A Day in Paragraphs

First, I woke up. I woke up a little earlier than I usually do. That's why I'm telling you. Because waking up early usually means that something significant is going to happen. Anyway, I woke up. The smell of caramel rolls was wafting through the house, and caramel is a better alarm clock than incessant beeping. My parents think holidays are cause for exciting breakfasts.

When I went into the living room, my two youngest brothers were behaving quite strangely. They were holding hands and dancing like turkeys through the house while singing a hideous rendition of Good King Wenceslas. (You have no idea how long it took me to spell that.) And my mom was going to give them more sugar.

After breakfast, I went into my room. And I checked my email like I do every morning. There was the most exciting email ever! Well, maybe not. But it was still pretty exciting. It was from Luther College. They said that I was an exceptional student and I could apply quickly using their exceptional student application. However, it was not nearly as quickly as I would have hoped. But I don't actually know how long these things usually take. Still. So I applied to my first college! We'll see what happens.

By this time, I was quite hungry. Caramel rolls don't fill you up as much as you might think. But my mother said that we weren't supposed to have lunch because we were going to have an early dinner and we just ate a late breakfast. So I had sour cream and onion chips and Koolaid. That sounds way more healthy than lunch anyway.

After that, I started to play my plague game. It's so hard to kill off the whole world. I was talking to my brother about it, because he's more of an expert at this than I am, (and apparently he has a higher sociopath level than I do, but more on that later) and we discovered that our mother is actually disturbed by this game. I think she should learn the difference between reality and virtual reality.

Then I talked to my friend R on Facebook for the first time in a long time. Apparently she's been busy. But I was sad because I thought she was ignoring me. Unstable person, I am.

She gave me some information about scholarships, and I even applied for them! But these scholarships are harder to learn about than you might think. Sometimes, they lead you to a website, but then the website has absolutely no information about how to apply. They're probably just scams. I don't know.

Then I roasted marshmallows. (Why is marshmallows spelled with an a?) We had s'mores. And we had turkey and mashed potatoes, that I peeled! and green beans. But mostly mashed potatoes. Because those are the best. Obviously.

Finally, I watched some Fringe! Not finally, as in the last thing I did, but as in I waited a super long time to watch it. If I could do one thing in the world that is impossible, I would write a TV series that is as good and as intriguing and suspenseful as Fringe. Maybe I'll do that anyway.

Now I'm listening to country music. (Gah! My friends would be so proud!! After they stopped laughing hysterically at me, of course.) I can't tell if I like it because I like it, or because they like it. People who are friends tend to have more influence over each other. There might actually be a word for that... I'll have to investigate. Remind me. Later.