A whole ton of fun!
I feel like I've been having so much fun over the past few days...like I'm cheating at life or something...I guess I'm just not used to being so lazy.
Thursday- I hung around the house for most of the day and made vague tennis plans with Paul and Merika. I read some comics and after dinner went to pick up Paul and Merika to go to the tennis courts. We stole some old balls from Ian's garage on the way. Tennis was pretty fun. We only played about three games. Everyone was out of practice, but he had fun anyway. The memorial playground has been redone and is a lot of fun now, so we decided to play on it. We played the color game first. I picked red and white as my colors. Brown was the color of the floor and green was the color of the slides, so I had pretty lousy colors. After a few rounds, we played Cherry. That was a lot of fun too. At one point, Paul and I had a plan to escape to the car while Merika had her eyes closed, but we failed. Not that our plan would've worked anyway because when we decided to leave the park, the car wouldn't start. Merika had left just before we had had car trouble, so she didn't know about our predicament. We tried lots of tricks to start it, but to no avail. Miles and Paul decided to walk to Paul's for assistance from his Dad, and I kind of just wandered away from them to Merika's.
Merika and I talked a little and then watched "Mr. and Mrs.Smith". The movie was fuzzy, so we did our best to tweak the colors to make it more viewable. We started watching it at about eleven or eleven fifteen, but eventually we both fell asleep on her couch. I woke up at about 12:45 and woke her up. We were SO TIRED. Darn "Mr. and Mrs.Smith", not entertaining enough! She drove me home and I went right to bed.
Friday- Paul had slept over with Miles while I was at Merika's, so we played some video games in the morning. I eventually got ready for the day and rode my bike to Aimee's. Miles came along later and Lauren was already there. Aimee and I ate and filled out applications. Miles really wanted to get apps out that day, but I wasn't doing them fast enough. We eventually gave up the idea of me finishing them all and just talked and stuff. We left for the movie at four thirty-ish. We sat in stadium seating behind two broken chairs. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was really strange. I liked the original more, though there were parts of the new one I liked better. The original was definitely a lot warmer and more magical. Tim Burton made this one a little darker. Willy Wonka was even more of a weirdo, but the grandparents were funnier. It was alright. I went to my Dad's afterward and hung out.
Saturday- I studied for Japanese in the morning, but not enough. I felt bad at lessons that I hadn't studied more. After lessons, I went home and finished nearly all of my applications. Miles and I left at 1:45 to go out to lunch with Ruth. Chapala (the new Mexican place that replaced Cafè Cancun) was closed so we went to the Charhouse instead. We talked about school and stuff, while I ate my gyros-filled Greek salad and drank limeade. I had already had a bagewhich at my Dad's so I was not too hungry. We then adjourned to Baskin Robbins where Ruth and Miles had ice cream and Miles managed to spill my nearly full cup of water all over himself. It was funny. At three something we decided we had better get going and left. Ruth made the offer to do stuff with her on some kind of regular basis and we said yes, but to think about when. It was nice to see her, but I still feel a little uneasy meeting with her repeatedly without Dad. I don't know how long we can keep things going without it becoming awkward for him, but on the other hand, I don't want to confront her about it in fear of driving her away. So *sigh* things are tricky.
Miles and I spent the rest of the afternoon dropping off applications and applying to some more places (Jimmy Johns, Baskin Robbins). We also found a new store that we mean to apply to called "Carvel". It's a splendid, little ice cream place at the Commons. Oh! Did anyone know the Commons had an electronic boutique? I had no idea until on Saturday. Anywho, we finished our application quest and returned home. We were too late to go to the Shakespeare, so I just ate dinner and hung out.
Sunday- I wene to 9:30 sunday school in the new youth room, but we didn't learn nor talk about god. It was one of the "what do you want to get out of sunday school" things that we seem to do too much. I put down "we need to be more structured and actually learn about things in the bible". I really feel like our sunday school is too relaxed, and every time I go, it feels like we just introduce ourselves and talk about our week. After the lesson, I looked for my dad around the church and talked to Cassie Kurth. Dad and I went home and watched the Tour de France with Miles. It was a mountain race in the Basque region of France. Lance didn't win (he came in 7th), but he didn't plan to. It was interesting to see a mountain race, but the crowd was obnoxious. They crowded the streets and even occasionally touched the riders! I did get to see the polka dot jersey, though, which I liked a lot. The guy wearing it (I can't remember his name...) had matching polka dot shorts and helmet. It was COOL!
I went home and ready Harry Potter, comics, and played some of Miles' Fire Emblem. I had a lot of lazy fun! I feel like I have to be productive today, though because of how lazy I was yesterday. Paul eventually called and Miles and I went to his house and played all of two seconds of video games. Ian got there soon after we did, and after some horribly annoying confusion about what we were going to do, we set off for Memorial and played games. Ian left eventually and I had the feeling again that we're just slipping apart. I don't know...sometimes my friends just annoy me. I feel like I just want to ditch them all and tell them "screw you" and just find new friends. Aimee and I are close and it's the same with Merika and I, but Paul, Mike, Ian, not really. Maybe it's that I expect more of them or I'm just feeling unfufilled...I don't know.
We went back to Pauls and tried to set up some messy plans with Mike and Merika. I called my mom and rode home for dinner. I was stopped by grounded Merika on the way, and we talked about Harry Potter and stuff. After a brief dinner, I called up Mike and Paul, and after much deliberation, we decided to rent a movie. We got "Run Lola run" and watched it at Paul's.
It was good. It was a German movie about a girl who has to get 100,000 marks (does anyone know what that is in dollars) in twenty minutes and get to her friend who's going to be killed by some mobster if he doesn't have the money. The movie goes through three different ways she could get the money and get to her friend and the different consequences of her actions. It was pretty cool and artsy in that respect. What was pretty cool (I think someone who made the movie just wanted to add this in for fun) was when Lola screamed really loudly and shrilly glass would break. There's one scene where she's gambling and just starts screaming because of how badly she wants to win.
I went home after the movie and read.
Japanese word of the day: "Tomodachi" is friend and "Tamago" is egg. This is where the idea of "Tamagachi" came from, I think.
Thursday- I hung around the house for most of the day and made vague tennis plans with Paul and Merika. I read some comics and after dinner went to pick up Paul and Merika to go to the tennis courts. We stole some old balls from Ian's garage on the way. Tennis was pretty fun. We only played about three games. Everyone was out of practice, but he had fun anyway. The memorial playground has been redone and is a lot of fun now, so we decided to play on it. We played the color game first. I picked red and white as my colors. Brown was the color of the floor and green was the color of the slides, so I had pretty lousy colors. After a few rounds, we played Cherry. That was a lot of fun too. At one point, Paul and I had a plan to escape to the car while Merika had her eyes closed, but we failed. Not that our plan would've worked anyway because when we decided to leave the park, the car wouldn't start. Merika had left just before we had had car trouble, so she didn't know about our predicament. We tried lots of tricks to start it, but to no avail. Miles and Paul decided to walk to Paul's for assistance from his Dad, and I kind of just wandered away from them to Merika's.
Merika and I talked a little and then watched "Mr. and Mrs.Smith". The movie was fuzzy, so we did our best to tweak the colors to make it more viewable. We started watching it at about eleven or eleven fifteen, but eventually we both fell asleep on her couch. I woke up at about 12:45 and woke her up. We were SO TIRED. Darn "Mr. and Mrs.Smith", not entertaining enough! She drove me home and I went right to bed.
Friday- Paul had slept over with Miles while I was at Merika's, so we played some video games in the morning. I eventually got ready for the day and rode my bike to Aimee's. Miles came along later and Lauren was already there. Aimee and I ate and filled out applications. Miles really wanted to get apps out that day, but I wasn't doing them fast enough. We eventually gave up the idea of me finishing them all and just talked and stuff. We left for the movie at four thirty-ish. We sat in stadium seating behind two broken chairs. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was really strange. I liked the original more, though there were parts of the new one I liked better. The original was definitely a lot warmer and more magical. Tim Burton made this one a little darker. Willy Wonka was even more of a weirdo, but the grandparents were funnier. It was alright. I went to my Dad's afterward and hung out.
Saturday- I studied for Japanese in the morning, but not enough. I felt bad at lessons that I hadn't studied more. After lessons, I went home and finished nearly all of my applications. Miles and I left at 1:45 to go out to lunch with Ruth. Chapala (the new Mexican place that replaced Cafè Cancun) was closed so we went to the Charhouse instead. We talked about school and stuff, while I ate my gyros-filled Greek salad and drank limeade. I had already had a bagewhich at my Dad's so I was not too hungry. We then adjourned to Baskin Robbins where Ruth and Miles had ice cream and Miles managed to spill my nearly full cup of water all over himself. It was funny. At three something we decided we had better get going and left. Ruth made the offer to do stuff with her on some kind of regular basis and we said yes, but to think about when. It was nice to see her, but I still feel a little uneasy meeting with her repeatedly without Dad. I don't know how long we can keep things going without it becoming awkward for him, but on the other hand, I don't want to confront her about it in fear of driving her away. So *sigh* things are tricky.
Miles and I spent the rest of the afternoon dropping off applications and applying to some more places (Jimmy Johns, Baskin Robbins). We also found a new store that we mean to apply to called "Carvel". It's a splendid, little ice cream place at the Commons. Oh! Did anyone know the Commons had an electronic boutique? I had no idea until on Saturday. Anywho, we finished our application quest and returned home. We were too late to go to the Shakespeare, so I just ate dinner and hung out.
Sunday- I wene to 9:30 sunday school in the new youth room, but we didn't learn nor talk about god. It was one of the "what do you want to get out of sunday school" things that we seem to do too much. I put down "we need to be more structured and actually learn about things in the bible". I really feel like our sunday school is too relaxed, and every time I go, it feels like we just introduce ourselves and talk about our week. After the lesson, I looked for my dad around the church and talked to Cassie Kurth. Dad and I went home and watched the Tour de France with Miles. It was a mountain race in the Basque region of France. Lance didn't win (he came in 7th), but he didn't plan to. It was interesting to see a mountain race, but the crowd was obnoxious. They crowded the streets and even occasionally touched the riders! I did get to see the polka dot jersey, though, which I liked a lot. The guy wearing it (I can't remember his name...) had matching polka dot shorts and helmet. It was COOL!
I went home and ready Harry Potter, comics, and played some of Miles' Fire Emblem. I had a lot of lazy fun! I feel like I have to be productive today, though because of how lazy I was yesterday. Paul eventually called and Miles and I went to his house and played all of two seconds of video games. Ian got there soon after we did, and after some horribly annoying confusion about what we were going to do, we set off for Memorial and played games. Ian left eventually and I had the feeling again that we're just slipping apart. I don't know...sometimes my friends just annoy me. I feel like I just want to ditch them all and tell them "screw you" and just find new friends. Aimee and I are close and it's the same with Merika and I, but Paul, Mike, Ian, not really. Maybe it's that I expect more of them or I'm just feeling unfufilled...I don't know.
We went back to Pauls and tried to set up some messy plans with Mike and Merika. I called my mom and rode home for dinner. I was stopped by grounded Merika on the way, and we talked about Harry Potter and stuff. After a brief dinner, I called up Mike and Paul, and after much deliberation, we decided to rent a movie. We got "Run Lola run" and watched it at Paul's.
It was good. It was a German movie about a girl who has to get 100,000 marks (does anyone know what that is in dollars) in twenty minutes and get to her friend who's going to be killed by some mobster if he doesn't have the money. The movie goes through three different ways she could get the money and get to her friend and the different consequences of her actions. It was pretty cool and artsy in that respect. What was pretty cool (I think someone who made the movie just wanted to add this in for fun) was when Lola screamed really loudly and shrilly glass would break. There's one scene where she's gambling and just starts screaming because of how badly she wants to win.
I went home after the movie and read.
Japanese word of the day: "Tomodachi" is friend and "Tamago" is egg. This is where the idea of "Tamagachi" came from, I think.