Weirdness!

Okay, so for two and a half years now, my family has been looking to buy a house. We've probably looked at half the houses in this city, which is a lot, made offers on multiple houses, and been generally sick of house hunting, and finally, finally, we got a house. Its a cute little red house, and its close to one of my close friends Maya, and almost across the street from my school. It has a big, fenced back yard which means we'll probably get a little Labradoodle puppy, and I've wanted a dog for a whole 16 years of my life -- which really is all my life. I am so excited. I plan on painting my room white, and having all my furniture be black, white and red. I will have a bulletin board wall, because if you could see the walls of the house we are in now, you would know why. They are covered in photos, drawing, posters, paintings, collages, letters, cool wrappers, and a cheetah snuggie is acting as my curtain for the time being, but I rather like it. I plan on putting up some shelves, that are nailed to the wall. That way I can keep my room cleaner. I can't wait to move. Its a foreclosure, so we'll be moving into it in about a month's time. So soon! This next month will be Hell Month. Packing, having the house inspected, painting rooms and furniture, getting rid of stuff, going to IKEA (again), and in all this time my mom and I have tickets to go to Disneyland in less than a month, and for the whole month of April we are getting another French exchange student named Marine Prallet! I am so excited to meet her, but the poor girl will be smack in the middle of us moving! It will be crazy times. Plus we have loads of puppy research to do. I'll post pictures once I get some! I am so excited! Two and a half years later - The Kennedy's have officially moved to Bend! Hooray!

KATE NASH!

Two weeks ago I bought tickets to go to a Kate Nash concert in Portland. I've been nearly jumping out of my skin in excitement since then. Last night, I finally got to go! I went with some of my favorite people in the world! Kaitlin, KP, and Maya. It was the best girls Monday night out ever. We left school at 2:45, and drove to Portland. It was beautiful and high deserty the first half of the drive there, then suddenly we hit the valley. Trees popped up, and suddenly the rain was POURING. Hydroplating, trucks washing giant waves on us, and water was all over the place! Thankfully we finally made it to Portland after a long, and quite entertaining drive. There was one stoplight in Portland that we think may have been broken, because we sat there for what felt like hours! Soon enough, we made it to Nicolas's Lebanese food, chowed down on a pita as big as a large pizza, and ate many other fascinating things, like spinach somethings, and hummus, and this other thing.. Descriptive, I know. During dinner, KP looked at us and said, "Oh, and by the way we are staying in a hotel tonight," just as if it was as normal as "Go clean the kitchen Kate." That made us QUITE excited as I am sure you can imagine! Then, we were off to the glorious and magnificent WONDER BALLROOM! We arrived, found Danii, my wonderful friend from back in McMinnville, an original Odd Squadrian, and dug our way thru the crowd, searching for a great spot close to the stage. Eventually we found one in the far left corner. I didn't think it would be all that good of a spot at first.... Until Kate Nash came out on stage and started singing.... SEVEN FEET AWAY. She was AMAZING. SPECTACULAR! FABULOUS! BRILLIANT! TREMENDOUS! EXPLOSIVELY AWESOME! The whole concert was amazing, from the first loud song, "I Just Love You More" to the amazing last song "Pumpkin Soup!" Even the terrifying "Mansion Song" was performed brilliantly too, despite the freakish amount of vulgar and LOUD swearing. But hey, it's Kate Nash. She's awesome! Before she came on, a new British band, Peggy Sue, opened for her. I thought they were absolutely marvelous! Their songs were catchy and upbeat, with many different drum beats, an accordion, and some beautiful guitars! Immediately following the concert, I purchased an adorable, but far too large Kate Nash tee shirt with a bunny on it, and a copy of Peggy Sue's CD - Fossils and Other Phantoms - A high recommendation on my part. The CD was autographed by all three members of the band, and we talked, and it took all my self control not to start talking in a British accent myself. Their accents just rolled off their tongues so beautifully! After the concert, we drove down to VooDoo donuts, and bought ourselves some of the most delicious donuts I've ever tasted! I got a tiny voodoo doll shaped donut, and its always terribly heartbreaking when you have to bite the head off an edible food item that has animal or human characteristics. Soon, all of us being wiped out and knowing that yes, there was school the following morning, and it was three hours away, we drove to the lovely Red Lion hotel, where we exhaustedly lugged in our bags and suitcases and Lebanese food remains into the room. Room 240 I believe. The next morning we woke up at a hearty 5 Am, got together our things, and drove to a little cafe to buy coffee and croissants. These we enjoyed on the way out of Portland, and so began the long, tiring ride home. What a night.

Geekin' Hard

Alright. I'm going to take up a post, to be a complete and total geek. I'm not posting this to be fun of, so if you intend to make fun of me, save it for your journal. I'm posting this for those who keep their bit of hidden geek tucked away inside them. Basically, I was on StumbleUpon (if you haven't heard of it, then check it out www.stumbleupon.com) and I stumbled to this website - www.minecraft.net. Basically, its a 3D game (You can play creative mode for free) where you place, and destroy loads of different kinds of blocks that are different types of minerals and ores and soils and rocks and wood and you build yourself mines underground, and skywalks above, and houses on ground. During the day its a lovely scenery, with wild farm animals (cows, pigs, sheep, chickens) roaming around, you can climb up into the trees, and swim in crystal clear water, and just enjoy the scenery. But nights -- Hopefully you spent your lovely day building a fort or shelter of somekind, because at night is when the monsters come out, and you better protect yourself. I was playing this game with my friend Kaitlin the other day. We dug ourselves into a cave, and couldnt get out quickly. Suddenly I saw something, a little glimpse of something greenish above us. It fell into the hole. Suddenly we were both screaming and panicking. Quickly I shut the entrance to the big cave, but the creature was just on the other side of two rocks. It was making the grossest gurgly noises, and we just screamed more and backed away from the computer. That was my first experience of a Zombie. There are also Skeletons that shoot arrows, and these weird things called Creepers that explode, and the spiders. You can see the spiders from a long ways off, because of their red glowy eyes. Now, it isn't the graphics of this game that freak me out. No, its good old 1990's graphics, everythings cubic and not scary whatsoever, its the noises, and the sheer surprise if you fall into the clutches of a mob of monsters. All in all, my brother Sam and I are completely addicted to this game, and we can't get enough of it. Completely obsessed. Of course. :) I really suggest you try it. Honestly.

Adventure!

So tonight, late, about 9:10 pm, my brother Sam and I heard music from our house. It was distant, but hearable. At first it sounded like music coming from a house down the street, and we thought someone was having a party. Then my dad said, 'No, thats coming from a concert down at Old Mill.' So then we drove down to Old Mill to check it out. When we got there, we heard absolutely nothing. It was silent. But we saw a lot of cars driving away, so naturally, we thought the concert had just ended and people were leaving. So we drove home, and we heard the music again. So I said, "Yeah, I think it is a party." and then my mom said "Maybe it is coming from Cascade (the middle school by our house)." and she told us to go walk down there and check it out if we wanted. So we started walking. Now, to get to cascade from our house is about 10 minutes. So we got there... and it was dark, and sorta creepy, and nothing was going on at all. But we definitely heard the music louder. So we kept walking. We hopped this tall fence, and started walking through all this land. Past Cascade, then Past 7 Peaks (Another middle school) and we did some trail creating of our own. We leaped over sagebrush, got poked by a lot of prickles, climbed a few more fences, crossed a unknown busy street, that in daylight I probably would know. Then we finally heard the music loud and saw lights. And a stage. But in the distant. We slid down this big dusty hill, and finally got there. Standing in the parking lot, I realized where we were - The Bend Athletic Center - about a 20 - 25 minute walk from our house if you count all the bush whacking and trail making. Everyone was leaving, right as we got there the concert ended. There must have been 300 people there. I think it may have been a paid concert, so when we saw a gate open, and no one gaurding, we snuck in. There was this one guard there that was looking at us like we were young ruffians and didn't belong there. Out of no where, my brother says just loudly enough for the guard to hear, "Mom? Dad? Where are you guys?!" and I was just dumbfounded. He thought of that by himself! I always thought him to be a goody two shoes, but his rebellious side just shined. I am so proud of him! He's learning well. :) So we get past the guard, and into the concert, and there is a LOT of litter on the ground, and a big stage with lights and such all over it, and it was so cool! Then we left to go home after about 5 minutes of exploring. We took a different route, but it was pretty adventuresome also! Keep in mind, all of this is being done in the black of night! So it was creepy just climbing through unknown forest! AHH!

Day at the Lake!

So today, my family and I and my grandparents went to Sparks Lake. It was a beautiful day of a lovely 73 degrees! Absolutely b-e-a-u-tiful day! We packed everything up onto the car (4 bikes, 3 inner tubes, and 2 kayaks) and drove off. Well the bike bringing was a bust. No bikes were allowed on the trails.. so that was pointless. Although they kayaks were fun! I was the first out on the kayaks, and I paddled out to a little island out in the lake. It was made completely of big rocks jutting out of the water. I docked the boat and climbed ashore. It was so pretty out there! Absolutely amazing! Eventually after exploring the island, I got back into my kayak and paddled away. Then I came back and ate. And had snickers bars. Oh yum! Wow, isn't THAT exciting. Heh heh.. Now the water in the lake is absolutely FREEZING. But I had been sitting in the sun for a while, widdeling away at a stick I had found, and was extremely hot. So i decided I was gonna jump in. I climbed out to a high rock that led to deep water, and was spazzing out cause suddenly, I didn't really want to get in that freezing water. But now this other lady on the other side of the little inlet of the lake that was kinda like a swimming hole was watching and cheering me on along with my brother, so I knew i couldn't back out. I counted down and jumped. Longest jump of my life. Well not really that long, but I sure had enough time for a lot of thoughts to go through my head. "oh noooo, here it comes! its gonna be cold! crap why did i jump!? ahh! THATS SO COLD!!!" and then i was in the water, and it was over my head. My head hurt so bad from the cold. It was so freakin icy! but once I had gotten over the brain freeze and eventually emptied my nose from all the icy lake water that had shot up it, it was really fun, and my body was so numb that I didn't even feel the cold! So i did some more rock jumping, and my bro jumped in, and it was all good! Finally it was time to go. I fell asleep partially on the way back, and now I am nice and clean, and know that Sparks Lake, is a SUPER fun lake to go and explore!