Today while Natalie was brushing my hair:

Natalie:  Janis, can I iron your hair?

Allison laughs.

Janis:  Um...no...please don't iron my hair.

Natalie: But I won't burn it!

Janis:  That's okay.  I'll pass.

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Ha, of course, I'm assuming she meant straight iron, but just hearng someone ask if they can "iron" your hair is quite shocking.

Bringing in the New Year

Oh crud.  New Years Eve is upon us again.  Ugh.  My least favorite holiday besides Independence Day.

This holiday is so weird to me.  It makes me feel like I should be doing something exciting....or something....I dunno.  Going to bed early sounds pretty good.  Hmm....perhaps I'll make it a point to do something exciting next year on New Years Eve (or is it New Year's Eve?....does the year own the eve??)  Anyway, I'll add that to my list of things to do....right after I locate the rest of my list.

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Past New Years

Oh, perhaps not all New Years were bad. 

I think I remember a New Years when Chase, Brandon and I hung out.

And I remember posting a message on Facebook to Blair because she couldn't be home for the holidays because she was in Thailand. 

I suppose that was fun.  And let's not forget Nintendo Night.

Currently A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens see related

Biiiiiig!

I'm typing on my parents' computer, and the font they have on this thing looks huge.  So, while the font looks normal to you right now, it looks like this to me.  Ha.

I'm on Christmas Break right now, and it feels pretty great.  I'm getting ready to go to Disney World again in January, but this time I'll get to participate in the half marathon.  I'm kind of in trouble because I haven't been training like I should.  It should still be fun anyway.  Julie and I ordered shirts to wear while we are running that say "JB" on them for our initials.

Although, I think these initials might actually stand for The Jonas Brothers.  If so, I will have to have second thoughts about wearing them....because I don't want to be remembered as the Jonas Brothers obsessed person running in a half marathon.....but then again, who will notice me?

Awesome.

So, I got a free telescope!

I need to look up direction how to use this thing because I have no clue.  Tammy's dad let me have it because he said he didn't use it.  I was shocked and offered to buy it from him, but he said he didn't pay a dime for it, so he didn't want anything for it.  I think he just wanted to get rid of it.  Sweeeet!

Clay Models

I have such creative friends, it's amazing.  Here are some projects my friend Heidi was working on for sculpting class.

A toad...

A crab (I love this one)....

Some type of bottom feeder...

Some shelled little guy that reminds me of something from the Neverending Story....

And finally, an aging dog creature (my favorite)....

Heidi gave me the dog as a gift, and I totally wasn't expecting that.  I told her I will definitely put it in my classroom because my students would love it.  They love strange clay models like the Malachi Winter model Thomas gave me.

Speaking of Thomas, he was making clay ornaments for his family that looked like his family members.  It was so....err....I think I need a bigger vocabulary, because I feel like I'm using the same adjectives over and over again.  Well....the ornaments were just amazing for lack of better term.  You should post pictures of them when you're done, Thomas!

Heidi lent me some clay to try to make something.  I'm going to try to make donut cat.  I've never made anything out of clay, so I don't exactly know what I'm doing.....but it should be fun.  I thought it would be neat to have the body look like a sphere, but then have the head look two-dimensional like the creatures from Mirrormask.

Heidi gave me some pointers on how I could do this.  So, we'll see....

Holy Moleys

Yesterday, I had a doctor's appointment in Jonesboro to get the moles from my face removed.  They appeared sometime in high school, and since I never had to really look at my face, I never gave them much thought.  They were just apart of my face, and that was that.

(In this picture, you can see the one above my lip.)

The first time the ones on my nose were brought to my attention was when I was in band, and Jim pointed to my face and commented how it looked like I had two little horns on my nose.  I thought this was pretty funny, and I kind of liked the bumps on my nose since they seemed to amuse some people.

(This picture shows the ones on my nose.)

But...apparently....they didn't amuse everyone.  For years, my mother begged and begged for me to get them removed. "That's all people see when they look at your face."  Some of my other family members concurred.

They didn't bother me until recently when I slowly began to discover that they actually did bother people, but they just never brought it up.  Also, they seemed to have grown over the years, and that is usually not a good sign.  So, I finally broke down and announced to my mom that I'll finally go ahead and get them removed.  She was overjoyed.

So, now my face will look like this for a while until my face heals:

I would like to think that I got them removed because of health reasons, and that probably is true for the most part....only there is a little part of my decision to get them removed because I was surprised that they bothered people.  After I decided to get them removed, I started to pay attention to other people's moles and birthmarks on their faces to see if they would bother me, but I actually found them fascinating and even sometimes cute.

This made me wonder why my moles weren't seen this way.  Wasn't it slightly funny that it looked like I had two horns on my nose and a ridiculously large bump above my upper lip?  Then again, (as my sister pointed out many times) I don't think like the rest of the public, and that probably means I should not be surprised when my opinions aren't shared by the rest of society.

Bottom line is that I think I care too much about what people think.  In the end, the moles had to go.....masked by the decision of *cough* health reasons.

Wow.  I know 3 sets of couples who have gotten engaged within the past month.

Let's see....there's Logan:

There's April:

And there's Kara:

Yaaaayyyy!!

Hmm....this leads me to wonder:

Ahem, gentlemen, where exactly is my ring??

That's okay.  I can wait.