Ollie Ollie Oxen Free!!!!!

I’ve often wondered where that phrase came from and why it is used in Hide and Seek, but that has nothing to do with this post, now onto something completely unrelated........... Queen. So if you know me, then you know how much I LOVE my 80's music, I often joke that I should have grown up in the 80s instead of just being born in them. In high school I'd say 95% of the music I listened to was from the great era of the 80s. So I don't know why I didn't know this before, but I didn't..... So this past week we were playing a karaoke game and one of the songs was Another One Bites the Dust, naturally I gravitated towards singing this song, because I LOVE queen. So in the game the background is the music video of the song, and as I'm singing I stop, bewildered, and ask "Is that Freddie Mercury?!" My world was shattered........

Enough Said.

Major Tom sees now the life commands this is my home.

Okay so last night (Friday night, mind you) my brother was at my other brothers house, and I was not invited, (ok well I really was but they were finishing a basement, and I really did not
want to help with that!) so I was at home with my two youngest siblings, and my parents, after having some delicious Chinese take-out, we said family prayer and it was off to bed. It was probably 11:30, maybe midnight, and the three of us trucked upstairs, where we should have gone to our respective bedrooms, but instead all ended up in my little sisters room and here is how it began .................. So I was sitting there thinking about how a couple of days ago my dance teacher was talking about pulling his legs up with his abs and pulling them into a head stand, he was saying he could do it like it was such a big deal and that he was so talented, so of course I needed to try to see if it was really as hard as he was making it out to be. So to the left is my first attempt, a little sloppy but I still did it, the later times I did it very pretty, toes pointed legs straight etc, etc. So this went on for quite some time, I would try, then Ivan ,then Natasha. I think it was maybe the funniest thing I've seen my little brother try to do! He was so hilarious, we were all laughing hysterically! So we stayed up doing this past one in the morning! It was soo great! I think that the funniest thing was all the comments that my little

brother was making! So yes I admit, I was at home doing head stands, until one in the morning on a Friday night with my two youngest siblings! After our heads hurt from all the blood rushing to them I decided to try a little ANTM, I knew this would be hard, with a 10 year old little boy, but surprisingly, he was the one that shouted YES! OK I'M FIRST!! Then he ran to the door to do his runway walk, and it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, I wish that I had it captured on video, because the picture did not do his hips justice! He is so hilarious! I love my siblings, they are so great, and I also love that the same thing that entertains 10 and 11 year olds, can entertain me.

I'm leaving on a jet plane..........

So I'm pretty excited to be going back to Ohio for Spring break. Among the many things I am excited for, is the fact that I will be able to have 3 acres all to myself, pretty trees, grass, a lake, air and no tall buildings! I do love the city I do, but sometimes its just nice to be out away from all the noise and be able to just breathe! woohoo! I just love Ohio and I think it is beautiful (hence the picture with me standing creepily in my front yard, it just shows how pretty Ohio is). So I thought I had so much to do this morning, and I did, but I finished it all so quickly I'm so proud of myself now, I have two hours to just sit and wait to go to the airport! I think this is the first time that I've actually been ready far before I needed to be, I'm usually running around doing everything at the last second, I guess I was just really excited to be going home so I got everything all together in a timely manner! But this morning I did go to crumbs yum! I am such a good sister I cannot even believe it sometimes! Here's a picture of the deliciousness that I am going to be bringing home to my siblings!

Yes I am an amazing sister! Hopefully I wont eat them all before I get home! They just look soo good! But it was Nathaniel's birthday on the 30th, Ivan's on the 5th and Natasha's on the 7th, so I thought I would bring them some yummy treats! I'm really excited to be home for a little over a week, I was recently asked if there was anything I HAD to do while I was home, and I started thinking about it, and I think that's why I love going home, because I don't have to think about doing anything, I just do. I'll spend time with my siblings, my niece and parents and just have a great time, I'm excited for BW3's on Tuesday, followed by helping at the elementary school's library! I'll stay a couple of nights at my brothers where we will no doubt stay up all night playing video games, watching movies, and eating food that is not good for us! I just get to be home, and that is good enough for me.

I'll take the rain

So I really love it when it downpours, which is currently happening! I was just at the grocery store up the street getting some french bread and fresh mozzarella and tomatoes, when I went to leave it was raining so hard, everyone was just standing waiting for it to let up, but not me! I jumped right out in it! I love love love the rain, I love standing in it, walking in it, and playing in it! For some reason it is just makes me so happy, it liberates me, weird I know! Growing up I would cry every time there was a thunderstorm, I was always afraid that there would be a tornado along with the storm, but now I welcome them with open arms (thunderstorms, not tornados), I love them. I know the rain ruins your hair, runs your makeup, makes you all wet, but for some reason it just makes me feel so good! Thank you downpours!

I do go to school .... occasionally.

So maybe I've been a little bit of a slacker this semester, but today I was not! I went to school today, and let me tell you what.... I wasn't missing anything by not going. I find it so easy to justify not going, its an hour commute, the commute costs $10, and my classes are pointless and have nothing to do with anything, but alas, today I went to school!