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Earache, Tired, and Busy Oh My!

Oh man, what I am doing up at 7:40 am I have no idea.

No, wait...I do...

It's because I forgot to turn off my alarm last night when I was up at 1am.  And 2am.  And 3. How does that slip my mind, really?!

Probably because I woke up around 1 because my ear was plugged and something, surely, had gotten into my ear and was slowly ripping the insides apart.  And even though I'm totally old enough to just go back to bed for goodness sake, there was a good chance in my opinion that that hideous tiny monster was ripping my eardrum apart.  So I went and got my mom.

Nah, don't worry--I wasn't afraid of tiny monsters in my ear.  I was afraid of an ear infection.  My dad had one last year, and it was the most pain we've ever seen him in (and that's saying something).  Unfortunately, at one in the morning, I had forgotten that he hadn't had a normal ear infection.  No...a weird little organism had worked its way into his ear since he had been in the water.

That brings me back to my little monster again.  Huh.  But this was no monster, of course.  So after literally an hour and 45 minutes of no change even after putting heat on it for that long, Mom looked at the doctor's website and said that it would go away on it's own, and then I had to take an extra-strength Tylenol and finally fell asleep around 3.

Certainly it makes sense that I'm tired.  Today it's much better, only a little plugged.  Plugged I can handle.  My pain tolerance level=zero.  Of course, tired I will be because if it was up to me I would be asleep right now but we have a busy, busy day (school, running errands, going to Latin, stopping by a friend's house tonight).  Gotta get up and moving!

Ooh...up and moving.  Which is not what I'm doing right now by schmoozing in my pajamas writing a really long blog post on the computer after checking my email and reading blogs...

So that is my epic adventure of the very early morning ear monster that ripped apart my eardrum but really wasn't there at all.

Happy Homeschooling!

Botanical Garden Trip!!

Hello!  Today I have a post that I'm super excited about (but maybe I'm just weird haha!)!!  A few days we went to the Botanical Garden and it was so fun; we got to see things there that we never have before!  We had a picnic lunch and got to see tons of flowers, plants, etc.  Mom thought this would be a great time for me to take some pictures for school of course so with us came the camera.  And luckily I had spare batteries packed--otherwise there would only be a couple pictures!  Instead there lots and lots so be prepared to get an eyeful of plant life :)  Underneath each picture is a caption specifying what each category the plant is.  If you need to decipher the names (why am I calling a palm tree a cycad?!) see below!
Cycad=palm tree that produces cones instead of fruit such as coconuts, dates, etc.
Angiospermae=flowering/fruiting plants with seeds inside the flower/fruit
Gymnospermae=plants/trees that bear just seeds, no fruit (example: conifers)

Cycad

Lichen--I learned perspective stuff in my 4H Photo project, hence the angle

More Cycads!  Yay! ;)

These plants can live to be 1500 to 2000 years old!!

This is a horsetail, it is related to pine trees.

Hello there, Mr Lizard!  There were tons of these guys in the desert section.

Angiospermae--the purple is stunning, don't you think?!

This was a water snake.  He was swimming with his pal in the pond :)

And one woman found this newt egg sac and picked it out of the water to show the kids.  She let me take a picture.  You could see the tiny newt babies!

These two are both Angiospermae.  This might sound kinda weird, but the long thing in the middle is actually the female part of the flower, and the shorter ones are the male ones.

Algae floating in another pond (there are several)

Truthfully, I have no idea what this is, but I really like playing around with perspective shots!

Moss...not much else to say about it!

A beautiful rose!! Reminded me of springtime :)

I took a picture of this celestial sphere thing because of my last science unit: astronomy.

Another picture of an angiosperm, but this one I took because of the leopard pattern on the petals!

They had the most beautiful streams with miniature waterfalls; fairytale woods I swear.

Gymnospermae...a conifer.

Again, weird thought, but these are female pinecones--

--And the male pinecone.

I really hope you enjoyed these pictures, they took a looong time to upload haha and these are maybe half of all of them!!  Mom is teaching me so much in this unit and it's really fun.  See the transformation--a girl who never really liked science before...now using multiple exclamation points while talking about it :)  Must be the magic of homeschooling right?!

Happy Homeschooling!

Easter Time!

Easter is just in a few days!!  I hope everyone has a great Easter/Spring and good spring break (if they haven't had it already).  Our family celebrates Easter by going to church in the morning, then having lunch/dinner with my dad's side of the family.  Since my mom has family out here too now, they're going to join us!!  :)  Anyhow, there probably won't be many posts this weekend because of that.  Also if you want beach pictures for any reason, just comment or something because we're going tomorrow!!  Have a great day and Easter weekend!

Now I've got to go...school is waiting.

Happy Homeschooling!