Riddles, see if you can solve them

1. From the beginning of eternity To the end of time and space To the beginning of every end And the end of every place. What am I?

2. Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?

3. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?

4. I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.

5. I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

Answers found under comments

Spiders

Two nights ago I came into my room after enjoying a nice long shower after a long day of going to class and working a four hour shift at The Atrium to find a spider on my desk. Normally I'm not afraid of spiders, but this one was bigger than a quarter! Once they get that big, I kind of start to freak out a little bit. Especially if they're in the place where I sleep.
So here I am, my hair is soaking wet and the only thing I have on is this extremely short bath robe, and I am down on my hands and knees searching for this spider who had just crawled down the back of my desk. My roommate is on the other side of the room playing her x-box laughing at me. "HEY BRITTANY IT'S YOUR ROOM TOO, ARE YOU GOING TO HELP ME FIND THIS HUMONGOUS SPIDER?????....." guess what, she didn't help me.
In the end, I never did find that spider. I have no idea where it went. That night I went to sleep with a pillow over my ear because my good ol' roomie, Brittany, yelled up to me before I went to sleep, "Hey, better be careful, the spider might lay eggs in your ear."
"Gee thanks, just what I wanted to imagine Brittany," I thought sarcastically.

Leaky windows

Leaky windows are not fun, especially when it just keeps leaking. This is what happened,
I was asleep on my futon in my dorm room, which is on the eighth floor of lafolette. My roomie was on her x-box playing some game, when all of the sudden the room gets noticeably darker. The wind begins to blow, and that's when the rain started. One minute is was hot and humid, not raining, and the next minute it's like we have a hurricane going on outside our window. The rain is coming down at an angle, and hitting our side of the building. Meanwhile, i'm still asleep on the couch and Brittany is still on her xbox. She looks up, notices the hurricane and runs over to shut the open window. (My desk is in front of the window, I have my printer and my computer on it. Thankfully, only the back of my printer got a little wet.) She yelled my name when she ran over to the window, so that's what I got to wake up to; a hurricane and the possibility that my computer got rained on.
Once the window was shut, Brittany grabbed a towel to dry up the rain that had come in before the window was shut. That's when we noticed that it was still coming in, even though the window was closed. We completely soaked one of Brittany's large bath towels, I had a smaller one in my hand that I probably rang out in the trash can four times. This was a serious amount of water, and I wasn't at all happy.
In the end, we grabbed another dry towel and pushed it down in the window seal to soak up any more water that decided to come in. Hopefully the "Fix my room," come to fix our room soon.

9

I just got back from seeing the movie 9, and since I'm finding it hard to come up with another topic to write about, I'm going to write about the movie:
9 is based on a futuristic end of the world scenario, in which there are no humans left alive. It is similar to Terminator in that the Machines are trying to take over the world and only a few are left to try and save it. The few left to try and save the world, however, are actually machines themselves....with a human soul.
The scientist who created the machine that is taking over the world in the first place also built the 9. He realized what a mistake he had made and tried to correct it by giving his own life by splitting his soul into 9 pieces ( I know kind of Harry Potterish), and creating a new human kind I guess you would say.
Most of the 9 are split between wanting to stop the machines and hiding from them. 1 seems to be the ruler, and all he wants to do is hide from the machines. In the end though he comes through and saves the others.
In my opinion the end kind of leaves you wanting more, but overall it was a pretty good movie. I mean who doesn't like Tim Burton?

Ishmael Beah

Music had a huge impact on Ishmael Beah, one could even argue the fact that it was his saving grace while he was caught up in the conflict in Siera Leon. On Tuesday, although he did not talk much about his experiences as a boy soldier, he did talk about the impact music had on him. From O.P.P in the book, to Maroon 5 at the speech, music is such a big part of his life.
Ishmael also talked about the decline of rap music, how in today's society rappers just really string words together, with almost no meaning at all. Back during the early '90s, rap music had a meaning. For example, some of Bob Marley's best music, although his is Reggae a form of rap, has a deeper hidden meaning in his words.
Ishmael Beah went through a terrible experience, but what he went through made him who he is today. It's obvious from seeing and hearing him speak on Tuesday that although he may not be totally over his experiences, he has learned to accept what happened to him, and through his acceptance help others understand how horrible war can be.

Color Guard

If you've ever watched a half-time show at a football game, you've probably noticed the people who spin the flags and toss the rifles and any other sort of the numerous available equipment, well those girls are part of the Color Guard. In high school that was my sport. I loved it and miss it very much. Colorguard is the kind of sport where lifelong friends are made, but it's more than that, you really discover yourself. Before I joined colorguard I never imagined I would be able to get up in front of hundreds of people and perform. During my first competition I was terrified, but by my senior year, I was the one comforting the Freshmen who had never done it before. You learn so many things, and probably the most important is teamwork and how to be a leader. A colorguard will not do well if they aren't together. Just imagine how that would look; ten flags get tossed and then two seconds later another one gets tossed. That really doesn't look good, and that's why teamwork is so important. The best part of being in the colorguard though is the uniforms we get to wear and the equipment we get to use.So much cooler than the band =D.

A Recipe for some Really Good Cookies

Hellodollies, or seven layer bars however you want to call them (I prefer the latter)

Ingredients:
1 Stick Butter
1 c. Graham Cracker Crumbs
1 c. Semisweet Chocolate Chips
1 c. Butterscotch Chips
1/4 c. Coconut
1/4 c. Chopped Walnuts
1 Can Eagle Brand condensed Milk

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Melt the butter completely and pour into the bottom of a 9x9" pan
3. Spread graham cracker crumbs evenly over butter, add more crumbs if butter shows
4. Sprinkle Chocolate and Butterscotch chips over graham cracker crumbs mixing evenly
5. Using your fingers, sprinkle coconut and walnuts over the chips using however much you wish.
6. Pour the condensed milk SLOWLY over the other ingredients, cover almost completely
(NOTE: you will not use the entire can)
7. Place in oven and bake for 14-17 min. Take out when edges are slightly brown and let cool for 1 hour before cutting.
8. Enjoy!

This has been one of my favorite deserts for as long as I can remember. If you don't like coconuts or walnuts don't use them, it tastes just as great without them. Hint: put them in the fridge and they taste even better.

My Top 15 Favorite Songs

I grew up listening to classic rock stations, it was all that I'd hear if I got in the car. My dad's crazy about it, though recently he has started listening to the recent alternative music that's come out which I find completely surprising. For my Top 15 I have a mix of some of the old, and a lot of the new:
1. "Come Together," Aerosmith version
2. "Burn it to the Ground," Nickelback
3. "Pretty Handsome Awkward," The Used
4. "There She Goes," Sixpence None the Richer
5. "21 Guns," Green Day
6. "New Divide," Linkin Park
7. "Life is a Highway," Audioslave
8. "Shot Thru the Heart," Bon Jovi
9. "Eye of the TIger," Survivor
10. "Piano Man," Billy Joel
11. "Summer of 69," Brian Adams
12. "All the Small Things," Blink 182
13. "School's Out," Alice Cooper
14. "Hey there Deliah," Plain White T's
15. "Beautiful Day," U2

Memoir

My great-grandma has been around my entire life, telling me stories and making “Mamaw’s Noodles” as everyone in our family calls it. In the last six or seven years, although she’s been there….her mind hasn’t. Alzheimer’s is a disease that destroys a person, they become someone totally different because they can’t remember who they were or anything about themselves or their family. It is so hard watching someone you love go thru those phases, and even worse when the day comes when they do not even know your name. Alzheimer's does not have a cure, and although the effects can be slowed down, sooner or later your loved one will not even be able to remember conversations you just had with them. My memories, however, are intact, and I am still able to remember those times before, the good times when my Mamaw used to scare us with stories of "The Big Thumb" and having to, "When I was a little girl..." go outside at night to go to the bathroom. These are the things I remember, what I want to write down before they too fade from my memory or God forbid are lost because of the disease known as Alzheimer's.

How is that for my first paragraph for my memoir paper? Does it need anything else? Should I take some of it out? Am I giving too much away in the first paragraph? Would you want to read the rest of my paper?