News flash! Rachelskirts.com is now 100 pixels wider, courtesy of my sock monkey, who happens to be a code monkey by day. We won't get into the details of his night job.

Speaking of sock monkeys (as all cool people do), the winner of the sock monkey naming contest was my very own brother! I never officially congratulated Adam here on his win, but I did make him pose for a picture outside whilst we were in the middle of building our kick-ass snow goons.

Congrats, Adam! And yes. Juan Pedro is wearing my knee sock as a scarf.

P.S. If you find goofy pages on the site this week, hold on to your pants. Actually, navigate away from the page first. Then, grab hold of a pair of pants. Preferably your own pants. Juan Pedro and I are too tired of coding to actually finish every minute detail tonight. I'm not bonded in any way with any part of this design except the width, so things you hate may go away all by themselves. By the weekend, I'll probably be looking for some constructive criticism, though. Your time will come, my pretties.

So, I challenged my friends to be funny because I was too lazy to think of anything clever myself.

Me: 1...
Me: 2...
Me: 3...
Me: GO!
Jeremiah: FUNNY!
gRegor: ...
Me: Fail.
gRegor: so... I just flew in from LA
gRegor: BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED!
Me: *headdesk*
gRegor: you get what you pay for.
Me: Clearly.

It didn't work out so well. Instead, I'm going to share some other funnies with you. These are the things I had on repeat throughout the whole of my (first) freshman year of college. (That would be 2004 - 2005, for those of you keeping track at home.)

Warning: Not all of these are safe to watch at work or around children.

• Tiny Plaid Ninjas - The only ninjas I actually won't try to kill. They're just that awesome.
• The Evil Strawberry - The kid in this video sounds exactly like my friend's little brother. It's creepy.
• The End of the World - Classic. If you haven't seen this, you haven't lived. "Ah, motherland!"
• Aicha - My suitemate and I learned this dance and did it over and over again. This was a great way to annoy our roommates, who were usually trying to study.
• Numa Numa - Someone actually had this playing at the church one night before music team practice. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't actually dreaming. Not exactly the kind of thing you expect church people to know about, I guess.
• Banana Phone - This song will not get out of my head to this day.

To get the full experience, make sure you're eating chocolate chip Pop-Tarts and sitting on a pile of dirty laundry while watching these videos in your pajamas. Go ahead and curse your textbooks, too, when they fall over on your desk and block your view of the internet.

Behold . . . One of six or seven miniature snow goons my brother and I made on Wednesday. (The other pictures are still on my camera, which I have lazily left somewhere around the house to collect dust.)

Chocolate chip eyes? Check. Chinese noodle antennae? Check. Insanely disproportionate head-to-body ratio? Check.

I love snow days.