I Dreamed a Dream...

     Day 21                                                                                                                     Wednesday

  Dreams are odd things, I had a very long and complex dream the other night which consisted of buzz lightyear, Owl City, a hamburger, gymnastics and that huge pile of bricks from Wreck it Ralph.  Sounds weird right? Trust me it was and I only gave you the bare minimum of what all happened. 

Dreams are like tons of totally different stuff that's happened in your life all jumbled up into something that only slightly resembled the stuff it started out as.

Imagine this, you take a magazine or a book you read today and then you take what you ate for breakfast plus just random pieces of junk you've acquired over time  and dumped it all in a blender with some pomegranate juice and put the speed on high for ten minutes, the end product isn't going to be something that makes sense now is it?

(that was the weirdest analogy ever created...) 

I don't normally dream that often but my sister decided to set her alarm for an unearthly time in the morning which since we sleep in the same room woke me up too, at least it woke me up enough to groan and then fall back to sleep. It was the type of sleep when you're really only three fourths of the way asleep, so my brain decided it was bored and needed to entertain itself till ten in the morning. 

I know you're thinking "Oh you slept in till ten in the morning? That would be awesome!" But you are sadly mistaken because when you dream for hours on end before you wake up when you do your rather confused and groggy and not to mention tired.

     Grace Yacht

  

Spring Cleaning in the Summer

     Day 20                                                                                                                Saturday

  Yesterday we got a new washer and dryer because our old (and I mean old as in ten years old.) washer had started leaking across the bathroom floor, so what better time to replace both of our ancient household appliances.
So the day before the people who are going to come and install our new cleaning machines come we have to drag out the old W and D, (W and D stands for washer and dryer if you didn't already get that... I hope you did get that though for the sake of the human race.) and so they got them both dragged out of there (don't ask me how they did it.) and now left on the walls and floor where the things used to reside was loads of black and gray gunk. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
We figured out that it was dust, years and years of dust built up... And now we have to clean it, doesn't that sound like fun. We got out a bucket, some rags and a scrubber tool thingy and we filled the bucket with water and soap. My brother got rid of most of the gluck on the floor and then Mom made me go in there and scrub the walls, somewhere around an hour later the room was finally clean and ready for the new W and D.
Now finally the two machines we put so much work into getting ready for are finally installed and this morning we used them for the first time, and we discovered something about them that made all that work worth it, when they are done cleaning or drying your clothes the machines play a little tune for you to tell you it's done instead of blaring out a loud beeping noise. 
The little things that make your day. :)
     Grace Yacht

I am Officially Old! (Sort of)

     Day 19                                                                                                            Tuesday

Sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday"   

Happy birthday to me,

everyone that I see, says that I look older,

oh look, new false teeth.

  

  I just composed this beautiful masterpiece for myself to introduce to you the truth that yes, it was my birthday last week! Tadaaaa!!!!!!!!  (Fireworks go off in the background, marching band plays)  Also, even though this has probably been figured out by many individuals besides myself, if you ever go somewhere or do anything sociable and someone figures out that it's your birthday (and usually that person yells it out to everyone in the vicinity) you will be bombarded with singing and other such enthusiasm. 

I was camping with my friends and a bunch of families so I was sung happy birthday (no joke) around ten times throughout the entirety of the day.

First when it turned midnight, then when we got up in the morning, then at lunch and so on.

Don't you love getting up at seven in the morning and get eaten by mosquitos while freezing to death?
I think I must since I keep on going camping.

  You know what's fun?  Screaming your head off and yelling random songs across the whole campground at eleven o'clock at night. I feel bad for the other people in the campground trying to sleep though... sorry peoples I don't know.   So that was most of the happenings of my birthday in a nutshell. Hope you enjoyed it, I know I did! :P
     Grace Yacht

Blond is my brain type not my hair color

     Day 18                                                                                                                    Sunday

  I went to a baseball game last week with my friends and I actually had fun, surprisingly.

Normally baseball games are super, duper, uper boring.

You get there, you sit there waiting for the game to start and then it does and you're still bored.

But me and my friend were allowed to buy some food (by the way ballpark food isn't the best quality) and we kept on getting more pop, which made us really hyper and I had a camera so we were taking pictures of the randomest things.
  These aren't very common, but you know those bathrooms that have two doors on either side of the room and you can only open the exit door from the inside and not the entrance?
Well I had never seen one of those until last week at the ballpark and apparently neither had my friend, so even though their is a huge EXIT sign plastered on the wall next to the exit I and my colleague do the intelligent thing (of course) and try and push open the entrance...
And is that where our high intellectuality ends? Not even close, the next two times we enter the facility, even though we know the EXIT door is over there on the opposing wall we still try and push open the entrance. (Blond moments)

I think if  I'm remembering this correctly the team we were supposedly rooting for lost.

  Oh and the whole game at all the pauses/intervals the speakers would play one third of a song and then stop and then play another one third of a song and so on until the game started up again, for some reason they never played a whole song, it's still a mystery to me. 
I should write a book. 
     Grace Yacht

Home Sweet Home

     Day 17                                                                                                                     Saturday

  I'm home from SSI!  Feeling exhausted but accomplished, happy to be home but sad that it's over.  SSI was so amazing! Hard (really and truly it was one of the most difficult things I've ever done) but amazing.

  Alright, the next few lines are going to be extra mushy so brace yourselves.

I met so many amazing people this week, and they they all made an impact on me, each in their own special way.  Also, I learned so much! Not just from the teaching sessions but from the Aid-de-camps (There like camp counselors and drill sergeants all rolled up in one) they were so encouraging when I was stressed out about my speech and they were so much fun.

  Here's a list of the different personalities of the friends I made at SSI.

1. The one who speaks their mind
2. The one who keeps everyone focused 
3. The funny one
4. The one that everyone knows their nickname but not their real name.
5. The OCD one
6. The really nice one
7. The excentric one
8.  The one that gets us up on time and in bed on time
9. The giggly one
10.  The one who goes out of their way to get to know you

All of them were so much fun and I couldn't have got through the week without them.

  God bless everyone of you!

     Grace Yacht

So Long Farewell Auf Wiedersehen Adieu

     Day 16                                                                                                                   Friday

  So on Sunday I'm going to camp, I'm really excited, it's my first year, so I don't fully know what to expect.  
I finished packing today; I have three full bags of stuff, plus a sleeping bag, pillow and a fan.
Three bags is definitely overkill, but my excuses are two of them are small and one of the small ones is half a hoodie and the other half is three pairs of shoes. Oh, and my excuse for so many pairs of shoes is, one of them is tennis shoes because they ask you to bring a pair of shoes for running around in, the second pair are fancy shoes since they ask you to bring nice shoes because we have to dress up one day and the last pair are the only ones that it wasn't
necessary for me to bring,On a normal basis I just go barefoot or flip flops . So there.
  My cat whenever I come home from a sleepover or something that's over night, she spends the next whole day walking in front of me, rubbing her face on my face, purring and getting in my way by being cute, so I don't know how she'll react to my being gone a whole week.

Had to spend five minutes cleaning my camera lense after this shot. 

  Well, I have to bid you farewell, so long old chap, old buddy, old pal. Until next time!
     Grace Yacht    

  

  

I Like Being Bored it Passes the Time

     Day 15                                                                                                                   Friday

  For the past week and a half our house has been the busiest it's been all year; first as I already said in my last post, my cousin, aunt and Grandma came through Independance day, and the same day they left our friends from Montana arrived and stayed till Wednesday!
My sister is best friends with the oldest girl in that family and they were planning for almost half a year for my sister to go to Montana for a month with them, they were supposed to get here around three weeks ago but plans changed a lot so just last week they came and now they're gone and my sister went with them and she's staying there until the second week of August.
The house is pretty quiet now that she's gone, since my brother has work he's gone too during most of the day, my older sister is married so obviously she isn't here either.
I'm thankful for the quiet after all the busyness and little kids running around yelling but having whole days with nothing to do is really boring.
I do have tons of stuff I'm looking forward to doing but there are days in between where I'm so bored, like yesterday for example, I had nothing better to do so I read a full 352 page book that I had gotten out from the library and had been putting off reading for weeks. 
  My schedule for today - Stay home and do nothing.
My schedule for tomorrow - Stay home and do nothing, until around seven in the evening then I get to go to my friends house and stay the night and go with them to their church to see her (my friend) get baptised! 
I know I sound super spoiled since I get to sleep over at my friend in just one day, but if you have ever gone one full day at home with nothing to do but clean you understand how slow the sun moves from the east to the west.
     Grace Yacht
P.S. The back of the seat I'm sitting on just fell off... Ow. 
P.P.S. Random fact: I like plaid and beaches but I don't wear plaid to the beach...
P.P.P.S.  It's cool when a hot air balloon floats right above you. :)
P.P.P.P.S. I should stop while I'm ahead (of lettuce) but I shall never be a vegetable so carry on. Really though, I should go. LOL that rhymed.