Excuses, Excuses

     I failed on Day 2. Wow. However, I have a bunch of great excuses.

     The short version is that I ended up spending the night at a friends house last night and I wasn't originally planning to. Therefore, I wasn't home and wasn't able to blog. Today, I will give you two blogs in one. My adventures yesterday and my adventures today.

     Yesterday, I woke up at 7am after an alarm clock malfunction. At first, I was fairly upset because I wanted to sleep in but I ended up talking to my best friend(who is currently living in Germany) for two hours on skype. I miss her terribly, but due to the beauty of skype I can see her lovely face all the time and still feel as though I am a part of her life. For the next portion of the day, I did homework, tidied my room, and knitted a present for my friend. A funny anecdote is that I was very furious ThinkGeek hadn't mailed something I ordered as gift after ten days. The tracking code just led me to a site with no information at all. I sent a fairly annoyed sounding email to ThinkGeek, demanding to know where my package was. About an hour after I sent the email a UPS truck pulled up and indeed gave me the package. Then I emailed ThinkGeek again to tell them to ignore my email and that I was sorry for being so panicky and annoying.

      My day only got better from there. Around 3, I drove to another friends house for an amazing birthday party. We started the day out in princess dresses and had a princess tea party. Yes, we had a tea party for her sweet 16. We are so cool. Then, after dinner, we put on zombie makeup. Her parents work in the theatre business, so we had incredibly legitimate makeup. Peeling skins, scars, rotting flesh, blood splattered dress. We had it all. Then we went and walked around in very public, touristy, shopping areas and generally just harassed the public. We returned to her house around 10 and took off all of the makeup. We watched Tangled(which was so adorable and such a great movie) and fell asleep.

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THE NEXT DAY

     I woke up. We ate delicious breakfast and then I left. I came home and was very productive albeit not that interesting. I did homework, cleaned house, and spent a little bit of time relaxing. I went out to dinner with my family and enjoyed the simplicity of the day. Today was positive because I have delicious food in my fridge and feel quite organized and positive.

     Hopefully, the rest of VEDA will go smoothly. Already, this is actually feeling a lot easier. I didn't feel as pressed for writing options and already have an idea of what to talk about tomorrow.

Rachel