Lament

Not lame: Ditching your spanish class.
Lame: Going to spanish class the next day to find out that they decided to cancel class.
Not lame: Instead of doing your homework, create a new blog post.
Only in AZ: Decide the only way you can force yourself to do your homework is to lay by the pool while doing it.

Right Now for Mesa, AZ (85204)
Sunny 75°F Feels Like 75°F

Why we don't blog about our "awesome" weekend

This is what we do on the weekend.

Julia trying to finish Harry Potter #7. Yes, the rest of the world did this in July. Pretty much she has to read it as fast as possible because I am going to tell her the end. She had 3 months.


Annie doing her favorite pasttime. Eating pretzels and watching The Disney Channel. She does refer to time as 8/7 central. Maybe she watches it too much.




Me studying my life away so I can pass Anatomy. And trying to decide how much to pay for the new Radiohead cd.


For all you non Arizona-ans, this is known as scalping your lawn and replanting it. Like we did this, Reidster took care of it.

Orchestra

So because I am the awesome sister that I am, I suckered sister Laura into going to MCC night orchestra with me. And let's just say the orch dorks and band geeks were living up to their full potential last night. Reasons why:

1. Two girls were having a serious conversation about a new fantasy book that came out that they were so excited for. Something about half human/half animal people. And the genre of book was paranormal romance. Classy.
2. One girl was doing needlepoint when she had rests during a song. She brings it with her every week.
3. People getting freakishly excited that we were going to play the overture to The Barber of Seville. I was just a tiny bit excited.
4. Brass members who were trying to play as loudly as possible, just for fun.
5. Laura's chairpartner who kept calling her sweetheart and pointing out obvious things to her in the music. Note - this person was younger than Laura, not some sweet old lady.
6. A girl with a huge violin tattoo on her arm. That's dedication.

And Laura now realizes that every story I tell about MCC is true. And the lamest school ever.

Tagging. But not the graffiti kind.

So since people always "tag" other people, we thought we would tag ourselves with Interesting Shiz about the Motherless Jones Girls:

1. Leftovers are always approved for breakfast. I'm not talking the wimpy cold pizza. I'm talking Macaroni Grill leftovers, noodles, clam chowder, you name it, we eat it. Maybe this is how Emily gets Annie out of bed in the morning..
2. If you haven't yet noticed, we love dressing animals in clothes. They don't complain. Much.
3. We secretly love dirty rap.
4. Our favorite show is secretly Hannah Montana.

While we think of more, here are some delightful Halloween craft pictures. Don't hate us because we're hot.


Note: You can't make fun of the cut-out construction paper Halloween items. The people who made them are with the man upstairs and they will make you go to he** if you mock it. Seriously. They have power.

5. Maybe we were carnies in a former life, but our love for the fair and Halloween are almost equal. Maybe we just love the whole month of October. But in order to go to the fair in the proper Jones way, you must follow these rules: 1. No eating before the fair. You must only consume amazingly huge corn dogs/piggly wiggly fries/etc. 2. You must NEVER ride on rides at the fair. They will only make you barf. 3. You must go and see all the farm animals and super weird 4-H displays and the giraffe at the petting zoo. And the kangaroos that eat your shirts. 4. You must go to the fair on the demolition derby day or the figure 8. But you must get there early because it fills up.

Here is some more attractive-ness that we made for Halloween. Fine, Tammy Newger made most of the really attractive stuff including the spider wreath and amazing Halloween folding banner.



And here is an example of our cereal bowls in the morning. Yes we are this festive.


And while Rachel gets some unattractive pictures of her posted on blogs, we thought we would post one of our sister Amanda and cousin Rebecca being festive:

And Daniel being a wizard and Annie being a runaway bride. And Julia being her true self, a cat in the background. Just a couple of kittens out on the town.... (If you don't get this, please start watching The Office asap.)

Things We Heart/Hate/think are Hot Tuesday

#1. Haven't we had enough sadness in our lives? Now Jane aka Janeth aka the Bad One aka Naughty Licks has run away. Our hearts are busted in two. If she's off working it and didn't call home first, she is seriously busted. And if she comes home with cat STDs, I am NOT taking her to the doctor. She needs to learn her lesson. She may have ran away because we do things like this to her:

Wearing Jane as a hat.


Taking Penthouse centerfold-esque pictures of her.

#2. Halloween Hotness

Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:Halloween wreath sexiness. It only took the threat of Reidster saying he was going to chuck them in the garbage unless we got them off the sidewalk in the backyard for us to finish them. p.s. Eden named the crow. His name is Handy. Who knows about that one.. And my dad wonders why I have NO money...

#3. My new lover.. Thank you Angie Dixon Dunn. I worship you times 1,000,000,000. And so does the new fall season of tv.


p.s. Julia and I are having a laugh riot laughing at our own blog. Yes, we are that pathetic and yes, we are f-ing dang hilarious.

Captain Vegetable (Sesame Street)

So maybe this boy and I had bond over this Sesame Street song and I was pretty sure it was true love via Captain Vegetable.

It Is Coming..

The movie the Jones girls are counting down the seconds to see...

Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna

This is for you, Porter family.

Things We Heart Tuesdays

Embarrassing events that have happened to the motherless Jones girls since said event:

1. Julia thinking that ounces and cups are the same thing. Therefore, she put 1 1/2 CUPS of water into her Macaroni Grill leftovers. And then wondered why they were soup-y.
2. Emily making hobo dinners in the crock pot and not peeling the potatoes. Hence dirt hobo dinners.
3. Laura thinking that we have a super sonic oven that can cook 3 lbs. of roast in 1 1/2 hours. Needless to say, our meal resembled more of this

than this:

4. Sorry, Julia, here's another one. Julia making her first chicken enchiladas ever with four cans of cream of chicken soup, and when the tortillas didn't soak it all up, putting in tortilla chips. Oopsies. We might have died from sodium that night.

On another note, other things we love:

1. That Emily's bff Sarah sent her Rainbow flip flops aka shoes from the gods.
2. The kittens aka bad ones learned how to open the door. They just hang onto the handle and it goes down and they spring out.
3. Only 1 scorpion sighting. Granted, it was right inside the back door. Still nastiness.
4. Annie started dance class.
5. Tyra Banks's new bangs. Hot.
6. Emily's color coded tv spreadsheet. Don't be jealous.
7. Boys calling other boys b****es aka The Hills last week. Amazing.

Things We Heart Tuesdays

1. Watching the kittens aka bad ones play with Polly Pockets and destroy them. Sorry Annie and Eden.
2. Living at home so my dad can fix my more than flat flat tire.
3. No scorpion sightings.
4. That it's not this same time in 2006.
5. Candy corn is at the grocery store.
6. Amazing Halloween shirts at Target that Amanda and I will wear with pride all September and October.
7. That I go to MCC now so I can TOTALLY get away with writing crappy papers and teachers praise them because I didn't write them with the stub of a pencil on toilet paper.
8. The AMAZING Halloween wreath and banner that I was given as a gift and won the other on ebay from Tammy amazingness.
9. Tomorrow.