Noteworthy Times In Ohio

From Monday July 19th to Monday July 26th, here are some noteworthy events/people from my trip to Columbus.

- My Aunt Germaine's mom is really funny and sweet. Her favorite word is "look". She begins all her sentences with the word and sometimes just says it makes a face and laughs at herself. She liked me and told my Aunt Martha that I was a sweet girl. (I already knew that though :-))

- My Aunt Germaine's son Terrence had a baby on Wednesday (well he didn't actually have the baby but you know what I mean) and we went to go see them in the hospital. I don't think I've ever seen or held a newborn before so that was exciting. The baby's name is Essence. The mother's name is Essie. OH! I just figured out why the child's name is Essence. That's cute!

- Essie's mother does not like my family and when we first came to the hospital she definitely ignored us.

- I still kind of find Terrence attractive ... which is wrong in several ways.- My uncle Randy has lost 97 pounds since he began his dialysis treatments.

- I'm the only one who still calls my uncle Randy. Everybody else calls him Stuart (his first name)

- I was thisclose to seeing my best friend in Ohio but she turned out to be a little too busy on Thursday so the whole family went shopping instead. I bought two coats, a sweater, and some pants and spent a total of about 50 bucks. Gotta love those winter clothing sales in the summertime!

- I slept more than I have ever slept in my life! ... It was ridiculous how much time I spent in bed.- Saturday was the big cookout and the food was good and I met all these people who kept saying the last time they saw me I was "this big."

- I have this cousin named EJ who acts and looks like Steve Urkel and I imagine has trouble making and keeping friends because he likes to play video games and call you names if you ask him to move out of the way because you're trying to watch TV. Poor thing. High school is going to eat him alive. His 11 year old brother had to explain to him what a virgin margarita was. It was funny!

- My cousin Evan brought his friend Brandon over for the bbq. Brandon's cute ... in a you're too young for me but still cute kind of way.- Evan said I was his favorite cousin.- I spent my last two nights at my Aunt Martha's house, which was a nice change of scenery. Hooray for sofa beds and cable free (yes as in NO CABLE) television.

- Um ... 4 words ... When The Rooster Crows

- I got to spend all of no time in Easton at this great outdoor shopping mall that I would like to return to sometime in the not-so-distant future. Apparently it's where people my age go and my cousins went there on Saturday and didn't invite me but I'm not bitter or anything. (grr)

- Let's talk about how 85 percent of Columbus residents are overweight. More to love I guess.

For my final thought I just would like to say that Columbus is slow moving and slow talking. I don't have any desire to live there and I think my cousin Evan has the right idea about leaving. I have to go back in three years to see Evan graduate from high school. My mom will be there too so I shouldn't be as bored as I was. It went by pretty fast though. Faster than I expected. Probably because I slept through most of it. Oh well!