Summer's Blog

Flash Program

2007-06-19T17:08:00.000-07:00

This is a flash program I made. its not the final draft because there are still a few jobs to be done on it and some bugs to be fixed. if you dont have flash this might not weork on your computer.

Pumpkins

2006-10-18T20:34:00.000-07:00

This year i carved my pumpkin as a skull. Now for a funny story...... K I was holding the pumpkin by the stem when I was bringing it outside to carve and it broke off the stem and fell down the steps. So I had to carve it on the unbroken side which had a weird growth on it, its a good thing that the picture is so dark and you cant see it because it kind of looked like a buger. Anyway I used glue to stick the pumpkin top back on, but it didn't work that well and im afraid that Mr.Pumpkin is going to be missing his stem until he's made in to pie.

Last years pumpkin was more creative than the skull but it was a lot more messy and i couldnt enter it in any contests. Mr .Barfer was a very yummy pie but was kind of hard to clean off the mess he made on the steps.

We still have like three more pumpkins so I'll probably put up more posts on pumpkins in the next couple of weeks.

GAME OF THIS WEEK

Find the cute little doggie in the picture.
(answer to last post's problem"my little red garbage can")

My New Room

2006-10-11T16:25:00.000-07:00

We are now settled in to "Le Mance" and my room is very pretty in pink. I have pink curtins, a pink carpet, a pink lamp, pink pillow, pink bedsheets, pink bedroom set (well mostly white but pink drawer handels) and I plan to buy a pink and green blanket. Anyway I have the mini Mac set up on my drawing desk so i can play games and watch movies on it but it has no internet so its kind of sucky. My bedroom set has a place for everything so I can keep my room cleaner than ever (which still isnt very clean). I was origionally going to make an I-pad (a white room with I-pod accessories) but the carpet and curtains were already pink so i worked off that. i have enough pink stuff now so i plan to get some green stuff because pink and green are now my favorite colors and one goes with the other perfectly. Anaway that's pretty much all there is to my pink slightly boring room.

GAME OF THE MONTH (or week, or blogpost or whatever)

i spy something that is small red and full of trash............. answer on the comments and you'll win a prise (mabey if i feel like it and have one)

HOLLYWOOD

2006-07-17T01:34:00.000-07:00

Wow! Look who's on the walk of fame (Just kidding). This star actually belongs to Mr. Cruise. I photo shopped his name out and added mine. We went to Los Angeles today. We saw the walk of fame and other attractions. The Hollywood sign was huge; we could see it from really far away. This is a picture of it from the street. The sign is on public property so you’re not allowed to climb the mountain to look at it (probably to stop graffiti and stuff). The walk of fame was pretty cool I didn’t know most of the stars because they were pretty old. This is a picture of me beside Marilyn Monroe’s star. We saw the hand and foot prints of some of the stars beside this huge movie theatre. Most of the women were wearing high heels so they had really strange looking foot prints. C3P0’s footprints were kind of weird this is a picture of them. We drove down sunset boulevard and some of the famous peoples houses (no stars though)

Surf Lessons

2006-07-15T10:19:00.000-07:00

My brothers and I are taking surf lessons every Tuesday and Thursday and there really fun. I can stand up on a surf board now and everything. But, the majority of the time on a surf board is spent paddling. First you have to paddle out to sea over the waves and then when a wave comes we have to paddle really fast to catch it and we usually have to paddle south a lot because we drift north. This is a picture of me riding a wave by the way. The tight black, gray and yellow suit that I’m wearing is called a wet suit. A wet suit is used for keeping people warm in the not so warm water (not that we have to worry about that in San Diego or anything). Anyway now we can leave San Diego with a bit more than a tan and taste for traffic because were surfers! (Not very good ones though)

Summer Debreuil AKA Business Woman

2006-06-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

$$$ I made my first business deal this morning (this is a picture of the item I sold). I varnished this coffee table (that we got for free) and sold it for $40. I put it up on craigslist (an online site where people can buy and sell things) a couple days ago and last night somebody called to buy it and voila i'm rich (at least not broke). It took only half an hour to sand and varnish (by the way thank you grandpa for showing me how to varnish :), it made me 40 bucks). I’m going to buy souvenirs for the Canadian crowd with the money I made. Me and my brothers varnished the legs (grandpa did the top when he visited) of our kitchen table a few days ago as well. We might sell that on craigslist too but my parents kind of want to keep it.

June

2006-06-10T13:53:00.000-07:00

Wow, it’s June already. Schools out in a week, the sun is out, the malls are open, the music’s playing, the beach is…… sandy I guess. Anyway it’s a pretty nice day here in San Diego. The mail just came and we have the quilts that grandma sent.

This is a picture of my quilt on my bed. I love it. It’s nicer in real life than in the picture (that’s saying something). We got the other quilt too, its currently hanging above the couch looking pretty.

This is free and sky…..with air soft guns. Don’t worry, they haven’t been recruited or anything, they got guns for their birthday so they could go to air soft parks with their friends and shoot each other (some friends). They practice in the garage, that’s why their all dressed up now.

Wild Animal Safari

2006-06-06T17:44:00.001-07:00

The wild animal safari is like their zoo without cages. On this particular trip we were on a train going around the park (talk about lazy), and stopping a different animals to see them in their "more natural than the zoo" habitat. I don’t know exactly how long the whole train ride was but seeing how the picture of the rhinos were taken in the day and the picture of the zebras were taken in the evening on the same train ride, I’d admit that it was entirely too long. Most of the animals at the safari (and the zoo) are mostly just different types of genetically modified goats. This is a picture of an elephant’s bedroom. They sleep under it and eat there and stuff. We didnt see the elephants very well because they were a bit far away and behind some trees. The train was long but pretty cool anyway. There also is a hot air baloon that you can ride at the park. We havent gone on it yet but it seems like fun.

Art Portfolio

2006-06-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

This is a blogpost of some of the stuff we did in art this year. this abstract drawing is made of oil pastels. Our teacher said Picasso made paintings like this (probably a bit better though).

This is a tappa cloth
this open took a few classes to make. We ended up drawing the quarter like 10 times. We had to do a rough draft, good draft, outline each quarter in pencil, then in pen, and then finally color it with crayons. We did this all on brown paper bag paper. Then we crumple up and iron it so Th e crayon is soaked in to the paper.

This is a clay piggy bank. We did one of these last semesters. To make it we made an empty sphere out of clay then added on the limbs with extra clay. After it’s fired we paint it and voila a piggy bank (bunny bank)

This is realistic drawing of a flower. We used chalk pastels to color it. We drew off plastic flowers. I outlined the edges darker so it doesn't look really real, but I still got 100% :).

This is the same picture of flowers but I drew it in abstract. I used chalk pastels to color them.

I did a lot more art projects this year and was still doing two more but these were the best ones.

Mission Trails

2006-06-03T11:09:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday we went to Mission Trails Regional Park. It was soooo hot there I felt like jumping in to the river.

This is the waterfall. Well it sort of looks like a broken dam but it was pretty cool.

This is a picture taken from a side trail that was beside the river.

There was rattle snakes at the park. We didn’t see one (luckily), but we passed someone who said they herd one.

It’s kind of cool that there were cougars wandering around the park. They were probably all sleeping in the sun seeing how they are cats.

Though we didn’t see any there were definitely cougars roaming around at night.

San Francisco

2006-04-25T22:00:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we went to San Francisco it was a six hour drive, in the back of the car with Free and Sky fighting. This picture is what I saw most of the way there. I get a headache when I read in the car, so I didn’t have much to do (free kept us entertained by reading out of Sky’s book though (it really makes Sky mad)). Our destination was the Maker Faire in San Francisco (it was like the Corn and Apple, but instead of corn they had robots and instead of apples they had battery powered earrings). We went through Silicon Valley (the heart of technology and computers) on the way to the faire. Anyway, about the maker faire, there was a variety of things there. They had from homemade bicycles to clothes made of duct tape. The faire took place on earth day and the theme was to conserve the environment; this is a picture of one of the events. There was a truck full of propane or something that made the flame. I don’t know how this has to do with the theme earth day, or conserves the environment, but it looked cool so whatever. There were a lot of accessory stands. People made earrings out of guitar pic ks, key chains out of microchips, bags out of old cloth, and other stuff along that line. This is a picture of one of the stands. In one building you paid ten dollars or brought in a bag of clothes and you could use the sewing machines and other people’s clothes to make new outfits. I made some clothes myself. This is a picture of me sewing sleeves for my new, old shirt.

Balboa Park and the Beach

2006-04-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of one of the many buildings in Balboa Park. Our original plan for the day was to eat lunch at Balboa Park then go to the Zoo but we got side tracked after lunch and stayed at the park the whole day because these people were handing out free tickets to some short films that were playing. The films really sucked and it was worse after the films when the directors started preaching about their talent. We didn’t leave right away, (out of politeness and stupidity) but after half an hour of “tips to become a good director” we left. On our way out we saw some people in the back row actually sleeping. Once we escaped and were outside of the small theatre we saw a street magician performing not far away so we decided to watch the show. The magician was pretty good, but it was easy to tell how he did his tricks. There was an art gallery not far from the exit so we stopped by to have a look. Most of the stores were closed because I was pretty late when we got there. We didn’t stay very long, but all of the art we saw was pretty cool. Anyway in other news, yesterday we went to the beach with some of my mom’s friends. The water was pretty cold to swim in so we spent most of the time throwing the football around and making sand castles. We made a trap in the sand with a towel and a hole we made. We made it by covering the big hole we dug with the towel and spreading sand on the towel. After falling in the trap lost its fun we had the problem of putting the sand back in the hole. We didn’t want to bring back all the sand so Sky got in the hole and me and free filled the remaining part with sand.

Current Events

2006-04-03T20:32:00.000-07:00

Well it's been like half a month since I wrote last. I’ve been kind of busy with knitting and school work. And ya, well my mom and I started watching this show "24" and it’s really addicting. There’s like twenty four hours of video in the whole season, including commercials. It’s shocking how they can keep the show on for so long. Apparently there’s like five seasons (?wow!?). In knitting I finished my first scarf and started a second one. I’m using smaller needles for my second one so it might take a while.

I was checking grandma’s blog and my quilt looks really good. I can’t wait to go and get it, it’s really awesome! School is the same as usual. We have spring break next week and there’s a school dance this Thursday. The theme is "pirate" so I got this long pirate like looking skirt. I just grabbed it of the shelf without realizing it was like 10 sizes to big. We might exchange it before the dance; otherwise I’ll just wear a belt or something and not run around so much.

Knitting

2006-03-13T19:21:00.000-08:00

I'm back! Well, i'm back on blogspot anyway. I haven't been writing because Anna, Gramma, and Grandpa were here and we were pretty busy swimming and making fruit con-concoctions (every sweet thing in our house, at the store and on our neighbors orange trees mixed together in a food processor). Anyway, I’ve been knitting a lot because I joined knitting club with my friends at school. I started while Anna, Gramma, and Grandpa were here. Gramma and Anna helped a lot with the scarf, but me and Anna made a lot of mistakes so we had to start over. I’ve been working on the scarf a while now. Yesterday I finished the first ball of yarn . I made the mistake of having 30 stitches on each row so my scarf was really wide and short. i didn't want my scarf to look like Danny DeVito(you know, short and wide) so I tied the end to a new ball of yarn and I’m going to make it double the length with the blue yarn. Anyway, the other news is I got a cat sitting job from one of my mom’s friends and her husband because they're going on vacation. All I have do is feed them everyday and take out the garbage on Wednesdays. They said to stay for a while to keep the cats company (weirdoes, cat's don’t get lonely) except, I just do my homework at their house. There’s a black cat and a white cat, the white ones deaf and mute so I won’t have much to deal with. I’m totally ripping them off money wise because I only have to do it for ten days and I’m getting $$$50 dollars$$$!

Beach

2006-02-16T18:29:00.000-08:00

These are pictures of the beach near our house. The one on the right is a sand castle made out of sand (naturally).you may have wondered why I’m not in the picture (maybe you didn’t; how should I know) but for those of you that wondered I was currently burying myself in sand (that’s just a bit of useless information for my audience). The picture on the right was actually a part of bigger picture that included Free and Sky. I had to crop it because Free was bending over looking like tree stump and Sky looked like a women turtle in a towel (not a pretty sight). Anyway, this is the beach where three certain Canadian visitors (Anna, Grandma, and Grandpa) will be tanning on, starting next Tuesday! Can’t wait!

Pigs

2006-02-05T12:30:00.000-08:00

These two pictures are of the same pig. We were making clay animals in art class at school. Free and sky don't have art class so I showed them how to make them at home. the one on the left is the one free made at home. We made them about three weeks ago. Since then this pig has been through a rough time (as you can see). it turned out looking like this because most of the parts fell off (we didn't fire it). The first thing that fell off was the eyelashes, then the feet, next the eyeball, the nose and finally the ear. Glue was the key to creating this Frankenpig. I lost the eyeball so I used a painted nickel and some black paper. We lost one of the feet so we had to substitute it with the nose, and use a clay hat for the nose. we used an extra bit of clay as the mouth but I put it kind of off center. This is a picture of the clay pig I made at school. I painted it in class and only used the colors black, white and red.

Queen of the Mountain

2006-01-30T21:03:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of me on top of mount San Diego (actually it’s just a mountain in San Diego). We hiked up this mountain (more like rock climbed, it was really steep) with my parent’s friends. There was a lot of fox poop and rattle snake holes on the way up so we had to keep both eyes on the ground instead of watching the scenery. After we got back to the car we went to an her Indian restaurant. The food was good, but in San Diego (away from the potato eaters) when they say spicy, they mean spicy. This is a picture of the bracelet Carm sent me. I love the flowers on it and the rocks are so cute. We aren’t allowed to wear chains in school, but I think I can get away with wearing this. Our report cards are coming any day now (they send them in the mail), but I already know most of my grades because we can check them online. I got a haircut a few days ago so this is a picture of the shorter haired me. My mom got her hair cut to and the hair dressers psyched us in to buying all this hair stuff so we ended up spending like $70 (wow!).

Sea World

2006-01-29T20:33:00.000-08:00

We went to Sea World today. We went to three shows: a dolphin one, a sea lion one, and of coarse the legendary Shamu. The dolphin show was amazing one of the dolphins jumped like 20 feet! The trainers trained the dolphins to splash the people in the stadium, but we didn't get to wet because we were sitting further back. The sea lion show was made in to a play (with people acting) because sea lions aren't that interesting to watch in their natural habitat (aka their lazy). The (human) actors in the show were horrible, the sea lions actually looked professional and intelligent next them(that's saying something).
The best thing there, without a doubt, was the roller coaster. It got me wet because I was in the front, but at the speed we were going most of the water flew off me on to the people behind us. We haven't tried all the rides yet so I don't know which one will be the best, but I'll bet six flags will have some roller coasters to top this one!

Boring

2006-01-26T10:28:00.000-08:00

As you can see I haven't written on my blog for a few days now due to the fact that we've been watching movies every night, I’ve also been lazy. Yesterday was the last day of the semester and we have like four days off so I’ll have lots of time to update my blog. The only thing wrong is on days like today there's nothing to write about. My dads at work with the car so we can’t go anywhere far, Free’s sleeping so we can’t even leave the house. This sucks because Sky's driving me crazy with his attempts to whistle and my mom's whining and complaining about the mess we make.
If we want to go any further than a mile we have to travel as the family circus. We’d have Sky biking, Free skate boarding, me rollerblading and mom struggling to keep up as the jogger, because she isn’t too talented on wheels. Free and Sky's friends are coming over so I’ll probably go upstairs and watch more movies.

Hoodwinked

2006-01-22T22:03:00.000-08:00

Today we watched the movie Hoodwinked. Its was a bit boring at the start but it got better and better towards the end. My favorite character was the squirrel, he was so funny.
We are kind of over stocked on movies at the moment. It started last night when we were going to see Hoodwinked (the movie we just saw) with Kevin and Liz (my mom and dad's friends). We missed it because we thought it started later than it actually did (dad read what time the movie was showing at the wrong movie theatre) . We still wanted to see a movie so we went to a video store to rent one. We couldn't decide on one paticular movie so we ended up getting like four. Dad felt guilty about us missing the movie so we went to see it tonight.
Just when we were thinking about all the movies we watched and were going to watch in a matter of days we remembered that two of our netflix movies come tomorrow. So yah were going to be watching a lot of movies.

Joke Game and Diet Plan

2006-01-21T20:57:00.000-08:00

last night we were playing rummy and making really random jokes so we decided to make a joke game. How you play the joke game is choose a topic and make a joke. We usually don't get very funny jokes because half the time the jokes being made as their being said. So a lot of them have things like um, then, like, and so on. Its hard to think of a joke when you don't have much time so the jokes start to be funnier as they're lamer. Its a fun game though, especially if your hyper.
The diet plan is the idea we had. Everybody likes a diet where you can eat all you want, and this diet lets you do that. The diet involves a cork that opens every 48 hours. This is only a semi perfect diet -- one of the many problems is we can't think of a appropriate name. We thought of a few like the "pure pressure diet", "the blocker stopper", "air tight"..... It goes on, but we haven't found a perfect one yet so leave a comment with you're ideas. Who knows you could become famous (don't get your hopes up though).

Caramel Valley Middle School

2006-01-20T19:19:00.000-08:00

this is a picture of my school. Its a outdoor school. This school is a lot harder than Miami school and the teachers are more strict. Apparently the math is really hard in Free and Sky's classes but I'm in a really easy math class. The teachers love to give out lots of homework but this week I haven't got much (its the last week of the semester). The school drama teacher is directing a Shakespeare play (twelfth night) and auditions are next week. To audition you need to read three or four verses from a different Shakespeare play.
Free,sky and Dad are playing unreal at the moment and dad is pwning free and Sky.....Not! Sky hasn't lost yet and this is like their fifth game.

San Diego

2006-01-19T19:50:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of San Diego Zoo. As you see I have a picture of a calm bird rather than a man eating (finger biting) duck. This bird is actually standing about ten feet away from this giant crocodile. Going to the zoo isn’t bad but after you go once the novelty kind of wears off. You’d think that living in California would be fun and exciting but there’s surprisingly not that much to do. Everything is either a huge rip off or just boring. Every weekend we spend like an hour deciding what to do. There’s a few things we haven’t done like go to six flags (a ginormous roller coaster park) but were waiting for a perfect weekend. Or maybe for when grandma, grandpa, and Anna come. San Diego is probably a lot more fun if you’re on vacation I guess is more a tourist place. But apparently in the summer the beach water gets heated up and that’ll be so awesome.

DAILY AGENDA! (sunday edition)

2006-01-18T19:43:00.000-08:00

10:00--WAKE UP
10:30--EAT BREAKFAST
11:10--ARGUE ABOUT WHERE TO GO
11:30--GET IN CAR
11:35--STOP FOR GAS
11:36--TURN AROUND CAR(dad forgot which side gas tank was on)
11:45--DAD GETS HECK FROM MOM
11:55--GET TO BEACH
12:15--GET TO SANDY, WET, AND COLD(itchy)
12:16--EVERYBODY COMPLAINS, SKY IS HUNGARY(naturally)
12:30--GO TO TACO BELL
1:30--GO TO FRY'S (an electronic store, very boring)
2:10--GO SHOPPING
2:30--JAPANESE BOOKSTORE(fun fun fun.......Not!!!)
4:00--GO HOME
4:30--ORDER PAPA JOHN'S PIZZA(yummy)
5:10--WRITE ON BLOG
5:50--WATCH MOVIE
7:30--PLAY RUMMY
9:30--GO TO SLEEP

Mimi

2006-01-16T21:44:00.000-08:00

This is Mimi. His life revolves around eating, sleeping and scratching. I got him a year after I got Simba, Simba usually attacks every animal that came on our farm, he tried to chase and attack Mimi to but after having a few meals taken away from him and getting hit a few times he got the idea that chasing Mimi was bad. After this, instead of attacking Mimi he just tried to be cuter than Mimi to get attention. Mimi’s ideal day would be to jump on to the counter, eat all our supper, sharpen his claws on innocent arms and legs then sleep for like 20 hours. When we went to school Mimi would spend the day soaking up sunlight and shedding hair all over my bed (he sheds hair more in a concentrated spot because he rarely ever moves).

King Kong Sucks

2006-01-16T18:49:00.000-08:00

the other day we went to see the movie King Kong. This movie had good special effects, but sadly had the same director as lord of the rings. Every scene went on and on and half the time nobody was even speaking, there was seriously 200 close ups on the ugly chimpanzee face. To add to the bad movie there was a person a few rows up wearing way to much of this manure smelling perfume. Before we went to the movie we went to the wild animal safari so we had a look at the modern animals then the Jurassic animals. We saw this huge lion that gave everybody a look as if he was about to pounce and eat us all. After visiting the lion we saw the elephants then I bought some duck food to feed the ducks that were out of the water. There were a few big ones that practicality attacked me for the food and bit my fingers when I tried to give the food to them.

Japan

2006-01-15T09:35:00.000-08:00

this is a picture of a palace in Japan. we took this picture when we were visiting on spring break. There are more people on the trains than there are driving. Cars in Japan can be used for eight years then they have to be crushed. My moms side of the family all live in Japan. I lived in there for a few years but I don't remember it, we left when I was like three. Now whenever we visit we get really spoiled, and the best thing is, my grandparents there live right beside a candy shop. we usually sleep on the tatami under layers and layers of thick heavy blankets. In Japan the baths are so huge and deep and they also have shower toilets (self explanatory). They live not to far from this empty lot so every time we visit we get chalk and tennis balls and play four square. We visit about once every year or two.

Simba

2006-01-14T17:11:00.000-08:00

meet simba. He's almost as dumb as he looks (that's saying something) but that doesn't stop him from being cute. This is a picture of him when he was about six months old. At this stage of his life, his goal was to destroy all of our possessions. In a few years we have managed to teach him how to sit and pull a sled. Pulling a sled doesn't really count because most of the time he's just chasing a bird or something and dragging whatever's attached to him. We tried to get him to master not craping and vomiting all over our house, but finally gave up and kept him outside. At one point we weren't coordinated about taking turns to feed him and he ended up having about seven meals a day. I guess this was better than the alternative but that didn't stop him from gaining 20 pounds that month. The vet said he had to go on a diet, that was not a good day for simba. Now that we moved to California he's staying at our grandparents house. They say he's doing fine except for his nasty habit of jumping on people and stealing their hats.

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