ei, been a long time since i last visited... so what's up with my life?

^__^ i just got the greatest surprise ever...!

my best friend from grade school came over to my house this afternoon. i admit i wasn't in the best possible way to greet visitors as i was sort of cleaning up the mess that is the room that i'm staying in. oh, dear that's another debacle that i would have to think about but that's not for right now.

the thing is, i was expecting her sometime around end of may or early june, but then there she was standing in front of my house. she got some guy who happened to be a cousin of mine (surprise, since i still have no idea who the heck he was) drive her and her cousin to the house. she said she'd just arrived some days ago and thought it would be nice if she came over.

the funny thing was, i know i was supposed to be surprised and majorly, freaking-out, pleased to see her -- and i am pleased that she is here, don't get me wrong, we haven't seen each other since 2nd grade! -- but i was like, all cool, and "when did you arrive?" that sort of thing, like it wasn't that much of a big thing that she's really here.

after all, we've only been planning her visit since, some years ago, i think. it's been that long.

i think there's always the "i'm still in major shock" excuse to fall back on.

i don't know, i always thought it would be a lot... more, than what it was when we did finally see each other again.

but i got her good this time around; i remember in 2nd grade, we were like just about the same height, but i discovered today, rather, yesterday, that i was in fact taller than her now. it doesn't actually show in the pic she sent me before as there was no point of reference for me to compare heights. i always thought she'd be a lot taller.


so anyway, i just had another bad shock a couple of days ago (which i can always use as an additional excuse for the rather lukewarm greeting for my best friend). some of my things -- papers from college, readings, notes, that sort of thing -- got kinda destroyed. i won't go into details but the latter part of the destruction was on my shoulders as i set fire to some of them. which was actually a good thing as it lessened the stuff i have to pack away.

i discovered that i have quite a collection of stuff, stickers mostly. but i know compared to other people's collection, mine'd probably be just trash or something along those lines.


so about the room... yay! i'm planning to vacate that room to stop the bloody snide comments about how she'd really like to be able to sleep in her own room. i'm like, sure, knock yourself out.

and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why i have enforced insomnia. i stay awake at night, ostensibly to go online, which i do when i have a card, and let her have the room. it ain't a complete vacating process as i use the room most of the daylight hours. i sleep in the morning, get my things organized, sometimes write, all in that room. i don't really relish going out of my room to the living room as that's where she's parked most of the day.

you know who she is... my bloody sister.

now, i've been offered to move into the other room with my other sister. could be cool, but i'm not that used to having any of my blood-kin with me in the room... if you get my drift. i can deal with having a roommate, just not any of my blood-kin. ergh, no thanks.

but i am planning on moving my things...

kinda funny, as there's only three bedrooms in my house and there are four of us.


Wen said she'd text or call me when we could go out and catch up on old times. i can't wait to hear about her numerous exploits while abroad ^__^ i may be even able to glean some things for Illusion. who knows?