Fill in the Blank Friday #7

YAY - I'm back from the north and about to start school :)
BOO - i have no pictures for you :( i didn't take many good ones anyway!





1. Birthdays are alright. I just like parties, really.

2. My favorite birthday memory was not really any of them. I remember having one party that was that kind of party. It was mostly embarrassing.

3. A birthday tradition I (or my family) has is doing nothing and then something at the last minute. We kind of suck at birthdays around here.

4. If I had to choose one birthday meal to eat for the rest of my birthdays hence forward, I would choose tamales. Point blank. I'm also craving them right now. A side of rainbow cake is obviously expected.

5. My birthday is on March 18. I'm a Pices. A Peicies. "pie-SEEZ". Whatever. I'm the fish, and I can't spell.

6. If I could take a birthday trip I would go to France! :D

7. The best gift I've ever received for my birthday was errr. I have no idea. I suppose the FOB poster I got from robin in 7th grade which I still have !! My favorite poster.

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new books:
(one down, one to go!)

yep, bought these two beauties in the airport friday morning. I couldn't make myself stop (!) so I just kept reading. Reading on the first flight to Atlanta, and during my extended layover, and on the delayed flight to Boston, and FINISHED before we even started descending :) I read the one on the left, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. It's wonderful really, although I'm a little frustrated that it's another series. I've been in the mood for stand alone books lately, which is just as well. I nearly always read series books, and I don't think I've read anything besides since last summer I think... except for school reading, which doesn't really count.

I've only read a couple pages of Atlas Shrugged. I am seriously excited about this book!

colorful swatches:

I went with my sister and her sister (yes, I know. it's complicated.) to Lowe's last night to look for some ceiling fans for the new house that my sister is moving into. We got distracted looking at paint chips and oh my goodness all the names!!!

ANYWAY :) It's a really old house and a bachelor - a teacher, too, nonetheless - lived in it for a number of years, so it needs a lot of work. Nothing really bad, but I don't think it's had an love for a while. Since codes have changed so much since the 50s, my sister and the headmaster are having it inspected and updated so that it's nice and safe for the two widdle kiddos.

Did I mention that the house is on campus and she's getting it free?! Well, last I heard it was going to be free. It's kind of small, and it's right in the corner of little circle of villa-style homes. Most of them have been transformed into classrooms, and the courtyard is nearly always full of school children drawing with chalk and whatnot. But she's an elementary school teacher anyway, and both the kiddos are attending the school now, so it just makes more sense. The house is a little small, and there's hardly any yard. But it's all cozy and she wont have to worry about making ends meet anymore, which means a couple more days a month that she can put money in savings and pay our dad back the old loan and pay bills and even spending a little on herself.

Surfing lesson today @ 2:30, and then some fun in the beach and town of Rye. Long drive but totally worth it.

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