7/21/10

I woke up at 6:23  (WOOT!!!! PWNED!!!!) but then I was lazy and got out of bed at 10. Er, I don't think that I am a very fail person. Whatever.

So, today, I was going to make the 3 tierd skirt in the sewing class. I was kind of nervous, because I had overheard some of the adults talking about hand sewing, and I also knew that we had to do gathering. Not the kind of gathering in the skirt before, but pulling on special (longer stitches) to GATHER them. My machine for some reason won't do it, instead it just makes it gathered once being sewn. Gathering consists of sewing long stitches, then PULLING on them. For me (my machine) it'll automatically gather, so I couldn't learn the actual technique for gathering.

I was trying to be positive when it came to the gathering part, but then it turned out that I had sewn a bunch of extra stitches, because my machine WOULDN'T gather. So, I had to go SUPER SLOW on my teacher's machine to do the gathers. Then, I had to spend 30+ minutes for TAKING OUT the other stitches. HATE IT! I had a few cough-my-head-off fits, and that was the day in which I found out the way to stop them. DRINK WATER!! I didn't know that until today. So my fabric for the skirt were these: the top tier is a light blue solid colored one (I soon figured that it was a bit TRANSPARENT!!!), a blue diamond patterned fabric (I said before it had a wave design, yeah, I got confused...) and on the bottom, a white blue star design fabric. I got to know that we (the class) wasn't going to finish the skirt by today, so boohoo. I felt really sad that I wasn't doing very well in the class, because of the stupid (okay, not THAT stupid) sewing machine wouldn't gather. I really didn't do a lot, and when the class was over, my teacher had to take home the skirt and take out the stitches at her home.

Nothing else really, to my day. It was a WEDNESDAY!! No classes in the evening...

7/20/10

Yum! I had something called hû pî juân breakfast, while watching TV. I was pretty excited because TODAY was going to be the first day of my SEWING class. (It is from 1-4, Tuesday through Friday) We were going to be making 3 skirts, one each day, but one of the skirts take 2 days. Not super complicated. Today we were going to make the first skirt, which is just a gathered skirt with a ribbon as the embellishment that I got JUST in time for that day.

So sewing was really, really fun. I love that class because I have a lot of fun, and is more worth while then saying "I'M BORED!!" for four hours. I have to say, my skirt turned out alright, but the ribbon parts was kind of not straight (the stitches, I mean). I think these are the steps: So first I had measured my waist (28 in.) and then measured how long I wanted the skirt. Then, with some crazy math stuff, I figured out how big the piece of fabric should be. Haha, I didn't know how to multiply a whole number to a decimal. I had to ask the older girls (^-^). Next, we did the super easy but important step. IT WAS JUST SEWING THE FABRIC TOGETHER. Doing the seam is really easy, it's just pinning the fabric together and then sewing the bad sides of the fabric together to make the skirt wearable. Still, by that time, if I tried to put it on, it would fall onto my feet because it was too big to stay on my waist. That is because it is a GATHERED skirt. The waist band was pretty cool to figure out, it was like this: first use an iron to make an easy small hem (1/2-3/4 of an in.), the reason of using the irons because there is no need to sew the hem, ironing keeps it on. Then, make a larger hem (1 1/2 in.)  and sew on the very bottom of the hem. Then, once that is done, sew a top stitch, and yes, it is a stitch closer to the actual fold of the hem. So, imagine it like this: there is a fold, there are two stitches, one on the top and one on the bottom. Haha, I think that is the easier way to explain the waist band. The reason that we put the waist band in last is, well I think, because it is GATHERED. Sorry for mentioning it twice, but it's true. Gathers are like tiny folds, and how are people supposed to sew on a waist band and a bunch of folds at the same time? So instead, making a little hole in the fold, and using a safety pin, inch through the waist band, and HAND sew it together at the end. Oh yeah, before getting the waist band inside the fold, I first had to make the waist band an inch shorter than my actual waist, that way it would fit snug on. The navy blue ribbon was to be put on the very last. The thing is that #1: I can't sew straight (the design needed the ribbon to be sewn on directly to the skirt, and to ensure the ribbon to stay on the skirt forever, sewing it TWICE on the two different sides. Not surprising, but I just hate doing that) #2: I can't sew straight and #3: I HAD WHITE THREAD (there was no other thread that was with me at that time) that would stand out like crazy on navy ribbon. Urg. After I sewed the ribbon on, I checked to see how ... "nice" it looked. Haha, it was the worst stitch that I had ever done. THere was one little problem, and that was the ribbon was a centimeter short, so the ribbon didn't connect. So, I covered it up with a little bow, and sewed it on. I wasn't thinking straight at that time, so I guess that it was kind of straight. When my dad came to pick me up, he was like "WOW!!!! THAT IS THE STRAIGHTEST LINE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!! GOOD JOB!!!!" Haha, that was pretty weird, until I figured out that no one was going look at the stitch an inch away from the skirt, so I decided to let it go.

I showed my mom the skirt when I got home, and I have to say, I was pretty proud of it then. I wanted to have a shirt (tight) thing of the same fabric, and layer them, so that the shirt would cover the waist band, so (too many so's) it would look like a dress. PRETTY!

7/19/10

There is nothing to my day on the nineteenth, I am awfully sorry for this. Here is what I did in bullets, and I am not sure about the order. Also (I AM SUPER DUPER SORRY!) I am not sure if I had actually did this today, maybe yesterday:

• Woke up sometime, I forgot. I wish I had done this post earlier. 
• Breakfast, watch TV most likely.
• Did some sewing. Sewed a mini blue apron without pockets (yet) I used blue ribbon and sewing it on there as the things that keep the apron on. I made it for pure boredom and curiosity. I didn't finish the entire thing though. The parts that are supposed to hang over my neck to keep the apron on was the blue ribbon for my sewing class. I USED IT ALL! I NEED TO GET MORE RIBBON. HUMPH.
• Played piano. Had to play a new song that was really hard. Most of all, I started it late because I couldn't find the page, (that's because my teacher forgot to put the tap there) and it honestly was really hard. Otherwise, I had two other really easy songs that I had practiced for at least a week. Woot! I think I was good enough to pass the songs today.
• DENTIST APPOINTMENT! I don't like the way I always get told that I have cavities or I don't brush well. Well most of the time the dentist was just poking and cleaning my teeth with the tool that has a sharp curve at the end. Humph!! I don't like that tool, because it hurts if the dentist accidentally pokes my gum, then it hurts like crazy. In the beginning I got my X-rays, and I had to do it twice because it didn't work the first time. I don't like the panel things that get into my mouth for X-rays. It kind of hurts. My favorite part is the tooth brush thing. It is like a round small head, that had a smear of bad tasting tooth paste. It feels nice to have such a cool tooth brush. Another thing that they did (at the very end) smeared some cherry flavored tooth cleaning thing on my teeth. It was supposed to stay on my teeth for 30 minutes without me brushing it or getting it off. Stupid me, I didn't do any of that, I SWALLOWED it all, because of spit and the yellowy stuff that comes out of my throat when I cough and am sick.
•  I went to some mall, with Hancock Fabrics and Target neighboring each other. So, I went to Hancock to get more ribbon, and Target for school supplies. I saw some other messenger bags, but then found that mine was WAY better so I stuck with mine. Also, I needed to get the folders for school. TOO BAD! I forgot the colors, so I just guessed them ^_^, I am very irresponsible. Anyway, I saw that one of the colors (orange) wasn't there and I remembered a purple somewhere. Go me, I checked later, and (with the exception or orange) I got all the colors correct. I had also gotten 300 sheets of college ruled binder paper. BUT GUESS WHAT!?!??!? It was the wrong size. Boohoo. But anyway I'll find a way to use it up. 
• For the piano class, it went really well, or at least I think so. I did really well for the two songs older songs, and as my teacher said: "That was good, I could tell you got the beat, even though I know, there were mistakes." So yeah. I actually think I did really bad. Haha. Anyway I got two NEW kind of hard songs, so I am not exactly happy about that. Woot, I think that class overall was nice, even though I'd do anything to not have a piano teacher, but then my teacher is the only reason why I am playing piano. PARADOX!!

7/18/10

Not much to my day, 
I didn't need to go to church, WOOT WOOT! I don't like my church because the people in my SCHOOL are more behaved then in church. But, I like to play on someone's iPod, so yeah. I am actually one of the naughty people in the church; people who are behaved stand out in the class, not the other way around.


I was watching TV while waiting for my friend to come to my house, but turned out that she didn't come. I was kind of surprised, because she said that she might not come. I was watching some heck of TV because then my mom told me to play piano. It was around 12:30 (she would come over 1:00) when my mom told me to play piano. Haha, I stalled until 12:45, and then my mom told me to play piano until TWO. I reminded her that my friend was coming to our house, and she got so mad. -_- I felt kind of bad that I was being so secretive. Then my mom said that I had to play until my friend came over. TOO BAD! I forgot that she told me that I had to play until my friend came, and two hours at the evening. Stupid me, I had forgot. I probably played for 45 minutes, until I was able to slip away and stop playing piano. Yay. I went away from that.


I don't quite remember what I did after that, but I was pretty disappointed, but hey, I didn't get the message clearly. I think I was just doing random stuff for the rest of the day.


One thing that did happen to me today was that I got a cough. I would always start coughing unpredictably. But, it wasn't very bad, just like I was making a noise every now and then. I also had the yellowy stuff that comes out of the mouth whenever you cough. Just spitting it out worked fine. But then, (even though this technically happened tomorrow) I kept my mom up all the way until 2:30 coughing. Wah! She was pretty mad.

7/17/10

Urg. I forgot when I woke up, but not a happy time. Oops, never mind. Today I NATURALLY  woke up at 6:40, but then, since it is SUMMER, I woke up 10 something. I really need to get myself to commit again. I really really need to learn in order to finish things like projects at school. NEED TO LEARN!

I knew that today  I HAD to go biking. At some island. I didn't feel that good about biking. Not that I can't bike without training wheels (:P) it's that I don't like biking, because I don't like being squished in a tight space and the only thing you could navigate on is the clumsy big bike. My brother is really good though. Like really, really good. Going super duper fast in a narrow road, having his seat vibrate because of the rocks and tree trunks on the road. SCARY! He is awesome.

So I wake up not optimistic, but I wanted to make sure that I had the correct clothes. Of course it isn't CRAZY cold or hot, its just biking, so I wanted to be prepared. Capri length tights (again, I wore them to a different one day biking trip) and a change color sun glasses t-shirt. I also brought a jacket, (as my dad told me to) and he iPad. I didn't if I would be blogging (Notes) or reading on the app Books. I really like Anne of Green Gables, so I can always pass time with that.

I forgot what I had for breakfast, but nothing out of the ordinary. I was definitely not excited. Haha, I was still wondering whether my parents actually meant that the whole family was going biking. The time sadly came. We all got onto the large car, with all the bikes loaded. I thought it would be not so long of a drive, but I ESTIMATE two and a half hours. Maybe. Not sure though. I spent most of my time doing stuff like reading Anne of Green Gables. I surprisingly didn't get ANY car sickness (only a bit, like at the end I KIND OF got it) I only chose to read the interesting parts of the book. Sometimes it got weird, and those are the really tiny parts. So tiny that I forgot the parts I didn't like. I think I had finished the book in the perfect amount of time. I still felt that the drive was really long getting to the parking lot.

FINALLY! We got to the parking lot place that is close to the dock thing. I felt so good to be able to stretch my legs entirely, and to be able to walk around. I don't like being in a crammed space, the exception is wearing tight and fitted clothes. (.. random ..) Once my dad unloaded the bikes and helmets, we went straight from there. We (whole family) biked across the street and onto the dock where the ferry was. We took turns using the bathroom and keeping watch over the bikes. We definitely didn't want our bikes stolen.

The ferry ride was pretty much a ferry ride. It was probably less than a mile (which is really little) from the dock to the island. So less of distance that the trees on the island were visible from the dock thing. A short little ride to calm myself down.

I was pretty scared of the biking thing. I am NOT a person who enjoys going crazy uphill and bumpy roads with a constant feeling of "I am going to die". The first part was just a paved road down to the actual trail. It looked like a hopeless abyss (abyss is like a endless pit, once I saw the beginning. Really I just hauled my bike onto the actual trail and started from there. Most of it was a really annoying uphill, and an okay width of the trail, not too scary. My brother was so mad, because the sign said "Unpaved" but was just a road with pebbles and stuff. He wanted leaves, LARGE rocks, tree roots, and all that stuff. I kind of got frightened at the thought of that. Some parts of the road was so intensely uphill that I just had to walk my bike up, with really tired legs. Several (and I mean FIVE of more times) my mom told us to stop for pictures. It was only annoying when we had just taken a break. Otherwise it was okay. The one time when it was all of a sudden down hill. BOY! That was a big load of adrenaline. It was pretty scary because I wasn't use to going that fast. I really wanted to try, so I was pedaling while going down hill. Haha, I once was afraid I was going to flip over. But then, I was too chicken to go any faster on the other down hill parts. The very last part of the biking trip was, -I HATE TO ADMIT IT- fun. I was getting more confident in my biking thing, and then the BEST adventure ever. It was more like mountain biking, with just more terrain. More bumps, more of a wild adventure. That really made my day, finally being able to be biking in a mountain biking SETTING, but a beginning standards. There were no super duper uphill parts.

By the end of the day, I was SO tired. That made me THANKFUL of the ferry ride and i was just chilling out, pretty exhausted. On the way home I was also thankful of the long ride, as I wore my mom's Patagonia jacket and tried to fall asleep until we got home.

7/16/10

DARN IT! I WOKE UP AT NINE SOMETHING! I failed. My plan has failed utterly; I had wanted to wake up earlier. I am officially still not able to commit myself to something. Maybe tomorrow I will try again. Yes, maybe, as in one out of ten. I need to try though. Maybe.

I had a regular morning, and this morning, I HAD A HOT DOG, and no cheese omelet. That means that the little pan WASN'T used at all, so that I could use it, so I got to sauteed my hot dog. That was really yummy. I was watching TV while eating. Besides having a hot dog, I also had a shredded dried pork bread thing (rou4 song1 mian4 bao1) it's yummy! On two sides it is totally cover in the pork thing (It is in a shape of a cylinder) and the inside of the bread also has the pork thing. Probably the most exciting breakfast ever. I was watching TV, but I am not sure what I actually watched. Probably random stuff.

After a while I was pretty bored. I didn't have anything that I "had to" do because I had finished the project. I probably was doing random stuff for the most of it. I don't like being scatter brained, as in doing random stuff.

I am really not sure how my day went, only that the time passed really quickly, and then, BOOM! Amber, get ready for gymnastics! I'm awfully sorry I forgot what I did, but I will describe everything else I do.

When I first went to gymnastic, I was pretty early. I saw my other friends talking, so I went and joined my friends. The problem is, that I don't know how to JOIN conversations. That went pretty awkwardly.

Warm-up is basically the same thing every week, but not in the same order. First jogging in place and high knees in place then but kickers. That's the first couple warm-up stuff. Then there's a bunch of different stuff that we do, but not necessarily anymore. I think it depends on which coach does the warm up. There's a whole bunch of leg stretches, arm stretches, and well, the bridge.

First as usual after warm-ups we had floor. It wasn't that interesting, but fun enough. I had figured out through hot gossip (No, really just friends told me) and I was kind of feeling sad, but then, she was going to be back, so no BIG deal. We only had stations, which were front hand springs (I fail, I don't know how to do a hurdle FAIL!), round-off practices, back walkover stuff, leap into arabesque, and backwards extension rolls. I can't explain much, but I didn't REALLY like it. But then I am super picky, so something that is okay for me is usually pretty good for other peeps.

Then a water break (DUH) and bars. Bars is okay, because I am not very good at the stuff. The stations were glide swings to knock down blocks, improve on glide swings, cast squat-on jump off, a beginning to front hip circles, and a kind of swing for the high bar. Front hip circles is pushing up to the bar, then roll forward, and end up in a push up shape. This is very, very hard. I've only seen my OLD coach do it. No one else. My favorite thing in bars is the cast squat-on. The movement is to push up to the bar, and keeping your hands on the bars cast and put your feet onto the bar. Stand, and then jump off. The other stuff were kind of just regular, nothing special.

Beam was REALLY awesome. This time she let us choose WHATEVER  we wanted. I chose to do the cartwheel up to handstand and straddle down. I stayed on the floor practicing it. IT IS HARD. First of all you need to be like PERFECT on cartwheel up to handstand. I only can do them well by luck. Then when I try the straddle down, I lose my balance. I ONLY DID ONE OR TWO GOOD ONES. I should have switched what I was working on. Then  I might've improved on SOMETHING. Urg. Wrong choice for me.

That's really all that happened in gymnastics, but the cool down was hula hooping. Not much. I was kind of sad because next week was the last week I would see my coach for three to four months. More than how much I though would depress me. But it isn't like CRAZY.

Really there is nothing else to my day, well, that is interesting.

7/15/10

Today I woke up pretty early. 7:30 I think. My plan was that if I slept late, (like I always, I'm not able to sleep at all anymore) and woke up early, then I wouldn't have enough sleep. If that happened, then I would be able to sleep earlier. I was glad I actually committed myself to doing what I was supposed to do, because then I had a bunch of extra time to do random stuff in. I did everything I usually did in the morning, but I had  Today would have more time in it, because of the dramatic early bird. I ate breakfast while playing Fantage, and AGAIN there was nothing to cook in it. But, I am NOT complaining.

I wanted to play Fantage pretty badly because the new PETS were coming out. When I went on, I was kind of surprised. Everything had new arrivals. New clothes, hairs, boards, and rare items. That's when I spend spend spend. I usually just play Fantage and collect gems, but that is because whenever new things come out, I could get them as fast as I want to. If there is ever something new, I probably spend 1,000 starz into buying all them. Then in the 2 month+ time period when nothing is new, I get back the 1,000 starz, or sometimes more. Yay! I love my method of getting things in Fantage. Really the "pets" thing in Fantage is very stupid. I kind of hate it. I tried it, and it's just well, weird. It's not like you could walk it or anything, you just spend money and time on it.

After playing Fantage, I started to blog, just a tiny bit. I think I spent all my computer time on playing Fantage. I think that the Fantage people decided to surprise all of us to give the people who play Fantage everything new, all at once. I guess the method worked pretty well, because I was surprised (pleasantly) and appreciated the way the Fantage people do there thing. The only thing I don't appreciate is premium members being "Oh, so awesome" and always winning the Fantage Top Models.

I finally, after spending at least an hour doing actual playing computer, I finally decided to finish the very last parts of sewing. I was excited about finishing the pouch, but I wasn't excited about hand sewing. I had decided to hand sew the inner layer to the outer, which would take a year. But, I thought I could do it. I started on the first couple stitches, and boy, THEY SUCK. I really hated them. I finally tried to get the entire piece into the sewing machine, and well, that didn't work well. Before that, I had to also sew the zipper on the outside layer. I didn't think that the layers of the fabric would effect how the sewing machine would work, but with all the access fabric jamming out of the sewing machine while sewing equals a high chance of ruining the overall stitch. I didn't know much, but after finding an advantage, I finally started making progress. I figured out that since I was using navy thread top and bottom, that the stitch on the other side, the DENIM side wouldn't show a lot. And since the zipper was going to get covers by the inside layer, I didn't care much about sewing a nice stitch. As long as the zipper actually got on. Back to sewing the inside stitch. I really didn't like thinking about too many things at a time (which is equivalent to doing long division in my head) so I just... "had to" take a break. I then watched TV.

Not much to TV, but I had recorded the "Winter Beauties" (2010) pageant. I liked it. I only liked the two other OLDER girls, not the inexperienced girls who think they are awesome; even though it's not their fault that their mom made them do it. NO HARD FEELINGS, I'M JUST SAYING MY OPINION. Go Brooklyn! Her facial shape is much prettier than Brittani, (I think that's how your supposed to spell it)  who's face is skinnier, and also has a smirky smile that draws attention. Somehow they are "TOUGH" competition towards each other. I thought that Brooklyn was prettier though, and had better outfit and talent. Er, I am just glad that Brooklyn won the Ultimate Grand Supreme, (That's the highest scoring girl) and that Brittani won the second highest one, because I could tell that they both worked equally hard. Poor Brittani, she had the WRONG CD, so she had to just leave stage, without doing her correct routine. Now that I think about it, I like both of the girls equally now. They both are very good.

After watching that, I got back to sewing. Man, it is very annoying sewing STRAIGHT ish and through a bunch of layers. It is, very annoying. Sewing zippers are hard, and perhaps I left too much to be done for me at one day. I get frustrated really easily, so I only did one side, and had to take a break. I think that I got frustrated once on one stitch, and cut most of the fabric off. STUPID ME! That made me do the entire stitch over again, or at least half of it. If I were a little bit more patient, it wouldn't have turned out so weird. One side was PERFECT, but the other side was purely horrid. My mom asked me if I wanted to do it over, because it wasn't that good. Well I said no, knowing that I wouldn't bother to finish it, knowing how much hard work it takes for doing such an easy looking project. Really, WAY HARDER than it seems.

Finally after fixing all the annoying glitches in the project, I had FINISHED! After making a pencil box, I never ever want to make one every again; IT IS SO HARD! Anyway, I was pretty proud of myself for actually committing myself to finishing it. I am pretty sure that my friend will not use it, but I think that she'll appreciate it.

Not much going on after that, until swimming. I was hoping that I would work harder this time, not be so selfish and scared when doing the backstroke flip turns. The thing is, is that our coach would also been in the water with us; but I didn't remember that. When I went, I was a bit late, but whatever. That's also when I realized that I HAD A GIRL SUBSTITUTE! Her name was ****** or *****. Either one, I don't know how you spell it. I had a pretty nice time. Er, we did a lot of backstroke. We also did flip turns. I AM NOT BAD! Haha, I decided to not be a chicken, and do super strong backstrokes after the flags, and then do stroke count thing. Backstroke flip turnss are pretty simple. Once you see the flag, do the magic number of strokes and then corkscrew, and flip turn. The magic number you have to figure out yourself, by counting how many strokes it take to get from the flags to the walls. Then minus one stroke for the corkscrew. I did pretty good I think. My second one was okay, because I was too close to the wall , and I had to use my other hand to push me backwards in order to do the flip turn.

Swimming was pretty fun, but then when we got to chose whether to swim to the other side of the wall or get out the pool and walk, I chose to walk. I COULD'VE RACED THE OTHER PEOPLE! Darn it. I should've raced. Humph. Next time? Whatever. I am way too competitive.

That's really all to my day. I was hoping to wake up early next morning when I slept. Hm, it was also hard to sleep, like usual.

7/14/10

I woke up late, around ten o'clock. Not the best time ever. I am DEFINITELY going to fail when the first day of school arrives. Anyway, I ate breakfast while playing computer. There was nothing to cook, and we ran out of bread, so my dad got me the candaian bacon (really, I hate Canadian bacon kind of now, because I have it like, EVERYDAY.), microwavable bread (looks yummy, very horrible ish) and I think thats it. I cant blame my dad for making food that I like, it's notnhis fault that he can't be my servant. Also, like every day, I had a cheese omelet. I love egg things no matter what, so I don't know if I'll be saying that it taste like crap later. T.T.

There's not much I do on the computer, because now, playing computer is equivalent to: playing computer, checking email, chatting, watching YouTube, blogging, and that's about it. But then, the computer is reallVy bad for you, and knowing that everything I do on the computer is bad makes me not want to do it. Still I think I am addicted to chatting and doing nothing on the computer.

After eating breakfast and "playing computer", (I was blogging a bit, email stuff, fantage for a short while of time) i went and continued my pouch thing for my friend. I had to get the entire inside layer into the outside layer. The pouch has a outside, but all the seams and hems make the INSIDE of the pouch ugly. The solution is to make a INSIDE layer, but instead of doing the seams to the inside, do them to the out. That way nobody could see the seams on either side. Er, thats hard to imagine. So, for example, look at your hand you see the side of your hands with the nails and the knuckles. That side is the outside side of the pouch. The inside of your hands has nothing but wrinkle ish stuff and your palm. That is the ugly sides with the seams. Put your hands together. The palm facing palm and both knuckles and nails facing out. Putting together two bad sides and HIDING it makes the entire thing more pleasant to look at.

I actually was toiing with the sewing machine for quite a bit, because it is very frustrating when the fabrics barely fits into the pressed foot, and even more since there is a ZIPPER. I had to use the zipper pressed foot for most of the parts. I had finally learned how to change presser foots with my friend ********* when she came over to my house. It is easier then i had expected. I don't know at all ifni wasmplaying or working, I kind of felt guilty for not playing pins though. Tommorrow I guess.

After doing the sewing machine work stuff, including taking several breaks, I watched some TV. I like to watch "Toddlers in Tiaras". The pageants look fun. Dressing up in glitzy dress with your hair perfect seems nice for me. I wonder how performing is like. I think it's way harder than hewn see it, not walking around with a fake smile for a beauty contest, nor doing whatever your mom is doing in the audience for talent. I really want to try out a pageant. But, i think that there are no profits, unless you win grand supreme or mini grand supreme. I'm nit sure much about the money buying stuff, just the I love to win stuff.

I was actually watching two of the episodes. TWO! (By the way, each episode is an hour long) But, during the commercials and whenever I felt like so I would start doing random gymnastics. I really wish I could do a front walkover, and a back walk over. I don't know how to STAND up for fronts, and I don't know how to get down for the back one. WHY DON'T PEOPLE FALL OVER ON THE BACK ONES??? But anyway to practice going into bridge and kicking over. Doing a "tick tock", which is going to handstand, except not letting your feet together, staying in a split thing, and going into bridge. The thing is, only one leg. And then, kicking over. I CAN'T KEEP MY LEGS STRAIGHT. ******, I think, the Russian girl who is awesome in gymnastics is really good. She's also super skinny, tall, and flexible. I like her a lot.

After watching that 2 hours of TV, I felt really guilty, but then, I couldn't get myself to work either. I kind of tried out a glove pattern, like tracing my hands and so on. I really wonder how people make clothes and other hard stuff, because I am struggling with a simple pencil pouch. It would be really cool to have a black net half glove with the finger things only up till the knuckles. I wish I had net fabric. I only have denim and stuff. I couldn't get far. I really am not good at doing those kind if stuff, if only i had an actual one to try out the seams.

I then went down to the sewing machine. I was kind of playing with ribbon, sewing in it, wrapping it around my hand, and blah blah. Theres nothing much to that part of a day.

Wednesday is the day that I have no classes, so there isn't much for me to say. All the paragraphs written above take way longer time then usual, so it's not like I chilled around for 3 hours doing nothing. My parents always try to get me to sleep before 11:00.  I CAN'T SLEEP UNTIL ONE! But then, that's because I don't wake up early AT ALL. I am trying to get myself to wake up earlier, like when I wake up naturally wake up, I don't fall back to sleep, but instead actually wake up. I have the iPad farther away from the bed, so I would have to WAKE UP and WALK to get the iPad to check what time it was.

7/13/10

I woke up 8:03, but ended up getting out of bed 9:40. Haha, I slept all the two or more hours in that time span. When I finally woke up and got everything done, and went downstairs to get my breakfast. I wondered if I could use the pan again for a tiny bit of cooking, but then, my dad already used the pan, and it had egg stuff and oil all over it. That's because I had the cheese omelet my dad always makes.Wah. I woke up with a feeling of dread, that my piano was today, at 4:15.

I was glad about the stall, but I always have a bad feeling about piano class. Not that I hate my teacher, I just hate piano. My teacher is Russian, and she has orangish hair. She says that I could play really hard songs, but my theory is like level 2, in CM stuff, NOT ALFRED traditional kinds. Because I play SONATINAS and Burgmüllers, which I think is level 5-7. I don't really care about theory, but I rather do the CM test than recitals or competitions.

I had brought my breakfast up to my computer desk place thing, and started eating and playing. Fantage, to be exact. I don't like the way premium members no matter what they wear they always win. I like only games where non members are playing. It's more fair. But anyway, I like to get coins and stuff. I have 10,000+ coins. I need to get more, though. I was just playing for no reason. Also I was going to PD tryouts, which I think are really stupid. The way you lose is by having a member in the tryout. STUPID! Anyway, nobody really likes me, fro just being myself. I only go to the tryout because I want to watch the action.

After playing computer for some time, I went downstairs to the SEWING machine. Not that exciting. I was finishing part 2 of my pencil pouch for my friend. I was finishing most of the outer part, adding an embellishment, and doing some of the inner layer. The outer layer I needed to sew the zipper on, which is first sewing the zipper on another piece of fabric, then sewing the fabric actually on. I had first finished the big part of the pouch on both layers. On the INNER layer of the pouch, I decided to put in a POCKET. I just hemmed the top part, and sew the piece of fabric literally on the inside layer. No need for hemming the other sides. What I hate about all sewing projects are that there are a bunch of random threads dangling EVERYWHERE. I hate cutting off the threads. So annoying, because cutting off too much thread equals stitches falling.

I was saving the most difficult parts of the pencil pouch for the next day. The other thing I did was sewing the embellishment. It was a pink apple with sparkly flower beads sewed on there. Sequins, I guess. I hand sewed it on the bottom left corner of the outer layer (DUH). After hand sewing, I realized how dull I was on hand sewing. I DON'T LIKE HAND SEWING! It's so slow. I never knew I had become so bad at hand sewing, I guess machine sewing got me really used to sewing super duper fast.

After probably sewing for at least for an hour, my alarm went off. That happened because my dad made me set an alarm so I wouldn't forget what time it was. I set it 30 minutes before the class, when my mom was making me food. It seems that my mom had forgotten, so i told her that I had to go to piano right at the time I was supposed to leave. Since her house is pretty close to ours, i usually leave 5-6 minutes before. Yeah. My dad kind of got mad at me, but I really don't know why. I had reminded my mom excatly five minutes before, like USUAL, and my dad was SCOLDING me. Weird.

The piano class was okay in the beginning, and was . What was really cool was that the teacher gave me a really hard song, that sounds really easy. The counts of the songs are really hard, like sometimes it's two notes to a beat or three (triplet) or four, or five, and I think that there is a six. It's nice that i finally kind if enjoyed the class. What made me really happy was that hen my mom came, and I was supposed to leave, my teacher said bye and smiled. That made it awesome!! Well that sounds weird right? But i really appreciate little things which leads up to doing big things.

When i went home, I felt really good that I had enjoyed it, and that I had gotten over the piano class of the week. I'm usually really relieved after piano class, because piano is just creepy. After piano i had swimming. I don't know about what I had did after piano, but then, swimming for me is at 7:00, so I usually get ready at 6:35. Changing and sunscreen.

My swimsuit is a white one with pink fish,  and pink text. Also there's a little tutu thing. Arg, it's the only one that fits me. BARELY. When I went, I was a little bit too confident. I had enjoyed the previous class, so I thought that this would also be enjoyable. Not that it is torture, but it was just more drilling stuff. When we did the 50 freestyle as the warm up, some person (proud, witty, thinks he's the best) started before me. I was the fastest that day, because the fastest person was not coming for that class. That guy had a probably 5 second start (plus 10, we go 10 seconds for each person, like one leaves on the 30, then next on the 40, etc.) and I still LAPPED him. I had gotten ahead of him around the last 3/5's of the lap.

Really swimming was all about backstroke flip turns. CREEPY! I get really scared of them. All my flip turns were about 3-5 feet away from wall, and my regular flip turns aren't that good. Hee hee, flip turns aren't my things.

I kind of felt sad because I didn't do as good as I did last week, so I kind of felt discouraged.  I don't like being just the okay person, but then I don't like being super competitive. Maybe just a bit better than average. 

I took a shower almost immediately when I got back home, so I didn't quite stall that bad. I was too moody too.

Not much more to my day, because i had forgotten all of it. ( I wrote this two days later, I should be more on time right?) I'm sorry, I'll be more responsible next time, I promise.

7/12/10

This morning I woke up pretty late, or woke up around nine, and stalled for 2 to 3 hours. Nah, I think I stalled just an hour. Breakfast for me was eaten at lunch though; a cheese omelet and a hot dog. I also did some cooking today! I cut the hot dogs into a bunch of different pieces, and I sauteed it! Boy, that was yummy! So all I did was put the little pieces of the hot dog on the hot pan, and moved the pan around like heck. TA DA!

After breakfast my mom had made me play piano, while she would pick up my brother from his math (the really good kind, I think 9th grade stuff) and get groceries. Playing piano. Urg. I felt rebellious again. From what I learned yesterday, I tried to not be rebellious and more agreeable. I said fine, and I actually did play piano! Go me! I actually committed myself to something! I need to get in the in the habit of doing more stuff. I don't think I played super well, because that day was my piano class, and well, I just hate it. At least I played some piano though.

After playing (.."a long time") I went upstairs and checked my email. The cool thing is that my long lost friend, *****, that I left behind in Chinese school was on, but I didn't have her as a contact. So we chatted for 2-3 conventions, through EMAIL. Then I finally invited her to my chat, and there. The thing is, that I needed to go right after I sent the invite, so we couldn't chat. I kind of miss her.

My mom came home then. She had bought this really cool jelly thing that was just.. YUMMY! The flavors of the jelly are grape, peach, apple and orange. I came up with an ingenious idea. (not really I guess) I t was to FREEZE  the jellies. I put 2 grapes and one  peach. Later my mom ate the peach one. (the peach on wasn't frozen,  just super duper cold)

After that, I played a tiny bit more of piano. I went behind the couch, which is basically my space. There is a little chunk of carpeted area (ABOUT 14 feet x  5 feet) that borders the backdoor into the backyard. (ROCKET SCIENCE! ... not) The back door is glass, so the suns' light gets into the room, which means super clean carpet (Uh, ultra violet rays?). I now go there if I need to think about something very hardly. hat time I had to think about trying to continue piano (I still had to, just wondering about me being so stubborn about it) and continuing singing. Singing is really just a tryout, and I think I am a total fail. I can't sing vocals at all. I made my mind to quit singing, go with the flow for piano.

While I was thinking, I got distracted. The backyard could be beautiful ish, and well, I was watching squirrels. And I was observing the plant stuff (trees, little bushes). I guess it put my mind more at rest, so I could think more straightly. I made up my mind at the very end, when I pulled myself all together.

After doing the thinking, I went to play computer. Fantage to be exact. My user is "glitter691". Nothing exciting about playing Fantage, just random stuff, getting stars, watching and doing PD tryouts. Ha ha, I am the weirdo who shouts out answers in every PD tryout. Been called weird twice. I was playing the model thing, and then, "Amber, we could go to Hancock Fabrics" now." YIPPEE! I was asking to go to Hancock Fabrics starting from yesterday. I had to get fabrics for my skirt class thing (I am going to make THREE!)

Choosing fabrics was WAY harder than I thought. I had found some really cool prints, except they were FLANNEL. As in not wearable things.I had to find all the cotton stuff. That was the first time I was ALONE at a fabric shop (My mom went to Target for other stuff, I said that I'd be fine)I was pretty confused, so I stayed to one particular area until I got to know the entire layout of the store. I found this really cool zebra yet not-so-zebra-looking fabric that was a bright red-violet, and I made a mental note to remember where it was, and how much I liked it. The class was going to make 3 different types of skirts. The first one, a regular pull-on skirt with an elastic band. The second one is a 3 DIFFERENT FABRIC tiered skirt with an elastic band. The last one is a WRAP skirt, with a ribbon to tie it together. I don't think I will wear any of them, because the fabric I chose matches, but doesn't look good, and isn't my style.

For the first skirt, I used the zebra looking fabric for the main one, and a grayish black bial tape for the embellishment. The second one I had a light blue color on top, blue stars on the second one, and a wavy ish dark blue waves. Honestly, it isn't my style. For the last one, I got a black and pink CHEETAH print fabric, that I think was really cute. With blue ribbon for the wrapped part.

Lastly, I got a denim fabric with silver metal looking things on it, and a small red checkered fabric. I am using them for my surprise to my friend. I am making something VERY special. I also got a pale golden zipper. ALL for my friend. (The stuff in the paragraph)



I was thinking about making the present for my friend, and spent most of my time doing that. I did a really awesome job, I think, and well, I wish I could include what I did, but it's secret. I did do the inner layer of the ****** ***** and the outer layer. I didn't finish it, I need to add a lot of more parts to it, and I was going to do that tomorrow. Besides awesome progress, I got the entire table, (SOMETHING THAT ISN'T EXACTLY MINE) messy with thread, loose scraps of fabrics, and so on.

The day was nice. While I was having fun making the project, I forgot about the fact that I had PIANO class that day. Skipping the class was awesome, but then my parents got mad. I should have been more responsible, but I had fun. I was really glad about skipping piano, but I need to make it up tomorrow. I actually feel neutral about it, not happy, only a tiny bit. ( I am contradicting myself right?) but really, I don't know if I felt super duper good about it. The rest of my day was okay, and again, I was told to sleep before one, and it took me sometime to sleep. I did eventually though.

7/11/10

Arg. Don't know when I wake up. The iPad was downstairs after the movie, and I was too lazy to go down stairs to check. The stupid thing is, is that there's a clock right outside my mom and I's room. But I checked a bit later, so about 10:30. I did my hair in a bun, a loose one.

For breakfast, I had a hot dog, a cheese stick, and bread with butter. During the "breakfast time moment", I had my very first informal cooking lesson. It was a hot dog on the pan. My mom taught me how to fry it, which is really just waiting for it to sizzle, and then flip it over. I am officially the best cook in the WORLD! No. I over sizzled it, and the result was mushroom looking things on my hot dog. Whatever, I took them off, and still the hot dog was YUMMY! I also warmed up my bread with butter on the pan.

After eating, my mom made me peel CORN. Really it's not that bad, but hard. (As in tough, probably because I am TIRED) It's like taking apart layer by layer each peel of corn. On the last cob of corn (there were 4 cobs) I saw a bunch of tiny bugs in the very bottom of the corn. Luckily I didn't scream (I have a very severe case of Bug-Phobia) Peeling corn is actually pretty fun.

When I was finished, my mom told me to set up the new SHARK steam mop. I am not exactly the best person to set things up, and well it took me a pretty long time. The cool thing about the new steam mop is that: 1. It has a back saver, which is something in which there's a notch that bends, so instead of having the steam mop almost parallel to the ground going underneath the table, you have one handle perpendicular to the ground and another one parallel. That's hard to imagine eh? Well sorry, I can't explain things quite well.

Then my mom told me to vacuum the floor, to get ready for the steam mop.  (It sounds like torture, but this happens only once in a while, and I am kin of used to it now). I don't like to vacuum, because it's not fun to just move an obnoxious vacuum head around,  it's much more fun to push down a pad with steam coming out of it; which is the steam mop. My mom told me to do some specific parts of the 1st floor, and I did only 2 of them (out of 3) and I left out the big part. Then my mom came and said that I didn't need to do anymore, and that she would do it.

She then told me to set up the steam mop and steam mop the floor, (as in put water in it, and plug it in) and so I did. I was really clumsy today. When I poured water in the water holder, I spilled most of it out. Before that, I had spilled the entire small pitcher of water. Hee hee! I suck. It was a while for me to finish the team moping. Huh, I was SWEATING.

After that, I found what the "carpet glider". It was some actual carpet glider. Hm. It's supposed to be something to help you STEAM MOP the carpet. It's a border thing, to help the mop the carpet. I did the STAIRS. Haha, it only looks good because I smoothed out the carpet, but then my mom said her feet felt good so yeah..

And now, here I am. I was trying to watch TV, but then the stupid speakers wouldn't work so yeah, too bad for me.

After finally getting the speakers working from my brother, I started watching TV. I was watching Kate Plus 8: Chicken Coop, or something like that. I like Hannah and Alexis. Maddie is super stylish. Haha.

After watching for about 30 minutes, my dad told me that at a specific time, he was going to play tennis with me. I felt really bad. I hated to do that. During times, I just find myself being difficult, and no cooperative. I didn't go though. I was just too, weird and in a bad mood too.

After that I felt so bad, so selfish and bad that I was so no thoughtful of other people. Sometimes for some random reason I just, don't want to do anything. I wish I was less sentimental. Usually this barely happens, but when it does, I get really immature. I started crying and my dad and I started to talk about why. I really had nothing to say, about being sad, but I just miss my friends so much. They stop chatting with me, and well I can't get to them. I've tried and tried and some guy won't answer me for giving me his friend's email, which is the person who I want to chat with. I just miss my friends so much.

There's not much left for me to say, only that I had a really bad evening.

7/10/10

Okay. Don't know when  I woke up. Well that's because I was charging the iPad. It had 20% or less BATTERY! So I charged it and I wasn't able to check what time it was. With no book to read, (I finished White Fang last night) I got really irritated when it got warmer, so I just had to wake up. The awesome thing about Tempurpedic mattresses is that I could punch it whenever I get mad. It always makes me feel better.

So last night I was reading probably until 1:00. My mom finally told me to sleep after I finished reading the book, and was punching the mattress. I don't find anything easy to do o carry my anger out besides punching stuff.

Okay, so in the end of White Fang (which I whole heartily recommend, it turned out that White Fang was a really smart dog, and once told not to do something, he would not do it. He was always the smart house keeper. When the entire house at night would be sleeping, White Fang would be an alert dog to listen for any robbers and intruders, and torture them to the BONE. As in bite all the flesh off. GO WHITE FANG!!

Okay, so I was really irradiated in the morning so I kind of stalled, but whatever. For breakfast I had three steamed buns. YUMMY! They have some stuff in it that's just so yummy and chewy, a nice blend of textures and taste. Simple equation: Me + Steam Bun = Eternity.

I really don't have much to say about my morning, all that is my dad figured out that the FIFA football finals were tomorrow, not already ended. Even though the people already have a game for 3rd place; which is Uruguay vs. Germany. GO URUGUAY! SOUTH KOREA DIDN'T LOSE FOR NO REASON!!!

Something I think is really stupid is that there's an octopus (Paul the Octopus) that could.. "tell the future" I think is pure coincidence that he chose which team would win in each game. So, the octopus basically chose which team he though would win. And the team he chose would always win. He chose that Spain would win the World Cup (The finals are Netherlands vs. Spain) GO NETHERLANDS!

I have to play piano soon, but I've already updated this as much as I could have.

UPPING YOU TO THE DATE!!!! †îmé ®éåÎÎ¥. (that's weird eh? I don't like it)

I am eating dinner right now, which is something from Domino's Pizza. It's a pizza bowl thing, with PASTA in it. It's yummy. I got MARINARA, which is basically like regular pasta, but my mom says that the sauce is nice just like my dad. Hm, besides eating pasta in pizza bowl, I am listening to "DJ Got Us Falling Again" It is better. I didn't think Usher could have been this good after I heard OMG. Okay, I am not concentrated right now. NO MUSIC, CHATTING, AND RANDOM INTERNET STUFF.

I had tennis at 4:00, and before that, I was HUNGRY. Even though it was only 2:30, it was quite a mad rush, but of course, I still got some stuff to eat. The whole family went to Chipotle, which is officially my favorite place to go in a mad rush. I got a burrito bowl, which is a bowl, with all the burrito contents in it. Yum! I love the cilantro lime rice, so sour and yummy. (That doesn't sound pleasant eh? But anyway, super yummy. I also got black beans, lettuce, salsa, chicken, guacamole, and lemonade. (THE LEMONADE WAS IN A CUP, NOT A BOWL). Everything was yummy. My mom says it's also super duper healthy. I won't get muscly with that kind of a meal.

I'm also wondering what the store next to it, pink berry is like. It's like ice cream and stuff like that. I want to go there.

After my mad rush linner and I got back home, it as 3:23. Phew! That was close. I probably still rushed to get ready for tennis. My mom is awesome! She made me bring this thermos, which had ice in it, (by the way, it was super duper hot in the afternoon) and two bottle of water. The tough coach (not like mean, but physically tough) made us (4 people including me) really tiered. At least for me. I don't think I am that good at tennis, but I (TOTALLY LUCK) hit two cones, and saved the class Rodicks. (A Rodick is when you SPRINT from side to side on the tennis court). The coach said that for every cone you hit, you save the entire group 10 balls in the net. The balls hit in the net are then divided by 5 and that's how many Rodicks we had to run. The only way to not run Rodicks were to hit the cones. Lucky us, we didn't need to run any.

After that, we did some matches, and well, I am not good at offensive shots. I always hit the ball to the person in offensive and away in rallying. I am not the best tennis player.

After I went home, I had to take a shower. This time I really didn't feel bad or rebelling because I had sunscreen all over me. It was getting POWDERY! The sunscreen had started flaking in the HOT sun. Well it's true, it was really hot.

After taking a shower,  I felt really good, because I used the scrubby cloth, and my skin felt SMOOTH! (I guess I thought that because my skin was flaking, but no matter what, if you use the scrubby cloth, your skin WILL feel smooth). Then I had dinner. The dinner was the Domino's pizza thing.

I watched a movie with my mom, dad, and brother (FAMILY). It was called an Italian Job. Recommend it to EVERYONE. It's really funny, intense and brain thinky at the same time. I love the movie. I think it's a pretty old movie, but I think is awesome.

After that, even thought it was ONLY 12:00, my mom made me sleep. I probably couldn't sleep until 12:30-45.

7/9/10

Arg. Today I woke up at ten sixteen. I was reading for a while when I woke up. It's really weird, I always feel like I had already woke up in the morning, an I was waking up while I was awake. Maybe I had woken up sometime an went back to sleep. I really don't know.

Last night I had braided my hair shortly after I took a shower (washed my hair, swimming, duh) and when it was still pretty wet, I french braided it. The result, long lasting waves in my hair. I just found that I had my capri-length tights in my closet, so it was easy choosing what I would wear. My hair was easy too. The braids did an effect overall to how my face looked, so I settled in doing a simple low side ponytail. Haha, right now I am typing without look at the keyboard, and I am doing very okay ish. I am not that good, and I really never considered life without looking at the keyboard.

Okay I went to eat breakfast (Um, which was these kind of bread which was okay, and half a hot dog, and half a slice of Canadian bacon. Nothing to be jealous upon.) after I was all ready with what I usually do in the morning. I wish my breakfast was a little bit more exciting. But, anyway I can't ask too much.

 I then went directly to my desk. My friend had requested for a coin pouch to be made for her. Not like "I WANT A COIN POUCH. IT'S A LIVE OF DIE SITUATION" no. She was all like "I don't know if I am asking to much but, can you make me a coin pouch?" Yeah. I had replied. Really, a coin pouch is too easy for my liking. I was planning all last night what I should make. I thought of it! A pencil pouch. I did all the measurements at that time. I had every single thing done besides the fabric. I even made a little model for the pouch out of paper. WORKED WONDERS! I am pretty confident I could pull of the pencil pouch. Lots of mental notes though. Better write them down.

I did that until twelve, in which I started to use the computer. I am not allowed to use the computer until 12, which I think is kind of stupid. But of course, being a computer addict is stupid. "Sometimes a mortal is never wise" That was the rough quote in the book I was reading, AFTER I did this. I was finishing the post from yesterday. Better be more... RESPONSIBLE with my parental controls.

After that my dad made me eat lunch. I wasn't in the mood to but I tried my best. Sometimes I feel as wicked as Satan. So I ate all I could, or all I felt like, and then stopped. It was 牛肉湯 which is beef soup. Like my friend said, it sounds disgusting in English but is actually really good. My grandpa makes the best. He also used to sell them (as in 3-4 years ago)

So after "finishing" my lunch/dinner, I went to steal Rainbow Man from my brother and went to read the book "The Penderwicks On Gardam Street" by Jeanne Birdsall. (I got that last name this time). I finished it. It was just like the first book, but I think a little bit worse, not because of content, but of me, getting old of the story. I would rate a four out of five stars at it. Here's the preview:
(I wrote it)

The Penderwick sisters are back home. After an odd visit from they're aunt, they're father starts DATING. This ruptures the entire peace of mind for all the sisters, especially Rosalind, who was oldest, and loved her mom the most, knowing her for the longest time. The Penderwicks lost their mom to cancer shortly after she gave birth to Batty, the youngest of the sisters. Now it's up to the sisters to fix the "DADDY DATING" problem.

Okay, that was not the perfect ist preview, but something like that. It isn't at all a mystery, but a creative fight for what the sisters think is right. Yeah. After reading the book, I decided to finish up this post, and be a responsible little girl. Too bad for me; I'm almost out of computer time, but I really want to get the Capture the Flag tactic on the blog. Don't have a lot of time. TOMORROW I PROMISE I'LL GET IT UP, TODAY OR TOMORROW.

Upping you to the date... T i m e     R e a l l y

I just finished eating dinner. It was not so good, but of course I'm am really picky on what I eat. It was noodles; the noodles were some kind of clear noodles, with I think TARO grounded into the original flour, so the noodle are clear, with dark purple dots everywhere. In the soup there were clams (YUMMY), clam shells, seaweed, and "A 菜" (It's a kind of lettuce ish thing, that grows in the winter ). Haha, after dinner, I managed to eat a lü4 ca2 shu1. Boy, that was a nice dessert, but really small.

Gymnastics was pretty nice. Floor was really boring, even though my coach changed it as much as possible. I was trying to do a front walkover. It's hard. I don't get how a bunch of really awesome people could do them. I can't stand up on just one leg!!! IT'S HARD.

After floor, we got water. Well duh. We did vault next. It was different from most vaults that I did. Instead of one spring board to jump on, they're were two of them in a row. That is just weird feeling. My legs always weren't straight, and so I had kind of went not so forward in the second jump. We did stretch jumps, straddle, handstands, and rolls. Really fun to do the rolls, just a nice MOMENTOUS feeling.

Then we had tumble track. Tumble track is a really long trampoline. We were doing FRONT FLY SPRINGS. It's actually pretty easy. Just run, hurdle, TWO FEET go up, and fling your legs over, and BRIDGE, and stand up. Way easier then sounds. I have a problem with putting my hands on the very close to the edge of the mat, and so, I go SLOW. I think.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, we went to pit, for FUN. Pit is well, a pit that is filled with cubic foam squares. It's where a bunch of the competition girls practice stuff, so if they fall of or land to early, they won't break their head off. All I did was front tucks, round-offs, and well just jumps.

7/8/10

Hello world... I don't know when I woke up today. I told myself to not use the iPad. I am a very bad person at keeping promises. To keep myself entertained and not check my email, I continued to read my book: WHITE FANG by Somebody. It's really nice. I like how you think you know who the wolf is, and then POW wolf changes personality like heck. I have vowed to never get a mammal pet (remember, I am a very bad promise keeper)

I didn't know what i could ear today. I was just heroically stumped on my hair and my clothes. Believe it or not, I didn't think anything in my closet was pretty. Boo me. I am a very selfish person. Somehow, I got my hair and clothes okay, but not good. Sometimes I wish that I had a super duper big closet with every single pretty thing in there. Huh, i am getting to weird. My hair was a bun, a one on top, with Bobby pins to make it look more regular. I had to do that because my hair was acting very weird today. I had put it in a way last night which made it weird I guess. Breakfast was the usual, croissant and egg. To bad for me. I woke up way too late and it was all cold.

All last night exile I was still awake I was thinking about a tactic for capture the flag. On how to win, and a strategy only known to FIFTH GRADERS. That meant only fifth graders would win. Haha, I am getting very cruel hearted. I have thought it through and through, I am just worried about not enough offensive people at one time. Maybe I should add another person to the lure. I'll have the entire strategy up in a coupe days with the picture.

I can't quite remember all the things I did today in the correct order, but I am just going to try. After breakfast I went to clean up the mess I made from yesterday. Ah, I think I remember now.

My brother made me do some pre algebra problems. I had to do ten problems in each section. (note: there were 11 sections that I did) And it doesn't seem like much but it actually is much. I don't know if I am weirdo and lazy just because of summer. I AM CAUGHT UP IN SUMMER FEVER!At last I somehow finished it. I kind of felt good, because I passed away a lot of time.

When I finished doing the math problems, I was playing and chatting with my friend *****. we were playing some warriors name game. So, one person would start saying one warrior cat's name. The very last letter of that name would have to be the first letter of the second name the other person would say. I had a cheat. All the names of the cats were written on some warriors wiki website, giving me the infinite amount if names. But then I didn't cheat anymore (go me, I am honest). So it was a tie. I won the first round and she won the second. You lose if you can't think of any other name starting with that letter. E is perhaps the hardest letter to have. Only Elltail and Emberstar are e savers. A really annoying thing are the R's in furs, because at least twenty times I had to get an r somewhere. Can i have more variety? Well I'm asking to much. ERIN HUNTER ROCKS!!!!

After playing to much my mom told me to stop. She wanted me to eat something, drink some water, and play piano. I decided to take it easy on my eating and drinking water part, kind f like stalling for my piano time. I am very criminal minded. So i had 八宝粥. That's ba1 bao3 zhou1. I also had 绿茶酥 which is like pineapple cake, but instead of pineapple filling, it's green tea paste. YUMMY!!! And last but not least, the 小王子麵 was also yummy. Too bad for me, they were to yummy, couldn't stall at all.

Haha, the time came, too bad. I had to play PIANO. Really, I don't record how long I play, like I don't check every once in a while to see how long I played. I think I did okay. Huh, I did improve I guess. Really not much to say about practicing piano. I didn't feel that bad playing piano.

Then my mom aid that I had to eat something. Too bad for me I don't think that I could've eaten all a regular dinner would have. I had to eat around 5:00 because I had swimming some time later. I think 7:00. Yeah.

Okay, swimming was good. As in I think I did pretty good. I'm usually scared to do flip turns, but I did pretty good ones today. Not bad for a chicken. Haha, we had to do 50 free styles. That was hard. THREE OF THEM with a little break in between. Haha, I am officially the fastest swimmer. (Besides Phillip, we wasn't there.) I get so tired so easily. Huh, and I don't get what the coach means by "Drawing circles with your legs" for breast stroke. I guess I am an okay swimmer. But swimming is a more recreational sport for me. I guess.

After swimming was over my dad went to Barnes And Nobles. He had reserved two book for me and one for himself. I am getting the second book in the Penderwicks series and "BATTLES OF THE CLANS" Haha, my brother thought it was "Battle of The Claws" because of the font. It was so hilarious.

Okay. Then after secretly reading Battle of The Clans, I had to take a shower. Used the favorite soap bar again! When I found it under the stool, I found that it fell of the soap holder thing. The bottom was all mushy. I hope it stays on the soap holder thing tonight.

There's really a bunch of boring stuff that happens after, so I'm just put it in bullets:

• Mom made me eat dinner food at around ten o'clock, didn't get far
• Read more of "Battle Of The Clans"
• Finished some of the blog
• Slept

7/7/10

Aha, woke up 9:40 today. Last night I put the iPad on the chair thing net to my bed, telling myself that when I woke up, I would take it and finish the post from yesterday. (I couldn't finish it, I was going to, but afraid I would get caught. Anyway I was explaining a lot about the time when my friend came over). So that's what I did, but I don't know if I had woke up and fell asleep because I felt like I had already woken up when I did wake up. Maybe it was my crazy dream.

I can't remember much, but I think that we were in some mansion when my friends and  I (I had friends there? I can't remember well) when we found rockets and drugs. Basically explosives. Then we called the police. For some reason I thought that the police were going to ignite the explosives, and be like terrorists. That's when I went outside and hid away. Then I figured out that nothing bad was happening so I went to the police who was guarding the house and got back in. He said something that I forgot, but I said I was scared of something... I really can't tell.

Anyway,  I was watching TV, and now I feel like a chicken. There's a little pug dog that SKY DIVES. Creepy! And surfs. (Really, it doesn't have a choice, cause he just puts him on the surf board for surfing, and puts him in his jumpsuit for sky diving. ) But then the dog doesn't whine or anything.

Not much to my life right now. I probably finished my breakfast 45 minutes ago, then my dad, 30 minutes ago said: "OKAY! LUNCH IS SERVED." Huh, sorry daddy for being a pain. I'll eat it 1:30 I promise.

Arg. I was eating dinner. It was six dumplings.o never rally liked dumplings, but they're okay. I don't ow how to describe dumplings. Really there isn't anything special about them.

Okay, after I was eating lunch, I went to check the sewing machine. I don't like it. The thread kept on BREAKING. As usual, the special design ones made the machine jam. Part of the bobbin got stuck into the machine. Had to cut off so much thread. Anyway, I changed then treads, and boy, that was just a big difference. I don't know if i didn't try it our enough to know, but that was a big relief. I still can't think of something nice for my friends birthday. I'm working on it though.

UPPING YOU TO THE DATE!!!!!!!!! time really

So today, in the more afternoon I had a lot more fun in my day. I couldn't think of anything for my friend to have, and I wanted to sew something. The problem is that I had run out of most of the pretty fabric. There was only one more big piece (I mean really big, I think at least a foot long) so i decided to do something with that. After accidentoy cutting part of it off, i decided to use that, as the amount of fabric I would use. After a cue debates, I made up my mind and wanted to do something incorpating her name. And then BOOM I got it. I was going to do a oil low, with her name stitched on the back of it.

When I made it, it really was just meticulous work, not super hard measuring and calculating things. I didn't feel like I was only doing this for her as labor. It was kind of fun to tell the truth, having the extra experience. If you are the person reading this, the birthdays girl, I'm just saying that your present is all done. If i cant do anything better, I'll give it to you at the first day of school.

Then i got my art table all messy by trying to think of a way to make a card. I was trying to think of a theme, but I failed like crap. NO i really did. I wasted a bunch of time on nothing. Also a bunch of materials on nothing. I need to learn the "Less Is MORE" thing. Anyway, I managed to get an okay card. I will get the picture up on the blog AFTER some time. Want there to be a surprise. Maybe first day of school.

Sorry, there is not much to type about my day. Nothing interesting. But, I was being SNEAKY! I got my favorite soap bar into the shower and used it tonight. I am being sneaky (Well not really, just not asking my mom for permission ≠_≠) because there isn't anymore room on the shower caddy. A caddy is something that usually hands an the walls of the shower and holds most of the soaps, shower gels, etc. So, my solution was using a soap holder thing and putting the new soap on the ground, UNDER THE LITTLE STOOL. (You can't see anything under the little stool.)

Oh yeah, I was also driven by boredom that I started reading a book. (OMG AMBER READ A BOOK NOT WARRIORS!!) It's called White Fang. I read to probably half of it. I really like the book. I can't quite summarize it, it's probably the hardest book to summarize. I like part two the best. I stayed probably till 12:45 reading it.

7/6/10

Today I woke up... I forgot. Anyway, I really didn't have that interesting of a morning. I had brunch as usual, which was basically breakfast. (Contents, yes time no) It was croissant, egg, Canadian bacon, and these fruits which skin was really sour but flesh was delicious. Really I didn't finish them, just the croissant and the egg. I finished one piece of the bacon (really, Canadian bacon is ham) (There were two pieces of ham) and a couple of bites from the fruit (There also were two fruits, they're like small peaches (SIZE)).

In the morning I was doing work for my mom. I was copying down papers. Not by hand, but but by sticking 9 pages in the scanner thing, then waiting for the papers to come out. Everything has to stay in the original order (There were numbers) both the copies made and the original copies.

The place where the papers that are supposed to be copied are put is like a tray facing upward. The machine would take one at a time, scanning it and copying it. The problem is, that the machine sometimes would take two at a time! Keeping everything meticulously in order was a definite pain. Sometimes, the paper would slip into the scanner, and it wouldn't copy the full thing, only the one part that showed. It would be blocked because the paper would've slipped into behind the other paper, causing a very annoying crisis. Oh, and I guess I was pretty efficient, because I finished copying, putting in order, and fixing problems for 200 of the papers. Go me.  :§    (Does that look like a mustache? vote)

Anyway, I was pretty excited because my friend ********* was coming over to my house at 1:00! We had A LOT  of fun. She's the person who's birthday is coming up, and so, I made her a present. SURPRISE! The "The Bracelet  I was Talking About on the Fourth Of July" bracelet on the sidebar is the bracelet  I intended for her. She liked it.

The first thing we did was do some beading. Beading is an older hobby of mine, but I still have a thing for it. I showed her how to make loops out of metal, and I made a link bracelet with her! It was turquoise glass beads with the sides coated with gold colored metal as the regular beads, with one focal bead; a jet black glossy diamond shaped bead. That was fun!

Next we played Egyptian War. I just learned and I suck. I have I guess really bad reflexes. Anyway, thank you ********* for teaching me!

Then we went to the backyard and did some stuff. I guess we had an "ADVENTURE" we were looking inside the pond, when  I found out that there were a bunch of cool stuff there. We found larvae of some insect, and this water mosquito like, going on a tread mill, because there was a small current. It was really cool. The larvae of an unknown insect (for me) swims by smashing it's head from side to side, going backwards. That was really fun for me to watch.

Then, we went playing with the sewing machine. We were trying different patterns, which was really fun. She was stomping on the foot peddler, while I was guiding the fabric. And then, "STOP" I would say and we would stand gawkily at the unique computerized design. THERE WERE HEARTS! THEY WERE SUPER COOL. We had tried to make a pouch thing, but the machine kept ruining the fabric and jamming for some reason (probably because it was a FANCY pattern) so we couldn't.

Sadly, the time came, 5:30. Bye bye *********! Maybe Thursday... ±_±

Anyway, I had dinner sometime later, which was okay. I had green beans (The only yum, it was okay this time), beef and onions, tofu mix with yummy stuff, and duck. (And rice, DUH!)  I didn't eat much.

Until right now, I am freakishly emotionless. A little bit sad though. Urg, I want to get Rainbow Man onto the blog, but privacy is HARD! I'll try though. Rainbow man is the stuffed animal that I got from bed and bathsbeyind for ten dollars. Really he ismy favorite stuffed animals, and it's also my brother's favortite.

There's this really cool thing that I'm trying out in gymnastics, the handstand strattle down. It's pretty easy, but the crucial thing to do is to get into a perfect handstand. Then taking your legs slowly aorta, you need to touch the ground with them. But the problem is, I can't do it because it's supposed to be a handstand from a cartwheel!!! Hard. I've only done it once.

After taking a shower, I wasn't tired. Idont get it! Why doess everyone want me to sleep by eleven o'clock??? I couldn't really sleep at all. I wish thati couldbefinished watching FIFA world cup. It wasn't live, but go Netherlands. They eon anyway, I heard my dad give it all away.

I am trying to make a pretty july calendar. NOT WORKING. I couldn't get the title done because I had to sleep. Haha, i probably stalled at least ten minutes. Wish I coukdsomehow getmyparents to know that its summer and people fall asleep iin summer one to two o'clock.

7/5/10

Um today, I woke up really late.I don't know when, but really late. I woke up and I started reading the book "the penderwicks" by Jeanne something. It's a really good book and I recommend this book to everybody. It's quite like Anne of green gables, but more modern. It's also really realistic, with sisterly hate and love.

So, when the penderwicks sisters (batty Jane Skye and Rosalind) go to Arundrel for they're summer vacation, unpredictable things happen. They go to a cottage where each find they're own suitable bedroom to sleep in. They make a bunch of new friends such as Cagney, Jeffrey, Churchie, and the two rabbits Carla and Yaz. Everyday is different, with each sister finding her own little adventure and having fun playing with they're friends. Mrs. Tifton, Jeffrey's mom is the owner of Arudrel and is perhaps the most coldest person they meet. She's lady with high expectations in everyone, and doesn't like the Penderwicks one little bit. She's impatient and gets mad at almost EVERYTHING.

I think that's all the I'm allowed to write I think, and plus, everything is pretty random, so perhaps reading the book will give more excitement instead of knowing what would happen because of reading an inexperienced writer's summary.

I went to some Chinese place for lunch (I don't think I had breakfast, :0) and it was loud. Whenever my family goes there, there's always a constant buzzing noise of conversation. Well I guess the food there is okay, but I prefer different places. I'm pretty neutral with that place. Oh yeah, I drank A LOT of jasmine tea. At least half the tea pour er thing. The food was okay.

Ow! My shoulder is HURTING and is so sore. It's gone for a while now, but before, it was like not describable. like someone adding poison to one part around your shoulder. It feels super sore, but  I didn't do anything! I think I need back support. Stupid new chair! Ugh. It's coming back now. It feel super sore, and if I touch it, it STILL hurts. Anyway, I'll just lean my back on the chair. SORE, YOU BETTER GO AWAY!!!!

7/4/10

Happy Fourth Of July!
I don't know why I always write down when I wake up, but anyway I woke up at 9:35 this morning. GO ME! I really don't have anything interesting to say, but I was watching some TV. I was still bored.

Oh yeah, I also made a bracelet. I had most of it pink, with a pink charm, 4 blue crystals, and 4 pink crystals. (The crystals are real, but crystals aren't super duper expensive) The metal work is all gold, which means gold rings (for the charm) and gold clasps and crimps. I really want to get the image on right now, but I hate to wait for it to upload. I'll have it on later.

Today my brother is going to some mountain biking camp with his friend ****. They're really good, but my brother was the one who introduced his friend to mountain biking. My brother has a FULL SUSPENSION BIKE!! Those are really expensive. I don't know how to describe it, but I know that it's the kind that pro (I'm guessing) mountain bikers use.

So my brother and **** are going to some advanced trails, and they're taking my dad along. That's crazy to me. My dad is not that best mountain biker in the world, more less, he's going on the ADVANCED trail. I thought that he would only to be going to the beginning trails. Good luck daddy!

For breakfast again I made my own cheese quesdilla (The microwave kind) and again, it was yummy. My mom then made me bagels After I watched some tv. For some reason I didn't like them. My affair for bagels are officially over.

So yeah, I went to watch tv. There was something called "Cadet Kelly". It was about some teenage girl who goes to millitary school and doesn't belong. I didnt get to watch the whole thing so I was prety confused when I watched the last 3/5's of it. Really I don't think I should've wasted my time to watch it, but I was also watching "factory Made"

It was really interesting. I know now how highlighters are made. Really it's how most people think they're made. The show didn't tell me how the ink was made though.  I wish they did. I was also watching how they made quarters. It's really cool. They make about $50,000 dollars worth of quarters I think every hour. Pretty interesting. And every minute, 700 something dollars. SUPER COOL.

upping you to the date (time really)

So I had to play two hours of piano! Really i don't know if I played two hours, but that was tiring. what I did do was the I just finished the Minuet my J.S. Bach, some Sonatina, and the Australian Dance in Burgumuller. Ha ha, I didn't actually finish all of them, I was too not-wanting-to to do piano.

Something I really like about my mom is that she is really awesome. She got me a bunch of goodies too, which are food, and really yummy.  I also got Ramune Soda, in GRAPE flavor. It was yummy. The food was 小王子麵 and 豆乾 boy are all the stuff super duper GOOD!

Anyway,  I was watching the 2010 Wimbledon FINALS. I know that it wasn't live but I was super excited. YAY! Nadal won. He's really good. I think that Berdych was also really good (Berdych was the person Rafeal Nadal was against, forgot his first name). BUt anyway I wanted Nadal to win. AND HE DID! HIS SECOND WIMBLEDOM championship!!!

I went to play tennis with my mom. My serve has improved like CRAZY! Anyway, I always hit the ball out! I hate it like crazy. Anyway, I get frustrated like crazy so don't be surprised. Any way there was this little boy (four or five:) who was doing drills with his dad, and he KEPT on hitting the ball over the fence. (He had the court behind us) He's really cute. Once, I was just standing on the court, and then BOUNCE! The ball went over the fence and right next to my SHOULDER. Phew, that was but my mom was all like a bit scary. I don't think I improved that much, but my mom was all like "Oh, you did REALLY GOOD. You improved a lot!" Me: "Really?  ..."

7/3/10

Sorry for not writing until now, in the post before, I'm not allowed to go on the computer until 12-1, and until after 12:30 ish, we made plans to go biking. And yes, we were biking for about the entire afternoon.

Humph. I woke up at around ten today. Well, that's because I was watching tennis with my mom last night until at least 12. It was Rafeal Nadal against Andy Murray. It was such a close match!! The score was like 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 and so on. Finally it was Nadal who won. Really they should have both won, but some mistakes from Murray got him to lose.

So for breakfast, I had salmon, salmon spread on bagels, and salmon in cabbage. (I usually don't had so much salmon in my breakfast, for some reason my mom got us to eat a lot of salmon) Anyway the bagels were super yummy, because it was baked, an idea from my brother. The bagels were from "Noahs bagels" which is now my favorite food store. Bagels are now my favorite food.

I was watching tv sometime time ago. Really it wasn't that interesting but I like to review stuff I already knew. I was watching "dogs 101" (which I only got to watch the Pomeraniom (is that how you spell it) and the Siberian husky) and "cats 101" (i watched the Bombay, and the ocecat. The Bombay I'm not sure if I watched it before). Right now if I get a pet, I would want a bombay. Really I probably don't want one, but I'm just saying, the Bombay sounds like the most easy to take care of.

Right now though I am on the car, typing up notes. We are going to the beach to bike.  Not much, i typed all this while on the car.

Okay, and right now I am back from biking. I am really tired, because of a bunch of bumpy places. Humph, my butt is sore. So when my family and I started, we had to go UPHILL on this really bumpy place, and it was well, bumpy. Most of the part was paved, but uphill. Some parts of the road was down hill on the way there, and I got really tired going there. Haha, I was wondering how I could go back. what also was really bumpy was the bridge, with wooden planks all over them. When walking over them, you can't feel the bumpy-ness at all, but biking over is like a very bad butt massage. For linner (again.) we had some food from this really yummy clam chowder place. So we had clam chowder, calamari, and fish and chips (really actually FRESH fish and French fries). On the way back it was mostly downhill because the way we go there and the way we go back is the same. Going downhill made me feel not so tired.  I got some good speed that lasted my up to 30 minutes, in which I was just biking slowly, even though I was still going really fast. After going the way there, i got more used to the sharp turns and hard places, so i could actually say itwas KINDA easy. I also rode off SIDEWALKS (I hate sharp turns and those reflex ish stuff. ) Anyway, I guess I kind of liked the experience, it taught me to be DARING. I guess.


I am BACK HOME! And I am super tired, my ankle was hurting. Haha, even my brother was tired, and he's the most athletic person in the family. Going to chew some gum. YUMMY!


Oh, I just wanted to include this that happened a long time ago (a long time ago equals yesterday) I hit my pinky toe on my LEFT foot. (really it doesn't matter left or right I really don't know why I caps locked it) So, I was walking out the door when, BOOM! My pinky toe struck the counter bottom and most of the nail (the pink part too) got cut off. Humph, I have to bandage it. So, on a nail, there's always a pink part, and the WHITE part. People cut of the WHITE part. Cutting the pink part off would hurt. Yeah. My toe nail got chipped off. I barely have any nail on my piggy toe. (piggy toe= pinky toe)

Right now The whole family is tired. I mean, dead tired. My mom might be sick because she didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night and she played an intense bout of tennis with my dad after we went back home. I'm really surprised my dad isn't tired because he's the one who drove us there, the one who was always last to make sure thAt I didn't get lost, and the persoN who drove us home. Haha, my brother was too tired to play combat arms. No combat arms for me to watch!!!! Anyway, hopefully my dads watching tv, I'm going to join him.

7/2/10

Darn it. I slept late last night, and woke up at 10:00 this morning. Wah. My mom got mad at me for "playing" on the computer in the morning (I wasn't playing, I was checking my email and that stuff and so,  I am not allowed to write on here until probably 1:00. 

Anyway, I just finished doing my Chinese, and I have to admit, it's getting harder. Thanks to my old Chinese school, I don't know any zhu  yin. (It's the kind of "letters" people use in TAIWAN. I only remember pin yin, which is the "letters" people only use in CHINA) so, which means that I don't know how to pronounce new characters, and I don't know the meaning. I'll need to ask my mom soon.

My brother is going on a crazy mountain biking experience with his friend (I don't know where he is going though) and its not a paved road in the mountains where he bikes; he once taped a camera to his handle bars, and it was REALLY bumpy. I know that he is a really really good mountain biker (he is going to high school, so he is really advanced, I was hearing him talking about making a mountain biking club :). 

I was helping my brother prepare for the trip, like I microwaved a cheese quesadilla for him, (I made sure that ALL the parts were warm, and I filled up his water reservoir, which is the bag (REALLY BIG AND STURDY) of water that goes into his camel back bag pack. 

Which reminds me, I microwaved my OWN cheese quesadilla for breakfast, and it was AWESOME!  It has cheese mixed with eggs, and chicken inside. Best of all, it only take 2:15 to make it, and stupid people like me can make it. I also had a hot dog, which (well DUH) is also yummy.


UPPING YOU TO THE DATE (TIME REALLY)
So, I had Panda Express for lunch/ dinner. ( I woke up late right? So I had brunch, so now, I have linner?) Also yam in porridge. Really it wasn't bad, but I was way to talkative on the dinner table that I just didn't want to eat. So, I only needed to eat the panda express stuff, not the rice.


I was watching World Cup. It's not live, but whatever. I really wish I could watch live stuff. I was watching the Brazil vs. Netherlands, and thanks to my dad, I knew which team won before I had finished (<- I'm not mad though, just saying). I first wanted Brazil to win, but then I started getting neutral. They're not that good. Brazil I KNOW got a goal, but that was because of poor defense by the Netherlands. So really the score would've 2>0. But, of course I guess that ALL except some goals are scored because of poor defense.

UPPING YOU TO THE DATE (time really)
So, I am going to write all the stuff that happened in order.

I had gymnastics at 5:30 and we had so much fun!!! I improved on my head springs, and I got a lot of skills checked off. Even my BACK HIP CIRCLE on the bar!!!! And that is really hard (for me, at least) and, I got my cartwheel on the beam checked off too.I could probably one, in every well, 20 tries. So, first we did floor, which was super fun, because that's my strongest skill. So first we did things in the lesson plan, which was checking things off. I got most of them checked off, or all (i dont remember). Then, we all did front springs, the two other people did front fly springs, while I did front head spring. As I wrote before, I got them improved by a fair amount.

Then we did bars, where I got my squat-on checked off, and my back hip circle (a back hip circle is when you push up in a bar, and swing your legs over the bar, and back to the push up shape. Front support). And a squat on is when you are in front support, cast,then get your legs on to the bar, stand, and jump off.

Lastly we did beam, and again we were checking off fun things. For example, we were doing hand stands, and I could do a very horrible one, but I think most people do horrible ones. I also did one successfully (don't worry, the gym has different leveled beams for each skill) then The other people in the class and I had to go on the floor to practice something else that I can't do well. The coach said that I could practice the stuff at home, and I think that I might as well do it when I'm bored. The last 5 minutes we including the beginner class play over and under. That meant going under and over the beams. I could beat everyone except one of the coaches. Anyway, i was really happy after gymnastics.

After going home I was in a pretty good mood untili took a shower. I hate taking a shower because there's really nothing fun to do in the shower. I was really mad. While I took a shower I tried to calm myself down, saying that I was being really ridiculous. So after I took a showerI felt better and ate dinner. I started a conversation with my brother and dad about the 2010 FIFA world cup. I love to watch soccer now.

And so now for a least 45 minutes, I am watching my brother play combat arms and I'm also talking to him.

7/1/10

Yay! Today I woke up way earlier than I 'd expect. Last morning I woke up at ten, today I woke up at SEVEN (fifty :). I was just trying to drag myself out of bed, telling myself that it was 11:00 and I had to wake up. When I woke up (naturally) I thought that it was nine something. Haha, I was wrong by at least an hour, too lazy to calculate. Since I woke up pretty early, I was working on fixing my sleeves on my new shirt.

I noticed something very odd-looking about it. It was supposed to be folded up; with a strap on the outside with a little button. The shirt wasn't designed for that strap to be released, and so instead of going bonkers, I took some time to cut it off.  Actually it was pretty hard,  because  I only had nail scissors and some thing used to cut off dead skin on cuticles. After doing everything  I usually do in the morning plus the working on my shirt, it took 45 minutes (I take showers at night.)  

I don't have much to blog about right now, but I have swimming again tonight. HOPEFULLY I don't need to do flip turns.

UPPING YOU TO THE DATE (TIME REALLY)
So, I just took the chinese (2nd grade) test, and I only got 2 wrong. I did it on lessons one through four, and boy how "hard" it was. Haha for the 找,  I wrote it like a 我 for the right half of it. And the word I always got wrong; 原. Otherwise, I got full score. I am very bored, there's nothing to do.

My mom is talking to someone in the family in America (I'm making it super general). I might go *somewhere* over the summer. i am thinking about cleaning up my desk. My really messy one. Huh, that's going to take a year. Update: I didn't finish, only did 1%, really much less :).

UPPING YOU TO THE DATE (time really)
I just came back from swimming. Luckily, we didn't do backstroke flip turns, only forward ones. The coach said I did good (well, on my very last one). Also we did breastroke KICKS, which aren't very interesting. And there was this guy,who was next to me, SO ANNOYING! It's just that he always took up space on the wall, making me squeeze behind him in order to let the person in front of my go. Overall, I think that this session of swimming was super fun. I raced some gusto the center of the pool. The first time it was unfair, so we did it back, and I think we tied because there was somebody blocking me, so I had to slow down.

Ugh, I have a really bad time when keeping time. Here, I did this BEFORE I went swimming. My mom took me to bed and baths beyond, and it had a lot stuff. Stuff ranging from a laundry ball (something used to make clothes dry faster, and something to get them to be less wimpy looking)to curtains. I was looking at the towels section, and there was clearance. I was like: OMG this is pretty awesome, and my mom said that the towels were nice quality. The only problem is that I didn't know what color I should choose. I really always wanted a theme for my room, but if I think well "what theme?!?!?!" I am totally blank.I probably should thi a theme over.

We were looking for a steam mop, and we got this shark deluxe steam mop.we needed to get another mop because our old one broke. We also got this pillow, in the shape of a comfortable sofa, shaped so that you could comfortably on bed. I feel really ashamed of myself for wanting to get something, which was a 10 dollars. It was really cute, and it was RAINBOW colored, with a peace sign design on it. I don't know if it was that worth it, but hopefully I'll still like it for a long time.