alexis

This weekend I took a visit to mennoniteland to spend some quality time with my family. During a spring cleaning of my parents house, I went through some of the old things I had when I was a little kid... and I found my blue Popple (remember those?), my Michael Jackson books, and some report cards I had when I went to elementary school in Germany. They said "she is an intelligent kid and is learning quickly, but get's distracted very easily". Not much has changed since I was in 3rd grade.

Then I got to take a ride with my dad in his huge Dodge Ram with Jesus stickers lined up on the bumper, and we talked about school loan consolidation and other horrible things that rob me of my hard earned $$. It was a real 'cats in the cradle' moment, I haven't had spent much time with him lately, and I got some bonus points when I told him about how I cried during the Jebus movie.

Then today me and Jerm went to the Franklin Mills Mall in NE Philly and I subjected him to the torture that is prom dress shopping. I went to my high school prom by MYSELF because nobody wanted to go with me... ... but now we're thinking about going to the SG Prom in SF, and I'm all excited to go dress shopping because I never got to do that when I was younger.

In the fitting room there were young nervous girls with their moms all lined up outside the doors, and I run out to show Jerm this pin up style frock I tried on that showed off the rocking tattoos... and everyone turned around to look at me... and their faces looked like this " "

Wow this is the longest journal I've written in awhile, so I will close it off by saying that all the Philly natives should come out to Ministry of Information on Friday for the 'Shamrock and Shake" for the jerk chix buffet and well.. me

xoxo alexis