we're nice people, really

A few weeks ago Sister Spud was here doing homework (she had come for dinner but stayed late in hopes of a brownie or two), and she was terribly terribly busy. Some people came over who she didn't have time to talk to (really. no time. she didn't even have time to talk to me)...

...so she hid under the table.



ah, i see we're taking the mature road. ok then.



they never knew she was there. it was awesome. i slid the camera under the table and this is the wonder i got:

deelightful.

a true white Christmas

Cecil and Percy were delighted to look out the window on this Christmas Eve to see SNOW!

SNOW SNOW SNOW LET IT SNOW!

White Christmas, anyone? Um... YES!

Brother spud Dan was being a silly and not going into the snow...

...making sister spud very sad indeed.

Cecil and Percy love snow even more than I do! They've sat in the window watching it ALL day.

I hope you are all tucked by a fire with your family this Christmastide.

(also hope you don't have a cold like I do)

This is our 200th post, and how lovely that it should be about my favoritest things of all... snow and Christmas!

Happy Christmas!

(insert nutcracker theme here)

Tonight I went to Tuzer Ballet's production of The Nutcracker with my sister spud, Caitlin!

My friend Alessandra was in it, and she was AMAZING! I want to be a fancy ballet dancer!

Honestly, I had a hard time not rooting for the mice. They were played by the little kids ballet group, and were so small and fluffy and cute! There was one that was tiny and white and fluffy and she bounced when she walked.

So... as you can tell we were feeling inspired (again...and again) afterwards.

We're seriously considering taking beginners ballet together at UTD next semester!

Mr. Demille

Well, auditions for Pride and Prejudice went pretty well... it's hard to tell just exactly how well they went. My monologue was pretty good, I think, at least on the upper side of ok, and the cold readings (which were so much fun!) went quite well. I wound up reading mostly for the role of Elizabeth, and that was definitely the strongest part of the audition. I was suprised to see 7 or 8 girls I knew there... and so few guys... yikes... hopefully more will audition Thursday. Seriously, people, there are so many awesome cute girls auditioning here, you'd think more guys would show up.

But the most exciting part... this morning the Auditor emailed me for a callback! Yea! So Saturday morning I'll be going there with bells on. Or off. Whatever I feel like.

Cecil is suprisingly supportive of this theatrical endeavor. He says that "theatre is the mixed pursuit of all art forms and therefore something to be admired."

Percy just thinks the sets are pretty.

(the sister spud wanted me to talk about her in this post ... so here. Sister spud is eating pizza right now.)

but i did not do a crime of making a graffiti, copper!

Tomorrow is my birthday!!

Emily came up for the weekend, and today, after eating horrifically large servings of pancakes at the Original Pancake House (yummm), we got cans of spray paint and man-shirts and made a graffiti! We used a sheet of plywood... does that still count as graffiti if it's legal? Not sure.

Be ye not decieved by our faces... it was so cold! 35-40ish and windy. We had 3 pairs of socks on each and the biggest pot of tea you ever saw.

Emily accidentally spray painted my hands red. It looked weird. What was weirder, though, was later when I almost used steel wool to get it off. Dumbo.

We love how it turned out! It will hold a proud place on the walls of my future-home.

Tonight the sister spud is coming over and we're going to remodel shoes a la the chick from PS. I Love You, and watch The Blob. Scaaary! Or... maybe not so scary.

The Wenceslot Game

My sister and I recently created a Christmastide game, and we think it is brilliant.

So, I'm going to introduce you to it.

It is "The Wenceslot Game"

In this game, you take a classic Christmas song and go back and forth singing a verse, changing the words as you go. The trick is that though it is always completely silly, you have to have some kind of storyline, and you must use a rhyme scheme.

(the game is called Wenceslot because Good King Wenceslot...ack....las!... is a great one to play with. And I can NEVER remember that his name wasn't Wenceslot.)

So. For our game, I have chosen "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman". I will start, you continue!


God bless you, merry gentleman, for that was quite a sneeze...