Another Addiction.

To begin, let me say that I am the Queen of Alliteration.

To continue, I've been somewhat disappointed with some of the readers over at a different blogging site I've been using for almost two years now (how sad is this, folks?). When I say I've been "disappointed", I actually mean I've been "disgusted". I decided it was time for a fresh start. My best friend Emily and I made an executive decision a few weeks ago, and it was that we should consider the summer of 2006 to be the "Summer of Fresh Starts". So...this is me, trying out a new blog site. We'll see what happens.

In the mean time (is that two words or one? I could never figure it out), I believe it's time for me to end my very first entry here with a list. (Note: in addition to being the Queen of Alliteration, I am also very well known for making lists.) This one is a list of pranks I've either learned about for the first time or have actually seen in repetition since my family moved here. So, without further ado...

Hoosier Pranks I've Learned About Since Moving From Colorado to Indiana

1) Devil on the Doorstep (or) Ding Dong Ditching. This one is pretty much self explanitory.

2) Gnoming. This is where you and some friends in a car drive around in any given neighborhood, periodically taking turns jumping out of the car to steal various lawn ornaments and then tossing them out the windows of the car when leaving for home.

3) Forking. Take a load of plastic forks, push them into the lawn of an unsuspecting victim, and break off the handles. Then, when this victim goes to mow the lawn...ohh. There goes the lawnmower. A variant of this prank is also Frozen Forking, where the forks are stuck into the snow of someone's lawn, broken off, and left there to freeze.

4) Stupid-Blow-Up-Thing-Slashing. This one was actually a product of the imaginations of myself with a few of my cousins at a very dysfunctional Thanksgiving gathering two years ago. In the colder months of the year, we've noticed a lot of inflatable lawn ornaments to celebrate the season. I made a separate list of the stupid blow up things we've seen, which I will not include here, but included in this list is The Grinch, Scooby Doo With A Santa Hat, and various other winter icons. This prank involves us going around in the dead of night with large knives and slashing the stupid blow up things. (We couldn't come up with a better name for this prank.)

5) Hubcapping. Basically, you steal the hubcaps off of someone's car and hide them in a car belonging to a close (and, albeit, unsuspecting) close friend.

As of now, these are the only five I can think of, but I might be back later to add to this list.

However, I do believe that the best prank ever was a practical joke played on a friend of ours from youth group that I got pulled into at the last minute. What happened: We (when I say "we", I refer to myself, Andy aka Skippy, Marcus, and Nic) covered our friend's car in post-it notes while he was still in school. Why were the four of us not in school ourselves, you ask? We're college kids and our friend (Mammo) is still in high school.

Woo.

I leave you with that.

Unfortunately yours,

Miranda