Mom had to remove any potentially harmful objects from my reach so I wasn’t tempted to take drastic measures. This included Fruit Rollups.

And not only that, but my wonderful family followed suit, and then my friends (who are always trying to be just like me because I’m obviously awesome) decided they would pick up the sickness too. One right after another. Christian for four days, then Cliffy for three, and now Chris has got it.

Guess what day Chris got it?

Two days ago.

On his birthday.

Happy birthday.

Love,
Karma
XOXO <3

I swear I’ve texted the question “How are you feeling” at least 8 dozen times over the last two weeks. They started looking into restraining orders for texting. Luckily such a thing doesn’t exist so I was able to bother them effectively.

So now, a week and a half later, I’ve yet to have my birthday party. I have no idea when we are actually going to have it. Luckily, I just don’t really care that much.

Plus I managed to go outside on the porch for a few minutes to talk to Clifford on my birthday and we got into a food fight.

Then I made him clean it all up.

So that was pretty much the highlight of the day. Nothing else happened.

Nor has anything happened since. Except the Superbowl. We watched that. That was actually a pretty good game, even though being the Steelers fans that we are, there really was no winning for us. We were happy when the Ravens won though. Can’t have those 50minus1ers tied for SB wins with us.
Course, the power did go out. Everyone was quite confused at that moment.

We were all waiting for Bane to come out and be like “Hello citizens of New Orleans”

Sadly(?) that never happened and 5 minutes later they had fixed the issue and the game resumed.

Really I was just hoping for this.

Also never happened.

Since the both of the boys missed half a week of school, they spent the other half making up for the homework they missed.

Needless to say, we haven’t seen much of them.

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

Until then, I have to find other ways to entertain myself. Like watching 5 seasons of Malcolm in the Middle and having  text conversations like the one I had last night with Christian.

Christian: We are done playing.

Me: Ahoy matey.

Christian: Yeah

Me: I turned into a pirate while you were gone.

Christian: Sweet. Did you find any gold?

Me: I wish.
I did get a sweet hat though.

Christian: …Photoshop…

Me: No way. This is legit.

Christian: Arrrrgh

Me: It’s contagious! Are you going to be a pirate with me?

Christian: Heck yes.

Me:

Now we can rule the seven seas.

Then this morning I sent this as school started:

Have a spectacularly awesome and piratey day!

Needless to say, today has been a pretty good day so far.

I don’t expect you to get it unless you’re really awesome. If you do get it, you win.

Mom’s yelling at me across the house at the moment because of this post’s title. “NO Kait just because it’s not snowing doesn’t mean Florida hates happiness. That means it LOVES people who can’t take the cold. I can’t believe you hate Florida.”

My response?

“JERRY DID IT. DANGIT JERRY!”

I’m sorry. No more Parks and Rec references. Probably. Maybe. I don’t know.

So the Herd, as we call ourselves(and by that I mean, I call us the Herd and no one argues because they’re kinda scared of me. It was inspired by Ice Age, ok?) decided a few weeks back to do Secret Santa this year. Mom helped out and was the moderator. We each drew a name out of Chris’s fedora and had two weeks to get a gift for our person.

What did we learn from this experience?

Most of us are really bad a secret keeping.

By the time we exchanged gifts, I knew who Ian, Chris, Christian, Joe, and Gabe had as their people. And several knew who I had.

What else did we learn?

We are really a pretty darn awesome group.

It wasn’t originally going to be a full blown party, but Christin and I decided that we should because that was the only day that we all were going to be around this whole Christmas vacation. Matt and Chris left for the whole break this morning and won’t be back until the day school starts.

After deciding to go ahead and throw a party, the plan was to order pizza. But Christin insisted on making something I could eat, I’m on a gluten-free diet right now(long story) so instead we ran to the store and got stuff to make sloppy Joes.

Best. Gluten free meal. EVER. Sloppy Joes on Fritos was so good…definitely a new favorite of mine. Nom nom nom.

To start out, a few weekends ago I got to celebrate two of my friend’s birthdays with them. Christin and Cliffy both had birthdays one weekend, so you can imagine there was a lot of partying going on then. On Christin’s birthday I went out to eat with her and her family. It was a lot of fun, and we had the most hilarious waiter.

Then we came home and a bunch of people came over. We ate cake and opened gifts, and then we played a shot game(with Coke, no worries people. We are good teenagers) and while some of the guys played Minecraft, the rest of us played volleyball with balloons.

This all lasted until midnight, when we fairwelled Christin’s birthday and welcomed Cliffy’s. The next morning, I went across the street and helped set up all of the decorations for Cliffy’s party that afternoon. After that we went to get a movie, then came back and watched Puss in Boots with some of the neighborhood kids. Later we all had pizza and cake and opened presents. My gift for Cliffy(a t-shirt) was still on it’s way so I drew him a picture of him and pasted a picture of the shirt over it.

Then we went bowling. I was so close to winning both times, but once fell short by one point and the next by two. So close…

The next day we were all pretty tired. Christin headed back to college and the rest of us just kinda hung around. The next day, my family headed to Orlando for a mini-vacation. We didn’t go to any of the parks, but the hotel we stayed at had a water park and little arcade and stuff. The best part for me was meeting my friends who I’ve known over the computer for years now. They came to the hotel on Monday night and we all played cards and had pizza and stuff. It was so cool finally getting to meet them — easily the highlight of the trip.

The boys had a blast at the water park on Tuesday. We went down the bigger slides they had. Two of them were fun enough, but one of them was insane.

It felt like you were about to fly off of the slide. In case you were wondering, this is not a pleasant feeling.

All of the time in between doing stuff I spent watching the news(politics) and football. Yep I’m weird. I did watch a few other shows, but seriously…there is nothing good on TV anymore.

Tuesday night we went to Downtown Disney. I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s just say I don’t like crowds. And there was crowd.

Wednesday morning we packed up and left, stopping at Waffle House for breakfast on the way out. We got home around 3 and were able to surprise Cliffy at the bus stop, since he didn’t think we would get home until that night. We were originally going to go to Ikea before we left Orlando, but we decided against it on Wednesday morning and decided just to go home.

It was a fun trip, though weird without Dad with us. But we all had a great time. It was good to be home and see our friends again, though.

Now we are all planning for our Halloween party next Saturday. Christin is coming home for it so that’s exciting. We’ve got a bajillion things to bake for it, since we are providing treats for the actually party AND a cake walk we are doing, so we are going to be pretty busy that Friday and Saturday morning.

The other day I had a doctor’s appointment. Well, technically it was a Physical Therapy appointment because I went to the doctor a month or so ago because of this bad joint pain I’ve been having in my legs and shoulders. The doctor told me then that he thought one of my legs might be longer than the other, so I need to go to PT to get it adjusted, but that nothing was wrong with my shoulder. Naturally I was like “Umm dude, people’s shoulders don’t just pop every time they move them and ache 24/7 and keep them up at night”. Also naturally I didn’t actually say that because I don’t really talk to people I don’t know unless I have to. And by “have to”, I mean I’ll die if I don’t.

WebMD, the not-have-to-talk-to-people-alternative wasn't helping much. A broken back? Seriously, I think I'd know it if my back was broken.

So we made an appointment for PT for my leg. I went in the other day and was handed this paper that asked me all these questions and had a diagram of a human where it wanted me to circle all of the places I was experiencing pain. Since my doctors appointment, my right shoulder had gotten worse and now my wrists and even occasionally my elbow have also started to be bothersome. Basically, my entire right side was falling apart. So basically every joint from my hip up was circled. Then my PT dude was like “Well, it says here you’re here for hip/leg joint pain.” and I was like “Well, my right shoulder hurts a lot and the doctor said nothing was wrong but it hurts so obviously something is wrong.” And he was all like “Alright well let’s see here…”
And I had to do all of this different stuff so he could test my shoulder. He realized that my right shoulder sits higher than my left, when it should sit lower because it’s my dominant arm. Then he felt my spine. And he stopped.
Long story short, I have to get an x-ray done to see if I have scoliosis because he thinks my spine might be crooked and get blood work done for some stuff, too. And I have SI Joint Dysfunction, which is my leg problem (and, unknown to me beforehand, also the source of my back pain) , so I have to go to PT twice a week for three weeks to get that fixed. Whoohoo. Because I love the doctor’s. Not.

So yeah, that’s what’s been going on. Time has been flying by for us, which is awesome because we are uber excited for the Johnsons to come for Thanksgiving again this year. 34 more days! So that’s the next exciting thing happening after Halloween.

That’s all that been happening. Besides Piccola texting me and telling me that half and half was made of half cream and half sugar.

That’s it though.

The end.

Many, many beach days. Seriously, we went at least 20 times in the last month.

There was a lot of burying people this summer.

Found a giant spider. I also saved Cliffy from walking right into it.

Multiple trips to Walmart.

Messed around outside. A lot.

Epic photo bomb, Matt.

Christian and Joe think they're so cool. I guess they kinda are though.

Late nights inside.

Don't even ask. I have no idea.

The night we rented The Muppets

...they both wanted to sit on the spinny stool.

Of course we are not too old for play dough.

Trolling. Mehehehehe.

I am very sad it’s over. But it’s actually not that bad. Every day Matt, who is usually already at our house since he’s homeschooled and finishes around noon, Joe, Gabe, Christin, and I go and meet Christian and Chris(Matt’s brother) at their bus stop right after 2:00, and then we all hang out until 4, then we go meet Cliffy at his bus stop, then we all hang out and usually play four square until dinner and then hang out again after dinner.

The first day after school, we all played four square in the pouring rain. Words can’t express how awesome it was.

Only thing missing was Cliffy because he was still in school. Sad face.

Anyway, that’s all that’s been going on. Lots of four square and bus stop meetings.

Well, it’s almost time to go meet Chris and Christian. So, until next time!

It’s been rainy. And it’s horrible because we normally would go to the beach to pass the time. But since it’s been icky outside, we’ve spent most of our time either inside or on the Chrises porch.

Here’s some of the stuff we’ve done:

Brown Widow Spider killing.

Playing Uno while it poured.

Going crazy from caffeine and sugar and partying.

I had all green and blue and Christian had all yellow and red. Weird. The others had nice mixes.

Fort building.

Weird hat wearing.

Yep, it’s been pretty awesome. There’s only 13 days left until school, so we’re spending as much time hanging out as possible.

So yes, that’s what I’ve been up to. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go blow dry my hair because it’s still wet from returning from the beach.

Until next time!

Then on Saturday my friends and I are getting together to play ultimate frisbee. It has FINALLY worked out to where we’re in town when one of my good friends, Aaron(who is in law school right now), is also in town for summer break. This time hopefully we can avoid the flu which spread through the Curdy family and destroyed the plans we had a few Christmases ago to get together. But alas, I’ll be meeting up with my bestest friends — the Curdys, Whites, and Kellys — on Saturday. I’m so stinkin’ excited! It’s been so long since the old campaignin’ team was all in one place — two years! It’ll be great to get together again.

Plus my sister will be there! YAY! I am just so excited to see her.

Not to mention that in between that I’ll get to spend tons of time with one of my bestest friends, Sarah!

We’re really crazy. No seriously, it gets pretty bad sometimes. Occasionally we just have to start smacking each other to knock sense back into one another.

Or apparently pulling someone off of a fence by their ear. As Sarah is having so much fun doing above.

So yep! Now I must go pack, for I have a busy weekend ahead of me. Until next time!

I miss my best friends.

This is basically what happened while we were there.

We were dorks.

Harleigh ate icecream.

Did this cool theater thingie a few times.

Got pictures in the little photo thingie(now that was an adventure).

Watch other people be dorks.

And that’s just about how it went. Then we went to Wendys and ate food. It was pretty good.

Also:

That’s all.

WOW. What an awesome Thanksgiving we had this year! Our amazing friends came over once again and we celebrated together in our own crazy fashion. After a depressing mishap that changed our original plans for this year’s turkey day, everything became happy again when Taylor and I managed to scheme and get our two families together. Yay!

So Wednesday night at around 10 o’clock, the Johnsons showed up on our front porch. We hung out until close to one before hitting the sack. Taylor and I woke up early around six the next morning and hung out on the back porch for a while before the kids started getting up around seven thirty. The moms were already up and at’em, preparing food in the kitchen. After that, things just went uphill.

Mom and Mrs. Johnson were in the kitchen constantly, while Mr. Johnson and my dad sat at the table discussing helicoptery things and such, the boys played games, and Taylor and I played card games.

It wasn’t too long until it was time to feast. The food was AMAZING…an outrageously awesome meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, mac n’ cheese, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, cranberry salad, stuffing, homemade rolls, and gravy to top it all off…literally. YUM.

After stuffing ourselves as full as we could, we all relaxed and waited a few hours before digging into the pie. Taylor and I purposefully waited until hours after everyone else had had some, hoping to make as much room as possible for the deliciousness.

Sadly enough, I wasn’t able to eat more than a few bites of mom’s amazing pecan pie, but oh well. What I did eat was scrumptious.

On Friday afternoon, we all went to the beach and enjoyed a nice walk in the cool weather. It was really nice, though a bit windy. We had a lot of fun.
Then, after staying up forever late Friday night, Taylor, Wesley and I hung out with all the boys Saturday morning while the parent’s went out to breakfast and did a bit of shopping..

After that, we went to the Gator Park and messed around there for an hour or so. Taylor and Wesley climbed a tree.

Gabe and Taylor kicked a soccer ball around and chased each other around the park while Wesley and I sat down and played a simple game of tag.

And following that, we went to the beach again to get pictures of the family and such.

Wesley and I continued our game of tag while we waited. And for the record, y’all, I’m winning.

Sadly, this morning came the time for them to leave. But we had so much fun these past four days…it was a blast.

Overall, it was an amazing Thanksgiving that will not be forgotten. We all had SO much fun! Time went by way too fast, and already we are looking forward to the next time the Johnsons visit, or vice versa. Thanks so much for coming, Johnson clan! That was an amazing holiday!

I just finished video chatting with two of my awesome friends, Chaise and Savanah. It’s was pretty awesome. I even got to hear Chaise introduce us to Japanese flavored coffee. Oh yes people. It was pretty awesome.

Like a boss.

I also was likened to Brittany Spears. I found this to be interesting. I did have this headset on because my laptop has decided to be dumb and have it’s mic not work, but I personally thought I more resembled the drive-through lady at McDonalds.

Hmm. I’m trying to decide which is more insulting.

Either way, it was awesome.

Before that, Savanah was sharing awesome videos. And when I say awesome, I mean “OHMYGOSH I ALMOST DIED LAUGHING.”

That kind of awesome.

Right now I’m on the back porch. I’m recalling last week when the Johnsons were visiting and we would sit out here in the freezing wind, discussing everything from The Office to Apple products to movies(yep we’re all kinda geeks). And now I’m sitting here psyched because they’re coming AGAIN next Wednesday for Thanksgiving! Woohoo! We haven’t told the boys yet so the only one I can get excited with is my mom. And oh yes. We got excited.

It’s supposed to be in the 80s while they’re here, which is a guarantee that it will be 20 degrees and raining. Err…snowing.

And probably a tornado.

Yes.

Because that’s just how we do things down here in Florid-ia.

Also, Lucy is already doing a great job at getting into my stuff. She is EVERYWHERE. And if I put her down in my room to play piano or read or anything really, she’s getting into my stuff or eating my carpet or trying to tear up my Spanish notes…that little monster.

Cute as a button.

Wait. That wasn’t very nice. Buttons aren’t cute. So really, that’s insulting.

Cute as a chinchilla. In Spain.

Yes.

And she is already beginning her job as a little sister.

Joy.

Dang she is cute…

So anyway. It’s like 10 o’clock. I Am Number Four is waiting upstairs, along with Inheritance. I’ll probably have to submit to the book’s call and go read them here pretty soon.

‘Sides. There’s nothing much more for me to say.

So.

Bye.