Linglingling’s Weblog

I know I know. I have been slacking on the blogs.But I have been busy as a bee this vacation.I’ve been eating non stop. (Especially turkey)And I have been going out to dinner and movie/TV watching.In the last Nine days the movies I have watched are Crash, Land of Woman, Citizen Cane, Next, Transformers, Mr. Magorium, and Enchanted.And Enchanted is so great by the way. I suggest you see it. It just made me want to burst into songs of sunshine and rainbows and fly around the room like a beautiful butterfly.And then, I watched a bunch of TV this week; 30 Rock (which i love), The Office (also love), The Sarah Silverman Show, and a half of an episode of Bones which I fell asleep to at my friends house. (Secretly I was kinda pretending to be asleep because it scared me until I actually dozed off for the night.) This week I have also been the backup beat maker for my mothers gangster rap about how she found out she wasn’t 54, but 53.I sang the national anthem in harmony with my dad at a family talent show. I ate not 5 pieces of pie on Thanking day, but 6. (uncle loyal said I could!).I played 4 hours of tennis in one morning at the college.I worked at Trillium for a few days to get some Christmas money.I ate out at Perkos.I attended a surprise birthday party for my friend.Made a check off calender counting off the days til each of my sisters gets here. I played Apples to Apples and Pictionary. My parents called me a dumb**** under their breath. (Hard to believe eh?) Another friend of mine bought me a sweatshirt because her mom made her. Finally, am reading 120 pages tonight (the last day of vacation) due tomorrow.And I am on page 96! Woot! I am now ready to sleep in once again even though it is Monday because I do not have a first period tomorrow.Horray for ME!    

My Spanish Teacher couldn’t believe I had never done leaf rubbings before. She had a whole spread on the table in her class room. Many leaves of different sizes, pastels, crayons, white paper, and tracing patterns. I usually get very frustrated when it comes to art projects because I simply loose patience too soon and crumple up whatever it is I am doing. This is what happened today, several times. But then after ripping, crumpling, scrunching and scribbling all over about five papers with hideous leaf tracings, I decided I couldn’t give up. Of course, it didn’t help that even the most obnoxious, most annoying, most unintelligent students in the class were creating beautiful masterpieces right next to me. I caught myself glaring down at them with jealousy and anger a couple of times… But anyway, I made an “ok” leaf tracing. Also, on the back of the paper we were required to write something about Thanksgiving in spanish and then sign your name by saying, “con amor, Leah’. Or, “Abrazos y’ besos, Leah”. And of course it not only looked sloppy because I had to use pastels, but when I started writing in cursive, I realized I didn’t know how to write in cursive and my words went in and out of cursive and print. It was not what I would call the ugliest nor the most artistic piece, but I gave the picture to Lorenzo and he said it was very nice. Well, at least I didn’t give up!

This morning I attempted to count how many seconds it takes for toast to pop out of my toaster. I keep loosing count, so I keep having to eat more toast. This actually is no problem for me because I can eat a whole bunch of toast and still be hungry for more. I love toast and butter.

Nibbles.
Was a good fishy.
He was my friend.
He was floating today.
In the most peculiar way.
Not moving a fin.
My dad put his hand in.
Scooped him out.
And then,
“Oh look! He perked back up!”
Nibbles was back in the water.
And we stared at his little body,
as it slowly rose back to the top.
“No..uh, umm nope I was wrong, I thought he jumped back in but uh, no…darn, sorry.”
My head banged against the table.
Tears filled my eyes.
A goldfish???
I bet you would think that wouldn’t you?
You would think,
“A goldfish? How are you going to miss something you could barely see?”
But, your wrong.
I looked at the empty bowl.
The toilet flushed in the back room.
I felt completely miserable at that moment.
Like I had lost all reason for living.
The most peculiar feeling that was, for those few minutes.
All for Nibbles.
My tiny gold fishy.
Smaller than your eye.
He was floating in the most peculiar way…
Last night I had a dream we finally cuddled.

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Major cleaned my room today. I mean major. Well, for me it’s pretty major. Makes me feel new, or something like that. Cleanliness.. like a fresh start of something. I can’t explain it…Anyway, I didn’t stop til I was done. And didn’t get out of my pj’s til 5:00. Now it’s time to party. If anyone will even show up.