HERE I AM!

OH MY GOD! I finally have access to a freakin computer! Lemme see if I can remember everythign that's happened for the bast few weeks! I wont be able to =( that makes me sad.

So we left Thursday and the plane flight went as smoothly as it possibly could have. We went into this new parking garage and they actually checked our bags right there in the garage! So we didn't have to carry them all the way in. Whew. And then I had all my flim cause I'm a film nerd and it almost got exposed so many times with all the security and such. Me and Molly sat next to each other and had a good time.

We went to the botnical gardens with Chihully's glass stuff. It was amazing! Oh my god there is so much to tell...

Classes are crazy, but I think I'm the only one not freaking out.

Oh my god okay that's all I can manage right now. There's too much to remember and write. I'll leave you with a cool picture.

Sneezes

So I slept until 1 when Anna called me haha. It was only 10 hours of sleep even though it was so late. And man! I was hungry! I'm still a little bit out of it, but I'm glad Anna woke me when she did so I don't get on a crazy late sleeping schedule before I leave. I scarfed down a bagel and a piece of bread and 1/2 an apple hella quick! I realized the reason I've been so hungry is because it's that time of the month now and I was hella moody for the same reason. Or maybe the moodiness was really just freaking out for leaving. But since I practically finished packing, it's smooth sailing from here. I called Naomi last night and she called me back today so I think we're going to Telegraph! YAY so I think I may be able to get everyone presents after all! Even though a bunch of people are gone =( I'll get their addresses and send um. I only need to get like 5 or 6 people presents. My bestest friends! And then she's gunna sleep over and we're gunna go to San Francisco tomorrow. And I forgot to write yesterday that the first time I went to Barney's with Hanna and Sophie was when I'd barely known them and I had had a horrible day so they took me out to dinner and it cheered me up so much and made me so happy and feel so special! That's one of those times I wont forget because as much as they do let me know how much they appreciate them and how much I absolutely love to be their friend and help make them happy, they're two of the first really really good genuine friends that I've had and I couldn't ask for anyone better. Serious. I wish I knew more of the English language so I could express how much I love them better.

So today I vacuumed and now I'm hella sneezy. I was last night too, always when I clean I get sneezy because of the dust or the soap or whatever. The cat hair etc. Allergies. Hehe. But rugs look so nice after they've been vacuumed! My roomie is so clean!

Still two more days but now it should be a more chill two more days than I expected. I'm gunna call Michelle and see if she doesn't want to hang out with me and Naomi because I'd like to see her once more. And hopefully I'll see Anna tomorrow night after we go out to dinner. And then... I'm gone... I'd worry about seeing Max, but I'll see him in New York. But I still want to call him for reassurance. He's gunna be my main man reassurance. Haha. Did that make any sense to anyone else? Speaking of which, I have no idea if what I wrote last night made any sense! I hope it did haha =)

Oh yea, the story of Bonny! When I was in kindergarden, I was sad and felt left out because my family was Mommy, Daddy, Tommy, and Molly and I was Bonnie, emphasis on the IE so I decided to spell my name Bonny with a Y in Kindergarden hehe. I spelled it that way the whole year so I could be like the rest of my family! I like that story. And I definitely remember it. So I told Sophie and Hanna that story and then they started spelling my name with a Y, which I think is really cute =) yay

Last goodbyes and Food hunts

Okay so did it occur to anyone besides me that I'm leaving in TWO DAYS?! Because today would be the day it hit me. Or should I say, yesterday, considering that it's about 2:30 in the morning. I met up with Hanna and Sophie and their friend George, whom I know but not well, and we went to Barney's and I got what I always get! A Swiss and mushroom and onion burger! Hella good! I love sautéed mushrooms and onions! It was tasty. And I had good fun hanging out with them. I used Grama's camera to take a bunch of pictures of them so I can paste them all up on my wall at Pratt. Oh my god... Sheesh. So I got them to write on my pants, it took Sophie right up until a few hours later at the last second. And they made me a cute little book as a going away present! They'd intended to put a lot of work into it, but in the end, as some projects go, they made it quickly, but I still loved it! They pasted pictures of us, silly ones, and wrote stuff on a bunch of the pages so I'll find them as I got along. It's a blank book for me to write whatever I want to in it. I think I'll use it as a poetry notebook slash uber secrets that I just can't tell anyone slash inspirations and stuff. Speaking of which, I might have mentioned this, but I collect inspirational photographs and I meant to paste them all into a scrap book this summer but I didn't get around to it and I really wanna do that so then I'll have an uber cool inspiration book! And I can add as I go along. It's gunna be cool once I get to it... Anyways, as I mentioned, Alix and Jessica slept over last night. It was good fun. I just wanted to reiterated because I'm writing about today. I'm really really out of it right now, I'm having a hell of a time typing and I'm going really really slowly, typing the wrong letters really intensely. I need to sleep but I want to finish this first. But I'm having such a hard time! GRRR.

Moving right along. Hanna had to go home, but she said she'd try her hardest to see me in the evening. I sorta knew it wouldn't happen because she's leaving for somewhere tomorrow morning, so that was out last goodbye! It makes me pretty sad because Hanna is just such a wonderful friend. I can't even put good words to it. Watch out, really soon this all wont be making sense anymore, my eyes are closing... So me and Sophie and George went to Sophie's. She left this evening for Europe, so he parents were freaking out at her but allowed us to stay I think because they knew it was the last time me and her were going to see each other for about four months. So it was fun. George left for practice at around 5, and then Anna came over at around 6:30 because she and Sophie hadn't seen each other in a long while. Like I said, I FINALLY got Sophie to write on my pants, hehe. I'm liking them so far! They're really neat. Dad picked me and Anna up at 7:00. I know that was quick for Anna, but Sophie's mom was like they need to leave because they were leaving at 8. So me and Sophie said bye =( I wont see her for so long... But she said she'd call me every day and I told her if she honestly did, it would make my day every day and I would love it! Sophie's an awesome awesome friend. =)

So then me and Anna came home. I think I'm gunna see her for a quick sec on Wednesday night after me and the family go out for Tommy's birthday slash because I'm leaving for college! I really REALLY want to go to Filipo’s, but are we shocked? Tommy wants Indian food. I really am not a fan... and I usually win. So I'm looking forward to Italian. Haha. Anyways, me and Anna had a hell of a time trying to find something to eat for dinner because we have barely anything at all in this house! Seriously. But it was fun. It was an adventure. I mean, really. A journey with a whole bunch of twists and turns. But it all worked out well in the end. Hehe. Then we jumped on the trampoline for a while until mom got home and then we went to Longs because I needed all my soap etc. for school and Anna works at Longs so she gets a discount. We actually got about 30% off all together which was like $33 so that's really cool! We had good fun. I made her write on my pants and took a bunch of pictures of her too YAY! So I she had to leave and I said bye like it was the last goodbye just incase it was. God I'ma miss Anna. We're gunna talk on the phone all the time I hope.

But so the trip to Longs hella stressed me out for some reason! Probably everything is just feeling overwhelming at this point. So right up until I started this blog, after I took a shower that is, I PACKED and I essentially finished, my room is uber clean, I just need to vacuum and my suitcases are so heavy! Are you supposed to bring as little as possible? I have no idea, but I left out everything I just don't use. But yea, so I'm practically done and that completely de-stressed me. That and the fact that I'm exhausted at this point, at 3 in the morning running on straight fumes. I wanted to call Max, but by the time Anna left it was 11:30 and I'm sure it wasn't too late, I just feel like past 10:30 it's always too late unless you planned to call so late. I dunno, it's just feels like common courtesy to me. Past 10 is pushing it, but past 10:30 it's just not a time to call. Point is, I know he could have calmed me down, but I'm gunna call him tomorrow probably. And I'm calm now. So sleepy... And I called Naomi, but I don't know if she's home yet because she said she would call me when she got back. So hopefully that's before I leave so she can sign my pants and I can take some pictures with her and say bye! Yikes yikes...

Okay, so that's all out. I'm sure I forgot hella details that I'll remember while I'm falling asleep and be annoyed that I forgot, but snuggling into bed in a few minutes is gunna feel sooooooooo good. I can't wait. =) The other thing is that I thought I wouldn't be able to leave the house for the next two days because I'd be packing, but since I'm mostly done, I can! Whoot! And I think I'm gunna go shopping for presents for all my friends because I meant to get them all hella cool presents but I didn't get around to it and one of the most favoritist things of mine is to get my best friends presents, or even anyone a random present, I dunno, I just love it! So I wanna do that and I'll mail it to em or leave it at their house. Yay. I'm excited to think up what to get everyone... I've already though of two, and they're awesome, if I do say so myself...

Incase you weren't aware, I have two days left. This is Bonny, I'm OUT!

(p.s. I'll tell the story of Bonny (instead of Bonnie) tomorrow if I remember. I love tangents, I really do. But sleep just sounds so much more appetizing... I'm hungry...)

Fancy Pants

So today after I wrote the other blog I fell asleep watching TV and then made cookies with all the left over stuff in the pantry, aka we had a bunch of white chocolate and a tiny bit of semi-sweet and mocha chocolates and we had open bags of walnuts and pecans, so I combined ALL of those and put them into chocolate chip cookies! And they're pretty tasty except that I don't like white chocolate too much. So while I was doing that, Alix called! She's been in Peru all summer and she just got back! So she came over to eat my cookies, and then Jessica called her and she's over too! They're sleeping over and it's really really great because I haven't seen them all summer! And hanging out with them reminds me of how much fun I have with them. I think we may have a hard time keeping in touch because that's what this summer foreshadowed, but I hope we can because I love them all the same. I found some old jeans the other day and I had them write all over them and I'm going to get everyone I love to write on them, except Annie's leaving in 3 hours at 4 in the morning! So hopefully she'll be in NY at some point and can write on them. But I'm going to get Hanna and Sophie and Anna and everyone I see before I leave to do it so I can have the coolest pants ever! And we've just been hanging out and we're watching Matchpoint because my family is so bad at returnign movies, so we still have it and Jessica loves it too and Alix hadn't seen it. It's almost done, close, it's the CLIMAX as we speak. Maybe 20 more minutes. Anyways, it's really good to see them, I didn't think I was going to see either of them before I left. Tomorrow I'm gunna see Sophie and Anna and hopefully Tuseday (hehe, Grama) I'll see Hanna because she's actually leaving Tuesday not tomorrow. I'm sad Annie's gone! Sheesh.

THREE MORE DAYS HOLY CRAP!

I wrote a list of everything I need at Longs and Anna works there so I'm gunna get a discount on all my crap for college! SWEET! Gosh, really soon I'll have to pack. Yikes!

I'm so excited about my jeans! And I sewed up my bag that I take with me everywhere and have had for two years so now it's all reinforced and I plan on it lasting me forvever. =D

The Weekend

Welp, I can't remember the last thing I wrote, or when that was, and nothing particularly exciting has happened, so I can't even remember what I'm supposed to write, but I'll sure try. See, that's why I need to write everyday, if only short entries, so I remember what happened! I hate it when you can't remember but two days back... Memory and time are such a trip.

Well, on Friday I got up uber early to go see Annie because Dad was going to the airport to pick up the gang and it worked out anyway because Annie needed to be somewhere at two, so we hung out in the morning. I got to her house at like 10ish and left at 1:30 when she drove me home. We had so much fun! It was the first time I'd ever been to her house and it's one of the best houses I've ever been in. It was cozy, the perfect example of cozy, and it was crazy that I'd never ever been there before! But I loved it and we just laid on her bed and talked and she said I fit into her room really well. You know what I mean? Like I just fit there, and it was true! I felt really comfortable in that house and her room, like I had always known it and had been going there for years. Then we decided to take a million pictures with her digital camera, which was really fun and really silly! She'd better send them to me because I'm going to cover my wall at school with pictures =) But then it was time to go *tear* and she dropped me off and we hugged out goodbye and jeeze that's probably the last time I'll see her until winter break! Unless she comes to visit her Uncle who likes in Brooklyn I do believe. She may be there in a few weeks for maybe three days, so I told her if she is she's better call me or I'll hunt her down. She's off to Europe for three weeks tomorrow and then she has a week until school. So much later than me! I love Annie. Seriously, top 5 of best friends.

So then I was home and a few minutes later Mom Tommy Molly and Dad got home! Apparently their luggage didn't make it onto the plane with them (because they cut it kinda close getting on... are we surprised? knowing Mom, hehe) so they waited a while for it but then they weren't gunna get it so it was gunna be delivered. And that's all I did Friday. I think. Yup, and anyway, if I can't remember it must not be too important. But yea, it was really great to see them! But then after less than 2 hours, me and Dad were like man it was kinda cool just the two of us. We get along really really well and just both do our own things and stay out of each other's ways but then collaborate on stuff like going out to dinner or laundry or grocery shopping. Mom and Tommy and Molly make the world a more hectic place. I mean, really. But you know I mean nothing by that! I actually think it's rather humorous what a difference they make. Haha. =) Of course I love them. Dad's just more chill like me.

So then Saturday they bounced to Reno, with no clothing (ha!) and I was supposed to get the door if someone rang the doorbell with the packages. No one ever rang it. I walked Gracie and then at around 4:15 Hanna picked me up to go see a movie with her and Sophie. We saw Step Up, which was predictable and cliché, but again, a good movie if you knew that's what you were going in for. The one thing that got me was that it made me want to dance really really bad! I haven't been dancing all summer and I'm not really sure what's up with that, I just haven't felt like going. Which is dumb, because dance is one of the few things that makes me really really really happy. Dance, Rain, Best Friends, Good food, Baking, Drawing, Taking Photographs, Writing, and almost any form of art for that matter. =) So I made Sophie promise to remind me to find a ballet studio in New York. Which shouldn't be a problem if I look.

Speaking of which, I forgot that when I was at Annie’s house on Friday, we made lists of the things we want to remember when we go off to college. Things such as: Find time to bake, or Dance, or, read, or explore, were on my list. You know what I mean? All the things you should be doing but you might not if you get too caught up in school. I also made a list of all the places I eventually need to visit in NY. The list will be pasted on my wall next to inspirations and pictures of my friends back here at home, and I'll add to it as necessary. The other thing I forgot was that at Annie's house I had the first real shock of freedom. I realized it's not like sleep away camp or even home this summer where I have tons of freedom to do what I want. It's different because I wont be accountable to anyone I wont have to ask permission ot do anything and holy crap it hit me and I was like WOW! So that was probably the first reality shock of leaving, after the starting to feel stressed around Wednesday. Later Friday we also took Gracie out to a park, me and Dad and Tommy, and Dad helped me with my list of places to go because we had been talking about that Thursday at dinner. I'm so excited! But at this point, I'm just like, hurry up already! Even though I wanna stay longer slash it'll go really quick anyways, I have 4 days of stress of leaving ahead of me, and then plenty of stress of OH MY GOD I'M IN NEW YORK! In Step up, the school they went to was Maryland School of Art and it made me wish I'd applied there and looked closer at it because it has dance and everything too. Of course I want to go to Pratt! I just wanna dance too. Maryland was in my top 7 schools I think, and then I applied to 5, so. Anyways. Oh, I also talked to Allison! She left yesterday for Canada! So unfortunately we didn't get to see each other once more, but we said goodbye on the phone and I'll call her soon. Some time from New York. Ha! I'm gunna be living in New york! Where do you live, Bonnie? I LIVE IN NEW YORK! How cool is that?!

Anyways, Saturday. So then Sophie's Parents picked us up so that we could go back to her house and have dinner. It was tasty, of course, and we had fun. And we talked about Religion and Hanna and Sophie's Dad got into an argument in which I completely agreed with Sophie's Dad and mom and Sophie seemed to agree more with Hanna. It was interesting, but I mostly stayed out of it, as I tend to do. I have my beliefs and arguing them just doesn't matter to me.

So then we came home and at some more and watched a couple stupid movies and TV shows, you know, just hung out. The package guy STILL hadn't come, and mom called to tell me he might be there at 12:30! I was like HELL NO I'M NOT GETTING THE DOOR! (p.s. the rest of the family is in Reno all weekend for a bowling tournament). So I wrote a note and left it on the door saying they should leave them on the side of the house. But then when the doorbell finally rang, I was worried they wouldn't leave them, so me and Sophie crept to the door and she looked out the window and saw he was getting them out of his truck and then opened the little peephole in the door to make sure he was leaving them (we still weren't gunna answer the door! just make sure we got the suitcases!) and next thing was know Hanna screams BONNNNNIE! and me and Sophie are like SHHHHHH and we fall on the floor laughing hysterically but trying to stay quiet so Hanna comes crawling through the front room on the ground so she can't be seen and it was the funniest thing I've ever seen and me and Sophie could not stop laughing. Finally the guy leaves, but we didn't go get the suitcases until much much later. It was funny. But I was so tired, and we all went to sleep watching a movie in the back room. Hanna had to leave at like 9, and Sophie left at 12. So here I am. Gracie desperately needs a walk because she didn't get one in the morning because I was asleep and no one else is home, but yah know... She'll get one soon. But I'm sick of walking her because there's only a few routes and I'm bored.

So Sophie's leaving Monday for Europe also, and Hanna's leaving Monday for somewhere, so hopefully I'll see them both either later today or tomorrow. Anna's gone for the weekend for a soccer tournament, but we're gunna hand out once or twice once she gets back and before I leave. Sheesh.

See? Nothing too interesting. But I remembered it all. I'm pretty sure that's it =) Oh and of course! I didn’t need to, but I started packing Friday night. Mom got me a big ol’ suitcase and a smaller one and I packed up all my clothes. Most of them. Yikes! So much to do…

p.s. I'm really glad you all seemed to enjoy reading about my ferocious battle with the fridge as much as I enjoyed telling in and sitting it!

FOUR MORE DAYS!

César

So me and Dad went over to Chez Penisse at around 5:45 to arrive at around 6 and eat upstairs in the cafe. But we planned ahead that incase it didn't work out, we would go across the street to The Cheeseboard, which I'm sure Mom's been to, and I've heard is good otherwise. So when we got to Chez Penisse we went upstairs, and it turns out they do reservations up there now too, so the next opening was at 9:30. So we're like, okay Cheeseboard it is. We also got a tip to go next door, but we decided to go across the street. But they were closed! On Vacation. We probably would have ended up eating there. So we went back across the street to the place next door to Chez Penisse. It's called César.

We didn't really know what to expect, partially because they made the menu as obscure as possible so that you could show off if you knew what something was to all your lesser minions who didn't know fancy food words. And it was pretty expensive, but less than Chez Penisse, I assume. They seem to rotate their menu's, probably like Chez Penisse, going with what's freshest that day. So all together we had 13 different things, including dessert and drinks. It was all nice small portions of classy goodness and we split em to try everything. We started with drinks, I got a lemon mint... water. haha. I guess that's what it was. It was really really good! And Dad got a Daquri. Then we got Gazpacho, Three Cheeses (which I'll never remember the names of) with bread, the best Olives I've EVER had, a Tomato and Onion Pesto Salad, and... right! Blue Cheese and Grilled Pears on toasty bread! Mind you, what I've written doesn't even translate to what the menu said, it barely made sense! We might have been interested in some other things, but we didn't know that because we didn't know what they were. It was all really really good! Really intense good ingredients, so good oh man! So then we decided to get some more olives and try another entrée and two more drinks. Dad got a white wine and I got a Peach-Passion Fruit soda. And we got an Arugala and Cheese and Almond Salad, and more bread. The soda was really really good! And the Salad was my favorite part. It was perfect! Dad said his favorite was the Blue Cheese and Pears. That was the most intense cheese I've ever had, but it was balanced really well with the pears. Then, Dessert! Dad didn't want anything but I convinced him because I wanted two things! So I got this little serving of chocolate, I dunno how to explain the consistency... Like really good chocolate spread or something, but not spread. You know? And he got Strawberries with Rose sauce and whipped cream! That's the flavor left over in my tummy. You know, the one I keep tasting, haha. It was really really good. And he decided to get an espresso. Boy, strongest espresso I've ever tasted! So there you have it, 13 things, all hella hella good! I mean, I picked a favorite, but it was a familiar flavor that I already loved. Basically, each and every thing was better than anything I've had in a long time. I really can't describe how good it was! But I'm sure you understand.

So then we played guess the bill and I guess $82 and Dad guessed $104 or something, big difference, I know! But I knew I was closer, I'd looked at the prices more carefully, probably because they seemed like so much to me! And he over estimated the drinks by a whole lot. So what was the bill? $84! HA! Most-bestest-expensive meal I've ever eaten. Serious, I can get two or three days worth of food on $42 bucks if I wanted. And then of course, the tip, so we paid $100. It felt really really good to have such good food and not have to think about cost and just pay so much for two people, it was seriously a release for me kind of, because even though I've never been taught by my family to watch prices too much, I always always do, and I hate wasting etc. so much! It was great to have tiny little portions and try so many things and they were all so good, it was exactly what I needed. I fell much better, still stressed a bit, but now it's an excited stressed because I had so much fun!

And we talked about New York and everything, so Dad's gunna write me a list of everywhere I need to go and I'm gunna make Max take me all over, he's gunna be my buddy, he just doesn't know it yet. I mean really, he's gunna be the person I'm gunna fall on if I need to and call for a familiar voice that's near by, you know? I'm so uber happy he's at NYU, I don't think he even understands how glad I am that he's such a sweet great guy and a good friend because he always calls me up and stuff to hang out. Whew, I have no idea what would happen if I didn't know he was gunna be nearby! I'd be lost! Holy crap.

So it was uber great to go out to dinner with Dad and I'm really really glad we did! Sheesh, I feel like a kid in a candy store, it made me so happy to eat all that excellent food. I should do that more often... Splurge... I just don't do it. As much as I have, I'm very very frugal. I mean, really. I am. I'd never decide to go out somewhere like that on my own. Maybe me and all my friends can go out to dinner! Not somewhere too expensive because I know they wont be able to, bu before I leave that'd be so great! I promised Hanna I'd take her out to dinner, but that might have to wait until Winter Break.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Annie in the morning, meet her house for the first time! I know, it's crazy, I've never been there! She's leaving Monday for Europe for three weeks! It'll be her first time there! But I've only been to Europe once, when we lived in Spain for those three months. So that's really exciting! But that means tomorrow will be the last time I see her until Break! Yikes! We'll definitely keep in touch though, I'm absolutely sure of it. Sophie's also leaving on Monday for Europe for three months, so same deal there, I think we're gunna hang out tomorrow evening or Saturday. God. This is crazyness! I think Hanna's either home or gunna be home soon from Tahoe, so good gosh I hope I see her this weekend and that she's not running off somewhere else! This is the stressful part. Not the leaving, not the New York, not the art school, the friends I want to see a million more times in 6 days! Of course, I should really start getting ready to leave. I'm sorta bad at that, yea? I haven't started, no. haha.

Mom and Molly and Tommy get home tomorrow! That's also crazy. I can't wait to hear everything and then spend hella time as quick as possible before I leave. Oh my... I knew this all was coming, it just took so long to come! Two months ago when school ended it in no way had entered my system that I was actually leaving. I'm Juiced! But stressed. Did you catch that? Hehe.

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SIX MORE DAYS! (Today counts as over and the day I'm leaving doesn't count, unless I'm leaving in the evening, but I think we're leaving in the afternoon or morning)

Annahhhh and Michelle and Sophie

Okay WHEW I have a lot to catch up on! Sheesh! And I'm starting to get really stressed about leaving. Anyways

On Sunday after I cleaned the fridge, I hung out with Anna. I went to her house at around 8:30 and we hung out, talked, made chocolate chip cookies YUM and went and got a movie Chasing Liberty, which we didn't end up starting until around 1:30. It was good, but not great. I enjoyed it. Then we talked some more and fell asleep uber late on this horrible mattress she has downstairs. We woke up at noon and stayed in bed for and hour and a half. We got up and ate some more cookies and I can't remember what we had for lunch... But it was tasty. Oh yea! Guacamole and Beans and Chips. Yum. Then Anna had to go to soccer practice at 3:30 and I didn't have a ride home, so she randomly asked Michelle if she could give me a ride home. So she came and picked me up!

So then Michelle decided to come over, which was so exciting! We walked Gracie and then made nokedles and Chocolate mousse with uber fancy Sharfenberger chocolate! It was SOOOOO GOOD! oh man, was it good. So then we decided she should sleep over (of course!) so we went to get a movie. We got Lost in Translation, which we watched later, it was pretty good, but again, not great, and we got Matchpoint, which we didn't watch because she was falling asleep. So we came upstairs, and then she was awake! And again, we were up until like 4. I was more asleep, but we were just talking and I don't know her hella well, so it was really cool! I really enjoy her company. I wish I could have gotten to know both her and Anna sooner. So then she left at 9 and I just stayed asleep.

What day are we on? I guess now it's Tuesday. What did I do? What's today? Thursday. Ah yes, I went to Sophie’s at maybe 6? After spending my typical day relaxing at home. I watched Matchpoint by myself, and it was so good! One of the best movies I've ever seen. Really well done, with acting, casting, storyline, directing, everything! I mean, it was Woody Allen after all. Really really good.

So then at Sophie’s, we talked, what else? That's what we girls do and guys never get it! She's painting her room, oh my goodness! ORANGE! It's pretty crazy. So she's sleeping downstairs for now and that's where we slept. We were woken up really early though, so I was agitated all day because I didn't get enough sleep. I watched the 40 Year Old Virgin, and that was pretty dumb, Funny, kinda. But pretty dumb. Not horrible horrible though.

We went to telegraph and ate bad food all day. It was fun! Chocolate croissant for breakfast, Blondie's pizza for lunch, A White Mocha Frappucino, yup. And I had ravioli for dinner. She was going out to dinner with her family, or to a family friend's house I think, so they dropped me off and I watched Law and Order and recorded Project Runway for Molly and was sooooo tried but still went to bed pretty late. I woke up at around 12:30, so now I'm all rested.

I'm still stressed though, because I think being grouchy yesterday brought out by subconscious worrying about school. But I didn't and don't expect anything else. I know it's gunna take some definite settling in and for a while I'm gunna be stressed, that's just how it's gunna be.

So was that summarized enough for yah? I don't remember all the details of what we did anymore, but I know I had a blast with all of them. There's still some more people I need to see before I leave, and I need to see them all again.

7 more days! GHAA!

Me and Dad are going to Chez Penisse today! YAY! And Mom and Molly and Tommy are getting back tomorrow. And then the four of them are going to Reno this weekend for a bowling tournament. I'm staying home because I want to, I'm not trying to go anywhere now and because Gracie needs taking care of. Though I suppose she could go because she's crate trained and some hotels allow that. Sheesh. So much to do yet I wont be doing it until the last second I know it...

I sat in a Fridge!

So Sunday I hung out with Anna. I went to her house at around 8:30. I can't remember what I did that day... No wait, DUH! I cleaned the fridge. Yup. Really. I'm serious! Really.

It was a project I'd started Friday with cleaning the mounds of complied dishes and wiping down the table and counter tops. So then I started throwing out the moldy and just inedible old stuff in the fridge. Out fridge was repulsive. But the project was cut short when Annie came over. So Sunday I had the whole day before I was going to go to Anna's, and I needed a project. So I decided to clean the fridge! Wouldn't you? You would if you saw ours... Left over from two years without Omi. So first I took EVERYTHING out, and separated good from bad. Lucky me, most of the bad stuff was in glass containers, so I couldn't just throw it out because I wanted to recycle everything. And by lucky, I mean bloody hell. Because so much of it was just rancid, and I had to take it all outside and dump it all out in the green bin and then wash the glass containers. I ended up smelling like relish, serious, but rancid relish, so before I went to Anna's I had to take a second shower. And certainly change my clothes. But I didn't do each step of cleaning at once, I kinda went back and forth. I cleared EVERYTHING out, including the shelves and drawers, and I washed them all. And because I'm not one for looking clean, I'm one of it actually being clean, it took rather long because I wanted to make sure I lathered everything in soap, and soap takes it's sweet time coming off. And then I cleaned the fridge itself. I scraped all the caked on stuff off and then nixed it with Fantastic to kill all the little germies. All in all, it took me 5 or 6 hours. Yup. I know, crazy. But I got it all back in, crispy clean, hehe. And we ended up with barely anything in the fridge. And it looks so GREAT! It was absolutely the most disgusting thing I’ve ever ever done. I don’t recommend it. But I do recommend getting someone else to. Hey, I’d gladly do it again if I got paid. But It’s a favor to my family because I don’t even get to use it! I’m gunna be pissed if I come home in 4 months and it’s hella dirty again. And Dad didn’t even care too much, he was just reminiscent of his college days with a fridge three times as nasty… But the ultimate best part is that before I put everything back in, I had dad take pictures of me inside it! How many of you can say you've actually been inside a fridge? That's what I thought. It's sorta like how many of you can say you've made cheesecake in a bathroom. That's what I thought, too. And yes, I have. Haha.

Alright, but now I'm off to spend the night at Sophie's. Like I said, getting in as much as possible before I leave! So I'll have to write about Anna, Michelle, and the Sophie later. At least I got Naomi and the fridge stories written for yah. I gotta catch up! Hehe. Maybe I can write some later tonight at Sophie's. We'll see. Otherwise, tomorrow I shall try.

9 more days!

Oh, and I got my address for school! So if you wanna mail me anything, this is it!

Bonnie Hodul
200 Willoughby Avenue Unit 58725
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Naomi

Okay, so I haven't gotten the chance to write about the past three days, so I'm going to try to write as much as I can remember even though it's not right after the fact. Basically, I've simply been spending tons of one on one time with my best friends. It's really great.

First off, Saturday I spent the day with Naomi. I woke up at around 11, probably, and then met up with her at the farmer's market by Lake Merritt, the filthy man made lake that's pretty at night but that you'd never want to fall into... We got our usual, Nectarine for me, Honey sticks and Kettle corn and this sort of spinach crepe like thing, but not a crepe... I just don't know how else to explain it, with hummus this time, for a change, and limeade. We tend to find what we like and stick to it hehe. Then we found a shady spot and laid there for at least an hour, after we scarfed down the food because as usual, neither of us had eaten because we were saving all the room we could for the yummy food at the market. Then the shade moves, and we eventually moved, but not before I got a sunburn. Not to mention that for some reason there was a silly little patch of sun that was right on me! So I've been collecting this burn for quite a few days because I'm almost always in a tank top, so now I have really distinctive tan lines where my straps are! But it's all good, I tan lines used to bother me but their so unavoidable that I just gave up. We can't go around without clothes on, now can we? So we're bound to have lighter spots. It's annoying, but hopeless.

We were trying to hang out with Hanna too, but that didn't work. We even bought her some kettle corn, but I haven't seen her yet, so I ate it. And I ate the nectarine we got her. But we bought her a bazillion honey sticks, which I really hope she likes, which I'm definitely saving for her. It sucked she ended up not being able to come.

So we went back to Naomi's and watched Chocolat, which was sweet but not the best best movie ever. I didn't like it though, it definitely falls in the good movie category. It just didn't blow me off the couch. Then Naomi's mom took us to get burritos for dinner, and I completely forgot that me and Dad were supposed to go to Chez Penise! So we re scheduled for Thursday night, which I intend to keep. I'm excited!

Then we ate and watched Ever After, which is one of my most favorite movies! Apparently it's one of those that a ton of people watched as kids and have been watching all the time, but some how I missed it. So I've seen it three times this summer, and it's uber sweet! It's essentially the "real" story of Cinderella. After a while, I went home because I hadn't planned on staying over and I didn't want to make that plan at the last second. We just talked and caught up a bit, I enjoyed hanging out with her.

Busy busy

Okay so I've been UBER busy, and by that I mean I've just constantly been with people since the last time I wrote and that's why I haven't had time to write. Okay, so I'm sensing I wont really be having much time in college, but I'll really try. Anyways...

Where did I leave off? Well, I haven't written anything about yesterday so... First off Annie came over and that was a freakin blast! She told me all about her trip which was so exciting and she showed me pictures and stuff and she looked at all my pictures from the end of the school year which are freakin adorable! So she looked at them a million times. And we hung out for about four hours but it ended so fast! We just sat on the couch and talked the whole time. And then she left and I hung out with another friend which was also really cool.

So then today I went to the farmers market with Naomi and we ate a bunch of really good food and then went back to her house, and I just got home. We watched Chocolat (I do believe it was spelled that way) and Ever After. This is the third time I’ve seen that movie, and all three times were this summer! But I’ll never tire of that movie! It’s so cute and such a good story and I love it! I wish I’d known about it forever, but then again, it’s okay because now I can watch it for the rest of my life! Haha.

I also got Grama’s camera yesterday. It’s automatic, which I’ve never dealt with, but I tried it out today and it’s just really weird not being able to adjust the controls myself! I like it because it’s light and it’s really great that Grama thought to send it to me. I’ll definitely use it, but mostly in place of a disposable camera for pictures of friends and stuff, you know? I still need a manual on for my artwork. But I see a camera collection in my future…

So my last days are going GREAT and really, I’m not too hot on leaving all of my friends… I may have said this before, but really I just want to pick them up and take them all with me, because I’m so excited to go, I just have so really really good friends here.

I can’t wait to learn guitar, because of course I’m taking the guitar Tommy gave me for my birthday with me! For those of you that don’t know, it’s a beautiful acoustic one and I just didn’t have the time to take lessons! So plan on finding someone who will just kinda teach me and fool around with it, you know, maybe someone who left theirs at home and want to play mine, but they can only play it for the price of teaching me! I also want to learn piano really badly but I have no idea how that’s gunna work out…

13 more days! But that would include today, which is practically over, and the day I leave… So holy CRAP 11 of them!

p.s. everyone, you know you can leave comments even though you’re don’t have a blog too? YUP so you should! Just click the comment button and then type your comment, for who you are hit “other” and then type in your name and viola! A comment. Serious! It works I know. hehe

Onions

So I had Pho for dinner last night, and again for lunch today because they give you so much you can certainly have two meals from it! But it just reminds me of Aunt Norma and Grama because we went there a few times when I visited last summer. Sheesh, I'm not going to see you guys for a while! But there were onions in the soup, so I should really brush my teeth...

I forgot to say that I got this really cute sweater while I was with Anna and it's pink and V-neck and reminds us of something you'd wear to ballet and that's exactly why I love it! I love anything to do with Ballet. And so then when we came back home, we were just hanging out and I was telling her a story and we were putting on make up and I realized the sweater with some blush and a light pink lipstick made me look super sweet and I liked it! It was fun. I like the sweater a lot.

What else is new? I'm not doing anything again to day, so far as I know. Hopefully I'll find something to do this evening. Dad has to give exams tonight, so I don't know how that's gunna work. Hopefully I can get someone to come here. Because seriously, I intended this blog to be so that I could tell what happens, not something to pass the time! Pretty soon I'll be writing about how I spent my day writing. Haha. Except that could be true... But I'm leaving soon to be swept off my feet, so it wont be. And plus, me and Annie are finally hanging out tomorrow, and I know my weekend through Monday is full, and there are so many people I need to see that I'm really not worried about it. It's just that I can't drive and Dad's busy. I wonder if this is his last week? Dunno. But yea, I'm excited to make plans with all of my friends to fill these final two weeks. Oh my goodness!

What else is up? I watched and recorded Project Runway for Molly. It was a really good episode. I should probably write her an email. She writes me short little notes from Peru because they have a cafe with internet access, but sometimes it doesn’t work, and the key board is in Spanish (which should be fine, right? but the keys are all different!) and they seem to be having a really good time. I can't wait until they get home to tell me all about it! What a great experience! But I'm glad I didn't go because I took into account that I'd be leaving way too soon after we got back, but I forgot that it would mean I wouldn't get to spend these last few weeks with my friends! So thank god I didn't go. It would have driven me crazy!

Oh and I can’t remember if I already said this, but Grama said she’s sent me a camera she doesn’t use anymore because she got a digital one! That’s really exciting! I hope it’s what I’m looking for because then I wont even need to go out an buy one! She said it should be here tomorrow, so I really really hope it is!

15 more days!

Blah

Okay so I just spent a day of real nothing, or almost nothing... or nothing in the way we use it... you know what I mean. I only left the house to walk Gracie, and I didn't talk to anyone! I like having things to do, I'm not so good at the nothing thing... And that doesn't mean I don't like a day spent with myself doing unplanned things, but right now I feel like doing things with friends, even if it's nothing with friends. Am I making any sense here?

But I did enjoy quite a few hours of TV (said with a slight bit of sarcasm). And a good nap on the floor of the front room, on which I layed for two hours in the sun. That was fun.

Best show Ever. Besides the other best shows.

Photographs...

Today Annie called me at around 11:30 and woke me up (which was probably a good thing) to tell me we couldn't hang out today but that we probably can tomorrow YAY I absolutely CANNOT WAIT! I have to hear all about her trip and we need to catch up on SO MUCH! So I'll tell about that later. Oh my gosh, tomorrow's gunna be so much fun!

I finally got hold of Tricia and Mike, two of my very best friends from La Grange, which is near Chicago. It was nice to talk to them =)

Yesterday with Anna was hella fun! We decided to go to Bay Street and we wandered around for hours and got a really yummy dinner and just had a ton of fun! And then, after she went home, she called me and we were on the phone for about 2 and 1/2 hours talking about college for her. She's brilliant and stresses so much over everything, so she's convinced she wont get in barely anywhere, but that's just ridiculous because she's going to come out of school with a higher GPA than me and possible better SAT scores too because she's working her as off getting SAT tutoring. She's really smart, she's just fallen in the shadow of geniuses, rather like I did, and then thinks she’s not very smart, also like I did. But now I understand that I freaked out way too hard about college because I got in everywhere I applied! And I really feel like if my heart had been set on almost any school, I could have worked to get there. And that's how I feel about Anna, she's crazy for thinking she's not smart and doesn't have good grades! Oh my goodness, never a C in her life... And mostly A's too. So she made up a list of possible schools to apply to. It was fun to talk about them. My favorites for her are UBC, Cornell, UCSC, and Brown. Two of those she'd have to work really hard to get into but they're wonderful schools, and the other two she'd get in no problem, and they're also outstanding. Don't worry Anna, it'll all be over in a matter of months! Hang in there.

So today I walked Gracie and I decided to bring my camera because yesterday I saw hella pictures I wanted to take. So I took the same route and finished the role and now I'm sad because I don't have any more color film! I think I have some black and white though. I'm going to ask Dad if he can take me to get some more. And I figure I'll just have it developed, and later on once I learn how to make colored prints, I'll do some prints myself. I still need a lighter camera... But it was so so great to be taking pictures! I love taking pictures. It's really relaxing to walk around for a few hours and just be by yourself and stop and focus, click, and walk a bit more. I love it.

I also have a fat pile of pictures from magazines... Well, they're all from San Francisco Magazine, which I plan on putting in a huge book of my inspirations, you know, paste em all in and paste in new ones as I find them. But I need a fairly large book. I hope I can make that project happen some time before I leave! Maybe when I got get more film I can also get a book for that...

And also, yesterday me and Anna saw this really cute dress for like $70 which it wasn't even close to being worth but it was really cute! It was simple and white, and I want to make it and she wants me to help her make one too but in a different color, so that's another project. Probably wont happen, but I'd love for it to.

16 more days!

Boomhah

Okay, So I know I'm writing a hell of s lot, but soak it all up while you can because when I get to college I wont have so many free hours to write everything down! Believe me, if I had time everyday, I always would write it all down. But that's why I had to stop keeping a journal before. I didn't have time. Which i because that's exactly why I needed a journal, no?

So after going to bed at about 3:30 last night, I woke up at 10! Crazy, right? But that's just have my sleeping schedule works: all freakin 'lover the place. Some times I get 14 hours, some times I get 6, sometimes I fall asleep in class, some times I'm up all day, sometimes I'm tired as hell but could fall asleep if my life depended on it, sometimes I've gotten way too much sleep but I find myself drifting... sometimes I need a nap, sometimes they come without my permission! Sometimes my day is fine. Right amount of sleep. Haha.

So I got up, and then I decided to call a bazillion people: Allison, Naomi, Michelle (I still need to call the other Michelle!), Anna, Hanna, Sophie, Annie, and Tricia! And I got a hold of most of them, so I was on the phone for 3 hours! It was really really great! Hehe. And I just walked Gracie, and now I'm waiting for Anna to come over! YAY I love that girl this is gunna be so much fun! Last time we hung out was one word: ridiculous! Haha. She works at longs, so we decided to go down there and buy a bunch of stuff at a discount because employees can do that, but she's not allowed to drive people under 18 (or is it 21?) around yet, but she's got her license. And this girl is a really really safe girl, so I was actually the first person she'd done this with! But she was a little paranoid, so she made me get some sheets and made me lay down in the back seat and covered me up! IT WAS HILARIOUS! And then at longs we got a buncha stuff. We found these cute tank tops! I KNOW at longs, right? Weird. But the longs by my has clothing! And we got them for 7 bucks! And she got a sweatshirt for 6! Pretty sweet if you ask me. And I got some blush, a pretty pink one so my cheeks can look all rosy when I'm going out. It was GOOD TIMES.

So I have no idea what's in store for today because we don't have a way of getting anywhere (her mom needs the car) but her mom's dropping her off here any minute now, and we'll probably take the bus to Bay Street because we both need to exchange some things. That's where we wanted to go last time, but then after we were all set to go, we realized it was 7:30 on a SUNDAY! How stupid are we? Haha. All the stores would be closed and we would have gotten there after all that sheet mania (it was pretty crazy) and been like damn it!

So essentially, this should be fun. I love Anna, she's someone I can just be crazy with. She's so so funny and just so much fun to be around. She's a crazy stressed out fill up every last second of her time kinda girl, but hey, doesn't that sound a bit like how I get sometimes? Her summer doesn't even seem like summer she's doing so much! But if you can fill your time, it can take your mind off of other things, or keep it away from wandering to places you don't want it to go. I dunno if that's what she's doing, but sometimes that's what it is, and it's subconscious. Any who, I'm excited to see her!

17 days left until I leave! YIKES!

Ooooh! Here she is!

Yes yes, I'm crazy...

Mmm humm, I am indeed aware that it's 3:30 in the morning. Am I turning into AJ? Hehe. It's just summer. And I've got my hands on a mighty distracting computer. And a comfy bed that really doesn't care when I get up, it loves me!

I just wanted to post this picture. I can't get over it, Grama was right, it is a perfect picture.



I think she told me this was taken as we were on our way to the ice cream shop we always went to. I have no idea where that is. But I assume it was the place we were eating ice cream in the other picture. =)

Oh, Movies

So I was sitting at home, with my nothing day, when Max called! And I was like hey! Cool! Now I have something to do! So he decided to walk up my ginormous hill to hang out with me. We just talked and we watched For The Birds and a bunch of other short films by Pixar that Molly has on her computer. Speaking of which, it's really really cool to get to use her computer without her complaining about it because she's GONE! Hehe. Not that I'm glad she's gone, just that I have a lot of nothing days ahead in which I can make good use of this lonely computer...

So we talked about movies and movies and movies and books and old friends and school before we left etc. And at around 7:30, he had to get back and wanted to watch... Now I have absolutely NO IDEA what it was called! Wow. Weird. Which is suiting. It was a weird movie. And I mean Weird. But good weird. Not weird weird. Haha. Well, I really wanted to watch Annie Hall, so we decided to compromise, I'd go pick up Annie Hall and we'd watch both (but Annie hall first) and eat dinner at his house and then I'd come home. So that's what we did. I just got home, his mom is real nice, she didn't mind taking me home so late. Max actually drove... That was a bit scary haha not really, but he's still learning. By the way, Max is a friend of mine from Tech who's a grade above me and goes to NYU, so he's right near me! He's such a sweetheart and is that guy who's always calling people to hang out, even though they don't call him, you know? So he calls me, not too often, but with a good space in between, to hang out, which is really nice because he's a good guy and I would have never called him. But he's seen about a million movies, and I've seen maybe 5. No haha but you know what I mean. So his mom made some fruit salad and it was SO GOOD! I love love fruit and I'm practically dying over here because me and Dad haven't been shopping and we have no fruit! So that was tasty. And Annie Hall was a HELLA good movie! I liked it much more than Manhattan. And now I really want to see Matchpoint, because I remember wanting to see it, and now that I understand Woody Allen and figured out that was by him, I'm all for it. And Scarlet Johanson (sp?) just looks like she'd be amazing. But we know me, and I just don't see movies for some reason... so maybe one day. I also need to see Art School Confidential, among many many many others... Max wrote me a list of movies he thinks I should see. I've actually been meaning to collect lists from everyone I know, compile them, maybe see if there are any repeats (because those should be extra good, right?) check out their summaries and watch a million. Back in the day me and Stella had plans to have a major movie night. It was gunna be good fun. Last year for her birthday, we sorta did. Her parents rented a projector and a screen and we watched it out back. It was great. I remember we watched The Fifth Element, is that what it's called? I think so. I quite enjoyed that. And we watched that famous British comedy, which I'm completely blanking on. It'll come to me later and I'll smack my head with my palm. It's so obvious and I can remember all the senses. I hated it.

The other movie me and Max watched was this weird movie about Elvis... kinda. That's all I can really say about it. But it was good. Annie Hall was better. And max lent me Fallen Angels. But I'm scared to watch it alone. It's not a scary movie. Just afraid to watch it alone because I have no idea what to expect. You know.

We argued about Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill (which were both horrible, but he loved) and Crash and Brokeback Mountain (which I loved and he was so-so) and all around had a good time. People should always call me up randomly when I have nothing to do! Movies are good times. If I wasn't leaving, I'd definitely get Netflix. Maybe next summer. =)