What? I'm sixteen? Seriously?

Well, today's my birthday!
I had an awesome day of eating, frozen mocha cheesecake and lasagne, and reading!
Present wise I was gifted two awesome cards, a lovely butterfly ring set with garnets, an amazing hot-air-balloon pendant from my sister, Vickie, and Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (which I'm already more then half way through!)

Here's the first card, hand drawn and painted by Adam, Christopher, and James, my brothers

And the second one, again hand drawn, from Vickie

 

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of my pendant (which is made of awesome), but I do have a picture of my ring (also made of awesome.)

Instant instants

We got a Fuji Instant Camera, and, needless to say, we all love it!
It's so cute, the pictures are pretty tiny but so cool. We got eight packs of film, so there will be plenty more, I'm sure, but here's a sample of what we've got so far.

 These four are mine;

 And here's a couple from Mum and the boys

The Great Pig Caper

The story is that a woman and her fiancé, whose code names are Cat’s Pajamas and Pigeon Wing respectively, are planning to murder CP’s cousin, Reggie(short for Regina), in order that CP would inherit the family’s vast pig farm.

To do so they train one of Reggie’s show pigs, who are allowed to wander the gardens unhindered, to charge on command. Reggie is renowned to very dangerously point her letter opener towards herself when opening her mail. So all they have to do is replace her regular letter opener with a specially sharpened one, position the pig in front of the French windows, wait until Reggie is in the process of opening the aforementioned letters, then give the pig its command, thus causing Reggie to accidently stab herself during the collision with said pig. As she has no will nor any siblings, CP will became fabulously rich and be free to marry PW, whose status as a lowly gardener had previously stopped such a union.

But wait, what’s this? Poirot is staying at Reggies manor house the very same weekend the murder is scheduled to take place! What will happen now?

Shown here are the correspondence between CP and PW, photos of their intended victim (me, with my new fringe!), PW’s pocket watch, and the murder weapon itself.

Sheet music to a memory.

A wander through the wonder of nature

The spinning vortex of time and space.

Home...

 

Home is the place your heart resides
Home is the place that you decide
Home is the womb that holds the soul
Home is the place where one is whole

Home is the glow you hold in your eye
Home is the emotion that makes you cry
Home is safe and a place of peace
Home is where all strivings cease

Home is protective against the others
Home is full of sisters and brothers
Home is where you find your rest
Home is where you feel your best

Home is a memory that follows your being
Home is a dream for those agreeing
Home is the place where reserves fall
Home is the place you yearn to call

Home is where the family meets
Home is a place of restful retreats
Home is the place you know you’ll be heard
Home is the pace where nothing blurs

Home is all these wonderful things
Home is the place you develop wings
Home is the place that you’ll find one day
Home is the place where your heart will stay

-Lisa Emry