Never use a screw driver in the upright position to make a whole in a box for your playhouse.
If you have ever noticed the cut in my left eyebrow, you know probably understand what happened. I was about 5 or 6 when it happened. My sister, Cynthia Turner, and her little sister Rachel were all trying to make a playhouse in our garage right after we had moved. We had tons of boxes and had just watched Out of the Box and decided we wanted our own play house. We were going to pile up the boxes and poke holes in them so we could have umbrellas poking out of the top. We tried to use the bottoms of the umbrellas to poke the holes, but it wasn't working very well. My sister had the great idea to use a screw driver to poke the holes. So the caring seven year old she was, she gave her five year old little sister a screw driver to poke a hole. I attempted to poke the whole in a downwards motion through the box. When it wouldn't work, me in my five year old little mind told myself that I could just try to poke it upward through the opposite side of the box. After thrusting the weapon into the box 3 or 4 times, it finally came all the way through. Since I was leaned over the box to see when the sharped edged object would come through, it went straight up into my eyebrow. Panic struck and I flipped out! I was, of course, bleeding and thought I was going to die. My dad came to my rescue and patched me up. Luckily, I didn't 1) lose my eye and 2) have to have stitches. I got really lucky and I learned never to poke an object upward towards your face!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Spring Break 2011!
Elizabeth and I had a lot of fun over Spring Break. We laid on the beach for seven days straight. It was awesome! I love that time to just relax and catch up on sleep (and get some color.) At night we went shopping, spent way to much money, and finished the night off with some chocolate covered bananas finished with crushed oreos. They sound weird, but they are soooo good! It was a little windy, but still warm.
We were luckily away from the party end of Panama. However, we did have to drive through it to get to Pier Park to shop. One night it took Elizabeth and I an hour to go 8 miles! It was insane! There were teenagers everywhere. They were walking in the middle of the road like they were invinsible and the car wasn't going to run over them. If you honked your horn or yelled at them to get out of the way, they yelled back cussing and throwing boxes at your car. Where they got boxed I have no idea. Some people just approached your car and tried to talk to you. One kid actually smacked our back window. I would have gotten out and shared my not-so-kind thoughts with him on how he should move out of the way because the road was made for vehichles and the sidewalk and grass was for him, but I was afriad he was going to jump me or something. A few other people tried to come have a conversation with us while we were driving and I think I pushed the lock button at least 100 times. There was anywhere from middle schoolers to college kids walking in the street. I understand high schoolers and college kids being out but I would really like to know where the 12 and 13 year old parents were. Who would let their kid go down there. It wasn't even really like a party at a certain place. Get this, the cool thing to do was walk up and down the road... I don't get it. How is that fun? Shopping sounds way more amusing to me. Everytime they walked by someone they would scream as a greeting.. It was a zoo! A few days later, we were talking to someone we knew and they told us there was a way around all the mess.. That would have been good information earlier. The traffic was so slow that we would pass these two boys, and then they would walk by. It happened at least five times.
Other than the caos, the trip was amazing! I love the beach! We also road go-carts and did this surfing imitation ride. This guy controlled how fast the board moved and we had to try to stay on. It was quite a show. We also did the trampoline thing where they have you harnessed to bunji cords. I'm pretty sure I lost some brain cells from flipping so much! It was fun though. And we had some pretty awesome food! I don't eat sea food, but everything I ate was so good! I had a reese's waffle that was amazing. It could have been even better if all of the chocolate and peanut butter peices weren't all in the middle.
Spring Break 2011 overall was a success!
We were luckily away from the party end of Panama. However, we did have to drive through it to get to Pier Park to shop. One night it took Elizabeth and I an hour to go 8 miles! It was insane! There were teenagers everywhere. They were walking in the middle of the road like they were invinsible and the car wasn't going to run over them. If you honked your horn or yelled at them to get out of the way, they yelled back cussing and throwing boxes at your car. Where they got boxed I have no idea. Some people just approached your car and tried to talk to you. One kid actually smacked our back window. I would have gotten out and shared my not-so-kind thoughts with him on how he should move out of the way because the road was made for vehichles and the sidewalk and grass was for him, but I was afriad he was going to jump me or something. A few other people tried to come have a conversation with us while we were driving and I think I pushed the lock button at least 100 times. There was anywhere from middle schoolers to college kids walking in the street. I understand high schoolers and college kids being out but I would really like to know where the 12 and 13 year old parents were. Who would let their kid go down there. It wasn't even really like a party at a certain place. Get this, the cool thing to do was walk up and down the road... I don't get it. How is that fun? Shopping sounds way more amusing to me. Everytime they walked by someone they would scream as a greeting.. It was a zoo! A few days later, we were talking to someone we knew and they told us there was a way around all the mess.. That would have been good information earlier. The traffic was so slow that we would pass these two boys, and then they would walk by. It happened at least five times.
Other than the caos, the trip was amazing! I love the beach! We also road go-carts and did this surfing imitation ride. This guy controlled how fast the board moved and we had to try to stay on. It was quite a show. We also did the trampoline thing where they have you harnessed to bunji cords. I'm pretty sure I lost some brain cells from flipping so much! It was fun though. And we had some pretty awesome food! I don't eat sea food, but everything I ate was so good! I had a reese's waffle that was amazing. It could have been even better if all of the chocolate and peanut butter peices weren't all in the middle.
Spring Break 2011 overall was a success!
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