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Day 3 of summer:
It was sunny and windy yesterday.
I did not recommend yesterday:
Not that it matters anymore, but I do not think I would have recommended going swimming or any similar activity.
I did recommend yesterday:
Not that this matters either. Sigh. Well, I think I would have recommended eating outside for all meals except possibly breakfast.
Yesterday’s news:
I really should save this for today’s, but I suppose since I’ve started I may as well finish. Not much happened yesterday, except the girl who was sleeping over went home and Annah and Alaynah went to another friend’s house. My mom is considering having me do a forensic science co-op next year for school, and personally I favor the idea. I think at the moment my favorite sciences are forensics and biology, although I have never taken a class for either. I find them quite interesting, especially since they do not involve too much math, which is not my specialty. Anyway, I might end up taking both, which I see myself as being able to do if I am able to manage my time better next year than I did this year.

Conclusion of blog post for third day of summer.

~~Sarah

Day 4 of summer:
It was very windy earlier. It does not appear to be so now, but it may be cool outside.
I do not recommend today:
Hmm…well, I do not recommend leaving papers outside unsupervised.
I do recommend today:
I do recommend eatin’ chili, which is what I’m about to do right now!
Today’s News:
My sisters and I went outside to paint. Nothing fancy, just a little something creative to do together. Well, unfortunately, as i mentioned, it was very windy. The bottles of acrylic paint we had were all practically empty, so we couldn’t use those as paperweights. I had quite a time with trying to use Alaynah’s shoe, a rock, and some paint bottles, but not necessarily at the the same time, although now that I think about it…
Anyway, that was kind of fun. I designed something that looked really nice in pen, but not so much in paint. Oh, well, I guess I just need more practice.

And now it’s time for another one of my lists!
Good Things About Summer Break
–Lots of free time
–No homework
–Nice weather
Not-so-good Things About Summer Break
–Not getting to see friends as often (cue Facebook…)
–More time to do–dunh dunh dunh–housework…
–Wondering about the next school year.

Well, I suppose that’s it, until tomorrow. Or at least, I think tomorrow.

Conclusion of blog post for fourth day of summer.

~~Sarah

And I repeat:
Hello again, desperate audience.

I noticed last night that since I got on Facebook, I have been somewhat neglecting my blog. Because almost everyone I know is on there, it almost didn’t seem necessary to blog, but I couldn’t abandon this forever, could I?

No.

The answer is no.

Anyway, if nothing else, one advantage I have with blogging is that there is no character limit for a post. ‘Cause that would be stupid for a blog, that’s why.

So, first off, we finished our play. It was performed on May 13-15, and I must say, it was better than I thought it would be. Performances always are. We laughed, we cried, it moved us, Bob. Well, okay, I don’t remember any crying. Actually, I just remember a whole lot of laughing. Goofing off backstage: an activity in which everyone participated. Generally, we kind of had to be quiet (gasp!) so as soon as a song came up, we lip-synced whilst choreographing cheesy moves. Good times, good times. Among things that happened onstage: During a scene change in which I was supposed to play piano I began playing the Wedding March instead of the Funeral March (but fixed it), the kid who played Harry got his foot stuck under a couch behind the set on all three performances, a gravestone got left in the living room on the second performance, and on the last one the cash register was nowhere to be found. Oh, the joys of live performance! You never know what’s going to happen. It’s rather exciting.

On the final night, I felt very weird because 1) it was the only night we stayed very late, and 2) obviously, after that, it was over. It was quite saddening, actually, but we ended up seeing everybody again later and probably will over the summer. I suppose that was what gave me that weird feeling: that during the production of the play, everybody got to know everyone else and it seemed on the last performance that it was the end, even though we knew we would see each other at the cast party.

Our director, Amalia Dobbins, either left or is leaving to take a trip around the world, so on closing night we spoofed a song from the play called “Wonderful Places” for her. She will be missed but our new director is very good as well and I am looking forward to having him next year.

Speaking of performance, I also performed in the beginning of this month in a dance recital for the city entitled A Tribute To Dance. The number in which I performed was called All That Fosse; ours was the smallest group class, but that was actually kind of cool. My teacher is awesome and the fellow dancers are all very talented and fun to work with. I made a couple of mistakes here and there, but overall it was very good. Among the dances performed were salsa, Bollywood, hip-hop, and modern dance, to mention a few. As I have said many, many times already, I adore performing live. It’s exciting and you actually get to see your audience.

As far as “regular” school goes, I am glad that it’s over. I was pleasantly surprised to find that, as opposed to my worry of getting average or below in narrative writing, both Rebekah and I got A++, 160/100 in that class! And I know for a fact that everyone in the American history class got A’s. I am sorry to say that I have not yet received my grade in physical science, and I honestly don’t know what it is, save to say I hope I did not fail…

But does summer ever really start? With all of the personal negligence on the part of we children, there is much housework to be done, and I cannot say it is the most enjoyable thing in the world. I am seeing weekends of summer cleaning in my future. Well, hopefully by the end of summer we’ll have adopted better habits.

And speaking of habits, you may or may not know that for a very long time I have had the habit of biting my nails. I’ve tried to stop it, but the longest I’ve ever stopped was probably two or three days, maybe not even that. I noticed, however, that I tend to chew them the most when I seemingly have nothing else to do (e.g. cleaning my room does not count in the mind of a typical kid. Okay, so maybe I’m not an entirely typical kid, but still). Sometimes I do it absentmindedly when listening to or watching something. Paint my nails? Nope, I usually just peel it off anyway. No-Bite? I just curl my tongue back so I don’t taste it. Hot peppers? Hmm. Haven’t tried that one…

Well, I believe that is all I have to say for now, save for this:

Goodbye and happy summer!

Title says it all, does it not?
So I guess I’ll start with something really boring. Like the weather.
Today it looks like one sky is cloudy and apparently the other half is sunny. But from my seat in the kitchen it looks to be more cloudy. It’s pretty windy outside. Too bad it couldn’t be that way yesterday; I was melting, burning to ashes and evaporating away all at the same time.
Now that the weather is done, I’ll tell you about something I just did.
I ate a piece of raw potato.
Why did I say that?
I don’t know.
That seems to happen a lot recently.
Yup.

I wish I could be outside right now. It looks comfortably cool and sort of a light gray. Not the gloomy kind of gray that comes with winter evenings, but the one like in fall afternoons. Perfect for walking in circles around the backyard.
Just saying.
Rico is asleep on the patio. I keep looking at him and thinking, “Gosh, that’s me right now.” I’m not extremely tired, but for some reason sleep seems nice at the moment.
I keep forgetting to tell you, the grass on our backyard has gotten out of hand, to say the least. The very least. So it has in the front, but Dad got that taken care of this past weekend.
But that practical shrubbery in the backyard is enough to scare the you-know-what out of anyone. And if anyone out there thinks it’s their fault, it isn’t. Period.
Anyhow, a couple of days ago Dad and Bekah got started on mowing it. They would have started earlier, but apparently we only had use of a non-electric lawn mower, which did practically nothing. But the newer one worked a lot better. At some point before that, Rebekah had begun to cut a certain patch, which took a while but since she was armed with nothing but scissors did not do as much as the lawn mower, which got through about a fifth of the grass.

p.s. Happy Birthday, Kayla, because this post was started on April 19th, even though it wasn’t posted until April 21st.