1. What’s something people cautioned you against that turned out not to be dangerous or bad at all? Middle school and high school..all the elementary school teachers were giving us warnings and freaking us out lol but most of it wasn't as terrible as they said it was going to be :P ( Read more... )

1. Do you make up a dinner plan for the coming week? I buy frozen dinners, if that counts lol ( Read more... )

This weekend mom and I watched The Last Place on Earth, a miniseries about Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole (it's been on my list, but for some reason haven't watched it until now :P). Hugh Grant played Cherry!

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The storm earlier yesterday was awesome, but the one in the evening was twice as awesome..the clouds got dark, the wind picked up, there was some loud thunder, it started hailing a little..and then it just started POURING down hail!!! Check this out!

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I just read Tryggve (apparently that's pronounced trig-vuh lol) Gran's diary from Antarctica, so here are some passages I'd like to share! (There are other members' diaries mixed in too ( Read more... )

I'm totally freaking out..I think someone hacked my Photobucket account, because many pictures from different albums have been deleted, including pics from this trip. If I wasn't convinced to abandon Photobucket and use just Flickr, I am now..it seems to function better anyway (for some reason Photobucket puts the pics out of order, even with its ( Read more... )

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Yesterday Yanina came over to my parents' house and we hung out before she had to go to the airport. She made us enchiladas..cool, authentic Mexican food, and not "Alaska-Mex" as dad called it lol. She us such a nice lady and I'm glad we got to hang out these past couple of weeks (I think she had a great time :D). I hope she gets into a better ( Read more... )

So, Denise gave me my Christmas presents, and I just DIED when I saw what she had gotten me:

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Here is a passage from Emperors of the Ice that pretty much takes the words right out of my mouth (though probably more eloquently lol) as to why I love Scott's Expedition so much ( Read more... )