farewell.

Well, this is it.

5 weeks.

I'm off to camp.

The countdown started 329 days ago, and now there are only 23 hours until I'm back home.

Home, meaning Herzl Camp, of course.

There are of course a few things I'm nervous about, and not looking forward to, but its okay.

That's just life.

I REALLLY want you to write to me though. And while I'm still debating wether I not I put my address on the internet, I want you to know something.

I dropped my iPod in the toilet.

BUMMER.

That thing is my LIFE.

Okay here's the address:

Sophie Milstein
Herzl Camp
7260 Mickey Smith Parkway
Webster, WI 54893

If you write to me, I will FOR SURE respond as soon as I can.

Well, I have to go finish packing.

I'll get back to you in 5 weeks and tell you all my camp stories!

Thanks so much for reading my blog, guys.

It really means a lot to me.

MAAAJOR confidence boost.

I ADORE YOU.

STAY HEALTHY.

DRIVE SAFE.

--Sophie

P.s. PLEASE KEEP AN EYE ON COCO AND GRAMMA FOR ME WHILE IM GONE.

much appreciated.

:)

5+ THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT:

1. The first day of Camp

2. The countdown before Camp

3. Meeting new friends at Camp

4. Camp Traditions

5. Secret Caves

6. Getting letters from home

7. Cranberry Juice

8. ALIVE iPods

safari park.

Since I'm leaving for camp in 6 days (SO PUMPED), my auntie Lisa took me to the Minnesota Zoo (the one with the IMAX theater, and the dolphin show, and the trails n such) to spend some time with me before I go off to Wonderland.

It was totally freaking amazing. We went at around 3, so it was fairly empty.

CHECCKKKK ITTT OUUUTT

{all the pictures are sooc, so sorry if they suck.}

DORY

kangaroo thing

zaboomafoo!

HA FAT

i freaking love tigers

funniest grizzly of my life

fierce.

my crazy auntie lisa. shes the bestest.

funny little guys

yes, this was totally necessary.

so at the tiger exhibit, there was a tiger pacing back and forth, and looking at us in the eye. we just sat there for awhile and watched it, while we sat and listened to the band playing at the amphitheater. it was marvelous.

i love tigers.

i think i was one in a previous life..

..

anyways, real quick, i hung out with anna and lucy last night, and we watched american history x. you know, the one with edward norton, and he's a skinhead, and meets this cool black guy in jail, and i don't wanna give it all away, but if you're an opened minded person who doesn't mind swear words and vulgar scenes, i seriously recommend you watch it.

that is all.

--Sophie

blast from the past.

This is great.

So I spent the entire day with a childhood friend of mine, Rebecca Anne (she doesn't want her full name publicized), and we are sitting in my basement watching Rugrats.

Yes, out of being able to watch ANYTHING, we choose to watch Rugrats.

{the one where tommy meets that super badass girl and gets hurt n such}

We're having a great time.

So today, Bex and I spend $100 each on camp supplies.

-Shirts

-Shabbas** clothes

-Undergarments

-Frebreeze

-Waterballons (RANDOM FACT: the auto correct for waterballons is watermelons. mind.blown.)

-Shampoo

-Chipotle

**For all of you that don't know, Shabbas (Shabbat) is basically the Jewish day of rest. At camp, we celebrate that by stopping everything we're doing, clean up, try and look our personal best, and sing and eat together. We dress up in all white, and its so incredibly peaceful. Its probably my favorite thing about camp.

Anyway, I have to get back to Becca. We're having fruit salad.

tasty.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"I don't like to go potty naaaaakie!"

-Chucky Finster, from Rugrats

Very insightful, Chucky.

--Sophie

summer.

So basically, I love my life.

My summer has been truly amazing.

I didn't get to do quite all the things I would have liked to,

I didn't get to see all the people I wanted to see,

And I didn't get to go all the places I wanted to go.

But I am very happy and satisfied with what I've done.

Like yesterday, with Lucy, was wondrous.

We laugh a lot.

Also ,it's kinda obvious she's gotten lots of popularity points in the past few weeks.

With her blog n such.

And being in that video with her pretty much makes me her sidekick.

I'm getting more and more blog views everyday.

And formspring stuff makes me feel special.

SO THANK YOU EVERYONE!

We saw the movie 'The Shining', that crazy Speilberg movie where the guy goes insane and trys to kill everyone.

{all work and no play makes jack a dull boy.}

We checked off a few things off of Lucy's bucket list.

{stop-action movie, and pulling an all nighter.}

And we took a very lovely walk.

{i took some pretty high raised pics.}

Currently I am watching Spongebob, blogging, and making several friendship bracelets.

It was nice chatting with you.

Hit up my formspring if you have any questions about this or that! :)

--Sophie

mr blue final.

{Drum roll please!!}

LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, I AM PROUD TO PRESENT...

AN ORIGINAL PRODUCTION BY SOPHIE AND LUCY...

MADE ENTIRELY IN 1 DAY....

WITH STOP-ACTION TECHNIQUE.....

MR BLUE!

{original song by catherine feeny}

^^Song chosen by Sophie herself :)

I encourage you to post any comments

on my formspring page!

currently.

I am currently chilling Lucy, editing this and that.

It's a surprise.

Yes, for you.

Heres a sneak peek.

STAY TUNED.

mutual attachment bracelets.

IM KIND OF OBSESSED.

Granny bought me a 125 pack of embroidery floss.

So now, all I ever do is make friendship bracelets.

Please feel free to send me a message or comment on something and ask for one.

I would be honored to make one for you.

Just don't ask for one if I won't ever see you.

Because then its pointless.

I can make v-shaped ones

I can make regular stripped ones

Or I can make those ones that look like a tube or somethin.

{sorry about this super lame post. i just need something to do}

Stay tuned, I'm going to Lucy's and making some interesting stuff.

I'll post again eventually.

--Sophie

bucket list.

So as you all know, camp is in 2 weeks;

Herzl, where I will spend 5 weeks of my summer soaking up the sun with my jew pals.

Anyways, I was discussing this and that with my buddy Lucy when she had this splendid idea of coming up with a summer bucket list.

A bucket list is a list of everything you want to do before you die. Or in this case, everything we want to accomplish before our summer is over.

So, bitting off of Lucy's idea, I put together my own bucket list.

READY?

EVERYTHING I WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AT HERZL CAMP IN THE SUMMER OF 2010

-send mail to all my cute boys
-sleep under the stars
-star gaze with camp friends
-star gaze with cute jew boy
-try realllly hard to win bikkurim
-keep area clean
-get a strong pinky
-sing on stage with rick recht
-learn a new style of friendship bracelets
-tye dye
-get a shmutz busters shirt
-save chanut for 2 days
-play in an epic ultimate game
-make more friends
-attempt getting a tan
-have a shower party in new haks
-blow bubbles
-go henna crazy
-send my friends back home drawings
-get a good part in the play
-NOT get a horrible sunburn on the canoe trip
-use cake hand moisturizer
-strut in my swim suit and feel like a babe
-learn to french braid
-have fun at kadimah shabbat
-get hella in shape

-sneak into beccas moms house and eat ice cream and play with lilly

Love Becca

Thats my list and I'm stickin to it.

--Sophie

shiftless

It's like, 1:15 am and I have chosen to blog. My reasoning--

"you should effing blog more often."

Thanks, Lucy.

And so here I am. In my bed, with my jazz sending me off to sleep.

And so there you are, bored out of your mind, reading my damn blog.

If you were wondering, my summer has been embarrassingly lazy.

11:00 am--Wake up, and watch glee

4:00 pm--Eat

5:00 pm--lay out on my lawn, and attempt to make plans

7:00 pm--finally do something constructive

1:00 am- go to sleep

Fun, right?

not so much.

{Sorry, I'm having fun messing around with the format}

K so camp is in approx. 15 days, 11 hours, and 40 min.

I haven't even looked at a packing list, and I'm gone for 5 weeks.

Damn it.

I have to go brush my teeth, and get a bit of shut eye.

buh bye.

--Sophie

i'm deranged.

I'm a terrible person. To all four of you that actually read my blog, I apologize. I'm kind of only human.

ANYWAYS....

LIFE IS GREAT!

School ended today, and blah blah blah. You don't care about that stuff.

P.s. I have a 'flickr'. LOOK AT IT.

Back to things that matter...

My birthday was on Monday, and I got a camera. It's fantaaaastic. It takes good pictures, thus, I am very pleased with my present.

Currently, I am watching 'Fight Club', you know, that super insane movie with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt where he...well...I'm in no mood to spoil the whole movie for you.

Speaking of Edward Norton, my brother got a kitty, and named it Ed. Because of Edward Norton being his favorite actor. As you should know, I have a cat of my own, and it hates every other animal in the whole world. So she was freaking out when Ed came in(I had to babysit the kitty while my brother was away) and pissed everywhere. Don't laugh. It's a true story. So my mom is pretty upset.

K. I'm going to Valleyfair tomorrow, so I need to prep. That just means eat Cherrios so I can calm down and go to sleep.

No, Cherrios don't make me calm.

I'm really not quite sure why I even said any of that.

G'night.

--Sophie

5+ THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT:

1. Stopping at the top of a ferris wheel

2. Good tasting protein bars

3. Free samples

4. A candy bracelet

5. Aladin

6. Signing up for camp