Books & Vacation!

#88. Read at least four books.
I thought that I would update you guys on this one, because I've halfway completed it. I finished two books (yay), which is more than I usually read on average summers. Here's the books I have read so far:

1. Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts. They were also one another's only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she's lost the only person who will ever understand her. Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed. Known as Jenna, she's popular, happy, and dating, everything "Jennifer" couldn't be---but she still can't shake the memory of her long-lost friend. 

When Cameron suddenly reappears, they are both confronted with memories of their shared past and the drastically different paths their lives have taken.

From the National Book Award nominated author of Story of a Girl, Sweethearts is a story about the power of memory, the bond of friendship, and the quiet resilience of our childhood hearts.

2. And Then Things Fall Apart by Arlaina Tibensky
Keek and her boyfriend just had their Worst Fight Ever, her best friend heinously betrayed her, her parents are divorcing, and her mom’s across the country caring for her newborn cousin, who may or may not make it home from the hospital. To top it all off, Keek’s got the plague. (Well, the chicken pox.) Now she’s holed up at her grandmother’s technologically-barren house until further notice. Not quite the summer vacation Keek had in mind.

With only an old typewriter and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar for solace and guidance, Keek’s alone with her swirling thoughts. But one thing’s clear through her feverish haze—she’s got to figure out why things went wrong so she can put them right.

These reviews were stolen from here. They were both very well-written and interesting, and they actually sort of reminded me of each other. One more thing before I stop blogging for the day...I'm going to Italy in August! I'm super excited to visit Europe, finally. I may or may not continue to write blog posts while I'm there. Can't wait!

#21. Bake a cake.

My friend's birthday was on Sunday, so we decided to bake him a cake. I found a recipe for a jellybean cake, and last night we baked until about 9:30. We brought it to him today, which was a bit awkward, and somehow I managed to break one of my shoes in the process of walking up to his doorstep. But at least I got this list item completed! Hopefully I'll do some more soon.

Thunder & Lightning & Forgetfulness

It's been about a week since I've posted anything, due to the fact that I hardly did any more things on the list! I did do one:

#31. Get over my fear of bees.
I realized that I had accomplished this on tuesday, when I was outside and I thought to myself, look, there's a bee next to me. Cool. I didn't freak out like I normally do! Still though, I probably wouldn't be able to stick my head in a bee's nest, but I think that's sort of obvious.

And that's about it. I wasn't exactly lazy this week, but I guess I was so busy with other things that I didn't remember to do anything on the list. On Monday I was downtown the whole day with my family, and on Tuesday and Wednesday I was at my friend Olivia's birthday party! We went to Fort Worden (the second time this summer for me) and it was extremely enjoyable. I took a whole bunch of video there, and I will make sure to put it in the summer video.

Oh. And about the title (Thunder & Lightning & Forgetfulness), there have been two (including today) thunder storms where I live. I slept through the first one, but today the storm went on until the morning, and is still going on now. The scary thing is, it's Friday the 13th!

All Nighter & Coca Cola

Friday was a very good day for accomplishing items on the list, and after I posted about the six things we had done in town, we did two more.

#27. Pull an all-nighter.
The definition of an all nighter for me would be staying up until about four thirty, when it starts getting lighter outside. We fulfilled this. All it took was one cheesy disney movie, Facebook chat, and a lot of chocolate chips.

#35. Do the mentos and coca cola thing.
I forgot to get diet coke, so it didn't work as well. I'll probably end up doing this again during the summer, just so I can see what it looks like when you do it right.

A side note-I know I haven't been posting any videos, and that's mostly because I want to wait until the end of the summer to put them all together. Also I may be a bit lazy ;)

Fun day in town!

Today I went to town with my friends Aubrie and Emily. It was a really sunny day today and that doesn't happen very much on Bainbridge Island!  There were a lot of people out in town today also.  We managed to do 6 of the 100 things on my list!  Thanks to Aubrie though because she was the photographer!  I think thats the most that I have done in One day! yay! So here they are....

#33.  Go buy something and pay in pennies.
So I bought a piece of bubble gum with a bunch of pennies. I thought it would cost a lot more than it did at first so Aubrie gave me all of the pennies she had and I went up to the counter.  It really ended up only being 2 cents for the piece of bubblegum but I still payed in pennies.

#54. Hang up pieces of paper around town with the strips that you tear off at the bottom that say, "free paper!".

We actually made a lot of pieces of paper that we hung up but this was one of them. We also made one that said "sign if you are happy today", then another one that said "smile!" and had strips on the bottom that had smiley faces on them.  There was also one that had the definition of random on it and said that random acts of kindness were the best kind and had a bunch of random kind things to do.  The last one was a piece of paper that said I love you on it and had strips on the bottom that said I love you. On one of those had all of the papers torn off by the time that we left town!

#61. Leave a dollar bill on someones windshield.

ACHIEVED! I did this right as we were leaving town today.  I'm sure it has brightened someones day!

#68. Put vanilla pudding in a mayo jar and eat in public.
Yep, I did this!  Emily probably did it the most though.  One time she was sitting on a bench eating it and a lady came up and told her stop because she would get sick and so to not worry the lady we told her it was just pudding.  I'm sure it looked really REALLY gross though because vanilla pudding isn't then white-ish color of mayonnaise but a yellowish cream color.  It was still hilarious though.

#75. Dance and sing in public.
Yeah I did this with Emily when she pulled me out onto the sidewalk and started dancing and singing....so yeah.

#80. Go into a store ask what year it is, say, "it works" and run out.
We did this in two stores. An art gallery and a makeup store.  I'm pretty sure the lady in the make up store didn't find it funny because later we went back and apologized and she seemed kinda upset!  The person in the art gallery I'm pretty sure he just thought we were crazy.

We also did something that was not on the list but should have been because it was really fun! Here it is...

# "101." Give out "lucky" pennies to random people.
Emily did this with Aubrie's left over pennies from #33. Some people rejected our lucky pennies!! How could you reject a lucky penny?! I don't know but the people who accepted seemed very entertained and happy!

Happy Fourth!

Well...the day after, anyways. Yesterday was really fun. I went to the parade in town with a my family and met a couple friends there, and then later in the day I went to the beach to watch/set off fireworks. Oh, and some of my friends jumped off of a dock and into the sound! I chickened out though, because I was afraid of it being too cold and also, there were jellyfish in the water!! I would write an extremely detailed post, but right now I'm: 1) Sunburnt 2) Sore from walking around all day, and 3) SUPER tired. So that's it for today...bye guys!

Sunburnt...ouch.

Summer Vibe

#91. Choose an official "Summer Song".
Over the past few days I've been listening to a lot of music. I found a few songs that could be the "Summer Song" of 2012. Here they are:

"Summer Vibe" by Walk off the Earth. My personal favorite.

"Chasing the Sun" by The Wanted.

"On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons.

"Anna Sun" by Walk the Moon.

"Tongue Tied" by Grouplove.

"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men.

"It's Time" by Imagine Dragons.

All of these songs are amazing, but only one can be the summer song! I put a poll in the sidebar, so please vote on your favorite. The poll closes on Friday, July 20th. If you have any other suggestions, please email me here. Thanks!!

I'm Lazy...

I'm extremely sorry for the lack of blogging over the past week. I've been lazy, and I haven't completed many more things on my list. Quick side note: I added a new page, called Contact. If you guys have any feedback or questions, please email the address shown on that page. It would be greatly appreciated and I will try to reply to all of the emails!

Anyways, I did manage to complete at least two items. Here they are:

#23. Go vegetarian for a whole week.
This went pretty well, but I realized that my family eats a lot of meat! I had to go to the grocery store to get some vegetarian food. That week didn't change my life or anything, but I have to say, it felt like I was eating a lot healthier than usual. Maybe because of the fact that I was paying attention to what I was eating for once?

#83. Get my ears pierced. Finally.
Remember in Painting: Day One when I said I had a surprise for you guys? Well...this is it! I finally did it. It didn't hurt very much, but it's sort of a pain to clean them twice a day. I would take a picture, but my camera is charging...

#94. Paint my room.
I have to say, it was a lot of hard work! My arm began to get sore after about two walls. It turned out pretty well, but now my room is so blue! The theme is blue and white. Again, I would take a picture, but my camera is charging at the moment.

I'll attempt to do more things on the list this week!