Whoa.
Yay for friends!!!
I better back up. I don't think I've written about anything for real since last week.
I got back here on Thursday. Thursday night we went to see Narnia. I remember writing about that. Friday... I really have no idea what I did that day. Did I go somewhere??? Shopping with Mom, perhaps? OK, I give up... I really don't remember, except we cleaned the house.
Saturday, we went to my grandparents' on my dad's side for Christmas w/ my sisters, bro-in-law, and niece/nephews. Kids running around screaming... accompanied by me having a cold... opening wood-worked gifts... and eating yummy food. That's a pretty good summary if you ask me. Then we came home, and I did more cleaning in my room and then watched SNL, which was very amusing w/ Jack Black as the host... and a rap by Andy Samberg and that other guy (Chris Parnell... sorry, I'm just a huge fan of Andy Samberg so I pay more attention to him and give him more credit)... the Chronic WHAT cles of Narnia...
Slept in on Sunday morning, because I am indeed a heathen. Then I got around and the fam arrived. The extended fam. on my mom's side, including my grandparents, 2 aunts, 2 uncles, and 4 cousins. They're a rowdy bunch, let me tell ya. Them coming over made for a very enjoyable afternoon. We ate some yummy food, had lots upon lots of snacks, and the majority of us played Dirty Bingo whilst a few of the men watched football/napped in the living room. We kept fighting over a 1/2 pound Hershey bar in the game, so we would just keep stealing it from each other. It was hilarious. Finally, my mom made a deal w/ Brandon (my 18-year-old cousin) for him to take her Tootsie Roll box and for her to get the Hershey bar, and all was well. Everyone hung around for a bit after that. People were talking and laughing, and Brandon was playing rap songs on my iPod through my mom's computer and singing along really loud and dancing... hahaha... gotta love him. Then they all left. After that, Mom and I watched It's a Wonderful Life (I LOVE THAT MOVIE).
Yesterday, Trav called around 11, but my dad was on the phone so it just came through on the caller ID on the computer that he called. But I was headed out the door, cause Dad and I had to take my car to the Ford place to get the turn signals fixed (cause they totally DIED). So we did that and came back and I called Trav back, and it turned out he couldn't come visit me because Vanessa's car battery died. BUMMER... so he said they'd try to do it another time this week if possible. Hopefully they'll be able to... but if not, I suppose I'll survive until we get back to AU.
Then I showered and got around, and the Stephs and Anne came over around 1-1:30. We started out watching SNL (cause my bro had taped it for himself) w/ my bro, but then we went in my room and talked and reminisced about high school... and Steph S. found a stash of old notes she had written me in high school so she started reading them. HILARIOUS stuff. Then we decided we wanted to surprise Tisha. So we called her parents and found out where her apartment is (w/ her dad's crappy directions), and then piled in my mom's car and went off to town to try to find her apartment. She wasn't answering her phone, so we just went anyway. When we got there, I accidentally locked the key in the car (cause there are 2 keys, one for the door and one for the ignition, cause something happened w/ the lock so we had to get it changed... and I left the door key in the car and took the ignition key out) so I had to call Mom on Steph S.'s cell, but we got her and she was coming to town. So we waited around in Tisha's apartment's lobby and finally got ahold of her on her cell and she was on her way home. So we waited and she finally came so we got the grand tour of her apartment and met her husband when he came home, took pics, looked at her honeymoon pics, yada yada. Then Mom came so I went out and got in the car and rescued the key. Then Tisha had to start making dinner, so we left and decided to go to Hacienda for dinner... which was great.
We were chatting about all sorts of things, and it reminded Steph S. and I of Sex and the City. We claimed names. Steph S. is Miranda, Anne is Carrie, and Busso and I are Charlotte (cause none of us are anything like Samantha). Our waitress was funny... she kept telling us her life story, and about how she got the name for her son. It was amusing.
After that, we came back to my house and played Dictionary Dabble (a game of mine I got for cheap in high school that we always used to play) and had a good, good time. We played for like 2 hours, and then Steph S. decided she wanted to go home and talk to her "honey". Anne and Busso and I tried to come up w/ something to do, so I decided to give Busso a Farrah 'do. She already had the layers, so I just curled it up and it looked pretty fab. Then we took tons of pics and had a spontaneous disco-dancing party in my room, taking more pics. Then we settled down and decided to prank call Trav. He freaked Busso out, cause he was like "Is this Steph?" and she was like Allison you take the phone, I'm scared now... haha cause he knew 2 of my friends' names are Steph so he said he had the best odds of guessing right w/ that name. So we talked to him for like... ever. Then around midnight we got off the phone w/ him and they were online, checking their e-mail and stuff (cause I had started talking to him just by myself about stuff), and then they decided to leave.
It was a greaaaaaaaaaaaaaat time. I got to see/talk to my 4 best friends in the world. There were very few ways that it could've been a better day.
Today, I went to Angie's (my aunt's) and got my hair dyed back to my natural brown and then got fresh highlights. It's pretty fantastic, for real. Tomorrow I'm tagging along w/ Anne and Chels to go to their beautician and see if she can work me in to get my hair cut into layers like Busso's, so I can do a Farrah 'do also. Trav and Vanessa will be happy, and I will too cause I think it's cute and also cause my hair is getting really gross and I think layers will make it a LOT better.
Got a call today that my car was done, so Dad and I went and picked it up. It works and is great... so now I can go anywhere I want! Well, within reason. South Bend or Fort Wayne, here I come (hopefully)!
K... that's all I have to say for now. Except Trav said he'll call me today, and I told him he prolly wouldn't. So far I'm correct. I should've made a bet... I would've made some big bucks on that one.
Toodles, kids.
I better back up. I don't think I've written about anything for real since last week.
I got back here on Thursday. Thursday night we went to see Narnia. I remember writing about that. Friday... I really have no idea what I did that day. Did I go somewhere??? Shopping with Mom, perhaps? OK, I give up... I really don't remember, except we cleaned the house.
Saturday, we went to my grandparents' on my dad's side for Christmas w/ my sisters, bro-in-law, and niece/nephews. Kids running around screaming... accompanied by me having a cold... opening wood-worked gifts... and eating yummy food. That's a pretty good summary if you ask me. Then we came home, and I did more cleaning in my room and then watched SNL, which was very amusing w/ Jack Black as the host... and a rap by Andy Samberg and that other guy (Chris Parnell... sorry, I'm just a huge fan of Andy Samberg so I pay more attention to him and give him more credit)... the Chronic WHAT cles of Narnia...
Slept in on Sunday morning, because I am indeed a heathen. Then I got around and the fam arrived. The extended fam. on my mom's side, including my grandparents, 2 aunts, 2 uncles, and 4 cousins. They're a rowdy bunch, let me tell ya. Them coming over made for a very enjoyable afternoon. We ate some yummy food, had lots upon lots of snacks, and the majority of us played Dirty Bingo whilst a few of the men watched football/napped in the living room. We kept fighting over a 1/2 pound Hershey bar in the game, so we would just keep stealing it from each other. It was hilarious. Finally, my mom made a deal w/ Brandon (my 18-year-old cousin) for him to take her Tootsie Roll box and for her to get the Hershey bar, and all was well. Everyone hung around for a bit after that. People were talking and laughing, and Brandon was playing rap songs on my iPod through my mom's computer and singing along really loud and dancing... hahaha... gotta love him. Then they all left. After that, Mom and I watched It's a Wonderful Life (I LOVE THAT MOVIE).
Yesterday, Trav called around 11, but my dad was on the phone so it just came through on the caller ID on the computer that he called. But I was headed out the door, cause Dad and I had to take my car to the Ford place to get the turn signals fixed (cause they totally DIED). So we did that and came back and I called Trav back, and it turned out he couldn't come visit me because Vanessa's car battery died. BUMMER... so he said they'd try to do it another time this week if possible. Hopefully they'll be able to... but if not, I suppose I'll survive until we get back to AU.
Then I showered and got around, and the Stephs and Anne came over around 1-1:30. We started out watching SNL (cause my bro had taped it for himself) w/ my bro, but then we went in my room and talked and reminisced about high school... and Steph S. found a stash of old notes she had written me in high school so she started reading them. HILARIOUS stuff. Then we decided we wanted to surprise Tisha. So we called her parents and found out where her apartment is (w/ her dad's crappy directions), and then piled in my mom's car and went off to town to try to find her apartment. She wasn't answering her phone, so we just went anyway. When we got there, I accidentally locked the key in the car (cause there are 2 keys, one for the door and one for the ignition, cause something happened w/ the lock so we had to get it changed... and I left the door key in the car and took the ignition key out) so I had to call Mom on Steph S.'s cell, but we got her and she was coming to town. So we waited around in Tisha's apartment's lobby and finally got ahold of her on her cell and she was on her way home. So we waited and she finally came so we got the grand tour of her apartment and met her husband when he came home, took pics, looked at her honeymoon pics, yada yada. Then Mom came so I went out and got in the car and rescued the key. Then Tisha had to start making dinner, so we left and decided to go to Hacienda for dinner... which was great.
We were chatting about all sorts of things, and it reminded Steph S. and I of Sex and the City. We claimed names. Steph S. is Miranda, Anne is Carrie, and Busso and I are Charlotte (cause none of us are anything like Samantha). Our waitress was funny... she kept telling us her life story, and about how she got the name for her son. It was amusing.
After that, we came back to my house and played Dictionary Dabble (a game of mine I got for cheap in high school that we always used to play) and had a good, good time. We played for like 2 hours, and then Steph S. decided she wanted to go home and talk to her "honey". Anne and Busso and I tried to come up w/ something to do, so I decided to give Busso a Farrah 'do. She already had the layers, so I just curled it up and it looked pretty fab. Then we took tons of pics and had a spontaneous disco-dancing party in my room, taking more pics. Then we settled down and decided to prank call Trav. He freaked Busso out, cause he was like "Is this Steph?" and she was like Allison you take the phone, I'm scared now... haha cause he knew 2 of my friends' names are Steph so he said he had the best odds of guessing right w/ that name. So we talked to him for like... ever. Then around midnight we got off the phone w/ him and they were online, checking their e-mail and stuff (cause I had started talking to him just by myself about stuff), and then they decided to leave.
It was a greaaaaaaaaaaaaaat time. I got to see/talk to my 4 best friends in the world. There were very few ways that it could've been a better day.
Today, I went to Angie's (my aunt's) and got my hair dyed back to my natural brown and then got fresh highlights. It's pretty fantastic, for real. Tomorrow I'm tagging along w/ Anne and Chels to go to their beautician and see if she can work me in to get my hair cut into layers like Busso's, so I can do a Farrah 'do also. Trav and Vanessa will be happy, and I will too cause I think it's cute and also cause my hair is getting really gross and I think layers will make it a LOT better.
Got a call today that my car was done, so Dad and I went and picked it up. It works and is great... so now I can go anywhere I want! Well, within reason. South Bend or Fort Wayne, here I come (hopefully)!
K... that's all I have to say for now. Except Trav said he'll call me today, and I told him he prolly wouldn't. So far I'm correct. I should've made a bet... I would've made some big bucks on that one.
Toodles, kids.