This is how we do birthdays

Yesterday was my friend's birthday, so to celebrate it we walked from school to the nearest pizza place-thing (in American books they call them pizza "parlors", but I think that sounds weird). It's a 15 minute walk... if you hide from your friends, punch each other on the arm whenever you see a yellow beetle car and stop and stare at cats that are stuck in trees. If you're normal, it probably takes less.

Anyway. So we went and stuffed ourselves with pizza, and then went to an ATM machine to get some more money (because we are cool and have debit cards, mwahahaha). Being stupid teenagers, we all stuffed ourselves into one little cubicle-thing, and people kept staring at us as they walked by. And a lady knocked on the door, and we turned around to look at her all, "Huh?" And then we opened the door a bit, and she said "Ooooh, this is the ATM!" before leaving with a hilarious tone of realization that of course cracked us up.

Then we went back to school except instead of going back in we went to th Office Depot which is pretty much across the street, where we played with the furniture and admired the stereos and then slept on the floor (none of the store employees said anything. Good guys). Oh, and we had ice cream. And went to school to see who was there, and then ran after a bus (missed it, but got another one which was acceptably empty-ish).

Pitter patter!

IT'S RAINING, IT'S RAINING, IT'S RAINING!!!

It just started raining a few seconds ago, yessss!!! I LOVE RAIN!!!! First shower of the year (I think)!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go outside and wave my hands above my head while I sing.

Random stuff that's happened this week

At the end of Spanish class:

"So, if you paid attention, good for you! If not... good luck."

...

My friend telling me about her vacation at the beach when she was younger:

"And I got all excited, and told my sister, 'Hey! Come, there's a turtle under the water here! There, feel it!' And my dad was just laughing and laughing on his beach towel... and then a wave came and I slipped and fell, and when I opened my eyes, it turned out that my turtle was a rock."

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Another friend telling me about how she was (is) scared of a hobo that wanders around the city, sometimes throwing empty bottles at people at bus stops (or so I'm told):

"And the only thing that made me able to walk past her was something my brother told me once: 'Just remember: whatever happens, you can probably outrun her!' "

Me: "AHAHAHAHHAHAHAA!!"

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Yet another friend (I have many of these, these "friend" things) relates the exciting tale of his attack by a savage beast:

"So I was cleaning out the tank, and one of my turtles just jumped up - all shark-like - and bit my nose. I guess I appear yummy to him."

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I met a green aphid called Sammy Davis Junior Junior Junior today, except I was separated from him not ten minutes after we first met because he made the grave mistake of exploring my thumb a little too far: he stepped on my fingernail, which is currently sporting a coat of clear nail polish. Having lost traction due to said polish, Sammy was unable to hold on, and when the gust of wind of a passing car reached him... well, I'm sure that wherever he landed, he's fine. He was a brave little soul and a resilient little guy (unless he was, in fact, a girl. But my point still stands).

I'm on the Grinch's side.

I'm in a VERY BAD MOOD today. The reasons I'm in such a VERY BAD MOOD are many. For my own sanity, I'm going to make a list. Also for my own sanity, I'm going to publish my list. So,

Reasons why Andrea is in a VERY BAD MOOD

1. It was my sister Isabel's birthday yesterday and I didn't get any cake, even though I was standing over it and salivating on it (in a non-literal manner, of course) for around two hours. She had her friends over last night, and between them they ate about 2/3 of the cake. This morning I went downstairs at 10:25 and there was NO CAKE left.

2. It is particularly unfair that I didn't get any cake, because I had to wait half a year before my Mom got around to making vereneke (what I always ask for on my birthday) and the aforementioned sister thought it was fair to feed ALL OF THE LEFTOVER ONES to her boyfriend, on the basis that he's half-Russian. She left me around six or seven, the last two of which DISAPPEARED while I was on the phone.

3. I bought a vanilla ice cream yesterday, except I gave it to some kid who was about four years old and looked like he probably sleeps on a bench in a park every night huddled up under some newspapers or something. When I looked in my backpack, I discovered that I hadn't brought my wallet, so I COULDN'T GET ANOTHER ICE CREAM.

4.When I got home, I discovered that I HAD, IN FACT, BROUGHT MY WALLET and that it had simply been hiding under a bunch of garbage in the wallet-pocket. Said garbage has been terminated.

5. On Sunday, I LOST MY CELL PHONE. My father refused to replace said cell phone with a new one, and instead gave me his old one, which is ugly and slow and changes all sent messages to "Hi, we are all at Perisur [that's a shopping mall]. Want to join us for lunch later? -this is Mom on Dad's phone".

6. "Mom, can I have a hermit crab?"
"NO."

7. "Mom, can I have a turtle?"
"NO."

8. If I want to upgrade my iPod Touch to give it applications that it should already have or that don't work in my country, I HAVE TO GIVE APPLE $20.

9. I DON'T HAVE $20.

10. My [other] sister said she would make me some soup two hours ago. I DON'T HAVE ANY SOUP YET AND I'M GETTING HUNGRY.

11. Kurt Cobain DIED on April 5th, 14 years ago today. That SUCKS.