Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

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!

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

Cause You Know How to Get Hip to my Heart.

Hey guys! So today was like one of the hottest days. It was like 80000000 degrees in my school cause they haven't turned on the AC yet, plus it was like 90 outside.

BIG NEWS! I got my learner's permit! I'm so excited! This means I can do some driving on my way down to Texas with my mommy.
*This is just gonna be a short blog cause I don't really have much.


I'm gonna add to this periodically tonight so the time will be in front like this:

6:57 PM: UGHHH I don't want to work on my chemistry essay.
6:58 PM: fine. *get's out chem binder* Might as well do it.

7:03 PM: Well..I guess it's okay if I talk to Emily while doing my homework..

7:05 PM: Emily makes me laugh, but SHUT UP 'cause I have to finish this essay!

7:07 PM: Due to extreme heat, I'm finding it hard to hold my pencil. Oh well, I'll just have to eat dinner instead.

8:53 PM: After dinner we watched LOST and V which were both really good. Now I'm gonna finish up my chem essay, and then chilll outt.

9:08 PM: Working on this essay, still having troubles with the heat. What am I gonna do when summer comes?!

9:28 PM: STILL BURNING HOT. Just finished the essay, off to make some copies of pledge forms for the SPCA March, and then get some new songs on my iPod.

I think that's about it. I'll check back in a couple days and tell you about my week and my first couple days driving! :)

Hugs and cake,

Emily