jadelyntate

So, my baby sister is graduating from High School in about three weeks (OMG!) and I've decided to make a picture slide-show of the munchkin using any and ALL pictures I can find (including ALL the ones of her looking dorky--:D). Anyway, I'm getting the pictures easily enough but I'm now trying to find songs to use. I don't just want the one song, I'm gonna WMM several into a medely of sorts. I already have one song chosen, that's gonna contain pictures of her and me (Pinky and the Brain, if you were wondering ;)) but I'm looking for suggestions for other songs. Funny, emotional, upbeat, slow, it doesn't matter as long as it kinda fits with graduation/growing up/sisterly bond.

If you do have suggestions, links to song downloads would also be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

I just got off the phone with my parents. My dad called cause apparently he finally realized we weren't kidding when my mom, sister, and I were discussing me moving to the UK after graduation in a year.

Dad: You're moving to England?!
Me: *patiently* Yes, Daddy, I've been telling you this for a month or so now.
Dad: You can't move to England.
Me: *still patient* Why not?
Dad: Cause I'm gonna have you arrested.
Me: *not so patient* For what?!
Dad: Stealing my heart.
Me: *snerks*
Dad: I'm serious!
Me: I know you are, which is why I'm laughing.
Dad: You can't move to England! What if you and Daniel don't get along and break up?
Me: I'm not moving to England for Daniel, I'm moving to England cause I've wanted to live there since I was a little girl. I'd probably have gone even without my boyfriend living there.
Dad: You have? Since when?!
Me: *slowly* Since I was a little girl. Pay attention!
Dad: Its too far away, you can't go.
Me: Daddy, its better than New York, right?**
Dad: *swiftly* Hell yeah! But you're still not moving to England!
Me: Sure, Daddy. Whatever you say, Daddy.
Dad: Are you being sarcastic? (to my mother) I think she's being sarcastic.
Me: *laughs*

**My Dad has an hypocritical fear of me living anywhere in the state of New York--I say hypocritical cause he was raised up state.

A few minutes after that, my mom got on the phone.

Me: Has Daddy completely lost his mind?
Mom: *without hesitation* Yes. He's already called your uncle to get him to start telling horror stories about when he lived in England with the Air Force.
Me: Didn't Uncle Pat love living in England?
Mom: Which is why your dad's plan has backfired spectacularly--your uncle is very excited about you moving to England. He'll have a legitimate reason to visit.
Me: *laughs*

Thought you all might find this interesting--its my sister's college essay.

( Fifteen and Suffocating )

So what is everyone going as?

I was planning on going as a Lady Pirate and then realized my costume more closely resembled a tavern waitress from the same time period. So I decided to run with that, which is good cause its already getting to the lower spectrum of the temperature (its currently 29F and tomorrow's high is 61F--as you can imagine, this Arizona raised girl is not pleased with this). I was not relishing the idea of walking around in thin leggings and boots while at class tomorrow. One ankle length black skirt from my choir days and a lovely purple scarf and TADA! Totally different and much warmer costume. :D

I'll probably go looking for my old cape cause I can probably get away with that to help keep me warm on Sunday night when I go trick or treating with my sister, my cousin Justin, and his neices and nephews. We volunteered to take em out--a 25 year old, a 32 year old, and one 18 year old versus five munchkins, possibly more, on Halloween night.

Somehow, I'm afraid that's probably not going to end well since Justin often acts like a 5 year old and my sister's not much better.

I will post pictures probably Sunday.

But the question remains--what are all of YOU going as and what are you plans?

So, my vacation officially started Thursday morning. Me, being the insane-crazy-idiot I can sometimes be, went to bed at about 1am Thursday morning. I was woken up two hours later at 3am and were on the road by 4:10am.

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh. Jade sleep in car, please, kthanx.

The drive through NM to AZ was fun. I will post pics later. Much much later.

Today, to kill time before we could check into the hotel in AZ, we visited family. My cousin had a baby a little over a week ago--I held him for most of the first visit and a good portion of the second. I also played with Nicholas' two year old sister and five year old cousin--they were so cute and adorable and sweet! Then we stopped by and said hi to purplestripe66 at work. At first we kinda looked at each other cause we weren't sure (in my defense, she was wearing a HAT and I've never seen her in a hat) but then realized hey! Its her!

Then there was hugs. Ruby gives the best hugs. :D And from the excited chatter, I think my dad figured out we're both excited for our trip!

Introduced the family, discussed a few things. Dad admitted he was gonna stalk her house tomorrow so he knows where he's going Sunday morning when we pick her up (am hoping tsukino_akume is there so I can say hi on Sunday morning). I am also supposed to call and make sure Ruby is actually awake before we leave.

Afterwards we went back to visit with family some more and surprised my aunt and uncle, who did not know we were coming.

Then I got a shock. When I was fourteen, I really wanted my grandmothers jewelry box. It'd been passed from oldest daughter to oldest daughter and when grandma died, it went to my aunt. She doesn't have kids though so she decided it was going to me. I'm not technically the oldest girl but...yeah. My aunt and mom agreed I would take better care of it than my cousin. So I got the jewelry box while visiting her. My sister got a turqiose bracelet that originally belonged to our great great grandmother.

Tomorrow is my uncle again and then clex_monki89 for visiting and quite possibly another kidnapping attempt. >.< Also? FOOOOOOD! Then Sunday we head out to California.

I was gonna do more in depth posts about the trip and I'll try once we get to California (Ruby can help!) but am too tired. I will have pictures eventually. :D

This was probably the hardest essay I've ever written.

( Tissue warning )

So, this morning, I got woken up by my mama, who was slightly freaking out. She tried calling me a dozen times yesterday and several times last night. I called my dad yesterday morning at, oh, 8am? to find out if PeptoBismal goes bad cause I've NEVER been as sick as I was the last couple days and that was the only thing I was taking, med wise.

So, you know, I was passed out on and off pretty much the last two/three days. I still feel incredibly ooky but my mama is cleaning my apartment and stripping my bed and generally doing the mama thing cause she made me fall off the couch when she knocked (I've been sleeping on the couch the last few days/nights cause my living room is the coolest and darkest room in the house baring the bathroom). That and she says she doesn't think she's seen me this sick since I got food poisoning two days in a row when I was seven.

So, at the moment, I'm focusing on not getting any more dehydrated than I already am. Hopefully the world has not ended while I'm feeling like shit. Anything in particular I missed?

Reason #1) They turned my PMC2 trip into a family vacation so I don't have to spend as much and will be in California for a week instead of three days.

Reason #2) When my dad mentioned our hotel sleeps 6, I asked for clarification. He didn't bat an eye before asking "Why, you got a friend who needs a place to crash for the Con?" He then agreed to pick up purplestripe66 on our way through AZ, let her crash with us in California, and drop her back off on our way home.

So, Ruby will be coming with us because she won't have to spend a gazillion dollars for, like, three days. I

Power Morphicon needs to be, like, now. *nods firmly*

We knew he and his wife were planning on moving back to North Carolina on the 15th. They have a lot of reasons for leaving and none of them are true. It's okay, I've pretty much used to them using every excuse in the book for why they don't spend time with us and whatnot.

What they did today, though, takes the cake.

They informed my parents and Katie they're leaving Monday. Katie has regionals to go to tomorrow and Troy's funeral/memorial is Sunday (her ex boyfriend died recently).

They were going to leave without saying goodbye or giving us a chance to say goodbye to my nephew.

The thing is, I should have expected it eventually. My brother almost never follows through on anything. They say one thing and then turn around and do another. When he moved here two years ago, I thought things might actually change. That'd he grown up.

I was wrong. Katie is more mature than he is and if you knew my sister, that says a lot.

So I allowed myself to get close to Devin, to love him, and care for him, and think I'd actually get the chance to watch one of my nephews grow up.

But the worst part isn't even that they're leaving. They didn't bother to call me. I had to find out on freakin TWITTER when Katie posted about it.