JCPA

It's me again, Firefly the procrastinator. Oh wait, it's been less than a month since I last blogged! Go me!

So THIS time, I went back to JCPA (Junior Citizen Police Academy). It was really fun, but very different (for many reasons, one being Mustang NOT BEING THERE *poke poke*). Another reason for it being so different was because we really didn't do as much stuff as we did last year.We did mock traffic stops (evil laughter) and we saw a firetruck... And we toured the S.O.U (my little town's version of SWAT) van... And that's about it. We spent most of the time reading in the classroom.

But when we did do something fun, it was totally worth it. With the fire truck, we learned that one of the littler ones can carry 400-500 gallons of water! We also got to try firefighter gear on, and some people (I won't mention that one was one of my friends) tried running with it on or even doing pushups in it! We also learned what kind of tools they carry with them in the truck.

With the S.O.U van, we split into two groups. The first group went into the van while the other group stayed outside and tried on gear/tried carrying the ram or shield. After the first group finished going through the van and the other group all finished trying on the gear, we switched and group one tried on gear and group two went through the van.

With the gear, SOME people again tried running in the gear.... But us smart people didn't. The shields and the rams were extremely heavy and I must assume that we looked very interesting/disturbing to the people driving by.... But that's beside the point.

The inside of the van was very cool, what with the less lethals and all the other types of gear.

After we ALL finished inside the van and ALL finished trying on gear, the S.O.U guy divided guys into two teams. We were supposed to enter the building like S.O.U people and find the suspect. Our team went first, and we found the suspect. The other team failed. Epically.

And lastly, the traffic stops. That was soooooo fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was the first officer, with one of my friends as my backup. One of my other friends was the one we 'pulled over'. It was absolutely hilarious... When we asked his name, he said "Bruce Wayne" and the other guy in the car snickers and says "Yeah and I'm Brad Pitt."

After a little while, everyone that was in the 'pulled over' car would take off running as soon as the lights came on. It was super fun!!! And let's just say no one could catch me.......

I also got handcuffed by someone, and I'm never letting them handcuff me again! He couldn't figure out how to get them off of me! He tightened them (accidentally, while trying to get them off), and then said "Hey Firefly, is your hand supposed to be this color...??" That was my favorite day of all ten day, even if I did almost have to mutilate someone. (He did finally get them off).

It was very different this year, seeing as I was an alumni. The other three alumni and I had to go make games (mostly scavenger hunt type things) for the cadets. My favorite game that we made, we actually had 6 people in on the making of it. 2 of us were suspects and the other 4 were hostages. After telling them how to play,we went and his in our assigned rooms. I was as suspect, and was told that when they found me, I could run if I wanted to. The same guy that handcuffed me said "Maybe we should get someone else cuz I bet they could catch you pretty quick". (This was the day before our traffic stops). I just grinned and said "I bet there is one person who could actually catch me".

Well, they didn't find me until about 20 minutes later, but when they finally did, I was right. The one person I thought could catch me did catch me.

All in all, these two weeks were SUPER fun, and I'm glad I got the chance to go back and do it again.

The Rodeo and Mustang!

Nope, still haven't disappeared off the face of the earth yet!

So, 2 weeks ago (*cringe* A long time, I know), Nana and I went to the rodeo in Bandera by way of two VERY generous friends (the owners of Bear and Quest) who bought us box tickets for ALL THREE nights!!!! 

Friday, the first night, was awesome. We almost didn't get to go the first night, though. It rained ALL of Thursday night, and all of Friday morning and all the way up to about 3 pm. It still looked ominously rainiful (I know, not a word, but :P) over towards Bandera. But, being us, Nana and I went anyway. In the distance, right over Bandera, it looked really black. In fact, we got rained on while we were driving. But we kept going... and it yielded great results!!!! It was actually BEAUTIFUL right over Bandera; the only real blue spot in all of the sky! So the rodeo went on, and it was AWESOME!!! The clown act wasn't NEAR as grand as last year (the Wild Child act) or the year before (a trick riding act), but was still entertaining. All of the horses were so gorgeous, too! In fact, during the barrel racing, one of the horses Mustang used to own raced! I was totally in awe. That night was really fun and super awesome.

The next morning, we were called by Mustang's mom. She said that she was coming to drop Mustang by the house for a little while (only like 45 minutes). She did, and Mustang and I walked around outside, doing our normal 'both start talking, both pause, both say go ahead, both go ahead and talk at the same time' over and over. Finally we decided to go back to the house and play Wii a little bit. We did so, and it was hilarious! She didn't really know what she was doing, so she was always saying things like "How do I move?!?!? Oh, I got it... wait, how to I jump? Is that a cliff?" right before jumping off the cliff.  It was hilarious. But all too soon, her mom came to pick her up. But we learned that she had a 99% chance of going to the rodeo with us that night!!! We also learned that at some point later that day, my mom (who was also in town with Creator's Son and my dad) would call us because they had called her and told her to come to the hotel and go swimming with them. Well, we knew that it would be at least an hour to two. After about three hours (and it was approaching 1pm), Nana and I were beginning to get worried, as they hadn't called yet, and for us to go to the rodeo, we had to be able to leave at like, a quarter to six. And even if they called RIGHT THIS INSTANT, Mom and Dad still had to get over here, we had to get over to the hotel, we had to get changed, and THEN we could get in the pool. And then we would swim for at least two hours, and.... well let's just say the numbers were depressing.

But then they DID call, at like 1:30! And said... that in about half an hour, to come and go swimming. So we went to a book store while we waited. We FINALLY went over to their hotel and swam (at about 2), and splashed, and it was SUPER FUN!!!!! After about 2 and a half hours of swimming, we went back up to the room, got in our dry clothes, and proceeded to watch some 'How It Should Have Ended' videos (at 4:30 or so). After about another 30 minutes in the room, we left!! We got to Nana's at about 5:15, with plenty (ok, not really, but enough) time to spare. We got there, made sure we were ready to go, and pretty much left for the rodeo.

Once we got there, Mustang and I seriously opened the car door and shot out to see the horses. We spent so long at the first pen, taking pictures, and picking out which horses we wished were ours. Together, we took over 200 pictures. At every pen, we would pick out which horses we wished were ours, took pictures, and talked and laughed. After a really long time spent looking at horses and taking pictures, it was finally time to go sit down and the rodeo to begin. It did, and it was EPICAL!!!!! (Also technically not a word, but :P) We were still busy picking out horses we wished were ours. Once, the clown climbed up right next to us. I was on the end closest to where to he was climbing up. It was weird..... anywho (which ALSO is not a word. D:), so Mustang and I watched the show, totally enraptured. It was EPIC. But then it was over.

Mustang spent the night at Nana's, and in the morning, we took her to breakfast and then to church with us. Her mom picked her up from church before it started, though. After church and lunch, they called, and they came back to Nana's house! Mustang and I went outside again. We walked and talked and ran for a long while, then we went back to the house and went in the back bedroom and watched some YouTube videos. Then Mustang was going to have to leave, to go to her Mimi's house. But then she asked if I could come as well, and I could! I went, and we played one of our many games for a long while before we were called up and to leave. I was dropped off at Nana's, and like that, they were gone. But it was rodeo time one last time!

This time, it had rained all morning, and the arena was like sand; there were rivers running through it, and it was so soaked! But everything went on as normal. It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And....... it was Haywire's night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything went awesomely, but it ended way too soon.

So that is part one of what I have recently been doing! Stay tuned for part two (hopefully soon)!

Mustang, the Avengers, and more!

So yes, I went up to see Mustang last week. It was EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!

  We did just about everything. We played outside in the pool, we threw a tennis ball at one another, we went to Six Flags, we watched the Avengers, we wore hats of shame, we threw hats of shame at one another, we played with glow sticks in the evening (as the first two days.)

 We went to a couple of different parks, we went swimming, we played 'king of the air vent', we made ourselves dizzy, we ate 2 lunches, we played outside a ton more, we went back to one park at night and ran around like maniacs, I tripped over her and did a flip, we slept in the pool one night, and then we woke up and played our EPIC game again. And yes, then we chunked the tennis ball at one another some more before I left. (As the last two days) It was AWESOME.

So then after we got home, I watched... can you guess? No it actually wasn't the Avengers! I watched Iron Man.  So unfortunately for everyone around me, I've kinda been quoting the Avengers/Stark all week. And then last night, because they took Iron Man 2 off of Netflix (D:) I watched Thor.  (I like this drink. *SMASH* Another!)

Besides the Avengers and Mustang, I HAVE been doing interesting things. Like learning to play the viola. It isn't too hard, according to the fact that I already know the basic stuff, but learning to read alto clef from treble clef was a tad bit of a challenge, though I figured it out pretty quickly. (It took two entire days.)

And really, that's what I've been doing lately.

Insanity

Right now, I am going insane. I know, breaking news right? But seriously, I am at home right now for about the only time until Sunday, late.  And then we are going back into town on Monday. And staying until Wednesday when we leave at about 6 (a.m) to go see Mustang!!!! WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's my schedule:
Today: Go into town and attend a concert.
Friday: Stay in town, do school, and have a dance recital
Saturday: Play with two other people in a trio at a memorial service
Sunday: Regular Sunday, not getting home until late
Monday: Turn around and go BACK into town
Tuesday: School in the morning, park and stuff in the afternoon
Wednesday: GO UP AND SEE MUSTANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Already this week, I have performed in a concert, come home and gone back into town, finished Co-op, gone to the park, done tap, come home again, and done school. Plus, we FINALLY got some rain last night!!!! Except that made it hard to sleep in my room, cuz the thunder was shaking the house. But then I went to sleep and didn't want to wake up, but then I did.

And ya now what? I have bragging rights towards Mustang, of which she will learn in slightly less than a week. >:P

Catching You Up

I know, I know... I haven't posted in almost a month! But I've done some pretty interesting things since I last posted... and guess what? My post won't be entirely about puffles! Though I will tell you what I've learned about rainbow puffles.

I now have two rainbow puffles, one named Promise and one named Skittles. But I still don't know much about them. All I really know about them, though, is that they play with clouds and they are a lot like green puffles: funny.  Or at least, mine is.

I have also, in the past week, finished the LOTR trilogy(Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King). I managed to finish Return of the King before Mustang and her mom, who had been reading it for about a month longer than I had, may I add. And I really disagree with the movies, by the way. Anywho, after finishing Return of the King, Nana bought The Hobbit for me!!!! Thank you Nana! It's awesome! Anyway, so I'm about halfway through it and, like I said, it's totally awesome!!!!!

I also still wait in agony for Andrew Peterson to do..... anything, really. He hasn't done anything on HIS blog for about 3 months. So ha, I am beating him. I would rant and rave, but I bet you guys are tired of that, so I will spare you.... this time.

On Tuesday around here in this part of Texas, I felt like swimming.... and right now with the sun up and everything, it is roughly 50 degrees outside. Hmmmmm, must be Texas in the spring.

Last but not least, our Homeschool Presentation Night is this coming Tuesday... and I'll be at the very beginning so that I can get to tap on time, one of the last tap rehearsals before our recital. Wheeeeeeee.

Other than that, most things are right and normal (or at least as normal as they can be when I'm involved).

Puffles GALORE!

Sorry guys. I'm going to post about puffles 'cuz they are my main thoughts right now. 

The annual Puffle Party that happens on Club Penguin every February or March started yesterday with one big change: We got a puffle hotel, with comes equipped with an awesome lobby and a second floor gym and spa. The rooftop pool came with a restaurant (for puffles) and some chairs to sleep in. The reason this hotel was built? Rainbow puffles, which I'll tell you about in a minute.

The rest of the party is like it was last year: AWESOME! The puffle rooms haven't changed, and members can go to the Puffle Play Zone and turn into puffles! The puffles have completely taken over the island! Another cool thing about this party is the fact that if you're lucky, you can meet PH, the puffle handler. I haven't yet though I want to.

So  I mentioned rainbow puffles briefly in my last post, so I KNOW you've just been DYING with anticipation to learn about them. That's the problem though. The members have to go on this 'quest' to see if they can take care of puffles well enough, especially with help from the puffle hotel. So I logged in yesterday, excited to get my rainbow puffle. Excitedly, I went to the puffle hotel and looked at it in all its glory, then started my 'quest'. The first task was to exercise my puffle, so I went to my igloo, clicked on the first puffle I saw and walked him back to the hotel. I went to the second story of the hotel, the gym and spa. I went over to a treadmill, and let my puffle hop on it until a thing popped up telling me I had gotten the task. I got my free items for finishing my task (350 coins and part of a 'puffle master' outfit) and was ready to start the next one. After all, there were 3 rainbow puffles up there WAITING for me to come get them! Instead, do you know what it said???? It said "Next task will be ready in 18 hours." DID YOU HEAR THAT??? 18 HOURS!  

Sooo...... eighteen hours from 10:00 a.m is 4:00 a.m. 4:03, to be exact. So do you want to know what I did? I set my alarm for 4:10 this morning, woke up then, (with Mom's permission..and laptop, though she thinks I'm nuts) and lo and behold! The next task was ready. Can you guess what it was? Yeah. Take your puffle to the spa. (That took me 5 seconds: 3 to get a puffle from my igloo and 2 to actually do the task.) Then I went back to sleep. Tonight at 10, when my next task is ready, I'll log on, do the task (probably 'feed your puffle'), get my reward, and log off. Then I'll wait for tomorrow afternoon at 4:00: My last task will be ready and I'll be able to get my three rainbow puffles. One named Promise, one named Brill, and one named Skittles.  At least, that's my plan.


After all that, the only thing I know about rainbow puffles is that I don't have one yet.

Anyway, I've decided that until I find out what personality the rainbow puffle has, I'm totally a green puffle (with some yellow and red mixed in). My stuffed green puffle Propeller is being carted around with me EVERYWHERE (and he's loving it!). In fact, he especially loves it when I read Monster in the Hollows to Mom and my brother! (Ha. Ha. Ha.) But I still think I'm 1/2 green puffle, 1/4 red and 1/4 yellow, with a hint of others mixed in. 

Still Here!

Wow, when I look at the last time I posted, it says 'February 21'. That means I haven't told you guys about all my adventures! I haven't even told you about seeing Mustang!!!! Wow! But at this point, that's too long a story to tell. If I tried to catch you up on everything I have done since I last posted, it would take me hours, and you probably would lose interest in reading such a long post. So I will commence telling you the main points.

• I played in a Robert Earl Keen concert, which I call the REK (pronouce wreck) concert. It was actually pretty fun.
• I got to ride Quest again! Except he was being moody and I seriously thought he might buck me off, so his owner actually let me ride Bear! (Whom she is very protective of)
• I got to see Mustang!!!!!! They came out here, and then I went with them into town and stayed in their hotel with them and then Mustang and I went swimming and oh! It was insanely EPIC!
• Our homeschool Co-op started! It's really fun.
• We're reading the Wingfeather Saga again! (Oh yeah!!!) 
• Our cousin came down for part of Spring Break! I got to go over to Grandma's house and play Skip-Bo (which Grandma creamed us at) and Scrabble (which Grandma creamed us at). 
• Two of our friends from where Mom and Dad used to live came down for Spring Break! Those two are a hoot!  

I am really not quite sure what to post about, but I know I really should do more than catch you up; I should fill you in.  See, the thing is that for my first post in over a month, I know I shouldn't post about rainbow puffles (which I know for certain and confirmed we are getting on Thursday). But I don't know whether to post about the friends that came down from where Mom and Dad used to live, or puffles, or what. For all I know, the beautiful weather could be worth posting about.

I really just wanted you to know that no, I have not been eaten by a whale, swallowed up by the earth, struck by lightning, or whatever else you can come up with. I'm still here, just busy and finding it hard to post in between math, science, history, and being in town.

I sincerely promise that I will try to keep a schedule of posting, but just a warning, I'm not always great with posting.

But since I mentioned it, do you want to hear about rainbow puffles?

My Life in Random, Scattered Thoughts for Today

• Yar har! It's Thursday!
• My sign for today on my day by day calender is funny
• Oh dear, it's almost Friday.
• Guess what? I get to ride Quest tomorrow!!!
• YAY!
• I love the Wingfeather Saga
• Oh dear, it's also almost Saturday.
• I have to do a REK concert, and a music festival thingy
• OH YAY!!! It's only like, a week until I see Mustang again!
• If you want to look into The Lord of the Rings trilogy, I sincerely advise you to read the books instead of watching the movies. For the simple reason that, while they are decently good movies, they do not follow the books, so if you want to get the actual story, read the books.
• Aha! I drew a picture of Janner that actually looks good!
• It was cold yesterday.
• I'm getting back into HI (Horse Isle) again!
• Beware the Bumpy Digtoad
• I got a sword book when we went into the big city for Creator's son's-OH YEAH! Creator's Son had a card game tournament! And he got like, second place! Anywho, I got a sword book wile we were in the big city for that.
• I MISS MUSTANG!!!!!
• Wow, I have a lot of random thoughts today.
• Oooh I'm hungry. Be right back. 
• Ahhhh. I got some chocolate, and I'm all better now.
• Toothy cows are ferocious. 
• We have a homeschool presentation night coming up sometime soon.
• AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Why must we wait for the fourth book???? 
• Did you know that when CS drives a car, it's scary.
• My dog can bark really loud.
• CS is reading over my shoulder!!!!
• My life is rather random. How sad.
• I wonder if CS will read North! Or Be Eaten....... to us while we drive into town today.
• I hope so!!
• I can't believe it's already almost the end of February!!! 
• Why must it be cold? WHY?

I think that's all my random thoughts today. Thank you poor readers who endure my randomness. 
 

The Wingfeather Saga. Yes, again.

NOTE: Read the title before deciding if you actually want to read this post, because it's about (you guessed it) THE WINGFEATHER SAGA!!!!!!

Sooo, yeah. I am going back to talking about those crazy Igibys and their adventures (tee hee tee hee).

The three of us crazy people in our house are listening to the first book (Where the guy reading it has a British accent), which makes the who-knows-how-manyinth time for me, the 4thish time for Mom, and the 3rdish time for my brother. After we finish listening to it, Creator's Son will commence reading North! Or Be Eaten out loud. After we finish that, then I will read Monster in the Hollows (out loud). After we finish that, we will all grind our teeth because The Warden and the Wolf King isn't out yet, then I will read them all again.. and again.... and again.... and-you get my point.

Oh, how good it is to be back in the thick of things!

Some random notes about my thoughts on these books:

• I AM A THRONE WARDEN. Even though I'm second born, and Creator's Son and Mustang both think that I'm not, I AM. So there. End of conversation.
• I am going to be drawing scenes, people, and places from the books for quite a while.
• I am also going to be scaring people out of their wits by being awesome and durganish.
• Did you know that 'durganish' isn't a word?
• Will Armulyn ever come back? Where'd he go, anyway?
• Beware of toothy cows.
• WHY PODO? WHY?

Ok, that's about it. I think. For now. O.o

Oh wait! If you want more interesting insight, drawings, maps and more about the Wingfeather Saga. go here. But beware of the toothy cows. If you want to order the books for the cheapest price I've found yet, possibly get them signed, and have at least some of the money actually go to AP, go to the Rabbit Room. You have to scroll down a bit to find the books, but all of the CDs you see are his music. He's a very good musician, too.

Ok, now I think that's it. For now. O.o

Who Wants To Hear Me Talk About Puffles?

WARNING: ONLY READ THIS POST IF YOU WANT TO HEAR ME GUSH ON AND ON ABOUT PUFFLES. This is your only warning.

First puffle-ish thing: What kind of puffle would you be if you were a little fluffy creature that lives on an island called Club Penguin? Take my quiz to find out!
 1: What thing would you rather spend your time doing?  3: What is your favorite color?

a.  Playing with a beach ball                                                        a. Blue
b. Jumping on a trampoline                                                         b. Pink
c. Eating something (anything)                                                     c. Orange
d. Surfing                                                                                    d. Red
e. Dancing                                                                                   e. Purple
f.   Ice skating                                                                               f. White
g.  Drawing or painting                                                                  g. Yellow
h.  Flying around with a propeller hat                                              h. Green
i.   Inventing something                                                                   i. Brown
j.  Skateboarding                                                                            j. Black

2: How would you describe yourself?               Find out the results to your quiz answers:
                                                                                           
a. Loyal                                                       Mostly a's: You're a loyal blue puffle!
b. Cheery                                                    Mostly b's: You're a sporty pink puffle!
c. HUNGRY                                               Mostly c's: You're a hungry orange puffle!
d. Adventurous                                            Mostly d's: You're an adventurous red puffle!
e. Picky                                                      Mostly e's: You're a diva purple puffle!
f.  Shy                                                        Mostly f's: You're a shy yet strong white puffle!
g. Creative                                                Mostly g's: You're a clever yellow puffle!
h.  Funny                                                     Mostly h's: You're a hilarious green puffle!
i.  Super smart                                              Mostly i's: You're a genius of a brown puffle!
j.  Quiet and intense                                       Mostly j's: You're a silent, often grumpy black!

Second puffle-ish thing: So obviously, I love puffles. Right now, I'm super into blue puffles, but last week it was brown and next week, it may be orange for all I know! But I have to distribute my love on all my puffles, so I came up with a solution. If you have this problem, read on!

The way to fix this problem is to do something called puffle of the day. How it works is you line up all your puffles somewhere where you can see them all, close your eyes and point to one. Whoever your finger lands on, you then take them around with you all day, wherever you go. Pretty simple, right?Another variation of that would be to put all your puffles' names on little pieces of paper and draw one each day.

Third puffle thing: A list of what I have named ALL my puffles.

Fluffball, Moto, Grumble, Snowflake, Crayon, Propeller, Jazzy, Sapphire, Rockhopper, Ori, Flip-Flop, Chirp, Pearl, Blizzard, Skater, Goofball, Sketch, Misty Lee, Barnum, Snowball, Ramses, Cookie, Disco, Launcher, Trig, Geo, Kavih, Snow Drop, Tristin, Mirage, Punkin, Christi, Neon, Tundra, Tacoma, Bubble, Da Vinci, Loop, Mumble, Bouncer, and  Tide.

What's New With You?

Around here, things this week aren't the same as they usually are. It has been colder than average, but we've been in town and not out at the Ranch. In fact, I've only been out at the Ranch maybe twice so far this week: Half of Sunday and half of Monday, and once yesterday morning to get some things we needed (mainly school).

You see, we came in for orchestra on Monday and our Tuesday stuff. That's normal for us. Then, Creator's Son was going to have this teen thing on Thursday night (which is now tonight). No problem, we'd come back into town. Not so normal for us, but no problem. However, our car has this thing. Mom was getting the oil changed last week and the people at the oil change place did something to it that didn't go so well. Bah humbug. Oh well.

Nana had offered us staying at her house until Thursday for Creator's Son, but Mom was thinking she might decline the offer so we could get school done. Early afternoon on Tuesday, Mom decided to call our friendly repair dude to ask him about our car. Then he asks her a question along the lines of "What size is the engine?" and Mom didn't know, so lo and behold we have to drive over there and show him. Turns out that was a bigger deal than we thought, and he tells us we'll need to bring it in on Thursday, now today, as early as possible.

That pretty much decided things for Mom, so we headed out to the Ranch yesterday morning to grab what we needed for Wednesday and Thursday. Then late last night, about 9:45-ish, we get an email that Creator's Son's teen night was off. Bah humbug. Oh well.

About 7:15-ish this morning, Mom and Nana headed off to our friendly car repair dude's place to let him have the car for the day so he can play with it and fix it. I read 'The Fellowship of the Ring' and got dressed while they were gone, then I got on CP and played at their newest party, the dinosaur party. They got back, I ate some food, played on CP, and now I'm sitting typing the very words you see here. Amazing how these things work, isn't it?

So everything going on this week got me to wondering, what's new with you? What kind of new thing or adventure have you had this week? If you want, comment to tell me what's been going on in your world.

PS: I love typing on my Mom's laptop! [(Which is what I am presently doing!) Hee hee hedgehog! In the words of Count Olaf]

Memories with Firefly and Mustang

Oh in the night, my hope lives on (oh in the night). Hey Mustang, remember that one?
How about the time we went iceskating in matching pajamas?
Do you remember when we slept in the empty pool?
Remember when we first made up Dragonica/Dragonia/Sargonia/Sargonica?
What about that one time we went swimming in the swollen creek? (After the moms checked it out, anyway)
Do you ever think about the first time you ever came out to the Ranch and we climbed the tower?
Remember when we played that durgan game with the apple and the tree and the basket?
It was fun that one time we played brown puffles on the island, remember?
Do you remember when we were training with sticks in our Dragonica/Dragonia/Sargonia/Sargonica game and we spent 4 or so hours doing that?
Remember that day, before your birthday party, when Sasha got stuck in Dorado and Senora's horse pen?
Wow! It was a long time ago when we first started playing our 'horse game at my house' with Feather, wasn't it?
LOL! Remember Bob the lady-man burro??? LOLOL
Heyheyhey remember when we went out to the Lodge that first time and we went exploring?
And we played that really fun horse game?
And I had Whisper for a LONG time?
Remember us freezing our tushies off? The more interesting process, though, was warming back up, wasn't it?
Remember when we went BACK out there and we played the same horse game s'more?
Do you remember the famous hard brownies?
Remember when we broke a GEODE??
Do you ever think about that one time when we saw my pastor and his wife walking in the dry creek?
Remember Sasha's sweet potato?
Who can forget that time at the Super Bowl when we had you, me, and a 5yr old over?
Do you remember 'Turn the knob!'?
Remember us making up aqua, periwinkle, and cream colored puffles?
You remember us being outside after dark with the recorder and playing games with Herbert?
And we taunted him?
And pretended we were puffles?
Do you remember when it was all over and we had to go in and you said "Nilla hungry. Nilla not have food for FIVE WHOLE MINUITE!"?
Remember when we had been playing Dragonica/Dragonia/Sargonia/Sargonica in the creek, then we went up to the Castle Training Grounds and that lady came by and started asking us questions??
Do you remember that time when you guys were coming over and I hid in my tree and scared you really bad?
Remember BOOM class?
Do you remember us playing Get the leg! with Fearless and Pickles?
Oy! Remember us dressing up as Durgans and sneaking around? That was fun!
How about that first time when we destroyed the dam in our part, near my rock?
Do you think about last summer when we went to Six Flags and made the scream team with Fearless?
Remember the Squid-Hat Guys?
Do you remember us seeing them the next day at Cici's?

Man, this list could probably continue forever!

'Member strawberry picking?
Do you remember last year when we had New Year's Eve party?
Lol! Member "Pwease? She doesn't have a home!"
Do you remember Trixie and the barrels? (If you don't, go to the post I Won!)
Remember "That guinea is really beginning to tick me off!"
Do you think about our Bella Sara game every once in a while?
Remember when Fearless lost her shoe at your house, and we found it?
Do you remember when Carling was made?

Ah the good times. I suppose I better get on with school, so for the moment, I'll end this LONG post.
Remember that once when we convinced the moms to get together the next day?

IT SNOWED!!!!!!!!!! (Again)

Again, I know that is caps and that that is a lot of exclamation marks, but snow is rare here were I live, so it's a big deal when it snows. Got that? Ok, on with the story.

Yesterday, my grandma called and said "We're headed to town, and we're seeing snow." Mom gets off the phone with her and relays the message.

I, not bothering to grab a jacket or gloves or a camera, run outside and gasp. It was, indeed, snowing. But, it was little flurries, nothing big, and definitely nothing that would stick to the ground. I stand there for a moment, then run to the door, where my brother and mom were pulling on gloves, hats, and coats. I was like "It's actually snowing!!!!" And then I run back off again. Pretty quickly, Mom and Creator's Son get tired of the teensy little snow flakes and go in. I go in long enough to grab a coat and my school work before I ran out again.

Outside, I did my school with the company of tiny little snow flakes floating around. I pretty quickly froze my fingers off, but I stayed until I had finished that part of my school. I then headed back in and warmed my hands up (took me about 12 hours to completely warm them back up again.) I thought we were going to be done with snow and gave a sad little sigh. My grandparents later came by with some food and the news that we had a chance of snow for later that night. I sighed again, because I thought it wouldn't happen.

This morning, I woke up and my Mom and I talked for a few minutes before Mom looked out the window and her jaw dropped. I peek out and lo and behold! snow was there on the ground! And the trampoline! And the swingset! And everywhere else I looked! I was the happiest person ever in that moment. After it finally got light enough, I grabbed: A coat, real shoes, my camera, and some real gloves. I was all set.

My mom, brother and I set out. We explored around the front yard, me snapping pics all the while (oh yes.. you will be enlightened by more pictures). It was all white and totally awesome and freezing and totally awesome. The trampoline was covered with the stuff, and it was totally awesome for packing into snowballs. I was laughing like a maniac and still snapping pictures.

We headed down to the Flat, right past our awesomely snow-covered car, and stood in awe of the white, patchy-ish ground before us. The cat, the poor kitty, followed us down there and started being all pitiful. Mom scooped him up, and he went from meowing pitifully to purring. After poking around the Flat for a while, Creator's Son went in and Mom and I headed off down the road a bit.

That walk was cold, and felt very long, but was worth it. The mixture of burned trees and white snow looked really awesome. Then Mom and I headed back to the house and she went in. I headed back to the Flat (the cat trailing me all the while) where I climbed into my newest fort (that Mustang is gonna love) and looked around. It was completely awesome. After I looked there and at our gate, I went in before my hands froze (again). And, so far, that concludes my snow day.

Me getting ready to throw a snowball

The snowy van

The kitty

Burned trees, white snow

My rock fort with snow

New Year, Fresh Start

Let's start the new year of right here at my blog- with a random 30 or so things. Whadda ya say?

1. It's nice to see everyone survived the Myan doomsday.
2. And the Fiscal Cliff or whatever that was called
3. I hope you all survive whatever new date for the end of the world they come up with
4. It's tough, surviving doomsdays, isn't it?
5. You wanna know something? As of RIGHT NOW, my house is exactly 46.6 degrees.
6. And outside is 34.4
7. But we have the heater on in the room I am in and a curtain over the door, so I am in a room which is 64.2. 
8. It's a bit chilly, wouldn't ya say?
9. Did you know that the name Clint Barton, Marvel's hero Hawkeye's name, means 'barley farm on the hilltop'?
10. I bet you didn't know that Elmo means 'friendly'. Scary, isn't it?
11. What does Keith mean? It means 'a place' in Celtic.
12. Did you know that Mignon is a real name and that it means 'dainty'?
13. Is it really 2013 already?? AHHHHHH!!!!!
14. I mean, whoopee.
15. Whoopee with streamers.
16. And ribbons. I'm so excited, can't you tell?
17. Mustang, you're gonna love my rock fort!
18. AFTER YOU FINALLY GET OUT HERE!
19. *sniff sniff* I miss you so much Mustang!
20. I guess I have enough time to fix up my rock fort then, huh?
21. I'm hungry.
22. Mom, do we have any pineapple? (If you don't know why this is funny, go look at the post Ya Wanna Know Random?)
23. OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
24. I just hit my elbow really hard on the corner of my brother's desk.
25.  But I'm all better now, I'll live
26. I learned why people don't like cactus.
27. I got a spine stuck relatively an inch into my knee
28. I also learned that when necessary, I can run like a scared cheetah.
29. I was being attacked by fire ants, you see, and really didn't feel like getting bitten.
30. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I just thought of *cringe* the-the- the- the guinea. 

Soooo, Happy New Year to all and to all a  good night. Oh wait, that's Christmas. Never mind.