Menthol Monster

My sister is weird. I love her and I am practically her myself however, sometimes I think, "whaaaaa?"
Yesterday I received a package from Jenni containing three things:

1. A card, of course. With piglet on it and mushy gushy stuff like "I love and miss you" I am okay with that mushy gushy stuff.
2. An awesome handmade scarf that is super soft.
   
3. And finally, last but certainly not least, the reason for this blog entry entirely: the menthol smelling sock monster below

I do not pretend that I get this little monster in the least. It has given me quite a few laughs though. Jenni WHAT is it? LOL

Lovely Night

When I was a kid I wanted Teddy Ruxpin, because what kid doesn't want a bear who actually talks to them? Lucky me I got him for Christmas and loved him for years. My Mom even made him a new little outfit so he would match my room. My favorite book/tape combo was the Lullabies. Jenni can probably vouch for the fact that I fell asleep to it practically every night, when I wasn't making her sing me to sleep.
Last night I was trying to remember the words to one of the songs for Jenni when I found this:



Awesome.
And then Lisa found one too...Love it.

Baba BaBo Sister

My spelling may be wrong but that is Crazy in Thai.
Letter to my crazy sister:

Dear Jenni Penni Pumpkin Head,
Viewing this video solidifies my decision to ban you from ever conducting the Trans Siberian Orchestra in my car ever again. There is also a new ban on dancing.
Your very concerned sister,
Tamara Dawn

We have a blog

Jenni and I have a photo blog for our project....You can find us here.

Just for Lisa's clarification

The sister picture are now being posted on my flickr page here

Day 3

Our Jungles, Day 2

A Day in the Life of...

Jenni and I decided to try and take picture of our lives for each other everyday and then post them together. We got the idea here and thought it might be interesting. Hopefully we can post everyday...We will try!
Here is our first...

Two Sisters

Two Memories:
Once Jenni and I were in opposite rooms of the apartment. Our TV was blaring and that stupid Six Flags commercial came on the TV. You know the one I am talking about. The one with the masked "old" man and the house music? So the music starts and I am overcome with this need to dance like an idiot, so why not dance into the living room? And I did only to find that Jenni was doing the exact same dance coming from the other side of the house. We both gave the "what are you doing?" look and then fell into fits of laughter.

Sheryl, Jenni and I went to Party City to buy some things for, well, for a party of course! While we were pursuing through the aisles I came across these awesome Harry Potter wands that light up. So naturally, as any Harry Potter fan would do, I picked up the wand and did my best wand wave saying "Alohamora!" Of course, since Jenni is almost me and I am almost her, standing on the other side of Sheryl, Jenni had found a wand too and was also doing her best "alohamora" wand wave out loud and at the same time. Poor Sheryl! I think she vowed never to go to Party City with us again.

Sometimes we are so alike it is scary. I miss you my Jenni Penni, more than Sirius misses James.

Tehehehe

How can my sister NOT love me when I do things like this?

Ma Baba Babo nit noy ka

my dog is a little crazy. That’s what that means in Thai. And she is.

On another note my boss had a nice little chat with Jenni today when she came to pick me up. He asked her all kinds of questions about how she liked Thailand and if she had been anywhere else in Asia.

He was delighted to hear she had been to China, his homeland, and very interested in Burma. And then proceeded to tell her all about how his Dad grew up in Burma and then moved back to China at fourteen and how there used to be a very large population of Chinese in Burma…I have never heard him talk so much like that. He is usually really quick in his conversations with strangers but he was just so interested in Jenni’s travels. Even going so far as to tell her she should take me to Vietnam next time I am over there.

Oh Jaydubsies, what are we gonna do with you tho.

Jenni

This is Jenni hacking into Tam's blog just to tell the world that she is the best sister ever! She has taken such good care of me since I came to America. She has let me sleep in late every day since I don't sleep at night due to the time difference. And today she took me to the movies and then to Taco Bell for dinner. This was very exciting because I have been dreaming about Taco Bell for a year. Weird? I know, but so good! She is so fun and the best sister in the world!

I love you Tam!

This is Tam saying that Jenni is the best sister ever! What a sappy blog post huh?
Oh and PS we watched Dan in Real Life which I already saw once and I love it. I love Steve Carell.

GASP!

How can I show you all how excited I am at this very moment? I most likely look something like this right now:




Originally uploaded on Flickr by Katester

yesterday I decided to once again look up Jenni and my old choir teacher so we could ask her about that song. Well, I FOUND HER!!! and I sent a really dorky email asking if she knew what song it was. I thought it was really a one in a million shot that she would actually email me back but guess what! SHE DID and she KNEW THE SONG! ( I will try to refrain from shouting at you all- BUT SERIOUSLY! I have tried to figure that song out for years, YEARS!)
So here it is you lucky scoundrels Streets of London (Follow the link to Jenni's Blog for the video)
This one in for you Jenni, Safe Travels! Only one day until the sisters are reunited.

Old man Sweeping the Diner

When we were kids Jenni and I shared a room. Here are some things I remember about that time:

1. Placing masking tape directly in the middle of the room to separate sides.
2. Convincing Jenni that we should stuff all of our mess from our room in the closet and clean it up later so we could go outside and play.
3. Jenni had the habit of sleeping with her arm hanging off the bed with her palm up. I once put about 50 pennies in her hand one by one and then scrambled into my bed and waited for her to wake up.
   
4. And last but not least I insisted that Jenni sing me to sleep every night. My favorite song was about an old man who would sweep up a diner every night. To this day we cannot for the life of us figure out how the song went. YOU WILL BE MY HERO IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT SONG IS!!!!!
   

One more week of...

1. Jenni


2. Riding Motor bikes


3. Gracie (Jenni's Dog) biting me


4. painting the centre


5. Removing paint I just painted on


6. my pants sticking to my legs


7. never doing my hair since it will just get messed up from the helmet


8. coffee in a bag (not an IV - I know you were thinking that Katie and Susan)


9. delicious Thai food


10. Fun Thai people who try to call me either Tamerine (SP?) or Donkey

Conversation with Jenni

For those of you who don't know, my sister Jenni teaches English to Thai College Students in Chiang Mai.
Here is a conversation I just had with her:

Jennifer: today we were talking about names in my class and Dear asked what your full name was. i told him your middle name was Dawn and he asked if he could call you donkey as a nickname

it was Hilarious me: gasp!

you told him no right?

Jennifer: i told him yes he could call you donkey

i love dear

me: no!

Jennifer: and i love you my little donkey

me: you basically are calling me an ass

Jennifer: i know but he didn't realize that and it

made it even funnier

me: way to teach your students to cuss

Jennifer: i love language barriers

you're the one whose name sounds like donkey

Received recently from my Mom

My Mom is not very technology savy so you can imagine my surprise when I received this Picture message from her recently:




Yes that is Jenni and yes she is wearing a racoon costume. And Yes, she is walking with swagger. Notive the extra swing of the tail. For further questions she can be found here.

Happy Birthday My Little Bucket of Butterball Turkeys

Happy Birthday Jenni! I love you to the second star to the left and straight on 'till morning and back.

JLee is a jerk

These days all the celebrities are getting shortened names so I thought "Hey I might as well do the same for my sister." And by the title of this you can see that I did. Anyway get to the point Tamara.
Right
So Jenni aka "JLee" is a jerk. Well not actually but her credit card company thinks so AND they have a recorded phone call to prove it. Tehehehe. (think Dr Evil laugh).
Let me explain...Sometimes JLee needs to use her credit card and since she is in Thailand she can't really pay it off in Baht. So she has a check sent to me, I deposit it and pay her card off for her. Simple right? Well I didn't get the chance to take care of it right away this time so of course I started receiving rather irritating phone calls on my cell phone. How in the - did they get that number anyway?
I was not amused. This is me not amused:
















End of story? I pretended to be JLee to see what they wanted and then got REALLY irritated and snapped. I was the world's biggest jerk and this lady was just doing her job, not listening to me, but alas just doing her job. Good thing they think it was JLee.

"Man, I just dealt with the biggest jerk on the planet. Make a note in JLee's file so the next person that calls will know that she is horrid." -The Credit Card Lady (quoted with the accent I couldn't understand)
Sorry about that JLee....You should work on your attitude...