Elm Streets Last Brat

1. Lightning Bugs

2. The lack of blatant racism (at least where i lived...i'm sure other parts of MO are worse than where i live now)

3. The smell of honeysuckle in the air

4. Humid summer nights

3. BBQ

6. The variety of shopping and dining

7. Feeling the air change from hot to cool, and the smell when you drive past the river

8. Lighting fireworks that arent fountains

9. The weather

10. My family

Don is sick, with what I think may be the flu. He is throwing up, has chills, feels like he has a fever, and is achey. He was miserable all day...around 8 he finally ate a little bit and was able to keep it down, and has been sleeping for a few hours. Hopefully this is just a 24 hour bug. Sucky thing is....i'm next. Thats how it goes. It sucks that he had to get sick now, right before basketball which he was looking forward to =(

Hüsker is sitting here looking at me...wanting food no doubt...he takes after his mama lol. The vet said that we should start measuring out his food and feeind him 1/4c. twice daily. Well I started doing that, and no shit...he would meow almost constantly out of hunger...all the time, day and night SCREAMING for food. Me and Don decided yesterday that he would go back to his normal food schedule which is a little less than 1/2c. twice daily. He isnt a normal sized cat...he's huge...as in very tall with big paws...he needs his food.

I got some clip in feather extensions yesterday. I was going to get some beads and a hook tool so i could apply my own and whatnot, but Sarah at Sally's told me that Regis is doing them now, so I went there to see what they had to offer, and they did bonded ones OR clip ins, so the nice lady laid all of them out for me so i could look through them, and I ended up going with a clip in one that is made up of 3 yellow and black grizzly feathers and a bright blue feather...it's super cute. I also made my own out of 2 brownish feathers and a clip. I think I want a couple more, but they're kind of expensive. It's $18 for a bonded one, and $13 for a short clip in and $20 for a long clip in. There is this girl on etsy who does AWESOME colour combos, and I really want one of hers, but they will be too long and she doesnt do clip ins. I had originally intended to get them bonded in anyways, but i kinda like the idea of clip in so I can interchange them depending on my makeup/clothing. Maybe i'll go back to Regis and look again for more.

I'm kinda houngry for meatloaf or french toast or something. I did not eat good today...I had a sammich and cheetos, some spoonfuls of the homemade butterscotch i made the other day, a fruit cup, and some noodles and broth...and chocolate covered strawberries...blegh just thinking about all that junk grosses me out.

I'm so jealous of KC tomorrow...they're gonna get 76 degrees...its only supposed to get up to 43 tomorrow here. The 10 day forecast only has a high of 45 on it...I wanna see some mid 50's at the very least. I want it to be warm so I can go take some pics with my old camera. Don bought me the correct discs for it for Christmas, and now it's like a whole new camera because it behaves the way its supposed to, so Mandi, we will have to think up a couple of photo shoots or something when it gets warmer!

Ok i think thats about all that is in my brain for now.

Last nite Mandi, and I were coming home from Target, and noticed a commotion of cop cars and fire trucks and spotlights going on, on a side street. We wondered what was going on, but didn't find anything out that nite. Well this morning Don had told me that a well known guy around here, was hit and killed. He grew up here and lived here his whole life. He was blind, and sang in the church choir. It's really sad. Especially sad, since (i think...im not sure) that it may have been a hit and run. WHO DOES THAT?

I feel like such a bum today. I need to clean my house. I was planning on cleaning my kitchen a few minutes ago, but opened my dishwasher to put the dishes away, and noticed that the little compartment had only partially opened up, and the dishwasher tablet was stuck gooey to the inside and hadn't released....like so many times before. The top rack is also falling down and unhinged from the roller, and I don't know how to fix it. The little begs on the bottom rack are rusting off as well. I think it's almost time for a new dishwasher. A lot of the times it doesn't even get the dishes clean....very irritating.

After I get the kitchen and some of the house clean, i'm going to make my pimento cheese. I can't wait to taste it again...its been a loooong time. I don't think i've had it since I was 11 or maybe even younger. They surprisingly sell it up here, but after looking at the ingredient list, I was VERY put off, and decided to make it myself since there are only a few ingredients.

After a year of not caring about it, and not wanting it at all, I finally broke down yesterday and bought the Urban Decay Naked Palette.



I'm glad I waited because it used to have a double ended eyeliner instead of the brush, and I would MUCH rather have the brush (not that I need anymore makeup brushes)The price was pretty steep at $48, but I wanted it reeeally bad, and then if I want something that bad, and don't get it, i'll get really bad anxiety and my mind wont turn off, and i'll just keep thinking about it and thinking about it.

Me and Mandi both got these new m&m's last nite. The are m&m's Premiums Chocolate Trio. They have a new "soft shimmering shell" It's a marbled looking shimmery purple shell, and its soft....very super thin layer of coating. Anyhoo its dark chocolate, white chocolate, and then a milk chocolate center. They are bigger than normal m&m's and they are DELICIOUS!!!!


anyhoo thats all i have to say

So yeah...Japan got hit with an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and then a tsunami hit and just devastated everywhere. 200-300 people are already dead. The tsunami is also supposed to hit Hawaii, Oregon, California, and Washington. Crazy...I hope it doesn't do much more damage. The footage of it hitting Japan is nuts...it's so sad. It's the 7th largest earthquake EVER RECORDED.

I've been up since like 5:30am...wtf right? Don came in to tell me what pick he got for fantasy baseball (6th)and I guess I just wasn't tired anymore, so I got up. Now i'm starving. Whenever I get up too early I get so hungry that I actually get extremely nauseous...I feel like im gonna hurl.

It's gonna finally start warming up (not much) but it's a start. Supposed to get up to 40 today, and then next week for 3 days it will be in the upper 40's. I can't wait for this dang snow to melt...I'm sick of seeing all the cold dirty white.

I'm gonna make some Pimento Cheese Spread today. I haven't had it since I was little, but we used to get it all the time when I went fishing with my dad.

Well thats all i have to say for now