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.
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.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Skittles and a day of SLU
Yesterday SLU Decadence had a concert at Xavier Audotorium. It was amazing.
The a cappella choir, Skittles, at my school got to preform at it. It was so AWESOME! We sang "Stereo Hearts" and "Wavin' Flag" and it sounded really good. I wish I could describe it so that it sounds as good here as it did there.
Before that I spent the afternoon cooking with a few students and Miss R at the S. Center at SLU for a dinner party someone won at the school's Gala. It was fun. We made sevichi (or whaterer?), a raw-but-not-raw fish dish that is cooked only by citrus that it is marinated in (eww? I didn't get to taste it.), sweet potato tomales, rice and pork, and for dessert sweet potato rasin rum cake with cinnamon whipped cream and candied pumpkin seeds.
Actually, the pumpkin seeds were supposed to be pumpkin-seed brittle. It turned out to be more of fail-brittle then actual brittle-y brittle. We just crunched it up into pieces and it still tasted good. Shh, don't tell them!
It was a fun day of SLU. You should check out their YouTube and everything; they are so talented!
The a cappella choir, Skittles, at my school got to preform at it. It was so AWESOME! We sang "Stereo Hearts" and "Wavin' Flag" and it sounded really good. I wish I could describe it so that it sounds as good here as it did there.
Before that I spent the afternoon cooking with a few students and Miss R at the S. Center at SLU for a dinner party someone won at the school's Gala. It was fun. We made sevichi (or whaterer?), a raw-but-not-raw fish dish that is cooked only by citrus that it is marinated in (eww? I didn't get to taste it.), sweet potato tomales, rice and pork, and for dessert sweet potato rasin rum cake with cinnamon whipped cream and candied pumpkin seeds.
Actually, the pumpkin seeds were supposed to be pumpkin-seed brittle. It turned out to be more of fail-brittle then actual brittle-y brittle. We just crunched it up into pieces and it still tasted good. Shh, don't tell them!
It was a fun day of SLU. You should check out their YouTube and everything; they are so talented!
It's been a while...
I know, I know. I'm so bad. It's not that I've forgotten, I just haven't been on the computer. It's really hard to blog from an iTouch...
A lot of stuff is happening.
I'm excited for Christmas. I sang in front of people with my a cappella group. I'm going cabining next weekend. I made around 150 caramels yesterday and cooked a dinner for 9. More later.
A lot of stuff is happening.
I'm excited for Christmas. I sang in front of people with my a cappella group. I'm going cabining next weekend. I made around 150 caramels yesterday and cooked a dinner for 9. More later.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Lately
Lately I've been at school. I think it's off to a greeeeaat start. The new building is awesome. Have I written about this? The 7th and 8th grade Jr. High room is awesome. The only thing is we have to share it with aftercare and the thing about that is I'll just say sometimes it's not the neatest when we get there in the morning. One of my favorite things is when we get to school in the moring we get to start in our Jr. High room to unpack and fill out our work plans and such. My fun job is I get to write the work plan on the white board. It's fun to write on the white board.
Lately I am obsessed I guess you could say with youtube I guess. Mostly vlogbrothers (I'm mostly through 2009) and vihart. This means hexaflexagons (1), hexaflexagons (2), hexaflexagons (3). Awesome. Nerdy. You NEED to watch these videos. And vlogbrothers too, don't forget them.
Lately I fill my mind with awesomeness in general. I'm still new to and blown away by the amazingness and awesomeness and kindness of nerdfighteria. Best wishes!
Lately I am obsessed I guess you could say with youtube I guess. Mostly vlogbrothers (I'm mostly through 2009) and vihart. This means hexaflexagons (1), hexaflexagons (2), hexaflexagons (3). Awesome. Nerdy. You NEED to watch these videos. And vlogbrothers too, don't forget them.
Lately I fill my mind with awesomeness in general. I'm still new to and blown away by the amazingness and awesomeness and kindness of nerdfighteria. Best wishes!
My Weekend
My weekend was really awesome. On Friday I left early from school to go to Illinois with my family.
And I'll get back to that in a second but first I want to say I think I am abandoning the fake names for my family. I think I'll keep using the ones like for Bree and Fiona but it's really weird to me to call my family by names that aren't theirs. Anyway I think (and hope) that most people who read this blog know and love me and my family and wouldn't do anything bad if only they knew the actual names of my family menbers! You know what I mean especially because you probably are that person. Or you are those people. You are one of those people. You are those people?!
Anyway, we drove to Illinois to my aunt and uncle's house they just (basically) redid over the course of like 3 years. They are busy people. They have a farm. But they added a room and a porch to their house and re-did the kitchen which is reeely nice. They got the drawers that close themselves!
So anyway the reason that we were in Illinois is because the church that my aunt and uncle and cousins and grandma and pretty much everyone in the adorable small town of like 700 people go to was having a weenie roast and 'salt shaker' they're calling it.
It was really fun. (Words I really say a lot: really, anyway, awesome, like, I. That was not a complete sentence.) First there was a ginormous fire (you know, the intentional kind) and everyone had chili and hot dogs and s'mores of course. There was lots of junk food and awesome deliciousness. The best was the dark chocolate fudge brownies with peanut butter caramel icing on top. Oohhhhhh.
They had a stage set up outside with all the music equippment and everything. The band played really well and it was really good worship music. Like, really good. Then the salt shaker part, there was a guest speaker.
The pastor's son goes to the college my dad actually went to. We visisted there over the summer actually and one of his former professors and his wife welcomed us in to their adorable home and made us muffins and gave us tours of the college campus (it's a really nice place...). Anyway the pastor of the church in this college town in Illnios where the pastor of my grandma's church's son goes came to the salt shaker to speak. I think that sentence is gramatically correct and if you think really hard it might make sense if you really want it to.
Anyway the sermon was about Christians being the salt and the light of the earth. It was really good. By this point in the evening it was about I don't know how may degrees but it was cold, and it was raining. It had been raining since a little after the music started. It was cold. It was good.
The funniest part of the sermon was when it was finished and it had stopped raining and he said, "Hey, it stopped raining, didn't it? Good. That was the introduction!" It wasn't really but it was pretty funny.
After the sermon, more music. It was loud and intense and awesome. It was fun.
It was a good weekend.
And I'll get back to that in a second but first I want to say I think I am abandoning the fake names for my family. I think I'll keep using the ones like for Bree and Fiona but it's really weird to me to call my family by names that aren't theirs. Anyway I think (and hope) that most people who read this blog know and love me and my family and wouldn't do anything bad if only they knew the actual names of my family menbers! You know what I mean especially because you probably are that person. Or you are those people. You are one of those people. You are those people?!
Anyway, we drove to Illinois to my aunt and uncle's house they just (basically) redid over the course of like 3 years. They are busy people. They have a farm. But they added a room and a porch to their house and re-did the kitchen which is reeely nice. They got the drawers that close themselves!
So anyway the reason that we were in Illinois is because the church that my aunt and uncle and cousins and grandma and pretty much everyone in the adorable small town of like 700 people go to was having a weenie roast and 'salt shaker' they're calling it.
It was really fun. (Words I really say a lot: really, anyway, awesome, like, I. That was not a complete sentence.) First there was a ginormous fire (you know, the intentional kind) and everyone had chili and hot dogs and s'mores of course. There was lots of junk food and awesome deliciousness. The best was the dark chocolate fudge brownies with peanut butter caramel icing on top. Oohhhhhh.
They had a stage set up outside with all the music equippment and everything. The band played really well and it was really good worship music. Like, really good. Then the salt shaker part, there was a guest speaker.
The pastor's son goes to the college my dad actually went to. We visisted there over the summer actually and one of his former professors and his wife welcomed us in to their adorable home and made us muffins and gave us tours of the college campus (it's a really nice place...). Anyway the pastor of the church in this college town in Illnios where the pastor of my grandma's church's son goes came to the salt shaker to speak. I think that sentence is gramatically correct and if you think really hard it might make sense if you really want it to.
Anyway the sermon was about Christians being the salt and the light of the earth. It was really good. By this point in the evening it was about I don't know how may degrees but it was cold, and it was raining. It had been raining since a little after the music started. It was cold. It was good.
The funniest part of the sermon was when it was finished and it had stopped raining and he said, "Hey, it stopped raining, didn't it? Good. That was the introduction!" It wasn't really but it was pretty funny.
After the sermon, more music. It was loud and intense and awesome. It was fun.
It was a good weekend.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Bizzy
I'm proud to say that I'm almost genuinely busy. I've never really meant the true meaning before, and I'm sure I'll be thinking the same thing in High School when I have about three more hours of homework than I do now, have a million clubs, and still want to sleep sometimes.
But I'm happy I'm doing stuff besides school. Piano, youth group, and hopefully soon acapella if that ever gets organized. I liked doing that last year.
I'm excited for art class to maybe start soon. I really hope they make the obvious descion. I really hope they actually choose a teacher.
This is much funner than homework. Even though it is homework. Mrs. W. said I could do this instead of journal. It seems less like an assigned thing that way. It's much faster than writing too.
I really like all my teachers. I always have. There was only one year (second grade) I had a really bad teacher. I hope she's not still teaching becaue she slapped kids and called them stupid, told them to shut up, called them retarded, and even pushed a kid down the stairs once. Uhh. I'm so glad my teachers aren't like that. They're so nice!
I like Ms. A. a lot. And Ms. K, and Ms. W, and all of them! I like it because I feel like I'm being pushed harder already. Which is a really good thing. Instead of the yeah, your kid is learning montessori grades (which I have nothing against for elementary classes), they're doing actual letter grades and percents this year. I think that's really good for me, to see it in numbers and precents instead of 'yes, you did your best' or 'yeah you tried' check marks. But smiley faces and checks and good jobs are still happily accepted and devoured, just so you know.
But yeah.
I'm not sure what to say next. How about some jokes. I've got some good ones. In my opinion anyway. You will most likely think they're stupid.
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?
A flat miner.
When do you get when you drop a piano over a military base?
A flat major.
What kind of pants do the Mario brothers wear?
denimdenimdenim.
Why can't Hellen Keller drive?
Because she's DEAD!
What do you get when you throw a grenade in a French bathroom?
Linoleum Blownapart.
What did one snowman say to the other?
Ahh, smells like carrots.
What's blackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhite?
A penguin rolling down a hill.
What's black and white laughing?
The little penguin who pushed him.
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because he was DEAD!
Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree?
He was laughing at the first monkey.
Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree?
Peer pressure.
Okay that's enough. For now.
But I'm happy I'm doing stuff besides school. Piano, youth group, and hopefully soon acapella if that ever gets organized. I liked doing that last year.
I'm excited for art class to maybe start soon. I really hope they make the obvious descion. I really hope they actually choose a teacher.
This is much funner than homework. Even though it is homework. Mrs. W. said I could do this instead of journal. It seems less like an assigned thing that way. It's much faster than writing too.
I really like all my teachers. I always have. There was only one year (second grade) I had a really bad teacher. I hope she's not still teaching becaue she slapped kids and called them stupid, told them to shut up, called them retarded, and even pushed a kid down the stairs once. Uhh. I'm so glad my teachers aren't like that. They're so nice!
I like Ms. A. a lot. And Ms. K, and Ms. W, and all of them! I like it because I feel like I'm being pushed harder already. Which is a really good thing. Instead of the yeah, your kid is learning montessori grades (which I have nothing against for elementary classes), they're doing actual letter grades and percents this year. I think that's really good for me, to see it in numbers and precents instead of 'yes, you did your best' or 'yeah you tried' check marks. But smiley faces and checks and good jobs are still happily accepted and devoured, just so you know.
But yeah.
I'm not sure what to say next. How about some jokes. I've got some good ones. In my opinion anyway. You will most likely think they're stupid.
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?
A flat miner.
When do you get when you drop a piano over a military base?
A flat major.
What kind of pants do the Mario brothers wear?
denimdenimdenim.
Why can't Hellen Keller drive?
Because she's DEAD!
What do you get when you throw a grenade in a French bathroom?
Linoleum Blownapart.
What did one snowman say to the other?
Ahh, smells like carrots.
What's blackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhite?
A penguin rolling down a hill.
What's black and white laughing?
The little penguin who pushed him.
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because he was DEAD!
Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree?
He was laughing at the first monkey.
Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree?
Peer pressure.
Okay that's enough. For now.
Camping
A while ago now I went camping with girl scouts. It was like two weeks ago. I know, I'm so bad. Sorry.
Anyway it was really good. We stayed in the A-Frames at Cedarledge. I always thought it would be fun to name the different sites at girl scout camp with the fake indian names and such. Kiamecia. Tanda. Ahwenasa.
We did horses and got a tour of the barn and learned how to groom a very pretty horse named Phoenix. All the wranglers are really nice. Fun. The horses are so old and used to the trails you barely have to direct them. Seriously. It was still a really nice time.
So then we went canoeing. It drizzled. Bree (who has her own blog now but I like her fake name so much I'm keeping it) and I basically just paddled out into the middle of the lake and watched the rain fall and make circles because it was really really amazingly beautiful. And not that wet either.
We were supposed to have archery Saturday too but Kiamecia missed their time at one so they stole our time. Everything worked out okay; we got to do it the next morning instead. But. That was not really very nice or fair of them to do that. I was a lot better this time, though. I popped like seven balloons! I also figured out that I shoot better left handed. Which make total sense since I'm left-eyed. Duh.
Overall it was really good. Besides the rude people at Luckystone right across from us and the archery mix-up, it was nearly perfect. The weather, the people (I like the people that were in my cabin; it turned out good), there were like no bugs.
(Bridgett and Bree both wrote about this too, about two weeks ago)
Anyway it was really good. We stayed in the A-Frames at Cedarledge. I always thought it would be fun to name the different sites at girl scout camp with the fake indian names and such. Kiamecia. Tanda. Ahwenasa.
We did horses and got a tour of the barn and learned how to groom a very pretty horse named Phoenix. All the wranglers are really nice. Fun. The horses are so old and used to the trails you barely have to direct them. Seriously. It was still a really nice time.
So then we went canoeing. It drizzled. Bree (who has her own blog now but I like her fake name so much I'm keeping it) and I basically just paddled out into the middle of the lake and watched the rain fall and make circles because it was really really amazingly beautiful. And not that wet either.
We were supposed to have archery Saturday too but Kiamecia missed their time at one so they stole our time. Everything worked out okay; we got to do it the next morning instead. But. That was not really very nice or fair of them to do that. I was a lot better this time, though. I popped like seven balloons! I also figured out that I shoot better left handed. Which make total sense since I'm left-eyed. Duh.
Overall it was really good. Besides the rude people at Luckystone right across from us and the archery mix-up, it was nearly perfect. The weather, the people (I like the people that were in my cabin; it turned out good), there were like no bugs.
(Bridgett and Bree both wrote about this too, about two weeks ago)
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Lots of Stuff
It's the end of the summer. Already. Wha? I'm not so sure how that happened or how I feel about that.
I've been very kinda busy lately. I really do keep meaning to put stuff on here, promise. The first thing I have been meaning to put on here is our trip to Minnesota. It was really awesome. We stayed at my aunt and uncle's house. The weather couldn't have been perfecter. Boating and tubing on the Mississippi & St. Croix rivers was quite nice. The water was really clean and there wasn't much of a current. There was a nice little island with sand and cool rocks where we stopped for awhile. After leaving their house, we stopped at grandma Pat's in Wisconsin and stayed a few days there. The fun thing about that was that we went to Circus World, the awesomest circus I have ever been to. It's got a really great circus and also several museumy things, the coolest being the circus wagon one. It has like 70 old and really beautiful circus wagons from when there were like travelling circuses and stuff.
Something you may not know is that my family lived in Minnesota for like three years. It was very nice to see old friends and tour the neighborhood where we used to live.
The day after we got home we decided that it would be a good idea to move my bedroom on the second floor to the basement. This turned out to be a really good idea and it is quite awesome now. Like, really. Awesome. It was a lot of work though.
Okay, so the day that we moved my room my aunt and cousin came to our house and spent the night and the next day I went back with my aunt to have a very nice weekend with her.
AND THEN when I got back I did more work on my new room.
AND THEN this week there were some awesome things at school, although we still havent gotten back to school yet, that starts on monday. The first one was an open house thing where we got to meet our new teachers and that was very awesome and it got me very excited to go to school becaue the classroom is really awesome and I think I am really going to like my new teacher. My teachers this year are, well, here's the thing, it's very difficult to explain things somethimes when you're using pseudonyms becasue then if people reading actually know the person to whom you are referring things might become rather confusing and I'm kind of starting to really dislike using pseudonyms so here. Sometimes I'm going to use them, sometimes not, sometimes I'll use an initial. If you have a pseudonym on here you likely know who you are anyway to I will probably keep using that, for instance Bree, Fiona, Abeliene. Okay? Okay. Okay, now. Ms. Eileen and Ms. Amy are my teachers this year. I'm still not totally sure how all of this is going to work out because I think Mr. Rouse is doing social studies and yeah. I'm really excite for math, which Ms. Amy is teaching so I hope I don't miss Mr. Rouse too much because he used to be my math teacher and I really liked him.
So the next day after that there was a ribbon cutting ceremony thing at the awesome new building of our school since it's new and awesome. That was fun.
But yeah. This summer was filled with a lot of awesome and I'm sad to see it go so soon.
But yeah. I'm also glad school is staring monday because I think that if this summer was much longer I would get very bored very fast.
I've been very kinda busy lately. I really do keep meaning to put stuff on here, promise. The first thing I have been meaning to put on here is our trip to Minnesota. It was really awesome. We stayed at my aunt and uncle's house. The weather couldn't have been perfecter. Boating and tubing on the Mississippi & St. Croix rivers was quite nice. The water was really clean and there wasn't much of a current. There was a nice little island with sand and cool rocks where we stopped for awhile. After leaving their house, we stopped at grandma Pat's in Wisconsin and stayed a few days there. The fun thing about that was that we went to Circus World, the awesomest circus I have ever been to. It's got a really great circus and also several museumy things, the coolest being the circus wagon one. It has like 70 old and really beautiful circus wagons from when there were like travelling circuses and stuff.
Something you may not know is that my family lived in Minnesota for like three years. It was very nice to see old friends and tour the neighborhood where we used to live.
The day after we got home we decided that it would be a good idea to move my bedroom on the second floor to the basement. This turned out to be a really good idea and it is quite awesome now. Like, really. Awesome. It was a lot of work though.
Okay, so the day that we moved my room my aunt and cousin came to our house and spent the night and the next day I went back with my aunt to have a very nice weekend with her.
AND THEN when I got back I did more work on my new room.
AND THEN this week there were some awesome things at school, although we still havent gotten back to school yet, that starts on monday. The first one was an open house thing where we got to meet our new teachers and that was very awesome and it got me very excited to go to school becaue the classroom is really awesome and I think I am really going to like my new teacher. My teachers this year are, well, here's the thing, it's very difficult to explain things somethimes when you're using pseudonyms becasue then if people reading actually know the person to whom you are referring things might become rather confusing and I'm kind of starting to really dislike using pseudonyms so here. Sometimes I'm going to use them, sometimes not, sometimes I'll use an initial. If you have a pseudonym on here you likely know who you are anyway to I will probably keep using that, for instance Bree, Fiona, Abeliene. Okay? Okay. Okay, now. Ms. Eileen and Ms. Amy are my teachers this year. I'm still not totally sure how all of this is going to work out because I think Mr. Rouse is doing social studies and yeah. I'm really excite for math, which Ms. Amy is teaching so I hope I don't miss Mr. Rouse too much because he used to be my math teacher and I really liked him.
So the next day after that there was a ribbon cutting ceremony thing at the awesome new building of our school since it's new and awesome. That was fun.
But yeah. This summer was filled with a lot of awesome and I'm sad to see it go so soon.
But yeah. I'm also glad school is staring monday because I think that if this summer was much longer I would get very bored very fast.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
HOT
It is so hot here the birds don't even sing in the morning. Really, they don't sing that much at all lately. I don't blame them.
It is so hot here that neighbors don't sit outside in the evening and chat. We don't go to the park very often. I don't blame us.
It hasn't rained very much. The only reason I don't say "it hasn't rained" is because it did rain this morning. But it's just not enough. It's being classified as extreme drought and my uncle (a farmer) says it's the worst drought in our area since the weather people started keeping record like 90 years ago. Everything is brown and the leaves on some trees are literally turning brown and falling off. It looks like fall already. Only it doesn't feel like fall. It. Is. So. Hot. Bleh.
So we sit. And watch the Olympics and eat ice cream.
It is so hot here that neighbors don't sit outside in the evening and chat. We don't go to the park very often. I don't blame us.
It hasn't rained very much. The only reason I don't say "it hasn't rained" is because it did rain this morning. But it's just not enough. It's being classified as extreme drought and my uncle (a farmer) says it's the worst drought in our area since the weather people started keeping record like 90 years ago. Everything is brown and the leaves on some trees are literally turning brown and falling off. It looks like fall already. Only it doesn't feel like fall. It. Is. So. Hot. Bleh.
So we sit. And watch the Olympics and eat ice cream.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Perplexus
It's this game. It is extremely addicting because once you pick it up and start playing you really want to finish it and then once you beat it you just start over because it is so fun.I beat it today.
It's kind of like a maze only there's just one path. The goal is to get that little silver ball to the 100th obstacle, but you can't touch the ball. So you tilt the game sphere thingamadooblydoomahooseymacallit to move the ball around.
If you buy it you will regret it at first until you finish it and then you will thank yourself because it is one of the best games ever invented.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Some Stuff
So, as you may know...
I'm 13 NOW!!! I really can't believe it. But it was seriously really THE BEST birthday I've ever had. My aunt and uncle were very very nice and generous and let me have the party at their house and shoot my bow in their yard. There was tubing and boat rides and pizza and awesome.
Among some of the many awesome things I was given, I recieved an archery target (which is also nerf-gun-dart-compatible!), some chocolate, some awesome stuff, and some very very VERY nice cards, notably the one from Bree which was so sweet it made me cry. All of them were very nice. and all of EVERYTHING and all of the awesome that happened.
There were loads of pictures (many of them very good) taken which I will try to get somehow on here soon.
*****
Other than that there's one thing I would like to share. Actually probably more because I keep on thinking! I don't know why it's like somebody put a brain IN MY HEAD!
Okay so I just finished this book awhile ago. The Fault in Our Stars. Omigosh it was the best book that I've read in awhile. (NO SPOILERS, I promise.) It might probably not interest you since the majority of people who read my blog are like, not my age. And a fair warning: there is some profanity. Anyway, it's about Hazel, a girl who has cancer and she meets Augustus Waters, with whom she promptly falls in love and she worries that she is a grenade. Augustus uses his 'Wish' he got from when he had cancer to take Hazel on a trip to Amsterdam. The ending of the book is perfect. The middle is perfect. The beginning is perfect. It's funny. It's a good book.
Whatever you do if you want to read it, DO NOT read the Wikipedia article. It WILL SPOIL THE WHOLE THING. Trust me, I know, because I DID read the Wikipedia article and I wish I hadn't.
Anyway: good book, don't read the wikipedia article; awesome birthday; and my penpal Isabel from England would like for me to mention her on my blog. Hey, Isabel!
I'm 13 NOW!!! I really can't believe it. But it was seriously really THE BEST birthday I've ever had. My aunt and uncle were very very nice and generous and let me have the party at their house and shoot my bow in their yard. There was tubing and boat rides and pizza and awesome.
Among some of the many awesome things I was given, I recieved an archery target (which is also nerf-gun-dart-compatible!), some chocolate, some awesome stuff, and some very very VERY nice cards, notably the one from Bree which was so sweet it made me cry. All of them were very nice. and all of EVERYTHING and all of the awesome that happened.
There were loads of pictures (many of them very good) taken which I will try to get somehow on here soon.
*****
Other than that there's one thing I would like to share. Actually probably more because I keep on thinking! I don't know why it's like somebody put a brain IN MY HEAD!
Okay so I just finished this book awhile ago. The Fault in Our Stars. Omigosh it was the best book that I've read in awhile. (NO SPOILERS, I promise.) It might probably not interest you since the majority of people who read my blog are like, not my age. And a fair warning: there is some profanity. Anyway, it's about Hazel, a girl who has cancer and she meets Augustus Waters, with whom she promptly falls in love and she worries that she is a grenade. Augustus uses his 'Wish' he got from when he had cancer to take Hazel on a trip to Amsterdam. The ending of the book is perfect. The middle is perfect. The beginning is perfect. It's funny. It's a good book.
Whatever you do if you want to read it, DO NOT read the Wikipedia article. It WILL SPOIL THE WHOLE THING. Trust me, I know, because I DID read the Wikipedia article and I wish I hadn't.
Anyway: good book, don't read the wikipedia article; awesome birthday; and my penpal Isabel from England would like for me to mention her on my blog. Hey, Isabel!
Monday, July 16, 2012
A Weird Dream
This is the weirdest dream I've had in awhile.
We were at a park and I saw John Green who was on a jog and I asked if I could have his autograph. He said sure and and so we ran to the park's bookstore where I bought a copy of TFiOS (The Fault in Our Stars, his latest book, not that I have actually read it) while he ran circles around the store. Then he (John Green!!) signed it with red sharpie.
It was really bizarre.
It made me happy though because this must mean that I have officially become a nerdfighter. Nerdfighters do not fight nerds, they're clearly pro-nerd. A nerdfighter is someone who, instead of being made of skin and bones and tissue like humans, are made entirely of awesome. Like me.
If you are interested in becoming a nerdfighter you don't have to do anything. If you want to be a nerdfighter, you are one. But you might want to watch this video.
We were at a park and I saw John Green who was on a jog and I asked if I could have his autograph. He said sure and and so we ran to the park's bookstore where I bought a copy of TFiOS (The Fault in Our Stars, his latest book, not that I have actually read it) while he ran circles around the store. Then he (John Green!!) signed it with red sharpie.
It was really bizarre.
It made me happy though because this must mean that I have officially become a nerdfighter. Nerdfighters do not fight nerds, they're clearly pro-nerd. A nerdfighter is someone who, instead of being made of skin and bones and tissue like humans, are made entirely of awesome. Like me.
If you are interested in becoming a nerdfighter you don't have to do anything. If you want to be a nerdfighter, you are one. But you might want to watch this video.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
And some other things
It's been kind of lazy arould here.
It's been kind of hot around here.
It's almost my birthday. Wheee!!!
Mom, I found the dark chocolate covered edamame. Yeha!
Wha was thaaa? Sorry I couldn't hear you because I was crunching on salty-chocolate-crunch-ness.
It's been kind of hot around here.
It's almost my birthday. Wheee!!!
Mom, I found the dark chocolate covered edamame. Yeha!
Wha was thaaa? Sorry I couldn't hear you because I was crunching on salty-chocolate-crunch-ness.
there's this one too
Monday, July 9, 2012
I think it's mandatory that you watch these
these are just beautiful (especially the phi one)
What Phi Sounds Like
What Tau Sounds Like
What Pi Sounds Like
this one i find hilarious
Wau
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Camping!
Finally! I know, right? This is the post you have been waiting for all of your life.
Or maybe not and you've just been thinking, "Hey, I wonder if Emma has said anything lately. Oooh, she went camping in the Smoky Mountains!"
Anyway, I just got back from camping in the Great Smoky Mountains. There were just five girls and all of their moms so it was a really nice mother daughter trip. We stayed at the Cosby campsite. The bathrooms were really really nice with flush toilets. Although no hot water and no showers. There was a bathroom lady who cleaned it everyday!!! Which was nice because the bugs were really attracted to the light at night and the millipedes crawled in through the drain and vents.
There was a nature trail right by us and also an amphitheatre where Ranger Richard led a talk about the history of the park.
But the food had to be packed back into the car every stinking night (bears).
We went rafting, not whitewater but just more of a float trip. We didn't even paddle. That was the chosen special thing that cost extra money.I think we chose well. Extremely fun.
The name of the creek right across from our campsite was Cosby Creek I think. We did a creek walk up that which was fun and refreshing. Except for the Great Laurels, with their branches all spread out and low right through the path. There was also a swimming hole which was FREEEEEZZINNG.
One day we hiked 4 miles round trip to Grotto Falls, very beautiful. That one was cool because the path actually goes behind the waterfall. It was beautiful. The hike wasn't too tough either and not even that long. Also at the top of the mountain it was much cooler than at the bottom probably by like 15 degrees.
The rest of that day was spent at the Cades Cove auto tour loop but trust me, we weren't the people there who just drove around loops and never got out of the car. When we stopped at the Sugarlands Visitor's Center (air conditioned!!!) my mom got me a GSMNP t-shirt, a GSMNP pin that I put on my Girl Scout sash and some things for my sisters.
On the loop it was cool but also sad to see the cemeteries at the old churches. There were lots of babies and young people buried there. The saddest one was twins, I can't remember the names, one lived to be old and one died the day she was born. There were lots of Olivers buried there and there were also some very new additions to the cemetery like in 2011. You could really tell who was poor because the headstones were very home-made.
Also on the road by our campsite was Gunther Cemetery. It was reeeely ooooolld. Most of the headstones you couldn't even read but the ones that you could were from like the early-mid 1800s. Old.
Also something sad was all of the dying Hemlock trees. Stupid foreign bugs that are bad for them. The only way to save a tree once it has them is to either inject it's roots with tree medicine(too expensive to do every tree so they only use it on the really old ones) or cover every single needle of the tree with dish soap to smother the bugs, only for small saplings.
One night there were barred owls. They say who-cooks-for-you and its sooo freaking annoying at 2 in the morning. They don't even sound real. Then the crows came and were almost equally annoying at 6 am.
Then it rained alllllll night one night and stormend and stormed. Our tent was collapsing and leaking and thank goodness my clothes didn't get wet because I would have been so mad. Poor Clarity and K who moved to the bathroom floor and then to the truck. My mom and I moved to the van at 3a. Uhh in the morning everything was wet. I'm glad that I didn't go on the 10-mile hike that day with Bridgett, Fiona, Zelda and Bree. I didn't sleep at all the night before so Ann, Trudi, Clarity, K and my mom and I all stayed behind and hung everything out to dry. Everyone on the hike was pooped when they got back. I can't even imagine hiking up a "three mile staircase."
Clarity read Anne of Avonlea to K almost every night. It was adorable because she was making different voices for all of the characters and it was just really really cute.
Even through the rain and no sleep, the trip was still really fun and I can't wait to go again to another national park. Thanks to my wonderful troop leaders, all the moms, and everyone who bought cookies and helped to fund the trip. It was really awesome.
Or maybe not and you've just been thinking, "Hey, I wonder if Emma has said anything lately. Oooh, she went camping in the Smoky Mountains!"
Anyway, I just got back from camping in the Great Smoky Mountains. There were just five girls and all of their moms so it was a really nice mother daughter trip. We stayed at the Cosby campsite. The bathrooms were really really nice with flush toilets. Although no hot water and no showers. There was a bathroom lady who cleaned it everyday!!! Which was nice because the bugs were really attracted to the light at night and the millipedes crawled in through the drain and vents.
There was a nature trail right by us and also an amphitheatre where Ranger Richard led a talk about the history of the park.
But the food had to be packed back into the car every stinking night (bears).
We went rafting, not whitewater but just more of a float trip. We didn't even paddle. That was the chosen special thing that cost extra money.I think we chose well. Extremely fun.
The name of the creek right across from our campsite was Cosby Creek I think. We did a creek walk up that which was fun and refreshing. Except for the Great Laurels, with their branches all spread out and low right through the path. There was also a swimming hole which was FREEEEEZZINNG.
One day we hiked 4 miles round trip to Grotto Falls, very beautiful. That one was cool because the path actually goes behind the waterfall. It was beautiful. The hike wasn't too tough either and not even that long. Also at the top of the mountain it was much cooler than at the bottom probably by like 15 degrees.
The rest of that day was spent at the Cades Cove auto tour loop but trust me, we weren't the people there who just drove around loops and never got out of the car. When we stopped at the Sugarlands Visitor's Center (air conditioned!!!) my mom got me a GSMNP t-shirt, a GSMNP pin that I put on my Girl Scout sash and some things for my sisters.
On the loop it was cool but also sad to see the cemeteries at the old churches. There were lots of babies and young people buried there. The saddest one was twins, I can't remember the names, one lived to be old and one died the day she was born. There were lots of Olivers buried there and there were also some very new additions to the cemetery like in 2011. You could really tell who was poor because the headstones were very home-made.
Also on the road by our campsite was Gunther Cemetery. It was reeeely ooooolld. Most of the headstones you couldn't even read but the ones that you could were from like the early-mid 1800s. Old.
Also something sad was all of the dying Hemlock trees. Stupid foreign bugs that are bad for them. The only way to save a tree once it has them is to either inject it's roots with tree medicine(too expensive to do every tree so they only use it on the really old ones) or cover every single needle of the tree with dish soap to smother the bugs, only for small saplings.
One night there were barred owls. They say who-cooks-for-you and its sooo freaking annoying at 2 in the morning. They don't even sound real. Then the crows came and were almost equally annoying at 6 am.
Then it rained alllllll night one night and stormend and stormed. Our tent was collapsing and leaking and thank goodness my clothes didn't get wet because I would have been so mad. Poor Clarity and K who moved to the bathroom floor and then to the truck. My mom and I moved to the van at 3a. Uhh in the morning everything was wet. I'm glad that I didn't go on the 10-mile hike that day with Bridgett, Fiona, Zelda and Bree. I didn't sleep at all the night before so Ann, Trudi, Clarity, K and my mom and I all stayed behind and hung everything out to dry. Everyone on the hike was pooped when they got back. I can't even imagine hiking up a "three mile staircase."
Clarity read Anne of Avonlea to K almost every night. It was adorable because she was making different voices for all of the characters and it was just really really cute.
Even through the rain and no sleep, the trip was still really fun and I can't wait to go again to another national park. Thanks to my wonderful troop leaders, all the moms, and everyone who bought cookies and helped to fund the trip. It was really awesome.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Random: thoughts, writing, etc. & miscellaneous
Very excited about going camping to the Smoky Mountains! We're having a final planning meeting on monday and leaving friday! It really snuck up on me! I know to some this may sound crazy, but i can't wait to pack. I love packing and getting everything tucked in with room to spare, especially, and getting everything organized. It really makes me happy.
The pride fest in the park by us is this weekend. Ughhhhhhh.
One of my best friends ever ever ever, Katherine, is moving to New Mexico. While I am really really really sad sad sad, I am excited excited excited to have one last sleepover this week. It will be fun fun fun. The good thing is, they're moving back to St. Louis in 3 years! What a relief! Maybe we can go to high school together. Yeah, this could work.
Piano lessons.
Pool.
Visiting Aunt R & Uncle D's new house on the lake.
I have a tan line from my watch.
Glow in the dark nail polish.
Smushed fireflies.
Summery.
The pride fest in the park by us is this weekend. Ughhhhhhh.
One of my best friends ever ever ever, Katherine, is moving to New Mexico. While I am really really really sad sad sad, I am excited excited excited to have one last sleepover this week. It will be fun fun fun. The good thing is, they're moving back to St. Louis in 3 years! What a relief! Maybe we can go to high school together. Yeah, this could work.
Piano lessons.
Pool.
Visiting Aunt R & Uncle D's new house on the lake.
I have a tan line from my watch.
Glow in the dark nail polish.
Smushed fireflies.
Summery.
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