Cartoon Avery and Ivy (idea from Anna Lee's LJ!)

I was reading my friend Anna Lee's Live Journal (http://annaleemerced.livejournal.com/), and she posted pictures of how she made herself into a 'cartoon'. All credit to her for this idea!

She gave a website where you make these, so I went and made a cartoon Avery and a cartoon Ivy! It was so fun. I made mine with a peace sign, hehe! :P

Do you think it looks like us?

PS: Look at my Earth Day post below!

~Avery~

Happy Earth Day!

How did you celebrate Earth Day?


~I turned off all un-necassary things that run on electricity(everything but an alarm clock!)


~Took a 5 minute shower(LOL, I can go fast when I want to!) instead of my usual 10-15 minutes


~Towel dried my hair instead of using a blow dryer


~Recycled all the graded papers I got back, instead of throwing them away


~No computer or T.V.


~Turned off all the lights and used candles


~Played outside instead of inside


~Used scrap paper to take notes on instead of brand new notebook paper


~Walked to and from school (well... I always do that!)


~Planted a tree! (I seriously did. Each dorm room planted a tree in the front of the entrance)


~Gave a speech on 'Going Green' in school


~Wore green!

I was truly eco-friendly and did not go on the computer to post on Earth Day! :)

Talk to you later,

~Avery~

Rain, Rain, Go Away...

Today it rained, A LOT! From the time I went to bed last night (11:00) to right now. I slept good though, the sound of rain really relaxes me, but rain makes me feel kind of depressed and dreary at the same time. I wanted to go outside and splash in the puddles, but the person wouldn't let me :'( Oh well...

I went to school, and I swear it rained the whole time. We were inside for lunch/recess today. I don't like it when we're inside because everyone is crammed into the gym bleachers.

I walked back to my dorm from the official school campus to the dorm area, and got SOAKED! It was pouring! I sprinted back with my room mate Dakota Ulrich. We were giggling the whole time running back. That reminds me of a song...

'Dashing through the rain, on a pair of wet legs

o'er the campus we go, laughing all the way!'

LOL, that was kind of random. I should stop altering Christmas songs now...

Most of today was kind of a 'stay inside and get caught up' day for me. I worked on a lot of homework(Mr. Simone, WHY SO MUCH MATH HOMEWORK?!?!?!), and read some of a book, called The City of Ember. I got it from our school library. Apparently there is a movie based on it too, I didn't know that. I also cleaned up my portion of the room. I should really do that more often, because it took forever to get everything organized!

Ivy came over today too. Ivy is very fashionable, and well, I'm not. :P So she decided to give me a 'high fashion make over'. I'm afraid to post a full body shot, as I think I look ridiculous, so just a head shot for you guys :) I might post a picture later. Ivy and the person are insisting on a photo shoot. If they bug me much longer, I think I'll give in, but green skinny jeans just aren't my thing!

And a quick update on Olivia, for all of you who are wondering: (if you don't know what I'm talking about, read my last two posts, "Another New Sister?!?!?" and "Meet Olivia Jaslene Parkington")

She is doing pretty good from my understanding. She's very artsy, and has quickly moved to one of the top students in art and band class. In art I think her forte is painting. Today I saw a scene she painted of the woods and it was amazing. In band she plays the tenor saxophone, but Samantha said she plays a bunch of other instruments too. She's also joined the lacrosse team. Just by looking at her, I can tell she's sporty. Those PM girls are built like little line backers! She makes me look so scraggly and thin... Anyways, I think she's made a few friends. Samantha's best friend Nellie is hanging out with Olivia a lot, even when Samantha isn't there. Olivia's also been hanging around with a few of the other historical girls here, like Felicity and Ruthie. I guess she can relate to them more.

Talk to you later,

~Avery~

Meet Olivia Jaslene Parkington

Meet the newest girl here, Olivia Jaslene Parkington.(she's on the right in the photo) She is a Pre-Mattel Samantha doll. She has beautiful, like new hair, the chubby, cute face of a PM, and long, brown eye lashes. There was a Mattel Samantha already here, so our "Antique Sam" and I have called her, is now Olivia! The Parkington Twins time travel from 1904 to 2009! Time traveling sounds like so much fun :P

Samantha Anneliese Parkington is the oldest of the twins (by 7 minutes). She is basically like the book character Samantha. She is kind, caring, etc. just like the Samantha books. Out of the twins, Sam is the most daring and bold. She is also the most "school smart". People call her Samantha and Sam.

Olivia Jaslene Parkington is the younger twin. She is shy, but likes to try new things and meet new people. She is artsy. Olivia paints and plays the piano. People call her Olivia, Livvy, and Liv.

The twins don't really dress the same, except in their fancy Victorian checkered dresses. They do try to coordinate a little bit. Like today, they both have their hair up. They're wearing an "AG shirt" (Sam has the AGPC and Olivia has *my* JLY meet outfit shirt), shorts (Sam is wearing the skate board outfit blue camo shorts, and Olivia has Nicki's shorts and belt, from the tie top and shorts outfit), and sandals (Sam has Jess's meet outfit flip flops, Olivia has Nicki's sandals from the tip top and shorts outfit).

Even though the twins have barely been here a day, they're already creating mischief! They've been messing around with everyone. Playing pranks, running around, and talking non stop! Just a little while ago, they both walked up to me. They both look almost exactly the same, it's really hard to tell them apart. I hadn't seen them earlier, so I didn't know what they were wearing either. So they both say hi. I say hi back. Then they ask me to tell them which one of them is Olivia, and which one is Samantha. I can't tell them apart, so I said that I didn't know. Then they both got mad and kind of sad, and kept saying that I must not like them much or something. I felt so bad! LOL, then the burst out laughing, and told me it was all a joke.

Since Olivia is new at Mondale, Samantha is showing her around. I hope she likes it here! I'm glad we didn't end up getting rid of her. I'm going to take the poll down now, since we're keeping her. Read my last post, it tells about how we found her and everything.



Well I have to go now, Bye!

~Avery~

Another new sister?!?!?

My owner found a Samantha at an Antique Mall! She came with her meet outfit and Nightgown/Robe/Slippers. She is in amazing condition. Her hair feels like brand new. My owner says that Antique Sam might be PM. She was really cheap, only $15 for everything!

I can't believe it, another new sister! We might not end up keeping her though, since there is already a Sam here. My owner might sell the one we found today. Since Sam is archived, she could get a decent amount of money for her if she sold her on Ebay or something. If she does sell her, she might get a #11 or get Marisol a new head.(recurling poor Mari's hair isn't going to well...) If we do keep Antique Sam, she wouldn't stay Samantha. We would make a new character for her. I want a Russian immigrant, but I'm not sure what we will end up doing. I'm all for a new sister though, even though we JUST got Marisol.

"Antique Sam" as I've been calling her, is very shy. I think she was a bit scared with all the other dolls in the "Doll Room" at the antique mall. She's barely even said anything. She just got washed down though, because she had some surface dirt. I think that is the reason she fell over. She was so nervous and shy her knees gave out! My owner keeps saying that she has 'floppy legs' and the need to be 'restrung'. I really think she was just overwhelmed though, but whatever, nobody listens to me.

Vote on the poll please, whether we should keep her or not.

~Avery~

The weekend, at last! Long, boring post about school

It's the weekend, FINALLY! I thought it would never come. My teachers have been pounding me with homework. History, math, everything! I still have homework over the weekend, but not very much. I just have to finish 1/2 of a math problem set (about 15 problems left to do) and maybe study for a really simple science quiz on Monday. Speaking of school and homework, I guess I will give you guys the whole "shpeel" (I have no idea how to spell this!) on things at school. There isn't anything else going on in my life right now, so whatever! This could be boring though...
I go to Mondale Preparatory Academy For Girls, more commonly known as Mondale, or Mondale Prep. It's named after Walter F. Mondale, Jimmy Carter's VP. Supposedly Walter Mondale suggested to build the school, Jimmy Carter agreed, and they funded everything. Since Mondale is just for girls, there is a boy's school, Alan Academy. They're pretty close to each other, but there are no "mixed" classes with boys and girls, but Alan's campus is pretty close to Mondale's. I'm in 7th grade right now.
I came to Mondale when I was in 4th grade. That is when I moved here from France. I'd been working on my English before then, so I could basically speak English pretty well. I was only 8 or 9 I think... My parents chose Mondale because it had a good record and was an elite boarding school in the country. They only accept 50 students.(NO! My owner DOES NOT have 50 dolls! She just makes up characters.) So I applied, and got in.
At Mondale you have to have the basic core classes. One Math class, one Literature(English Language Arts), one History, one Science. Then you are required to take a Foreign Language, Gym, Health, and one class of your choice. For my class of choice I chose Band. Here is my schedule for the day:
Health or Gym, Mrs. Palmero
AP ELA, Mrs. Bernardo
AP World History-Ms. Mitchelle
AP Science-Mr. Sierza
"C" Lunch
Band-Mr. Denardin
AP Math-Mr. Simone
Foreign Language-Ms. Kowalski
Homeroom-Room #5, Mr. Walker

I'm in a lot of advanced classes. I don't mean to brag, but I'm really proud of myself. I've never gotten less than an "A-" on any report card :)

My first class is with Mrs. Palmero. I DO NOT like her. She teaches Gym Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, then on Tuesday and Thursday we have Health class with her. She always tells me whenever we're running to, "Move that little French butt of yours Voisin!". It gets really old.

Next I have ELA, with Mrs. Bernardo. I'm in AP English, which amazes Mrs. Bernardo because English is my 2nd language. She's super strict, and the one that wouldn't let me make up my book report (I detention for not turning it in, when it fell in a puddle and wasn't my fault)

Then it is World History with Ms. Mitchelle. I'm in AP History. You go to "Basic History" if you're normal level, then World History in the AP level. Ms. Mitchelle is an awesome teacher! I'm so happy I got her. She lets us talk a lot when we have free time. She tells us to call her "Anne", but that is just weird calling teachers by their first names...

Now it's AP Science with Mr. Sierza. He is a cool teacher too! We do a lot of hands on activities. He also teaches a little bit of chemistry and basic physics to us.

Then LUNCH! I have "C" lunch, which is the last lunch of the day. Usually most of the good food is gone :P I have my Lunch hour with Ivy though, which I'm happy about. She's probably one of my best friends.

Next I have Band with Mr. Denardin. He's okay. He's really strict at times, and other times he could really care less about what we're doing. Mr. D. is an amazing musician! I swear he can play every instrument really, really good!

Then is Algebra with Mr. Simone. Usually, in 7th grade, you're in "Math 7/8" which means for 7th grade and slow learners in 8th grade. In 8th grade you go to "Pre-Algebra", then in 9th grade you're in Algebra. I'm super advanced in Math, it's my best subject. The normal AP Math is the 8th grade Pre-Alg, but I tested out of that so now I'm in 9th grade Algebra! There are a few other 7th graders, but not many.

Last, but not least, is my Foreign Language with Ms. Kowalski. I was going to try to take French LOL! :P But I couldn't, so I chose Polish. I don't know why in the world I chose Polish, but I did. I'm doing really bad in this class, well bad for me. I just can't learn a 3rd language. It's taking all I got to speak English and French! With a lot of extra credit and "participation points" I'm hovering around an A-.

My homeroom is Homeroom #5 with Mr. Walker. We just go there every morning for attendance. We're arranged alphabetically. My homeroom includes Dakota Ulrich, me, Addy Walker, Ella Xavier, Lily Xiong, Erin Yeager, Coral Yokinobu, Macy Zeiser, Shelbi Zeiser(Macy and Shelbi are twins), and Ruby Zomar. Alphabetically I'm #41 out of 50 students in the school.

My locker partner is Dakota. We get our locker partners alphabetically too. We have locker #21. Like, the whole 7th grade list is numbered, and student #1 and #2 share locker #1, student #3 and #4 share locker #2, etc. Dakota is nice enough, but we hang out with totally different groups of people. I really envy her though, because she has gorgeous red hair (she's a JLY #5)

Since I go to boarding school, all the students have dorms. I'm in dorm 9-3714U-X. It means we are the 9th dorm of 10, with the first person alphabetically in our group of 5's student ID, then U-X which are our last names. There are 5 of us, Dakota Ulrich (my locker partner), me, Addy Walker, Ella Xavier, and Lily Xiong. Since basically everything is alphabetical at Mondale, Dakota and I share a bunk bed, so do Addy and Ella, and Lily gets the single bed. I'm not really great friends with any of my room mates, but I'm the closest friends with Dakota and Addy. We all hang out with totally different groups though.
Next is the dreaded "Private School Uniform". Our school color is burgundy, so we have a burgundy plaid skirt(my owner says that it is from the Petals and Plaid outfit). Then we have a white polo(non-AG) with a white cardigan(Emily's accessories Cardigan). We have white socks(non-AG, my owner is trying to find burgundy knee highs!) and black Mary Jane's(lots of different shoes could work, but I wear the one's from Nellie's meet outfit).

Well I was super bored, so that's why I typed so much useless information in this post. Long, boring text and no picture, what a bore! Talk about a "My Life at Mondale 101" post! LOL! If you read it all, I applaud you. I just wrote it, but I haven't read the whole thing :P I didn't mean to brag so much about my AP classes, I think I got a little carried away...sorry!

~Avery~

The highly anticipated Chrissa Movie! Plus flute disaster! :'(

Last night we watched the Chrissa Stands Strong movie!!! *beware, spoilers could follow* It was pretty good, better than I'd thought it would be. Sonali *the doll* was disgusted at herself in the movie. I felt so bad for Gwen, how the Mean Bee's made fun of her so much! She is really good at the violin too. I wanted to *kill* Tara, she was so rude and obnoxious! Towards the beginning when Chrissa goes to take the swim team permission slips to the office, Tara stabs her in the back with a pencil! And towards the end she like, eggs on Tyler *Chrissa's brother* to to a hard dive that he can't do and he gets hurt because of her! I'm glad that there is no students here that are mean to that extent, but I know my friend Haley has some Tara-like characters at her school. The baby llama in the movie was so cute! :) Awwww, I just wanted to go up to the TV screen and hug it! What really amused me is that Sonali in the movie had a CELL PHONE. A really nice one too. And she's 4th grader! Another thing I noticed was that Sonali in the movie had straight hair, where the doll has curly hair. There were a lot of JLY outfits in the movie, like Chrissa wearing the School Days outfit, and Gwen wearing the Licorice play outfit. It was a good movie, I would recommend it!

School did not go so well though. I play the flute in band class, and today we had our "playing test". For those of you who don't know, a playing test is where the band teacher selects a song *or a few songs* for all students to play. He listens to your playing, scores you, then arranges your section *group of the same instruments* of how well you played. 1st chair is the best player, last chair is the worst. I practiced really hard on these 3 songs for this playing test. I was really confident. As we were warming up, I thought I sounded great. I could play straight through each song with no wrong notes, full dynamics, and keeping tempo. It was the best I've ever played them. So after warming up, we start the playing test. Each person plays the 3 songs. There are 8 flute players, and I was currently 4th chair. I'm not great, but I'm not horrible either. I really thought I was going to do good and get at least 3rd chair, maybe even 1st! So, then it's my turn to play. I get through the first song okay. I breathed at the wrong time, which messed up my phrasing a little bit, but I hit most the notes (all but one) and did pretty good dynamics and articulation. The 2nd song, which was the hardest in my opinion, I did pretty good. I got all the rhythms right, and only stumbled on a few 16th notes. I did the dynamics, articulations, kept tempo, and had a good tone quality. The last song, the easiest(!!!!) for me I screwed up. Really bad. I started it, and messed up on the accidentals. The key signature had 2 flats all ready, plus accidentals thrown in. I'd never had a problem with it before. So, I started over, and did the same thing again. By now I was kind of panicky. I rushed through, forgot dynamics and articulation, didn't hold out the whole notes long enough, screwed up on basically every high note, and missed the accidentals. I was totally screwed, since everyone else did average to great on every song. He posted the list of chairs. I was 6th chair out of 8! And since one person didn't play *they weren't here, and got last chair by default*, I'm really 2nd to last! :'( I'm sooooooooo angry at myself, yet really sad. What gets me is that I played it perfect 5 minutes before I took the test. I'm usually not very nervous, and I didn't feel nervous this time. And I was so confident that I was at least going to move up a chair, and maybe get 1st chair! HA!

I'm probably going to get like a 75% on that test... when I usually get an A-, I'll get a C.

And Marisol is now Marisol Isabel Luna, since Isabel won on the poll! Thanks for voting everybody!

Well that's it for now,

~Avery~

Thanks AG.com for the Chrissa DVD and flute stock photo.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays everyone! I'm 1/2 Christian, 1/2 Jewish so I celebrate both Easter and Passover. It is sad not to be with my family, but my owner chose 4 of us dolls to get dressed up in Spring Time clothes! They're not really the typical "Easter Dresses", but I think we all look pretty! I'm wearing the new Hearts Dress. I love the color, it goes good with my dark hair! I was wearing what Nicki was wearing, but we thought that it would look better if we switched. Nicki is wearing the dress and shoes from the Sapphire Party Outfit. Also, Marisol got dressed up! She is in the retired Flower Garden dress. It looks great on her, because her skin is darker and goes with the brown in the dress. Last but not least is Mia! She is wearing Emily's meet outfit dress with Kit's meet outfit shoes. She looks great! We were chosen to dress up because we go so good together :) We have all different eye colors and hair colors.

We also got to color eggs! It was so much fun! I liked making the purple ones. I think they turned out pretty good. We have lots of different colors. Tomorrow we are going to hide them! Then after wards we are going to take the shells off and make egg salad sandwiches, YUM! :) A lot of people don't like egg salad sandwiches, but I LOVE them!

Have a Happy Eater/Passover everyone!

~Avery~

Let the games begin!

Today my owner starts the soccer season. She's pretty out of shape, at least from what I can tell. There's the fall and spring seasons for soccer. The last game was in probably October. That's almost 6 months without soccer! She's a little rusty. I bet she'll have fun during the conditioning tonight. Can anyone say "Run a few miles!" I think that's what they'll be doing. At least it is nice out today. All of the snow from a few days ago has melted, and its about 50 degrees. I wish they weather would make up it's mind! :P

I'm not too sporty, but my owner is. I fence, but that's about it. A lot of people here at Mondale are really into sports. Mondale has just about every athletic program, plus dance and stuff like that, which means just about everyone is in some kind of sport activity.

In other news my owner found this weird "foto-flexer" program where she can edit pictures! Look at this "colored sketch" of Marisol! It looks like parts aren't finished, like her hair and stuff. It still looks pretty neat though! I want her to edit a photo of me like that so I can print it and put it up in my dorm.

sketch

actual picture

Well, I'll talk to you guys later. I think I'm doing pretty good about updating my blog, don't you think? My next post will be about Marisol's make over. Last night my owner did the "Downy Dunk" on her, and is trying to recurl her hair.

~Avery~

Marisol is here!

Marisol is here! She arrived this afternoon. Max says that she isn't in the greatest condition. Her hair is dry and has lost a lot of its curl, she kind of has a sticky eye, and she has a mark on her foot. I can tell Max loves her a lot though. Tonight is a "spa night" where Max is going to do a bunch stuff to Marisol to fix her hair. Something like a "Downy Dunk"? Whatever that is...

She seems nice enough, but I've barely even said 2 words to her. She came in and everyone was gathered around and I said "Hi Marisol!" She said hi back, but we haven't spoken since. She was swept up in a big girl of the year rush. Right now she's hanging out with Jess and Nicki. Marisol is so popular I can't believe it! She's been surrounded by people, well dolls, all day! Both Max and I know she came from ebay where no one wanted her anyone more and now she's living with us, but Marisol says that she moved here from Chicago( or somewhere around there) and came to Mondale (our boarding school) because it has a dance program and her old school didn't, and spring break was the perfect time to move. She's a dancer, ballet I think. And she has a cat named Rascal. That's basically all I know...

But wow! Marisol is so pretty! Even with all her "imperfections" as Max calls them (aka dry, not curly hair, sticky eye, and mark on her foot) she is gorgeous! I can only imagine what she'll look like when she is fixed up!

I'm slightly mad at her. Well not really at her, but at Max. Marisol came in a really ugly non-AG hand sewn outfit and had no other clothes. (she thinks she has suitcases with clothes, but MAx and I know she came from ebay with nothing, well this is confusing...) So Max goes into my closet and takes my Sapphire Party Outfit and my jeans and gives them to Marisol to wear. She does look really nice though, I just hope she gives them back! Or lets me borrow her meet outfit (that Max wants to get on Ebay, but Marisol says she has in her suitcases)

Here are a few pictures of her:

Talk to you later,

~Avery~