Our home room class got a new class mascot! It's a mongoose, and we named him Mrs. Cuddleface. Well, a couple of kids wanted to name him Señor Wemberly "Sunken Treasure" Jones, but Mrs. Rich stepped in.

I just started an afterschool swimming program. Every other day, we do the crawl for at least a half an hour. I don't mind it much, except I wish we'd do it in a pool, not a swamp. Though I guess the vicious rabid otters are good motivation to swim fast! I've already lost 13 candygrams! Not sure how much that is in whatever weight unit you guys use.

My dad went a little crazy last night and painted my whole room turquoise. And I mean the *whole* room. So now my sheets are all stiff and everything smells like wet paint. Do you know how to get paint off of a video game? I'm seriously jonesing without my Gears of Galaxy 3 -- I mean, I just unlocked the variant Silver Mount before all this happened!