CAN Campout

Let me start out by saying that I have some really spectacular friends. :] I know for a fact that my summer would not have been as fun without them. The other day I was reflecting upon my summer and couldn't believe this one is almost over. I really don't feel as though school is just two days away. Honestly, I feel like I have two months left of summer. xD Someone told me their summer was one of the best ever, and I have to agree with them in saying mine was too. :] I've always loved summertime, and usually spent them laying around, running outside, or playing some type of game in past years just at my home, and then you'd have my one week vacation to the beach. This summer was not like that. This summer I did so many things with all my friends, whether it be together or at seperate times.=) If I look back on my calendar I can see that I spent some super fun time with a friend or two at least one day every week this summer. That was great, because it's something I always told my friends I wanted to get to do, but we'd end up busy and not staying in contact much until school came back, and then we'd go "aww why didn't we do stuff!" :P Those fun days I had this summer with friends, Warped Tour being a favorite example, makes up for not being able to go to the beach this year. :] I had a lot of fun this summer though, maybe more than in past years, and I'm happy to say I'll miss it. :)

This last "unofficial" weekend of summer was one I'll never forget. :] I had two wonderfully close friends of mine, Abby and Nicole, come spend time at my house and then sleepover outside in my tent. :) We had SO much fun! They both came over lunchtime on Friday, with so many bags and things I bet my neighbors thought they were moving in. xD They had baked me a cake and came bearing birthday presents too! That was extremely sweet of my friends to do for me! :) They knew I never had my birthday party like was sort of planned, and they said they had always wanted to do this for me, and they made it into a party and we had a great great time. =) I couldn't believe it. :]

We spent the first half of our time talking all about Family Force 5. :] My laptop, now nicknamed "grounds", was the center of attention 95% of the time. xD We ended up watching again all the FF5 Really Real Shows and then when we'd find a favorite part or funny part we loved, the three of us would act it out! Nicole brought a video camera with her, so it was perfect. My one house is filled with all sorts of goodies [being the "playhouse" it is] so we found props galore from fake food, plates&cups to funky outfits for the parts. We even memorized some lines or wrote them in notebooks. It was so fun!! We had to have done a short couple minute piece from each of the like 17 Really Real Shows. =) My favorite was the one scene we did where Abby is Crouton, I was Ziploc, and Nicole was Nadaddy. They're eating in a cafe and I'm talking all about how great Hard Rock is and I love my new t-shirt. Then Abby was pretending to spit out black olives, yells at me, throws her bib, and goes "I HATE BLACK OLIVES!!!" then I say something snooty and she literally throws a glass of water in my face, and Nicole throws one at my shirt and I push her and run away. That was soo funny we loved it. =) Haha, mannnn, and it's all on camera too! ;) We did a lot of scenes, like I said, and we're calling it our "Really Fake Shows." ;P

We stayed up the entire night on Friday too. I was hoping we would, as I was so in the mood for an all-nighter. xD I guess you can call this party "Awakeover #3" if you will. ;] The tent was a lot of fun setting up and such. They let me open my presents early in the day, and I was so thankful for it! Abby and Nicole really didn't need to do that for me, but the fact they did, shows how sweet, special&caring they wanted to make this time be for me. :] I'm telling ya, my summer could not have ended any better.=) I got two cute shirts from the both of them, a plaid headband, a plaid STAR necklace [lovelovelove], an AWESOME new mousepad of me and my twin Xanadu!, a plush pink crayon, and two surprise gift bags they got from the fair so nobody knew what was in them. One turned out to be an anklet bracelet, the other a necklace. We found that really funny and I remember laughing hard over it. xD Why, I don't know. :P :P Plus, they each made me a special card that said some special things that I bet could have made me cry if I let myself. =] Aww, everything was SO nice. Abby, Nicole and I [C-A-Ns] have been friends since 6th grade, and we were talking how we have never been closer than we are this past year. :) It's really special. I hope we stay that way. :]

The rest of the night was really fun too. At first we tried some "wagoning" down my hills, then I was glad we had a long extension cord to blast music inside the tent. Around 11:30 food was wanted, perferably leftover pizza, so we had to sneak up to my house and try to microwave some. This act I found to be VERY loud as everyone I guess was sleeping and we had to "try" to be quiet. Abby was microwaving the pieces one by one, and then I don't know what even happened, but my arm must have flung weird [typical, as my body is so clumsy acting this summer!] and I knocked over this griddle thing and it made a really loud crack as it hit the floor and got stuck. =O A side handle even broke, so I was worried, and we had to have Abby climb entirely over the side to reach it and get it back up. :P Phew, that was a close call kind of deal. :P Everyone got their food and drink safely though. xD

Once back in the tent, the three of us spent three straight hours just talking. Yes, talking talking talking about everythinggggggg! :) It was one of the best talks of my life. :P It's really nice and comforting to know you have people who can relate to you, and you can share stuff with and get if off your chest. Everyone of us ended up sharing things and we just talked and laughed all through the late night. It was special, and as Nicole said "therapeautic". It just makes ya feel so much better that way. =] Aw, it was lovelyyy. ;]

The night we camped out was the most perfect tent night ever, I have to say. When I had my other friend Heather camp out with me, we frozeeeee. Friday night was so humid, it was like tropically warm. xD I was so so shocked. I mean 1, 2, 3 in the morning it was still toasty like day and nobody needed a blanket [not that we were laying down sleeping] but still it was unbelievable. I loved it!! So perfect for a perfect day! :D The only thing was our sleeping bags did kind of start to stick to us at one point, and there was this nice tropical-like breeze blowing around outside, so all three of us climbed into my hammock with pillows and just lay there for about a half hour at 4:30 in the morning. Abby really wanted to just sleep there, but then Nicole and I said we'd be going back to the tent. :P Everybody seems to love my hammock&laptop most when they come over, because those things are always used the most, haha.

Around 5 I believe we officially crawled into the tent and went to sleep soundly. =] Then we were awaken at 8:30 to eat breakfast. Uggg the smell of breakfast literally almost made me sick :P Haha I guess because my body was mixed up with sleep and then the thought of eating so soon was like, nauseating to me personally, xD. We did have to eat though, as Nicole was leaving at nine as she had an appointment&such. :] Abby ended up staying until 3:00ish in the afternoon though. After eating and getting our stuff together, Abby and I got my laptop, plugged it in outside and "bAM" I get wireless internet in my hammock, so we sat there alllllll morning until about 2pm listening to music, checking myspaces, and going on AiM. Even made a new screename, haha. :P Halfway through the time we spent in the hammock laptopping it up, I guess we were eating watermelon and I had my laptop on my lap and just looked at me IE favorites and saw Jonathan Coulton's download page, and just spur of the moment thing kinda clicked it. Then I said "hey abby listen to this song I love it" and that song being "I'm having a party" fit quite well, in a way. ;] Abby cracked up, like really laughed and I was surprised because all this time I never thought she'd enjoy JoCo! :P She liked him and the other random songs not really by him [but on his page] so much that we did nothing but listen to JoCo until she left! Haha, how cool?! x) The song "Sibling Rivalry", "W's Duty" and that 25, 64 something song I think were played most, we just found them hilariousssss, and Abby loved them. She also LOVED LOVED the beginning of "baby got back" where they say "LA's faced with the oakland booty" or something. That line must have been played 100 times. She loveddddddd it, hahahaha. Oh man it was fUN! =) We also played some "I'm so strong I can throw things" as we love that very very much. I remember dancing like a ballerina on my hill when we were wagoning in the night and Abby going "I like ballet". [you won't get this part unless you saw that video..aha.] :P

So in conclusion, I had a blast, and I'm pretty sure my friends had a blast over "Cat's Crib" this weekend. ;D

Now, as I said, I only have two days before the first day of 11th grade. I finished reading my final required book yesterday, "Lord of the Flies". I'm not sure what to expect of 11th grade, so it's exciting to see what may happen this year. :] I do know there will probably be plenty of work&tests, along with me preparing for the SATs. I went to the 7th grade orientation last week and it made me sad. Why? Because they have all of high school to look forward too, I think it was said they're the class of 2013. I'm the class of 2009, and that is approaching quickly. I remember my orientation and my brother's vividly, and I miss back then. :P It's weird being a Junior, a bigger kid, one supposed to be driving and looking at colleges. xD I just hope I can do well this year, and make each day great. :]

Our schedules came over a week ago, and I suppose I'd like to share it here. I originally put Parenting down as my final elective, but got my alternate choice, Journalism, instead. First time that happened to me, but I'm happy in a way, and more excited to be in Journalism after all. Maybe it'll help my writing. :)

1st Period- Adv. English 3
2nd Period- Spanish 3
3rd Period- Health/Study/Gym
4th Period- Psych/Soc.
5th Period- Adv. American History
6th Period- AP Chem
Lunch. Toooo late in the day. I will be starved. xD
7th Period- Pre-calculus
8th Period- Journalism

..and there ya have it! ;] I probably won't have time to write again until after the first day of school, so wish me luck &have a good one!

Radically Random...

[ this was a good picture my friends&I got with Soul Glow Activatur of FF5 that I've yet to share since it was on my camera ;) ]