It's time for teen beat.

 October 16th.

Their Death is Imminent.

(the leaves.)

 October 17th.

My hair had a bit of orange.

 October 18th.

JACKS.  it's HARD cider.

 October 19th.

Hello?

 October 20th.

Random Dog Sitting.

 October 21st.

Kimbra was WONDERFUL! 

 October 22nd. 

Beetle watching with Josie.

 October 23rd.

You can hide.. but I will find you... at walgreens.

 October 24th.

Don is only living once while drinking a beer.

 October 25th.

SWEET!  PEAS!

 October 26th.

the Turtle and Bob.

by Jenell and Jamie.

 October 27th.

HALLOWEEN party at Zane.  In attendance:  Katniss Everdeen, Shark Bait and a Deviled Egg (not pictured).

 October 28th.

Oh my God.  One of Taylor Swift's greeting cards.  That's enough, Taylor.

 October 29th.

Hurricane Sandy.

 October 30th.

Katniss taking on the Hurricane.

October 31st.

I took a picture of a spider necklace cause it was Halloween.

Eric "Monty" Morris
Penny Reel

I will tell you.. it is a scandal that he does not get more roles..

 October 1st.

People looking to bring me down!

 October 2nd.

Buzz Buzz Buzz.

 October 3rd.

Good MORNING!!!!

 October 4th.

All Falls Down.

 October 5th.

Hanging out on top of Jenell's car.

 October 6th.

Random night with a big "Nightmare Before Christmas" finale!

 October 7th.

And people say the Netflix DVD plan is a waste! HA!

 October 8th.

I made this shit.

 October 9th.

I thought the monster in the lower right hand window was real when I first looked up.

 October 10th.

An autumn bouquet.

 October 11th.

Check out this badass hanging out in front of his garden.

 October 12th.

Hallo to you too!

 October 13th.

Red Red Red.

 October 14th.

Dishwashers are killers too.

October 15th.

Hanging out at work.

The Vaccines

I Always Knew

now i'm not stranger to the strange

While coming in from "outside time" one of the kids in my class was like, "OO A BUG" and I was like, "it's not a bug" and when I got closer, I leaned down and was like, "oh my GOD get away it's huge" and I was pushing the kids to get away from it and getting all jumpy and telling the woman I work with, "That is the biggest bug I have ever seen in my life"

The next morning, we went outside and the bug was still there -- Hadn't moved since we had seen it the afternoon before.

Yeah.  Basically I acted like a big wuss over a fake plastic bug.

bored to death and mad and lonely

I don't understand :(

Let's review.
THURSDAY NIGHT:  While getting the tour of my brother's new place, a stinkbug walked across their guest room and my mother and Lindsey picked it up with a napkin and flushed it down the toilet.
Total Stinkbug Count: 1

FRIDAY NIGHT:  While eating an outside dinner with Jenell, we saw about three stinkbugs.  The waitress even commented to us that there had been a lot of stinkbugs as of late.  We ended up having to kill one that wouldn't stop crawling to me and up my chair!
Total Stinkbug Count: 4

SATURDAY:  I woke up and saw a stinkbug on my blinds.  Before I left my house, I saw 2 more crawling around my window area.  I then went to my brother's to help clean their new place up and saw about 5 more stinkbugs!  What?!  SERIOUSLY!
Total Stinkbug Count: 12

I wouldn't think this was so weird if BEFORE this I had never really noticed any stinkbugs.  So to have the count go from 0 to 12 in three days is somewhat startling!

I read on the INTERNETS that this is the time of year when they come out because they're trying to take shelter inside to avoid the cold weather.  That's one theory.

Another theory that SOME PEOPLE have come up with is that I smell like a stinkbug and they're attracted to my scent...
but I really don't think that's it......

keep waiting for a war

I went with my family to celebrate my sister's birthday and also to see my brother and his girlfriend's new condo.   It was a pretty SWEET ASS place that had a pretty amazing spider web that I almost walked right into.   YOU SEE, it was right in the corner of the doorway that went out onto their deck, so I opened the door to go onto the deck and Lindsey was like, "WAIT there was a big spiderweb there last night" and I stopped dead in my tracks and realized that I was just about to walk into it.

I'm so happy I didn't do that.  That would have put a damper on my entire year.

i fell in love with the girl at the rock show

learned something today about crickets.

You see that stinger like thing poking out from the back of the cricket? I researched it and found out it's an egg laying organ called the "ovipositor".

easily - let's get carried away

Went for a bug hunt at work. Some kid really wanted a dragon fly, but they were way too high for him to reach. So I volunteered that I'd try even though I didn't want to get near the bug, thinking it'd be impossible because the dragon fly would fly away when I got close.

Anyway, I have this jar with a lid and I start approaching it and low and behold - the thing doesn't fly away, it's just sitting there. During my approach, I'm just thinking, "Why isn't he flying away?!" Meanwhile, the kid I was with realized that I was just hovering the jar around the bug and was like, "CATCH IT CATCH IT" ... so... I caught it.

The dragon fly, of course, starts freaking out and flying all over the jar, but I couldn't shut it because I thought if I moved the lid at all, it'd fly out and right into my face.

So this kid and I are walking over to the other teacher so I can get HER to shut it, and the whole walk over there, I feel the wings going CRAZY beneath the holes in the lid and I just felt like dropping the thing, but I held strong! And in the end, the dragon fly was caught and it was the coolest bug we caught all day!

So hey ya'll - I caught a dragon fly!

said "who are you?"

how long do cicadas live undergound for?
Some childrens book about bugs said 7 years.
My uncle later said it was 14 years.
I just read on Yahoo answers it was 2 - 3 years.
I'd look it up myself, but I know the internet will expose me to pictures of them, and I hate looking at pictures of bugs. Which is ironic, I know.
sooo. does anyone know how long they live underground?

you belong to me

the day after the family shindig, things were much quieter
my aunt saved my life when this bug tried to crawl up my foot.kudos, aunt elaine!
also, so i've been taking pictures of dead bugs, decided to take a picture of a real bug, too.
and then emily, kristin and i drove home

say it right

my sister and i cleaned the house. I absolutely hate cleaning with her. It's hard to explain why, and I'm sure it's not interesting to hear why, so just don't ever clean with my sister.

monday, monday, can't trust that day

lisa was trying to figure out settings on her camera and comparing it to my camera. in trying to help her, i put my camera on that setting.
Later in the day I forgot all about that, so when I took pictures in my sisters car of spiders, myself, and her, I got a cool show later.

ps.
i totally freaked out about this spider when my sister went to kill it and told me it didn't make it out the window. she's such a jerk...

they call me 'jane' - that's not my name

AS FOR THE FINAL day of celebration for Lisa (which is a lie cause we're going to go back to the boardwalk to celebrate the boardwalk aspect properly) Jenell and the Yets with Jimmy went to Burleigh Cape May Court House Stone Harbor somewhere to play for the Hope Project Charity thing.

Anyway, the place was held at a very uh... rebellious place.
There were people smoking behind the shed.
There were bumble bees just layin around.
And there was a trap room that was, well, really obvious. I'm not sure who they're trying to fool by stating that it was a trap room ON the door.
Anyway, after the show, we went to wildwood. And I took a picture of Lisa's favorite meal ever, the BLT, and it's saying. We always give her a hard time, but now she has a great defense.
I'd describe Lisa the same way. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WOMAN!
ps - HILARY DUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

06.07.2008

pass that dutch

This evening, after I told Katie and Lisa my scary car spider story - we got to talking about bugs in general. Jenell's fear of bees, Katie's fear of mosquitoes, and my fear of moths.
Katie brought up that time when I took a picture of a huge moth outside of mine and Jenell's old apartment.

That shit was not funny!!!! Look how big that thing was! For someone who runs when they see a flying moth - this shit was scary!

Jenell wasn't home when this thing was outside of our door. For 2 days, I let the moth lay there and was still scared of it every time I left the apartment and came home. Even putting this pen next to it's lifeless body was scary for me. When Jenell came back, she disposed of it for me. She even killed a few spiders for me when we lived together.

Which brings me to my next point: Jenell - you were a good roommate.