North Pole Pen Pal

BIG NEWS!!!
Biggest news I've ever had in my whole entire LIFE!
Even bigger than Santa's boogers on my coffee table!!
I know....
Hard to believe that there even could be any bigger news.
But, life surprises you sometimes.

Ok. Let me begin the story.
About a month ago, I wrote a letter to Santa Claus.
My first letter ever.

Since it was my first, I had to make sure everything was perfect.
So I wrote it inside of a magical fort...

With my two good friends, Jennie and Mark.

We took our Santa letters very seriously, and even dressed up to deliver them to the nearest mailbox.

We walked for blocks and couldn't find a single mailbox!
Not even at the library!
We almost put our letters in the book return box out of desperation...
But alas!
We finally found a mailbox...
An old abandoned mailbox... in the middle of nowhere.
But, a mailbox is a mailbox.
So we put our letters in with the faith that they would be delivered to the north pole.

And....

THEY WERE!!!

Not only did Santa get my letter.....

HE WROTE ME BACK!!!!

I think Santa Claus is a fourth grader from Alaska...

Who knew!

All this time I thought he was an old man.

Santa Snot

Good news everyone!
SANTA CAME TO MY HOUSE!!!

And you wanna know what he left me???

Magic Snot!

That's right. Santa sneezed magic boogers all over my table!!

Do you see it? It's all over the table!

I scooped all the snot into an envelope and I'm going to save it FOREVER!
However, I didn't save all of it.
Jennie and I sprinkled each other with the magic boogers and you know something? I think it worked because I was able to eat just as much, if not more than Santa would.

It was MAGIC!!!

I hate it when you're too full to eat mass amounts of delicious food. That happened to me on Christmas Eve, and I was kinda upset about it...
But not on Christmas! Santa really saved the day!

I'll have to save the magic snot for next time I go to a party with really great food-- now that I know what it's effects are.

Life is like a puddle...

UPDATE UPDATE!!!
So...I moved to Seattle....in case you were wondering what happened...
I made it.
I live in a cosy little cabin that makes me feel like I'm living inside of a holiday.

Jennie makes delicious soups
And I eat them
Life is good.

It's been a lovely October with lots of sun
But what's Seattle...without a little rain?

Last week the rain was dancing....calling us to come out and join
So we did.

We put on our rainboots.
Grabbed our umbrellas
Posed with our favorite book:

RAIN MAKES APPLESAUCE
And we were off.

First.
We waited for the bus

A few came, but we waved them away...

"Not today we say!"
We're gonna jump in the rain!!!!!

And that's exactly what we did.

We skipped, splashed, sploshed our way up to Starbucks.
All the while singing songs about the rain.
Mostly original songs by myself and Jennie.
They were pretty good songs if I do say so myself.

Who knew that Starbucks was so close to our house?

I think it was because we were skipping...

Skipping is probably the fastest AND funnest mode of transportation that exists in this world. I think this is probably a secret, because I never see anyone doing it.

The only bummer of the night was....

Jennie dropped her apple fritter on the floor.

But it really wasn't a bummer because...

we ate it anyways
We figured we were just building our immune systems.

By the time we left Starbucks, the rain really started dancing.
There was no fighting it.

We had to become one with the rain...

We turned into real life actual raindrops.
Do you know what it feels like to be a raindrop?
I will tell you...

WET

It's a good feeling.

Eventually, the cold got to us.

And we decided we would rather be warm than be raindrops...

Lucky for us, we have onesie pajamas.

Which, if you didn't know...

have the magical power of transforming even the wettest raindrops- back into humans.

Good Morning Autumn!!!

It's a little rainy out this morning. The perfect morning to drink coffee, wear a snugly sweater, light up my pumpkin spice candle, read a good book, and.... procrastinate on packing up all my stuff.
Every time I start packing I feel overwhelmed by all my stuff! It's everywhere! Theres just too much of it. So instead, let's talk about something with less anxiety....Autumn!

And by autumn I mean, last weekend.

Last weekend, I experienced for the first time in my whole life....

A pumpkin patch!

AND.
A Corn Maze!

It was so autumny.

Here are the highlights from the day:

Number 1.

Little kids getting pumpkins

This little one here was entranced by my Mikie.
I almost felt threatened.
I mean, she's really cute.
How can I compete with that?


Number 2:
Wagons.

These things are great.
Why walk when Mikie can give you a ride?
I think I may be investing in one.

Number 3:
The Tractor.
Out in the pumpkin fields there was a lone tractor, making us feel much further from the city than we actually were.


Number 4:
The Color Orange
Was EVERYWHERE!!!

Number 5:
Underwater Sea-vegetables

They were trying to call these creatures "gourds"

But they were obviously from the deep sea.

Except for this one

Amanda saved a poor helpless swan from the swarm of sea creatures.

Number 6:
Sibling love

Danny, being the loving brother he is, shucked Amanda a great big ear of corn so that her little tummy would be happy while we were lost in the corn maze.
Though...we weren't really supposed to eat the corn...
But it was kind of an emergency.
I mean, who knows how long we could have been trapped in there. It could have been hours.
Good thing Danny was there.

Number 7:
Mikie

Taking pictures of me, taking pictures of him.

HAPPY AUTUMN!!!!

It's Official.

Announcement!

I have important official news to share with you!!

Number 1:
Seattle.
It's official.

I'm about to live there.

In this house no less!
Well...in the basement that is.

Come visit because I have an extra guest room and everything!

Number 2:

Jennie.
It's official.

We're gonna live together.
And we're actually...
Pretty excited about it.

Number 3:
Preschool.
I got my job back!

And you know what?

I'm pretty much excited about it!!

Now, THIS is the Happiest Place on Earth!

Everyday is a holiday.
I love preschool

Number4:

Mikie

It's official...
We're dating.
Mikie is my BOYFRIEND!

How cute is this guy?
So cute.
He even puts on puppet shows.

In Conclusion:

Life.
It's official...
I'm pretty excited about it!

To Disneyland...and back again

DISNEYLAND!!!!!

Okok....
As some of you may know, or probably all of you....I'm supposed to be living in Disneyland right now. In fact, I created this blog specifically so that I could keep people at home informed on my new magical life at Disneyland.

BUT.

I'm not living at Disneyland.

You see...well, I mean...I did GO to Disneyland. I packed up my car with all my belongings and drove with my dad for 2 million years to get to the bloody south of California.

Upon arriving however,

ummm--well, I...

Ok. So first of all. I just want you to know, this is not sad.
If you're thinking it's sad...
You're perfectly mistaken
You see, actually this is kinda funny.
More ridiculous than anything...but still funny
never sad though.

Except it was sad when I thought I was going to have to stay there for four months.
I really didn't want to do that.
And.
I really didn't want to do this:

Does this kid not look miserable?
I don't want to be MISERABLE!!

Ok, but listen...
The thing is, Disneyland would have been fine. I know that I would have been fine and probably even have had a good time, but I just didn't want to. I wanted to start my life in Seattle. And when I applied for this internship, it was because I was trying to avoid starting my life after college. But I'm ready. I think. Well, as ready as I'll ever be.

But let me tell it to you straight:

I've been trying to get myself excited about this disneycollege thing, and I thought that the excitement would set in as soon as I got to Disneyland.
However...
I walked into downtown disney and I just filled with dread.
We had just gotten our lunch when my dad asked:
"Are you startin to feel the magic yet?"

I burst into tears.
There I was. Sitting in downtown disney. Crying my eyes out.

So we went back to the hotel where I did some soul searching with my dad constantly assuring me that he wouldn't mind driving back with me if I changed my mind.

Then I called my mom to see what she thought, and in opposition to my dad, she told me that I needed to stay.

I had no idea what to do.
I felt like I had two brains

I needed to make up my mind in a timely matter. Since I could only withdraw before the program began. I laid on my hotel bed thinking and praying, wondering what I should do, when the phone rang. It was my good friend Jennie, who just moved to Detroit. She called me with the news that her old boss had just e-mailed her and said that her job was still available. She told me she was seriously considering moving back to Seattle even though she had just unpacked.

It was perfect! Within minutes we were making plans for our new life in Seattle. At the end of our conversation we revelled in our ridiculousness, and laughed at our situations. We had both basically done the same thing. Moved miles away, just to turn around and move back.

It made me feel better to know that we were both so ridiculous.

So there was the decision.
Sorry Disneyland. Seattle wins.

I sent an e-mail, made a phone call, and just like that, I was out of the program.

My dad and I went off to California Adventure-- which was where I was going to be working---in food service no less.
I felt confirmed in my decision after spending the day there that I really didn't want to work there after all.

I started wondering why I applied for the program at all...

I mean, I love Disneyland. I really do. I mean, come on, it's the happiest place on earth! But honestly, it's only the happiest place on earth if you're there with the people you love.

Since I'm not looking to have a career in Disney, it seemed counter progressive to spend four months there passing out hot dogs.

I'd much rather just start my life in Seattle.

So. Here I am.

Back where I started.
Good ol' Bremerton

And off to....

SEATTLE!!!!

A little bit of magic

Ummm. This is my blog.

My name is Mindy. Mindymouse.

And well...

I'll tell you something...

I really love Seattle.

It's really the most magical place.

Especially Pikes Place Market.

I Like to pretend I'm a tourist visiting another country when I go there.

I mean just look at these flowers

They look like someone mixed up all the holidays and then they exploded into a magical bouquet of flowers

Also.

Another thing I like about seattle is how you can feel so city-ish with your tall iced americano, walking through busy traffic, and then suddenly turn a corner and find yourself in a peaceful neighborhood that leads to an enchanted forest.

This my friends is the house from which all fairytales come from. Either that, or it's filled entirely with candy.
And this is the enchanted forest...

It has to be one. Because I mean, just look at it! MAGIC!!!!

And speaking of "MAGIC"

I have something to tell you blog...

I'm about to leave this magical city of Seattle to live in the place where magic is kept!

The Magic Kingdom...

The HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!!

DISNEYLAND!!!

From one magical place to another.

Life is beautiful.

But don't worry Seattle. I still love you the most.