When I was little and lived in Robert Lee, my next door neighbor and best friend, Ashlee, and I would play outside a lot. Her family owned a sheep feedlot, and when the workers were at her house, we would always play our Spanish Sesame Street tape really loud because we thought they would enjoy it... since they were, after all, Mexican and didn't ( Read more... )

I think the best gift I could receive would be a trampoline. It's a gift that, had I not just thought about how happy getting one (without asking, of course) as a present would be, I would be so unexpectedly excited about getting one. I want to live in the country or at least in a house with a big yard and lots of trees and grass and a big ( Read more... )

I've been using Tom's of Maine for four years now, but I'm considering switching back to a "mainstream" kind? Could this be my last step away from anything radical(even though I understand toothpaste isn't very damn the man-ish)? I'll probably have to switch when I go to Buenos Aires anyway, but I don't know if I should give up my values and ( Read more... )

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I like Nellie Mckay a lot.

So who just saw Paris and Nicole at Spider House? Me and some gawkers. It was kind of pathetic and amusing at the same time... pathetically amusing or amusingly pathetic.

I realized that I haven't been at the same school for more than two years since I was in fourth grade. I'll be at UT for three years, so I'm breaking the cycle. I like it here most of the time, and am glad I came--big improvement over Oklahoma Christian. I'm just now starting to feel comfortable here, like more than just a tourist... even though ( Read more... )

they are stringy and sour... and it's going to be 71 degrees when I go camping! Now I'm going outside to read and not be as white.

Work wasn't that bad tonight. The annoying boy isn't so bad if he knows I'm not stupid and that I've been a barista way longer than him. He also said I'm honest because I didn't laugh at his dumb jokes and told him when his "supervising" was a little too much... and I made better tips tonight than before ( Read more... )

Homeless people make the library stink.