This conversation just occurred between my mother and my fifteen-year-old sister.

Hayley: "Mommy, look how far I can jump."
Mommy: "I'm impressed."
Hayley: "But Mommy, I haven't even jumped yet."

I am not kidding.

Good evening. And a pleasant day one at that. This day started off awfully. An awful ending to an awful week; however since I used the phrase "started off," you obviously know it got better. It started at One Act practice. (Yes, I'm breaking character and joined the cast of the One Act Play, AND I've actually enjoyed it...for the most part.) It was ( Read more... )

This has been a great week. Don’t you love great weeks? First on Monday we had a “hurricane.” The “hurricane” resulted in the cancellation of school. That entire day all we had at my house, right on the beach , was a little bit of wind-not a lot, just a little. We get more wind than that during thunderstorms. The next thing you should know is that ( Read more... )

I know it's been awhile. Sorry. I've been busy. School's stupid. We do a bunch of busy work, but don't actually learn anything significant. I had my final test on The Scarlet Letter today-thank God in Heaven. I suffered through that book last weekend and was one of the few people in our grade who actually read it ( Read more... )

I've decided I want to skip the rest of high school and go right to college. Sometimes I do anyway. We've had so much homework this first week and a half. I have a bunch of young teachers who do exactly what Finnegan says and follow all of the stupid rules. Except my physics teacher who looks like the guy that plays Robbie on 7th Heaven. He lets us ( Read more... )

Tonight is officially the last day of summer "vacation." That's right--we start school tomorrow. We stopped by Calvary today to check homerooms and get my schedule figured out. They did homerooms like they did freshman year, so it's all alphabetical order. Fun. And my teacher is someone named ???O'dell??? I can't really remember. Using reasonable ( Read more... )

Guess where we went instead of the mountains…bum, bum, bum…THE KEYS!!! It was amazing and so much fun! We were there with Uncle David, Aunt Jackie, David, his neighbor/friend L.J., and Mr. And Mrs. Mary. Uncle David had pulled his boat down from Clark’s Hill enabling us to go deep-sea fishing (but we didn’t catch anything) and snorkeling to see ( Read more... )

I have no idea what I'm going to write about, but I figured I'd try something since it's been awhile. I think we finally decided where to go before school starts (besides Swainsboro, which doesn't count as a vacation). My grandparents that live in Columbus are looking to buy a place in the mountains around Highlands, so we're going to go up there ( Read more... )

Who wants to know how I got this huge bruise on my arm and the knot on my elbow. Well, if you read this, you really don't have a choice, sorry. It was probably about 10:30 last night, and I came skipping down from my room singing something at the top of my lungs when I saw Hayley sitting at the kitchen counter studying our new obsession in the ( Read more... )

We went to my uncle and aunt's lake house on Clark's Hill for the Fourth of July. It was fun. Tons of people piled onto Uncle David's boat to watch fireworks on the third of July. There had to be thousands of boats there. The morning of the Fourth Hayley, David Wells, and I spent watching the men's championship of Wimbledon. It's still a tender ( Read more... )