Tree Decorating

Finally, a day with nothing planned! I can do whatever I feel like doing or not doing!! Yesterday was fun, though. Our family friends, Mark and Kathy came over for our annual decorating-the-Christmas-tree-visit. Each year we go to their house or they come to ours (it switches each year) to visit and decorate the Christmas tree. So, in preparation for the visit, we had to clean all day, and put up our Christmas trees, garlands, etc. It wasn't that bad, it was even kind of fun. An hour before they were set to come, we went to Zingerman's Delicatessen and pick up all the food we ordered for dinner- corned beef, potato salad, Russian dressing, coleslaw, etc- everything needed to make a Ruben and more! We arrived at home, just as they got here. The rest of the evening we talked, ate, and put the ornaments on our Christmas tree. It was really fun, but tiring- and now we have all this leftover food from last night and Thanksgiving. It was a great start to the Christmas Season.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!! Isn't Thanksgiving a wonderful holiday; you get to eat tons of good food, all for the sake of giving thanks. Yesterday, my family went on our annual day before Thanksgiving tradition. We bought our turkey from this organic turkey farm, then went to REI and ate lunch at Papa Vino's. It was fun, as always. For lunch I ordered an Italian beef sandwich, which was good, but they forgot to take off the spicy pepper sauce I asked to be removed. I still ate it... it was just a little spicier than I would have liked. The complimentary bread was delicious, as always. And at dinner, we watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Today, we've been cooking all day. This morning, I watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV, which was fun. My dad made a pumpkin pie and a pumpkin chiffon pie in the morning, but the turkey has been cooking for the rest of the day. I've taken two long walks today, just to balance out all the food I will be eating soon. There's also mashed potatoes, dressing, spiced pecans, throwed rolls, etc. I can't wait to eat it all!! If find it so funny that we cook all day, and then it's all eaten in 30 minutes. Well, that's life. We also put up Christmas decorations outside, thankfully not until today. Some people in my neighborhood put them up after Halloween! Tragic, I know. We probably would have waited a little longer, except our friends are coming here tomorrow to put up our Christmas tree. Happy Turkey Day!!!

Twilight Rant

I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving!! It seems like I just went trick-or-treating. I love November because there's soo many days off of school. There's only one full week, the rest have 1, 2, and 3 days off. All this extra sleep is good for me. Before you read the following opinion, here's a disclaimer: I've never read any of the Twilight books, and don't plan to any time soon. Stating that, I can't believe that there's so much talk about it! For one, the actors aren't good at acting, and the script is poorly written (I guess that's because it's based off the books, but still). I don't even think Robert Pattinson is even that good-looking, he just looks gross. They don't really deserve to make so much money and get so much notoriety for bad acting. People (teenage girls, mainly) are still going to go, and it's still going to make tons of money, even if it's not even that good. The only attraction to seeing, is all the shirtlessness (which I'm sure there's plenty). That's my anti-Twilight rant, that probably won't make a difference to all those die-hard fans out there.

A Long Week

Wow, I haven't blogged for a while. Well, some pretty interesting stuff happened in the meantime. For one, we got a new computer. Somehow the old one broke and wouldn't turn on. So we bought a new one, which is much nicer and larger. As you know, yesterday was Friday the 13th, and I did actually have some bad luck, interestingly enough. The first was that our bus was 20 minutes late. It apparently broke down, so we were waiting in the freezing cold wondering if the bus would ever come, or if for some reason school had been canceled. It eventually came, though I was late for my first hour class, which was excused. The second bad luck, that wasn't that bad was that I got my H1N1 vaccination from school. It was free, so my parents figured that we might as well get one. That in itself wasn't bad, but I got called down during gym, and we're doing a swimming unit. I can't exactly go down in my swimsuit and towel. I waited until they called the final call, which fortunately was at the end of the hour. For all my troubles, all I got was a boring brown band-aid. I also forgot to study for two quizzes, but overall, I guess the day was okay. Though, by the end of the day, I was tired- it was a long week; the only full one in November. In the next two weeks, we have a combined total of 5 days, 2 off next week, 3 the one after that. And finally today, was half filled with Science Olympiad practices. That's everything interesting (or not) that I could think of.

Halloween and More

Happy November! It's so annyoing, as soon as Halloween is over, they put up Christmas stuff in stores!! It's so stupid. Anyway, some very interesting things happened during the lull in my blogging. For one, My Aunt "Rose" and Uncle Dave came up on Tuesday and left today. It was nice to see them again. And to clear up some discrepancy, I love when they come up- I wasn't complaining about their visits, only wondering. They surprised us by giving us their silver HHR. My sister hasn't been very good with getting in her driving hours, so they figured that if she had a separate car to drive herself, she would be more driven (no pun intended). Thanks a lot!!! Obviously, yesterday was Halloween. We went out to eat for lunch, and got these huge pumpkins at the farmer's market, for only 4 dollars each!! We only had time to carve one, though. My sister went over to her friend's house to go trick-or-treating, and my friend came over to come with me. I was dressed up as a lady from the Renaissance era, and my friend was Harley Quinn (I'm not sure if that's spelled right) from Batman. After it got dark, it was sooo cold! It was in the 40's, but the wind was blowing really hard, so it felt like it was in the 30's. Surprisingly, there weren't that many people out. It seems that less and less people go each year, as the kids in my subdivision get older. My friend and I were out for around 2 hours, and got a ton of candy, around 160 pieces. After trick-or-treating, we came back to my house and ate steak and potatoes and white chocolate chiffon cake (which my mom made). Soooo tasty.