Day 3: Pretzels and HSM

The third day of our Spectacular Summer Finale, Aimee and I decided to do something at home, but it was definitely just as fun as our other two adventures.

We hadn't made our 'oh so famous' homemade pretzels in a while, and we were kinda craving them, so we decided that we would slave over the hot stove and create a yummy snack for us to enjoy. Normally the recipe takes us about 3 hours to complete. But this time, it went by a lot faster - or at least it seemed like it did. (Maybe it was just because we were having so much fun! Because times flies when you are having fun, right?)

So yea . . . we made the pretzels. Not much to say about that part.

There are two times in the process of making the pretzels where we have to let the dough rise. The first time for 40 minutes, and the second time for 20 minutes. So we decided to entertain ourselves during that time by watching High School Musical 2 with Aimee's sister Grace. (That is what HSM stands for. High School Musical. And if you didn't already know that, then you either had one crappy childhood or you are old!) And boy, oh boy was that fun!! We all knew almost all the words to all the songs, and of course we had to sing along! Yep, you just can't get any better than High School Musical!

So after we had let the dough rise, I was standing in the middle of the walkway between the counter and wall, and all of a sudden I hear a very soft whisper in my ear, 'excuse me'. Needless to say, I jumped about a mile high, screamed my head off, and in doing so scared the crap out of Aimee who was boiling the pretzels, who also screamed. And Aimee's mom started laughing her head off! Yep, it was pretty frightening, but it was also pretty darn hilarious! And it added to our list of amazing summer memories! Woohoo!

The boiling process is most of the time where things can go wrong. You see, picking up the pretzels and placing them in the water can be a bit tricky! And over half of the time, they come apart, and we have to try to recreate them after they are done boiling. So some of our pretzels turn out to have pretty fancy designs!  Like for example this one:

After we finished making our spectacular pretzels, (and they did taste pretty amazing thank you very much!) we ate them of course! But we also finished watching High School Musical 2.

There is this one song called Humuhumunukunukuapuaa. It is about a fish, and it is pretty hilarious! In the movie, Sharpay's background singers and dancers also known as the Sharpette's, make fishy faces. Well, Aimee and I tried to make our own fishy faces, and for some reason Aimee thought that mine was hilarious, and she laughed every time I did it. But I am so not going to post a picture on here, because that would just be embarrassing! So you are just going to have to picture me doing it. Here is what you do: Suck in your cheeks to make a fishy lips, cross your eyes, put your hands on either side of your face to make fins, and flap them back and forth, and then wave your head to make it look like you are swimming. And TADA!! You are now officially a fish!

Also, please enjoy this picture of our amazing pretzels. They were good. Are you jealous? I bet you are!!

So Anyway . . . it's really not possible to have a dull day when Aimee and I are together!

Day 2: Photo Scavenger Hunt at Walmart

It is the second day of our Spectacular Summer Finale, and Aimee and I had another adventure worthy of the amazing title.

After much debate, and questioning, we finally decided that we would ride our bikes to Walmart (which by the way is about 3 1/2 miles away from my house) and do a photo scavenger hunt. So we printed off a list of crazy things to find, prepared our bikes, and set off. It wasn't that long of a bike ride, but the last little portion was uphill, so that was pretty challenging for my lazy legs.

So we got there and we couldn't find the bike rack. Just our luck! So we ended up locking our bikes to this random pole attached to the building. First thing we go the bathroom and get a drink, and as predicted, my face was as red as a tomato, and Aimee's was tan and beautiful. Figures, right? After a while, I just gave up on trying to return my face to it's natural pale color, and had to deal with all the weird looks I got as I walked through Walmart.

Then we started working on our scavenger hunt list. Here is all the pictures that we took and a description of what we had to find.

1. Get a picture of something that will represent your teams mascot. (Woohoo, Rocking Mickey!)

2. Get a picture of a food item that no one in your group has ever eaten. (Haha, coffee!)

3. Get a picture of something that fits this description, "Most people buy this approximately once a month" (We went for the less obvious)

4.Get a picture of a food item that everyone in our group has eaten in the last month. (I don't know who or what she is looking at.)

5. Get a picture of everyone in your group staging a battle scene. (So, there were only two people in our 'team' and one of them had to take the picture, so this was as close as we were going to get.)  

6. Get a picture of a defective product. (There is a big whole in the box. Also, she was being a bum and not looking at the camera or smiling. Although it is better then when she was hiding her face completely!) 

7. Get a picture of a book everyone has read. (Please ignore the creepy face.)

 8. Get a picture of everyone in the group wearing the same article of clothing. (Why is everything cuter on Aimee?)

9. Get a picture of something that fits this description, " Most people use this daily." (Hahahaha I would sure hope so!) 

10. Get a picture of something odd but strangely fitting. (Haha, get it, Green Lantern and a green lantern! Haha, we are so funny!) 

11. Get a picture of your entire group sitting on the same piece of furniture. (So you can't really see it, but we are kinda both sitting on a chair, and Aimee is trying to hide behind me.) 

 12. Get a picture of three things that fit this description, "This can be used to lose weight." (Treadmill, tennis racket, 10 lb weight.)

13. Find a toy that the majority of your group had as a child. (We had to use the Barbie in a dress because Aimee apparently never had a ballerina Barbie.) 

14. Get a picture of a price check station after having scanned a clearance item. (It was a light switch cover thing and it was gold, and it was only $1!!) 

15. Get a picture of the most expensive piece of jewelry in the store. (So there isn't anyone in the picture, because I had to hurry and take the picture of the watch - which was behind glass - before anyone saw us) 

16. Find a food item everyone in the group doesn't like. (Tuna. Eww! And as Aimee pointed out, I had a pretty revolting face! Hahahahaha! I know she meant that I looked revolted. But I still think it's pretty hilarious! ) 

17. Get a picture of something that meets this description, "It used to swim in water, now it doesn't." (Aimee wouldn't hold a bag of shrimp or fish, so we just had to have her point at the seafood sign. Except that she isn't actually pointing!)

18. Get a picture of something that fits this description, "It smells good when it burns." (I know, I look really stupid when I am pretending to smell the candle!) 

19. Get a picture of a DVD that everyone has seen and not liked. (So this proved to be a lot harder then we had thought it wold be, so even though Aimee doesn't remember this movie, we used it anyway.)

 20. Get a picture of something that fits this description. "A tool that has multiple uses." (You can't really see it, but I'm holding a hammer!)

21. Get a picture of something that would only be used outside. (We are perfectly aware that you could technically ride a bike inside, but these were HUGE, so we decided that it wouldn't fit inside. And it was pretty hilarious, because almost right after we took this picture, the red bike in the back fell off the rack. Aimee didn't do it of course, but it was still pretty funny!)

After our scavenger hunt, both of us were super tired, and our legs hurt really bad. So we went over to McDonald's and got some fries and a drink to share. So were were sitting there, watching the people walk in and out of Walmart, and talking of course, when all of a sudden, we saw someone we knew!! It was Aimee's mom and older sister Maddie. So of course we do the obvious and shout out there names, but of course they don't hear because there is a layer of glass between us, and a lot of noisy people. So what do we do next, well we bang on the glass of course! Once again, they still don't notice. So, I run out of McDonald's, and out into the entrance of Walmart shouting Maddie's name. (And now that I think about it, I don't know why I went running out, Aimee should have gone, it was her family! Oh well!) Well, a lot of people looked at me, but of course, not Maddie. It is then that I notice that Aimee had followed me, leaving our food, and my camera in McDonald's. So, I hurry and run back inside, and back to our table, ignoring the weird comments I get from the employee, and the looks I get from other customers. After Aimee successfully scares her family, she comes running back in. And when I see her face, I start laughing, and root beer comes out my nose. (Because I am just cool like that!!) 

So, by then we had been at Walmart for almost 3 hours, so we finally decide to head home. And let me just tell you, the ride back was so much easier, and a lot more fun - because a lot of it was downhill! At one point, we got to a point where we had to turn, and so I looked over my shoulder to see if there were any cars coming. And it turns out that there was one right behind us! I got kinda scared to see a car that close, so I swerved to the right to avoid the car, and started riding across a large pile of rocks. It was not comfortable, but it was pretty funny!

Also, there was a point where we had to make a really sharp turn to get onto the sidewalk. Well, I tried to make the turn very smoothly, and well, that didn't really happen. There are a lot of potholes, and big bumps in the way, and I happened to hit a big bump. Well, my bike decided that it couldn't make it over the bump, but wanted to fall instead. So I kinda stumbled over the bike, and got some scrapes on my legs. But I am totally fine! And it was pretty hilarious! 

So Anyway . . . Day 2 was a huge success and many funny memories were made! 

Our Spectacular Summer Finale Day 1: Yogurtland

There are only two full of weeks left of summer. Where on earth has it gone? Why did it have to pass by so quickly?

So far, I haven't done anything productive with my summer vacation. I have done practically nothing but sit around on my butt and eat junk food while I watch TV, or hang out with Aimee. But even then, we still just sit there and ask each other: What do you want to do? And we can never come up with anything. So needless to say, my summer vacation has been pretty boring.

But I am determined to make these last two weeks ones to remember. Aimee and I will do something crazy, adventurous, awesome, exciting, and fun every single day for the rest of our summer vacation. (Except for Sundays of course.)

Well, yesterday was Day 1 of our Spectacular Summer Finale. And our first adventure was to finally go to Yogurtland. We have heard some pretty great feedback about this new frozen yogurt place, so we decided that since all of our previous frozen yogurt hangouts had closed, we would give this new one a try.

      

So I didn't have my camera with me, so this isn't my or Aimee's frozen yogurt creation. Ours actually had a lot more chocolate and a lot less fruit. But oh well, I wanted to use a picture.

And it was good, really good, but  I wouldn't say that it is any better then any other frozen yogurt place out there. In fact I thought that Earth Fruits had more variety of toppings. And although Yogurtland had a lot more flavors of yogurt, there were a lot that just weren't very good. *cough cough* Pistachio.But overall, I liked Yogurtland, and I will definitely go back.

So anyway . . . I would say that the first day of our Spectacular Summer Finale was a success.

A Not So Fried Egg

One of the summer goals that my best friend Aimee and I had this year was to be able to fry an egg on the sidewalk.

On our way over to her house yesterday, she was walking barefoot, and the scorching pavement burned her feet. We took that as a clue that it was finally hot enough to fulfill our goal.

Before we started we decided to check in Aimee's Daring Book for Girls - which happened to have a chapter about frying eggs on the sidewalk - to make sure we were doing everything right. (Don't worry we were) Oh and guess what, we had even thought of using aluminum foil before the book suggested it! But anyway, the book wasn't super optimistic about how our egg would turn out. It practically flat out told us that it wouldn't work. But, being the crazy, adventurous girls that we are, we thought that we would give it a shot anyway.

Well, we go out and set the aluminum foil on the street near the curb, and place the egg on top of it (not yet cracked). Which come to think of it was probably a really stupid thing to do, seeing as the egg could have very easily been taken or squished. But, thank goodness, it survived. Well, we went back inside, giving the foil about twenty minutes to warm up. It didn't. At all. After twenty minutes, it was only slightly warm. Bummer, right?

However, we decided to crack the egg onto the foil anyway. Hey, we had to at least try, didn't we? Well, we went back inside and let the egg sit there for about two hours. We would check on it periodically of course, just to make sure that it was still there, and to see if anything miraculous had happened yet. Of course, it hadn't.

Eventually it was almost time for me to go home, so we went out to check on our 'frying' egg one last time. To our surprise, the very edges of the clear part of the egg were slightly white. We obviously got very excited at this new transformation. I decided to poke the top of the yoke just to see if it was still gooey. It wasn't. It was hard, and gross. So, to our dismay, we had to give up on it and throw it away. :( Sad day, I know.

So Anyway . . . my dreams of eating an egg that was fried on the sidewalk are now crushed. *sigh*

All-Nighter

One thing that I have always wanted to do for a very long time, is to pull an all-nighter. Go an entire night without sleeping. On a few particularly stressful school days, I have come close to accomplishing my goal, but I always managed to get a few hours of sleep before I was always rudely awoken by my alarm clock. Seeing as I was that close on a school night, I figured that a summer night would be a cinch, especially seeing as I am often up until 1:30 / 2:00 ish every night anyway.

Well, last night I finally decided that I was going to do it! I was going to pull an all nighter! And might I just say, it was pretty successful!

I started off by just watching a couple shows on HGTV - Cake Boss and Four Houses - both of which were pretty boring. But I also had a bowl of mint ice cream and a brownie, so I didn't really mind watching the shows. 

I then retired to my bedroom where I started using my ever so handy, and entertaining, All-Nighter stash that I had made a few hours before. It consisted of the seventh Harry Potter book, the second and third Harry Potter movies, the Special Features disks to the second and third movies, a bottle of cold water, and a pixie stick. 

I started off by watching the Special Features disk of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This was my favorite part of the night, and it lasted a good two hours. I love everything about Harry Potter: the books, the movies, the characters, EVERYTHING!! But I especially love watching interviews with the cast members and J.K. Rowling herself. It is so exciting seeing the real people behind my favorite characters, and watching them goof off back stage. 

I also love all of the Behind the Scenes footage, and seeing the making of the set, the music, and so much more! I don't think I have ever fully appreciated the effort behind the making of such wonderful movies, and I never really understood how much work actually goes into them. It is a lot longer and more challenging of a process then I would ever have imagined, and I am so grateful for all the people who take the time create such magical movies!

Last night I also read more of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban, and explored some of the special features of the third movie. And by the time everything on my list of entertainment had been checked off, it was almost seven o'clock in the morning. I had also finished my lone pixie stick, (which had been giving me an extra boost of energy whenever I started to droop off) and my water had turned warm.

By this time, there was also a stream of light sneaking its way into my room from outside where the sun was rising, and the birds could be heard chirping outside my window. I figured that these were both signs of night having disappeared, leaving morning in it's place. And I decided, that since the night was past, and I was still awake, I had successfully completed my task of pulling an all-nighter. I then went to sleep, for about three hours.

So Anyway . . . I'm really tired!

 

A Chest-Stabbing BFF

My best friend stabbed me in the back today! Literally, with a pencil! Except, she stabbed me in the chest, not the back. But whatever, same difference.

We were just hanging out in my room, drawing an awesome flying castle that we are going to invent sometime in the future. Well, I thought that the castle should be able to change design according to your desire, but she thought that the castle shouldn't be able to change at all. Well, we obviously started arguing about it, and the next thing I know, the pencil that she had been using to draw the tower of the castle was half way through my chest, and blood was dripping everywhere.

Yea, some friend right?! But don't worry, she immediately regretted her violent action, and helped me into the car, and into the emergency room. And after getting nine stitches, I'm totally fine. And we have a hilarious story to tell!!

Okay, so I am totally kidding about everything that I just said. Well, half way kidding.

There was actually a pencil sticking half way out of my chest, and there was blood dripping everywhere. However, it was only half of a pencil, and it was taped to my chest, and the so called blood was actually red paint. But it did look pretty amazingly scary if I do say so myself.

So here's the story:

I am constantly joking around with my friend about me dying. I say it all the time that it has become kinda of a daily joke. Everyday I will ask her something along the lines of 'What would you do if you walked into my room one day and found me lying on the floor, dead, like this?' And I then lie on the floor acting dead.

Well, today we decided to take the joke a bit further by actually painting a bloody wound on my chest. And after looking it over, we decided that we needed to make it look like something was sticking out of my chest as if someone had attacked me. Well, that it when I sent her to go and get a pencil, tape, and glue. She brought back the supplies, and we created our beautiful master piece!

Well, my mom didn't believe our story one bit, so once my friend had to go home, we decided to try it out on her family. They were a little more concerned then my mom was.

My friend runs into her house panting, and spurting out bits and pieces of our story. I come running in close behind her, panting and pretending to sob. Well, we kinda started laughing at the sight of her family, and at that moment, I ran out the back door, and then back in (that was my attempt to stop laughing). When I come back in side, I continue pretending to cry, and her mom and dad notice the blood on my chest. They appear to be a little more worried and come closer to see what is on my chest. And at that time my friend and I start busting up laughing, and we reveal to her family our little secret.

Well, I go home, and continue on with my life, with the pencil still taped to my chest. A couple minutes later, I'm making a salad with my sister and she and my little brother finally notice the blood all over my chest. After they asked what exactly it was, I told them the story. They were absolutely appalled! The had believed every word that I had told them, and even assumed that the tape (which was now kinda of coming off) was actually skin. They totally thought I was bleeding majorly until my mom revealed my secret. (Probably because my sister refused to look at it because she thought it was so disgusting.)

Well, I have to say, the two great reactions that I got were totally worth the hour that it took my friend and I to create my bloody accident. It was absolutely, 100% worth it!


So anyway . . . nobody will ever believe me again. But that is totally fine by me!

Blog Name Explanation

Seeing as the title of my blog is rather, well . . .  interestingly weird, and how anybody who doesn't know me wouldn't understand the reasoning behind the title, I figured that I would explain. (And holy smokes, I really need to learn how to write a non-run-on sentence!)

Long story short, I am a weird person. I am also a talker, a chatter-box, a non-stop talking machine, and a very distracted one at that. I tend to be known for talking, and talking, and talking, and then I drop my famous saying: 'So, Anyway . . .' before continuing on with a story that I had never gotten around to telling because I had gotten distracted. Hence the name of my blog.

The stories that I will post on this blog will most likely all be very random, and long, and you probably won't care. They are all just part of my crazy, random, daily rants. So, Anyway . . . Enjoy!