Sonic Adventures

Okay, I reckon it's time to let people know what's going on in my life. Not that you really want to know. You just check my blog on occasion so that you can say that you have, and so you won't make me feel unloved if I ask if you have been to my blog lately.

What's with the picture? you might ask. This is how I feel sometimes, though not right now.

We went up to my grandparents on Sunday. We went up for my grandpa's b/d. We decided to go to Sonic for lunch. That was an adventure. To read a very well written, play-by-play account of our adventure, then go to http://anurseslife-jessi.blogspot.com/2007/05/sonic-adventures.html. This is my sister's blog, and since she wrote the whole adventure herself, I won't bother trying to recount it. Makes it easier for me, and she gets more hits on her site, which she loves.

Tomorrow, May the 10th, marks 2 weeks till I leave for AFRICA! That's not very much time. I feel like I have a ton to do, but it hasn't started to hit me yet that I don't have much time left. Oh well. About 2 days before I leave I'll start scrambling and doing things in a big rush. I'll start to feel like Larry Daley did in A Night at the Museum in the picture above. A little stretched, like butter spread too thin. But that's my life anyway. After all, I've already proved in a previous post that I am smart and intelligent, and because of that, I can wait to the last minute to do things, and still get them done. :)

On Monday and Tuesday I helped out at the Evangel College Garage Sale. It's actually a Gymnasium Sale. Evangel cleans out all the dorms of all the junk that has been accumulated over the last 2 semesters and sells it all. Last year they made over $11,000. Anyway, my mom, my two younger sisters, and I all helped out. We had to sort all the clothing and various articles that come in. It takes multiple days. But, while we work, we get to look at all the things that are being sold. And if we see something we like, we grab it, and stick it in a back room. Then on Tuesday, we buy all the things that we gathered. But the sale didn't start till Tuesday Evening, so we basically get first dibs. I got two of my friends birthday gifts, and spent like, nothing. That doesn't mean they are not worth much, but.... nevermind. I spent $29, but got at least $200 worth of stuff. It was worth it.

There is a Symphony Concert coming up on Saturday. It's called A Tribute to John Williams. The music is all written by John Williams. They'll be playing stuff from movies like E.T., Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, music from all 6 of the Star Wars films, and stuff like that. It is going to be sooo cool. I've been waiting 9 months for this concert. I got a group together to go with me. I am going with 51 others. I asked people if they wanted to go, and if they did, then they could give me the money by last Monday, and I'd buy the tickets for them. This way, we could all sit together. So I went in Monday morning, and bought 49 tickets (we had 3 free tickets given to me by a Symphony member). The fellow working at the desk selected 52 seats one by one, and then said,

"Those are $26 a piece, so your total come out to $1274.

Me: Umm... I am using these $5 vouchers for the tickets.

Him: Oh. Okay. (speaking to a lady in the back) How do I do these vouchers?

Well, they got it worked out, and the fellow then had to select all the seats again, one by one.

Him: Okay, your total will be $245.

Well, that's how much money I had, so I handed over the cash. That hurts. I hate giving someone that much money. But it wasn't my money, so it didn't hurt for very long.

Anyway, now I have 52 Symphony tickets sitting in my room, waiting to be given to the people that bought them.