Caution! ***Sarcasm in Use***

Oooh, spooky!

My new class in my new town (tear), is doing a section on ancient Egypt. We all have to pick a subject involved with ancient egypt and do a project on it. I chose the book of the dead, pretty much just because it sounded kinda cool. But it’s a lot more work than I thought because for one, we aren’t allowed to use Wikipedia! I know! GASP. We’re all gonna die.

Then again, it might be a good thing, not relying on Wikipedia. I bet all of you have always used it as the main source of information on at least a of couple projects before. After all, it is a good information source, but what if its wrong, what if it crashes or gets closed down? What will we do then?  Well, we would have a really dificult time trying to find different sources on the topic we are currently researching.

What do you think?Do you think this would be a good thing, or not?

-Laina

Oh, to start out, the title is self explanatory. I have been SO very lazy for a long time, and I feel extremely bad about it. Please come back! I miss you all so much. I will prepare tons and tons and tons of posts for you guys. Complete with photos, stories, and a whole wack of exciting and interesting posts!

-Laina

random photo of a peach!

In time for the holiday season and Christmas, now is the perfect time for The “Cheer The Blogs” Challenge. But I warn you, I made this up.  This is your task:

To spread blogging cheer, you give the readers 2 names of bloggers that you recommend to visit and comment on their blogs. After you complete the Challenge, you need to make a post about the challenge (with a link to my blog, crediting the idea to me.) and nameing 2 people whom you recommend.

While doing this, you have a chance to make new blogging friends and you may have a chance to make someones day by visiting their blog and leaving a friendly comment. So without further ado, I shall start the Cheer The Blogs Challenge!

• Huzzah, ran by Jan Smith
• chantelemcphee.com (photoblog)

Let me know what you think! Comment and enjoy!

Hello all!

I’m going to tell you a great, fun way to make a shiny ornament to hang on your tree this year! Crystalized snowflakes!

You will need:

• widemouth jar
• white pipe cleaners
• blue food coloring (optional)
• boiling water (with adult help)
• borax (available at grocery stores in the laundry
  soap section, as 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster – NOT Boraxo soap)
• pencil

Step 1: Cut a white pipe cleaner into 3 equal sections. Twist the sections together in the center so that you have a “six-sided” star shape. If your points are not even, trim the pipe-cleaner sections to the same length.

Step 2: Attach a piece of string to the top of one of the pipe cleaners and tie the
other end to a pencil (this is to hang it from).

Step 3: Fill a jar with boiling water. Mix borax into the water one tablespoon
at a time. Use 3 tablespoons of borax per cup of water. Stir until dissolved,
(don’t worry if there is powder settling on the bottom of the jar).

You can add a little blue food coloring to make it tinted blue.

Step 4: Insert your pipe cleaner snowflake into the jar so that the pencil is resting on
the lip of the jar and the snowflake is freely suspended in the borax solution.

Step 5: Wait overnight and by morning the snowflake will be covered with shiny crystals.
Hang in a window as a sun-catcher or hang it on your Christmas tree!

Have Fun!

Steps credit to: http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/snow/boraxsnowflake.html

Hello readers,

I’m so sorry, I apologize to everyone for my laziness and lack of attention to my blog! I haven’t had time for you, and I feel so bad about it! I just moved, and went to a new school, got a new house and everything. Don’t you worry though, I have lots of stories to come.

I will be telling you the ups and downs and inside-outs. I have a whole lot of Christmas and Winter related posts ready to get posted! From holiday gift and craft ideas to my own holiday plans!

See you soon!

-Laina

Picture Credit to: gesehen on flickr

Remember, I AM keeping this blog. But I did make another photoblog. That means I won’t be posting as much on here but more on my other, new blog. The new blog I created is called When Pork Flies. I just put a picture of a flower on just to take up space right now so I can work on other posts.

Here is the link: http://whenporkflies.wordpress.com/

Here is another really good photoblog I know(not mine): http://chantelemcphee.com/

I have decided to keep my blog after school ends -in one and a half days- and keep blogging. I won’t be in this school  next year because I am M O V I N G. Away. Forever. Oh woe is me!(Kidding)

I actually am moving though, to ____ oops! I can’t tell You, because You might be a forty year old man and You might be trying to hunt me down to kidnap me. Let’s just say I am moving down island.

It’s so depressing, I might never see my friends again. Or my school. Or my old house(s). School is depressing, life is depressing. Don’t worry though, I’m not a head case.

Since I will be keeping my blog out of school I won’t be writing as long posts or as many as I am now. I may turn it into more of a photo blog too or something more personal and less professional.

I hope all of you will keep coming back for more!

Laina

Camping is what I’m talkin’ bout’! Because I just went camping with my class at Airforce Beach in the group campsite and it was super fun! We had a marshmallow-shooting-out-of-nose-contest, buried or classmates in the sand on Airforce Beach(by the air base obviously), and sang goofy campfire songs! For instance The Campfire Song song by SpongeBob SquarePants and many others too!

We played games in the forest,drank hot chocolate and all the girls tanned on the beach while the guys caught fish! And I just realized I am using a lot of exclamation marks(!)! Oh well! I am so happy we got to have that experience with all the great people in our class. It was a great trip overall!

Do you like to go camping? Why or Why not?

Let me know what you think!

jump out a plane? Be a S.A.R.(Search and Rescue) tech? I would…no-mayb-ye-neh, no.

I might jump out of a plane, with a parachute, and practice, and with the skill and ability NOT TO DIE. Not that I’m afraid of heights or anything like that.

WARNING! Seriousness ahead-watch your step.

I wouldn’t  want to be a Search and Rescue officer because I don’t to be responsible for another’s life. I don’t want to have the job of saving a life, because, if I failed to, the guilt I would feel would be unbearable. I just couldn’t live with that kind of weight on my shoulders.

The reason I wouldn’t jump out of a plane to save someone is similar. For example, if I jumped out with my parachute into a forest to get someone, I might get caught in a tree, they might get trapped on a rock in the middle of a river, I would be trying to get out of the tree and they would be trying to keep hold of the rock. Next scene. So the person in danger is holding on-I am in a tree. They are just about to climb up and onto the rock when the same gust of wind blows me out of said tree and washes the person in danger down the stream.

Now. what have I done? I got branches up my but, leaves in my hair, my parachute is ripped… and the person is dead. Because I failed to save them. Fantastic.

Back to Reality.

You see what I mean? The guilt would cripple me. But lets not talk about that anymore! Lets talk about…YOU. Yes, you, over there, in the red. Time to answer a question for fifty points! Okay, would you ever be a Search and Rescue officer? Why or Why not? Tell me, or I eat your BWAINZ. Bye!

Water. North, South, East, and West. Everywhere water. At least in the Comox Bay that is. The thing is, we went sailing! On boats!(duh)  You see, we each paid 75$ to be taught by Compass Adventure to sail Catamarans-two hulled sail boats-and operate them without dieing and/or drowning. So we learning all that shiznat about rigging, boatsmanship, controlling the wind etc..

 At the end we got these Cat Cards(not kitty kat cards), that baiscally let us go anywhere, pay to rent a Catamaran and whoever is renting them can’t deny us because we have the Cat Card that says we know how to operate it.

So that was super awesome and fun and everythin’ cool like dat. Now I have to ask you…Have you ever sailed a boat/Catamaran?

Let me know what you think and comment!