Happy Boxing Day!

A late Merry Christmas to all of you! i am very sorry i haven't posted in a while, but i've been quite busy.

i got a facebook last wednesday. i was really bored on wednesday night while i was waiting for my turn in the bathroom, so i decided to create a facebook. and now i've found all these different people i know from school. it's pretty fun, but it's also easy to spend way too much time on there.

my Christmas break has been good so far. yesterday was not normal to say the least. i usually go to my grandma's house on Christmas eve, and then stay there until the day after Christmas. yesterday Grandma wasn't feeling so well, and Granddad ended up having to take her to the emergency room. so that left my immediate family, my cousins, two aunts, one uncle, and a spattering of great-aunts and great-uncles at Grandma's house all by ourselves. my two aunts and Mom all worked together to make up for all the parts that Grandma always does. my cousin and i, who are the oldest two cousins, probably would've helped too, but they had other adults that we don't normally have for sunday dinner.

having everyone there actually made it better, because that meant our minds were distracted from worrying about Grandma. all of my cousins were there until about 5:00, when they headed off to their other grandma's house. they left a number where we could reach them when we had more information about Grandma.

around supper time, my Granddad's cousin and his family showed up. at first we weren't going to get much out for supper, but then my brother asked who decided we weren't hungry. so we ended up eating supper. we always have a special punch at Christmas, and it's a special recipe from my Grandma's side of the family. except whenever we make it, Grandma's there telling us how much of everything to put in it. my mom and Aunt Tracey looked through some cookbooks but couldn't find it. finally we called someone to get the recipe.

Even though Grandma wasn't feeling so great yesterday, that meant that she had an audience of six watching her open her Christmas presents this morning.

so that's my Christmas break so far. tomorrow my cousins are coming up and we're going to Hershey Chocolate World. then they're coming to the pizza buffet while i'm working. at first they were all going to go without me, and just let me go to work. but i was really upset by that. even though i've been to Hershey Chocolate World so many times, i've never gone with my cousins. and they don't come up to see us all that often, so it'd be nice to see them at a time when i'm not working.

while my mom was on the phone with my aunt this morning, i started crying because i didn't want to miss going with them. but they worked out so we could go before i have to work. i know i'm going to have to get used to missing out on things when i go to college, but i haven't moved out yet. i'm not totally ready for complete isolation.

Wow, this is interesting

so there was an ice storm yesterday. we still had church, but some other churches canceled their services. it was pretty cool walking on the grass, because there was ice surrounding each blade of grass. same for the leaves on the trees. all through the afternoon we heard the wind blow lots of ice off the trees and onto the ground. before supper, Dad and Anna traveled back to the church to get something, and they reported that most houses south of our street didn't have power. this meant that my school and Anna's school didn't have power, theoretically.

then this morning i woke up to hear that we had a two hour delay. but then it was changed to being closed. when i went on the website for one of the local TV stations, i saw that it was only high school and one elementary school that was closed. this was because of what i had guessed before. there's no electricity at those two schools. so that means that all three of us are home all day today. i'm not sure if we'll have to make this up later on in the year. i'm guessing we won't, since more than half the district is going to school today, just on a two hour delay.

i'm actually glad that the schools affected are the ones that Joel, Anna and I go to. otherwise that would make for an interesting day. although, with the way my life has been going, the day would've been interesting even if we went to school.

well, if you'll excuse me, the writing process is calling me.

Snow!

it snowed all day yesterday. we didn't get out of school, which was actually good in the long run, because i had forgotten to bring my house key to school with me. and who knows if Joel had his with him. but all of us juniors were freaking out during the school day because the majority of us haven't had any experience driving in the snow. oh, and for those of you who live in places such as New England, or Wisconsin...or Canada, i'm so sorry i sound like such a wimp. but you should remember that we are not used to snow. and since this is the first major snow of the season, many people forgot how to drive in the snow.

anyways, i had to go to piano lessons, which is in the next town. fortunately, i had the van, so i felt more confident in a large vehicle. so i left as soon as i got myself ready after school. i still got there 15 minutes early. driving there wasn't too bad. i quickly found out that a good rule of thumb is to just drive at a speed you're comfortable with, even if it's ten mph under the speed limit. the only difficulty i had was determining where the yellow line in the middle of the road was. but then i figured that probably didn't matter too much, seen how i could tell where people had been driving on that particular road.

so i got through piano lessons, went out to scrape the van off before heading to the credit union. it's part of my wednesday routine. the credit union is in the same area as my piano teacher's house, so i go to the credit union after piano lessons because it's just efficient. going there it was a little worse. it had started to get dark, and i guess some workplaces had let out early, because it seemed that rush hour was beginning a half an hour early.

i was the only one at the credit union, but that was nice because that meant no lines. actually, there's never any lines when i go to the credit union. i didn't have any checks to cash, but i had a whole lot of tips to add to my electronics fund.

going home was very painful. it took me 45 minutes to get from the credit union to home. my leg got quite the work out with keeping it still over the break just in case i needed to use it. most of the time i was going anywhere between 5 and 10 miles per hour. thank goodness for WJTL though, because i listened to Kristi Leigh the entire way home. that helped make the long trip bearable. i didn't go the speed limit on any of the roads until i got in town, because in town the road were fine. they were just slippery, so it was just as if it rained on it.

when i got home, Dad helped me park the van, and then he cleared all of the snow and ice off of it. my parents told me that if there's another wednesday when it's snowing and i go to piano lessons, i should take one of the highways home, because they would be the clearest. so i'll remember that next time. it's just that i've never gotten on a crowded highway either. goodness, i have a lot to complete.

so we have a two hour delay this morning. so i'm off to work more on physics and trig.

the wonders of allergies

i guess you all remember when i posted about having hives? that happened in summer, somewhere around July or August. i still didn't figure out what caused that. and actually it happened again in foods class. except there was only one, and that was on my pinky. i just suffered through that one.

anyways, this evening i thought i would be helpful by helping to get dinner together. that involved washing dishes/filling up the dishwasher. so we filled up the dishwasher and got that going, and then i washed dishes. in the pile of dishes to be washed were some cookie sheets. my mom made cookies on friday afternoon/evening. it was for a cookie exchange we did with my mom's extended family at the Parlor. and since one of my seconds cousins and i are allergic to nuts, they made sure to label all the cookies to say if they had nuts or not. my mom made Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. she made a batch with nuts, and a batch without nuts. she made the batch without nuts first, so we would be sure that no nuts got in the stuff that needed to be nut free.

so when i went to wash these dishes, there were still a few nuts on the cookie sheets, since the cookies with nuts were the last to be baked. i didn't think it would be a problem if i washed them, becaues i'm not surverely allergic to nuts. this actually comes in handy, because my siblings love peanut butter and would be very upseat if they couldn't have it anymore. anyways, to make a long story short, i have a mild case of hives from washing those. i really don't like to have to deal with allergies. it's not fun. and i don't want to take Benadryl, because that makes my mouth numb, and i haven't had supper yet. but now they're going away.

so for those of us who have allergies, i know how you feel. and if there's anyone out there allergic to meat, please contact me! i would really like to meet someone allergic to meat. i'm allergic to chicken. it's strange, but true. well, off i go, to a supper...without nuts.

quote

since i haven't posted in awhile, i figured right now i'd share a quote from my sunday school teacher.

"Tea [along with coffee and hot chocolate] is just flavored water"