4/27

I see my last day of school ever.  I don't know whether to be happy or sad about it.  I'm happy because I've worked hard for this day to come, but it's sad because it means I'm really about to grow up.   I'll definitely miss all the great friends I've made and the days of staying up all night and getting to sleep in, and not really having any real responsibilities. Now though, it's time to be a grown up and get a real job and make real money.  It's exciting and scary to think that everything's about to change.....but bring it on, I'm ready.

4/25

I saw a very fun Easter yesterday.  Every year my whole family, aunt's, uncle's, and cousins, pile into my grandparent's tiny house.  My grandmother hands out bunny ears that we all wear and Easter baskets.  Then she counts to three and we race to the backyard to find the eggs she's hidden.  It may sound dumb, but it's actually really fun.  My family gets very competitive and we all usually have to watch out for my dad who will sneak up behind us to try and steal eggs out of our baskets.  All the eggs have candy in them, and a few have quarters, dimes, nickles, and pennies.  There is one though that has a $20 in it.  I've only ever gotten it once.  Ever since i could remember this is what my crazy family does for Easter.  I hope there never comes a day that our fun tradition ends.

4/22

I see old people not knowing how to text.  My best friend's mom is like a second mom to me.  She has six kids and I'm like her seventh.  Almost everyday she sends us all mass texts saying good morning or good night, or she'll tell us good luck if she knows we have a test.  After everything though she says "lol"...all of us are always wondering what's so funny about what she's saying since lol means laugh out loud.  We've kind of made it a joke between all of us and we'll randomly say it when we're talking to her, we've never asked her why she says it though.  About a week ago her grandfather died.  We all knew he had been sick, so it wasn't a complete shock, but she sent us all a text that said "I'm so sorry to tell you all that Daddy Ray has passed away this morning, lol."  I was with my friend when we received the message and my friend messaged back saying "mom why's that funny?" her mother replied "what do you mean?" and my friend said you said "lol" and her mom said "yes, why's that bad?" and my friends said "Mom, that means laugh out loud..."  My friends mom immediately called freaking out saying that this whole time she has thought that lol meant lots of love and what was she going to do now because she sent that message to a lot of people.  My friend and I still haven't stopped laughing out loud about this.

4/20

I see my cousin finally getting his life back on track today.  A few years ago he was out with his friends driving around.  They were shooting at signs with their air soft guns from the car.  Apparently somewhere along the way something went very wrong and my cousin ended up shooting a guy on a motorcycle.  He said it was an accident, but come on, how do you accidentally shoot someone?  He obviously had to of seen the guy coming down the road and why were they driving around shooting things in the first place, did they not think anything bad would happen?  The man on the motorcycle turned out to be an off duty cop who call his friends.  The police chased the car down and arrested my cousin and his friends.  He's had this incident follow him for the last three years and had to go to court several times, was put on house arrest then diversion, had to take classes, and do community service.  He is also in the army and was in a lot of trouble with them when they found out.  Today though marks the 3 year anniversary and since he did everything he was asked to do it is taken off his record.   I hope he's learned a lot from this situation.  It definitely taught me to think about the consequences of my actions.    

4/18

I see my cat not feeling well.  He screams every time we try to touch him and hardly gets up to walk around or eat.  He looks like he's in pain from something.  After a day we took him to the vet where they discovered he had a fever.  They took x-rays and did blood work, but everything came out normal.  The doctor gave us pain medicine, but a couple days later we noticed some blood on his leg.  After looking closer we found a big nickle sized open soar on the top of his leg.  We took him back to the vet and she told us that this sometimes happens in cats, they will get big boils under their skin and then they will pop open.  Sometimes they can be pretty painful too.  I'm so glad that's all that was wrong with him, and it was nothing more serious.

4/15

I hear sirens and I see a firetruck and police cars on my street.  I go outside and they are parked outside of my neighbor's house getting the hose out from the truck.  My other neighbors are all standing outside watching too.  Apparently the parents across the street were out for the night and the kids had decided what a wonderful idea it would be to have a fire in the fire place since it was a bit chilly outside.  The fire had somehow gotten out of hand and spread out from the fire place into the living room.  I don't understand why they weren't taught that using fire when their parents aren't home is probably a bad idea...at least they were smart enough to call 911.

4/13

I see a yard sale my parents are having with our neighbors.  It's always fun this time of year because we all get together for a few days and have a huge sale.  Normally everything goes fine, but today I had an odd experience.  A man bought something for $5, he handed me 5 ones and left.  I took the money over to where my mom was sitting, by our little cash drawer and set it right next to her hand.  She was talking to an old couple who were buying something for $2.  The old woman then reached down and picked up the 5 ones I had just laid down and tried to hand it to my mom to pay with.  I saw this and reached for it and said "oh, no, I just put that money there it's from another customer."  The woman and her husband spent the next 5 minutes arguing with me that she had taken that money out of her purse and put it there and i was trying to scam them.  Even the guy behind them in line stood up for me and said yes I had just set it there.  They finally paid with other money and left, but 20 minutes later they came back to say that they didn't want what they had bought anymore since I had stolen her money.  They literally stood there yelling at me for something I hadn't and would never do. My dad finally came outside and told them to stop speaking to me like that and to get off of our property.  I'll definitely remember that experience for many yard sales to come.