Monday, July 19, 2010

All kinds of phobias...

• Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing
• Aerophobia- Fear of swallowing air
• Anablephobia- Fear of looking up
• Anemophobia- Fear of wind
• Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers
• Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern Lights
• Barophobia- Fear of gravity
• Basophobia- Fear of walking
• Blennophobia- Fear of slime
• Bogyphobia- Fear of the bogeyman
• Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting
• Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors
• Chaetophobia- Fear of hair
• Chionophobia- Fear of snow
• Chromatophobia- Fear of colors
• Chronophobia- Fear of time
• Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks
• Cibophobia- Fear of food
• Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed
• Dendrophobia- Fear of trees
• Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body
• Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom
• Eosophobia- Fear of daylight
• Ereuthophobia- Fear of the color red
• Geliophobia- Fear of laughter
• Geniophobia- Fear of chins
• Genuphobia- Fear of knees
• Geumaphobia- Fear of taste
• Heliophobia- Fear of the sun
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words (kinda ironic, isn't it?)
• Homichlophobia- Fear of fog
• Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep
• Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish
• Ideophobia- Fear of ideas
• Kainophobia- Fear of anything new
• Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down
• Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables
• Leukophobia- Fear of the color white
• Levophobia- Fear of objects to the left side of the body
• Linonophobia- Fear of string
• Logophobia- Fear of words
• Melanophobia- Fear of the color black
• Melophobia- Fear of music
• Metrophobia- Fear of poetry
• Mnemophobia- Fear of memories
• Octophobia- Fear of the number 8
• Ommetaphobia- Fear of eyes
• Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams
• Ophthalmophobia- Fear of opening one’s eyes
• Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish
• Panophobia- Fear of everything
• Papyrophobia- Fear of paper
• Peladophobia- Fear of bald people
• Photophobia- Fear of light
• Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking
• Pogonophobia- Fear of beards
• Sciophobia- Fear of shadows
• Selenophobia- Fear of the moon
• Siderophobia- Fear of stars
• Sitophobia- Fear of food
• Sophophobia- Fear of learning
• Stasibasiphobia- Fear of walking

Check out more "phobias"!

Strange (but funny) Phobias

Monday, July 12, 2010

Tons of Quotes

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."
— Nicholas Sparks

A word is dead
when it is said,
some say.
I say it only begins
to live
that day
~Emily Dickinson

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
~Burt Bacharach ~

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
Steven Wright

Toast will not brown while you are watching it. Glance away and it turns into smoking charcoal.

Experience is only gained after you need it.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Life is infinately stranger than anything the mind of man could invent." Sherlock Holmes in A case of identity

"Don't worry about the world ending today, it's already tomorrow in Australia."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

'Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water... Eleanor Roosevelt.

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files~

"There is nothing so gentle as real strength; There is nothing stronger than real gentleness."

"The weak cannot forgive; Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Ghandi

"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything."

Friday, July 09, 2010

Riddles!

Q.) An archeologist finds a coin that was dated 48 BC. How did he know that it was a fake?
A.)Because "BC" stands for "Before Christ." Before Christ. Christ was not yet born when the coin would have been made, so the date would have been impossible.

Q.)What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
A.)The letter "M".

More beautiful drawings my yours truly :)

My mermaid...... who is wearing a "William and Mary" sweatshirt...... I was going to have her wear a "Harvard" one...... :)

Laurel.... the character in a story I'm writing. Actually, all of these drawings are my illustrations to go with my stories!!


Jason.......



Lou.....




and Argentina. Argentina looks completely different from how I imagined her, but I kinda like her better this way :)

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Recipes

Chloe's Pumpkin Cookies

What You Need
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Dash of salt
1 cup chocolate chips


Frosting
2 tablespoons butter
1-1/2 confectioners sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


What to Do

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In a large bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add Pumpkin and vanilla.
3. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; add to creamed mixture
and mix well. Fold in chocolate chips.
4. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes or until golden
brown. Put on wire racks to cool.
5. For frosting, melt butter in a small saucepan. Stir the sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth.
Frost cooled cookies.


These are THE BEST cookies on the planet. They are so delicious!!

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Another Blog....

I found this new blog, and I really like it. It's very funny!! Check out.....
The Notables!