Party and Party and Hey!

Hello young/middle aged/elderly kitties!  It's time to finish the tale of what happened at the awesome surprise party of DOOM (just kidding about the whole DOOM thing).

Dinner was exciting because that's when Muppet's friend laid out the rule.  Yes, only one rule: that we would all act like four year olds at Muppet's birthday party.  If you haven't read very much of this blog or this is the first post you've seen, please read the next paragraph as I explain why:

Muppet was born on a leap year and her birthday is February 29th.  So she's only actually had four birthdays.  And since this is her birthday year, she gets to celebrate all year long (well, would you want to wait four years for your birthday???) lol.  Which is why we are celebrating late (not exactly).

Continuing with the party:  blue food, right?  Okay so then I pull off one awesome feat and one fail at dinner: Feat: I ate the melted chocolate and peanuts that were on a tissue that Muppet's friends were trying to pass off as something disgusting and won a package of Snickers :D (although, when I left, I forgot them :'( ) Fail: I fell for the fake science trick: someone puts butter on a plate and then says something like, "I learned a new science trick" and puts salt on the butter and says, "feel, it's warm!" and then when you put your hand over it the other person smacks your hand down.  Then I had fun smudging it all over Muppet.  If you read on, butter isn't the only thing poor, dear Muppet has smudged on her.

After dinner we went outside and drew with sidewalk chalk on Muppet's friend's house.  And don't go thinking we were surprising her like people do when they swab people's yards with toilet paper.  WE HAD PERMISSION TO DO SO.  Don't try it at home kids...do it at your friend's house like we did lol.

Then we went and colored the cat with sidewalk chalk...well, they did.  I mostly held the cat (and colored Muppet's arm pink with sidewalk chalk lol.  She did it back though, so we were even for the time being)  He's all white so you can actually see the colors on him.  He also has blue eyes.  I love cats with blue eyes...but that's getting off topic.

Next we played this version of hide-and-go-seek except it's in the dark and your only source of light is a flashlight...except we had awesome glow-sticks instead.  I got to be the seeker first.  I didn't find everyone...I couldn't find one of H's sisters :P.  She hid in a pile of stuffed animals.  Ah, but I found Muppet.  Although I can't believe I didn't see her when I first went in the one room because she was only hiding in the closet.

Play continued, H hid behind the couch as did her older sister in an earlier round, some of H's younger siblings hid in the top part of a closet in and empty room, J hid under a bed with a cat, I mistook a pillow for a person until I poked it, H hid in a chest in an earlier round, and one of Muppet's friends hid underneath a bed mattress lol ;).  So much fun.

Then we had cake and ice cream...or maybe that was before hide-and-go-seek...  Anyways, the cake was a big blue paw-print with four little cupcake toes.  It was a good cake, I have to say, and the ice cream was even better.  It took me a while to realize the cones weren't blue plastic and were actually edible.

THAT was fun.  I kept teasing Muppet with my ice cream cone, singing into it like a microphone (I had my MP3 player out at this time: Francesca Battistelli), trying to steal bites of her cake, and smudging ice cream on her arm (she got me back here, too).

After H's younger siblings left and it was just us older girls, we danced to random party music like the cupid shuffle.  After that we started to play spoons (a card game that includes the usage of spoons in the center of the table and in which your goal is to get a spoon before the other players)...SO much fun.  Except my energy was getting out of hand at this point but my energy and how fast I get tired after that is another long rabbit trail that I'll go on another day.

After I went out playing spoons I kept tricking people by taking spoons from the center when I wasn't actually playing.  Then I started going through the cards as though I were playing even though I wasn't.  But, once, when I was playing I lost all the cards in my hands because I was goofing off and passing them all off and looking at cards.

After a time my energy dropped greatly and I was, as J says, a pumpkin...or more like just squash.  And so, Daddy picked me and J up to go home for some sleep.  Here ends the party...until Muppet turns twenty (or five) :)

SURPRISE! :P

Yep.  H, her sisters (there were four), and a couple of Muppet's other friends threw a surprise party for Muppet.  SO epic.  The theme: Blues Clues.  DON'T JUDGE.  If you do, I'll send my cat to your house to sit on your feet for several hours until your feet fall into such a deep sleep, you'll wish you hadn't said anything lol JK.

J and I were invited to the party because the others knew that Muppet knew us and that I'm her friend.  WHY would I turn down a surprise party?  I haven't so far.  Especially one for my bestest friend in the entire world.

So we went shopping for a gift for Muppet at Walmart and found some of Sally Hansen's magnetic nail polish and I was thinking, "this has Muppet written all over it" So we got it.  Because it looked awesome.  I don't know what Chalkboard Nails would have to say about it's quality, but I know that blog uses Sally Hansen a lot.  But not as much as China Glaze lol.

We go to the party which takes place at one of Muppet's friend's house and help set up.  I brought my MP3 player to listen to later and my camera to take pictures...not that I'm good at taking pictures without them becoming blurry.  But some of H's younger siblings took pictures...not that I've looked at them...and I'm sure Muppet's friend will be posting some on Facebook that she took with her phone.  But enough about pictures!

H and her older sister (but not her oldest sister) make macaroni and cheese but dye the pasta blue.  But by the time they added the cheese; when they had dumped the processed cheese into they blue noodles they turned this frightening green color.  There was also a pot of blue Alfredo which, in my opinion, looked slightly more appetizing.  Not to say that it wasn't green, but it looked slightly more blue.  It matched my green fork perfectly, though!  There was also plain, uncolored hot dogs, garlic toast, and blue applesauce.

We then came up with game ideas since there were no activities planned.  Some of my faves were spoons and telephone pictionary.  Not that we actually played telephone pictionary.  But still!  I think it's an awesome game.

So, then Muppet finally arrived and we all hid.  I allowed H and her sisters to pop out first because, as I figured, they probably would be more expected to be there than me and J.  But when I popped out, Muppet was so excited!  Then she started tearing up when she saw all of the Blues Clues stuff everywhere.  It was AWESOME.

Okay so I'm going to split this post in half because there's a lot to say about the surprise party and I have to go to a Mary Kay thing this morning (not that I'm big on makeup) and then I'm going to this awesome bistro for tea (not that I'm big on tea).  It's a complete girls day (well, sorta) for me.  My mother, J, and I will be popping in and out of our house a lot today and I'm not sure when we'll be leaving.

Have a wonderful Saturday, kittens!

The First Homeschool Drama Club!

Drama club went well today!  There were quite a few people I already knew, some brand new people of whom I had never seen before, and H along a couple others who were new to Drama Club but not to me (including one of her sisters).  Our usual Drama instructor person was there, but only to tell us that she isn't going to be teaching any more Drama to us and that Z-man is taking over from now on.  I hope that maybe I can help with games and become Game Girl.  I haven't said anything to him yet but I would really enjoy teaching these new people new games.  Like the two different versions of Dead Beaver that I know or Captain on Deck!  Which I believe that Z-man knows that game, but I know a different version.  But they're similar.

Anyways, I don't know if you have happened to look at Chalkboard Nails at all.  It's basically a blog all about nailpolish, but the person who paints nails has some real talent.  Right now she is doing this 31 day challenge.  She's painting nails according to a certain theme.  So, today's theme was purple so she painted her nails to look like the purple people eater.  SO CUTE!

Well, I hope you get to look at those nails because they really are creative.  Like, I'm going to have to get Muppet to try and paint my nails like that, lol!

So This Is What Happened yesterday

I went to a teacher's meeting today for my homeschool group.  It's the first one since before summer started so it was exciting to see people again.  Although, certain Drama Club people were missing (gasp).  But that's not something to gasp at.  What's really to gasp at is Z-man's (most commonly known in drama club as game guy) new hair cut.  Originally his hair was down to his shoulders...or at least the last time I saw him it was.  But now it's at a normal guy's hair length.  Which, it hasn't been that short since I can't remember.  But Muppet also has a stunning new haircut and dye.  SO PRETTY!!!  It makes me wish I were blonde.  But the only blonde I ever have is my stupidity at times lol.  And the paint color in my room called blonde.

I also got the chance to see someone I have not gotten to see in years.  Literally.  I haven't seen her since 6th grade or something like that.  But we talked some at the beginning.  Ha ha!  And she still owns chickens.  My mother always wanted chickens when our deed restrictions went up but then they decided to say that you can't have farm animals unless their so-and-so yards away from the edge of your property yadda yadda.  Basically, if we wanted chickens, lambs, goats, cows etc., etc., etc. they would be living on our dining room table.  I doubt anyone would want a chicken staring at them while chowing down on KFC takeout.

So after I talked with her a while I felt obligated to meet and get to know Muppet's friend who, for safety precautions, will just go by H for the time being.  H kind of reminds me of the shyer version of Muppet.  She has plenty of siblings of whom I don't remember all their names.  But a couple of them came over to our little friend group (Muppet, H, and I) and drew random doodles in my doodle book.  H preceded to draw strange and cute creatures in my doodle book while I demonstrated what Cosmo Pluff from my new DS game looks like.  We mostly talked and listened to Francesca Battistelli, of whom H has both CD's of so we both knew what we were singing.

After the teacher's meeting ended we left H to go to our History co-op at the community college.  We discussed our history questions and answers after eating our lunch in the lunchroom there.  During this time my older sister went to her class and my brother read a random book.  So they were both preoccupied.

After history co-op we all went to Rita's to eat Italian ice.  Everyone except me seemed to have gotten mint chocolate chip, I choose lemonade because I felt very warm and sticky from the heat.  Also, lemons supposedly relieve stress.  Or at least smelling lemons does.

We went home and I finished up my history and TLP for the day and we went to Zumba...at Gold's Gym.  We have memberships now which is great because LA Fitness basically abducted all the fun out of Lifestyles.  Gold's Gym has a much warmer feel to it than Lifestyles does.  Maybe it has to do with the colors being so warm in there, but it just seems like a nicer, bigger, happier place than Lifestyles was when the LA Fitness stuff was taking over.  The instructor is pretty easy to follow and she has a great choice in music too.

Overall, yesterday was fun.  But now I'm a little sad because Muppet is going to California for a while.  But she'll be back soon enough.  In the meantime, next week is the first day of Drama Club.  So I'll be having fun with H that day.  But, unfortunately, I'm going to be quitting our homeschool group's Drama Club for a while because I'm already going to be using all of my leftover time to do the drama club at the community theater.  Plus, Drama Club isn't even going to be doing any performances of any sort for a while.  I'm not going to miss Muppet there because I'm already doing school with her plus we'll probably have a good share of opportunities to get together this year anyways.  I'll see the rest of Drama Club at the other teacher's meetings.  I'm sure I'll join it again eventually, but I don't have the time to do something so committing of my time right now.