I haven't really blogged in a while, but then again, nothing has really happened. Currently, I am studying for my health test, which I am testing out of. I figure that I've already had health in 5th and 7th grade, as well as being on the Anatomy team for Science Olympiad, so I already know most of the stuff that I would have been learning. And the other stuff is probably about "managing our feelings" or something of that nature, which I don't need to spend any time learning, let alone a whole semester. The test is tomorrow at 9:30 in the morning. Talk about early; I'm usually not even awake by then! Unfortunately, the only friend that I know was testing out, decided to take the class instead.
In other news, yesterday, I was out driving around with my mom, when we ran into this huge commotion. We were getting off the highway, and traffic was backed up for a long time. We had to wait 10 minutes or so to even get off the exit ramp. Apparently, there was an overturned semi on the overpass that we would have gone on, if we hadn't have gotten off the highway, except on the other direction. There were police all over, a helicopter, and I even spotted a Hazardous Material Response car! The reason we had to wait was that the police were directing traffic around the accident, and off of the highway. The situation seemed pretty nasty. When we finally got through that mess, we drove to Staples to pick up some supplies for the upcoming school year. Since I reuse a lot of my supplies, and searched through the house for extra folders that were hiding in cabinets, I only needed 2 binders and some pens. But that didn't stop someone (not mentioning any names) from spending at least an hour there. After we finally left, we made couple more stops at Target (where I bought a button up t-shirt, some cute socks and underwear, and my mom got a bike picture frame and more hangers (really, how many of those does she need?)), Starbucks, etc. I managed to get an hour of driving time, which helps somewhat (even if I still need around 46 more).
In the past week or so, there hasn't been that much activity, but there are a few more things to mention. One, I made these really delicious peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter icing. The recipe came with this milk chocolate glaze, but I decided that I'd much rather have more peanut butter to go with my peanut butter. Apparently, all you have to do to modify a normal frosting recipe is to replace the butter (or in our case, margarine) with peanut butter and add some more milk. Who knew it was so simple. I thought for sure that I was going to have to figure out how much I needed to replace, and write it down, but no. On top of the cupcake, I placed some of the peanut brittle that we had left over from our trip to Mackinac Island. And before you ask, they were delicious. They may even be the best cupcakes I've made. The second thing I should mention is that my sister made sugar cookies to compete with my cupcakes. She doesn't like frosting (I know, what a sin!), so the cookies were her substitute. I tried helping her, but basically just managed to get in the way. As expected, those were also good (although, one batch was cooked a little bit long). The last thing I want to mention is that we watched the movie The Right Stuff, per the recommendation of my oldest uncle. I must agree, it was very interesting movie. Although, it was more than 3 hours long, I enjoyed watching it immensely and would definitely recommend it. And that's pretty much it was far as excitement goes.
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