that awkward moment...

...when you realize that every single one of your friends that has taken the quiz you made turned out to be most like YOU. Seriously. This is sad.

And since YOU happened to make the quiz in the first place...

Oh, dear. :P

Well, apparently it's not as accurate as I thought it was. Not that y'all *aren't* like me, it's just 6 people in a row turning up to be most like me is a little...unexpected. :D

So...sorry! ;) Maybe in a couple years I'll make another one that's not so...biased (for lack of a better word :). But you had fun...right? So that's all that matters. :D

what made my day today...

I'm so sick of my research paper. It's only been...umm...3 or 4 weeks, maybe? But I am so ready to be done.

So I got a friend to edit my rough draft for me. And one of the comments just totally made my day...

That's my paper...it's driving me nuts. And, in case you couldn't see that, it said (I probably had a brain lapse)...

And the response was...:P

Thank you for keeping me from taking school too seriously! :D

~Vivi~

only in the coulter family do...

...people (that will remain unnamed :P) make 'caramel popcorn' so that there's so much caramel that it's nearly inedible and will take quite some time to get it out of your teeth...

...you and your mother make up the following limericks to demonstrate how easy and fun they can be to your sister:

my mom is the best in the world

i like it best when her hair is curled

sometimes it is straight

i guess that's her fate

i hate it so much that i hurled

i once knew a boy named bug-bug

who wouldn't give me a hug-hug

i asked for a kiss

he said, 'no, little miss!'

so i had to go kiss my pug-pug

(gross? yes. fun? amazingly. :D)

...you flip through a Weight Watchers magazine to look at hair styles (believe it or not, they actually do have some nice hair in those...sometimes)...

...2-year-olds go around the house saying stuff like 'youtube', 'iPad', and 'massages', and then go and laugh their heads of at a stupid joke that really isn't at all funny. :D

...people fall asleep on the couch after school and not get up till the next morning...

...you look up after nearly an hour of writing an outline, only to realize that you only have 1 roman numeral so far...and it goes on for over 2 and 1/2 pages...*sigh*...

...you realize that you're more tired after sitting through a 1 and 1/2 hour chat than after a 2 hour swim practice...

...you get breakfast at McDonalds and order like 6 apple pies and 8 hashbrowns...(shhh, don't tell anyone. :P)

So...is it just me or are we really the only family weird enough to do these things? :D

~Vivi~

the three little pigs - shakespeare style :P

It's one of those rare moments that I feel I learned something useful in Literature chat. :P Just kidding...

Watch it, if you have 8 minutes. And if you don't...watch it anyway. :D

Brothers...

...*sigh*...:P

(photo credit: Gab)

You know your sister's crazy...

...and she knows it too...when you find her reading a GRAMMAR BOOK as her fun reading! Scary, huh? That's the kind of craziness around here.

But it's a cute book. I mean, how many grammar books have cute little jokes on the back? This is called Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Wanna know why? This is the joke on the back...

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why? asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Get it?! Ok, it's weird...but come on, isn't it cute?! It's the PERFECT joke for a grammar book! :P

What happens in Old Navy...

...when there's a doggy just sitting there, waiting to be ridden...

(yes, kind of bad pictures...but cute still. And again, DC pictures coming up...)

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

1. It's Holy Week. 2. It's Holy Thursday. 3. Easter is coming up on SUNDAY!

I know that a lot of people would put Christmas time as the best time of the year. Presents, Christmas trees, decorations, and snow...all very nice things. But I think that with Easter, it's easier to focus on the true meaning. Christmas has a ton of distractions...too many. I love Christmas too, but the best and most wonderful and most GLORIOUS time of the year is Easter.

So...I revised the words to the song! See how you like them. :P (BEWARE: some of them are really...uhh...weird. :D)

It's the most wonderful time of the year

With the kids all egg-hunting

And indigo buntings that all chirp and squeal

“It's the most wonderful time of the year!”

It's the hap-happiest season of all

With easterly greetings and gay happy meetings

When friends come to call

It's the hap- happiest season of all

There'll be parties for hosting

And sweet things for toasting

And faces all filled with a glow

There'll amazing stories

And tales of the glories of

Those Easters long, long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year

There'll be flowers all springing

And hearts will be singing

Full of Easter cheer

It's the most wonderful time of the year

There'll be parties for hosting

And sweet things for toasting

And faces all filled with a glow

There'll amazing stories

And tales of the glories of

Those Easters long, long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year

There'll be flowers all springing

And hearts will be singing

Full of Easter cheer

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Yes, It's the most wonderful time

Oh, It's the most wonderful time

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

7 reasons not to mess with children...

Most of you have probably already seen this...but if you haven't...;) Pass it on!

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'. The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah didn't go to heaven?' The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'. A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.' The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like'. Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute'. A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to 'honour' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?' Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.' One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?' Her mother replied, 'Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.' The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, 'Mummy, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?' The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. 'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the teacher, she's dead.' A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, 'Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.' 'Yes,' the class said. 'Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?' A little fellow shouted, 'Cause your feet ain't empty'. The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: 'Take only ONE . God is watching.' Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples'.

Gmail Motion...

Have you seen it? Gmail has a new way of typing!

Check out the video, and then go here and try it out! This is hilarious...try it out, EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WEBCAM...believe me, it will be worth it. :P

Now I know what they felt like 65 years ago...

...because now our MICROWAVE doesn't work.

I can now relate to the problems of those living back then: running up and down to use the downstairs microwave, using the stove way more often, and trying to eat colder things more often.

What do you think? Would you use it anyway?

(it says "Do Not Use Microwave (on pain of death)")

I don't think I'll risk it...

You know you're a fan...

You won't get this if you haven't read the fairy tale novels, but if you have this is pretty funny! It's from the magazine Ink & Fairydust...we don't get the magazine, but I was looking at it online and took a couple screenshots (it wouldn't fit in one...). It a bunch of people saying how "You Know You Are a Fairy Tale Novels Fan If..."

(P. S. Again, if you haven't read these things, DO! These are my favorite books...they're great Catholic teen fiction...but they're not overly Catholic, so please still read them if you're not!)

Oh, and sorry it's so small!! I couldn't make it any larger...if you want to read it yourself it will be easier: http://issuu.com/inkandfairydust/docs/january (it's on the 12th page, I think)

What not to put together...

...Me and Photobooth (prepare to be scared):

(I couldn't put words by the pictures so, in order:

1. Me and myself

2-3. Me in How to Train Your Dragon :P

4. Me with fishys

5. Me with beam things everywhere

6. Me and myself 2

7. Me in the Maccabeats Purim Song

8. Me in Paris in front of The Eiffel Tower)