switchbladesis

My downstairs neighbors have decided to put manniquin heads on one of the giant piles of snow on our front lawn. I'm not wondering where they got the heads from (I think it's the next door neighbors with a giant igloo on their front lawn-they had some mannequin arms out a while ago-otherwise, Ax Man), but I am wondering how long they're planning to keep them there. Are they going to let them get covered by the next few inches of snow? Are they going to let them tumble around when the thaw comes, get half-buried in the mud? Or are they going to carefully monitor their upkeep over the next few months, brushing the snow out of their mannequin hair?

My neighbors on the other side of us from the igloo made a really lovely ice sculpture. I'm not quite sure how me and my boyfriend managed to become the squares on this block, but I don't really mind. I just wish I had some more free time so that I could contribute.

Anyway: voice meme!

. . . which I managed to fuck up. I did this in three separate parts, but mangled the first two trying to splice them together in audacity (grargrarinterfacegrar). Since I don't know the next time I'll be alone in a quiet place, I'll just post the part I managed not to mangle. You'll get the general idea anyway. Also, since I did this on my cell phone, the sound quality is horrible.

What I was supposed to do:

Make a voice recording with the following items:

Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

And this is the passage you're supposed to read:

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

(Hi, I'm Switchbladesis and I'm from Chicago, Illinois, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota)