I just got back from a camping trip to Petoskey, MI with my family this weekend. Here is a synopsis of 85% of the trip. I couldn’t even stop blogging; I actually wrote what I would have blogged.  I’m pathetic.]

Day 1 – Thursday – the 13th

Packing enought crap into our minivan to live outside for four days has never been my favorite part about camping trips. We meant to leave at 10 am, which of course means that we left around noon. The actual car ride was nice because Deanna and I watched Firefly the whole time. In the middle of the trip, though, my mom asked my dad if he had remembered his swimsuit. He didn’t. My dad is not much of a swimmer, but I am. And I forgot to pack my swimsuit, too. Which is not okay because my swimsuit is this one and the first one that I’ve loved. I feel as great as I look in it (which, let’s face it, is a heck of a lot better than in a usual swimsuit). Which is great because I am not the type who can just throw on any bathing suit and believe that I look good in it. I have curves! There’s no way I can just pull over to some Old Navy and grab a bakini – generall, there, they’re made for young or typicallymodel-y girls with no hips, booty, chestage, or anything. But ANYWAY. I did manage to find a good store and a good suit. And a cute dress, too. That’s always a plus.  =]

After that chaos, we hit the road again. We stopped for dinner at a mexican restaurant that will be on Regis & Kelly on Friday(tomorrow) for their fajitas. They won a contest for it or something. so I thought it would be safe to order a (delicious-sounding) garden fajita.
Wrong.
I didn’t find it at all appetising. So my dad and I swapped meals.

But I love being with my family. They’re the best ever.

When we get to our camp site, we found out that the dude gave away the camp site we asked for, so we ended up in a much smaller one. Kinda clausterphoib for a picnic table, two tents, and a place to keep the van out of the road, but it hasn’t turned out to be too bad. Setting up the site has never been my favorite part, either. But once it was finally together, we made a camp fire and toasted marshamllows and ate Grape Nut Flakes (serious YUM). =]

Day 3 – Saturday – the 15th

This trip has proved to be an interesting one.

Yesterday, I went to the water front near our camp site and got some great pictures. There was a boy playing there who kept being ridiculously picturesque. But it was hot and the water was perfect, so I suggested that we go for a swim. My family, naturally, had a big, chaotic adventure, trying to figure out when and where to swim. We got back to our site only to discover that my big toe on my right foot had been badly sliced. =[

It’s times like that that make me really ahppy that my mom’s around to clean out all the dirt from it and banadage it up for me.

Today, we all went downtown. We had lunch at an adorable and perfect restaurant. Absolutely everything was perfect. From the lemonade to the plates and the chocolate gelato and BLT salads with onion. That lunch pretty much made the whole trip up to Petoskey worth it. We went to some cute shops, tried on some dresses that we couldn’t afford, and some jackets we totally could afford but probably don’t need.

Deanna and I just saw The Time Traveler’s Wife. WORST MOVIE EVER. I have never seen a book get so much injustice before! It’s awful! And not just compared to the book. The movie doesn’t pull heartstrings, there’s no tension, it’s anti-climactic, it was terrible! If you’ve read the book, don’t waste your money. And if you haven’t read the book, don’t waste your money, either. Go use the money you aren’t spending on the movie ticket to go buy the book and READ IT. It’s my least favourite movie ever and my favorite book ever. They left out SO much. The doctor and medicine had no relevance and she only has two or so miscarriages as opposed to the eight or eleven in the book and she never makes him wings because he never gets bitter because he never loses his foot or anything! I’m inscenced.

Huge, stupid, disappointment.

Tomorrow, I plan on photoshoots, toasted marshmallows, sleep, reading, and all-around relaxing!

Day 5 – Monday – the 17th

Well, I didn’t get any more marshmallows, but I did read quite a lot.  I furthered my progress in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and started and finished Chuck Klosterman’s Killing Yourself To Live.

And I’m writing this as I’m finishing up typing this post, so I kind of don’t care right now, due to the fact that I’m tired from a chaotic, long, dramatic last day and long car ride.

But yes. This was my car trip.  I will post pictures tomorrow.

So my sisterand I decided to do a blog together!   It’s all about redefinitions and new words. It’s all awesomeness.

Destinesia

N. When you go to a room to get or do something but you forget what once you get there.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-Alan Kay

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-Emerson

There is a poem to be done by the bird with only one wing.
-Deanna

(I did a photoshoot today and couldn’t resist sharing one of my favorite frames. Here you go… )

       Before we got real brains, my sister and I always thought we were way cooler than we ever were.  So it eventually becomes painfully and awkwardly embarrassing when we look through old notebooks or do a hardcore room-clean.  I’m cleaning out my sister’s stuff from my (new) room and I found a huge stack of notebooks.

       Just now, something fell out of one. I was going to type it up here because it’s about my pets and completely stupid and hilarious if you know who they are and it’s 12:48 am. 

       …..But in an even more recent just-now, I realized how absolutely dumb it would be if I posted it here. The key phrase being: “it’s about my pets and completely stupid and hilarious if you know who they are and it’s 12:48 am.”

       Now, the majority of the world’s population does not know who my sister is, and only my immediate family knows my pet history. And it’s more likely than not that no one will read my blog at 12:48 am. Therefore, it won’t be funny or amusing in any sense at all.

So yeah. Blog fail?

       I was clearing off my desk when I found a warranty for a pair of headphones I got for my birthday. I skimmed through it to see when it expired but I couldn’t find a date. Instead, I found this:

      ”This warranty does not cover domestic damage or damage due to acts of God, accident, misue, abuse, negligence, commercial use, or modification of, or any part of the product, including the antenna.”

       So, apparently, if God decides to smite my headphones, they won’t fix it! I told my sister and my dad…

Dad: “What they mean by ‘acts of God’ are tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, a meteor falling on your house….”

Me: “So out of all my problems because of a meteor falling on my house, I decide to go get my headphones fixed.”
Dad: “You can just see this guy, standing in smoldering ruins saying ‘Heeyyyy, My headphones!’”

                  Darn Sony. It’s not my fault if it’s God’s will my headphones are destroyed…

       So I did actually go to my school’s Home Coming dance! The theme this year was “Welcome to the Jungle.”  The class t-shirts have my school’s name printed with different animal prints for each year. There’s snakes, cheetahs, zebras, and giraffes. 

       Did you catch that error? Only one of the four animals depicted on our class t-shirts is correct! Cheetahs, zebras, and giraffes don’t live in a jungle! They live in the savanna! There’s a huge difference.

Savanna:

Jungle:

       Yeah, whoever is in leadership should be embarrassed.  Did none of them catch it?  Lol.

       But anyway, the dance was great and I had an awesome dress!  My only complaint is that my hair sucks and doesn’t hold a curl for more than two-ish hours. But I had so much fun.  Way more than freshman year (I didn’t go last year).  

       Ahh… Perhaps I should elaborate.  At that time, things between me and this guy were confusing. He “liked” me and I wasn’t sure if I liked him. My major excuse not to date him was that I am a Christian and he’s not. And I know it’s just high school fun, but I didn’t want to regret anything about my first boyfriend, you know?  Anyway, I spent all day primping and when I got to the dance, when the guy found me, he came up to me, held his hands out to his sides and said “Hey, look! I dressed the part!” NOTHING about me the entire night.  Now, I’m not conceited, I don’t even think I looked that great, but what kind of a clueless idiot doesn’t know to compliment the girl about something when you “go with” them to a dance?

       And he ignored me the entire night and I got swept up in drama, in a way. Because I was the only person who wasn’t involved in drama, so therefore, people all came running to me about their drama. Gr!  I ended up sitting out in the hall quite a bit until my date decided he didn’t want to be alone in front of everybody else for the first slow song, so he came and got me. He didn’t say a word, he just walked out into the hall and held out his hand, assuming I wouldn’t possibly reject him.

       ….I didn’t at the time, but I kinda wish I had. He was a jerk. And the next month to follow, he got even worse.  Ugh, I won’t explain all that here, though.

       But this year was so much better! I went with my best friend (other than my sister) and there was no pressure to dance at all, even though we did. Both slow and… regular(?).  It was a blast.

Thing to smile about #14:  Going to the Home Coming dance with a friend you’re 110% comfortable with, and know that there’s no pressure about anything.  =]