Happy New Year

    Welcome, 2012! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season/winter break! As for me, I went to Los Angeles for Christmas. The time difference in between Boston and LA is three hours, so I was waking up every morning at 5:30 because my automatic body alarm is around 8:00-8:30. That took some getting use too. The weather when we stepped out of the airport was seventy degrees. The whole week was in the seventies. My uncle has a pool, but it was too cold to swim in, although he did go in once.
    The highlight of my vacation was visiting with my uncle's two new dogs, whom we haven't seen before. They were so cute, and they were so little. Here's a picture:

The one one the left is Bugsy, the male, and the other one is Pinky, the female. 

They were really small, so we got used to their size, and Zeiss look extra huge when we got back. We also saw the movie Mission Impossible; Ghost Protocol in the theater, on Sunday and it was really good! I liked it.

    Right now, I am up in Maine, and my brother's thirteenth birthday is today, so we are celebrating that. This weekend, we have seen School of Rock, The King;'s Speech, and tonight we are going to see Super 8. I forgot my disc of Pretty Little Liars two hours away at home (I still can't believe that I forgot it!) so we couldn't watch that this weekend.

Have a Happy New Year!
Stella

Happy Holiday Season!

Things to do to get in the holiday mood:

• Go to see 'The Nutcracker'
• Go to see 'A Christmas Carol' (both movie/play)
• Drink some Egg Nog/Hot Cocoa/Hot beverage
• Buy/decorate the Christmas Tree
• Decorate for Hanukkah/Kwanzaa (if you celebrate either)
• Make snowmen/snow angels when it snows
• Play in the snow
• Type in 'Let it snow' on Google to see it snow on your screen
• Make paper snowflakes and hang them in your house
• Decorate your yard/bushes with lights
• Write a letter to 'Mr. C'
• Go to the mall to have your picture taken with a snowy background
• Hang up some holly/mistletoe/wreaths
• Decorate with ribbons
• Sing Christmas Carols
• Wrap some presents
• Buy/make some presents
• Listen to Christmas/Hanukkah music
• Dress up in holiday colors
• Send out colorful Christmas cards
• Visit family
• Dress in layers
• Catch snowflakes in your hand/on your tongue

The list could go on, and if you have any more, feel free to comment so I can add them to my list!

Happy Holiday Season!

-Stella

Really cute/funny Dog Photos!

I was looking for some photos of cute dogs on Google, and I happened across this blog, http://themusicinferno.blogspot.com/
which has a lot of cute/funny dog/cat photos. Here are a few:

SO CUTE OMGOMG!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

I can believe that another year has come around and Thanksgiving is here! I also can't believe that last year at this time, I didn't have my dog yet (It has been a great year with Zeiss=]).

Anyway, yesterday was the eighth annual Turkey Trot up here in Maine, and it is a three-mile fun run! I did it last year, too.

I am finally catching up on PLL (pretty little liars) first season, and I am hooked! Last night I saw Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides, and it was really good. The mermaids were creepy, though.

In the process of drinking Egg Nog, listening to Christmas music, and watching mom make Danish pastries (Raspberry and Lemon Curd). YUM!

Space Battleship Yamato

-This post will go in the Books/Movies section-

SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO
(This movie was actually a japanese anime cartoon when my dad was growing up. It used to be called Star Blazers)
This movie has English subtitles, because it is originally in Japanese, but the English version is avalible.
The year is 2199 and the Earth is under attack by extraterrestrials called Gamilas. They are polluting the Earth with doses of radiation, and the surviving population has moved underground. The last hope is Space Battleship Yamato, to set off on a voyage to planet Iskandar, to take a machine that eliminates radiation. They have one year, or else the surviving population will be  eliminated forever, and Earth will never be green again. Will this work? Or will it be the end for Earth?

Space Battleship Yamato movie  poster

Pages

Check out all of my new pages! Some will be updated soon.

Book/Movies page is updated, check for more info on The Year Of Secret Assignments

BAKER'S Brownies

One of my favorite things to bake is good-old-fashioned brownies. The recipe that my mother and I use is a Baker's Chocolate recipe:

BAKER'S ONE BOWL BROWNIES
(exact recipe)

Prep: 15 min.  Total: 50 min.
4 squares Baker's unsweetened baking chocolate
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup flour
1 cup coarsely chopped Pecans (optional)


Preheat oven to 350°F 
Microwave unsweetened chocolate and butter in large microwavable bowl on high for two minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add flour and nuts; mix well. Spread into prepared pan. Make sure to spread pan with butter or Pam's cooking spray so batter doesn't stick.
Bake 30-35 min. or until toothpick inserted into center comes out with crumbs. (Do not overbake.) Cool in pan in wire rack. Remove brownies from pan. Cut into squares. Store in tightly covered container.
Makes 24 servings. 


Stella

New and Improved!

As you may have noticed already, I have re-booted my blog into a newer, improved version. I hope everyone enjoys the new version and more posts will coming soon!

How My Dog, Zeiss, Reacts To Basketball

Here is a super silly video that my dad caught of my dog playing keep away from us. This is my dog's usual reaction to basketball...it is hilarious.

That also isn't his normal bark. My dad looked up high barks on Google and it says when a dog makes a high pitched bark, it usually wants a toy or something.

Anyway, I hope you find this amusing!

That is how he has managed to pop every basketball of ours. At home, we have a bucket full of popped, deflated basketballs. Zeiss LOVES basketball.

Stella

Adventures

So after I had gone to String Camp, I had to take a visit to my grandparents because I had sailing camp. It was so much fun! It was on an island, so every camper has to take a boat out to the island and back to the mainland from the island, so I had sea legs every day. It was awesome! (sea legs is wen you still feel like you're on a boat.)!

I couldn't write from my grandparents house anyway because 1) The power went out because of a thunderstorm and 2) I couldn't blog because I don't know the password anyway, dad does.

So after I went to sailing camp, I went down to Virginia Beach to visit my aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, the famous restaurant named The Purple Cow has closed, so we couldn't go there, but we went to some other places called Eat (this was good) and Catch 31 (which I didn't like).

Ivy and I got these really awesome tattoos called Henna Tattoos. I got a very detailed dolphin and Ivy got (surprise!) the jump man logo. It's a Michael Jordan thing. Ivy and mom went into the Nightmare Mansion and they said it was to dark that they couldn't see where they were going and that there were mirrors everywhere and it was eerie.

The actual boardwalk itself is 3.5 miles long, so biking there and back (which I did with my uncle and Ivy) would be seven miles. When we did that, it took about twenty minutes to get to the actual end of the boardwalk. That was so hard because we were heading into the wind, so we had to use extra force.

Riding back from the boardwalk was practically ten times easier! The wind was helping us glide along, so we didn't have to pedal long distances, which was good because w had lost most of our energy biking to the end.

The Boardwalk:

That is where I biked!

So we saw tons and tons of oil barges and cargo ships out on the edge of the horizon. That was cool. And we went to the beach every night and we took my aunt's tiny dog to the beach with a glow stick.

One morning, mom Ivy and I went to the beach for an early swim, and we saw probably 20 dolphins everywhere. Mom wasn't looking but Ivy and I both witnessed a dolphin that leaped out of the water in a big arc. Then we saw to more dolphins jump out together. They were playing.

Now I am up in Maine and I am going home tonight. I have been finishing up my math packet and I only have three pages of FRACTIONS left. Grrr.

Here a picture of Zeiss with another german shepherd named Iris. They are from the same breeder, but they have different parents.

Zeiss^                                    Iris^                

I'm in the blue shorts.

Tomorrow I have to go buy cleats and shin guards for soccer. Then we have to buy school supplies and new clothes for the fall. 

<3 Stella.

Dunder the German Sheperd!!!

This is a really cute video of a German Shepherd growing in forty seconds!! It isn't my dog, although they look exactly the same!!!! The dog's name is Dunder.


SO CUTE!

/\_/\
(oo)
( || )\ dog sitting.

Stella

Stella & Stonyfield!!!! My first TV ad almost 10 years ago!

Check this out!  My dad produced a Stonyfield Yogurt commercial almost ten years ago that my brother and I were both in. How EMBARASSING!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_kovzO-P4&feature=channel_video_title

Capitol Pictures And More:-)))))))

Here r some Capitol pics and other pics from my trip. I took them!! Well, Most of them. Not the first one, obviously.

Enjoy!!

The Washington Monument.

In Chinatown!

The Art Museum

The Capitol. Wow!

The Statue on the top was added when Abe Lincoln was the Prez. I think.

Everyone is at the Capitol

At the CAPITOL!!! Ivy and I.

This Is Leo DaVinci's Painting. About 20 years before the Mona Lisa.

This is a painting of a girl about to kill herself. It is a very sad story

The Rotunda

The Rotunda

This is at Rosa Mexicano. Me with my Tacos!!!

In Chinatown a Tony Chengs

The Wright Brothers Plane. The first plane to fly?

ZEISSY!

Zeissy and ME!!

We didn't actually go to Lincoln Memorial or the Jefferson Memorial or the Library of Congress or the Archives. Save that for next trip!

Farewell,
        Stella