Wednesday, 16-Nov-2005 1:10 AM

I'm leaving in TWO days! I'm not ready!

Tuesday, 01-Nov-2005 1:39 AM

I've done it again and here I am, about to divulge my big secret. I'm not sure why now...perhaps because it's past 1am and I'm tired..perhaps due to Dad saying 'I have a sore throat! Do we have any beer?'...perhaps due to the beers we had.

When you have to make jewellery, drinking is probably not the best thing to do while you're threading beads. Blue beads look like green beads, light green beads look like white beads, and suddenly you have no patience for when the thread gets caught and your supernatural strength appears and you break the thread.

So anyways. Just a few things. I'm jetsetting again. Planned it months ago, booked it weeks ago, kept it quiet until now. I had the hardest time trying to tell my mom, so I...well..didn't. Everytime I tried to tell my sister, she'd talk about herself so I didn't end up telling her either. Dad on the other hand got the big news after a few weeks and the 'you can't tell anyone!' from me.

One week after I had told my Dad, we were talking on the phone and he asked if I'd told my mom yet.
"I can't tell her now! She's too stressed out with other stuff."
"Well you better tell her."
"I have an idea!"
"What?"
"How bout you tell her for me!"
"NO."
"Darn."

So at the airport when my sister and I rocked up to pick up my parents, my mom said she couldn't hear. Her ears were totally blocked. Everything I asked her, she'd wave her hands, saying that she couldn't hear.

"This is my chance!" I thought.

"Mom! I'm going to the US!"

My mom slaps her hands over her ears and shouts "I didn't hear that!"