Pumpkin Pie Disaster

I was trying to make a new Youtube video for pumpkin pie, but it totally didn't work. So first you have to cut the pumpkin in half and cook in oven for about an hour. So I tried cutting the pumpkin, but it wouldn't cut. I even wacked the knife against the pumpkin several times, but it never cut. So I tried heating it up in the oven for about 20 minutes, and that worked. So I continued my video. I scraped all the pumpkin seeds and stuff out, then placed into the oven, and cooked it. After I took it out, it kind of looked different from the first time I cooked a pumpkin, and then I started scraping the insides and the texture was totally different. But I still continued with the crap of a pumpkin I had and placed it into my blender. After I blended it for about 30 seconds or so, the texture of the pumpkin didn't really change. So. I put the somewhat pureed pumpkin into a pot and heated it up for about 8 minutes. Then I blended it again, and it became pureed. Yay. I decided to taste it, and that's were the big issue came. It tasted horrendous. I tried adding some brown sugar, which helped, but I'm probably just gonna use some canned pumpkin by Libby's. I don't know why I didn't just start from the canned in the first place if I had known it was going to be so difficult. I spent like 2 hours trying to fix some pumpkin which turned out horrible, when I could have used canned pumpkin. Ugh...I was just trying to be healthy and baking a pumpkin pie totally from scratch. But scratch that idea, I'm just totally using the canned pumpkin. Tomorrow I'm going to finish baking the pumpkin pie with the canned pumpkin. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong tomorrow. Shoot...where's my pie pan?...

Time Flies

You know, time flies by way too quickly; even if your not having that much fun. I had a four day weekend this week, but tomorrow is already Tuesday. Seriously, where did my weekend go to?


Friday wasn't all that great. I had a needle shoved in my mouth, and the right side my face (including my eyelid) went completely numb thanks to it. But I did see Easy A which was amazingly good; I can't wait till it comes out on dvd and blue ray, I'm totally buying it.

On Saturday I went grocery shopping with my mother. Then I went hiking in the woods with my cousin. I got bite by like 50 million bugs despite the fact that I showered myself in bugspray.

Sunday was slightly relaxing. I sat around the house doing nothing and awaited for my mother's return from the grocery store. She was gone for about 4 hours, no joke, just to get a few items we forgot to buy on Saturday. That actually makes no sense, and then when she returned home, she went back to the store because the peppers were bad on the inside. We were planning on baking that day, but since she was at the grocery store for practically the entire we had to postpone our baking till today.

Today was wonderful. My mother baked apple pie, and I helped with the crust, and I baked banana crumb muffins. The only awful thing about today was having to visit a family friend who I haven't seen in forever. But I barely know the guy, but since my mom is such great friends with his mom, I had to come. We gave them half of the muffins I baked, and discussed college and SAT stuff. My wonderful morning was slightly ruined, especially since we stayed for more than 20 minutes as we had planned, and didn't leave till about an hour and a half later. I've still got homework and studying to finish and it's already 9pm.

Where did my four-day weekend go to? But now that I look back at it, it wasn't so bad, there just wasn't as much relaxing as I had wanted.

First Day of School...

School started the day after Labor Day! Yay! But I'm already tired...the bus company decided to come pick us up earlier, so instead of arriving at the bus stop at 6:35 am, it's gonna be 6:25 am. For me, this means I have to wake up at 5:30 am, and leave the house by 6:10 am. This totally sucks.

On the other hand, seeing my friends was wonderful. We talked endlessly about our summers and stuff. It was great. And one of my bffs from third grade is finally in a class with me. We haven't been in any academic class since third grade because we were such trouble makers. Finally we're back together again. Yay!~

Lunch is a total drag because there are 94 new freshmen. A breaking record; the most our school has ever had. So once 12:45 pm comes, there's a mad rush to the cafeteria. Even with the two lunch lines, you have to wait for like 20 min, no joke. Luckily our lunch period is 40 minutes, and you could just come back during the second half of lunch when the lines are shorter to get lunch (but then there wouldn't be any desserts left...).

School is finished by 3:30 pm, and if you take sports, by 5:30 pm (not on game days). This fall I decided not to take soccer because I'd like to get home earlier. My coach from last year got mad at me, and told me he didn't like me (but he tells everyone this, even other teachers). But I'll be joining him in the spring for track and field.

My classes for this school year are the following:
- Latin III
- Geometry and Trigonometry
- English 10
- Introduction to Engineering
- American and European History (Core I)

I'm already tired from only 3 days of school and I've got 9 more months left. I wonder how I'll hold up...