Cool Your Heels

Macaroni and salsa tastes god-like, that's all you need to know

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Media that’s influenced me.

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Remember when...

Heather and Tenille created the Help Heal Heather Fund at William Rose and basically commited fraud as they collected money around school for Heather’s broken nose that wasn’t even broken and when the rest of the students found out both Heather and Tenille dipped out of there along with the money.

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“And when I’m all done I take a big breath because the whole story came out in one gigantic sentence, and what does Grams do? She puts her arm around me and says, “I wish I’d had a friend like you when I was growing up, Samantha Keyes.””

— Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief

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Sammy Keyes Confession #3

So, my sister @tibbitoo read Sammy Keyes before me and was actually the one who got me started on it. She talked about about it all the time with our other friend who also read the series, and this was about six years ago (before I started reading it). I remember her distinctively mentioning Casey and I just couldn’t wait to see his character once I started reading the books. This is how it happened:

Me: * halfway through Hotel Thief * Hey, when’s Casey being introduced? He hasn’t been in here at all.

My sister: That’s because he shows up in the fifth book.

Me: *eyes wide and not able to contain my emotions* WHAT????!!!! (I already knew about Cammy so the thought of waiting five books for it made my shipping heart just tear up a bit)

Yes, I had to read five books before I was actually introduced to Casey Acosta, but it was worth it in the end. :)

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Has it been 15 years since Psycho Kitty Queen? Has it been 15 years since we first celebrated Sammy’s birthday? No matter how many years pass, we’ll always take time to honor our favorite high-top wearing detective! We love you Sammy 💙

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An aesthetic of Santa Martina, home of our favorite characters, during the summer. 💛

Summer heat is getting real 🌡☀️ I wish I had a Double Dynamo right about now. 🍦

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💛☀️🍦💧I hope everyone is having a great summer!! Remember to wear sunblock so you don’t embarrass yourself like Sammy in Wild Things.🌡😎🌴🌵

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I love the Sammy Keyes books. I never finished the series so I’m reading the second to last one, grinning way too hard in public at sammy’ s snark.

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so holly and cricket bond at an animal shelter when they're in highschool. they gradually fall in love while caring for animals and cricket eventually convinces her to go to the condor's habitat. I'm not sure how it happens, but once they're together casey gets the bright idea to nominate them for homecoming queens. they both strongly object to the idea but of course they win. sammy almost misses it because she was busy explaining to the police why she had tasered a prominent estate lawyer.

This has been in my inbox for actual years because I wanted to add something, but all I’ve got is

falling in love while caring for animals yes :)

as long as prom queens is something they’d appreciate, Casey (it’s not cool or fun to force people into public positions they don’t want)

asdgkjglasusdfskjdf Sammy

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Sammy Keyes Retrospective

So, I've recently been listening to the Sammy Keyes audiobooks as a way to go back through the series and I have to say they are amazing. I listen to the books when I was a kid, but going through them now I'm impressed with how good they are. They handle some very mature themes and situations in incredible ways. The books fall into the mystery genre, the mysteries aren't the greatest part of the books, its the relationships.

The books do a great job at showing Sammy's relationship with a variety of people, and the relationships grow in natural ways. There are the ones that stay relatively the same that rarely change like Sammy's friendship with Marissa or her friendship with Hudson. Then there are those that change throughout the whole series like with her mother or with Grams.

Another thing the books do well is portraying adults. It has a nice balance of adults being well-meaning but unhelpful. Cruel and bitter because of prior life experiences or just being cruel because they're generally a bad person. While having adults that are good deep down or adults that act good but are hiding something.

And lastly, the books get their message across really well. Not every book has a message but their subtly worked in and never come across as preachy or teaching a lesson. They feel organic and natural.

Anyways it's a great series, I love going back and listening to these stories.

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"Now I have to admit, the Christmas parade is a great parade- strange, but in a good way. For one thing, it's at night. Everyone puts Christmas lights on their float - big ones, tiny ones, icicle ones. - and when all those lights come riding down Broadway, well, it feels like Christmas."

- Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf

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Sammy Keyes was for sure an ADHD bisexual

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AH!!! I THINK IT’S TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!

Two Grand Prize Winners will receive:

a signed copy of CHECK, PLEASE!: STICKS AND SCONES

a Samwell University mini-pennant

a falcs keychain & falcs enamel pin

And one winner will receive a signed copy of CHECK, PLEASE!: STICKS AND SCONES!

☆ Rules ☆

✔ The giveaway ends Friday, April 3. ✔ Enter by liking or re-blogging this post. You can enter as much as you’d like. ✔ Shipping to US & Canada only! Winners must respond with a mailing address within 24 hours of notification, please!

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Check, Please! follows Eric Bittle, a former figure skater who joins his college’s ice hockey team. It’s a queer romance, coming-of-age story, and has fun found family vibes! Read on checkpleasecomic.com or over at @omgcheckplease.

Keep reading

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Ending tomorrow!

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I’ve probably talked about it before but I’ve honestly never wanted to hear a fictional song as badly as I want to hear “Waitin’ For The Rain To Fall” by Darren Cole and the Troublemakers