I’ve been a bit busy these past few days, which is quite surprising to me, because I usually don’t do much on weekends. I’ll try to make a condensed version of what happened over the weekend, but I’ll probably go off on another tangent, like I usually do.
On Saturday, I went to the antique store to buy a present for my mother’s birthday. After a bit of searching, I found a glass eggplant. No, I didn’t get it just because it’s incredibly random to buy someone a glass eggplant. Well, that may be PART of the reason, but the story behind it is when my mother kept talking about making me an “aubergine”, and I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. When she finally took it out of the fridge, I was like “Oh! That’s an eggplant!” Hah. Those silly Dutch women, using those funny words…
Here’s a picture of the glass eggplant, in all its glory.
After I had bought the glass eggplant, I only had about ten minutes at home before I had to leave for my first day of Driver’s Ed, which I had completely forgotten about. Oh, Driver’s Ed went nice, by the way. We got to watch this old video from the ’70s called “Street Smarts”. It had the most hilarious dream sequence, and it was complete with a Walkman reference. I absolutely LOVE old, cheesy instructional videos. Like this one:
“Don’t let modesty make your injury worse!”
I love how he strips oh so casually, and the other guy is looking down at his uhh….zone.
After Driver’s Ed, I went home, and a few hours later I went over to Hope’s house for a movie sleepover party. It was terrific. We watched the Wickerman(the ridiculous one with Nicholas Cage), Suspicion, Psycho, and part of Close Encounters of the Third Kind(we fell asleep almost halfway through). In the morning, we played Pokemon Stadium and Mario Kart until my dad came to pick me up. That was fun and also reminiscent of the countless hours spent playing Nintendo 64 with my brother waaaay back in the day.
I had a few minutes at home before I was carted off to Driver’s Ed again. That session was rather boring and uneventful, and doesn’t deserve a recap. My parents picked me up and we went directly from Greg’s Driving School to the Meditteranean restaurant in Westview for my mother’s birthday dinner(even though her actual birthday is today, we had the dinner last night). I ate calamari and couscous. When we got home, we watched the movie Girl With A Pearl Earring, which was lovely. It’s based off of the novel which is a fictitious story about the painting. I’m actually quite interested in reading the book now, so I’ll probably check it out the next time I go to the library. My mother believes that I look like the girl in the painting, but I don’t think there’s THAT much of a resemblance. Maybe the shape and color of the eyes, the mouth, and part of the nose, but that’s just about it.
Ah yes, now about today. Today is my mother’s birthday, as well as my friend Ethan’s, as well as the day after my friend Michael’s. It’s also the reunion of the Columbine High School shooting, the Virginia Tech shooting, and Adolf Hitler’s birthday. It’s also pot day, but I don’t know if my mother knows that. It’s probably better not to tell her.
I’m also in a yarn crisis. For my Slytherin scarf, that I started in February-ish. I ran out of yarn, which is awful, because I’m almost finished, and I actually REALLY want to knit right now. I won’t be able to get new yarn until Wednesday, which is the next time my mom goes to A.C. Moore or Michael’s or Joann or whatever craft store she needed to go to.
Ughh…my mother is currently watching an Oprah episode about “sexting”. I’m pretty sure kids don’t say “sexting”. Kids just say “sending naked pictures over the phone”. I hate it when adults try to start ‘hip’ terms. Like the word ‘tween’. I’ve never heard a kid use the word ‘tween’, and when I was a ‘tween’ I hated it when that word was used in reference to my demographic.
I believe that’s enough typing for today. So long.
That eggplant is amazing.