2004-04-12 - 3:53 p.m.
I am absolutely crazy when it comes to these online journals and diaries. This is my thrid one now. Hmmm...I don't know which one I will use... Probably which ever one fits my mood better or is easier at the time. It will be a toss-up between this one and my journal because that's the most recent that I decided to use instead of my old journal.
For today I'll use this one just to get it started and have something to go by on the template and design. Here begins the journey of my entries...
I had an interesting weekend. It was certainly busy enough. I had friday off and I believe that story is in my livejournal. Then on Saturday I got up to one my parents telling it was time to help clean. We had to clean for the next night's Easter dinner, so had to get up earlier in order to have time to do anything else that day. I swept the kitchen while my sister cleaned the bathroom and dusted in the living room. Then my mom wanted to go to the market for some things but knew that everyone would be there, so it was going to take her a while. My sister wanted to go buy a specific hat she had seen but not had the money to pay for previously. So I was drafted into going to accompany my sister while my grandmother and mom went to the market. We didn't end up going to get the hat right away. My mom dropped us off at the mall and we ended up going to a clothing store first. My sister has tickets to go see the play Chicago on Thursday so she wanted to find a 1920s style dress to wear. There wasn't anything that fit her and nothing was a reasonable price anyways. We then went to get the hat(which was for her 1920s style outfit) but it had already been sold. She was bummed because it had been so perfect for what she wanted but we tried some other stores looking for the same style. We found one that might work but it was still too much and she said she would come back to get it possibly. We got Mrs. Feilds cookies and sat down to eat them. We each had one and saved two for later because we wanted to finish shopping. We went to the candle store where I got a Strawberry Guava wax potpourri thing(you put it in an oil burner and it melts the wax and then burns it like oil)and then we went to the Disney store. I had a ton of coins in my pocket that I ended up needing to pay for what I wanted there. It was buy one, get one free so I let my sister pick the other one. It was Stitch and my sister picked Thumper. I have had Stitch twice before but I gave him away to my ex(wasn't my ex at the time) and Dave's(my boyfriend now and forever)younger cousin Amy(for a birthday gift when I didn't have anything else to give her and she seemed to love Stitch when I was carrying it around). I had so much change that I knew I had enough but I didn't want to count it out in the store. We went and sat down in the same place as before and ate the other two cookies while I counted out my change. I felt so bad for the cashier when I had to give her all that change but she said "Hey, money is money." So I owe my sister some money when I can give it to her in something other than change and that stuffed animal was her birthday gift. She loves it mainly because of the material it's made out of. Her birthday isn't til may 8th but it's her 16th so I'll probably try get something else for her on top of that. We left the mall soon after that because my mom called my cell. She had told me to head for the doors when she called so that's what we did. We didn't have to wait long and soon we were back home to finish cleaning. I was going to Irati's house. So I vacumed and got my stuff together then had my dad take me to her house. When I got there we had our dinner, which was actually what I thought she was making for breakfast(Scrambled eggs with shrimp and mushrooms in it). This was apparently the first time she had ever made this because at home her mother won't let them cook. I honestly didn't think I would like it but it turns out it was awesome. I loved it...I'm craving it right now...mmm. Anyways, I had taken a two liter of sierra mist with me so I had enough to drink, that's for sure. We watched the Life of Brian(Monty Python) after going on the computer so I could see pictures of her friends in Spain. Then we watched Lion King 1 1/2 which was great. After that we both started getting tired because I had gotten there pretty late. We wanted to write down the part in Finding Nemo where they start talking to the jellyfish and naming it squishy. She got out her notebook and pencil and we turned on the movie at the beginning. She started falling asleep and decided not to write it down. We were going to sleep on the couches but I couldn't get comfortable so I suggested we go sleep on the beds like we had originally planned. That helped a lot and once I got comfortable I was out. She slept in her room and I slept in the host parents' room. She had asked permission so I knew I wasn't going to get in trouble for being there. The host family was gone for the weekend. They went to Chicago and Irati didn't go because she said she didn't want to get fat and there was nothing for her to do there anyways. She thinks she's fat and it doesn't help that her mother told her she was. I couldn't believe her mother would say that. I guess it makes sense though. She has gained a little since she's been here so the difference to her mother is probably more drastic than to us. She had been saying that she was going to wake me up at 9am but then at 11am she came in and woke me up saying I should get up and she was going to take a shower. I kinda laid there for a while and then one of the cats...OH!!! I didn't tell you about the crazy animals they have! They have four cats and two ferrets and a fish. The fish isn't a problem obviously but the cats and ferrets make so much noise and do the wierdest things. When we were on the computer i didn't know how many cats there were and three of them look quite similar. One walked under my feet, another was sitting on the couch down there(the computer is in the basement), another walked across the basement into the darkness opposite from us, and then I heard one in the ceiling.they have one of the drop ceilings so the tiles come out and there's space above that. I was sitting right where there were soe tiles missing so I thought for sure this cat was going to drop down on top of me. While we were watching the movies in the living room, the ferrets were making so much noise we had to turn up the movie. The kept falling from one level to the next and shifting really loudly in their little beds and stuff. Anyways, all the cats are really friendly so the only one I can tell for sure which it is(he's all black and the other ones are grey and white with darker stripes, the only male as well) climbed up on the bed with me. He wanted me to pet him and when I did it was never enough but he would have gone to sleep if I'd let him. By the way, that cat was named Ninja. I was supposed to be to my house around noon so I had to get up and get my stuff together and call to see if we could get a ride. It was Easter Sunday and my sister was probably waiting at home for us because she could hunt for eggs til we got there. My mom gave us a ride. When we got there I took all my stuff up to my room and Irati followed with her's. We went in the basement because my mom told me that Jess and sam were down there playing video games. I told her to save it and come find eggs and she did her usual "in a minute" and then "I aaaaaaaaaaaaam". I just said "fine you're up and I'm up so I'm going to find eggs.." Then Irati and I went to find eggs and shortly after my sister and Sam followed. There are still 13 or 14 eggs left hidden even now. We gave up looking after a while because even my parents(they both hid them) didn't know where the rest were. We had dinner and then we played Monopoly. Sam ended up winning, Jess was second, I was last and Irati was going bankrupt so she had quit before we totaled everything up. We just stopped when it was about time for sam to leave. Then he walked home, i think. We then went and played Twister and had to stop when my mom wanted to go to bed. We thought we were going to bed at that point but as usual my dad was up watching a movie so we sat down with him and started watching it too. Irati and Jess didn't finish watching it because they were too tired. I stayed up and watched it(The Fifth Element) and then got ready for bed and stumbled through the dark to my bed. I have a full bed so Irati and I just share it when she spends the night. I crashed in pretty much no time at all. Than at 7am my cell phone started going off because Dave was calling me. Turns out we were going shooting after all. He said we would be going in two hours. I talked to Irati and found out she just wanted to go to watch so I asked Dave if she could some too and he said that was fine. Then we both got up and got dressed to go. We had something to eat and it still wasn't quite time to even be waiting for them. I went to sleep on the couch with the phone by me and Irati went back upstairs to sleep until I called her down. Dave was supposed to call me back after calling Jeremy but he ended up just showing up at 9:45am. I got enough extra sleep in that time so I wasn't exhausted. I didn't take any money because Dave told me I wouldn't need it. We bought ammo at Gander Mountain and then went to the firing range by Kensington Park. His dad ended up paying for a one day parking pass and admission for all of us to get in. I ended up doing really awesome. Dave said he'd never seen anyone shoot that well the first time. Irati ended up shooting and we didn't get scores but we really outdid the guys. hehe. I need to scan my targets into the computer and put a link to them in here.ok got the link now...here it is. fun fun fun. When we left i got to take my two targets home and they dropped Irati and I off at my house. Now Irati is gone and I'm just sitting here recapping before I forget everything. I'm supposed to see Dave again today after he takes a shower and stuff. Well... I'm gonna go to his house now. He spent two hours cleaning the rifles and said hye wants me to go to dinner with him and his parents. Then he fell asleep and never called me to tell me when they were going to pick me up. So he didn't go to dinner with them and as far as his Dad knows now... he's at home sleeping. I'm going to walk over there and find out what's going on. I'll try to update later.
Here's the update:
I walked over there and by the time I got there his parents were already home. He was still sleeping so i just walked in there and tried to let him know i was there. I thought he would acknowledge me more but he didn't really belive i was there. I layed down with him figuring he was just really tired. A little while later he sat up when he heard someone at the door and then he finally seemed to realize i was really there. He had no clue what time it was. We layed there for a little while longer. The rest isn't important. He took me home and said he would call me when he got home. Big surprise he didn't. But it was cuz his mom was on the phone.
