The More Exciting Part of Memorial Day

Beth came to the barbeque at my house on Monday. She kept all her clown makeup and costume on so that when my four year old cousin came and saw her he got all excited. It was adorable! My uncle Spiros is Greek and his father was in town from Greece and they all came. My uncle's dad speaks very very little English, so my uncle translated and everything, and they would have their own conversations in Greek. 

Beth has a friend named Dion, Dionysis, whose first language happens to be Greek. So during every conversation my uncle and his father had Beth would call out any word she recognized. "Girl!.... Gum!.... Telephone!.... POTATO!" 

Memorial Day

I went to the festival at Parkview Elementary on Monday, and it was not exciting. It wasn't completely boring; I had friends there, but there wasn't much to do, I came really late. The band was playing random songs that I did not recognize, and a small child kept squirting me with water. Then we walked back from Parkview to Vista Park where Ian had his truck and then I an gave Beth and me a ride to Amanda's house to go visit her. She wasn't there.

Alexis

A friend of the family, a little girl named Alexis, passed away last Saturday, May 23, 2009 at about 10:20 am. We loved her so much. She had cancer first in her arm, discovered about a year ago, and it moved into her hip and lungs. Her arm was amputated a couple weeks or so ago, in the hopes that it might help her beat the cancer, but it didn't. She got a chance to say goodbye to her whole family, which is only slightly comforting. The Make a Wish Foundation sent her and her family to Italy which is where she wanted to go. She even got to see her little sister Emily get baptized. Another thing that was sort of her idea. I love Alexis so much. I am very sad she is gone, but glad she's not in pain anymore. One thing she said -or wrote- before she passed away is that she's going up to heaven with both arms. That just breaks my heart. And her little brother, about six or seven years old, misses her so much. So do her parents. I can't imagine how they feel, thatg their 11 year old daughter is no longer with them. I am just so sad for them right now.

I Have Good Friends

Yes indeedy, I do. We share music, we feel comfortable around each other...... De knows what I mean. (Cough cough...... Beth). And we love!  We talk about our creepy neighbors together and everything. Whenever I go to concerts or shows, I'm always with Beth. And whenever I go to concerts with Beth, we are in the front, five feet away from the bands. I love it.

Slow Club

They know how to make pleasing music. I love to fall asleep to Slow Club songs, especially "Dance to the Morning Light" and "Summer Shakedown." Ooh! And "Thinking, Drinking, Sinking, Feeling." 

"Light will pour 

Out if your eyes

Down into 

A field of ......"

Is it spice or spies?

Last Friday

I went to Beth's house. She has a creepy neighbor. He's about 22 years old, and he flirts with her every chance he gets. But she doesn't like it. She polite, but she tries to deflect his weird comments, but it's like he doesn't even notice. On Friday we walked to Baskin Robbins just before Eness and I had to leave, and on our way back we saw him sitting in the drivers seat of his car just around the corner from her house. He was just sitting there with the engine off. Only 50 yards from her house. Mind you, he lives next door to her. Then, Eness and Beth and I get to Beth's house and we sit on the front lawn talking, and weren't sitting there for 30 seconds before we see him pull into his own driveway, get out of his car, and talk to Beth again. It was freaky.

...And I Just Can't Hide It

I am so excited for August 18th. Its the day before my 16th birthday, but that is not the exciting part. Ever since I went to Beth's 11th birthday party the summer before sixth grade, I have been in love with Green Day. I'll admit that I used to enjoy the album American Idiot but that's not my cup of tea anymore. I do, however, still love their old stuff. Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, Kerplunk, 1,000 Smoothed Out/Slappy Hour, Waiting.... there's more. All oldies but goodies. So anyway, Beth, my darling Beth, got us floor tickets for their concert on the 18th of August. That's why I'm so excited. We're leaving right after school to pick up our tickets and get to HP Pavilion ASAP so we can be right in front. 

What a Good Night!

A friend that I have had for quite some time, someone I was very close to for a while, called me tonight and told me that they were going to serenade me with a song of apology. We had gotten into this pattern where we weren't talking for a long time..... since April 11, to be exact (that's a LONG time for us). It all started when I went to Mexico and I came back and the first person I called after I came back (other than my mama) was Beth, one of my best friends. When I was on the phone with her she told me that she was at So-and-so's birthday party. I was told weeks before that I was invited, and all of the sudden I wasn't invited, and I had no idea why. Okay, whatever, birthday party shmirthday party. Then she had a invited people over to go swimming at her dad's house. I wasn't included in a group of people that I normally was included in. She also wasn't answering my messages and she wasn't calling me like she used to. But we talked tonight. And it was good.