Spring Break 2011

Yes, it's true. I'm back from spring break. Now while I was out and about, I took many-a picture. It would a crime not to share them with you, so here they are.




Crossing state lines.

 





The Chicago skyline at night. Taken at 3 am, when we arrived at the hotel.



Chicago skyline in the daytime.



Someone dressed up for C2E2.

Downtown Chicago.

Lake Michigan

First walking into the Nerd-dom.

The TARDIS. (sorry its sideways and I don't know how to fix it.)

Me with a Dalek. You're so jealous, aren't you.

Me with the TARDIS.

C2E2 sign.

Mini Cheese Face with Mario.

Deadpool, using my littest sister as a bazooka and pointing her at Mini Me.

WISCONSIN!!!

Wisconsin River on our way to the House on the Rock. Iddinit purty?

One of the planters in the driveway to the House.

The fountain in the main entrance of the House.

The Japanese Garden of the House on the Rock.

Old slot machines. Now entering first section of the House.

This thing plays music. For real.

The guy who built the House, Alex Jordan, used to have parties in rooms like this one.

This also plays music.

Wisconsin through the window of the Infinity Room. I didn't like this room. It's reaallly high up and I don't like heights. I freaked out.

This is a table of some sort.

This is a dresser with pearls and shells and it's pretty.

It's a fox.

The wall of the women's bathroom.

 This is another music thing.

OMG IT'S THE DOCTOR'S HAND! Not really, just a (hopefully) fake hand in a jar.

ahh, pretty.

Are you my mummy?

This is soooo big. It's a whale being attacked by a giant squid. This is the mouth of the whale.

Hot air balloon.

German plane.

"Das machine ist nicht fur Gerfingerpoken und grabben." In other words-en, don't touch!

An ad for Burma-Shave. What?

Pretty, a rose.

We are now in the Butterfly Room.

The Carousel Room.

Don't blink.

Blink and you're dead.

This place has fabulous pizza. It's the bestestestest pizza in the worlds.

Prettiest chandelier in the world.

The fountain at Inspiration Point.

One of the dollhouses. There are much bigger ones than this.

Creepy.

This is made out of ivory.

Queen Elizabeth II and her crown.

Buckingham Palace.

So that was my vacation.

Cheese Face out.

My Mouth Hurts...

Tip of the day: Never ever ever eat 9 Air Heads after habitually biting your bottom lip. It burns. A lot. Please don't ask me how I know this. Please, PLEASE, DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW THIS.

That is all.

Cheese Face out.

Fancy Soda

I have purchased fancy Japanese soda called Ramune (pronounced RA-mune-ay). Oh, my God, it's insanely good. I got the strawberry flavor. How did I come across this extremely awesome find, you ask? It all started at school. One of my friends, who love all things made in Japan, brought her fancy soda to school to share with us. So we each went and got small paper cups from the ice cream machine in the lunch line and poured some of the carbonated liquids into our cups. Where can you find Ramune? At your local Rocket Fizz.

Cheese Face out.

20 Things: To Say to Annoy the Pizza Guy

Welcome! This is 20 Things. The Pizza Guy is one of the most loved and hated people of America Cheesecakia.

Loved Example: "Oh, JOY! He's here!!"
Hated Example: "THIS SHOULD OF BEEN HERE IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS!"

Thus proving my point. Here are 20 things you can do to annoy the crap out of the dude/dudette who takes your call.

1. Sing the order to the tune of your favorite song from Metallica's "Master of Puppets" CD.
2. Answer their questions with questions.
3. Order while using an electric knife sharpener.
4. Have your pizza "shaken, not stirred".
5. Crack your knuckles into the receiver.
6. Rent a pizza.
7. Stutter on the letter 'p'.
8. Move the mouthpiece farther and farther away from your lips as you speak. When the call ends, jerk the mouthpiece back in place and scream goodbye at the top of your lungs.
9. Tell them to put the crust on top this time.
10. Tell them to double-check that the pizza is, in fact, dead.
11. Eliminate verbs from your speech.
12. Play a sitar in the background.
13. Order a slice, not a whole pizza.
14. Use CB lingo where applicable.
15. Psychoanalyze the order taker.
16. Order two toppings, then say, "No, they'll start fighting".
17. Learn to correctly pronounce the ingredients of a Twinkie. Ask that these be included in the pizza.
18. Order with a Speak-n-Spell where available.
19.Put them on hold.
20. Perfect a celebrity's voice. Stress that you won't take any crap from some two-bit, can't-hack-it, pimple-faced gofer.

Try it and see what happens.

Cheese Face out.

HAPPY HALLOWEENIES!

Yes! Uh-huh! Whoo! Shoosh yeah! Halloweenies has arrived! Finally! I've been waiting for 30 days. And now for the Happy Halloweenies Song:

Happy Halloweenies!
Halloweenies cake!
Happy Halloweenies!
Pin the tail on the seahorse!
Happy Halloweenies!
HAPPY HALLOWEENIES!

Wasn't that fun? And today is my grandma's birthday. Yay.

Happy Birthday, Grandma!
Happy Birthday cake!
Happy Birthday, Grandma!
Pin the tail on the donkey!
Happy Birthday, Grandma!

I can't wait to eat 15% of my candy income tonight!

Cheese Face out.

Humming Winter in Fall

Yes, it is hopelessly stuck in my head. Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons movement, Winter, is stuck in my head. And it's fall. Irony, it's horribly ironic. I'd post a TooYube video of it on here, but I don't know how. So do the world a favor and become one with Google. Many things, that Google is...

But seriously folks, I wanted to ask you to post your greatest Halloweenies costume ever. One thing I've noticed is it's easy to find costumes for little ones and adults, but not for nerdy teens who want to rot their teeth out with that sticky sugar stuff. Creativity ensues, for I am going as a nerd. And I will most definitely reel in the most candy of all of my siblings, because they all have to either use other stuff to make their costumes (time-waster!) or they have a store-bought costume that everyone goes for. Last year, I went as Abby Sciuto from NCIS, and it was totally EPIC. The year before that, some sort of vampire/fairytale being hybrid. And the year before that, a vampire/feline hybrid being. One year, my parents dressed me up as Wednesday Addams. I don't even remember that. Yeah... so I'm happy I have stopped combining vampires with non-vampire stuff. Hurray for individuality! Now to cut to the chase, anyone who happens upon this blog is to please tell me about their greatest costume ever, and it wouldn't hurt if you added a little anecdote.

Cheese Face out.... possibly

Tour (Post 7)

So today, the strings and jazz band of my school went on tour to the littler "feeder" schools. It was EPIC. We blew the classical music out their butts! First we went to my old elementary school, Robot Elementary. Now, that's not the real name, but you gotta love Internet privacy. Also, anyone who has been at least enrolled for 4 years with that robot of a principal, is most likely brainwashed and/or turned into a robot. Luckily she took over when I was in 4th grade. So I am good.

After that we went to lunch at this REALLY good Italian buffet, (again Internet privacy. OK it was Valentino's but I will never reveal the exact location no matter how much you beg, plead, or whine, or grovel.) Mr. S told everyone to not eat to the point of showing your affection for regurgitation, but I've that like 10 kids did that. Oh, sucks to be them. But I ended up eating a little more sugar than I needed and started quoting The School of Rock and was like, "But if we fall, we will fall with dignity. With a stand in our hands and awesome in our hearts. And in the words of AC/DC, 'We roll tonight. To the guitar bite. And for those about to rock, I salute you.'"

Then we went to another school which I like to call The Maze, because it has been renovated so many times you can never remember where stuff is, unless, that is, you are Kayla. Or a student. But we got there an hour EARLY so we basically sat around and warmed up.

But then we got back to school, and I had to go to P.E., and we are doing indoor soccer, which I hate, so yeah.

Cheese Face out