I write about my life quite a bit in one of my notebooks (not telling which one), and I started writing about Camas Days, but I haven't finished. Here, I'll sum up all the important parts.... and they might turn out longer... THEN after that I'll get to my planned/not planned rant.


Kay, so Friday the 21st, my family went to Camas Days for dinner, which we do almost every year. I noticed a few tween boys would stare at me. I figured it was the watermelon-flavored shaved ice I had... it made it look like I had clashing lipstick on... yeah... but I HAD to have shaved ice. It was like 100 degress outside... well, 95, but the heat from cooking food can get to you.

On Saturday, my mom and I went to the parade. I can't remember the last time I went... it WAS probably last year... yeah, because I was trying to hide my butterflies (on my forehead... cause of my "surgery"). So anyway, going up the hills reminded me how OUT OF SHAPE no PE makes me. My mom was doing better than me, but then again, it was my time and my back freakin hurt. Now, I KNEW I was going to die no matter what I wore, so I wore my pants and a t-shirt and such. I made sure my t-shirt wasn't black. We had our umbrella, so I wasn't too scared of sunburn. Just a little bit of exposure wouldn't be so bad.

So the parade was blah. It was dull. It was boring. My first words after it had started were: "Where's the music?" They usually have music on every few cars so that sometimes tunes would overlap each other.

**UGH!! I tried download "Top Of The World" by The All-American Rejects a few days ago, and it only downloaded a few seconds. So I deleted it, and tried again and it did the SAME THING!!!**

Okay, so the parade was dull. Oh! We usually sit on the hill close to where it starts, so if you want to join us sometime... ^_^. Some people are actually really smart. They put up a lemonade stand and one of the guys on the Jets truck parade thingy got a few cups and had to run after the truck carrying at least 3 cups of lemonade. It was fun watching. Then the japanese guy in that float thing had a camera, and he filmed us a bit. We were laughing at them when one of them sprayed the other with water, so they laughed at us... yeah.

THEN... towards the end of the parade (even though I didn't know it at the time), I heard my name being called. I kinda thought it was either to someone else or I was hallucinating (hey, it was HOT. I wouldn't be surprised if I WAS actually hallucinating). After the second time (that I heard), I looked down the street and there was Kevin holding the US flag... heh... who would've thought? So I waved back and yelled "KEVIN!!" So when they got closer, the guy next him (around my age) looked at me as if my prescence had interrupted their conversation. He was one of those guys that you THINK you should know. But I couldn't figure it out. So Kevin asked how my summer was, and he might've said something about his, but those few seconds are vague. I didn't remember how I had answered his "How's your summer?" question after I had said it. So my mom met Kevin. She didn't say anything about him later, so I guess she's okay with him... Well, when I told her that she went to youth group at the chruch he was holding the flag for, she asked me if he had asked me to go to it with him, and I said "No... why?" and she got that defensive "Just wondering" face/act thing....


So after the parade, we went to Burgerville then went to go watch the bathtub races. It's supposed to start at 1, but they ended up starting at like 1:30, because it took a while to get the tubs, and they started filling them with a garden hose before getting the fire hose. Then during the first race, one of the tubs got a flat tire (or whatever) so they had to wait for the "air man" and then they restarted it, but it was still the same outcome. The Flaming Bunnies won. Honestly, they had the best name. I didn't remember that the bathtub races took so long, and I had to go to the bathroom during the middle, and so I had to wait, because I didn't want to miss anything.... But the thing is that the only time a tub almost turned over was when I WASN'T WATCHING!!

After that, I went to the bathroom then we met up with the King and Queen and my Aunt Jeanie, and we talked for about an hour... well everyone but me. Then we went to the Washougal Safeway, where I laughed at my mom's terrible sunburn. I did have one, it was mainly on my right elbow area. Then I had dirt or something there making it look like I had gotten grabbed by someone... which I probably did, I don't remember. Oh, and my nose got sunburnt, it shed the most yesterday. That was fun...



Yay!! Rant time!!!

All right, so I do actually run daily, when I'm outside or when I'm in a hurry ((Example: AHH!! Computer can't die on me! Must use bathroom quickly!)), but I noticed that... my calves hurt today... I suddenly realized that I missed that feeling... maybe because it shows that I'm not a lazy ass and I'm trying to stay in shape (well, I mean, not get worse...). It's just that during PE I wouldn't feel like I was in shape, because I was in pain and had a hard time breathing. I don't really care that I can last longer, it still hurts during and after.

What does it mean to be "in shape" anyway?


The only exciting thing that happened here this whole summer happened last night. We had a shrew inside. I saw it first and announced it to everyone. My dad went to the store to get traps and poison. He didn't come out for a few hours and did after my dad put a trap where he thought it would be... I saw it when it was by the Gamecube, then it hid behind it and went under a speaker. My mom went to open the sliding glass door when she discovered it was THERE and she screamed, jumping really high up. I laughed as the shrew disappeared. So we had the door open. And the shrew came out again near the trap, but my dad scared it off so it went under the speaker, then my dad got the broom and got it out and it went outside. YAY!!! My poor shrew survived.



Uh... I can't think of anything else to say. Happy? You happy now?! HUH?! Yes, I'm bored... I have 5 library books I still need to finish (I blame Brooke, we brought her along and she gave me 2 books to read).