June 19, 2012

• Pool Party

  

   

  Today I was startled awake by mom opening my door. She put some of my clothes on my chair, walked out, but left the door open. I knew she probably left it open because my room was stuffy and hot, but none the less I was kind of annoyed because I wasn't ready to wake up, and it was pretty bright. I grabbed my phone from off my desk, and checked Xanga after pulling my blanket over my head for a few minutes and trying to go back to sleep. It was around 9:45, and i did get a decent amount of sleep last night, so I decided I would just get up after I checked Xanga for replies to my last blog.

  I pulled myself out of bed, got dressed and went upstairs. I had a glass of milk, and a spoonful of icebox pudding. For some reason I did not feel like eating cereal today, it just did not seem that great. I decided to wait until later to eat, because obviously I wasn't really hungry.

  I went back downstairs, started my computer and checked facebook. In response to a comment i left on one of my sister's photo albums asking how much English blood I have (It was an album of my ancestors) I found that my mom had answered. Apparently I am more than half English, 1/8th German, 1/8th Danish, and I also have at least 3 Native American tribes in me, just a little bit.  Knowing where my blood goes back too has always been a big thing for me. I love knowing where my ancestors lived, and what they did. I do kind of have a little English accent when I speak sometimes. I am totally proud of where I come from, I'm the kind of person that likes to embrace my roots.

  I did end up eating a bowl of lime icebox pudding after this for breakfast, it had been in the freezer all night so it was like ice cream with graham cracker crumbs on top. I hung out upstairs for a few minutes, not particularly doing anything, then went back downstairs. I didn't do very much for a few hours, just listened to music, read some blogs, liked some pages on facebook,  and played Rally 8 player on Tetris Friends.

  I had a pepper jack cheese sandwich with white bread and a glass of milk with English toffee flavored Stevia in it for lunch around 12 noon. 

  I watched Hercules: The Legendary Journeys for a few hours while simultaneously surfing Xanga and commenting on some posts that were in my subscription feed. Marcie, who is also one of my visiting teachers, sent me a text asking me if she could come around 4:30 or 5. I told her yes. Visiting teachers are something my church does. They assign 2 people to visit you at least once a month and talk to you, and / or give a lesson from one of the church magazines like the Ensign or something.  I went back to posting comments on Xanga after I said yes. It was blazing hot upstairs, for some reason the cooler was not on.

  Nothing interesting happened until around 5pm when Marcie came over for visiting teaching.I had just been hanging around doing nothing but still watching Hercules on Netflix on the big screen upstairs.When she got here we just talked about what has been going on in our lives, and we had a little lesson about Visiting teaching, and just talked about some gospel stuff. 

   After she left i just went back to watching stuff until about 6:20, then i started getting ready for the pool party my church ward was going to do for FHE (Family Home Evening). Nothing really that exciting happened, before the party, but I did do something silly and tried to use my RealD 3D glasses on a youtube video. I just had to try and see if there were any real real D 3D videos on there. I got my towel and goggles and stuff together, and Marcie came and picked me up around 7. 

   We were some of the people that got there first. After a few more people came, we did our opening thing we do for FHE every Monday which is we sing a song, say a prayer, and give some kind of spiritual thought, then we get into the activity after this. 

  We played Beach volleyball for half of the time we were in the pool which was almost 2 hours. It was hilarious, we weren't used to serving in water, so we had to learn how to do it. We ended up just serving the ball like a basketball for the whole time. We also accidentally hit the ball across the yard, into the bushes, and elsewhere a whole bunch of times. Our bishop, who wasn't swimming had to get it for us. I got it one of the times, and when I was trying to get back into the pool I misjudged the distance of the step at one end of the pool and ended up falling in and slightly bruising my left heal. There is an end with 2 steps where I got in at first, but the other end is just one big step, and i forgot this when I was getting in on the other end, I have pretty bad depth perception so I didn't realize. 

   The second half some of us played basketball, the rest of us hung out and talked, I actually swam from one side of the pool to the other over ad over. Marcie left early so i had to get another ride home. I didn't leave until 45 minutes after we started playing Basketball, and other stuff. My neighbor has a fire pit, some of us huddled around it and got warm, ti was starting to get less warm, and being wet kinda made us cold when we got out of the water. I wrapped myself in a towel and went over to the fire for a few minutes. I got my stuff together after this and told everyone I was leaving. I called my dad and after 10 minutes he was there and took me home. 

   During the 10 minutes I was waiting I tried to get both my AOL radio app, and my Pandora app to work, but the signal for my 3G wasn't the best over there. I thought they weren't going to turn on, but when I got into the car, on my way home they BOTH turned on and it was funny. It took me a few seconds to register the country music playing, and then the Queen radio on my Pandora app started playing as well.

   By the time I got home, which didn't take nearly as long as it took him to get there (by the way mom was in the car too) I was REALLY hungry. I didn't eat until after I washed my hair though. I scarfed down a bunch of pineapple and cantaloupe after this, asked my dad to put a pizza in the oven, went back downstairs with a crimson red towel wrapped around my head, and here I am now typing this. 

   Besides pizza, i don't think anything of note is going to happen so i will just end it here.

  EDIT: Did an Audio entry. I started to feel like talking so I did this about an hour after I posted this. If it doesn't work after pushing play once, try pushing play again.

  
  

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