fang. DEAD GIVEAWAY!!!

Yes, I know. We got a pet tarantula. We did not spend money on him, we actually found him trying to climb up our house and we kept him.
He hasn't bit anyone, and he's afraid of everybody except for me.

And (almost) everybody except me is afraid of him.

If you are considering a pet tarantula, here are some things you should know about them.

They have three warnings before they eat you. 1) They back off. They normally look like they just woke up because they won't move. 2) They start to shed their hairs. This happened when Logan came over the other day. Good thing, because Logan was terrified and didn't want to hold him anyway. 3) They rear back on their hind legs and show their fangs. 4) They bite.
Their bite hurts a little worse than bee stings, and, unless you are allergic to bee stings (Esther's allergic to cockroaches and spiders- we'll see how this works out), it doesn't affect you. The venom is only meant to kill things smaller than the spider itself.
They are cannibals. Four tarantulas have been spotted on our street since we found ours last week, but we can't keep any of them because they will just eat each other.
They eat once or twice a week, but sometimes they'll go a whole month without eating and that's perfectly normal.
They don't need water, they just suck the liquid from their prey when they eat.

So... yeah. Fang is very sensitive to sound. You can't be loud around him.

Wanna see pictures?
Say yes!

Yes?

Okay.

This is what I looked like when we first took him out of the bucket. Now, I'm strangely okay with tarantula legs going across my hand.

Eventually, I got Jack to do it, too.

Esther even got brave enough to do it! Wow!

Dad.

Mom.

That night cousins came over to see him, too. Here's Cole!

Jessi with her totally forced smile. It feels really weird the first time!

Bryce and Taylor came over to see it. They thought it was pretty cool (and NOT scary, right Bryce?) and held it without any hesitation.

We're still working on Janessa and Logan. Fraidy Cats!

Quote of Today: Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

Friday, October 2, 2009

MAJOR UPDATES: Girl's Camp

Yo.

Welcome back to MAJOR UPDATES. In this episode, we will explore the results of a whole ward of girls put in an environment without makeup, chocolate, credit cards, or boys. For most girls, this is torture, and then there are those weirdos who think it's a refuge- ahem! Well, except for the "no chocolate" part...

We went to Heber Valley Camp this year. You know, the one with cabins and hot showers and a kitchen and bunk beds and electric outlets and everything? That's the one!

This year, my Mom was camp cook. We had yummy food!

This isn't her, this is just my version of her during our skit. I'm wearing her clothes, makeup, shoes, and we later curled my hair. I looked a lot like her! Weird, huh?

Yeah, we kind of made fun of the leaders by being them.

Our team leader was Cheyenne. She was Sister Hickey (a.k.a. Iron Woman). Sister Hickey had to get stitches because we played Tug-o-War until the rope broke.

We were the Ohana clan. As in Barack Ohana (that was me!)

Inside joke.

Ha, ha.

This is Jasmine. I was her secret sister.

This is me preparing for the Ropes Course.

These are both groups doing a spiritual activity. We almost won; it was a tie. Bailey volunteered to save us all by standing on a log all day, but Channing won.

This was totally the best part of camp!!! Brother Jonas had come up as a priesthood leader, and after he splashed Sister Freeman with water when we were canoeing, she had us all gang up on him with full water bottles when he wasn't looking. It was awesome!