Thanks(giving)

It's that time of year. You know...the one when Americans (and other nationalities of course) all get together and stuff themselves with dead ugly bird (better known as turkey), mashed potatos, stuffing (which I found out that I can't have because it has chicken broth...grr,) bread of all sorts, and pumpkin, depleted of all its nutrients, loaded with sugar, and baked. Ahh...how I love Thanksgiving.

I'll be going with my family to a friend's house tonight, and then tomorrow more families will be joining us for the whole eating thing. Oh, and we'll be saying what we're thankful for. (This is one of those traditions that has been going on for years.

SO. Instead of writing a list...here are some pictures of what I am thankful for. I couldn't put up everything I am though...I would have used up all the bandwidth and risked the wrath of my parents.

Happy Turkey Day!

Loss

Katie Broecker.
There's not much to say other than that she's gone.
It's hard on everyone: the students, the staff, family, friends.
We all grieve in different ways.
But she is in a better place now.

My kind of Bible movie.

So in my Bible class at school, we've been reading 1st and 2nd Samuel. For 2nd Samuel, we watched part of a movie about the life of King David. I was kind've saddened when we got to the part about David and his affair thing with Bathsheba. You see, neither of the actors was good looking. They were rather ugly in fact. I think that they had to have been hot. I mean it was this king who was apparently good looking. And I mean this woman he saw bathing was apparently hot enough for him to sleep with her and then kill off her husband. So I came to the conclusion that if I were to make a movie about David's life...I would make Justin Timberlake play as David, and Jessica Alba play as Bathsheba.
Seriously. Movie would be so much better. And more people would watch it.


Jessica Alba
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Justin Timberlake

It's been a while.

So, it turns out I haven't written since this summer.
Which is pretty much due to this thing called school.
Yes, I know, it's very sad.
But, please, if you would like to blame someone, feel free to contact my teachers.

BlaBlaBla Cool.

My summer is pretty cool.
I just thought that I'd post some pictures of random things.
The first two are of a chicken salad belonging to my mother. (Obviously not mine, due to the chicken.)
The third is of a sugar free chai smoothie I made.
The fourth is of the really cute pair of shoes I got last night.
And the fifth is of my daddy and me when I was visiting him in the hospital today.
Hope everyone's having a good summer!

http://www.and-so-it-goes-our-thoughts-on-haiti.blogspot.com

Go there, and read the article I wrote about my father's surgeries.

Blissful Summer...

I'm finished with school! Well, at least until August.
Exams weren't as bad as I thought. I only got a not good grade on two of them. And the one was only not good, but it wasn't at all bad. Haha, anyway.
So I've been enjoying my summer. Living it up!
Staying up till 11 PM! That's about as wild as I get.
So yesterday night we had a 'party' get together thing for David, seeing as he's graduating and all. It was fun...there was food, there were friends.
What more could I ask for?
I mean besides a million dollars.
But yeah I made a banana cake. It was pretty good. It was moist and dense and tasted like bananas. Hence the name. It had a lemon icing/glaze, which I was a little skeptical about at first, because umm, I'm not really a huge lemon person. I don't like lemonade. It makes my teeth hurt. But I shouldn't have worried. The glaze was really good. And it made the cake. Really.
So here are some pictures.

Pretty...

I would've gotten a picture of the inside, but I forgot.
Because that was pretty too.

Michelle et moi. She came in for David's graduation.

I love this picture. Josine, me, and our brother from another mother. We all look really funny though. Especially David. Like that's a really hilarious facial expression.

A Good Day.

You see that sky?
Isn't it gorgeous?
I woke up to that yesterday.
It was amazing.
And then I went down and looked at my cheesecake that I made last night.
It looked amazing.
No cracks. (Score!)
And the day just kept getting better.
I made calzones for dinner for my parents and I.
They were yummy.
And we had the cheesecake for dessert.
It was soooooo good.
It was creamy and dreamy. Silky smooth all the way through.
Ahhhhhhhh.
So I got to hang out with my awesome parents and eat awesome food and have an awesome time. Instead of going to prom.
I'm happy I stayed home.
Cuz I totally had fun.
I love my parents. Yo.
And exams are coming up.
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That was my frustration towards exams.
Just a little more: a;dshfskdhgvlskdjhvl sdjgn aldjhgs;dfhg ;lsdfhgs;dfg.
:)
Happy Sunday.

Pretty Table.

A Calzone.

My Mommy and a calzone.

My Daddy and a calzone.

Cake of Cheese. :)

Yum.

The Epic Battle

That is blood my friends. I kidd you not.
I was awoken today, at the ungodly hour of four in the morning by a scream.
Not a human scream. The type of scream that you didn't even know exsisted.
It was, ladies and gentlemen, the scream of a gecko.
Ew. I know. But it gets worse.
I then saw my dog chasing something.
And then more screaming.
And then it was silent.
I went back to sleep, but the next morning, I found the dead gecko on my rug.
It was quite gruesome.
I mean, let's think logically...Lexi vs. Gecko.
Hardly a fair fight.
Anyway, the gecko's tail was cut off, it's skin was peeled back, it had no eyes anymore, and there was blood, yes blood, on my floor.
So I was like...OMG! Photo Opp.!
Have a nice day!
(You should click on the photos. They're even better close up.)


"Innocent" Dog

Ew.

The Tail.

*gag*

Happy Easter!

not really lot to say...it's easter vacation but i've been doing a lot of school work so can't really say it's totally great. but it is semi-great, as i have gotten a lot of much needed sleep.
not much to say other then to have a great easter.

...good times

Just thought that I'd post a one of those pictures that you would only understand if you were there.
For those of us who can't read the writing on our cheeks, it says I (heart) Eric.
Good times. (Great oldies.)

a certain furry friend.

after it was pointed out to me that i very rarely update, i decided that i should update more often. i have been kind've busy lately, as it was the end of the quarter, meaning all the teachers decide to make up for the "lack" of homework that they gave us the rest of the quarter. whatever.
so i had to do a bunch of work, tests, reports, etc.
thank God that's over.
and on friday we had a youth alnighter at titiyen. that was pretty fun. i did my share of entertaining my fellow youth group members by talking and walking in my sleep. i also, apparently, did the same for my dear mother when i came home to take a nap. minus the walking part.
anyways...on the the fun stuff.

Lexi

It has come to my attention that I have done a poor job introducing important members of my life to the rest of the world. So I have decided to start with my dog, Lexi. (Full name being Alexis.)
I happened upon Lexi about a year and a half ago (December 2005) when a friend of mine was forced to leave the country. One day she came to school and showed me a picture of her dog. "You want my dog?" she asked.
"No, not really." Two days later, Lexi came to live with me.
Lexi is almost two years old. She's a pretty small dog: part miniature pincher and part fox terrior. She's black, and she has a red collar. (Black and red=the coolest color combination ever in the world.) She has these huge ears that stick straight up, and amazon legs that are all too long for her own good.
She's quite a character. She hates baths, unless they're in hot water, in which case she refuses to leave the water. Due to her long legs, she trips/falls/runs into things all the time. Her moments of ditziness keep me laughing. She hates geckos, and if she sees one, which happens quite often, barks at them. All night long.
She also has this thing for moths. She'll catch them in her mouth, one at a time, and start a pile of them on one of my rugs. After eating dinner one night, I came back into my room to find a pile of about ten moths in the center of one of my rugs.
She has a really great personality. I don't hesitate to personificate my dog, becuse she really has more human traits than that of a canine. Minus the fact that she happens to be one.
Despite the fact that I have many more things and many more stories to share with you about my wonderful room mate, I have to leave for lunch soon.
I will however, share some pictures.
Enjoy.

the quarter is over!! finally. and i have no homework over the weekend. absolutely none.
such a nice feeling.
i have such a guilty conscience though. and i have no reason to. like i always feel really bad if i even start to feel relaxed because i'm just so used to going non-stop that i feel guilty if i take a few minutes just to do nothing. maybe that's why i'm always so stressed. whatever.
oh well. at least i'm cool.

ahhh life...

it's vacation again! carnival this time.
sadly, it's almost over though.
school starts again on monday.
blah.
so...over carnival:
-my grandma came in (cereal and stuff from jacquie)
-we went to the beach
-i went to see josine and natalie and korally at a different beach
-i baked
-i baked more
-i baked even more

yeah the beach was pretty cool.
but the really fun part was baking.

i made macaroon cookies.
they were acctually really good.
i was quite impressed that i had made them.
i had the feeling of pride that i'm sure you would have if you gave birth to like the president or something. (not bush though.)

i also made peanut butter chocolate swirl bars.
they were good, but they needed to be baked for a bit longer than the recipe called for. and they didn't swirl quite right, but now i know i can make them better next time. they were quite good though, especially if you let them sit for a couple days, as it gives the flavor time to sink in.

i also made ginger cookies.
they were wonderful.
in my opinion at least.
unlike regular ginger cookies, they weren't hard and gross.
they were soft and moist and SO GOOD.
they were acctually better than the dough.
which is rare for a cookie.

and i made bread.
it was the first time i've ever made bread.
i mean, technically cinnamon rolls are bread but they don't really count for me.
i was really nervous about it, because neither one of my parents were there, and it was a 100% whole wheat bread using ALL whole wheat flour, which is supposingly a bad way to make bread because it like won't rise or something, and plus, i had never made bread before.
so it took me, what...three hours for the entire process of baking two loaves?
and they came out quite nice. i think so.
and so do my mom and grandma.
they were quite surprised that i got them to rise after they found out it was all whole wheat flour.
my dad saw them and laughed and was like...why didn't they rise.
but they did. he's just jealous.
and they taste pretty good too.
so considering it was my first time, and i had no guidence, i think i did pretty well.
i can't take all the credit though, cuz as i was baking them, i did ask God to help them.
cuz i thought if they were being made by me, they might need help.

then i made a pound cake.
the pound cake to kick all the other pound cakes butts.
the reason my friends love me. (i'm sure they loved me before they tasted it, but i mean it helped.)
the best pound cake, in my opinion, on the face of the earth.
and i decorated it really pretty too.
which it needed.
because despite how wonderful tasting it is on the inside, how moist and rich and whatever, it is never quite so beautiful on the outside. it acctually looks really bad on the outside. the crust gets all brown and it looks burnt. except for the bottom when you first take it out of the oven, and it's all moist and it has a chewy crust that it nice to eat.
but yeah so i decorated it and in my opinion it looked really good.
sadly, i didn't get a taste of it because i sent it to school with my mom to share with all her teacher friends. she didn't even bring me a piece back. i better get some extra credit or something. i mean supposing some of my teachers got a piece.

and then i made a chocolate cake.
i've made it before, and used the same icing and everything, and in my opinion it looked nicer the first time i made it. ok except before it was iced, because one of the layers was having some issues coming out of the pan. but it was ok this time. and i iced it last night, but the cakes were still a little warm, so the icing was having issues, so i was like screw that and stuck it in the fridge. because i mean it was like midnight. and i was tired.
so then i finished it off this morning. icing it i mean. not eating it.
so it looks ok i think.
i hope.
it had better taste freaking good.
the last time i made it, i had a piece right after i had iced it and i really thought that it tasted horrible. i was really upset.
so then i put it in the fridge overnight and at school the next day, and my friends and i ate a bunch of it, and it tasted really good.
so hopefully it will be that good, if not better, this time.
we'll find out tonight i guess.

and i was about to bake a really good looking cookie bar, but my maid just finished washing all the dishes, so i didn't want to hurt his feelings.
so they will just have to wait.
oh well.

i acctually didn't take pictures of any of those things.
i really should've gotten one of that poudn cake though...cuz it was gorgeous.
and the macaroons and gingercookies.
but especially the pound cake.

the end.
for now.

i hate how i'll start something and then forget about it.
ok but in this case it's not that i forgot about writing...there's just so much stuff.
like school.
but i'm not even gonna get started on that.
anyways...not much to say...i've read a bunch of good books lately, and i baked a really good cake this weekend. and the weekend before that.
pictures will be posted.
eventually.

food sunday

Ice Cream Day

ice cream
n. A smooth, sweet, cold food prepared from a frozen mixture of milk products and flavorings, containing a minimum of 10 percent milk fat and eaten as a snack or dessert.

happy sunday. i can't believe school starts tomorrow.

christmas vacation...

they are in no particular order. but they're cool.
so over vacation...

1. jacquie came
2. put up the tree
3. christmas eve service
4. opened presents
5. christmas dinner
6. becah
7. new year's party
8. renee came in
9. beach again
10. renee and jacquie left (today)