Hai, Veronica. Saya Hanif, orang Indonesia asli (native). Saya senang berkenalan dengan anda. I speak English, but not so fluent. Jadi saya ingin sekali punya teman yang bisa diajk ngobrol, tukar pengalaman dan pengetahuan(sharing experience & knowledge) dan bertukar dalam belajar bahasa bersama (and learn each ather from language exchange). Saya tunggu jawaban anda (I am looking forward to receiving your reply). Terima kasih.


Hi Veronica. I'm Hanif, a native Indonesian. It's nice to meet you. (I speak English, but not so fluent.) Therefore, I really want to have friends who can something-something ("diajk ngobrol"--doesn't even sound Indonesian. I think it's a dialect but I can't find a meaning anywhere online), etc , he pretty much translates the rest of it except for : terima kasih (thank you).

Now for my reply....

ETA my reply:

Halo Hanif. Saya senang berkenalan dengan anda juga. Orang Amerika. Saya di New York. Saya sudah belajar Bahasa Indonesia selama satu bulan. Saya bisa bicara Bahasa Jepang, dan saya sudah belajar Bahasa Jepang dua tahun di Amerika. Saya sudah belajar di Jepang dua bulan. Tidak sudah mampir Indonesia. Have you ever been to the United States? Do you study English in school or on your own? "diajk ngobrol" ini apa?

Please help me by correcting my Indonesian, if you can. Terima kasih.

Saya tunggu jewaban anda.

-Veronica

lesse if lastfm will really fill in what i'm listening to....

keith: "ciara gave up show biz just because of some stupid movie called 'baby killer'."
me: "why?"
keith: "because she wanted the baby to come back to life by magic but i decide what happens and i said the baby should stay dead forever. so she gave up show biz!"

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atroposnomore goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as bea arthur.
eisakka tricks you! You get an eraser.
fosterbass tricks you! You get a clothespin.
georgia_pearle gives you 14 dark blue lime-flavoured jawbreakers.
karasawa tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!
kels gives you 17 light orange apple-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
licoltvas gives you 14 light green lemon-flavoured gummy worms.
merrydoom gives you 15 yellow watermelon-flavoured wafers.
sandramort tricks you! You lose 22 pieces of candy!
syrenichol tricks you! You get a rock.
trian gives you 19 red-orange orange-flavoured gummy worms.
atroposnomore ends up with 55 pieces of candy, an eraser, a clothespin, and a rock.
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omg sandy you bitch! 22 pieces of candy??? have you no heart? :P

i was playing guitar hero yesterday and after finishing a song, i asked chloe how i did.

"rock," she said.

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"If your nose starts bleeding, it means you're picking it too much. Or, not enough." -Chief Wiggum

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Which Willy Wonka movie is better?

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OMG I am FUCKED in the event of a zombie apocalypse!!

I think that's OK for having never seen the Lion King all the way through. :P

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I tried to work on Ciara's quilt, but the baby is still too sick for me to do anything, really. I ended up screwing it up and sewing it wrong and now I have to take out a bunch of stitches. Blah.

Cuteness. ;D

ok, so pics of little keith's costume (i can't sleep... not because of the silly horror movie, just coz i can't for some reason)...






I posted this one already but you can see the scepter of Was a lot better in this one... just for reference. ;D

And Tutenstein (aka Tut-Ankh-En-Set-Amun)again, for reference:



I know the colors on his costume are a little off... like the loincloth for instance is really light blue... but little Keith insisted it be dark blue and I didn't want to nitpick. ;D And the wrappings are really much lighter with just a hint of an olive tone, but little Keith insisted that they are green, and again, didn't wanna nitpick. It's his costume. :) But I think it turned out pretty well. We bought that green concealer they sell at drug stores (for like, concealing zits I guess?) and are going to rub it all over his face to make it green (the green facepaint we got was crap) and we got an eye pencil to do the eyeliner stuff. I like how the costume turned out. :)

Video of Chloe walking. I took this about a week ago maybe? She has improved a LOT since this video, like, she doesn't need Ciara to help her at all. ;) Though she does like to hold hands and walk with her. My little girl is growing up! *sniffle*

virtual garage sale anyway. We are getting rid of the antiques. I have pics of art glass, cloisonne and some other assorted stuff up on photobucket. If you are interested in any of it, let me know, name a price or ask me to and maybe we can do business, eh, eh? :D

( cut for image overload )

So I finished Ciara's pink dragon costume and am pretty much done with Keith's Tutenstein costume. I just need to get some plain fabric for the wrappings and loin cloth and like, glue them to an old shirt and pants. (I might get him some girl's leggings b/c they are less bulky...shhhhh) anyway i am excited to have so much done.... so i'm gonna post some pics. please excuse my photography skillz, which are even worse than my sewing skills (which are pretty bad, but sewing is soooo much fun!!!)


Ciara's back and tail.


A very serious dragon with her wings outstretched.


Tutenstein w/ the scepter of Was

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Oh! And big Keith's mom got these adorable shoes for Ciara for her birthday... they look like the ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. Here they are (and my little girl, of course.)



Alright have a nice day everyone. :D I'm off!

yesterday was cute. the kids and i made cookies and we had to borrow 2 eggs from steve and enid, so i promised to pay them back in cookies. so after we made them, we brought some over to them and chloe and their little girl (isa, who is nine months old) "played" and it was cute. ciara had to go poop and when she was done, she was like "steve! come and wipe my heiny please!" lol it was too funny. (these are our neighbors btw.) so then ciara wanted to bring some cookies to ms. scalza (our 96 year old neighbor who she's like, best buddies with) and her "friend" (her nephew.) so we brought some to them and i was forced to sit down and drink wine and eat dark chocolate, lol. it was nice. then we brought some to grandma and grandpa. (we all live in like a row here on our road... keith's parents, then us, then steve and enid and then ms. scalza.)

and today is ciara's birthday!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday my sweet little three-year-old. :D I feel like she was just born! Seriously.

i don't remember how old she was here.. maybe like 3 months?



and this was from a few months ago, but i don't think i ever posted these pics and i need to remind myself to post the rest. <3333 my little ya-ya!!!

And on a more serious note... my hair has been falling out like, a lot. i have a little bald spot. :/ that combined with many other symptoms really makes me think i have hypothyroidism. or something. sheesh. need to get in to see the dr. again and harass her. how obnoxious would it be to ask to be tested for thyroid function? should i just tell her the symptoms and let her make her own assessment, or would it be ok to ask to rule that out?

alright i got a lot to do today. have a nice day, everyone!!

happy birthday leonard cohen!!

ciara: "mommy, i love hanging around with my friends!"

*panic*

WHERE IS POSTSECRET???

*cries*

Little Keith wants to be Tutenstein for Halloween.

I am excited about making the costume. I think it will be a fun challenge, especially the headdress. I am really psyched about going to JoAnne fabrics and getting stuff to make it.

I don't know what Ciara wants to be. She seems like she doesn't really care. She has said she wants to be a dragon several times, so maybe we'll do that. I don't know. I'd kind of like her to be a cat, because it is fairly easy and would go along with the Egyptian theme.

We'll see.

What about everybody else? What are you (and/or your kids, spouse, pet etc) being for Halloween?