Sunday, March 6, 2016

Hanging Out At Kim's House

Hello future readers!

It's been raining like crazy here in Springfield. I know rain is good for plants and flowers and animals, but I really don't like it when it rains. I like playing outside on the playground at school, And  after school, I like zipping around the neighborhood on my bike, or playing tag outside with my friends. And on Saturday, after the cartoons are over, I'm usually all over the place until I have to come home for dinner. Playing inside is OK, but it's the pits when you know you can't play outside. This past Saturday, my mom got tired of hearing me whine about it raining AGAIN. She told me if I didn't stop, she;d find chores for me to do! YIKES! It's a good thing Kim called me and invited me over.

When I got to Kim's house, her mom told me she was playing up in her room.



Kim has a cute bedroom. It's smaller than mine, but I like it. I like her superhero bedspread, her pink wallpaper, and her little couch. I sat down and I told her I was glad she called me because the rain was driving me out of my mind. Kim told me that her mom said she should call me because she was whining and complaining that she couldn't go outside, just like I was! We had a good laugh over that one.



I looked over in the corner and noticed she had a new guitar. I didn't know Kim could play the guitar! I asked her if I could check it out and she said yes.



Kim said she asked her dad to get her a guitar, because she found out that Kerry was going to start giving lessons on Tuesdays after school at the Community Center. Far out! Kerry is a super guitar player, and I knew she'd be a good teacher, too.



Kim took back the guitar and started to strum it. She told me that her Aunt Cathy back east showed her once how to play the "C' chord. It sounded pretty, but that was the only one she knew.




I told her if she practiced and got really good, that she should take her guitar to camp this summer and she and Kerry could play their guitars around the campfire. Kim thought it would be a long time before she was as good as Kerry. I asked Kim if I could put on some music. She said sure. I don't know why, but whenever I go to someone's house, I always wanna turn on their record player or radio. Maybe it's because whenever I hang out in my room, I'm always playing music.




I pulled out one of Kim's favorite albums by Foster Sylvers. I think she likes him as much as I like David Cassidy. She's even got a poster of him over her record player. He sings with his family "The Sylvers" but he also had his own record album. I think he sorta sounds like Michael Jackson, but Kim doesn't agree with me.



I put on her favorite song, "Misdemeanor", and we made her dolls dance to it.



When the song was over, Kim felt like playing a game. She looked under her bed where she keeps them.





She pulled out her Perfection game. I like this game but it also makes me jump! You set a timer and have to put all the shapes in their spaces before it runs out. When the timer stops, the tray pops up and the pieces go flying! Kim's pretty good at it. After I put all the shapes in, I like to turn it off, but Kim likes to watch it pop!




Kim's mom brought us up a snack.,,Oreo cookies and 2 cans of Hi-C! (that's a fruit punch) Yum!



Kim got cherry and I got my favorite, peach! We rapped and told goofy jokes while we ate. Kim loves to do voices, she's so funny! I wish I could do that. It's groovy to have a friend that can make you laugh so hard you forget how hard or how long it's been raining, (and Hi-C shoots outta your nose! Ha-ha!) Maybe in the future you have weather machines like they do in the spy movies. Maybe your scientists can make it rain whenever they want to. I just hope that when they do, you have a dynamite friend to share your rainy days with.




Until next time, future readers,
Your friend,
Julie Newman

19 comments:

  1. Wow Kim has such a cool room! I never had a cool room as a kid, just regular kid furniture. I hope Kim keeps practicing her guitar. It is such a joy to be able to play music.

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    1. I like Kim's room too. Her mom won't let her hang too many posters over the wallpaper, though. I remember when I was younger I wanted to play the piano. My mom asked a woman from our church to help me. But I get cranky when I can't do it right. Maybe I'll try again when I'm older and don't get so frustrated. (another one of my vocabulary words!)

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  2. Good morning Julie,
    Here is some trivia for you. Yesterday, March 6, the day of your story, was the birthday of the Oreo cookie. The National Biscuit Company, which later became Nabisco, introduced the cookie on March 6, 1912. For you and Kim that means that the Oreo cookie is 63 years old and for me in 2016, it is 104!
    Your future friend,
    Fawn

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    1. Wow, really? I guess we had a birthday party and didn't even know it. *singing* Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Oreos! Happy Birthday to you!

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    2. Julie, you are a hoot!!!! :)

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    3. Give a hoot! Don't pollute! (oh I guess that doesn't have anything to do with Oreo's, huh? Oh well! It's funny anyhow!)

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  3. It looks like you had lots of fun. Rainy days are best spent with friends. It has rained a lot recently here in the future, too.
    We still have HI-C in the future, but I have never tried peach. Scientists still haven't been able to control the weather. I guess that's in the future for us, too.
    Melodie

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    1. Aww... they don't? I guess I really do watch too much T.V. (and overhear to the boys talk about spy stuff)I guess I have some weird ideas about the future, but my mom says, that's what science fiction is.

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    2. Yeah. Here in the future we still dream about the future. I guess it's something that never grows old.

      Melodie

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  4. Well Julie, in the future, the weathermen (and women) are a little more accurate in predicting the weather, but not always. God is still in control.

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    1. Yes, I know He is, but back here in the 70s, the weatherman is hardly ever right!

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  6. Looks like you and Kim had a great time over the weekend, Julie!
    I'm sorry to say that in the future, the weather people are still wrong sometimes when it comes to predicting the weather. And we don't have machines to control the rain, but sometimes I sure wish we did! :)
    *Sunny

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    1. Oh, I forgot--I love the game Perfection! It's still around in 2016 and is a whole lot of fun to play. It always makes me jump too!
      *Sunny

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    2. It is? Really? Wow! It's amazing how some things never change!

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    3. Kim and I always have a groovy time together. I guess she's the closest thing I'll ever have to a sisters, since our moms went to college together, and she lives pretty close by. And it's really too bad future scientist haven't come up with a weather machine yet. It could have been really useful, (unless it fell into the wrong hands!). Man, I gotta stop listening to the boys talk about spoy movies!

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  7. Hee hee to Hi-C shooting out your nose! One of my friends used to call me when it rained really hard and we would go play in the puddles in our bare feet, one advantage to growing up out in the country!

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  8. Your story made me do some research on the Sylvers. I was a little girl like you in the 70s and so I remember the songs but not the singers. I think they were great. They had such a happy vibe. Thanks for jogging pleasant memories. In the future we don't have to look things up in a book like an encyclopedia. We have machines that we can talk to to ask any question we want and the answers appear like magic just as if you talked to your television or your radio and it talked back to you, with sound and pictures to give you a variety of answers. That's how people from all over the world are reading and learning about you right now. It's one of the greatest things about the future. People from near and far can talk to each other, become friends, on any day in any kind of weather in an instant. But we have mistreated the planet in many ways and so scientists today believe we have made the weather unpredictable.

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  9. Wow, talking machines, just like on "Star Trek". Weird!

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