Some Dreams

Had a dream last night. It was pretty cool, but I'm like 99% sure it wasn't a prediction, because a) it involves Rae with wings, and b) she's flying over my house. So it's not a prediction, and it was really short, but it was cool.

So I'm sitting at home, minding my own business, when suddenly someone goes, "Hey, Em! Catch!" from above me. So I look up, and I see Rae flying above me, with wings. Somehow I'm not surprised by that at all, and just catch the scrap of paper that she dropped. I hold it up, but just before I can read it, I wake up in bed. Ugh.

ANOTHER dream, also last night, but before that one. This one's 99% sure it's not a prediction, either, although it'd be MAJORLY awesome if it was. Majorly awesome. :P

I'm getting off an airplane and walking into an airport, and I see a guy and 4 kids, just standing around. I run up to the guy (whose face I can't see) and in the dream I know he's my dad. He goes, "Why don't we pretend that we don't know who each other are, at all, and make this a little less awkward?" I agree, and he introduces himself; I do the same, and we shake hands. "These are my kids. Most of them are your half-siblings, but--"
He breaks off, and the oldest steps forward. I gasp. "We've talked a few times," he says.
"You have got to be kidding me," I say, and the tall, brown-haired boy grins and shakes his head.
"Nope. Um, I'm Spencer. Even though you probably already grasped that. Nice to finally meet you in person." He holds out his hand, which I shake. We continue to talk, and it's all very happy and everything, but kind of personal-ish. Cuz it's about my dad, and some...personal stuff.
To check to make absolutely SURE that he's Spencer, towards the end of the conversation, I go, "What's the password?"
He laughs and goes, "6/9/10, or June 6th, 2010. Otherwise known as today's date."
Then I'm at my house, video chatting with Rae, who's all freaking out that Spencer's my brother and everything, and that *COUGH* she actually gets to see him, because he's in front of the camera and everything. My parents (my mom and dad!!! :D :D :D) are watching the news in the background, and suddenly there's this thing about a teenaged boy gone missing after a freak attack by an ancient organization called the Illuminati. Spencer and I, and Rae, who heard over the vid chat, spaz out.
Later that night, I'm asleep in my bed, and Spencer's snoring in the top bunk (which is magically clean and not Disney Princesses [long story. Kaliyan knows. :D]). Suddenly I wake up and there's a hand over my mouth, and I see none other than JOEY above me. He frowns. "You didn't believe me," he hisses.
I take his hand off my mouth, mime zipping my lips, and go get my flashlight from where it's hanging. Then I shoot it in my eyes, showing that I do have the so-called 'Seer's band'
(which, yes, I do. Always have).
"You didn't believe me, either," I whispered. Joey's eyes widen when he sees the 'bands'. "I have them, Spencer--" I gesture to the top bunk "--has them, and my dad has them. Yes, my dad, and SPENCER's dad. Which you aren't. So get over that, please."
Joey frowns again. "I know I'm not his dad," he says. "But I thought you were lying about the bands. Does Kaliyan have them too?" I'm surprised at how...not-insane he sounds in real life, which is deja vu-ish, since I was surprised about that before, via voice chat.
"No, she doesn't," I say. "But these aren't 'Seer's bands'. I've had them all my life, and it's just the color of my eyes. It runs in the family, and a lot of people have them. No big deal."

And then I woke up, randomly. Ta-da. Those are my lovely dreams. I know you loved them. :D Buh-bye.

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P.S: Spencer has a signature now. :P

Valleyfair!!

OK, so I went to a local amusement park, Valleyfair, today with Kaliyan and my friend Brynn, and...I don't know. Here's a post about it. Cuz I wanna.

We went in, and went on Enterprise, which is a cool ride where you sit in this cage-like thing and go around in a circle and are almost upside-down, even though you're not strapped in or anything. Anyway, Kaliyan and I sang "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz, which was really fun too. :D Then we went on some other rides, which were cool but not like OMG YAY THAT'S SO AMAZINGLY AWESOME WOOOOOOO.

And then we got to the Looping Starship.

Now, I'm getting ahead of myself. Beforehand, while we were walking in between rides, we were being high and decided to do something we'd read about on MLIA. So, we just walked normally with our hands up, and asked cool people for high-fives (there weren't many). I got 11 total, I think, and Kaliyan got 2 because she wasn't asking.

But THEN, when we were in line for the Looping Starship, I told Kaliyan to ask this blonde boy/guy/kid who was standing next to her for a high-five. She looked at me funny, but did, and he high-fived her. Real exciting, right? Yeah, well, it gets better.

So when we get on the ride, he's in our row (along with others, of course), and Kaliyan goes, "We should yell 'I'm on a boat'." Because the ride was shaped like a boat. I agreed, and added that we should do it when we were upside-down for the first time. We passed it along the row to dude-from-the-line and another kid. And we learned that dude-from-the-line dropped his hat in chocolate ice cream, which is sucky.

Soon we (Kaliyan and I) were going "Not yet...wait for it...next time for sure! Okay...okay, maybe next time...wait for it...go! I'M ON A BOAT!!!" while Brynn was just sitting there, thinking we were weirdos. Soon blonde-kid and the other kid joined in, and then blonde-kid goes "WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE FAST FOOD?" really loud. Some people shouted out stuff like "Burger King", "Wendy's", "Arby's", "McDonald's", etc (Kaliyan and I both said McDonald's). He goes "REALLY? CUZ I LIKE SUBWAY. EAT FRESH!!!!" and everyone changed their answers to Subway. Yeah. He was cool.

So we kept yelling stuff, and by the end of the ride we'd decided that our row was the awesomest. Then, when we got off, Kaliyan asked blonde-kid for a hug. He gave her the classic "WTF" look, and said no. But then he turned back, probably to go get something or something, and Kaliyan just hugged him. So I hugged him too. :D

Then we went onto...one of the roller coasters (I forgot. Teehee. Renegade? Wild Thing? I dunno), and dude-from-the-line was there. Kaliyan said that we hadn't asked what his name was, so of course I yell (he's about 5 people in front of us), "Hey dude! What's your name?" His name is Collin. I don't know how many L's there are, though, since I didn't ask him about that.

Aaaanyway, immediately after I asked his name he started being very involved with something on his phone. Kaliyan and I both agree that he was trying to avoid us. Then we went on the ride and had a good time and afterward didn't see him again. Which was too bad, cuz it was kinda fun to "stalk" him.

Um. Then we rode more rides and got really wet and got Dippin' Dots, which were good. Brynn kept dropping hers all over. It was kinda funny. Anyway, that's the thing about Collin.

Other news:
- Kaliyan made me go on the Steel Venom, which is this thing that's U shaped, with the right side of the U all twisty, and you sit in a hangy-downy seat and go rocketing from left to right, going straight up and straight down at like a bajillion miles per hour. Surprisingly, it wasn't all that scary. Which is good.
- I got wet on a ride I've never gotten wet on before. Which isn't really that great, but I felt like posting about it since I really can't think of anything to post that you people would care about...so I'm trying to fill up space. :D
- Also got SOAKING wet on a ride that I usually get soaking wet on. Which I kind of already mentioned.
- Then, after getting soaking wet, we got Dippin' Dots. Mine were chocolate, Kaliyan got Cookie Dough, and Brynn (she who dropped a lot of them) got Cookies 'n' Cream. They were very yummy, especially since I was craving ice cream.
- Kaliyan and I (and my mom) also got Mountain Dew there. VERY NUTRITIOUS. Good job, us. (FYI, we were there from 11am-6pm. So Dippin' Dots and Mtn Dew was basically our lunch. Again, good job, us.)
- Uhhhh, and ummmm...I discovered that Kaliyan's braces, supposedly black and lime green, are black and this diluted whitish-seafoam color that looks like it'd be glow-in-the-dark lime green or something, but it's not. Which is really sad. Poor Kaliyan.
- On the topic of braces, I got mine on Wednesday. They're lime green (like, actually lime green), teal, and cobalt, and they don't hurt at all any more. Yaaaay!! :D Anywho, yeah, that's a pretty major-ish thing that I didn't post about. I mean, it's only taken up a bullet point so far, and half the bullet point is me explaining that I haven't posted about it. Including that sentence. So you know, I'm just gonna shut up now.
- I'm Plurking, and randomly wanting some chocolate milk. Hm. I'm weird.
- Just realized that I'm writing about my braces and Plurk and chocolate milk now, so I'm kind of straying from the topic...so I'll stop posting because I don't really have anything to say any more.

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P.S: READ KALIYAN'S POST TOO!!! *nodnod* She posted about some of the same things as me (about Valleyfair at least), but in different words. So read her post too. Yep.
P.P.S: Be sympathetic to Rae, who's starting school tomorrow. But she gets more holidays than the rest of us (saints' days, etc) since she goes to a Catholic school...so I guess that's OK. Either way, sorry Rae. :( I'll miss you and I hope that Wing It still gets updated often.
P.P.P.S: On the subject of updating, sorry to Rae and others that Fandom is totally stuck right now. HAHA I'll go try to write some of that.
P.P.P.P.S: Kaliyan just posteded her post. I should post mine now too. So BYE.

Mah Dream

OK, so, as human beans are wont to do, I had a dream last night. And I actually remembered it. :O HOLY COW. Anyway. I didn't remember ALL of it, but I'm just gonna list the main parts for y'all. ;) Here goes...

- So I wake up at 8:00am and get ready for school; I don't feel like this is a late hour to get up at all, apparently.
- I walk out into the street and stop at a bus stop that's not really mine...
- The bus comes. It's one of those awesome ones with the comfortable seats. We ride to school.
- When I get to my locker, even though I get the impression that it's the first day of school, all my stuff is inside already. I take some of it out and go upstairs to my old primetime (apparently this is all set in the 7-1 hallway...), where GAP is standing outside, facing the door and talking to each other.
- I glomp them in this really funny, way-too-animated way.
- They grin and glomp me back, and we go downstairs, periodically glomping each other again.
- Mne passes us in the hall and goes "Welcome back" in this really creepy way.
- Mrs. Gillis is kneeling on the floor by my locker, and I help her with something really weird that involves carving something...I can't remember that part. But then I get some papers for her from her room, and they include print-outs of YouTube pages, with videos that actually played! I totally wish.
- Get randomly glomped by GAP again. Glomp back.
- Say goodbye to GAP and went up to Mrs. G's room, which is apparently my prime time. Even though it wasn't really.

Then I woke up, and saw that it was 5:54. How fun. Wrote the dream down in a notebook, tossed and turned until ~ 6:20, went back to sleep. Totally and completely passed out, one of those I-blink-once-and-hours-have-passed things. When I woke up again, it was 7:30. I rolled my eyes and went back to sleep again, and had this dream. Which I don't remember much of, but it was a pretty interesting dream.

- I'm in social studies, apparently the first period of my day. And the weird thing is, Mr. K (my 6th grade science teacher, and soon-to-be 8th grade science teacher) is teaching it.
- So he talks about random stuff that I can't remember and isn't really all that interesting.
- Then suddenly he doesn't look like Mr. K anymore, but he still IS. Like, in the dream, I know it's still him. But he has a skinnier face, and his eyes are slanted, and he has short-cut brown hair. Very strange.
- And then there's more random talking stuff that I just forgot because Rae is evil.
- Aaaaaaaaaaand then...nothing. Buh-bye.

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Obama

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as “proof” of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on “Earth Day”, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually “get” what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W.. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have
approved?

If George W.. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.

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7 Things I Love

Um. So like, I was tagged in this thing...and...yeah. So here it is.

7 Things I Love

1. Writing. I would die without it. DIE, I tell you!!! No, I would just be really sad. In this category is also all my characters, mainly those from my actual novels (my RP charries are pretty much just that--charries), especially Skylar. Because he's awesome like that. And yeah. Writing and RPing and that stuff is awesome.
2. My friends and family. 'Nuff said.
3. Colorado and Minnesota. Can't come up with anything poetic like Rae did (I mean, holy SHAMOLY, Rae!), but they're cool. Colorado because, well, the mountains are amazing and I can breathe and I have some KA cousins there and the Tattered Cover is there and I can BREATHE and it's almost always 60-ish, and I can BREATHE...and have I mentioned that I can breathe there? Minnesota because all my friends are here and everyone's got this vibe that's just so awesome (Minnesota nice, anyone?).
4. The 21st century. Dude. This internet thing? And how 'bout the World Wide Web? Cell phones, plasma screens, Wiis, all-digital television (which was pointless, BTW)...what's not to like? Okay, so there's some stuff, but overall it rocks. Hopefully y'all agree with me, cuz otherwise I'm really sorry. You're kind of stuck here. Until time travel, I guess, but that might be a while, because it's physically impossible and all that stuff (ask me sometime. I've got the deets). :D
5. Summer vacation, because it's just so...summer vacation-y.
6. The OtherSide, however deteriorated it may be. I never would have met Rae, D, Spencer (well ok...so that's not true. But I never would have gotten to know Spencer), etc, etc, ETC, without it. And we might be able to bring it back to life as a GRP (good roleplay)ing blog or something. Who knows? The possibilities are endless.
7. Chocolate. Because I'm eating M&Ms right now, and (although they hurt my poor sensitive teeth like crap) they're tasty. Chocolate in general is tasty. But you probably knew that by now.
8. Since #7 was fairly pathetic, I'm adding a #8: Nature! Because it's beautiful and wonderful and filled with animals and plants and awesomeness! So even though I don't believe in global warming, don't ruin the world! Because it's always good to be careful, in case something bad DOES happen...

Now I shall tag people.
- Kaliyan - Doooooooo it. Pwease.
- Spencer - If you ever get on. GET ON.
- You.

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So...

So, um, the last post was really long and I felt like making a new one, even though there's not much going on in my world right now. So here's an update. :D

- Got spacers in today. It was the exact same thing as last time, just on the top, too. They don't hurt at all, duh, because spacers don't hurt (for me at least...although I didn't think anyone else's did either?), and...um...the molds didn't taste nearly as bad as last time I had them. Which is very good. Last time I got molds I was about ready to throw up. They were SOOOO gross. My jaw itself hurts from opening so far for so long, but otherwise it's all good. Getting zee braces in like a week or something. And...yeah. That's the orthodontia thing.
- Just got back from camp, obviously, as you saw very clearly in the last post. It was really fun, and I made all the specialists freak out because I got Denali to slow trot. I MISS DENALI :(( I want my baby back. She's so amazing, and exactly what I like in a horse. She wants to go fast, but if you know what you're doing (which I evidently do now, since I TOTALLY GOT HER TO SLOW-TROT!! *victory dance*) she'll go slowly for you. But anyway, you people should've seen Redd and Freckles and Monty and Piper's faces. Priceless.
- Speaking of horses, my mom and I are looking for a couple to lease, and so far, so bad. All the horses I tried out on Saturday were either slow pokes or weird, funky direct rein. I've learned direct rein, just not like that. Anyway, they were also terribly trained, which I could tell right away, and the lady was like "Hold your hands straight out, don't bend your elbows at ALL unless you're pulling them in for a stop. No, no, hold them straight out in front of you, not there," blah blah blah. DUDE. LADY. When riding Western, you put your hand(s) RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HORN. Durr-ka-durr. Anyway, needless to say, we vetoed those horses, even though it was by far the best grounds of the places we'd been. Too bad...that place had 2,000 acres of trails. Which is a lot, for those of you who are like "Uhhhhmmmm ok..." right now. But oh well.
- Um...hm. Going to the fair with a couple of my cousins tomorrow, after hanging out at my grandma's house with said cousins this afternoon and tomorrow. Will be back manana at some point. Dunno when. G-ma's picking me up in a few hours, JSYK. Umm...and...my spacers are creeping up my teeth because I had some weirdo who didn't know how to do it put them on. Yaaaay. T.T

And...um...yeah...

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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack!!!

Soooo, as most if not all of you know, I went to the River/Elk River/camp/heaven on earth for the last week-ish, and since I'm just cool that way I'm gonna just post a quick summary of what we did there, and...yeah. It's a lot, so be prepared. ;) Anyway, enjoy the summary of campness. :D

SUNDAY - HALF DAY
12:45 - Leave for camp, kinda sad because no one was online, so I couldn't say goodbye to anyone.
2:00 - Arrive at camp, go in and say hi to Monty (riding director), Scout (riding manager), and Winona (lifeguard), who were at the front desk. Get lice and fever checks, and basically get signed in that I'm healthy and whatever. Annoying, but it keeps people with lice out of camp and stuff. ;)
2:30 - Checks are done, drive up to horse-side and just pretty much set my stuff on a random bed. Watch some people go in and out and kind of just sit there awkwardly. Say goodbye to mom.
3:00 - Giggles (counselor) figures out that we're all really bored and awkward and decides to play games in the field with us. We play stuff like Elbow Tag, Rock, Mafia, and, after a while, Rush. Learn a couple people's names over the course of that, and figure out who all is in my cabin/group.
4:00 - Go back to the cabin and unpack. Kind of stare at the people in my cabin and make stilted conversations with the people who'll respond. Just hang out.
5:00 - Walk the mile or so down to program/wimpy/NCE/etc. side of camp for dinner.
5:45 - Do flag. Yippee. So fun. Not. The CITs do it, though, so it's not the worst EVER or anything...
6:00 - Go into dinner, where we have these beef tacos and a couple other things. It's delicious. :D Sit with a couple people from my cabin.
6:30: Do capers/clean-up jobs/chores. I was the scraper. Don't know why you'd need to know that.
7:00 - Capers are done and we went down to campfire, where we did this really lame skit that I'm not even going to tell you about because it was so lame. Figured out that our specialist was Redd (YAY).
9:00 - Campfire's over, and we walk up to horse side in the dark. Go into Pinto (our cabin) and get ourselves ready for bed, also sort of talking with the people in the cabin.
10:00 - Flashlight time. Figure out that my flashlight's totally dead. Darn.

MONDAY
7:00 - Giggles walks in and wakes us up. We get dressed, not too tired since we all slept well.
7:20 - Head up to program side for flag/breakfast. We're all wearing our jeans and carrying our boots, sunscreen, bug spray, and water bottles. It's still about a mile or two from our cabins to Grey Koch (pronounced "grey coach"), the dining place. Some steep hills, but nothing too bad.
7:45 - Flag. The little kids do it today, so it takes forever and we're all starving.
8:10 - Ten minutes late for breakfast because of the slow little kids. The hoppers are being impatient. Whatever to them. ANYWAY we go into breakfast and eat. It's these amazing apple cinnamon muffins, toast, milk, orange juice, oatmeal, etc, etc. Good meal. We do capers.
9:00 - Go back down to horse side and basically learn how to mount and dismount, like it's possible to forget that sort of thing. Saddle Cowboy a few times to practice, and learn the quick-release in our spare time. My feet hurt from wearing the boots for 1.5 hours straight. Then we spread hay in the pastures (easy barn chore, for ONCE. Redd isn't lazy like Freckles is. Heehee.)
12:00 - Get to lunch. Eat lunch. It was Italian dunkers with some stuff. Do capers.
1:00 - "Me time", so I read my book for a while and write a letter, then get mad because I can't find my envelopes, which sucks.
2:00 - Go down to Lake Barbara (Barbie) for swimming. Take the swim test, where you swim the 100 feet or so to the middle of the pool/lake, tread water for a minute, then swim the rest of the way out to Winona, who gives you the last of the wristbands. They're these weird Church Mutual ones because they're running out of wristbands. Swim in the 2.5-foot-deep shallow end for the rest of the time.
4:00 - After taking a shower, go up to low ropes and do both the ropes course and the "Raging River", as well as Willow in the Wind and trust falls. A bunch of team-building stuff.
5:30 - Go back up to Grey Koch for flag and dinner, which consists of chicken strips and a bunch of sides. I sit with a bunch of people from my cabin--who I now know as Carly, Syl(via), Sam, and Megan--as well as Limbo and Andi and Sarah, who's 9 years old and not even 3 feet tall, weighing in at about half the weight of Veronica, my almost-3-year-old cousin. Not kidding; that girl is TINY.
6:45 - Practically fly down to horse side and go to the horse barn, where we got helmets and like spaz out for a little while, even though I become exempt from the spazzing when Redd walks up to me and goes, "Hey, Emily, are you OK with riding Denali again? Freckles said you were really good with her, and this is a level lower than you're used to, so you might be the only one that'd be able to control her..." Say yes, of course, since I love Denali (OKAY SO I'M BIASED NOW BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED LATER. SHUDDUP. :P).
7:10 - Groom and saddle Denali, not to mention Cowboy and Sampson because their riders are totally inept at saddling. Hug Denali hello and play with her mane while waiting for the slowpokes that STILL aren't done. Talk to Sam, who's riding Cookie-Jay (the name's a long story that I'm not explaining).
7:15 - Start walking. Denali's about 5th (out of 11). We do a few patterns, no trotting or anything yet. Serpentine, figure-8, centerline and crossline, 180 and 360, stuff like that. Would be pretty boring, but nothing's ever boring with Denali.
9:00 - Go back to the cabins and chillax for an hour or so. Nothing too spectacular.

TUESDAY
7:00 - Wake up and get ready for the day. Check the agenda and talk to Sam and Megan. Get dubbed "Erin" by this girl, Courtney, who decided that I don't look like an Emily and instead look like an Erin. Colleen (Courtney's friend) and Courtney decide to call me only Erin for the whole week.
7:45 - Get to Grey Koch. We do flag, and I'm the caller. Go into breakfast, which is eggs and sausage. Camp sausage is the BEST. Anyway, then we do capers.
9:00 - Head back to horse side to groom, saddle, and ride. We trot today, and to my surprise Denali doesn't once slip into a canter. Redd gives me some pointers on my posture, but otherwise looks kind of shell-shocked. I think it's for the same reason I'm surprised. On the other hand, horses like Alaska and Cowboy (both of whom are the wimpiest, easiest horses ever) canter for a few strides each. Alaska wouldn't canter unless you kicked him REALLY hard when he was already at a trot.
12:00 - Go eat lunch, which consisted of a ham wrap, Cheetos, an apple, and my water.
1:00 - Me time. Read my book and talk.
2:00 - Go swimming with Sam and Megan. Deep end's closed for half the time because supposedly a couple people're going to take the swim test, but of course they wimp out. Swim for about an hour and a quarter in the freezing cold water, which is about 10 degrees warmer in the deep end, which opened an hour into that time. Then take a (warm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) shower and dry off.
4:00 - Do archery. I got it into the red (right outside the bullseye ring) twice, the black (next one out) four times, and the white (next one out) twice. Used a lefty bow for like 2 shots, both of which totally shot off into the weeds. Great job, Emily (or Erin, as about half of my cabin-mates have taken to calling me).
5:30 - Flag and dinner. Seriously having mental problems and forgot what we had. Sorry.
6:45 - Walk down to horse side for chores. We scooped hay in the pasture.
8:00 - Horse science was supposed to start, but instead we continued to scoop hay. Redd was just like "What color is [horse name]?" a few times. I knew them all, and decided to shut up after a few answers. Then, when no one else knew, I started answering again to put Redd out of her misery.
9:00 - Head back to the cabins and get ready for bed. Read about 4 pages in my book and write a letter. Still can't find the stupid envelopes.
10:00 - Flashlight time. Mine is still dead.

WEDNESDAY
6:00 - Guess what? We got to wake up reeeally early today to ride. We get ready.
7:00 - Arrive at the horse barn and saddle up a couple horses. Does no one in my group know how to tie a four-knot? I now officially hate leather latigos. They suck.
7:10 - With my help, we saddle up in only 10 minutes and are off. We go on a trail ride, and I coax Denali into a triple-space, then (with only one klick [yes that's how you spell it]) I get her to trot for a few strides. I'm the 2nd horse, right behind Redd, who's riding Simon. Simon's a really pretty frosted App (or maybe a bay roan...but I think he's an App [for those who don't know, frosted Apps and bay roans look exactly the same, just are different breeds]) and he hates it when people are up his butt, but walks at a good pace. ANYWAY, Redd just laughed at me and told me that I had good control and much better posture.
8:10 - Done with the trail ride, and head to the upper arena for some individual and ring riding for the rest of the time. I get Denali into a really measured trot, and Redd's jaw almost unhinges. I crack up, and Denali starts nickering a little bit like she got it. I'm definitely better with her than before, and Redd's spazzing out to Giggles in the center of the arena.
8:30 - We head back to the horse barn to change out of our riding gear, then head down to Big Red (triple-storied barn) for a late breakfast of toast, fruit, orange juice, and these cute little mini bagels.
9:00 - We scoop poop and rake hay for chores, and do "the magazine activity" for horse science. Then we go to our cabins and -- joy of joys! -- change into shorts for the rest of the day. Wow!
12:00 - Head down to zee Grey Koch for lunch, where the counselors are all waiting outside with rolls of duct tape in their hands. Redd tapes my thumb and pointer finger together (on both hands, of course). I end up sitting at a table with Sam, Megan, Courtney, Winona, Redd, and Monty, as well as some younger girls from levels three and lower. We all have an...interesting time trying to eat honey BBQ chicken wraps with our taped-up hands, which supposedly simulate having no thumbs. Even though raccoons have them, and it was called a "raccoon lunch". Nice going, whoever named it.
12:30 - Capers start, and we take the tape off and do them. I'm dish carrier.
1:00 - Me time. I finish my book, then draw some pathetic attempts at horses, and do a weird collage thingy with me and Denali. I actually drew a fairly good horse in that one. Sylvia and Carly assure me that all of my drawings are good, but that's because they just turned 11.
2:00 - Swimming: deep end's open the whole time today, and we begged and pleaded to play Sink the Counselor. No luck; the canoes are down at Stone Lake. Oh, well. Still have a good time.
4:00 - Cooking time!! We go up to Grey Koch and into the dorm kitchens, where we bake some really awesome chocolate chip cookies. We each get 3, Giggles and Redd get 2, and the lifeguards and horse workers get 1 each. They're all warm and gooey and melty and amazing. (: Yum.
5:30 - Walk back to horse side and have a cookout. We made pizza pudgy pies and banana boats, and Redd was watching the fire and being really funny. We begin to get really hyper after having 2 chocolate-y desserts, and get really into laughing and stuff.
7:30 - After the very long cookout, which was super fun, we walk back to program side for art, where we make these weird scratch things that I immediately threw away. We were all really hyper, though, so it was really fun.
9:00 - Arrive back at the cabins and get ready for bed. Sort of. We're all really overtired and slaphappy, especially Syl and Courtney, so we're running around and doing Edward Cullen impersonations. I'm trying to get Syl to stop screaming and jumping off the table. VERY fun time.
10:00 - Supposedly lights out. We sit up and talk for a while, though, and do a few more Edward impersonations. Courtney dubs a few more people a few more names, and we finally fall asleep at almost 11. Oops.

THURSDAY
7:00 - Wake up at the normal time and get ready.
8:00 - Go down to breakfast--chocolate chip muffins and strawberries--and flag. It was really good. Sat with Sam, a bunch of random people, and Andi and Giggles. I "get" to sweep the floor around the table, which actually isn't a bad job, for a caper.
9:00 - We go do chores, which is washing water troughs. Then we learn about feeds and medicine, which I've only gone over ABOUT a million times before. But whatever. It was still cool.
12:00 - We head back in and go to lunch, which is "fun on the run"--I packed myself a turkey sub at breakfast, as well as some other stuff. It was tasteh.
1:00 - Me time. I write another letter and can't find the envelopes. Sam, Megan, and Carly can't either. It's a sad deal, people. Sad deal.
2:00 - Swimming, as usual. I buy this cool light-up thing, a keychain "liscense plate" that says "Elk River" on it, and a stick pen at the lake-side store, and take a really long, warm shower. I'm still scared that the showers were warm every single time. Barbie's showers are NEVER warm. Ever.
4:00 - We cook again, and make these cool things called apple spinners. We melted brown sugar and butter together, then drizzled that and marshmallow taffy over some granny smith apples. It was really good, but when Limbo walked through, Carly and I gave our last pieces (one each) to her because we'd had 2 scoops of the brown sugar mix, which was way too sugary. Limbo thought it was great.
4:30 - Done with the food, we play this game called Sleeping Prey where one person like walks around and tries to make people laugh. So Courtney got up, and I laughed at her because she's hilarious. So I stood up and walked over to Danielle and crouched down to tell a random story. "So I was walking to the park with my friend Kirsten -- not Kiersten, KIRSTEN -- and it was a pretty long walk. But we got there, and..." She laughed. I moved on to Carly. "We got there, and when we got there we got on the swings. The swings were REALLY fun. And then we fell into a sand pit." Suddenly, every single person in the room started clutching their guts with uncontrolled laughter. I'm not kidding. They thought it was THAT funny.
4:45 - We go outside to flag, where Danielle tells me to go up to Limbo and Redd and tell them my story. Basically, after we fall into the sand pit -- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, go the people in my cabin. O.o, goes Emily -- we walk around in a labyrinth of caves and finally make it out when someone hears us yelling from the water fountain, and gets it ripped up and lowers a rope down. Mhm. Limbo asked if we met any animal friends down there, and Redd was just looking at me in this amused-but-weirded-out way. *nodnod*
5:00 - We ate a dinner of pasta and whatever else, which was really good as usual.
6:00 - Head back to horse side and ride, ride, ride. We trot the weaving poles, and I do it at an extremely controlled trot to freak Redd out. It works--she gives me this super, super incredulous look before trying to compose herself and go, "That was really good, Emily." Then a few minutes later, after she talked to Giggles for a little bit (I heard the words "Denali" and "never" a few times), she turned back to me and said, emphasizing it really heavily, "That was REALLY good, Emily. REALLY good job."
6:10 - Sam/Helga and Cookie Jay start trotting the weaving poles, and suddenly Cookie starts to spaz out. He goes to the middle and starts trotting in a circle, and Sam's like "HOLY CRAP", but kind of quietly. Redd has to go over and grab his lead rope, then Sam gets off and sits on a barrel while Redd runs Cookie through the poles again, as if to tell him that he can't get away with slacking off. For the rest of the time, Cook's a little angel, and whenever he stops, he glances over at Redd to make sure she's not coming over. Teehee.
7:30 - We hear screams coming from the cabin area, and they don't sound like the kind of screams you hear when someone nearly gets caught during tag. We're all nervous, but kind of shrug it off.
9:00 - The rest of the lesson is uneventful except that I got a 2.54 on my Spiral, which is only 55 hundreths of a second away from the record. Then we head back to our cabins...
9:10 - ...and find out the reason behind the screaming. There was a hornet's nest about 10 feet away from our cabin, and Sam's sister's group was playing Charades and stepped in it. Most of them got 2 stings, some got 1, and one person got 3.
9:30 - They taped it off and forbid us from so much as talking about it, so when someone came into the cabin from the bathroom (not naming names...) and opened the window to see, Winona--usually a mellow, bubbly person--came in and screamed at us.
9:50 - Winona comes in and apologizes, saying that she'd had a lot to do and that we were by far not the only ones she'd yelled at. Then she gave us all hugs and told us to just go to sleep and not worry about it, and that they'd sprayed the holes with nearly a gallon of insect killer, so they should all be dead.
10:00 - We all passed out, basically, despite plans to stay up until "at least midnight". I woke up briefly to Carly and Syl digging around in their bags, but fell back asleep in a few minutes.

FRIDAY (today)
7:00 - Woke up, got ready, etc. You know the drill by now. ;)
7:45 - CITs did flag, and I requested Murray the Rabbit Boy, which I know for a fact is Redd's favorite song. It's definitely mine, anyway, and all the counselors were like "Ohmygosh I forgot all about that song!! I love that song!!" which made me happy. We sang some other decent songs, too.
8:00 - Went into breakfast, which was bagels and cream cheese, and grapes and toast and cereal. Sat with Andi, Redd, and Danielle, along with some little kids. We were all teasing Redd, and Andi kept stealing Redd's apple juice and drinking it. Redd like looked at her for a second, then laughed and kept eating. Twas very funny, and very yummy too. ;)
9:00 - Headed back to the cabins to pack. I took some pictures of Big Red and people and Little Red and a bunch of stuff, trying to waste pics. I also finished packing first, so I got the great honor of sweeping the cabin. Just in case you didn't know, the cabins/treehouses get REALLY disgustingly dusty and dirty and...just...disgusting. From half the room, I got the equivalent of like 2 weeks' worth of sweeping at meals. It's really gross.
9:30 - Starts raining out. We all get really nervous.
10:00 - We go out to the horse barn to prep the horses, and Redd and Frecks say that there's a good chance that there won't be a show. We go to Little Red and watch Spirit while eating popcorn and marshmallows and raisins and some of this honey-cinnamon cereal of some sort.
12:30 - We check outside, and it's still raining. We head back to our cabins and I play Mancala against Sam. I beat her 7-4 (games won).
2:10 - We do this weird skit and talk about what we learned in horse science and stuff. It was really pathetically sad and retarded. Basically we went like "I rode [name]. (S)he's a [color] [breed]. My favorite thing about them was [blankity blank]." And then we answered questions about meds, feed, breeds, etc, etc, etc. Very stupid. Then we got our stuff and left.
3:30 - Got home and went through my school supplies.
3:50 - Got online and talked to Kali and Rae.

THE END!!!!!!!!! Told you it'd be long. Took me like 4 hours to write, too, because I was talking to Kali and Rae while writing it. Kaliyan wants me to read Janet's story and update TT, Rae wants me to watch FMA and read Wing It, and...just chill, you guys. My god.

Buh-bye.

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-Emilee