Hello 2011, Goodbye 2010

This weekend and holiday season has been very very very VERY busy!! I'm sitting her writing this blog post, tired beyond belief, because I just got back from babysitting. Yes, it's a little past midnight, but whatever ;) So I really need this key on my laptop, don't you think?

So I'm not like this, while I'm writing this blog post

Okay, so my weekend you ask?

We'll start on Wednesday, I was at work and finished working at 3:00. Mom then picked me up and we drove down to CT, so I can go to the Cheesecake Factory and see Yogi Bear in West Hartford with my old Girl Scout troop :) I got a Carlton Salad, without chicken, which was the best salad I've ever had! I had a Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake, which was really good also :) Now, our waitress was the slowest waitress known to man. We got seated around 11:45, and we didn't leave by 1:14 and we didn't even eat our cheesecake, we had to order it to go!

Yogi Bear, was the cutest movie ever! I absolutely loved it!! Having it in 3D was pretty awesome also, but I still don't like the whole fact of having to pay the extra $2 for 3D, but it was worth it!!

When I got home from the whole day with my troop, we had a respite for the weekend. Her name is N, and she's really awesome!

Friday!!!



New Years Eve, which in my mind means PARTAYYYYY!! Okay, so my party consisted of burning potstickers, drinking sparkaling cider, sitting above the garage watching Dick Clark's Rockin New Years Eve, and feel bad for not having a party to attend. Yeah, that's a nice wonderful night, don't ya think? Well N and I spent the night watching TV, talking, and drinking.

Yes I stayed up all night and accomplished it :D

Saturday aka today! The first day of 2011, I just want to state that I'm so glad that 2010 is over, my life all last year was an emotional rollercoaster, and man did I want to get off!!! So I had a babysitting job Saturday night to watched H, the cutest boy possible!! So I wathced him until 11pm and his parents gave me a car ride home, and now I'm writing this blog post practically asleep on the laptop.

The only thing that is keeping me up right now would be this (just infront of my laptop).

So good riddance to 2010 and hello 2011!!

Cae

Waking Mom and Dad Up

Every child dreams of getting up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning, waking thier parents up, and then ripping open the presents! The 25 days before Christmas, the average child plots on how to wake their parents up, should it just be the simple "Mom, wake up" or should it be as compleax as making breakfast and bringing it up to them to wake them up!

Yesterday I topped every plan that a teenager could even plan on doing. Well on Christmas Eve, I stated that I wanted to open the presents up the second everyone was up, or when the first person was up! My mom said that it would be after eight, and I grumbled, but whatever. Dad then said "When you get up at 6:30, you can clean out the wood stove, start a fire in it, start the coffee, start the fire in the living room, and then start the bacon for breakfast. That should keep you busy until eight or nine." I grumbled again, what teen wants to do all of that? Being the nice daughter I am, and the fact that it was Christmas morning. I got up and started on the wood stove. I cleanned out the stove, and then I started the new one. Brought some wood in, and it was all good. I then started the coffee, that was easy, no big deal. Then came the building a fire in the living room. So I started on the fire in the living room, all was going well, and I was running ahead of schedule! It was only 7:45/8!! So I did everything, put the paper and cardboard under and around the wood, and light the paper. All of a sudden I noticed smoke coming, and I didn't think anything of it.

Well, not until the smoke alarm started blaring "WARNING SMOKE, WARNING SMOKE, EVACUATE, EVACUATE, WARNING SMOKE, EVACUATE" in my head I went "Oh crap! I forgot to open the flue" so I open the flue, the fire wasn't that big or that hot, so I quickly open the flue and started with all of the windows, then I realized that my parents are now up - - - Oops, there goes my plan of letting them sleep in. So Mom comes running down, the dog in tow (freaking out), and my father making his way slowly down. Well, we eventually got the whole fire alarm to stop blaring and waking the whole neighborhood up, and we started our Chrismtas morning!

Please note that this was not planned; Bro #1 stayed in his bed knowing that everything was alright; and Cathy, from the foster company we work with. said we had to test the smoke alarms, so I did it for her :)

All in all, that is the best way to wake your parents up on Christmas morning :)

Cae

B10C3457DWL – Wireless Internet Passwords

Who here has wireless internet? Who loves wireless internet? Well, I’m one of them, I enjoy my wireless internet and absolutely love the whole idea of wireless internet, but let me tell you, if you have a password for your wireless internet, like I do, please, and I mean please have a good password!! Don’t make it words that connect to your location, unless you want people to hack into it. Why am I telling you this, you ask? Because I’ve mastered this, of course it’s been places where I know the people, but still! A specific fire department has wireless internet. I was delightfully waiting during Bro #1’s meeting working on my story, of course I got bored without my music playing, so I noticed that there was wireless internet, and I decided to test it. I started typing FD, Townname FD, Firedepartment nothing was working, I was just about to start my way through all of the brands of fire trucks that they have housed in their FD, but in my brain I go “Hey, I wonder if they would be stupid enough to have it as ‘firetruck’” so I tried firetruck, and guess who got into the internet? Yup, you’re right. Me! Clearly they need better internet security.

Today, Mom and I were dropping Operation Christmas Child boxes off at a Congregational Church, and we got there earlier than the OCC drop off would start taking donations, so I fired the laptop up and noticed that the church has secured wireless internet, so I decided to test their security and Mom says “It’s probably Jesus Loves You” I laughed, but I already knew what I was going to try, Jesus. Well I tried jesus and it didn’t go through, so I tried Jesus, and guess who got into the church internet? Yeah, that would be me - - - again.

So I beg of you, when you are thinking of an internet password, please, please, please make it hard, make it something that only you will know unless you hand it out, please don’t make it “Jesus” or “firetruck” or “Smiths” because if you make it something so easy, then you’ll have bored teens like me trying to learn your internet password.

Cae

PS. This is not normal for me, what happened at the fire department was just luck, and well what happened at the church this morning, that was just funny. Also, that is not my password for my internet, but it is an example of a good wireless internet password.

Equine Affaire 2010

Yesterday I was blessed enough to have Vicky, the owner of the barn I work at, drive me up to the Equine Affaire over in Springfield, I only had to let the horses out, and muck out some stalls to get the ride. Which is alright by me, so yesterday I spent the whole day surrounded by horses! It was amazing! I even got a bracelet that says Monty on it :)

I was also able to catch the Shire Exposition!! Which is amazing, I absolutely love Shires. They are just so pretty!

Anyways, after the Shires, Chris Cox came out to train a bucking bronc, and let me just tell you he is pretty good :) I loved watching him! After Chris, Leda and I went back to the CNEER barn and helped Vicky and the crew out with Whiskey Lullaby & Beam my Up Scotty, both of them were just amazing horses!! I was even able to bring Whiskey out of Barn C and walk him around for a little bit, Mary was with me, and some brilliant guy decided to let his ramp to his trailer drop - - -Whiskey did not like that! Whiskey is very trailer shy and just the noise freaked him out, so Mary and I had to comfort Whiskey for several minutes. Other than that, it was fun! I absolutely loved it! I can't wait until next year!

Cae

The English Cae

The other day I was thinking about how weird it would be if I were to live in America on an English schedule, that way I would be able to talk to all of my English friends in their normal time, but how would I be able to make this work in America. So I calculated it out yesterday. I would follow my normal routine, but just back it up a couple hours. All of the timing for this portion will be in EST.

1:00am Wake up

7:00am Eat Lunch & go to work*

12:00pm Get home from work*

1:00pm Start dinner

5:00pm Go to bed

*The issue that I run into, going to work is the fact that we are in America, so I would have to go to work at noon and come home at 5 in EST.

Now to translate my schedule into GMT, and this is what you would get.

6:00am Wake up

12:00pm Eat lunch & go to work

5:00pm Get home from work

6:00pm Start Dinner

10:00pm Go to bed

Make this schedule can go with my December 32nd idea ;) Or maybe I could just move to London, I think the latter is the easier of the two.

Cae

Dusting

I used to ride horses when I was about 10, and I stopped when I was 12 because life got way to busy, and horseback riding was the newest thing that I started, so it was cut first. Fastforward to October 2010, it's been too long of a time of me not riding a horse, but I have been working at the horse rescue up my street, so I've been cleanning stalls, falling in love with the horses, grooming, and playing with the horses of course. Well last Tuesday I walked up to the horse rescue and Vicky, the owner of the rescue, asks me to finish cleanning the stalls and then says that I can groom Monty and put some ointment on his booboos, after I groomed Monty, Vicky asked me if I wanted to ride him bareback. I said of course, and grabbed my helmet. So I rode Monty, for the first time on him and for riding bareback, and I fell in love. Come Tuesday night, I was "walking like a cowboy", but the pain in my cobwebbed muscles, is a good pain, and a pain that I'm all right with, and can't wait until next Tuesday :)

Enjoy some pictures of my on Monty!
Cae

Prime Rib Dinner Take Two!

Well it's the morning after the Prime Rib Dinner, and well it went so well last night! Everyone came over once Mass let out, then our violinist/fiddler for the night made his way over and was ready to play once he was fed! The atmosphere was great, people were spedning their money on the autographed books, the raffles we had going, and drinks! Even though I wasn't a server this year, I got the next best thing. I was the greeter, and although I compleatly freak out when the first person shows up, by the third I'm having fun, it's really nice.

I have to say, the whole night was really nice, even though I wasn't a server. I actually prefer not being a server, because I was able to walk around and stop at tables and see how they were enjoying thier night, instead of running all over the place! Well check out the slideshow above to see just really how much fun it was!

Cae