Hey Guys! I'm super sorry that I haven't been on here in a while. Truthfully, I forgot about it for a while; I've been so busy with homework and school schtuff.
But enough of the groveling. We last left of the week of PSATs, so we'll pick up from there.
The PSAT went well, I think I did much better on the math section. The PSAT math class helped me a lot and I definitely think I improved my scores on that section. English hasn't even been hard, so that was a breeze. After the first marking period, I switched from the Math SAT prep class to the English class. It's going to definitely be much more work, but I feel like I'm going to do really well on the actual SAT when I decide to take it.
Also, a couple days after the PSAT, I got involved in a school thing! I helped decorate the homecoming wall with some friends of mine! It was really fun and the wall turned out much better than last year. I wish I could post pictures on this blog, but sadly I have not been able to figure that out. But it turned out really well and overall we got second place out of all the grades, which is good because the Seniors wall was....AH-MAY-ZING. It was so ridiculously cool. I also decided to not go to Homecoming; I saw no point in it. I'm kind of glad I didn't go anyways because people said it sucked in the gym, so that's good at least.
October was just pretty much a busy month. Homework started to pick up, and then lessen when we started reading a book in AP Lang. We read 1984 by George Orwell; I liked it, but some people decided to read it over sparknotes (not a good idea.) But after we finished that, I started to get back into reading the Narnia series, and right now I'm trying to finish the 6th book before we start a new book in AP Lang (In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.) AP Calc hasn't been horrible because I'm starting to get used to the style of teaching, and how to study for the class. We just took a huge test on derivatives and all this other stuff, and I thought I did well. I just checked online though, and I got a 77%. It kinda sucks, but honestly, that's probably a high score for the class...at least I hope so.
Apparently, there is a teacher strike at my school so homework levels had been down for a bit. But now all the teachers decided that they're going to pile on the homework until we can't see above the millions of books and papers to write. I'm okay with it though because I usually get my homework done in a timely manner.
Also, recently Karen (my boss) came in and talked to my Culinary and Hospitality Management class. It was super fun, and on Monday we're making the same recipe that Karen made. We're also supposed to learn how to make pie crust, but I already know how so that's not very exciting. I just hope the teacher teaches us the right way...she's not very knowledgable in my opinion.
I think we're just about up to the current stuff. We're up to Friday of last week (Today being Sunday.) Friday I went ice skating in Quiet Waters Park. It was super fun, and I met a bunch of new people. The night was so nice. I was going to take some video footage of it(more info on why later) but my video camera somehow broke. No fear though! I got my report card money, combined it with some of my work paychecks, and bought a new Flip Ultra HD camera! I LOVE it. It's so much fun to use!
Now, I wanted to take video footage because I've decided to do like a "video scrapbook" of my life. Basically, I'm going to take a video camera to the fun things I do and sometimes to school and take video to remember the certain event. It's gonna be great :) I'm super excited to start working on it.
Today, I worked on homework for a couple hours. I also found a radio station which is commercial free and already playing straight Christmas music. It was so exciting! So after I finished homework, I got some Christmas and Hannakuh(sp?) coloring pages and colored for an hour or so. Now, I'm writing this blog, and in about a half hour I'm going out to dinner with Glenn...whenever he decides to get up from his nap.
And that's it up to the minute.
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
P.S.- 40 days until Christmas!
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November 14, 2010
August 3, 2010
Da NA. Da NA. DANADANADANADA
In case you were wondering, the song on the title is the famous JAW theme. Go ahead, put the tune in your head and read it again. I'll wait.....The reason for that is it's SHARK WEEK! OMG! It's my 3rd week and I'm ready to be blown away by the shark-i-ness. So that's why.
Ready? Okay, here's the delio. I know I haven't been on here much lately, but I believe the last time I left off I was getting ready to go to the beach with my dad? Let me check.....Yes. Okay, so here goes: On the days we went to the beach in Ocean City, my dad and I had a lot of fun. The first day, I drove down in my car with him, and then we went straight to the beach. My dad got sunburned cause he was stupid and didn't listen when I told him to put sunscreen on....should've listened. Tsk Tsk. Anyways, so we spent some time on the boardwalk, got dinner, much ice cream, played some mini golf, and then went back to the hotel to relax and watch some TV. The next day, we decided to not go to the beach and we got these all day passes so we could play ALL the mini golf courses in the area, so that was really fun. I won 4 games out of 6, including the game we played the day before. Also, I won 2 of the free game things (You know, when there's a 19th hole and you have to like shoot your ball in the tigers mouth, or inside a clam, etc. Anyways I won 2 free games that day).
After the beach, I didn't do much that I can think of off the top of my head. Although I had the best birthday present the other day. My mother bought tickets for her, Glenn, my Aunt, and me to go into New York City by train for the day, AND see the Addams Family on Broadway! The show was AWESOME! The soundtrack is amazing, AND the leads were.....NATHAN LANE AND BEBE NUERWERTH(Sorry Bebe, I don't know how to spell your name). The show itself was just amazing in all aspects, AND we were FRONT row. Like literally FIRST row. It was the best. We also explored around NY and looked in Times Square and F.A.O. Shwartz (this HUGE toy store) and the Apple store. It was a pretty awesome day! The cool thing was, I didn't know what we were doing 'til we got on the train that morning! My mom had managed to keep it a surprise since like June! OMG right?! I knoww.
Sooo after that, I spent the day yesterday watching Shark Week shows and learning about cool things on the Discovery channel. It was pretty amazing. Yesterday night, I went to Red Lobster with my dad, and I had the best fish I ever had in my entire life probably. It was a tilapia with a spicy soy broth. It was amazing! I had an awesome salad before, some really good rolls, and some cheesecake afterwards. It was just a good dinner all around. OH! I bought some jackets at the GAP in NY and I'm super excited to wear them to school. I've been wearing one all day today mostly.
So today, I went to work, which was pretty fun cause it was a laid back day. Then when Glenn picked me up, we went to Giant for some stuff for dinner, and then KFC for lunch. I had a double down, and MAN! those things are huge! Two peices of chicken, two peices of cheese, and bacon. Amazing sandwich, but HUGE to eat. I'm not sure I'll be empty enough for dinner! So THEN, after Glenn and I got home we decided to blow up the gingerbread house we made last December that's just been sitting in our living room waiting to be blown to bits. We had an ordeal trying to inflict damage with small firecrackers and bottle rockets, so finally, we just decided to drop a cement block on it, and that was that. Then I came inside, put some anti-itch stuff on my legs cause I was eaten alive outside, and sat down to write a blog, which I am doing now. So basically, I'm caught up. I had two major things to tell you guys about though.
1: I'm planning a surprise party for my puppy! Greta is like my sister, and she's turning 12 on the 7th of August! My friend and I are going to buy balloons and an ice cream cake for the people, and some stuff for our two dogs. It's gonna be a blast, but don't tell Greta! SHHH! It's a surprise!
2: PLOT. For those of you tuning in now, no. This is not about story events in which one leads into the other untimately getting to a resolution. PLOT stands for Project Lose an Olsen Twin, in which I am attempting to become more fit, along with Philip DeFranco and the DeFranco nation! I haven't been able to do much with it, because honestly, I'm just too lazy. So...I'll try harder. I promise.
Okay 3 major events. I lied. Get over it! Haha SO I got contacts! It's super exciting because it's so much easier to drive and watch t.v. and generally see things across the room without glasses.
Welll.....that's it for now I think.
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
Ready? Okay, here's the delio. I know I haven't been on here much lately, but I believe the last time I left off I was getting ready to go to the beach with my dad? Let me check.....Yes. Okay, so here goes: On the days we went to the beach in Ocean City, my dad and I had a lot of fun. The first day, I drove down in my car with him, and then we went straight to the beach. My dad got sunburned cause he was stupid and didn't listen when I told him to put sunscreen on....should've listened. Tsk Tsk. Anyways, so we spent some time on the boardwalk, got dinner, much ice cream, played some mini golf, and then went back to the hotel to relax and watch some TV. The next day, we decided to not go to the beach and we got these all day passes so we could play ALL the mini golf courses in the area, so that was really fun. I won 4 games out of 6, including the game we played the day before. Also, I won 2 of the free game things (You know, when there's a 19th hole and you have to like shoot your ball in the tigers mouth, or inside a clam, etc. Anyways I won 2 free games that day).
After the beach, I didn't do much that I can think of off the top of my head. Although I had the best birthday present the other day. My mother bought tickets for her, Glenn, my Aunt, and me to go into New York City by train for the day, AND see the Addams Family on Broadway! The show was AWESOME! The soundtrack is amazing, AND the leads were.....NATHAN LANE AND BEBE NUERWERTH(Sorry Bebe, I don't know how to spell your name). The show itself was just amazing in all aspects, AND we were FRONT row. Like literally FIRST row. It was the best. We also explored around NY and looked in Times Square and F.A.O. Shwartz (this HUGE toy store) and the Apple store. It was a pretty awesome day! The cool thing was, I didn't know what we were doing 'til we got on the train that morning! My mom had managed to keep it a surprise since like June! OMG right?! I knoww.
Sooo after that, I spent the day yesterday watching Shark Week shows and learning about cool things on the Discovery channel. It was pretty amazing. Yesterday night, I went to Red Lobster with my dad, and I had the best fish I ever had in my entire life probably. It was a tilapia with a spicy soy broth. It was amazing! I had an awesome salad before, some really good rolls, and some cheesecake afterwards. It was just a good dinner all around. OH! I bought some jackets at the GAP in NY and I'm super excited to wear them to school. I've been wearing one all day today mostly.
So today, I went to work, which was pretty fun cause it was a laid back day. Then when Glenn picked me up, we went to Giant for some stuff for dinner, and then KFC for lunch. I had a double down, and MAN! those things are huge! Two peices of chicken, two peices of cheese, and bacon. Amazing sandwich, but HUGE to eat. I'm not sure I'll be empty enough for dinner! So THEN, after Glenn and I got home we decided to blow up the gingerbread house we made last December that's just been sitting in our living room waiting to be blown to bits. We had an ordeal trying to inflict damage with small firecrackers and bottle rockets, so finally, we just decided to drop a cement block on it, and that was that. Then I came inside, put some anti-itch stuff on my legs cause I was eaten alive outside, and sat down to write a blog, which I am doing now. So basically, I'm caught up. I had two major things to tell you guys about though.
1: I'm planning a surprise party for my puppy! Greta is like my sister, and she's turning 12 on the 7th of August! My friend and I are going to buy balloons and an ice cream cake for the people, and some stuff for our two dogs. It's gonna be a blast, but don't tell Greta! SHHH! It's a surprise!
2: PLOT. For those of you tuning in now, no. This is not about story events in which one leads into the other untimately getting to a resolution. PLOT stands for Project Lose an Olsen Twin, in which I am attempting to become more fit, along with Philip DeFranco and the DeFranco nation! I haven't been able to do much with it, because honestly, I'm just too lazy. So...I'll try harder. I promise.
Okay 3 major events. I lied. Get over it! Haha SO I got contacts! It's super exciting because it's so much easier to drive and watch t.v. and generally see things across the room without glasses.
Welll.....that's it for now I think.
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
July 3, 2010
There she goes, there she goes again!
Hello everyone! The past couple days have been eventful ones, which is good. I think I left off at...Day 2, which was the day we picked up Aunt Diane and went it to Taco Taco. Okay! So we're onto Day 3.
Day 3: This was our first day working in the booth at the convention. Have I mentioned it? This convention was the 75th Anniversary of AA, so we're selling merchandise from mom's store. It was a pretty good day, REALLY tiring though. My feet hurt so bad after every day we worked, along with everyone else's. The neighbor booths around us were very nice and we all had a bunch of fun getting set up. Today was just a "get used to the surroundings and set up your store" day, so that's it.
Day 4: This day...I think I stayed home. I'm forgetting a lot of the dates here, but I believe mom let me stay home this day to relax and regain my foot arches once again. They had a good day at the store, however it rained a LOT while they were there. Actually the first day, we got the merchandise out, then it started to rain! So we had to scramble to grab everything and get it to a dry place, and our station still ended up flooded by the end of Day 4.
Day 5: Day 5 was yesterday, July 2nd, I believe. I went back to work today, and since it was Friday it was reallyy busy. We were constantly taking charges and cash and our money belts were so messed up by the end of the day. It rained some today, but not as much as the day before. A little of the merchandise, including some of our shoes, were ruined by the rain, but we didn't lose too much. OH! At the beginning of the day, I was harshly insulted by a customer! She had bought some merchandise, and gave me a large bill, so I made the change best I could(I've never been very good at it), and it was wrong. She counted it by herself, and replied "You're short changing me, do you know what country you're in?" Now I had no idea how to respond, and so I just gave her the change she was asking for, hoping she would just GO AWAY. Now every time I see a woman that looks like her pass by, I cringe inside, because she was really mean! When I bent down to get her a bag, I was almost teary eyed; I wasn't expecting to be insulted! By the end of this day, I was almost sure I wasn't coming in for Day 6....
Day 6: But I did. Day 6 is today, July 3rd. Today was VERY eventful. This morning we all got up and shuffled into the car, and went to work. Once we got there people flooded in. We had so many customers, it was like all of the previous days combined. Since we were one of the booths with the most diversity, and the only ones with the spinner rings and the sobriety year pins, we stayed pretty busy throughout the day. Once everything started winding down...around 11 PM, we started to get a little punchy... Also, there were crickets EVERYWHERE! They were attacking! It scared me so bad, I couldn't even bear to sit in my chair for fear of crickets jumping on my head again. They were creeepyyyy. Anyways, around 12:15 AM we headed out to the car..which is when things started to get weird. Mom was already overtired, but I don't understand the rest of the night. First, when we were all in the car, Aunt Diane realized that she hadn't taken her money belt off yet, so she was standing outside the car untying it. She had one leg inside the car, and mom started to pull away! It was insane! We all were freaking... Mom stopped, Aunt Diane finished untying her belt, and got into the car. We paid for parking that day, and headed out onto the streets. On the way home we had some laughs talking about the many things that happened that day. Then as we got closer to home, we were on a side street, at a red light. Mom started inching forward (the light STILL red) and she just slowly...creeps through the red light. Her justification: "I got tired of waiting! It seems like we were stuck in a vortex of time, and I HAD to get out!" I told her, when I run a red light, that's going to be my excuse. We all were laughing so hard, and Aunt Diane and Mom were 'squeaking' (a traditional family noise for this side of the family). So we got back to the house, still laughing and we all get out of the car, get our stuff and make our way inside. Well, I'm trying to get out of the door, and mom presses the automatic close door button! I had to narrowly escape being crushed by the door, even though it would've just bounced back. Anyways, we all got inside, and now I'm sitting in our room with Aunt Diane and we both have our laptops, typing away!
That's all I have for you now, stay tuned for further updates!
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
Day 3: This was our first day working in the booth at the convention. Have I mentioned it? This convention was the 75th Anniversary of AA, so we're selling merchandise from mom's store. It was a pretty good day, REALLY tiring though. My feet hurt so bad after every day we worked, along with everyone else's. The neighbor booths around us were very nice and we all had a bunch of fun getting set up. Today was just a "get used to the surroundings and set up your store" day, so that's it.
Day 4: This day...I think I stayed home. I'm forgetting a lot of the dates here, but I believe mom let me stay home this day to relax and regain my foot arches once again. They had a good day at the store, however it rained a LOT while they were there. Actually the first day, we got the merchandise out, then it started to rain! So we had to scramble to grab everything and get it to a dry place, and our station still ended up flooded by the end of Day 4.
Day 5: Day 5 was yesterday, July 2nd, I believe. I went back to work today, and since it was Friday it was reallyy busy. We were constantly taking charges and cash and our money belts were so messed up by the end of the day. It rained some today, but not as much as the day before. A little of the merchandise, including some of our shoes, were ruined by the rain, but we didn't lose too much. OH! At the beginning of the day, I was harshly insulted by a customer! She had bought some merchandise, and gave me a large bill, so I made the change best I could(I've never been very good at it), and it was wrong. She counted it by herself, and replied "You're short changing me, do you know what country you're in?" Now I had no idea how to respond, and so I just gave her the change she was asking for, hoping she would just GO AWAY. Now every time I see a woman that looks like her pass by, I cringe inside, because she was really mean! When I bent down to get her a bag, I was almost teary eyed; I wasn't expecting to be insulted! By the end of this day, I was almost sure I wasn't coming in for Day 6....
Day 6: But I did. Day 6 is today, July 3rd. Today was VERY eventful. This morning we all got up and shuffled into the car, and went to work. Once we got there people flooded in. We had so many customers, it was like all of the previous days combined. Since we were one of the booths with the most diversity, and the only ones with the spinner rings and the sobriety year pins, we stayed pretty busy throughout the day. Once everything started winding down...around 11 PM, we started to get a little punchy... Also, there were crickets EVERYWHERE! They were attacking! It scared me so bad, I couldn't even bear to sit in my chair for fear of crickets jumping on my head again. They were creeepyyyy. Anyways, around 12:15 AM we headed out to the car..which is when things started to get weird. Mom was already overtired, but I don't understand the rest of the night. First, when we were all in the car, Aunt Diane realized that she hadn't taken her money belt off yet, so she was standing outside the car untying it. She had one leg inside the car, and mom started to pull away! It was insane! We all were freaking... Mom stopped, Aunt Diane finished untying her belt, and got into the car. We paid for parking that day, and headed out onto the streets. On the way home we had some laughs talking about the many things that happened that day. Then as we got closer to home, we were on a side street, at a red light. Mom started inching forward (the light STILL red) and she just slowly...creeps through the red light. Her justification: "I got tired of waiting! It seems like we were stuck in a vortex of time, and I HAD to get out!" I told her, when I run a red light, that's going to be my excuse. We all were laughing so hard, and Aunt Diane and Mom were 'squeaking' (a traditional family noise for this side of the family). So we got back to the house, still laughing and we all get out of the car, get our stuff and make our way inside. Well, I'm trying to get out of the door, and mom presses the automatic close door button! I had to narrowly escape being crushed by the door, even though it would've just bounced back. Anyways, we all got inside, and now I'm sitting in our room with Aunt Diane and we both have our laptops, typing away!
That's all I have for you now, stay tuned for further updates!
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
June 29, 2010
I don't know good song lyrics right now...so I'm making this one up! HEY!
Sorry about the title, I know I know...it's horrible.
Good news! My aunt arrived today from California and we get to share a room! I'm excited! :D
Actually, as I am writing, I find myself in her prescence as she unpacks her clothes. She almost started to be in panic mode and just chuck everything into the closet, but she calmed down....thankfully.
Okayy...well since I wrote a blog yesterday there's not much to tell you. I'll start with last night.
Last night: Glenn fixed us a wonderful stir fry after spending what seemed like HOURS in the Whole Foods here. Then JUST as we sat down to dinner with a wonderful ambiance of rolling thunder off the prairie and airplanes down the street, the power goes out. It was wonderful. We just all started laughing....well I laughed. Mom and Glenn just sat there in annoyed silence. I'm not even going to TALK about the UPS store earlier that day...it was a mess. Anyways, we sat in the dark for a while (luckily the sun hadn't gone down yet) and we played Uno until we couldn't tell the difference between blue and green. ("We" meaning my mother) Well...after we sat in the dark some more, we decided to make a trip up to the frozen yogurt place, but for some reason we didn't end up there. We ended up in Wal-Mart looking for flashlights and batteries. We figured if we bought some, the power would be back on when we got home. It wasn't. So we watched the last episode of Big Bang Theory and went to sleep. I went back into my room for a night of solitude and reading. Unknowingly, I settled into bed for a heart attack. Just as I was nicely settled, the lights decided to flash, along with the house alarm for a couple seconds. It scared the CRAP outta me. I yelled for my mother to come in and sit with me and we ended up taking my mattress into my mom's room.
Ya know what?! Lemonade from Simply Lemonade...is a PAIN IN MY SOLARPLEXUS. I went to go get a drink of it, after buying a huge bottle, only to discover pulp! I ended up having to strain each and every cup of that lemonade through a hotel cup with toothpick punctures in the bottom. 5 glasses and a bad attitude later, I know have a pulp free bottle of lemonade and it's pleasant again.
Today we went to Taco Taco, which apparently has the BEST TACO IN AMERICA, according to the Food Network. Believe me, it lived up to it's name. We went there for lunch after picking up Aunt Diane from the airport and got lunch. It was SO good.....
Well. My AutoSave is failing right now..so I better do something before I lose this post. It was written June 29th, but won't be posted until June 30th most likely. Just so ya'll know.
OH! I got me a cowboy hat! It's exciting!
That's all I have for ya right now,
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
Good news! My aunt arrived today from California and we get to share a room! I'm excited! :D
Actually, as I am writing, I find myself in her prescence as she unpacks her clothes. She almost started to be in panic mode and just chuck everything into the closet, but she calmed down....thankfully.
Okayy...well since I wrote a blog yesterday there's not much to tell you. I'll start with last night.
Last night: Glenn fixed us a wonderful stir fry after spending what seemed like HOURS in the Whole Foods here. Then JUST as we sat down to dinner with a wonderful ambiance of rolling thunder off the prairie and airplanes down the street, the power goes out. It was wonderful. We just all started laughing....well I laughed. Mom and Glenn just sat there in annoyed silence. I'm not even going to TALK about the UPS store earlier that day...it was a mess. Anyways, we sat in the dark for a while (luckily the sun hadn't gone down yet) and we played Uno until we couldn't tell the difference between blue and green. ("We" meaning my mother) Well...after we sat in the dark some more, we decided to make a trip up to the frozen yogurt place, but for some reason we didn't end up there. We ended up in Wal-Mart looking for flashlights and batteries. We figured if we bought some, the power would be back on when we got home. It wasn't. So we watched the last episode of Big Bang Theory and went to sleep. I went back into my room for a night of solitude and reading. Unknowingly, I settled into bed for a heart attack. Just as I was nicely settled, the lights decided to flash, along with the house alarm for a couple seconds. It scared the CRAP outta me. I yelled for my mother to come in and sit with me and we ended up taking my mattress into my mom's room.
Ya know what?! Lemonade from Simply Lemonade...is a PAIN IN MY SOLARPLEXUS. I went to go get a drink of it, after buying a huge bottle, only to discover pulp! I ended up having to strain each and every cup of that lemonade through a hotel cup with toothpick punctures in the bottom. 5 glasses and a bad attitude later, I know have a pulp free bottle of lemonade and it's pleasant again.
Today we went to Taco Taco, which apparently has the BEST TACO IN AMERICA, according to the Food Network. Believe me, it lived up to it's name. We went there for lunch after picking up Aunt Diane from the airport and got lunch. It was SO good.....
Well. My AutoSave is failing right now..so I better do something before I lose this post. It was written June 29th, but won't be posted until June 30th most likely. Just so ya'll know.
OH! I got me a cowboy hat! It's exciting!
That's all I have for ya right now,
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
June 28, 2010
I've Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle!
Hey Mickey! Look! I'm a cowboy!
Yes Yes, you read right. I'm in Texas. Mom, Glenn and I drove all the way from Maryland to Texas! I'll give ya the play by play.
Why we're here: Well, it's the 75th Anniversary of AA(Alcoholics Anonymous) and my mother owns Celebrate Recovery, which is a recovery, sort of gift store. It's really cool. It's in Severna Park. Anyways, it's the anniversary and there's a HUGE conference in San Antonio, which we're here to sell things at...if that phrase makes any sense.
How long did it take?!- It took about 26 hours, not including stops and hotel overnights(more on those later)
Is it hot?- YES. Oh Ma God. It's like 111 degrees here, literally. We just got home and we're staying in a house about 7.2 miles from the conference center. I'm sitting comfortably in my room, under a fan, on a squishy bed. It's very nice.
Okay, so the hotels. The first day we drove more than we thought we would. We drove about 10 hours I think, and then stopped in a little podunk town called Mt. Juliet (which according to the touchy hotel manager, is becoming "popular"). In the morning we stopped for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and then various McDonalds, Steak'n'Shakes, and gas stations along the way. I read most of my book, and ended up finishing it in the car there. I'm actually almost finished with the one I started Day 2 of driving. Anyways, we drove a lot, and then we stopped in Tennesee. We had a nice dinner...of Steak'n'Shake I believe and then went to find a hotel. After trying MANY hotels, only to find that most had weddings and birthday parties, we finally found a Sleep Inn closer to Nashville. We spent the night there.
Day 2: On day 2, we woke up around...7:30 I guess. After fighting for the shower, we finally all got clean. Then we went downstairs to the lobby and the teeny tiny "customer lounge" for breakfast. We ended up eating in the lobby. I had a nice bagel and cream cheese. We got back on the road, and I continued reading. Again, we got about 10 hours down and settled into a Comfort Inn that night. We ate at the Black-Eyed Pea, and I reallyy hope we get to eat there again. Our waiter, Colin, was SUPER nice and really cool. He was younger so I guess that's to be expected. I had a really nice chicken tenderloin plate with green beans and mac'n'cheese. It was delish! I really wish they had a BlackEyed Pea down here in San Antonio, but alas, all we have is Taco Taco and WhatABurger, which we MUST try! After settling into the hotel and trying to combat the OVEN that was our room, we got some sleep.
Day 3/Today: We woke up today around...8:30,well, I did. Mom and Glenn were up MUCH earlier than I was, but I'm 16, and this is MY summer vacation! Anyways, they went to breakfast while I got dressed and then after I ate the muffin they brought back(which was dry and hard to eat) we got back on the road. I got to drive today and I discovered the joys of cruise control, and the pains of Texas drivers. It was pretty fun. After about an hour of driving, we stopped at Cracker Barrel, yet again(they're EVERYWHERE here) and got lunch. Our waitress today was very odd and she talked REALLY loud. It was a bit offputting. After lunch we hit the restrooms and decided to shop for a little bit. That's where we met our new member of the family, a RAINBOW stuffed Armadillo WebKinz whom we named Colin(after our waiter at the BlackEyed Pea.) We couldn't decide on a name so his full name is Colin Bucksnort. Bucksnort was a town that we passed on our way...I know it's odd. Well, I drove about 4 hours today and after a very scary traffic jam in downtown San Antonio, we arrived at the house.
The House: The house is super nice. It's about 5 minutes from downtown, and 7 minutes from the local plaza. It's got a garage, which opens up into the laundry, which goes into the kitchen. The front door opens into a living room ,which also extends into the kitchen. From there, the dining room is straight ahead, and then there are two wings of the house. On one side, there's Aunt Diane and I's room which has two twin beds, and some drawers, and a closet. Across from us is Allen's room, with a queen bed. There is a bathroom for all of us to use right next to Allen's room. In the other wing, is Mom and Glenn's room, which has a king bed and an adjoining bathroom. Mom keeps walking into my room thinking it's hers, it's really funny. She'll walk back, say "this is NOT my room!" and then stomp away. It's a little humorous. Anyways, that's my adventures in Texas so far.
We're also keeping a list of things that we saw in Texas that we never see in Maryland, which I will post when complete. That's all I have for you, and remember ladies and gentlemen, the best time to wear a striped sweater IS all the time.
Hugs and Cake,
Cowgirl Emily
Yes Yes, you read right. I'm in Texas. Mom, Glenn and I drove all the way from Maryland to Texas! I'll give ya the play by play.
Why we're here: Well, it's the 75th Anniversary of AA(Alcoholics Anonymous) and my mother owns Celebrate Recovery, which is a recovery, sort of gift store. It's really cool. It's in Severna Park. Anyways, it's the anniversary and there's a HUGE conference in San Antonio, which we're here to sell things at...if that phrase makes any sense.
How long did it take?!- It took about 26 hours, not including stops and hotel overnights(more on those later)
Is it hot?- YES. Oh Ma God. It's like 111 degrees here, literally. We just got home and we're staying in a house about 7.2 miles from the conference center. I'm sitting comfortably in my room, under a fan, on a squishy bed. It's very nice.
Okay, so the hotels. The first day we drove more than we thought we would. We drove about 10 hours I think, and then stopped in a little podunk town called Mt. Juliet (which according to the touchy hotel manager, is becoming "popular"). In the morning we stopped for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and then various McDonalds, Steak'n'Shakes, and gas stations along the way. I read most of my book, and ended up finishing it in the car there. I'm actually almost finished with the one I started Day 2 of driving. Anyways, we drove a lot, and then we stopped in Tennesee. We had a nice dinner...of Steak'n'Shake I believe and then went to find a hotel. After trying MANY hotels, only to find that most had weddings and birthday parties, we finally found a Sleep Inn closer to Nashville. We spent the night there.
Day 2: On day 2, we woke up around...7:30 I guess. After fighting for the shower, we finally all got clean. Then we went downstairs to the lobby and the teeny tiny "customer lounge" for breakfast. We ended up eating in the lobby. I had a nice bagel and cream cheese. We got back on the road, and I continued reading. Again, we got about 10 hours down and settled into a Comfort Inn that night. We ate at the Black-Eyed Pea, and I reallyy hope we get to eat there again. Our waiter, Colin, was SUPER nice and really cool. He was younger so I guess that's to be expected. I had a really nice chicken tenderloin plate with green beans and mac'n'cheese. It was delish! I really wish they had a BlackEyed Pea down here in San Antonio, but alas, all we have is Taco Taco and WhatABurger, which we MUST try! After settling into the hotel and trying to combat the OVEN that was our room, we got some sleep.
Day 3/Today: We woke up today around...8:30,well, I did. Mom and Glenn were up MUCH earlier than I was, but I'm 16, and this is MY summer vacation! Anyways, they went to breakfast while I got dressed and then after I ate the muffin they brought back(which was dry and hard to eat) we got back on the road. I got to drive today and I discovered the joys of cruise control, and the pains of Texas drivers. It was pretty fun. After about an hour of driving, we stopped at Cracker Barrel, yet again(they're EVERYWHERE here) and got lunch. Our waitress today was very odd and she talked REALLY loud. It was a bit offputting. After lunch we hit the restrooms and decided to shop for a little bit. That's where we met our new member of the family, a RAINBOW stuffed Armadillo WebKinz whom we named Colin(after our waiter at the BlackEyed Pea.) We couldn't decide on a name so his full name is Colin Bucksnort. Bucksnort was a town that we passed on our way...I know it's odd. Well, I drove about 4 hours today and after a very scary traffic jam in downtown San Antonio, we arrived at the house.
The House: The house is super nice. It's about 5 minutes from downtown, and 7 minutes from the local plaza. It's got a garage, which opens up into the laundry, which goes into the kitchen. The front door opens into a living room ,which also extends into the kitchen. From there, the dining room is straight ahead, and then there are two wings of the house. On one side, there's Aunt Diane and I's room which has two twin beds, and some drawers, and a closet. Across from us is Allen's room, with a queen bed. There is a bathroom for all of us to use right next to Allen's room. In the other wing, is Mom and Glenn's room, which has a king bed and an adjoining bathroom. Mom keeps walking into my room thinking it's hers, it's really funny. She'll walk back, say "this is NOT my room!" and then stomp away. It's a little humorous. Anyways, that's my adventures in Texas so far.
We're also keeping a list of things that we saw in Texas that we never see in Maryland, which I will post when complete. That's all I have for you, and remember ladies and gentlemen, the best time to wear a striped sweater IS all the time.
Hugs and Cake,
Cowgirl Emily
May 29, 2010
P-P-P-Poker Face
Hey Guys! I have a bunch to tell you for once!
I'm working on importing new pictures and the YouTube account so I'll have that set up for the summer! I can't wait until school is over and not for the usual reasons. I just don't want to deal with all the stupid people in my school anymore, haha. I've also remembered that I have this really cool software to import DVDs onto my iPod so that's also working at the moment. I'm pretty much a catcher-upper today; I'm working of course on the Hugs and Cake blog, and then the website which I'm redoing, and then updating my own facebook, as well as the Emma Bug's Custom Cakes pages and the Miss Nancy's Fancy Bakery ones. WHEW! It's a lot of work to run all of these things, but luckily, being the teenager that I am, I can stay up until the wee hours of the morning to work on this! Plus it's fun so that's a positive side. This week so far has been super boring, but I decided to give a little paragraph on important people in my life and in my school so that you people can keep tabs haha.
Me! I basically have been chilling a lot. Since the AP tests are over, I don't have to freak out so much and I don't have HALF as much homework during the week. I LOVE my B days now haha. Finals are coming up, but I don't really mind. We have half days during that time, so it's pretty easy. The only thing that reallyyyy sucks is that the LAST day of school I have to take my pre-calculus AND honors chemistry exams. I'm so not looking forward to that. Today was reallyyy exciting! I got to go on two wedding cake deliveries for work today and it was really fun being involved in all the wedding proceedings. Also, yesterday(Friday) a friend of mine named Kelly and I welcomed troops home at BWI. It was really emotional, but VERY powerful and I certainly hope to be going back and helping the people at Operation:Welcome Home again! That's pretty much whatever's been going on with me!
Mom: Mom's been pretty busy and SUPER stressed about this conference we have coming up in late June in Texas which I'm super excited for. She also decided to drop her crazy diets haha and finally listened to what I've been saying all along. Work has been going pretty well at the store and as always Mom's the happiest person around, most of the time. Mom and I are alone for this week while Glenn is in Wisconsin(more on that later) and tomorrow I think we're going to a flea market at the Naval Stadium and then a bluegrass concert downtown tomorrow night. It should be pretty fun, especially since I have Monday off.
Glenn: As I had said before, Glenn is in Wisconsin visiting his mommy and helping her move out of her house and packing for her new place in Texas I believe. He's also bringing me back a Sonic burger and a Bucky Badger shirt which is going to become my new favorite t-shirt. The uke business is going well and Glenn is working on a ukulele specially for me! It says Emily on it and it's super pretty! It's going to be amazingly shiny and I can't wait for it to be finished!
Friends: All my friends are basically the same as me. Exams are coming up and everyone is just totally ready for it to be summer.
*I would've made a paragraph about my Dad, but alas...the man is SO boring! Plus he never reads this so what really is the point?!
My personal cake business has been going pretty slow, but I'm hoping it will pick up more as summer comes for all my friends birthdays and such. It's going to be super fun. At work we're constantly busy; this being wedding season and all. We're donating some cookies to my school's Movie Night that raises funds for my sophomore/almost junior class. I'm not personally going, but I'll probably just deliver the cookies.
Last thing, new t.v. shows. Some of the old ones were canceled and some just came to an end. Most notably, LOST ended...it was sad and you know what?! NONE of my questions were answered, so Dear writers of LOST: poo on you. Love, Emily.
The family and I started watching Criminal Minds again and we started watching Big Bang Theory, and they're both REALLYYYYY good. I LOVE Big Bang Theory, it's so funny! People have been telling me to watch it before, but I just never remembered.
Anyways, I think that's all I have for you guys! Aren't you excited that this is a longer post than usual?! Leave a comment or contact me on Facebook if you have any ideas for weekly segments or things that you love to hear me talk about. Well...technically you're not hearing me talk about it, but you know what I mean.
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
I'm working on importing new pictures and the YouTube account so I'll have that set up for the summer! I can't wait until school is over and not for the usual reasons. I just don't want to deal with all the stupid people in my school anymore, haha. I've also remembered that I have this really cool software to import DVDs onto my iPod so that's also working at the moment. I'm pretty much a catcher-upper today; I'm working of course on the Hugs and Cake blog, and then the website which I'm redoing, and then updating my own facebook, as well as the Emma Bug's Custom Cakes pages and the Miss Nancy's Fancy Bakery ones. WHEW! It's a lot of work to run all of these things, but luckily, being the teenager that I am, I can stay up until the wee hours of the morning to work on this! Plus it's fun so that's a positive side. This week so far has been super boring, but I decided to give a little paragraph on important people in my life and in my school so that you people can keep tabs haha.
Me! I basically have been chilling a lot. Since the AP tests are over, I don't have to freak out so much and I don't have HALF as much homework during the week. I LOVE my B days now haha. Finals are coming up, but I don't really mind. We have half days during that time, so it's pretty easy. The only thing that reallyyyy sucks is that the LAST day of school I have to take my pre-calculus AND honors chemistry exams. I'm so not looking forward to that. Today was reallyyy exciting! I got to go on two wedding cake deliveries for work today and it was really fun being involved in all the wedding proceedings. Also, yesterday(Friday) a friend of mine named Kelly and I welcomed troops home at BWI. It was really emotional, but VERY powerful and I certainly hope to be going back and helping the people at Operation:Welcome Home again! That's pretty much whatever's been going on with me!
Mom: Mom's been pretty busy and SUPER stressed about this conference we have coming up in late June in Texas which I'm super excited for. She also decided to drop her crazy diets haha and finally listened to what I've been saying all along. Work has been going pretty well at the store and as always Mom's the happiest person around, most of the time. Mom and I are alone for this week while Glenn is in Wisconsin(more on that later) and tomorrow I think we're going to a flea market at the Naval Stadium and then a bluegrass concert downtown tomorrow night. It should be pretty fun, especially since I have Monday off.
Glenn: As I had said before, Glenn is in Wisconsin visiting his mommy and helping her move out of her house and packing for her new place in Texas I believe. He's also bringing me back a Sonic burger and a Bucky Badger shirt which is going to become my new favorite t-shirt. The uke business is going well and Glenn is working on a ukulele specially for me! It says Emily on it and it's super pretty! It's going to be amazingly shiny and I can't wait for it to be finished!
Friends: All my friends are basically the same as me. Exams are coming up and everyone is just totally ready for it to be summer.
*I would've made a paragraph about my Dad, but alas...the man is SO boring! Plus he never reads this so what really is the point?!
My personal cake business has been going pretty slow, but I'm hoping it will pick up more as summer comes for all my friends birthdays and such. It's going to be super fun. At work we're constantly busy; this being wedding season and all. We're donating some cookies to my school's Movie Night that raises funds for my sophomore/almost junior class. I'm not personally going, but I'll probably just deliver the cookies.
Last thing, new t.v. shows. Some of the old ones were canceled and some just came to an end. Most notably, LOST ended...it was sad and you know what?! NONE of my questions were answered, so Dear writers of LOST: poo on you. Love, Emily.
The family and I started watching Criminal Minds again and we started watching Big Bang Theory, and they're both REALLYYYYY good. I LOVE Big Bang Theory, it's so funny! People have been telling me to watch it before, but I just never remembered.
Anyways, I think that's all I have for you guys! Aren't you excited that this is a longer post than usual?! Leave a comment or contact me on Facebook if you have any ideas for weekly segments or things that you love to hear me talk about. Well...technically you're not hearing me talk about it, but you know what I mean.
Hugs and Cake,
Emily
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