Zoological

I went to the zoo this morning! They have some really cool animals there.

"I think it's a given for the zoo to have 'some really cool animals.'"

Whatever, Claudia. Whatever.

Cool animals, see?

Penguins! And puffins! Puffins, walking on the rocks right above my head! It's a wonder they didn't just jump off. I guess the likes of me will never know why…

My stupid phone camera has no zoom feature. These are flamingos, in case you couldn't tell.

There was a cool carousel, too.

Exactly what it says on the elaborate door.

That is, that there are birds inside.

Believe it or not, while we were there we spotted an animal outside of its enclosure. One of the more vicious li'l beasts too:

T. straitus, the eastern chipmunk. Genus Tamias, family Sciuridae. The horror.

D'aw, lookit the cute li'l monkey!

I'M A TURTLE! HAPPY HAPPY--GIMME YOUR MONEY!

And I spotted this cutie in the Herpetarium:

j/k

Oh, I tried to, but these buff guys with radios dragged me out of the zoo after I mauled a Dippin' Dot's stand.

And that is the story of my trip to the zoo. This uber-long post full of pictures makes up for not blogging yesterday.

Ce n'est pas un éléphant.

This is what's awesome today.

How A Winking Car Turned Me Into A Tree

Well, not me. It wasn't me at first. It was this guy and a girl.

In case you couldn't tell from the title, this is a post about a dream.

I spent most of this dream watching this guy, who was some sort of underground-dwelling humanoid species, and his friend, a human girl, run around town following a set of instructions. I wasn't in the dream, I was just an observer.

I can only remember two parts of the dream: At one point, the guy asked the girl which part of town had streets that were paved with brick, and at the end, they went to a lake. While they were looking around, the guy saw a car parked on the path and tried to get the girl's attention, but she just said, "Whatever, it's a car."

And then the car winked at him and turned into the evil guy who was apparently chasing them all along. He turned them into trees in order to get the instructions, but the guy, who I had somehow turned into, dropped the paper on the ground and stepped on it. So the evil guy never got the instructions, because they were trapped in tree roots.

Or so I assume. I kind of woke up then.

Internets, Lovely Internets. And Claudia Is Here

I'm back! I couldn't post yesterday or the day before, because my grandparents don't have Wi-Fi. But I had fun visiting them, and my aunt was awesome, as always.

"I doubt anyone noticed you were gone. Also, I've noticed some grammatical errors in your post title."

And this is Claudia, my inner editor of life.

"And ‘Newfallen’ isn't a word. It's either ‘New-Fallen’ or ‘New Fallen,’ but it can't be ‘Newfallen.’"

She can be a little harsh sometimes.

"Sometimes? I'm harsh all the time, sister. Also, you should really go do that homework day you've been putting off."

You sound like my mom, Claudia.

"I'm not your mother, but I can act just like her if I need to."

Please don't.

"I really don't deserve this. I could have been inner editor to J.K. Rowling, but I got stuck with you."

If you had been J.K. Rowling's inner editor, the Harry Potter books would have been a lot worse.

"I sense gloom here. Why don't you try and smile once and a while?"

I am smiling. You just can't see it, because you're in my head and can't see my mouth. Oh yeah, I'm smiling really big. I feel like the bottom half of my head is about to fall off!

"Watch that sarcasm, Omnia."

If I tried to keep my sarcasm in check, I'd have nothing to write those books you love trashing with.

"Of course, dear. Now why don't you end this post before you alienate your friends? It's getting a bit long and argumentative."

Whatever.

Spreadable Butter is Stupid and Hates Me

The subtitle of this post is "The Post Whose Title Has Nothing To Do With Its Contents. Again."

Anyway, I didn't post yesterday, which I bet nobody noticed unless you're closely following my blog for insights into my slightly warped mind (In which case you're probably either a stalker or a psychiatrist). But today I have a couple things to post.

Thing 1: Today, I'm going to visit my grandparents! Which is going to be lovely apart from the 12-hour round-trip car ride. The horror. But I have knitting and a 10-hour Jasper Fforde book-on-CD to listen to, so hopefully it'll be better than my last trip.

Thing 2: Today in history. According to my li'l calendar thing, today was pretty eventful. Not only is today the anniversary of the first postage stamp (England, 1840), but it is also the birthdays of Robert Peary and Sigmund Freud (both in 1856. Coincidence? I THINK NOT ) and the Hindenberg explosion, which my calendar defines as (I quote): "Airship Hindenburg blew up and burned."

Lovely.

I noticed there were two "Things" in this post. 

So here is a picture of Thing 1 and Thing 2. 

Today Is The Best. Day. EVER!

In terms of my phone is working again. But the camera…well, I'll work on that. It was working, and then I deleted my pictures because Andy is keeping them now (I named my laptop Andy). Now it isn't working. But, whatever. It'll work eventually. I will be optimistic, like Phil!

Huh? Huh? Anyone? Really? Nobody knows what I'm referencing there? Jeeze…

PICKLE CHIPS and ROOT BEER FLOATS!

Yeah, you read that right. Jealous much, Emily and Claire?

I went to the Botanical Gardens today. It was fun because I met this awesome girl, Lindsay. (Lindsey? Lindzey? I do not know.) We kind of got lost from the rest of the group at one point, and we wandered around the Japanese Garden for a while. She is like a crazy ball of Doctor Who-watching, Anime-loving, Shakespeare-acting crazy awesome.

And then I went to this one restaurant that I took Emily and Claire (hi!) to last month when they visited. Pickle chips! Root beer floats! I got one with coffee ice cream. And I got a margarita (I have no idea how to spell that) pizza again.

After that I went to the LIBRARY! I have the next Artemis Fowl book next to me right now. Say hello, next Artemis Fowl book.

(Hello)

*fangirl squee*

My copy has the cover on upside down. It's really cool.