Here is a survey you should take
A) Name: Beatrice!
B) Appearance: I have shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes and my skin is kind of a tan color
C) 3 Favorite Colors: Yellow, Red, and Green
D) 3 Primary Interests: Entymology, robots & dinosaurs, photography
E) 3 Favorite Clothing Items: My orange dress, my red sneakers, my colonial costume
F) 3 Favorite Toys/Books/&c: my red robot, my digital camera, my candlestick telephone
G) If you were a plant, what kind of plant would it be? I would be a palm tree! because they're really crazy looking and they grow near the beach and everybody likes them
H) What is your favorite animal? probably iguanas
I) If you had $100, how would you spend it? I would get an ant farm first because I've always wanted one and then I'd get a cool microscope. I guess I wouldn't have much money after getting a microscope, if I could get a good one for less than $100.


Okay, someone else wanted to do it, too. So.
A) Name: Marelise
B) Appearance: I'm kind of short. I have reddish hair and greenish eyes, too
C) 3 Favorite Colors: Purple, dark pink, blue
D) 3 Primary Interests: theatre, history, fashion
E) 3 Favorite Clothing Items: my black jacket, blue sneakers, and my plaid skirt
F) 3 Favorite Toys/Books/&c: my favorite book right now is "A Great and Terrible Beauty" uhm I guess I also like my new bag I made myself and my skateboard
G) If you were a plant, what kind of plant would it be? you know those fuzzy cat-tail reeds by ponds? one of those
H) What is your favorite animal? cats!
I) If you had $100, how would you spend it? I'd probably spend it all at the bookstore or JoAnn's!

Today is the first day of WINTER BREAK. YAY!

It's Thursday which is weird, but school is always weird. But no school for three weeks! Almost three weeks. YAY! Except I have to do a book report for when I go back which sucks. Who wants to do homework on vacation? Teachers are dumb. I have to read a book by e.l.konisburg, or something. It's called THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS BASIL E FRANKWEILER. It's really hard to spell the last part, so maybe I got it wrong. Everyone in my class has to read a book by someone who wrote it who lived in Florida and Mrs Koenisgburg lives in Ponte Vedra Beach! That's like twenty minutes from here! My friend Alicia is reading THE YEARLING. I think my book is better because it has mystery and stuff and it's not as long. But it still stinks that we have to read books over vacation!


Today I got up early and went outside to play and I rollerskated and pretended I was ice skating and it was fun except roller skates have four wheels so it's not the same. Then I came inside because it was really hot outside and I got to eat spinach and mushroom pizza ON THE COUCH while I watched a movie. It was called MEET THE ROBINSONS and it was really funny. It was weird that Wilbur was Lewis's son, though. And the villain was really funny - he had a binder that looked like a Lisa Frank binder, with a sparkly unicorn on the front. I don't think I'm going to let Keri watch it though because she'll go crazy about how the time traveling didn't make any sense. But I bet she'd like the part with the singing frogs. I just can't ever let her watch anything with time travel because she's so weird about it.


Sunday is Keri's sister's graduation from college but I can't go because the cars are too full so I'm going to my friend Alicia's house to spend the night. I'm so excited it's the first sleepover I'm going to that isn't at my house! It was so much fun with Kaya and Nora were here and we played games and ate popcorn and watched football! Me and Alicia, we're going to watch Christmas movies and make cookies and brownies and fudge lollies. It's going to be fun!

We decorated the tree for giftmas this weekend. I got to help but Keri had to take a picture. This year we have a BIG tree instead of the tiny one from last year. It's also fake, which stinks because it doesn't smell. Who likes trees without tree-stink? (Keri, that's who! I told you she's a party pooper!)

There's already one present under the tree but I don't know who it's for because there isn't a tag. It's bigger then me so I can't look inside it either. I hope it's got a Jayne Cobb t-shirt in it. That's what I want for Giftmas this year!

It looks like this and has the BLUE SUN logo on it:



Only I want sleeves on mine and I don't want to have a cut on my chest that makes it all bloody. I hope I get a hat, too. I have my yellow one but it's not the same thing. And it's going to have sparkly stars on it so its definitely not the same thing!


Okay it's bedtime and Keri wants me to leave so she can play Kingdom of BORING again. That's all she does lately. BORING.

BYE.

I'm so bored! Keri's going to a wedding right now but she says I can't come too. She said it'd be boring but I've never been to a wedding before, so maybe it's not! And then she said that I'd have to get dressed up all fancy, and I wouldn't like it. I've dressed up fancy before! I can wear my red dress or my pink one, right? But then she said it's a grown-up thing and really dolls wouldn't have fun. I think she's lying. There's cake and ice cream and dancing at weddings, right? And lots of people to play with and talk to? I bet I'd like it!

But she wouldn't let me go, because she's a party pooper. She said she probably won't even stay very long - and the girl getting married is someone she's known for EIGHTEEN YEARS. Really! They were in kindergarten together, and then they worked together last year. I met her once. Her name's Jess or something.

Keri looked all funny getting ready, though. She never wears high heels or makeup, so it was funny watching her try to get her dress on while wearing the shoes and then she squinted in the mirror when she tried to put on mascara (except she missed and got a black streak all over her cheek and she had to start over!) And then she cursed a lot, but not stuff like "crackers" or "fudge monkeys" but real bad words because she had to put on a bra that held itself up without straps or anything and you could see it through her dress ebcause it was the wrong color.

Okay, maybe staying home from the wedding isn't so bad if I get to watch Keri get ready like that! It was A++++++ entertanement!

Wow, according to the blogger thing, my last post was 14 weeks ago! That's like five months! I think. How do you figure out weeks and months when some months have different amounts of weeks from other months?


Anyway, it's FOURTH OF JULY! I woke Keri up this morning by jumping on the bed and she tried to hit me to make me go away, but I wouldn't let her! Fourth of July is AWESOME. And do you know why? Because there's FIREWORKS and HOT DOGS and ICE CREAM and MORE FIREWORKS! Also, if this were the school year, there wouldn't be any school.

I tried to get Keri to go to the pool today because it's HOT but not as hot as last week which is good and then maybe we could go downtown to Metro Park and see the fireworks or maybe to the BEACH to see fireworks, but she told me she was going to spray me with glue and stick me on her mat-board! She's SUCH a party pooper!


Okay, she was reading over my shoulder just now and said that she isn't a party pooper, she just hates parties. WELL, ISN'T THAT WHAT A PARTY POOPER IS???? Oh and she says she had to go to work today at NINE A M and she had to work last night until TEN P M so she gets to be grumpy. Whatever! It's the day for celebrating our nation's revolt against King George and being all free and stuff. HOORAY. America is awesome!


I'm really glad it's sunshiney today! It's been raining and storming all week, and it's even more boring when it's raining because then I can't even play in the backyard. I'm also glad that I'm at Keri's house today! I stayed with her dad and stepmomma last weekend and there was this REALLY REALLY BAD thunderstorm on Sunday. It was sooo bad that the sky turned all black and it lightninged and thundered for at least an hour and a half. And Keri's dog Sport is NURROTIC! He kept going crazy because of the noise and lights and was trying to dig into the carpet to hide or something! He's so weird. Keri says he does the same thing at fireworks, so I'm glad I'm not there today!


Okay, it's almost time for HOT DOGS! I've got my new RED WHITE AND BLUE clothes on, so I'm all FOURTH OF JULY girl now!

Here's all the stuff I got for ST Nicholaus day and Giftmas and my birthday. I guess I have to do it since Keri won't because she's a lazy bum. Thank you everyone who sent me gifts and stuff!


( St Nicholaus Day )

( Giftmas Loot )

( Birthday Stuff )</center>


Okay, that's all the pictures I have!

It's myyyy birthday!!! My birthday my birthday my birthday my birthday myyy biiirthdaaaaaayyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I am ELEVEN years old now!!!! I hope I get good presents! I asked for: more cars, an ant farm, the Firefly dvds I still don't have, and my own watch. We'll see what Keri gets me!!! She's come home with shopping bags twice now in the last few days and she keeps going out to the family room to do stuff and not taking me with her! I bet she got things for me!!! Afterall, one bag is from the Disney Store and I LOVE Disney stuff, even if the other bag is from Aldo and she says they're her new shoes. But she can't buy shoes for herself without getting something for me, right??

Too bad she has to work the closing shift tomorrow afternoon and won't be home until eleven (that's how old I am!!!) at night. We're going to have my party on Friday instead. I picked out Fort Caroline so that's where we're going to go! We're going to have yellow cakes with chocolate frosting and sprinkles and fried chicken and macaroni and cheese and green beans and sweet tea for our picnic! (Okay, we're getting the food from Publix and KFC, but that's because Keri's been sick and doesn't think she can cook all that for us.) Keri's momma might even go with us! And if the weather's bad on Friday we can go on Saturday or Sunday because Keri has the WHOLE WEEKEND off to play with me and take me places!!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEEEE!!!!!

Keri and I have been playing at Virtual NES these last few days and it's so cool! I wish we had a Nintendo system - Keri told me that she had one when she was in high school, at least ten years after they came out (blah blah blah she makes it sound like she grew up walking in the snow uphill both ways to school before dawn or something). Anyway, she says it's more fun with a controller than with a keyboard. I bet it'd be easier for me to get the little Mario man to move!



Anyway, I have a story to tell you about my day!



Mini Kit, Mini Kaya, and I were playing Monster Truck Rally^tm. Kaya and Kit had a lot of fun being part of the jump! This is when Blue Lightning was doing his triple flip jump. He got pretty high up in the air. The crowd cheered!

( The rest of the story! )


Also, I have an LJ icon finally! YAY!

Our secret santa package arrived the other day and we finally took the photos today and it was sooo dumb because I had to go slow so the pictures could actually take, and Keri kept making them fuzzy, but here I am!

We wanted to take them during the daytime, because it's easier to edit the photos to look nice then, but it was dusk and quickly getting darker. Oh well. Time to open presents!



I look absolutely adorable in this photo, don't I? I picked out the shirt myself from PeppermintSticks. It looks really good on me. I hate those flower barettes, but Keri put them in anyway. Said it was cute. Pfbbbt.

You don't like opening slowly, do you? ( Neither do I! )

I've been grounded all month because I accidently broke the wineglass and got chocolate all over my clothes on St Nicholaus Eve and I wasn't allowed to touch Esme-the-Laptop, but since it's today, my punishment is over. YAY!

Okay, so tonight is when "santa claus" comes to visit. Keri doesn't do Christmas and she hates Giftmas, too, except for the gimme part, because her family sucks. I was there when it happened today and it wasn't very nice, but Keri has to stop being such a wetrag. Christmas is great! We get all sorts of goodies and, okay, so there is a mailman in the family, right? FREE BAKED GOODS ALL MONTH. True story, 100%!

Sometimes the brownies have weird nuts on them and the cookies are gross, but they're FREE. And that means I can eat them. Some doctor office gave Keri's step dad a weird chocolate, and everyone laughed about it but wouldn't tell me why. They said it was a pill thing for adults and I shouldn't worry. But why would that be funny?


Anyway, "santa claus" (and I'm ELEVEN so I know the truth, okay? but that doesn't mean I can't get excited) is coming tonight so I have to make up the list so he knows what to leave me. We never do it in advance, because he already knows, right? Only isn't it kind of weird to have some fat guy reading your mind?

But here is my giftmas list so he doesn't forget:

1. Pet iguana. Those things are SO COOL. The only thing cooler is a cameleon and I would name it Rainbow because cameleons change color. But an iguana is better because they scare people! Keri says if I want a lizard that bad I can go out on our front walk and play godzilla and make all the lizards go running and capture one, but garden lizards are dumb.

2. Firefly boxed set. SOMEBODY didn't ask for it for me so I have to ask for it myself. I'm tired of having to borrow Keri's brother's set, and Serenity just isn't as good as the series, I don't care what she says! She did buy me the comic book, though I'm not supposed to know. Like it's that hard to hide her laptop from me when I'm sitting RIGHT NEXT TO HER.

3. A new star necklace. She promised me one, and then she said she lost it but I don't think she got it at all because she's cheap. And she said she got me a snowflake one, but then I saw her wearing it, so I think she lied to me.

4. a robe. I want a yellow one with bumblebee pockets. I'm tired of going around in my nightgown all day because Keri forgets to open my trunk for me to change my clothes. At least give me a robe! Some people don't care, but others of us have modesty, you know.

5. I want this mug http://www.cafepress.com/orisinal.3151647 but in my size because BUBBLE BEE is my favorite game ever. I like bees, did you know? It's because of my nickname BEA. MAKES SENSE, RITE?

6. MY OWN ROOM. Okay I know that's really expensive and Keri has to buy a car now because she wrecked her other one (she's a really bad driver. I make sure I always buckle my seatbelt when I'm riding with her) so I won't get one probably, but I need some privacy. A girl just can't be expected to share every single minute with someone else! It's just weird!



Okay I have pictures to share but I have to do it later because SOMEONE is too busy working on that shoe site. Shoes are dumb. Keri doesn't even like to wear them, but she is making a site about them.

I really need to get someone else here before I go crazy with her. She's already crazy, there don't need to be TWO OF US like that!!


BYE FOR NOW.

Yesterday the box came with my new glasses. I don't know why Keri bought them, because I'm not a nerdy four-eyes like she is. I bet she's doing that misery loves company thing. I don't believe her when she says she likes her glasses. I mean, they're RED. Who wears red glasses? Sooo tacky. She's probably going to make me wear those things for pictures and stuff, and I don't even need vishion correction.


Okay, I have to share the photos of Sport now, because I said I would and Keri wouldn't let me on the computer while she was sick, because she didn't want to spread jerms until she could clean everything first. Well, she's STILL sick, but not contagious or anything. I'm so tired of hearing her sniffle and snore because of it. I need some doll-sized earplugs!




Okay, this is when I first saw Sport. I thought, WHOA, bigger dog than I expected! He looks so small in the photos on Keri's desk and dresser.



He's pretty soft-looking, though, so I thought about giving him a hug. He's kind of weary looking, see? Maybe he's thinking "oh no, what is that doll doing? should I be here like this?"



Well, he didn't move, so I went in for the hug. Sport's such a sweet dog! Except he kept putting his nose all over me and I think he tried to eat my hair.



I'm not edible. I guess you knew that, but when Sport found out, he was all "Sigh. Just another person, er, doll to be obnoxious to me." He makes a nice cushion to lean on.



Yup, veeerrry comfy. Hmm, maybe I should have worried about dog hair on my clothes. I'm wearing dark jeans and a white jacket, afterall, and Keri made me wear my nice pink dress, well, it's a tunic. Too short for a dress.



Ack! No! Dog slobber!!!



Nah, he just wanted to sniff me again. I got out of there quick, though. I didn't want to be slobbered on. I think in this picture, he's hoping that the door opened or something. See, we were in the dog room which is also the laundry room, and he doesn't like hanging out there much 'cause there's not much to sniff or slobber on, except Lacey. Lacey doesn't like having her picture taken.



See? Sport got bored, so I sat down. We WERE having a staring contest, but he moves too quick for the camera to catch the good shots. Oh well. You can see Lacey's leg at the top of the shot there. She's smaller and white. She doesn't like me, so I guess I don't like her!



That's all for now. Don't expect to see a photo of me in the glasses because we're NOT DOING ONE. And if we do, it's UNDER DRESSED! Uhm, I mean under duress, I think. Maybe. STILL. UNDERDRESSED.

One of the cool things about having a livejournal instead of using Keri's blog is that I don't have to make my pictures go in time-order. Besides, I can tell the truth instead of what SHE says. (Unless I get edited.)

So tonight is halloween, but I'm not allowed to do anything because Keri's working and her momma and stepdad are out, so I have to hand out candy. You wouldn't believe how many kids came by! I was really starting to ache from having to jump up and down to reach the doorknob so I could give out the candy.

But then everyone went home and I decided to recuperate. This is how Keri found me:



Whatever she says, I was NOT RAIDING THE CANDY BOWL. HONEST! I was just checking to see how much was left. I know she likes Reese's best, and I wanted to save them for her.




Look at this face. Can you believe that someone as cute and sweet and HONEST as me would eat candy without permission? No, don't look at the chocolate smears. I SAID DON'T LOOK AT THE CHOCOLATE ON MY FACE.



GREAT. THE JIG IS UP. Well, actually, that's me being surprised when Keri told me I had chocolate on my face. "No way!" I said. "I haven't touched it. Any of it! At all! Not even when I opened the door and put it in the sacks. NOT EVEN THEN."



Keri took this photo to prove how few pieces of candy were left in the bowl. I promise, we just had a lot of kids come by, that's all!



Oops, I forgot about the wrappers on the table. BUT you can't use those to misalign me!!! (ed: Beatrice means 'malign,' I think) HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY AREN'T PICKED UP FROM THE FRONT WALK???

Okay, so I don't go out there. The lizards are scary. BUT STILL. INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.

HI! Keri finally cleaned out her old RPG journal for me, kind of. The icons don't match right, not yet. So you get a big picture of me in this entry instead! Does it look okay? I'm afraid I look like one of those eager beaver private school girls. :(

And I helped pick out the journal's look - Liz made it at thefulcrum. I'm going to make it yellow as soon as Keri shows me how, though, because my favorite colors are yellow and green. Which reminds me: why don't they make as many clothes for dolls in yellow and green?


Anyway, I guess I'm going to copy over the photostories that Keri puts up on her blog here, so that it's easier to find them for the LJ crowd - Keri says commenting is a pain, but That Board won't come to LJ so she had to copromise. I don't really care, 'cause I'm not really a computer person, except when I'm watching over Keri's shoulder, or visiting americangirl.com to play the games or add new clothes to our registry (but don't tell Keri - I keep hoping she won't see some of the listings I made and remove them before anyone else sees them).


I have my very own photostory to share soon. I used the timer and continuous photos function on Keri's camera. She's going to help me upload them, and then I'll post them. Her dog is really weird.