Late Night Entertainment

It was like 11 last night and for some reason I suddenly felt like writing poetry... so I ended up with this little rhyme spree here. Haha, enjoy!


I'm not unemotional
I just won't let you see me cry
Life, it is a giant deadline
We just don't know it's ending time
Some days we're going, flying so high
Then other times we want to die
I'm not in love, I just like your company
I feel so happy when you're by my side
Life, it's like a roller coaster
But I'm not getting off this ride
The hills are tough but worth the climbing
Once you reach that peak at sunrise
I'm just a little bit crazy, just a little bit lazy
I'm really hopin' you don't mind
This life's so outrageous, 'n a smile's contageous
Although mine's a mere show sometimes
I'll say it, not spray it, I'll tell ya I'm fine
Cause few will ever see what's on the inside
We're not all sitting, open books to read
For each and every passer by
But you might get to see a page or two
Just pay attention, keep an eye

Indoor Lightning & Black 'n Yellow Rice

So you wake up in the morning. Upon wondering why your left arm aches like mad and won't stop, you decide maybe a hot shower would be good...and hey, you kinda need one anyway, honestly. After scarfing down a bowl of honey-nut cherios (where the nut part comes in is still a mystery to me. Hmm.) you still half drowsily walk down the stairs into the bathroom, to find that the shower isn't heating up as fast as usual. Odd. After your lukewarm shower it is decided: ya shoulda ran the towel in the dryer to wam it up. "Oh well" you think, and grab the next best thing-- the hair dryer-- out of the drawer. Wishfully anticipating that hot breeze that would soon be generating from the device, you plug it in and flip the switch on the handle. Nothing happens. Gah. But then, that's why there's a reset button on the plug in, no? So you hit the button. Still nothing. You hit it again...and WHOA! That was cool. It still doesn't turn on, but that blue lightning looking flash that surrounded the plug sure looked neat! You hit it again... partially curious to see if it would give you it's electric blue light show again and partly still with hopes that the third time's a charm and the hair dryer might actually turn on. Well, after button press number three, you still have now power to the hairdryer, but again, you still have a miniature fork lightning in your bathroom, which is still rather awesome =] But out of the slight fear you might catch the house on fire if you continiue this amusement, you switch the hair dryer to the other electrical outlet, which gives you no light show but does effectively turn on the hair dryer. Finally.

Hours later, after finishing up schoolwork and suchnot, your downstairs cleaning the bathroom. Oh goodie. And no, it's not because somebody else gained your amusement of earlier and caught a towel on fire. Just one more the regular's on the chore list. That's when you hear your brother racing down the stairs... "Hey mom! Your rice is REALLY boiling over or something!" Trust me. You don't want to have to smell charbroiled rice. Yuck. The smoke pretty much filled the house after mom removed the lid from the pot... strangely though the smoke alarms didn't go off. Now that's not very reasurring. Even now at 2:01 in the afternoon, I'm still getting bits of the burned rice/smoke smell. At least now I'm not suffuring from a smoke inhalation headache though, so that's good.

Oh yeah, just another day in the slightly odder than average Iddings home!
*laughs* now I wonder what will happen in the rest of my Monday...

Random Thought Of The Day: Originality?

Isn't it sort of funny how people, especially teenagers, always seem to feel the need to "fit in"? So many people seem to think they have to act or dress in a certain way. Heh, explains why almost everybody gets stuck going through braces at some point or another in life... Thank you Hollywood for advertising flawlessly strait, white smiles and making the rest of us feel like we must pay thousands of dollars to fix our teeth. Or perfect bodies that cause so many people to stop and stare at themselves in the mirror and think "I'm fat" weather they are or not.

Life is like a whole big game of "Simon Says" or "Follow The Leader", when ya think about it. It's like those games that we all played when we were little kids... follow what the popular people dictate is "cool" and you risk being "out" if you don't. And why is it always the popular people? Yeah, I guess they just get more advertising. Or they have more friends so everybody else thinks if they're like them they can have more friends and rank higher on the social scale too. But really, how many times do people just copy off the style of some random person on the street? Lol, not many, I would imagine.

Even I've done it... that whole trying to fit in thing. Back when I was a little 11 year old Jr.Girl Scout, in the back of my mind I always felt a little out of it sometimes. Not that anybody ever made fun of me there or anything, but none the less, I wanted to feel like I fit in with the rest of them so I started off on the chameleon act and dressed like the rest of them. I can't believe it took me 'till I was 15 to realize that it was so much more fun to just be ME!

So that is exactly what I did, and still am. Ya know what I've found? It doesn't make you any less liked than if you were playing the chameleon. Sometimes even more so!

So many people think they have to hide who they are... But hello? If we were meant to be the same God woulda used an identical cookie-cutter mold on us all.

Here Hits The Title Wave

*flops down into chair*
I am so. Totally. Tired.

Its days like this that make me realize that I don't really dislike summer after all. *shakes head and laughs* I knew I would start finding the reasons why I love summer again, it just took a little time. Like I said before, it always happens eventually. Cause I'm the optimist :-)

It was a horrible day for swimming. Only got to about 80 degrees and it was cloudy and slightly breezy, which makes it nearly impossible to keep your body at a comfortable temperature.

So I went swimming.


And it was GREAT. =D

(not that I'm really a fan of turning myself into a human popcicle)


It was the first day of the year that the local water park was open, and they were doing their anual freebie day to kick off pool season. I would have skipped out, cause as I said, the weather wasn't the best for a swim and I generally dislike free days anyway because it is so jam-packed in there that you're constantly bumping somebody in the pools. But Jake was going (no, not our resident thought-regurgitator) and I'd heard he was also gonna try and invite Emily & Ian along too, so I figured, "why not?" and headed down despite the crowds and weather.

Shortly after depositing the towels and whatnot in the grass near the wave pool, my bro and I headed off to try and find our friends. Fortunately that didn't take too long- I found Emily right off, floating along in the lazy river near Jon- Jake's older brother. A couple rounds through the LR, and Jake & Ian finally got their turns on the water slides and then came running over and found us. Horray! Only person missing was David and we could have had the whole Infamous Trio together (aka:Ian, David, and I...at youth group the three of us are practically inseperable).

Needless to say, we all had a blast.

Body surfing, water slide races, chasing/ambushing eachother in the lazy river, splash fights... oh and getting everybody in our group (and Emily's friend Katie) to hug my brother... LOL. Now THAT was entertaining. My brother is like Bo in that way- he doesn't like it when people touch him. It sorta freaked him out, therefore it was very funny seeing his expressions when we tried to hug him.

"Ugh...well that was disturbing!" - Nathaniel, upon being suddenly hugged from behind by Emily & Katie...hehe. (fyi, that part wasn't really their idea... Ian and I got them to do it XD )

Ahh yeah, fun day =D Even got some photos! (of course, when am I NOT toting my camera around getting pictures?)

Supa Heroes! Ooh yeah =)

hmm. I wasn't looking at the camera =P otherwise a great group pic!
(Jacob, Ian, Me, Emily)