Cute Emergency

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What a cute book! It's filled with all kinds of cute animals and adorable captions. It's the perfect thing to help get you though the day. It sure did make me smile when I was feeling down one day.

All kinds of cute animals with adorable captions. The perfect book to cheer you up. I loved it and it helped me get though a particularly tiring day. Perfect for animal lovers and anyone who will go aww and cheer up at the sight of cuteness. 

The cover is so cute and is what made me want to pick up this book. The back cover is just as cute filled with a bunch of cute animals. I'm in love. That cat in the nurse hat has to be one of the cutest kittens Ives seen and the back cover is full of bunnies and puppies.

 One of my favorite parts about the book other then all the cute animals and captions is that every few pages or so they have a emergency prescription page for the level of 'emergency' you're having such as dropping your phone or ruining your favorite clothes. It even has a little signature area at the bottom for you to sign and it tells you not to worry the kittens and cuteness is on the way! It prescribes a dose of cute to help you get though.

If you're having a bad day or even a great one you'll love this book and the cute cheerful mood it brings. 

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

The blanket experiment

I didn't go to the best school. Just an okay one and even that could be augured... and as the years went on it became apprent that as long as you were quiet and did your work you could get away with a lot of stuff.  Lucky I wasn't a trouble maker I was a hardworking shy kid. So were my friends. Cut to winter of my senior year.

Winter where I'm from can either be decent and all pleasant (rarely) or hell as it freezes over (most years) there was no inbetween. The winter that happened while I was a senior in high school was one of the hell years. It was filled with delays and cancelations of all kinds.

This is what hell winter looks like.

My good friend Kat and I had saw someone walking around with a blanket. We decided that blankets were comfy cuddly fun and in the middle of this fridget winter we just had to wrap ourselves in blankets for a whole school day.

We really wanted this. So we both spent hours reading the student handbook and school website inside out. Trying to find out if they had rules against blankets or such. They didn't.  We felt like we were in the clear.

We set a day, very close to Christmas vacation if I remember correctly, and left out houses that morning wrapped up with our favorite blankets. It was a pretty fridget and chill December morning. We got into the high school cafeteria a met up with one another before home room. This was it. We both had our bankets and we're ready for the day ahead.

I'm not sure if we made rules for this fun test. We just wanted to wear blankets all day. There were rules. I don't remember if I made them for myself or if it was for me and Kat but they were:

1. You have to wear the blanket all day.
2. Only take it off if you get hot, have to go to the bathroom (which we tended to hold all day anyway the school bathrooms were dirty and smoke filled), or if you have to take it off for another reason

Those were the rules. We also came up with a plan of what to say when people asked or comment on us/ the blankets. We also prepared what we would say of we were sent to the office or if a teacher had a problem with us. Of course we'd take off and put them in our lockers if asked but we'd also tell them what we would tell our peers. It was an experiment.

If anyone asked we would told them we were taking part in a social experiment. This was the card I'd especially pull if I got sent to the office. Because why punish a scientist like person thing?

Neither of us got sent to the office. Very few peers took notice or at least seemed too. Only one or two said something to us. As for the teachers and staff? One teacher asked if I was wearing the blanket for the holiday's since it was red and green. Another asked if I was cold. No other adult authority figure made any remarks on it. I think Kat had similar results.

And that's how it became apparent that we were (and still are) but big sized toddlers masquerading as responsible adults.

Things I've said to my children

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This book is hilarious. And just filled with the kinda things parents have to say to their crazy kids!  The pictures are funny, cute and well done. The things the pages contain are all things I'm sure all parents can relate to. We all say crazy thing to kid because they themselves are crazy. It a decent sized book  filled with relatable hilarious things that have been said to children! 

The front cover is just hilarious as the book's contents and is in fact one of the pictures included in side the book. The back cover explains the book well and is just as awesomely funny as the rest of the book. I love that picture of the penguin something about it's face just makes me smile. The penguin is mentioned in the back description of the book and in the book it's self. " Stop riding that penguin we're leaving" pretty funny.

Great book for parents or other caretakers of children. If you're looking for a fun book that you can relate to look no farther.

I received this book from Blogging for Booksfor this review.

Theme 037 - Childish ( about 200 words)

Sure he was childish. But he was young. He was just a kid who had the fate of the world on his shoulders. Added to that with his memory issues of course he would act out and pull pranks and all that kinda stuff.  He was only sixteen.  Sure he was almost an adult but he's seen stuff that even an adult shouldn't see or do. He fights monsters for a living.defends the world. Almost does daily.  And doesn't remember anything before the age of ten. He wasn't childish all the time , sure he could be mature when the situation called for it. Be serious when ever he had to but sometimes everything was too much for him. So he would run off to have fun. He'd joke (just so he wouldn't remember how scared he is) he'd play pranks he was so childish. He still played with bath toys.  It was just who he was. He was of coping with a world so mean to him and so deadly to everything he loves. Including thing he doesn't remember.  Six put up with, not understanding at first why the kid acts the way he does. But he slowly learned why and understood and felt sorry for him. But they had a job to do and there were lives at stake. They could afford to fool around.

Paper goods projects

I've been in a crafty mood lately. I also got my hands on a copy of 'Paper Goods Projects' by Jodi Levine, and it's pretty neat.

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It's a fabulous book for crafters , especially those with children. A lot of the projects seem to be things kids would like and the photos in the book feature children. Prefect for the family. I like the front cover of the book just as much as the back. They both show good examples of what you can make following the directions in the book. Plus it's colorful.

The book is well organized. There's the contents page up front , followed by an introduction and foreword. Then it put projects into a category based on what kind of supplies are used. Theses categories are the chapters. There is coffee filters and cupcake papers, paper bags paper plates and dollies, balloons, and recycling bin stuff. So lots of around the home and recycling going on. That's a plus for projects with me. At the black of the book there's a template section filled with all the templates you'll need to make the projects in the book. Then at the end is the index. Like I said it's neat and organized.

As someone who goes to multiple parties a year and like to be the one who brings the goodie bags and loves to decorate for everything this book makes me really look foward to next chance I can get at decorating and packing goodies. It has all kinds of projects that are decorative and they have projects for favor bags too!

I haven't made a lot of the projects featured in this book but I have made a few, the ones I have made were easy and used stuff commonly found in the home. And like I said before they include templates. Just scan and print. Or even trace if you're using thin paper (not recommend but easy!) it was simple , fun and easy. They don't really mention the family touch on the book's discription but let me tell you it certainly is for crafters for any level and those with kids. I've already made a few goodies for my nephew!

Overall it's a great book my only compliant is that they don't always show photos on what to do for various steps. They have plenty of text descriptions that are very detailed and I understood them but I'm usually not good with even simple text instructions. I prefer text and photos. But that's just my learning style ,everyone is different and the steps are pretty detailed. So I don't think there will be any trouble.


I got this book from Blogging for Books to read and review. So yes I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Getting though

I've managed to write more of the challenge it's just a matter of me getting it typed and posted. Been painting more so I should be posting that later. I also have a new comic that updates every friday. So I've been busy. Getting though by just getting things done one at a time. Wake up. Eat. School. Get home. Type part of the next challenge, add a color to the painting, write for the comic. And look at that I'm getting stuff done even if haven't been posting the challenge, I mean at least it's typed and I have a social life.

Theme 036 - Adulthood (about 752 words)

Adulthood. Rex hadn't thought about it much but he was almost an adult now. He's matured a lot over the years. Even just the last year. The seventeen year old was still a bit childish. The plush toys all over his room proved that. But that kind childishness was different from being mature. He use to run away and get into trouble and make inappropriate jokes. Not anymore he thought more of others and communicated better. Still got into trouble, he just attracted it but he didn't seek it out and caused it as much. At least not on purpose. He was practically an adult in more ways than one. He didn't change that much physically at least not in the last year. He was pretty much done growing once he was at age  sixteen. (Or around it. They still didn't know when his birthdays was or how old he was. Age guess was based all on physical and mental stuff really) So the last year saw very few (physical) changes there. But since he was fifteen the was a slight change in him. Mostly if you looked back and compared photos of him from then to now. Day to day the people around him probably haven't noticed much unless the thought on it and saw  photos and video of him. His hormones calmed down and the more hormone driven days of his teenage years were behind him. Not that he still didn't drool over hot girls. He certainly still took notice. He just didn't chase after all of the hot ladies he saw. He knew he couldn't and shouldn't. And he could control himself and such actions. Not that he didn't get tighter pants every now and then from hot passers by or randomly. That was just manhood. It just wasn't as constant. He had control. He didn't need to think of love making all the time or run to a private area right than. He could wait. He also had a girlfriend to look at and while still a virgin he certainly was cozy and love and doves with her . He was a tab bit taller. Taller by an inch or two now at his adult hight of five foot ten. His voice was a bit deeper but not that noticeable again you'd have to see video for, a few years ago and compare from then to now to really notice. He was also more muscular. Mostly from all the hard work and training and fighting he does than from like hormones, puberty and such, but it was a change either way. He was almost legally an adult. Although that didn't matter much, growing up in providence as a weapon and tool he quickly learned to do things on his own like an adult would. Plus again they had no clue how old he really was for all they knew he was legal. Not like he'll ever have anything other than a providence ID anyways. His face wasn't as rounded and childish now. It was sharper and more adult. He was on the onset of adulthood now. Technically adulthood has been here creeping up on him for a while bit now you could clearly see it on his face. In his features. He could come up with actually possible solutions to problems and help solve them with out making a mess. He had a more mature take on problem solving and an adult view on the world around him. Even if he still joked now and then even when the situation wasn't meant for it. He learn to control the jokes and when not to say them. He still told inappropriate jokes at bad times but he recognized them as such and tried to limit such. His younger self has not such filter or thoughts for jokes. He just told them whenever where ever no matter what. Now he thought about the situation first and only told badly time jokes when he was truly frightened to clam himself. Otherwise he wouldn't joke in a serious situation now. Everything about him was adulthood. He grew up a lot. His 'parents' Six and Holiday were very proud of him and how he's grown. The young man wasn't like the little kid they had taken in. Even if he was still a lot like him he's an adult now and was able to take on whatever came his way with the thinking and problem solving that came with adulthood.