Yay! It's My Birthday Today!

Today is October 1st, and today I am the age that is equal to 7 x 2. I am in a hotel right now in Oklahoma City. We started traveling on Friday, September 28 and went to Dallas, TX for a class by Omar Suleiman. The class was called Behind the Scenes. We got there for free Friday. Only me, H, and Abi were taking it, because apparently S had to study for her class or something, and Ummi was too busy with her class. So apparently some people have a lot of classes going on here.

Anyway, the class was kinda boring but Omar Suleiman made a lot of jokes at least. H and I drew a lot in our books, which made Abi scream, but at least some of the drawings were relevant. On Sunday, which was the last day of class, we left. We left right after the class ended. Well, we left after we had our last pee. Oklahoma was three hours away, which is quite surprising.

After the long, terrible three hours in the van, we got there. Our hotel was called Sheraton. We have to go to OK City (it isn't really okay at all) because Abi has a conference there. While waiting in the van for Abi to get our room, we saw some weird people out the back window. I saw a smelly kid peering into the hotel, and there were some weird dancing people. Somebody took the keys of a woman's car and drove it into the parking garage.

The beds are white and the bathroom is white, and the sink is too high. There is orange shampoo, yellow conditioner, yellow bar soaps, and white lotion. Very descriptive, right? Yes, well, anyway, I must tell you how my birthday went.

At somewhere around 3:00, we left the hotel. We had to be back at 4:00 because of Abi's conference. We went on a water taxi, and the tupA' water taxi driver asked the passengers if they had an October birthday today. Ummi stared at me meaningfully, but I don't like to talk muchly, so I remained silent. :D But a smelly person on the taxi named Angela had an October 1st birthday, so good for her. When we went under a bridge, the driver tupA'ly sang the birthday song along with the other tupA' passengers.

"Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy BIRTHday, undear unangelic Angela,
HAPPY birthday TO YOOOUU!"

After the tupA' taxi ride, we went to a souvenir shop. I bought some earrings for me, myself and I. And S too. S got lame ol' silver butterfly ones, and I got big, dangly blue and purple ones with a silver star on each. Then we went to peachwave, a frozen yogurt place. There was a thingy for that if it was your birthday today, you got to get a 16oz cup of frozen yogurt for free. And the weight didn't matter. So isn't that great? Yeah, so S and H told me to get a lot of frozen yogurt since it was free and all. I got what I thought was enough, but they told me to get more, so I hesitantly did. And then, I got loads of toppings. I got strawberries, white chocolate chips, Rolo candy, Skittles, rainbow sprinkles, and strawberry sauce. How good does that sound?!

Anyway, here's where something really eventful happened. They (mom, dad, S, H, and Z) left me in that place to finish off, (and who told me to get a lot?!) and I left the gift bag with the earrings in it in there! We were already walking back to the hotel when I suddenly remembered. So I gasped loudly and everybody stared at me oddly. Well, John and H did. So I told them the problem, and then John told mom, and then dad walked back to that place with me to get it.

So yeah, that's how my birthday went. Mom was playing Montezuma (a game like Bejeweled) on the iPad, and H and Z were playing with her, and then suddenly, mom lashed out at H because he was being annoying.

"Ahh, go a-WAY lah! I'm gonna play by myself. You're not helping!" :D

Then me, Z, and H surrounded mom helped her, but she didn't appreciate it. She said, "Okay, you all be VERY quiet. And don't mention any colors or you will distract me! GOH!"

So we tried to be quiet, but somehow H managed to say something, so the punishment was that mom played another one. But we all couldn't help ourselves, so mom played another one. We managed to
stay quiet and finally it was Z's turn. Then it was my turn, and then H 's. He didn't play Montezuma, though. He played Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja.

Oh yes. When it was my turn, mom chased H and JS around the hotel room with her spit. Mom - a human goat? Correct.

A few hours later, dad came back for his conference, and then Maghrib came, and dinner, and now I'm on one of the white beds typing this post on the iPad.

N

Squishy Gets To His Senses

Squishy finally burrowed, I think on Saturday was it? Maybe. Or maybe was it Friday night?? Yesh. Whatever. Who cares?

There are dark green turds all over his terrarium. Seems to me he found a good place already unlike Nectaris and Squirt.

Bye-Bye Diarrhy and Nectaris and Squirt

Nectaris and Squirt burrowed last night, S says. (Nectaris is S' hornworm and Squirt is Z's.) Now H's is the only one left. He made a terrarium for his caterpillar (who I'll just call Squishy from now on) today. Then he smellily went to go bathe like a smella. S and I went out to get some dirt.
I got called to put the food away, so while I was doing so, S & H were setting up the terr. for Squishy. Then H had to go to Joomah.

Squishy was in his terr., but he didn't burrow right away. He just went crawling everywhere daftly. I gave him a leaf. What a greed!

Also, I saw Nectaris and Squishy come out of their burrows and burrow somewhere else. I was wondering why, and then S later found out that they sometimes come out to find just the right place.

Neptune hasn't been doing that, and there's a high probability that he/she has already found the right place...or died.
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Oh yeah, and I've been keeping a journal for Neptune. It isn't much. It's called N's Hornworm Diarrhy. (In Honor of Caterpillar Turds.)

This is mainly what it says:

MONDAY NIGHT

8:43 PM - Just cleaned out jar from turds. Now it's eating a little.
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TUESDAY MORNING

7:54 AM - Sleeping.
12:21 PM - It woke up and now it's eating its tomato!
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WEDNESDAY

7:40 AM - Leaves and tomato all gone. Trying to escape. Just gave it some tomato leaves.
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THURSDAY

IT BURROWED! I guess that means bye bye Hornworm Diarrhy.

Burrowing. How Sad.

This morning my caterpillar burrowed. ISN'T THAT SAD?!! It wasn't even big enough!!

H and S thought it escaped, but I dug in the terrarium and dumped the dirt into a cardboard thingy that used to be a cardboard drawer. I finally found my caterpillar!! (I named him/her Neptune, btw.) I let my caterpillar crawl around a bit, and I even put it on S while she was having her class and it fell on her thigh. No, she didn't scream. H would've, though. He's a chicken.

Terrariums

H finished making the terrarium today. S and I transferred our hornworms from jar to terrarium. My terrarium was an old cardboard shelf, with some modifications by S. H made a real nice one with windows on the sides. And it was big.

First, we went to the backyard to dig up some good dirt. S piled it up in the terrarium. Then we went back inside and out to the front yard to get some leaves and decorations. And to plop the caterpillar in. After we were done with everything, we sat back and admired our work. Then we took the terrariums in and put them in the sunroom. H's still didn't have a terrarium to go in, so like a few hours later after all that, we took H's caterpillar out of its jar and let it walk around some. Then, S got called into the house, so I remained out. Our room is the closest to the front yard and its window is next to the door. So I could see S in our room through the window. S told me to put it on the window. I put it there and it started crawling. Then Abi came back from work and saw the caterpillar on the window.
"I hope you guys don't get rashes from touching it," he said rudely.
"We won't get rashes," I said.
"Oh!" he said surprisedly.

So that is the story of the terrariums.

I Thought It Was Dead.

But it wasn't.

The inchworm inside its cocoon is now turning brown. I thought it was dead, but S said it was just a chrysalis or something. I faggot.

More Bugs

Yesterday, I lifted up one of the pots in the 'garden' and found millions of cockroaches, plus a white one. I was like 'whaat' and dropped the pot. I also found two eggs on the bell pepper plant.
I later found out that white cockroaches re not albinos, that's just what they look like right after molting.

And as for today, S gave the caterpillars tomatoes and now their turds are red and shiny. I even found a dark green turd a few minutes ago.

Inchworm, Tomato Hornworm, and Turds.

I found an inchworm yesterday in the 'garden' after watering the plants. It was crawling on a rock. I picked up the rock and lingered around a bit more in the garden in case there were anymore caterpillars around. There weren't, so I went back inside.

H thought the inchworm was just another tomato hornworm but obviously he was wrong. First of all, it didn't have a horn, and second of all, S said that newly hatched tomato hornworm are white or yellow. This inchworm was green. Third of all, tomato hornworms have big heads, and the inchworm had a pretty small head.

Later that day, S found a thready case around the worm. "Oh cool! It's making its cocoon!" S said. "What? Really?! That's awesome!" I said. No wonder it had been moving its head all day.

Also, I found out that my hornworm had turds all over its jar. The turds looked like small blackberries. Seeing them all piled up together was disgusting. I felt like barfing. Ugh. You should've seen it. Get this, I even saw a turd come out of the worm's tocks! It came out and then the slit closed up, quite primly. Yuck. Shortly after that, I found it sleeping, and two turds were stuck to its feet. "Sedapnya tidur, dengan turd turd lagi," said ummi. (Find the translation on Google translate, if you are so inclined.) Later, before abi went to the masjid for Isha, S and I went outside to dump out the turds. S said they looked like little grenades. XD

Ummi said we should have a diary about the caterpillars. So I got my nature journal and made one.

The worms are quite interesting. I can't wait to put up the pictures and videos!

N

3:01 PM

So I was looking at the last post that I made and didn't know it existed and so then I thought I have to make a new post about the awesomeness of myself and all...

What's new? TOMATO HORNWORMS, that's what! Ummi found some yesterday b4 we went to tennis and H came to the van to tell us and me and S thought he was joking...that will go in a different post. N's News.

N

3:03 PM

Random Stuff

Things I hate.
I hate Puritans...and I hate Elizabeth George Speare's book. And I hate HSI. I have to read a smelly book about life among the Puritans. (It really is smelly!) I hate decimals, fractions, and dumb old people in word problems. I hate H. (He's good 1/2% and bad + annoying 100 and 1/2%.) I hate essays, science, and SCHOOL. And I hate big smelly dogs and small smelly dogs.

Things I don't hate.
Cake, cream cheese, cats, kittens, puppies, live classes ABOUT THINGS I LIKE (don't get thinking), gardening, tomatoes, Eyewitness DVD...and there's too much to list down here.

Sew, What's New? Um......nothing. Bai.

N