Kitchenware

At the breakfast table this morning,my roommate and I decided she wanted to look through the coupons on the table. As she was meandering, she found an add for this
It is a Presto Dual basket fryer. It comes with a FREE Oversized fryer basker. For as low as $9.99 this little piece of heaven can be YOURS.

Let's just say that if your family owns one of these...well...enough said really ;)

Especially Frivolous Youth

It's THAT time of year again. That's correct, tomorrow it all starts again. I get to feed the kiddies that attend Especially For Youth for the week. And the fun doesn't stop there! There are multiple sessions as well! It's an LDS sponsored camp that I, whether fortunately or not so, never attended. In fact, I think I will always be rather happy that I never went. Although many have gained spiritually strengthening experiences from EFY (since it IS a spiritual camp) I find my time was better spent elsewhere.

I had the wonderful privilege of going to Arrowbear Music Camp. No it's not a BAND camp, but a place we'd go to play the classics. I played flute and piccolo :D And just to show you some of the reasons why I love it, here are a few comparisons.

1) I met my best friend there!


No friends were made when I didn't go to EFY. If you were wondering.

2) Arrowbear's 'Theme Song' is better. (EFY's) And I am pretty sure I remember adding the 'Oie' to that song :D

3)The music was probably 20 times more amazing and enriching than any EFY music (minus the hymns) that could ever be played. Ever.

4) The fact that we also woke up to revelry every morning. I don't know what EFY kids wake up to, but it can't beat revelry and the race soon after to see who got to the breakfast line first :D

There aren't very many other comparisons to make with only Youtube video's at your disposal. But I do believe that Arrowbear's the place to be. It is full of fun, and harmony! Even IF we get KP! It's music, music, music. Glorious! I love that place.

So, when the kiddies get me down because they are just that, kids. I will simply slip off into yesteryear when all was well in life and all I had to worry about was tootin my flute.

A Verb Veprecose

Vanmost, in an attempt to conform to assectational shopping instead of simply going to the store, I decided to do some online shopping and buy a t-shirt from threadless.com (Foremost; the act of following after something else). Hence the picture. I'm afraid my collection of t-shirts is tending to viliorate and so I thought I might begin to, slowly, adimpleate it to it's former standard (to deteriorate; to fill up).

Having recovered from my gleimous state, I find myself able to write blateration again (slimy; full of phlegm; blabber/chatter). I wanted to take this opportunity to thank a friend of mine who taught me how to drive stick shift this past week.

Thanks to Rick, not only will I be able to drive my favorite rhedarious land cruser, I'll also have the ability to drive any car out there! (of or serving as a carriage or chariot) Albeit I have not forgotten, being scelidate, that I can walk places-therefore saving the world-when it's at all possible (having legs). Plus I'm not exactly an expert at stick. I only stalled once though. All in all I am a beginner and it's best not to mowburnt my zeal, so to speak, and take my time learning this 'new' way of driving. :D (crops spoiled by becoming overheated)

I think the biggest irony is that the day before I learned to drive stick...I bought a bike. I bet in a graocracy...there aren't very many bikes (government by an old woman or women). I've been trying to think of a way that I could ride my bike in a skirt and so far I haven't been able to envision it. Anyways, I shall be discovering all the latibule's of my town where I haven't been before! (hiding place's) Just today I discovered a Peruvian restaurant that is closed on Monday's! I also found out where a farmer's market is AND a park that I like. Bikes are a good investment friends!

Beat Boxing

So I found this video online some time ago and thought I'd share it. I've been admiring a few youtube video's as of late and, if you have as much time to 'waste' as I do, then please, do enjoy.

Beat Boxing, Bando style

Late Night show

The Awesomest Tin Can Band Ever

Series I thought I might like but am not converted to yet

Monsieur Le Compte

So it only took me a matter of 4 years to 'finish' this book. Four years ago, I came upon this book and in a spat of respect for authors I decided to read it. It is The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged). I just never got around to finishing it, so I restarted it about a year ago and now I am done!
Speaking of done, on the last page they provide a 'Reading Group Guide'. When I first saw this page I thought to myself, "Great, I bet if I was in an AP class, these are the questions they'd make me answer." I don't do English AP. Or didn't...Anyways I also think that if a teacher has to use the assigned novel itself to get questions for their students to answer, then that teacher needs to re-evaluate themselves and how much effort they are putting into their job.

That being said, I shall now make fun of them.

1) Discuss th idea of revenge as it plays out in the novel: as plot device, theme, subject, motivation. How is revenge related to justice? Is Edmund Dantes justified in his actions?

This is one of those questions where, of course, they are fishing for an answer. I.E. *imagine a trudging voice* No, Edmund was NOOOOT justified in revenge. Revenge is bad. Justice is for the government...wait a second...wasn't it the governments fault that Edmund wanted revenge in the first place? Huh...

2) How does Edmund Dantes's long incarceration change him?

Really, this question asks, "How does involuntary solitude, starvation, and injust imprisonment for 10-ish years change you?"

3) Do you think the island of Monte Cristo serves a symbolic function in the novel? If so, in what way?

This question makes me wonder...do we give author's more credit for being symbolic than they originally tried to be?

4) How does the novel's historical context-Dumas places the story at the close of the Napoleonic dynasty-inform and affect the work? Is your sense of history changed or enriched as a result?

I want to make fun of the part in between the dashes. In case you missed THE WHOLE REASON FOR A PLOT LINE IN THIS BOOK the person who made this question made sure you were aware that Napoleon was involved in this book in some way!

5) Discuss the punishments meted out to various characters:Count de Morcerf, Danglars, Villefort. Are they appropriate or in any sense symbollic?

I did notice that they were 'punished' in three very different ways...it was as if the Count did to them what he considered they had done to him...like someone who was seeking the most poignant kind of revenge or something like that...

6)Lorenzo Carcaterra writes, "Edmund Dantes is a part of us all." Discuss, as a reader, your relationship and response to Dumas's famous protagonist.

The only way I relate is that if I found a mass fortune, I would use it in the way that brought me the most happiness. That happiness would not included most of what Monsieur Dantes did though...

7) The Count of Monte Cristo is unquestionably one of the most entertaining and timeless novels ever written and is also often described as one of the greatest. Do you agree?

This question is what causes people to make this.

Fam-Bam Fun!

So I've been distressed because I felt my topics of blogging weren't what I REALLY wanted to talk about, like they weren't 'significant' enough to be worth writing about. Luckily I stumbled upon this quote,

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Mahatma Gandhi

I find this quote fits my personality just right, as well as how I should look at my blogging topics.

:D

That being said, I've decided to pick up the pass time of putting together family history! (yay!) The program I am using insists that it'll be exciting, but I've yet to be convinced. I had started this project on and off within the last two years actually, but it's about time that I sat down and became more proficient in the art of finding family. We have a binder of the stuff at my house, so I'll probably end up using that somewhere in here for that. It'll be fun to read stories about my ancestors, that's my favorite part! Like when I read about the one lady who came from Denmark and almost became a Nun! What if she'd become a Nun!? I wouldn't BE here! Ah! So weird! So it's decided; Family History isn't exciting, it's weird. But I'm doing it! :D