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My Name is Audrey Grace. I was named after Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, two inspiring people in their own rights. I live in a small town in the state of Virginia, but I've moved around quite a bit. I have moved a total of nine times in my 16 years of living. [TBC] August 2009
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Yum Yum Yum. Pizza on a Hot Dog bun? Yes it's true, and it's a quick and easy dinner for me. i just get some Hot Dog Buns separate them, put some tomato sauce, slap on some cheddar and pepper jack cheese, and slices of ham lunch meat on top. Pop it in the oven at no real set temperature, just so I can toast the bread and melt the cheese. Then eat. One is a delicious meal in itself, but for days when I'm especially hungry two is great. Toppings are interchangeable and it takes no more than 15 minutes to make. That was my dinner tonight. What was yours?

Trying new foods is always something that someone should do.  Whether it is something extemely out of the ordinary such as Balut, from the Phillipines, or something that you see every day when you walk around, but just haven't had a chance to try.  Which road you take simply depends on how daring you are.  Truthfully, I'm not that daring, but this year I have decided to open my palates up a little more.  If you talked to me last year I would not have even tried something sour or spicy; I liked it plain.  However plain gets boring fast, and I'm learning how to try new things.  That is not to say that I am willing to try Balut yet, even if it is my family's specialty as a Filipino girl.


Today I had a rather mild day, until tonight.  I woke up and had a lovely bowl of Cheerios.  Delicious.  Safe.  Yum.  


Enjoyed my day at school, and around came lunch.  Today there was Mac'n'Cheese, Mini Hot Dogs, and Cinnamon Apples, and it was pretty good.  Some of the best lunch food the cafeteria ladies make.


I am a part of a Robotics Team at school and we tend to stay in school until 8 PM, so Parents alternate and bring dinner on different days.  Today a kind parent of the school brought Salad, Chips, and Chili.  Chili is something I've never had.  I never really liked spicy food and I was a wimp to try it.  However, I decided to go ahead and eat some.  It wasn't that spicy, I guess to please the majority, but it was pretty delicious.  There was baked beans (as is mandatory), ground beef, and veggies all stewed up together to make a rather delicious Chili.  I ate the entire bowl.  I have decided I found a "like" for things mildly spicy, I haven't found the tolerance for IN YOUR FACE spicy yet.


I'm getting more accepting to new flavors each and every day.


Also, as a side note, I have decided to only write blogs every so often, but I will be keeping a physical food diary at all times.

Labels: Family, Food, Food Diary, New Food

I was relaxing thinking about what I had already eaten today when I really thought about what I had eaten today.  This morning I had some Mexican Wedding Cakes which I made yesterday.  They are crazy delicious.  They have probably the simplest recipe ever:
2 Cups Flous
1 Cup Butter
1/4 Cup Confectioners Sugar
2/3 Cup Almonds
1 Tsp Vanilla
1/4 Salt


Mix them all together, and bake in a 350 Degrees Fahrenheit Oven for about 15-20 minutes.  Let them cool, and then dip them in Confectioners Sugar.



They're absolutely delicious.  At lunch I had the School lunch of  a Krispy Chicken Sandwich, Veggie Soup, Apples with a Yogurt Dip, and French Fries.  It was a fulfilling lunch, no matter how fast I needed to scarf it down.  Then after school I was hungry yet again and since there was nothing to eat I simply had butter and rice and hot dogs.

While sitting down, thinking about the different foods I had today, I realized I wanted to keep track of what I ate.  Not for the purpose of dieting: I'm happy with the way I am (and I'm slightly underweight if anything).  Instead, for the purpose of helping me make better and healthier choices in what I eat.  It would also be interesting, I feel to look back and see one day what I was eating another and see the different foods I eat each day.

Starting tomorrow, this blog shall follow the foods I eat daily.

Labels: Food, Food Diary, Recipe

I woke up in the morning.  It was the best feeling in the world.  I felt as if my entire body was rested and I was ready for the world, and the lemons that would be given.

Labels: Dreams, Personal

Summer is over.

You can tell.  Just look outside the window.   The sun is gone, the gloominess surrounds us.  Rain has been abundant since Labor Day.  It makes you wonder, why is the weather so dramatic.  Almost as soon as Labor Day ended, it began raining.  It marked the end of summer and the beginning of Fall.

If you don't believe that summer has ended, millions of students would disagree: School Has Begun.  First week of school is a week where people dress up to show off their new clothes, style, hair, and whatnot.  It's also the week where you learn what teachers you have, the first of the large workload of assignments, and the end of limitless free time.

I will be taking almost all College-Level courses (minus my history course).  I will also be joining numerous clubs in addition to the ones I've already been members of.  And of course, as a Junior, I will be preparing for the dreaded SAT.  I've already bought my Princeton Review's Cracking the SAT book.  Haven't used it, but I will (hopefully).  It's nerve-wrecking to think that soon your entire future will be hanging by a thread.  College is impending.



The University of my choice would have to be UC Berkeley. I'm a California-Girl at heart, and I miss it every day.  I love Virginia, I love the people here, but I can't wait to return to my home.  I don't know what I'd major in because I'm interested in a variety of things from a career in iT and Databases, to Biochemistry, to Engineering.  All have to do with science and all have to do with technology.  I just have no idea what to choose, and hopefully it won't matter until I actually get into college.

One after-school activity that has become part of my life is Robotics.  I am a part of the ILITE Robotics Team.  On Tuesdays and Thursdays you can walk into our school go to Room 1164 and look and see upwards to 50 students tinkering away at 9 PM.  Several weekends are devoted during the regular season.  When it hits time for competition, we're there even longer.  Our team plays with the US FIRST competitions and last year both our FTC and FRC teams made it to World Championships, and we hope to make it again.  This team has once again begun to consume my life.

Labels: College, Dreams, Education, Personal

Thursday:


We went to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum near the Dulles Airport.  We went up to the Observation Tower and were able to view what seemed like all of Virginia and beyond.  Planes flew by almost every 20 minutes.  Since Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had scenes filmed at the museum, they had a lot of Transformers references throughout the museum.  We even saw the Lockheed Martin Blackbird which played the character of Jetfire.  The planes were so interesting and the Space Shuttle was so large.  My mother years and years ago was driving down Interstate 66 in the middle of traffic when she looked up and saw a plane and the shuttle.  She was watching it and wondering why the shuttle was on top of the plane and was not separating from it.  When she arrived home, she had learned that it was the Space Shuttle Enterprise which had been retired.  Today, we were able to see it up close and in person.

Friday:

Labels: Family, Family Stories, Personal, Travel

Today was my first full day of my week of fun with the twins, Nicholas and Robert, along with my mom's best friend Auntie Barbara, and her husband Uncle Tony.  The twins are like little tornadoes.   They start of as calm little wisps and they're running around, then they settle down, yet you know exactly where they were with constant calms and bouts of excitement.  They're absolutely adorable and they love to have fun, but the day could not have gotten more tiring with all the exciting bits.

Last night, everyone except my father and myself played a round of (as Auntie Barbara calls it) 'Musical Beds'.  Auntie Barbara and Uncle Tony slept in my mom's bed (otherwise known as the guest room), My brother slept in a sleeping bag after Robert and Nick didn't like sleeping in the same air mattress, so I believe Nick slept in Andrey's bed and Robert slept in the air mattress.  Yet when everyone awoke, Robert was in Andrey's bed and Nick in the air mattress.  Throughout the night you could hear them switching constantly between the air mattress in the loft and Andrey's room.

Around 11 AM we went to the pool, and since absolutely no one else was there with us we had the two giant pools to ourselves.  Luckily we today was an excellent day for swimming when it wasn't too hot when we got there.  Of course there was an abundance of water guns when we had the 10 minute breaks, and a blast squirting our favorite lifeguard Matt.  I exercised a bit with Water Aerobics and doing laps in the lanes.  I had to stop doing laps in the lanes when I lost my hair tie and couldn't swim with my hair getting all over my face and causing me to be unable to breathe.  When the snack bar finally opened we had a delicious snack of Nachos, but since they had no cheese we decided to just have chili with them (Robert's new Favorite).  We also had a variety of crackers and chips to tide us over.

After finishing up from the pool and cleaning up, we went over to Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Centreville, VA.  It's a often haunt of mine, since my father co-owns this certain store.  ALL the boys (even the old ones) had Chocolate Chillers, while I had a Island Paradise (I believe), and Auntie Barbara had a Mango Magic.  My mother and I shared a Sesame Chicken Wrap, Auntie Barbara had a Cordon Bleu Wrap (which she shared with Robert), and Uncle Tony had a Buffalo Chicken Wrap.  The Buffalo Chicken Wrap is extremely spicy, so I don't recommend it for the faint of taste.  Nicholas decided he wanted to try it and he took a big bite out of Uncle Tony's wrap, and he looked like a scene from a Disney TV Show.  His face got red and he gagged a bit and hurried to return the wrap to Uncle Tony.  After that it sort of ruined the TSC experience as he refused to eat anything else except some of Auntie Barbara's smoothie which has low-fat yogurt in it to help soothe the burn.



Soon we came home to relax and enjoy ourselves, but the boys had been messing with my brother's broken RoboSapien V2 and could not figure out why even though they replaced all the batteries, it still kept saying "brain battery low", so they gave it to my mom, my aunt, and I.  The robot turned out to be extremely creepy, annoying, and funny as it would turn on and turn off at certain times.  And some random touches caused spasms or out of control movements, that it made it seem possessed.  This possessed idea came from a previous incident with my cousin Jonathan.  One time he had been staying over and it was approaching midnight and he was playing with a 20Q ball, and was yelling that it was possessed since it kept guessing what he was thinking.  So he runs into my brothers room and jumps on his bed screaming this in order to annoy him since Andrey was trying to sleep.  However, as he's lying in Andrey's bed, the RoboSapien which was supposedly broken was on this shelf and turns on, begins to talk, and then goes into Standby where in moves into that pose that the kids are in in the Quaker Oats Chewy Bars commercial and spooks Jonathan completely.

This was an extremely fun day (followed by an extremely long post.

Labels: Electronics, Family Stories, Personal