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Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I have been home and been super busy!

I will update next week and tell you everything that has been going on in my life.

Thanks for being patient.

Baking Soda...

I remember my first day of my Junior year in high school.

I remember running to my class because the bell had rung and I was late for my first day of class. *Side note: My sister drove me to school my freshman and sophomore year of high school. I was never late because someone wanted to leave ridiculously early from my house... but I won't mention any names. Needless to say, when my sister moved to college and I left when wanted to... I was late.* I walked into my first class and it was physics. I feel like the words 'Anna' and 'Physics' should never be put in the same sentence. Anyways, I remember my teacher introducing the class to what physics was all about:

"Have you ever wondered what the building blocks of matter are?" - Mr. Woods

(I didn't even understand the question...) - My thoughts 

"Have you ever wondered if you shot a bullet straight up in the air, will it come straight down?"- Mr. Woods

(No) - My thoughts

"Have you ever wondered how the golden gate bridge was built?" - Mr. Woods

(No) - My thoughts

"Have you ever wondered if you are driving 60mph, how long will it take you stop if you slam on your breaks?" - Mr. Woods

(No) - My thoughts

"Have you ever wondered what conditions that are needed for an object to maintain its state of motion, whether it is at rest or accelerating due to a constant force?" - Mr. Woods

(What?) - My thoughts

"Have you ever wondered how to determine the momentum before and after and inelastic collision?" - Mr. Woods

(No, Is this a joke? I turned to look at the rest of my class to see if anyone else looked confused) - My thoughts 

"Have you ever wondered how many cars can make it through a green light?" - Mr. Woods

(No) - My thoughts 

"If you answered yes to those questions, then you are in the right place!!" - Mr. Woods

(Ummm.... I don't care about any of those things. Is it to late to change classes? I'm 100% sure I am going to fail this class) - My thoughts

I stayed in the class for two more weeks then transfered into Botany. We had dead flies and would trick the Venus Fly Trap plants into closing. This was my kind of class. 

I bought Baking Soda the other day to place in my refrigerator. I thought Baking Soda has to be the weirdest product, but you can use it for everything. How does that work?

-Use it to eliminate odor 

-Use it to make cookies

-Use it if you have a stomach ache (that's on the box)

-Use it with toothpaste to make your teeth whiter

-Use it in your shampoo to make your hair healthier 

-Use it to clean with

Does no one else think that it is strange that you can cook with this product and clean with it? This doesn't add up to me. 

Why couldn't Mr. Woods teach this in my physics class?

Critters...

Critters is a very southern word... I didn't realize that until I started writing this post.

I am packing to come home and I am super excited!

My mom and I were talking about what I needed to pack the other day and this is what she said:

"Make sure you zip up your bags in between packing, I don't want you to bring any critters(geckos) home." - Mom

Everyone thinks the gecko stories are funny, until there is a possibility they could have one in their house...

Procrastination...

Procrastination and I are best friends. We have been best friends for several years, probably since I started school, if I had to guess.

Procrastination is not a good influence on me.

My life is consumed at the moment, by writing an 8 page paper on something that I do not know a lot about, that is due tomorrow.

I will write later... that is if I make it out alive from this paper...

Is That A Woman's Clothing Store?

One great thing about living in Hawaii is no one knows who this team is!! My sister shared this lovely video with me yesterday and I decided to post on a friend's facebook wall, who is an Alabama fan as well. I went to hang out with friends tonight and I had one person say:

"Hey Anna, I saw the video you put on Wes's Wall" - Chad

"Yeah I thought it was funny!" - Me

"Yeah me too! Is that a woman's clothing store down in the South? Is that why the kid didn't want to go in there?"- Chad

"(After I recovered from laughter) No, that is the University of Alabama's biggest rival." - Me

"Ohh, I have never heard of them before." - Chad

"Yeah, not to many people have, they are unimportant." - Me

Your Dixie's Football Pride Crimson Tide, Roll Tide, Roll Tide

April Fool's Day...

Except is isn't April and I am the 'fool.'

A couple of Sunday's ago I had my alarm set for 9:30 am. Now, I know some of you are up and chipper by 7:00 am, but as for the rest of us, keep your chipper-ness to a minimum until 10 am when I can actual function please. Anyways, my alarm went off as usual and instead of looking at the alarm, I was still facing the wall, and just began slapping my hand against the clock, assuming I hit the snooze button because the beeping stopped. My church doesn't start until 11:00 am, so I could hit the snooze button a couple more times. As I was waiting for the alarm to annoyingly beep again, it didn't. I knew I hadn't turn the alarm off, so I rolled over to look at my clock. It was 10:40 am already!!! Where did the time go?! Why didn't my snooze go off again?? I was going to be late... well I am always late, but more late than normal!! I got up washed my faced, put on make-up, and turned on my straightener.

As I was waiting on my straightener to heat up, I turned on my computer to look on facebook. I decided that I probably needed to hurry and decided to look at the time on my computer. The time read 9:45 am!!! I was throughly confused! I looked back at my clock and then back to my computer and there was an hour time difference. I picked up my trusty phone and sure enough it was 9:45 am!! I hate wasting precious sleep time! I realized when I was slapping the clock earlier, I must have hit the hour button and got ready an hour early for nothing. I felt like someone had played an April Fool's Day joke on me, except I was the one who played the joke on myself.

I didn't find it funny.

I went back to sleep for 30 minutes. Somehow, I was still late fore church...

Whistling...

Jalousie Window

      As stated in a previous post my apartment has Jalousie Windows. (This is not my window, but it looks exactly like this) You are never really alone with a window like this. Sometimes if your neighbors are on their lanai (porch), I can hear their conversations. My neighbor performs at restaurants, and every now and then, I hear him practicing his Ukulele. I do not mind it though because I love music and it is nice to listen to when I am painstakingly doing the dishes. (I really do hate cleaning dishes, if you can't tell)

     Speaking of music, I listen to music constantly. I have always loved music. Growing up I would just be randomly singing or whistling without realizing it, until someone would say something to me. (This was not my sister's favorite habit of mine)  Needless to say that has never stopped me from continuing the habit. *Side note: My dad also loves music (that's who I get it from), so my sister gets a double dose of it. My dad and I are both strong whistlers and when we are together we like to whistle songs together.*

     Anyways, this past Sunday I was sitting at my kitchen table working on homework. I had been listening to music all day, as usual, and the song "Sway" by Michael Buble got stuck in my head. (Dean Martin's version is better, but that is a topic for another post on another day) I was working on critiquing a research paper for class and was really concentrating. Well, without realizing it, I was whistling the song "Sway". (I guess it helps me think and process things) One of my friends texted me and that knocked me out of my deep concentration. Suddenly, I realized that I was whistling, but something sounded funny. 

I was whistling, but I was not alone. 

    Panic started to consume within me, did someone get into my apartment? No one could be in here though, because I can see both of my doors and they have not been opened. At that moment, I remembered stranger things have happened in this apartment, so no reason to lose hair over this.  I could hear two whistles. One whistle being my own, but the other whistle was not mine. I quickly stopped whistling to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. I sat quietly at my table and could hear someone else whistling. Where this other person was, I don't know. Had they been whistling with me the whole time? The second whistler, whistled for 30 more seconds and then stopped. I waited patiently for this second whistler to begin whistling. They didn't make one peep. I began to wonder if they were playing a game with me.

I mean is it really strange to hear more than one person whistle at a time? What are the odds that both of us were whistling and didn't know the other one was whistling?

    I felt like the ball was in my court (if this indeed was a game). I waited one more minute and heard nothing. I decided to make my move and then whistled a melody for a good 15 seconds and stopped. Then I eagerly awaited to see if my opponent would  strike back or wallow in defeat. Suddenly, I heard a distant whistle. At this point in time, I began to wonder, maybe they do not even hear me whistling and they are just whistling. The other whistle stopped and I decided to whistle again. (Looking back, I do not know why I continued whistling. I guess at the time, whistling was more entertaining than homework) Anyways, the second whistler did not continue, nor did I. I decided to turn on my music and focus on my homework. I haven't heard the second whistler since. On the contrary, I will be ready when they decide to whistle again. 

I am beginning to question if things like this happen to other people in their apartments?