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friends My One-Year Anniversary Hello. My weekend went well. Babysitting Friday went well. It was really cool to be able to see Taylor, Mackenzie, and Bracken again. To remind of who they are: So it was the last day of school, and when I returned home from school I already had a summer job! (I haven't actually accepted it yet, but I intend to do that soon.) Mom told me that Dawn Guy called and wants me to be "the" babysitter for her 3 kids (Taylor, Mackenzie, and Bracken). I was a "fill-in" babysitter for them last year, but this year they want me to be the full-time babysitter. Last year Mom went with me every time, but she says she thinks I can do it on my own this year. Bracken is about a year and a half, Mackenzie is almost 5, and Taylor is about 10 (I'm not sure if she's turned 10 yet...she more than likely has). So I sat for them Friday; however, I'm not the "regular" babysitter anymore, I'm back to a "fill-in," which is fine with me. This coming Friday night I'll be watching them while their parents go out for their anniversary. This week won't be very busy at all. As I mentioned in my previous entry, Vanessa and her family are out of town, so I won't be working for them. And no one else needs me except for Dawn on Friday night. So I'm thinking I'll have a lot of free time this week. Hopefully I won't get bored or anything. At least I'll have more time to practice my piano this week. I didn't do so well with that this past week. Father's Day is Sunday...this year Mom is hosting the family dinner at our house. We're hoping that the weather will be beautiful, because our house isn't big enough to have everyone inside at once. If it's storming, or even just raining, we'll more than likely have people coming out of the woodwork. If it's not storming, then people can eat on the front porch. That will help. Today, after reading my Bible (I'm currently in Matthew) and practicing my piano, I wrote a letter to Lydia. Then I went for a walk, stopping by a mailbox while out. I was out walking getting my heart rate up for 50 minutes. Now my legs are kind of sore. When I got back, I rested on the front porch for a while, then made lunch for Phil and myself. After I finished eating, I tidied up the kitchen like Mom had asked me to. Then I ironed shirts for my uncle (Mom's brother). He's not married. A few years ago he asked me if I'd iron his shirts for $5 per 2 shirts. For a long time he stopped giving me shirts, but this past week he asked me if I'd mind doing it again. So I just finished my first batch of 4 shirts. After I finished the ironing, I got on the computer. This coming Wednesday, June 15, is the one-year anniversary of the day that I lost control. Some of you already know what I lost control of, but for those of you who don't, I think I'll tell you now. I totalled my cousin's car. (The cousin was Jennifer, baby Sydney's mom.) If you read some entries before (and after, I think) the one telling how I lost control, you'll discover that our X-TERRA was in the shop. We had rented a car for a while, I think one or two days. Jennifer and her husband were out of town, so her parents loaned us her car. I had never driven a car before, so as soon as we got her car, I started begging Mom to let me drive it. Finally, she gave in. She let me drive to the bank, not a mile from our house. Got there fine. I was heading back home when the trouble came. I was turning left at an intersection, and, after going into the wrong lane, I over-corrected trying to get back into my lane. I slammed into a semi that was waiting at a red light in a turning lane. The nose of my cousin's car kind of went under the semi, right in front of the last set of wheels. I couldn't have been going 20mph, but it totalled the car. Naturally, there was no damage to the semi! Mom and I were not hurt seriously. The only injuries we received were burns/cuts from the airbags. It's amazing how fast those things can happen! So, anyway, Wednesday is the anniversary of that. I want to make a cake to celebrate the fact that I've made it one year without a wreck. LOL. I told Mom about that idea, and she said that we'll have to think of some creative way to decorate it. I can still remember how scared I was. I can still remember the disbelief that it had actually happened. The scar of the burn on my left arm is still visible. It was the biggest burn; it started at the inside of my elbow and kind of wrapped around to the top of my wrist. I was wearing my watch on my left arm...the impact caused the little knob that you adjust the time with to dig into my hand, before the watch completely broke off and was thrown all over the car. (I didn't even know it was gone until we were checking the car to see if we had everything out, and I saw a link of it in the backseat floor.) It made a big knot on my hand. There's still a little red mark where that was, if you look closely. I also had a bad burn on my chin. It started right under my bottom lip, but most of it was under my chin.
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