bear my testimony

I was challenged to bear my testimony this fast Sunday. I'm like ok but I'm nervous as I'm uncomfortable public speaking

am i missing something?

so many people find my flamingo tote bag funny. I'm like, "am I missing something?" while also thinking, "what's funny about a toe bag with a flamingo on it?" no it wasn't the only 1 on sale but I liked it.

oof hi

so I was at my friend Elizabeth's funeral and said hi to her mom by saying, "hi Jackie." her mom gave me the biggest hug and said "I know your name."

Baby Train

this can't be real. The Baby Train or simply Baby Train is an urban legend, told in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. The legend first appear in Christopher Morley's 1939 novel Kitty Foyle. According to the legend, a certain small town had an unusually high birth rate. This was allegedly caused by a freight train passing through the town and blowing its whistle, waking up all the residents. Since it was too late to go back to sleep and too early to get up, couples would find other ways to amuse themselves in bed. This resulted in a mini-baby boom. Plot: One version of the myth, as written down by the Australian author and folklorist Bill Scott in The Long & The Short & The Tall: a collection of Australian yarns tells the story of a little town on the coast, not too far north of Sydney, where the birth rate was three times the average for all the rest of Australia. This was so unusual the Government sent someone out to the town to investigate the cause for the high birth rate. When the official arrived, he found children everywhere he looked. "Even the local school had those temporary classrooms all over the place to fit them in and they had a special maternity wing at the local hospital." The man was mystified for a while. The people there didn’t seem different from people in other small towns, so he couldn't understand why they got three times as many children. After a few nights in the town, the man figured it out. This particular town was right by the main railway line. The train was delivering mail right past the town, and thus blew its whistle when it stopped. Since it was too early to get up and it was too late to go back to sleep again, the adults had to find something to do in bed while waiting. This then led to the very high birth rates. Other versions of the myth vary to different degrees. Sometimes the small town is in America or England, and one version tells of noisy foghorns rather a than train whistle. Similar myths and actual events: The story is related to the rumour that birth rates spiked nine months after the Northeast Blackout of 1965, the actual birthrate increase in Boston after February 1969 nor'easter September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and other natural disasters and similar events. It is based on the premise that when regular life is disrupted adults will resort to sex as entertainment without regard for family planning or protection. Background: In 1939 Baby Train was mentioned in Christopher Morley's novel Kitty Foyle : “The first thing you hear mornings in Manitou is the early Q train to Chicago. It’s too early to get up and too late to go to sleep again. They have a legend out there that the morning yells of that rattler do a good deal to keep up the birth-rate.” In 1944 the story was published in The New Anecdota Americana : Five Hundred Stories for America's Amusement. In 1946 it appeared in A Collection of Jokes and Anecdotes by Bennett Cerf: "A visitor to “a small town near Charleston” is struck by the number of children in that village and thinks to ask the waiter at his hotel about it. The obliging server takes the traveler to see the train tracks at the east end of town where the expresses to Miami come barreling through. “It’s this way,” he explained. “That damned train rushes by here every morning at seven o’clock. It’s too early to get out of bed, and too late to go back to sleep.”" In 1946 Frank Cunningham wrote the book Big Dan: The Story Of A Colorful Railroader about the railroader Daniel Goode Cunningham or Big Dan. In the book the Baby Train myth is mentioned. In 1956 Baby Train popped up in Playboy's "Party Jokes". In 1967 Readers Digest mentioned a version of the myth without a train: "A harried young serviceman, tripping over small children, babies in buggies and the assorted paraphernalia of the very young in a shopping area of San Francisco, sputtered exasperatedly, “Good Lord! Don’t these people around here ever do anything else?” A passerby commented knowingly, “It’s the foghorns.”" In 1985 Bill Scott, an Australian folklorist published The Long & The Short & The Tall: a collection of Australian yarns, where the Baby Train is written down. In 1993 folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand published the book The Baby Train & Other Lusty Urban Legends. The Baby Train was Brunvand's fifth in a series of books that set out to document, and occasionally debunk, urban legends such as "Cactus and Spiders," "The Slasher Under the Car," and "Car Theft during Earth Quake," along with the "Baby Train." Many of the stories were collected from readers of Brunvand's syndicated newspaper column, "Urban Legend". Like Brunvand's previous urban legend books, stories in The Baby Train & Other Lusty Urban Legends are divided into common themes: automobiles, animals, horror, accidents, sex and scandals, crime, business and professional, government, celebrity rumours, and academic legends.

hair in bun

my hair is in a bun. it's awesome as my hair is ribcage length and needs to be held back.

chicken soup

I'm going to try making chicken noodle soup.... again. the 1st time was horrible. I'm hoping making the noodles 1st will make it easier to eat.

long hair

my hair is super long. I'm able to have my hair to have in the different hairstyles. I love it long since my long black hair is amazing about it curly, straight and in a bun. it's ribcage length. I can cut it but I'm able to have my hair long but it's not been cut since august. I streaked it blonde a couple times in high school.

Weird

My family were going to get ice cream at bask in robins and it was closing shortly despite it being open (legally speaking) until 10 pm. We got there around 6:15 and it was closing early? On a Saturday?

Bowling

I went bowling tonight. Started out cruddy but got 2nd place behind 1 of my brothers

arsenal

my mom said having a priesthood blessing in my arsenal was a benefit as I'd lost my last and longest surviving grandparent

Jackie

when I "set up shop" (set my stuff down and started listening to music) my friend Daniel called me over as he gave up his seat for me. honestly I was fine as I was listening to music and dancing but I was like "ok" to join in. I was there early so I figured why not

doctor's appointments

they're like shots. I hate them but you have to do things you don't always enjoy. on the up side: i'm reducing my medication for my diabetes so i'm going in the right direction

school

my 1st week of school is done. I'm so happy. I've got 1 more thing I've got to do before I can relax because it's a doctor's appointment but other than that i'm free.

is it summer to you?

I was asked this in my administration of criminal justice class. the teacher saw me in a sleeveless tank top and I'm like oh no I don't cold very easily and it's decently warm (comparatively).

yay

my 1st day back was a success.... I think. my teachers are awesome.

ugh

my back is in total agony. it sucks as I couldn't find tons of pain killers.

freeze

i can be totally fine in thin things. many people ask how do you not get cold? I do eventually get cold but it's much longer/ harder for me to freeze over. i'll be sitting there in a thin long sleeve and watch everyone start to freeze in their oversized sweaters laughing my head off. yesterday I wore layers and was told to dress warmly because of the wind chill by everyone including my visiting teacher. my mom told me to thank her as she knew how thin I dressed

yummy

i had coffee and donuts this morning for breakfast after a blood test. not the healthiest but very convenient.

zebra print

my old favorite leggings were zebra print

listening to crazy outside

accurate description of a pro lifer who comes to campus to annoy students. some students of an English class I took were wondering where our teacher was and someone said, "maybe listening to crazy outside."