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Hi I am back from my trip to europe. I will post on that experience later.

First, in the name of travelling, I would like to share this AWESOME youtube video with you

Here's the description on youtube: A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park while on safari. The people who took the video also created a website at http://www.BattleAtKruger.com.

Watch it if you haven't seen it yet. It's craaaazzzyyy.

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***i recently wrote an entry on marriage and divorce and made it a friends-only post due to potential privacy issues. If you're dying to read it, email me at chcaro@gmail.com to get it or create your own tabulas account and have me add you to my friends list to see it.

MYTH: Matt is whipped.

TRUE?

FALSE?

Answer: You decide

We had just flown into Dallas for a wedding and were meeting the guys at their hotel. We needed to carry our bags inside because we had to get changed for the wedding rehearsal. All the girls' luggage was taken up by some of the guys, but I found myself carrying my own duffel bag up to the hotel room and Matt was nowhere in sight.

To which Cindy made the comment, "How come Matt's not carrying your bag?"

"I don't know! I can't even find him!"

"How come we all think Matt's whipped? He's actually not!" Cindy exclaimed in surprise. (Haha).

I wasn't really sure at the time why we all thought Matt was whipped, but really, I never thought he was. I ask him to do things for me and sometimes he will, sometimes he won't. But he doesn't jump at my every whim like a trained dog. (but I wish! Jk).

So I spent the next couple of weeks investigating and observing him. And suddenly, two nights ago, the answer appeared! 

It's summer vacation now and I have been off from school for about a week and a half now! Before jet-setting around the world, I wanted to spend a couple of days with Matt. I'm down at his house and we had been playing rockband all weekend to the point where my eyes were crossing and drying out due to not blinking for minutes at a time. So I asked him if we could do something else besides play video games and I suggested that we watch a movie instead. He said, "Ok."

After dinner, we get home and before we pop the DVD into his xbox, he logs into xbox live and Halo 3 to show me some recorded footage from a game he played the other day. As if that impresses me. Please. But I indulge him and pretend to be interested. Heehe.  While we are watching scenes from his Halo game, his friends message him to get him to play. Matt tells me he needs to get on to tell the guys that he can't play.

"Hey guys, I just logged in to tell you I can't play," he informs his friends.

"LAME!!" they respond through the headset.

"Uhh..Caroline's sitting right next to me," Matt says

"Ohhh" and suddenly all his guy friends understand.

"Yeah, uhh.." and he looks at me nervously while saying this because he knows it might get him into trouble, "Caroline wants to watch a movie..."

Here we have it folks. The reason why everyone thinks he's whipped is because of Matt's deliberate presentation of the situation to his friends. He could have said, "Caroline and I agreed to watch a movie together instead..." and he wouldn't have made me seem so umm..dominatrix-ish?

Perhaps he's a little whipped (as most boyfriends should be), but is he as whipped as everyone thinks? You decide.

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Guess who I got to meet yesterday? Oh, it's every science teacher's dream! He came to my school to give a talk..

Recognize him? It's Bill Nye the Science guy...soon to be Bill Nye the Math guy perhaps. He was telling me of some math series he wanted to do dealing with algebra concepts. We'll see what happens with that

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Hi! I recently got a $50 Itunes Gift Card for my bday.

Any suggestions for songs and CDs I should buy?

Any type of music goes (except for heavy metal).

Thanks for your help

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List of things I want to do before I turn 30 (in no particular order):

 run a marathon

complete a triathalon

visit all 50 states in the US (so far I've been to about 39..so i have 11 to hit, mostly in the northern US)

try surfing

kayak in Alaska

learn Spanish well enough to converse with parents

buy a bike and go biking somewhere awesome!

take guitar lessons and become good (how good, you ask...well, that is TBD)

hike in S. America (in particular, Argentina, Chile, Patagonia, or Ecuador, Galapogas Islands) or Costa Rica (whichever)

finish grad school in education

Patagonia. Los Glaciares National Park.

sea-kayaking in Alaska

can we say, GORGEOUS? i really think CA has turned me into this nature-loving, outdoorsy, adventure-seeking girl. lemme know if you wanna join in on the fun