love save the empty

i look very england today.

im wearing like a little sweater dress with knee high boots and a going-out hat.

MY FAMILY STILL REMEMBERS ME!

they came and visited me this weekend. it was fabulous. it made my week.

happy and kim both slept over.

mom made me lots of food. which i love!!! yay cookies.

we went to a county fair. i seriously considered adopting a cow. but after much thought and deliberation realized that i had absolutely no money because im in college.

mom: laura are you okay? your acting weird.

kim: no shes not, she always acts like this, you just haven't been around her for a little while.

laura: fact.

i wondered whether people wear plaid and camouflage BECAUSE they are at a county fair, or they are at the county fair BECAUSE they are the kinds of people who naturally wear plaid and camouflage.

then we watched the SUPERMAGICMAN show. which was not all that super really. but dads knees and back and who-knows-what-else hurt, because he is an old man, so we humored him and sat down indoors for a while.

dad is really excited because guess what? in a few years HE QUALIFIES FOR THE SENIOR DISCOUNTS!! how exciting is THAT?!

we really wanted to take mom out to a special fancy birthday dinner. dad said we should go somewhere "new and crazy" so mom thought long and hard and then picked bob evans.

this is what i learned this weekend: there is nothing on the bob evans menu i can eat except smiley face fries. and even those are debatable in the flour category. (if you dont know what kind of restaurant bob evans is... the smiley fries should have clued you in)

THEN we took mom birthday shopping

kim got nail polish, some shirts, a pair of shoes

I got a new dress, a sweater, some new sketchbooks, and a pair of leggings

happy got a new frisbee

mom got nothing. (although kim, being the considerate child that she is, pointed out that the shoes mom bought her, were the same size that mom wears, so they can share if mom wants)

i really wanted to get my mom a St Marys sweatshirt for her birthday. but she kept insisting she didnt want one. and then i said, but i want you to have one so you can support my collegic endeavors. she said... and i quote..."maybe if you haven't dropped out in a year or two, we can think about getting one"

thanks mom.

then on sunday we went to brunch at my caf.

mom: paul go get me an ice cream

dad: okay

*dad comes back

mom: what is this?

erika: is that a creamsicle?

dad: what? i thought she liked those. you said you wanted ice cream

mom: well... i did like them when i was like... six. i also used to like Cheerios. and by ice cream i meant like... like ice cream in an ice cream cone..

erika: i'll eat it

*laura laughs so hard she spits her coffee out all over her breakfast

laura: dad shes like forty six and you just got her a popsicle.

kim: its not even warm out.

mom: maybe if i stood in the sun for a while...

then we went to the St Marys River fest! which was so cute!!

we brought happy of course, who played around in the water getting a stick and swimming around. then some reporter guy who had laryngitis, came over and asked if he could take pictures of me and happy. so of course i said yes. and then he proceeded to take pictures for a good twenty minutes. he must have like 100 pictures of me and the dog. he like posed us and told us what to do to look natural. i dont understand why we had to be posed to look natural. then he took all my personal information. in afterthought, he might be a cereal killer. but if he is really a reporter happy is going to be FAMOUS. she is going to be in the newspaper in Maryland, which is not even where she lives. i love my dog. also i PAINTED A PUMPKIN. i sat at the table with alot of 7 year olds and felt kind of out-of-place. but it was so fun that i didnt really care. i considered getting the clown to make me a balloon hat, but decided i had to draw the line somewhere. i draw it at painting pumpkins.

then i did a windsurfing demo for mi familia. im not sure if they really appreciated this or not. i did a pretty good job, and took out a super huge sail for them, to show off... but when you dont really know anything about windsurfing, then its less impressive i think. i wanted to teach kim and erika some beginner stuff but they didnt want to wear wetsuits. no fun.

Megan (roommate) is sick. she is scared she will die of swine flu. im scared i will get whatever she has. which i doubt is swine flu. she was coughing all night. i didnt really sleep.

guess what happened the other day?

i went to give blood. and apparently in Maryland they test your blood levels or something.. which they dont do in jersey. and my iron levels were like way way low. like they were supposed to be like a 12.7 for you to donate blood, and mine were like 9.7. so they pricked me alot of times. which wasnt fun, and then sent me to the health center, where they determined im anemic, and now i have a doctors apt on... tuesday. where i will probably contract swine flu from being in the health office for longer than three minutes!

soundtrack of right now:

mat and kim- daylight

MGMT- time to pretend

erin mccarley-love save the empty

AHHH! i am so excited because Craig's cousin is getting married this weekend and i am going to the wedding with him!!!!!!!!! how cute is that? i dont know what ill wear. i have to see what dresses i have with me.

anyways. much love to you all.

wish me luck... i have my first oral presentation (complete with a powerpoint and notecards) of college, today at 12:00 in a lecture hall. im talking about henri matisse. ahhh. haha. it will be good.