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| December 20: Worked today. See that reocurring theme happening? Today was a busy day. After the working for so long and all, I came home, ate supper, then set out to do a bingo for my mom's boss. Alone. Shannon wouldn't even help me, the nerve. I was scared shitless. Don't you know my biggest fear is not knowing what to expect? The unknown and all? Well, that's exactly what I had to face. Steve, my mom's boss, came to show me some things, and help me get started, and payed me. 60$ so it wasn't all that bad right off. Like I said, I was scared. I helped at first by selling tickets up at the counter for G-Ball. Yeah, sure, whatever - I have no idea what that means, I just know they're a dollar each. Easy enough for me, eh, mathwise? I thought so. Even I could handle that. And I did. The guy next to me, he was Steve's friend, and he seemed nice. We talked for a while and all. The guy next to him (there was one girl besides me, and she was 28 or so, or at least that's what I guessed and she seemed happy, so 28 it is) was nice as well, we didn't have much chance to talk rightaway, lots of people want their bingo tickets and all, but after the first hour or so, when I started to feel better, we talked. He was trying to read LotR, the fellowship, and he was on page 1. Kept getting interrupted. His name was Ryan. Ryan was nice. We kept each other company all night; it would have been dreadful without him being there, I would have been bored out of my mind. Eventually I had to walk the floor, selling tickets and all. New, but not so scary. It was cool. Ryan walked with me after a while, and helped me out when I had to become a checker, something I did not want to do. I had to check people's bingos when they yelled it out. After a while, though, it was fun. Ryan did my first one for me, cause I had no idea what to do. That was nice of him. He told a lot of jokes and such. We talked about LotR, and what kind of books we like to read, (yay Robert Jordan!) and what we do and suchlike. I had no idea he was 23!!! But apparently he is. He's so nice, and didn't seem much older. Oh well, whatever. That doesn't matter. We made plans to get together sometime, and watch LotR, cause he had the second one in extended edition, and I had never seen it. He had never seen the first one in extended, so we planned to rent it or something. I don't know what I would have done if Ryan was there; everyone else seemed nice, but none were really in my age group, except a couple of boys I knew from school, but who I have never talked to and who didn't seem to want to talk to me. Ryan's the one who put up with me all night. I actually had fun. Yeah, that's right. I did a bingo, and I had fun. So there. :p Afterwards, I was invited to Boston Pizza with Ryan and his father, the nice friend of Steve's (Rob?) and others. I declined, cause Shannon and I had sort of plans to go to the bar. Meaning they dropped me off, I wandered around for 20 minutes looking for her and Lindsey and Courtney and found none of them, nor the car, got scared, walked to an inn, and called Ryan's cell. He came and picked me up, took me to Boston Pizza, and we hung out. We came after last call, who cares, I didn't drink a drop all night, and I still had fun. Isn't that the point? Afterwards, we drove to his house, (he lives in Morrisroe, how convenient) and he lent me the next book in the Wheel of Time series I haven't read, number 9. Then he drove me home. Told me he'd call me after he came back from New Orleans, family vacation tradition thing. Oh, I loved his tree! Absolutely LOVED it. It was a real tree, big and all, and it was all red. The bulbs, the lights, the garland, ok, maybe that was silver, I can't remeber, everything was red. It was so beautiful, I've never seen a tree like that before. I have never had so much fun doing something I was so sure to dread. I haven't told my parents about Ryan yet; they wouldn't understand him being a friend, what with him being 23 and male. But seriously, he is such a nice friend, and I feel so safe around him. He's not like a typical 23, I guess. Yeah. Good day. December 19: Today was the last day before Christmas holidays started! Whoo hoo! And it was a half day, too. And a good spare day. Only, the problem is, Kelly wasn't there, so it didn't seem like a good spare without her. We did what we usually do, meaning playing Asshole and talking, stealing Matt's food and the like. Only lately Matt has been being a sweetie (did that whole thing make sense?) and buying me my own food, and I feel bad and wanted at the same time. I know. I'm complex. It's me. Jamie had chocolate today, and Ashley had candy canes, so we all got sick and such from too much. Then we stole Matt's Fruitopia (mmmm blueberry and watermelon...) to wash it down. So good. He's come to accept me as the little mooch, but hey, come on, I'm his little sister.. he should expect this. After school, I caught the bus home, and was home for a total of about 2 minutes before dad came. He, along with his wife Pat, my aunt Peggy, and grandparents went out for lunch at the Keg. It was nice. I enjoyed it. After we exchanged gifts, but I wasn't allowed to open mine. Pooh. I came home and worked. Reoccuring theme; you'll see. December 18: We did gift giving today. Because, you know, we won't see Kelly at all tomorrow. :p Matt got me a teddy bear. I know! How nice of him! I wish I had thought of something better to have given him. Kelly got me cool key chains, and a book for all the many boyfriends I've had/will ever had, a rating kind of thing. I've used up like 10 pages, and it's got friends in there as well. Of course, I'm not done. But it's interesting. I guess. I like the keychains. And the wrapping paper was cool! Talking trees! Whoo hoo. Those two are so sweet; I don't know how Matt is going to survive not seeing her for a week. I still can't believe he's going to Victoria to be with her. It's so cute! I hope they have fun together. It's Kelly and Matt. Of course they'll have fun together. December 17: Shannon did the sweetest thing for me today. I had decided to spend spare with Steff, and that didn't happen at all, and I felt so bad, but I was so happy so whatever. We were sitting there, and Shannon came up behind me and said "I brought you a christmas gift. Merry Christmas" and I was like, what? Cause first of all I didn't recognise her voice... and then secondly I was like... well we already did that gift thing... and then I turned around and there was Skye! I was so happy! And surprised! The best Christmas gift I've ever been given. I was so happy. We went to Bower mall, after dropping off some magazines to the art room and barely remembering to say goodbye to Steff... I felt so bad! But I had fun, you know, as much fun as I can when I know I have to give up Skye in a couple of hours and all. But we had fun. And I was so happy that he had a chance to meet Shannon; they both mean so much to me. It was cool. Being the 17, and being December, it was the opening night of LotR 3: Return of the King!!!! Shannon and I had planned to be there at like, 4:30, because the doors opened to sell tickets at 5:30, but as usual, Shannon's mom Sue was late in coming home and because we planned to take her car, we were rather later trhan we had hoped for. So at 5:20.... It was ok though, I mean, Shannon had to park near the library and all, but I found some friends who had been in line since right after school, suckers, and I stood with them and it was all fine. We had to wait inside until 7:30, but we didn't care. It was fun. There were around 10 of us who ended up sitting together. I ran into Will there, bastard put ice cubes down my back, reminding me as to why I didn't date him in high school. Meh. The movie was awesome, of course, and I wans't in the least bit sad that I hadn't gone to the formal instead. Of course, that was because Skye couldn't go, and so what would have been the point? Of course, I didn't find out until after the fact that Murray had actually gone and he had looked for me and couldn't find me! That made me sad. |
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