The Icky Variety

The grandparents are nearing! They'll be here this evening, yay! Also, our pool has pink slime. It's kind of gross. All over the bottom of the pool and on the steps and sides there's this pink filmy gunk and I had to use the pool brush to shift it and brush it off of everything. Now that that's done we'll shock the pool, but three times the usual dosage or something like that. Apparently this is a bacteria rather than an algae that is attacking our pool (it's not really attacking, more just getting all over and looking pink) and it's supposed to be difficult to get rid of. Hopefully we won't have too much trouble, although we can still swim in the pool with the slime there.

Beauty Is Pain

I now have braces on my top teeth. Joy. It didn't take too long and I'm starting to get used to the feeling of tightness, but I still feel weird about them. And I'll have them on for 18 months if not more. Fun right? I guess if 18 months is what it stays at I'll be lucky. Spencer was supposed to have his for 22 months and now he's having to continue so he'll end up having them for three years. Of course, the likelihood is that I'll continue longer also because we both have an impacted canine(both of my canines on top are impacted actually) so we both have to have surgery to attach a chain to said teeth to tighten to the braces. Spencer had to get surgery twice, it didn't quite work out the first time. Part of the reason Spencer is going longer is also that his canine tooth is coming in backwards, so the part that should be facing the inside is in front. I may have the same thing. It's really kind of interesting with our teeth, because my mom had an impacted canine as well as her sister, and now Spencer has one, and I have two. :( On another braces related note I chose to have clear opaly elastics rather than having colors because I figured it would be less noticeable and I'm glad I did. I actually kind of don't mind how the braces look.

Stars and Stripes and Storms

Yay! It's the fourth of JULY! Fireworks! Fest! Fun! Oh boy! And, seeing that it is the day we celebrate our independence as a country it is only right to be decked out in red white and blue. Of course, I have no red clothing. Tons of blue and white but no red. Can you believe that? I sure can't. I don't know why I don't have any, but either way I'm wearing a dark pink shirt instead with red mardi gras beads. In other news, it isn't sunny today. In fact, it's rather overcast and somewhat chilly/breezy, incase you hadn't noticed, or are in a different area than I. And it's supposed to rain, how unfortunate. I hope they don't cancel any of the fireworks events going on. In any case, Happy 4th of July!

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.