Muffling My Frenzied Laughter

MMFL... It's me, that annoyingly outspoken mudbrown eyed girl here again to do what I do best... Talk! I am a Chattin after all! I remember once looking some things about the name "Chattin" with my dad and finding that the family motto is "A friend to all". That is a motto I would love to live up to! Today we didn't actually get to have an orientation meeting at the O'Neills' because Zach got sick! I got a text last night from Maddi saying he'd gotten offline feeling tired and sick but I'd hoped it wouldn't evolve into a full on flu, instead being a kind of brief odd feeling. Nope. So today we went to music lessons and Emily and I (I blowing off my history test...) went outside and made a few videos with her camera. We played ninja and talked and laughed and I came to further realize how annoyingly my face won't quit moving in weird ways and my eyes rolling to the point where it nearly looks like I'm twitching! Here are a few weird things I learned today: the yo-yo was originally a weapon used in the Philippine jungles, Coca Cola was originally green, the human thigh bone is stronger than concrete and ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine... Most lipstick contains fish scales, in Kentucky it's law that a person must take a bath once a year, the oldest goldfish was 41 and named Fred, by raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink in quicksand and lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! I got to babysit for the Dahms today it was soo fun! They're such good kids and we had a blast. Let me tell you - first time I have played Twister in years!! We ate soup and quesadillas. I actually ate pork.. Because Simon made the quesadillas with pork in them and didn't know I don't eat pork so of course I didn't say anything, because it was technically served to me in someone else's house without knowledge of my eating style. They were good, Simon can make a good quesadilla, but let me just say, despite people's ravings over pork I just don't get it. It's altogether unappealing to me. I played Connect Four with Bryan - he is so adorable! We tied every game and inserted every chip every round! We watched "Planet's Funniest Home Videos" and "The New Jackie Chan Adventures". The Jackie Chan adventures is soo funny! I read Bryan several Blue's Clues books! Bryan, Becca and I played with clay while Simon sat with us and observed. He was extremely amused when I sang "The Saga Begins" and we had many discussions over the hilarity of iCarly. Especially Spencer - I mean that guy is soo funny! I was enlightened to one of Brenten's comments in reply to my "There's a hobo in the bathtub!!" by Simon who knew the episode well. "I've got candy!!" "OOOHH!" "OH BLECH UCK GROSS! This isn't candy!" "Oh yeah I forgot.. It's soap..." When Spencer stole that guy's ice cream, when he kept falling off the top of the taxi! "HAH! I'm wearing a SECOND TOWEL!" "You CHIPPED Freddy?!?!" I can just hear him again screaming "You ate my enchilada!!" I am so excited about Christmas! I love this time of year! And the days are flying so fast now it's unbelievable. The days typically drag by in December, but this year I am just happy to be. Happy to be living, breathing, experiencing life and able to sing constantly, think endlessly, be blessed with so many things and people! To be considerate and think of things that others would enjoy instead of wrapped up in problems. Things aren't too difficult and I feel as though I could conquer just about anything. The kids are excited and chipper and busy too. I can't wait to see their faces Christmas morning! I now love to crochet hats! I don't know what it is but I had to learn three new stitches and how to read a pattern before beginning and now I can do the pattern by heart. Zach's hat was actually my first and Em's my second so I wore them around my house (mainly Zach's I liked his especially oddly). I finally made my own, it's blue. My dad walked into our house today and saw me wearing it, "Is that EM'S hat now?!" He asked. "No!" I laughed, "This one's mine!" Apparently the kids like them because about two kids from my family at least have asked me for one for Christmas! LOL. School is so good, I'm getting good grades so I'm happy with it. Anyways I am TIRED so night! Get well Zach!