6/12/09 – 6/13/09 (after midnight)
It’s been a weird and wonderful day. Wonderful, because I got my very first real paycheck today! It’s only for one week, since I started in the middle of a pay period, but still — $184.25!!! Woohoo, I’m rich! Just think how much my next paycheck will be! Let’s see, $18 to the Lord, $36 to savings, and that still leaves me $130.25! Oh man, I have GOT to go to the mall. Mom took a picture of me with my paycheck…she’ll probably frame it or something (ACK — I was all sweaty and red-faced because I had just gotten home from work……MUST DELETE PICTURE). Maybe I can get her to take another one when I look decent.
The weird part of the day (but also kinda wonderful, in a weird way) was my “date” with Matt. It’s freaky just saying that…I had a datewith my freako brother. Turns out, he’s not quite as freaky as he was a couple of years ago. I’ve just been avoiding him for so long, I guess I didn’t notice that he sort of changed back to the brother I used to actually like.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. I wasn’t sure what he had in mind for us to do, so I skipped going to the lake and pampered myself a little. Hey, if I’m getting to go out and Big Bro is paying, the least I can do is smell clean, right? So, I took a bubble bath and soaked my aching muscles for a while (yeah, they still get kind of sore after a long day pushing that mower, but not as bad as before). While I was soaking Tripp came in to see what I was doing and stuck his face in the bubbles and came out looking like a doggie Colonel Sanders…TOO funny! I wish I had a camera right then…totally a Youtube moment! After that, I blow-dried my hair (although that only helps a little…it is so straight that it doesn’t domuch), then I painted my nails and toenails and read Teen People while they dried…Taylor Lautner is soooo buff, but Nick Jonas has all that beautiful curly hair…of course neither of them has eyes like Gray’s.
When Matt got home, he immediately went into the bathroom that he and I share and turned on the shower, like he does every time he comes home from work…he says it’s to wash the pizza smell of of himself…and I went and banged on the door.
Matt: What!? (he’s so impatient)
Me: Hey, what time are we leaving?! (I hate yelling through the door, but I needed time to finish getting ready)
Matt: 6!
Me: What am I supposed to wear?
Matt: I don’t care what you wear, I’m not your boyfriend! (and you wouldn’t be, even if we weren’t related!)
Me: I know, but I don’t need to dress up do I? What are you wearing? (I don’t want to look stupid if we’re going somewhere nice or I need a swimsuit or something)
Matt: Hey, I don’t like you THAT much! It’s summer, I’m wearing board shorts and a tee!
Me: Fine!
Matt: Fine!
Okay, so I wore capris, a tee, and flipflops. When Matt finally came out of the bathroom, he looked pretty good…he even shaved (he doesn’t do that much…he doesn’t NEED to do that much). We got in his old beat-up black Corolla, and when I asked where we were going, he just smirked and said, “You’ll see.”
Well…..pause for dramatic effect….he only took me to the coolest place in town, the Old Pizza Warehouse. I was so shocked, I know my mouth was hanging open and probably catching flies. The best pizza and pasta in town (WITH a fabulous salad/fruit/dessert bar), PLUS pool, air hockey, all types of video games, karaoke (some nights), laser tag, a big room with, not a big-screen TV but a HUGE-screen TV that shows sports and old black and white comedy movies…and all kinds of other stuff. We had so much fun together (at least I did!). It was one of the best “dates” I’ve ever had…..oh wait, it’s the only date of any kind I’ve ever had. Still, I’ll never forget what a great time I had with my brother.
He really has gone back pretty much to the sweet, funny, goof-ball friend he was before the “dark days”. I can’t believe how much he’s grown up. I’ll have to find out what changed, what made him wake up and stop being such an angry jerk. One of those few times I really wish I could read him.
Well, I’m super-tired from all the work and play today. I go to bed a happy, happy girl.