The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Author: Emily Sara Smucker

  • Now I know what it’s like to really live

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    Yesterday was the day of the wedding. The wedding that everyone had been talking about for ages. The wedding which I was not looking forward to, because I wasn’t invited, and was dreading the boringness of having everyone gone all day. Which, really, just goes to show how far I’ve come, because boringness of that…

  • I don’t like kleenexes

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    I have never really liked kleenexes, actually. Why did mom always have to buy those little kleenex boxes to set in my school desk? Why couldn’t I just grab a roll of toilet paper from the bathroom like everybody else? Toilet paper is cheaper. And you can get a big piece or a little piece,…

  • One of those random posts I like to do

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    Maybe perhaps I shall get my books in less than two weeks!! So incredibly excited. I ordered a whole bunch yesterday. Today I went to walmart to buy eggs and glue, and a boy in a black fedora said, “I remember you! You were at the park yesterday!” Oh yes. I remembered him. Actually I…

  • Strong or Skinny?

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    I technically left xanga, I guess, but I’m still obsessed with reading featured blogs. Like this one yesterday. Basically, the author says that skinniness isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, because with skinniness comes weakness. It’s much better to be strong, she says. And I applaud her all the way. Weakness is no fun.…

  • New Friends and Old Friends

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    When I moved to Redmond, and then to Colorado, all I could think was, “must get better…must get better…must beat my sickness…” But of course in the back of my mind there questions like… “You’re really going to leave your home…forever?” “What about your friends?” “Your family?” “Everything you know and feel comfortable with?” But…

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    Right now I feel incredibly strong and also embarrassingly weak. Strong because, though I spent both Friday and Saturday hanging out with friends and such, till sort-of late, and the week before that goofing off with my crazy siblings, I was still fine and dandy this morning to go to Church. Week because I tried…

  • Films and Flat Tires

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    Answering questions on video for a book trailer sounded good until I actually had to do it. Then came the great task of trying to find a place in the house that had good lighting. I mean, I didn’t want to look any paler than I already was, or have the dark circles under my…

  • The problem with “Healthy eating”

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    I’ll admit it. For most of my life I really didn’t care if I was eating healthy or not. Simply because no matter what I ate I was always bone skinny. So I constantly snacked on Doritos and Orios and chocolate chips and cookies and whatever else I could quickly grab out of the pantry…

  • I have the magic solution for everyone who has trouble waking up in the morning.

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    I’ve always had trouble in this area. Most alarm clocks give a paltry “beep beep…beep beep” that barely wakes you up enough to hit the snooze button. There was one point in my life when I used a radio alarm clock, but it wasn’t long until that didn’t work at all. I simply had American…

  • The Friendliest Church Around

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    So what would you do if everyone at your church was off at church camp out and your mom was constantly worried that you weren’t getting enough social interaction? Go along to church camp out, probably. But what if that wasn’t an option? What if you knew that it would be too much for you,…