December 5, 2009 at 1:38 pm (College, Friends)
Tags: desk, Grey's Anatomy, Harper, Kailey, Kit-Kat, Lissie, Marie, nationals, photos, Piper, secret, Skating
Okay, so here’s another reason I haven’t been posting. We have a BIG secret. If you’re on AGFMB or AGPT, you might know about our secret. But we can’t post anything about it anywhere that a certain person would be able to see it. Which means I can’t talk about it on here.
Also, what the heck? Why hasn’t there been a Grey’s episode in two weeks?! I am seriously being deprived.
But Harper has so graciously volunteered to guest blog about what’s been going on at college while I’m stuck at the rink. Oh well, I can’t complain… nationals is coming up and I’m super excited!!!
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July 10, 2009 at 12:07 am (Friends, Random)
Tags: "Under the Oak", Baby-Ruthie, D.H. Lawrence, Harper, Kit movie, Kit-Kat, Miss B., My Sister's Keeper
Or “not fair”. Take your pick.
Tomorrow Miss B. is going to see My Sister’s Keeper…and she won’t take me! She said if she took me she’d have to take Harper too, and she doesn’t want to bring two dolls. She brought Kit-Kat AND Baby-Ruthie to Kit’s movie! Ugh! She says Harper should go anyway (instead of me!), since it took them forever to convince me to read that book. I didn’t even want to admit I liked it because they kept bugging me about it. But it’s so good! Oh well. I guess I’ll have to see it on DVD…or pretend I’m boycotting Cameron Dias and The Noncanonical Ending like some of Miss B.’s friends are.
You, if you were sensible,
When I tell you the stars flash signals, each one dreadful,
You would not turn and answer me
‘The night is wonderful’
~D.H. Lawrence, “Under the Oak”
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July 4, 2009 at 4:09 pm (Friends)
Tags: guitar, hair, Harper, Ivy, Julie, Miss B., photos, Samantha, Sierra, sleepover, Taylor Swift
As I promised, here is the link to SeeJoanSew’s “How to Curl Nicki’s Hair” album, which Miss B. used to redo Sierra’s hair. And doesn’t she look good!
Here she is before…
And after…
I also took some pictures of our sleepover!
Me and Ivy
Ivy (I LOVE THIS PICTURE OF HER!)
Harper and Sam, who is playing guitar
Sam the rock star
Ivy and Julie
Harper and Sam
Me and Sam
I also created an album, which I’m going to link to on the side. From now on, I’ll put all the pictures I put on my blog in that album, as well as some that didn’t make it in so you can see more pictures of us. Here’s the link.
Sam was happily playing guitar for all of us, until I wanted her to play some Taylor Swift and she insisted some of her songs were too country for her taste 
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July 2, 2009 at 11:41 pm (Friends)
Tags: Baby-Ruthie, Emily, guitar, hair, Harper, Hope S., Little Miss Playthings, Meiko, Miss B., music, Samantha, Sierra, sleepover
So we’re actually falling-asleep-tired, but I just thought I’d share some exciting news as a “preview” for my next entry. I’ll have pics tomorrow. Miss B. read an online tutorial (I’ll give the link tomorrow too) on how to curl hair, because she has straight hair and doesn’t know how to deal with those of us who have curly hair. So Sierra has been begging to get her hair restyled, but Miss B. didn’t know how to do it until now. She spent about an hour doing it tonight. (Maybe that’s why she’s so tired?!) And Sierra looks amazing!! I have to say, Sierra has been so nice to me since the moment I came here, and she’s just downright fun to be around. Tomorrow I’m going to take my round 3 LMPT picture too (I know I was supposed to stay on top of things and get them done way ahead of time…but we hadn’t got the logistics for this one figured out yet. We still haven’t really got it figured out, but we figure we’ll run with it). At the moment we’re having a sleepover. And yes, Harper is invited. I had to, because she was in the room at the time. She and Miss B. are really close and they seriously have unspoken conversations. Sam is really close to Miss B. too, maybe even more so, but they don’t discuss things in secret in front of other people. They just joke around and pretend to hate each other, which is funny. The secrecy drives me nuts. Anyway, Sierra joined us because she’d been hanging out with Hope, who’s downstairs trying to deal with Baby-Ruthie. Hopefully Emily will help her now that Sierra’s joined us. There isn’t any more room in Miss B.’s room for any more of our sleeping bags unless we don’t want to all face each other, so Sierra’s just going to have to share with someone for now. Also, Sam is playing guitar. She’s actually really good at it. She’s playing a bunch of Meiko stuff, which makes me extremely happy.
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June 24, 2009 at 11:22 pm (Friends, Random)
Tags: "I'm On A Boat", "Maybe", camping, Harper, Ingrid Michaelson, Ivy, Julie, Kit-Kat, Miss B., music, photos, Rita, Samantha, Skating, The Lonely Island, venturing
Miss B.’s brother is on a high-adventure camping trip, and I am missing Venturing like no tomorrow. I spent six months with those girls on a boat, you know?! (On a boat, hahaha.) And I really miss the physical challenge of all the things we did. Sailing is not all smooth sailing, you know. (Don’t ask for Rita’s account of me on the boat – just don’t. Let’s just say we really didn’t get along for most of it, and I don’t know why besides we’ve never really been close and I don’t know what got into us when we decided to be cabinmates.) We did other things besides sailing too, like going backpacking and caving, and MB’s brother backpacked today. I nearly died. I’ve been feeling that way the whole week. I can technically stay in the troop until I’m 21, but it’s not like I’m ever in Maine anymore, and I haven’t found any troops here.
So I’ve been talking to a few girls about taking a mini-camping trip in the backyard and doing some minor hiking. Just something to get the energy back, but really relaxed. I’ve been talking a lot to Julie and Ivy, who are best friends and are really cool. They are really into the seventies, so I have to admit I thought they were weird at first. Ivy is really quiet, and they usually stay by themselves unless Julie is organizing some rally or fundraiser for her latest cause. But once I got to know them, they’ve been really cool. Ivy does gymnastics, and she’s almost as intense about it as I am about skating. (Nobody can be more intense than I am about skating!) And Julie’s just so open about everything and really fun. I was thinking about inviting them and Sam, since I hang out with Sam the most here.
Well, Miss B. basically took me aside and said certain-students-who-shall-not-be-named *cough Harper cough* are Girl Scouts and would be upset if I didn’t invite them. And so would Sam because she knows how much they love camping. I wanted it to be a small campout! If I invite the two people MB mentioned, I have to invite THEIR best friends too. I’m so over that. And what, can Sam not go anywhere without her posse?
Besides, I read those Kit-Kat camping albums. I’m so over luxury camping. They would honestly hate my trip. Cabins? NO WAY!
But no.
I think MB has some secret conspiracy to get me to be friends with Harper. I don’t know why. Yeah, she’s fun, but we have way too much in common. It would be awkward. I don’t want to deal with how much she knows about me already without me even saying anything. And just when I was starting to trust Miss B. a lot. If we end up good friends, it’ll happen on our own time.
And THIS ALBUM is why us being friends might not be the greatest idea. I forgot to post it because, well, it doesn’t really paint me in a good light, and frankly I’m annoyed about that. I have a feeling I said too much in this post, but who really cares anyway? I’m seriously annoyed. MB is refusing to let me have my campout until at least Friday, supposedly because she’s “busy with homework”. Mmm-hmm.
Yes, aren’t we BFFs?!
“Oh, the only way to really know is to really let it go…” – Ingrid’s NEW SINGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And despite it all, I realize I should just let this go. My mom is always bugging me to “have perspective since you SHOULD considering your history” and maybe spoiled me is finally getting some. Yeah, right. I’m sure another awkward moment will come up and bring this all back again.
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April 14, 2009 at 6:39 pm (College, Friends)
Tags: Harper, Hope S., Miss B., OWT, OWT College Connections, Pandora, Samantha
Well, there has been some drama around here. The good thing is that I think I’ve finally started to make a friend. We aren’t very close yet, but Sam is really fun to hang out with. She has a unique taste in music and we like to compare what we listen to. We each like some of what the other likes. Right now Sam is on a 60s/classic rock kick and it’s all very bouncy, so we have dance parties! It’s a great time. Miss B. likes to join in the dance parties too.
Harper, though, I think is kind-of mad. She and Sam are supposedly best friends, but since I came Sam has been really nice and made a point to try to include me, while Harper and Hope are pretty cliquey and keep to themselves. Now that Sam and I are friends, all of a sudden Harper hates both of us. Or, at least that’s what it feels like. She and Hope whisper more then ever and shut up quickly when Sam tries to talk to them, and Harper and Miss B. had a “long talk” the other day. It’s really annoying. Why is it so hard to share friends?! It’s not like they never hang out. Sam always tries to include them both in our parties and things but now they’re busy or not interested.
So this weekend Miss B. took me with her while she stayed at a hotel with her grandparents on break. I didn’t really do much, but it was nice to get away from the drama here. On the way out, I heard her say something to Sam about “talking”. I think she expected Sam to clear up the situation since she is kind-of in the middle of it. From what I can tell, though, nothing happened. Harper and Hope are being polite but still not interested in hanging out with us, and Sam said she was really glad I came back. I want to go home, but this summer I am staying with OWT for some summer classes. I hope the people back there are not as cliquey, but from my past experiences they definitely are. I don’t know WHAT I’m going to do…
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March 5, 2009 at 4:14 pm (College, My Lovely Life)
Tags: Dr. Kolberts, Harper, Hope S., OWT, Samantha
So tomorrow we are flying back to OWT for spring break and everyone’s going to be there. I NEED to get out of here! I have this one really stressful class with tons of reading… I’d go into it, but I’m just so tired of it that I don’t think I can talk about it anymore. Harper and I have been discussing it for the past two days. Hope is so lucky she doesn’t actually go to school here because it’s a requirement! And Sam is taking some classes to transfer for college next year but she’s just taking whatever she wants, not core classes.
I’m sorry I haven’t written for awhile… it’s this class! I know how I talked about how college was easier than I thought. Now I’m just frustrated! What’s more, I found out I have to go to the doctor to update one of my prescriptions which is going to be LOVELY. And I think a lot of – ok, ALL – the girls here are really nosy. I don’t need them to know what medications I’m taking. That’s totally private. To complain even more, I have to get a local doctor which is going to honestly suck. I like Dr. K. I wish I was going home for break too… as I’ve said, I find it so hard to get along with everyone.
Sorry for the short post; gotta pack.
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February 14, 2009 at 2:11 pm (College, Friends, My Lovely Life, Random)
Tags: Cupid Elmo, El Toro of Love, Harper, Hope S., Relay for Life, Samantha, Truth or Dare, Valentine's Day
Yesterday was at first disastrous. We played Truth or Dare, which – as Sam predicted – turned out horribly. I don’t know why, but they kept attacking me with really personal questions. They didn’t ask anyone else as mean questions. Most of the truths were more like “What did you really get on that test?”, which, compared to what I was asked, was pretty benign. Then Hope kept bugging me to be on her Relay for Life team, which I Do. Not. Want. To. Do. I’ve been asked to do it before and I just don’t think it would be fun. I was so glad we weren’t playing Truth or Dare then because I know they would’ve asked me why. UGH. But we got some really cute shirts in the mail that have Valentine’s Day sayings/pictures on them. Then Cupid Elmo flew over and gave us a Hershey’s bar that was decorated and said “From a Secret Admirer!” We were really confused and about to eat the chocolate when this red bull came up to us and started going on about how his love “burns like the heat of a thousand jalepenos”. It was pretty funny. Harper suspects he is one of Stitch’s friends sent over to bug us.
A Secret Admirer – Album
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February 8, 2009 at 6:12 pm (Friends)
Tags: glasses, Harper, Miss B., photos
Harper and I switched dresses. I am wearing the “Addy’s Striped Dress” from a few months ago, and she is wearing the “Silver Belle” dress which I’ve had on for awhile. We actually look pretty alike. Miss B.’s brother thinks I look like her, because I have glasses and freckles. Harper has brown hair and freckles, but no glasses. She tried mine on but she thinks she’s going to stick with no glasses for now… she “grew out” of them. Miss B. said that’s sort-of what happened with her, but it’s complicated. She only needs glasses in one eye for reading, and barely, but she says if she reads for awhile without them she gets a headache or double-vision, and if she doesn’t wear them for a long time her prescription changes. So she wears them all the time! Okay, enough rambling, I don’t even know why I was talking about that…
Harper
And the person you’ve all been waiting for… ME!!!
Here’s a link to more pictures of us…album link
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January 29, 2009 at 12:51 am (College, Friends, Random)
Tags: "Far Away", "How Lucky We Are", ballet, Coach OH!, College, Creighton, Girl Scouts, Harper, Homeschool, Hope S., Ingrid Michaelson, Meiko, Miss B., nationals, new coach, oncology, popcorn, Relay for Life, Samantha, scrapbooking, skating costume, venturing
OK, I was homeschooled, right, so I really don’t know too much about normal school. Well, everyone I kept talking to said college is really difficult. I honestly kind-of think that once you hit a specific point, the material doesn’t get that much harder (at least in subjects like history), just more detailed and specific. And you are just expected to think more. It’s not as bad as everyone made it out to be. Plus we have tons of free time. Miss B.’s friend gave her a scrapbooking kit and she said she might let me work on it. That would be so cool – I’ve never scrapbooked before. Hope is still trying to trick me into doing Relay for Life. I don’t want to. Harper said she is going to do it, and Sam said she probably will then too but really, I would just feel uncomfortable. Hope is totally pumped about it, Harper’s kind-of embarrassed (why, I am not sure), and Sam doesn’t want to leave me alone if she doesn’t do it, but I can tell she’s really trying to support Hope.
16 random things about me (idea stolen from Miss B.’s facebook):
1. I am a competitive ice skater and just placed third in nationals.
2. I have made my own ice skating costumes ever since I started. My mom and coach help.
3. I am really good friends with my coach, Coach OH!
4. It takes me a long time to trust people. I make friends pretty quickly but my very good friends are few and I’ve known them for a long, long time.
5. I am pretty outgoing and some people might describe me as brutally honest and/or blunt.
6. I am fascinated by medicine. I want to be a pediatric oncologist who specializes in leukemia.
7. Coach OH! is supposed to move to Omaha soon, but in the meantime I am working with a new coach who is really cool, but he’s really demanding. I like that in a coach.
8. If I had gone to “normal” school I’d have missed so many days I would have probably been kicked out.
9. This past spring and summer I sailed around the world with my venturing crew.
10. I was never a Girl Scout, but I did take ballet. Those are like the two essential elements of girlhood. I am back taking ballet now because of skating.
11. Miss B. has this box of popcorn on her shelf that she won’t share with me, and popcorn is my favorite food. When I smell it, I can’t resist making a bag myself or stealing some from wherever it is. It’s like an addiction.
12. Contrary to a lot of homeschoolers, I’ve never taken an online course. I like having someone there in person to teach me. I have taken classes with other kids before I came to college.
13. I’m not sure if I want to have kids, but I think it would be after I got my career established. But I do want a big white wedding. And to marry a lobsterman and live on an island in the blue bay. No seriously.
14. I am still waiting for a prince to come whisk me away on his white horse. I LOVE Disney films.
15. I like to go around singing random lines from songs, really off-key. Currently my favorite is “How Lucky We Are” by Meiko. It tends to drive people crazy.
16. I can tie every knot in the Boy Scout handbook, except for the noose. I refuse to learn that one, for obvious reasons. I love tying knots. Learning them can be hard at first, but really rewarding, at least for me.
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