My First Blog!

Yay!
*squeaks in excitement*
Okay. First I'll start off with saying--yay! My best friend is coming back from New Mexico tomorrow. I'll be seeing her on the Fourth of July, and the fun shall begin! But be warned, Colorado people. When Annah and Ellen are together...*lowers voice sinisterly*...things happen.
Good things, of course. We get a lot of stuff done, and have a lot of fun. Annah is an amazing art-eest, despite being 15, and I'm definitely going to have supreme bragging rights when she gets all famous. "You bought an AMB? Oh yeah, well I was GIVEN an AMB for my 15 birthday! Along with a fish! Ha! Beat that!" :)
Meanwhile, the basement "teen hangout", as my mother likes to call it, is finished. I just call it the basement, 'cuz "teen" and "hangout" just sounds kind of dorky to say in everyday conversation. :) The walls are pumpkin butter orange, a very nice change from the disgustingly boring white the entire house is painted, and my dad and bro just finished setting up the pool table today. I'll play pool. Totally.
As in, I'll sit on the sidelines and make sarcastic comments whenever someone messes up. With my Pepsi 0 in hand.
Today was very interesting, because I went to church and had to sing with the rest of my fellow teenage church-going friends. I told my Bible study teacher, Patty, I was very disappointed in her. I thought she was my friend, but she made me sing in public, and that wrong cannot be unwronged.
(Our extreme reluctance to sing, horror of singing, and dread of dying of heart attacks on stage seemed to be unjustified when the performance went off beautifully, without a hitch. I'm beginning to think the three of us girls were just having fun whining and crying about it, which is why we whined and cried for the entire 2 weeks leading up to the event. All of the other kids seem to enjoy singing. We let them have it, and hid behind our sheet music, which is why no one in the audience went deaf.)
Also, today was interesting because everybody got free Skittles and animal crackers. That generous donation marked the end of Bible studies for July and August, starting up again in Semptember. I'm gonna miss that.
Other notable news: Hamburgers for dinner. My family doesn't do the "new dinner" thing. We just rotate. Meatloaf, chicken and peppers, hamburgers, hot dogs, spaghetti, and meat and potatoes is our usual round of fare. Not always in that order. I love to cook, and so I for weeks I have been begging my mother to let me make something new. She keeps saying, "Yeah, yeah, after I do this or that..." and I go, "Um, hello. I'M going to be making it, not you!"
On Wednesday, I went on my first "date". Notice the quotations. It's only a date because my friend Kiana seems determined to make it into one, but I only went alone with the guy because SHE couldn't go. So it's her fault. And she's the only one who wants it to be a date. I mean, I like the guy, but the date put things in perspective. I don't want to date him.
We saw Transformers, which was good. Very long, but good. Not the best movie I've ever seen, but good. My tongue was bleeding for the last half of it, but it was good. There were some really weird talking robots in it, but it was good. That's all I've got to say about it. It struck me as pretty Disney.
Well, this is my first blog! Don't know how many will read it, because I actually am pretty boring on computer screen, but thank you if you've managed to finish this entry!
Ellen