ELECTION DAY: *All you need*

::::::Wisconsin::::::: :::Find Your Polling Place: - https://myvote.wi.gov/Address/AddressSearchScreen.aspx **********Invite/Forward this page to ALL your friends, every single one of them!!!******** IMPORTANT NOTES: -You can register on the same day as the election. .......Just bring the printed out form. .......Or just go to vote and they will have forms. -Whether you are pre-registered or not, click on the "Find Your Polling Place" link (above) and make sure that you go to the right polling place. -In-person absentee voting (also known as early voting) runs for two weeks before an election, ending at 5 p.m. or the close of business (whichever is later) on the Friday before the election (Friday November 2nd) NEED HELP:  2012 Election Survey:  (link)  http://uvu.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_1AYkTFO16symZpj Please take 2 mins long

This election is SO important. I don't want anybody to miss out on the opportunity to vote in this historic 2012 election because they didn't know WHERE/HOW to vote.
SO:  Here is everything you need:
Where/How (all states): https://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/vote (try this)

Wisconsin:

YouTube 4 Ducks!

I crack myself up with this post Title. Because the YouTube channel is about/for my ducks, BUT, I also have 4 ducks!!! LOL LOVE IT

www.youtube.com/user/EmJaysDuckys

Check it out,
You'll Laugh
You'll Cry
You'll scratch your head???

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Well, I didn't exactly have a whole day like this, but I had some moments like this- on Saturday night and then today Monday morning.
First-watch the short YouTube video of the book. I grew up with this book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09_ULvFBlA
I felt like this for no good reason other than I tripped over my plants twice :( Saturday night I was leaving to go to Rite Aid and when I walked out the door and walking down the patio stairs, I tripped on my green plant cart, and the whole thing flew over and all the plants toppled over onto the ground :( my heart sank. I wanted to just sit down and, sit. My boot buckle had caught the wheel of the cart as I tried to walk past it. I went back inside and told Jordan, and he helped me stuff the baby plants, sprouts, and dirt back into what we thought were the right containers. It was a mess, all of the roots were just overturned and strewn all over the place, and I just wasn't up for the whole situation and I was really discouraged.
So then, this morning (Monday), I woke up really early for some reason, oh yeah, caus the pretty wood duck that hangs outside our front door was being knocked against the door by the wind, and so to me, that reminded me that a storm was coming this morning and I needed to protect my plants and ducks.  So I got up, (sun wasn't even up yet) first took the duck off the door caus it was getting annoying, and then went outside, checked on the ducks, they were asleepin' , much to my surprise, I see little Snowball cuddled up on a newly made nest hole in the dirt behind/under a rosebush by the back porch. She's dug herself a hole in the dirt, which I covered up last week because I thought it was just a hole dug by our neighbors dog, but now that Snowball was laying in the re-dug hole! Sooo adorable. Well, so the rest of the ducks, the boys, were bored without her so they were just kinda buggin her, so I re-fenced the area so that it went in front of her nest so that she could have some privacy while she was back there. So after I re-fenced the area, I turned to protecting my plants. so while I'm walking down the stairs, what'd'ya know... My boot buckle caught onto the wheel of the cart...again. Flipped it over:(
Cleaned it up again, extremely discouraged because I knew that some of my peat moss cups had newly planted seeds that probably spilled onto the ground, un-distinguishable from the soil (unfortunately I didn't germinate them like I usually do because I just followed the directions sent with them) that I had bought specifically on Ebay to grow for indoor plants/greenery to improve the indoor air quality (cheaper than an air purifier, lol!). So I clean it up again as best I could, knowing that all of the plants were mixed up and I didn't know which was what, and what was which was witch was a sandwich. Haha :) (attempting to be light about a discouraging situation).
So then, I went about hanging up a tarp over my porch and over the plants. But, just as i'm staking the tarp down, I can hear the storm come in. It's quite amazing because I could hear the wind pushing down the valley toward our house, it was weird how I could hear the wind blowing in before it got to my house, so I braced for the initial heavy hit, quickly finished the stake I was putting in.  As the cold wind in shooting through and around me, it occurs to me that the tarp hooked up over my porch catching like a sail  to pick up the house and fly it away!!! It was seriously an aggressive situation. I quickly attempted to undo it all, but the strong strong wind is just blowing everything so intense, and the tarp was about to push against and push over all of the  plants that it's supposed to be protecting!!! Ohh my goodness, so I undo that, move and bundle the plants up onto the porch and into the house.  Huge mess.  Starting to drizzle, now wetness flying through the air.  I was worried the ducks tent was going get picked up and blown away, so I zipped it so the ducks couldn't go in. plus, the ducks get really shaken up when the wind whips the tent. I get worried about the ducks though caus I don't know what the really violent wind is going to do to them, and I look over at them, and Snowball is laying and hiding in her nest with Oreo laying with his chest against her, both behind the little fence, while the rest of the ducks are standing/laying in front of fence. I thought that was interesting. So, I wake Jordan up to help me move the ducks crate over next to the porch, where the porch would shield them from the wind. Then, I cover the top with a tarp to protect them from the rain, (thankfully because it started to hail during the morning too).
So, onto the project of fixing my plants. Long story short,, I'll explain another time in another post, but basically the plants' roots were maturing more than the capacity of the little cups and pots they were in, and so the stems have started to wilt and weaken, so they needed to be re-potted deeper. I am not ready to plant them outside because I'm still clearing out the area for the garden, right now it's covered with a huge pile of brush, I've been trying to burn it all away, but now I'm left with the predicament of a whole lot of ash. Yikes! Where can I put that? I can't burn anymore until I shovel out the pit, because my last fire was overflowing onto the grass! Yikes!
OK, so I'll write about my gardening later.
For now, I need to:
-Work on my stats class labs and quizzes
-catch up on my Buddhism books for my Buddhism Science class (probably done of the most difficult reading of my life, especially the science portion of it, quantum mechanics, trying to comprehend the Buddhist philosophy of 'nothingness' and 'emptiness')
-start  (more like plan) my final project on music meditation. First I've gotta learn more about it, and then practice it.
-write my paper from last semester for my Philosophy of Education class, about the philosophy of music education. Watch it, that will be pretty heavy and confrontational
-buy the ducks a new pool
-fix or get a new vacuum
-buy a mop (the swiffer mop and sweeper really are no match against the dirt that my plants track in, and that I track in when I'm playing with the ducks or doing yardwork
-use the fertilizer I just bought on all my new plants and my ones already I the ground
-clean/clear out the 2nd bedroom caus my sister Anna is coming next Sunday for a whole week as an indentured servant to my property :D haha  no but seriously she is going to help me get prepared for summer, And... Coupon like Krazy!!!!!! And she can help me newspaper-dumpster dive for coupons, and I will teach her to not be afraid to price match at Walmart.  Don't bother price matching at Target, you literally have to go to customer service to do that. Basically, don't bother doing aNything at Target, they are as difficult to deal with as a robo-call. Pointless.
Ok I'm done.

Outside :)

I'm obsessed with couponing. But there is only one thing, (ok probably a couple things), but mostly one thing that breaks the couponing addiction::: outside:::      :)
Outside.
Outside is here.
Outside is happening.
Outside is  bright.
Outside is warm.
Outside is pleasant.
Outside is busy.
Outside is fertile.
Outside is exciting.
Outside is full of opportunity.
Outside is relaxing.

Couponing is exhilarating.

Roll that in your pipe and smoke it. Aka plant that in your garden and grow it.
Aka screw in that light bulb and turn it on.
Aka throw that in you're blender and smoothie it.
Aka stick that on your juicer and juice it.
Do you catch my drift?

:D
For the past month, while waiting for the Spring to grace us with it's presence, I've started germinating and growing my plant seeds.  Then, when it has gotten nice out, I've been clearing out the area that is soon to be our garden, burning dead shrubs, watering the grass, playing with the duckys, playing with the duckys, playing with the puppy Rupurt,.hanging out with the duckys.

I'm tired. talk to you tomorrow
<3

Sleep

Back to 8 hours of sleep instead of 12-14. Ill explain later

Duckling Step/Ducky Club House Rules

Ok, so I realized today while talking/thinking to myself that I talk/think to myself a lot, and Jordans dad mentioned to us that we should wrote a blog because maybe we have something to say that people wanna read, er something like that. So, I really well try this but I hate the process of getting the computer up and settled down somewhere in the house (something about college living, at Least our college living, we have never had very much work space. Like, open computer desk space, etc.) .  But, I also hate texting/Swyping on my google MyTouch, I feel like I'm getting arthritis in my thumb. So I'm kinda in between problems,.so I will choose the lesser of two inconvenIences, and go with the convenience of having a portable portal aka my phone. With that being said, this leads me to my next point of dialogue- Ducky Club House Rules: Because I hate Swyping (because my phone never gives me the right word or variation of the right weird), I reserve the right to withdraw your reservation of the right to judge my GRammer, spelling, use of  capitalizations, etc.etc. so that I can get through these mobile blogster posts. I'm not an idiot I promise, hard And fast proof-on my a.c.t. Reading section and writing prompt, I scored in the top 3% of all tested students in the nation :) I love to read and write, I edited my roommates and friends' college papers, etc.  The difference is: I just don't want to lose one of my most important professional assets, my thumb! Lol!
Ok I'm being silly.  I have SO much to tell you all about..