A more lyrical post

Due to the fact that I have very little to post about, I am going to post the lyrics to a song that I am in love with at the moment (honestly, I think I could listen to it on a continuous repeat for an hour). So here it is, "Sleeps with Butterflies" by Tori Amos (from her album The Beekeeper)

"Sleeps With Butterflies"

Airplanes
Take you away again
Are you flying
Above where we live
Then I look up a glare in my eyes
Are you having regrets about last night
I'm not but I like rivers that rush in
So then I dove in
Is there trouble ahead
For you the acrobat
I won't push you unless you have a net

You say the word
You know I will find you
Or if you need some time
I don't mind
I don't hold on
To the tail of your kite
I'm not like the girls that you've known
But I believe I'm worth coming home to
Kiss away night
This girl only sleeps with butterflies
With butterflies
So go on and fly then boy

Balloons
Look good from on the ground
I fear with pins and needles around
We may fall then stumble
Upon a carousel
It could take us anywhere

I'm not like the girls that you've known
But I believe I'm worth coming home to
Kiss away night
This girl only sleeps with butterflies
With butterflies
With butterflies
So go on and fly boy

"I just had a test last semester, and now I have to take another test! It's not fair! How often in real life are you tested?" -Luanne Platter

Merry Christmas all

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. We are having a delayed Christmas in our family (since the most important thing is for all of us to be together.) I will be spending the day working on my homemade Christmas presents and watching movies. Required viewing will include "Shop Around the Corner" which I think is the best Jimmy Stewart movie. If you ever have a chance to see it you should. I was lucky to receive it on DVD for last Christmas (which is good because it won't be on TCM today). I hope everyone has a happy holiday and gets to spend lots of time with friends and family.

BOBBY: Better honk, Dad. It won't feel like Christmas Day if we miss the Little Drummer Boy.
HANK: I'm doing the best I can, and -- wait a minute, you're being sarcastic. You have no interest at all in seeing that little boy play his heart out, do you?
BOBBY: Nope. (I would like to note that my mother dislikes that song.)

Back from a long absence

I have been home at the farm for nearly a week now (hence the lack of blog posts). My sister Bridget arrived the day after me, with Orrin and Silas. I had a really good time playing with Silas (he really enjoyed being pushed on this little toy cart, I think he likes the wind blowing in his face.) And then Rachel, Trey and little Ellis arrived two days ago. So for a while there were two babies here at the farm (we were knee deep in babies). But the Bridget, Orrin, and Silas, have since left for Michigan to visit Orrin's side of the family. But they will be back to celebrate our belated Christmas when Lucy and Josh will be here from Colorado. And what have I been doing with my free time? Mostly baking cookies and spending time with my sisters. And working on Christmas presents ( I realized now that I was insane when I decided to make something ). I'm going to try to read some over my vacation. I wasn't able to read very much over the semester (Cell Bio and grading pretty much ate up a majority of my free time). But next semester should be nice. I am taking my thesis credits and then one class independent study which means I can try to finish all the work for the class faster than normal (which is my plan, I would like to finish the class within a month and a half of the semester. ) My progress with my reading project has been dismal (I have only read one book (Russia)) but hopefully I can read two of the books I took home with me and write short little reviews on them (which I haven't done for the one book I have read yet). I promise to do better!

"I'm skeptical that you could yet intrigued that you may"- Dale Gribble

Sometimes I say "Okay" instead of "Fine"

I haven't posted anything in almost a week due to my marathon Cell Bio study session over the weekend. I had my test on Monday night and it went okay. And now for the rest of the week, I will be busy counting cells on blood slides and grading exams. I am also going to finish my Christmas shopping. The only people I need to shop for are my brothers-in-law. After almost 20 years of on having to find gifts for one man (my father), suddenly I have 5 males to worry about. On Friday, I will be leaving for home for 3 weeks and get to see all my sisters at the same time since March. And now I am going back to rest my overtaxed mind for a little longer.

"You see, Bobby, your daddy's gene'ation's givin' away everything we fought for! Pannyma Canal. Mexican legs. You people would give back Gandhi's diapers if you had 'em!" - Cotton Hill

Bonus Quote:
"But I told you where the leg was!"- Cotton Hill

Quality in a square

While I was in Germany, Rachel had a delicious candy bar from Ritter Sport. It was a butter cookie (like a Leibnetz) covered in chocolate (think of a Kit-Kat but about 1000 times better). I was sure that I could never find this in America so I bought two before I left for America. And then yesterday, when I was making a dent into my Christmas shopping at Target I was trying to find the fastest checkout lane and lo and behold there was the exact Ritter Sport candy bar that I enjoyed in Europe. Oh how I love Target! Andritter sport (whose tagline is Quality in a square). I also need to mention that I received a package from Lucy today that totally made my day (she sent me Godiva hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows). Now I will turn my attention back to "Charade" on TCM (with a super frightening James Coburn, and a slightly less scary George Kennedy (who doesn't really scare me, I've seen him in Naked Gun to many times).

"With all respect and honor, I would not be saddened if both you and your father went to hell." - Junichro

Bonus quote
" I cannot leave work in middle of the day. I am assistant manager. One of only thirty." - Junichro

What happens when John Adams joins the CIA?

By John Adams I mean of course William Daniels who played John Adams in "1776". And played a CIA agent on the episode of "The Closer" that aired last night. The whole episode just made me want to watch "ALIAS" right after (but I resisted and went to bed instead). I've been spending most of my time lately doing cell count on blood smear slides. To do it is about as interesting as it sounds. But I have gotten better and faster at ID the different cells types. My favorite is the neutrophils because it is easy to determine. Less easy is monocytes and leukocytes because the monocytes can look like the leukocytes but stain lighter (hence the difficulty). And starting tonight, I will begin my marathon studying for my last cell bio test on Monday night. I did alright on that third exam (Ask my any question about vesicle fusion in cells, I only missed 1 point on that section!) so I don't have to be super stressed out. I think at this point I have to do really poorly and everyone else has to do really well for me to get a C (exactly where I like to be). I am also trying to stay on top of my Christmas shopping as well. I am a little over 50% done so that's good.


HANK: I need a gnome. Not just any gnome, a Winklebottom.
SALES MANAGER: A Winklebottom? Why not just ask me to move a rainbow?
HANK: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just weird.

Bonus Quote:
PEGGY: Excuse me, do you know of a plant that can withstand over-watering, inadequate fertilization, and perhaps some over-zealous pruning?
TEENAGE CLERK: Yeah, they're called weeds.