I'm feeling literally hot, by the way. Mom thinks I have a fever, and she gave me the only thing we had, those nasty chewables for little kids, and I hid one, because 3 is just too much. It's working ok. And let me tell you, it tasted NOTHING like cherry.... I was just thinking about tha past, ya know?? I remember when Val, Eleni, Soso, adn I used to fight CONSTANTLY! Now, though, Eleni isn't as close to us anymore. She turned in Sophia for listening to Blink 182 *shakes head in disappointment* and whenever Val and I wanna sleep over, Eleni never helps us. She always tries to change our mind and she sides against us. It hurts so much, because Eleni and all three of us, used to be sooo close. Now, she has other friends so we're just her cousins now. I love listening to the tape they got us. They are soooo funny. And Eleni really seemed to enjoy being around us, but then she would ignore us, and now Sophia is our best friened still, but Eleni....she's just my cousin, sadly. Also, we don't fight anymore at all. Well, the last time Sophia and I had a small, tiny dispute was when I mentioned a guy I think is hot adn she was saying Ew and I was all like, oooo don't say that. Just because, that's who I am. Like Valerie adn I both like this guy adn it's weird to have your other best friend feel differently. But it doesn't matter at all, and it didn't last at all. It was just a little, "Why are you getting so mad???" "I'm not getting mad." "Yes, you are!!" All that stuff, adn then everythign calmed down. I remember this time when Val adn I were at Sophia's and Eleni, of course, wasn't hanging out with us. Wut we did was we put a blanket over the stairs adn got all the way to the top then we'd push ourselves forward adn on the way down we'd yell "Booo-ya-ha-ha." YOu know, from that animated movie, with David Spade as the llama. The Emeperor's New Groove. Yea, we are such dorks (in a good way). But it was super fun, adn at one point, I don't remember wut over, Sophia was angry and I was angry and Val was, over something. I don't know what but I remember it made things relaly awkward and suddenly everytyhing anyone did annoyed me. But then, I was upset that Soso wouldn't talk to me and Val adn I begged her too. She was sitting on the floor listening to our pleas when she suddenly started crawling around barking like a dog. We were all like "Wut the." And she was running around barkign adn stuff and Val was like, "Here I come." And she started running around like a dog too, adn I was jealous because they could do the thing where they rolled their R's adn I couldn't so I sounded like a really amateur of a dog adn they sounded like Pure Breeds, and then when I told them, that I'm not good at rolling my R's, they both stopped and Sophia finally talked, saying "Just try." So I did, I still couldn't do it, but I tried my hardest running around like a dog, because I wanted to be like them. I didn't want to be the outcast. Finally, when we finished barking around (which was quite fun) we played on the stairs again....haha. It sounds like we were just 8 years old, but this was last year...*giggles* At YiaYia and Papou's we would make up several games. Here are some names of them. The Fairy Game-one fairy of love, one of kindness, adn I don't remember the other one. We would use fake flowers for wands. Powerpuff Girls (lol)I was Blossom because Sophia loved Bubbles and Val loved Buttercup. Although I really liked Bubbles, I stayed Blossom. All we'd do was take turns jumping off the bed yelling, "Powerpuff Girls to the rescue. Saving the world befor bedtime." Haha The Western Rose Restaurant-We'd pretend to cook meals for starving customers, there would be the secretary, the cook, and the person who took orders adn cleaned up afterwards. Wildcats-In the family room we'd turn off all the lights adn hide behidn the couch pretending to be different wildcats. Val was a tiger, Soso was a leopard, adn I was a margay or an oscelot. Mud Pies- In the backyard we'd take plates and fill them with mud, dirt, stems, leaves, sticks, and all kinds of stuff then pretend to eat them. Indian Village- We'd pretend to be Indians in the backyard, take turns jumping off the rock, I was always the one that was scared to break my head off. Then we'd find handsome Indian men adn fall in love with them. Haha We'd skim magazines and pick out models that were pretty stating that that's what we will look like when we get older. Haha Also, we'd tear our all the cigarette advirtisements and made nasty faces at them, as we threw them away. We'd take these magnets of like Prophets that YiaYia had and we'd run them on the vents making a tinging sound, trying to create music. We'd go into the China room, pick out the Chinese girls in the pictures that we wanted to "Be". One would sew a lot, one would dance a lot, the other one binded them together. We'd take turns locking eachother in the closet. Haha We'd mess around with the flour and baking ingredients YiaYia had downstairs and make something. I remember once I got in trouble for taking flour adn water, mixing it together, then putting it in the freezer. Hahaha... One of our favorites!!! Scary Stories! I remember Sophia liked to hear the one about the Cat Girl from Goosebumps. We'd rearrange the furniture downstairs, making a lot of racket, but we sorta made a jungle gym, but now, there is only a couch left. We'd mop the floors, pretending to be Cinderella working for her two evil stepsisters. YiaYia used to get a little upset because the floor would be soaked. Now that we're older we do other stuff. If we're really bored, we make up an immature game. We used to make skits all the time, but we all lost our creativety because none of us can come up with anything. When Nick was around (my second cousin) we'd play Truth or Dare. *Memories* If we had to play with Nate and Jake, we'd put them in chairs adn race them across the floor. We'd let them wear a baseball cap and eat cookies as we pushed them around. We made up this posing game, where we'd turn off the lights and pose. Whichever pose you liked the most, then it would be their turn. We'd also play a game where Nate or Jake gets to pose us anyway they want. Then the person with their back turned would pick the one they like the most. So on and so forth. We'd sit on the metal ring underneath the chair adn pretend it was a toilet. We didn't let anything out though. Hahaha Memories!!! -Vanessa