If you’d like, you can take a short trip with me through some memories I encountered the other day, if not just skip this entry entirely.
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I can’t even begin to describe my day yesterday, it was so busy! It started with my mom, Rue, and my little sisters going to Big Boy for pankcakes, stopping by to see where Rob and Ash work, and then heading to the pond so my little sisters could play. When I was little, my sister and I used to go play at this pond behind our elementary school, I even have a story to tell you later about a time when we got stuck in this tar pit and thought we were going to die. It’s really funny, actually, so I’ll tell it now.

As we all know everything is so much bigger when you’re younger, and keep in mind that my sister and I were roughly a year and a half older than my sisters were in these pictures, and that’s how big our bodies were. Well, by this pond there was this huge wooded area we used to traverse and explore and in the back there was this huge mud pit, I apologise for my exaggeration when I said tar, but it was as difficult to get out of as tar. Especially when you’re only three feet tall.

So this one time we put this board across this stream of mudtar because we wanted to cross it. Well, to make a short story even shorter, I dropped my walking stick in the mud, which was unacceptable, and so I stepped in slightly to get it. And that was the end of that. My boots went up to my knees and I was already down that far, and I couldn’t get back up. I started freaking out, begging for my sister to help me out.

So imagine two little girls in the back of some woods nobody goes to, screaming and crying because they’ve both managed to get stuck in this lake of mud. We’re both crying, my sister was screaming details of our most imminent death, and I was desperately trying to reach our one saving grace, a twig that looked like a branch only a few feet away. After at least an hour of struggle and tears, we managed to pull ourselves out and hobble home, both missing a boot.

We were so afraid of what our mother was going to say about our dirty clothes and losing a half of a pair of boots each, and we were still so terrified of being stuck in this tarmud, that we knocked on our own door. My mom came, opened the door, took us in and cleaned us, laughing the whole time, and then sat down to have hot cocoa.

Year after year we’d return to the pond, sometimes sticking clear of the lake of mudtar, except for a few times were we tried desperately to fish for our missing boots. When I returned yesterday, the whole wooded area was plowed, and where once were hundreds of trees, now only a mere handful survived. Newly developed houses stood in their wake. I was horrified. And the first thing I thought was, the lake is gone and I wonder if they found my boot!

Anyway, I went inside my elementary school yesterday and ran into two of my favorite teachers, in the same room even, and had a nice chat- which I will post about tomorrow.

After time with my mom and sisters, I went to Ash and Rob’s apartment with Tyler and Rue and we played a personalized version of Guitar Hero (people have found a way to put your own music tracks to Guitar Hero- Think In Flames, Sonata, and Final Fantasy VII) and this amazing card game based of D&D (we affectionately dubbed it D&D for those without imagination) called Munckin. We were out until three and it was positively a blast. But now, it’s late tonight and I spent the day with my mom, and then time with Tyler, and now Rue and I are going to watch this ridiculous chick flick. (We both wanted to see it so hush.)

I will catch you folks tomorrow.
I hope you’re having a fabulous weekend!

Thanks to Google’s personalized home page I had a heart attack this morning when reading the top headline for the Boston Globe. If you feed your pet (cat or dog) anything put out by Menu Food, please be aware!
Rat Poison Found In Pet Food! The list is currently expanding and they are adding recalls all the time, so check an updated list for your cats or dogs.

Here’s the cat list:

Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
Authority
Best Choice
Companion
Compliments
Demoulas Market Basket
Eukanuba
Fine Feline Cat
Food Lion
Foodtown
Giant Companion
Hannaford
Hill Country Fare
Hy-Vee
Iams
Laura Lynn
Li’l Red
Loving Meals
Meijer’s Main Choice
Nutriplan
Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
Nutro Natural Choice
Paws
Pet Pride
Presidents Choice
Price Chopper
Priority US
Save-A-Lot Special Blend
Schnucks
Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans
Sophistacat
Special Kitty Canada
Special Kitty US
Springfield Prize
Sprout
Stop & Shop Companion
Tops Companion
Wegmans
Weis Total Pet
Western Family US
White Rose
Winn Dixie

And in other news:
Thief woos bank staff with chocolates - then steals diamonds worth £14m

In other other news:
I just realized that my images started pixelating in Firefox and IE browsers, being I use Opera, it runs fine- but it’s something in my code, I think. Does anyone have any ideas? Either way, if I can’t figure it out I may be switching my layout a week or so early. And now, I’m off for pancakes with me mum (you know the ones!) and so yum!

Other other news:
Brownyn told me to post The Kiss on Deviant Art, and I’d not really been using it as I had been using my flickr more- but I did, per her suggestion that people would really like it. Well, she was right. Her deviation with the most comments is The Kiss with 30 comments, receiving an average of 2.14 per day in the first 2 weeks, and it is also her most favourited, with 140 favourites, averaging 10 per day in the first 2 weeks. Her most viewed deviation is The Kiss with 1,831 views.
Wow. Thank you, darling! And everyone else who liked it!

I spend a lot of time whispering to bugs, asking that they trust in me.
Not yet, I say, it’s not quite warm enough yet.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile?
It’s because it gets you high.
They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago, though, you argue. Right?
You know why?
It was redundant.

Photos curteosy yusheng.

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)

40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.

45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.

>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.