at lunch today my dad said, "you know, the image of horses stomping on sweet hay gives me a lot of peace.... I actually think about it a LOT... that and protective mother bunnies ( Read more... )

the living hell of exams has ended and i have now have 13 sweet, school free days to come. my emotions and reactions to this realization can be best described by the following images...
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i had ap chem exam on thursday and spanish exam on friday. now i have a wonderful weekend of work and studying for three more exams. but its not all bad because of the following ( Read more... )

my dad really did saw off the top, so it now just barely fits in the house. as we were putting lights on it, the stand cracked and it almost fell on david but my dad and i caught it. then we got an industrial stand and that one cracked too but not that badly so we just left the tree in it. then my dad got this great idea of roping the tree to a ( Read more... )

the yearly christmas tree saga has begun again. every year, the christmas tree always falls on someone (me, david, Rocket, my dad to date) and one of my parents throws out their back putting it up. my dad and brothers went to get the tree today. being the testosterone filled creatures they are, they decided to just go to one of those orchards and ( Read more... )

it is a sad day, as Ignatius the Siamese fighting fish has finally been euthanized. his body has slowly sank into the depths of sickness for about two weeks. he lost his color, started swimming sideways, and just lay on the bottom all day. today was the final straw when i walked into my room to find him completely curled up and white, but still ( Read more... )

things i have done so far this week instead of studying for my stupid logarithms retake test (the 44% one ( Read more... )

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it all began two days ago when I, feeling unartistic and unproductive, announced to my family at dinner that I needed to find a craft/hobby. My mom returned home the next day with crochet needles for my brothers and I. Now BEHOLD the beautiful product of the first ever "Parks Family Crochet-a-Thon".
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i just got back from park city and it was awesome. i had a snowboard teacher who taught me how to do out-of-bounds boarding (through the trees) and he took me on some freakishly hard runs. it was fun and i am luckily still alive ( Read more... )