It's My Life

I don't wanna live forever - I just wanna live while I'm alive! Today I went to the O'Neills' house earlier than usual, at about 11. My mom had some errands to run so I asked the O'Neills if I could go chill at their house early. We didn't get any replies from them until about 10 minutes before we walked out the door and Mrs. O'Neill called my mom to say we (it was originally Alexis and I) could come over. Turns out they'd been having some phone and internet trouble... Then Lex decided to go with mom to meet grandma Barbara and not to go to the O'Neills with me. So my mom dropped me off and Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill were out front trying to get cell reception. "Go on in," Mr. O'Neill invited. So I went into the silent place and walked back to Em's room and knocked on the door. It was opened and she didn't look very surprised although Mrs. O'Neill had told me they didn't know I was coming over. "Hey! You're... a little early?" I got to hold Jeni and talk to her, she's such a sweetie! I love her! Then Zach appeared, and we played some Speed. Speed is soo fun! I played both him and Em until their dad said they should go eat. Then we waited a little longer because their mom was making spaghetti. They tried to get me to eat and it looked good and everything, but I really wasn't hungry. I still can't remember if I'd eaten lunch before I left my house but I don't think so, I just wasn't hungry. Anyways, one thing I think is so neat that I've discovered from sleeping over at their house, is that the O'Neills sing their grace. Is that not just one of the coolest things ever?! So after lunch we left to go the O'Neills' music lessons, they got lessons with the same guy we did, and they got their lessons right before we take our lessons!! So we walked there and my (50 lb!! ROFL!) backpack really kept me back. You see my excuses? I blame my slowness on the backpack! Em and Zach ran almost the whole way, I ran in short spurts between walking and shouted up to them "My baseball coach would just about kill me if he saw this!" Anyways we finally made it to Em's lesson a few minutes late and she started. After their mom arrived to sit in and watch the first lesson Zach and I stood in the back of the church and watched for a few seconds before I said "Wanna play Speed?" "Sure." We sat cross legged behind the last pew in the church and played game after game after game of Speed while Em took her piano lesson. Then Zach took his guitar lesson and Em and I played Speed. She tried to teach me Rummy but I totally failed as a student and Em said "Well why don't we just wait until Zach's done and then he can help..." and then shuffled the cards for another game of Speed. Once Zach's lesson was done at Emily's request we went outside and for the few minutes before my lesson began we spun in circles in front of the church. We found every little dip and overlap in that pavement. Then Zach, looking at his watch said, "Okay you should go in now.. You should stop spinning." So I tried... It didn't end well, I couldn't stand straight up and ended up falling on my side in the grass after stumbling all over and just barely avoiding a landing on the road. Then I went in and took my lesson. Zach and Em sat through my lesson with Kate and Abb, who arrived about mid lesson looking bored. All four of them looked bored. Then I finnished and we went outside, "Let's spin!" Suggested Em. "Okay!" I agreed and we began. "The first person to stop spinning has to carry the backpack to my house!!" Emily had earlier picked up my backpack from inside when we went out between lessons and declared it weighed "like fifty pounds!!". "Oh it's not that heavy! It's probably not even twenty." I replied grinning. When Zach joined us outside he spun for awhile but quit after a while. We exclaimed over losing brain cells, and in my case losing my head and my breakfast... Then when the front of the church got boring I began to walk and turn at the same time - we circled the church a few times, entered and exited the parking lot and then went back to circling the church. We (or maybe just me ;) kept yelling things we saw like "Oh there's a white car! I won't run in to it. I'll watch out. Oh! TWO white cars! I won't run into either of them!" Of course I ran into one accidentally... "Ow! Oops! I just ran into the white car! Sorry! To whoever owns that car! Zach! Leave a note on the car! Tell them I'm sorry! Oh look! A tree! Grass.. So... much grass.. it's surrounding me.... AUGH! Don't look at the grass! DON'T LOOK AT THE SKY!! Ohhhh gosh I'm going to throw up! Augh! Look the blacktop! Oh - bar watch out for the - CLANG! - OUCH! bar! The bar hurts!!" Zach: "It's not a bar... it's railing..." "Okay well watch out for the railing... it hurts. Oh Em! Watch out for all those little metal poles! And the telelphone pole! I almost hit the telphone pole!" The list goes on - we continued spinning for at least half an hour nonstop without any pauses. Zach followed us grinning and saying "Okay guys, calm down... I think you need to stop spinning now... Are we going to walk home now?" Abbie even came out and watched for awhile. I shouted once mid spin "Hey Em! We could call this 'Halie and Emily's Weight Loss Program' - we could make tons of money!" She was collapsed against a metal gate laughing hysterically as Zach stood over her. Then I finally quit, it was something like this - "OH! Bench! I like benches! When I get home I'm going to go on Facebook and like benches! I'm going to sit down on this bench Emily!!" Yes I pretty much voiced everything I did. It was annoying. But it kept my mind off the endless rotations. Em came and sat next to me and layed over on me then I shouted "OH! Bathroom! I have to use the bathroom!!" And jumped up and ran off to the nearest bathroom. Em dashed off after me and we were panting and laughing hysterically, my sister Abigail joined us in the bathroom and Em said "Hey Abbie, go tell Zach we're in here barfing!" "Okay!" agreed devious little Abbie and she ran out. She returned shortly after saying "He says he believes it." Then we left the bathroom and walked in as straight a line as we were capable. "Deep breaths! Deep breaths!" Em and I put our arms on each other's shoulders and staggered along singing hoarsely "Put one foot in front of the other..." She ran me into a brick wall and it ricocheted and I crashed into her into a brick wall on the other side and my braces hit her head hard so that she announced "YOU BIT MY SKULL!!!" Zach just followed his routine and followed us around. We ended up on another big blue bench in the back of the church after much walking in straight lines and breating deeply and singing put one foot in front of the other. Then Abbie and Zach started turning on poles after Abb tried it once, purely for her own fun and I said "Augh circular motion! Stop!" Zach found the nearest pole and swung himself around it repeatedly. I squeezed my eyes shut and shouted "Oh I can hear it! Augh my stomach!!" We eventually decided to walk back to the O'Neills' house and Em helped me CARRY Abb back into the church so she wouldn't stay outside and get me into trouble. Just then Mrs. O'Neill pulled up - we hadn't told her we'd be staying longer than Zach and Em's lessons so it had been over an hour she thought we'd been gone. She thought Zach and Em had been kidnapped. She drove us to her house and there Em and I laid on her bed on our backs until Em had to sit up because our stomachs disliked that position. Eventually the big discomfort wore off and Em began asking me if she could draw on my arms, legs, hand etc... I refused, stole her pencil and then insisted we play a game. So finally after much prompting she broke out "Life". "We don't have Life," said Zach, "We lost it." Em grinned, "Yes we do - I hid it." She took it out and we set it up and we started before Emily decided "Life is a weird game." So we quit. Then my mom called Mrs. O'Neill and told her to send me over to the church because she was stuck in traffic and would be there soon. She drove me back to the church and Em accompanied us, but Zach stayed home. After my mom picked us up we stopped by Taco Bell. I was starving but I only actually ate about five bites before I was full and couldn't eat any more - my stomach still wasn't settled. We went to legos, and man I tell ya - it was SUCH a relief to get back to the lego room and be a part of the team. Mrs. Fillmore's special team improvement ideas put us all on tasks we hardly knew anything about all the while we were trying mints for our decisions on who got what job depending on who could guess the color of the mint put in their mouth. I ended up on programming. I really want to learn programming, but I never learn so I'm thinking I'm mentally challenged as far as programming goes... I eventually ended up back on skit which is, of course what I wanted and I got right to work on that. We're going to have to work out a few kinks but I think I'll get it done soon. It was Andrew's birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!!!) so he brought cupcakes and seemed really happy. (Yeah I ate a cupcake, yeah I get the irony...) I was just so pleased to be back surrounded by my team working on the project. Anyways got lots to do!!! Laterz!!