She's BAAAAAAACK!

Yes. It's true. I am back. From my grandparent's residence. 

During my brief stay at the above residence, I actually bored my grandmother to sleep. I've hit an all-time high. Well, she might just have been tired. She can't even watch TV in the evening without falling to sleep.

But still. Are my conversation topics really so uninteresting that it actually bores people to sleep.

Maybe I'm just overacting a tad. 

I went to the DMV with my mother today. We had to get my father a sticker for his license plate. Normally it's not that much of debacle. But today was quite different.

I walked in with my mother, thinking that this was just a regular visit. I don't mean to offend anyone, and I'm not racist. But I was the only white person in the whole DMV. My mom   is olive-complexioned. And sitting in the DMV office, I was getting death glares from everyone else. It wasn't a very happy experience. 

Anyway. My grandparents woke me up at 8:37 this morning. And I went to bed at 11:30. It is completely unacceptable for me to be awake before 9:30 a.m. 

Geez.

Daniel Radcliffe is a very competitive person. And he cheats at Monopoly. 

Isn't he just dreamy??????? Insert loving sigh here.

His joke on the Today show. 

"What's the difference between a stoat and a weasel?"

"Well, the stoat is stoatally different from the weasel and the weasel is weaselly recognizable."

Wow. 

He goes on the sexy list for sure. 

Well, I'm going to go make myself a s'more. Goodbye!

Books of Summer 2009: 19

Books of 2009: 36

S'mores of Lifetime: 6

My Mother Has Left Me to Fend for Myself

Well, not really. She had to run errands this morning, and because I'm the lazy night-owl that I am, I find it completely impossible and pointless to wake up before the hour of 10. So she left to run her little errands, leaving me [and her precious dog] alone. It's really not that different from regular days when she's at work. 

Needless to say, I felt very adult-y. I made myself breakfast [or a pseudo breakfast. It was just toast] and got myself a cup of coffee [even though she made it first]. Then I laid around the house for a half an hour, reading. I did my exercises [which I'll explain in a few paragraphs], while my mother called me 3 times. 3 TIMES! She's supposed to be running errands! Not calling me!

To punctuate that, my mother just called me to ask if I want anything from Sam's Club. She's getting me a ten-pack of gum. Because I really need more gum. 

Ok. The 'exercises'. I've been trying to get in shape. I really want to wear that bikini I got. And I would like to look good in it. So I've been doing squats and sit ups and dumbbell rows and this weird butterfly movement I've made up. I actually like exercising. 

I think it's going pretty well. 

I won't be blogging for a few days. I'll be at my grandparent's house until Friday night. They want me to clean their house and things. I secretly think my parents are shipping me off to the grandparent's house so they can have the house all to themselves.

Thanks, guys. 

I have to go eat tuna now to please my mother. We have to leave in 'exactly 45 minutes!' to get to my guitar lesson on time. Then I have to go to the store with her, and then to her work to fix the printer that her idiotic co-worker failed to fix. And then on to grandma and grandpa's! 

Books of Summer 2009: 18

Books of 2009: 34

Bye!

Dill is My Mom's Crack

My mother is addicted to dill. Ever since we went to her long-lost friend's house. Her friend had salad with celery and dill and other vegetable-things in it. And now she's addicted. 

Her friend got her on a salad kick too. We've had a salad every single night. She likes to throw around the terms 'protein' and 'only 2 grams of fat!' It makes her feel smart. 

Forever the Sickest Kids did a cover of Taylor Swift's song 'Love Story'. It's kinda good. It's more rock-sounding, but it's not a total cover failure. 

My parents  dragged me to Sears last night to search for a vacuum. We REALLY need a new one. Our vacuum is 20 years old. There's approximately 3 layers of electrical tape on the cord. 

They didn't find the ultimate one at Sears, so we went to Target instead. I had a giftcard from my birthday, and I got Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen, and 'Friend Me', which is all three books in the Mates, Dates series by Cathy Hopkins. 

I'm going to go watch the Michael Jackson Memorial/thing on TV now. I probably won't watch all of it. I hope they play some of his songs. I need to dance. 

Books of Summer 2009: 17

Books of 2009: 34

S'mores of Lifetime: 5

Bye !

Here's An Interesting Little Idea......

Hello everyone. I'm really bored at the moment, so I'm going to blog! Yay! 

The 4th of July was ok. We didn't end up going to my mother's friend's house to watch fireworks, because my mother decided that she had a headache. So we just play with the sparklers that my mom bought me. It was enjoyable. My dad threw a lit sparkler at the roof to scare the rats away. It didn't work too well. The sparklers gave off a whole bunch of smoke too. My mom and I, being the rational and practical people that we are, went out to the driveway for our sparklers. We didn't think that setting things on fire in the bone-dry backyard was a very good idea.

This is my child. Her name is Mandy. She has ears that have the texture of velvet. She is lovely.

She just started barking when I told her she was going to be on my blog. 

My mother likes her better than she likes me. It's really not fair at all. I'm the one that came from her loins. She has to send me to college. Or at least act like she's going to. 

I can play Ode to Joy by memory now. On my guitar. It's not that impressive, but I feel proud of myself. I just started going to lessons last Wednesday. 

Well, everyone, I'm going to go do some Pilates. Don't even laugh. SOME people have to lose weight around here. [That people would be me] 

Books of Summer 2009: 16

Books of 2009: 33

S'mores of Lifetime: 5

Bye!

My First S'more

I had my first s'more last night. I made my mother and I s'mores to eat before we watched Confessions of a Shopaholic. [Which I must say, wasn't that great of a movie. It was funny and all, but the events strayed a lot from the actual book.]

It was the most amazing, appetizing, sticky mess of a snack my taste buds have ever experienced in my very short teenage life. 

Really. 

Ok, maybe that's a tad dramatic. I'm a teenager. We're all dramatic. 

My favorite song at this very moment of 4:54 P.M. is: Damned if I do Ya [Damned if I don't] by All Time Low. It's very catchy.

Who's Steve McNair? My dad said he's a quaterback for the Tennessee Titans. Anyway, he died. Which sucks. So RIP Steve McNair. 

My mother and I might watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding tonight, then go to her friend's house for fireworks. The friend's husband bought 700 dollars worth of fireworks on sale for 500 bucks, which I think is still a lot of money. I haven't tried my sparklers yet. 

Books of Summer 2009: 16

Books of 2009: 33

S'mores: 2

Bye everyone! Happy Independence Day! 

I Hate All Construction Equipment

Guess what I got at Target?!?!?!?!?! SPARKLERS! I've never used them before, and I'll probably burn my hand or something on my person, but they just look SO COOL! 

I'm thirteen. Get over it. 

Look at this picture.           

You see how there were trees before? This picture was taken by me, this morning. This is what they've done in 3 weeks. 

They've cleared out almost every single tree. And every day, from 8 to 3 o'clock, they shake our house. Like an earthquake. Or what I would imagine feels very earthquake-like, considering that I live in Florida, and we don't get earthquakes. We get hurricanes. 

But I guess every rose has its thorn. 

 I have a Dailybooth now. If anyone actually uses Dailybooth anymore. 

A SPONTANEOUS LIST!

10 Things In My Room:

1. Writing Notebook
2. A ticket stub from The Proposal
3. My library card
4. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
5. A card deck
6. Two 4.0 medals
7. Catch-22
8. Cherry Chapstick
9. Guitar Method Book 1
10. Master Lock

I must go eat lunch now. 

These people are so STUPID. Goodness

Hello everyone. 

I had guitar lessons today. It was very interesting. My teacher's name is Tony, and he's very serious about his music. He's been playing music for 24 years. He's from Lebanon, then he moved to Canada. He's French. His daughter is 16, plays 6 instruments, and is going to graduate from high school 2 years early. And he is NOT GAY. He told me himself. 

Do you see this sunset!? Isn't it pretty? My parents didn't think it was pretty enough for me to go out in our backyard, stand on a chair, and take a picture of it with my Grandpa's camera. But it was. It really was. 

My day really wasn't that interesting, so I'm going to go. But first, I'll leave you with a picture of la casa de Rachel! 

It's actually a nice house once you get inside. My old house was cooler, but it was in the most gang-influenced, drug-infested part of town, so we moved. It's actually only a few blocks away from my school! Imagine that. 

Bye guys! See you tomorrow!