My Crazy Wack Job of a Summer. The Epic Tale, as Told by Meredith Murphree.

Please read Angela's blog, So Now You Now (that was a link) first. It will fill in all of those confusing little blanks I will leave you in my story. Angela is my sister for those of you who forgo


June 2011-

• My 5 and 6 year old nieces, Grace and Lily, arrive the day scholl is let out for summer. The next day, I am let out of school and every thing is a happy, fun, party ball.


• A weeklater, Grace and Lily leave and I go with Dad to take them home to Oklahoma.


• I stay the weekend in OKC with Angela while Dad is singing in Waco, TX.


• Dad comes back on Sunday night and we are to leave on Monday morning. When Dad gets back at midnight, Angela wakes up and fills him in on a story that you all can read on her blog (see link above).


• One week later, I take a road trip with Mom to Utah to see reletives. Meaanwhile, Angela is on a cruise (see above link). So on Our way back from Utah, Mom gets a call from Dad saying that we need to pick up Grace and Lily. So, we're in the middle of freaking Kansas and there is a highway, in the middle of freaking Kansas, that goes straight down to OKC.


• Grace and Lily's 2nd visit ends, we take them back, blah, blah, blah.

July 2011

• I go on vacation to St.Louis.


• One week later, I have to help Dad set up for The Festival of Faith and the Arts at church.


• Angela is performing in all three of the shows in the festival. She comes up with her two dogs, Grace and Lily.


• I win 1st and 3rd in my division of the festival's art show.


• Angela and "The Gang," go back to OKC.


• The children plus two extra dogs is not a good stress combo for my cat. So, Tiger then pees blood.


• We take Tiger to the vet ant the vet gives us seditives and pain killers for my poor kitty.


• I give Tiger his meds and he went all "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on us. Witch was a little funny in the middle of summer when you're bored. He walked and acted drunk, by the way.

August 2011

• Angela and her "entorage," come back for a week for opera rehursal. Also, two of the sigers in the opera were staying at our house at the same time. if you were a fan of the show, "Full House," you would have LOVED this.


• I go to a Chicago concert that was awesome.


• Obi got to old and had to be put down. Just so you know, Obi wasn't born, he was created with the Earth. "... and God said, 'Let there be Obi!' "


• Jacqui got a new cat and named him Wedge. No, she does not have an obsession with simple machines.


• I wrote a letter to the Editor- in- cheif of Teen Vogue.


• I started the 7th grade.

THE END

I just love summer, don't you?

Google Can Go Suck Jar Lids- Meredith's Rant on Google.

I just tried to log into Blogger and you know what popped up?! A Google thing wanting to verify my electronic mail address that I no longer use. So I tied to change the old e-mail address to my new g-mail address. Then guess what happened, a little red message popped up that said, and I quote, "A Google account is not allowed to be the primary address for this account." This is when I kinda went a little kooky. I only have two e-mail accounts!! I couldn't make one up! That would make the verification e-mail get all jacked up!!! Well I eventually got into Blogger,as you might have noticed but, I am still a little peeved toward Google.

School.

I am out of school for a whole three months!! Yay!! I will now go on to tell you crazy crap that happened in the last two months of school , in list form!

• The very last Springfield Borders bookstore went out of business. I cried when I heard the grim news. I bought a book on my very last trip to Borders. I was sad. * cue sad face*


• The lock on my locker had to cut off. It got stuck after lunch one day and I had to go get the custodian and I also had to go to the assistant principal for a new lock. It was really screw-y.


• I got my yearbook. Not exactly what you would call crazy but, holy crap! I'm in a lot of pictures.


• It rained. Not just a sprinkle, no, this was hard rain that was insanely cold and it was falling at full force. Also, it always seemed to come right as I got off the bus and walked a block east toward my house. I also turned blonde and temporarily misplaced my umbrella during these fits of rain.


• We had a discussion on how dangerous lightning is in science class. Later that same day, as I was walking home wearing my wire- framed glasses, mostly metal earrings, a sterling silver neacklace and ring, there's a freaking LIGHTNING STORM!!!!!! Scared out of my wits, I sprint home barefoot, (I didn't want my shoes to get wet.) like a madman on fire and unlock the door as fast as possible and step into the entry way sopping wet and freezing cold.


• I was in a church musical. I think I did pretty well, I mean you would too if you won two Tony awards for outstanding performance in a church musical and best church musical set painting . Neil Patrick Harris is very nice, by the way. He hosted the Tony Awards this year for those of you who didn't know.

There is probably a whole handful of events I left out and I just can't remember them or I left them out for legal reasons.

Summer. Finally.

Summer is here. After a month of crap and wanting to go on a vacation to some exotic place, like London, and wishing I was some really awesome person, I am going to try to blog on a semi- regular basis. Here's some vital information for future blog posts-

• School. It's out and there was some crazy stuff that happened in the months preceeding the Last Day.


• I am moving to a different house. I have some "interesting" thoughts on this subject.


• Facebook went all crazy on me and disabled my account for freaking reason. I am going to call Mark Zuckernerd. (No, the "Nerd" part is not a typo. I just call him that. It's shorter than the other name I could have given him- Mark Zuckerharvardnerd.)


• There was a tornado an hour and a half away from house!! You might have heard of it, the tornado in Joplin, Mo. Yeah, I remember watching Ron the Weather Man during this storm in my basement.


• I got a sewing machine. No later post on this one, I just thought I'd add it in. It's a shiney black Singer from the late '40s. It weighs a freaking ton! Not kidding!

I think that's about it. New posts to come. I pinkey swear, well, I am in my mind.

Must I Have a Nose?!

I have a cold. My face hurts, too. Grrrrr! I also want to sneeze, like, all the freaking time. *Snort, sniff* It's also really hot. Grr. But, on the bright side, I got a one minus at piano contest! There's a companion story to that.
First period Science-Monday after contest

Girl who I was in honor choir with who got all the solos and crap: Hey, Meredith what dd you get on your piano solo? (surprisingly real curious look on her face)
Me: I don't know I haven't gotten the sheet yet. Why?
GWIWIHCWWGATSAC: I don't know, I was just wondering. Well, you did pretty good. (This is where she said "pretty good" with the You-sucked-so-badly-I-wanted-to-go-vomit-after-you-were-done-but-I-can't-tell-you-that-because-you-are-awesome-and-could-probably-take-me-down-and-break-my-neck-with-your-pinkie-finger voice.)
Thanks for the back-handed complement, GWIWIHCWWGATSAC! So, then I thought about adding a line to the minus and telling her that I got a one plus because she only got one and I have been playing piano longer than she has.
Ah, back-handed complements are just fun, aren't they! Peace In.

MAYBIE, he's like his clone sent from like another planet or something!! Or maybie, they just look alike. Nah, he's a clone from the future.

So, if any of you have heard of Disciple-Now I was there about a week ago at my friend's church. It was fun. And (brace yourselves!) at dinner on Saturday night (are you still braced?) I saw a guy. But this was not just any guy, this was Paul McCartney's clone! It was like looking at a moving, talking picture of Paul, circa 1966. Anyway, at dinner that night I got his attention ("Hey!") and said, "You look like Paul McCartney." I know, I don't know why I beat around the bush either. And he said, "I know, I've heard that before." Fast- Forward to Sunday morning, we were all hanging out in the youth room, waiting for the church service to start and so naturally, to kill time , I whip out my phone and take some stalker pictures of Paul, Jr. I have four. So, that is my very own little stalker story. This guy had the hair-cut and everythig! It was completaly stalker-worthy.
Stay cool blog readers. Peace In!

What the Holy Freaking Crap?!! My Coffee Maker is Haunted!!

Eleven thirty this morning- I was standing in front of the kitchen sink minding my own business, when all of the sudden the little green power light on my coffee maker started clicking on and off like someone was pushing the on/off button or something. I got a little freaked out at the fact that my coffee maker was clicking at me. Did I mention that the lid of the coffee maker looks like Darth Vader? Yeah, it's a little creepy.
On a different note, yesterday in fourth period Health class, I got to thinking about Spider-Man. I don't really know why but, I thought about his, "super spidey powers." Then, I was thinking about how "spidey" is a really funny word. Then, I wondered how awful it would be if Spider-Man had arachnophobia and then he got bitten by a radio active spider. It would have been a pretty funny little twist on the story, right?
Now for the random portion of this post. I have decided that Ashton Kutcher is one of the best actors of my generation. He rocks my face off. I am on the CMS honor roll. It's really not that hard, you only need a 3.0 GPA. I have like a 3.7 or something, which is not my very best. Last year I had a 4.0. I wrote a story on the editing of Huck Finn for my school newspaper, The Smoke Signal. I gave my article the title The Editing of Huckleberry Finn. Quite original, isn't it?
Here in the middle of the country, we are buried under 12+ inches of snow and we get the added joy of ice. Well, I like snow. I guess that's a good thing since I can't fly off to California or Florida. If any of you blog readers have snow where you are, stay warm. I am an ice cube most of the time now. At this moment , I can't feel my fingers.
Did any one watch that football game on Sunday. Apparently it's like a big thing or something. In the first five minutes, I leaned over to Dad to ask him who was winning maybeabout three times. The only problem was that no one scored yet. I was very happy that Green Bay won. The only problem with Super Bowl 40 was Christina Agulara singing the national anthem. That made everyone at the Super Bowl party at church cringe. I heard that she skipped a line and then she repeated a line and then she screwed up the next line. Not to mention the fact that she was nowhere near the last note of the song. Her reps are saying that she was just so into the song that she messed up. Yeah, right. Even I can sing the national anthem on pitch and I can sing all of the words right. At least Green Bay won. Go Packers!