Guess why this is named “various”?

 

That’s right! It’s a completely random collection of thoughts and scenes from my day!

Ben and I were messing around in the kitchen, and I asked him a question about a drill bit. Something really inquisitive and thoughtful, such as, “Is that a drill bit?”. To which he replied, “No duh, Taylor!”, so that is my new catchphrase. It stems from the movie Drillbit Taylor, which we haven’t seen, but hey, it’s a change from plain “No duh” or the more-used “No duh, Sherlock”, so what the heck?

Dad taught Ben and I to shoot a pellet gun tonight. (goodbye, Friar Chuck) On my first try I don’t even think I hit the target, but on my last one it was right on the edge of the smallest little yellow circle. Pellet guns require an insane amount of pumping and adjusting of bolts, etc, before you can fire, so if you were in a situation in which you were being attacked and you had to defend yourself with a pellet gun, you had better aim carefully the first time. By the time you reloaded you would be dead. Hey, that’s probably why soldiers don’t use pellet guns, right?

Recital tommorow! Pictures will be coming on Friday, assuming I like the way I look in them. Otherwise, you’ll just have to take my word for it. Friday the Thirteenth is graduation in our town, which seems kind of forboding to me. Friday the thirteenth, I mean, not graduation itself. There were photos of the graduates in the paper today, accompanied by amusing advertisments that say things such as, “Chili’s wishes to extend best wishes to the class of 2008″ and “the Crew at Balch’s Family Fish House Congratulates Jamie, Ryan, Anthony, and the entire Class of 2008″, and a great one from the county electric company urging all graduates to replace their lightbulbs with new energy efficient ones, and best of luck in all future endeavors. Sophie went through all the pictures and assigned animals to various people (if Bob were an animal, he would be a shark, and so on).

This afternoon I was singing the Oscar Mayer Song (yes, I have too much time on my hands). When I got to, “And if you ask me, why I’ll say……” but before I could yell “B-O-L-O-G-N-A” Ben screamed, “BOOYAH!!!”.

And JK Rowling’s prequel came out!!!!! It’s only two pages but you can read it typed here, and in Jo’s handwriting here.

Genius.

 

Go Red Sox!