Shouldn’t we be done with buying stuff already?

Shouldn’t we be done with buying stuff already?

Written by:  09/08/2014 Colleen Cakebread on her laptop in the living room in Bettystown

Supposed answer: yes.

Real answer: Not for another couple hundred thousand million more years.

My answer:I wish.

Every day we discover new things about the house. Not all of them are good. Like, my light did not have a cover, so we had to buy one at the IKEA in Dublin yesterday. It was a pretty good deal. A paper light cover shaped like a chinese fire balloon for 2 euro 50 cents.

Also, we got to stop by a car boot sale. For all of you in America, a car boot sale is a collection of cars with their trunks open trying to sell stuff like at a garage sale. Basically, a portable garage sale. Which was pretty fun. We got a lamp for my room, a coffeemaker, and a badminton set. A birdie was included in the bargain, but that's pretty useless when there's only 1.  

Which brings us to another annoying fact about the house. All around us is a giant stone wall surrounded by blackberries. Then a stream. Then more blackberries. So either someone really likes seeing kids suffer when they were innocently playing badminton and got the birdie beamed into the blackberries on the other side after having it beamed into the neighbors yard, or someone really doesn’t want us to get to those cows. Or the ice cream truck that tinkles merrily behind them. You can even hear it stop, and give out ice cream to the kids. Talk about mental torture.

So. Online school. I want to say it’s like regular school, but its not. It’s a lot harder and easier. It’s harder in the sense that you're reading a bunch of stuff instead of having awesome teachers like mine give you things to remember stuff by. Like, Mr. Kaplan, my fifth grade teacher, who taught us that Extremely Pink Moose DO Amazing Splits, which is how I came to strike back in an argument against the dark forces that is The Master, whose real name is Abigail Cakebread.( sorry to non- doctor who watchers, that was a doctor who thing.)It’s easier in the sense that I’ve already learned most of everything.

After the boot sale on Sunday, we visited the Museum of Archeology in Dublin. I didn’t think it was very cool. It was basically a bunch of old artifacts. The only things I was REALLY interested in were the mummy exhibit and the dead bodies from the stone age and the bronze age.The dead bodies were the best.

Saturday was pretty uneventful, besides the fact that I got my hair cut. The lady said that it would turn into a bob and to check in there after a couple weeks, and I’m sure we will.

After that, we went out to Drogheda. We browsed a few stores, and in one, we found the most magical thing I have seen in a long while. It is the same one thing that I have searched every candy store for. The legendary WONKA CHOCOLATE BAR! We bought two for me and Abby, and then we moved on to the Salt House, where we ate.

After the Salt House, we came home and thoroughly searched the town for anything interesting. Not finding anything, we walked along the beach, where I counted 59 dead jellyfish. 59! and they weren't the tiny ones from home, either. these were foot long, gigantic jellies!

                                      So, thats the basics of it all.

                                       This is Colleen, signing off.