Pretty Little Sunshine

Pismo Beach

2011-06-07T21:33:00.001-07:00

some oldies...

2010-11-05T18:14:00.001-07:00

birdies, flowers, and such things.

2009-09-04T17:07:00.001-07:00

this guy was crazy...he went way higher than this too, i just didnt get a pic of it.
birdies running away from the water...

yay for flowers.

1 picture. yay.

2009-08-21T19:05:00.001-07:00

life has been crazyyy busy...school started,so basically my life ended...just kidding. summer was amazing tho and i am so thankful for it, i took more than 2000 pictures and i'm leaving you with one...that is blurry and not good at all, but it cracks me up. the week before school started our family went to a beach house for a week, it was so funn, but the water was freezinggg! this old man was at least in his 60's and he went out here and did this everyday...yes, crazy. i know.

just click on it to see it bigger, at first i thought he was walking on water...i was like whats going onnn here!
he's on some type of surf board i think...

summer

2009-07-27T20:53:00.000-07:00

the past couple of weeks have been crazyy...so i havent been able to blog or post any pictures lately...but i want something new...i hate looking at that flower. haha. i know i say that like every time i blog lately, but we are going to a beach house next week, and when i get back from that, i'll post a big summer post! i cant believe its almost over...:(
happy day!

and because posts are boring without pictures...

summer time

2009-07-07T15:24:00.001-07:00

i sat here for a couple minutes trying to decide what to write, but im not even gonna try. basically this summer has been crazy busy, but so much fun. i know there is no significance in posting a random picture of a flower but its been like 3 weeks...and i'm getting tired of the last post, and i'm sure you are too. happy summer to you all :)

Cowboy Festival

2009-06-18T20:26:00.000-07:00

ok, so a couple weeks ago, maybe more like 2 months, maybe 8 years for all i know, I went to the cowboy festival with Kenzie. we just walked around, had frozen lemonade, and made fun of all the weirdly dressed people...as you will see below. the cowboy festival is where they open up melody ranch for a weekend...melody ranch is a studio where they have filmed a bunch of movies, Holes, Bedtime Stories, Little House on the Prairie, etc, that happens to be in the canyon. since we are residents we get in for free. all the people that go dress up like there is no tomorrow...literally...like they dont care what they look like or anything.

here's one of kenz...to refresh your memory.
Alright, so this guy has guts. how would you like to stand on top of a horse named booger (no joke) and lasso yourself?? i really wanted him to fall off, just so i could laugh in his face and prove that horse riding is one of the most dangerous things ever.
this is when i walked away, and realized that he had to stand in order for people to wanna watch him. how boring...

one of those that believed there was no tomorrow...Here we have daniel boone...and some 8 foot tall man...he tried to lasso me...i fell over.Um, a unhealthy squanto...or an indian nacho libre with long hair. not quite sure. we called him squancho...later on, we saw him again, and this time we were both like, "he has a wife now!!....or...another brother...that works too..."this guy reminded us of the mean guy in Dennis the Menace. i was sincerely scared of him. if only i got a shot of his face.i ran a vintage action on this pic...think it kinda fits with the subject and stuff. these cars were used in a famous movie, i just cant remember which one...hahai love this picture. i don't know why...i dont even know who this little girl is. i just love it.i like this one too...alright. thats all....happy day!

happy day!

2009-06-09T14:55:00.001-07:00

This pic is kinda old but whatever. messing on photoshop today...not sure if i like this action. its gotta really weird name and i dont wanna even try to spell it. you can make up a name for it. i know he doesnt look very happy in this pic...but, he usually is!

going by fast

2009-06-07T22:35:00.000-07:00

life is going by fast. haha.
april marked me not cutting my hair for a year, which seems like last week.
and today marks me getting home from this...

To this. aww pretty. fire. i love fire. i joke.

anyways, happy summer!

Jack

2009-05-29T23:07:00.000-07:00

meet jack. he's my cousin. I take pride that he is my cousin cause he's awesome. If this doesn't make you laugh, i don't know what will.
maybe this? click here or here .... why are little kids so funny?

another weird one...

2009-05-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

so last night I had this dream that my ear was really infected cause i had been swimming to much. my left one to be exact. i remember in my dream going to the mirror by my bed and taking my left earring out cause it hurt really bad....
this morning I woke up and didn't remember any of it until i realized my left earring was gone. I thought I must have lost it in my sleep or something so i looked everywhere around my bed...then i went over to my mirror and my earring was sitting right where i had taken it out in my dream. i was like...how weird...cause i didn't know why it would be over there...
and then as i started putting it back in looking in my mirror it was like crazy deja vu and i remembered it all. ahaha...anyways, if you actually knew what my room looked like it would probably make a lot more sense, but basically i must have gotten up in my sleep and took my earring out cause i thought it was infected.

oh, and the night before that my dream was just insane. arnold schwarzenegger was my boss...and we were ninjas trying to kill bad transformers in some jungle. and people tell me my dreams associate to my life?? believe me, i do not think about becoming a ninja under arnold schwarzenegger.
anyways. have a good night!

rainbow falls.

2009-05-21T15:18:00.001-07:00

how would you like to have this only a 5 minute walk away from your house? well i did for a couple days. my aunt and uncle do alll year longg. i was tired of clicking on the link to my blog and seeing that pic of me and my dad and ivan. so im blogging about new zealand...again, with a prettier view.

daryl island

2009-05-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

its funny to think that New Zealand was almost a year ago, but I still go through the pics and have fun editing them. anyways...this picture, is just funny.

so after the conference that my dad taught at we went and stayed with jani and peter for a couple days, my dad's cousin and her husband, and then their son ivan, the giant standing next to me.
they decided to kinda give us a tour of keri keri (where they lived) i guess you could say. anyways, ivan mentioned going on the exciter. so we drive over to this place like an hour away...called daryl harbor. it was beautiful there, i dont know if you can find a place in new zealand thats not...but anyways, my aunt buys these tickets for this boat ride. we go around to the back of this building and this lady says, "go in there and you'll get your suit!"
suit?? yeah...we had to wear full on life saver suits. i wasnt quite sure why at this point, but i did it anyways. then they show us this video about what we would see and where it would go. and gave us little water proof protectors for cameras, cell phones, etc.
we walk outside and this man starts telling everyone why we were wearing these suits, i'm not sure whether he was just trying to be nice and warn us, or scare us half to death. he starts telling us about how scary it is and how fast it goes and that people have passed out and someone almost fell off and how the boat could possibly tip over, you could die... all this stuff. then i realize my aunt isn't wearing a suit, so i asked her why she didnt have one on and she goes, "are you kidding me??? i am NOT going on that!" so, as you can imagine, i was freaked out. this pic was taken by my aunt while this guy was preparing us for death.

my dad apparently thought maybe it was some sort of joke, but wasn't sure.
my cousin looks ready for war or something.
and i was just scared to death...i didn't go to new zealand to die.
BUT, it was abosultely worth every second.
there are more pics on my flickr. click here.
have a good day!

dreams.

2009-05-03T21:02:00.001-07:00

so lately I have been having some incredibly weird dreams. and if I tell people they are like, "Oh wow, so it that must be on your mind a lot" or "i feel so bad for you is that really an issue??"....but really, they are so random and not what i think about at all, and i wake up laughing.

well, this one was just one of those weird ones...right before I went to bed on thursday, I was talking to two good friends of mine online. well, i went to sleep that night, and my dream started off really weird, i wanted a piece of gum so bad and if i didnt get one i was going to die...literally.

so yeah thats a whole other story but anyways, when i got home from trying to get some gum,(in my dream) i got on facebook to talk to some friends. well in my dream, the same two people i had been talking to in real life before i went to bed starting talking to me, about the same things. it was basically a repeat of our conversations but in my dream and not real life. but a third person (my friend claudia) that i hadnt talked to in real life popped up and asked me if i wanted to come over to her house for breakfast at 7:30 in the morning...to which i was like, ummm okay? sureeee.

soooo back to real life. I woke up at 8 the next morning. and I freaked out. I was supposed to be at claudias house for breakfast a half an hour ago!...and then it was like, "thats weird...i know i'm supposed to go to her house for breakfast but, when in the world did she ask me?? oh yeah, last night when i was talking to emma and lindsey..." soooo I really thought i was supposed to go to her house for breakfast, and texted and apologized saying i slept in and couldnt make it. to which i got,
"whattt are you talking about??"
"i'm supposed to come over to your house for breakfast right?"
"umm, no?"

so basically, i thought my dream was part of real life. yep. that was funny. anyways. it makes sense to me, but trying to write down an awfully weird dream is hard. so bare with me.
happy sunday!

Some of the reasons why....

2009-04-28T19:34:00.001-07:00

I LOVE THE RAIN. something i have never understood is when people say on a rainy day is, "oh the rain makes me so sad." I absolutely LOVE it. i could live in a place where it rained every single day. anyways.

Gopher or Mouse?

2009-04-27T12:31:00.000-07:00

So this morning i had lab around 8ish. i went to the caf with a couple friends afterwards, hung out for a little bit, and then started walking home cause its super close to my house. when i started walking up our driveway and i saw this little furry thing wobbling across it. my first thought was that it was a little chipmunk or somethin...but no, it looked at me and like, hissed. my first reaction was to scream. so i did. of course there were a bunch of gardeners at my neighbors house and they all looked at me like i was extremely stupid, but whatever.

anyways, whatever this thing was, i wanted it to die. i was almost positive it was a mouse, and yeah, our family doesn't like mice so much. so i picked up three big rocks, and chucked them at him (or her, you can choose). poor thing. for those of you who have ever seen Princess bride, it reminded me of the part in the fire swamp where westley kills the rat...it liked turned over, and rolled. yeah, so anyways, everyone came outside...we named it chucky...even though it was dead, and then left it there for our cat george. Well, i wanted something to blog about, so i guess this works...even though its kinda sad, and gross, but here's a pic of chucky and the rock we killed him with. Kyle says its a gopher, but at the same time looks like a mouse. we'll just call it a mopher.

Mackenzie

2009-04-25T22:21:00.001-07:00

some more of mackenzie...and more to come.

tried a signature on this one...

My Friend Jackson

2009-04-21T18:13:00.001-07:00

Meet Jackson. He's our wheelbarrow. yes, i'm bored.

i thought this flower was really pretty, so there.oh and on the side, i have decided i'm going to call california burnifornia. why is it so hot?

oh, and one more thing, please watch this video. it made my day, watch the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqrhZW9xIrY&feature=related

New Zealand

2009-04-16T20:42:00.001-07:00

Some old pics. I don't think I ever put any edited ones from New Zealand on, so here they are. I have some more on my flickr...click here.

worms and snoring.

2009-04-10T13:46:00.001-07:00

I feel like i haven't posted in awhile, even though i have. i know that this is probably a gross picture to you, i mean who wants to look at a picture of two worms in a 9 year olds hand? but who cares... oh well.
she (binger) said she was trying to make a cross out of them. not quite sure what she meant by that, but okayyy.
speaking of binger, this past week Tina and the boys were away in Missouri doing music for a camp, since they were gone, we had the twins sleep upstairs with us. little did i know binger has some....snoring issues. i came upstairs the first night, and they had been asleep for at least two hours, bomber was on the floor, and binger was in tina's bed. i got in bed, (it was like 1am) and listened to binger snore for a couple minutes hoping it would go away. yeah, it went on for like 20 minutes. so finally, i got out of bed, went over and plugged her nose. yeahhh thats not the nicest thing to do but what else was i supposed to do??? she kinda coughed and turned over, the snoring stopped. i got back in bed and in less than 30 seconds she was at is again, louder than before. so i did it again. and again. and again. probably like ten times. finally i decided i was just going to wake her up....i needed sleep. i went over and shook her and told her to go to her bed, she sat straight up, looked me right in the eyes and said, "OH! do you think im snoring?" and then she got kinda close and whispered, (creeeper) "cause if you do, i'm really not!!" that was the end of binger sleeping in my room for a looonnnggg time.
tina i am very thankful YOU sleep in your bed and not binger! haha...poor kid.

Mackenzie

2009-04-08T23:08:00.000-07:00

More to come.

words.

2009-04-03T21:05:00.000-07:00

I have been in a writing mood for awhile but haven't taken the chance to just sit down and write. most of the time i sit down about 20 people are watching over my shoulder, and obviously it would be kinda awkward to write with them right there so i like, turn off the browser and look at old pictures. eventually they go away but not for very long. anyways, tonight is a really laid back night. the three oldest are away in missouri and the little girls are watching some penguin show...i'll pass.

the past couple of months have been pretty busy, i feel like second semesters always are...lots of essays and quizzes and tests to turn in for final grades for my classes and stuff, and trying to figure out what i'm doing for school next year.
I can't think of anything significant to write about so i'm gonna post this 25 things about me thing I did on facebook awhile ago. if something else comes to my mind i'll let you know later.

1. I bite my ice cream. its fun.
2. I have never eaten an olive
3. sometimes I forget how to spell my name. it eventually comes back to me.
4. I grew up in chicago. its green and beautiful and sometimes i wonder how a place like california can be on the same planet.
5. i like to eat my popcorn with lemon pepper on it. true story.
6. I met my best friend in chicago by knocking her over while riding my bike
7. when I was 9 I had shingles for two months. still got scars and everything. it was scary
8. i take pride in having a greek heritage. not sure why. people call me the greek geek.
9. I hate milk. I think it's gross that people drink liquid that came out of cows. i mean seriously, all they know how to do is moo and eat grass. i'm surprised it doesnt make people stupid.
10. i love bananas. i could live off of them.
11. when i was four i chopped off all my hair
12. when me and sierra bates where in middle school we would go into my closet and write stories
13. i am probably one of the most casual people you will ever meet. i would wear sweats and a t shirt to the store while my little sister dresses up to walk down stairs.
14. i have 6 siblings...plus a few others we've sorta adopted
15. i have only been to disneyland twice
16. i have a lot of nicknames. my dad calls me chloe. oh and this one is weird, my aunt from new zealand calls me her matarikan princess daughter. weirddd.
17. i DESPISE in n out. their burgers are slimy and their fries are really skinny.
18. i love rain with a passion. whenever it rains people are like..."aww i'm so sad.." i dont get that. why would water falling from the sky make someone sad? its beautiful.
19. i love photography.
20. i love music, almost everything except for taylor swift
21. i have had like 20 gold fish, and the longest time that any of them lived was like 2 weeks, its name was turkey.
22. i broke my wrist playing dodgeball at my first night at youth group.
23. one time when me and my cousin jessy were at this beach somewhere we caught 23 jellyfish with big buckets cause they were everywhere, we burried them in the sand
24. my cousin is my best and favoritest friend.
25. my sister is my hero and i love her so much.

and here's a oldie from New Zealand, hard to believe that 14 hour flight to that wonderland was almost a year ago. anyways, I don't think I have ever posted without a picture, lets not break that trend.

Fix it Friday

2009-03-27T16:50:00.001-07:00

I've never done this before but my my Aunt told me a little about it and I thought I would give it a try....it's off of www.iheartfaces.com. the first is the original and the next two are ones that I edited. please give me your input! To see the original click here.

Practice

2009-03-24T11:58:00.000-07:00

Over the past week I was up at my cousins house...we went to the poppy's because my aunt Tracy had a photoshoot with the cutest little girl, Riley. Me and Jess took her other camera (30d) to practice a bit, here's some of the ones I took.

Bubbles

2009-03-17T14:51:00.001-07:00

Jessy

2009-03-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

practice.

2009-03-06T22:38:00.000-08:00

just messing around with photoshop...got a little bored today.
kate.

rain puddles...

2009-01-29T15:00:00.000-08:00

this past sunday me, tina, the twins and emy and a friend of ours went on a hike in the nature center by our house, i never knew something so beautiful was only 4 and 53 seconds away from our house. (yes, we timed it) it had just finished rainy and was kinda cloudy out but it was a lot of fun..i took a couple pictures but here's just one that i edited a little bit..i cross processed it and sharpened it...it may be a little much but...whatever. its the reflection of the sky and the little branches over a puddle...

life...

2009-01-24T17:26:00.000-08:00

me and tina in arrowhead, and sledding in brianhead with jess. aunt tracy took the sledding one...
Babysitting the pen kids...
a New Zealand memory...I got bored today

another one...

2009-01-08T18:31:00.000-08:00

Kate...
I've thought about adding a signature to my photos but i'm not sure yet. people have taken my pics before and put them up on different sites, and i think it would be good to have people know i took them...i've tried some different things...alyssa anne photography just doesn't sound right. here's an example

winter break 09-wrong picture

2009-01-08T14:45:00.000-08:00

i posted earlier, but i put up the wrong pic and then exited. this is the one i wanted to put up...haha
this is what i wrote...i finally decided that i needed to post something...and here i am trying to figure out where the heck do i start? this past month has been so incredibly busy that i can barely remember everything that has gone on. since my last post, i have been to Lake Arrowhead for a week with the fam, up to my cousins, and then on to Brianhead, Utah with them for their skiing trip-which was an absolute blast. and somewhere before all that four christmas parties and a ton of christmas shopping somehow fit in there too. it has gone by so fast. over the past couple of weeks i have been with my aunt, who is an amazing photographer, and going back to my own pictures is like coming back to california on fire after being in new zealand for two weeks. anyways, although i cant wait to get a new camera, i'll still be posting every once in awhile despite this being the second semester, which may get kinda crazy.

random pic-kate penberthy, her hair is totally in her face but i think its cute...

december

2008-12-16T00:31:00.000-08:00

this month so far has been extremely busy. i haven't had a lot time to take pictures but heres one of emy i took and edited for fun the other day. i don't know if i really like the editing so much but its pretty cool lookin...its this action on my photoshop i didn't know about.

this is olive moore. she is the cutest baby EVER. i didn't take this picture but i was over at brooke's and she asked me to edit it, click here to see what it was before.

Penberthy Kids...

2008-11-11T21:19:00.000-08:00

Ty and Jaden

2008-11-01T21:53:00.000-07:00

ty and jaden were having some fun tonight while i was babysitting, the end of this video is hilarious....jaden was totally not expecting ty to do it again. I'll post halloween pics later, my uploading isn't working, i only have a couple anyways..

A couple more....

2008-10-10T15:57:00.001-07:00

Just a couple more of Rachel, there are more on the post before this

Rachel

2008-10-06T14:38:00.000-07:00

me and my friend Rachel decided we were bored. so.....we found a forest type place and took lots of pictures! my other friend Claudia also came along to show us where it was at, and took a couple of pics. these are just a couple of them....just playing around with my new photo program thing seeing what it can do. thanks rache, I had fun with you!

This is one of my favorites....its through a leaf!

She was terrified for this, but it turned out pretty cute...

Her eyes are absolutely amazing

yes...more

2008-09-02T19:13:00.000-07:00

Morro Bay

2008-09-01T20:54:00.001-07:00

Zuma Beach

2008-07-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

Just a couple of pretty pictures from yesterday...we all went to the beach (minus Kyle) just for fun.

Lake San Antonio

2008-06-27T17:22:00.000-07:00

This last week I went up to Lake San Antonio for my Aunt and Uncle's summer camp to help with their little girl Stephanie. I had so much fun with them and chasing the goose around everywhere and wakeboarding with you guys on the last day! I love you guys so much, thanks for taking me with you! Here are some of the pictures I took.....

Tawney!

To see more click here

~lissy

New Zealand

2008-06-17T21:33:00.001-07:00

At the end of May I was able to take an extremely long 12-hour plane flight all the way to New Zealand and be with my Dad and go to a conference that he was speaking at in Hastings. We stayed at the church that it was at until it was over, and then went down to Napier for a day, and then on to Keri Keri to spend some time with our relatives. I had so much fun and would definitely go again no matter how long the flight is....there were 52 movies on the plane....haha! I took over 400 pictures, but I picked out the best ones and put them on a tabblo. They are really pretty and some are even funny...... :)

To see....WAY MORE.....click below (I copied you Auntie!)
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/shared/26071/l8otnf23e71kbrm

February and March

2008-04-05T15:58:00.000-07:00

I haven't written in awhile because I have been so busy, and every weekend I always find something to do other than sit on the computer to write. But today is a day where there is absolutely nothing to do. My dad and my sister are gone in Lake Arrowhead, so theres two drivers, GONE, can't take me anywhere. My brothers both found something to do and my little sisters had a huge track meet today and they still aren't back, so theres the rest of my fam, GONE.

Since I have written, volleyball has started, I had my spring break, and two big projects that took me forever to do. Volleyball is going okay, not the best season so far but....we have only had 3 games. Spring break was good. I didn't do that much but whenever I did do something, I had a lot of fun. Last monday was Tina's birthday and we went to the beach and ate dinner at Howdy's, that was probably the most fun that I had had in a long time. but...actually i have to go so i'll write more later.

Emy's Paper

2008-03-01T15:51:00.000-08:00

Today Emy was writing her paper for her writing class. The assignment was "something that you look forward to every year". Emy asked me: "Lyssy, what do you think of my topic sentence. 'Every year I have an exhilarating experience to look forward too, going to the elotic and canny lake, Lake Shasta'? I didn't know what to say.... first of all, elotic and canny? well.....elotic is not even a word!

101 ways to annoy people

2008-02-29T15:49:00.000-08:00

This is so funny!! You have to read all of them....

1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly.

3. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..."

5. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

6. Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. <

7. Speak only in a "robot" voice.

8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.

9. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub".

10. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies.

11. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

12. Sniffle incessantly.

13. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.

14. Name your dog "Dog." 15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."

16. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."

17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."

18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace".

19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."

20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol.

21. Practice making fax and modem noises.

22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.

23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.

25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person."

26. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with the prophesy."

27. Wear a special hip holster for your
remote control.

28. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment.

29. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.

30. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.

31. Give a play-by-play account of a persons every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice.

32. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

33. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."

34. Drum on every available surface.

35. Staple papers in the middle of the page.

36. Ask 1-800 operators for dates.

37. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.

38. Sew anti-theft detector strips
into peoples backpacks.

39. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.

40. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.

41. Set alarms for random times.

42. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.

43. Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.

44. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.

45. Honk and wave to strangers.

46. Dress only in clothes colored Hunters Orange.

47. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.

48. Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies.

49. Wear your pants backwards.

50. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

51. Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"

52. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.

53. only type in lowercase.

54. dont use any punctuation either

55. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

56. Pay for your dinner with pennies.

57. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.

58. Repeat everything someone says, as a question.

59. Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps.

60. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ O.J Simpson conspiracy theories.

61. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, its gone now."

62. Light road flares on a birthday cake.

63. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.

64. Leave tips in Bolivian currency.

65. Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador."

66. At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.

67. When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained.

68. Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One."

69. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

70. Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.

71. Pretend your computer's mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.

72. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "no, wait, I messed it up," and repeat.

73. Drive half a block.

74. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

75. Ask people what gender they are.

76. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back.

77. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern drawl.

78. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes".

79. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song.

80. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head. like a parakeet.

81. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.

82. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.

83. Change your name to "AaJohn Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it's a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each "a."

84. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

85. Chew on pens that you've borrowed.

86. Wear a LOT of cologne.

87. Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing."

88. Sing along at the opera.

89. Mow your lawn with scissors.

90. At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhWIN

G-batter!"

91. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."

92. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.

93. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something
about "psychological profiles."

94. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture."

95. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.

96. Never make eye contact.

97. Never break eye contact.

98. Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.

99. Construct your own pretend "tricorder," and "scan" people with it, announcing the results.

100. Make appointments for the 31st of September.

101. Invite lots of people to other people's parties

The Hoglo's

2008-02-24T15:22:00.000-08:00

Today we went to lunch at the Hoglo's house - they are a family from our church and they have two boys, named Wyatt and Lukas. I was getting a drink in the kitchen and Lukas (6) comes up to me and says, "I don't remember learning your name?"
I have been really sick the past couple of days and I didn't really have my voice, and I almost whispered, "lissy". He looked at me and said, "Ohhhhh!! I'm soooo sorry, is your voice changing?" Then he just ran off but I thought it was funny.
Wyatt is 8, and he and the twins were wrestling and running up and down the stairs the whole time that they weren't either eating or playing clue jr..... the twins are half boy, or would like to be at least. I think that I would be scared to find out what happened to them if they ever wore pink without being told. When we were eating, I heard Wyatt tell them his worst nightmare.
"MY worst nightmare was when Andy Griffith was killed by the creature of the black lagoon!" It was so funny, they are geniuses.

Today I was helping Eric with the 3 year old during 3rd service. That was definitely a technique that I had never seen used on children. But after all, he's a guy teaching 15 three-year-olds by himself. He sat them down for about 5 minutes trying to give them a story and I wanted to spank them all! When he gave up on that, I helped him get them all at the table and get ready for craft. This one little girl named Mikayla noticed that I was kinda sick and told me, "Oh! you must be sick. How would you like it if I give you a prettier name than the one you already have, and you can even help me make a get well card for my teddy bear who is sick?" ummm.....okay? She told that my "new and prettier name" was going to be Cinderella and that I had to deal with that even if I didn't want it. When we were finished making her card, I asked how she spelled her name and she just shrugged and said, "M-y-l-a?"

The Beach

2008-02-23T17:20:00.000-08:00

2008-02-23T17:18:00.000-08:00

I made this blog because I used to have a xanga, but they are starting to place adds and charge people, so I made this. I'm not much of a writer, but every once in awhile I will, or maybe post a couple of pictures. I'm not that good, and I don't have a very good camera but its fun. So, anyways.....