Back Home Agaaaain ♫

We just got home, having driven the past two days from Cape Cod. Overall it was a great trip, although it did rain a lot while we were there. But that was made up for by the fact that we went shopping, and saw the movie Up, which was a great movie, very cute although extremely sad at the beginning. We also took a high speed ferry to Nantucket on one of the nicer days. We went to the Whaling Museum there as well as some other places, but really, the whaling museum was pretty cool, lots of interesting facts, as well as a staircase to the top of the building which looks out on one of the piers. After that we got lunch at this sandwich shop without any seating and ate it on a bench across the street. That was a fun day. :) In the last days of our visit, my Aunt Glenda arrived and we visited at her house. When we first went and had dinner, there was a bit of a storm and we saw two full rainbows side by side. I have a few good pictures, but none really show the two together. But anyway, we all thought that was pretty neat.
Now that we're home, I'm planning on walking/jogging with Winston more, and walking on the monon. Which reminds me, my grandparents are coming up around July 11th, and they're bringing Bentley(their adorable golden doodle)! Yays!! My grandpa is having surgery and they were previously going to do it in New York but he'll have to wait 3 to 4 weeks to recuperate before heading home so instead they're having it here and they'll be staying with us. Yay! It's nice having my grandparents in town, plus I'll get to walk Winston AND Bentley. ^_^ I also need to do some painting. My fingers are itching for creativity right now.

One more thing, I can't believe all the famous people dying. Rest in peace Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and Billy Mays. Interestingly enough, Billy Mays and Michael Jackson were both 50, and they're the two I still can't believe died. We shall miss all of these recently fallen celebrities.

To Geneva!

I'm leaving for Cape Cod right now! ...in my car, with my dog, and my family, for 5 hours until lunch, then 6 more hours. Oh boy. :) So long!

Instead I Sleep

The days seem to be flashing by so quickly, one moment I'm sitting in bed reading in the early morning, by the next it's practically dinner already. I need to get my hours of service for NJHS this summer eventually, and I'm not really sure what to do. Maybe I'll pick up trash in a park or something. That or there's this project my mom mentioned that her friend had done with her daughter and a church group where you help fill packets of rice and nutrients for people in third world countries, I think it's with the red cross. Anyway, I'll figure something out.

It's All Toilet Paper To Me

AAAAugh. It is raining, and I can't sleep. I strongly dislike not being able to sleep. When I say "I can't sleep" I seriously cannot. Sometime if I go to bed way too late and can't fall asleep right away, I'll end up tossing and turning the whole night. I went to bed at twelve and by one o'clock I still wasn't falling asleep. I think I eventually went to sleep around 2 but then woke up again soon after because it started to storm. And of course, usually if I don't get to sleep at the beginning of a storm then I be able to for awhile. So now, here I am, awake but tired, early in the morning, and it's dark and raining outside, and I'm hungry. But of course, I can't go downstairs or walk around much, lest I wake up Spencer or Mom, or Winston. Anyway, I guess I'll mention that my grandmother and I went to an auction on Tuesday(I just realized today is Thursday... I cannot believe it's already June 11, this is crazy) where they were auctioning off the possessions of this woman who'd evaded taxes and embezzled and as a result had become wealthy, and now she's in jail for five years or something. So, the auction was pretty interesting, she had a ton of stuff. And it was all super expensive, there was a pair of mother of pearl salt and pepper shakers that cost $160, there was also a large matching mother of pearl bowl(imagine what the bowl would've cost), and five or six decorative mother of pearl balls(bigger than a softball but smaller than a soccer ball) that would've been sitting in the bowl. They all ended up auctioning separately because they only found out there were matching pieces when they were pulled out to sell. (the shakers went for $50, the bowl around $100, and the balls sold around $100, everything went really low) A lot of matching sets ended up selling separately because everything was unsorted and pretty chaotic, you could hardly notice a bowl on one table that matched a plate on the other. The place where they held the auction was full of her furniture and art and other things(picture frames, clocks, glass art, dinnerware, pots and pans, faux flower arrangements, and tons more) and this wasn't even the only sale. There had been a previous auction of some of her stuff, and still after this one that we went to they're going to have an auction selling her clothes and jewelry and purses. Anyway, I didn't end up buying anything, although I could just kick myself because at the beginning, and everything was selling at really good prices, a cultured pearl necklace sold for only $7.50 and I was about to bid on it, but I didn't and I should have!! Gah! Oh well. My grandma ended up buying two large(and heavy) framed photographs. And she got them for a good price, each piece cost $320 originally, she got them both for $175. But now there is the matter of getting them back to Florida. We'll see how that goes.

I Need Strawberries

Well, let's see, on Thursday we had our carpets cleaned so we had to stay overnight at a hotel while they dried. Then on Friday we got back and worked on putting all the furniture back. The house was in quite a state of disarray. Oh, I also made two stuffed animals and a fingerpuppet. On Saturday morning we went to some of the garage sales in the Woodland Springs neighborhood sale and got 8 items for only 5 dollars, yay! I got a hair straightener for $1. Of course, it's not like I really need it, I never do anything to my hair that involves time and heat. I like to avoid the everpresent possibility of burning myself. Then after the garage shopping I lazed around and made brownies. Later, at 4, we went to my cousin Joe's graduation open house. Then when we got home I plopped myself in bed and took a nap. Then I got hungry, got a brownie, turned on the tv, watched random shows and melted my brain a bit, and went to bed. Now it is Sunday, and I'm going to go eat breakfast. Today I'm going to make sure I swim and walk on the monon. I also need to get strawberries because we have cool whip and nothing to dip in it.

This is one of the stuffed animals I made. It is a snail. (the other side of it is reverse in color so the body is gray and the head is brown and pink)

A bird. It has a tail of feathers that are filled with rice as are the feet and the base so that it sits up.

Domo-kun finger puppet! ...sort of.

Don't know what domo-kun is? Look here: domo

This is the other finger puppet I made. It's a plum, sort of.

Oh yeah, one more thing, we were all playing scrabble and I looked up my name in the Official Scrabble Dictionary, and it turns out that I am an asexual reproductive structure or something like that. It has to with plants I think. Here I am on wikipedia ^_^ me ...strange

Got You Numbered

So far the summer is going good. Yesterday we went to the optometrist for a check up, we went to a new clinic to see if we wanted to change optometrists, and it took FOREVER. When we got there at 2:45 Spencer went first and mom went with him so I was left sitting out in the waiting area. For a long time. Okay, it was about 15 minutes so that wasn't too bad, but I got very bored. And they didn't even have magazines to read. So I spent the whole time letting my mind wander... and counting. I counted 72 pairs of glasses and 15 pairs of sunglasses (the selection of frames to try on sat on the other side of the room), which means 174 lenses total, I also counted: 6 chairs, 7 counter tops, 21 windows, 3 potted plants, 3 doors, and 56 checkers on the small race flag that was propped up on the desk. After staring around the room for that long I think I have about every single detail of it ingrained in my mind. Then it was my turn, turns out my prescription changed only a little bit and I have no astigmatism at all. Spencer on the other hand, poor guy, one of his eyes is shaped like a football. His eyes are also apparently very irritated and red or something, allergies they said. Of course, he didn't even notice. I also ended up trying to put in a contact. It went in after a little trouble, but it took me a long time to get out. Like, five minutes long. But anyway, I now have contacts to wear, of course I have to work on getting them in and out some more. Then after my check up we came out and picked out new frames. That's really what took the longest time. We finally left at 5:30. That took almost THREE HOURS!!! I was so hungry when we left! I'm hungry now. So I'll just make the rest of this quick. Today: I did pretty much nothing. The only worthwhile activity I accomplished was that I painted a birdhouse.

And now, here are some pictures:

We also went to the library yesterday after having dinner at McAllister's.

This was painted sometime last week(i dated it, just can't recall the day right now) as requested by my mother. She kind of wanted a Georgia O'Keefe style painting, so this is, eh sorta close enough.

This creation came out of art class when we made paper mache models.

It's a calla lily if you can't tell.

And this is the birdhouse. Cute huh?

Also: our power went out while I was writing this post, and it finally came back on sometime during the night. So this wasn't actually published on Tuesday. So yeah.