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

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."

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 :)

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!!

Another Blog....

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

~Choice~

My bare feet kiss the ground with every footfall,
Joyous but bittersweet, my heart races,
I'm spellbound, my body heeding the earth's timeless call.
The awe all around me my longing embraces.

The wind pours through the moss,
Whispering, whispering. Talking to me.
Telling me secrets so very like candyfloss.
Worthless, useless, beautiful secrets. My key to set minds free.

Panting, I slow to a halt. The sunlight dapples the road behind me.
Shadows embrace the path before.
I know the road behind me, "I am safe." it guarantees.
But I choose to walk forward, and not bask in the light of the past. I am not afraid anymore.

Ugliest Dog

This is kinda scary:

Quoting from the news:

"A Chihuahua's oddly curved back and legs and closed-up left eye earned the 4-year-old rescue dog top honours at the World's Ugliest Dog contest at a Northern California fair on Friday.

Sporting a grey, brown and black coat, Princess Abby Francis beat a rough-looking slate of candidates for the prize, including Pabst, a teeth-bearing boxer mix who won last year.

Princess Abby shivered in the cool breeze after her win Friday night while nestled in the arms of her owner, Kathleen Francis, who received a $1,000 check at the 22nd annual contest held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma.

The victory was a surprise to Francis.

“I don't think she's ugly at all,” she said. “I think she's the most beautiful dog.”

Francis says she adopted Princess Abby from her veterinarian about five months ago. This was the dog's first such contest since she was found running through the street.

Celebrity vet Karen “Doc” Halligan says the Chihuahua's problematic back, legs and eye may be due to being inbred.

“She's a poster child to spay and neuter your pets,” she said."

I think that this is scary and kinda funny. I guess that it is probably one of the few dogs to win that ISN'T a mexican hairless, though. Those things are just frightening!

So, anyway... I'm done :)

The Girl Who Could Fly

The Girl Who Could Fly
By Victoria Forester

As tons of people like to quote, "The Girl Who Could Fly is the sweetest, oddest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men." (Stephanie Mayer, author of Twilight)
I loved it, especially the characters. On shelfari (a social networking site revolving around books) I have persuaded several people to read it, all of whom loved the story and the characters, just as I did.

The story revolves around Piper McCloud, a young girl with an incredible power: she has the ability to fly. Piper lives in Lowland Country, and unfortunately, the neighboring people are afraid of her. So, as her mother and father really have no idea about flying, she decides to attend a top-secret, maximum security school for special children. Here she meets several interesting children: Daisy, who is super-strong, Smitty, who has x-ray vision, and most importantly, Conrad, who is the genius with a mean streak.

The school seems great! However, there may be several secrets that may change the way the children see it forever..... if they survive, that is....

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HOT

I am sooooooooooooooooo hot, it's 100 degrees here! It's really bad, I sure hope the temperature doesn't go up as July and August come! Yipes!

Sunburns :(

I got an AWFUL sunburn yesterday.... we slathered ourselves in defective sun-lotion.
I'm going to have to sue whoever made that stuff......

Wolf Haikus

Here's a pretty cool blog written from the view of a wolf, completely in haiku! :)
http://haikuwolves.blogspot.com/

Something.....

I was bored, so I drew the top one, copying from this painting called "The Reader” by Fragonard.

An Observation:

Hey, I just studied the Iliad and the Odyssey in school, and I realized that the two stories had to be the inspiration for book 2 and book 5 of the Percy Jackson series!
Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters is pretty much the Odyssey modernized, and with new characters. Percy and his friends must sail through the sea and encounter Circe, Polyphemus, and Scylla and Charybdis. There is even the little part about stalling a wedding, using the weaving of a bridal train!
The final book of P.J. and the Iliad also share striking similarities, sometimes right down to the little details! I won't give any examples..... but let me just say some major plot pieces are stolen right from Homer's work!
I just thought that was really cool, for you Percy Jackson fans.....

Franz Marc

Deer in the Woods II


Large Blue Horses



This artist did one of my favorite paintings of all time: Large Blue horses. Another painting of his that I like is Deer in the Woods II. He always chooses cool colors, all of it is so bright!

Google Translator

I've been having a lot of fun with Google Translate recently. It can translate just about anything I throw at it, so I've been doing rather interesting things, like translating the Hail Mary into French, for example.

Another thing I did: I was writing a story with dragons, so used a weird language for Dragonish, the dragon language :)

Google Translate

Another Poem....

"I'll tell you how the leaves came down,"
The great tree to his children said,
"You're getting sleepy, Yellow and Brown,
Yes, very sleepy, little Red.
It is quite time to go to bed."

"Ah!" begged each silly, pouting leaf,
"Let us a little longer stay;
Dear Father Tree, behold our grief;
Tis such a very pleasant day
We do not want to go away."

So, for just one more merry day
To the great tree the leaflets clung,
Frolicked and danced, and had their way,
Upon the autumn breezes swung,
Whispering all their sports among,--

"Perhaps the great tree will forget,
And let us stay until the spring,
If we all beg, and coax, and fret."
But the great tree did no such thing;
He smiled to hear their whispering.

"Come, children, all to bed," he cried;
And ere the leaves could urge their prayer,
He shook his head, and far and wide,
Fluttering and rustling everywhere,
Down sped the leaflets through the air.

I saw them; on the ground they lay,
Golden and red, a huddled swarm,
Waiting till one from far away,
White bedclothes heaped upon her arm,
Should come to wrap them safe and warm.

The great bare tree looked down and smiled,
"Good-night, dear little leaves," he said.
And from below each sleepy child
Replied, "Good-night," and murmured,
"It is so nice to go to bed!"

Trick Question

I love this Calvin and Hobbes strip. Very funny..... but I really feel for Calvin's Mom.

A Poem

She licks her chops,
Silently she goes and stops.
Carefully she stalks her prey,
Quietly she walks it's way,
With a yowl she leaps
As she grabs, it squeaks.
She has caught the rubber mouse,
She must be leader of the house.
Proudly she walks away,
With the air that she has saved the day.

By ME!
Thank you, thank you. (I bow deeply)

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer
somebody else up.

~Mark Twain