Once you can climb, this wall should be no problem

Holy crap, I'm excited for dinner. Chicken and dumplings; my fave...well one of my faves. Easy to tell I'm at my Dads house. My step father is cooking some kind of a roast, don't worry someday he'll realize he can't cook, for my moms birthday today. He even baked two cakes. I'm glad I didn't have to remind him. Every year my Mom tells me not to remind him to see if he remembers, and I see how much it hurts when he doesn't remember til' last minute. Like today, when he apparently remembered and I just said a little "don't forget it's moms birthday today.". He knew.

I worked my ass off on my last history paper and I got an E. I don't understand that. Didn't damage my grade much, carrying a C+. Teacher said I had weak answers. How can they be weak when I quoted from the book and gave my own insight? Whatever. Then when I got out of class I had to go wait for my Dad to pick me up. Well he never showed so I called him to see why not and it turned out he fell asleep, so about twenty minutes later, he came and got me. I helped him get his car up on those lil wheel ramp things so he could change the oil. I gave him the keys to my new car (2000 Saturn) so that he could take it to Auto zone and see exactly what's wrong with the heater core. I need a second wind shield wiper too. Not a big deal, it's a really nice car for 300 bucks, a hell of a lot nicer than Nicks and his cost the same amount. Money's going to be super tight for a long time until I can pay April back and find a real job. I'm thinking of looking up the hospital and seeing if they need someone to file. My cousin says that I'd be good at it. Don't care, as long as I'm makin' money. Oh, I don't want to have to work at a fast food restaurant, I want to keep my love for the greasy num nums, not grow a hatred for it.

I couldn't go bowling with my girls either. There was a tournament at the lanes and we were turned away. We went back to Shannon's house and had a keg party, with out the keg or the party. That night Taylor came over and we had our normal episode on the love seat. Intense make out whenever everyone's not looking and the lights go out. His mother offered us a peace offering: a couple of Avon magazines. Kinda confusing, you can tell that she's new to the whole 'trying to make up' thing. Who gives out mags as gifts? It's a nice attempt though. I don't think anyone realizes that it won't be easy for my parents to forgive, they're even hesitant about letting me go over to his house to visit at all. God knows they're looking for something to hate me for. How long does it take to cook chicken and dumplings? I can hear something sizzle...