wah!!! the baseball season's over!!! :(( what am i to do now? what did my nieces and didder and i do before becoming obsessed? i don't know how to function in the real world anymore!
we ended on a high note, which was good (not only did we win, it was a good game). but now we have to wait until april! 6 months!!! i'm so sad!
anyway. i'd just like to take this opportunity to say one more time...
i love my twins!!!

reading GOD's Word (october 18, 2006)

so i'm reading this quickly, because i want to read it, but i know my diana is coming over and may be here soon. it's good, but i know that i'm zooming through it and plan to get back to it tomorrow or sometime. (it has verses to look up and i'm not going to take the time now.) then i get to the last paragraph:

"There are so many treasures to be found in the Word of God! When we slow down and really soak it in, our lives will be transformed."

lol

i did have a thought of my own last night, though. i went to my room to read my Bible and pray, and was unable to focus. i then thought, 'ah - i should've known. this makes perfect sense. i'm getting on track with GOD again, so of course i am now going to be under attack by satan because he can't stand that.' so then i started wondering what i could do to protect myself from these attacks. and then i thought, 'well that's just dumb. why am i worrying about what i can do? hello! my FATHER has a shield all the way around me. what's with us peeking around the shield to see if we can fight? that's when we get shot in the foot or get an arrow through our arm. why not stay behind the Shield? HE's got us covered! why try to see what satan's going to do? why not just trust the Shield, and look to the FATHER? (HE's much more beautiful to look at anyway!)' so that was my thought. i'm not going to worry about these attacks. i'm just going to trust that GOD's got it covered.

the baseball chapel devo of the day won't download! i'm so sad!

the Great Spirit

today's baseball chapel talked about listening to GOD in prayer. it reminded me of something i saw on 'dharma and greg' (i know, i know - not where you'd expect great wisdom to come from, but hear me out).

dharma was frustrated about something and just kind of started talking to Whoever's out there. and she went on and on (not that we ever do anything like that). finally her dead indian spirit guide shows up and stops her:

'so you're having a conversation with the Great Spirit, the Creator of the universe?'
'i guess.'
'and you're doing the talking?'

one reason my friend nick amuses me

when the guys get up to bat, they each have a 'walk on' song that plays to pump them (and the crowd) up.

here are some examples:

torii hunter: 'this is why i'm hot'

jason bartlett: 'party like a rock star'

justin morneau: some rap song i don't know

nick punto: 'whip it'

old chapels

i decided that since the devos on baseball chapel are so short, and since some of them pertain mostly to baseball wives, i'll read a couple each day to get even more out of this whole chapel thing. so, from october 2, 2006, here's the thought for the day:

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service.” 1 Timothy 1:12

"There is no doubt that God uses His people. He places us in specific places where we will be most useful to Him. Over the years I've learned that wherever we are is exactly where God wants us to be...Every person we come in contact with is entrusted to us by God. We may have two years or maybe only two seconds to make an impact. As the Lord laid these thoughts on my heart and mind, I began to think about the people He entrusted to me this past week...Now the question I must ask myself is, “Did I please God with how I spent my time with these precious people?”...I'm so honored that God counts me worthy enough to place people in my path. I will strive harder every day to pay more attention to everyone God gives me..."

why when you put pictures from 'my pictures' in 'paint' do they become all blurry? it's rather annoying.

my errands today

1. get a haircut - fine, but i'll have to get used to it

2. go to the bank - could only find one of the two checks i need to deposit

3. go to the post office - couldn't find the address i need

4. make a dermotologist app't - can't get in til november

5. get Christmas presents for my nieces - success!!!

6. buy my diana's b-day present - couldn't find it

7. buy polo shirts for work - out of season

8. find a twins zippie hoodie for me - $45? and only pullover? nevermind

and that was my day of errands

another reason i love boys (from the justin morneau chapter since i figure you'll never read it)

The summer after graduation, Justin and some friends went camping:

" At the campsite, there were a couple of huge trees with limbs directly overhead. Scott climbed up on one of them and started acting like a monkey. I saw that and had to join him, so I climbed up the tree and did my own monkey act on the other big branch. I guess we were finally at one with nature...

"Tyler was on the ground filming the whole thing...Scott and I were getting more monkeylike by the second...We were laughing and then I heard a cracking sound. It was my tree limb and I was going down. I tried to jump off onto another branch, but it turned out I wasn't much of a monkey. I missed and landed dead center on the tent. It broke my fall. Without the tent, I would have broken my neck. An instant later Scott fell, and he landed on the tent, too...We were crying and laughing. We were a disaster of tent canvas and blood...

"We drove forty-five minutes back into town and pulled up to the hospital...The nurse asked me if we banged ourselves up playing hockey. I told her, 'No, we were climbing in a tree acting like monkeys, and the branch broke.' She told me not to be a smart[alleck], and if she wanted some humor she would ask for it. Then she pulled a piece of bark out of the inside of my lip and said, 'You weren't kidding, were you?' I said, 'No, I wasn't. And we have the video to back it up!'"

I so want to see that video. :)

great quote (from 'big bang theory')

after meeting the hot blonde chick:

first nerd: 'our babies will be smart and beautiful.'

second nerd: 'not to mention imaginary'

number one reason why i love torii hunter and he shouldn't leave

because i love torii hunter and he shouldn't leave!!!!!!

short thought from baseball chapel

"How much of this time are we living and breathing in Christ? I know for myself some days I feel like I don't sit down, let alone get some quiet time to myself. These are the days that I have to wonder, what is so important that I can't even find time for God? At this time...I need him more than ever."

reasons #134 and #135 why i'm the coolest aunt ever

erma, scout, enrique, and i went to our last twins game of the year today. (tomorrow is the last home game, next sunday the last game.) we lost, but that's not why i'm the coolest. that part kinda stinks (and has nothing to do with me - i'm only responsible when they win).

but anyway. the girls wanted mauer cups (collectable cups that you get when you buy pop). each food stand is different, though, so you don't know what cups they'll have. last week my father and i walked around the whole dome seeing if there was any chance they had a cuddyer or hunter cup, which they don't. every booth we saw had morneau, except one, which had santana (but even that it was only at one register). but erma and scout decided they wanted to try for a mauer one (which we knew existed, just hadn't seen) today. while scout fell behind with enrique, erma and i plowed ahead. finally, at the very end, we found a booth with mauer cups! yay! i went up to the counter, pulled out the money, and said i'd like a mauer cup. the woman said, 'we aren't selling anything here. this booth is for group appreciation.' i said, 'you're the only booth with mauer cups!' and she just shook her head with a 'too bad for you' look.

we started to walk away, when i spun around, turned to erma and said, 'i'm getting you one.' so we lurked until i found a likely victim (or rather witting accomplice) - a kind looking man of about 35 years. 'excuse me, sir?' i asked. 'is there any chance you could get a mauer cup for us? this is the only booth that has them but they won't let us buy any.' i held out the money and looked at erma to draw the attention there so he could see how cute she is and how badly she needed a mauer cup. he looked over at her, then looked back at me and said, 'actually we don't buy anything here. i'll just go order two cokes.' so he did, then once the three of us walked out of eyesight, he passed one to me to give to her. :D then he said, 'i have one that i finished already back at my seat if you want another one.' 'oh that would be perfect! i have another niece running around here somewhere!' so we walked with him to his seats (though not all the way, cuz he didn't want anyone there catching him being the one giving the cups to girls who weren't supposed to have them), and he gave us the other one! yay! so scout got one, too! i am the coolest aunt ever!

then, when we came home, i gave them each a pennant with joe mauer on it. (you know, a pennant - those flag shaped things that usually have team names on them? well, this one goes up and down and has a picture of mauer. it's way cute.) i rock.

English as a first language

Concerning the use of 'that' versus 'who':
'That' refers to an object, an animal, or an act of nature.
'Who' refers to a person.
Please do not use 'that' when talking about people. I do not appreciate being called 'the girl that likes Tolkien and the Twins.' I am a person. I am 'the girl who likes Tolkien and the Twins.'
In the song 'Who I Am,' by Jessica Andrews, she says, 'I've got friends that love me.' I'm sorry, but if I were her friend, I would stop being her friend because she called me a 'that.' And in 'Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?' on Sesame Street, they say, 'the people that you meet each day.' Why are they teaching our children to say things incorrectly? Aren't they supposed to be an educational program? (Though thankfully there are people out there like Ralph Nader, who refused to say 'that.' When he sang it, he said, 'the people whom you meet each day.')
And that (not who) is all I have to say about grammar today. Thank you (to you who are people, not thats.)

the game tomorrow

so we have these coupons for buy one ticket get one free. i've been meaning to use them all summer, but haven't had the opportunity (except for when chelley was here). i finally realized that tomorrow is my last chance to use them, and thought, 'hey, i want to do that,' but i didn't think about it too much cuz i figured i wouldn't get the chance cuz i have no friends in town. but then i found out that my parents are having Bible study at our house tomorrow night, and while the people in their Bible study aren't scary, i still don't like being there when they are. so i called around, but none of my friends could go. but then i got a great inspiration. dinoboy! he likes going to games! and how fun would it be to go to a twins game with a seven year old boy? so i called squaw cousin and she said it would work. so now i get to go with him. yay! :)

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Arrgh! Yer booty shivers me timbers!

today's baseball chapel devo

i just read it. it's not as convicting, but that's because it has to do with being a baseball wife. but it gives a little peek into their lives. it talks about the transition that has to be made when baseball season is over and their husbands are back at home. one thing i liked was that this wife talked about her husband being the head of the household and her need to submit to that when he comes home. for some reason it always makes me happy to see a woman acknowledge her Biblical responsibility to submit. it makes me think that she must be deep and that she must have a good grasp of theology. i know it's very wrong of me to judge like that, but it seems that families in which the wife is openly submitting to her husband's headship tend to be families that are rightly ordered under CHRIST, and thus are famlies in which GOD is glorified. like i said, this is all me judging people, and i have no right to do that, but in general i do find it to be true.

and this makes me all the more excited about baseball chapel - that they are supportive of that doctrine (not trying to avoid the issue like a lot of non-denominational organizations do). it seems to be further evidence that GOD is truly working in this.

yesterday's baseball chapel devo

these devos might be good for me. they're kind of convicting. this one was on Acts 3:2-10. here's part:

'Peter and John not only saw him, they also saw an opportunity to live for Christ. Makes me wonder – what opportunities to give God glory do we miss?
'It’s interesting that the disciples met the need they were able to meet. It wasn't what he'd asked for, but it was what they were able to do. He asked for money. He received healing. What they did for him caused him to go WITH them into the temple. Upon having this need met, he immediately recognized where the praise should go - and because of this he joined them in public worship. Hmm... what needs am I meeting for people "outside the church" that will cause them to want to go with me to a place of worship? '

Book Review: Twelve Extraordinary Women

I loved 'Twelve Ordinary Men,' by John MacArthur. So when I heard that he had this sort of pseudo-sequel, I got all excited. And then I was really excited when I found a copy for half price when the bookstore went out of business.

So anyway. I finally got around to reading it during my vacation. It was good. Just not as good as I thought it would be. I'm sure part of that was probably that my expectations were so high. I think the biggest thing was that I didn't feel there was any application. Part of it could also be that since the sections in the Bible about these women are shorter than the passages about the disciples (which is what the other book was about), it tended to say a lot of things that I've heard before.

My favorite chapter was the chapter on Anna, the prophetess at the temple when JESUS was dedicated. It really showed her as a godly woman, who we can look to as an example as to how to be completely devoted to GOD. 'She lived the simplest kind of life. She could always be found at the temple. She was singularly and completely devoted to the service and worship of GOD - mostly through her prayers and fasting.'

Overall it is a good book, and I would recommend it. Just keep in mind that it is not the same as 'Twelve Ordinary Men.' And then you will enjoy it.

Baseball Chapel

Being a Christian in the world of professional sports is hard. There are so many temptations out there, they play on Sundays which means they can't go to church, and they're out of town a lot so they can't get plugged into a church if they wanted to. So, back in the 60s, players from the Twins and the Chicago Cubs started having services in hotel rooms when they were on the road. By 1975, all MLB teams had chapel services, which then switched to being held in the ballparks.

How cool is that? Every team has a chapel, and it's in the ballpark so any guy (and family and umps and whomever connected with baseball) can go any week. Each chapel has the same notes, so they have a consistency and don't miss out when they're in other cities. They have league wide Bible studies, devotionals for the wives, and a prayer request/praise board online.

They have a place to sign up for the prayer team: the verse they have on that page is, 'Colossians 4:2-3, "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ …"' That is so cool!

A lot of the material on the website seems fairly basic, but when you have guys who are at completely different places spiritually, and people from all different denominations, it's good to be basic. We could all use a kick in the pants to remind us (who have been Believers for awhile) of everything that we take for granted. Mere Christianity, you know?

Yesterday I read the women's devotional of the day. It hit me hard. It's just so where I'm at. "But like the church that Jesus confronts in Ephesus in Revelation 2, I too forsake my first love all too often! I compromise my beliefs, I become lazy in my pursuit of Him through His Word and prayer, I get distracted by day to day life, and I get caught up in the world around me...How it must grieve the heart of my God, the lover of my soul, to see me forsake Him; and how He must yearn to see me return, knowing that only in His embrace will I find true joy and peace in this life!" I could go on, but why don't I just do this: http://baseballchapel.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=Devotionals&CFID=15596630&CFToken=10093784 (It's the one for Sept. 16th that hit me - I haven't read the others yet.)

Anyway - y'all should check out the site. It's so spiffy. Even if you don't care about baseball, you have to admit that it's cool to see ways in which GOD is working.

http://www.baseballchapel.org/

a post about my next post

so way back when i started turning this into a twins fan blog (not officially), i said that torii hunter and michael cuddyer go to baseball chapel. well, in light of them talking about trading hunter, i started thinking about how important it is to have Christian guys on the team. and then i remembered that i had wanted to see what baseball chapel is. and then i accidentally stumbled across the website while looking for a picture of nick punto (who hasn't said that he goes to baseball chapel, he was just mentioned on the 'faith and fastballs' website, which led me to baseball chapel).

but anyway, all of this is to say that i was very excited to find it, and now i'm going to do a nice long post about it. (for those of you who don't read blogs from the bottom up, all i can say is that you should, cuz they make more sense, since that is the order in which they're written.)

day one of back to work

not too bad. actually the cook was the one who was all out of it. it was quite humorous, thus making the day not too bad. so thank you cook! :)

day eight of vacation

i have to go back to work tomorrow! :( :( :( i spose you're all looking forward to it, though, cuz then i won't be posting as much, so you won't be so overwhelmed.

but anyway...

i ended up not going to church this week either because i didn't feel good. (felt a little off and epilepish - but don't worry, nothing happened.) too much excitement yesterday, i guess. (hey, if cuddyer and nick caused my seizure do you think they'd come visit me?) i went back to bed and felt better when i got up, but still not 100%. (in other words - i should probably go to bed soon.) my brother was here painting the house, so i was social at him for a little bit, then i watched the game while he and my father continued to work (i love being the girl). after that i came on here, and have been on ever since. so that has been my final day.

sorry i'm twinsy again!

my friend nick

my girls got to go to a nick punto autograph signing yesterday, and being the nice people that they (and my sister) are, they let me go, too. :) yay! he was number 8 on my list of twins what i like (but after my top 4, the next 4 are all really close, so it's not as bad as it sounds). so seeing him would be cool, and seeing a twin in general would be cool. so i was all excited.

we got there early enough that we were toward the front of the line, so we were some of the first to see him. as soon as he walked in, didder leaned over to me and said, 'he's cute!' at which point i leaned back at said, 'did you see his arms?' we're so used to seeing him in a batting helmet and big sleeves, next to a bunch of super tall guys, that we didn't realize just what a hottie he is. and he is! and he was so cute with all the little kids (he was breaking the rules and taking pictures with them, which he wasn't supposed to do because of time constraints). i was gonna ask him if i could join his family (cuz i'm thinking of defecting from mine cuz they pick on me so much), but i didn't get a chance to because of all the kids.

but he has gotten bumped up on my list of twins what i like. he's now tied with jason bartlett for 6th, and joe nathan has now been booted beneath them. so go mr. pipes! (oh, and i call him nick now, cuz he's my friend). :)

cuddyer bobblehead night

my father and i got to the dome at about 3:00 (gates opened at 4:00). it was insane. i'd never been to a game where people were waiting at the gates like that. thousands of people. people with tents and chairs and coolers and mini-grills. we finally found a line that was a little shorter than the others. then at 4:00 came the mad rush. and i got my bobblehead! yay! and then my father and i left. (we went out for supper, then came back.) and that's my happy bobblehead story.

day seven of vacation

why couldn't all my vacation days be like this? it kicked bum! i need to have days like this more often. i got to hang out with nick punto and i got my cuddyer bobblehead and i got to go to a game (and sit by morneau's bum) and all that. the only thing that would've made it better is if we had actually won the game. but still - it was great!

tomorrow's cuddyer bobblehead night! i've been waiting for this all season!

day six of vacation

i got up at one but had been lying there for awhile listening to the wind rattle my bedroom door. had lunch, then proceeded to split my jammie pants. i went shopping (didn't find anything - apparently they don't make men's jammie pants in small, and apparently they want women to freeze by making their jammies really thin). i then made supper and went shopping again, this time with my mother, who is tres talented and managed to find some women's jammie pants that are kind of warm (well, warmer than the others anyway). sadly she was unable to find a twins hoodie in small, though, so i'll just have to freeze my toosh waiting outside for my cuddyer bobblehead tomorrow. and now i'm here with chelleybutton, though we're not really chatting cuz we're blogging. so sad.

i could review 'twelve ordinary women' today, but i really don't feel like it. i'm enjoying the shallowness of all these woo-woo pictures that i've put up in the last couple days.

day five of vacation

better than yesterday. i woke up not in a good mood, but it got better. i watched 'notorious' (ok movie), finished my book, started reading another, and went shopping with my mother. again, nothing exciting, but at least my mom didn't back out on our plans to go shopping (which we made right before we made pit-stops before going shopping).

my new beverage of choice

didder sent me this picture

i enjoy it. :)

what's even more fun, though...

is that this is what shows up in my im window. ;)

jon stewart's gonna host the oscars this year. if i remember right, he didn't do the best last time, but hey, i'll get to see him, so it's all good. (besides, it's really not fair for these people who are having to host after billy crystal and whoopi goldberg. they were great hosts.)

plus also

peter's woo-woo

but on a more positive note

i watched 'the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe' today. i like that movie. they did such a good job with it. i'm not gonna bother reviewing it, cuz i'm sure we've all seen it, but it's so good. i like that they didn't try to stay away from the religious aspect of it. i mean, aslan even says 'it is finished.' oh, and i like when he says, 'i was there when it was written.'

there are other things i like, too. mr. tumnus' house looked just like it did in my head, susan was perfectly cast, the beavers are cockney (like i always said they were), and it makes so much sense that peter would have the gryphons be dive bombers (as that's the kind of battle he has seen) (i also like the subtle longing look peter has on his face when he sees the soldiers at the railroad station in london). there are many other things i could think of, but i'll stop there.

day four of vacation

today was even nicer outside. so i went out to read and i swear the same [insert naughty word here] bee came and hovered around me. i'm sick of it! all i want to do is get out and enjoy GOD's wonderful creation before winter comes and i get trapped inside for 6 months, but no, this one inch creature is controlling my life! speaking of controlling my life, my stupid dummy brother, for whom i took this week off of work, has decided that it's not worth getting together this week cuz he's coming to paint the house this weekend with my dad. hello! i have plans this weekend. and hello, i took time off so i could spend time with you and you can't even give me a flippin' afternoon!?! ugh! last time i ever let anyone control what i do. all the plans i ever make hinge on someone else. and then something always happens with the someone else, and i'm left frustrated cuz i don't do anything. screw the world! i'm doing stuff alone from now on! (oh, except going on that road trip to a twins game with you next year didder.)

here's another pic of mekhi for you, chelley. (wow - you're getting a lot of posts here lately. :) )

oh, and ps - he looks really good in purple. ;)

oh, but there was a 10 year old girl at my aunt's

she seems really sweet. she was nicely (not bossily) encouraging her younger brother to do his homework, she was helping the blind boy do some finger weaving, and then, this was the really impressive part, she was going to make a friendship bracelet and she asked me, 'do pink and purple and blue look well together?' i was so impressed. i think i'll adopt her.

day three of vacation

got up at noon, read both inside and out, was online, then went to my aunt's to babysit. i had new kids this time, and my aunt ended up staying cuz two were very sad babies. (have i mentioned that i don't like babies? cuz i don't. i'm adopting one year olds.) my aunt was nice enough to buy a mcflurry for me, but i really shouldn't have said yes to one, cuz it was too much but i couldn't throw it out cuz she bought it, and now i feel all gross, cuz not only was it too much, it was too much ice cream, so it's solid fat. yuck.

I told Autoemlinda that I'd post my List, so I better get it out of my system before I get all deep

Alrighty. In all this time of me having a blog, through all my BOTWs and through posting my marriable list, I've never posted my 'list.' (Thanks in part to the fact that I had to think of someone new after that loser last year ruined LL Cool J for me.) So, here goes, in no particular order (except the first one):

1. Joaquin Phoenix

He's smoldering. Enough said.

Mekhi Phifer

He's got such a twinkle.

Matthew McConaughey

Any man who can make 'when the budweiser in the chicken butt starts boilin'' sound sexy has to be on this list.

George Clooney

He's George Clooney.

Justin Morneau

I know I will be forced to get over this Twins phase come October, but whether I'm obsessing about them or not, he's definitely list-worthy.

hobbitsister says i was my parents preshy weshy (which i always thought was spelled with an 'ie' but i guess she would know better)

apparently i'm not anymore. a few weeks ago my parents and i were talking about arranged marriages. they were talking about marrying me off to someone (don't remember who), and i said i felt like i was being sold for 15 cows. to which my mother responded, 'no, you're only worth 7 1/2 cows.'

then yesterday, my dad was talking about painting the house on saturday (which is cuddyer bobblehead night to which i'm going with him). he told me that i need to paint the part around the telephone and electric wires. i told him no cuz i'd die. to which he replied, 'then i'll get 2 bobbleheads!'

the adorkable twin (cuz chelley asked)

#20 - Lew Ford, Outfield

Trivia - is adorkable

chelley thinks my head is getting too big

i don't think this song is about me, but i look cute today. and i'm just in sweats with my hair in a headband. but i look cute. (thus i sat at home, and the cute son didn't come with the company.)

Chapter Review: 'Justin Morneau: O Canada!' from "Before the Glory"

Yes, I got a baseball book from the library. But only to read this one chapter. The book is about 20 different 'baseball heroes talk[ing] about growing up and turning hard times into home runs.' Doesn't that sound inspiring?

Too bad I don't really care. I just wanted to hear about Morneau.

It is so stinkin' cute. The first half of the chapter (14 pages) is actually written by him. And it is so written by a 25 year old athlete. It's very simple, but that just makes it seem very honest. He doesn't really talk about hard times and home runs; mostly he just talks about growing up with his brother and his friends. I so want boys.

"We watched a lot of WWF wrestling on TV and invented our own little sport...It was pretty simple. We would take all the cushions off the living room couch and make ourselves into human pillows. We'd stuff the smaller pillows into our shirt and pants and hold the bigger cushions with both arms. One guy would be down on the floor. The other would get up on a chair or something, jump off, and take a flying leap onto the other guy for a massive body slam...The only thing that took a real beating was Mom's nerves."

And so on. So cute.

I just kind of skimmed the last half of the chapter. That part is written by some baseball person who cares about stats and going through the minor leagues and stuff. But there is a little in there about when he lived with Mauer and when he went to accept his MVP award, so I'm glad I read those parts.

I highly recommend this chapter. It's just fun. I love boys. And Morneau is Morneau, which never hurts. :)

day two of vacation

k, so i've only been up for 2 1/2 hours. but i don't know if i'm going to get on here again today, so i figure i better do it now.
so far i've cleaned out my bathroom closet and done laundry and started to clean up the basement. we have company coming tonight, so that will be my evening. they're staying overnight (which is why i had to clean the bathroom and do laundry and clean up the basement), but i don't have to entertain them at all tomorrow, so that's good.
other than that, i have no idea what i'll be doing. it looks like a nice day, so i think i'll try to get out there some and read.

so how many posts can i do a day before you people quit reading?

my full name

chelle yelled at me the other day and called me 'Melilot N. Fosco.' it made me realize that i did not know my middle name. so, naturally, i had to find out. it's Dolly. Melilot Dolly Brandybuck of Buckland. i now feel complete.

alright, chelley, here it goes again. (but i'm gonna make myself some kettlecorn for supper first, so i'll be back in 5.)

day one of vacation

i was planning on going to church, but decided to skip it because of vikings traffic. i then made cookies for my mom (she hates doing the rolling the dough into little balls and sugaring them part [as do i] so i volunteered to do it for her). i then watched the twins game - we won finally! and it was johan pitching, so i got to practice the santana song, which was happy. i then took a two hour nap. i got to take a nap on a sunday! so wonderful. and now i'm here (as is chelleybutton, but her im is a poc, so we're not getting to chat, yet again, which is very frustrating). so that's day one.

if i'm ever thinking mauer's too sexy, i can always look at this picture. it cures a girl right quick.

Happy Birthday Hobbitsister!

If you were a man you'd be at your woo-wooiest. But as it is, you're not.

Love,

Your much younger sister Melilot

i've been bugging erma to scan this mauer pic from her magazine for over a month and she finally did - yay!

look at his eyes. they've got a smolderingness here almost to rival those of joaquin phoenix. if my list weren't already full...

i have another review to do, but that's a lot of reviews at once, so i guess i'll save it. i have a whole boring week ahead of me, so i may as well wait.

'what do i do when i'm alone? sometimes i sing a little song.

la la la la la la. that is the song i sing.'

- grover

football vs. baseball

today eileen was wearing purple and yellow (vikings colors). i told her she looked like a football fan and asked if she liked football. 'yes, i like football.' that made amanda all happy cuz she loves football. but of course, i hate football, so i had to ask, 'what about baseball? do you like baseball?' 'oh i like baseball much better!' i then told her that the boys who play baseball are cuter. 'yes they are,' she replied. so i said, 'that's a good reason to like a sport, right? because the boys are cute?' 'oh yes!'

so baseball wins. :)

Music Genre Review: Acapella

Why don't people who are in acapella groups realize that the only people who like acapella groups are people who are in acapella groups, and that they annoy the crap out of everybody else?

CD Review: Songs for Dustmites

This is Steve Burns' indie rock cd. I love it. It's one of the very few things I've ever rushed out and bought the day it came out (the others being HP7 and 'The Office' Season Two). When I first got it, it never left my stereo. More recently it has made it's way back to the cd case, but I still listen to it frequently. Except for very recently, when I haven't listened to it at all. But then one of the songs was in my dream the other night, so naturally I had to pull it out and listen to it again. Which reminded me of how much I love it!

speaking of jews

i love steve burns

speaking of jon stewart

i miss having cable. totally had a crush on him.

chelleybutton - do we have to start chatting here again?

oh yes, and i also learned from 'the know-it-all'

that Queen Victoria had a 'bustle that played "God Save the Queen" when she sat on it. Sort of a royal whoope cushion.'

i so need something like that.

Book Review: 'The Know-it-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World'

This is a greatly enjoyable book. This was my second time reading it, actually. Hobbitsister did a review of it, so I'm not quite sure what else to write, so suffice it to say that A. J. Jacobs did a wonderful job of, as Jon Stewart put it, '[putting] out a less complete version of the encyclopedia.' It is so stinking funny! He very much has my sense of humor (yet another reason I think I'm Jewish).

Here are a couple examples:

'glottal stop': In phonetics, this is a momentary stoppage of the airstream, caused by closing the glottis. When those with Brooklyn and Cockney accents pronounce 'bottle' as bah-ul, they are using the glottal stop. There's a cruel little irony here - those who use the glottal stop can't even pronounce it correctly. They say 'glah-ul stop.' I wonder if the people who named the glottal stop did this on purpose, the scamps.

'Glyndwr': A district in Wales. Please buy a vowel.

'Montaigne': I like this 16th-century French writer quite a bit...I like the story of how Marie de Gournay - a French intellectual at the time - fainted from excitement when she read Montaigne's work for the first time. She fainted from reading. What a great image. We've become far too jaded. I've been intrigued, bored, titillated, annoyed, amazed, but I've never even come close to fainting while reading any book. Which is sad...

what am i going to do on my vacation?

i've been getting very bored lately. what am i gonna do with a whole week off? broller doesn't want to go camping anymore, both the weekends are tied up, so it makes no sense to go visit anyone, i have no friends in town (i take that back - my diana should be home from her camping by then) - what am i to do?

what does one do with buttons?

if i were to buy a button, what would i do with it?

spiders

i didn't want to tell this tale before chelleybutton came cuz i was scared that then she wouldn't, but seeing as she's already been here, and seeing as she's proven herself to be a very brave spider killer, i think i can tell it.
last week when i was about to go to bed, there was a spider on the slanted ceiling right above it. so i had to be brave and get it. i went to squish it with some toilet paper and it fell onto my bed and scurried under my covers! as i threw back the covers to find it, all i could hear in my head was, 'louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand!'

so sad

i hate knowing that chelleybutton's online and not being able to chat with her cuz her instant messenger is a stupid dummyhead

the game on monday

sadly we lost again. :( my good luck charm has worn off i think. but i still love them!

and i rock, btw. i scrambled for a ball! erma didn't have one, and scout did, and that's so not fair. so, great aunt that i am, when a foul ball came our way, i snatched it up and gave it to erma! i got a ball at a game! i told erma that if she wasn't a kid there's no way i would've given it to her (although, knowing me, i would've felt bad if there was a cute 8 year old behind me, and would've ended up giving it to him or her). so now they're even and erma had her turn to smile all the way home.

plus also, hers is a santana ball, and how cool is that? (she didn't like that i kept singing the santana song to her, though. especially since i only knew seven words of it at that point. but now i'm learning the whole thing, so there. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LYFdFoU5xE0 )

yay chelle was here!

i love it when chelley comes to visit. she should do it more often (or just stay - that would make more sense). (as should other friends...hint hint.)
friday we kind of laid low. like i said, my mother told us we looked tired and to go to bed, and we did. before we did, though we walked to dq which was happy. (what a silly statement. when is dq not happy?)
then saturday we slept and slept, then went to moa. it was crazy! we went into more stores for me than for chelleybutton! go figure. sadly the cheese store closed early, so we only got one round of cheese. but hey, even one round of cheese leaves a person smiling, so that was good.
sunday we went to church. it was interesting. we went to the sermon of the first service and the worship and communion of the second. it wasn't a bad way to do it, just different. the awkward part was changing into game appropriate clothes after ducking out of the second service. i felt a little conspicuous coming out of the bathroom in my cuddyer shirt.
cuz yeah, after church we went to the game. we lost :( . but hey, going to a game is never a bad thing. just check chelle's blog - it sounds like she had fun. :)
erma and scout came that night (they were sleeping over before going to the game yesterday). unfortunately we didn't have time to play hp trivia with them (yet another reason chelley has to come again). we did watch brendan leonard, though, which was quite enjoyable.
unfortunately chelley left after lunch on monday. i tried again to keep her here, but that didn't work out. :( so like i said - she's going to have to come again! :)

more weekend thoughts later. suffice it to say that i need to go to bed.

great quote of the weekend

'wait, what did you say? i was thinking about cheese.'
- chelleybutton at moa

a fun word after midnight

twiddle :)

my mummy told us to go to bed last night. and we listened.

chelleybutton's here!

yay!