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04042008

So. Yeah.

15 years ago, today, I had to go to the hospital to visit my mommy. (I don't much remember this, but there are a handful of pictures and memories, giving me at least a rough idea of what happened) Once there, I got to say hi to mom, who I hadn't seen in a couple days, and dad, and someone new.

In the subsequent years, that someone new would argue with me, hog the spotlight, make me do all the work when cleaning the basement, and steal my clothes, my friends, and large swarths of my sanity. She would also somehow insist on being taller and thinner than me, better able to make new friends, and drop dead gorgeous to boot. (The bitch!)

But it wasn't all bad. For most of fourteen years, she was around to play barbies and dress-up and pretend with, to draw pictures with, to laugh with and tickle and torment and, on one memorable occasion, drop a container of peanut butter on. And, of course, to be amazingly *unbearably* silly with. And I mean, even when I went off to college and left forever, she was still just a phone call away, to talk, and gossip, and giggle with.

She's the only one who gets what I mean when I say "Burda." or "Ichabod, Ichabod Crane" or "Grass --it's funny!" or "Vending Machines" or "I panicked without thinking" or "Yep, I'm smarter than I let on" or "Ichabod, the Craneinator", or "This is your conscience" or "2123" or "Ahhh, Sustenance!" or...

(And, I mean, hell, she is the only other person who I can communicate to with the lyrics of Adam Ant's "Desperate but not Serious" *grins*)

So yeah. All in all, that someone new turned out to be someone pretty much entirely wicked pissah awesome. And while I still refuse to let her grow up (NO SEX! NO ATTRACTIVE CLOTHING! STOP LOOKING HOT, DAMN YOU!) it's nice to know that she's managing to do so in a reasonably sane fashion.

So yeah. Happy birthday, little sister! You're frigging *fifteen*, when the hell did that happen? I love you lots and lots.

Yer bigolder sister
~Kat

(((And no, you didn't miss part 1 --I haven't posted it yet.)))

Bowling with Santa

Bowling with Santa is awesome. It really really is. Basically, the bowling alley that mom goes to for her league offers some reasonable bargain for two games of bowling, shoes, hotdog, soda, and getting to see Santa. We've been going since roughly '98 or so, and it's terribly fun, especially as Santa remembers us, because he is a really awesome guy. (But you all knew that, didn't you?)

This year was the five of us in the family, aramintamd and her two daughters, and lonebear and giraffeaholic, which meant we had an even split between the adults and the kids. Seeing as us kids had bumpers, to keep our balls out of the gutter, it was a pretty even match, which was good. The first game, everyone just played at a reasonable level (except mom who had an epicfail game --I actually beat her) but by the second game, the youngest of Araminta's had dropped out, and Aly had gone all "bleeh" and was done, which meant that I was bowling for three people. Which is killer fun, let me tell you, especially if you don't take yourself seriously.

By the second half, Aly had come back in, and the two of us got a little bit...hyper about the bowling. We spent the last three frames throwing the balls down the alley together, and just being goofy. Which is totally fun --Aly and I have always been good about getting really silly together and screwing around.

And yeah. Yay bowling. Santa came by, of course, and I told him that I wanted RockBand and more suspenders* and 'stuff like that'. He gave us candy canes, because Santa is just a generally cool guy like that. Me and Aly spent a lot of our not-bowling time in each others laps, chatting. I danced with both of Araminta's daughters, and with Koob (who came by to visit) and Aly, a little. General mayhem and all that.

I really like my family.

~Sor
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*My suspenders are *awesome* They are (debatably) also hott, with two "t's". I bought them yesterday at Commander Salamanders, and they are black, and I have sworn to wear them every day until the end of time because I like them so much. I've already broken that particular promise, however, seeing as I'm not currently wearing them.

My hair *is* still in two braids with bells on the end, so I suppose that's good. Phear the cute?

Aly: [walks in behind me to the computer.] So, how was your day?
Me: [because I like dicking with her] Sex.
[Long pause]
Aly: [walks back out to the doorway] Let's try that again. [walks back in] So, how was your day?

~Sor
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Lovely joke, from my sister:

"What do you call a religious bird?"
( I don't know. What DO you call a religious bird? )

Truly, her wits know no bounds.

~Sor
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Well, considering that I've alredy has one person complain to me that I haven't been updating hereabouts, I figured I should come check in.

Life has been fairly busy, but on the whole, non-exciting. Except for Pirate Feast. Pirate Feast ruled!! There was lots of good food, and music, and trinkets, and dancing. TOTALLY going back next year.

Stuff that's happened since my last update:
Monday...Snow day! Makes me happy!! I went sledding with V's clan, and the sibs, then we all went home. Me and V made Mac&Tuna. (And are now the high priestess's of Macaroni and Tuna-dom, as we won two new converts to the cause -our sisters) Afterwards, we kicked the boys off the TV and us four girls played Halo. Lots of Tanky goodness on...that one level. Where Red Vs Blue takes place. Yeah, that one. Then the sisters bailed, and me and Veronica went and played the city level. I'm highly pleased with myself, I managed to get the soda machine all the way out of the building, and dropped it over the side so it landed in the main middely area. Go me!

...Yes, I'm not a very serious Halo player. Shut up. I speant a large amount of that game throwing things off the walkways overlooking the central area. It's fun!

Tuesday...School. Blek. Kung-fu...less blek, besides doing the Thirty Steps of Death, which is somewhere between Blek and cool. Mostly just ow.

And Kenny is highly cool. I like him. Even if he disposed of his dreads...*tear*

Wednesday...School (Blek) GSA, got chewed out for not showing up to the last few meetings, got deeply frustrated with Tyler and somehow managed to keep from going bitch on her. I'm sorry, but I missed last week because I was activly trying to keep someone from being sad, and yes, I might have missed some meetings because of my own stupid frivolous reasons (I wanted to go home) but in all truth we're not doing anything Aiii! Grr.

And I...No. Stop. *falls silent*

Isn't it nice to know that the screeners in my brain ocassionally work?

Thursday: Aiiiii! day. School (blek), then straight to Therepy-types, where I got in an argument with Miss Debbie about clothes and modesty and showing off my body and stuff like that. She was having difficulty grasping that I don't dress the way I do because I don't like showing off my body (although I do prefer not being oogled). I dress the way I do because I'm sickingingly practical, and having as many pockets as possible is a wonderful thing. Plus, it's more comfertable, and it's nicer to *not* have to worry about leaning forward and showing whoever your talking to a bit more then you intended.

And, MY number one reason for why I don't wear low-cut shirts...I'm short. This means that most people are taller then me, and therefore have to look down to talk to me. Looking down my shirt = bad.

After therepy, straight to UMCP to work concessions at the basketball game in order to gain LondonMonies. Yay for that. It was...interesting. Pretty much a straight jam of people for two hours, and some crazy stress, what with running out of things. I was lucky, I didn't have to deal with any idiots. And afterwards, I got food. Yay that!

Friday: School, home...something. Oh yeah! 'twasn't home, instead, after school on Friday I got to go to Chipoltle with Beth (<3!!), Anne, Jenna, and Chris who is a band kid. That was way fun, and next time I need to remember to bring money/scrip instead of just stealing food from everybody. Afterwards, we went and explored the golf store, and me, Anne, and Beth watched the figure skating boys, and argued about which ones were cute, and which ones were gay.

Then the three of us cool peoples walked home, and did our homework. And played MASH. There was lots of MASH throughout, and poor poor Jenna. *grin*

Babysitting was relitivly normal, then chats, and discussing old embaressing pictures, and discussing weather you prefer to be tied up or do the tying. Clearly that should be a poll.

...I need a paid account again.

Yesterday...quiet, went over to Luna's and played Munchkin and watched this awesome movie called Wasabi. It was in French, but we had subs, so it was all good. And the main actressy girl is ohmygod hot. I had to keep forcfully distracting myself from the TV before I started drooling. Rohan kindly informed me my lesbianness was showing.

Then me and mom went and kidnapped Josh, and the three of us plus Aly got all dolled up and went to PIRATE FEAST! Yes!!

Pirate Feast was far too much fun. Only downside was that there were a few too many people who were a bit too drunk (I had one guy say I was cute and that he had a fetish for my glasses...I politely disentangled myself from THAT conversation, needless to say.) But there was DANCING! And Ahmigawds, I've missed dancing. So that was very happy.

And I learned that the vegan potato soup tasted very good with ham in it. Nicely ironic, too, which is always a tasty thing.

And DUDE! I got to see Amanda(Crazy friend of Bernies, fellow DnDer, and birthday-buddy) there, and she was wearing a loverly corset and looked really awesome.

And then we went home and zzzzzz.

So thats my life. How are you?

~Sor
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Recap:

Friday: Went alright, and then I got to babystitting. Oh my. Diane pointed out that DC (Dear Childe) was borderline sick, so if he fell asleep earlier or whatnot I shouldn't worry.

He was asleep when we got home. So, we put him to bed and Diane told me that if he woke up screaming or anything, and seemed to need his Mom (as opposed to this crazy pseudo-mom) to just call her since she was right next door. I was perfectly fine just watching him peacefully. Then he woke up. *headdesks*

I did wind up getting Diane, and she determnined that he prolly had a nightmare or somesuch, since he wasn't feeling as hot/feverish as he was when we put him to bed (hardly any temperature by that point) We wound up chatting for a bit, with Koob just snuggled up against Diane and it was rather nice. I like talking to people.

After she left, DC was his usual bundle of energy, I finally put him to bed 9:30ish and sang to him, and finally got online again around 10:15ish. And that was after just leaving him be since he didn't seem to have any interest in GOING TO SLEEP! Yipes!

Saterday: Aly's friend Natalie wound up coming over, which was cool(ish) I let them play the Sims on my computer while I played with Veronica and Nik and Dan. It was pretty fun. Natalie stayed the night, and I just generally hung out.

Sunday: Pretty good. I went to Jimmy-Grey (My youngest cousin on my moms side)'s B-day party, where mostly I hung out with mom and aunt sara, choosing to avoid the hordes of small children being obsessive about video games. Me and Nik then went over to Jernie and Boe's to play Halo and watch the transformers movie...we didn't finish it, which was a shame. Played a lot of Halo though.

I really really really really suck at Halo. Although, I achieved a new personal record: I killed someone all by myself! Twice even! It made me very happy. I also killed Andy since he was being a sweetheart and standing still so I could just shoot him a lot.

Transformers movie was very amusing. Gotta love the crazy things. I love the fact that the chickbot wears lipstick. Because, you know, she needs it.

Monday: Worked on some girl scouts stuff, and then went to the leader meeting. Which was cool, if a little long. I wound up inviting myself/getting invited to a younger girl troop via thursday to help them learn origami for thinking day.

Tuseday: Couldn't make up it's mind about weather it was a good day or a bad day. Felt incredibly fragile for no real reason in gymnastics and was ready to just start crying at the littlest things. Very annoying, especially since I had to forcefully refocus myself several times. I figured out what I was doing wrong via back handsprings though, so that was good. Maybe I'll be doing them by myself before the year is out.

Today: Was rather nice. Did the whole school thing until English, where I did the whole hang out with Becky and work on review thing. She had the complete HGttG with her and I had raptures over it all period. I didn't steal it though, which was good of me.

She said she got it at the mall, for only 16 dollars or somesuch. If I can find a compy for under 20$, I'm quite definently buying it for myself, so I have my own copy to deface highlight all the good quotes in.

It started snowing today about Englishtime. Someone looked out the window and pointed it out and adjuisted the blinds so everyone could see and it was exciting. Everyone was cheering and whatnot (not real loud or anything) and enjoying the fact that we have snow. *looks outside* It's still going right now, I reckon we have two, or maybe even three inches so far.

I like snow.

I walked home in it, which was nice, although a tad on the cold side (must remember to bring gloves tomorrow...) and Jeff offered me a ride, which is different. I declined, partly since I was enjoying the snow, partly because I was pretty close to home at that point anyway, and partly because his car skidded rather nicely as he pulled up to the curb next to me. No interest in getting into a car accident thanks. I've done that (albeit several years ago.)

Jaimee invited me to CoE again, which I hope to go to, although it occers to me that I should prolly hang out here and study and clean my room, and knock off things on my todo and whatnot. Sigh.

All for now.

EDIT: Since then, I've shovled the walk which isn't fun, found out that CoE is practiced, which works with my plans, and chatted with Kat, which is very fun.

~Sorceress

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(((COT: My clone and my mum have friended each other. This amuses me greatly, although I'm not entierly positve why.)))

There is something immensly satisfying about being the only kid in the family who's acomplished ANYTHING in the house today.

I unloaded the dishwasher, cleaned the upstairs bathroom, changed lightbulbs, cooked dinner, and worked on cleaning my room.

I rule.

~Sorceress/Kat

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