This is my Nintendo DS. I got it for Christmas in 2006. I have had it for three and a half years and I'm still playing with it!


I have fifteen games. My favorite is Mario Kart DS. I have been playing with it a lot lately because I'm unlocking different courses to race in, such as Rainbow



Road, Airship Fortress, Mario Circuit, Desert Hills, and Yoshi Falls.

My games are: SimCity DS; Super Mario Bros.; Animal Crossing; Kirby Super Star Ultra; Kirby Squeak Squad; Harvest Moon DS; Hannah Montana Music


Jam; That's So Raven: Psychic On the Scene;Imagine Fashion Designer; Super Mario 64 DS; Yoshi's Island DS; Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses; and - whew - Hannah Montana DS.

A. Lot. Of. Games.

Do you think it's ever going to be warm again? These two don't think so.




Yes, I am sorry to say that we got a little bit of snow yesterday, if you can believe that. It made me sick; this is the middle of April! I guess there is NOTHING like a white Easter, right?

It was warm a week ago today(April 16), like, 80 degrees! I hope tomorrow's better, because I want to play soccer again(it's one of my physical activities).

Please, Mother Nature, make it warm again! I am sick of it being cold!!!

Yesterday evening I was laying under one of my trees when I saw a nice little scene that would look really good on this blog, and then I saw more... and got a little carried away. A lot of the pictures are from my yard and one of them is from my next door neighbor's house(not the one with the chickens). Enjoy!

You are reading blog post number 101. It has been that many posts since December 10, 2006.

And then I abandoned you for two years. I really don't know why anymore. Maybe I was just bored... or had a bad case of the writer's rash...

Poor Coraline's father!

But I'm not going to do it anymore. It was a long time.

But meanwhile, let's cheer on for 101 more posts!

Our neighbors have three chickens, whose names are Fluffy, Dixie, and Tweety. They are about one-year old. They have been very good friends with me and mom, since we've looked after them a couple times.

They always watch us. They love to look around their back yard and peck the ground, looking for worms and such. Whenever I talk to them, one of them(Fluffy) sticks her leg up because that's how you know she's listening.

We absolutely love them. And so does Takai!!!

Yesterday we had a very, very strong wind advisory. 41 miles per hour, to be exact. It was terrible. You couldn't even stand outside if you wanted to. And if you were going to go to the lake to do some fishing, I wouldn't highly recommend it.

Takai was scared to death. The wind was blowing the tree branches against the windows so that it would make an obnoxious screeching noise, and that made her even more frightened. But the winds died down today, so she's not that scared anymore(right now she's watching aunt Sadie and mom talking).

If we have another wind advisory, and if there's a girl in a blue dress and brown french braids singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", don't even try stepping outside, not even in your ruby slippers!

Easter was a blast! I got a box of Harajuku Lovers perfume; blue, light green, raspberry, and most importantly, GOLD nail polish; egg confetti(you bang the egg against something and confetti comes shooting out); Paul Frank Lip Smackers; Bon Bons lip gloss; and tons of chocolate(which I mostly ate throughout the entire day!).

And as the Easter basket, a fabulous Kathy Van Zealand purse!!! I love it! I wore it all day!

I got some Easter eggs on Friday for 60 cents. I think that Takai found some, because when I tried to gather up all the eggs to put outside, some were missing!(That darn cat!)

I got a flower pot from the backyard and crushed some bite-sized Oreo cookies and smashed them into pieces so that they would look like dirt. And then I put in a Chocolate rabbit Popsicle stick.

I wanted to surprise everyone by taking a picture of Takai on her kitty condo and saying something like: Takai says: Happy Easter!, but every time I took a picture of her, she would move. And when I showed one of the pictures to mom, the cat left. So that didn't really work as planned.

But she says happy Easter anyway even though it's a day late.

Last Wednesday I found some old friends, Woody and Buzz Lightyear. I sort of - ahem - abandoned them for four years, but not as long as I abandoned Blogger for two years. I have been trying to find them for a couple of years, but I failed every single time. They have been in storage.


Now I have them again so they can be with Jessie 1(the one on the right), Jessie 2(the one on the left), Bullseye, and Ham.

And they still work even though they've been in storage. Woody still says his six phrases and Buzz still says his three phrases.

And my name is still on Woody's right boot like Andy's from the Toy Story movies.

The third movie is coming out this summer, which is the reason why I wanted to get them out in the first place.

Woody's hat is still in storage... and his guitar... literally I forgot them... because I was in a hurry to save the other toys from falling behind these boxes that were stacked on one another.

This is a series of comic books that I have been doing since November 2008. It's about a family, the Murphys, and how they deal with their everyday mishaps, such as taking care of two relatives for two weeks or getting the National Anthem wrong. They are based on my imaginary family(Dan, Nana, Sam, Bloo, Harry, and Charley).

Dan owns a thrift store; Nana is retired and keeps the house in proper order; Sam stays home to take care of her ghost friend, Bloo; Harry and Charley are nonidentical twins going to kindergarten and causing trouble wherever they go, and I am the aunt, obsessed with laptops, TV, the latest fashions, gossip magazines, and trying to keep everyone from getting into either a train wreck or a car accident.

They have a pet parrot named Cubbling, who was once an office pet and a circus parrot. He likes to eat gourmet foods, and watch his favorite TV show, An Evening With Mozart. He is in love with Nana's gold plaster owl, which she won at the fair, thanks to Dan. What he really doesn't like is bratty little kids, such as Harry's cousins Conrad, Erica, and baby Juliana.


Here are the book titles, starting with number one:
1. The Murphys' Christmas: A perfect Christmas in 2008
2. The Murphys go to the Farm!
3. The Murphys Vs. The Executive pt. 1!
4. The Murphys Vs. The Executive pt. 2!
5. the Murphys' Road Trip!
6. The Murphys Run for Treasurer!
7. the Murphys Get Locked in the Bathroom!
8. The Murphys' revenge of the Babysat pt. 1!
9. The Murphys' Revenge of the Babysat pt. 2!
10. The Murphys Get a New Car!
and finally,
11. The Murphys Get the National Anthem Wrong!

I'm still working on The Murphys have a Bazaar but it will come out soon. Then it will be book twelve!

Let's hope for fifty more!!!

And by the way, click on this picture[the one to the left] for a larger image.

So the Easter bunny came a little bit early for me this year... but he(or she) promised that there would be more presents on Easter. I got what I always wanted: the Coraline Carl's Jr. kids meal toys! The pack contains a "Magic" Mirror(it really doesn't do anything but show yourself) container with a puzzle, a War of the Worlds card game, a Tic Tac Toe game, and a Coraline key, which I wear around my neck.

The Easter bunny said that it was the last one on eBay, so that makes me really lucky. I remember seeing the card game at a thrift store but I didn't get them because I didn't know anything about the movie. And then I saw the movie and thought, "Oh my gosh, why did I just pass up the cards? Why???"

You can click on the picture for a larger image. It kind of takes forever to upload pictures to Blogger, so I only did one.

We now have a new kitty condo for Takai. She is having some difficulty getting into it but she still loves it. I had to take some pictures of it with her two very special stuffed friends, Mr. Bear and Miss Mousy, because she was asleep and I couldn't get her up to sit on top of it. But maybe someday when I have the camera in my hands and she's on top of it, I'll download a picture.

We wanted to get a kitty condo that looked just like the one from the shelter, but mom found this one at a yard sale, so we ended up with this one.

I guess you could say that this is one of the daring adventures of Mr. Bear and Miss Mousy, right?

Today I looked in an earlier post and saw that i did a brief summary of Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs. I remember watching that kid and his show. I remember all the characters and how they were so positive and inspiring[Harry:Mom, do you know why it's so quiet at the library? It's because all the books are holding their breaths, waiting to be picked up... by me!].

Harry is five-years old. He lives with his mom, Nana, and sister Sam. Now Harry thinks he's just the luckiest kid in the world. Why? Because Nana gave him a bucket full of talking dinosaurs that take him to a magical place: Dino World! Every day there is a new adventure, such as dropping all the toys from his room into the bucket, or having mud baths when Nana specifically told him not to!

I decided to put a couple pictures of Harry on this post because he deserves it. I watched that show for two years and they took it off in 2008. Within a year, I was able to find it again on YouTube, only to find out that they were from the UK, not in the USA.

I still love you, Harry!

Happy Spring!

Spring is officially here! I never thought this day would never come, and that winter would always be here. Now I can look forward to warm days and some outdoor fun!

St. Patrick's Day was at least 60 or 70 degrees. It was peaceful, and I spent at least 2 hours out in the sun over at my neighbor's house. Don't worry; I wore green!!!

This morning on the TV listings channel I tried to check the weather for the day, but it only said the temperature that it was, which was 32. I hope it's not going to be like that for the rest of the day! That would be so disappointing. :(

Easter is coming up on the fourth of April. I can't wait! In stores, there are plastic Easter eggs with Play-Do in them, which is kind of cool.

This is a Travel Journal that I made a while back. It's Pink with a small picture of a map that I decoupaged on the front, and two buttons, that are Pink and Purple. On the back, it is painted light blue with a painted sun and clouds, and another decoupage of the map. Inside, it is green and yellow, with vintage Japanese stamps and a little heart that says, "Earth."


Here's how I made mine:

1. I found a spiral bound composition book while thrifting and decided to use it.

2. I got out the paints I wanted, and painted over the cover. I ignored the little golden sticker on the front that had the company name.

3. When the paint dried, I used Mod Podge to paste the map, letter stickers, and earth magnet to decorate.

4. The next day after over-night drying, I painted the left inside flap green and found those cute little Japanese stamps, and I thought, "Since it's a travel journal, I could use these."

5. Over-night drying once again! Then I painted the right inside flap yellow, pasted the stamps, and the heart with the earth magnet on it.

6. And finally, the next day, I painted the back light blue and put clouds, a sun, and decoupaged more of the map, and I had a finished journal!

Well, I guess spring is coming up. Everyone is spring cleaning and flowers are coming up, and the snow is melting. Pretty soon the buds on the trees are going to come up and my favorite flower, the Rose, will be in bloom.

I thought that February would never end and I hoped that January wouldn't end so soon, but I guess when they say "Time flys when you're having fun,"... means that time flys when you're having fun, right?

Here is a small collection of snow globes that I have collected since the sixth of January 2010. I am collecting small plastic ones because I can't stand the glass ones(I broke one once).

My favorite is the green one with the carousel horse in it. It's really pretty.

I broke another snow globe(this time it was plastic) as soon as I got home after thrifting. It was a Seattle, Washington snow globe, and it was perfect for my collection... but then I got it home and saw a little puddle of water and glitter.