THE FOURTH AND THE FIFTH AND THEN SIX AND SEVEN

Its the 4th of July. I guess it was fun.

This morning I woke up to my cousin, "Manang, can I eat breakfast now?" at 8:30. And you know me, I don't do well with the morning. We're not friends. But I got up, fed him, did some chores. When I got ready, I fell right asleep. The party was at our house, so by the time I woke up everybody was here and there was good food downstairs. Eggrolls, KFC, BBQ, you know. Good stuff. I ate hella today. Like five times, that's not including breakfast. It was cool just hanging out with the cousins. I don't know if I have done that in a while. Last time was my birthday and I didn't really. But yeah. We looked at pictures and my sister had made a slideshow of all of us and it just got us all nostalgic. My cousin was talking about a roadtrip in three years to Vegas or Mexico. I'm so down.

We went out, played dodgeball at the park. Played on the playground at the park. Fun stuff. It got too much for us, so we just went home. I drove the van, but I'm not good at that, so I just kinda avoided parking next to cars. haha. My little four-year-old cousin Miranda was dancing in my room and listening to music. She told me about how she is in gymnastics and the things she does like tumble and stuff. Really interesting. I don't remember talking that much when I was a kid. I used to be really geeky.

I told my dad jokingly (and half-truthfully) that I have a pack of cigarettes in my room upstairs. He just stopped and smiled the kind of "What the fuck did you say?" kind of smile and pointed at me. I started laughing like hell and he joked "I'm gonna kick your ass." I mean, I like pulling his chain like that, but that fool made me cry when I was little because I thought he would die of lung cancer. I was kinda stupid though, because that wouldn't happen immediately as he was standing before me or anything. But I know its a stupid reason to do so, and I'm not saying that I do or have done it often, but I guess I'm just giving you some background.

Geez. Why must you delve deep into my soul like that?