• Jul. 29, 2008
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I can't believe that summer is more than half over. It seems like it just started. The only thing we really did this summer was go to Chesley Lake, like we do every year. Last year, not only did we go to Chesley we went to the Island too, and the lot, not to mention we visited a huge bunch of people and did a huge bunch of stuff. This summer we're just kind of chillin out. :P I'm not complaining - it just has a different feel from last summer. And by this time last summer, I already felt like I'd had my summer's worth of stuff to do. Not this year. But we still have a whole month in front of us, and some stuff planned for it, so it's good. I'm glad summer isn't over YET!
Mom said that it's okay we aren't doing much this summer, because we're going to have a busy school year next year. Which sounds great. I love being busy, just so long as it doesn't cause me to get behind on my schoolwork. :P One thing I'm NOT doing in the fall is piano lessons. Ger's not taking guitar lessons either. We're just going to continue on our own, and then maybe next year take up lessons again. This sounds fine with me. No offense to my past teachers, but I really think I can learn a whole lot more on my own. In other words, they underestimated my skill. ;) I'm pretty sure Mom and Dad are going to get a curriculum for me, but for now I'm just practicing out of Dad's Simon and Garfunkel book. :P I'm driving myself and everyone else nuts learning Feelin' Groovy, lol. I can't wait to get some new stuff to learn. :P
I'm pretty sure Meagan's going to continue her drum lessons next year though, because she's just starting. I've been taking piano for three years, and Gerrit's been playing guitar for four years, but Meagan just took up drum lessons in September. She's become really good, though. I get a kick out of seeing her sitting at her "throne", with her backwards baseball cap, baggy T-shirts and pop tab necklace. That girl is definitely her own person...
Speaking of pop tabs :P, I think Meagan probably has collected about a thousand now. I'm not even kidding. I have no idea when she started collecting them, probably about a year ago. But seriously..it's like they're overflowing. Wherever you go in the house, it's like there's this jar or container of pop tabs sitting there. At Chesley Lake, Meg picked up a ton more pop tabs with Jessie and Alana, out of the recycling I think. Julia and I were stringing them onto her chain, and we couldn't even fit them all on. Now, I wonder how many necklaces ALL her tabs would fill up? I'm pretty sure Meagan's planning to donate them all towards diabetes. Apparently there's this place that will sell tabs to be recycled, and then use the money they make towards diabetes research. I'm not sure if it's just juvenile diabetes or not. I think it's a cool idea. I wonder how much money they'll make off of all Meagan's pop tabs.
Mom and Dad devised this plan to help them keep the house clean and to help us earn some money: Mom writes down chores that need to be done on little slips of paper, along with the amount of money we can earn by doing each chore. I think they're all between $2 and $5. If we want a chore, we take it and put it into a little container with our name on it, then we have to finish the chore by the end of the day. When we do, Mom and Dad will sign it and we can turn it in when we need money. I haven't taken advantage of this at all yet, I think Gerrit has done a couple of them, but Meagan is like some hardcore money maker now. lol. She constantly has some kind of chore on the go, and I don't even know what she's saving up for. Probably Webkinz. Or maybe she just wants to have a lot of money or something. I know she used some of the money she's making to buy presents for Jessie and Alana. Right now, she's organizing the movies - has been for the past three days or so. And for the past three days, there have been videos and DVDs lying ALL OVER the living room. I didn't even know we HAD so many movies. The place is completely trashed. I hope she finishes soon...lol.
Speaking of movies (:P), Mom found this bag or something with a ton of movies in it at GBS. I don't remember all the movies that were in there, but there was a ton. The whole Anne of Green Gables series was in there, along with Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas and a bunch of other ones. I don't know if it was in the bag with the other movies, but she also picked up Hamlet there. There are probably tons of Hamlet movies :P. This one is a two video set and it lasts like, four hours all together. We haven't watched any of it yet. We're reading the Shakespeare Stealer series now (I think I mentioned the first book awhile ago), so I think that's why she got it. It looks good though, I can't wait to watch it.
Mom rented The Spiderwick Chronicles the other day:
It was great, so now I want to read the books. The books HAVE to be amazing, if the movie was really good. I mean, come on - there are tons of crappy movies based off of good books, but I never heard of a good movie based off a crappy book before. Besides, Alana keeps on going on about how good the books are, and besides the fact that Alana likes Animorphs and I don't (90's!) and Warrior Cats, and I don't (okay, I've never read the books...but they seem kind of strange) we have more or less the same taste in books. And I love fantasy. If I can't find these books at the library, maybe I can get Alana to lend them to me. :)
Anyway, I have to go. There's your little update on my life. :P
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• Jan. 20, 2009
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Posted by artprincess
I LOVE Spiderwick!
Oh and PLEASE tell me, WHAT CODE DO YOU USE TO POST PICTURES ON HERE???!!!!
I have asked EVERYONE and gotten ZIPPO answers!
Thanks. :)
LOL
Faith
