Family Picnics, waterfalls, country, country, county...

I've spent the past two days in the middle of nowhere, PA (a hour outside of Pittsburg). And I had an AMAZING time. It's nice to see family you never seen, hang around in country where there are few cars, and beyond awesome scenery. So making lists is easier to describe what happens in my life, here is one!

-I was in nowhereville, PA and managed to find three Hoss’s signs.

-The TUNNELS

-Windmills farm

-omg. the fog/mist off the mountains 'cause of the rain. AWESOME

- You know your in the country when: These building are on the road: house, house, bowling alley, house house, strip club, house house.

- You know your in the country when: hay barrels, hay barrels, hay barrels...

-The path to the water at the park end more weedgrown then before… so not even a chance of getting down.

-Climbing up the kiddie rock wall

-pirate tugboat!

-After party at Aunt Verines house…

-Potatoe launcher!

-Madeline’s new obessions with chartwheels.

-You know your in the country when: you see a fox, a deer, and two skunks within ten minutes of each other because you almost hit them.

-You know your in the country when: being so far in the middle of nowhere you have to drive a half-an-hour/45 minutes away to find a hotel

-Wi freakin fi! In the hotel room

-Falling waters not being as excited as the world makes it out to be… I mean archtectially its brillant, but we all thought the falls went though the house, but it only goes under.

-The falls at Ohioplye State Park… kind of wanting to go rafting now. Well, Ohiopyle, PA!

-Finding a windmill farm of 10 windmills.

-You know your in the country when: I counted over seven abandoned cars.

-Triple AAA sending us on an hour jounery though the country to find the turnpike.

-I saw a covered bridge!

-What's up with the pretty popularied trailer campgrounds in the middle of nowhere?

-You know you’ve spent to long in the country when your excited to see a dinky little gas station with only four pumps.

-You know you’ve spent to long in the country when Somerset, PA is the most happening place you’ve seen in hours.

Quote Of the Day: "Harry Potter is old now. He should be named Harold Potter."

Blue Nails

And here's a picture of my thumb:

Which you may see the nail is very blue. I slammed it into a shelf at work. It's a rather dumb story. I picked up some chocolate sauce. I didn't notice that said chocolate sauce was still pretty close to the shelf when I began to shake it and hit top pretty hard. I can't wait till it falls off, which is probably what's going to happen because I've managed to pull a few layers of the nail off, so there are some craters in my nail.

It's time to leave Disney

Apparently my backyard is that hangout spot for hawks. These three hang out there quite often:

Oscar Wilde

I've been reading some scholarly essays and apparently everything Oscar Wilde has written is about his homosexuality.

Except Salome. That was about sex. 

Soup!

Today I tried Vietnamese soup. They are always eating it in the photo lab. I rather enjoyed it, other then the cilantro. You get the broth, and you mix in your meats, noodles, bean sprouts (and then for some the cilantro- the green leaves). [Zoom for a closer view of the soup!]

2008 Edition of the "Best Of"

MUSIC

My music taste gets better every year, I believe. Yes some artists such as Rihanna, and Justin Timberlake have people judging in my sanity (mainly Hannah) but who cares. You have to enjoy music, if you take it too seriously it loses its joy. 

Unfortunally, my freaking iPod has crashed again (3 times within this week), deleting all my playlists (for those you have seen my iPod know I go purely off the million playlists I have) so I'm going to have to do my best to remember. 


TOP 25 via iTunes (by plays including older songs) before crash:
Carolines a victcum- kate nash
Electric feel- mgmt
Robin hood- andy price
Big love- Fleetwood mac
Shake it- metro station
Too cool- camp rock ost
Freeze ray- neil Patrick harris
Tessellate- Tokyo police club
Mansford roof- vampire weekend
Oxford coma-vampire weekend
l.e.s. artist- santogold
juno- Tokyo police club
viva la vida- coldplay
walking with a ghost- tegan and sara
in a cave-tokyo police club
anyone but you- the moldy peaches
that's my name- the ting tings
violet hill- coldplay
glad its over-wilco
anywhere I want to be- the konks
see you again- miley cyrus
we are rockstars- does it offend you yeah?
Paper planes- m.i.a.
Play my music- the jonas brothers
Time to pretend-mgmt

TOP 25 via ME (2008's only):
[Atempted but failed order of favourites]
[Note I haven't heard the full albums for many of these artists]

1. Human- The Killers
2. Oxford Coma- Vampire Weekend
3. Viva La Vida- Coldplay
4. Creator- Santogold
5. Electric Feel- MGMT
6. Tessellate- Tokyo Police Club
7. Great DJ- The Ting Tings
8. Beat that My Heart Skipped- Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
9. The Show- Lenka
10. Knickerbocker- Fujiya & Miyagi
11. I'm not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend to Dance- The Black Kids
12. Take Back the City- Snow Patrol
13. Love Lockdown- Kanye West
14. Nude- Radiohead
15. Black Kettle Black- Tilly and the Wall
16. Always Where I need to be- The Kooks
17. Cath- Death Cab for Cutie
18. Sentimental Heart- She & Him
19. Ways to Make it Through the Wall- The Los Campesinos
20. Black Rosary- Flowers Forever
21. Sleepyhead- Passion Pit
22. Standing Next to Me- The Last of the Shadow Puppets
23. Nada Surf- See These Bones
24. 1 2 3 4- Plain White T's
25. Money for that- Shiny Toy Guns

TOP 5 ALBUMS via Me (no order):
Vampire weekend-s/t
Santogold- s/t
Death Cab for Cutie- Narrow Stairs
Coldplay- Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip- Angles

Honorable Mentions:
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Tokyo Police Club- Elephant Shell
The Killers- Day & Age
Kate Nash- Made of Bricks (2007 release in the UK, possible the US too, not sure). 

Possible HM (haven't heard it enough and completely different from their last its warping my mind):
Season of Posion- Shiny Toy Guns


TV

I don't really have any new new tv shows on this list, but I have a bunch of new shows I discovered this year, that I became completely obessed with: Bones, Roswell, Firefly, and million British shows (Doctor Who, Kingdom, Skins, Robin Hood, Torchwood....). And Saturday Night Live within the last three months).

Older Shows I keep watching:
Reaper
Lost [this show really just keeps getting better]
Pushing Daises
Chuck [ditto]

I was enjoying Heroes until this third season- WTF is going on? so freakin dumb, I haven't watched it since October. & I was growing tired of Ugly Betty. 

MOVIES:

With inflated prices, lack of anything good, and being so busy, I didn't get much time to go the theaters this year, but here are the I really liked; 27 Dresses, Wanted, Hancock, Indy Four & Mama Mia. I also saw Twilight, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, & Made of Honor, but I didn't really like any of those, except Twilight made me laugh like crazy. Also I enjoyed Slumdog Millionare, but I streamed it online.

Favorite DVDed:
Death at a Funeral
The Darjeeling Limited
St. Trinian's
The Mummy 3 [actually liked it a bit, surprisingly]. 

Films that looked brillant that I really wanted to see:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight (no comment that I still haven't seen it, alright?)
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