The Secret Life of a Care Bear

Sick day. :(
I was supposed to have a test today and take Abby into my class as a science activity. Instead I’m curled up in bed being sad and miserable with a sore throat and a fever. Luckily, my teachers are nice and don’t want you to bring your germs to school to infect them. I get to make up my test on Monday so I can stay home today. I hope I can still bring in Abby next week, because I was excited about showing her off to the class. Someone else brought in a hamster for the last activity. Abby is way cuter than some hamster!

I got tired of how tedious iWeb is for blogging and thought that I might update more often if it were easier. So here I am! The title is a bit misleading, since I don’t exactly have many adventures.

The closest thing to an adventure I’ve had lately is the incident of the bridge jump at the Godsearch Unplugged retreat! Basically, Adam & Tom decided that it would be a GREAT idea to jump off the 21ft. high bridge into murky water of uncertain depth. Kirsten videoed it, but wasn’t recording when she thought she was, so she missed all of us pleading with them not to do it, and only got the jump itself. The rest of the retreat was less exciting, but still fun. We were at Camp Tecumseh, in Indiana, which is some YMCA camp. It was gorgeous, though, all lovely and wooded. The weather was wonderful and put me in the mood for fall. Unfortunately, the weather is teasing me today, because it’s up over 80 again. I refuse to turn the a/c back on, so it’s sweltering in the office, even with a fan in the window. Luckily the sun will be behind the neighbor’s house soon, instead of shining right into the office.

Mark has been begging me to update my blog for something like two or three weeks. So I’m updating. I told him two weeks ago that I would update when I was done catching up on Supernatural, so I could blog about it. I don’t really have much to say though, because the whole show (all 3 seasons +) is really just too amazing for words. If you can possibly stand the “scary” stuff, you should probably watch it. It is my new favorite show of all-time, so don’t try to tell me it’s lame…unless you want to start a rumble.

In rabbit news, I might start trying to find someone to take one of the rabbits, probably Helah. They just don’t want to be friends, so I have to let them out separately. I feel bad, because they would get more free time if I could let them out at the same time. Also, Helah has taken to peeing next to Abby’s litterbox when she’s out. I guess it’s some sort of territorial thing, but it’s really a pain in the butt to clean up.

I suppose that’s all for now. I’m going to try to copy over all the posts from my old blog, so I don’t lose them. We’ll see how that goes…

Bunny pictures are up in my photos section. Check them out!

New stills from the Half-Blood Prince Trailer are here! The first (above) shows a young Tom Riddle, played by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, son of Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort. The other picture shows Dumbledore in some sort of magical firestorm or something, presumably in the cave scene. The teaser trailer satellite debut is set for tomorrow evening and will be available online exclusively from AOL sometime tomorrow. Woot! I think I also read somewhere that the full trailer is rumored to be debuting before the Clone Wars movie on August 15th, but that seems a bit soon to me. We’ll see.

Bunny pictures tomorrow! We got the cages moved up to the office and let them explore their new territory today. We tried letting Abby & Helah out at the same time, but Abby chased Helah back into her cage. :(
They seemed to really enjoy their new room, though. Hurray!

In other slightly less exciting news this week: The fourth Twilight Series book, Breaking Dawn, comes out Saturday. I’ll probably go buy it. Not at midnight, though. I want to know how she finally finishes this series, but not badly enough to stand in line with a bunch of squee-ing tween girls. No thank you.

Ten Words That Would Be Trendy New Names if They Weren’t Words

Brightly
Craven
Jailer
Keister
Neighborly
Savory
Shyly
Slogan
Straighten
Trailer

So true. I would be surprised if there aren’t already a few Cravens running around out there. It just fits current naming trends too well. Ditto for Savory and Keister. Someone in the comments pointed out actress Traylor Howard from Monk. What an unfortunate name. Seriously parents. STOP THAT.

In other news, pictures of the bunnies will be posted soon! I took a break out of making them a sweet cardboard box playhouse to write this.

Just a quick note to show off the flowers Mark got me for our two-year anniversary yesterday. Plus a bonus picture of the bunnies that were hanging out in the backyard the other day!

Beautiful! The note just says, “You’re wonderful!” :) So cute!

Close up! I like the pink & white ones. I’m so bad at flowers…I think that’s some sort of lily?

Aaaaand, the bunny party in the backyard. One came up to the patio door before I took this and was peeking in, but I couldn’t get a good picture because of the screen. :(