WOW! AN EXCITING NEW POST!!!!

Just kidding! April Fool's! I really have nothing good to say :) Only one kid attempted to play a trick on me today, unless the school was kidding when they announced that prom tickets were $70...outrageous. The prankster said to me, "You have a rip in your pants" and then I awkwardly laughed and we backed away from each other slowly as to not startle the other, similar to dogs. After getting pranked by gmail (google likes to play April Fool's jokes, they're pretty cute) I decided to look up the best April Fool's jokes. I found this list online of the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. If you have time you can read them all, but here is a list of some of my favorites:

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

#4: The Taco Liberty Bell

In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

Ok, this next one is funny because I distinctly remember hearing this one twice and believing it, first in the car on the way to school when I was about 10. I don't remember if it was April Fool's day or not. The second time was my freshman year in Earth Science. My earth science teacher taught it and definitely thought it was true. I didn't know it was fake until I read this. I'll have to go see him tomorrow about this....

#46: Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth

In 1984 Technology Review published an article titled "Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth" that described an effort by Soviet scientists to bring the woolly mammoth species back from extinction. The technique being used was the insertion of DNA from woolly mammoths found frozen in Siberian ice into elephant cells. The cells were then brought to term inside surrogate elephant mothers. The head of the project was said to be Dr. Sverbighooze Yasmilov. The story was widely reported as a factual event.

#77: MITkey Mouse

On April 1, 1998 the homepage of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced some startling news: the prestigious university was to be sold to Walt Disney Co. for $6.9 billion. A photograph of the university's famous dome outfitted with a pair of mouse ears accompanied the news. The press release explained that the university was to be dismantled and transported to Orlando where new schools would be added to the campus including the School of Imagineering, the Scrooge McDuck School of Management, and the Donald Duck Department of Linguistics. The fact that the announcement appeared on MIT's homepage added official credibility to it. But in fact, the announcement was the work of students who had hacked into the school's central server and replaced the school's real web page with a phony one.

Ok, that's about all that I feel like posting. You can go to the site to read more, there are some really good ones like Big Ben going digital, etc. I have an excrutiatingly large pimple on the side of my mouth. It's taking over my face like some sort of monster. That, unfortunately, is no joke. Many people asked me about it to see if it was real. It's probably a result of the Kefir. Also, it's 63 degrees out. But that's probably an April Fool's joke too because it's going to go back to being like 30's again and it snowed this weekend. "I bet you THOUGHT you were going to have summer this year. Ha, ha! April Fool's!" Stupid mother nature....

Preston and some rad pics

Well first of all Preston was born last night!!! He's an adorable baby and I must say that I think he looks very much like a Field baby. Yep, I am now a proud aunt to both a niece and a nephew! I'll only upload one picture here but you can see lots more pictures and more info on the birth at Matt and Amy's blog. I can't wait to go out and meet him!!!!! What a little cutie :)


Also, here are two pictures that I recently edited of Abby. I think they're both pretty adorable, if I may say so myself. I can't wait to be able to play around with some pictures of Preston soon too!!!!

Just a little friday morning miracle......

Well, as Katalina commented on my last post, you may have noticed a change in my baby Preston widgets. For the past two weeks as they have been counting negative days (actually one was counting back UP, I don't know why), on the very morning that Matt and Amy are driving to the hospital to have Preston BOTH BABIES DISAPPEARED! Yes, both of those babies were born on the same day as Preston and they weren't even from the same application. I guess it's just a miracle. I suggest that you start worshiping my blog. Rachel, you might want to break out that prayer rug. Also, I will now charge you $20 to view my blog. I think you understand.

The battle is lost.

The Kefir has won. Mom's incessant pleading (or rather, the Kefir's pleading for it has taken her over) has dominated another innocent soul in the Field family. Its list grows longer consisting of Mom, Dad, Jeffry, Amy, and now me. It conquered this week as I finally gave in and drank it. I knew the instant that devishly thick bacterial monster touched my lips and slithered its way down my throat that all was lost. Farewell kind world, I now turn to the Kefir side as it taken over my body. And the toilet, for that is how the Kefir works. It makes the feces production multiply exponentially and with every trip to the toilet bowl it flushes a part of your soul away. Congratulation Kefir. I beg you all still free of Kefir germ, in the words of Galaxy Quest's great Jason Nesmith, to "Never give up, never surrender."

2nd thoughts???

Yes, I'm having serious 2nd thoughts about graduating early. As in I don't want to anymore. I just don't think that I'm ready to leave home and go to college. I mean, I will have turned 17 about two weeks before starting college. Does that sound crazy to anyone else? Maybe I'm just being a huge mama's girl (which I am), but I've been a little terrified the whole time. But now I feel like I've royally painted myself into a corner because now I've let my grades drop some. Not a whole ton, I think my average for the whole last quarter was an 89 when I usually get about a 93 or so. But that will affect my gpa I think, which was a 3.79, the exact average for BYU's admittance. So if I don't graduate then I will have to do my senior year in Heber, which I think I am perfectly fine with except that I'll probably get sick of it by the end of next year like most seniors do. But I've heard that it's harder to get into BYU when you're from utah. But will having done 3 years of high school in New York affect that for the better? What if I turn down going to BYU this year and don't get in next year and basically give up one of my greatest dreams since I was about 5. Literally, about every goal I've ever had was to go to BYU! I'm so confused and scared and now it's 11:20 and I can't sleep because I'm panicking so I came down here to redo all my homework to raise my grade, ha. I wish I had never found out that I could graduate early.

A Funny Thing Happened....

My musical was last weekend and it went SO WELL!!!! Friday's performance was good, but Saturday's was AWESOME!! It was so much fun and I really miss it. Here are some pictures from it. You can view the whole album by clicking HERE. There is also a video of me and Annie's dance in the album, but here's the LINK. This wasn't our best run of the dance, it was just at a dress rehearsal.



In other news, this weekend was really busy. We had stake basketball and I actually didn't play but I was there for half of Saturday. Our team managed to lose our first two games so we're out and I don't think anyone could be happier, ha. I also had dance class Saturday morning and then my friend Megan and I took our friends Jared and Scott out on their first dates because they both turned 16 that day. It didn't feel much like a date because we usually do stuff together anyway, but it was still really fun. We were going to go sledding but it rained so we went to Chuck E. Cheese's and got a pretty amazing deal thanks to my superior coupon-finding skills. Then I went to two different birthday parties. It was a long day.

Also, I've had my zipper down all day twice this week and in Laurels today I was leaning back in my chair against those movable wall/curtain dividers while someone else was leaning on the other side and they moved and I fell. It was pretty hilarious.