Most. Awesome. Day. Ever.

Ma,

May I just say, holy shit. Because listen to how freaking awesome my weekend has been.

A couple of weeks ago a teacher gave me a $10 gift certificate to the Gap. I hadn't bothered going shopping because the Gap is always so expensive I figured $10 wouldn't buy me anything at all. Oh, how wrong I was! Gap Body had underwear on sale for $1.99 each and I got four pairs of those boyshort cut ones and it was only $8.46 or something. I gave the rest of the card to Dani to use.

Last night I went to a party thrown by Makesha, who is in my English class and a friend of Heather's. Josh was there too and after a few drinks we totally made out for a long time. I didn't get home until like 2:30 a.m. SUCH a good time. Even when I got a really weird compliment it was funny. "I used to think everyone was just nice to you because of your 9/11 thing, but you're actually cool aside from that." Josh walked me home. I don't know if we're going out now or it was just for last night or what. But I had so much fun I don't care.

Then, this morning I was woken up by Alex bringing me pancakes and fruit in bed. When I looked at the clock it was 1:15 p.m. but she claims she woke me up a little earlier to ask a cooking question - I don't remember that. Mama, her pancakes were so cute - she used cookie cutters to make all these shapes and used fruit to make funny faces and designs and stuff. I really loved her a lot for brunch today - so much that I cleaned up the kitchen for her.

Lastly, today's fire family called and said they were in the city seeing relatives and I thought they were going to cancel dinner. But instead the wife asked if we wanted to meet them in Chinatown for dinner and then go to Little Italy for dessert. I haven't been to Chinatown since like sixth grade! They brought some of their extra family to dinner and all the other kids were in college and junior high and I thought I'd get stuck with the little kids but I didn't.

So it worked out perfectly for all of us - Alex and I felt the same - we both had so much fun with the older kids in like our respective groups (she was the youngest one there), and Danielle liked just being in the group of junior high kids. All the college kids were asking me where I think I want to go and I was like, "I'm only in 10th grade!" and they were like, "So?" Aside from going to a SUNY school because it'll be kind of inexpensive, I don't know where to go. I've heard good things about Geneseo but I'm such a hardcore city girl that the culture shock of being in some small farm town with one traffic light might kill me. But they were really nice and totally encouraging of college, and one girl and two boys gave me contact info if I want to meet up to talk about where to apply or anything like that. It was so weird - they talked to me like it was a total given that I'd go to college.

We stopped at a bakery because the husband guy wanted to bring stuff home. We were waiting outside for him and then they drove us home, and as we were getting out he gave Dani something. We opened it as soon as we got inside and it was a box full of rainbow cookies from the Italian bakery!!

I am going to bed now because nothing else can make today any better and I don't want to wait around for anything bad to happen to change how good today was.

Love,
Sam