These Past Days

I know, I know.  It's been 3 days since I posted.  I've been slack, but I have good reason.  More or less.

But I have been busy, really!  It's not my fault that I lead such an interesting life that I can't take 20 minutes out of my totally packed schedule to write a blog post.  I just haven't got the time.  It's snowing in South Carolina!  (awkward change of subject)  Yes, it's true!  For the second time this year (remember back in February?)!  This is an amazing weather phenomenon!  What's supposed to happen once every ten years has now occurred TWICE in this marvelous year, 2010.  I think we should have a party.  Anyone interested?

 Some light flurries.  :]]

 A little recap of what's been going on these past days I've been offline:

December 24th-- After I slept with my curls, my hair looked even more amazing than it had the previous day.  I got some sunglasses and shoes from Cato and a cute new pink sweater from Walmart. 

My new sunglasses-- I truly love them! 

My pur-dy curly/wavy hair.  Perfect for hitting the town!

On Christmas Eve we also got a new kitty named Fritzy.  Well, that's his nickname.  His full name, you may ask?  Bailey's Ragdolls Lord Fritzgerald.  Yes, a truly remarkable name for a truly remarkable cat.   (Barnie's full name?  Clarkston Rag's Sir Barnabas)  Though Fritzy is a very timid, shy kitty.  He's spent his days hiding under my parents bed (we're keeping him in their bedroom the first week or so).  He's very sweet and very soft, but he's also very shy.  He probably didn't like the fact that the first day we had to comb out his matts and wash his tail.  The breeder didn't keep up on grooming him-- he was dirty.  :[[

Here's a not-very-good picture of him before he darted under the bed.  He's going to be a lot darker than that.  Barnie is a blue bicolor, meaning that his fur will be a dark-ish gray in certain places.  Fritzy is a seal bicolor, meaning that he will turn dark brown in places.

December 25th-- Nothing.  We basically just sat around the house.  We didn't do gifts or anything for Christmas, just watched TV.  Fritzy was our present!  :]

Decmber 26th (today)-- Went over to hang out with Grandma Barb while she was staying at her friend, Laurie's who is out of town visiting her daughter.  We baked ginger snap cookies (not hard, very soft!  really delicious!) and pumpkin bread pudding, which was also good.  I ate so much dessert today though that ever since 3:00 I've felt like I was going to throw up.  No lie.  But we did go to Goodwill today.  That was when it started snowing!  I didn't get anything, but Grandma got a few books for my cousin, Xander.  

Am I not adorable?

~Alyssa

Shuffleboard Queen, I am

Grandma Barb and I went to Walmart yesterday morning in search of shoes (they're the only store I can find that carries size 11 shoes.) and came home shoeless.  I found some brown ones that I liked that went up to size 10 and some hot pink ones that only went up to size 6.  All of the cute shoes that I would want don't come in my size.  It seems that all of the ugly (to put it kindly) shoes come in size 11, though. 

Every Sunday evening my grandparents and Aunt Sherri come over to our house for dinner.  Last night my mom wasn't feeling so great, so we went to their house instead.  Let, me tell you... It was so much fun!!  (Don't worry, I took pictures!)  Elle and Sherri were playing shuffleboard on the Wii, and I decided to challenge my dad.  Neither of us had every played shuffleboard in real life or on the Wii before, so I thought that we would both stink.  But I was WRONG!  There were 16 rounds and I won 14 of those 16.  Most of the time it would just be freak chance... like, I would get 1 centimeter ahead of his or just knock his off of the board.  The first time he did well he did the "L" for loser thing in my face... until I knocked him off.  Don't worry, I "loser-ed" him back.  After we ate dinner (delicious, by the way, chicken, beans, potatoes, bread, yum!) Sherri challenged me to a game of chess.  Not realizing that I, being homeschooled, have a lot of time on my hands to play chess against the computer.  Let's just say that we played two games in 30 minutes and I won both.  Chinese Checkers is a different story... she had all of hers safe before I had two.  Sad, I know.

My outfit yesterday... Black sweater, jeans, blue tank top

 Sherri and Elle playing darts

 Sister against brother... The older sister reigned supreme.

 I'm the cute Power Ranger on the left... Dad is the dude with the afro.  Yo.

 Dad and me playing shuffleboard against each other... picture taken by Aunt Sherri.

 Yes, Elle is drinking out of a wine glass.  No, she is not drinking wine.  Cranberry juice.  I promise.

 Blurry selfie!

 I was the only one prepared for the picture.  I'm a real ham, I know.

 A good one of the entire family!  Well, minus Elle, Mom, and Grandpa.

Daddy's getting some Lyssa sugar!  Doesn't he look happy? 

~Alyssa