THANKSgiving, Part 1

This year, I'm going to put my mind to it and come up with 100 things I'm thankful for. I'll do it in parts, so here are the first few. (They're not in order of importance, just the order of when I think of them.)

1. God - Ok, if they were in order of importance, this would still be #1.
2. Puppies - Little balls of fur and cuteness.
3. The computer - What would life be like without computers?
4. Nail polish - Call me a girly girl, go ahead.
5. Butterflies - The world would be so colorless without them.
6. Music - I never feel at all lonely when I'm listening to music.
7. Flowers - Close your eyes and take a big sniff.
8. Bagels - Why on earth are bagels so darned good?
9. Postage Stamps - Thank about it, how could we send mail without these nifty little guys?
10. Post-it notes - I don't how much time these things have saved me.
11. Grass - Without it, the ground would just be dirt and mud.
12. School - Yes, I did just type that, because we'd all be idiots without it.
13. Tape - If there was no tape, I'd have to use glue, and that usually doesn't work well for me.
14. YouTube - Free music when you're online, baby!
15. Toilets - Without them, we'd - actually, I'm not going to go there.

Lots more to come!!!

~Caroline

Come Again??

I love it when people jump into the conversation at weird points, and they only catch part of what's being talked about. Here are some funny ones:

(This is what's heard by the person. Explanations below.)

1. "Maybe we can actually flush our toilet paper here."
2. "Two pieces or water? *short pause* Oh, toilet!"
3. "I hate blood!"
4. Two good friends (a guy and a girl) who are not boyfriend-girlfriend. Guy: "...I'd like to make tonight as memorable as I can."  Girl: *breathlessly* "Oh, so would I."

Explanations:

1. I was on road trip with some friends and we stopped to go to the bathroom. Little did we know that the gas station must have had a bad septic system. The sign inside the bathroom said "Please throw your toilet paper in the garbage can. Thank you." It was evident that everyone had been doing so, too. I bet that trash hadn't been emptied all day. The quote was said when driving by a different gas station.
2. I was reading the instructions on how to install a toilet. They were all in Spanish, so I decided to read that part aloud. I said "I wonder what toilet is in Spanish." Skip forward a bit, after more conversation, and I found a word that would make sense to mean "toilet." I said the word along with "Maybe that's it." Sarah: The quote above.
3. This one isn't that weird, but I walked in a conversation to that quote. I don't think it really needs an explanation.
4. The guy (let's call him Joe) was helping the girl (we'll call her Jane) run lines for a callback audition for The Music Man. Someone walked up to the conversation, not realizing that they were practicing lines. I laughed for a while after that. 

You can definitely expect more of these.

~Caroline

Halloween....what more can I say?

Today I met with some friends of mine at a little outdoor mall. We met at Starbucks and then walked to a Halloween store. Oh, my goodness. They played good music, but the store smelled weird. They had everything. I've heard that the most popular costume among women this year is the blue bathing-suitish looking thing that Lady Gaga wears in her music video for Poker Face. Yep, they had that. You couldn't pay me to wear something like that. Not in a million years. Our project is on Ancient Roman clothing and fashion, so we were looking for fake eyelashes. We found them. For eight dollars, that is. I don't think so. The store was neat, but waaaaaaay too expensive. We had fun. We went into Claire's and Bath and Body Works, two musts when I go to this mall. Then we waited for our parents to pick us up at American Eagle. Oh, and get this: None of the four of us have cell phones. So here we are, four high school girls, walking around in a mall, no adults, no cell phones, for three and a half hours. That's when you know for sure that you're homeschooled. I think I'm going to do a post about homeschoolers. I love that blogger thinks that "homeschooled" is a misspelled word. Yeah, I should do a post on the stereotypical homeschooler. Haha, it's says "homeschooler" is misspelled too.

~Caroline

Fried Peanuty, Chocolatey Incredibleness!!!!!!!!!!

I have now experienced the height of junk food. Fried Snickers.
You: That. Is. GROSS!
Me: No. It's. NOT!
I went to the Cherokee Indian fair two weekends ago, and, as fair concessions always do, they were selling fried Snickers. They also had Fried Oreos, which I've tried, but I didn't like them. I was only nine, though. Anyway, I went to this fair looking for a fried Snickers bar. I gorged myself that day. I only had two things from the Midway concessions, the Snickers and a Blue Raspberry Slushy. The other stuff I got from Cherokee vendors. I had frybread (a Cherokee thing), which is pretty much a big chunk of funnel cake dough minus the spaghetti look. Pure goodness. For dinner, I had a chili cheese dog and a Dr. Pepper. For my dessert, though, I got my long-awaited Snickers bar. I had gone looking for that thing when we first got there at, like, one. I was determined to save three dollars for my dessert that night. There was a Starship (old band, google it) concert at eight that night at the fair, and we went to that. I got my Snickers right before the concert. I don't understand why they don't make the darned things bigger. Next time you go to a fair, go to the little concession trailers scattered all over the place and get yourself a fried candy bar, or oreos, or brownies. (Yes, they do make all of those things. No joke.) It's worth the three dollars, for sure.

~Caroline

I felt so depraved!!!!!

I just recently was reminiscing about my lovely experience a couple of summers ago. I unknowingly signed up for a vegan cooking class. Believe me, I would not have signed up for this class if I knew what was coming. I took the class with my cousin Late. Here's where she blogged about the horrifying escapade. A little correction to the title: the students weren't the vegans, it was the teachers. All of them but one were vegan. The one who wasn't a vegan, Alfredo (not Linguini, that's from Ratatouille), was awesome. When someone asked if he was a vegan, he replied, "Nope, I'm a Catholic." That really made me laugh. There was some pretty awesome food involved, like:

• Tomato-Basil Soup
• Peanut-Asian-Noodle-Pasta-Stuff (although it had way too much garlic)
• Chocolate Cheesecake (would have been great, but they had to ruin it with tofu)
• Everything that Alfredo made
• Other things I can't remember because it was a while ago.

Now, don't be fooled by my extensive list of good food from the class. We also had:

• Veggie Sushi (I'm not a fan of sushi in the first place)
• Vegan Burgers (It's not a burger unless it actually has meat, not CABBAGE)
• Green gravy (It's not gravy if it's green, okay?)

Like I said, my memory of the class isn't very good, so there's definitely a lot I'm forgetting. Oh, well, I think you get the idea.

~Caroline

Yuck

Ok, I don't like pink, even though all of the stuff I just added on my sidebar is pink. Just wanted to clarify. I wish they were purple, but hey, like my mom says, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit."

~Caroline

Help!!!!

I can't think of a new quote to put on the sidebar. Help! Any suggestions??? Please???

~Caroline

P.S. Can be funny or serious, but no crude humor or naughty words please.

As seen on TV!!!!!

What will they come up with next? And who comes up with this stuff in the first place? One of my best friends went to Panama City Beach this past weekend and came back with some pretty good pictures of all kinds of stuff.  They included a purple house, which was pretty awesome. Her family went to an "As Seen on TV" store, and lo and behold, they found something that wouldn't have surfaced in my wildest dreams. Introducing:

The

Electronic

Yodeling

Pickle!!!

*cue applause*

Yes, indeed, despite what you may think, that was not a typo. Electronic Yodeling Pickle. See, there it was again, no lie.

You never know what you'll find when you go to the beach.

~Caroline

What is Our World Coming to?????

Guess who!!!!

Dolls aren't his only idea, though. He's quite creative. Now, keep in mind that this is OPI, which is some of the most expensive nail polish on the market. Cha-ching for the Bieber!!!! What really makes me mad is that three of the six are PURPLE!!! I could sue Justin Bieber right about now.

I also happen to know that he loves PURPLE CONVERSE!!!! What is the deal, dude? That was my favorite color first!!!! I didn't like him before, and he's done nothing to make me feel any better about him. I think he's getting less and less cute as the days go by. I'm not sure that's possible, but it's what happening.

Again, 

I ask, 

WHAT

IS 

OUR 

WORLD 

COMING TO??????

~Caroline the Calm

I figured out Victoria's Secret!!

You: Uh, what???
I was reading a book today for the youth retreat I'm going on this coming weekend.  As you can see by the title of the book, my youth pastor doesn't shy away from the awkward issues.  Anyway, there was a part in it that I really liked. Just fyi, this post is a little more on the serious side of things.

So it was this guy talking about Victoria's Secret. I'm not going to quote directly from the book for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I'm too lazy to go get the book. The guy was talking about how he always wondered what secret Victoria has been trying to keep. It's obviously not what her models look like without any clothes on, because even the pygmies in rural Africa probably know that "secret." Then it dawned on him. They're covering up all those insecurities that all of us have, some more than others. They're so afraid of being rejected that they'll do anything to keep their identity. And I mean anything, if you get my drift. Now that I think about it that way, the name "Victoria's Secret" has an entirely new meaning. I doubt that that was the original intention, but who knows? Victoria's Secret has been around for so long that Victoria's probably dead by now!

~Caroline

P.S. Ok, I know I said that this was supposed to be serious post, but the subject/message was the only thing serious about it. I'm not a very serious person, in case you haven't gathered that yet.

I'm on Facebook....sort of

There is now a facebook account with my name on it. But I still haven't even seen it. Please allow me to explain. At school a few weeks ago, my friend Caylee decided to make me a facebook since I'm not on Facebook. So everyone's asking me if I got their facebook message and all this. What are friends for?? :)

~Caroline

Dear Lord, Please Spare Me!!!!

In my grandma's words "your father is going to behead you." Here's why. Thanks for mentioning that I put it on him, Sarah. Grrrr. I didn't even start it, he came walking out of the closet with it hanging around his neck. *coughMOMMAcough* Ahem! Sorry, I had something stuck in my throat. And, of course, she had to use the picture with me in it. I'm really feeling that sisterly love going on, here. Now excuse me while I go prepare to defend myself from the beheader.

~Caroline

OOPS!!!!

Ok, that last post, in the first sentence, that was a typo, ok? It was entirely an accident..... it should be "add," not "a**." Sorry! If you didn't notice before I changed it, then ignore this, k?

~Caroline