Good morning, blog-readers!
Today is National Punctuation Day, and to honor it I am going to try to use proper punctuation in this post. I really do try to punctuate well on my blog, but I understand that I miss some commas sometimes and stuff like that. I'm going to try really hard on this post. Also, my usual smiley faces are not correct punctuation. Colons and parentheses were not invented to be used for such things. So this post is going to contain ABSOLUTELY NO HAPPY FACES. Sad, right?
Here is a website (given to me by StumbleUpon) all about National Punctuation Day:
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
And here are some famous quotes about punctuation:
http://strangewondrous.net/browse/subject/p/punctuation
"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place." - Isaac Babel
That one is probably my favorite, however I only read about half of them because I have homework to get done.
In my sophomore year of high school, I had English with Mr. Yates. One of our assignements in his class was to memorize the 20ish rules of comma usage and be able to recite them. So guess what I did... I WROTE A COMMA SONG! That song rocked. Unfortunately I remember less than half of it now, and I don't do public singing performances, so none of you get to hear it.
On the plus side, I found you another punctuation song, and this one is starring singing cats. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIhxBg7zp4
In this blog post I've tried to include each type of punctiation discussed on the National Punctuation Day website, however I've neglected to include brackets because I couldn't find a place to put them. Everything else is in this post though, although I may have misused the ellipsis that I snuck in.
Have a fantastic National Punctuation Day.
Love, Laura
(I don't think my regular sign-off is good punctuation either...) (Is that proper use of an ellipsis?)
I make lots of pizzas and I sometimes write blog posts and read children's books. :)
Monday, September 24, 2012
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
I can't finish The Hunger Games!!!!
Hiya bloggers,
So if you remember THIS POST RIGHT HERE, then you'll know that I have issues finishing movies that I watch late at night.
Tonight I'm watching The Hunger Games, and I thought I'd be okay on this one because I really like this movie and I don't have pressure to wake up early tomorrow morning.
But it's happening again!!!!
Katniss and Peeta are just starting to get all googely-eyed at each other and Peeta's leg is all healed and stuff, and I CANNOT WATCH THIS MOVIE ANYMORE. Bleh.
So I'm gonna read a book or something until I'm tired.
Which won't be for a while because I woke up crazy late this morning, and I'm used to staying awake for 20 hours at a time.
If anyone out there has any ideas to help me finish movies in one sitting, please tell me because I'd really like to know.
Have a good night/early morning. (I'd usually be awake by now :/)
<3/Laura
P.S.
Gale is way better than Peeta.
So if you remember THIS POST RIGHT HERE, then you'll know that I have issues finishing movies that I watch late at night.
Tonight I'm watching The Hunger Games, and I thought I'd be okay on this one because I really like this movie and I don't have pressure to wake up early tomorrow morning.
But it's happening again!!!!
Katniss and Peeta are just starting to get all googely-eyed at each other and Peeta's leg is all healed and stuff, and I CANNOT WATCH THIS MOVIE ANYMORE. Bleh.
So I'm gonna read a book or something until I'm tired.
Which won't be for a while because I woke up crazy late this morning, and I'm used to staying awake for 20 hours at a time.
If anyone out there has any ideas to help me finish movies in one sitting, please tell me because I'd really like to know.
Have a good night/early morning. (I'd usually be awake by now :/)
<3/Laura
P.S.
Gale is way better than Peeta.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Running out of gas and my sleeping in problem
Hey blog-readers!!
It's friday friday gotta get down on friday!!!! :D
And I love fridays cause I have no classes so I get to sleep in!
But last night I fell asleep at like 10:30, and usually I don't get to sleep till like 12 or 1, so my body decided that it would be acceptable to wake up at school time today.
So even though my alarms were all off, I woke up at 4:00 this morning and had to pretty much force myself to go back to sleep. And then I kept waking up periodically until about 8, and then I really went back to sleep and slept until 12:15. And I only woke up now because my bladder was going to explode. But I'm satisfied with sleeping for 14 hours cause that's almost 4x's more than what I normally get.
My car ran out of gas yesterday when I was feeding ducks. And I don't have a gas can in my car, so I went on an epic journey trying to find someone in the park who would let me borrow their gas can. None of them had one but I had a bunch of people look at me like I was retarded. I walked to 7-11 so I could buy a gas can and then some gas, but they didn't even have any gas cans. But the 7-11 worker guy felt bad for me so he gave me the gas can from his car. I walked back to my car with gas and the day was saved. :)
Guess what I got in the mail yesterday......
Mayday Parade shirts!!!! :)
I'm so excited for their concert!
Have a fantastic friday!
<3/Laura
It's friday friday gotta get down on friday!!!! :D
And I love fridays cause I have no classes so I get to sleep in!
But last night I fell asleep at like 10:30, and usually I don't get to sleep till like 12 or 1, so my body decided that it would be acceptable to wake up at school time today.
So even though my alarms were all off, I woke up at 4:00 this morning and had to pretty much force myself to go back to sleep. And then I kept waking up periodically until about 8, and then I really went back to sleep and slept until 12:15. And I only woke up now because my bladder was going to explode. But I'm satisfied with sleeping for 14 hours cause that's almost 4x's more than what I normally get.
My car ran out of gas yesterday when I was feeding ducks. And I don't have a gas can in my car, so I went on an epic journey trying to find someone in the park who would let me borrow their gas can. None of them had one but I had a bunch of people look at me like I was retarded. I walked to 7-11 so I could buy a gas can and then some gas, but they didn't even have any gas cans. But the 7-11 worker guy felt bad for me so he gave me the gas can from his car. I walked back to my car with gas and the day was saved. :)
Guess what I got in the mail yesterday......
Mayday Parade shirts!!!! :)
I'm so excited for their concert!
Have a fantastic friday!
<3/Laura
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Ice cream haiku
Hey blog readers.
I'm in School & Society right now, and I never post from this class cause it's usually really interesting. But I'm feeling kinda burnt out today, so I don't want to discuss racial discrimination in the job market or whatever today's thing is. I really do usually like this class though.
As soon as this class is done, my weekend gets to start. :) That's cause I'm not going to my chem lab discussion tonight, cause I already read over my lab for next week and it's not worth sitting around until 6:00 just to go to that. This weekend I'm going to clean my bachelorette pad, and I'm very excited for it to be all spick and span again.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spick-and-span
Read that. It was kind of interesting.
1 more hour of this class. I should write do something to pass the time. I'll write a haiku.
Ice cream is so good
Especially chocolate
But it makes me fat.
I made that up like on the spot. If that's not skills then I don't know what is. :)
Mehh.. this post is done.
58 more minutes of this class.
<3/Laura
I'm in School & Society right now, and I never post from this class cause it's usually really interesting. But I'm feeling kinda burnt out today, so I don't want to discuss racial discrimination in the job market or whatever today's thing is. I really do usually like this class though.
As soon as this class is done, my weekend gets to start. :) That's cause I'm not going to my chem lab discussion tonight, cause I already read over my lab for next week and it's not worth sitting around until 6:00 just to go to that. This weekend I'm going to clean my bachelorette pad, and I'm very excited for it to be all spick and span again.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spick-and-span
Read that. It was kind of interesting.
1 more hour of this class. I should write do something to pass the time. I'll write a haiku.
Ice cream is so good
Especially chocolate
But it makes me fat.
I made that up like on the spot. If that's not skills then I don't know what is. :)
Mehh.. this post is done.
58 more minutes of this class.
<3/Laura
Laundry ramble
Dear blog readers,
It is 1:02 AM and no longer Talk Like a Pirate Day, so I can put my facebook back on regular English and type this like a regular person.
I'm waking up at 4:30 AM because my first class starts at 7ish and I need to shower and study and find some clean clothes before I attend that class.
Speaking of clean clothes, remember how I said I haven't done laundry for a while? (Did I say that? I remember thinking about blogging about that, but I don't remember if I actually did or not... if not, I haven't done laundry for a while!!)
Well here are some more details on my laundry for those of you concerned:
I do laundry in a very special way that nobody else truly understands, therefore I don't let anyone else touch my laundry. I didn't just make this up for fun.. it's actually like a real thing. Like one day my mom wanted to be nice so she washed all my laundry while I was at school, and I freaked out in my head and washed it all again the Laura way. But I didn't tell her that because I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so if you're reading this, Mom, I love you and thank you for washing my laundry that one day.
The bad part is that washing laundry the Laura way is VERY time-consuming and I don't happen to be be dripping with free time now that I've started college and adultiness. So I convinced my head that it's okay to cheat the Laura laundry system for 3 things: jeans, my Domino's uniform, and towels. I've never been worried about any of these things getting hurt/bleeding/shrinking in the wash, so convincing my head wasn't too bad. Also these things are all in short supply, so I have to wash them frequently and it's good that I can wash them like a normal person.
It turns out that besides washing jeans, my Domino's uniform, and towels, I haven't done any laundry since I moved here. Like I said, I'm crazy busy. Ever wonder why most of my posts come from me sitting in a class? That's why.
The not-so-cool part about this is that I now have a mountain of clothes in my hamper/falling onto my floor from 5 weeks of living here.
The cool part is that I still have some shirts left. Like, they're definitely not my best choices, but it's not like I'm wearing anything dirty or torn or too small or stained or anything like that. I didn't think I owned so many shirts, however that would explain how I kept running out of hangers when I moved.
I also have a large array of jackets to choose from in case I get sick of my shirts.
Don't think I'm a richie little snob... I get all my clothes for DIRT CHEAP!! Or I borrow **cough cough** steal **cough** them from my sister.
I'm doing laundry on friday. It's been so long since I've worn something with ninja turtles on it......
I'm gonna go sleep for like 3 hours. Cause this post is getting rambly. And my internet connection is being weird.
Have a super dooper night.
<3/Laura
It is 1:02 AM and no longer Talk Like a Pirate Day, so I can put my facebook back on regular English and type this like a regular person.
I'm waking up at 4:30 AM because my first class starts at 7ish and I need to shower and study and find some clean clothes before I attend that class.
Speaking of clean clothes, remember how I said I haven't done laundry for a while? (Did I say that? I remember thinking about blogging about that, but I don't remember if I actually did or not... if not, I haven't done laundry for a while!!)
Well here are some more details on my laundry for those of you concerned:
I do laundry in a very special way that nobody else truly understands, therefore I don't let anyone else touch my laundry. I didn't just make this up for fun.. it's actually like a real thing. Like one day my mom wanted to be nice so she washed all my laundry while I was at school, and I freaked out in my head and washed it all again the Laura way. But I didn't tell her that because I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so if you're reading this, Mom, I love you and thank you for washing my laundry that one day.
The bad part is that washing laundry the Laura way is VERY time-consuming and I don't happen to be be dripping with free time now that I've started college and adultiness. So I convinced my head that it's okay to cheat the Laura laundry system for 3 things: jeans, my Domino's uniform, and towels. I've never been worried about any of these things getting hurt/bleeding/shrinking in the wash, so convincing my head wasn't too bad. Also these things are all in short supply, so I have to wash them frequently and it's good that I can wash them like a normal person.
It turns out that besides washing jeans, my Domino's uniform, and towels, I haven't done any laundry since I moved here. Like I said, I'm crazy busy. Ever wonder why most of my posts come from me sitting in a class? That's why.
The not-so-cool part about this is that I now have a mountain of clothes in my hamper/falling onto my floor from 5 weeks of living here.
The cool part is that I still have some shirts left. Like, they're definitely not my best choices, but it's not like I'm wearing anything dirty or torn or too small or stained or anything like that. I didn't think I owned so many shirts, however that would explain how I kept running out of hangers when I moved.
I also have a large array of jackets to choose from in case I get sick of my shirts.
Don't think I'm a richie little snob... I get all my clothes for DIRT CHEAP!! Or I borrow **cough cough** steal **cough** them from my sister.
I'm doing laundry on friday. It's been so long since I've worn something with ninja turtles on it......
I'm gonna go sleep for like 3 hours. Cause this post is getting rambly. And my internet connection is being weird.
Have a super dooper night.
<3/Laura
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Ahoy, mateys!
Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, so all we landlubbers must be talkin' like pirates. :)
I en't too good at me pirate-talkin', so ye'll have to batten down the hatches bear with me.. savvy??
I only was learnin about this day yesterday, when I stopped by Whole Foods again to visit me new matey and I met an old salt named Sean who told me of it existin. Now I don't want to be missin out on anya tha' fun, so I've been spendin' the day pretendin to be a true buccaneer. Aarrrr!!
Alright, so I've used up pretty much every usable pirate phrase on this site RIGHT HERE.... AARRRRRR!! And like I said, I'm not too good at the pirate thing. Shiver me timbers! So I'm just going to add random pirate phrases into this blog post; coherence doesn't matter to pirates anyway.
Also, as much as I've been trying to pirate-talk, it doesn't work because I haven't really talked to anyone. I gave up trying to text in pirate-talk, and I haven't talked to anyone on campus today. However, I did order at a Burger King drive-thru today speaking fluent pirate!! (I planned everything I was going to say beforehand haha)
I've also celebrated by changing my facebook language to pirate, however that's like secret celebration because it's not like anybody else can see which language my facebook is set to. Thar she blows!! I enjoy reading it though.
Talk Like a Pirate Day has its own website!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
Here are some more pirate links for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oKjuvA55g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bnJuUl415w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfN-T9iU2OE
You scallywags have a good day. :)
<3/Captain Laura
Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, so all we landlubbers must be talkin' like pirates. :)
I en't too good at me pirate-talkin', so ye'll have to batten down the hatches bear with me.. savvy??
I only was learnin about this day yesterday, when I stopped by Whole Foods again to visit me new matey and I met an old salt named Sean who told me of it existin. Now I don't want to be missin out on anya tha' fun, so I've been spendin' the day pretendin to be a true buccaneer. Aarrrr!!
Alright, so I've used up pretty much every usable pirate phrase on this site RIGHT HERE.... AARRRRRR!! And like I said, I'm not too good at the pirate thing. Shiver me timbers! So I'm just going to add random pirate phrases into this blog post; coherence doesn't matter to pirates anyway.
Also, as much as I've been trying to pirate-talk, it doesn't work because I haven't really talked to anyone. I gave up trying to text in pirate-talk, and I haven't talked to anyone on campus today. However, I did order at a Burger King drive-thru today speaking fluent pirate!! (I planned everything I was going to say beforehand haha)
I've also celebrated by changing my facebook language to pirate, however that's like secret celebration because it's not like anybody else can see which language my facebook is set to. Thar she blows!! I enjoy reading it though.
Talk Like a Pirate Day has its own website!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
Here are some more pirate links for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oKjuvA55g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bnJuUl415w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfN-T9iU2OE
You scallywags have a good day. :)
<3/Captain Laura
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