Don’t Erase Me

This week is Spring Break. I had gotten an offer to go to Disneyland with my friend, Briana. I think that would have been really fun. Although since I was in Hawaii two weeks ago and Oregon the weekend after that, I decided to stay home and take the opportunity to relax and hang out with my friends who were also staying home.

John’s friend Joe has come up from Vancouver, too. I was really excited because they don’t get to see each other very often and John likes to do stuff with him. Joe also has a girlfriend up here, so I knew that would make her really happy too.

I thought it would be fun to get together the five of us (along with Joe’s girlfriend we’d have my and her friend Julia) and do some things this week.

Although I’m finding that trying to plan tings to do between five different people is hard… John wants to do stuff with Joe because they don’t see each other, I want to do stuff with John, Joe wants to do stuff with John, Casie (Joe’s girlfriend) wants to do stuff with Joe, Julia doesn’t really like being around “couples” but deals with it, I want to do stuff with Julia when she’s going to do something with Casie, I want to let John and Joe do what they want but when I decide to do something with John it’s the days that Casie’s not doing something with Joe.. So it’s hard to make everything work out.

Today is a great example of how things end up going.

Yesterday we thought we had it all planned. Julia was going to hang out with me, Joe was going to see Casie, Julia and I would then go hang out with John while Joe was with Casie. Simple, right?

Today:

• John and Joe realize that they don’t have enough time to do what they would like to, while trying to accomidate the rest of us
• Joe calls Casie saying that he can’t get together with her. Casie says okay, but is really disappointed.
• Julia and I are still going to walk up and hang out with John, but this time along with Joe.
• Joe realizes that he thought Julia and I were coming up eariler, so that if they wait for us to come up that would defeat the purpose of canceling with Casie.
• I suggest that Joe call Casie up again. Wouldn’t you think she’d be happy to hear he could come?
• Casie wouldn’t want to Joe to leave once he was over there, so he and John couldn’t do what they wanted to today.
• I insist that they should do what they want to. We’ll let them, and not argue. They should decide if they want us to come up, Joe to go over there, go ride their bike to Zips, whatever.
• John says that they would like to use the time they have, instead of wait.
• I’m a little disappointed because I wanted to see him, but I’ll get to spend time with John tomorrow and Julia’s coming over today.
• John says he’s sorry, explaining what I’ve heard so many times, it’s drilled into my head. He and Joe want to do stuff together because they only see each other 3 weeks out of the year. And I get to see and do stuff with John a lot. I’m not forgetful.. or demanding.. I know that, I’m not protesting them doing stuff together.
• Julia calls and says that she can’t come over because she has no ride and her brother is sick.
• John and Joe leave to go off to Zips, Julia’s sad she can’t come over and says we can do stuff on Wednesday, Casie’s disappointed that Joe’s not coming, I’m here at home by myself…

I don’t want this to happen again. Briana’s gone so I can’t do stuff with her, and I wanted to be able to do stuff this week so I wouldn’t feel bad about not going with Briana. So far it’s not turning out so well..

It’s kind of funny.. when we try to get together it doesn’t work. When they don’t try to, they somehow get together… I’m still at home.

… but that may be another post…

My mom does this post talking about what she liked and disliked of the week, and I think it’s a good idea so…

Likes:

• Coming home after a wonderful trip in Hawaii with my mom, aunt and cousin. It was so fun, I enjoyed all my time with them. We’re weirdos!
• Seeing John’s surprised and excited expression when he came home from school to see me waiting for him a day earlier than he expected. I also got a lot of hugs…
• Chatting with John’s mom while I waited from him to get home. She’s fun to talk to.
• Not having to get up to go to school until 9:30 because of WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) And only having to go to three classes a day because of it
• Being in a Flute Quartet for the Solo and Ensemble here. Our Adjudicator told me to play louder…
• Playing my own “I Spy” game at the Pokemon State competition. There was a lot of stuff… A silver haired wig, a thing 1 shirt, a couple fedoras, two guys in orange jail jumpsuits, judges in lab coats, a girl with fangs, some rainbow socks, a guy with a long ponytail…. etc…..
• Going to a Science Museum with my family and playing connect four with my dad using robot arms. The submarine there was cool too, very cramped but our guide was funny. I learned the Ice Cream Machine must always be working!
• Going on a train with my brother. I’d never been on a train before, it was fun. My brother and I played card games and talked. Trains are actually quite comfortable.
• Telling John all about my day on the phone when I got back. He’s just fun to talk to
• Making bouncy balls in chemistry out of Elmer’s glue and sodium borate. They were kind of messy at first though.
• Making Briana laugh when I guarded her phone while she got her Biology book. She said it made her day.
• Spending the afternoon with John, even though I spilled a smoothie on pants…
• Clearing things up with Casie because she thought that I didn’t like her too much.
• Thinking of things that will be fun to do over spring break next week.
• Having no school tomorrow!

Don’t like so much:

• Leaving Hawaii to go back to the cold, rainy, windy, Kennewick
• Losing my Geometry book on the trip home
• Being emotional…. I’ll leave it there
• Deciding to not go with Briana to Disneyland, and finding out her other friend wasn’t going to go either.
• Not being home over the weekend to get some homework done. And because being at home is nice…
• Having bad cramps… igh
• Missing my Piano Recital where I would have gotten to play Fur Elise and a duet with my teacher.
• Having tests to make up.

For weeks now John has been telling me that Mountain Dew is making a new logo and abbreviating the “Mountain” part, thus it being “Mtn Dew”. I haven’t believed him because I hadn’t seen anything like it. He told me he would find one and bring it to me, so I could see.  Although yesterday while wandering around the store to buy some chocolate macadamia nuts, I stopped in my tracks.

Now I have the proof, before John was able to come up with it.

the view of clouds from the plane

Yes, we have made it here to Hawaii - what a lovely place it is. We’ve seen so many waterfalls and everywhere you go it’s so lush and green. There has been off and on rain as characteristic of Kauai, and I love it. They are tropical showers that are so light and refreshing.

the most photogenic waterfall

my cute little sand castle

We also have traveled across the northshore trying to get excellent pictures of the waterfalls we saw cascading down the mountain. As you may have seen on my mother’s blog, this is what we saw most of the day:

speaks for itself :)

Lei making!! As our prize for passing our test we got to make leis. Beautiful purple, white and lavender orchids. Some pretty pink and yellow carnations. All put to together to make our wonderful leis.

When we went out to dinner everyone was commenting on how nice they looked and how pleasant they smelled.

Today I’m not sure what we plan on doing although it shall be fun. We do so much during the days it seems like it’s been four days and it’s a relief to realize that it’s only been two!

John has said that he is interested in playing an instrument. Actually one way he put it was, “I love to listen to music (wish I could play it)” SO. That means I get to ask him about it!! haha… well whether it means I get to or not, I Did ask him and found out that he’d like to play the piano or the electric guitar. Only very recently (while listening to some piano music I might add) he said he’d like to learn the piano. I immediately started asking him about it, saying that he should and encouraging him to do it. I understand there is the trouble with having a piano to practice on.. they have one that needs to be tuned and restored. It’s ancient.. cool! Obviously that costs a lot of money so I don’t know what to do about that, But I do know he should learn to play the piano. Here are my reasons why:

1. It’s fun
2. It’s not good to just sit around and think, “I wish I could do that”
3. Knowing how to play an instrument makes you more interesting
4. It could be something that you turn out to be very good at
5. It makes life more “fulfilling”
6. I think because he’s known for tech stuff, it would be awesome if he could just surprise everyone with playing piano, it would just add to his awesomeness - Briana
   

7. If you decide to play a different instrument, piano gives you a good music background
8. It’s a good way to express yourself
9. It may help relieve stress
10. It impresses people
11. It’s something fun to do when there’s bad weather
12. It can make you feel proud of yourself
13. It’s a more productive use of time than sitting around
14. Piano is cool - James
15. He has the time to learn Now, instead of later when he’d probably have a job and other stuff to do
16. He’d be glad he did
17. He has the hands for it… big, with long fingers
18. He enjoys listening to music
19. It would make me happy
20. He wants to!

If you have anymore reasons why… I’d love to hear them and add them to the list