Wordless Wednesday – NOT – haha! Lazy Summer Day Pics

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Daisy

At first I was like “I’m going to do a ‘Wordless Wednesday’” but then I thought about it and realized there was NO WAY I was going to be able to NOT comment on these pics. :) So here’s an attempt at a quasi-wordless Wednesday with lots of pics from yesterday (and apologies to some of you who may have already seen these pics on my blog.)

Mmm – I heart those yummy raspberries growing in the backyard

My puppies (who are almost 4 years old) and – ME :)

The air and the breeze and my toes in the trees

It’s not tormenting – it’s smooching noses :) She likes it – no for real.

Matty Matt’s pic for my new FB profile pic. lol.

Rain Train – (and as Aussie Erin says – SO AMERICAN!!)

Grandpa said, “Who did this to you?”

Uncle Scott said, “Is Mommy trying to choke you?”

Grandma laughed and laughed

Grandpa said, “It’s ok Scott. She’s only here for two more weeks. They will only look like cowboys for 2 more weeks.”

Mommy said, “GRRRRR!!!! They don’t look like cowboys!!! They’re GIRLY GIRLS!!!”

Mommy said, “And they’re SASHES not bandanas!”

Dose UNO of Daisy’s Dad’s 500lb Pumpkin Quest and lots of cool song links

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Daisy

This is something that I don’t say very often but I actually have to go to bed. WHAAAT??? Yeah I do. Crazy-ness. So this post is going to be a bit of randomness FUN GREAT TIMES with some FAB LINKS and a little special dose of happiness and rainbows sent from my computer to yours. yay!

First things first – remember the lamp that sprouted magical legs? It left a BRUISE ON MY FACE!!! Not cool.

And SWINE FLU – I think the following blog posts deserve a mention because they made me LOL – but they’re not for you mom because they have swear words in them – ones you wouldn’t like. oxox (that’s my mom’s and my secret “love you SO MUCH” code.)

Swine Flu by Elsja

Iced Tea, A Busy Mind and Not Being A Hypochondriac by Nicole A.

Ok and now I have to tell you a secret. BECAUSE SECRETS ARE FUN!!! One time I told this dude that although I love shopping – because I seriously do – I like to think “it’s not the meat and potatoes” of my life. Yeah I said that. I said shopping isn’t the meat and potatoes of my life. And then I wrote a blog about how I COULDN’T BELIEVE I SAID THAT. (and I just re-read that blog and omgosh omgosh omgosh) WHY OH WHY DID I BLOG ABOUT IT? Now there’s PROOF. Who says things like that? No seriously [shake head in disbelief.] And I’m mentioning this because I recently learned that my dad is now teaching gardening classes to his peeps in my old neighborhood and he grows potatoes and yeah – you see where I’m going with this? No? that’s ok.

ANYWHO – my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. Oh yes. AND my dad is on a quest to grow a 500 lb pumpkin. A FIVE HUNDRED POUND PUMPKIN!!! Say whaaaat?? That’s about 227 kg. Which is a LOT. And I’m going to tell you a bit about it in doses. But just one dose at a time.

Dose One of Daisy’s Dad’s 500lb Pumpkin Quest

My dad planted ONE HUNDRED pumpkin seeds. Some of them were like 5-6 yrs old (don’t ask) others were from a pumpkin he grew two years ago that was GINORMOUS (180 lbs) and the rest? He says they’re “Dill’s Atlantis Giant.” Way to go Dill – your seeds sound dirty – you sick-o.

OK so my dad planted the seeds on the 23rd of April and by the 24th – ONE DAY LATER – he wrote this (btw he’s journaling this just for ME and my amusement. )

I hate waiting. I’ve peeled back the plastic wrap twice today, hoping to see ANYthing. I saw nothing.

HAHAHA! It’d only been ONE DAY! That’s freaking hilarious. Seriously it is. AAAANNNNDDD the NEXT DAY on the 25th of April he wrote this:

I hate waiting. I’ve peeled back the plastic wrap FOUR times today, hoping to see ANYthing.

Right-ee-o – so my dad’s getting a bit obsessive and it’s only day 3. Then he wrote this:

I even started lightly digging in the dirt looking for any signs of life. I saw nothing.

Oh no he didn’t. Did he? I don’t know. But that’s what he wrote. HAHAHAHAHA! AAAANNNNNDDDD with that we’ll stop there. I don’t need you thinking my dad’s crazy quite yet. PLUS that’s a pretty big dose for today. It’s been three days and he’s already obsessed. HAHA just teasing Dad. kind of.

OHMYGOSH – What am I listening to this evening? Some tight flow! But I put it after the break because most of you probably don’t share my refined taste in music. hee hee. Oh and I don’t usually like mash-ups but the one at the bottom is SO SWEET. Good night!! xoxo~Daisy

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The lamp that sprouted magical legs – BAD lamp!!

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Daisy

Once upon a time, far far over the rainbow, in the land of Oz there was a MAGENTA reading lamp (ya know – the color is like SO important) from IKEA (that’s part is like SO important too) sitting on the ever-so-sturdy and wide headboard of a bed (that is currently sporting white flannel sheets that have cute pink and magenta cherry blossoms on them. Ah – precious!)

Well one night when the owner of said bed was tossing and turning because she couldn’t sleep, it came alive. Oh yes. ALIVE. You see, normal, non-alive lamps don’t move. But ALIVE lamps sprout magical legs and terrible senses of humor. (No really you should hear the jokes they tell – not funny!)

At about 4:45am when all was quiet in the world and the bats and birds outside the lamp’s window hadn’t started SQUAWKING OUT OF CONTROL YET the lamp thought it would be funny to play a prank on the owner of the bed. And yes I said bats. They sound like cats fighting to the death – oh the joy.

Anywho – The lamp loved JUMPING into the flannel sheets because they’re PRETTY and the cherry blossoms really accentuate the magenta craptastic plastic – but because the owner was scared someone would notice her magical lamp had legs and take it away and dissect it like they did the ginormous squid in Wellington, NZ at the Te Papas Museum (poor ginormous squid) – the lamp agreed it would ONLY nose dive onto the bed when the owner of said bed was her ungraceful self and bumped the bed thereby making it APPEAR as if it were the owner’s fault the lamp “fell.” Though YOU AND I know it didn’t fall, it JUMPED.

Ok so that was a the-longest-sentence-EVAH and now let’s get back on track. 4:45am – quiet. Owner of bed is sleeping.

Oopsie! The lamp – who WILL be donated for scientific research and subsequent dissection if it ever pulls this prank again – JUMPED from its resting place and LANDED ON MY FACE. I mean – oops – the OWNER OF SAID BED’S FACE. Not head – FACE. Eyebrow bone to be exact. So not funny at 4:45am.

OH and then I went to school and I looked like death and the teacher said, “How are you feeling?” and I told her the truth which was that I’m SICK because I have a cold and can barely eat because my stomach feels like it does about an hour or so after you’ve discovered you’ve had bad sushi and all you want to do is vomit so you’ll feel better – OMGOSH TMI – (ok I ACTUALLY just told her I’m sick) and she asked if I’ve been to Mexico recently – and I assured her I do not have the swine flu but she said it would be better for everyone if I went home anyway. So I did.

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Daisy

Ok so funny story for the day is that Scoman, who has been officially on my blogroll for a few weeks now (you can find the blogroll under “wicked cool stuff” and if your blog isn’t there TELL ME because it should be!!) anywho – Scoman “invited” me to participate in a blog tag. Except he didn’t just invite me – he announced to his lovely loyal readers that my blog has an inappropriate acronym. Happy happy joy joy! Purple butterflies and pink bunnies!

I LOLd seriously – I did. I can’t believe my blog abbreviation/acronym is VAG in A (Very American Girl in Australia.) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

ANYWHO – I told my mom and she LOLd too.

Ok so the tag task is to give a shout out to the tagger. That’s Scoman from “A Name in Your Recollection.” So here’s my shoutout! Yo Yo Scoman! I love reading your blog!! It makes me smile – even if all of your readers now know me as the girl from the VAGinA blog

Task #2 – list 6 unimportant things that make you happy. My only issue with this is that if they make me happy then they ARE important! But I won’t pick at the challenge – I’ll just play along. These things are NOT the core of my happiness, but they’re little things that I delight in.

I LOVE when the lines in the sidewalk are PERFECTLY spaced. And by that I mean that I can time my footsteps so that I never step on a crack. Or if a tile floor is multi-colored – I LOVE when one color is spaced perfectly so that I only step on that color and no other.
Bad fashion – it’s wickedly evil of me but I love seeing someone wearing the tackiest of all things. I laugh. And it’s wrong – I know – but it’s funny just the same.
Trying gross things. This is a little weird right? RIGHT! But I love mixing food together. I know it’ll probably be gross – it usually is – but I do it anyway. OR I also like to try gross products. Like chocolate skittles. I KNEW those would be foul but I had to try them. Or pear flavored chocolate. Or Harry Potter Jelly Belly flavors Booger and Earwax. Or Chicken flavored potato chips. If it looks too gross to be in a super market but they’re selling it anyway – I am SO trying it. And I LOVE trying it even though it’s gross and I laugh about it afterwards.
My dogs playing with their squeaker toys. Chloe will sit there and chomp on that thing for an hour. Then she’ll go through phases where she’s squeaking it like a crazy squeaking maniac to a nice lulled squeak. I LOVE it. It makes me smile every time. And when she plays tug-of-war with her sister – it’s the BEST!!!
I LOVE eyeshadow and glimmer, and shimmer, and lipgloss and flavored lipgloss and pretty lotion, and Victoria’s Secret and MAC and more eyeshadow and helping people pick eyeshadow and smelling pretty things and yeah yeah I know. I get pretty geeked up about this stuff. I LUV IT!!! Take me to the MAC counter or Victoria’s Secret and I’m in happyheavenlalaland.
Doing things that are meant for kids. And yes – I realize other adults do these things – but they do them WITH kids. I just do them on my own or with any adult I can convince to play along. Slip-n-slides, building gingerbread houses, carving pumpkins, swinging on swingsets, telling secrets, having slumber parties, sneaking out late at night. I DELIGHT in these things.

So there you have it – 6 little unimportant things that mean a whole lot to me because they make me happy.

Next part – tag 6 other people. Anyone want to volunteer? No? Darn it! I hate tagging people. So I’m tagging at random. I picked some numbers then looked at my blog roll and here they are- ~Miss A~, CarmenForward, NicoleElkington, a la Sophia, Pinkie Larue, Empossible in El Paso. Love all the blogs in my blogroll!! These 6 included.

Good night!!

The Intellectualiz-ation of Emoticons

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Daisy

Ok ok – so sometimes I like to make up words. For example: “Intellectualiz-ation” – NOT a proper variation of the word “intellectualize” (hence the “-” in the middle of the word) but you know what? I like it despite the fact.

Ok on to the most IMPORTANT-est things for today – well for right now. I was flipping through my text book to waste time (I am an amazing time-waster ) and I found this:

EMOTICONS: NON-VERBAL SIGNS ON THE COMPUTER

And I was like, “Say whaaat? My textbook has a section on EMOTICONS??” THEN I was like, “omgosh – no way! I LOVE emoticons!” And THEN I decided that my textbook and I must have been fated to each other. And THEN I decided to read the whole 1.5 paragraphs on emoticons. And THEN I looked at the handy chart they put in my textbook. and NOW I’m wondering why I keep saying “and THEN.” ?? oh well.

So according to my book emoticons are really important. HAHA! I KNEW IT! When I created the tag, “Emoticons make me happy” ages ago I KNEW it was because emoticons are SO IMPORTANT-est-ish. You see, “Emoticons are a way of denoting emotion when communicating on the internet,” because “when communicating via the computer, we cannot hear voice inflection, nor can we see the funny, naughty or sad emotions of people’s faces.”

YES MY TEXTBOOK USED THE WORD NAUGHTY! heehee – LUV it!!

Please enjoy the “Emoticon Dictionary” from Mohan:
:-* = kiss
:-X = lips are sealed
:-| = indifferent
:’( = crying
0:-) = angel
:-> = biting sarcastic smile (lol – doesn’t look sarcastic to me!)
:-0 = Oh!
>;-> = devilsh wink

Oh my – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And here are a couple extra fun ones for you. Your homework is to decide what THESE mean. haha! And yes – yes I DID put a dancing chewbacca, Mr. T, beyonce, ninja and zorro emoticon on my blog.
Ignoring Loser Sarcastic Clap Beyonce Mr T 2 Ninja Trainee Sumo Wrestler Zorro