I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I went to Ocala Palms again this year to visit my great aunt. I didn't really do anything besides playing Harvest Moon DS Cute and going on the laptop for tips and tricks on Harvest Moon DS Cute. Sure, call me obssessed. I'll tell you, HM DS Cute is SOOOO addicting...
Anyway, on Wednesday, I assisted my mom in preparing the feast. There was delicious turkey (it was put in the stove upside-down before the mistake was realized), amazing cranberry sauce made from scratch (the raspberry vinegar smelled awful and I didn't like the scented tree bark. Most people call that dried cinnamon), favorsome mashed potatoes (...nothing to complain about there. It was actually pretty good) and rich pecan pie made from scratch (a little too rich though).
When we got there, I kicked back and played Cute (after the usual greetings and how-are-you-doing's, of course) until my mom yelled at me to set the table. The table was out on the back patio inside the mosquito net. It was boiling hot outside! I didn't feel like eating out in the heat, but I didn't want to get murdered for eating inside unlike everybody else. I had to go get the tablecloth, napkins, and fancy silverware. No cornucopia. It was a tiny basket filled with red, orange, and yellow leaves, pumpkins, squash, acorns, pine cones, all those fall and Thanksgiving stuff. I put two candles on either side and set the table, making sure to fold the napkins so that it looks like a green triangular crepe with a fork on top of it. Then I went inside and found my mom trying to make the gravy. She told me to pour the white powdery mix into the pot when it boils. I did as she asked, but the "gravy" didn't look edible. It was grayish lumps in a pot. After that failed attempt, I went out to the can storage counter and found a can of gravy. So the turkey was saved from dryness. Thanks to me!!!!
.......Ok, so my mom told me to find a can of gravy in the first place.
I still found it.
The actual dinner started after the many failed attempts to light the candles. The only matches that were in the house were the old fashioned ones inside the paper packet. To ignite it, one have to tear off a tiny splinter of a match and strike that against the strip of rough paper attached to the outside of the packet. Five broken matches later (those things are so fragile!!!), my great aunt got one to light up. But we couldn't do it a second time, so we just caught fire to one of the broken matches and used that to light the other candle.
Candles and matches aside, the feast went great foodwise. I was so stuffed I had to go lie down on the bed afterwards. While I was resting, I, of course, played Cute.
Time flew by, and before I knew it, night arrived. I had trouble falling asleep because there was a sensor in the guest bedroom that keeps making these clacking noises.
I overslept the next morning. Woke up at nine. That's very late for me, considering I usually wake up two hours earlier than that. I spent my morning playing Cute and researching for mining tips, and for most of the afternoon, I watched TV. When it was time to go back to Tallahassee, I played Cute on the car ride home.
...Obssessed with HM DS Cute...
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
A blog where I tell you about my life (I know, could get boring, so I pick out specific events which I think most people won't fall asleep reading)
Posts On My Life; The Ones Interesting Enough To Be On This Blog, That Is
There's a lot of cool widgets and posts on here. I'll be updating from time to time on things that I've done, or updates on holidays or events. I also have an awesome blog list with my older blog, my friend's blog, and Harvest Moon Forever blog. I'm a big fan of Harvest Moon! You can post comments and rate my articles on its awesomeness level, too. Anybody can comment, you don't have to sign in to your email because I find that annoying. Oh, and don't forget to feed the fish at the bottom!
About Me
- Melisa
- I play the violin, and I am on a swim team. I can also ride a unicycle, and I'm on the math team and chess club at school. I like to spend time with my friends, and I try to be responsible, but I'm on the verge of a breakdown from excessive homework. I try to update my blog when I can, but like I said, my homework is bringing me down. But during summer break, expect me to post more. Or I might be lazy. Or busy from other things.
Notes
Things You Need To Keep In Mind:
-If you want to complain, complain silently or to yourself or like-minded others. Complaining all over the place can get you shunned by peers, or in trouble with the teachers.
-Don't put your phone inside your backpack. Get a little pocket to stick onto a shoulder strap. Otherwise, you'll just spend 20 minutes walking all over the school looking for it when it was buried under your books the whole time. I still can't believe I didn't see it at the bottom of my backpack.
-Getting hit in the face with a soccer ball hurts more than a basketball. Unless someone is passing it to you straightforward and you weren't looking, then it hurts more. Also, if you have glasses, make sure to keep them on so you can see while playing, but also be careful not to get them dented by getting hit in the face with a basketball.
-ALWAYS stay at least 10 feet away from a batter at full swing. Trust me, I almost got hit in the face with a baseball bat because the batter was standing right next to me.
-Don't put your books or binders under the rails of middle school chairs. You'll just end up forgetting them later. I forgot my binder under those chairs about 4 or 5 times during my first year of middle school.
-If you have a school library book and you finish it two weeks after checking it out, don't shove it into your backpack and finally remember to return it 4 months later. Never done that before, but it happened to my one of my friends.
-NEVER mess around with settings on the computer that you will have the slightest chance of regret later when your parents find out. Learned that when my parents almost killed me this one time when I was messing around and changed some of the computer settings. :P I mean, can you really get THAT mad at somebody for altering the default font?
-Having everything essential to success with you at school is great, but the back pain is torture afterwards. I suggest you leave your 600 page workbook at school on the cheap shelf provided. Even though that shelf collapsed after a few days...
-If the school lunch looks remotely suspicious, probably safest to not eat it. I bit into an icy sandwich once. Irony, it claims it was oven roasted. Yeah right.
-Try not to judge people. I thought this one kid in my class was bad, but I ended up thanking him later for saving my friend and I from trouble. For once, he was good for something: me.
-If you want to complain, complain silently or to yourself or like-minded others. Complaining all over the place can get you shunned by peers, or in trouble with the teachers.
-Don't put your phone inside your backpack. Get a little pocket to stick onto a shoulder strap. Otherwise, you'll just spend 20 minutes walking all over the school looking for it when it was buried under your books the whole time. I still can't believe I didn't see it at the bottom of my backpack.
-Getting hit in the face with a soccer ball hurts more than a basketball. Unless someone is passing it to you straightforward and you weren't looking, then it hurts more. Also, if you have glasses, make sure to keep them on so you can see while playing, but also be careful not to get them dented by getting hit in the face with a basketball.
-ALWAYS stay at least 10 feet away from a batter at full swing. Trust me, I almost got hit in the face with a baseball bat because the batter was standing right next to me.
-Don't put your books or binders under the rails of middle school chairs. You'll just end up forgetting them later. I forgot my binder under those chairs about 4 or 5 times during my first year of middle school.
-If you have a school library book and you finish it two weeks after checking it out, don't shove it into your backpack and finally remember to return it 4 months later. Never done that before, but it happened to my one of my friends.
-NEVER mess around with settings on the computer that you will have the slightest chance of regret later when your parents find out. Learned that when my parents almost killed me this one time when I was messing around and changed some of the computer settings. :P I mean, can you really get THAT mad at somebody for altering the default font?
-Having everything essential to success with you at school is great, but the back pain is torture afterwards. I suggest you leave your 600 page workbook at school on the cheap shelf provided. Even though that shelf collapsed after a few days...
-If the school lunch looks remotely suspicious, probably safest to not eat it. I bit into an icy sandwich once. Irony, it claims it was oven roasted. Yeah right.
-Try not to judge people. I thought this one kid in my class was bad, but I ended up thanking him later for saving my friend and I from trouble. For once, he was good for something: me.
