Life. It [Continues]

It was a slow day. Mom treated my aunt to breakfast at Ammenities Cafe so Riley and I came along. For the reference, I had a sasauage and cheese bagel. Riley had a cupcake. Perfect for a toddler in the morning. Yum!
It was hot so I came home and went up on the pool deck to read "The Good Earth." That book is so depressing at times so I got my suit on, jumped in the pool, and floated around in a tube...again! Man, I love doing that. It's such a comfortable float. So I pretty much spent the day out back and in my room. It was such a quiet day. Dad was home doing work around the house and Rachel was at cheer camp. Reid was a lazy bum from the sleepover he just had. I was the only energized one in the house for a change.
I won't be writing next until Monday. We're leaving for Ocean City, Maryland tomorrow night to visit some cousins and Rachel is spending like two weeks there. We're dropping her off. The house will be so quiet without her and you know what. I think I'm gonna like it.

Well, I didn't get to write yesterday. I couldn't get on the internet at all. The stupid cable box is so unreliable. So to sum up the day, I got a haircut, went to Barnes and Noble to buy Pendragon, had gymnastics, and lost my Barnes and Noble gift card. (I figure I dropped it walking out of the store)
But today was good. Nana was able to come by and watch Riley so I didn't have to do it. It was a relief for once. We got Burger King around lunch time. Reid HAD to have chicken nuggets from there even though I wanted Wendy's. He always gets his way and now I sound like a brat. I came back and went in the pool. Actually, I floated around the pool in a tube. I didn't feel like going in. It was cold from all the rain so I drifted around and got a good tan.
Before that I made some corrections on my history report (Thank you mom!) and was able to read 3 chapters in "The Good Earth." It took me the same amount of time to read 1 chapter in Jane Eyre. This book will probably be much better. Speaking of books, I stayed up pretty late last night reading Pendragon. It's the only time I can get. In the daytime, I make myself read books for school.
So I had gymnastics tonight at 5 and got out at 7. I came home and watched Big Brother 5. Did I mention how much I love that show and how I want to be on it when I turn 21? Well I do.
We went over to Kohls afterwards at 9:00 at night. Mom had a 10 dollar off coupon and had to use it before it got too late and I needed to get a new watch. So, we ran out with Riley and Rachel (Dad, Reid, and his friend John went over to my Uncle John's to see his boat) I picked out a nice new watch. And the best part about it is the blue light. Yes the shiny shiny blue light that glows in the dark is great!

It's weird waking up to an empty house. I don't really like the feeling either. Mom left for work in the morning and, surprisingly, I didn't hear her go. Rachel came running into my room to tell me to pick up the phone that was ringing. By the time I rolled over and got to the top of the stairs the phone stopped so I trudged my way back to bed only to lay there for a couple of minutes. I didn't hear much of Riley for the first half hour or so. Rachel had her up in mom's bedroom and they were watching TV. I stayed downstairs.
Reid had drums at like 10:30 so mom was coming home to pick him up. Here's where we had our major problem of the day. I'm going to describe it exactly as it happened.
I decided to play a video game. No one was around because Rach was upstairs with Riley and Reid was eating breakfast. It seemed a perfect time to play the gamecube and I saw nothing wrong with it. So, I'm sitting there minding my own business, having fun when Reid goes over to the front door and opens it.
"Reid why do you need the front door open?"
"Mom will be home soon so I'm just gonna leave it open so I'll be ready to walk out."
I said okay and continued with what I was doing. I didn't really care. The door open didn't bother me too much. But it DID bother Rachel. She came down at that EXACT moment and this was where things got ugly. You have to understand. Rachel and Reid are like the cat and dog in the house. They don't get along whatsoever. WHATSOVER! So, naturally, she had an objection to Reid opening the door.
"Someone could just walk right into the house Reid! Mom wants the door closed!"
Reid fired back, "Rachel! It's only 10 minutes mom will be open soon."
I sat minding my own business, twidling my thumbs, which was my one big error. There was something I should have done but didn't. It may sound silly, it may sound adultish, but I should have sent them to their rooms. It works every time yet why didn't I think of this them??
To sum it up, the door opened and closed about 6 or 7 times. Reid opened it. Rachel closed it. Reid opened it. Rachel closed it. On and on and on it went and meanwhile I'm going back and forth between sides trying to get one of them to give in. Of course that's impossible though. They don't give in. It came down to Reid losing his temper and pining Rachel against the wall. He yelled in her face and went all "animal" like on her. Man, I can so see this kid getting into trouble. He loses his temper and it's not pretty. Rachel started crying and came over to me telling me to do something. Riley sat and took it all in. I sat and played my game. WRONG MOVE! Ironically, mom called at that moment and they both yelled what happend over the phone. That's when I knew it was GAME OVER for me. Sure enough, I got it from mom. Yes. I bow my head in shame but I think I learned my lesson. When in doubt, send them to their room. 
So, that was the "meat" of the day. We ran to the credit union and went over to Nana's. Mom and Dad were going to this Titanic Exabition thingy so we stayed at Nana's. We was my favorite dinner, spaghetti and meatballs. I reserved my copy of Pendragon #5 at Barnes and Noble so I'm gonna go get it tomorrow. I watched Big Brother at 9 even though I had to miss the first 20 minutes of it on the way home from nana's. I got gymnastics tomorrow too.
Well, I'm done now for the night. I'll be writing again tomorrow. I'm starting to like this blog. It's funny because I'm slowly growing accustomed to it. I didn't think I would continue it at first.
But now, I think it's safe to say that you will be seeing a lot more blog from me from now on. Life can only gets more interesting from here.

Good day today. I slept in nicely and got a quiet house as mom took Reid to drums. Riley went too. Rachel was here but she wasn't bothering me. It's nice every once and a while to be able to enjoy some quiet time even if it was only about 45 minutes and, mind you, I spent that time doing homework. I spend a lot of my time now doing homework. Maybe I'm obessing a bit too much over it because I can't remember the last time I was able to play a video game without having a guilty conscience. Seriously, it's a pain in the butt. Do you know how much I would love to just read a book of MY choice. Pendragon #5 comes out soon and it's only my favoritest book series in the world. I think I need to reward myself and get it. But that doesn't mean I can forget about "The Good Earth" and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denishovich." They have to get read too. Ah I'm rambling now.
I finished my history report day. It is such a relief to have it out of the way. I used a secret method while writing it though. I called it "pacing myself." I would write a sentence or too, go onto the pendragon website, talk a bit there, go back, write a sentence or two and I continued this process until it got done. It wasn't distracting. It helped me stay focused on my assignment strangley...
Rachel had a friend come over today along with the twins. For some odd reason, she found it necasarry to show them my bedroom. 0_0 I kinda shrugged her off in front of her friends and played the part of tough and superior older brother. It's funny watching her friends look around my room. It's even funnier to see them nervous around me. Ahahah it's fun being the oldest. I love the power...

I had hotdog day today. We went over at around 10:15 a.m. and I stress the A.M. I didn't need the sleep anyway though. I get enough of it. I'm not complaining.
So anyway hotdog day was, in a word, hotdogfull :) or hotdogish or whatever you want to call it. The point is I'm a bit sick of the dogs. Yeah, you know you've had enough when the smell of hotdogs stick to your nostrils like... like well I don't have the energy right now to tell you what it's like but it's not pleasent. Give me a break here. It's 12:30 at night (er in the morning) You see my thoughts don't run too well after a certain hour so please excuse me if there are any grammer and spelling "don'ts". (<----One example right there ;)
Alright. I saw Anchorman tonight. Chris, Greg, and I went. Pretty funny movie actually. I laughed my hotdog off (ouch that don't sound right! I wonder where I got that idea from though?! Cough Cough) Excuse me. I laughed my tail off. The movie was really funny!
Oh yeah and how can I forget? I FINISHED JANE EYRE!! About time too Mr. Ryguy... (Darnit I'm talking to myself now...) Wohoo that's enough for me tonight. I think I'm a little over tired. Man do I ever need some sleep. Did I say that I need to get more sleep? Honestly...

It's Saturday. But the weekends don't matter to me anymore anyway. It's summer. Every day is a weekend. So anyway, mom was out at yard sales like always. She picked up a bunch of Rugrats stuff for Riley. She loved that. Rachel had cheer camp and dad was out working on the lawn. I didn't do much really. I went in the pool for like 15 minutes but it was so cold for some reason. We went to Target after that. Riley spilled her bag of m&m's ALL over the floor at the register. (It's not the first time) I had to get down on my hands and knees in the middle of the store and pick up her m's. Real funny.
Dad lit a fire in our fire pit out back but I wasn't there long. I was working on a CD for Rachel. She wanted to buy the Usher Cd but I told her to save her money (correction: mom's money) and I made it for her. She was pretty happy and I was pretty happy that I was able to do the whole thing in a couple hours. (New record for me) Then she wouldn't stop playing "Confessions". Oh how I have grown sick of that song...and Usher.
Big Brother came on at 9:00; watched that. I might have to work Hotdog day tomorrow for the adult softball league if it doesn't rain. I don't care either way. I'll also be done reading Jane Eyre tomorrow for school. I have about 3 chapters left. That's pretty exciting. I guess...

I had every intention to work on my history project today. It's due next week and I'm just about done plus what better day to work on it than a rainy one. Today was perfect. We weren't going anywhere, the house was pretty quiet, and it was raining. Sounds great but wait, this is reality. In reality, things don't always work out the way they were meant to be. You guessed it. I did squat on my report. Yes procrastinator was written all over my face today but I obviously never looked in the mirror considering I went the whole day seemingly oblivous to my homework. Oh well. I'll get it done.
So, as I was saying, it rained all day if you didn't the count the hour or so in between. I woke up to mom talking on the phone. I always said she's a loud talker on the phone but it just seems so much louder in the morning. Reid slept in later than normal and Rachel and her friend were in the play room. Mom made some awesome french toast.
The morning dragged on. I lounged around in pajama pants until mom announced the possibility of us going out to lunch with Aunt Debbie.  This was the hectic part of the day. See, you have to understand that Reid is very picky with his chicken. He orders chicken at basically every restaurant and I assume that after ordering the meal at least 25-50 times, you start to get very "weird" about the chicken you eat. He likes Friendlies. We were just at Friendlies and weren't about to go again today. Uh here is where we had our problem. Reid was grumpy and tired. He wanted Friendlies and nothing else. Personally, I didn't care where the heck we ate but, eventually (against what Reid wanted) the choices were narrowed down to Stewarts Root Beer and Wendys. To make a long story short, we went to Stewarts but with a lot of hassle getting out the door. Riley was fussy and needed a nap so she made everything complicated and stressful with her crying. That was the last thing mom needed. We picked up Aunt Debbie and went out in the pouring rain. Very pouring rain! Stewarts was good. I had the best California Chesseburger EVER. Riley slept in her seat.
We came home and jumped in the pool in the rain. Wow that is fun. Reid had soccer camp and I was staying here with Rachel. Her friend had gone home. Mom and Dad went to watch Reid. The 2 hours or so we were here was very boring. I watched TV. Period. TV gets very boring after a while especially when it's near 8:30 at night, you're home alone, and have yet to eat dinner. We had pizza from East Ridge at 9:15 and it was anything but peaceful. It was a typical family dinner where everyone is rammy from being indoors all day. You can imagine.

I woke up to watch Riley. My grandmother couldn't make it to watch her so that left me. Reid had drum lessons and Rachel had field hockey camp. Mom was at work. we watched Dora the Explorer and her Pirate Adventure. Oh how I love that movie! Reid came home, Rachel went to stay with our cousin Caila and mom came home to take us to Sam's. We had to get hot dog buns for Hotdog day on Sunday. It's for the township's adult softball team and I usually help with my mom. But wait a second. JUST going to Sam's sounds way too easy. No way. Mom needed to stop and get a replacement glass for our lampost. Dad knocked it out mowing the lawn. Typical. Anyway, to make it short, we ended up going to THREE different glass places (never knew there were so many) and not one place could fix it. Of course. Everyting always has to be complicated. Sam's wasn't bad. The sample ladies were there, never fail.
We came home from Sam's, I had to get to gymnastics. Reid had to get to soccer camp and Rachel was having a friend sleep over. I went in the pool for about an hour then got ready to go to the gym. Once again, that sounds way too easy. Riley had to go and color on the carpet. Oh boy! Mom was mad. I think it's still there too. We tried vinegar and it kind of got most of it off. Still visible though.
Gymnastics was tiring. Worked my butt off on the pommel horse, rings, and vault and I'm suffering now. I think I pulled my shoulder on the rings doing inlocates. Ouch.
Dad picked me up and I came home to watch Big Brother at 8:00. I love that show! Lori was evicted. Drew won HoH.
Now I'm watching Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen with my sister and her friend. Lindsey Lohan is way better than Hilary Duff!

First time with one of these things. Don't know if I'm gonna continue it. I only wanted to do it to put up some pictures but I'm having some difficulty with that. I don't know. It's 11:50 at night. No time to do any of this now...
I might decide to continue this tomorrow.