April showers

Catching up. Still nothing from 5th grade me, I was out gallivanting every night I guess.

April 5

9th grade: I visited [great aunt] in the hospital. She looked so bad. She wasn’t herself at all. I was crying.

This may have been the first time I saw someone near death. She was an incredible woman, I think she was technically my mom’s aunt by marriage. Very interesting person. As a kid we would go to her apartment. She had large print books and a magnifying glass to assist with reading. She also had a bowl with peanut m&ms on her coffee table, I sat in front of the bowl and ate the candy when I was little. One can understand my sadness over the demise of this great lady.

When I was a little older than the m&m-eating kid I mailed her a birthday card (her birthday was a couple of days after mine) and taped some coins to it as a gift (maybe refill that candy dish). After she died someone found the card in her apartment with the coins still taped to it. I still have it. The sentiment is worth more than the interest, though it probably would’ve be at least $3 now.

April 6

9th: [Cousin’s] baby shower. I like her and her boyfriend.

From death to birth. My first baby shower, maybe.

April 14

9th: US bombed Libya. I’m so scared we’re gonna have a war.

I know we all say that we are happy that we grew up in an era where there was no X. I’m happy that there was no social media and constant news. We watched the evening news and read the paper. That was enough of the worrisome news. Especially for kids

April 15

9th: My school canceled 2 European trips. It made the news. I hope my psychic was right when he said that Kadaffi will be shot. He is scary.

A canceled school trip is absolutely first world problems but it was somewhat unusual for the times. I didn’t grow up in wartime. I think the students ended up going to California.

My psychic? Wtf! I did go to a tea room. Some of it is bs, he said that I was shy- no shit I barely said anything to you. Also, not really a bold prediction that a controversial world leader would get shot.

Hopefully things pick up.