It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

Today continued to be an interesting day. Helena, Montana is different from where I grew up in Kalispell. It's windy here all the TIME and this morning my step-father said it was supposed to be really hot and really windy. For some reason, the Montana Forest Service still thought it would be a good idea to light a controlled burn and SURPRISE, SURPRISE it got out of hand. Way to go, forest service. You can see the flames from here.

The wind whipped up and I wanted to take photos.

( Said Photos )

SO, on to dinner conversation in Montana. My parents have horses (they did not name that one Chocolate, a little girl did) and they were discussing what Larry will be able to do once he retires.

Larry: I might teach Chocolate to pull a sleigh this winter.
Mom: Why?
Larry: Put little bells on.
Mom: Where?!
Larry: Oh, on the roads and stuff.
Mom: ....okay
Larry: Jingle bells jingle bells.
Mom: ...*changing subject* I'm wondering what colour that barn is going to be.
Larry: Red. It's not a cow barn.
Mom: How can you tell?
Larry: Cow barns are cheap and lower and that one is nice and tall. That's a horse barn. For horses.
Mom: Well there are cows there now. Lara, over there where that outhouse is? That's where the cows play.
Me: ....just...wow.

Larry: Who was that guy. You know. The piano player?
Mom: ...I have no idea.
Larry: You know *mimes playing piano*
Mom: I know what a piano is!

And then they dissolved into giggles. My parents are ridiculous and I love them very much. Beats listening to racist diatribes over dinner. By a million and a half miles.

Yesterday I nearly cut my finger off cutting up tomatoes for a salad. And today my nephew, sister and the family flew away from me :( TWO BIG FROWNS! And Jayann went back to Missoula but hopefully she is coming back next week yayyyy!

BUT I went out to lunch with my mommy, and tonight we are having tacos (I am not allowed to cut tomatoes), there's a storm coming (STORMS YAY) and I bought my NZ housemates (and friends) Twinkies so they could try them and be like the people in the films. Eating gross things. I also got Butterfingers. I have a list. It makes me LOL silently.

I am in the US. My family is surrounding me and it's terribly amusing. I also just slept from 9 pm until 3pm the next day. Seriously. 21 hours travelling. Goodness me.

I'll post my travelling stuff later because it's almost time for dinner and there's steak and salmon and corn and squealing nieces.

And my nephew is the coolest person in the world. We just spent an hour talking about Rent (NO SERIOUSLY OH MY GOD IT'S THE BEST THING EVER OH MY GOD YES <---Direct quote from Malik) and later we might watch Rhys Darby or Dylan Moran. Because I need to convert him.

>:D

I spoke to my mother on the phone this afternoon, and all the while, Alison was writing quotes down as we talked.

STALKER! <---Here

They amuse me greatly.

Oh, and the people with the 'dog or maybe it was a cat' had a dog named Tiger and they were named Art and Angie and they used to watch me sometimes. Art worked with my mother. I kept having memories and wondering who they were and when I asked, SHE didn't remember. Luckily I remembered the name Art. By the way, I was like 6. GO, MEMORY, GO!

*back to essay*

I keep forgetting to post this but omg look:

( It's Betty White and Hugh Jackman! )

*SQUEEEEEE* They are so cute!! And cuddling! ADORABLE!

Aaaaaanyway, that was all. It's mother's day, and my mummy is off travelling in her new RVthing. She's adorable and I hope she has a lovely time. She deserves it for being the best mummy in the entire entire world!

I got my earlier journal submissions back today graded and got B plusses, which YAY! Both the comments were 'reflect more' though which pisses me off because we have 600 words in which to introduce a topic, explain our learning and then relfect on it AND include two points which influenced us. 600 WORDS!?! ARE YOU IN-FREAKING-SANE! But whatever, because I finished my final three submissions and tried to work in more reflection and hopefully that'll work ;) AND I finished my pointless book review in 440 (it was supposed to be less than 500) and it's BORING but what can you do, eh? I had to read a huge article on social policy for it. That was enough work!

Today I was sitting in human development class and the lady was talking about how infants and children model their behaviour on the grown ups around them, which everyone knows especially if you can studied human development before. But I think today is the first time I realised that was probably why my mother was always so careful with her behaviours around us. Like...SO careful. Always cheerful and happy even when things sucked major boo. And though that means that sometimes when everything is going wrong I don't want to talk about it until afterwards because I don't like to SHOW my strife (or what have you, but I'm working on it!), I think that is probably why I'm so relatively together. Note the relatively, kplsthx.

So hey, thanks, Mommy! She's a pretty amazing lady, darnit.