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Friday April 2, 2005

Finally April, hooray! Even though Spring technically started in March, it doesn't really feel Springy until April. If I were feeling more creative, I would have written up a fabulous and totally fake entry for yesterday, only to reveal today that it was an April Fool's joke, but sadly my brain was too tired for that. Blame school and work. (I am such a procrastinator when it comes to posting entries that I start, that I've had to change the first sentence of this paragraph three times, from "last day of March!" to "First day of April!" to it's current form.)

Work, you say? But Crystal, you're so unemployed that your bank account's value resembles that of a five year old's piggy bank! Well, my old work called on Wednesday, and it turns out that one of the women that works for them is sick, and they wondered if I could do my old bank run Thursday and Friday and I agreed. It only took me 2 hours each day, and I'll get about $40, which I really, really need, since I've been making the same $100 stretch out for a looong time. Thursday went well- the sun was nice and warm, so I got to drive around with the top of my car down about half the time, which I have hardly gotten to do at all since I bought her, so that alone made it worth it. There's something surreal about showing up to a job you haven't worked in two months though, and having it all be the same.

I mentioned a while back that Mom had bought a new baby cockatiel, and we were waiting for it to be able to eat on its own (as opposed to being hand fed) before we picked it up. Well, we went and picked her up on Tuesday, and she is so very cute! We ended up naming her Rosie/Rose (depending on our mood). I posted a few pictures of her on the boards on Tuesday, which you can see here, and here is one of them:

Rosie is the cutest thing ever. She makes tiny little peep noises, and hasn't quite gotten the hang of getting around her cage just yet. So cute!

I have SO much stuff to do today. I haven't done any of my posts for the discussion opics for history, so I have those 4 to do, plus at least 8 or 9 replies to other posts. I have a geography test that I need to take by Tuesday, but I haven't actually read the chapter yet (oops.) That one snuck up WAY too fast! I also need to read the chapters for next week's history either today or tomorrow. Of course, despite all this, I'm in the mood to a) clean my house and b) sit around reading the Dis-boards. And, apparently, to type up a journal post. Oh ho ho, I am so productive.

As most of you probably know, I'm a huge fan of Spring. I love the growth, the rebirth, and most of all, the damn cold weather getting the hell out of dodge. (Poetic, huh?) I planted some seeds on Easter (apropos of the whole rebirth theme), and when I opened the curtain to the window whose ledge is their home, I was greeted with a big surprise!

Those are the cucumbers, or will be anyway. So cute! I can't wait for the other stuff to start sprouting, too!

My back yard has also figured out that it's Spring. Everything is purple. Really purple.

Yes, I know the purple things are technically weeds, but when they cover your whole entire yard, the effect is kind of pretty. Plus, there are other purple things:

There are also some tulips sprouting up, and some unidentified orangey-red flowers. It is Spring!

I meant to post a while back about when my nephew was here, and we went out to one of those pizza buffet type places with the arcade and go carts built in. The most interesting thing on the buffet was these little things (possibly made of potato? The jury is still out.) shaped like happy faces.

We discussed how buffets make people eat disgusting combinations of things. I try to keep stuff of noncompatable flavoring separate on my plate, but even I ended up with nacho cheese on my pears. Jesse, however, likes to just mush everything together. Despite the disgusting appearance (modeled below), it tastes good, as most really ugly foods do.

We are so classy.

The rooms that you eat in had different themes- the one in the picture above had road signs all over the walls, including our favorite:

The room we ended up in later, after a pre-2nd course video game break, had posters for nonexistant toys, mostly action figures of the place's mascot (freaky guy in poster) and his girlfriend. Outside the room are life-sized figures of them in boxes. They were creepy.

Nephew not included in purchase price of Super Kick Pete Za, he is sold separately.

We played some video games, air hockey on an evil table that made scoring WAY too easy, and I played my first game of DDR (well, it was a ghetto DDR substitute. Either way, I sucked.)

El Nephew closed things up with a ride on the go carts, where he was the only one on the track.

I have few regrets in my life, but one of those few is that I didn't get a picture of the hilarious signs over the different sections of food. The salad one looked like a mixture of an alien spacecraft and a sub sandwich. I promise to go back, just to take a picture of it.

Of course, given that if there is the tiniest bug going around, I get sick, I ended up with some kind of virus, which I'm guessing I got at the buffet. Buffets are really disgusting if you think about it, so I suggest you don't.

I have some freakishly cute photos of the cats to post, but since this entry is already pretty photo heavy, I'll hold off till next time. I'm also working on a snazzy photo tour of my house, but I want to wait till I get things cleaned up a little before I finish that. There's still a TON of stuff that I brought here from the storage building scattered around, which I need to finish going through. Why am I such a packrat? Why!? And can I interest you in a 1997 issue of Seventeen magazine? Because I have many.

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