The Girl From Golden

*EDIT: I wrote the following a year ago, June 2015, shortly after graduating high school and entering an existential crisis I am sure will last the remainder of my life. Enjoy.*

I always thought that the second I could, I would get a one ticket out of my hometown. I remember being fourteen or fifteen and talking about how this town sucks you in and sucks the life out of you to the point where you go from being someone who could actually be someone to being someone who's completely fine with the prospect of no job prospect and the five year plan of coolers on a beach.

And now... I'm that person.

I'm friends with the "older kids" who get stuck in Rockaway. I guess it was naive of me to think this, but I never thought that it was going to be me. I never thought it was going to be my friends. I never thought that I would be a high school graduate, going to school nearby in the fall, and that I would be thinking about the next the five/ten/fifteen years and seeing this town in that vision of my life.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I just know that I'm scared shitless that I'm going to stuck here.

So, for now, the plan is to go to beach, write songs, and think about the next five years as they come.

An Open Letter to My Dog

An Open Letter to My Dog

Dear Suzie, 

The Queen on Her Throne

It's been a good 12 years we've had together. We grew up together and I wouldn't trade some of our memories for the world. Over the past decade and some, you've taught me a lot, but the one thing that stands out right now is that you, Suzie, are an asshole. 

Yup. I said it. I'm calling you on it. You pee everywhere. We TRIED to housetrain you. We let you outside. You are unrelenting, and personally I see this as a blatant act of rebellion. I think you laugh a little each time. 

Suzie, I love snuggling up with you on Mom's chair. It's great. Warm. Fantastic. But, there's something you seem to be confused about. When I get up to get a blanket, it is NOT an invitation for you to shift into my spot, occupying the entire center of the chair. This would tolerable if you would move over when I basically sit on you. But do you?

No, Suzie. You don't.

You stay right there. Underneath me. This isn't a good choice bud. That's how you get smooshed. You may be the largest of the toy breed, but you are still much smaller than a human being. And underneath one is not the best place for you to be. You belligerent asshole. 

And I love you that much more for it. 

Sincerely, 

Theresa 

 

Rimmel London New Moisture Renew Lipstick!

Hey everyone.

So this has been a whirl wind year or so, and I will make a post about everything (probably a series of "What I've Been Up To" post), but right now I have something new and extra special.

I signed up for Influenster  a while back because some Youtubers I liked had accounts and I thought it was interesting. I never really did anything with it though. Once in a while when I was bored I would go on and fill out the questionnaires that they have and eventually I racked up a lot of points from these quizzes. About a week ago I got an email from Influenster telling me that I was a contender to become a member of the VoxBox program. VoxBoxes are products sent for you for free, for your consideration. You receive a product and you're invited to give your feedback through social media. It's a great program and I was super stoked to have a chance to be considered.

Then today, I came home from school and saw that I had a little package. I was completely taken aback since I hadn't ordered anything. Upon opening, I came to discover that I had in fact been chosen to receive a VoxBox.

My first VoxBox is from Rimmel London and it is their brand new lipstick Moisture Renew in the Shade 360 "As You Want Victoria".
Let's start off with the branding. The paper that was included with the lipstick claims that it is an "intensely moisturizing lipstick that doesn't compromise on color." Both parts of this statement hold true. The lipstick is very pigmented, and you get great color with just one swipe on the lips. This product also moisturizes just like a high end lip balm or cream. The formula is not too oily but it seems to smudge quite easily, so I am wondering how this would work in a day to day application. Just as a quick digression, the lipstick smells fantastic as well. It smells like the high end lipstick that grandmas use. If you know the smell, you know what I mean.

The only gripe I can muster about this fantastic product is the shade. "As You Want Victoria" is a very vibrant berry red and it is a little harsh on my pink toned very fair skin. My mom, who has olive toned skin, tried it, however, and looks simply stunning, so it's definitely just me.

So all in all I would give this product a 9/10 just because the shade isn't right for me. Otherwise it would be a perfect 10.

I'll talk to you guys soon.
xoxo
Theresa


*DISCLAIMER* I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

I Can't Wait to Move

So, I've just gotten home from Virginia because I went away for the weekend. I was supposed to fly home yesterday, but my mom got ill and blah blah blah, we had to fly home today. I'm like freaking out because I missed my Maths midterm, and I have my WHAP final tomorrow and just gah. This is not good. I have to make up my Maths midterm and all that crap. Like, life sucks right now.

I seriously can't wait till I move to Virginia. Like, in less than three years, I'll be living there. That's so awesome to think about. See I'm going to uni down in Virginia, like no matter what. Even if for some  bizarre reason I don't get into any schools, I'll go to Germana Community College. Just realized that totally gives away my future location. Oops. Don't stalk me and murder me in my sleep, please.

Any way. I'm really upset today. Last night, I made a video and I worked SO hard on it. I even came up with an intro for my vlogs to set them apart from my music videos. Seriously, just the editing alone took my like an hour and a half to two hours. And then the 16 minutes of filming, and then recording the voiceover, and a bunch of stuff. Then rendering took an hour. So, I spent close to three and a half hours just making this video ready to upload. So, when I watched it for the first time, all the way through with fresh eyes, was this morning. And I was SO proud of it. I honestly think it's some of my best work and it's something I would watch. Like, I don't upload anything that I wouldn't watch, or that I don't like. But I'm just so proud of this video.

The video's a sharp tongued, quick cut, list of reasons why I'm screwed up. It's a funny video. Before I uploaded it, I showed it to my aunt, who thought it was hysterical. So, I sat at the kitchen table and uploaded the video. I was so proud of it, I showed it to my mom, my grandma, and even my four year old cousin. I couldn't wait to show it to my dad. So, when I got home, I got out my computer and loaded the video, expecting my dad to think it was cool and be proud of me. This was not the case.

My dad hated the video. He said I poked fun at everything that our family is about. He didn't have a single nice thing to say about it, which hurt since I had worked so hard.

So, this is why I'm upset.


Books: 1
Journeys: 2

Officially Switching to Mac

I got a 2012 13 inch MacBook Pro for Christmas this year, and I've been using it nonstop since receiving it on Christmas Eve. But, I never did transfer my pictures and videos and documents from my old clunker PC. Sidenote: have you ever heard of Kars 4 Kids? Well they take old clunker cars and sell them for scrap and give the proceeds to kids in need. Someone should do this with out computers.       1-877-KOMPS4KIDS?  So, here I am, sitting at home because I have this flu, which is a killer this year BTW, and transferring everything from the past three years of my life onto an external harddrive and then getting the stuff I really use like pictures and such onto my new beautiful shiny MacBook. 

Let me digress for a second. When I told people that I was hoping to switch to a Mac this year, I got a bunch of responses that were all along the same line.  "You just want the shiny little apple." "Well that's gonna be a hard adjustment..." "Ugh! They're so not user friendly." 

Umm, no, I do not just want the shiny little apple. I really do enjoy Apple products. They are very well made and the Apple customer service and the treatment you're given is definitely superior to most PC companies. I mean, with my Dell Inspiron, I've shipped it off to God knows where so many times. They keep it for weeks and don't keep you updated on what's going on with your computer. With Apple products, you just bring them in, and they help you out. 

And it wasn't a hard adjustment at all. As a matter of fact, I'm having trouble using PCs, now. Macs are so user friendly. The setup of a Mac (and this is true with iPods and iPhones as well) takes like 5 minutes and you're done. 

Ok. So that's all for my rant. 

Books: 1

Journeys: 0

New Year's Resolutions

I haven't written on here since the 27th of August. That's over four months. That's insane.

The past four months have passed in a blur. I'm not even kidding. First I started school. Then, Hurricane Sandy hit and my town was devastated so I went to live with my aunt in Virginia for a little over a month. That brings us clear of November and into December. On the 23rd, my uncle passed away due to complications of lung cancer. Now, here we are: January 9th.

Now, that we're all up to date on the goings on, let's get on to the title of this video.

New Year's Resolutions

Okay, so I know that a lot of people have a hatred for Resolutions. Like, some people even hate the word. I don't really get that. Like, seriously. Resolutions are awesome. They give you a chance to examine your life and think about the things that you should be doing, or want to be doing, or that you shouldn't be doing. Even if you don't make a single change in your life, you'll still have thought about it and that means that you know that that is a change you need/want to make.

That being said, I like to keep my resolutions small-scope. Working towards a larger goal. Baby steps. So, here are my resolutions. Some may sound a bit familiar.

1. Read 50 books in 2013 that I have never read before.
2. Keep an awesome diary. (Writing down why each day was awesome. I did this for half of 2012.)
3. Eat more healthy food. (I love healthy food, and want to eat more of it.)
4. Study and work harder in school. (I haven't been applying myself as much as I could be.)
5. Get my first job. (Okay, so this summer, I want to get a job as a camp counselor, and then in Sept. my friend and I are going to get jobs as Starbucks Baristas.)
6. Go back to S4TR. (A Therapeutic Riding Program that I worked at last year.) 

So, what am I tracking on this blog in 2013?

I am going to track out-of-state/out-of-country travels! This year is going to be full of travel for me, including three trips so far to the west coast, so I thought that this would be a good year to do this. 

Okay. So, I guess this is all that I have to say for this post. I just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky today and I have to say, it was amazing. Now I'm starting The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling. I think I'm going to do a book review soon. Probably a written one, on the blog, rather than a video. 

Okay, my lovlies! Until next time!

Books read: 1

Trips: 0 

Getting Some Things Down In Writing

Hello.

I go back to school in two weeks and I can't keep myself from thinking about how I want this year to be Different. Brilliant. I really want to talk about this on the internet and I don't want to make a video about it until it's official, or even semi-official. So, here I am. Talking about this here.

Okay, back in July I contacted Lori Earl, mother of Esther Earl, HP fan and nerdfighter extraordinaire. Yes, I am talking about the Esther Earl to whom John Green dedicated his most recent book, and the same one died from thyroid cancer two years ago at the age of sixteen. Last year, her mother and father founded a nonprofit organization called This Star Won't Go Out. Their goal is to carry a bit of that burden for hurting families through financial gifts. They do great work.

So, back to what I contacted Lori about. I want to do some sort of fundraiser with TSWGO. She very quickly responded to me and gave me numerous examples of what I could do. What I'm going to do is sell TSWGO bracelets at my high school. My school has fundraisers multiple times a year, and they usually involve bracelets. Lori told me to just email her telling her how many bracelets I need, and she'll send them to me to sell for whatever donation. The only hitch in this plan is that I will need to work heavily with my dean and guidance counselor. Eh.

Despite the fact that I would have to work with administration, I still really want to do this. Even more, I feel I need to do this.

For now, Internet. Good bye.

Time Really Does Fly

So, it's been a while. I'm sorry. I don't really have an excuse to why I haven't posted here other than I just didn't. I mean, I had time. Plenty of time. A plethora of time. And I did try to post here, but, I didn't. I would open Blogger and then write a bit, but then end up closing the page.

I've started another book. And finished none. Ah, that's a lie. I finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. I started it...months ago. But I had borrowed it on Nook, and then the loan timed out. So, I never finished it. I got all of John Green's books for my birthday, so I finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson the second I got it. Literally. I'm currently reading 1984 by George Orwell, which is nice, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

After I last posted, I went to, and returned from, Virginia. I'm in Pennsylvania now. And tomorrow, I will be in New York (not home though.) and later tomorrow night, I will be back in Pennsylvania. I also went to New Jersey the other day.

I have finally given in, and I am updating my iPhone from iOS 3.2 to the current version, iOS 5.1....yeah, I've never updated it. Can you tell?

Videos on the channel New York to Texas will resume their regular schedule on Monday, the twentieth. Caroline went back to Texas on Monday. She starts school tomorrow...or rather, today. It's almost four in the morning. Oh dear.

I've been making videos on my own channel pretty frequently though. And there will be one up by the end of the week.

Also: This is something that I didn't post about on any social networking site, not Tumblr, not Facebook, and  not Twitter, but my cat died. She was ten years old, and I've had her for almost my entire life that I can remember. Like, I have memories from before I was four, but I don't remember not having a cat. So, yeah. she had cancer, and we didn't want her to suffer because we love her.

So, I leave you on that note.

Books Read: 12
Journeys: 27

I Survived!

Remember a few months back when I posted about my LP? Well do I have amazing news or what? My darling mother has solved the problem. She bought me a replacement laptop that I just switched the hard drives and I was good to go. This is awesome. I'm still getting used to typing on a laptop keyboard again, but  is that a first world problem or what? Also...the new laptop is pink. :) And that makes me very happy because it is an adorable pink. 

So I have a lot of things to do today. I have to edit my video on the concert that Caroline and I went to...a month ago, and I have to script the video that I want to film with my brother when he comes into town which is tonight. I mean, I'm not going to film it tonight but it would be nice if I knew what was going to occur in the video before I do film it. Yeah. 

Caroline and I have been playing Super Mario Brothers Wii a lot lately, and I have discovered two things: a) that I should have really played the hand-me-down Mario video games that I got from my brother, and b) Caroline gets really angry when she plays video games. 

I'm going to put the footage that we took of us playing video games up on YouTube some day, and by some day, I mean that I'll put it in a Scrapbook style vlog some time in the future. 

I'm participating in the Nerdfighteria Blurbing Book Club this year and we are reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. John and Hank chose this book for two reasons: a) in honor of Ray Bradbury's death, and b) because Fifty Shades of Grey which is "basically Twilight fanfiction turned into a novel" has sold more copies than Bradbury did during his entire life. 

So yes. That's what is going on. Bye Internet.

Books: 11 (Yes, I am failing. No, I am not quitting.)

Journeys: 22

Thoughts On VidCon

So...VidCon...that's a thing that happened. =)

I still cannot believe that this weekend actually happened! It was so awesome (as in the actually definition of instilling awe). I met John and Hank Green and they are truly two of the most lovely people on this earth. Also on Day 1 of VidCon, I met Jenna Marbles. She is also extremely sweet.

On Day 2 of VidCon I ended up on a line, completely by accident, that was to meet Charlie McDonnell. (and Michael Aranda) Charlie is just...adorable. He called my ukulele cool because it has a dolphin on it. Later on I met Laci Green on the elevator and she was also really really nice.

Speaking of people that I made he acquaintance of whist on the elevator, I also ran into Tom Milsom, Frezned, and Michael Aranda more times than I can count.

I met Hayley Hoover (hayleyghoover) while I was in the courtyard outside of the convention center after attending the Footy Pajama Meetup organized by Kristina Horner and Lex.

On the line to meet Charlie, I met three very nice girls :Kaitlin, Jordan (jordanthecake) and Kylie. That was nice.

So VidCon was amazing and I cannot wait until next year when Julia can hopefully come with me to Anaheim.

I'm sitting in the Long Beach Airport (LGB) waiting for my flight which was just delayed for an hour...=(

Okay Internet, the next time we will speak is when I'm in a different timezone, so.. Bye.

Books: 11
Journeys: 19 (soon to be twenty.)

Camp NaNoWriMo 2012!

Well, the June session of Camp NaNoWriMo has begun. I got into the game a little late. Ahem, about twelve days late. So I'm going to have to write about 2500 words a day rather than 1667 words a day in order to finish in time. But I'm still very determined. I got myself sponsored via www.stayclassy.org and got a nifty badge for my camper profile which can be found here.

And I was just procrastinating, because I am terrible, and I found out that they have little participant badges so here's mine. They're available for all types of internet real state.
So, I must get back to noveling. I shall speak with you later internet.

Books: 10
Journeys: 14

Summer Projects!

So a couple of posts back I wrote about my busy summer plans. Well, in keeping with the Theresa-is-moderately-insane theme that this blog has taken on over the past few months, I am now going to share with you my Summer Projects for 2012. Yay!

Okay so the 7th of June is my last day of class, but I'm considering the 13th to be the beginning of my summer vacation as I am finished with finals. I have regents on the 14th and 19th and I get my report card on the 22nd, but whatever. And I am considering the 7th of September to be my end of Summer. That's a full three months for me to complete some awesome non school related projects. So shall we?

• Since I'm going to be traveling a lot this summer, and participating in a lot of events, I'm going to keep a summer trip/event journal. I'm going to put this in a marble-composition-type-notebook because their durable, and easy to carry around. 
• I'm going to be continuing my Awesome Notebook in which I state why each day is awesome. In the back I've been keeping a list of books I've read for the 50 Book Challenge, which brings me to the next project.
• I'm going to try to read 15 books this summer, which may not even allow me to complete the 50 Book Challenge. But I WILL complete it. Mostly because I am terrified of failure in any form. 
• Videos can be expected on my channel: www.youtube.com/theresak419, EVERY WEEK! Oh my Gosh! What a change!!!

So those are my summer project. I'll also be updating this as often as I can, which should be much more often than I have been since I have the Blogger app for my iPhone. But you know. 

So I'm home from PA, and I think that within the next two weeks you can expect a video on my channel with Julia. It would have been up two weeks ago, but I need to refilm because my head isn't in the frame. This is mostly because I have better posture than Julia, despite her being taller than me. 

Okay, Internet, this is the first time I am ever going to say this but, please subscribe/follow me on Blogger, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr. It would mean a lot. Also comment underneath this post, or any post. I'd like to know that I'm being read and comprehended. 

Ooh! And in about a month I'm going to be announcing something big that only Caroline and Julia know. Enjoy perusing the internet. 

Books: 10 (soon to be 11)

Journeys: 14!

Quarterly Crisis

Every three months or so, I go through this crisis in which I question all of my beliefs, everything I stand for, and everything I want for myself. While I think that questioning beliefs and internal reflection leads to personal growth, I don't this that these spurts of self doubt are helping.

They all start the same: I have a bad throat day or I don't tune my guitar, and BAM I am singer/songwriter/guitarist/actress to walk the planet and my life with never be what I want it to be. Then I fall behind on my work: schoolwork, videos, planning for performances. Then comes my favorite part of all: I decide that all of my friends aren't true friends, that no one will ever love me, and I will die alone from anaphylactic shock or asthma because I live with a hundred cats even though I'm allergic and then they will eat my flesh when I'm dead.
I honestly was going through one of these today. But now everything is okay because I have so much good in my life. I have so many people who do love me, I have great friends because I'm a great friend, and there's always going to be someone I know with a harder life. They could be poor, abused, suicidal, ECT. I'm just a little egocentric at 2:30 in the morning.

I'm in PA right now so I get to add that to the journeys list. Haven't finished any books lately, but I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye. It's good.

Good night Internet.

Books: 10
Journeys:12!

Books and Trips

I finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children  by Ransom Riggs last week. Comments? I hope to God that there is a sequel. It was so amazing. GO! Go now. To the store and buy the book. It was really, really good.

I'm in Pennsylvania right now, and I got some footage for my video on the trip up, as well as when I got into my bedroom. I love the PA house. It's so cute. Tomorrow we're (my dad and I) are going to the Goodwill because I need a nightstand...and tripod if they have one. I'm getting a new camera in a few weeks and a tripod with it, but I think I need a tripod for the PA house because I am NOT lugging my microphone stand up here to film. Not happening.

I brought up an old test from the Rockaway house. It used to be my mom's, then it was mine, then my brother's. Then darling brother of mine ran off to California, leaving the desk (and most of his possessions) behind. So today, I unceremoniously dumped all of his crap into a milk crate in his room and my dad carried the desk down the four flights of stairs, and I followed with a wooden chair. :)

Well, Internet, it's almost 2am, so I'm going to sleep now.

Books read: 10!
Journeys:11!

Breathing A Sigh Of Relief

I think I just took my first actual deep breath in a while.
I just finished editing my first video for my channel and wow, it's nice to relax. Now don't get me wrong, I'm very stressed right now, but now that I have that first video up, it's all gone! I filmed my Tuesday NY2TX video at 11:30 last night and uploaded it this morning.

I don't think I'll bitching on this blog for a while....that is until the week before VidCon and I decide that I should premote NY2TX and my own channel. Oh yeah, you guys don't know this yet!

I'm going to VidCon 2012 in Anaheim California! Ahhh! I wish Caroline and Julia were coming but I'm definitely bringing them with me next year. So at VidCon I want to do come like promoting of the NY2TX channel as well as my own.  I'm really looking foward to VidCon and who knows? Maybe next year Caroline and I will have tickets to Industry Day at VidCon. (Oh my asdfghjkl that would be amazing!)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is really good and you should check it out.


Thank you, Internet, for allowing me to do all the interesting things I do.

Books read: 9
Journeys: 10

New Things Occuring!

Wow. Here we are. It's May. Wow.

Okay, so back in April (aka: the month of many year changing decisions) I said I was gonna start making videos on my youtube channel in May. Well here we are and, um, how many videos have I made? Uhhum...None.

I decided the other day in the shower that I'm going to make videos on Wednesdays and Thursdays, depending on the NY2TX cycle. Smart, huh? But, I didn't think this so well through.... I have the 2 day cycle this week: Tuesday and Thursday. So that means that it's Monday, tomorrow is Ny2Tx, then Wednesday is my video. It's all happening so fast and I'm glad that ya'll have stuck around through my bitching and moaning about taking on too much, too soon (see all the blog posts on this exact topic).

Oh! I also started Tumblr-ing. (Is that the word?) My blog is www.saddle-freedom.tumblr.com and it's a 95% horse blog, but I'm considering starting one for like my YouTube-y life, or just like my life in general, but in picture form. There are so many social network-y things that I'm involved in right now. Shall I list? Oh, Thank you! Feel free to add me on any of these; as long as you're not some socio/ psychopath, I'll accept.

1. Facebook: www.facebook.com/theresak419
2. Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/Theresa_Kelley
3. Tumblr: www.saddle-freedom.tumblr.com
4. Main Blogspot: www.myeyesshouldbegreen.blogspot.com
5. Life Blogspot: www.theresakellz.blogspot.com
6. NY2TX: www.youtube.com/user/newyorktotexas
7. Main Channel: www.youtube.com/user/theresak419
8. Personal e-mail that I am not going to post here.
9. Professional e-mail: theresakelleymusic@gmail.com
10: The NY2TX e-mail that I'm not going to post here either.

Now, why am I telling you all this? Many reasons.

1. I love whoever takes the time out of their day to read what I take the time out of my day to write.
2. Because in a chat room the other day, some one who has actually seen NY2TX was like, "Do you and Caroline have VYou accounts?"

No. We don't. And this is why: we both have to manage all of the things I listed above plus more! Caroline has Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr(s), Blogspot(s), NY2TX, her own channel, e-mail(s) and life to handle. VYOU is just too much! If ya'll want to contact us, you can do one of three things.

You can:
a) Put it in the comment or message us on the NY2TX youtube.
b) Leave a video response on a NY2TX video!
c) Facebook it to us. (We do not have plans for a NY2TX Facebook page, so send it to me or Caroline, please.)

Okay. That's all for now, because I have taken up enough of your day, Internet.

Books: 9
Journeys: 10

First time out in a week!

So I was really ill this past week and didn't get any work from any of my classes done.  Ahhhh! NOT good! I'm doing it all today and tomorrow. I was supposed to do it yesterday, Friday, but I was feeling better so I went with my Aunt to B & N because she wanted to get my Grandmother a Nook for Mother's Day. I picked up a few things while I was there: 

1. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Ransom Riggs is a nerdfighter and a close friend of John Green! I've been meaning to get this for a while but never got around to it. It's kind of creepy so far, but a good creepy!
2. A new B & N card while I was checking out. 
3. A Tall Iced Latte from the attached Starbucks Cafe (YUM!) and a German Pretzel thing. They are so good, and just like the ones in Germany! 

I forgot home much I live the Garden City B&N. I have to go there more often, and next time with NERDFIGHTER NOTES!  

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
By Ransom Riggs

My member card!

My latte! No pictures of the pretzel though. I completely forgot!

Books Read: 9

Journeys: 10

BEDA 30: So....Anaphylaxis is fun...

So this happened on Monday night into yesterday, but I didn't mention it for some reason in those BEDAs.

Apparently I'm allergic to like artificial food dye. I know this now because I got a huge rash after eating a piece of cherry pie my dad bought on Monday evening. Then my throat and chest started feeling tight; My throat was starting to close up and I was having an asthma attack. I didn't feel well until late yesterday, and I still feel ill now. I have some type of really bad bug. Caroline's exempted me from videos this week. So if you watch them (maybe you do! and that's great if you do!) Caroline made one yesterday but I'm not sure if she's making one tomorrow.

Being me just keeps getting more and more fun.

Books: 9
Journeys: 10

BEDA 29: Life Lessons.

Here's something that you probably could have already assumed : When you have a New York car towed from your Pennsylvania summer residence to a Toyota Motor World to get a new set of keys because you think your dog stole them, the mechanics are not going to jump on the opportunity. 

So as you could have guessed, today went so smoothly. I woke up about 20 minutes before the tow truck came, had an English Muffin and some incorrectly brewed tea, and then started packing my stuff. The tow truck gets here and I am ushered out of the house with the leash-less dogs in tow, and  into my father's blue truck. So I sat there and watched as the beautifully dressed could-be-politician gets out of the tow truck. He proceeds to lose his keys, and then isn't sure where the axle is on my mother's mini-van. This took about 45 minutes for this guy to get his act together and then we were off to Motor World. 

Let's do a quick preliminary total of how much time I wasted today due to Motor World. 

20 MINUTES TO EAT AND GET READY.

45 MINUTES WAITING FOR THE JOKER TO DO HIS JOB.

25 MINUTES TO MOTOR WORLD. 

= 1 1/2 hours.

So we get to Motor World and my parents get out to go get the keys and everything. They're gone for like half an hour, during which time I began to reread TFIOS. Then they come back and my dad says, "Well it's gonna be like 2-4 hours so we're going back to the house." FUN RIGHT?

30 MINUTES AT MOTOR WORLD WAITING.

25 MINUTES BACK FROM MOTOR WORLD.

= 2 HOURS AND 25 MINUTES

Three hours later they call my dad's cell and say that they can't get the key until tomorrow. My mom comes into the living room where I am happily living and says that we're taking the 4Runner (My dad's blue truck.)

Let me just say that that was my idea in the first place. Gahhhhh! 

3 HOURS AT THE HOUSE. 

3.5 HOURS BACK TO ROCKAWAY. 

= 8 HOURS AND 55 MINUTES THAT I GAVE TO MOTOR WORLD TODAY. 

Books :9

Journeys: 10

BEDA 28: The Case of The Missing Keys

My mom, or dad, or dog, lost the keys to our car so we are stuck in Pennsylvania until tomorrow when we can get new keys from Toyota. Nicely done parentals, nicely done.

So, we're eating tacos for dinner and I'm making brownies. FUN FACT! I don't even like brownies, but I'm feeling very domestic. :3 

Cody sat next to me in the van for about 2 hours while I read TFIOS for about the millionth time. My darling mother and father were in the living room screaming at each other about keys while their best friends sat on the couch between them. How awkwardly pleasant. Anywho, Cody hates fighting, screaming, and basically any expression of frustration, so he slept in the driver's seat while I read. It was nice. Peaceful.

I finished TFIOS today. Again. The sad thing is that The 50 Book Challenge is just for first time reads. Eh. I'll get over it. Currently reading Silas Marner and Eclipse.


Books read : 9
Journeys : 9