Quote Book Time!

• (At Special Needs Mutual) Counselor: "Dale, were you named after anyone?"  Dale: "Yes my uncle Erik. His middle name was Dale. He was murdered." 
• Devin F: "Anti-birth pills."
• Me: "You can have the short one." Doman: "Better than the long one."
• Doman: "I'll play the tangerine." 
• "The trouble maker has begun!" Woman at Special Needs Mutual
• Me: "Joe, you could be a soprano!." Eli: "But he's wearing slippers!"
• Doman: "I was crying in my brain."
• Doman: "We need two pork salads but actually we need three."
• Office lady over the intercom: "Shauna, you left your soup in the front office!"
• Ashley: "You buyed it you tied it you dyed it."
• Brother Park: "Gloria's secret."
• Boy in my animal science class: "Doctors thought I has asthma but I just swallowed some pennies when I was little."
• Ashley: "I say we burn a lamb."
• D.J. to Kenzie at Special Needs Mutual: "I don't mind but I don't think I can have a girlfriend counselor."   
• D.J: "That's black person food." 
• Lady at a football game: "Way to sacrifice your body!" 
• Gunner F: "I was born sleeping so my mom thought I was dead."
• Nicole W: "Wait! You and Miranda are cousins?!" 
• Doman: "Wheres the wigi boy?" 
• Movie in animal science: "One is gonna walk away alive and one is gonna walk away dead."
• Ali W. to Kyle O. About Ms. Person: "That's funny that you said she was going to get married!"
• Mrs. Richardson: "Infant cats."
• Ashley: "I'm part trombone."
• Sean Jovi: "Haven't puked yet all day but every time I feel like I have to puke every once in a while." 
• Laura at Special needs mutual: "Oh I'm engaged." Me: "To who?" Laura:" my boyfriend Hercules." 
• Nicole: "ITS A..... SANTA!!!"
• Chase E: "Ask me a different question because clearly I'm not a man."
• Amy: "Maddie, you're an alcoholic." 
• Ashley: "Wait wait wait!!! Rigor mortis!" 

Quote Book

• "Cats have nine (lives) and foxes have ten?!" Doman
• "I saw every individual hair!" (about the streakers at our homecoming game) McKay Cummings 
• "He hates everyone except like girls in short shorts." Hannah A. 
• "I'm going to ask Alena because she is one sharp cookie." Brother Park
• Jake singing Proud to be an American: "... and defend her still today!" Eli: "Her?" Jake: "Yeah... Like our country..." Eli: "IT'S A GIRL?!?!"
• Dad: "Is Sting the bass player?" Jake: "Yes." Dad: "Does he play bass?" Jake: "Yes." 

Look, guys! It's Jane again!

   So Jane did another Tutorial for The Hairpin today and, of course, I'm obsessed! She said it was inspired by the picture below from Anthropologie and can I just say how much I want to do my hair like this every day of my life?! It doesn't even look that hard to do! But the only thing is that I think you might have to be about a million feet tall and about 100 pounds to properly rock this hair style. But since when do I ever back down from a bad idea?! It's decided next formal dance I will do my hair like this! 

Obsession!

I am obsessed with Jane Feltes! But mostly just her video tutorials that she does for The Hairpin. This one is more or less how I'm going to do my hair and makeup for homecoming today. 

http://vimeo.com/27138150  (Click that)

Sorry it wont let me post the video but watch it. It's good.  

 (P.S. I fixed the link just barely...) 

Quote Book

• "I love your locks. You could use them as currency." Wyatt Sheppard
• Braden: "Pirates are way better than cowboys." Ashley: " Not all of them!!!" 
• "Lets take topless pictures!" Nicole
• "The blues are pink." Miah
• "Is he smoking while running?? YES!" Me :)
• "Paris! Email me back!" Jake (Over and over and over for a week)
• "She smells like heart transplant." Doman
• "Seriously we need to have a birthday for my party." Doman
• "Don't leave me hanging on like a homo!" Doman
• "E over zero." x100000000 Abby Doman (Can you tell I spent a weekend with the Doman family??)
• "Losers keepers!" Brother Park
• "Can I barrow one of those dollars?" Eli
• "He farted in his face, gave him pink eye, and did NOT pay for the doctor bill! I just like to make insults more insulting." Ben Allred while watching lacrosse 
• " Thanks woman! You're ruining our lives!" kid at Harmons
• "Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites: its an Effing Adventure!" My mother 

Quote Book

• "If I was smashing pumpkins I would smash pumpkins all the time!" Ashley S
• "He's watching you dance. Dance good." Chandler
• "Yeah because men with small genitalia listen to the radio late at night." Ashley S. 
• "This is a hill billy cook out. everything is crooked!" Ashley S. 
• "Everyone turns teenager eventually." Nicole W. 
• "Are they porn songs?" Mommy 
• "You are quite the pillow." Jake K. 
• "You've got your headband on and your girly man glasses." G-Funk (AKA Grandma)
• "Grapes of Rango." Gramps. 
• "We're team murder you're team murdered." Me
• "You are sadly mistaken and dumb." Jake K.
• Eli K: "How much more straighter are we going to go?" Erin K: "As straight as possible."
• "They probably just think we're going to kill them." Erin K. as we pull over to help someone. 
• "I feel like you might be better at neck estimating than the rest of us." Erin K.
• "Its like riding a bike. You never forget but you kinda suck." Jake K.
• "Are there words in this movie?" Doman
• "I'm not afraid when its monsters because monsters aren't real. But, people are and people will kill!" Doman 
• "I wish I had a tail!" Miah

Fashion & a ton of Links

  *Warning!* This post is FULL of links. CLICK THEM ALLL!!!!! 

    So lately I've been way obsessed with fashion blogs and the like. Here's a list of my favorites:

• http://www.clothedmuch.com/ Nicole showed me this one. 
• http://sistersandresses.blogspot.com/ This one is in Spanish (Like Spain Spanish. It reminds me of Elena. *tear*)  but who needs to read when there's pictures right? 
• http://whatwouldanerdwear.blogspot.com/ 
• http://www.thesartorialist.com/bio.html I just discovered this one today but I guess this guy just goes around and takes pictures of people he thinks are well dressed. I'm really liking this one so far though.     

   Also, my sister showed me this website called http://thehairpin.com/ and they have a really great little section called How to be a Girl  and it's mostly fashion and makeup advice. There are a ton of contributors who write for The Hairpin,I haven't really explored too much, but one of them, Jane Feltes, (who also is a contributor to a podcast/ radio show This American Life which is where I heard of her first) has really good fashion advice and does really good hair and make up tutorials that you should look at and watch. Sometimes she says bad words though........ Just a warning. 

   So ever since I started fashion blog stalking I've thought to my self, "Maddie, you could probs do a fashion blog. That would be fun." so I think I'm going to do that. I think I'm going to start for reals when school starts back up and I actually try to look semi-okay sometimes. Okay? Okay. 

Oh, P.S. My friend Nicole is trying to get me and my friends to blog more so she's making us compete for a "surprise prize" and I'm like 97 1/2% sure that I have this in the bag with this post ^.

Quote Book

   So whenever someone says something funny (which happens a ton) I put it in the notepad of my phone. So here they are! Enjoy!


   “It’s like riding a bull if you’re from Spain, you never forget.” Braden W.

“I was texting in an accent.” Chandler

At special needs mutual: “When is your birthday?”  Sam S: “This Thursday October 21st.”

“Can I chop your hand off woman?! Actually she’s really nice. We’re kinda friends.” Doman

“The testicles of the west?!” Emily Poulton

“Just kidding, I know that’s a one…….. I mean a seven.” Elena

“If I invented Spanish it would be English.” Elena

“I will shave you a seat.” Elena

“Whoa! You looked like a cat for a minute!” Eli

Lisa: “No one is going to run after someone who screams like a man!” Ashley: “I would.”

“At first it was creepy, then it was Jesus.” Berlyn Slemboski

“Who else weird have I slept with?” Emily Poulton

“She doesn’t want you here. You’re uninvited. Nicole can come though!” Clody Clay

“I’m dressed like a ho and I love it! Isn’t it great?!” Elena

Brother Park: “It’s a monkey trap!”  Elena: “I’m learning so much!”

“I’m going to blow his towers!”  Doman talking about Osama

“She’s in my pants.” Austin T.

“That’s my baby food!” Amy

“I hate people who aren’t me or my friends!” Nicole

“It’s a squercle!” Nicole

“I really like those.  They bring out the color in your head.” Berlyn Slemboski

“Do you speak China?” my mom

 “YES, IVE BEEN STUCK IN MY HOUSE WATCHING "WHO FLUNG DUNG" SHOWS ALL DAY!” Berlyn Slemboski

Day 8: A Picture of Your Most Treasured Item

   I would say that my most treasured items are my friends and all the memories we've made. They're not really items but I definitely treasure them.  Yesterday was my last day hanging out with my best foreign friend Elena. We went to a Fictionist concert in Ceder City. It was a real adventure, half a mile before the exit Aaron's car broke down and we had to catch a ride with his brother-in-law. We were a little later than we wanted to be but thats okay, we had a blast! Then I had to take Elena home and say our last goodbyes. It was really sad but I fully intend on going to Spain and seeing her again.

Day 7: A Picture that Makes you Laugh

 

   One night my friends and I found the warp setting on my web cam and this and about a million other pictures is what resulted. When we took these pictures we were all literally rolling on the floor laughing our faces off. And now anytime I look at any of them on face book I just about die of laughter all over again and I love it!  

  

Day 6: A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day

   So basically I'm copying Miah's last blog post but thats okay because it's true. If I could switch places with anyone for a day it would be my beast friend's sister, Abby Doman. She is having some heart problems and needs a new heart within a year. The reason I would want to switch places with her is because her family has been through way too much and they don't need this too. They flat out just don't deserve it. I would gladly take her place it I could. 

Please, please, PLEASE pray for Abby and her family! Even if you don't know them. They need all the prayers they can get!

I love you Doman family! Hang in there!

Day 5: A Picture of your Favorite memory

   So I don't know if I would consider this my favorite memory but it's definitely a really great and spiritual one.  
   So heres the story. I was up in Salt Lake City las weekend for a state choir competition (we got a 1- by the way, holler!) and we had already left the high school we were performing at so next we went to the tabernacle at Temple Square to see Ms. Person in the Heritage  Choir perform. We had been watching for a while when my and my friend Miah decided we needed a potty break but there aren't any bathrooms in the tabernacle so we walked to the visitor center. On our way out we saw some of our other friends Hailee, Zach, and two freshman I didn't know. So we walked with us to the visitors center and we went to the bathroom and looked around for a while when the freshman walked past and said they were going upstairs to see the Christus for a while. We just said okay and kept looking around for a while. Then, Miah, Hailee, Zach, and I decided we would go upstairs and look at the Christus too. And when we get up there Hailee points out the two freshman.  And guess what they're doing. Those two adorable freshman were kneeling on the bench praying and crying. I was so moved that these two boys were so spiritual and moved that they had to pray in front of everyone where they could all see them. I was so touched I cried. Like really bad. I had never talked to or seen these boys in my life but now I don't think I'll ever forget them. 
   Sorry that was kinda long but hopefully it was worth your time. Remember L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N!

Day 4: A Picture of you and a Family Member

This is my older sister Erin and I. We're gr8. 

    She's off to college at BYU these days but we still text, skype, facebook, and occasionally call each other like when she's walking home from her work as a security guard by herself in the dark.  

    Anytime we're together we have fun, unless she's mad at me, which is not too often these days. Last summer we spent a lot of time together and we had SO much fun!! 

    One of my favorite memories was ice blocking with our brother Jake and our family friend Berlin. It was SO hot and SO humid because the park we went to was right by the river and the sprinklers were on. We were out until way late that night and it was way fun. 

Welp thats me and Erin!

Day 3: A Picture of the Cast from your Favorite Show

30 Rock is pretty much the funniest thing of my life. I'll be in my room watching it on hulu and someone will say something funny and I'll laugh my head off in my room by myself. I'm so not mad about it. 

Day 2: A picture of you and person you've been closest to the longest.

Brittany Doman M.K.A. (mostly known as) Doman. 

So Doman and I have been friends pretty much since I moved here in 7th grade. She's super great and no matter what we're doing together we have fun. And as she said in her blog post, we totes started the whole "John" thing. We're kinda legendary. NBD. 

100 Day Challenge: Day 1. A Picture of yourself with 15 facts

So I was blog stalking my friend, Doman and I saw that she was doing the 100 day challenge and I was like, "Hey! I never have anything interesting to say I should do this!" So thats what I'm doing. But, I'm kinda really mad that I have to write facts about myself again so I think I'm just going to find 15 random facts instead. So hurrr we go!!!

1. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth, 
2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
3. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
4. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
5. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
6. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

7.  Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

8. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

9. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

10. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

11. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

12. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

13. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

14. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

15. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

47 Facts for Nicole

So I know that I just posted a buttload of facts about myself but my gr8 friend Nicole tagged me in her 47 facts and I guess that means I'm required to do the same. I'm not mad. So here we go again.......  Enjoy!

1.     It's almost 11 o'clock in the PM and I have to wake up at 5. Sleep is for weirdies. 

2.     The reason I'm getting up at five is because I'm going to the gym. I am so tired of being so out of shape.

3.     I used to get really bad nose bleeds a lot but I hadn't had one for a really long time until the other day at my G-funks. (grandparents) 

4.     I'm going to E.F.Y., a church camp, in cedar by myself this summer and I'm kinda afraid that either I'm going to hate everyone or they are going to hate me. 

5.     I sleep on my stomach with my head to the left and my left arm under my pillow and my right arm close to my kinda by my face. Well thats where I start out, but sometimes I end up is some way different position. 

6.     I'm listening to a podcast about how UFOs work. Pretty interesting if you ask me. 

7.     I have the raddest friends is the whole world. 

8.     I LOVE spouting out random facts. I don't have a lot but the ones I do are super great. 

9.     My most favorite random fact is that people with red hair need more anesthesia before surgery or whatever. 

10. I get headaches everyday at about the same time. They suck. 

11.   I had this dot in my left eye a few years ago and all they doctors thought it was melanoma so they biopsied the dot and tested. I found out later, at a Brian Regan show, that it was a benign nevus. A freckle. That’s why my eye really red and a little cloudy all the time.

12. I’m listening to Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something and I love it.

13. I’m getting roots done tomorrow! Finally! They’re like an inch long!

14. I think Youtube should make it a policy that a video shouldn’t take more time to load than the length of the video. That’s just fact.

15.  I went to special needs mutual tonight and it was bombin’. It was the “trek”. We dressed up like pioneers and pulled handcarts around the park. Looking back on the whole thing I realized that we probably looked like a bunch of polygamists having a party of some sort.

16. Today I found out that I really like driving with no shoes on, only socks.

17. I swear I’ve listened to only Toy Bombs music today. I’m not mad.

18.  I posted some pictures to Toy Bombs’ facebook page and then they asked me to post them on their website. I’m not mad.

19. The lead singer of Toy Bombs profile picture is a picture I took of him a while ago. Not mad about that either. I am mad that he’s married and has a child though.

20.  I’m getting sleepy again……

21.  I still need to do homework though.

22.  I should probably get my priorities straight. Like homework before blogging…….. Nah!

23.    Bmvn,,,uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu0075

24.  ^ That is probs what it would look like if I fell asleep on my keyboard.

25.  I am seriously doubting that I will make it to the gym tomorrow morning but I will try real hard.

26.  Yeah I’ve spread this over three day now. What of it?!

27.  If you were wondering, I did not make it to the gym this morning. I was say too tired to deal with that.

28. Last night I fell asleep writing this. Literally. My head was resting on my laptop.

29.  I saw the movie Prom with Elena and Brink tonight and I loved every second of it.

30.  I got my roots done today! I look normal again!

31.  But they got bleach on my ear and now the skin is all peely and gross.

32.  I really really want to go to Encinitas this summer.

33.  I have these freckles on my upper lip that get darker in the summer so I look like I have a mustache. Not cool.

34.  One of my favorite sayings is, “No Christ, no peace. Know Christ, know peace.” But it kinda makes me mad that it only works when you write it down.

35.  When my brother came home a couple of hours ago he said, “Wanna know what I did in Calvin’s basement?!” I laughed. I laughed hard.

36.  This last quarter of school is dragging like none other. It’s killing me.

37.  I pretty much burned through all of my money today. But it was worth it.

38.  I have glow in the dark stars in my room.

39.  I like my ceramics class a whole lot. I have a ton of friends in there and I’m pretty good at it. I just love it.

40. I am so excited for youth conference, girl’s camp, and laurel retreat!

41. I am the messiest person I know. My room is a horrendous disaster.

42.  I have You Know What I Mean by The Cults stuck in my head hard core.

43.  I wish I would have spelled something with the first letter of each line. Too bad I’m not that clever.

44.  Zits can suck it!

45.  I’m listening to a Stuff You Should Know podcast called How Rollercoasters Work, Minus the Fun. So far so good.

46.  ^ They’re talking about Space Mountain and now I want to ride it so so so so bad!!!!

47.  I did it! 47 whole facts! I’m kinda proud, not gonna lie. Welp thanks for reading! Peace out girl/ boy scouts!

Evolution of Hair

As I said in my last post, I have change my hair color and style a lot. It all started when my parents went to Spain and I decided to cut my hair off (the 'rents were sort of informed but not really). It has all snowballed from there, but in a good way! I really like having a unique style. It shows that I'm not afraid what people say or think about me and thats a quality that I really like about myself. So I guess in closing I'd like to quote the great Ke$ha. "We R who we R" so own it.

Some Facts.

So I've seen people post these "100 facts about me" things so I think I'll give it a try. But, 100 is kinda a big number so I may or may not get to 100. We'll see.

1. I am 16 years old
2. I was born in Portland Oregon 
3. I have moved 6 times in my life and all but one were to different states.
4. After Oregon we moved to Arizona then to California, then a different house in California, then we moved to Boise Idaho, and now we live in St. George Utah.
5. The name of my blog is the name of a song by Noah and the Whale (copy right infringement? probs.)
6. I really like to use acronyms and shortened words (probs, totes, def,...etc.)
7. I think I have finally settled into the group of friends that I will be with at least until the end of high school. I really like them. 
8. I am an introvert by nature and an extrovert by force.  And I am not mad about it. 
9. I think I have an addictive personality. Basically that means that I get addictive to things very easily.  (Examples: Facebook, diet coke, reddit.com, blog stalking)
10. I'm kinda a democrat. 
11. I HATE when people blindly follow. Religion, politics, whatever. Figure it out for yourself. It works better that way. 
12. ^ this is probably the most I will talk about politics on this here blog and in life in general. I really hate politics. They just tick people off. 
13. I have never ever been a good student. 
14. Not going to college is not an option for me.
15. I have an older sister (18) and two young
16. I just wrote about 20 things and they all some how go deleted. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
17. My grandma just started to sing "baby I like it the way you move on the floor." Awk! But I love it.
18. My hair has been just about every color and every length possible. 
19. I really like fashion. Anyone who knows me can tell. I like to experiment. 
20. I love going to concerts. Especially at GoGo 37
21. I like pretty much all kinds of music except country and screamo  
22. Vanilla Coke Zero and ginger ale are my favorite sodas
23. Every weekday morning I watch the news while I eat breakfast then I listen to NPR while I get ready.
24. My family is the funniest group of people I know. When we get together we have way too much fun than should be legal.
25. I am super duper sarcastic and it's really annoying that it doesn't translate well in text. 
26. I am at my grandparent's house in Arizona right now and I just got done laying out by their pool. 
27. My friends call me off white. See above ^
28. Me and my friends have a secret group on facebook called Johners+Janers (girls are johners and boys are janers) it's probably the funnest thing of my life
29. This is harder than I thought it would be
30. I recently got a job working with a girl named Brittney, who has down syndrome, I pretty much get paid ten dollars an hour to hang out with her. I love it and her so so much!
31. When I grow up I want to be a special ed. teacher. 
32. I don't think I'll ever grow up though
33. My favorite color is red orange
34. I've done a buttload of babysitting in my life 
35. Once while babysitting one of the girls puked and I cleaned it up. Word spread and I was the most requested babysitter in the ward. 
36. Ever since I was really little I have had to listen to something, usually a book on tape, to fall asleep. But now I listen to podcasts to fall asleep. 
37. My favorite podcast is This American Life
38. I almost never have dreams (I know what your about to say. "Everyone has dreams you just don't remember them" well to you I say: Shut up, I know but what is a dream if I can't even remember it? Nothing." and I mean that in the nicest way possible. 
39. I think I'm about to give up on this. 
40. Yeah I'm done.
41. Thanks for reading this (assuming you actually did)
42. Remember. L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
43. Byeeeeeee!! Depending on who you are I love you!!