Last Week.

So, even though I had to do one of my catching up ones today, I am still satisfied with having to do two in one day. It's not so bad. Only thing is, since it actually happened last week, my memory is probably a lot better than it normally is. Know what that means? Lots and lots of details. But hey, this is more for me than it is for you, so stop complaining. Here we go. This is the last week of July. July 25 - July 31.

Sunday, July 25: I was at Melanee's house the night before, so once I got up, I left for my house to go take a shower. Then, I met up with her at her church. It was good. Afterwards, I went with her, his sister Kassi, and Aidan to Moe's. It was crowded the entire time, but somehow we were the only ones eating outside. It was so hot, but that didn't stop us from hanging out for well over an hour. It was lots of fun. Afterwards, I just chilled. Chris came over, and we chilled. That's what my notes say anyway. "Chill/Chris/Chill" So I guess that's what happened.

Monday, July 26: I slept until ten again, ah, so nice. I actually did that a lot this week. But hey, you would too if you could, don't deny it. Heck, yesterday [being Saturday the 31st] Dad slept until one. Back to Monday. Once I got up, I took a shower. I then hung out with Chris after he was back in town from his finals. I ate some yummy Sonic, and then I studied! Once I was done filling my head with dreadful history, Chris, Dad, and I watched The Long Kiss Goodnight. It's a two hour movie, and we didn't start it until late. I figured I would sleep through it, but it was actually very interesting and I stayed awake for the whole thing. Also, Jessie was being super weird that day. She had jumped off my bed, which she isn't supposed to do, and she must have hurt herself. It was pretty scary seeing her the way she was. I don't know what was wrong. She never really perked up after that. It was sad.

Look toward the left. See how crazy the sky is over there? Creepy, huh?

Here's Dad falling asleep during the movie. I had to keep on waking him up. He's so funny.

Tuesday, July 27: I had my dumb final. I wasn't nervous. I knew I studied a lot. But I still wasn't looking forward to it. I felt good after I left, and I found out on Wednesday that I made a B in the class. Not an A, but a B is still good. Especially for history. I met Dad at Whataburger. It was alright. Then I went home and chilled with Chris until it was time for our date. We had been planning on going to eat at Olive Garden for a while because I got a new dress/outfit that I wanted to wear out. It wasn't nearly as good as it normally is, which was disappointing. But it wasn't bad. When we got back from eating, we caught up on the TV show Huge. Later we watched Memento with Dad. I fell asleep the first time Chris and I watched it like last year. It was a really great movie, too.

Here's my outfit. I had to be brave to wear the tights, but I like it.

Smile!

That's Chris and me outside Olive Garden. At least we got like six mints (after asking for them, again!)

Wednesday, July 28: I chilled during the day. Caught up on some of my TV shows. Hung out with Chris. Jessie was better, but she jumped off the couch when she got excited. She eventually got better later. Viv got in town! She's staying with me for a week. It's fun. It's like a sleepover every night. We ate some Moe's. The dude talked to us so much. We just nodded our head; we had no idea what he was saying. I caved and got a cookie, but I was disappointed. Then, as I was getting my water, I dropped my tray and my food went everywhere. Luckily, they wrap the burritos and the queso had a top, so I just asked for more chips. They're free anyway, so it was no big. Then we went to the Mac store so Viv could look around. Her computer has been messing up. Once we were back to my house, we washed her car. It was sad seeing her new tag. She's not technically from here anyways though. We hung out and talked for a while. We sang some karaoke, that was fun. She showed me a new way to do my eyeshadow, which I just started wearing. Now I really do need to get some good make up. I guess I'll work on that some time too. Then I went bowling with Chris and Dad. Kyle came up there eventually too. I bowled absolutely terribly, and I wasn't happy at all. I bowled a 92, 99 and 85 bowling my new regular way. I got a total of 3 spares and 2 strikes. I hit my leg again too, but not as bad as last time. Then, I changed it up and bowled a 101 and 118. That was 6 spares and 2 strikes. I marked twice in the 10th the 101 game, which is how I got that. I was so scared I was going to bowl that way Thursday too.

Here is Jessie finally cuddling with me. She hadn't been after her incident.

Thursday, July 29: Slept until ten after we both got in after midnight. I took a shower. Chris came over while Vivi went out with some friends. We just chilled. We played this game online for like ever. We got level 70 something, out of 300. We had to cheat sometimes, oh well. Vivi came back and Chris left, then Viv and I watched videos on YouTube forever. Then I went up to the bowling alley for league. I bowled a 142, 113, and a 138. Much better than the last night. I got six spares and 7 strikes. I was on the recap sheet for most improved average and the high handicap game from the last week. I got a double in the first and last game. I even marked in the tenth my first game. I stayed up there until Viv got back to house, then I headed home too. We just chilled for a while. It was a great day.

Friday, July 30: Viv and slept until ten again. Heck yeah. I got up and took a shower. Then Chris and I took Jessie to the vet. She was totally better though, so we just got her nails clipped and didn't mention her arm and back thing. When we got back, Chris, Viv, and I watched I Love You, Man. It had some gross parts, but it was pretty funny and had a happy ending. Once Chris left for work, Viv and I got ready for Zach's pool party and watched House. We went to Wal-Mart to go get hamburger and hot dog buns for Zach's party. Then we went to the jewelry store to go pick up my bracelet Chris gave me for our anniversary. It fits perfectly now! Then I picked up Melanee, and we headed to his house. We hung out for a while inside because it was thundering outside. We ate and watched The Princess Bride. Then we went swimming finally at like eight. It was fun swimming at night though. We just played with the beach ball pretty much the whole time. It was fun. I just realized I didn't take a single picture, that's sad.

Saturday, July 31: Despite the fact that my morning sucked and I barely got to see Chris, Saturday was an awesome day. The day started by getting a call from my mom at 630 in the morning to tell me to wake up for my test. I had to take this test at school to get into the Teacher Education program there. I fell back asleep and got up at 645. I rushed and grabbed a pop tart, then headed out the door on time at seven. I got to school at eight. I grabbed all my stuff and headed into the Student Center. I had to ask the front desk where to go, then I headed up the stairs to the third floor. Once I got there, there were tons of girls there and a few guys. I texted my mom and a woman came up to me and said I couldn't have my phone in the room. I walked back to my car and put my phone up. As I walked back into the lobby, another woman was announcing how purses could not go into the room. I was like, WHAT THE HECK!? WHY COULDN'T THAT OTHER LADY TELL ME THAT?! Anyway, I went BACK to my car, got my pencils, pens, ID, and ticket and headed back up to where my test was. Once we were getting in line to go into the room and have our ID check and all that, someone said we couldn't use mechanical pencils, which is all most people had, including myself. I freaked out. Thankfully, they had some provided for us. During the reading portion (there was reading, math, and writing), this lady asked if she could look at the front of my booklet. I freaked for like five minutes after that. I was re-reading all my questions because my heart was racing, and I couldn't concentrate. I didn't know why she wanted to look at it. The whole process was terrible, but I was so happy once it was over. 

Mine and Mel's epic jumps. This was
the only one we caught on camera.

Once I got back into town, I headed to Chris's for a little bit before heading to my grandparents' house with Viv and Mel. He was looking for puppies in the bulletin. Then I headed home to get ready to go to the lake. Mel came over and we headed to Wal-Mart. I got some water shoes/aqua socks but I hate touching the lake bottom. Then we headed to the lake. On the way there, I realized the song we were gonna do a video to wasn't on my iPod, we figured we'd improvise. Later I remembered that I forgot my tripod too. I was just thinking the day was getting worse and worse. Once we got there, it was so hot outside we just decided to go swimming before anything else. And that's what we did. It was so fun. We ended up making videos in the water, then land, and water again. We had some delicious dinner made by Grammie: ham, green beans, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, garlic bread, and butter beans. Then we went back to the water. After we were watered out, we went inside and sang karaoke for like ever. Then we left at like 930. We still were singing the whole hour home. It was so fun. Once we got into town, we stopped by Sonic. Then Melanee went home, and Viv and I just chilled for a while before going to bed. Jessie was being weird again too. I decided I was going to take her to the vet Monday no matter what. It was a great day!

Viv and Mel swimming around.

Us in the water.

Melanee thought she could got on the pier this way somehow. Needless to say, she failed.

The three of us goofing off. My shoes are so nerdy!

Melanee on the ladder/camera stand.

Who knows.

Mel's Zoolander face.

Viv being a mermaid for our "Part of Your World" video.

Here is Jessie cuddled with me. Can't you see how sad she looks. I sure hope it's nothing serious.

Wow, what a fun week, right? Hopefully my last two weeks of summer will be just as awesome! Look at that, I'm all caught up. It feels good. Goodnight!

-peace.
CNH<3CMG

Close, But No Cigar.

Darn. It's August 1st. And this isn't my blog about what happened last week. However, I'm hoping that after I do this, that I'll be able to do last week's as well. That way, I'm still caught up. I just have to do two in one day. This will be July 18 - July 24. Not much is going on today, so I should be able to handle. That is if I don't get too distracted by the House marathon that's on right now. Plus, we're having Dad's meatloaf tonight. What's better than that?! Anyway, on the the blogging.

My pretty Jessie cuddled on
top of my legs.

Sunday, July 18: I went to Calvary to go here Mark preach. I was a second late and got lost on the way there. There was a detour from a fallen tree. But I managed. Once I was home, Chris and I watched Psycho. That's actually a really good movie. I kept changing my mind on what I thought was going on. I liked it though. I went to Michael's to get some stuff for Viv's painting. I thought I'd get a yay-you're-in-college present. Pretty much just chilled the rest of the day.

Monday, July 19: I didn't do much in the morning. I didn't eat until three. I chilled in the afternoon. Painted Viv's painting. This time, I took pictures of the process. It's neat to see how the picture changes. After painting, or between it, I don't know, Dad and I went bowling. I bowled a 100, 145, 96, 112, and 137. That's a 118 average. I got eight spares and nine strikes. It was crazy though. The first game I should have had five in a row. My first five frames were all 9- excluding a strike in the second. I was getting ripped off so badly. Oh well, it happens I guess. It's not like I'm a great bowler anyway. Now here's my order for pictures. Obviously, I'm not an artist, but this is how I do things.

Step 1: The sketch. Here is my third sketch I did and the one that I chose.

Step 2: I didn't take a picture of just the "V," so this is technically the third step.

Step 4: The next color. You can see how the green isn't that great. But it's not the end.

Steps 5 and 6: Five would be the yellow and six would be going over all the colors. I definitely like hers a lot. The colors look much, much better in person.

Tuesday, July 20: Not a great morning. But whatever. I had class. Boring, as usual. But it was a week away from my final, and it felt so good. Dad and I ate Piccadilly. They gave me much more food than I could handle. That always happens there, but it was delicious. I went to Chris's when I got into town. Then we went to my house. It wasn't a great day for reasons that I won't go into. But no worries, all things are settled now. He went to sub at the bowling alley. I went up there eventually. It definitely wasn't a day high on my list of "days that'd be fun to relive."

Wednesday, July 21: I wasn't feeling well in the morning. All the problems from Tuesday got handled. Chris and I watched It Takes Two. That is one of the first that Chris and I have watched that didn't disappoint. I still think it was good, just like I did when I was younger. I went to the lake with Dad to his boss's lake house. It was so fun! I drove a sea-do by myself for the first time, I think it was the first anyways. I was going 40 some of the time! I had a blast. Then Charlie took his daughter Katie and me tubing and his son Charlie knee boarding. I had a blast. Kids are so fun. Being around them reminds me of part of the reason why I want to be a teacher. Once I got into town, I went bowling with Chris, Jeremy, and Jeremy's girlfriend. I bowled a 157, 133, 125, 112, and a 144. That's a 134 average. I got eight strikes and fifteen spares. I was definitely doing pretty good! I picked up a 4, 5, 7 split my first game, that was cool. I got doubles in my first, second, and last game. I freakin' left the six-pin three times in a row! How frustrating. And everyone agrees that my fourth game I was robbed again and again. And my last game, the first four frames were marks. Heck yeah. A good day for practice. Too bad I never bowl like that during league. I bet that was more than you wanted on bowling, ha. I just had lots of notes, and it was five games. So, give me a break.

Here's my sweet Jessie sleeping in my blankie. I love her!

Love me some pig tails.

Thursday, July 22: I had class. LAST ONE BEFORE MY FINAL. Boy, what a great feeling. Chris met me at the mall, and we went to go see Inception. It was a great movie. We chilled for the hour plus that we had before bowling. Then, off to the bowling alley for league. I bowled a 125, 161, and a 131. First game: four spares and zero strikes. I had nine open four times! In my notes I wrote, in bold caps mind you, "QUEEN OF THE HALF-INCH MISS!" Which is what my dad says, but Chris said it should said "quarter-inch," so I wrote that underneath. Second game: Ughhhhhh. Don't get me started, oh well. You did. I got five spares and two strikes. I got a double and four spares my first six frames. Sounds good, right? Well, I could have had higher than a 161. Higher than a 172 even (which is my highest game ever). Wanna know what I did?! I freakin' "fowled" my tenth frame. See, my foot stuck when I threw the ball. The ball was headed down the lane, and I was sliding my foot on the approach trying to find where I stuck, and I accidentally went over the foul line. WHAT THE HECK?! Ugh. I was so mad. Third game: one spare and three strikes. I split in the tenth frame. Eh, I still bowled a 417 series! Yay! First 400 in league. So, it was a good night. Just took me a few frames to get over what happened my second game. But hey, you'd be mad too. Especially when you could have beat your highest game ever. Oh well.

Friday, July 23: I had a nice day that actually felt like summer and slept until ten. I love doing that. I never could sleep in before, I think I've made up for lost time this summer, ha. And the only reason I got up was because the appliance guy came to fix the dish washer. I just chilled the rest of the day and went to Longhorn with Dad. It was much more crowded that it is when I got with Mom. It was just as delicious though! Friday was wonderful.

I forgot to take a picture of the recap thing, but hey. I got over 600k twice within eleven days of each other. Sweet!

Isn't she sweet. I don't know what this look was for, but I love how you can see her blue eye so well in this picture.

Mel's dog who I call
Precious Lilly because
they changed her name
from the people they
took her from. She was
sitting up on the couch like
this when Mel made her.
It was pretty funny.

Saturday, July 24: I hung out with Chris before he had to go to work. We were lazy, no surprise. And I was still lazy after he left. Then, as I was sitting on my butt doing nothing, Melanee texted me and demanded that I come over and swim with her and Zach. I didn't argue. As I was over there, she invited me to stay the night too with her and Hannah. So I did. Swimming was fun. We had fun on the tubes and went torpedo diving. We watched some House and ate Ria's. Great day. Once Hannah was there and Zach was gone, we just chilled in the living room. It was lots of fun. We all slept in the living room, along with Aidan, Mel's little brother. He wanted to be apart of the sleepover too I guess.

Here's my totally fail while trying to stand on the tube like Mel. It was fun though. I got it eventually for like two seconds.

Well, sounds like a pretty good week, toward the end at least. Now hopefully I'll get last week in today too. That'll be good. So yeah. Hopefully I'll get last week in today, or at least by tomorrow.

-peace.
CNH<3CMG