Apples to Apples and Pedicures over the Creek

The rest of my Friday consisted of more schoolwork, baking cookies, washing Shelley and Trevor's car, playing the piano, helping Spencer and Uncle Jeff set up a new entertainment center downstairs, playing with Walter and Tiber, and watching some Monty Python and part of another movie (Keeping the Faith) with Andy. At eight thirty in the evening, Aunt Linda suddenly asked me if I'd eaten dinner. I didn't realize that I was hungry until she asked. "We forgot all about feeding you! Don't be afraid to speak up!" I was embarrassed, and Spencer took me to Taco Bell. :-P I went to bed at about nine thirty that night. I was beat.

Saturday morning I got up at 5:00 again to swim. I asked Daina if she wanted to come, but she said she'd stayed up too late the night before and would try again on Monday. So I headed off with my earphones in, walking down 900 South Street towards the pool. I got there and discovered a completely vacant parking lot. Shrugging it off and thinking this was a good day for Daina to sleep in, I headed back to Uncle Jeff's place, thinking that maybe I could use the elliptical they have in the basement.

After I got my workout clothes and running shoes on, though, I discovered that Shelley and Trevor were asleep in the room next to the elliptical. At six thirty in the morning I didn't want to make noise, so I went up to the main floor again, where Walter was waiting for me, ears perked eagerly. I decided that a brisk walk would be better than no work out at all, hooked Walter's leash onto his collar, and headed out the door once more.

Four blocks into the walk, Walter decided to take a fairly sizable dump in someone's yard. Rolling my eyes, I turned around and we went home. I found a plastic grocery bag in the kitchen. Feeling rather put out, I left Walter home and headed back to the place he had squatted. I picked it up, disposed of it, and decided to go to G&G's to get something to eat, and do some school work.

At G&G's I had a cinnamon roll, orange juice, milk, and a bowl of thawed out peaches. Grandma came into the kitchen as I finish preparing breakfast. After I washed my dishes I headed downstairs to the laptop.

After about forty minutes of reading clips of stories and answering questions, my eyelids were drooping considerably. I crashed in G&G's guest bedroom for a couple of hours before I got another couple of hours' worth of work in.

I had lunch with Grandma and Grandpa. Later in the early afternoon Grandma took me to the local pool to see if they had the shampoo and soap I had left there the day before. I collected it and then we headed to the library to check out The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Then Grandma took me over to Aunt Linda's where I met Andy, who had just gotten home from EFY.

I had dinner with Grandma and Grandpa later as well. When I got back to Uncle Jeff's, the volleyball net was set up and Aunt Linda, Andy, Daina and two of her friends sported a five-gallon bucket of water balloons. We tossed them back of forth with our hands until Daina's friends (who were really nice) left. Then we played with towels, with one person at each end of the towel on one side of the net so we could catapault(sp?) the water ballon over the net to the other side, where two other people had to try and catch it with their towel. We listened to The Lion King sound track and Hercules sound track. It was loads of fun. At one point Tiber and Walter took off after the neighbor's dog. Andy (a much faster runner than myself or Daina) had to chase them three blocks down before he managed to start hearding them back to the house. After that we decided we were worn out and went inside to snack and watch movies. After that I went to bed.

Today I went with Spencer to the Singles Branch. It was alright. After church I read Shakespeare for about an hour fr my English class.

For dinner Aunt Linda made tomales (she had started them the night before--making tomales is roughly a five hour process) from scratch, rice (the only thing NOT from scratch), anaheim pepper slices with cheese, and home made Spanish beans. It was absolutely delicious. For dessert she'd made strawberry-rhubarb(sp?) pie. It was awesome. Grandma and Grandpa were over for dinner also. Later they left and we all played Apples to Apples, which was hilarious. Afterwards everybody was hanging out outside on the trampoline (huge trampoline!), the bench swing, and on the deck over the creek. Aunt Linda gave me and Daina pedicures on that deck. Then we came in to finish the movie we hadn't gotten to finish the other day, and I talked on the phone to my family a little bit.

I need to get up early tomorrow and go swimming with Daina again (woot!), so I'm hitting the sack. Night!