Okay, this is just for those of us in they XX club: your search for the perfect lipstick/gloss/chapstick is OVER! My sister gave me something amazing for xmas:
It's C.O. Bigelow Mentha Lip Tints and it's minty, shiny, a little bit of tint, and your hair doesn't stick in it! Get it at Bath and Body Works. You will love it!
You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.
Not as easy as you might think...
1. Where is your cell phone?:charging
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?:lost
3. Your hair?mane
4. Your mother?innocent
5. Your father?:yankee
6. Your favorite item?:none
7. Your dream last night?:cult
8. Your favorite drink?:guilt
9. Your dream car?:chauffeured (ditto b)
10. The room you are in?:living
11. Your ex?:worried
12. Your fear?:instability
13. What do you want to be in 10 years?:on-track
14. Who did you hang out with last night?:boys
15. What you're not?:rested
16. Muffins?:blueberries
7: One of your wish list items?:Audi
18: Time?:accelerating
19. The last thing you did?:type
20. What are you wearing?:'jamas
22. Your favorite book?:multiple
23. The last thing you ate?:mint
24. Your life?:churning
25. Your mood?:tired
26. Your friends:motley
27. What are you thinking about right now?:foot
28. Your car?:blue
29. What are you doing at the moment?:avoiding
30. Your summer?:move!
31. Your relationship status?:confused
32. What is on your tv?:today
33. When is the last time you laughed?:yesterday
34. Last time you cried?:sunday
35. School?:almost!
Mario and I bought some Diet Coke and Mentos. Of course, we did it at night and almost none of the pictures came out. Mario kept eating the Mentos, so in the end, we didn't get that much soda gyser action. Anyway.....
That's Mario readying the experiment. The second is a picture of the "after" bottles.....about 4/5 the liquid is gone. Unfortunately, Mario did not get sprayed with the coke 
And now for your "awwwww" moment: Pictures of Jacob's puppy, Cygnus
Does anyone else feel like their years of schooling have given them bupkiss in the way of living life? I mean, what the fuck does it matter if I'm drilled on the Edict of Worms or triangle congruency if I have absolutely no direction? How do all these people already in careers do it? How do you beat down that nagging feeling that even though you're being offered a good looking job, there is probably something so much better around the corner?
I've tried going to career counselors and website, but you have to already have an idea of what you want to do for those to do any magic. I mean, I know what I don't want to do: I am very squeamish, so anything medical is a no; I have a very sensitive sense of smell, so something from "Dirty Jobs" won't work; and I'm pretty sure working with children is not for me.
I'm told to take what I love and make a job out of it. Well, if there is job that requires me to travel around the world drinking good coffee and reading good books and sleeping late, sign me up! Alas, nothing on Monster.com matches that description. (side note: I really like the word "alas" so I'm sorry if I overuse it...it's just a fun word)
In addition to not knowing what kind of job I want, I don't even know where I want to live. I know I don't want to stay here, or at least I think I don't. I've always been ready to hightail it out of here, but lately I'm realizing that there are some things I like about this area. Very few things, granted, but things. Once again, I know where I DON'T want to live: Texas, Burma, Mexico City. But there are so many places that get me buzzing.
Sigh........what I really need is a computer that will scan my brain and just spit out a piece of paper with a job and location on it. Anyone want to get to work on that for me?
From Kristin, who stole it from Mikey T
1. What did you do last night? watched Talledega Nights and puppy sat for Jacob
2. Whats your favorite kind of cookie? My mom's chocolate chip
3. What does the 5th text on your phone say? my phone is broken...can't read the screen
4. When was the last time you thought about sex? this morning
5. When was the last time you got hurt, physically or emotionally? stubbed my toe in Abbeville
6. What did you have for dinner last night? beans and rice
7. When was the last time you lost something? I lose my internet connection constantly.
8. What are you listening to right now? Scrubs
9. What are you eating right now? coffee
10. What is the thing you look for in the opposite sex? sense of humor...make me laugh and you're my hero
11 What was the first thing a guy/girl bought for you? a drink
12. Are you dating more than one person at once? no
13. What was the last movie you watched? Talledega Nights.
14. What was the last tv program you watched? watching scrubs right now
15. What do you want for your bday? a happy new job in a happy new place
16. What are you doing tonight? Giving Cygnus back to Jacob
17. When will be the next vacation/holiday? Mardi Gras!! February 20!!
18. How do you feel right now? coffee and cigarettes...I'm happy
19. Who do you think will take this next? The person with the most spare time
20. What's your favorite city? Amsterdam
21. I can't wait to/till....? read the rest of Bryan's novel
22. Whats the best insult you've ever heard or said? some friends and i had a competition, and I believe twatscab won
23. What's the last thing you said outloud? She's coming back (to Cygnus in reference to Jessica)
24. What is the last thing/person you spent over $100 on? I'm about to have to buy a new phone, and I'm sure it will be pricey...boo!
25. What website(s) do you visit the most during the day? MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, BBC
26. Go into your text message log on your phone...what does the last message say? My phone is broken! Just rub it in, why don't you! If there was a message, it would be the word of the day...I get that every morning
27. Do you have an air freshener in your car? yes....like Roy's...clips on the air vents....so nice
28. Do you have plants in your room? I've got a plant in a bag 
29. If you could drink anything right this second, what would be? more coffee
30. Does anything hurt on your body right now? nope
31. If someone you hated died, would you laugh and spit on their grave? I wouldn't laugh, but I won't write off spitting
Stolen from Kristin
2006 Awards!
1) DRINKING BUDDY OF THE YEAR
Mario
2) LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD - LONGEST FRIEND(s)?
Courtney...since we were infants!
3) NEWCOMER AWARD - NEWEST FRIEND
Cygnus - Jake's dog
4) HIGH POINT OF THE YEAR?
Driving the Audi A4.....I'm SO going to buy one
5) LOW POINT OF THE YEAR?
Failing a stupid class
6) BEST HOLIDAY?
St. Patrick's Day
7) ANTHEM FOR 2006?
Song most played on iTunes: "Turn your lights down low"
8) ANY REGRETS?
Too many
9) BEST NIGHT OUT?
Few weeks ago at Carrettas
10) WORST NIGHT OUT?
St. Patrick's Day....technically it was at my house, but Lauren and I had the idea to "party like freshmen!" and it was not good
11) WHO DID YOU SPEND VALENTINES WITH?
I had class (whoo-hoo!)
12) BEST RELATIONSHIP?
better after it ended
13) WORST RELATIONSHIP?
the one that ended
14) FIRST GIG OF THE YEAR?
I have no gigs
15) LAST GIG OF THE YEAR?
see above
16) BEST DECISION MADE THIS YEAR?
New Job
17) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR?
Graduate and move
18) MOST STUPID IDEA WHEN DRUNK?
to drink more
19) DOUCHE BAG OF THE YEAR?
W
20) MOST LOYAL FRIEND?
I don't have that many friends b/c I'm very wary of people, so pretty much all of my friends are my friends because they are loyal
21) BIGGEST CHANGE OF THE YEAR?
Last semester of school!
[ ] stayed single
[X] made out in a car
[ ] kissed in the snow
[ ] kissed in the rain
[ ] fell in love with a fool
[X] had my heart broken
[ ] broke someone else's heart
[ ] had a stalker
[ ] lost a friend
[ ] had a good relationship with someone.
[ ] questioned my sexual orientation
[ ] came out of my closet
[ ] got pregnant
[ ] had an abortion
[ ] thought you were pregnant
[ ] got married
[ ] had a divorce
[ ] kissed someone of the same sex
[X] met someone that I will never forget
[X] did something I regret
[ ] lost my true love
[ ] lost faith in love
[X] kissed under mistletoe
[X] got a promotion
[X] got a pay raise
[X] changed jobs
[ ] lost my job
[X] quit my job
[ ] dated a co-worker
[ ] dated my boss
[ ] dated my boss's son/ daughter
[ ] got fired from my job
[X] got straight A's
[ ] met a teacher who I became friends with
[X] met a teacher who I really don't like
[X] found the subject I love
[X] failed a class
[X] cut class
[X] skipped school
[X] did something I was proud of
[ ] discovered a new talent
[ ] proved myself
[ ] embarrassed myself in front of the class
[ ] fell in love with a teacher
[X] was involved in something that I will never forget
[X] painted a picture
[X] wrote a poem
[X] listened to music I couldn't stand
[ ] skinny dipped
[ ] went to a sleepover
[ ] went to camp
[ ] threw a surprise party
[X] laughed till I cried
[X] laughed till I peed my pants
[X] flirted with someone
[X] visited a foreign country
[X] visited another state
[X] cooked a disastrous meal
[X] lost something important to me
[X] got a gift I love
[X] realized something new about myself
[X] dyed my hair
[X] came close to losing my life
[ ] someone close to me died
[X] went to a wild party
[X]drank alcohol
[X] got drunk
[ ] got arrested
[X] read a great book
[X] saw a great movie
[ ] saw a movie so scary that it made me cry
[X] saw a band live or concert
[X] did something that I want to tell everyone
[X] experienced something new
[X] made new friends
[X] found out who your real friends are
[X] lied to your parents
[ ] snuck out
[ ] got in trouble with police
[X] went to a party
[ ] had the time of your life
[X] danced
[ ] fell out of love
[X] had a crush on someone
[ ] changed your sexual preference
[X] swam in a pool
[X] made a snowman
[ ] went snowboarding
[ ] went sledding
[X] slept past 2pm
[X] got wasted in a public place
[ ] got wasted in Mexico
[ ] told someone you like them as more than a friend
[X] gone on vacation
[X] gone on vacation with a friend
[X] driven a car
[ ] played strip poker
[ ] danced in the rain
[ ] got in a car accident
[X] seen someone get in a car accident
[ ] got in a fist fight
[X] laughed until you couldn't breathe
[X] had an amazing year
[X] missed someone
[x] did something you were forbidden to do
[ ] snuck someone in to do "OTHER" things
[ ] got hit by car
[ ] went to the hospital
[ ] got a new pet
[X] enjoyed this year overall
I received a lot of lovely presents this holiday. Some were the awesome practical type - good coffee, sewing tools - some were the "spoil me" type - Aveda gift card, jewelry - and some were the "I totally needed that!" type - new robe, Sirius radio. But above all, I think the best thing I got was a set of new windshield wipers. My old wipers were just pure crap; I've been meaning to replace them but it just never was convenient. Well, thank the goddess my sister and I went for a drive in the rain.
See, my sister is a bitch. Not the "screw your boyfriend when you're in the hospital" kind of bitch. Sarah is the "not used to living in society and therefore currently ignorant of said society's norms along with a need to control everything with in five hundred miles of her" type of bitch. This means that although she absolutely infuriates me about a fifth of the time I am around her, I know deep down that within a few hours we'll be cool. And then a few hours later we'll be pissed again and so on.
Anyway, Sarah and I went to Auto Zone - Yay! to them for being open Christmas Eve - and bought a set of new wiper blades. It was raining, and since Sarah's bitch-mode had been quelled by my conceding that in fact, she was right, and I did need new blades, she stood in the rain to put them on my car. I'll add here that she had a raincoat and I didn't, but she was still awesome for doing that. So, I held the instructions up to the windshield and she installed the wipers.
Dude, what a fucking difference! It was like I had a brand new car. I had actually quit using my wipers and was relying soley on Rain X from months ago because using them only made things worse. But now? Now I'm wiping at rain, bugs, fuck, I'm wiping at air with my shiny new blades!
Moral of the story: If you are having a rough time, bad day, whatever, try new wiper blades.
** Side note: you have the option, when buying blades, to get either the rubber refills or whole new blades. The rubber inserts are only a few bucks cheaper and are a BITCH to install. Go for the whole blades, dude.
Researchers: Baking impacts Puget Sound
Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an environmental impact — Puget Sound is being flavored by cinnamon and vanilla. "Even something as fun as baking for the holiday season has an environmental effect," said Rick Keil, an associate professor of chemical oceanography. "When we bake and change the way we eat, it has an impact on what the environment sees. To me it shows the connectedness."
Keil and UW researcher Jacquelyn Neibauer's weekly tests of treated sewage sent into the sound from the West Point treatment plant in Magnolia showed cinnamon, vanilla and artificial vanilla levels rose between Nov. 14 and Dec. 9, with the biggest spike right after Thanksgiving.
Natural vanilla showed the largest increase, "perhaps indicative of more home baking using natural vanilla," Keil and Neibauer wrote.
"This conjecture is weakly supported by a verbal communication between Rick Keil and an employee of the Wallingford QFC (supermarket) who felt that natural vanilla peaked during the holiday seasons," the scientists' preliminary report says. "This will be investigated more thoroughly."
So far, the research has turned up no evidence that snickerdoodles are harming sea creatures, but their research does lead to some serious environmental questions. Fish rely heavily on their sense of smell to locate food, for example, and, in the case of salmon, to find their way back to their home stream to spawn.
"All the spices have odors associated with them, so it's interesting to ask whether they are there in sufficient concentration (for fish) to smell them," Keil said.
Using benchmarks from a published scientific study, they were able to estimate that people in Seattle and a few outlying areas served by the sewage plant scarfed down the daily equivalent of about 160,000 butter- or chocolate-chip-type cookies and about 80,000 cookies containing cinnamon during the Thanksgiving weekend.
The county did not spend any money on the study, but officials at King County's Wastewater Treatment Division said they were happy to cooperate because they expected the results to reinforce their message: What goes down the drain has to come out somewhere.
That goes both for pesticides and industrial chemicals as well as vanilla and cinnamon.
"It's an ability to look at a whole population's behavior through one pipe," said Randy Schuman, a county science and technical support manager who helped arrange the wastewater testing.
Keil's findings present a light side of what scientists say is potentially a serious situation. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey and other agencies have documented that antibiotics, contraceptives, perfumes, painkillers, antidepressants and other substances pass through the sewage system into waterways.
King County researchers several years took caffeine measurements to try to learn whether the city's coffee drinking habits had any effect on the sound. Caffeine was found in more than 160 of 216 samples in water as deep as 640 feet.
"It was everywhere," Schuman said. "There's an effect (from) humans on the sound and it's almost ubiquitous. It's not just at the end of the (discharge) pipe."
My cousins got a neat tricycle-type bike for Christmas. It's called "The Green Machine" and my aunt says that she and her friend used to have one when they were little and that they ruled the street! Here is my sister and my cousin riding it:
Tonight my sister and I drove around town looking for good light displays. Here are the top two houses:
Here is the winner for best lights on a FEMA trailer:
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