jamie lynn spears

My sister and I decided to watch an episode of Zoey 101 to see the now teen-pregnancy poster child, Jamie Lynn Spears, in action. We watched the episode "Zoey's Ballooon."

In this episode, Zoey and her friends write a secret and tie it to a balloon for psychology class. Zoey's balloon gets stuck in a tree and someone finds it and blackmails her. Her blackmailer torments her and gets her to perform embarrassing tasks, but in the end Zoey reveals her secret. She revealed that she is actually the naked baby on the bottle of sunscreen. However, as we all know from her pregnancy announcement, that was not the only secret she had. Dylan has very appropriately renamed the episode to "Zoey's Ballooning Stomach."

I'm sure the viewer ship for this show has skyrocketed since she was on the cover of OK Magazine. I mean, why else would I check her out? While I respect her decision to keep the baby, but it's too bad she did not learn from Britney's actions..

show em your guns

I can't believe that I've lived in Texas for 20 years and until today had never shot a gun. I thought it was part of the inauguration process along riding a horse for transportation or lassoing your first calf.

I am terrified of guns and the thought of having so much power in your hands frightens me. Although I would not personally purchase a gun, I think it is important to me to learn how to shoot a gun. I think the only way we can attempt to overcome a fear is to understand the thing that we are scared of.

Pat was nice enough to take me to the shooting
range. He bought a Glock last week and so I figured, why not go try it out? It was ladies night - no admission fee for ladies when you buy a box of ammo! Haha

When we first walked into the booths, even with ear protection, I flinched with every gun discharge. I was actually very surprised to see most of the people in the booths were in business suits (we went around 4:45, so about the time you would get off work I guess).

Pat suggested the The first few times I shot the gun, my protective glasses fogged up because I was nervous, haha. I had to stop midway through the round to wipe the lenses off. You could feel the gun get warm after a few uses. They had lots of different paper patterns, but I thought the generic "Bad Guy" would be fun. Seeing that this was my first time, I was happy just hitting the target at all.

I still would not purchase a gun, but who knows, maybe I'll go to ladies night next week.

It's December 17, and it's not feeling like Christmas yet. Maybe it's because I have spent the past week in a library. Now that I'm home, I've been too busy catching up on sleep to really out outside and enjoy the mad shopping dash and outrageous Christmas decorations. Even after watching Love Actually about 3 times and hearing Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" again for the __th time (I still sing along) I'm just not feeling it. The fact that Houston is currently 70 degrees.

In any case, I am very thankful to be home. A time to catch up with family, friends, sleep and reading. I want to read:

• Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Eat Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Kathy and I were talking about starting a book club.

I rediscovered Baz Luhrmann's song "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)." It's about that time of year where everybody goes soft and introspective. It starts out pretty slowly .. give it a chance. :D


What is your favorite holiday tradition?

Who Invited the Dog?

You could argue that we value our animal companions as much as our human counterparts. I have known some people to dress their dogs in frilly outfits, feed them only bottled water, throw them birthday parties, etc. But how much is too much?

While they are cute, why would you possibly bring it to class? A barking dog would be worse than a crying baby in a movie theater.

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."

-Coretta Scott King

ode to helvetica

There was an exhibit in NY's Museum of Modern Art about the font Helvetica celebrating its 50th birthday. It's used by the NY subway system (MTA), American Airlines, Energizer Batteries, and Apple (just look at your iPod). Since following up on it, it piqued my interest about Helvetica and it's supposed rivalry with Arial.

" It's been a very long time since I was actually a fan of Helvetica, but the fact is Helvetica became popular on its own merits. Arial owes its very existence to that success but is little more than a parasite—and it looks like it's the kind that eventually destroys the host. I can almost hear young designers now saying, 'Helvetica? That's that font that looks kinda like Arial, right?'"

read on here

How do you exactly spot the difference? The guide. The rivalry of these two fonts is manifested in this game. My roommate Kathy and I have been talking about even watching the movie.