For quite a while now, I've been wanting to write a lil' blog about my dinosaurs. I'm not sure if everybody realizes how far-gone the obsession has been since I was a young'un, and even now. I've been collecting these things since I was 3 years old, and still have almost all of them (except for some cheap, ugly, fake-looking plastic ones that I threw away a lonnnnng ago...almost regret it though...BUT ANYWAY).
I have a dresser/glass-cabinet that's housed them all for many years, and finally got a good picture of it. I'd held off on it for so long because it was really dusty in there, and there were a bunch of burnt out Christmas lights still in it that made it look kind of shabby. But a few days ago I cleaned the entire thing out, removed the dead lights, rearranged them a tad, and...took a picture. I even counted them; not including the smaller, unimportant ones, there are 68 of them in the cabinet. But that's not all... I've got 6 more of them on the computer desk in here. So, just counting all the large ones that are worth counting, I've got about 75. I can't imagine if I counted all the tiny rubber ones as well.....
But yeah, here ya go:
I remember a LONG time ago, a woman we used to know found out about my love of dinosaurs and she told my parents it was "just a fad". ............Just a FAD? Oh, yes. One that's lasted 18+ years. The first dinosaur I ever got (that I know of) is in this picture... but you can't really see him. He's on the top shelf somewhere - an old, fake-looking, cheap, blue "Brontosaurus" (Well to be technical since Brontosaurs doesn't exist, Apatosaurus. And he's NOT one of the ones on the far top right, those are Brachiosaurs.). Go three dinosaurs in from the top right and you'll see a patch of blue in between the Protoceratops and Triceratops - that's his shoulder. Anyway. I could never get rid of him! I believe we got him at Epcot Center, and while we were standing in line, I jabbed his tail into the butt of a lady that was standing in front of us. Heh.....whoops.
I love dinosaurs in a more scientific way now, but I still have all my toys and don't plan on ever getting rid of them. I guarantee ya, I'll be an old-fart lady some day with a huge collection of plastic dinosaurs in the attic (some of which roar) and I'll still know more about dinosaurs than any kid down the street. Not to brag, just sayin' :D
Here we go, another list of stuff I'm sad and happy about. This is a long one. And there's a lot of links in here - most of them are pictures!
~*~ 5 things I'm upset about:
-- 1. We had to take my cat, James, back to the adoption agency :o( He's had a couple seizures and we couldn't afford to have the tests required given to him to figure out exactly what it is. We'd only had him a month - he had one soon after we got him but we waited to see what would happen. Then it happened again sometime during the night and we decided taking him back would be best. The woman there really reassured me, said they'd definitely take him back and get him to the doctor and have tests done, and I gave her my email address too and she said she'd keep me informed, so that made me feel a lot better. But I miss him :o( -- 2. I got a job. Well I'm not necessarily UPSET about it, but I'm still nervous of course, as it'll be my first one (save for having worked with Dad). I'll be stocking Hallmark cards at Walgreens. Seems simple enough and I'm sure I'll have fun, but yeah I'm still nervous. But I'll be putting this under the things I'm happy about as well, ha! :D -- 3. Still real heartbroken about James. -- 4. I've got my period. Lovely, eh? Now there's something never to be happy about (although Always seems to think otherwise - "Have a happy period!" WTF?? WHO ARE THEY KIDDING?!). It's actually almost over, but this was a pretty bad one. -- 5. I hate summer - it's hot. No, no. It's really. really. dayumed. HOT. I hate this place. I do love the summer storms though... they've been awesome and that's a huge up side! -- 6. I've got a sty under me eye. Heh. Sounds like some kind of disgusting rhyme... but UGH. Haven't had one of these in a long time, I hate 'em. Dad brought me stuff to put on it though so it feels a bit better. Though, when the stuff gets in my eye a bit, it makes things blurry since it's oily. Yucky. -- 7. I'M OUT OF PUDDING. NUUUUUUUUUU!!! NOT ZE PUDDIN'!!! ~*~
Well,that's all I could come up with. I was gonna make this a 10/10 but I guess I'll make it a 7/10 because I really couldn't come up with more than seven things I'm upset about. But then, that's a good thing!
~*~ So here are.... 10 things I'm stoked about:
-- 1. I got an iPod Nano, thanks to Pops 'n' C.!!! I'm really excited with it, it's awesome. Takes some getting used to (especially since they don't really give detailed instructions with it, which I found kinda odd - you'd think they would give you a telephone book full of advice like they do with cell phones), but I've pretty much got it figured out now. I've added all my favorite albums too it... ALL of my Skynyrd, lotta Southern Rock, all three PotC soundtracks, a bunch of Country, and a bunch of Classic Rock. -- 2. I GOT A JOB!! Yeah, see? I'm really happy about it too, LOL! I just went in a couple days ago and filled out the final, third part of the application (which entails giving my SSN again and date of birth so they could run a background check - I told Dad this and he said something like, "Well you'll never pass it, you're a criminal." ha). Well I did of course, so, I start on Monday! My aunt Cyndi will be taking me in for four hours every day this week and I'll be paid for it as training too, and then I think the week after that I'll be trained by the official trainer lady... or something like that. I got some new clothes for the job too - a pair of black pants that fit great (which is awesome because I'm so hard to fit in pants, but I found these pretty much right away), and three cute shirts. -- 3. I finally found hair clips that hold my hair GOOD and without discomfort. I've been searching for this my entire LIFE, and then BAM, I find the perfect thing for three bucks at Walgreens. I just got two more, because knowing my luck, since it's something I like, they'll stop making it a month after I start using them. I used to try to wear those hair claws, but I could never get them to stay in. Then I found the more curved kind, and those were all right, but they were too curved length-wise and ended up digging into the base of my skull. So I tried using a smaller one but it wouldn't hold all my hair. BUT NOW I'VE FOUND THE PERFECT ONE. It's called an octopus clip, and it really does look like an octopus. It has eight teeth that lock together and are curved a bit strangely, which makes them look like octopus tentacles. I'll probably start calling them Kraken clips, LOL. They hold my hair perfectly without budging a BIT - not just because of the shape, but that they're lined with rubber on the inside too, so it won't slip. I can put half my hair back and leave the rest down too, and just use a smaller one. I love them. -- 4. Got new sunglasses. Well, I got them over a week ago but they're still new to me. They're the perfect shape, really comfortable, and look great on my head. Got these adorable little metallic flowers and vines on the sides (A.E. says the designs look "phallic"...). My red ones are still my favorites, but the new ones are gorgeous. -- 5. I've been taking lots of pictures and having a lot of fun with it. My favorites are close-ups...like flowers, lizards, and feathers. Love taking pictures of the sky too, I guess because it's always different. I also found this teensy baby frog, baby gecko, and some unidentified type of spider a few days ago. -- 6. I finally took a photo of me with my fairly-new life-sized stand-up of Barbossa. Heh. I've been told we're a cute couple by more than one person, LMAO. And I couldn't help but hold his hand...I mean it was just hanging there in front of me, begging for me to hold it. It really looks like I am too, I love it! Barbossa's my new interest...if you've not noticed... No, I can't really offer an explanation for this phenomenon, so you'd best not even try to understand. -- 7. I'd been sick for the better part of a month, and my cough is finally almost all the way gone. YAY!!!!! I swear, what would be a normal, 3-day cold for most folks always turns into a bad sickness lasting at least 2 weeks for me, complete with fever and bad cough. Really, it happens every time, so I'm quite used to it. Everybody always urges me to get to a doctor every time and tell me that I sound so bad, but it really is the norm for me, ever since I was a kid. I know antibiotics or whatever won't be of much help, since it's gonna run its course anyway, so I just stock up on ibuprofen and cough syrup and wait it out. -- 8. Whenever I get over an illness, I suddenly get this incredible urge to clean everything in sight. It never fails to happen. So a couple weeks ago, I cleaned both the PC room and my bedroom top to bottom. I feel really accomplished, even now still :D. I changed around a lot of stuff and threw out a giant trash bag full of crap from my closet (gave a bag of clothes to Nancy, too), dusted everything, vacuumed underneath the beds and all around, and redid the north wall of my room which had all my posters on it. I had quite a few Band of Brothers posters up... which it killed me to take them down, I still feel guilty about it... but they'd been there for 6+ years and it was time for them to go. I replaced them with two posters from PotC: Dead Man's Chest, as well as a poster of a guitar in a swamp which was used as the cover-art of the Skynyrd album, "Then & Now". It's the same "swamp music" picture I use all over my MySpace. It's just the picture, the original art, and says below it "Freebird on the Bayou". It goes really well with the PotC posters, and all of them coupled with the glow of the little lanterns hanging from above gives it the perfect effect. I also moved the middle shelf up five inches to accommodate the swamp poster (which I'm proud to say the shelf is hung PERFECTLY LEVEL), and have two pictures from PotC: At World's End hanging above that. Here's a picture of the wall. -- 9. I've been cooking a lot more lately, and as opposed to before, can actually say that I enjoy it more. Though I don't make a whole lot, anything I have made has been pretty good. In all those stupid (but fun) MySpace surveys that I'm always taking, whenever I came across a question asking me if I could cook I would say 'no'. But I guess I can start saying 'yes', now :D. I must give kudos to Nancy for giving me a bit of inspiration on it and making me wanna try cooking more new stuff! --10. I LOVE TRANSFORMERS. Really. LOVE IT. It might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I really, really enjoyed it. I grew up watching Beast Wars, which was a tad different, but it mostly had the same characters so I already knew who most of them were, and besides that I was already acquainted with the general idea, background, and atmosphere of it. Am I the only one who finds machinery sexy? LOL. I LOVE BUMBLEBEE. And I know A.E. will enthusiastically agree that Optimus Prime is hot, but I've always thought that trucks and airplanes and tanks had something appealing about them... and I can't really explain it. And don't get me started on the Terminators... Reminds me of the Kenny Chesney song, "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy". ~*~
Well I'll end this now. I'm sure I could find more to write about but if I keep going I'll never stop. I've been sitting here for half an hour all wrapped up in my Rebel flag bath towel, and my hair all up in another one like a turban, hee.
There's a lizard who lives in our olive tree that's name is Fred and I finally got a decent photo of him the other day when we found him perched on the side of the truck... figured I'd post it here for you all to see him!
Also, stupid me never blogged about the new cat we got!! I kept forgetting... oops. Anyway, YES. We got a new cat a couple weeks ago!! He's six years old, Siamese/Tabby, and SUCH a sweetheart. I named him James Norrington, after the Commodore of the same name that's on Pirates of the Caribbean.
My friend A.E. agreed that he looks quite British and made this for me, heh:
So there you have it, James and Fred!! I thought it was about time that introductions were made. Most of you guys probably know about James, but this is just in case some of you don't. I'm stoked to finally have some company in the house, I just love this little cat. With all that said, I'd best be leaving because I believe my tater tots are almost done. Mmm.
Note: After this was written, it has since been found out that Fred is a Knight Anole lizard.
We watched the movie Gettysburg tonight (but only half of it because Dad turned into a big sissy because he has to work tomorrow. HEE). Anyway... I'm a bit disappointed. I mean, I still love the movie - it's an old favorite of mine - but it's not as good as I remembered. It's sooooo not realistic, and you know I hate that. Omg, when the cannons fired... you know how cannons shoot and are pushed back quite a bit? Like on Pirates of the Caribbean even, with the smaller cannon on the ships, the kick made them go back quite a few feet every time they fired (they would've gone farther if they weren't restrained by ropes that bound them to the sides of the ship so they wouldn't roll too far). Well those Civil War cannon were HUGE! Huge, powerful guns - much more advanced and stronger than the types used in PotC, but... what happened when one was fired in Gettysburg? This little *POOF*, and they moved maybe a few INCHES. It was so retarded!! And omg. When a shot hit in the field? It would have made a giant explosion. But in the movie? This little white *poof* in the grass - it was so pathetic, I'm quite sure I could've done better myself LOL.
They were even using FIREWORKS for special effects. A couple large bottle rockets went by. WTF? Bottle rockets! I'm so not kidding, they even made the whistling sound and everything. And the deaths!! These reenactors did NOT know how to die realistically. It looked like something from a John Wayne western, where they suddenly freeze and dramatically clutch their chest and fall to the ground with this overly shocked look. ARRGH.
And don't get me started on the reenactors themselves. GEEZ. In Saving Private Ryan, they used actual guys from the Irish Army, right? And the main actors were put through a rigorous, one-week bootcamp and pushed to the brink, so they KNEW how to look and carry themselves as real soldiers, and were the right age, etc. But in Gettysburg... they used all these old, fat Civil War reenactors. No offense to them, I'm sure they're great guys and I appreciate their knowledge of the battles and weapons used, and I also appreciate that they take the time to ensure that we don't forget about these things, but it's just not accurate at all to be used in a movie. The guys that fought in the regular infantry in the Civil War were mostly aged 16 to 20 - young kids - and they were in GREAT shape. They weren't all these 50-year-old dudes with gray hair and huge beer guts. Sorry, it just irks me. The rest of the movie, the events and costumes, etc, was superb. But the battles? I wanted to shoot myself.
I wish Steven Spielberg would do a Civil War movie... you KNOW he'd do it right. It'd be awesome if he made one about Antietam, I'd really like to see that.
Don't get me wrong, I still love Gettysburg, I'm just so annoyed. It did bring back memories though..... All the guys I liked way back then, heh. Longstreet... Buford... Chamberlain... Pickett... Armistead..... ahh, good times. I've missed 'em. At least I understood more of what was taking place this time around. I've not seen this movie since I was very young, and never really undersood everything that was actually happening, besides the fact that a bunch of Yanks and Rebs were running around in pretty scenary whilst shooting at each other and all the officers having seemingly important conversations between battles - but heck if I knew what they were talking about. Now that I've read the book the movie was based on, The Killer Angels, I finally can watch it and comprehend everything.
Oh, another thing that bothers me: the music. Not to be misunderstood, I LOVE the soundtrack and think it's one of the most beautiful ones composed, but... in the movie, it was so over-done. There's music playing constantly, in parts where silence would really do wonders. Again, I look at Saving Private Ryan... when they stormed the beach at Normandy, there was complete silence, and it really gave the scene a sobering effect that made you give your full attention to what was happening. Even when not in battle. There were scenes where they were just walking through fields - no music at all, just the clinking of their canteens and weapons at the ready and the sounds of the rain and enemy gunfire off in the distance. It gave you an ominous feeling and you could almost understand the fear and uncertainty they must've been facing.. simply because of the silence.
Gettysburg, on the other hand... There's music in just about EVERY SCENE. There's all this fighting going on, men dying, dire circumstances, but it just keeps going on and on in the background: this beautiful, pristine, and triumphant music. A time when silence and only the sounds of guns being fired and men screaming would have had a far greater effect. The constant music takes away from that, and almost makes parts of it humorous, when they shouldn't be. Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but whenever I watch a movie, I always pay a lot of attention to detail, and that includes the musical score. It's what completes the atmosphere of it.
Oh well, what can ya do. I hate to tear it apart like this, it still is one of my favorite movies ever and I love it dearly, I just wish they'd have done it better. This is one of the greatest stories in the history of America and it deserves better than this - I don't feel they quite did it justice, and that makes me sad.
Okay, where do I start?? The Outlaws/Marshall Tucker/Charlie Daniels concert was AWESOME tonight. We got there a little late and missed the first song by The Outlaws (which, sadly, was "Ghost Riders in the Sky" - DARNIT I was so excited about seeing that one, too), but luckily we didn't get there any later. I was always a bit sad that Hughie Thomasson had left Lynyrd Skynyrd, but now after finally SEEING him with The Outlaws, it's now only bittersweet. I really loved The Outlaws, they were awesome and I'm so glad, after over a year, I've finally gotten the chance to see them and actually DID! We missed them two other times. It was sure worth the wait for this one! Dang is Hughie ever good on that guitar. I was thoroughly impressed by Chris Anderson as well. Heck, the whole band was amazing.
I've always loved Marshall Tucker, and finally getting to see them was really great, but compared to The Outlaws and Charlie Daniels, they seemed to sound a bit weak. Not trying to put them down, I still loved them and it was awesome to see them, but their presence just wasn't as powerful. I was sure excited, though, to hear "Heard It In A Love Song", "Can't You See", and "Fire on the Moutain", live. Those are some of my favorites!! And again, I do NOT mean to put them down, they're still one of my favorite bands ever and I'm really stoked to have finally seen them!!!
Now, Charlie Daniels? HOLY CRAP. I always knew he was good, but... dayum!! He was absolutely amazing!! I really can't say enough good about him. I was sure he'd be great in concert, but he really, truly, blew me away. I cannot BELIEVE he's 74 years old, he's still going great and it only seems like he's in his late 50's or early 60's, about. He looks and acts so young, and you can tell he's a genuine great guy. They played all the classics, including "Devil Went Down to Georgia" of course, "Legend of Wooley Swamp", "Simple Man" (love it), "In America", etc. But my absolute favorites must be "How Great Thou Art", and "Rocky Top Tennessee". OMG those were SO great. Charlie has such a beautiful voice, and gospel songs come so natural for him. Don't get me started on "Rocky Top", either; that song is SO COOL, always been an old favorite of mine, and hearing Charlie Daniels play it rocked my socks!! And dude... Charlie Daniels' drummer left me speechless. You'll know what I mean if you've seen him. Wow. His main guitarist left me jaw-dropped as well.
They closed the concert with "South's Gonna Do It Again", bringing The Outlaws and Marshall Tucker back out on stage to join them. That was sure cool, lasted a long time too, and what a great sound with everybody playing at once! After the show, I bought an Outlaws 2007 tour shirt; it's a womens' shirt, lavender, with a femininized version of their logo on it. The steer skull has roses on the sides, it's really cute. Anyway, I really had a blast tonight and figured I'd tell y'all about it :D!!! I love all three bands more than ever now, especially Charlie Daniels. He's just so adorable, and he's the kind of guy everybody wants for a grandpa. And somehow, knowing he's a Christian as well makes you feel a bond to him.
I'm gonna start working on a load of pictures now. I've STILL got to edit all the ones from Texas... and ZZ Top... and Skynyrd... and the last trip... and now this concert. This'll take a while. So until then, here's a teaser from Gettysburg!
Howdyyyyy!! We just got back from a week long trip yesterday. Visiting my Grandma and Roger in WV was...well...as good as it could go, I guess. LOL. Gosh it's just so BORING there. All they do is sit around the house, watch TV, plan their next meal, and their lives revolve around their new dog Max (which is a very dirty dog and jumps all over you and then they act like YOU'RE the one doing wrong for not liking THEIR dog in your lap with its nose in your crotch...UGH. It's not a BAD dog, I'm just not a dog person and can't stand them jumping on me and licking me), and you just feel DIRTY sitting in there. The house isn't very clean and they let the dog eat off of everything so it's kinda gross... plus it's always so dark and you feel boxed in there - even downtown, the whole area is kinda depressing. They're in a smaller town near Wheeling, and it's like a Depression-era town that never revived itself - all you can feel is bored and depressed; since there's nothing to do, two days felt like a WEEK. But other than that it was nice to see them, HEE. To any relatives that read this, please don't let that get back to Grandma, I love her and we had a good time for the better part, but a stay with her always warrants its complaints, you must understand. At least there were no infestations of fleas or Japanese lady-beetles this time.
We left there after two nights and drove through the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in WV, MD, and PA. Stopped at Antietam, which was amazing and a bit sad (I got a little rocky piece of the Burnside Bridge that had crumbled off from the bottom of the side in the dirt) and stayed in Gettysburg for most of two days and one night. I really, really loved it there and already wanna go back... it was just SO cool. I loved Antietam too, but Gettysburg is a place I've been wanting to go since I was 7 years old. Saw so many places you'd recognize from the movie (if you've seen it)... the fields where General Pickett came out from, the split rail fence that General Longstreet stayed near during the battle, Devil's Den, Big and Little Round Tops (the woods where Colonel Chamberlain fought in), the church General Buford walked outside of, The Angle and clump of trees, the stone fence where General Armistead fell and Pickett's Charge reached its end..... it was just so incredibly awesome to see all those places in person after all these years. I used to really be into the movie (and the battle in general) way back when - it's cool to be so interested in it again and find out that I actually remember almost all of these guys.
The place was so peaceful and serene - it was creepy to think so many guys were killed in such a beautiful place. The people are so nice there too. There was this awesome little tavern we ate at twice that was in an underground cellar below this old building (which is also a restaurant) - the entire thing is called the Historic Dobbin House. It was built by an Irishman before the Civil War started. I loved the tavern...the food was awesome and you got the feeling you were in a cave with the stone walls and candles lit and everything - all the candles, old-looking chairs and tables, Celtic music, and the way the waitresses dressed almost gave it a piratey feel, too. Our waitress from the first time remembered us and told our new waitress the second time what drinks we'd want before she even got to our table. We met another guy running an armory shop that was really nice - he was dressed in Civil War boots and a CSA hat and had guns on his sides and everything - he was really sweet and talked to us for a long time and I bought a couple things from him. In another shop I found some cheap pirate jewelry and one of them was a choker with a miniature copy of the Aztec coin from POTC on it. I didn't like the ugly choker it was on, but the pendants are small, so I bought two of them and clipped the coins off, and since they already had holes in them I turned them into a nice pair of earrings. I got some other little souvenirs too, like a replica .58 caliber bullet, a little brass Enfield musket, and a few CSA flags, and a coffee mug with a painting of General Lee on it. And of course some little gifts... I also got the book "Killer Angels" and read a few chapters of it on the plane ride back - I really am enjoying it so far. I'm surprised I never read it sooner.
I forgot to mention, I got two tiny wildflowers from both Antietam and Gettysburg. The one from Antietam is a little blue thing that I found growing in the Sunken Road (Bloody Lane). And the one from Gettysburg are some little white flowers with purple edges - not daisies, I'm not sure what they are - I think they're the same kind General Pickett was twirling in his fingers in the movie when General Longstreet was drawing a battle plan out in the dirt - I found them in the same area. I always liked that part... Anyway, I pressed both of them and they're still drying out. I just wanted to keep something that grew from the fields where so many of my Southern ancestors fell.
After we left Gettysburg, we went to DC for three nights, that was really cool (although driving in the city with all the stupid one-way streets and trying to find a parking spot was a nightmare). Tree lives there now and she showed us around a lot on the first day and we got to see her new apartment as well (I love her new place and LOVE the cats - okay, I want Sushi. HEE such a cutiepie). Went to a few parts of the Smithsonian [Air & Space, Native American, Natural History...(I FINALLY GOT TO SEE THE DINOSAUR SKELETONS THAT ARE IN ALL THE SCIENCE BOOKS)], saw some of the memorials around the National Mall (WWII Memorial, Vietnam Wall, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, Washington Monument from afar, etc), went to the National Archives and saw the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and all that, and did a few other things. I can't believe we were only gone for a week... and if you don't include the two days that we did NOTHING at Grandma's house (okay, we did go to Cabela's for a couple hours), we sure packed a lot into five days. And the best part of it? Most of it was completely FREE. So except for food and gas and the hotels, we didn't really pay for anything, that I remember (except for a load of souvenirs of course). All the stuff in Washington, even the Smithsonian, were completely free - I just could NOT believe it. I know, I know - our taxes pay for it. But dang, if that museum were down here, we'd probably have to pay $30-$40 A DAY. But yeah, the battlefields were free...and everything. So that was good.
One thing we did pay for was an hour-long bus tour around Arlington Cemetery. That was sure sobering... what can I say that hasn't been said before, seeing all the graves of fallen soldiers really does something to you. Seeing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was especially moving, and we got there just in time for the Changing of the Guard. I got a video of it, I hope it turned out well. But besides that, the highlight of Arlington, for me, was the Arlington House, where Robert E. Lee and his family lived before the war started. I had no idea he had lived at Arlington, so when the narrator guy said we were coming up on the Arlington House/Robert E. Lee Memorial, I was shocked. We got to go in and everything (we walked where Lee walked!), but almost all of the furnishings had been cleared out. If I heard right, the Lee family can no longer afford the taxes on the building and I think they're shutting it down. I'm very sad about it... you'd think somebody would step forward and try to save something like that.
Well that's about it really. Got home last night and was totally exhausted, but I finally got to sleep in my own bed - YAY! I took many, MANY pictures, and it might be a while (because I still have to edit and post the pictures from Texas...oops), but in due time I'll add them to D&D!
LOL sorry, got that stupid song stuck in my head... Okay, I know the past couple posts have been less than cheery, and since I'm feeling much better and strangely giddy, I figured I'd lighten things up. I was just in the bathroom and heard a bunch of baby frogs making a racket outside the window (so adorable, I wish I could catch one), and it reminded me of this picture of this little frog with a snail on its head. Omg it makes me wanna cry... BUT IN A GOOD WAY. It's just danged CUTE:
It looks so happy! And then that reminded me of this snail picture too (which in turn reminds me of all the pet snails I used to keep):
Oh and totally unrelated to frogs and snails, I saw an awesome pirate painting posted on a friend's (Heather's) MySpace page, and there was a website URL written on the image, so I went there and found the original painting. I LOVE IT. I just can't stop staring at it out of intrigue... I may even make it my new MySpace default image. I don't think it's any pirate in particular - it has hair and beads very similar to Jack's - but then it also reminds me of Barbossa, as well as One Eyed Willie from The Goonies. That looks like the Black Pearl in the background, though... and the pirate is most obviously cursed. I suppose the artist had all of the above in mind.
For quite a while now, I've been wanting to write a lil' blog about my dinosaurs. I'm not sure if everybody realizes how far-gone the obsession has been since I was a young'un, and even now. I've been collecting these things since I was 3 years old, and still have almost all of them (except for some cheap, ugly, fake-looking plastic ones that I threw away a lonnnnng ago...almost regret it though...BUT ANYWAY).
