The House of Hapsburg, WWI, ABBA, Enonomics, and Politics At Play Practice

There is a new nickel. That is crazy. It has Lewis and Clark on the back of it, instead of Monticello.

Anyway, random thought.

My mouth is all colored and sugary from Gobstoppers. I didn't even eat them all. That is crazy. It's actually a candy I can't gorge! Lol . . .

I felt much better today, probably because I had actually gotten some sleep; no crazy delirious dreams! Though I did get very hot at one point . . . I actually made it through the night, and woke up at 4:30, and felt well-rested, and actually went back to sleep!

So then I got this award in Spanish. I get to go the little award weinie roast during my lunch hour. Does anybody else (at Central obviously) have one of those? I'm afraid I'm going to be lonely and all not-rewarded.

I love this song, Fernando.

You know what's crazy? The House of Hapsburg-- which is attached to the House of Castille and the House of Aragon, married through Isabel and Ferdinand of back in Columbus's day . . . and then their kid married Isabel's brother's kid, and then that kid's kid married their doubly cousin-and-second-cousin. Their child was insane. Gee, I wonder why? Talk about incest. So, in the end, the House of Hapsburg all produced people with very large chins. It was due to overbreeding, rather like the people in Arkansas or whatever with the blue skin. Anyway, it makes for a very amusing family tree. I charted it out one day in World History, because I had my Spanish book which gives all of the first parts of the family (but in Spanish-- like I had to do some translating, ie: Felipe-Philip, Carlos-Charles, etc . . . ), and then I charted out the rest using my World History book. That is about 12 generations and several centuries of Hapsburgs/Castilles/Aragons. I wish I could trace my family back that far.

It all just reminds me of the beautiful family tree I did of the Black family way back ^_^ that was pretty awesome, too . . .

Also, I think it's funny about how all the fighting rulers of WWI were all related.
"You got the bigger bike for Christmas!!!" *Sets troups on brother's country.*
"Grama always liked you better!" (Grama being Queen Victoria, lol) *Retaliates with more troops.*
"How come you got Russia? I want Russia. I just got stupid old Germany. Confound you!" *Sets troops on France.*
"Hey, doofus, you always sucked at Geography; Mummy said you were stupid-- Russia's that way."
"Shut up, England!"
"Make me!"
"I will!" *Sends more troops.*
"Russia! Make Germany stop fighting me!"

. . . and the rest is history. Kind of. That wasn't even really history. Dramatic interpretation . . . lol . . .

Speaking of ABBA (way back to the point), I was singing ABBA today when we were playing Monopoly in Economics, but no one noticed, I don't think. I was singing "Take A Chance" (the really repetitive background guys' part . . . "Take a chance take a chance take a chance . . . ") every time someone got a "Chance" card. I lost-- though maybe not as badly as Deepak. I just never landed on property, to buy it. I just landed on Alice's squares and had to pay her. In the end, I ended up with like $1666. Alice had like $15,000, but that was because about $900 was earned by her landing on that loaded Free Parking. Robert did well, too, with his utilities/railroad monopolies, but Alice had like a totally dominated row, with like three houses on each. Ouchie. That's actually the first time I've seen anyone put that many houses on one square. Then again, I don't think I've actually ever FINISHED a game of Monopoly, either; we just set a time limit (or get bored), and then stop.

I'm not very good at it, I don't think. The other group played the Lord of the Rings version. I wish she would have had the Harry Potter version (assuming there is one-- which I would assume there is); I would have been all up on that one.

We were all talking about politics at play rehearsal until Mr. Ong made us shut up. Though I was bitter and kept remarking about how we can talk perfectly well while stretching. Erik kept yelling "Vote Kerry!" and Ashley (does she spell it Ashley or Ashleigh? Tubbs?) kept arguing about how Bush was better and we needed to get Al-Qaeda, and then Dan and I kept arguing back about how Iraq had nothing to do with it and why the heck should we continue to stay there when it wasn't relevant in the first place, and Richard kept yelling "Vote Nadar!" just to be silly (or maybe he really does want to vote for Nadar? Lol . . . you know, I just really something; Nadar is swim in Spanish . . . hey, how about that? Lol . . . ) and then I went off on a big rant about how my mom is breaking up with him as her pretend boyfriend, and now Bill Nye is her one and only, and then everybody wonders whatever HAPPENED to Bill Nye (he's never on anymore *sniff*) and Ashley was going to tell me a story and then we were finally made to shut up.

Maybe it was good he did that. Though I was stretching the whole time.

Hey, I never DID hear Ashley's story . . .

The House of Hapsburg, WWI, ABBA, Enonomics, and Politics At Play Practice

There is a new nickel. That is crazy. It has Lewis and Clark on the back of it, instead of Monticello.

Anyway, random thought.

My mouth is all colored and sugary from Gobstoppers. I didn't even eat them all. That is crazy. It's actually a candy I can't gorge! Lol . . .

I felt much better today, probably because I had actually gotten some sleep; no crazy delirious dreams! Though I did get very hot at one point . . . I actually made it through the night, and woke up at 4:30, and felt well-rested, and actually went back to sleep!

So then I got this award in Spanish. I get to go the little award weinie roast during my lunch hour. Does anybody else (at Central obviously) have one of those? I'm afraid I'm going to be lonely and all not-rewarded.

I love this song, Fernando.

You know what's crazy? The House of Hapsburg-- which is attached to the House of Castille and the House of Aragon, married through Isabel and Ferdinand of back in Columbus's day . . . and then their kid married Isabel's brother's kid, and then that kid's kid married their doubly cousin-and-second-cousin. Their child was insane. Gee, I wonder why? Talk about incest. So, in the end, the House of Hapsburg all produced people with very large chins. It was due to overbreeding, rather like the people in Arkansas or whatever with the blue skin. Anyway, it makes for a very amusing family tree. I charted it out one day in World History, because I had my Spanish book which gives all of the first parts of the family (but in Spanish-- like I had to do some translating, ie: Felipe-Philip, Carlos-Charles, etc . . . ), and then I charted out the rest using my World History book. That is about 12 generations and several centuries of Hapsburgs/Castilles/Aragons. I wish I could trace my family back that far.

It all just reminds me of the beautiful family tree I did of the Black family way back ^_^ that was pretty awesome, too . . .

Also, I think it's funny about how all the fighting rulers of WWI were all related.
"You got the bigger bike for Christmas!!!" *Sets troups on brother's country.*
"Grama always liked you better!" (Grama being Queen Victoria, lol) *Retaliates with more troops.*
"How come you got Russia? I want Russia. I just got stupid old Germany. Confound you!" *Sets troops on France.*
"Hey, doofus, you always sucked at Geography; Mummy said you were stupid-- Russia's that way."
"Shut up, England!"
"Make me!"
"I will!" *Sends more troops.*
"Russia! Make Germany stop fighting me!"

. . . and the rest is history. Kind of. That wasn't even really history. Dramatic interpretation . . . lol . . .

Speaking of ABBA (way back to the point), I was singing ABBA today when we were playing Monopoly in Economics, but no one noticed, I don't think. I was singing "Take A Chance" (the really repetitive background guys' part . . . "Take a chance take a chance take a chance . . . ") every time someone got a "Chance" card. I lost-- though maybe not as badly as Deepak. I just never landed on property, to buy it. I just landed on Alice's squares and had to pay her. In the end, I ended up with like $1666. Alice had like $15,000, but that was because about $900 was earned by her landing on that loaded Free Parking. Robert did well, too, with his utilities/railroad monopolies, but Alice had like a totally dominated row, with like three houses on each. Ouchie. That's actually the first time I've seen anyone put that many houses on one square. Then again, I don't think I've actually ever FINISHED a game of Monopoly, either; we just set a time limit (or get bored), and then stop.

I'm not very good at it, I don't think. The other group played the Lord of the Rings version. I wish she would have had the Harry Potter version (assuming there is one-- which I would assume there is); I would have been all up on that one.

We were all talking about politics at play rehearsal until Mr. Ong made us shut up. Though I was bitter and kept remarking about how we can talk perfectly well while stretching. Erik kept yelling "Vote Kerry!" and Ashley (does she spell it Ashley or Ashleigh? Tubbs?) kept arguing about how Bush was better and we needed to get Al-Qaeda, and then Dan and I kept arguing back about how Iraq had nothing to do with it and why the heck should we continue to stay there when it wasn't relevant in the first place, and Richard kept yelling "Vote Nadar!" just to be silly (or maybe he really does want to vote for Nadar? Lol . . . you know, I just really something; Nadar is swim in Spanish . . . hey, how about that? Lol . . . ) and then I went off on a big rant about how my mom is breaking up with him as her pretend boyfriend, and now Bill Nye is her one and only, and then everybody wonders whatever HAPPENED to Bill Nye (he's never on anymore *sniff*) and Ashley was going to tell me a story and then we were finally made to shut up.

Maybe it was good he did that. Though I was stretching the whole time.

Hey, I never DID hear Ashley's story . . .