I hope everyone still has all their fingers and eyebrows after the 4th of July festivities. I do know from the news that a guy in KC got his face blow up a bit by a homemade firework that went wrong. Ouchies indeed. I went to my best friend's house last night for a small party. I think one of the highlights was watching Scott dance around the backyard like a ribbon dancer with a sparkler, it was one of those moments you wish you had a camcorder for.

I do think sparklers are probably the pansy-est firework you can buy. They're definitely a girl firework or something for small kids. I don't think grown men and sparklers mix. More like M-80's and grown men. Which surprisingly, I didn't know how big of a crater an M-80 would put in a backyard. Those things are crazy!

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My sister stumbled across the Xanga Frontpage and of course read my "That's Not Beef Jerky Post". She didn't take the post like I thought she would. I figured she'd be pretty pissed that I shared it with the entire Xanga community. She was actually bummed that it didn't get more comments and her response to some of them kind of pissed her off. I think there was one that stated she must be autistic. I don't think you should categorize someone as autistic just because they ate dog jerky. Nor should you ever say someone is autistic when they're not. All in all, she laughed at the post. She's a good sport when it comes to me writing about her lack of common sense.

Course, I did leave out the part that she's blond and won a beauty pageant this weekend.

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Cole slaw is now my new favorite food.

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If you notice I'm not around Xanga as much as I normally am, it's because I'm headed out to the Colorado Springs area to visit my grandparents for a week. Then when I return to KC, Scott and I are going on vacation the day after I get back. Which I'm really looking forward to. I think I'll be off Xanga for about two weeks, please don't burn the servers down with pointless drama while I'm gone :)

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I realized today I have over 1000 Xanga friends. Oddly it only feels like maybe 80 of those friends are active...

The more the merrier, but it really dampens how many people I get to comment and keep up with! I try really hard but please cut me slack if I don't get around to you! I don't know how Xangans with several thousand even manage to be "friends" with their Xanga friends.

I believe there is something to be said about people who are extremely book smart, they lack common sense.

My sister is one of those people. She's incredibly smart, she has a super 4.0 GPA that's off the charts. She's really big into science. She spends her time correcting YouTube video descriptions about fishes. She's a biology buff, that knows all the parts to an octopus. Why that's important, I don't know. She's dating a guy who in his spare time creates case studies for the supreme court in mock situations. Smart people worry me honestly.

When it comes to simple normal every day tasks my sister can't seem to comprehend common sense. She's always been like this though. For the 17 years she's been alive, my sister can't grasp normal.

When she was 6, she noticed that there was no toilet paper in the bathroom. So, she decided to run down the hallway of the house (carpet hallway). She was butt naked running full speed to the kitchen where she knew my mom kept the paper towels. She couldn't hold it and peed all the way. I still give her shit on that one. A normal 6 year old would pee and then air dry, common sense.

My sister's cleaning methods to this day are to throw everything, and I do mean everything into her closet. The common sense of throwing trash away or putting dirty clothes in the hamper are too complex for this book smart genius. This is something no one in our family can understand. It's not that she's lazy or has OCD for hanging on to stuff, she just doesn't comprehend cleaning. Common sense is to throw away trash and put dirty clothes in the hamper, not back in the drawer!

The best story comes when my sister was in junior high. She loves beef jerky, it's her favorite snack. Slim Jim wrappers are always all over her bedroom floor. One day I noticed she was sitting in the kitchen munching away on some jerky and our dog Bubba was eagerly sitting at her feet. Now, Bubba was a big OLD English Spaniel that never really moved unless he had to pee or eat. He did love his treats though till the day he died fat and happy.

I asked my sister "Where did you get that beef jerky?" as I went to open up the dog treat canister on the counter. My sister replied, "In that canister with the polka dot prints."

I replied, about to puke, "Those are DOG PAW prints on that canister"

My sister, the genius states, "Dog prints are not symmetrical circles!"

I just walked out of the kitchen because the sight of my sister EATING DOG TREATS was just too gross.

Symmetrical circles my  ass.

She did say dog jerky tastes just like human jerky though...if you're ever hungry.