Seriously, the last two weeks have seriously been (some of) the best of my life, seriously. Possibly the best ever, but I'm not going to say anything conclusive because my life isn't over yet. I've only been alive, like, 13.6 years.
It all started on Thursday of last week. The night before, all cozy in my room, I had finished the book Sense and Sensibility, and the next day, we left from school at 9:30 to see it in play-from. It was so good! It was really funny and well-arranged. It was dramatic and unique, but accurate to the book, too. We got back to school at like 1:30 and so we got to eat lunch during social studies.
The next day, Friday, we had early dismissal at 1:00. That day, some friends of mine from school and I were going to go to a trivia night for 6th-8th graders, but we couldn't get enough people for a team of 8. I was really disappointed because I really had wanted to go, so I decided, hey, we have early dismissal that day, why not have our own game night? So I did. It wasn't game night, but it was so FUN! We played New! Super Mario Bros. Wii and made fun of Luigi for being so bad at game as he ground-pounded into everyone and threw shells at us, and also took ALL THE POWERUPS. We also played Blokus and took the dog for a walk, and climbed trees and ran in the park. We went to the playground and it was just so fun! We also ate pizza and ERMAHGERD it was just so awesome and fun.
That weekend was 3 days long because we had Monday off for Presidents Day, when I happily slept in and hung around the house.
Tuesday and Wednesday were just normal school days, except I was uber happy because my group got to get math lessons with Mr. S, whom I really like because he's nice and fun. Wednesday we had civics with Mr. G. (whom I also adore) and Mr. S. Art class on Wednesday was okay, but I'm still really not happy with it. Actually, I'm really mad with it. But I'm not going to talk about how much I hate art class now that Ms. Bridgett isn't our teacher anymore because I'm supposed to be talking about my best week ever, right? Okay, right.
But now, the best part.
My friend Elzabeth calls me Wednesday night, screaming, "OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW IT'S CANCELLED OMIGOD SNOW OMIGOD SNOW DAY SNOW DAY!!!" (Mind you, she's loud on the phone when she's not screaming.)
So the next day I get to sleep in because it's a snow day. Only, the snow hasn't started yet when I wake up. But man, once it started at like 10:30, it snowed. I took a picture out the window every couple hours that day and was going to put it on here, but Apple hates me. We didn't go anywhere that day because we didn't want to die. But...
Today I got to go sledding for the first time in like 3 years because school was (mercifully) cancelled today, too. I went to Reservoir Park with the same group of friends from school, Elzabeth, K and his brother J. We invited Liam, too, but he was going to Art Hill with his family.
Man, it was AWESOME. The only bad part was when Elzabeth and I went down together on her pink sled and hit a manhole cover (that was in the middle of the hill, for some reason). My butt still hurts, and the sled... the sled. The sled was in shards, thankfully it was just a cheap one. Other than that, the best part was the WHOLE THING. It was so fun.
This is us sledding.
It was the best day ever. Besides, you know, those two weeks.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
The End of The.... Year (and beginning of 2013!)
So, I see you've survived the end of the world! (A funny way to look at the end of the Mayan calendar: Yeah, my calendar ended, too! On December 31st!)
Anyway, I've had a fantastic break so far, aside from the three extra days of break I received due to my stupid tonsils that appear to be strep magnets or something ridiculous. So that was disappointing because I didn't get to take my teachers their goodies and carefully baked gluten free cookies. 'Cause you know, I was sick and busy bein' miserable and puking 21 times in one day. I think that's the standing record for this family.
The Saturday before the actual Christmas was supposed to be Christmas with my mom's family but that got moved to the 27th due to my tonsils that suck. Nobody wanted to chance it because they get strep there all the time anyway.
Christmas Eve we were going to go to church but that got blown off due to the fact that my parents really wanted to go to Aunt Jenny's because my dad's sister and her husband and the twins from New York were there. And we have this tradition of having potato soup on Christmas Eve every year that we like so everything worked out.
I don't know if I've told you guys about the potato soup story, have I? Well, almost all my family is German, so that's where the story starts. They have lots of potatoes there and for the poor people, potato soup was what's for dinner. Potatoes, and cream, butter, cheese, plentiful staples. When my grandpa (I'm not sure how many "greats" he has by this point) came over on the ship to America, he got this stomach thing and had surgery to get part of it taken out (see how lucky? I hear the prospect of having surgery way back then wasn't very good.) and guess what he ate that was soothing and not painful to eat and reminded him of home. So the story goes and we like our tradition.
So after eating our potato soup we bundled up and drove to Jenny's to see everybody and my cousins who were home from college. Man, I love those people. It was good. Aunt Kim felt bad about not going to Christmas Eve church so she wanted my dad to read the Christmas story from the bible, which he did, and we sang Silent Night, and then Uncle Mike sang part of it in German which was hilarious.
We drove back to our house and I slept upstairs so we could all go down together in the morning.
7:30 in the morning, Esther gets up and wakes everybody up. "Everybody, it's Christmas! I want everybody up in five minutes!" And she's three. How cute.
It was magical. Esther got a ginormous Barbie house. I got a Wii Fit and the John Green boxed set (of books; too bad it wasn't a John Green boxed set with containing John Green!), and Abigail got two Wii games. Just to name a few. We hung out in our pjamas all morning and went over to the neighbor's to exchange gifts. They really are lovely people and I'm so glad they're our neighbors. They just had a baby and boy, is he cute when he's not fussy! I just wanna eat him up, you know?
On the 27th or whatever day it was (I really don't remember; it's all sort of a blur now.) we drove through the snowy Illinois roads and played cows, but there really weren't that many cows. You know, cows is a game that is really great when everyone in the country has cows (like in Wisconsin, not so much Illinois). We stopped at Wendy's for lunch and continued on to Uncle Joe's for Christmas with my mom's family. Grandma Judy ate her legendary Jell-O salad. It has watermelon Jell-O, green olives, and celery, all mixed together with like the olives suspended in the Jell-O and stuff. Yeah, I'll let you decide if you want to try it, but she loves it.
We stayed the night at Uncle Joe's and hung out there and the next day had the Hooperdoodle (I have decided that I'm using Hooperdoodle as my last name on the Internet instead of my actual last name) Christmas at grandma Linny's house with my dad's family and such. It was very fun. I was appointed the new Santa's Helper by Aunt Kim, who has been the Santa's Helper forever and so now I'm the new Santa's Helper. All the little kids helped me. Jake told me I run a tight shop. (I'm sure he and all my older cousins were jealous that they weren't appointed new Santa's Helper.)
The Christmas Eve snow was a couple of days late. It snowed in St. Louis the night we drove home from Illinois. It had a sort of, um, magical effect as we drove through our adorable neighborhood and watched the (still up) Christmas lights reflected on white though the windows.
It was a good break.
I can't decide if I'm excited to go back to school tomorrow or not. I really have enjoyed sleeping so much but I think it will be nice to get back to structured routines and seeing my friends and teachers at school. Alas, it's no Hogwarts.
Anyway, I've had a fantastic break so far, aside from the three extra days of break I received due to my stupid tonsils that appear to be strep magnets or something ridiculous. So that was disappointing because I didn't get to take my teachers their goodies and carefully baked gluten free cookies. 'Cause you know, I was sick and busy bein' miserable and puking 21 times in one day. I think that's the standing record for this family.
The Saturday before the actual Christmas was supposed to be Christmas with my mom's family but that got moved to the 27th due to my tonsils that suck. Nobody wanted to chance it because they get strep there all the time anyway.
Christmas Eve we were going to go to church but that got blown off due to the fact that my parents really wanted to go to Aunt Jenny's because my dad's sister and her husband and the twins from New York were there. And we have this tradition of having potato soup on Christmas Eve every year that we like so everything worked out.
I don't know if I've told you guys about the potato soup story, have I? Well, almost all my family is German, so that's where the story starts. They have lots of potatoes there and for the poor people, potato soup was what's for dinner. Potatoes, and cream, butter, cheese, plentiful staples. When my grandpa (I'm not sure how many "greats" he has by this point) came over on the ship to America, he got this stomach thing and had surgery to get part of it taken out (see how lucky? I hear the prospect of having surgery way back then wasn't very good.) and guess what he ate that was soothing and not painful to eat and reminded him of home. So the story goes and we like our tradition.
So after eating our potato soup we bundled up and drove to Jenny's to see everybody and my cousins who were home from college. Man, I love those people. It was good. Aunt Kim felt bad about not going to Christmas Eve church so she wanted my dad to read the Christmas story from the bible, which he did, and we sang Silent Night, and then Uncle Mike sang part of it in German which was hilarious.
We drove back to our house and I slept upstairs so we could all go down together in the morning.
7:30 in the morning, Esther gets up and wakes everybody up. "Everybody, it's Christmas! I want everybody up in five minutes!" And she's three. How cute.
It was magical. Esther got a ginormous Barbie house. I got a Wii Fit and the John Green boxed set (of books; too bad it wasn't a John Green boxed set with containing John Green!), and Abigail got two Wii games. Just to name a few. We hung out in our pjamas all morning and went over to the neighbor's to exchange gifts. They really are lovely people and I'm so glad they're our neighbors. They just had a baby and boy, is he cute when he's not fussy! I just wanna eat him up, you know?
On the 27th or whatever day it was (I really don't remember; it's all sort of a blur now.) we drove through the snowy Illinois roads and played cows, but there really weren't that many cows. You know, cows is a game that is really great when everyone in the country has cows (like in Wisconsin, not so much Illinois). We stopped at Wendy's for lunch and continued on to Uncle Joe's for Christmas with my mom's family. Grandma Judy ate her legendary Jell-O salad. It has watermelon Jell-O, green olives, and celery, all mixed together with like the olives suspended in the Jell-O and stuff. Yeah, I'll let you decide if you want to try it, but she loves it.
We stayed the night at Uncle Joe's and hung out there and the next day had the Hooperdoodle (I have decided that I'm using Hooperdoodle as my last name on the Internet instead of my actual last name) Christmas at grandma Linny's house with my dad's family and such. It was very fun. I was appointed the new Santa's Helper by Aunt Kim, who has been the Santa's Helper forever and so now I'm the new Santa's Helper. All the little kids helped me. Jake told me I run a tight shop. (I'm sure he and all my older cousins were jealous that they weren't appointed new Santa's Helper.)
The Christmas Eve snow was a couple of days late. It snowed in St. Louis the night we drove home from Illinois. It had a sort of, um, magical effect as we drove through our adorable neighborhood and watched the (still up) Christmas lights reflected on white though the windows.
It was a good break.
I can't decide if I'm excited to go back to school tomorrow or not. I really have enjoyed sleeping so much but I think it will be nice to get back to structured routines and seeing my friends and teachers at school. Alas, it's no Hogwarts.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Shaw Nature Reserve
I went to stay in a lodge there with Girl Scouts. It was very fun.
On the first night we went on a night hike. We did the Halloween thing where you reach in the bag and try to figure out what it is. There was an antler, a TURKEY FOOT, a freshwater mussel shell, and a turtle shell. It kinda creeped me out. Then we did the thing where you chew the Winto-Green Life Saver with your mouth open and make the funny noise. Well, you don't really need to make the funny noise, but still. It makes sparks inside your mouth! but doesn't hurt (duh).
When we got back we played Bananagrams in the Gathering Hall and stuff. I think we played to late, though because I didn't get as much sleep as I was hoping....
In the morning we had french toast for breakfast with the home made butter that we shookandshookandshookandshookandshook the night before. It was so good!!! Then we did a GPS finding your way course and that was very fun. We got lost, but it was fun. Not too lost. But lost. You know. The GPS doesn't talk to you like it does in the car. That would be funny. "Turn right at the next tree. " Hah.
Then it snowed. Wassup wif dat? I am so mad. C'mon, it's officially spring, right? Seriously?
On the first night we went on a night hike. We did the Halloween thing where you reach in the bag and try to figure out what it is. There was an antler, a TURKEY FOOT, a freshwater mussel shell, and a turtle shell. It kinda creeped me out. Then we did the thing where you chew the Winto-Green Life Saver with your mouth open and make the funny noise. Well, you don't really need to make the funny noise, but still. It makes sparks inside your mouth! but doesn't hurt (duh).
When we got back we played Bananagrams in the Gathering Hall and stuff. I think we played to late, though because I didn't get as much sleep as I was hoping....
In the morning we had french toast for breakfast with the home made butter that we shookandshookandshookandshookandshook the night before. It was so good!!! Then we did a GPS finding your way course and that was very fun. We got lost, but it was fun. Not too lost. But lost. You know. The GPS doesn't talk to you like it does in the car. That would be funny. "Turn right at the next tree. " Hah.
Then it snowed. Wassup wif dat? I am so mad. C'mon, it's officially spring, right? Seriously?
Friday, February 4, 2011
I Miss School!
So I didn't go to school all week. I really was sick. Not as much these past few days, but my mom kept me home, rather for my own good. I'm actually glad that she did, because otherwise I would probably already be sick again. I miss school, but this is a lot of what I did, if not all, while I wasn't at school this week.
Monday-So I woke up and puked my guts out. Then I went to the doctor who was very insensitive (I hate that!) and didn't even remember when we had called the day before. It made my mom maaaaaaaaaad. So for the rest of the day I slept. And took a miserable shower. And puked my guts out some more.
Tuesday-I really don't remember. That's weird. I think I got my days mixed up. But I do remember that I felt much better that day and my parents made fun of me because I slept for like 20 hours straight the day before. Hee hee hee!
Wednesday-That day my mom was really feeling the cabin fever since we couldn't go anywhere because of the snow and ice, and when she gets like that, she moves furniture! We had like a bedroom party and organized and threw away and moved shelves and I feel so much better about my organization now because me and Abigail's room was a mess!
Thursday-My dad was off and he and I played some MarioKart and it was fun. Then he ran some errands and I played MarioKart and it was just fun. This was kind of a more relax-y fun day. We (mom, Esther, and I) went to Target because she needed diapers for Esther and I had some money that was burning a hole in my pocket. $40 in Target gift cards, baby! I bought some birthday gifts for Abigail (she was almost a Valentine baby), Valentines to give out at school, and some SillyBandz for myself.
Friday (today)-I organized some more while listening to the radio in my room. Played with Esther all day. She is so adorable! The only thing is, she forgot how to sleep or something. Not good. She keeps waking everybody (my mom [poor mom {and Esther}]) up in the middle of the night and getting up early. I also finished a scarf that I was knitting (my first real project) for Abigail for her upcoming birthday. Shhhhhh!
That was my week. Little bit of everything, but no sledding still. Understandable but disappointing.
Monday-So I woke up and puked my guts out. Then I went to the doctor who was very insensitive (I hate that!) and didn't even remember when we had called the day before. It made my mom maaaaaaaaaad. So for the rest of the day I slept. And took a miserable shower. And puked my guts out some more.
Tuesday-I really don't remember. That's weird. I think I got my days mixed up. But I do remember that I felt much better that day and my parents made fun of me because I slept for like 20 hours straight the day before. Hee hee hee!
Wednesday-That day my mom was really feeling the cabin fever since we couldn't go anywhere because of the snow and ice, and when she gets like that, she moves furniture! We had like a bedroom party and organized and threw away and moved shelves and I feel so much better about my organization now because me and Abigail's room was a mess!
Thursday-My dad was off and he and I played some MarioKart and it was fun. Then he ran some errands and I played MarioKart and it was just fun. This was kind of a more relax-y fun day. We (mom, Esther, and I) went to Target because she needed diapers for Esther and I had some money that was burning a hole in my pocket. $40 in Target gift cards, baby! I bought some birthday gifts for Abigail (she was almost a Valentine baby), Valentines to give out at school, and some SillyBandz for myself.
Friday (today)-I organized some more while listening to the radio in my room. Played with Esther all day. She is so adorable! The only thing is, she forgot how to sleep or something. Not good. She keeps waking everybody (my mom [poor mom {and Esther}]) up in the middle of the night and getting up early. I also finished a scarf that I was knitting (my first real project) for Abigail for her upcoming birthday. Shhhhhh!
That was my week. Little bit of everything, but no sledding still. Understandable but disappointing.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
S is for Sick. And Snow. And School. And Scouts.
And Seriously. I don't wanna be sick anymore. I don't think my throat can take much more strep. And I wanta go to school! I miss it.
Sick sick sick sick.
Doing better. So on Monday I woke up, breathed in, coughed once, and vomited (thank fully in the toilet), went to the doctor, and slept, and then took a miserable shower, and slept all day and all night. Some well needed sleep! 20 hours! My dad said that I played video games in my sleep with him but I think that was his sarcasm coming out. I'm sure. Right?! People don't play video games in their sleep! Or do they?
Snow snow snow snow.
It snowed. Again. I really didn't think we'd ever get this much in one year, living in Saint Louis! We still didn't get to go sledding... ah, the disappointment. But it's okay. It snowed, and that in itself is enough for me. But since it snowed and freezing-rained and sleeted and hailed, we didn't have any
School school school school.
I wouldn't have gone anyway so that's good because it didn't count against my absence. But darn it, now we have to go to school into June! My mom probably won't make us go, though. (Smirk.)
And, to top it off, I sold 135 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Yay me! Last year I sold 160, but I sold less this year because I had to give a lot of my customers to my sister this year. Still, that's alotta cookies! Enough for me.
Sick sick sick sick.
Doing better. So on Monday I woke up, breathed in, coughed once, and vomited (thank fully in the toilet), went to the doctor, and slept, and then took a miserable shower, and slept all day and all night. Some well needed sleep! 20 hours! My dad said that I played video games in my sleep with him but I think that was his sarcasm coming out. I'm sure. Right?! People don't play video games in their sleep! Or do they?
Snow snow snow snow.
It snowed. Again. I really didn't think we'd ever get this much in one year, living in Saint Louis! We still didn't get to go sledding... ah, the disappointment. But it's okay. It snowed, and that in itself is enough for me. But since it snowed and freezing-rained and sleeted and hailed, we didn't have any
School school school school.
I wouldn't have gone anyway so that's good because it didn't count against my absence. But darn it, now we have to go to school into June! My mom probably won't make us go, though. (Smirk.)
And, to top it off, I sold 135 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Yay me! Last year I sold 160, but I sold less this year because I had to give a lot of my customers to my sister this year. Still, that's alotta cookies! Enough for me.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
S is for Snow Day
Today (last night) it snowed. Not very much, but enough to have a snow day. We can't go anywhere, though, because my dad took our van to work instead of his tiny Daewoo 'roller skate car.'
Since I really have nothing to do, I think. Here are some things I'm thinking I'm glad I have.....
My old-fashioned Smith-Corona typewriter-very handy for type-writing.
Yarn-all the better to knit with, my dear!
Modern day technology-cell phones, computers, electricity, you name it.
A safe, warm house-very good for living in.
Girl Scouts-I love my troop and we always have so much fun.
Friends and Family-Family and Friends
Chocolate!
Such a wonderful God-3 whats, 1 who.
Snow days!
Since I really have nothing to do, I think. Here are some things I'm thinking I'm glad I have.....
My old-fashioned Smith-Corona typewriter-very handy for type-writing.
Yarn-all the better to knit with, my dear!
Modern day technology-cell phones, computers, electricity, you name it.
A safe, warm house-very good for living in.
Girl Scouts-I love my troop and we always have so much fun.
Friends and Family-Family and Friends
Chocolate!
Such a wonderful God-3 whats, 1 who.
Snow days!
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