Redecorating my trash can!

I had the daisy chain ribbon to redecorate my trash can for at least 10 years and I FINALLY just did it! It was a lot easier then I expected and I think it looks really cute! It is just wrapped in a piece of blue felt and i glued the daises on!

All of the clay critters!

I just finished all of the clay critters I made. I only have a tiny bit of Model Magic left so I’ll have to buy more if I want to make any more critters!

So here they are! You are the first to see the collection. From left to right here is koala, hedgehog, alligator, elephant, octopus, turtle, bananapup, pink hippo, and beaver!

Another angle.

My little clay creations!

As I mentioned in the post before this I bought some Crayola Model Magic clay at Michaels. I created these little critters with the clay

On the left is a pink hippo of course and on the right is a bananapup! I painted them with watercolors. The picture is pretty blurry. My camera didn’t seem interested in focusing on them. You are probably wondering what a bananapup is. I based my bananapup off of a stuffed animals that I bought from Dole after I found his on a picture on my banana sticker. Here is a picture of my bananapup.

I just made several more clay creatures and I will post pictures of them when I am done. My boyfriend wants to be take pictures of my little clay critters and make it look like they are in jungle scenes. He is a MUCH better photographer then I am!

–On a totally unrelated note this afternoon I went to lunch at Wegmans with my family and as we were turning into the parking lot we saw fire trucks speeding into the parking lot. We noticed a big cloud of smoke coming from the parking lot. Apparently someones car caught on fire! It was kinda neat to see all the commotion going on.

Craft time!

Well to keep myself from insanity I took a journey to the local Michaels to get some crafty things. I wondered around the store looking at many things that seemed entirely uninspiring or way overpriced. I bought a set of new acrylic paints and a set of watercolors that seemed to be a good price in hopes that I would be inspired to create a painting. I have several paintings around the house that I made. Maybe I’ll show you some day! I also bought shrinky dink paper, a package of white model magic clay, and two wood craft kits to make a triplane and a sailboat. The wood craft kits were only a dollar each! I already created the triplane:

I have been reading a lot of craft blogs and I was inspired to make MAGICAL RAINBOW MELTY CRAYONS! I used some of my scrap crayons to and melted them together in the toaster oven in foil lined ramekins to make these lovely giant crayons. The one at the top i made with whole-ish crayons so that I can easily make rainbows everywhere! Hooray!

Life can be so cruel

With so much drama in the LBC,
It’s kinda hard being D-a-double-n-y

So it doesn’t rhyme, sue me. I wasn’t placing blame on my fellow blogger, it was an innocent joke gone terribly awry. Anyways, now that things seemed to have settled over on my end, I have more time to devote to this site. I might have lots of time if rumors surrounding the company that I work for are true. Nothing is concrete right now but I might be heading back east pretty soon. I’ll write an update once I know more, but I’m always the last person to find out anything around here.

Anyways, since Amanda is steaming mad at me, I have to rectify this and post something that interests her. So here goes, today when I left home to go to work, my car broke down at a red light. I had to push it to the side of the road while other cars sped by me. I could just sense that the other drivers were laughing at my misery. I knew that calling a tow truck would cost me an arm and a leg so instead I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said “Fresh” and had a dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare. But I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air. I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby “Yo, home smell you later”, looked at my kingdom I was finally there to settle my throne as the prince of Bel-Air. April’s Fools! It’s lame I know but you have to admit that I had you going there for a bit. Until next time, have a great week.

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You keep blaming me for not posting but when we started this blog I understood it was an equal partnership of blogging. I’m not intrested in blogging everyday without you!

So I waited all of this time just to hear about video games? I could go to 100 boring nerd sites to read about that. honestly I didn’t even have the attention span to read the whole thing.

I don’t mean to be a nagging bitch but siiiiigh

Top 3 PC Games

While I have a valid excuse for being absent this entire week (family business), I am very disappointed in my colleague and her lack of posts. I have thought up of a new topic to discuss, perhaps this might turn into a regular thing, just like Letterman’s Top Ten that he does every weeknight. I finished Call of Duty 4 for the PC a few weeks ago and it is easily in the top 3 for my favorite PC games. Right now, I currently have it listed as,

1) Wolfenstein 3D
2) Call of Duty 4
3) Command & Conquer

Wolfenstein 3D

This is one of the first video games that I have ever played. It revolutionized the first person shooter genre and made me hooked on games ever since. You play Allied prisoner of war William “B.J.” Blazkowicz during World War II and have to escape the Nazi stronghold that is castle Wolfenstein. Not only do you get to eat dog food for health, battle a dual butcher knife wielding cook, at the very end, you face off with Mecha Hitler himself!

Call of Duty 4

I had to bump off another game off my list in order to make room for this reigning game of the year. More on this later and back to the latest incarnation of the Call of Duty series. Unlike its predecessors, which all take place during the ever popular Word War II era, this one is in the modern age. Although the single player missions are pretty short, took me around 10 hours to complete, the storyline and graphics are amazing. You play as either a S.A.S (British) soldier or a U.S. Marine who has to stop two renegade rebel leaders, in the Middle East and in Russia. The missions pull you in and the action keeps you on your toes. I especially playing the flashback when you are a sniper and the ending is top notch. If that wasn’t everything, the multiplayer online is bar none. It’s easy to quickly find a random server, equip your gear and frag some people. It would be hard to knock this newcomer off the list.

Command & Conquer
No offense to Blizzard and Starcraft but Westwood were the first ones to start the whole Real Time Strategy (RTS) craze. I couldn’t decide on which installment to choose so instead of making a hard decision, I just went with the entire series. While the graphics and minimum requirements have been increasing with each sequel, I am most fond of the originals, C&C and Red Alert. The entire premise for the game is breath taking, the classic good verus evil situation, GDI against NOD, James Earl Jones pitted against Kane. That brings me to the live action cut scenes. These games were one of the few that used real actors to depict what was happening in the virtual game and I loved every minute of it. The voice acting was right on and each character made you want to love them. I heard a new expansion is coming out for C&C 3, which reminds me that I should get it as soon as I can.

Notable Mention
Wing Commander

The greatest flight sim of all time. I remember that I used to have a huge box that contained like Wing Commander I, II and III. This must have been at least a decade ago, I feel old already. I would hook up my crappy joystick to my 66 mHz computer which had a Turbo button. If that button wasn’t on, it would only run at 33 mHz, a concept so bizzare, it still gives me a chuckle to this day. In the game you played as a rookie pilot in the Federation, far into the future, fighting against an alien race called the Kilrathi who are hell bent on your race’s extinction. First it was pixelated photon cannons and after each new game arrived and technology kept getting better, it would ultimately end with live action cut scenes and up to date graphics for that time.

Video game memories.. brings a tear to my eye. There you have it, my top 3 PC games. Maybe I’ll work on other systems. Until next time, keep safe and keep checking this site.

The fault is all mine

I apologize for the serious lack of updates and I appreciate Amanda keeping the ship afloat during my absence. I have a valid reason for my disappearance. My mother has flown in from New York to visit me for the week so I have been unable to find the time to post anything of substance. I have a few things cooking up in this brain of mine so I hope to post something good by this weekend. Patience is a virtue, I just hope that I don’t delay so long that you guys run out of it.

Elements of craptastic reality shows

Well I admit that I have watched a lot of crappy reality shows but there are some that are beyond any sense of reality and seem to repeat the exact same behavior episode after episode and season to season. It seems like it would be really easy to create a craptastic reality show. Lets make a list of important elements!

1. A group of incredibly self-centered young people who must posses the following qualities: alcohol dependencies, anger issues, some sort of really sad life that would lead them to state that “this was the greatest opportunity of their lives”, A tendency to abuse the English language, and the need to clap and scream whenever something happens.
2. There must be at least one controversy on whether one of the reality craptestents “really wants to be there for the right reasons”.
3. Half assed editing where the craptestents sentenced are obviously cut off or pasted together. Since reality shows are so cheap to produce one would think that they could spend a few bucks to create decent editing.
4. Dramatic scenes of one of the craptestents being taken away in an ambulance for some minor injury or illness.
5. Fancy shots of the filming location that are usually more interesting then the fake drama on the show.
6. At least one contest of a questionable sex.

P.S.  Tyra you are NOT as respectable as Oprah so KNOCK IT OFF.

A list of random thoughts

1.  Honey mustard is an excellent condiment
2.  Body builders are not attractive.
3. People who scuff their feet are REALLY annoying.
4. Melty cheese is amazing.
5. Bad parents are terrible
6. Germen food and beer are quite tasty
7. Spring time is nice
8. Talking with food in ones mouth is soo rude
9. Robots are good dancers
10. People should be more aware of their BO.
11. Tacos are a great form of food.
12. Friends are hard to make
13. The world needs to be more ethical.
14. BBQ is delicious
15. Cold juice is refreshing.
16. People shouldn’t curse so often.
17. Snuggling is nice.
18. My hair is too frizzy.
19. I need a job.
20. Danny is a crazy cabbage head.