As you can imagine, much has happened since my last emergency blog after getting my driver's license, seeing as basically the whole of November has gone by since. Pretty soon after that post was the first snow of the season, at which time I, of course, was outside, freezing my butt off. Nothing stuck, but the first snowfall is always notable. Also, a few Saturdays ago, my family and I went to see the musical West Side Story. It was pretty cool to see in person after only watching the movie and listening to the music. There were several differences from the movie, though. A good portion of the dialogue and even the singing had been changed to Spanish to give it a more accurate feel (of which I only understood si and buenos noches), and some of the scenes were changed around. The latter change was particularly weird. The first act went up all the way to the rumble, and they put the sarcastic song "Gee, Officer Krupke" after the rumble, which seemed misplaced. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be in a humorous mood after one of my friends was killed and . What I betanother killed someone else. On a whole, I enjoyed it, and though my brother complained a bunch beforehand, I think he managed to enjoy himself, too.
Since the last post, I've also had my first two solo drive. The first was only to my friend's house for her birthday party (side note: at this party, we went to this one place where we played laser tag, which I sucked at, but found surprisingly fun) which is like a block away, so that doesn't technically count. So I guess my first real drive alone was all the way across town to meet my sister and mom at Panera Bread last Saturday. Pretty exciting (or lame), huh?
But enough with that trivial stuff all of you have been holding your breath for (not really) is my account of my Thanksgiving break. Am I right, or am I right, or am I right?? Well, the vacation began on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and like always, my family went and got our turkey from the turkey farm, then went to REI and ate lunch at Papa Vino's. We went slightly against tradition and stopped off at a local mall in between going to get the turkey and REI. I got this really cute coat and skirt at Eddie Bauer, and my sister got my brother's Christmas gifts at Gap. All and all, the day was very enjoyable. The next day, of course, was Thanksgiving. My parents prepared breakfast, and for most of the day, all I did was read. In fact, I finished three books over break, which is huge, since I've had a sort of hiatus in my reading of late. The first I finished was called The Disappearing Spoon, which is about the history of the Periodic Table. I know it sounds (very) nerdy, but it was actually quite humorous. It was interesting to see how competitive the search for elements was and the author's description of how accurate the official units of measurements were was hilarious. I would recommend it to chemistry hater and lovers alike. Anyway back to Thanksgiving. Other than the requisite turkey, my mom made some delicious stuffing and salad, I made spiced pecans, my dad made gravy, a pumpkin chiffon pie, and yummy throwed rolls. It was all so good!!! Unfortunately, because there was so much turkey left over, we have had turkey everything the past few days - turkey pot pie, turkey sandwiches, and tonight, turkey tacos. The rest of break was pretty uneventful until my computer got a virus that wiped by hard drive clean of everything except one file. Isn't that awesome! I didn't really need anything except all my English stuff from this year, which I now have to retype. Speaking of English, on Monday, I spent several hours trying to decide which book I wanted to read for an independent reading project. The only criteria was it needed to be a novel, which doesn't really narrow anything down, not to mention that I am notoriously indecisive about such things... After all that thought, I've decided to read Catch-22, which looks funny. Lastly, last night was the first sticking snow of the season, and I was crossing my fingers today for there to be a snow day, but to no avail. I really have no luck with the weather gods. Coming attraction: I will be singing at the local retirement home for French Club (in French). Should be fun!
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