A pic of me and my mom at Disneyland! (And don't worry, I totally have hair: it's in a french braid :* And please ignore the tired children in the background.) I have to say, it was kind of disappointing after having gone to Disney World. My final reactions? The Matterhorn is overrated. Space Mountain is the holy grail of Disneyland rides. It's a Small World made me totally nastalgic for the days where I had nothing else to do but watch Disney movies, princess and otherwise (I'm looking at you, Lilo and Stitch.) I wish we could've spent more time there. We left as the Frozen float was getting ready to start the parade. We might go back for the fireworks, but that's a little unlikely. Right now I'm just trying to deal with the massive sunburn this whole day gave me. Apparently, my spf 30 has failed me.

Until I type again,

Puissent vos jours soient pleins de bonheur. :)

So this is the first chance I've had to write, but we are now in LA, visiting my aunt and uncle. We started at Las Vegas, where my youngest brother found a $50 bill on the floor of a casino, and then we went to the Grand Canyon, where my other little brother got food poisoning and fainted the next day during breakfast. So, actually he missed the Grand Canyon, and the train ride to the Grand Canyon. So it's been a little up and down so far. We stayed at the New York- New York hotel/casino at Las Vegas. It was nice, except for the whole 5-people-in-a-4-person-room thing. We got these really good crêpes one morning at a restaurant in the hotel. My younger brother and I got nutella and banana, my mom and youngest brother got bacon and egg, and my dad, I don't remember what he got, but I remember him eating the other half of everyone else's crepes as well as his own. But so now we are in Los Angeles. It's kind of void of life so far, to be honest. I guess I'll find out later what people like about it so much.

I think I forgot to write about this, but I'm leaving for Nevada, Arizona, and California tomorrow with my family. We're flying to Las Vegas, then driving around to see some stuff, and then we end up at the Grand Canyon. Then we're going to California. I'm not sure what we're doing in any order, but a list: Disney Land, Alcatraz, Hollywood, visiting my Uncle Mark and Aunt Kris, and visiting where my dad grew up before his family moved here. It's going to be really fun, hopefully, and also, unfortunately, really, really hot. I've plugged some of our stop points into my Weather app, and it's going to be 104 degrees in Las Vegas while we're there, and 108 at the Grand Canyon when we end up there. But anyways, I'll probably post some pictures from vacation. But I also might not post anything, depending on if I can get my tablet to work well, since I'm not bringing my computer.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Packing for vacation!!!

Thinking about redoing my room. I'll probably paint it either light blue or a cream/ivory kind of color. It's light green right now, and it's a little too fruit punch for me. I'm also moving furniture around. It's going to be kind of hard, because I have a small room, and a window that's too tall to put any furniture on the better part of a wall, but I'll figure something out.

Just went to the beach! It's a little further away than I'd like, but a mile and a half isn't so long when you're riding your bike. So, I went down to the beach, and I was literally the only person there, probably because it was insanely windy. I set up my towel and made a little pit for my diet pepsi so it wouldn't fall over. Then, I just listened to music, read my book, and snacked on pretzels for a while. I skipped some rocks, and got my feet a little wet, too. And this actually happened yesterday, because I forgot to post this, but yeah, you get the point. It was fun.

So, the fourth season of Pretty Little Liars is on Netflix now, just as the fifth season is starting on TV. It kind of bugs me, because I'm watching it on TV, and also on Netflix, because I'm a season behind, and it's like "Surprise! Allie is alive, which was probably the whole point of season 4! But you haven't seen the whole season yet! So you have no idea what's going on! Ha ha ha ha HA!" And I'm trying to watch all of season 4 before I get too far into season 5, but those are all like 40 minute episodes, and to be honest, it seems like each episode is just the same old problems as before, but with Spencer finding out a new bit of information each episode that doesn't seem to be useful. But what do I know. I'm on episode 7.



So. Tired. But. It's. Too. Hot. To. Sleep. Blarg.

If you think someone is too sensitive, does that mean you are justified in making them cry? If you know they're sensitive, is it okay if you try to make them cry? Nope. It just means that you are and will always be an awful and self-centered person.

Recital tonight. I'm so nervous, I could barf.

I just got back from my dance recital dress rehearsal. I spent six straight hours at a place filled with giggly three-to-seven-year-old girls, rude girls on the competition team, and a few moderately friendly people slightly younger than me who aren't on the competition team. The only point of dress rehearsal is to give you a chance to rip up your brand-new tights two days before the real recital. Most of the people who go to see the recitals are there, and they expect you to put on full makeup, so I don't really get the point of having both a dress rehearsal and a recital. I have tomorrow off, though, so I don't have to do anything for dance, which is a relief.

So I found this recipe online for making your own lip gloss. I thought it was pretty cool, and decided to give it a try. I had to use what I could find in my house, because I can't drive, and my parents don't like to drive. So, I used Vaseline (petroleum jelly), some mint extract, and shavings from an old lipstick. For a lip gloss container, I used a craft-store bottle cap from a previous craft adventure. In my pic, you can see the finished lip gloss in the bottle cap, a pipette I used to put in the mint extract, and the old lipstick I used for color. Results: it looks pretty good, and has an intense color from the lipstick. It smells really good, too, and the petroleum jelly makes it shiny. But it tastes like crap, and it's a little torturous for it to smell so good and taste awful. But that's how life works. I'll probably use this when I need a little color. It's not very long-lasting, and because of the petroleum jelly, it's a little messy to put on with fingers, so I'll definitely have to use a mirror, but I think it's pretty good for a first try.

Going to bed, so goodnight! xox

I just got a typewriter from my g-ma! She had a friend who was going to throw it away. So, it's a little broken. The apostrophe key doesn't work, and the correction tape key doesn't do anything, so all of my mistakes are out in the open, but it's still super cool, and so totally 80s. I tried it out a little, and it's pretty nifty. But putting it together was so funny. Because I have no idea how to put together a typewriter. I thought the ribbon was a cassette tape. When I pressed enter for the first time, the arm shot out and knocked my water over. So when I say "funny", I mean sad and totally embarrassing. It's obvious I'm a 90s child, right?

So I was on Instagram and I notice that there are some pics of people from school hanging out at restaurants and at the beach and stuff, and literally, instead of feeling left out like a normal person would, the first thought that came into my head was, "What? They're not allowed to do that. You can't just talk to people that you go to school with during summer. That's not how it works."

So that's the story of me losing touch with reality over summer break. It's only the second day, so be prepared for even worse insanity as summer goes on.

Also if you have a lot of free time, go ahead and check out my Instagram: 19paqstar