Waiting...And Waiting And Waiting And Waiting

August 12.
So close, and yet so far away.
The start of our summer road trip- and my first one that covers 10 hours in one day.

WHEN? WHEN WILL THE DAY COME? EVERY DAY IS ALMOST LIKE A REPLICA OF THE DAY BEFORE! WE NEED SOMETHING NEW HERE, PEOPLE!

Every day, I cross off squares on my calender with a red inked pen. It isn't helping.
Mom and I talk about travel plans hourly. That helps, but afterward I almost hear a little voice in my head, taunting me: "15 days more, CJ! 15 days more!"

The theater camp's exhibition is this Friday. Time seems to just inch along until then.

And then, there's that Nationals game next week on Sunday. I'll have to do a lot of waiting then, even: waiting to catch the next Metro ride, waiting for the loud fireworks to end, waiting for Ryan Zimmerman to hit a homer, waiting for cheese pizza to be dished up on my plate at Carraba's, however you spell that.

And all that bounces along in my brain and mixes with our theater finale song and my Mp3 soundtracks for the trip.....

(Chicago trumpets with German music)
There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And I'm waiting for the break of day....
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is searching for something to say... 25 or 6 to 4!

All that waiting is just too much.
However, on a lighter note, I won 2 games of Solitaire yesterday.

Death By Heat In Virginia

It...is...so...hot!

Temperatures have gone to 104 degrees.
Swimming feels like pure joy.
Only a Sonic Campfire Blast can save us all!

That's your typical week this year- hot, hot, hot!

Mom heard me talking in my sleep one night. I mean, yelling in my sleep. Mom was in her room when she thought she could hear somebody (me) saying:
"It's too hot! It's...too....hot!"

Going outside would melt you to pieces- trust me, I tried! I sat under a shade spot in our swing chair, wrote a poem about hot weather (obviously), slammed into a tree, and after spending 10 minutes there, gave up!

And I can't wait for August. Note my sarcasm.

I have considered starting a yard sale with origami fans to get money to go to youth group retreats.

Caramel ice cream is in hot demand.

I'm so tired, I can barely type...these...sentences.....

Typical.


Will we survive?Tune in next week to find out! And now, yet another commercial for a GMC vehicle we don't really need......

Summer

Hope you're enjoying your summer! I know I am!
Wait! That means today is my first picture post! Yeah!

8 Days A Week?!?, Part 2

There are several theories behind the "8 Days A Week" mishap.
My mom, a fellow blogger, said that maybe they count Sunday again as another day of the week in England. "Or maybe they have 8 days per week over there...."
Our cousin K, creator of the Cousin Studios box office hit "Llama-O-Rama", also had a solution. "But I'm not going to tell you, you'll have to figure it out for yourself," he said. Suspense!
And then, of course, there's.....
QUINSDAY.
Duh duh duh duh.....

It all started after the earthquake in Chile. A few of our classmates claimed that on a certain TV channel that most of us "probably didn't have" announced that the earthquake shifted the Earth's rotation, which made every week have an extra day called "Quinsday." We would have an extra day off of school each week and 400 days (something like that) in every year, and they weren't lying, and if we though they were, look it up on Bing.
So I did.
And what were the search results?
Something to do with a European concert.
Duh duh duh duh...
BUSTED!!!! =)

So maybe, the Beatles were early believers of the only 3-hour day in the middle of Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully, they weren't.

So, for now, the mystery remains unsolved....

8 Days A Week?!?

My cousin J, Cousin Studios actor in Woman vs. "Wild" and commercials, rode with me on the way to the Outer Banks. The car ride was great, and I got a bag of potato chips out of it! But we listened to The Beatles for practically the whole car ride. And that's where the trouble kicks in.
Yes, Yesterday and All You Need Is Love are good songs. But The Beatles made an error in one of their songs, if you listen carefully.
I forgot the correct lyrics, but the incorrect tune goes something like this:

Hold me...
Love me....
Eight days a week!

Oh no. Stuck in font.
To be continued.....

Ketchup Time!

What happened in the last few weeks...

CJ graduated! I'm going to middle school this fall. On the last few days of school, everyone celebrated with a bowling outing, a picnic with pizza, and goody bags stuffed with pencils, goodbye DVDs, gum, candy, and (sigh) advertisements from local sponsors. Then, school was finally over! Done with! Gone!
After that, I took a volleyball camp (OK, I guess) and a water camp where we got to play with sprinklers and slime and bubbles for a few hours (fun fun fun!) After that, my cousins came to go to our annual family reunion at a beach house at the Outer Banks!
We had a great time! We swam in the ocean, which was incredibly freezing for about 5 days in a row. We swam in the pool, forever playing Category and Shark. Later, we'd get in the hot tub. This year, we had color-themed days. Our family had Green Day (not the annoying, bad-word-using band). Mom made Mexican tacos! There were also a lot of games of Beano, Solitaire, Dutch Blitz, Pokemon Monopoly (with powers when you rolled doubles), and Werewolf (a slightly scary\gruesome but fun card game). Add in some "oranges" (parts to a game), a sudden rainstorm, lots of glow sticks, water balloons with smiley faces, a walk on the beach at night, volleyball, homemade board games, and our cousin L's return from a wedding in Wisconsin, and it was a memorable vacation! I'm still trying to cover everything in my sketchbook.
Cousin Studios Update: We recently started shooting our 5th film: Woman versus "Wild." Abby Sunlaw is a typical ten year old girl, but when she spends a night in her backyard, she'll face incredible challenges. Jumping off the bottom step of her front porch, fending off wild mosquitos, and finding some salt for her dinner are just some of the obstacles in her way. Can she do it? Find out-after the commercial break.
After getting home, 4 of our cousins stayed at our house, where we had more adventures. We headed to a baseball game\ fireworks show and were up until 12:00, saw Toy Story 3 (it has a shocking ending, but my lips are sealed), went to Sonic, and had feetball tournaments. I'll have to post the beginner's guide on this blog sometime around. Plus I got my Tdap shot, which didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.
And now that everybody's left- and that I've concluded this post- I'm just sitting around, folding origami dresses ( THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME KIT GRANDMA AND GRANDPA!!!), reading, sketchbooking, writing letters, and dreaming about our upcoming ultimate 10-day road trip in August....

OOPS, I Did It Again...

I FORGOT TO POST! NOOOOOO....
A big, huge long, catch-up post is coming soon!