Pet Post.

This has been an odd weekend. Kind of relaxing and yet...Not. I decided that this blog fits into many, many categories. Cooking, Gardening, Pet, etc, etc. So, here are some pet bloggings.

So, here is Bodie of the past.



And Bo of the present.



Bo: Yeah, I'm a beast, so what? :3



Dakota: Pssht. I still kick your ass every day. >3



Bo: ;__; Oh, yeah...Guess so.

Here's Talulah, my vicious corn snake. She'll be a year old this November. She was my Christmas present from Santa last year :3

Lou: Whatchoo lookin' at, muthafucka?

And here's my beloved Gambler.

Gambler: I'm a sweet boy and I'm not being properly cared for. Look how badly my hooves need a trim. Hopefully that'll change after we move to our new place...

I think that Georgette has hauled him and the others off to Burlington by now. I wonder if she'd let me visit and ride him again...I need some pictures of me riding him. And I need to check in on him.

I'll post some pictures of Tango and the turtle kids soon. :3

"It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must also know how to fall."
--Mexican Proverb

Bananna Bread.

So, my parents were in Colorado for a week. Did I have a big party? No. Did I get into the liquor that they didn't bother to put away? Of course not.

But I did have both of my grandmothers over to flippin' babysit me. That pisses me off, at the root of things, but honestly it wasn't so bad. Gramma D let me record her telling me the beginning of her life story. Which I plan to finish recording soon and write a book about someday. She's had a pretty interesting life.

It was nice to, essentially, live on my own for a while. I even got sick while they were gone and had to take care of myself. Good practice for college. Oh, I got a parking ticket, too. Blocking the sidewalk. Are you fucking serious? It's my fucking driveway, muthafuckas. If someone's out for a walk...they can't spare a few more steps and walk around the end of my car? Fuck, you people XD

Anyway, the parents' flight was cancelled so they got home a day late. There was a big Halloween party that night, but you know what I did? I stayed home and baked bananna bread, from scratch. I hate baking. It's such a precise science. I'd rather just cook and wing it and be able to play with it the whole time. Baking is more of a waiting game. The bread turned out great though. Next time I'm gunna try layering some caramel sauce into it.

Oh, first quarter's just ended. You know what that means? That means I've got 3/4 left of my senior year. Three quarters of a year left to make it the best year there ever was :3 I think I can do it.

"I'm all right. I'm good. There have been better times, but I'll be okay."
--Kenny Chesney

p.s. Kenny Chesney and Russel Crowe, my new obsessions. "A Beautiful Mind"? If you haven't seen it, do it. Now. I insist.

My Goals.

"This is one dream I mean to cling to."
--Vianne Rocher, Chocolat

Things that are struck through are completed. Things in italics are works in progress.

-Leave everything a little better than I found it.
-Learn to understand football.
-Kiss underwater.
-Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do.
-Fill my passport.
-Sing every day.
-After moving into my own apartment, buy a cheap dining table and six mismatched chairs, and throw a small dinner party. With candles.
-Try absinthe.
-Have a kitchen garden and houseplants. Take good care of them.
-Get a fireproof box for my important documents.
-Do something dirty in an elevator and/or airplane bathroom.
-Learn to belly dance.
-Write by snail mail every so often.
-Get better at embroidery.
-Take a picture of something at least once a day.
-Volunteer at "Cowboy Dreams".
-Learn how to drive a stick shift.
-Get a tattoo.
-Go on a cruise.
-Be successful in the horse industry.
-If that fails, have a charming roadside bar with a bad-ass reputation.
-Finish reading everything on my list of "classic books to read" before I die.
-Renovate a house or at least get into some interior design.
-Find a message in a bottle. Send one.
-Take a roadtrip.
-Whiten my teeth.
-Revamp my room, empty it out, start over.
-Create my own website. Create a better one.
-Ride in a taxi.
-Cut my own hair.
-Have a bonfire on the beach.
-Sleep under the stars.
-Take a photography class.
-Play board games.
-Speak Spanish fluently.
-Dabble in other languages, like Russian, Japanese, Urdu, and German. Sign language, too.
-Learn to play the harmonica.
-Pracice my violin and my bass.
-Learn how to hotwire a car.
-Compile recipes from all my greatest friends and family.
-Give blood.
-Sew a quilt for my child.
-Coach a youth softball team.
-Adopt pets from a rescue or shelter.
-Bake better Christmas cookies.
-Take a first aid class.
-Rally, demonstrate, and protest. Stand up for what I believe in.
-Fall in love - ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love.
-Vote.
-Buy a hypnotism CD.
-Own a jukebox and a record player. Use them.
-Ride a motorcycle or moped on my own.
-Learn to whistle with my fingers and with my hands cupped.
-Give things that I hate a chance.
-Design and build my own barn. Don't forget a hidden room.
-Support unsigned musicians.
-Dye my hair a crazy color.
-Get better at skipping the small talk.
-Build something functional out of wood. A bookcase, a small table.
-Take a martial arts class.
-Break a bone.
-Try surfing.
-Establish a bedtime routine.
-Hear a homeless person's life story. Again.
-Recognize at least ten constellations.
-Wear hats.
-Philosophize.
-Learn to skateboard.
-Own an economical car - hybrid, fuel cell, or ethanol.
-Relearn how to read palms.
-Discover all the branches on my family tree.
-Be a better employee.
-Apply for at least three scholarships each week.
-Stay in touch with my extended family. E-mail Aunt Dar.
-Research religions.
-Stretch every morning.
-Open a checking account.
-Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
-Take a ballroom dance class.
-Perfect my calligraphy.
-Fold a thousand paper cranes. (Maybe.)
-Live in a studio apartment with sparse furnishings and big windows.
-Bake home-made bread every Sunday, when I have my own family.
-Constantly expand, subtract, and perfect my DVD collection.
-Keep up with politics, foreign affairs, and other current events.
-Learn to knit.
-Bartend.
-Get back into cross-country skiing in the winter.
-Have a wrap-around porch and a porch swing or a rocking chair.
-Go to a strip club.
-Study abroad.
-Try a new recipe every month.
-See the aurora borealis.
-See the Cirque Du Soleil.
-Be a tourist in my own town.
-Have garage sales.
-Spend a month driving around the country and staying in dumpy motels, photographing everything.
-Go skinny dipping. In the Mediterranean Sea.
-Save someone's life. (Does giving blood count...? :3 Maybe I'll cross this off if I never save someone another way.)
-Get business cards.
-Get my allergies tested and figure out what's up with my ovaries.
-Handle my snake every day so she gets used to me. Before she gets big enough to bite off my hand.
-Go on a whale-watching boat. Actually see some whales.
-Return to Niagara Falls and D.C. Appreciate them more this time around.
-While I'm up in New England, take a ferry to Novia Scotia.
-Barrel race.
-Do cartwheels.
-Learn more about the Burning Man festival and possibly attend one day.
-Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
-Learn how to shoot a rifle.
-Play pool and darts well - the sports of the bar.
-Learn how to use a sewing machine.
-Learn how to rig a fishing pole. Always bait my own hook and unhook my own fish.
-Make an ofrenda every year for Day of the Dead - there's always someone's memory to honor.
-Dye my hair a funky color after graduation, to celebrate.
-Get a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt.
-Dye one of my pets a bright color - with non-toxic vegetable-based dye, of course.
-Write something in wet cement.
-Raise a child.
-Tie the stem of a cherry with my tongue - because maybe I can.
-Wear skirts more often.
-Go clubbing.
-Go paintballing.
-Build a treehouse.
-Go to at least two concerts over the summer.
-Light a candle for someone.
-Get a massage.
-Write a letter to the editor.
-Press flowers. Every spring.
-Find that place where it looks like, if you keep driving, you'll fall off the edge of the world.
-Swim in natural hot springs.
-Go waterskiing.
-Get a pedicure.
-Perfect a cookie recipe.
-Record Gramma D telling her life story. Finish it.
-Plant a tree.
-Fly a kite.
-Roast marshmallows in the back yard.
-Go apple-picking.
-Go to the drive-in as often as possible.
-Ride a bicycle built for two.
-Catch fireflies. Again.
-Build a snowman. Again.
-Go sailing.
-Have a birdfeeder.
-Actually listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream".
-See a bullfight.
-Roll my own sushi.
-Kiss on a ferris wheel at an old-fashioned carnival.
-Listen to classical music.
-Investigate falconry.
-Ride a mechanical bull.
-Get into UrbEx.
-Go downtown at least once a month.

p.s. spell something out with photos of things with letters on them.