I'm bringing Xanga back - drop a comment if you're with me!

 So like I've been MIA for like...xanga and just about everything else not having to do with actual classes and studying..because I've been studying my ass off really hard to up my gpa...i'll see how all my hard work paid off after my grades come out...
anywhoo...i love dora and i had a great time reading one of her entries because they were entertaining and some were really hilarious...like..where do people come up with these things...props to them for being witty (but some weren't so witty..but that's okay..no one's perfect) and here they are..hope you enjoyed them as much as i did...be bored...read..have a laugh..then go do something...

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays.  These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers
across the country.

Here are last year's winners.....

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. Instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. Traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. At a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18 Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20 The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up
So for those who haven't taken finals yet, good luck!  and for those who are pessimistic as i am, take Jo's wise words because they inspired me even though i heard them after i took finals...it goes, "You can't fail if you try.  If you do, it's not the end of the world" ..or something along the same context... i wasn't all there when i heard it but it sounded really good at the time...i met some of the coolest people during finals...it was great...be a nerd and study..do your best for finals..but also remember to take breaks and relax...talk to the person next to you or something...if you don't know them...make a new buddy..it's fun--try it!

So..GOOD LUCK and HAPPY STUDYING everyone (for those still taking finals), HAPPY WINTER BREAK! and MERRY (early) CHRISTMAS (i swear i originally typed my name instead of christmas ) and HAPPY SAFE NEW YEAR! Take care of yourselves and I'll either see some of you during break or when Winter Quarter begins!

finally i got my camera back..but sadly i haven't taken many pics...but here are the ones i wanted to share...just for fun...

here's the mural cody and i worked on for his aunt's shed...i like it!

here's a little detail cody added...muahahahahha!

cody's kitties!


and happy late bday to elisa!


d&b's was fun..must do again sometime!