I made this “cane cozy” for my grandfather’s birthday(Dec 15). It was my first improvised project.

This scarf is my sister’s Christmas present. Her favorite color is Yellow. This is my first scarf. Ravelry Project.

My first “amigurumi” project! I made this cat for my mom’s birthday present(Dec 20). It’s made to resemble her real cat. I was surprised by how quick the pieces were to make. The hardest part was putting everything together. Ravelry Project.

I made this star to go in a Christmas card for my husband’s Granny. Ravelry Project.

These wrist warmers are my mom’s Christmas present. The bamboo yarn I used was my first “fancier” yarn. It’s really soft! Ravelry Project.

jerrodputman: We’re in. Space Mountain here we come! 3:03 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: In line for Space Mountain. #disneyland 3:14 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

jerrodputman: Ah Space Mountain. Always better than I remember it. 4:06 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

Then we got a fast pass for Space Mountain between 10:10 and 11:10pm to use later.

shannonkay: Now in line for star tours. #disneyland 4:09 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

jerrodputman: Heading for Star Tours. #disneyland 4:13 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

We went home after that and my mom made steak.

After dinner we headed back to Disneyland, hoping to catch the fireworks.

shannonkay: On our way back to #disneyland. Hope to catch the fireworks. 9:19 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

We got to the parking structure right as the fireworks were starting. So we just stopped and watched the fireworks from there.

We decided to try recording them with our iPhones.

Once we got back into the park we headed straight for Space Mountain to use the fast passes we’d gotten earlier.

jerrodputman: Fastpass to our second helping of Space Mountain. So awesome. #disneyland 10:35 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: Second space mountain ride today. #disneyland 10:37 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

jerrodputman: Now in line for Astro Blasters. Amusing pictures forthcoming. #disneyland 10:37 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: I still beat @jerrodputman at astro blasters. 11:05 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: In line for the Matterhorn #disneyland 11:07 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

Somehow, Jerrod had never been on the Matterhorn, so we went on that next.

jerrodputman: Rode Matterhorn fir the first time. #disneyland about 23 hours ago from Tweetie

With only a few minutes left, we hit Pirates of the Caribbean and still managed to get a last minute Dole pineapple whip.

jerrodputman: Managed to get some last minute pineapple whip after riding Pirates. #disneyland day is done.about 23 hours ago from Tweetie

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On Saturday, Jerrod came over and I went and got my nails done. We then proceeded to go to South Coast Plaza where we had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe there.

I explored Tiffany, admiring lovely pearls and diamonds. You have to go into Tiffany when there is one there. It’s, like, the law. I browsed with no possibility of buying in high-end stores like Charles David shoes. I love Charles David more than any other fancy shoes, and I think my first expensive shoes would be them. I passed another store with pink sparkly converse, which must be new because I’ve never seen these sparkly ones before, but of course, they didn’t come in my small size. The plain pink converse I was wearing were a kids’ 3. Converse goes by, like, Men’s sizes or something.

After a long day wandering around, and getting freaked out that the snakeskin on a pair of sandals I looked at used to be on an actual snake, I went back to Nordstrom, deciding I wanted a new top and a lipgloss. I ended up picking out two shirts, a nicer lilac top and a pink ribbed tank. I ventured to the MAC counter to pick out a nice new gloss. I started looking at a lipglass display when the lady behind the counter said to me “Those are all flavored.” flavored? neat! and the flavors were good too. I can recommend the MAC lipgloss tasti. The color, flavor, and shine were all great. It was between the strawberry and the berry, but I ended up getting the strawberry.

I told my dad the list and he said that he was inclinded to get me the less expensive processor and motherboard, and I also wanted a new case that I saw at fry’s to go with them. So my dad and I went to Fry’s and I pointed out the processor and the motherboard that I wanted to go with it, and the case. For good measure, I also pointed out a 250gb hard drive which was only $199. You know, in case he wanted to get something extra. Anyway, we got back to my parents’ house, and my uncle Eric came over. My dad told me to convince him that what I wanted was a good idea. I told Eric that I wanted a new cpu and motherboard. He said that “it’s not time yet.” and the 64 bits are too expensive now, and I should wait 3 months. Now that makes sense except that in 3 months it won’t be my 21st birthday. The chips are a little more expensive now, but that is okay with me seeing as it is my birthday and someone else would be buying it for me. Last year my parents gave me an open DVD for my birthday. I don’t think that was very nice.

I am currently running an AMD Athlon 1.4, and that was before they started the new naming convention so I think that’s actual clock speed, but it was almost 3 years ago. I even started looking up neat addons that I would like to have later on.

And I’d really like to know what to ask my grandparents for. If I don’t tell them what I want I sometimes get strange things.