Clear Blue Skies All the Way!

Last night I experienced my first thunderstorm of the summer. And we were also watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, so that's an awesome combo. It's a dark kind of movie, so when there's flashes of lightning that light up the whole sky and booms of thunder, you get little chills up your spine. It's kinda cool.
It's fun here because you have cats everywhere and dogs everywhere begging for you to rub their belly or scratch their ears. It's really cute. One cat, Flyrod, is always rubbing up against my legs and my hands. He's  a big, fluffy black cat and soooo cute. And another cat, Madeline, is so tiny and likes to curl up beside me to take a nap. There's eight cats, and it would take forever to explain all of them.
After an intense thunderstorm last night, it's clear blue skies as far as the eye can see today! Later we are going kayaking and tending to the beehives... it's going to be awesome! Well, I'll talk to you later, everybody! Have a sunny, awesome, amazing, wonderful, fun day! :) :)

Take a Chill Pill Everyone...

Right now I'm in Maine and it's about to rain. If it weren't so cold outside, I would probably be kayaking or something. But it's cloudy and windy, so I'm rooted to a chair at the table. Maine is a pretty awesome place, and there's SO much to do. My grandma has 61 chickens, 9 cats, 3 dogs, beehives, and a humungous garden. In other words, it's a really awesome farm. She also lives right by the ocean and has a dock, so that makes it even more awesome. It got up to 110 degrees on Friday, and it broke records. At least it's warmer than Washington in the summer...
From the plane flight I saw the grand canyon from a very high view and it was really pretty...
So today I got this thing at The Map Store (The Map Store is a store where Eartha lives, a 45 foot tall model of the earth from space, and it has a gift shop too). It's a little light that looks like a pill; the top is white and the bottom is black. And when you twist the white part, it lights up. And the bottom is still rounded, so it kind of bobs back and forth when you set it down. It's from the Netherlands and they call it "The Chill Pill". And I suppose it helps you chill out, kind of. It has this kind of mellow glow to it. It's kind of weird that it does that.
So I supposedly have a ghost that lives in my room. This may sound really stupid, but I had recently read a book with the name Nelson in it, so I named the "ghost" Nelson. So if something was not where I had put it the night before, or something like that, I blame it on Nelson. It's become kind of a joke between my family and friends, but I'm almost convinced ghosts are real, because other strange poltergeist-like activity has occured. There's too many things to explain. But what's ironic is that my grandma has a rooster named Nelson. I laughed on the inside when I discovered that.

Anyway, enough about ghosts.
So everybody, take a chill pill, and enjoy your summer! Because if you spend the summer being locked up and antisocial, it's no fun. So chillax and do something fun! :))))))

The Sunny and Cloudy Days of Summer...

You know I planned to write in my blog everyday, but things have been so busy and I haven't found time to write. I'm so busy with Summer Music School, Hanging out with friends, church, and a lot more stuff. But anyway, that failed.
If I weren't so sore, than I would probably be up doing something productive or active. But last night at my acrobatics class was painful. I mean, the real circus stuff is awesome and fun. But it's what my coach calls "conditioning" that makes me so sore. It's basically stretching, muscular endurance exercises...  and, well, just about any exercising that makes you hurt the next day. You know what I mean.
Friday is the biggest day of the week. There includes good and bad news. The good news is that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is coming out and we're seeing it Friday night. The bad part is that my dad is leaving and he's going to be gone for three whole months!!! It really sucks... but I'll deal. I will miss him very much though.
I still have an obsession with the Periodic Table of the Elements. I don't know why. But strangely, I've somehow managed to memorize 15 of the elements. And tonight when we were making s'mores, my dad put this wood in the fire that had some sort of sealant on it. The sealant, once shiny and smooth, turned midnight black. And it was like spreading over the wood like wildfire. And I said, "Chemical reaction!" And my mom called me a nerd.
Well, it's what I get for being obsessed with science.
But my summer has been great so far. I see my best friends (which is basically all of my friends) almost every day, except for the ones that don't go to SMS or are my neighbors. But it's nice that I get to see my friends everyday so we can catch up and just have a blast together. It's funny, because we have this "trademark" where we write "Hi!" on each others arms, and you're basically "part of the family". It's just  a joke that we have. It all started on the second to last day of school.
Summer can get boring though, when your friends are on vacation, and the rest of your friends are busy hanging out with their other friends. It gets frustrating when you have nothing to do and you spend a perfectly sunny, warm afternoon inside watching movies and on facebook.
Anyway, life's goooood. Right now I'm watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with my family. We are having a marathon up to Friday, when we are going to see the seventh one, part two. Now that I think about it, if we don't get tickets soon, we won't be able to see till' Saturday. I think I'm going to check. Goodbye, people! :)

Fourth of July Fireworks!!!!

Okay. It's 11:30 pm and I just got back from the Edmonds fireworks with my family and friends. The show was awesome!!!!! But one thing that they kind of messed up was that the fact that they blasted music throughout the whole show. And one exciting thing that happened is that the grass caught in fire because some bits of the fireworks kept burning and went out of range on to the grass. But it was really fun anyway. Well, I have SMS tomorrow--which, by the way, stands for Summer Music School, and I have to get up at 6:30--so I have to go to bed now. Goodnight, everybody, and happy 4th!!!!!

So I Had This Thought...

So today I had this thought. I thought about how much I've missed out this year and how many more friends I would have made. Honestly I was just to shy to get out there and I really regret it. In the last week of school I realized just how many people I could have been friends with if I had just talked and stood out more. Some people wrote in my yearbook, "We should totally talk next year!" And I know that they're right; we should talk more. Because they all seem like really nice people, and I regret not getting to know them because I know we would be good friends. But I am more than grateful for the friends I already have, because they've been nothing but caring to me. I appreciate that I have friends and family, because otherwise I don't know how I would live my life.
My friends all say I need to talk more, and I know I do. In this last week of school, I realize I'm not afraid to talk to people I don't know that much anymore. My opinion of talking to strangers has completely changed! I have surprised myself. Perfect timing, I know. I start talking more just as 7th grade ends. But I still have 8th grade at the same school, so I will try to talk to everybody I come across! Because I want to know people more than just their name, or what instrument they play. I want to be friends with them.
So next year, I will definitely talk way more, because when I was talking in a group of people I knew, I would just stand there and wait until someone said something to me. I would just stand there by my friends, watching them talk. And know people see me as the quiet girl, or the one who is shy and doesn't talk a lot. But not anymore! I will not be shy anymore! I will talk to who I want to!
So people, don't be afraid to talk around people you don't know! Don't be afraid to share your knowledge, because people won't challenge your opinions. And if they do, then stand up for what you believe in! Nobody can push you around! BEING SHY ISN'T ALLOWED!!!!!

Happy Father's Day Everyone!

Happy Father's Day to everyone that reads this! Today we should let our dad's rest and relax and we can do all the housework! 

Thankfully today is going to be nice outside (about 65 degrees and partly cloudy), so you can go do something fun with your dad outdoors if you want.

So... yesterday it was cloudy and rainy and cold. Not very good weather for playing around outside. But my friends and I did anyway. There was tons of water in our tree in our front yard, so we shook the branches and I got soaked with water. I looked like I had been sitting in the rain for a while. Then we played soccer, then my friend "accidentally" kicked it down the hill. as I was running down the grass to get it, I made a sharp turn and fell right on my hip and elbow. Ouch. But despite that I kept running own the road, which was slippery too. Yeah, that was fun. Well, one more week of school left! I can do this!

4 1/2 Days of Pure FUN!!!!!

Doesn't everyone love having fun? I sure do. The next (and the last) four-and-a-half days of school are going to be AWESOME. On Monday, we are getting Cougar Tales (a literary magazine with students poems, drawing, and works of art), Tuesday, I'm not sure what we're doing, Wednesday, probably the most fun day of the week, we are getting yearbooks and signing them and also having Sunshine Day, Thursday we are probably having a party in sixth period orchestra, and on Friday, it's a half day and NO WORK! Well that's my last week of school! I'm soooo exxiiiiiittteeeeeedd.
As kids get older, some of us think that it's just another 2 1/2 months of freedom, no biggie. Because sometimes summer's just so boring. You eventually find something to do, but the problem is waiting for something to happen.


Well, last week of school, here I come!