A Post Called Mattakeesett Mungus

Camp Mattakeesett

Mungus

JCL

catapult competition

marshmallows

Montrose

Kelly and Sean

Sorry. This is a page of photos that I want to be able to find on Google Images.

I will post a real post soon, I promise! (I shouldn’t have said that. But I did.)

-Abby

2011 in review-Please read until the end!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 45 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

 

If you want to see how FAMOUS you are, click the link! My most devoted viewers are listed there! There’s also cool maps, and fireworks, and photos!

I love you ALL, thank you for viewing, please comment, and Happy New Year!

Last One

This is my last post in the year 2011 (probably)! So make the most of it!

Anyway, it’s vacation, and it’s been ages since I posted. Every day I check my stats and say to myself “I need to post.” And then I realize that NOBODY HAS COMMENTED ON MY LAST 2 POSTS! So I get annoyed with you alll and refuse to post.So I’m asking/begging/demanding/requiring that you comment on this post (and the last two, if you’re willing).

Anyway, there’s other thing taht have been going on. My last post was…..checking…….loading………..

December 21, 2011

(a Wednesday)

The day after that was Thursday, and I stayed home with Becky. Looking through my old emails, it seems that I got up at about 10 (early!) and made a few more Pottermore friends.

On Friday, I think my dad was home……yes, and we went to the library! I picked up the big stack of books they had waiting for me (half of my holds came in at once), but I haven’t been able to read any of them yet. I’ve decided to finish Pride and Prejudice before I start anything else. (Pride and Prejudice is very good, and I’m enjoying it.)

Saturday was Christmas Eve. I played my third Layton game in the basement. The oven broke(you’ll hear more about that in a minute), I learned how to use the video camera, and we went to Midnight Mass (which was absolutely beautiful).

Sunday-Christmas! Had to get up was early (before 9AM), opened presents, ate waffles, fooled around with presnets, and then Kelly+Sean and Leigh+Jay came. We talked, and ate (stew, because we had no oven so my Mom couldn’t cook), and then got out the Wii. Sean learned to Wii-golf. I think my dad played baseball with Jay. And Becky bowled with…someone. Sean, Jay, and Becky then played Mario (rather violently, especially since they were supposed to be a team) until trifle time. Then we got out Broadway dance, but people decided to sing instead of dancing. It was…rather amusing. Oh, but speaking of Broadway, one of my Xmas presents was that I’m going to Mary Poppins! The other super-important  presents were: a fountain pen (I haven’t tried it yet but it’s awesome), over $100 for Barnes&Noble, and THE ENTIRE HARRY POTTER BOOKS BOXED SET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last few days:

• worked on the book I’m supposed to be focusing on
• read Pride and Prejudice
• played Layton #4 (Christmas present)
• went to Barnes&Noble and bought 2 books
• emailed
• Pottermore
• Blurtit
• discovered the identical quadruplets in Becky’s AG magazine and was so fascinated that I got a story idea (surprise surprise)
• made HP characters on the Wii

Today-woke up EARLY at like 9:30, did my dailies on the computer, took laundry out of the dryer, ate, figured out some next-gen type stuff for one of my stories, emailed Sam, bought Safe and Sound (so excited for HG!), and posted (am posting). I’m still going to read Pride and Prejudice, work on my story (the one I’m supposed to be writing), and maybe figure out how to put the video-camera videos on the computer. OH! And it’s Voldemort’s 85th birthday.

Happy 2012!

-Abby

I Love Christmas Music

Really. I do. And Christmas cards with pictures on them. Someday I’m going to have Christmas photo cards.

I also love Christmas candy. Like FUDGE. And I love the way a Christmas tree looks, lit up and covered in ornaments, with a  few Christmas-paper-wrapped presents gracing the floor beneath.

Really, I just love Christmas. And it’s just $ days away! I still don’t feel like it’s that close.

As of noon today, Becky and I are both on vacation. NO HOMEWORK FROM MONTROSE!! NOT EVEN ALGEBRA! I’m supposed to be doing something with my 2 weeks, though. Mrs. Baker wants me to work on writing (or, more specifically, finishing). So I’m working on a new-ish retelling. I’ve got most off the characters in the first half of the book figured out, and I’m on the second chapter. It’s been almost annoyingly fast-paced so far, but I’m sure it’ll smooth out soon.  It’s probably just the Baroness trying to jump into the story. Or maybe I’m trying to avoid making it sound like Cinderella, because this wasn’t really meant to be one of those double/combined retellings. Not that there’s anything wrong with them, of course.

I’m also going to read my classic for English. We’re going to make book trailers of whatever it is we read. Pride and Prejudice for me. “A fine choice,” my English teacher said. I love her. She’s awesome. And I’m looking forward to Pride and Prejudice, for two reasons. One is itself. A book is always (or at least usually) a good thing. But after I read it, I get to read 2 more of Shannon Hale’s books. She’s awesome too.

Last Friday I went to Girl Scouts with Becky. It’s a crazy place, I tell you. My hand was sore from the hot-glue gun all night. No one younger than fifth grade was allowed to do their own hot-gluing (the troop starts at preschool age). So guess who did the gluing? That’s right! Abby, the only middle school assistant who decided to help the scouts instead of making her own golf-tee nativity scene.

We had our Montrose Christmas concert. I don’t think I told you about it yet. Middle school sang 3 songs, and the eighth grade sang another by ourselves. So that’s great fun. And as soon as I was finished singing, I had to “book it” (in Mrs. Sullivan’s words) to the backstage room to grab my chimes, because I had the highest two notes (my babies! I love being highest) so I had to go out first to get to my place. But I sort of like that kind of thing, when there’s a very small bit of stress mixed in with a teeny-tiny bit of responsibility and a lot of excitement. Chimes went all right. I had one note that was THE highest note in the whole piece and it had to hold and hold and hold for so long that to make it last, I had to send it way way up in the air. When we were offstage, most people were saying how bad we had done.I just looked at one of the old chimers and said “it was better than last year!”

She laughed. Slightly hysterically.

 

I got a pamphlet thing for a ninth grade girl’s camp that I’m hoping I’m going to this Summer. Some of the viewers here are planning on going.

 

Becky, my mom, and I went shopping for Kelly and Leigh presents this afternoon. Actually, we went to UNO’S first. Then we bought things. The smallest sister was disagreeable. She wouldn’t match my color scene, and went all white instead.

 

Wizard’s duel is on Pottermore! The Puffs are going up, people!

 

I went to a Christmas party on Saturday and won the first round of “museum”. Sometimes it helps to be the quiet, not-very-hard-to-miss person.

 

I don’t really know what else is new. I wish I had a picture of the tree to show you, but I don’t yet. So I’ll give you a tree from a few years ago.

 

-Abby

Wrapping

I just finished wrapping my presents for my parents and Becky. They’re the first three under the tree! (We just got the tree yesterday and decorated it last night.)

I’ll give you a real post soon. I just wanted to try out this new quick-post thing that wordpress has. And I felt bad for not posting since school. So I’ll talk to you soon. Bye for now!

-Abby