A timely update . . . or should I say epic? ;)
hmm . . . I think I should update . . . hehe. *Points at icon* Look, it's one of my new ones! :D . . . Let's see, where did I leave off? Ah, yes, Friday (the 13th--dun dun dun): After the "flooding" of the lab on Thursday, nothing really exciting (or horrible) happened on Friday. 'Twas actually rather slow at the lab, if I recall correctly . . . my mom and I were going to go to the movie theatre to see The Princess Diaries, but then we remembered that the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics were on and watched them with my dad. My dad and I *loved* the introduction, where James Earl Jones' distinctive voice was narrating about Ancient Greece with the theme from Jurassic Park in the background---go John Williams!! [sidenote--I wonder what he would have thought if at the time he wrote his Olympic themes for the '72 and '96 Games he would have known that they would become the "unofficial" themes for all following Games? . . . . ok, that was a rather confusing sentence, and I think I confused myself too] Of course, since 'twas Friday night and I didn't have to get up early on Sat, I stayed up rather late and read fanfiction . . . *looks sheapish* (is that even spelled right? *ponders*)
Saturday was fun, as I had my birthday party with my Wellsboro friends. Sarah, Karen, and G-Girl came for pizza and movies--Low-C came for about 15 minutes during her lunch break right after everyone else came and we talked for a little bit on my porch. She didn't have my present wrapped yet, but she gave me a pretty circlet-thingy from the Laurel Festival as a sort of birthday hat/crown :). I let Sarah, Karen, and G-Girl pick out one of my CDs to listen to while we ate (more like demolished . . . we also had help from Alexander) our pizza--'twas a unanimous vote for Norah Jones because that was the only CD they recognised (as the rest of my CD collection is various soundtracks, John Williams scores, Enya, Sarah Brightman, and Josh *waves flags for film scores and crossover*) We talked about fun times in elementary and middle school while listening to my CD of randomness--I hadn't realised how much I missed talking with them . . . At around 4 or so (they'd come over at 1ish) we hopped into Sarah's truck and headed to Video King to rent something. We didn't find anything we really wanted to watch, but G-Girl had brought her copy of The Reduced Shakespeare Company's "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare", which was hilarious! 'Tis a 90-minute video featuring three actors presenting Shakespeare's entire works in front of a live audience . . . they don't actually act all of the plays though--they do all the histories as one (Amer.) football game and merge the comedies into a "mega-play" type thing . . . I'd recommend it ('twould be great for a SU movie night if we can find a copy--I bet the library might have one) . . .
As I was on the computer in the evening (around 8ish or so), I heard a bunch of fire sirens that didn't seem to be from very far away (the fire station is two blocks away from my house so we always hear the sirens)--I knew the fire had to be very close because the sirens weren't getting quieter (so the trucks weren't ravelling anywhere) and started to get nervous when I could hear indistinct sounds of an official (fire or police, I don't know which) speaking with a bullhorn . . . as my mom and I crossed the Green we could see firetrucks and an ambulance at the Main St. intersection, so we thought there had been a really bad accident or something. As we got closer, we realised that there were even more firetrucks further down the block and that smoke was coming out of one of the buildings on Main St. Since it was foggy as well, it was almost impossible to tell which building the smoke was coming from, but it looked like the apartments above the Italian restaurant . . . Although there were no visible flames ('twas just smoke), it was still rather scary--I started shaking when I saw the amount of firetrucks (all the ones in our station, plus a few from neighbouring towns) in the street . . . and it seemed like the whole town was there trying to figure out what was going on . . . my mom and I went to see The Princess Diaries--'twas good . . . in one part of the movie, Mia's grandmother teaches her the art of using a fan, and while probably everyone else was laughing because she's making odd faces as she learns "fan language", I started laughing hysterically when "Three Little Maids" from The Mikado began playing ;) . . .
On Sunday we went to the mall to get school supplies at Staples and groceries at Sam's Club--we really weren't in the actual mall itself for that much, but we got yummy pretzels at Auntie Anne's and I went to the pet shop, where I found a very pretty (and rather small) ball python that I wanted to take home :) . . . we also stopped at Wegmans to get a few things and to pick up my tea supply for this fall: decaf. Tazo chai (the same kind as at Charlie's!), nifty "peppermint" tea that is actually Ceylon tea flavoured with peppermint (because I don't really like herbal teas too much), and of course Twinings Lady Grey and English Breakfast teas . . . YUM! :D Oh, and I found out I'm something like an eighth British on my dad's side--yay :)
I think this entry's gone on long enough, but I have just one more thing--I'm contemplating changing my default icon to this:
Any thoughts?
Oh, and if anyone was wondering, I only used an lj-cut because this post was really long without it and I didn't want to take up so much space on your Friends pages . . .
~Mythy/Lily/Michelle :D