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:: lundi, janvier 15, 2007 ::

i like how google changes their icon depending on the special occasion of whatever particular day it is. today i got on google to search something and i saw this picture and thought, "oh, is it jump roping day?!"

then i put my mouse over it and it condescendingly replied to me, "Martin Luther King Day."

i knew it was MLK day. but the prospect of jump roping day seemed so much more...well, jumpier.

:: Alexa 10:13 AM [+] ::

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I guess this story starts back in 1993.
When we moved to Spring in 1993, we went on a quest to find "Chair Key." We were looking for furniture of sorts, and Mom had heard that this would be a good place to look. So we're all in the car, driving down the road looking for the elusive "Chair Key," but we can't find it. As we're driving, I see a store and I say, "Hey, there's a Chair King..." but no one hears me and we keep driving.
We drove for a pretty long time and eventually had to turn around. Driving the other direction now, I notice again, "Hey, there's Chair King," and Mom very excitedly says, "Yeah! Chair key, chair key!"

During this Christmas break, one of the fun family adventures we took was going to a new fobby friend's house. So my mom got directions from her, but the result was somewhat disastrous because of the Chinese head to English to Chinese head translation. She wrote down the directions as:

Hartaritiare Grove Left turn
--> stay on the road go & winding -- until you see to Highlander (Left) Timber (sub-division)->
--> Left turn on Timber Top Trail --> 17810 Timber View Court

I was driving with Melodie looking for "Hartaritiare," and we passed "Hargrave." I turn and say to her, "Man, I hope this isn't another 'Chair Key' incident and the street's real name is 'Hargrave'."
A second later, Joy calls us from the other car and says, "It's not Hartaritiare; it's Hargrave."

So we turn around again, turn onto Hargrave, and then proceeded to turn into about a thousand different streets looking for names that don't actually exist.
We finally made it, but almost no street name was correct.

:: Alexa 8:55 PM [+] ::

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i always thought i was a perceptive child, and i'm pretty sure this daily journal entry from my 3rd grade class proves it:

"Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is something that some people like to make sandwhiches out of. Sometimes if you put too much it will taste sticky and dry. That's why I don't have peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches for lunch because sometimes all you get to drink is a box drink. But it's very, very good still. I like it alot if I have alot to drink. Almost everybody likes peanut butter. Peanut butter easily sticks to anything."

I have since learned how to spell "sandwiches" and have learned that "alot" is actually two separate words, but as far as insight goes, I pretty much peaked in 3rd grade.

:: Alexa 7:47 PM [+] ::

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