Day 13

What did you do today?

Well this is a stupid one. I also should have read this earlier and actually done something to write about.

Well, I got up, got Beck, brushed my teeth, went downstairs, got Beck some milk, took my medicine, made Beck oatmeal, fed Beck oatmeal, hung out until I could eat (I have to wait 30 min after I take my medicine), ate cereal (sugary goodness), hung out, ran, took a shower, hung out with my dad, put Beck down for a nap, computed, got Beck, fed Beck lunch, this is all kind of foggy now, but we probably just hung out and did regular stuff until Beck took another nap, I computed again, Beck got up, we ate dinner, we played, we went upstairs to read a story, Beck pooped BIG time (you're welcome), I changed the third poopy diaper of the day, put Beck to bed, and here I am. I've watched a couple episodes of How I Met Your Mother, and it made me laugh out loud aka lol. Oh, and I watched Ellen and Oprah. Oh, and I took Beck's 16 month pictures. I don't know if monthly pictures are really necessary anymore since he doesn't change as much anymore. Oh, and I ate a lot of these pumpkin cookies. I ate the whole batch within 24 hours.

Didn't read that, did you? It's ok, I won't yell and tell you to go back and read it.

Now I'm gonna paint all 20 of my nails and read Harry Potter.

Day 12

A Favorite Quote

This one is kind of weird/hard. I'll just put the two I have on my Facebook quotes section because that's easy.

For all the English nerds:

Oh that Winsty.

Day 11

A Favorite Book

I read books, but I don't remember very much at all. Right now I'm rereading the Harry Potter series, and it's almost like I've never read them. The only stuff I remember is what happens in the movies, and they leave out soooo much. So if you haven't read them, do. I'm on #5 right now.

On the left side of my blog, I have my goodreads stuff. If you really want to look at what I've read/liked/whatever, go click on that. Or here.

Books I liked:

The Giver

Twilight series. (I'm not ashamed.)

We All Fall down by Robert Cormier 

The Hunger Games series

Some of the books in The Chronicles of Narnia. The Dawn Treader was good, so I'm excited it's been made into a movie.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Oh, this post made me think of a time I had to take a creative writing class for my major, so I took Creative Nonfiction. On the first day of class, we had to say our name and what kind of stuff we liked to read or something like that. Everyone was naming writers I've never heard of, and when it was my turn, I said, "I don't really read...." I'm sure all the English nerds were rolling their eyes (Not that I'm not an English nerd. I'm just a different kind.). I still wouldn't have an answer that would please them since I don't think they respect the popular stuff too much. Oh well. Makes me laugh to myself when I think about it.

Texan ABCs

Beck was getting grumpy in the car one day, so my mom and I started singing the ABCs for him. We sang it back and forth, like this:

Me: A

Mom: B

Me: C

Mom: D

You get it. Well, you get bored doing the same thing over and over, so my mom said, "Let's sing it like JoAnne." JoAnne is my grandpa's wife, and she has a thiiiick accent. I thought it would be funny to record our singing on my camera without my mom knowing, so I did. When we were done, I played it back and we laughed really hard. 

So for your hearing(?) pleasure...

Day 10

A Favorite Food

I love food. (But mostly if it's not a vegetable.)

I love steak.

gag on that, vegetarians.

I love cake.

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I love cookies. I'm making these chocolate mint ones right now.

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I love potatoes in almost any form. These are twice baked potatoes I made recently using this recipe. Deeeeelightful.

I love cereal. But only the sugary kind.

And much, much more, of course.

Day 9

A Favorite Movie

Well, since it's December, I feel like expressing my love for this beloved classic:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Truths

I came across this list and thought some of them were funny, so I bolded the ones that I especially liked or thought were true for me.

Truths For Mature Humans

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. 

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font. 

5. How the are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? (Paige?)

6. Was learning cursive really necessary? 

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood. 

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died. 

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired. 

10. Bad decisions make good stories. 

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever. 

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? **** it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call. 

18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well. 

19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.

20. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option. 

21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.

22. I would rather try to carry 10 over-loaded plastic bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in. 

23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text. 

24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger. 

25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever. 

28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year? 

29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate bicyclists.

31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is. 

32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my *** everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

Day 8

A favorite song

This one is hard, but I'll put up the song that I consider my all-time favorite. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge. (I had to put a link because they won't let me embed it here. Boo.) I loved this song when I was little, so when I was at my grandma's house one time, I watched MTV all day every day until it came on. When I think of this video, I think of the part where Anthony Kiedis is running with his long hair flowing behind him. 3:25ish in the video.

Day 7

Something I want to buy

What DON'T I want to buy? That list may be shorter.

Maybe some boots.

Perhaps a shirt.

(Hilary, yep, got that idea from your post.)

I could go for a house. With a backyard. But not this house. Or yard.

Day 6

Something I Bought Recently

Well, Beck and I took a trip. I haven't flown by myself with a one-year-old, so I was a little bit nervous. I asked my FB friends their advice on keeping a kid happy while on a plane, and ended up buying some goods on the way to the airport. Pringles, Tootsie Pop, and fruit snacks. My mouth is watering, so I think I'm gonna have to go get those fruit snacks.

Did you want the update on the plane ride? Well, it was a pretty empty flight, so we got a row of three seats to ourselves, no one in front of us, beside us, or in back of us. Things were going pretty well. Then I smelled a little something. Then I smelled a little something again. I looked down his diaper and yep, a little something was in there. I realized that I had packed ALL of the diapers in my bag that I checked. So I thought to myself, "Well, as long as it doesn't creep up, we're OK." A little while later, it had creeped. I thought about what I could do. I could wrap him up in my hoodie. I could clean out his diaper and put it back on him. I took him to the bathroom with just my wipes, sat him on the changing table, and cleaned out the back so it wouldn't creep up anymore. And that was it. I took him back to our seats and hoped no one could smell it.

Then I gave him a grape Tootsie Pop and hoped that they just smelled the grape.

Christmastime is here

And so is the Santa hat.

This is reason 397,048,305 Olive hates me.

Day 5

Top 10 Pet Peeves

You know this will have grammar stuff in it (sorry), but I tried not to let the grammar stuff dominate. I could add how periods and commas always go inside quotation marks (in the US), but I won't. ha. Gotcha.

Pretend I'm doing the countdown on Letterman. (These aren't really in order of annoyance except for my #1.)

10. When people say literally when they DON'T mean literally. "I was literally dying laughing." Really? Literally? Uh, I guess it could happen, but I don't think so.

9. When people write it's when they mean its. I know this can be confusing, so I'll explain it.
It's = it is or it has. It's a contraction, meaning you've omitted letters.
Its = all other instances/the possessive form of it. I know, possessive usually means you use an apostrophe, but you don't with its.
Just remember: it's ALWAYS means it is or it has.

8. DID YOU SKIP MY EXPLANATION IN #9? GO BACK RIGHT NOW AND READ IT (at least the part in blue). YES, I'M YELLING!

Ahem...number eight: when people say something along the lines of That picture is of Matt and I on the beach. Ah! Would you say that's I on the beach? NO!!!!!!!! I see this a lot when people put captions on  pictures. I think this happens because people are over correcting. Over-correcting? (The use of hyphens isn't my strong point.)

7. Square Utah Hair. (Yes, Utah Hair is a proper noun to me.) I have a photo file on my computer labeled "Utah Hair" where I save all amazing/disgusting pictures I come across via blog or facebook, and I soooo want to post a picture of a friend of a friend, but I'm scared my friend will recognize the picture. Too bad, because it's a doozy!

6. The use of the word epic. There's another trendy word that annoys me, but I can't remember it at the moment. I'll let you know when I think of it. I'm sure you're sitting on the edge of your seat.

5. Annoying online personalities (well, all annoying personalities, but since I mostly talk to people online and not in real life, *cough*loser*cough* I will just say annoying online personalities). I bet you're thinking, "Uh, this list is making me think YOU have an annoying online personality, Kari." *cough*screw you*cough* :) because happy faces make everything better.

4. When the TV is BLASTING.

3. Repetitive noises like people popping their gum or clicking their pen. (This is for when I see people in real life, but because of what I said in #5, this isn't much of an issue these days. This was a major annoyance when I was in college, so maybe it shouldn't be added. But it's still REALLY annoying.) Oh, the other day while I was at Harry Potter, the person behind me kept rubbing their foot back and forth on the carpet, and it was driving me crazy since my head was pretty close to their foot, thanks to stadium seating.

2. When people drive in the slow/passing lane without passing anyone. Along the same lines, it annoys me when someone drives in the HOV lane just because they can. It's like they see the HOV lane, and they're like, "Well I have someone else with me, so I have to. I HAVE TO!" and then their steering wheel takes control and swerves across all lanes of traffic into the carpool lane. And then they stay there while a line of cars piles up behind them, trapped. Is anyone's pet peeve when people say like too much? YOU HATE ME, DON'T YOU? Is your pet peeve when people use CAPS? Well I'm just in a CAPS mood, mk?

and my numero uno.....
1. When people put an apostrophe in their last name when it's not possessive. DON'T DO IT! FOR THE LOVE OF...something. Here's an example if you need one, but you shouldn't since I've complained about this a lot: To the Hobsons, for being freaking awesome. Love, the Ellises (Yep, Ellises. Plural of Ellis. Like Joneses in the saying "Keeping up with the Joneses.")

DID YOU SKIP MY #1 WHEN YOU SAW IT WAS GRAMMAR-RELATED? GO BACK AND READ IT!!

Thank you for this therapy/teaching session.