Christmas and Other Miscellaneous Stuff

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE… for yesterday.

OMG. Yesterday was such an awesome day. And OMG, guess what! My parents, gave me, A NEW PHONE *squeal*. I could hardly believe it when I opened it. You know how in cartoons when the characters open their mouths in surprise and their jaws drop all the way down to the floor and their eyes bulge out? Well I’m pretty sure that is exactly what I looked like when I opened it. I seriously couldn’t believe it. A phone?! DO you know how much those things cost? A lot. It’s a slidey phone. WITH A CAMERA! My current phone doesn’t have a camera. Or blue tooth. Or anything else awesome. SO I was so happy when I got a new one. =D

Anyway, also for Christmas I got a lot of books, two music CDs, a packet of sour straps and various other chocolate and a lot of other awesome things that I really can’t be bothered to type out, but it was really AWESOME!

And then for lunch and the rest of the arvo me and my family headed off to the grandparent’s place, and that was also AWESOME! My grandma had done up the table for lunch soooooooo nice. For each place at the table, everyone had a name thingy to show them where to sit, a cracker, a scratchie (I won $2 on mine and my grandma won $6) and a lucky seat number. So, my grandma being the awesome grandma she is, had some awesome starters as wel. Ok, so get this, she had a choice of either prawns or spring rolls, and she had them, wait for it……. Wait for it……. in shells! She had these massive shells and she had lettuce and the spring rolls/prawns sitting on top! I t looked soooo nice! And then we had the main course which was, needless to say, delicious. My grandma is an excellent cook. AND SHE MADE THE POTATO BAKE! =D I love my grandma’s potato bake! =D And then for desert she made trifle and chocolate but unfortunately I could only have a little bit of trifle because I was sooooo full. Has anyone seen that Monty Python sketch where there is this guy at a restaurant and he’s eaten soooo much and then the waiter talks him into having an after dinner mint so he eats it and then explodes? Well, that’s how I felt.

So then we pulled the crackers and read out the jokes which were terrible even by my standards and we did the scratchies and the lucky seat prize. And then we opened the other prezzies and then we talked and stuff a bit more and then we went home. SO it was an awesome day. =D

Well, the day bit was awesome. And part of the night was awesome as well coz we played around with our prezzies and then Katie called me (she got back from Samoa) despite basically falling asleep as we were talking on the phone, so I really appreciated that and it made my day that bit more awesome. But then came the other part of the night. The part which I have been dreading for a while now. The lying in bed bit trying to get to sleep but not being able to because my subconscious decides to put me through the torture of making me thing about… stuff. I tell myself stories, of Katie cutting herself, and… and committing…. I can’t type it. But last night it didn’t start out about Katie. It started about Dylan. About getting this phone call in the middle of the hols from the police, telling me what had happened. Collapsing on the floor crying like I’ve never cried before. And then the story switched to Katie. Her in the middle of the night… because all this was too much for her…

So because I couldn’t sleep, at like, 11:30 last night I txted Dylan begging him to reply or to txt/call Katie so we knew that he was OK. I kept checking my phone every 2mins from then on to see if he had replied, which was pretty unlikely considering the time, but I couldn’t help myself. I ended up putting my phone in one of the draws in my desk so I could get to sleep. I haven’t checked it for about 45mins, so he might of replied. I’ll check it after I’ve finished typing this.

And so, to end on a more positive note, Odog’s party is coming up soon. A fancy dress scavenger hunt along in a public, busy area. I think I might go as a ladybug if my old costume still fits. Anyone else got any ideas?

So I’m going to go check my phone and figure out a costume.

Lotsa love,
Rhoddie (and that CAN BE a chick’s name)