Freakin' Busy!!

Yesterday was a big day. I got up early (7:30 in the morning. I know, too early for a teenager!) and was picked up by Erica's mom around 9-ish. Once we got to her church, we hung around, ate some yummy doughnuts and organized the prizes for all the carnival games (duck pond, fish pond, 3-legged race, cake walk, etc.).

After the prizes were done, we had to fill up some water balloons (yeah, not a good idea). The stupid things kept bursting whenever we filled them up and they were a pain to tie! I was trying to tie this one balloon and I was having the toughest time with it. My fingers slipped and the balloon fell. Right into my lap. It took me a couple of seconds to notice it was there (hello?! Cold water spilling all over you puts the body in some serious shock!) and then I grabbed it and flung it across the lawn (it deserved what it got!)

So, there I was. Cold, looking like I did some serious peeing on myself, and looking downright pathetic. Erica had a good laugh, but not the last one (she got wet herself, but not as bad.)! Her mom came over and saw the state I was in. She was going home to pick up some carnival stuff she forgot and said she could take me home to change. I did. Thank goodness for Erica's mom!

When it was time to eat pizza (which was free, since I was a part of staff. It's fun being staff, you get all these privileges and lots of free stuff! I got this cool green t-shirt). Giggles showed up. Haven't seen her all summer and it was good to see her again. When we were cleaning the pizza grease off our hands in the bathroom, Erica and Giggles asked if I was hot, since I was wearing jeans.

Okay, I absolutely HATE this question!! If I was hot, I would be wearing shorts, duh! And plus, before the water balloon incident, I was wearing these jeans with holes in them and they kept me cool. Ugh! I brought shorts along with me but didn't wear them 'cause I wasn't hot. (Frustrated sigh) Some people.

Anyways, we (Erica, Giggles and me) were in charge of the fish pond (a.k.a. as Erica and I put it, the F. Pond! Haha. Sounds funny but I know it's dumb!) Okay, so it wasn't an actual 'fake pond' which I thought it would be ( a kiddie pool filled with water with plastic fish 'swimming' around). It was as fake as you can get. It was freakin' cardboard!

Okay, so Erica and I set up this huge cardboard half circle and covered the top with a bed sheet. Then, we put this fish banner on the front. We put chairs and the prizes on the inside and kept the fishing pole outside. When a kid came, they gave us one ticket and put the fishing 'hook' inside the 'pond' (the hook was a clothes-line pinchy thing and there was a little hole on the top of the pond for the hook to go into).

The person on the outside who greeted the players and collected the tickets gave 1 knock on the cardboard if it was a boy and 2 if it was a girl. We started out with the knocks AND yelling 'Click' if it was a cutie or 'Kirk' if it was a jerk. But people started to look at us like we were crazy, so we stopped the click-kirk thing.

It was fun seeing the little kids (I was the greeter the first time around. We took turns greeting and clipping the prize onto the hook) and seeing/hearing their excited voices gushing over their prize (which were stuffed animals, tattoos, bracelets, pencils, and tootsie roll pops).

It was funny when the kids 'caught' a fish since we had to tug on the line and act like a caught fish. Their faces got soooo serious! Haha, it was cute. Lots of cute kids there.

After our shift was done and the new group of people took over, we walked around, ate some sno-cones, ate more doughnuts, went into this jumpity-jump thing, got our faces painted (I got a pink starfish on my cheek. 3 hours later, our face paint still hadn't dried and they were all smudged and smeared. Erica's looked like here fish's head got chomped off). Then, were played some serious bingo. There was this old lady who was next to me who was soooo into it. She was talking to herself and whenever somebody won, she got super pissed off!! It was funny!

The 3 of us had our eyes on the Chipotle gift card and when I won the next round, I was sure to get it. We promised each other that if we won a gift card, we would share it. Then, Giggles won a $25 gift card to CUB. Haha, we all vowed to go to each place someday together (first Chipotle's THEN splurge on junk food at CUB).

After the carnival was done, we were thinking of sleeping over at one of our houses. Not at Giggles' house since her parents were out of town and her grandma was the only one there (her grandma is soooo cute!) and she didn't want to leave all this responsibility onto her grandma. Erica's mom drove out of town after the carnival was done and her dad didn't want to do the sleepover thing. Then, they both looked at me. I told them that my parents probably wouldn't want to have people over at such short notice. But I tried anyways. Surprisingly, they said yes. Surprisingly. They're always like, "But it's so short notice. I hate short notice. Blah, blah, blah." Hmmm....wonder what changed their minds.

So, we all went home and they came over to my house at 7 pm. Once they were here, we went into my room and they started looking at everything and digging in my stuff!! WTF!! My stuff is my stuff! They had no right to do that. Yes, I'm making a big fuss about this because it's sooo rude! I don't do that to any of my friend's rooms. Yes, I might look at the stuff on their desk or their books, but not digging in every drawer and making comments about everything! Yes, I told them to stop in many different ways. My room is where I express myself and if you don't like it, that's too bad!

I have a big Pirates of the Caribbean poster in my room (yes, I'm a total POC geek and proud of it!) and Giggles was all like, 'Wow. I can see you like POC. Wow.' and it was said in a 'I can't believe I'm friends with you' sort of wow way. Then, she was looking at my schedule on my wall (yes, I have a schedule. I forget what to do sometimes and it's a good reminder) and started making comments about that too! I don't know, maybe I took it the wrong way.

Anyways, we talked, ate lots of ice cream and junk food, watched the first 2 Bourne movies (we were all gushing over Matt Damon. I never thought he was cute before, but I was wrong!) and stayed up till 4 am. We were all soooo tired but we couldn't sleep! Giggles kept singing country songs and then she started singing the songs from Grease (the movie. I haven't seen the whole movie....yet. They were both horrified and said that I HAVE to watch it.) Finally, Giggles played 'Don't Stop Believin'' on her ipod and we all started singing. We sounded really bad. Then again, it was 2 in the morning!

Erica and Giggles asked if I liked anybody (why does this always seem to come up at sleepovers?) and I said no. Of course, they didn't believe me. I don't like-like anybody from my school. They're all so weird! I tell the plain truth when I'm writing on this blog and when I say I don't like anybody, I don't!

So, they started picking out guys for me. Ugh, they were all soooooooooo weird! I said I'm attracted to tall, hot guys and they picked out all the tall guys for me. One problem though. THERE'S NO HOT GUYS!! >:(  In the end, they always picked out the dude I had a crush on in 8th grade. I don't like him anymore. He's weird and a complete loudmouth!! My friends probably still think I like him. Ugh, I don't!!

We hung out sometimes and when we did, he said the weirdest things!! He told me once that he's allergic to latex. Ummmm......okay? What am I supposed to say to that, if anything? I just bit my bottom lip and looked the other way. Silence is deadly. But why would he tell me that? He also told the whole class that, too. Ick. For that reason and many others, I don't like him. Yeah, he's nice and all, but not my type.

There's something else that bothered me during the sleepover. Sometimes when I said something or was pointing something out, Giggles would always interrupt me. Like, hello? I'm talking here. I don't think she really likes me. Either that, or she's totally absorbed in her own little world. I don't know. I mean, if she didn't like me, she wouldn't have wanted to come over to my house, right? She's a little on the annoying side anyways. She's a nice friend, though. A little annoying at times, but arent' we all?

We woke up late. We were supposed to wake up at 8:30, eat some pancakes, cinnamon rolls or both, hang out and then they'd leave. Nope. We woke up at 9:40. Right when Giggles' grandma said she'd pick her up. Once Giggles packed everything up, we saw her grandma pull right into the driveway. Then, Erica had to leave and be home by 10. We didn't even have breakfast and I felt so bad. I felt like such a terrible host. Especially when Giggles practically just woke up and left. I asked if Erica wanted anything and she said no. At least I asked in Erica's case.

After sleeping all day and thinking about the sleepover, I came to realize that the sleepover wasn't that bad. It was fun! We laughed our butts off and had a good time. I wish ALL of my friends were there, then it would've been really fun. I don't really like having sleepovers at my house, but after last night, I've changed my mind. I need to have my friends over more often.

WTYL,
Scarlett October (xoxo)