xD a different day

okay, so the first thing that signals that today is going to be an unusual day is when my parents and I are sitting in the smoking room watching the rain (in august at that), and I dare my dad to go out and run around in the rain, and then he goes and gets his bathing suit out of the bathroom. When he doesn't show up for a while, I go looking for him and see he's out in the garden just getting rained on and picking vegetables.

I go get my bathing suit and make the plunge so to speak. In the garden, I look at the cucumber vines that haven't made anything, and notice a small baby cucumber. Dad comes over and things kinda escalate, and we end up with this monstrocity
( long cucumber is long )

7.6lbs that thing weighs. sheesh.

I've eaten part of one of the others. They're kinda over-mature so not good eating :( they're so WEIRD looking though!

anyways, dad gets a ton of tomatoes and plans to make tomato sauce/paste, so that takes up a good deal of the day. Then he starts a small pan of figs to jamming. It smells terrible, looks worse, and tastes pretty good, if you like figs (which I do).
We plan to make gumbo with the okra.

Anyways, things happen slowly, I read a creepy book I don't think I'd ever finished before (it's a children's scary book. Needless to say I wasn't too petrified), and then I get the idea to go looking for my black nail polish. See, in 8th grade, I dressed up as a gothic business person for halloween, so my friend hannah and my sister both lent me makeup. Hannah was probably glad of the opportunity to get rid of the nail polish since she's rather conservative 8))) and nikky didn't really have a use for her dark purple lipstick, I don't believe. One has to grow up when raising three small boys!

anyways, I got my nails painted, and I thought I'd better run over them with some glitter before I got too unbearable emo. Did I mention this is the first time I'd ever done black nail polish? So counter-counter-culture, me.

anyways, the glitter looks horrible where it clumped up and rather nicer where there isn't so much of it, but then, get this, then I decide 'oh hey Ill just complete the goth look and put on that makeup' so I go into the bathroom, powder my face all white (lots of powder), mascara my lashes, put on more lipstick, muck about with eyeshadow, then decide to go for the real emocore and pick up the liquid eyeliner.

Let me just say, getting a little bit of that in my eye was the third most painful experience my eyes have ever had.

First was getting shampoo in both of them.

Second was getting more eyeliner in my other eye a minute later.

Needless to say, I was very glad for my functioning tear ducts and have more or less sworn off the eyeliner for ever.

anyways, to top it all off, I dolled. LOL.

blah blah a literary sygyzy

plastic cover cover = library
just regular cover = mine through bookmooch
no cover = my mom's, recently returned from France :))))))))))))))

and stu's letter was inside <333 I reread it and it was just as loving as it was originally. No sign of my germany rose though :( Oh well.

i finally read the docs for Coolbook today and tried out undervolting. I don't know if it means much, but I edited an image in photoshop a little bit with my 2nd highest fan setting and it never broke 60 (fyi, the highest setting is called 'photoshop lol'). I want to do some more tests with my tablet and see how it responds to that.

It has rained the last three days. They recorded record low high-temps in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, not to mention rainfall.