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Try body cream? Regular lotions tend to be more watery where as body creams are less so. I like body creams better but I rarely use lotion in the first place.





Do iiiiiiiiit.

Haha. I want a banner done for that song but I dunno who makes them. And it would have to be AMAZING and RAINBOWY. So, I have to find that somewhere.



A unicorn would be awesome to go along with it. crying heart

I guess just a regular banner --- probably a little bigger to keep all the words in there. Then SUPER AMAZING RAINBOW COLORS OF DEATH. Then maybe a unicorn. idk. XD

Who makes banners nowadays anyway? ;_____;

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Sooo...why did Sarah Palin make a big deal about getting hacked? Looks like the hacker has at least a year in jail but one of the guilty verdicts could make him face up to 20 years in prison. What? neutral A little too harsh for hacking her email and finding absolutely nothing to use against her.

It was a jerky thing to do but I think it would have shown mercy on her end to just give him community service and not let him use the internet except for schoolwork and email.

That last one is sooooo amazing!!!!!! heart gonk heart


Thank you!


Uh....what's wrong with my PB account? It won't let me upload files at all! crying I guess I can transfer it through email but what a hassle....

Also can't save it to png because it's too amazingly large. but I loves it.

I saved it as a GIF and it took on very weird dots that I like but I am saddened that I cannot save it in all its splendoooooooooor. ):!


I think it's my firewall since I cannot upload photos through my email either. Dumb norton! ASLD;KJWDLCND!

Catcher is definitely an iffy book.

For instance... I, for one, do love it. However, it's not a great book. By literary fancy-shmancy standards, maybe... but the whole thing comes off as "a metaphor takes a road trip through metaphors, and the road is a circle which is in itself another metaphor but not really". Not just one part or the theme or the characters, but everything. It's built out of 'symbols'. The story, while having a beginning and an end which follow a progression of events to where you feel like something took place... nothing significant really does. Or at least you somewhat end up feeling that way, due to Holden's perspective. He's like a zoned out kid coming out of a rave that the cops just raided, and you ask him what just happened and he says "I dunno. Stuff, I guess."

Like I said, though, it's iffy, because somehow I love it. I wouldn't say it's the 'best damned book ever'... or even place it in my top ten. Still. Maybe it's in how Salinger writes it. Maybe it's the very fact that Holden is blah about most things which goes against the typical protagonist narrative. Maybe it's the fact that the first time I read it was in advanced literature between All Quiet on the Western Front and Great Expectations. Whichever the case, yeah. Stuff.

I wouldn't say Holden is "blah." I'd say he hates everything and everybody to such an extent that even I can't stomach him. Everybody is a "moron," even though Holden himself shows no great intellectual capacity. Everybody is a "phony," even though Holden himself is always hanging out with people he doesn't like or lying his a** off. Everybody is a "sonuvabitch" except Holden, who sounds like an enormous ******** jackass himself. I just cannot stomach the hypocrisy. I want to punch him in his stupid face.

And I thought maybe there was a lot of symbolism I was missing because I've been running on two hours of sleep a night, but I don't think the deepest symbolism in the world can make up for the horrible characters and complete lack of anything eventful happening.



Yeah... Gatsby. Ironically, there is a section in Catcher where Holden says he loves that book (possibly the only thing he loves beside his siblings). Or maybe not so ironically, since I can't stand either book. But again, hypocrisy. Gatsby was full of the biggest "phonies" ever, but Holden just adores it.