I'm not going to shut up about Christmas until it's over

     Guess who's in California? My sister.. My dad..  and Meeeeee!!!!! And like the rebel I am, I missed two days of school! WOOOOOO!! And we've already run out of things to do. We went for a Christmas caroling golf cart ride, we watched a movie, we went to the Jelly Belly factory and got a tour, and we went to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. Like what are we supposed to do for the next week? Just kidding! Your probably thinking, "Wait, did I hear her say Jelly Belly factory?" You thought correctly. 
     So as a Christmas present, Grandma and Grandpa bought us tickets to Six Flags! We were supposed to go Friday, but there was expected rain so we went yesterday. I mean yesterday there was expected rain, too, but not until 3:00 pm. We got up and dressed and left at about 10 so that we would have all morning to go on rides until it started raining. When we got  there it was about 11 and it looked closed. We looked online and the park didn't open until 2 and we were an hour away from home. We really didn't want to go back. To make things even better, Grandma left her ID at home and you needed it to get in the park. (Before  you get all nervous, it turns out okay.) 
     I had the brilliant idea of going to the Jelly Belly factory that we passed on the way here, while we were waiting. From now on think of me as "Melita The Lifesaver" because that was the funnest thing ever. We got to wear these cool hats and sample jelly beans. We even got a tour of the place. We weren't allowed to take any pictures, so.. sorry. The factory looked just like Willy Wonka's. Oompa Loompas putting jelly beans in packages and spinning them around in a polisher. We saw a video on how they printed their logo on every single one of them. It was all very interesting. And then afterwards we went to the gift shop and Grandpa bought 10 pounds of "Belly Flops." Belly Flops were the ones that were too big or too small and didn't make it past the screen thingy. (Like in Willy Wonka with the good eggs and bad eggs, they had good beans and bad beans.) 
     Then Six Flags was open, Grandma got through without her ID, it didn't rain at all and the lines were really short because of all the chickens who thought it was going to rain. Six Flags was really fun. I had gone to the same one about 3 years ago and I'm much braver now. Last time I wouldn't go on any of the scary rides, but this time I went on Medusa. My eyes were closed the whole time so the upside-downs weren't that bad. The scary part was my sister shrieking in my ear every 5 seconds reminding me that I was upside-down. Then, we went on again so that we could look for the camera and make better faces. It was really fun. There were lights and Christmas songs. Oh and also we saw a dolphin show and that was the coolest thing EVER. The dolphins were really talented and there was a guy water skiing on them. The tiger show was also the coolest thing EVER because the tiger was so cute and he acted just like a little kitty chasing yarn or something. 

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It's not about winning, it's about Christmas

     It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Everywhere you goooooo.  I forgot the rest of the song but keep reading this to the tune..da...da..da.............da......da....da. 
     Time for some gift exchanging. Today Grace and Sam came over and we gave each other some a' presents. Let's see. I got a cell phone holder from Sam and a "Nightmare Before Christmas"-looking owl statue from Grace. I thank my fan club for those wonderful gifts. I got Sam a peppermint scented candle and I didn't like Grace enough to get her anything. Just kidding. I'm a kidder like that. I actually ordered her something that's not here, yet. Then we went shopping downtown, and even though I had a cell phone holder, I still managed to leave my phone at the store so we had to walk back and get it. Oops. 
     After that, we made a gingerbread house. It, um, looked great. And we made absolutely no mess at all. (Is there any way to read sarcasm?) We actually made quite a huge mess and it looked delicious, but not exactly "great." But it was ok because it's not about winning or losing, it's about having fun.
     Tomorrow we are having "Mini Christmas" at my dad's house. Opening presents from my parents before opening presents from my relatives in California, which we leave for on Wednesday. There are just too many presents going around. 

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Too Many Holidays

     Happy Thanksgiving! Jolly Black Friday? Wait, no. Merry Christmas! Have you noticed that? That they pretty much go right from Halloween to Christmas? Not me, though. Just kidding.That was a joke because the day after Thanksgiving, on Black Friday, we went to the Christmas themed amusement park, Busch Gardens. In Virginia. Did I mention that I was in Virginia for Thanksgiving? Maybe I'll mention it later because I'm going to tell you about Busch Gardens. Well, I didn't take any pictures because I left my phone at the house so you'll just have to either imagine it or go to Google Images. I'm sure we're in the background of some random stranger's picture, though, so it's all good.
     First, we got our picture taken with the Gingerbread Man which kind of counters everything I just said. Then, we went for a train ride whilst listening to Christmas music. That put me right in the spirit. Then, we strolled along until I begged to try an impossible basketball shooting game where I, of course, lost. There was only one roller-coaster running during the Christmas village extravaganza which I was peer-pressured into going on. Verbolten. It was really fun, actually. We also went on a gondola ride when it was dark and the twinkly Christmas lights were super bright. We waited in line for almost an hour. The gondola was really fun, but only about three minutes long and not really worth it. After that we tried the best hot chocolate ever. It was like peppermint fudge or something. And the worlds best hotdog. The pretzel dog. Now I have Christmas songs stuck in my head.
     I am about to go backwards and tell you about Thanksgiving. Don't confuse yourself. This year for Thanksgiving we went to Virginia to see family. We drove for 10 hours split into two days. With a puppy. I was thankful for family and friends and food and such, but mostly I was thankful that he didn't pee in the car. We finally got there. We stuffed ourselves on Thanksgiving, saw The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the theater, and went Black Friday shopping at the mall in the Navy Base. 
     On our last day my mom and my sister got the flu so we had an extended day. For them it sucked, but not for me. I got to go to the zoo, learned how to play cribbage and watched some movies. But other than the flu and the LONG drive it was really fun. And now I must collapse in a heap because I just got home from driving for 10 hours home from Virginia. 

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Steep Mountain Climbs

     In the celebration of my mother's aging, we went hiking. It was really fun and we marched along a stream very peacefully until we stopped and my mom realized that this wasn't the steep mountain climb she had planned on, so we turned around. Apparently, we had taken the wrong trail. Eventually, we found the right trail. We all looked up and groaned. It was practically a mountain climb. It honestly wasn't that bad, but complaining is fun for everyone. (Cough cough...just me.) It was about 2 1/2 hours long and I would point out that I had sore arms and legs from swim practice, but I won't. That would be complaining. And even though we were only in Connecticut, we stayed in a hotel to get the full experience. By full experience I mean shopping and eating and you know...shopping. 
     My dad would like to use the blogging device I am typing on right now, so I have to stop writing and allow him to do so. Also, my dog is attacking my sock. I'll try to write more often. 

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The Year They Cancelled Halloween...Pshhh

     Hey guess what? Nope....That's not it either.....Keep trying.....Wrong again....Ok I'll just tell you. I got a dog! :) A little puppy named Nemo. (I came up with the name.) He's about 13 weeks old and adorable. So we went out to look for Halloween costumes when we saw that Petsmart had this "Adopt a Dog" thing going on. Dogs are adorable so obviously we went in. They were so cute! This company called the Clover Run Rescue (or something like that) were in charge of it. They rescue dogs from the south and bring them up here. There was too much adorable to handle so we got one. At first we thought he was going to be shy. He just sat around and didn't do much. He was still adorable, though. Then one day out of nowhere, he had all this energy. He was running around and chewing stuff up. He is the most cutest thing ever. Except when he tries to steal my Halloween candy. 

     He seemed fine during his first hurricane, though. What? A hurricane?...Wait. You knew about the hurricane? Was it the news people? They give everything away! Spoilers.... Well anyways we did have a hurricane. Mostly wind, less actual hurricane. But it was still slightly scary. A tree fell onto my back porch. Our trampoline was tossed around like a Frisbee. And they even cancelled school for three days. It was kind of cool because they cancelled school on Halloween. Or it would have been cool except that they cancelled Halloween, too. They can't cancel Halloween! So they postponed it. Apparently it's this Saturday. It's the most stupidest thing I have ever heard. The year they cancelled Halloween. Psshhhh. They don't have that kind of authority! So I went anyway. Just around my neighborhood with Annaliese and Sam. At first it was really awkward because there was about nobody out there, but after a while other kids came out. It turned out to be ok because I'm going again on Saturday. Thank you, City of Westerly, for giving us two opportunities to stuff ourselves with sweets. 

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Ps. I'm not using either of the costume ideas I said I would because it turns out that Ronald McDonald is easier said than done. Instead I'm being the Wicked Witch of the West. (Elphaba from Wicked.) I know it's not that original, but you know what? I don't care. Except that on Wednesday I didn't feel like putting it on so I'm saving it for Saturday and I went as a text message. Emoticon shirt and text bubble tights. Cool, huh? Credit to Ciara and Sam for coming up with the idea.

Long time, no see

     Ok, so I haven't really written in a while. I try to at least once a week, but it just doesn't happen that way. It involves this big process of creativity and brain power. It takes effort that I really don't have after a long hard day at school. So, a lot has happened. I mean little tiny things that don't need a whole paragraph to themselves. Let's see. I went to the laundromat for the first time, I jogged almost a mile, I got a sore back from butterfly at swim team practice, I got a 103 on my math test, I went to a birthday party, I got a free brownie at a restaurant, I'm learning the song, Jolene, on the guitar, I went to Minnesota for a weekend, it rained during the Columbus Day parade (more like drizzling), my mom went to Scotland, my dad's in Japan, I went to a black and white party, I went to Clyde's cider mill, and I scraped my arm at swim team. That's pretty much the past couple of weeks in a very long sentence. 
    Guess what? I went to Minnesota for a weekend. Did I already mention that? I think I did. I am almost certain that I did not write a whole paragraph on that, though. So, my aunt had a big, huge birthday party. A black and white birthday party. Meaning I needed to wear a black and white outfit. So I bought one. (Can't stop reading, can you?) It was the most adorable dress I'd ever worn or seen or saw on TV or imagined myself in or saw someone else in. Ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration. I've seen prettier and adorable-er dresses, but this one was really cute. Enough about my dress. Since the party was in Minnesota, I missed two days of school. Which would have been good except for the two make-up tests I had to take later. (Notice how I'm making this all about me? I'll stop.) It was a lot of fun and I got to see all of my relatives that I hadn't seen in a while. It took effort (not much) but they eventually got me and my sister to dance. At one point, I didn't feel like keeping my dress on, so I changed into shorts and a tank top. I didn't want to clash with the theme so they were black. The End.
     Guess what I'm being for Halloween?............. You are a really bad guesser. I'm being Ronald McDonald. I think. Don't get your hopes up. Get your hopes more to the left. Or I might be a...hmm...I don't know what you'd would call it. I can describe it for you. My face would be all covered in eyes. Like made with make-up. I saw a picture on the internet. The person's eyes were closed but it took me forever to figure that out because the make-up was amazing. Maybe I might wear one costume on Halloween and one at the Halloween party we're going to have at my dad's house. Which brings me to the party we're going to have at my dad's house. Not this Saturday, but the next one. The 27th, I believe. I can't say much because I don't want to give it away and because we're still thinking. Sounds like fun, right? You can't wait to come. I know. I just made it sound like the most exciting thing in the world. 

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Flying Swan Food and Flying Something Elses

     We saw swans in the Pawcatuck River. And then Annaliese fed her shoe to them. She's so stupid. (No offense.) So she was so excited to see swans that somehow her shoe came flying off of her foot and into the river. We were lucky because the river wasn't moving fast. We were unlucky because guess what? No don't, I'll tell you. We didn't find them. They got stuck in the bushes or drowned. Annaliese wanted to be lowered in with a rope to find them. We reminded her about our lack of rope situation but she didn't seem to care. She asked 10 more times. Then we went home defeated. Annaliese with one shoe.

     More bad news. I got bit or stung by some sort of bee or a flying something else. Here's the story. Ok so we were on a boat enjoying the sunshine when this thing kept annoying me. This thing was a bug. An annoying one. I thought it went away. I continued to enjoy the sun when my arm started to ache. Kind of like when you're about to get sun burnt. I looked in the general direction where the pain was coming from and on my sleeve there was some blood. (No this is not to the tune of Old McDonald.) I thought it was blood but I wasn't sure because there wasn't any on my arm. There was, however, a tiny white bump like when you get a bug bite and there's a tiny white circle that itches a lot. This was the same except it ached. I told my mom and she said it looked like a bite or sting of some sort. I remembered the flying thing. Then we put some stuff on it. It was all better. Not the end. At school the next day I felt like I was going to pass out. A little. It was that feeling when you get a shot and afterwards you think you might pass out or throw up. My arm was like that all day. It was awful. 

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"O"

     I got to be the photographer for the before and after pictures of my dad's yard. When he's done with his yard in a year or two we'll take new pictures and then look at the old pictures and see how much work was put into it. I also got to learn how to mow the lawn. I've done it before but it doesn't scare me now. Except for the part when I thought I was about to mow over a wasps nest and just let go of everything and ran. But I did it in the most mature way possible because I am mature.
  
      We also almost missed Annaliese's soccer game. We missed half the game and they lost 2-3, but she still got to play so woo-hoo for her. I learned the proper way to eat a tic tac at the soccer field during her practice. Turns out there's a little thingy on the opening that the tic tac is supposed to balance on when you flip the box upside down and open it. It's not exactly full-proof because sometimes two come out and one falls. Or both fall. And then they land on the soccer field where oh so many cleats have stepped before. And another thing. You can't play try-to-get-me with them in your pocket because they make the most annoying sound.

     And here is part 1 of my new...I don't even know what to call it. I'll call it "O." So "O" is pretty much the random-est things I could think I of and it pretty much describes what goes on in my head. I understand if you have no idea how to read it or what it means because I can't even do that myself so enjoy part 1 of "O" by Melita. 

hey dumby fish over there with the tuna sandwhich all covered in scales and the breath of a vampire…vampires sparkle with the glow from a ranch after daylight has spoken with a question mark and then u sit on the grass with a banana in one arm and a  pepsi can upon the foot of the right side of the monkey who is your best friend and u cannot shall not ever set foot on the mcdonalds premises of glitter because u know their secret about how u cannot feed your monkey tacos and this book is to the tune of sexy and I know it if u didn’t read that like that I suggest u start over just because u can and u know your dumb if u pet a gorilla…. and then it tells u your dumb cuz then u know its true and your also kind of creative  if u can speak Swahili and not English because that would be just the way it is so have the day u have and continue yourself because u are what makes it all slippery in the kitchen so stop it right now and write a book if u want but make sure the pasta isn’t that salty because the ocean is made of salt and then u probably just killed a panda with a tiger in the study at Disney world because that’s the way youtube was meant to be so take it or leave it but make sure to recycle it so that the world becomes better than it is and that u make that happen

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Fried Oreo Cookies!!

     School started and I have been super busy! Well actually school started and I have been super tired! I am on the....wait for it.....Hurricanes team! Did I already mention that? I don't think so. It's funny to think of school when it hasn't been school for a whole summer long! Think about it! "I just got back from school!" "At school today...." "My dog ate my homework!" Sounds weird right? Hmmm....... Nice word choice, right? Hmmmm. It just works with every paragraph. Except this one. So I'm just going to pretend this one never happened and move on.

     My aunt Christina visited! And is still visiting! And will continue to visit for the whole entire weekend! :) We went to the Rhythm and Roots festival yesterday. I didn't know how to spell that so I just chose to spell it wrong! Or maybe I chose to spell it right....? I got an airbrushed tattoo on the underside of my wrist. It looks like this. --------------------> Cool, right? Also, I got to try my very first Fried Oreo Cookie. It was actually better than a normal Oreo. Annaliese made a new friend who went to the circus camp she wanted to go to in New Hampshire. She was showing her how to do all sorts of impressive things that I'm sure Annaliese will be happy to show off later.

     At this very moment, people are chopping down our tree with very loud chainsaws at 10 in the morning! 

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Closed After Sunset

     Want a tic tac? Yes you do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPPu4x5BwI Watch this and you might still want a tic tac. In fact, you probably have already clicked the link and went to the store to buy a box of tic tacs, or not. If not then do it now. I have time. I go to Stop and Shop for my tic tacs and then casually put the tic tac box on the counter, and like a spy, take it off without my mother knowing...until later when I offer her one. She did pay.

     Yesterday we went to Mystic for this sidewalk sale. The sale wasn't intended, just lucky. I got a necklace. And broke into a playground. The sign said "Closed after sunset" so we jumped over the gate. Turned out the gate was open. No need for climbing over.

     Today we went for a walk while my mom was at work. Me, Grace, and Annaliese. We dipped our feet in the pond (the one with the ducks who were missing today) and let the fishies nibble our feet. We were freaking out and screaming and almost jumped in but didn't out of fear of being arrested. Then we played board games in the driveway and Annaliese did 9 pull-ups. Later we went back and actually jumped in the pond. We did not get arrested but it turned out that it had like bacteria and stuff in it and so we showered. Ew. The End.

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My Path of Greatness

     It's happening so fast. I'm am about to become an 8th grader! I mean by skipping a grade I sort of cheated so you know I'm really a 7th grader but I have the smarts of a 10th grader so I'm being deprived of my greatness by only being in 8th grade. When you think about it like that (the Melita way) 8th grade sounds tiny and immature. A small path on the side of the road to the true meaning of education and what's going to make me a picture of greatness. Just saying.......

     School starts on August 29th. Two days and twenty-eight minutes before I approve, but what are you gonna do? I'm on the Hurricanes team. Which is good because I have friends. And some of them are on that team. In our school we have teams just to make it more fun. Instead of just saying, "I'm in Ms. Melita's class," you can say, "I'm on the Hurricanes team." Fun, right? Thought so. 

     In honor of the beginning of the end of middle school we went shopping and I got Guess jeans. Guess what? Guess jeans! The fancy expensive kind. The adorable kind that no matter what size you are, you look skinny. Well I'm guessing, but I've never seen a non-skinny person in Guess jeans, so how should I know? I also got an adorable dress for a black and white party we're going to. I'm not going to go into detail just that it's black and white. The obvious has just been unveiled. (I pointed out the obvious.) 

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It Ends with a Happy Ever After

     Yesterday we took a henna workshop at the library and learned how to do henna. Actually henna is just the paste. The art of doing henna is called mehndi. Are you supposed to capitalize ancient words? I don't know. Maybe I should. I don't know but we got to try it out and my mom did a pretty bracelet looking thing on me and I made some designs on my finger.

    We went to the beach again today. Imagine that? So I was just lying there on the sand. It was such a weird feeling. The water coming out of my ears. So weird, in fact, that I giggled. I had just gotten out of the water. Yesterday it had rained. Such rain, in fact, that there were 10 foot waves. My mother studies the ocean. She would know how tall the waves were and she said some of them were 10 feet. Yet for some reason she let her super excited kids in the water. The waves could have, in fact, killed us. In fact, I'm saying "in fact" so much that I'm annoying myself. I'll stop now and continue the story. Ok, there's not much more to the story except that in the end of our beach day we got stuck in a little rip current. We were fine. No worries. Then later we went out and had lobster. I had grilled cheese because lobster smells weird to me. Then we went to the River Glow downtown and it ended with a Happy Ever After.

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The Spider Story...and other less important things

     I got a new computer! Yay! For some reason it was free or something I wasn't really listening just smiling. :) <-------- Like that. It's the same size as my other one, but faster and it has an 's' key. I needed a new one. And now I have one....yay! Is my happiness annoying you? Moving on.

     We went to the beach again today. Of course we did. Everyday is beach day. Except it was cold, so we left early. Also when I took off my shorts at the beach yesterday the whole swimsuit bottoms came off. That was an embarrassing live-and-learn experience. I almost did the same thing again today so maybe I didn't actually learn anything. But I feel smarter whether I learned something or not.

      My sister saved my life yesterday. I thought I would mention that. How? You might ask. Like this I might tell you.
     See I was reading two nights ago before bed. My clip-on bed light cast a circle of light on my ceiling and I looked up because the circle amused me. In the middle of that circle sat a spider. Small and green. I wouldn't have been scared except for the fact that I have a loft bed and the spider, just a foot above my head. I lied, I actually would be scared. I saw it and it saw me and we both just sat there frozen. What if it fell on my face? I sat there wondering if it would. I eventually decided it would just be safer to move over a little without causing commotion. Then I calmly called for Annaliese since my mom was tired and I knew Annaliese well enough to know that she was reading, too.
     She tip-toed to my room so she didn't wake anyone. Then, she climbed up the ladder into my bed and asked me what I was freaking out about. (I lied when I said that I called for her calmly.) I just pointed upwards, my arm tense. She looked up and laughed. She asked me why I was scared. Apparently it was cute. Then, completely ignoring me, she started trying to play with it by moving her hand in the place it was obviously trying to go, causing it to change direction. Well haha on her because then it fell on her face. By now I'm going crazy. The thing was lost in my bed. I started heading for my ladder. She told me she would find it but no matter what she said there was no way I was sleeping up there....she found it...and I ended up sleeping up there. The End....

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YouTube, Sharks and Elves.... Oh My!

     I made the weirdest YouTube video in the world. It's hilarious though. If you want to watch it here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gLYqKeYPyo&feature=results_video 
That's the link to my channel where you can watch it. Which I recommend you do because it's hilarious if I haven't mentioned that already. But who am I kidding? You're going to watch it. I'm kidding nobody. It's a silent movie so that's why you can't here us talking. Pointing out the obvious. My favorite hobby. 

     I also wrote a story about Kerny the elf. Who's pretending to be a hamster. Don't ask. Unless you want to. I'm giving you permission to do just that. Ask away. No really you should. Highly recommended. By several foreign doctors and news-castors. I don't remember what I'm talking about so I shall move on.

     I went to the beach and thought I saw a shark. No I did we just didn't prove it. It was a shark. I'm 84% positive. Now I'm watching a commercial about sprinkles and Olympics. Like the Sprinkle Olympics. Who can eat the most sprinkles? I see gold in my future. I'm tired. That's what this means. 

Mood of the day: Why do you care?......

Real mood of the day: Happy enough to cheer for an Olympic team that's not the US 

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The Weather, Submarines, and Some Suspicious Whereabouts

     I was sitting there sweating to death just wowing over memories of Norway where flip-flops were used as sarcasm and jackets were an everyday-of-the-year thing. How was that ever possible? Temperature is a strange thing. You can go from complaining about the heat to complaining from the chills. Either way there are complaints. When there's perfect weather it's not appreciated. Not even by me, the queen of observing my surroundings. Cough cough...sarcasm. I thought I would mention that. My first paragraph and I'm already talking about the weather. Wow. 

     There's a whole museum dedicated to submarines. Did you know that? Didn't think so. If you did then I was wrong and I apologize. Well anyways we went to it and toured around a submarine. It looked like a very cramped living space but I've always thought submarines were small and not supposed to be lived in. This one was. We had listening devices to inform us. About submarines. And their small living spaces. And how we should feel bad for them because they had to sleep in what looked like cabinet shelves with bed sheets. We also saw scary wax figurines of the captain, the cook, the dish guy and random weirdos. Live-sized weirdos. Pictures on Facebook. 

     We strolled through the downtown whereabouts today. By 'we' I meant myself, Annaliese, Sam, my mother, and my grandparents. By 'whereabouts' I tried to mean Bess Eaton, Other Tiger, and other various shops. At Other Tiger I was looking for this book series that are a bit little-kiddish and didn't want to ask if they had them but I worked up the courage and did. The lady had never heard of them and apparently her computer hadn't either meaning they didn't have them. Turns out I had given her the wrong name anyways so maybe they did have them. I'll ask another time. I did get a book though. Just so you know. 

           Mood of the day: Buzzing bee happy (I made this mood up but you can guess what it means) 

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What a Week!

     My computer is broken. It's 4 year life-span is over. Gone. It won't turn on or charge or do anything but sit there and look depressing. But this only means I get a new one! :) Right now I'm on my sister's computer which is just as old as mine but I guess less used or something. But this only means that she doesn't get a new one! Mine was missing the 's' key anyways! How do you live with a computer that doesn't have an 's' key? That is what I would like to know. I figured out the answer. You don't! It broke! On to less depressing news that won't leave you sobbing in your pillow. 

     My family is visiting! My grandparents, my aunt, Annette, my cousin, Thyra, her dog, Watson, and her new 5 month old baby, Leona! (Who's adorable by the way.) We went to the beach. They love the beach. Who doesn't? Nobody that's who! I just realized that I keep answering my own rhetorical questions so now I shall stop. Leona is really cute! I learned that she likes to slobber on your shoulder, attack paper with her fingers of fury, smile a lot, and pretend to talk like a grown-up. Watson loves fetch, barking at strangers, and he can dance. :) 

     I just finished a week of soccer camp and got a certificate to prove it. My friend, Jessica's birthday party was on Friday and that was really fun! Except now from soccer, the party, and my family visiting  I'm very tired! Also my friend, Grace, is dyeing her hair bright, fire-truck red! Oh my gosh......


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The S'more Cupcake

     My dream of owning my own cupcake empire might possibly come true. Me and my friend Sam invented our very own cupcake recipe. It's called "The S'more Cupcake." It sounded more creative in my head. You know because it has s'more ingredients in it. Like graham crackers, Hershey's chocolate, and marshmallows, (which I recently discovered is spelled like 'mallow' not 'mellow'.)  Below are the instructions.

Cupcake instructions:

     1. First pre-heat the oven to around 350 degrees. (Make sure there's no leftover food from your previous dinner because we discovered that then the kitchen fills with smoke.) 

     2. Blend together 1 stick of room temperature butter and 1/2 cup of sugar until fluffy. (If you pretty much know how to make chocolate cupcake batter skip to #7 )

     3. Then beat in 2 eggs, 1 at a time. 

     4. Then fold in 1 cup of flour and 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder until you eat it all because it looks so good. 

     5. Since you ate it all, you now have to repeat steps 2-4. 

     6. Now add 3 tablespoons of milk. 

     7. Add as many chocolate chips as you feel necessary. Grind up half a chocolate bar in a chocolate grinder until grinded. Then add it to the batter. Please don't eat it. That will ruin the enitre cupcake.

     8. Then, add some marshmallows cut into tiny cute pieces.

    9. Then mix.....and put it in cute little pink cupcake liners in a cupcake pan and in the oven, that if you did this correctly should not be smoking.

    10. 20-25 minutes of baking should do it

Frosting:

     1. Melt a chocolate bar in a bowl over another bowl of boiling water on the stove with 1/2 a cup of heavy cream until melted and creamy. Pour over cupcakes once out of oven. Then before it hardens, put a mixture of graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows in a grinder thingy so they're topping-like and sprinkle it on the cupcakes and put in fridge until harden or until hungry.
                 (I realize that was all one step but you can take about 5 steps to do it if you want)

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Unfairness and Pranking

     My father got a cell phone. There are several reasons why that's unfair but it's his own money so if he doesn't want to spend it on me that's his choice. He's always said cell phones are useless. He didn't have his own until he was over 30. I understand slightly why he didn't get one for me. I mean I lost mine so I don't deserve another one but guess what? He lost his too! I guess he needs one a little more than I do but I woke up this morning and thought to myself: "I feel like complaining today." Complain over. Moving on.

     Me and my friend Grace started a prank war with her sister, Betsey. We "nuggeted" her closet. (Turned all of her clothes inside-out.) Then we put a sign on her door telling her that we officially started a prank war and had a bunch of rules under it. We came back from the mall later that day and I had to get my bag so I ran up to Grace's room to get it. It wasn't there. Then I looked around the room. All of her stuff was gone. Including, sheets, and her suitcase, and my bag. I then opened the closet. Look there was my bag. And ALL of Grace's things. Grace and Betsey had a freakout fight and I felt a little bit guilty because I helped with the prank war and I could't really get pranked back. I just left.

                                                           
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Facebook embarrassment and Unusual Sized Bumps

     I went to my dad's house again today and sort of got into a water bottle fight. Resulting in a bump on Annaliese's forehead. Oops! She's fine, if anything her brain and smarts got bigger and brighter. So in a way I helped her. The yard is looking amazing! We looked for furniture online and his house is going to be awesome too. That's what I think.
    
     I embarrassed Grace today by logging onto her Facebook account and chatting with people she barely knew and I can be weird when I want to. It was really funny. If anyone got weird messages from Grace it was from me...sorry. I didn't mean to say "no one likes a tootie-pants" or "answer me gumdrop" or "hey friendy friend friend" or "hey hey girlfrienddddddddddd." It was all on accident. Not really my fault. But she didn't stop me. No one can. Mua ha ha. *Evil laugh*

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Paragraphing, Underwater Baseball, and Extreme home makeovers

     Ok so Anne, my neighbor and Spanish teacher who takes us out to ice-cream because she's really nice and amazing, insisted upon me using "paragraphs" so I decided to try it out even though it's hard enough to remember to type with capital letters, apostrophes, and just correct grammar anyways. (Long sentence.) My amazing Aunt Christina is the one who insisted upon me using correct capitalization. And my incredible father is the one who told me to type correctly so here I am typing as correctly as possible. Hope your all happy with the brilliant person you helped me to be. 

     Today we invented the coolest game ever! I have no idea why no one has thought of it before. The name of this game is Underwater Baseball! I thought up the creative name. The rules were changed from normal baseball but it is played in the water so obviously it can't be the same. The "batter" attempts to hit the ball as far as it can go (for me about 2 feet sideways) and then the "swimmer" has to swim to the rock across the lake before the two "fielders" get the ball. It didn't work because the fielders would always win because of the usually suck-ish batter. Not me of course! 
 
     Earlier that day we had helped my dad clean up his new house and yard that he's renting. 5 bucks an hour! Not much for his 3 acre backyard but to tell you the truth we weren't much help. We discovered this unusual smell in his house. The previous owners left something suspicious in the fridge. It was leftover food. The house needs some work which is why I thought up another brilliant idea of writing to Extreme Home Makeovers. I think our case is desperate. I don't know if that makes sense but it sounds good. Ok I'll write more tomorrow. 

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#1!!!!! (post)

Ok, so I had this smarty-pants idea that I should make a blog. I just feel like there are so many weirdo's with beards out there that deserve to be heard. Just because I'm not one of them doesn't mean that I don't. Also I just felt like it. I'm *huffy breath* 12. 12 years young. Too young to do anything without looking stupid but I don't care. Ok I do but I'm going to pretend I don't and sound mature and above everyone else. I'm blonde and less stupid then I sound. And I have nothing else to say. Melita has left the building.