Hm. Time for a
real update, not one of these lame two-sentence deals.
...Friday, as you may be able to tell from my melodramatic last entry, was total carp until I got home and went to sleep. Woke up in a much better frame of mind, and the evening got better from there. Went to 'Nanda's (Daf was also there), watched
U2 Best of 1990-2000 DVD, which is the music videos to the featured songs. Enjoyed that very much.
Probably because of the nap, actually managed to stay up until five in the morning--Daf crashed early, around midnight (she must have been tired--even I usually do better than that!), but 'Nanda and I stayed up, talked, wrote a letter to Samweli, watched
Star Trek: Next Generation ("Elementary, Dear Data") and
M*A*S*H ("The Smell of Music"), etc., etc.
Next day, got up around 11-ish, messed about on 'Nanda's computer while she and Daf caught some more sleep, got them up around 1 pm. Daf went home, I stayed 'til 3-ish, watching more
Next Generation ("Ship in a Bottle", which was the one we'd meant to watch in the first place), finishing Samweli's letter, and listening to part of a very old U2 concert.
Went to a hockey game that night, then to the sports-bar place where we go after with my parents' friends, and my brother and his friends and I play trivia. Had a good time, but I was disappointed, because we were finally there late enough to play "Battle of the Sexes", a really fun trivia game that never comes on 'til 10, which is about when we're usually just leaving--but it was Saturday, not Friday, so they weren't playing it. ...Oh, well, we did TV trivia instead, and the last question was about
M*A*S*H, so of course I got the full thousand points for that one. *g*
Today hung around the house for the better part of the day, playing computer game
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, which I first started playing in sixth or seventh grade with Ashley who lived (and lives, but we aren't friends anymore) in the house behind mine. Love this game so much that I bought it for myself a couple of years ago--but random computer problems kept the game from running properly until Christmas this year, when I got the new computer, and so am now determined to beat this fun sixth-grade math game once for all. (And, yes, that may be the only time you
ever hear me mention "fun" and "math" in the same context, so enjoy it while you can...) It's not stupid now--it's almost as challenging, really, still (maybe 'cause I never, mentally,
got much farther than sixth-grade math, as my AP stats grades will attest...*g*), and I still have an affection for the cute little Zoombinis.
Then, at 6:30 tonight, went to Aneya's house for her birthday party. Had a great, great time. Was tropical-themed, so there was all manner of tropical-type food around: fruit with yogurt dip, and sherbet with gummy fruit, and key lime pie, and actual coconuts. Seriously, big husked coconuts, with holes drilled in and straws stuck in so we could get the milk. I've never had coconut milk, to my remembrance, so that was very cool. Even got to take the un-consumed portion of mine home, so sitting in my fridge right now is a small-glass worth of coconut milk, in a Tupperware-topped plastic cup, and a real...well, not real
live coconut, but real, anyway, done up in plastic wrap ('cause my parents didn't want to deal with cracking it open for the meat at 11:00 pm, when I got home). ...Was also regular party fare--Goldfish-brand crackers, pretzels, tortillas with melted-cheese-stuff.
So Daf and I learned how to play Dance Dance Revolution, finally--it really scared me when
Bethie got excited about it shortly after New Year's, 'cause she'd just learned it then, and she doesn't usually get excited about these things--and I don't know about Daf, but I have to say that
I'm half-addicted. That is one ruddy cool game, no matter how dorky I look. I did pretty well for a beginner--beat Daf and Aneya a couple of times--and did reasonably well on one of the four-footers (difficulty of levels is expressed in little footprints that come up on the screen--the average basic level is four or five feet, though there're some below that for amateur-people such as myself), which I consider progress for less than an hour's total playing time, since I'm a beginner. Got totally lost on the five-footers, though--and, indeed, a couple of the three-footers. Will have to keep playing.
Once we'd had all the DDR our digestive systems could stand (we were fine until after "dinner": major sugar and fat intake plus coconut milk plus DDR does not equal stomachic happiness), we played Spoons for a while (it's a card game--Daf drew pictures instead of playing, possibly out of protest at our using spoons for something, instead of treating them as pets, as she does...*g*), then made leis. Bethie and I made headbands instead of traditional leis, and will wear them to school on Tuesday (why not?).
Around 10:45, as I have a college interview tomorrow, I went home--the others are sleeping over (or at least a couple of our group of five-guests-plus-Aneya are). Should go to bed soon. Hm, we'll see if
that happens.
-Laurel
