Licorice and Gummy Bears and... Finals

So on Sunday I made a gingerbread house. Or at least... I was going to. I looked around for a gingerbread house kit and NONE WAS TO BE FOUND. Except one for $10 but I'm not going to spend that on gingerbread that nobody eats. So instead I decided to make it out of graham crackers instead!

So I bought one of those store-brands (Like Kirkland) and just ASSUMED that the graham crackers were the size of the normal ones. A rectangle that you break into four other rectangles. Normal right?

NOPE.

Mine were only little squares that break into two rectangles. LAAAME. So I was forced to do more stacking than what was really necessary in order to build a frame to make the house. I was thinking I'd go for a Victorian style... but then I built it too wide at the base. It now looks more like a church... whatever. Makes sense. Gingerbread house... church... they both reference Christianity... Close enough for government work.

So from there I built a spire on the side (which just adds to the church look) and then VERY TENDERLY placed a roof on top.

You should really see the supports for the roof. I'm not joking... the thing is hovering in midair. And it leans downwards on one side.

Props to Der Boifriend for helping me hold that damn roof on straight.

I have learned... nothing. Other than the fact that I want to make a gingerbread house out of crackers again next year that looks like Falling Water. AKA this...

Falling Water House, Frank Lloyd Wright 1930 

Wouldn't that just make an awesome gingerbread house? I BET IT WOULD.

Anyways my favorite treats are licorice and gummy bears. Why? I love black licorice. Ooh no... my hipster is showing. But I love the flavor. It's much cooler than the strawberry flavored ones. And I'm very picky. Australian licorice is GREAT. Never eat the salted stuff.... t'is just bad.

So behind my church I glued two gummy bears face to face with royal icing. Der Boifriend tried to go in for a kiss but we're BOTH sick with DIFFERENT stuff... so it was only a peck on the cheek. Poor Boifriend. He hasn't been kissed on the lips in days. Sorry... but we're sick and I don't want it to last any longer.

Anyways my last final was today. Well... my two finals. One was a very interesting one and the other was take-home internet-is-okay-because-nobody-knows-the-answers-anyway type of test. The interesting one was something like this.

You can either do 50 multiple choice questions (my route), write 2 essays including all this stuff in order for it to incorporate the whole semester's worth of information into one test, or 30 multiple choice questions and 1 essay.

I don't like writing essays but my friend 'Zu does. Apparently... She and I have the same teacher so I tutored her on all the basics of being prepared for this stuff. Not that I'm prepared. But I am good at forcing others to do so. So we gathered at my house and I lent her the book that she needed to pull quotes from (she didn't even have hers for the midterm poor soul...) and started outlining the basic concepts and some information for 4 of the 6 essay possibilities.

See my way of thinking is this. Multiple choice are great for people who don't feel like explaining themselves. They just mark the answer and it's either right or wrong. Essays are great for people who don't know all the details but can concisely develop a concept into an argument in five seconds. Me... I usually go for the first one. It's also much faster so I have more time to doodle in the margins of the Scantron.

Which I've been meaning to say...

(At least for my teacher) I can doodle on the unused areas of the Scantron... even those areas made for bubbling in the answers, and I DON'T GET POINTS OFF.

So I challenge thee... try that on a low-point quiz one day and see if it works for everybody... It might become a fad...

The Shire, The Rain and... Clarinets?

This is what the sky of my hometown looks like after the rain.

THE HOBBIT WAS SO VERY GOOD.

The cinematography: perfect.

The soundtrack: perfect.

The link between the soundtrack from the rest of the LOTR and Hobbit: UNEXPECTED AND LOVELY

The plot: (as related to me through 'Der Boyfriend') Aligns well with book.

The length: For midnight it might be hard without caffeine or sufficient sleep. Any other time would be perfect.

The actors/actresses: PERFECT~ (Cumberbatch~ Though you only see a hazy image of him not his whole beautiful form yet. And MARTIN FREEMAN WAS PERFECT~ Though in the later to come movies their meeting (s) will be a SHERLOCK REUNION PARTY~~~~~) (You should see me right now... I'm fan-girling as I write this... Deer Lawd what have I come to?)

Anyways it's been raining on and off. And it rained after the Hobbit. So what did "Der Boifriend" an his brothers decide to do? RUN THROUGH IT.  Sorry to say that I was smart and had an umbrella. The Russian caps (look like this) I carried back to the car for safe keeping.

We watched it on Friday morning. It is Saturday night and my hiking boots I wore because they have good arch support are STILL drying. I was going to wear my rain boots, but because of the eminent line that we thought would be outside I decided not to wear them. I should have. My jeans were soaked from knee down afterwards. I tried to hold an umbrella, three Rooskie caps and run after the boys on the way back.

Yup didn't work.

It was fun though.

Anyways... Michaels sells (or at least they did before they ran out) Gingerbread houses. And on Sunday (tomorrow) I'm going to hang out with "Der Boifriend" and some other peeps and build Gingerbread houses. But because my word sold out of them and I'm LAZY at nine at night I decided I'd buy graham crackers instead. I'm planning on making a house that's very Victorian inspired. And I have to do a little turret-tower... though how it's going to actually get done I have no clue.

I will do my best though! If it turns out well I'll post pictures. Now that I have the cord for my camera I should be able to get my phone's pictures off of it faster than I did before... hahahahahaha.... (I failed...)

Anyways... I have almost 400 page-views. THANKS ALL~

Though I might just change the layout... AGAIN.

Hahahaha... don't get mad at me. I'm one of the most indecisive people you'll ever see... or read her rants about.

Anyways. I should rant some more. It's very relaxing.

I've been meaning to start a page entitled "A Million and One Ways to Keep a Healthy Level of Insanity". I think I'd be good at it. And to let you know I typed that normally and went back to capitalize things. I make too many typos for the capitalization of random letters to be ACCURATE.

Unlike one of my friends I shall call Zu (Like Zoo...) It's the last two letters of her name... and since saying the first half sounded too much like her twin sister's I decided to make a distinction between them.

Anyways they finished this Type-To-Learn thing on our elementary's computers MONTHS ahead of the cut-of line for finishing a certain number of them. They were so good we had them finish OURS because after level nine... it was too much of a gap to be possible for normal human fingers.

Especially mine. I'm a clarinetist. I do not finger a violin at mach 4 and run a bow over strings at mach 2. I play at max mach 1... and my fingerings are methodical and easy. Unlike flutists.

Which I must say they seem like they have a hard time. Their fingers are always going in different directions. In my old elementary, in 3rd grade you had to chose either strings or vocal music. In 4th we got to chose between vocal, stringed and now wind instruments. We had 21 flutes... 13 trumpets and 5 clarinets.

In sixth grade we had 3 flutes, 1 trumpet, 2 trombone players who failed, 1 bassoonist and 5 clarinetists.

And 4 of those clarinets were the same.