I have been tagged for this twice, so I think I must do it before I am tagged thrice and the world implodes from the trinitarianism of it all. Ahem.

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Snazel
2. Hot Jazz
3. The Goddess of Chaos (or Doom, depending on if I'm laughing or not)

(You didn't think I was going to tell you my real name, did you? Oh wait, *cough* I just did. My first name is "Hot." Yeah, that's totally it.)

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU’VE HAD:
1. Snazel
2. Medusa
3. Free Jazz

THREE THINGS YOU’VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES:
1. Dunk Coffee
2. Listened to Buddy and Julie Miller (Gasoline and Matches FTW!) 

3. Taken Midol (Mmmmm, drugs are a girl's best friends)

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My height
2. My memory
3. My encyclopedic knowledge of strange facts to liven up the dinner table. (See, children, this is why you should read the encyclopedia- so you too can talk about Cheshire cats in connection with cheese.)

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My dislike of social contact. 
2. My inability to express emotion with most people, even setting aside the question of my empathy or lack thereof.
3. My difficulty with praying or reading my Bible. 

THREE PARTS OF YOUR ORIGINS:
1. Canadian
2. American
3. Military

(also home-schooler, but I can only put three. *weeps* *ignores the fact that she's just put down four*)

THREE THINGS YOU’RE AFRAID OF:
1. *mutters* Getting grabbed by the back of the neck and having my head bashed off of something. Um, I'll just say violent people, kay? Forget you read that, plz!
2. Insect-like skuttling things. No, I will not check to see if it's an insect or a spider or a centipede. It has too many legs, it deserves to die. DO NOT QUESTION MY LOGIC, FOOL. 
3. Not the dark, precisely- I quite like the dark- but the things that are in the dark. You know, when gravity starts warping and you can't quite place the noises and there are sharp things in the shadows. Not the biggest fan. 

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. My CIBC vest. It's red and has pockets and a pokey collar. You're all jealous, I can tell. 
2. Grey Labrador coat with fur around the hood. I stun the city-style folk into silence. Mad skills, yes, I know. 
3. Stripy socks. Socks should be striped or argyle or black, and knee-high whenever possible. I have deemed it so. 

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Stories; Books (includes stories by my friendlies,) my writing, or the voices in my head. Seriously, you do not want to deprive me of this stuff. 
2. Tea, or Coffee. 
3. Uh, what can I not go 24 hrs without? Oh, shelter. Shelter is good. 

(For other big things- you know, human contact, food, sleep- I would much rather not go without it, but I have done so without side effect other than increased looniness.)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
Uh, this changes all the time, but right now the ones that come to mind are;

1. Uhhh, *thinks* The Eagles
2. Uhhhhh, *thinks harder* Nickleback (seriously, lol whut? I don't listen to music by artist, I listen by song. Greh.)
3. *beats head off wall and tries to think* *brilliant lightening strikes* Oh YEAH. dctalk. I like dctalk. *is glad that question's over*

(And I'm putting this question in here, cause I want too.

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SOLO ARTISTS
1. Gordie Sampson

2. Julie Miller

3. Heather Dale

(That one's MUCH easier.)

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
1. Talk to the Unholy Trinity, especially on the phone! 
2. Be goofy with Fraulein
3. Chocolate, mug of tea, stare at the moon. 

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. I'm Not Alright- Sactus Real
2. Notes From The Underground, Sarah Slean
3. If I Didn't Know Any Better- Allison Krauss

(Sorry, my other faves. Those were the titles which came to mind first.)

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Be debt free post-Augustine. OMG 4 REALZ?
2. Get up in the morning. *gulps*
3. Get a new job? (4. ???? 5. PROFIT. )

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
1. Not keeping in contact. I'm bad, I'm sorry. I also regret that I will likely not get back into contact. *sigh*
2. Not being friendlier to Rach. *sad sigh*
3. Do. Not. Eat. Fuzzy. Caterpillars. This will seem like a good idea, when you're four. It isn't. I am dead serious.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Honesty. I have to be able to completely and totally trust you, whoever "you" are. (You're late, hurry up.)
2. Mutual Respect. I mean, sure, mutual mocking will also occur, but some respect in there somewhere? Please? Deep, deep down? (Also, laughter. Yes, I think that respect and laughter go hand in hand. I am insane, what do you expect?)

3 Faith. (Yes, I mean in God, though faith in some kind of skills would also be good.)

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU’VE GIVEN TO THE WORLD:
1. Chocolate consumption. I have left my mark. 
2. Epic Unfinished Novel with leet characters and a plot Bob the Builder couldn't fix. Yes, I know my sins, and I repent. 
3. Fiery eyes and sarcastic smirking, as needed. Armed with these, I can enrich an social situation. No, I do not take bookings. 

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (In no particular order.)
1. I have nightmares about crying.
2. Ambidexterity is hawt.
3. I want the University Experience.

(HA! Which is the lie, and which the truth? *dances in triumph*)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. Taller than me
2. Good eyes
3. Clever hands

(I, uh, I think the entire Unholy Trinity answered this exactly the same way, putting aside item order. That's rather creepy.)

THREE EMOTIONAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. Sense of humour that is similar or complimentary to mine. Laughing is good, but if I don't think it's funny too, pretty soon you won't think it's funny either. Wait, what? No, that wasn't a threat. More of a prediction. A statement of fact. *brilliant smile*
2. And understanding of darkness. Which sounds creepy, but I mean, if you can't understand that sometimes life is not sunshine and roses in the slightest, this relationship is only going to far. We're talking 20 days, TOPS. 
3. "Do justly, love mercy." Cause that's the only way I'm going to survive. *small* Sorry?  

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN’T DO:
1. Do more than scare the target with a gun. Maybe if I practiced?
2. Stay way from candles. I think I might be part moth.
3. Travel solo with Air Canada without issues. Yes, I have practiced. No, I don't want to any more. I will walk.

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST:
1. Castles
2. My unholy trinitarians! 
3. Gideon

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. A(nother) plane ticket to Ottawa, ON
2. A plane ticket to Eugene, OR
3. A plan ticket to Europe! ANYWHERE IN EUROPE! You, me, castles? Now. Let's go. Food is overrated. 

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE:
1. My family
2. By the grace of God
3. Books

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. Exploring, the universe, using the printed word? (I'm trying to word these differently than the UT, jsyk.)
2. Observing the voices in my head in text. (Ooo, see? I can sound EVEN CREEPIER than you all! *triumphant*)

3. Watching you. All the time. Watching. You know who you are. 

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Drink hot lemonade
2. Apologize to Fraulein for being rude. 
3. GLOMP those too far away for me to humanly do so.

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. CSR. (Which becomes something else, hopefully where I don't have to make referrals, which I suck am not good at, and get to work with pretty money!)
2. Writer (If anyone would pay for my insanity....)
3. Mom. Yes, this is a career. Particularly in my family tradition. 

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
1. Ottawa
2. Oregon
3. The world. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return. In fact I intend not to.

THREE CARTOON CHARACTERS:
1. Sokka
2. Violet Parr
3. Rorschach

THREE BOY’S NAMES:
1. Lance

2. Edge
3. Appel

(You didn't say they had to be from THIS universe. *gleeful*)

THREE GIRL’S NAMES:
1. Ariadne
2. Kala
3. Raine
(Same mistake. Gosh, you'd think you'd learn. *shakes head*)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Have kids, oh, and get married is a package deal with that one. In fact, it's an IF/THEN deal. IF Marriage, THEN Kids. In that order. No interchangeability.
2. Travel
3. Write many much more muchness of a muchness. One, Two, Many, Lots. (See? I'm so good with words. How will the stories be able to resist me? Answer: they won't. They will fall into my trapturing clutches willingly. And I will unspool them with my fantastical typing and make them into things readers will cry tears of delightful emotion over.)

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ OR DIE PAINFULLY:
1. Rose!
2. Zack
3. Courtney!

(Yes, Zack, you do not get an exclamation mark. Because you have to EARN one. And- the people whose name I have mentioned by the names I do not usually use- you know who you are. *stern eyes* I'm watching you.)

"And then I found James's secret weapon. Literally."

Hello all! 

I have nothing to say.

This is hilarious.

Have a good day!

-Snazel

So. What's been up?

There have indeed been actual occurrences in my life! I just fail at blogging. I am heartily ashamed, and bow and scrape in your general direction, my loyal reader. (Wait, you mean there is more than one reader of this blog? My, I have been remiss.)

Let me cast my mind back into the murky depths of the past. What shall I talk about? Oh, the Brownie sleepover last weekend. Words are inadequate, but I shall try. 

• *deep breath*
  
• Oh Oh Oh Oh setting up beds and can I sleep next to my best friend Melissa teacher she says she's sleeping next to Reagan but I want her to sleep next to me teacherrrrrrrrrr.......
  
• GAMES. SONGS. SINGING. AND DANCING. AND SINGING AND DANCING AND SINGING AND DANCING AT HIGH VOLUME.
  
• Oh look, Pizza! *munches*
  
• LET'S RUN AROUND AND SCREAM FOR FUN!
  
• Oh, never mind, let's melt plastic cups in the oven and decorate them.
  
• LET'S RUN AROUND AND SCREAM- oh, nail polish?
  
• Let's paint the leader's nails, each nail a different colour!
  
• Sleep? Why would we want to do that? Oh look, it's tomorrow...
  
• *leaders pass out sometime about three am*
  
• Oh look, it's morning!
  
• *leaders lurch off in search of coffee*
  
• *children are perky and RUN AND SCREAM AND SHOUT*
  
• *children go home*
  
• *leaders clean*
• *leaders go home*

Yep, that was pretty much the brownie sleepover, in microcosm. Then that evening I went out to Ms. B's house, and we had a write-in! Which is to say, she worked on school work, and I wrote fun things, and we both put our earbuds in and companionably ignored each other for four hours. Brought me back to Augustine times, I tell you. Of course it was still PM, so not totally Augustine times, but still.... *pauses* I jest, you know I jest. I was a wonderful student. Stellar. I made my professors weep. With joy. *awkward silence falls*

Oh, and then Fraulein and I built a wardrobe last night. Its name is War Drobe, after the shining city in the fair land of Spare Oom. Ahem. And yes, we wrestled that thing up three flights of stairs, because we are awesome, and then we hysterically put it together, because we are skilled. It only took us less than three hours, too. And before you laugh, remember that this was a flatpack wardrobe, with two drawers and doors and so on and so forth, and we built it ALL, without help aside from Slonner assisting with the hinges at the end- when we were too weak with laughter to hold the screwdrivers straight. But it was built, and it is a thing of beauty that I should be filling with clothes instead of blogging. 

Oops. 

Maybe I should work on that? Oh, or I could be working on taxes! So many options!

Family Carnival!

I'm overcoming my lack of interest in text-blogging with some photo-blogging! Hurrah for me! Ahem. Anyhow, here are some pictures. Enjoy. (Yes, that is an imperative. *angelic smile* Why do you ask?)

EDIT: Oh, wait, it seems you might need some explanations. We were running a Carnival, with Booths, in the Living Room. (See? You get to see my Living Room!) Proceeds went to the Family beneficent fund, which this year goes towards feeding PT. Just so as you know, last year it went towards getting me home from College. :D

Lizzy ran the Blocks Booth, where for a ticket you could build a tower.

Sammy was the main frequenter of that booth, at least in the beginning.

Notice the purse? Yes, that is Sammy's, and it contains many pennies and tickets. Just ask him, he'll tell you.

Geo ran the hair styling booth. She was very well prepared.

Slonner poses with the make-up...

Geo works her art on Little Sister.

Little Sister has her eyes done!

Slonner supervising, again. :D

Beauty is serious business!

The sign was starting to be tired, but we propped it up none the less.

The Block Table experiences a resurge of popularity.

Sammy finds a hiding space...

... in a box full of bears and Slonner.

Still Life With Apples And Jugs.

Slonner gets done over.

Geo waits her turn.

It's Fraulein! Isn't she pretty?

And there's my MOM, who is just lovely on every level. :D

And... my little brother, who decides to lug around the long-suffering cat.

Fraulein- an action shot.

Lizzy's strike.

Something to brighten up your day.

Reasons you are special.