Back to Life

Well now that pumpkins are over this blog can get back to being a mix of themes: geocaching, country, life in general. First I have to locate my GPS that my house ghost has hidden. Now that I can't find it, the itch to go geocaching is getting WORSE!

Can't forget to mention that maybe in the next year this will become a mommy blog! Just throwing it out there, not trying to jinx things. TRIPLE EEEEEEEKKK!

In other news, this year I've gotten my seasonal flu shot AND my H1N1 shot so now I just have to avoid common colds, 24 hr flu, tuberculosis, meningitus, strep, etc at school. What a bunch of germy kids. I am germ-phobe TOTALLY. WISH ME LUCK!

Papa Hawai'iloa

So I guess I was in "Time for Kids"! Super cool that a 2nd grade class read it in Hawaii, googled me, and is now writing me asking about pumpkins! They even have a blog / class page.

In other news, this showed up in my mailbox today. From an unknown person in an unknown country! It is one thing to see lots of online articles in different languages, but to actually hold a newspaper from another country that you totally can't understand is totally surreal!

Pumpkins and Art

An artist I am not. Just ask my mom! Everyday in 7th grade I'd come home crying because my art teacher was threatening my perfect GPA with a possible B. Well believe it or not, the Department Chair himself from the University of Maryland College of Art google-stalked ME!! He wanted to cast my pumpkin so he could sculpt it!

Through a weird twist of fate (the carver Scott Cully from Oregon couldn't come as planned because of a family death), John Ruppert was able to get his wish. He drove from Maryland with a flatbed truck, crane, and a LOT of plaster this weekend! Nick and I helped and he finished in a little over 16 straight hours (WOA I KNOW!). What an interesting guy.

I am very excited about all of this. This sort of imortalizes the pumpkin in a way I'd never had imagined. I can't wait to see how many replicas he makes and where they end up! He's got 17 replicas from a pumpkin he cast in 1995 all around the country.

Time Change

This blog wouldn't be a true representation of me if I didn't make my annual "I HATE THE TIME CHANGE SO MUCH I WANT TO DIE" post.

So there you have it. I will soon be getting SADD and I will just sit on my couch and eat Doritos until spring.

In other news, regionals is tomorrow so hopefully the girls can make it to state (and suprise us).

Big Pumpkin in the Big Apple

Wow Wow Wow. That's all I have to say about the fact that a giant pumpkin landed me in Rockefeller Center on the Today Show yesterday morning.

I declared back in highschool that I would be perfect fine with never EVER going to NYC again. I changed my mind. Might have been the classy hotel NBC paid for us to stay in. Or the fact we had DRIVERS to take us around (those were the most interesting people to talk to!!! Turns out Tom Hanks might not be too nice afterall!). I'll post a TON more pictures on the trip someday!

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The Picture Seen 'Round the World

Life has been a surreal blur this past week or so. Nothing has really sunk in and I just feel like everything is a whirlwind. TV cameras showing up at school unannounced, lots of people stalking down my school email address, newspapers wanting to come get pictures, radio channels wanting interviews. I am on the list of yahoo's most emailed pictures. I'm also in a newspaper in Europe and New Zealand among others.

OVER A PUMPKIN!!

Pretty cool stuff. However, I'm actually thinking my record will fall Oct 21st in southern Ohio of all places. If it's going to go down, I'd rather have an Ohioan (and a friend at that) do it. But I'll keep my fingers crossed that he goes 1699. LOL.

Next stop: New York City!!

NEW WORLD RECORD!!

4 days later I'm still speechless.