heh, my last.fm list is all full of everything Megs sent me the past few days. :)

I jingle when I walk. I'm so excited. Tom and I went to the Chautauqua County Fair yesterday and I was looking at jewelry and I found a jingle bell anklet!!! *dances* I've wanted one foreeeever, I was going to make one but I'm almost out of my lil mini silver jingle bells and WalMart didn't have any more, but now I've got one! And it was $1, heeehehe. It's so much fun. It jingles a LOT though, it kinda drove Tom a lil nuts yesterday, bwahaha. But it makes me happy.

So yeah, the fair! It was pretty fun. Really, it was about the same size as Pike Fair (well, Wyoming County Fair, but we never called it that), with a handful more rides and food stands and games, and a little less by way of tractors (though there were still plenty to freak Tom out, hehehe). But we wandered around and looked at everything, except I was kind and didn't drag Tom through the cow barns, but we did look at the pigs (because apparently he likes pigs, which I would've never guessed *giggles*) and the goats (which were REALLY cute, I have pictures to post sometime) and the bunnies (also INSANELY cute I have pictures) and HORSES! The horses were so pretty. I got to meet one. *giggles* They had them outside and were washing them down, and there was one girl holding the reins of one who'd said hi to me as I walked by to go through the barn, so when I came back out, I went over and talked to her awhile. She was very very nice, as well as quite talkative, and the horse, Hershey, was very calm and friendly and soooo pretty. (Yes I have pictures, though they're not quite what I'd wanted to get.) So that was very fun.

There were plenty of random booths, for water systems and bathroom things and satellite tv and hippie clothes and blankets with harry potter or unicorns or what have you on them... the usual hodgepodge of everything. :) There was also FOOD, omfg. THEY HAD CHOCOLATE-COVERED CHEESECAKE ON A STICK!!!!! Isn't that the most fantastic thing ever??? I wanted. But by the time I saw, we'd already had lunch and had gone on rides, and uh... wasn't at all hungry. sigh.
They were selling sweet potatoes filled with butter and cinnamon and brown sugar and nutmeg! Which sounded fantaaaastic, so I got one, and it was huge. *giggles* Tom and I split a bloomin' onion, whihc was alright, and he had a sausage.

Rides. There were a few I kinda wanted to go on, they had something like the Strawberries at Pike, but it was either teddy bears or cartoony dragons.. so I spared Tom's manliness and passed on those. *giggles* The Sizzler-type ride wasn't running, I was very sad. But we did go on Tilt-a-Whirl, which made me very happy. Tom, meanwhile, had spotted two rides, and wanted to go on one of them, my choice.
They BOTH went upside-down and HELD YOU THERE FOR MULTIPLE SECONDS. *cries* That's the one thing I can't cope with, I went on one at Pike that did that and it freaked me out. But, I reasoned, I was in like 5th or 6th grade then, and Tom came to the fair just for me (he's never huge on anything that involves him not sitting in front of his computer), so...
OMFG NEVER AGAIN. *gigglehides* It was sobad. We went on the Ring of Fire thing, which's one of those biiiiig circles with a track on the inside, a short train-like thing goes up a ways then back down and up the other side, building momentum and eventually going all the way around the loop. Only, there are two or three times during the ride where it STOPS at the top, and holds you upside-down for a handful of seconds.
So I was okay going up and things, and even around, I managed to open my eyes eventually, but... It didn't even bode well getting *into* the thing, never have I been on anything that cramps you in so much, like there was leg room under the seat ahead of you, but you had to clamber in (me in a skirt, yeah) and down to the seat, and there was maybe two feet or so between your seat and the one ahead of you. Everything was padded like mad, thankfully, and while it was relieving not to have any real wriggle room in something that goes upside-down..it was a wee bit claustrobic. Thankfully, I was snuggled quite tightly next to Tom, who kept an arm around me, while I clung for dear life to the metal bars around me.
The hanging upside-down, I could feel the blood pressure in my head building and building, and all my weight was against the padded lap bar, so like I was being held by something pressing into my thighs, which, I'm sorry, does NOT feel at all secure. I kept shrieking. *giggles* And closing my eyes, and I clung so tightly that when the ride fiiiinally ended (felt like foreeever), my fingers were in that semi-paralytic state where it's really hard to uncurl them?
But, toward the end, I was giggling and things. Tom was an angel as always and was not only holding me, but kept up a steady stream of "I love you I love you I love you I'm right here I love you I love you..." the entiiiire time. *giiiggles* Which actually helped quite a bit. But even he admitted to being a bit queasy after that, so we passed on the one other ride we'd been looking at, heh.

We walked along by all the games and things, I was thinking about doing something, but only if there was a nice prize and it was reasonable. They had the awesome poster game I always did at Pike, the only thing I can ever win - throw a dart at a wall of these cheap thin posters, and you get whatever one you hit. There were a few unicorn posters, but.. nothing that really struck me. But we were walking slowly by everything, I was looking all around.. and the woman behind the counter at the throw-darts-at-balloons game called us over, said she'd give us a few free ones.
NEVER EVER FALL FOR THIS omfg. *hides* We did. It was fine at first, there really were a few free ones. But then she talked so quickly and handed me darts and said things like "if you hit one, I'll pay, if you miss, you pay" and I was doing fine but I didn't know when I was being charged and when not and--- I've no idea how she managed to keep me so confused and caught up in things. It's really creepy. But she pulled Tom in as well (so I feel a little less stupid, because he's much more practical-minded than me..though at the same time, I think he felt obligated to have me get a stuffed animal somehow), and somehow suddenly it was $15 he owed. O_o;; But! He *did* win me an incredibly cute little stuffed white seal. It's really adorable. It made me happy, but at the same time, I felt so guilty about getting us sucked into that. ^^; Ack. Crazy.

But it was a really nice day, it was really hot out and we both wound up with mini-dehydration headaches, but not 'til later on. It was really fun, and nice to go out and do something for once. :)

Yaaaaaaay I have a jingle anklet. ^_______________^