The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Wow, tragic movie. I suggest watching it.


Click here to watch part 1 of 4 because it won't embed.



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April 29th

I signed up to have a “Word of the Day” emailed to me! Go ahead and think I'm some nerd, I really enjoy words! Have you heard of “littoral”? If not, maybe you should sign up for that email too!

Tie-dyed my first shirt yesterday! I realized tie-dying is a good plan for any stained/discolored white shirts! Wouldn't other colors work too, like yellow, pink, lighter green, lighter blue?

Last night I cut my own hair for the second time =) This time I wet it. I wasn't going to cut it until I got home just because I figured it would be easier at home than in a dorm bathroom....no problems here! It was getting so annoying and couldn't really look good no matter how I styled it.

You know, I'm not liking that Facebook keeps all our emails with people.  Some things are better off forgotten!


I wish I had a list of all the books I've read.  Not to late to start I guess, but I'm 19 years behind =(  I also wish I had a list of the random, awesome things my brother and I did together in our childhood. They be fun to look back at and laugh at, but I'd probably wish for those times again. (Isaiah 43:18?)


Two of my favorite sarcasm jokes:

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Fruit guilt

I'm tempted to feel guilty for spending $25 on four kinds of fruits....
But what typical college foods could I be buying instead? Let's see:

What's the stuff called? Oh, Ramen Noodles.
Nutella.
Those....little cutie, keg-looking, dyed drinks.
Sugary cereal.
Loads of pop.
Cheezits.
Frozen dinners.
Energy drinks!
Wheat thins.
Hot chocolate mix.
Pizza.
Hot pockets.
Easy Mac!


I don't really feel too bad now.  Berries can be my vitamins since I'm not feeling well.

A Week's Worth

4-13

Just played tennis for the first time!  I made my right arm sore right below the elbow since I'm not used to that repetitive movement - I was expecting that. =/  I accidentally let go of the racquet on one swing... - I wasn't expecting that.  Construction workers laughed and clapped when that happened.  Good time with many laughs =)




4-15

I was just thinking of walking to the library in shorts, in the rain, to print something. If only I had rain-boots instead of just high winter boots. ...Those would like normal with shorts....



Harrison dining hall's potato salad: "Would you like some potatoes with your mayonnaise?"

4-18

Just found out that Carrie Underwood is married. Kind of amused that I didn't know that... 


Ahaha, in something I just read, CNN was referred to as the "Clinton News Network" for its liberal bias.

Great laughs after a great day

This has been the best day I've had in so long! What better way then to end it with some great laughs?!

Hahaha, love his comment after saying: "Anybody here not go to a hand-raising church?"

"My fish is this big."

Hey, I got an exercise idea from Tim Hawkins! Just stretch out those arms and legs, add a little alternating too!




"I'm so broke I'm being sponsored by an 8 year old Nicaraguan boy right now." Haha, oh my gosh, I have never been a Tim Hawkins fan, but he is cracking me up right now!

"These are the angry birds in Corinthians."

The video below is hilarious and true.  (It reminds me of a movie I just watched in one of my classes: The Cove. It's about mass dolphin killing in Taiji, Japan. Yes, it was very sad! But, sorry, dolphins are not my priority to stand up for and protect, nor is any other animal really, when our babies are legally being murdered in our wombs.)

"Every dog in town is going, 'What is THAT? Somebody found an earring!'"

I was going to post another video from Brad Stine who presented the following idea, but I didn't like the rest of the video. He was talking about how atheists want God out of something (pledge of allegiance, money, something..) and posed this question - Which is more irrational: believing in a God you can't see, or being offended by a God that you don't even believe exists?

Okay, that's all =(  

I really think I should get in 40 minutes of homework before I go talk to an awesome friend about some awesome Messianic Judaism info!

A Week's Worth

4-6

You know it's not flip-flop season when you're wearing a winter coat.  That's not a very Lisa-like combination, but I did it ~5 minutes


Signing with a hearing, but fluent ASL friend would be so fun to do much more often! It's fun to try to figure out what they're saying! A friend and I were signing in the dining hall tonight, and I suggested that we leave when I noticed that we were 1 of 4 tables of people left! But she didn't want to, so I joked that we should pretend we were deaf if someone came up to us and asked us to leave!  ; )

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Anyone remember how Furbies used to be all the rage? They were at least in 2000-2001!



4-7

I've been waiting for 2 important emails, so I was excited when I had a new message.  I said, "Ooo, I hope it's from someone important!" ...It was from myself....I'd included myself in an email. *Sigh* =P 


4-8

 Just got into all the classes I want for next semester even though I registered an hour and 20 minutes later than I meant to!


4-11

I find it much harder to be motivated to do school work on days that I have 1 class or none. Odd.

Cheap on coffee?

How could anyone who buys coffee out regularly think that $8.99 for a 10 ounce bag of Organic Green Mountain (water-decaffeinated) coffee is too expensive?

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I'm guessing McDonald's is the cheapest coffee around. Back in November 2011, they charged $1 for a small regular coffee up to $3.39 for a large peppermint mocha.

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In May 2011, Starbucks sold their smallest iced coffees for $1.95 and their largest for $3.45 (second picture).

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The same year, Dunkin Donuts sold their coffee for $1.59-$2.29 (third picture).

So do you want 9 cups of McDonald's cheapest coffee, 2.6 Trenta sized iced-coffees from Starbucks, 3.92 X-large coffees from Dunkin, or a whole bag of healthier of coffee?
(I really don't know how healthy coffee is. I've heard pros & cons, but what negative thing can organic, water-decaffeinated coffee do to my body?)


According to the bag, 1 tablespoon is supposed to be brewed with 6 ounces of water. I'm not sure if the ounces will convert correctly, but if they do, a bag should yield 20 servings (1 TBS = 1/2 oz) - that would mean 45 cents for a cup of coffee.  I bought dark roast, so I've been using 3-3 1/2 tablespoons of coffee for my 4 "cup" pot. That makes it even less expensive.
(I don't know whether my 4-cup pot 24 or 32 ounces...I don't know what my pot considers a "cup." I sure don't consider 6 ounces to be one cup!)

I've used probably half a bag of coffee since February 26th, and it still smells like great coffee (though a little bit weaker). The regular Folgers I got rid of...smelled like plastic.

Why do you make the coffee choices you make?

Dream Closet

 From: Sunday, July 31, 2011, 11pm

I need someone to pick out my clothes everyday...what are those people called? Costume designers?  No...those listed when you see a picture of a model.
I still think I wear the same clothes too often, despite the efforts I make to not do that.  I put my shirts in on the left and take them from the right so I can cycle through them.  (A couple lesser favorites still collect on the right.)  And for all the other clothes, I try to remember if I've worn them recently. I'm totally not an accessories girl either; there is probably so much untouched potential in my wardrobe!  I don't do accessories because I haven't put in the time to figure out what looks good with what.  (Aka: I don't know how?)  There are so many cute, daring items I see girls wear that look sweet on them, but I probably wouldn't dare to wear!  Like funky rings; thick bracelets & necklaces; layered necklaces; cute little tops that they wear over shirts, but aren't vests.  (See my fashion vocabulary is horrible.)  I feel like I have fairly little jewelry for a girl, because of all those predicaments; plus, if I'm gonna choose between buying accessories & clothing?  Clothing sounds a lot more worthwhile!

The ideal closest would be a large walk in where I can mix all my different clothes and pull from the right so that piece becomes the focal point of that day's outfit. But this closet would come crashing down because I can't have supporting bars (which also divide) if I'm to be able to just push everything from left to right. So maybe I need 7 sections (Yey, that's one for each day!) for the 7 types of clothes (ya, forget the hoodies, I'll combine them with the sweaters) and then I can pull the central item from a different section each day!  But sweaters and tanks will probably be used the least...  So maybe (let's say I'm wearing a shirt, that needs a tank underneath, with a skirt) I can grab the 1st appropriate shirt, the 1st tank that will work with it, and then the same for the skirt. I like it!

This gets me thinking about seasonal clothing.  Sometimes I've wished I could wear certain things all year long...without getting weird glances.  (When you grow up in a house that doesn't really go below 68, and is usually 70-75 in the winter, you end up wearing shorts all year long....until your metabolism drops.)  I don't really know what clothing I've wished I could wear year-round, but I'm pretty sure I've wished it.  I think I'd prefer if all the seasons happened twice a year for 1 1/2 months at a time.  I'm always ready for a new season, but maybe that's the beauty of it: the longer one lasts, the more ready you are for the next.

Image: my own

I was at the beach in the evening last week and we all eventually got cold and headed back to someone's house.  One of the toddlers was changed into a long-sleeve fall dress when we were there and it just made me crave fall!  A mug of hot chocolate, a fireplace, piles of leaves, and gusts of wind.  I'll be ready for the glory of fall.  I think October is one of my favorite months...so many fond memories....

Chilly, but sweaty, adrenalin filled soccer games; beautiful, beautiful leaves (they're amazing by the canal); the great pie-making season, and just gorgeous walks when I can go out at peak heat and still be comfortable. Ahhh, God is amazing.


Any fun closet dreams and ideas?

A Week's Worth

Whoops, this is a little late! Oh well =)

3-16

With all my recent harmonizing to the radio, my mom probably thinks I went to college and lost my voice, tune, and pitch.

SO Delicious Unsweetened Coconut milk literally makes my cereal less appetizing. So sad. It was good in this smoothie recipe tho! I'm sure it would be fantastic to bake with too.


3-17

 
6 books, 1 photo album (holds 300 pictures), 1 purse, and a...something like a leather businessman's folder equalled $6.50 at my high-school's indoor sale today! Such good deals!



3-19

"If Tom's shoes looked like Crocs, there would be a lot more barefoot children in foreign countries."

3-20

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - John C. Maxwell 

Toothepaste - to make or not?

Last year I made some homemade toothpaste, but I couldn't tolerate it because it was so salty!  Most people know that baking soda is said to whiten teeth, right? Thus baking soda is a key ingredient and it's very salty. So a couple months ago I decided to do a whitening pre-scrub with baking soda followed by brushing with regular toothpaste. I even asked my dentist if that was okay for my teeth and he said it was. After adjusting to the saltiness of "pre-scrubing" with baking soda, I took it up a step with making and using homemade toothpaste.  My current problem is that my mom's hygienist told her that baking soda is very abrasive to the teeth and gums.

It's hard for me to trust people who could have an agenda.

• Maybe my dentist said it's okay for me so that I'll mess up my teeth and cause him to earn more money through me?
• Maybe my mom's hygienist told her it's bad because maybe people in the tooth industry want to support each other?
• Maybe they all want us using fluoride despite it supposedly being very bad for our health?
• Maybe they just want us spending our money on products they endorse?

I'm not sure.

This guy Jacob calls his dentist "evil and sadistic" in his article about why he is brushing his teeth with baking soda (Jacob, 2011).  My understanding of his second paragraph is:

If your dentist can get you to not use baking soda 

in your mouth then there will be more acid, 

thus more bacteria, thus more tartar/cavities, 

and more money into his pockets because you need to visit him more.

That could make sense.

So what did people do before commercial toothpaste? I'm sure, during points points in history, their teeth all rotted out! But...I would find it hard to believe if someone told me that there was never a point in history during which people had fine results with making their own toothpastes...

Most of the information I'm finding on the Internet is leaning toward the negative side, suggesting that it only be used occasionally. I was hoping the American Dental Association would have something on their site, but nothing came up when I searched "baking soda."

Any toothpaste makers out there?

"Pontiacs"

Haha...my attitude is just the opposite of Amanda Wilkerson's:

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Pontiacs

The Wysteria vines were climbin'
Every sunset was a watercolor,
The promise of a perfect summer
A blue eyed boy with a red TransAm.
We spent hours on his hood just laughing
In between the moonlight just dancing.
And it was way too short but oh so sweet
Don't know what it was to him but it was love to me.

That's why I hate Pontiacs,
Black vinyl seats
And Crackerjacks
With plastic rings
They play it back in that goodbye scene on a warm September night

That's why I hate river roads
With the windows down
And Tupelo, oh I hate that town.
'Cause all I know is that's where he was bound
And he never did come back
That's why I hate Pontiacs.

I filed away my wounded pride
I found someone and loved again;
Never take a trip to way back when.

'Til the radio plays a certain song
And it's like a finger on the trigger
Some old hurts they just hurt bigger.
Might have gotten past it long ago
but parts of yesterday ... they get tattooed on your soul

That's why I hate Pontiacs
Black vinyl seats,
And Crackerjacks
With plastic rings
They play it back in that goodbye scene on a warm September night.

That's why I hate river roads
With the windows down
And Tupelo, oh I hate that town.
'Cause all I know is that's where he was bound
And he never did come back.

That's why I hate Pontiacs

That's why I hate Pontiacs
Black vinyl seats
We were maniacs.
So wild and free 'til he took it back
That he loved me
And he drove off like the wind

That's why I hate Scorpios
You can't tie 'em down,
And Tupelo, Lord I hate that town.
'Cause all I know is that's where he was bound
And he never did come back.

That's why I hate Pontiacs

                                            - Amanda Wilkerson

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**Let me clarify that I didn't write this. Amanda Wilkerson is a country singer.**