Happy Halloween (Eve)

Hello cyberspace!  Today is none other than Halloween eve and I've got so much to do.  My ward has our halloween party today, and the young men and young women have to help get it to run smoothly.  (WAY easier said than done.)  Basically it's going to be chaos.  Complete and total mayhem.  Who knew that all the kids in my ward get crazy when full of candy and cake.  It's ridiculous!  Anyway, I have to get to the church just 2 1/2 hours after I get home today to help set up.  I also have to do my PE homework which I've majorly been procrastinating.  So basically today is going to be crazy.  Luckily, it's my all time favorite day.  It's an A day!  So, I hope you have a good Halloween eve. . . and an even better Halloween.  Happy holidays!  :)

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Tomorrow.  Tomorrow's supposedly the big day that I've been waiting for since forever!  But, let me start at the beginning.

I look at the weather forecast for the day everyday.  The Junior High's weather forecast is usually pretty accurate, so I decided to take a look at that one everyday, and for those of you now wanting to cheek the weather before school, here's the link:

click me

So, I cheeked it today, and guess what I discovered???  It turns out that there's a 90% chance of snow tomorrow!!!  I am so excited!  I absolutely LOVE winter, and it's all because of the snow!!!

And that's what's coming.  And lots of it.

Get ready world!  Snow is on the way.  

It's winter now!

Some Aquatic Life Forms for Consideration

Hey y'all.  It's been awhile since I've posted anything. . . but I'm sorry to report that for all you devoted followee's to this blog who have just been dying to read some more of my amazing and priceless humor, this entry is going to be a bit anticlimactic.  :( 

So currently, I'm sitting here in my bedroom, trying to come up with a semi-interesting topic.  So far, nothing has occurred to me. . . but wait!  A spark of true brilliance!  (Depending on how you look at it of course.)  This blog entry is hereby proclaimed to be about jellyfish.  Random, right?  I know, but really, wait till you hear more about them. :)

Mary the Sperry and I are having to do a project in Environmental Science right now about the Carbon Cycle.  (Which is when the Earth naturally recycles it's carbon. . . pretty self explanatory I would think.)  Well, as we were looking up information about all the places it comes from, we discovered that jellyfish are like 10% carbon.  Is that cool or what???  Yup.  I told you it was anticlimactic.  But the following pictures aren't.  They're pretty cool.  Cheek them out:

All righty.  That's enough with the jellyfish.  Now 

lets talk about giant squids.  Just 
kidding.  I'm really just going to show some 

pictures of the squids now, because they
are after all the coolest marine life I can think 

of right now.

I don't think that last one is real. . . 

but don't quote me on that. . . and 

now, since this
entry seems to have turned into a 

sea life entry, here are some fish pic's:

Okay, that last one is without

 a doubt, my favorite.  And now, 

without further ado,
I give you. . . Penguins!!!!  

(My all time FAVORITE animal!)

And this concludes this weeks

 "Madison. . . a random look in a random life."

See you next time!

A Babysitter's worst nightmare

Monday.  Usually that word feels me with dread.  I absolutely despise Monday's. . . at least during the school year.  They represent such a horrible thing. . . the beginning of yet another week of school.  Unless of course, I start out the week with an english class.  :)

Anyways, this Monday, I was looking forward to sleeping away the whole day.  We had no school, I have no life. . . it was perfect.  Until I get a phone call last night from my favorite family, the Lemke's.  I babysit them all the time, and they are the cutest little family, I absolutely adore them.  So, as you can imagine, I was pretty happy to get a call from them last night.  I mean, hanging out with some really sweet, and really crazy kids, and getting paid for doing it?  I'm there!  Unfortunately, it turned out to be a Trojan Horse.  She wasn't calling because her husband and her were going on a date, no, she was calling to ask me to babysit at 8:45 in the AM.  8:45 is like my version of a five in the morning.  So, I wasn't to psyched about heading over there, but I really do love them, and I can't afford to lose their business.  That's really my only source of income right now.

Well, I got up this morning, I got dressed and I headed out the door.  And let me tell you, it was FREEZING!!!  I mean, I was wearing a scarf and a jacket and I was soooo cold!  Yet, I walked to their house, walked in the door and listened to my instructions.  Then, Sister Lemke was out the door and I was left alone.

Everything went great for almost the whole time.  Then, disaster struck.  Jase is their youngest boy.  He can get really physical and he's tried on multiple occasions to best me at wrestling, but, I'm still better :)  However, this time, he wasn't aiming for me, he was aiming at his younger sister, Lizzie.  He hit her too.  He had tossed a hard, plastic ball at her and it had clipped her shoulder with one intense sound.  (Which I can't really spell so. . . you're out of luck.)

Well, Lizzie began screaming her lungs out and writhing around on the floor, which is of course exactly when her mother came in through the door.  I was bent over the top of her, trying to get a look at her shoulder to make sure nothing was too wrong with it, and I'm sure it looked bad.  Thankfully, she calmed Lizzie down and made Jase apologize before telling me that Lizzie had been really acting up lately.  They'd been in an airport not too long ago and Lizzie had thrown the biggest temper tantrum right in the middle of it.

I have to admit, that confession made me feel a little better, but it was still one of the worst babysitting experiences I've ever had.  :)

Imaturebee's. . . noun. . .

Argh!  I'm so sick of all the immaturebee's that run around our school!  (And for those of you who weren't with Mary and I at lunch today, (namely everyone) all these irritating and very immature people were running by us the whole time and I called them immaturebee's for some unknown reason, and the name stuck.)  My bus is absolutely full of them, and I'm getting so sick of the bus driver slamming on the brakes every time one of the immaturebee's stands up!  It is so irritating!  I can't even believe it!  I mean, I don't usually get car sick, but man, it's becoming more frequent.  There are like six people that think that it's just so funny to stand up as we speed down this long, bumpy road.  (See that Mrs. R?  I just used one of the comma rules that we learned in class today. :)

This year seems like there are more immaturebee's than ever before.  So many of the sophmore's and even the juniors are so irritating to be around.  But that's just my side of the story.  Now tell me yours.  Do you notice the mass immaturebee's running wild around the school?  Or do you not?  Cast your vote now!

Its a funny story actually. . .

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night thinking that you were late for school?  I have done this on multiple occasions, the most memorable of which didn't happen in the middle of the night.  It happened around six or seven in the morning.  I woke up to my alarm clock and got ready for BYC (or Bishops Youth Council) Which I had to go to one Sunday every month at that time.  I then proceeded up the stairs to call one of my leaders for a ride.  My mom looked at me and asked this simple question: "What are you doing?"

I replied in a somewhat irritated tone: "I have to go to BYC."  She laughed at me.  Yup.  She LAUGHED.  That's when I knew I was in trouble.

"I appreciate your willingness to go and do your calling, but, it's Saturday."  She said.

I was so ticked but I went back downstairs changed out of my church clothes and went back to bed.

Well, a similar experience happened to me last night.  I was really tired yesterday, probably due to the fact that I was running on just a few real hours of sleep.  Anyways, I was really tired, and I fell asleep around 7:10 for about five minutes.  When I woke up, I jumped out of bed and immediately thought: "Crap!  I missed dinner!"  Then I recalled that I had actually had dinner about two hours previously with an annoying neighbor kid that I really wanted to slap.  I laid back down just to jump back up seconds later with my heart fluttering.  "Crap!  School starts in like a half an hour!"  I screamed.  "Why didn't anyone wake me up?"

Well, I realized that it was in the PM before I went downstairs so it wasn't too embarrassing.  However, I still felt like one of the biggest idiots in the history of stupidity.  :)

Chihuahua's . . . What's the deal?

Okay, so, today I'm going to speak about a very serious problem facing our well being.  They're called chihuahuas and they're just not normal.  With their big. . . creepy eyes and pointy ears and all the body shakes.  And their annoying yap.  I mean seriously!  What's with them?  (I'm sorry if you like Chihuahua's or even that new movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" But I'm just not a fan (and if you didn't guess that already. . . go back to school.))  Anyways, I was talking to my friend Mary today, (hi Mary) and we were looking at the chinchilla at the school and for some reason, (I think it was the name) for some reason, it reminded me of a chihuahua and we just went off about how weird they are.

So, the funniest little mental picture popped up into my head.  Basically, it's someone with wide eyes staring at something way below them, and creepy music is playing in the background, and then the image flashes to a small little shaking chihuahua on the floor who is looking at the person, and the image just goes back and forth until the chihuahua cocks it's head and the person slowly backs out of the room and hightails it out of there.

Sorry, I'm not very good at explaining things, (or rather, describing things) but still, it was a very funny mental image. :)

And here is a very good picture of why I don't associate with the beasts, it's titled "Killer Chihuahua"  Viewer Discretion is advised. (Please don't show it to any kids.  I don't want them to have nightmares.)

Here's the link to see it on the internet, more importantly on Wikipedia.  I put it here so that it's not like plagiarism or anything, and also, it's bigger.  More ferocious looking. Click here if you please. :)

Book Review 1 of 4 for non-fiction

Recently, I was encouraged (and by encouraged I mean cornered and parent pressured into) doing my personal progress.  I'd originally gotten started on it when I first became a Beehive in my old Grovecreek ward, but then I slowly trailed off it, and finally stopped doing it altogether.

Sadly, upon moving here and doing a personal progress interview to find out where I stood in it, I discovered that I was further along in it than most people in my class.  That's when my parents cornered me and forced me into it.

I took off with vigor; doing my best to get the dumb thing over with.  But pretty soon, I was flying.  In fact, by the end of two months, I had only 2 1/4 projects left.  I had two hours of painting to do, and then my reading.  The only project that you can do for Virtue is to read the Book of Mormon which I proceeded to complete just recently.

I asked Robertson if I could use that for my nonfiction (cuz' lets face it, it's not a fast reader), and she agreed, so, here is my nonfiction book review for this term.

The Book of Mormon isn't exactly the best book I've ever read, although towards the end, I did look forward to opening it up every day.  The thing that I struggled with the most was the language.

The language of the olden days has definatley changed over the years.  It was often hard to understand what they were speaking of, ESPECIALLY when they began quoting Isaiah.  Not to point any fingers, (*ahem* Nephi).  I wouldn't suggest this to anyone that struggle with reading or understanding hidden meanings.  Although I found it very spiritual and very good, it was a hard book to get into at first.  I did eventually get into it, as I previously mentioned, but I suggest taking longer than 11 days to read the whole thing, you will probably get more out of it, and that is the sole purpose of the book.

The Internet Addict

Okay, so everyone should know by now that I am one of the biggest internet fans in the world.  I spend so much of my time on it and not just because I'm currently reading my scriptures on it (which is a different post entirely) but, I email like constantly.  I'm beginning to sense that it irritates some people who get WAY to many emails from me in one day (*ahem* 67).

Anyways, this post is all about one of the funniest songs I've ever heard.  It's called: "Do you want to date my avatar"  and yes, it's about exactly what it sounds like.

Basically it's a song from the people that are making a mini-series called "The Guild"  which is about a group of people that are crazy because they sit around their house all day and play world of warcraft online.  They are all socially awkward and this song proves it.  The music video is really funny as well, but it might be inappropriate to some viewers.  Viewer desecration is advised. (By me :)

Anyways, if you haven't already, you have to cheek out not only the mini-series, but also the song.  Very catchy  in fact here's the lyrics:

Do you wanna date my avatar?

Do you wanna date my avatar?

Hang with me in my MMO

So many places we can go

You'll never see my actual face

Our love, our love will be in virtual space

I'm craving to emote with you

So many animations I can do

Be anything you want me to be

C'mon, c'mon, and share a potion with me

(Chorus)

Do you want to date my avatar?

She's a star and she's 

hotter than reality by far.

Wanna date my avatar?

You can type commands

I've got slots for what I hold in my hands

Don't care what's in your character bank

How 'bout, how 'bout a little tank and spank

Grab your mouse and stroke the keys

Here in cyberspace there's no disease

Pick a time, send a tell to me

Just pay, just pay a small subscription fee

(Chorus)

Single, White Human

Looking for group

My stats so high

You'll be out of the loop

Got an uber leet staff

That you can equip

Close your mouth up

Ladies this is pure nerdnip

I'm a pixel-based fantasy

A man so stoic

I hack and slash

Who the heck's more heroic?

Check me out, cloth armor

Fits me like a glove

Just twitter a time

I'm ready for love

Hang with me in my MMO

So many places we can go

I'm better than a real world quest

You'll touch my plus five to dexterity vest

What role do you wanna play?

I'm just a click away night or day

And if you think I'm not the one

Log off, log off and we'll be done

(Chorus)

(Repeat Chorus)

Do you wanna date my avatar? (do you wanna date my avatar?)

Do you wanna date my avatar? (do you wanna date my avatar?)

Do you wanna date my avatar? (do you wanna date my avatar?)

Do you wanna date my avatar? (do you wanna date my avatar?) 

Book Review 1 of 4 for fiction

Recently I read the semi-historical fiction book called "The Alchemyst" by Michael Scott.  It is basically about the infamous immortal Nicholas Flamel.

In it, twins, Sophie and Josh are chosen to save the world and through many exciting, if somewhat dangerous events, experience the world as it truly is.  A place full of magic and myths.

It is the first book in a series, and I'll be finishing up the series later on.  For now, I would definitely advise this book to anyone looking for a good read.  It has some interesting historical facts in it, and it was a world of fun.