My Ankle!! November 27, 2009

Aahh, I sprained my ankle!

See, it was my brother’s birthday today, (Happy b-day, Andrew!) so he and three of his buddies and I and our parents and my mom’s dad all went to a place called Sky High Sports. Basically it’s a bunch of trampolines connected to each other, with a separate foam pit and dodgeball area. you jump on the trampolines and play for an hour or so.

I took my shoes off and jumped on the trampoline arena for a good three minutes (:D) before I fell and hurt my ankle. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but i think it had something to do with the yellow pads in between the trampolines. I might have tripped over one, or jumped on one accidentally, or something like that.

So I went down, and my ankle hurt really bad, and my dad and this staff person came over to help me up and get off onto a bench. My ankle swelled a lot, and I cried, and I got an ice pack, and I sat out for the rest of the hour.

Yah, it looks like my knee. But that round oval thing on the side of my foot is actually a swollen ankle…and the white thing is my sock…

So I was asking my parents all kinds of questions. “How am I going to sing on Sunday with my choir?” “How am I going to go to school on Monday?” And the most pressing, “How will I get to the car?” Mom answered, “You have a big daddy. He’ll help you.”

And I thought, ‘I’ve got an even bigger Daddy too, and I know he’s gonna help me.’ Why does it take hardship for us to recognize and appreciate things we often take for granted? Thank you, God, that it wasn’t broken or anything worse.

So I got a piggyback ride out of Sky High, and afterwards we went to a restaurant, and my ankle was better but I couldn’t put weight on it, and it  hurt if I turned it too much. Then Dad made a doctor’s appointment, and at 7:30ish we headed over there.

I hobbled out of the car and a security person asked if I wanted a wheelchair, and Dad said yes. He wheeled me into the waiting room and told the lady @ the desk, “We’re here for the 7:30 showing of ‘Fix My Ankle.’ She laughed, and i did too. Dad’s so funny. He always tries to make me smile.

After five minutes we were shown into the doctor’s office where a nurse got some basic info from us. Then we waited for a while and I read my book. oh-by the way, this sign was on the garbage–

oops, didn’t mean to make it that big.

so then the doctor came in and looked at my ankle, and she said I needed x-rays. Then Dad and I waited some more, and Jeff the X-ray Guy came in. He wheeled me into the x-ray room and told jokes. I asked if I would feel anything, and he said ‘Only as much pain as you feel when you’re talking on the phone. Or standing by the microwave.’

‘Should I take my glasses off?’ I wondered. ‘No, only if your ankle goes up into your head. Then we’d have to take your braces off, too. That would be kinda painful, cuz all I have are some pliers.’

He took 3 x-rays and Dad wheeled me back. Then the doctor came back in and gave us some papers and looked at the pics with us and said I sprained my ankle. Then the nurse came and gave me crutches and a boot/splint/thing.

Now, i’m in good humor and my ankle only hurts a teeny bit.

Night, everybody! Happy Belated Thanksgiving.

ibby out.

 

Thanksgiving November 25, 2009

Yay! One more days until we stuff ourselves with goodies.

About my last post…where we made all sorts of pumpkin delights in Gourmet cooking? At first, everybody was saying, “Oh, yeah, this looks so good!” And afterwards we were all groaning because it was SO much pumpkin and SO much sugar. Almost no one finished their plate. But a lot of people got hyper. I started laughing and I couldn’t stop, and another girl at my table complained that she was dizzy. Eli, a boy in my group, said, “Try spinning around slowly” as a joke. But Sreevidya didn’t know he was joking and did it anyway. Funny! And Eli was the Dishwasher and I dried the dishes. He filled the empty cups with water and stuck utensils in them and gave them to me to dry, saying, “Here’s your martinis. Oh wait, did you order the cherry martini?” I nodded, playing along. He filled a cup with “pumpkin water” (because the dishes had been washed in the tub and turned orange) and put a fork or two in their and handed it to me. “Here you go!” And I just started to crack up, mostly because I was hyper, and partly because he wasn’t this hyper normally either. It doesn’t sound very funny here, but it was there, mostly because I was hyper.

Today I’m going to attempt to make Iced Pumpkin Cookies for a Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow. I’m going to my grandparents’ house with a bunch of other relatives and we’ll play and eat and have lots of fun.

ibby out!

More Food November 19, 2009

yes, this post is about food. We all made potatoes in GC (that’s Gourmet cooking, but I say home ec sometimes too) for our Thanksgiving Website. 3 kinds: red, sweet, and mashed. My favorites were the mashed potatoes. the rule is that each dish must include a fruit or vegetable or whole grain. students pick recipes and we all vote. Desserts are next. Pumpkin pie? yes. pumpkin gingerbread trifle? yup. Pumpkin ice cream torte with ginger crust and caramel and hot fudge topping? absolutely! drop by room 150 if you want a taste.

what else should I say about food…um, i might have to make a new post about something else. :0)

er, um…food…what’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish? I wish I could poll you, but i don’t know how to use the poll button. aah! if someone knows how, please comment and help. thank you.

 

Gourmet Cooking and Beds November 9, 2009

So we finished our snack unit in Home Ec class. We had lots of yummy snacks including nachos, spam sushi (which I didn’t care for), mini pizzas, onion rings, caramel apple witches, bruchetta (my favorite!) and balsamic strawberry sorbet. That one sounds weird but tastes really good. Our new unit is Thanksgiving/seasonal dishes. Everyone finds a recipe that fits the theme and contains a whole grain, fruit, and/or vegetable. Then they type it up and we all vote on 5-7 recipes. My recipe was Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges. It’s really simple-it’s just sweet potato wedges tossed with sugar, salt, red pepper and black pepper, and then you bake it @ 500 degrees.

Oh man, it was SO hard to get out of bed this morning! Speaking of which, we got a bunkbed! yay! I’m on the bottom and Andrew (lil bro) is on the top. It feels like we’re sleeping in a cabin or someone else’s room.  But very cozy!

Ibby out.

NaNoWriMo November 4, 2009

Guess what, everybody? November is National Novel Writing Month. There’s this really cool website where you write a novel in a month, and I’m participating in the Young Writers Program that they have. Check it out!

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

And one for the Young Writers…

http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/

Happy writing!

Ibby

Bored October 18, 2009

tum tee tum…la la la…tra la la…whee…

Life October 3, 2009

Ah, it’s Saturday! The day when I can do nothing…except breathing, eating, sleeping, staying alive, etc…

la la la…oh, yesterday we had a Club Faire at our school! There was a juggling club and a tech club and poetry club and a drama club and an electric moose club (that’s industrial tech) and many, many more. I signed up for a school magazine club. we meet on Wednesdays, except I forgot what room…

I’m learning Spanish at home. And Russian, too. Spanish because we’re going on a mission trip next year to Nicaragua, and Russian because I’m half russian and I want to learn the language.

Toodles,

Ibby

Recipes September 19, 2009

Okay, so my last post was about making scones and lemon curd at school. I brought the recipe home and made them for breakfast today. They were a total success, so I wanted to share them with you. By the way, the lemon curd should be made the day/night before, because it needs to chill.

Lemon Curd

2 1/2 t. finely grated fresh lemon zest

1/2 c. fresh lemon juice

1/2 c. plus 3 T. sugar

2 large eggs

pinch of salt

1/4 cup plus 3 T. unsalted butter, cut into tablesp0on pieces

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1. Whisk together zest, lemon juice, sugar, eggs, and a pinch of salt in a 2-quart heavy saucepan.

2. Add butter all at once and cook over moderately low heat, whisking constantly, until curd is thick enough to hold marks of whisk and first bubbles appear on surface, about 10 min. (that means whisk until it starts bubbling, then whisk for ten minutes.)

3. Immediately pour curd through a fine sieve into a bowl, then chill, covered.

Cooks’ note: Makes about 1-1/2 cups. Lemon curd keeps, covered and chilled, 1 week.

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Cream Scones

2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour

1 t. cream of tartar

1/2 t. baking soda

1/2 t. table salt

1 T. granulated sugar

4 T. unsalted butter, chilled adn cut into 1/2-inch pieces

3/4 c. heavy cream

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

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1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2. Sift first 5 ingredients into large bowl.

3. With pastry blender (but I used a fork, either works well), cut butter into flour mixture until mixture resembles coarse meal with a few slightly larger butter lumps.

4. Make a well in the center of mixture and pour in heavy cream and eggs.

5. Blend ingredients together with a rubber spatula into a soft, slightly wet dough.

6. Turn dough onto a well-floured work surface.

7. Form the dough into a disk and cut the disk into eight pieces.

8. Separate each of the sections.

9. Bake until scones are lightly brown, 10-12 minutes.

10. Serve immediately.

School Electives September 16, 2009

I am SO lucky to have lots of electives at my school! Last year I took Drama, Art, Keyboarding, and Home Ec. Other options include Industrial Tech, Latin, Spanish, Japanese, French, Computers, Leadership, Choir, and Band. This semester, my electives are Gourmet Cooking and Web Design. in Web Design we made a web page! It was cool. Right now we’re learning how to make text different colors. And today in Cooking, our kitchen made and ate cream scones with lemon curd (a lemon sauce). It was SO GOOD!

Happy Hump Day,

Ibby out.

This is weird… September 11, 2009

My math teacher showed me this:

Two days ago it was

9/9/09

the 9th day of

the 9th month of

the two thousand and 9th year,

which happened to fall on

a Wednesday (which has 9 letters) in

the month of September (which also has 9 letters), which was

the 252nd day of the year.

Add up 2+5+2 and you get?

9.

Isn’t that weird? But it’s cool, too.

Ibby out.