Thursday List!!

Alright boyz and gurlz! got my list for yous.

My loves!!!

1. Snow- I LOVE SNOW!! Snow makes me feel like I'm back home in PA.
2. this email will sum up #2.

Once a Pennsylvanian, ALWAYS a Pennsylvanian!
About Pennsylvanians:
You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything
but 'Philly' and New Jersey has always been ' Jersey '
You refer to Pennsylvania as 'PA' (pronounced Pee-ay). How many other states do that?
'You guys' is a perfectly acceptable reference to
a group of men and women
You know how to respond to the question 'Djeetyet?'
(Did you eat yet?)
You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre ,
Schuylkill, the Pocono's, Tamaqua, Tunkannock, Bala
Cynwyd, Duquesne and Monongahela.
And we know Lancaster is pronounced Lank aster,
not Lan kaster.
You know what a 'Mummer' is, and are disappointed
if you can't catch at least highlights of the parade.
You know what 'Punxsutawney Phil' is, and what it means if he sees his shadow.
The first day of buck and the first day of doe season are school holidays.
At least five people on your block have electric 'candles' in all or most of their windows all year long.
You know what a 'State Store' is, and your out-of-state friends find it incredulous that you can't purchase liquor at the mini-mart.
Words like 'hoagie,' 'crick,' 'chipped ham,' 'dippy eggs',
'sticky buns,' 'shoo-fly pie,' 'lemon sponge pie', pierogies' and 'pocketbook' actually mean something to you.
That's PA slang for purse!
You can eat cold pizza (even for breakfast) and know
others who do the same. Those from NY find this 'barbaric.'
You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several colors.
You know the difference between a cheese steak and
a pizza steak sandwich, and know that you can't get a really good one outside PA,
except Atlantic City on the boardwalk.
You live for summer, when street and county fairs
signal the beginning of funnel cake season.
You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise , Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, and Slippery Rock are PA towns. (and the first three were consecutive stops on the Reading RR).
You know what a township, borough, and commonwealth is.
You can identify drivers from New York , New Jersey , Maryland or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits.
A traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the highway in Lancaster County.
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your female passengers know how to use them.
Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
As a kid you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.
You know beer doesn't grow in a garden but you know where to find a beer garden.
You also know someone who lives 'down the lane'.
You actually understand all this and send it on to other Pennsylvanians or former Pennsylvanians!
YEAH! THAT'S 'PA' AND WE LOVE IT
And send it to people that never lived in PA and confuse Them Because Nice Matters

(If you really didn't get all of that from the paragraph above, then come and see me.. cause seriously, you gotta work on reading comp. skills)

3. POWERADE!!!
4 MY ITOUCH!!
5. GUMMY FROGS!
6. BOSTON!!!
7. JOURNEY!! (I grew up in an 80s music house... the flame of ROCK is still burning..)
8. TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE SCORE!!! cello solos in that are amazing,especially track 12, arrival to earth (just listen to the preview on itunes..)
9. MUSIC IN GENERAL- the world should just be music. everything in this world, every emotion and phrase and meaning ever possible can be described by a well written song. I am always tapping a rythmn or song. I can't imagine a world without music.
10. cello- i am in love with my cello. think of Eragon the book. dragon and rider. they are connected to each other. i don't know what I would do if I lost my cello. i would probably feel empty for the rest of my life.
(Gosh I feel like I'm almost on the verge of pouring out my soul. But trust me, you'll know when I do. it'll be way deeper, and WAY longer.

7 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!!!! YAY!!!

Friday Night.. bummer...

So this last friday night went like this:
1. I got home from school and practiced cello from the time I got home until about 5:30.
2. I then had to go to a Ward Christmas Party I was torn about attending.
3. The Reason I wanted to stay home was because I had to play a piece during the Program on my cello. ( Probably the worst place to play. In a concert, about one twelths of the people there know who you are, and about one twelvths of that group know you personally. In your ward, everyone and I repeat EVERYONE knows you personally. So if you mess up, EVERYONE KNOWS!)
4. the reason that I wanted to go is that the person (otherwise referred to as third party) that I like and really wanted to see, had a chance of showing up.
5. said person then did not show up, and I was followed around by several nerds, (Not Brian).
6. I still had to play in the program, and because several people canceled, besides the primary, I WAS THE PROGRAM!
7. I had an opportunity to go see twilight.(AND I NEVER READ THE BOOK)Thinking that since third party was not there, and my closest homies were unable to hit the town, I took the oppurtunity. what a mistake. I went to see a chick flick without a date. muy grande problemo. I wish I had my itouch, because everytime I looked at the screen I got bored, and everytime that I looked over, the couple that was next to me (and also in the group I went with) was making out, and I was quite disturbed.

So I'm waiting till I'm 16 and I have a date to see another movie like that.

Tis the Season

Seeing as it is the season of snow, I thought I should give you a little taste of what Snowmen will be like this year in our yard. Calvin and Hobbes are my inspiration, and they are a classic.
Enjoy!

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