Six Things To Do With Old Nail Polish

I have some bottles of nailpolish that I'm never ever going to wear again. I'm saving them for my little sister now, since I guess when she's like seven or something that she'll like the Smurfy blue or lime green. However for those without little siblings, voila!

6. Paint a little on the end of fraying shoelaces. Its stickiness will create a makeshift aglet. Plus, it'll look cool, especially with Converse or Vans.
5. Paint it over screws to prevent rusting.
4. Use them to mark toothbrushes. My dad and I have the same color toothbrush, except now mine has a blue dot on it.
3. Use them to draw pictures, cause that's fun!
2. Use them to label jars and stuff with the color.
1.  Use them for parties or for ceramics, or anything that you can use nail polish remover on! Go crazy! :D

Seven Silly Quotes on Friendship

"Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life." 

7. A.A. Milne, from Winnie the Pooh: “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” 

6. Marlene Dietrich: “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” 

5. Aristotle: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” 

4. Charles Dickens: "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

3. Groucho Marx: "When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"

2. Bernard Meltzer: "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

1. Mencius: "Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

Five Weird TV... Things...

I love television. Especially when I can go, hey, that guy looks familiar. Oh yeah, he's on so-and-so! XD

5. Katy Perry: On How I Met Your Mother as Stella's cousin

4. Neil Patrick Harris: Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother on Glee as Bryan Ryan

3. Neil Jackson: Sasha Belov from Make It Or Break It on How I Met Your Mother as Robin's surgeon date (Or vice-versa. HIMYM was first)

2. Geoff Stults: Walter from The Finder on How I Met Your Mother as Max, one of Robin's boyfriends (Again, vice-versa).

1. Michael Clarke Duncan: The basketball coach from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody on The Finder as Leo Knox

Eight delicious desserts

Summer time!

8. Soda floats: I'm a Coca Cola girl, but with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, any soda will do.

7. Pie: Not cold, but tasty nonetheless

6. Almond Milk: So it isn't a conventional dessert. I always have this after dinner!

5. Gelato: Not fatty enough for my taste, and too lukewarm

4. Peach Cobbler: And other pie-like things. Yum.

3. Ice Cream: Classic creaminess that everyone loves.

2. Italian Ice: Super cold and crisp!

1. Popsicles: After-practice or after-dinner snacking. Cools you down and gives you lots of sugar!

What I'd really like to try is "grunts." Apparently, it's like cobbler except better...

Awesome ABC's: Animals

Aardvark

At practice the other day, Lucy, one of my 5th grader teammates, asked me: "What's an animal that starts with an N? A U?" It got me thinking. And thinking. And dang it, I couldn't think of anything! Another teammate got newt for N, but we were stuck with the U. Therefore, a list!

A: Aardvark, Anteater, Alligator

B: Bear, Boar, Baboon

C: Cat, Chimpanzee, Chameleon

D: Dog, Dolphin, Donkey

Impala

E: Elephant, Egret, Emu

F: Falcon, Fish, Fox

G: Gorilla, Giraffe, Gazelle

H: Horse, Hyena, Hippo

I: Ibis, Impala, Ibex (small mountain goat thing that's apparently awesome) 

J: Jaguar, Jellyfish, Jackal

K: Kangaroo, Koala, Kookaburra <-- The Laugh, Kookaburra song was on a very creepy episode of Doctor Who called "Fear Her."

L: Lion, Leopard, Lemur

M: Monkey, Meercat, Moose

Quokka

N: Narwhal, Newt, Nightingale

O: Octopus, Orangutan, Owl

P: Parrot, Penguin, Panda

Q: Quail, Quokka, Quetzal

R: Raccoon, Rabbit, Rhino

S: Swan, Squirrel, Shark

T: Tiger, Turkey, Turtle

U: Urchin, Uakari

V: Vole, Vulture, Vicuna

W: Weasel, Wallaby, Wolf

X: X-ray Fish, Xyloryctes beetle, Xiphius gladius

Y: Yak, Yellowjacket, Yellowhammer

Z: Zebra, Zebu, Zander

Seven 100% Believable Excuses

For why I neglected the blog on Friday. It was only actually Friday since the weekend counts as one day in my world, but honestly, I just didn't get around to it. Whoopsies :)

7. I got grounded.

6. My internet crashed.

5. My computer flipped out.

4. I got burned on my fingertips so I couldn't type.

3. A horse trampled my laptop and I'm on a borrowed one.

2. My dog ate my battery and I needed to wait for the new one to come in the mail.

1. The power lines in my neighborhood were cut by burglars and we were out of power for the whole weekend.

Funny how they get longer as the list progresses, huh? :)

Six Beloved Childhood Friends

6. Caillou - This show about the four year old and his friends was a favorite of mine as a kid. The language is simple  and the picture, while also simple, is intricate. I especially liked his Chinese friend and their episode about chopsticks.

5. Clifford - I personally must own about 20 of the Clifford picture books. What little kid doesn't dream of having a dog they could ride to school?

4. Thomas & Friends - A beloved television series and book series about a tank engine and his hardworking little friends!

3. Elmo - Nanana, nanana, Elmo's World! Elmo's World is enjoyable for both little kids and their parents (and grandparents and big sisters). My little sister often will plop herself on my lap and demand to watch it. Like with other kid's show successes, the selling point for Elmo is his approachability and simplicity. Kids like someone they could cuddle and hug and do handstands with in their head.

2. Barney - Barney the purple dinosaur... who doesn't remember this loving, lumbering friend? I love you, you love me...

1. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo and his crime solving buddies scares little kids but intrigues them at the same time. The fast, hyper, pumped-up activity of the characters make the show more suited towards older-than-toddlers-but-not-yet-tween kids.

My little sister's current favorites are Elmo and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show, but that wasn't around when I was a toddler, so it's been omitted from this list.

Seven Incredible Ways to Say Hello Without Saying "Hello"

7. Hey!

6. Hi

5. Yo!

4. Howdy!

3. Hiya!

2. Salutations!

1. Greetings!

Simply a list this time! :)

Seven Silly Colors

Think periwinkle sounds weird? Fuschia or chartreuse? Compared to the rest of these, they're completely sane and normal!! The numbers correspond to the above chart,  which is called Hex Triplet and is used for HTML and HTML5.

8. Wenge: This color is mostly referring to furniture.

#645452

7. Zinnwaldite Brown: Named after a mineral called zinnwaldite.

#2C1608

6. Gamboge: A pigment from tapping gamboge trees.

#E49B0F

5. Coquelicot: Named after a French poppy. Often referring to leather or furniture.

#FF3800

4. Ciel: A handbag color, I think, and scrubs.

#92A1CF

3. Razzmatazz: A Crayola color named after a five year old in 1993.

#E3256B

2. Xanadu: I think I read a book with a character named Xanadu once... named after a plant.

#738678

1. Caput Mortuum: It means "dead head" or "worthless remains" and is a paint pigment.

#592720

Twenty Superb(ly Stupid) Laws in Four States

In New York:

5. The penalty for jumping off of a building is death.

4. It's against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.

3. Slippers are not to be worn after 10:00 PM.

2. A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket.

1. Citizens may not greet each other by “putting one’s thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers”.

In Georgia:

5. It's illegal to use profanity in front of a corpse at a coroner's office or in a funeral.

4. Donkeys can't be kept in bath tubs.

3. No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.

2. In Athens (UGA campus-town), goldfish may not be given away to entice someone to enter a game of bingo.

1. You cannot live on a boat for more than 30 days during the calendar year, even if just passing through the state.

In North Carolina:

5. A three dollar tax must be paid on all white goods sold.

4. Bingo games may not last over 5 hours unless it is held at a fair.

3. It's illegal to sing off-key.

2. In Charlotte, women must have their bodies covered by at least 16 yards of cloth at all times.

1. Elephants can't be used to plow cotton fields.

... more stupid NC laws... a lot of which are about sex... [facepalm]

In Alabama:

5. It is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

4. Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

3. You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.

2. Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

1. Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.

 What's with the ice cream cone law? More dumb laws here if you can't wait for me to do this twelve more times so I can cover all the states and some international territory. :)