Birthday: My baby sister turned 22!! I love her intensely. Mom would work nights, and when we were little we would sleep in the same bed. When Mom was at work, we would sometimes play movies and leave the TV on to help us fall asleep. It couldn't be something too scary in the first 30 minutes, though. Two of our most frequent fliers were "Stuart Little" and "Fantasia". I had a point to this story when I started it, but now I don't remember. So there's just a little fun fact for you. We got along great then and now we get along great. It wasn't always that way, however. When she was about 10 years old, I did not enjoy being around her. She was very moody and just mean to me. (I was like 13-14 years old so I'm sure I was insufferable, too, but that's not the point here.) But then the most glorious thing happened. She got put on Yaz. After those hormones evened out, it's been pretty much smooth sailing ever since. I joke that I need to write Yaz a thank-you letter for changing our relationship. But in all honesty, I don't know what I'd do without my baby sister in my life. OH! Now I remember where I was going with the whole "Fantasia" thing. It was to say that I have always felt a strong urge to protect Anna, and I think it's from all the nights that we kept each other company and what not. So I may stress about her future sometimes, but it's just because I see her great potential and I want the absolute best for her in life. I know she's gonna do amazing things.
Spring Break: Anna came to visit for a few days. We went downtown, shopped a little, went to the local lighthouse, had home-cooked meals. It was a lot of fun. Of course on the day that we went to the lighthouse, I didn't have my nice camera. But when we went to the outlet stores, I had my camera and didn't take any pictures. Terri would be ashamed. She also made me watch Pitch Perfect for the first time. It was phenomenal. I'm very upset with myself that I haven't seen it before now.
(I'm fairly certain this night/montage of pictures is where my mild obsession with mustache-related paraphernalia originated...)
Sibling's Day: I was thinking on my way home of what my favorite memory with Anna would be. I had like an hour drive, and I could not come up with a favorite! There are too many goodies to choose from. After junior year of college, I got home and started to unpack and realized that I had left the entirety of my underwear drawer in the actual drawer. Anna offered to ride with me back to school to get my unmentionables. On the way, we taped her camera up in the corner of the car and recorded us dancing and lip-syncing. Anna was shocked to learn that I know the actual lyrics to "Macarena". On our family trip to Boston, we jumped back and forth on the double beds in the hotel room, laughing and singing. We were singing "Nobody's Perfect", by Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana. We were 17 and 21. These are just two examples of some of our fabulous memories of which I cannot choose a favorite.
My new ride! It's not a car, it's a bike. A bicycle. And I love it! Hunter has been riding his bike around and I wanted to partake. We took a Saturday and went shopping around and found the perfect bike!
We went riding on Sunday and I'll post the pictures later!
I'm going to pay for this later, but I keep thinking about it and giggling. On the drive to our bike ride, Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" came on the radio. Here is a snippet of our ensuing conversation...
Hunter: "The main guy's name is Steven Aerosmith, right?"
Me: "You mean Steven Tyler?"
Hunter: "That's what I said..."
Me: "No. It isn't..."
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