Hi there! Wowzah! We haven’t chatted in a WHILE. Not gonna lie, the last week has been chaotic. Fun, but really chaotic.

On Monday, we drove up to Bend, Oregon, to see our family friends, the Stovals. Well, we drove up on Monday so we could eat at a REALLY good restaurant called Jackson’s Corner. No, seriously, REALLY GOOD. I got AMAZING pepperoni pizza (I ate about 9/12 of the slices) and for dessert I got Stracciatella (STRAT-CHEE-UH-TELL-UH) gelato. Somehow, the gelato was EVEN TASTIER than the pizza.

THE END.

Haha, just kidding.

THEEEEEEEEEEEN…we went to our hotel and went to bed. Exciting, I know.

THE END.

Okay, okay, fine. I’ll stop with that.

Anyway, where were we? Ah yes. THEEEEEEEEEEEN…we went shopping on Tuesday morning. I got some new shoes and the Morty Zone (a Rick and Morty Board Game).

Then we saw the Stovals and went down to a river where we splashed in the water, ate a bunch of chocolate sweets (PLEASE NOTE: If you are my mom or dad, we only are ONE peanut butter cup and THREE chocolate pretzels), and then got really good kabobs, pita bread, and rice.

On Wednesday we went on a short hike. And also passed a farm that was selling alpacas. SUCH A MISSED OPPORTUNITY! Mom, Dad, if you are reading this I will hold a grudge for a WHILE. I mean, who wouldn’t want an alpaca named Alfonso! Anywho, the hike was fun, if you forget the part where we all sweated our brains out. Then we drove home. Three hours. One car. Two grown-ups, a teen, a tween, and a baby. It sounds like the scariest horror movie EVER. Thankfully, I survived…

In other news, my dad showed me this REALLY funny video about the history of the entire world! Yes, there IS a bit of cursing, so if you aren’t comfortable with that, you can skip it. I suggest watching it, though. It is HYSTERICAL!

Also, here are some of my favorite SNL kids’ doll ad skits!

Finally, it’s time for the moment you’ve been waiting for…

ACTOR OF THE WEEK!

Yay!

Patton Oswalt!

Patton has one of those faces, y’know? I feel like he has been in EVERYTHING!

If you want to get more specific, he has been in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, Veronica Mars, Modak, Ratatouille, BoJack Horseman, The Secret Life Of Pets 2, Penguin Town, and more. Check out all of his other films and tv shows here!!!

Thanks for reading!

-Grace

P.S. This weekend, it is supposed to get up to 111°F so yesterday, my parents used reusable plastic popsicle bags and Honest Kids juice to make homemade organic popsicles! The flavors are Grape, Fruit Punch, and Watermelon Lemonade! It is a super fun and easy recipe to make! You literally pour in a juice of your choice, let it freeze, and eat it quickly so that your siblings don’t ask for a bite. Sorry, that last step hit close to home. Have a great weekend!

Cake-una Matata (Please sing to the tune of Hakuna Matata.)

Cake!
What a wonderful phrase!
Cake!
Ain’t no passing craze! It means no worries!
For the rest of your days!
It’s our problem-free philosophy!
Cake!

Anyhoo, I have been thinking a lot about cake (which you could probably tell). What is the best amount of frosting, what is the best flavor, kind of cake, topping, etc.?

Though these questions are hard, I have come up with answers to all of them. Please note that these are opinions, and you can choose to love whichever cake you want. (Even if your opinion is wrong.)😜

Question: What is the best amount of frosting?

Answer: Not SO much that the cake tastes like a cake-flavored toothpaste slime ball, but not SO little that it tastes bare.

Question: What is the best flavor of cake?

Answer: Yellow. There IS a difference between YELLOW and VANILLA cake.

If you click THIS LINK, you can read about the differences between yellow, white, and vanilla cake.

Question: What is the best kind of cake?

Answer: Ice Cream Cake and Pound Cake.

Question: What is the best cake topping? (e.g., sprinkles, chocolate chips, toenails, etc.)

Answer: Sprinkles and MINI chocolate chips. TOGETHER. IT’S A TOPPING TORNADO!

Honestly, the only reason I’m talking about this is because I am SERIOUSLY craving pound cake. I have craving-pound-cake-itis.

In other, COMPLETELY unrelated news:

I have compiled a list of some of my FAVORITE words just for you!

Okay! Word #1:

Oxter. This word is a funny outdated term for armpit.

Word #2:

Bumfuzzle. This word means to confuse or perplex.

Word #3:

Tittynope. Yes. It. Is. A. Word. A Tittynope is a tiny EENSY WEENSY bit of leftovers. As in, the few drops of water in the glass, the last grain of rice in the rice container, or the powder from the crushed cereal at the bottom of the cereal box.

And finally, my pride and joy, Word #4:

WELP! Don’t look at me like that! It IS a word! (I looked it up.)

I usually say welp when I am filling in an awkward silence, or subtly agreeing with someone.

Okay, ’nuff said about words. Let’s talk Actor Of The Week.

Chelsea Peretti!

Chelsea is one of my FAVORITE comedians. My favorite role of hers is Gina Linetti on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

If you haven’t seen Brooklyn Nine-Nine. PLEASE watch it soon. Here is the trailer:

If I still haven’t convinced you, I will get down on the floor and BEG.

Chelsea Peretti has also been in Big Mouth, Spinster, New Girl, Gravity Falls, Game Night, and more! No, more isn’t a film, I’m just saying that there is other stuff she has been in. Check out all her other roles here!

Finally, I would like to share one of my favorite (I have a lot of favorites) SNL Skits!

Thanks for reading!

-Grace

I KNOW RIGHT! Your entire life has probably been a lie! You have either been saying CAR-MEL or CARE-UH-MEL, and only one of them is the CORRECT word for the chewy candy that everyone knows and loves. (Unless you have braces, like me, and envy the people that CAN have caramel.)

Are you ready? This next sentence is about to CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

The proper way to pronounce it is…

Caramel!

Wait, let me be more specific…Care-UH-mel.

CAR-mel is the name of the place in California, as in Carmel, California.

All of the secrets of the universe have been unlocked! You are now the secret keeper of the caramel pronunciation!!! Good for you! Bravo!

In other news, I don’t have very much exciting news. Though I haven’t posted in a while (sorry about that), nothing interesting has come up.

Let’s check the basics to make sure I haven’t missed anything.

Birthdays? Nope. (At least none that I know of other than Angelina Jolie.)

Holidays? National Cheese Day, but I refuse to dedicate part of a blog post to cheese.

Um…Any life changing events? Well, I got my first vaccine a little while back! (No, this time it isn’t an April Fool’s Day joke.) I was SUPER lucky, and only had a sore arm and a headache.

I guess that isn’t really LIFE CHANGING. Let’s talk about something else. Ooh! Ooh! Yesterday I was abducted by interdimensional cocktail umbrell-wait, sorry. I promised that I wouldn’t tell any humans about their plan to make earth spontaneously combust tomorrow, if they let me off their ship. Nevermind! Let’s talk about something else!

Oh I know! Dying! As in, if you watch this SNL Skit, you will DIE of LAUGHTER!

Seriously though, when you are done watching the skit, please take a second to appreciate the accuracy of the contentt. You might be laughing right now (or scrolling down to get to the SNL Skit because I am droning ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON and you just want to watch the freaking SNL Skit but you can’t because I am droning ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND-sorry, that joke was cruel. I’ll let you watch it now.

Also, spur of the moment decision, YOU GET TO SEE ANOTHER SNL SKIT! Wow. I am just SO generous. If you could fill a pair of really comfortable XXXXXXXXSL pajama pants with generosity, that is how much generosity I have. (EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA SUPREMELY LARGE, in case you were wondering.)

Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for…(or at least have been waiting for since I started this sentence)…Actor Of The Week!

TJ Miller!

TJ Miller is an Actor, Comedian, Producer, and Writer. He has been in some of my favorite films and tv shows including Gravity Falls as Robbie, Deadpool as Weasel, The Emoji Movie as Gene, all of the How To Train Your Dragon movies as Tuffnut. He also plays i-R0k (I rock) in Ready Player One. Check out everything else he has been in with THIS LINK.

You can check out the trailer for Ready Player One here:

That’s all for now!

-Grace