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Why I Slept With Toilet Paper In My Ears.

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Once upon a time, there was a girl who did not like earwigs, because she was afraid of being pinched by them. Once upon a time, her little brother (who always used to play with earwigs) got pinched.

Unfortunately, the house that this girl lived in happened to be infested with earwigs, for some odd, coincidental reason. Fortunately, she managed to avoid them, for the most part. Except the one night she was sitting there and suddenly felt a tickle on the back of her neck. She thought it was the tag of her shirt and reached up…and an earwig landed on her lap. She had a mini-freak and jumped up…and the stupid earwig disappeared!! She felt very creepy-crawly, and changed pajamas (from the ones she had on) and went to bed.

But fast forward now. One time her father had had an earwig in his ear. So when she was laying in her bed, her hands curled up by her pillow, and felt a tickle on her hand…and looked in the dim light onto the evil form of an earwig…which had been BY HER PILLOW…she almost decided to sleep somewhere else. But telling herself she shouldn’t be so silly, she positively couldn’t bear the thought of an earwig in her ear. She imagined the scenario: “AHHH!! MOM! THERE’S AN EARWIG IN MY EAR! I FEEL IT TICKLING!!! GET IT OUT!!!!!!!!” No way. So she rolled up a square of toilet paper and inserted it into one of her ears. And did the same with the other. And slept very peacefully.

The only downside was, she couldn’t hear the guy talking on the radio very well.

Oh well.

Tags: Dad, Eric, Me
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The Cute Unattached Ones

Friday, June 26th, 2009

And now, thanks to an “anominous concerned citizen” (read the comment on that page…you know who you are!! ), here’s a little bit about the cute unattached brothers.

This is Ben. He’s 20 (21 in October), has dark brown hair, really cool aqua-green-hazel eyes, and is tall and strong. He likes to work and he doesn’t like pictures taken of him. He doesn’t like technology, Apple (the brand, not the fruit), slow people, and cats. He does love God and family, and likes food, reading, working, food, wearing out clothes, food, working, cutting open various body parts, making knives, black powder, lighting black powder, shooting a black powder pistol, guns, making movies with guns, and food.

And last but not least, Eric. (Of course, there’s the little boys, but these ones are the currently eligible ones. The littler boys will be eligible in oh…about forty years. Mm…make that fifteen. ) Anyways. Eric is 17 so he should be given a few years yet…(maybe forty…just kidding!)…at least until after he graduates! He has dirty blond hair (he should wash it! ), hazel-brown eyes, and is also tall and strong, and tan. He likes electronics and posing for pictures. He doesn’t like peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, cherry pie, apple pie, or germs. He loves God and family, and likes not taking very many showers, reading, food, electronics, drawing comics, knives, making movies with knives and guns, tinkering with his Scout, and eggrolls.

Oh, and his sense of humor is a bit odd.

But he’s cool anyways.

Tags: Ben, Eric
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Cake…mug?

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

So today Beth comes upstairs with a piece of paper, and from the expression on her face, I know it’s a recipe. “Whatcha makin’?” I ask, which is a pretty standard question.
“Cake…in a mug,” was the answer.
“Cake…in a…mug??” Well, hey, I like cake. Besides, I wanted something chocolate.
So she gets out two big mugs, and mixes up the cake in them. Everyone wanted to know if she was making coffee, or cocoa, or…”what are you making?!?”

Then she brings me down this brown lump on a saucer. It was steaming and looked slightly odd. Then I tasted it, and I didn’t care if it looked odd. It was GOOD. Fresh, moist, rich chocolate cake. It tastes kind of like pudding cake, but with the pudding mixed in.

Cake in a Mug
4 tablespoons cake flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
1 mug

In the mug, mix flour, sugar, and cocoa.
Spoon in egg.
Pour in milk and oil, and mix well otherwise you’ll get little pieces of egg white in your cake!
Put in microwave for 3 minutes on maximum power (1000watt).
Wait until it stops rising and sets in the mug.
Tip contents out of the mug onto saucer and enjoy!

Beth read that if you use all-purpose flour, it’ll work, but just be a bit more dense. I liked it the way it was! And I thought a glaze would be good on top…or whipped cream, if you’re so inclined, or it would be really good with vanilla ice cream.
Oh yes and I forgot…Beth substituted coffee for the milk in mine. ^_^

Tags: Beth, Me, Recipes
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Randomness

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Alright. I’m in a hyper mood, and I just drank some really good coffee with some really good hazelnut creamer (yum), so…heh…random!

A few days ago, we all got new phones…our old ones were kind of wearing out and now have been given to the kids for alarms (which sometimes creates confusion as they like to play the ringtones as ‘background music’ and Mom and I keep reaching for our phones when familiar tones play!), while we got some spiffy new phones. Dad, Mom, Ben, and Joe got Alltel Hue II’s, while Eric and I (such nonconformists!) got the much-cooler LG Banter.

Hue II pros: Better camera, camcorder. Comes with earbud headset.
Hue II cons: Ugly GUI! Worse than the last phones, IMO, sucky ringtones. No customized menu (I loved that about my last phone!)
Banter pros: Neat slide-out keyboard!! (I don’t text but I’m ALWAYS writing notes to myself!) Pretty GUI!! (Black with pink selector!) Cooler ringtones!
Banter cons: Not *quite* as good of camera (half a megapixel less), no camcorder, and the headset jack is less than 1/8″ (weird!) so I can’t snitch Mom’s headset earbuds and doesn’t come with them! Can’t figure out how to get the customizable menu to somewhere handy! LOL

But I love my Banter! And wheee! I can plug it into my computer and actually get pictures off it!! Eric and I ordered USB cords (a friend of mine found a Bluetooth USB thing for $8, but the cords were only $4.50 apiece) on the 14th so they should be here any day. Expect to be overloaded with pictures!

Both phones also have mp3 players (listen, my last one didn’t, and I couldn’t get pics off my last one so humor me a bit, ok? I KNOW most other people’s phones have both capabilities, but yeah…), but need microSD cards so Eric and I ordered those as well. I don’t imagine it being the best quality, but I really wanted an mp3 player again since my last one’s headphone jack broke!

Hmm let’s see…a couple of the kids have a cold, and Abby threw up a couple times a few nights ago. It only lasted one night, though, fortunately!

We got a scanner, so Beth has been scanning in old pics and putting them on Facebook. Pretty entertaining! Brings back a lot of memories!

A few days ago, Pi was sleeping on my bed all day, and when I went in there for bed, she had pulled out some of her fur on her shoulder, and spread it all over my bed! I had to clean it up before I could go to sleep! She’s done this before, pulled out some of her fur. No clue how she does it, I didn’t think kitty teeth were that…that…something-or-other! Anybody know why a cat would pull out her fur?

*hopes some cool stuff comes in the mail today!!* (like the USB cords!)

Hmm…I think I lost my hyperness (it’s only internal, anyway). Oh well! I guess that means I should post this then!

And I’ll leave you with two funny pics! (Yes, words are misspelled!)

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