Presentation Night

Last night was the homeschool presentation night. I knew it was coming and prepared a piece to play from memory. 

When we got there, I knew my violin needed tuning, and for once, the tuner was actually in my case. I was showed to a room where I could practice, or tune, my violin. I tuned it, and for some reason, the G string needed the most tuning. 

I waited nervously for my turn, but when it came, I was bursting with confidence. I calmly went back and got my violin. I calmly proceeded to walk up on stage, and began my piece. I had just finished the introduction, but when I reached to hit a note on the G string, it went splat. I tried again, but it wasn't working. I gave it a slight pluck, and realized the G string was completely loosened.

I turned to the crowd and said "Pretend I played that note," and tried to continue. I did, but before long, I came to open G. I hit it, but it failed like the others.  I said "Pretend I played that one, too." The crowd of friends was very understanding, and so I tried to continue, but I couldn't. I had to have every note in there to remember the song. I took the violin off my shoulder, and was looking Mom right in the eye. Everyone else, even Mustang, disappeared. I spoke directly to my mother, saying " I think my G string's broke. I can't go on without it." And with that, I had to pull out. 

I was devastated, but I didn't burst out in tears until I had set the violin down and sat down myself. Then I couldn't even bring myself to clap for the next two. 

Then, Mom came back and said "I know I have to turn the tuning pegs, but when I do-" I cut her off by grabbing the violin and tuner and going to the room I had previously been shown. I knew how to tune it! I was turning, tuning, plucking, everything I could, but it wouldn't do right. I could get it to #G, but not G. I gave it the slightest tweak, and viola, it is perfect G. I nearly screamed. I started playing, and it was then that Mom found me. 

"What do you think?" She asked me. "This is what I think." I replied, plucking G. "You got it!"  "Yep. I want to play my piece again." I said with a confident tone of voice. "Ok... I'll ask if you can." 

She asked, and I could and did. I played it faster than I had the first time, not really caring until I got to my G string notes. Relief flooded me, but I was buried in the music and just kept playing. It sounded perfect! Finally, I finished. I was amazed at how much clapping and shouting I got from the crowd!

After that, we went in the other building with refreshments. I got at least 4 compliments from people on how well I played, and at least 3 for how well I bounced back. I even got one from a second grader.

I hope your evening wasn't as crazy as mine!

Blessings,

Firefly

School Year

As this school year comes towards a close (but we still have 5 or 6 weeks), I was looking back over last year's journal (though I won't tell you that I was looking for something to post about....) and saw what I said about last school year.
 
"This school year was AWESOME! I became really good friends with Mustang this school year (which starts in August and ends sometime in the spring). I got to do Critical Thinking and Latin 3. My favorite subjects were Critical Thinking, Latin, and spelling."

My plans for this summer are these: SWIM! Go to cooking camp, spend entire day with Mustang, swim, do regular summer stuff, go to Needle Arts camp, spend lots of time with Mustang and what not."

* * * * * * * * 
Thinking on it, I DID get to do most of my summer plans. I swam (A LOT), I went to Cooking Camp, I spent the entire day with Mustang, I swam some more, did plenty of regular (What's that mean??) summer stuff, went to Needle Arts camp, and spent PLENTY (but not enough!) of time with Mustang.

I know that for now, you will have to wait for me to post about this school year, but some of my main highlights were: getting two brown puffles, getting out of orchestra early (Yeah, I know, I'm not nice..), my puffle plan/party, watching Mustang's game and surprising her by being there, getting Tristin, riding Quest, SNOW, going to the Witte with Mustang and her mom, going on a trip with my family to Waco and Brenham, REK concert, WILD HORSE AUCTION, petting mini baby, meeting Rookie, library opening, breaking a geode, and 3 days in a row with Mustang.

I have had a good year so far! I hope you have, too!

Blessings,
Firefly

My Cookie Monster

     Ok, so you might be thinking that I've gone nuts from the title of this post. But I haven't!

     Cookie Monster is an orange puffle! His full name is Cookie Monster, but everyone calls him Cookie. On the day I got him in San Antonio, May 18, 2011, he was very hyper, and didn't know much. Here is a conversation between us when we passed Mustang's house on the way home.

"Say hi to Mustang!" Nana said
"Hi to Mustang! Who's that?" Cookie immediately replied.
"My best friend." I answered.
"Oh! Do I get to meet her? When?"
"Yes, Cookie, you will meet her tomorrow."
"Oh. When's that?"
"When the sun-"
"What's THAT? The sun?"
"The bright thing."
"Oh."
"When it goes away and the sky-"
"What's the sky?"
"The big thing in the air."
"Oh."
"When the sky turns black."
"What is black?"
"The color of the road." I reply showing him the pavement.
"Oh! So we get to drive in the sky?"
"No, just the color is the same."
"Aw, man!"

Next day:
"So do I get to meet her right now? Huh?" Cookie is very impatient.
"No, in a couple of hours."
"What are hours?"
"You see the clock?"
"Yeah...."
"You see that it says 9:59?"
"Uh-huh...."
"Keep watching.."
"Wow! It changed! Now it says 10:00!"
"Yes. An hour is 60 minutes, and when it is 12:00, we will go to Mustang's house and you will meet her."
"Yeah!!!"

      So, as you can see, he is very inquisitive. He has learned, in his one year, a lot, like the meaning of 'ice cream'.
"Ice cream? NUMMY!"
 Darn! He heard me say i-c-e c-r-e-a-m! Anyway, he has also learned all about trees: "Trees are high. They taste like a piece of wood, and climbing one is really scary. Unless you are promised ice cream. Then, climb the tree at all possible chances! ICE CREAM!!!!!"

     He has learned about spy phones, and how to change the "Please leave message after the beep" yadda yadda. " BEEP! If you want me to eat the phone, press 1. If you want me to eat the phone, press 2. If you want me to eat the phone, press 3. If you want me to eat the phone, press 4. If you want me to eat the phone, press 5. If you want me to eat the phone, press 6. If you want me to eat the phone, press 7. If you want me to eat the phone, press 8. If you want me to eat the phone, press 9. If you want me to the phone AND a bowl of ice cream, press 0. If you don't want me to eat the phone, tough luck."

     He has learned about other puffles: "They are good playmates, but one of them told me that the entire universe is not only food! I still don't believe him."

     He is SO silly! But I wouldn't trade him for anyone!

Interesting Days!

Since the last time I've blogged, I've had some very interesting days.

We went strawberry picking with Mustang and her mom to make strawberry jelly afterwards. (The jelly is yummy!)

We had picked all the strawberries by now, and if you can't tell, I took the picture. Aren't we interesting?

The rest of that day was spent at Mustang's house. We played in the creek, she found an ARROWHEAD, we broke a bunch of giant flint rocks, and, quite accidentally and without having any knowledge of this, found and broke A GEODE!

My bigger half of the geode

Then the next day, we took Mustang out to the Ranch and we fixed up our tree fort.

Sunday was tap pictures. I hate being princessified. 

Don't I look oddly thrilled?

In the long run, however, I liked it

Monday, I was at orchestra and we (3 homeschooled girls talking to 2 publicschooligans) and both publicschoolagins said they wished THEY were homeschooled, then one said " Yeah, I wish I was homeschooled, but they said that 81% of homeschoolers never get to collage because of the socialization." Ha! The entire rest of the time we (the homeschooled girls) ran around saying stuff like "AAAAAAAH! A person! Run away!!!!"  It was pretty fun.

Tuesday, I went to the park, nearly got heatstroke, upped my speed to 15 mph running top speed, and accidentally ran into HR and her mom at the library.

Today, my weirdness is writing this post.

Have a weird week!
Firefly

Another 25 Things From Me toYou!

Yeah! I thought of another 25 things. 

1. I have now seen Courageous.

2. I have, in fact, seen it 3 times.

3. I watched the commentary all the way through.

4. That was amazing because I hate commentaries. But this one was good.

5.  I spent the day with Mustang on Thursday.

6. Actually, I spent the day with Mustang in a tree Thursday.

7. Then we played Wii when it got dark.

8. We played our newest game, Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

9. I ate some cheesecake!!!

10. I love cheesecake. 

11. Yesterday was Easter!!

12. I ate a bunch of candy.

13. And it is the day that Jesus rose from his tomb.

14. I don't like tombs.

15. We finally went back out to the Ranch for like, the first time in a month.

16. I spied on my brother .

17. He didn't know where I was until we left.

18. When Dad called, I stood up and took off running.

19. I can run almost as fast as Mustang.

20. I can beat her in the sand.

21. Speaking of, I can beat GB at racing almost all the time.

22. But not always. We tie a lot.


23. I used to hate tag.


24. Because I ran into a friend who made me fall down which busted my lip open while my mom was still upstairs.


25. I didn't like that. It hurt. A lot.

The 2nd One!

Okay, I've got more CP for you.

So I logged on Wednesday, the day after the Puffle Party ended. Well, they already had the April Fool's party up and running, so I meandered to the Box Dimension, where the heart of the action was. 

As I chose a portal to go to, I got one stamp that stopped my heart. Immediately I backed out of the portal, and while trying to get in one dimension, I made sure the stamp said what I thought it said. It did. One lone word. Rookie.

I finally found a bunch of penguins pouring into the Candy Dimension. I followed, hoping that Rookie had gone in there. I wanted his background as better proof for meeting him. One of the reasons one wants to meet a famous penguin is to get the background.  Finally, I saw him. With a silent squeak, I clicked on him and grabbed his background. 

The next thing I did was stare at the screen for a full minute. Then, after that, I raced into the room where my parents and brother sat, watching TV. I screamed " I JUST MET ROOKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 

Their reaction was startling. Dad- SHHHHHH I'm watchin' TV. Mom- Oh, cool. Brother- *Gawk at TV*

I blinked twice at their reaction, then raced back out of the room, to come gawk at my computer screen and laugh. Finally, my brother came in and said "What's so funny?" Even as I chased Rookie from portal to portal, my maniacal laughter never ceased. Since I hadn't re-clicked on Rookie, he couldn't see that I had met him.

I told him I had just met Rookie. "Oh cool." he began walking off, then froze, and whirled around. "You did WHAT ?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!??!!?!!!" He yelled. "Met Rookie" I replied without even looking away. 

"What sever, what room?" he asked rushing to his computer to sit down. "Aurora, middle portal."

He finally got there in just enough time to get the background. I have met Sensei and Rookie, by random chance and intuition. I'm a genius.

When I met Sensei, I was letting a friend dress my penguin at the end of my birthday party, and got a stamp. I told her "Can I have my penguin?"  "Oh sure, but this outfit would look sooooo good on you!"  I grabbed my penguin and darted into the ninja hideout. I was one of the few, and last, penguins to get in before it was full. I found a mess of penguins, but the one I wanted was in the middle of it all. 

I clicked on him and got his background. No one knew why I had just torn my penguin from my friend, so everyone crowded around me. "Why'd ya do that?" "Yeah, why?" " That was mean!" "It's ok, but why?" All of that was hurled my direction. HR was the first to notice what was up on my screen. " Is that..... Sensei?????" She asked. Silently, I nodded. "Yup." I whispered. "It is."

Everyone fell silent in the second before all my friends asked, "Who is Sensei??"    " He, my dearest friends, is a famous penguin. They are very hard to meet and I have never met one before. This is special." My brother still had NO idea what was happening, except that everyone was suddenly congratulating me.  He was like, "What's going on??" "Oh, nothing. I just met Sensei, that's all." I replied. " Nice.. wait, did you just say SENSEI!!!??????!?!??!?!?!?!?" "Yes." What sever??"     

And that, my good people, is how you meet a famous penguin. By chance. 

Have a good week!! 

Blessings, 

Firefly