Overalls and More

Hello to anyone who might happen to be reading this! I'm having a kind of boring day at home today, and so I decided to blog! Woohoo!

So I guess I'm going to be writing mainly about overalls, but I'll probably add some random things in at the end.

Okay. So about a month or two ago, I got really into the idea of having my own pair of overall shorts, or shortalls. Apparently they're coming back in style, but that wasn't really the reason I wanted some. I just really like the way they look and how they are so simple and easy.

I decided to order a pair from Ebay, because I wasn't sure where else I could find any at a reasonable price. They came last week and look pretty much like this.

 

I am wearing them right now with a light gray flannel shirt from Salvation Army with the sleeves rolled up to my elbows.

Next! MY DAD JUST GOT ME A JAR OF OLIVES AND I ALREADY ATE HALF OF THEM. 

 

Don't judge me, I love olives so so much. 

Next! I'm going to camp in approximately 91 hours! (a little less than 4 days!) I'm super excited! I am also bringing my shortalls in case you were wondering. I'm going for 3 weeks, and I will turn 13 while I am there. Happy almost birthday to me!!!

 I JUST FINISHED THE OLIVES OH NO.

Next! I got my hair cut EVEN SHORTER! I love it. It's kind of spiky. I tried putting lemon juice in it to make it a little lighter (twice, actually) but it didn't work. It looks kind of like Natalie Portman's short hair here.

Can we all agree that Natalie Portman is absolutely gorgeous?

So that's all for now. Bye!

Hair

Hello. I don't expect anybody to read this, since I kind of abandoned this blog. I don't care. This is kind of like my online public abandoned diary that I can rant into.

So I got short hair around July or something. And no, I'm not one of those people who think that I can call a bob short. No. I got a pixie cut, like this short.

The front goes down to my nose, but I sweep it to the side, and the sides almost cover my ears except for my earlobes.

Before it was shoulder length and pretty boring, kind of like this.

 So it's not that often that you see a 12 year old girl with a pixie cut. In my grade, which has probably around 40 girls, I can only think of 1 other girl with hair shorter than a bob, and only 1 in 8th grade. Everyone else has long straight hair, long wavy hair, shoulder length straight hair... you get the idea. The spunky, daring ones die their hair a different color every couple of months. 

I guess what really annoys me is just, hair. I mean, like when you type in 'cute hairstyles' on Google images, you get a lot of pictures of long hair, and every, I don't know, 50 pictures, you come across a picture with a hairstyle that is shorter than your chin. Or when someone is all whiny like, "Ugh, I got my hair cut, and it's so short! I can't do, like, anything with it now!" when their hair is actually down below their shoulders. NO, YOUR HAIR IS NOT SHORT! BE THANKFUL YOU EVEN HAVE HAIR!

K bye.

Sorry Guys :(

Ok, so I am aware that I haven't been posting forever. I'm sorry about that. So, I might not blog on this blog anymore, but... I am blogging on a new one! teenbookshelf.blogspot.com . It's a bunch of my friends and I, and we do book reviews. It would be awesome if anyone still reading this could check it out!

Mother-Daughter Book Club Series

OK so there's this book series and it's totally awesome. I'm not actually sure that it is called the Mother-Daughter Book Club(series), but that's what it's about - a mother-daughter book club! It's so so good! The main character daughters are Jess, a girl who lives on a farm and is super smart, Emma, a girl who wants to be an author when she grows up, Megan, a girl who wants/is already a fashion designer, and Cassidy, a girl who plays a bunch of sports. Also there is a girl who is really mean named Becca. The main character moms are Mrs. Delaney(Jess's mom), who ran off to New York to be in a soap opera in the first book but then came back, Mrs. Hawthorne, (Emma's mom), who is a librarian and is pretty normal, Mrs. Wong,(Megan's mom), who is really embarrassing and is obsessed with a bunch of things like saving the earth and only eating all-natural things like tofu and vegan everything, and last, Mrs. Sloane(Cassidy's mom), who's first name is Clementine and was a model but then stopped and started her own cooking show. Also Becca's mom is Mrs. Chadwick,who is a librarian and is really mean and embarrassing and no one likes her. The book takes place in Concord, Massachusetts. I've read the first and second book, and am halfway through the third. I totally recommend them.

 In the first one they read Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

 In the second one, they read Anne of Green Gables and the rest of the series, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

 In the third one, they read Daddy Long Legs, by Jean Webster

 Apparently, in the fourth book they read Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Apparently, in the fifth book the read the Betsy-Tacy series, by Maud Hart Lovelace

Phobias

pho·bi·a

 [foh-bee-uh]

noun

a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, orsituation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.

Hi, so I'm reading this book called School of Fear, and it's about these kids with phobias and they go to a summer school where this crazy woman apparently will cure their phobias. That inspired me to look up  different phobias and it is SO COOL! OK so here's my favorite phobias.

There's the...

Fear of flowers(I know, right?), which is anthrophobia,
The fear of numbers, which is arithmophobia,
The fear of snow, which is chionophobia,
The fear of colors, which is chromophobia
The fear of purple, (so sad) which is phorphyrophobia,
and last but not least, my favorite, phobophobia, which is...*drum roll please*.......... THE FEAR OF PHOBIAS!

I'm Back!

Hi people! So I'm very very sorry that I haven't posted, like, anything for the past long time... but now I'm back! So Halloween kind of  happened but it was cancelled because there was a major power outage. We didn't have power for about one and a half days because of snow. In late October! What's up with that? We got 14 INCHES. But tonight(actually I'm leaving in less than a half-hour)we will have the rescheduled Halloween trick-or-treat thing. I am going as a little old lady! I have a weird pink and white spotted button up shirt, a weird tan, white and black plaid skirt, a weird green suit/jacket, a scarf thing that I will tie around my head, and granny glasses that are pretty awesome. And... that's pretty much it! I will get back to you guys soon...

Favorite Way to Eat an Egg Survey

Ok so I am going to put the 'Favorite way to eat an egg' survey. The options are:

(1) Scrambled
(2) Fried
(3) Poached
(4) Hard boiled
(5) Soft boiled

Hope you vote!

Harvest Feast

So Friday night we had this thing called the Harvest Feast at our school. We have a garden and a gardening program and stuff like that, so we eat food that we grow and each class from Kindergarten to 6th Grade makes a dish. My class(6th Grade)made kale chips, which are really good. It's just kale with oil and salt that is cooked in the oven for I don't know how long.

A couple kids got to serve random samples of things to people waiting in line. I got to serve samples of mini kiwis. They're REALLY GOOD! If you have no idea what mini kiwis are, they are mini kiwis! No, well, they kind of are, I mean they are, but... So they are about the size of... maybe a grape, and you eat them like a grape- with the peels and everything. They taste exactly like kiwi and the inside looks like kiwi, too. There was garlic bread and homemade pizza and, uh... pickles, and... soup, and stuff like that. Oh, and while we were eating there was a rainbow!

After I ate I went outside. It was kind of raining, but it had pretty much cleared up. There was a gigantic puddle with wood chips in it that was up to your ankles or higher, and it was fun. Then a couple girls and I played kickball. Since there weren't that many people, we pretty much had two people on each team, so it was really fun to be kicking, but it was really boring to play outfield. Eventually we all had to leave so....... yeah.

Upcoming Survey...

Ok so I got some really good suggestions for the upcoming survey that I will put on my blog. All of them were good, but some of my favorites were:

Favorite season...
Favorite way to eat an egg...
Favorite color...
Favorite candy bar...
Favorite Harry Potter book character...
and Favorite kind of weather.

I could do a survey to say which survey I should do, but I find that a bit more extreme than necessary. I also could just choose my favorite, but I think that you guys should tell me what you think... Tell your family! Tell your friends! Tell your pets! Tell anyone you can think of! Ok that's it... I think... Bye!

Ice Cream Survey

Okay, here are the results of the ice cream survey, which was 'Which one of the following is your favorite kind of ice cream?' Hope you voted!

Mint chocolate chip had 5 votes/50%,
Vanilla had 3 votes/30%,
Chocolate had 2 votes/20%,
and Strawberry and Coffee both had none. Too bad for them.

The next survey...actually, this time you guys can comment and tell me what you want the survey to be. Hopefully there will be some pretty awesome ideas that I can put on my blog!

Cute Little Animals!

Hi people! I thought-actually I kind of know that maybe my blog was getting a bit boring, so here's some cute pictures of cute small animals that are cute.

     Cute chickadee!                                            Baby polar bear!

                     Bunny rabbit!

White tiger cub!

Aren't they so cute? Ok so during the next year I won't be able to post so so
much so just don't think that I'm dead or anything.

Yet Another Survey

Ok. Here are the results of the third survey on my blog. It was 'What is your favorite sport?' The options were: Soccer, Basketball, Skiing, Baseball/Softball, Football and Other. The outcome was:

Skiing, with 10 votes, or 58%,

Soccer, with 5 votes or 29%,

Other with 2 votes or 11%,

and Basketball, Baseball/Softball and Football with 0 votes. Too bad for them. They must feel so unloved.

I wonder if you can guess what the next survey will be...

Ummm... yeah, it's 'What's your favorite kind of ice cream?' Well, actually it's 'Which of the following is your favorite kind of ice cream but... Same difference.

The options are: Chocolate, Vanilla, Mint Chocolate Chip, Coffee, or Strawberry. I'm counting on you guys to make these ice creams feel loved! You don't want to hurt their feelings, do you?

Survey #2

Here are the results of the second survey on my blog, 'Which one of these random animals do you like best?'

*Drum roll, please*

Octopus, with 6 votes or 54%,

Bunny, with 2 votes or 18%,

Panda, Chickadee and Leopard, all with 1 vote or 9%,

and Tree Frog and Rhinoceros, both with no votes, or 0%, for those of you who can't quite figure out that nothing is equivalent to 0%. Too bad. So sad.

The next survey will be...

'What is your favorite sport?'

The options are:

Soccer,
Basketball,
Skiing,
Baseball/Softball,
Football,
or Other.

There are ten days that you can vote on it. Hope you do!

Quest for the Truth Part VI

Here is the sixth part of Quest for the Truth.

"Let's find something to do. It's almost been two hours." I looked at my watch. Thirty minutes to go. We could start our search now, keeping out of sight of the librarians, but that would be to risky. We could wait.

I pulled a world records book off the bottom shelf and opened to a random page. I was reading about the longest toenails ever (ew!) when I heard footsteps coming up behind me. "M-marla is that you?" I whispered timidly. I turned around to see and old woman with red glasses and gray hair staring at me. I almost breathed a sigh of relief. For a second there, before I turned around, her presence seemed ominous, as if there were a monster lurking in the shadows.

"It's getting late girls! Isn't your mother wondering where you are?" She asked in a cheery voice. I got the creepy feeling again.

"Um - wow. Time flies in a library!" I said nervously. "This book is really interesting. My cousin and I should be heading home." Anything to get away from this strange lady. Marla nodded her head in agreement.

The librarian eyed us suspiciously. "Do you girls need a ride home?"

"Oh, no thank you" said Marla. "Amy lives right down the street." True, I thought.

"All right, then. Have a nice night!" she said, but in a way that made me feel like she wanted our night to be anything but nice.

"Let's go, Marla, I said to my so-called cousin as I pulled her out the door. Once we were out of Ms. Creepy-Nosy-Librarian-Lady's range of hearing, Marla whispered to me " How do we get back in there? I'll bet that freaky librarian is watching our every move!"

Hmm..."Marla, walk around the library and open the window, just a crack. I'll do the same for another one. Meet me back here and we can pretend to walk back to my house. Then we'll hide behind a tree until we hear the librarian drive home. Let's just hope she doesn't close the windows."

Quest for the Truth Part V

Here is the fifth part of my friend A's story, Quest for the Truth.

"We could hide in the library until it closes," suggested Marla.

I agreed that would probably be the best idea, since we didn't have a crowbar. Ha ha. But now there was the problem of having my parents agree to us sleeping over at the library after it closes. As if!

Then I had a brainstorm. I had been nagging my parents to let me sleep over at my friend Anna's house for about a week. She was conveniently located right down the street, so if I could convince my parents to let me stay there for a night, we could pretend to be going there but instead head down to the library. And of course, Anna's parents would be dropping me off here the next morning. Perfect. Now all I had to do was be a little angel so I could get what I wanted. But I'm always a little angel!

An hour and a half later, after a tiring walk, we were at the library. It wouldn't close for another two hours, so we picked up some magazines and sat in a corner trying hard not to be seen. I heard people walking by, and each time, I felt nervous. Just because someone sees me, it doesn't mean that they'll know we won't leave, I reminded myself. It's okay.

All in all, though, if you have two hours to waste somewhere before finding a key that will unlock the secret to finding a missing family, a library isn't such a bad place.

After reading five issues of Grl * Frend magazine and laughing at the perfectly make-upped models, I got impatient, so I went to look for Marla. The crowd in the library was starting to diminish and I had to be ultra-careful that none of the librarians would spot me. I should go into espionage, I thought. Finally I found Marla in the tween graphic novel section. She jumped three feet in the air when she saw me (okay, maybe not quite) but then she got herself together and said "Hi Amy. What's up?"

"I'm just really bored," I told her. "Let's find something to do. It's almost been two hours." I looked at my watch. Thirty minutes to go. We could start our search now, keeping out of sight of the librarians, but that would be too risky. We could wait.

Quest for the Truth Part IV

Here is the fourth part of Quest for the Truth. Just so you know, it is really long, so this is not one of the last parts.

"Treasures in a library!", I said. "Those have got to be books!"

"Yeah", agreed Marla. "And we have to find them before morning is nigh. So I guess we have to go to a library at night to find some key."

We debated about when we should start our quest for a while. Finally Marla gave in and agreed with me that we should get a night of rest before setting off to the local library after-hours (I had no idea how we were going to get in).

"Hey Amy", said Marla. "Do you think any time passed while we were in Maynerna? I mean, when stuff like this happens in the books I read, no time passes."

"Well, I know how to check. Wait here.", I told Marla. I crept into Alex's room. Sure enough, he was still on question number three.

The next morning was a Saturday. I made myself a bagel and ate it with my parents while Marla waited in my room. When Mom and Dad were done eating, I toasted another bagel, spread cream cheese on it, and took it over to Marla.

When I came in, she was on my bed leafing through a USA Girl magazine. "Well, that took long enough!", she joked. "I was getting hungry!"

I rolled my eyes and gave her the bagel. "C'mon Marla, we need to plan how the heck we're gonna get into the library."

"We could hide in the library until it closes," suggested Marla.

I agreed that would probably be the best idea, since we didn't have a crowbar. Ha ha. But now there was the problem of having my parents agree to us sleeping over at the library after it closes. As if!

Survey

Howdy partners! As you all probably know, I had a survey on my blog which was 'Who is your favorite singer?' I hope you voted!

The outcome was:

Other, with 9 votes or 40%,
Lady Gaga, with 5 votes or 22%,
Taylor Swift and Katy Perry tied both with 3 votes or 13% each
and Ke$ha with 2 votes or 9%

Now there will be a new survey on my blog that you can vote on. It is 'Which one of these random animals do you like best?'

The options are:
Panda,

Chickadee,

Leopard,

Rhinoceros,

Octopus,

Tree Frog,

or Bunny

You can vote on it for ten days. I hope you do!

Summer Camp

All right, now I will tell you guys about the camp I was at for the last 3 weeks! My cousin E was there, too. The camp is a wilderness camp for girls from 9-ish to 14-ish. It's not all based on wilderness stuff, though, so there is also a barn and a garden, etc., etc. It's a Quaker camp and there is silent meeting for 15 minutes on a regular day and, get this, 45 minutes on a Sunday. Yeah. I know, right? Just thought I'd let you know. Oh, and they sing a lot and are very enthusiastic about everything.

I will tell you about the awesomest of the awesomest parts, which will be hard because there are a lot of the awesomest parts. Okay. *Takes deep breath*. Here I go.

One of the days was SOMEDAY! Isn't that exciting? No, really, it was. We woke up and there were some people who brought up the goat, Sally, and the bunny, Ginger. Breakfast was Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and green colored strawberry yogurt... oh, and bananas. I basically just ate the Lucky Charms. Then we had silent meeting, which wasn't exactly silent because the counselors were having baby sheep, hula hooping, running around with walkie talkies and such and such.

Every day we have morning activities, and on Someday there were activities, but they were things like having counselors throw chocolate pudding at you from above, and having a water slide, rather than plant flowers in a flower box or learn how to identify mint. I went to the chocolate pudding thing first, which was SO AMAZING! There were a bunch of campers all squished together on a tarp, and counselors above you, basically splatter painting you with pudding. Sadly, they eventually ran out of chocolate pudding, so I went to the water slide area and stayed around there, where they were also playing loud music.

Okay. Right now I am having a brain freeze and can't remember what we did in the afternoon. I know I will remember it sometime........................ Sorry sorry sorry!

Another exciting day was my birthday! I woke up and opened my packages, which my friend H had been keeping for me for days. I got earrings, a pretty scarf, silly books about summer camps and some other random things.

The rest of the day was pretty normal. I got to call my parents *sniff, sniff SO EMOTIONAL*. My older cousin, M, came to dinner because she is at a different camp within the camp, which is hard to explain.

Last but not least, FAIR DAY, my friends. Fair Day. This was only yesterday. It was really exciting because this is FAIR. The moment we've all been waiting for. We sang a lot while waiting to start parading down to where the fair is. Then we started the parade and sang some more. The other camps within the camp on the way to the fair place followed behind us. Then I saw my mom and grandpa and aunt and uncle. A camp within the camp performed a play and then it started. I got candy and cookies and cordage bracelets and coneggberted some people and got coneggberted by some people. Ha ha! Those all start with Cs! Let me explain what a coneggbert is. It is an egg, emptied out, painted and filled with confetti that you smash on each other's heads. They're cool.

After that we got dinner, which were sandwiches. I had turkey and cheese. There was a square dance and a huge bonfire that a group of older girls in my camp made. It really was huge. Like, humongously ginormously... big. Then the parents went back to where they came from and so did the campers.

Back Home

I. Am. Home.

I will post so much about my experiences at summer camp in a bit. Until then, toodles!

Quest for the Truth Part III

Here is the third part of the amazing author A's book Quest for the Truth! Sorry it's been so long since I posted the story last.

She thanked us breathlessly, blushing as she said " I'm Zorania. Welcome to Maynerna. "

I started asking about ten questions at once, but Zorania silenced me. She led us to a small white house across a field. As we walked inside, I smelled the pleasant aroma of cookies in the oven. Everything would be normal if we hadn't gotten to the place by falling through the floor.

There was a normal living room with a flat-screen TV and two leather couches. I glanced over at Marla. She was taking it all in (as was I) while Zorania led us past the living room to a strange room filled with clouds and purple smoke. Suddenly, Zorania's eyes started to glow bright blue and she said in an otherworldly voice " Good luck on your journey, for you will need it. Trust no one but yourself, and know that I will always be watching over you on your quest for the truth." Then she pressed a fancy piece of paper into each of our hands.

****************

"Ugh" I moaned, then yawned. I sat up in my bed, looked next to me, and saw Marla, sleeping away. The memory of Maynerna hit me like a bowling ball. Was it just a dream? I didn't remember going to sleep. Who was Zorania? I opened my hand and found a folded piece of beautiful, marbled paper.

Marla! Marla, get up!" I said as I shoved my new found friend in an attempt to wake her up.

"Ugh, what?" she said sleepily and then sat up so fast she almost knocked me off the bed. "Did you just go to Maynerna?," I asked her. "Yeah, so it wasn't just a dream?", Marla realized excitedly. "Nope. Open your hand!", I instructed her. Marla unclenched her right hand, and on the count of three we both opened our notes. Mine read:

Find the key in the place

Where treasures lie,

Make sure to find it before

Morning is nigh.

Marla's said:

The treasures are not made

Of metal or wood,

As for where they are,

A library wood be good.

"Treasures in a library!", I said. "Those have got to be books!

"Yeah", agreed Marla. "And we have to find them before morning is nigh. So I guess we have to go to the library at night to find some key.