Heres the scoop:
no, scratch that I dont like that...
hmmm... heres the story:
ok too boring........
.......... JUST LISTEN TO THIS!
muuuch better
So heres what went down. So I'm the regular monday babysitter for this great family at my church. My job is to pick their 7 year old son up from the busstop, and walk back to their house and basically just help with him homework, give him his snack etc. But today got all messed up.
I always walk from my house to the busstop on mondays. But I live in a really bad neighborhood so sometimes I get freaked out. OK, I'm always freaked out. but today I was walking, and I tried to avoid this group of teens that always bother me. So I turned up a different street, when I noticed a man following me. I get pretty nervous when I see ANYONE now a days since after everything that has happened in the past. But I kept on walking, and he looked like he was gone. But when I got up to a different street he suddenly emerged from an allyway and came up right next to me! So I tried to cross the street so I could get away from him and then he stopped and started talking to me. He just said "how you doin" and I just ignored him. then he asked again so I said "im fine." and then he stood there and said "do you live around here?" and I just mumbled "no." even though I lived about two blocks away. He said "dont be scared" but pfft..I know when to be scared. I just walked away from him and kept on going. I was completely spazzy and paranoid. I thought I had lost him, when I had almost gotten out of my neighborhood. I turned around and I thought I spotted him again. It could have been some other guy but I swear it was him again. So I walked really really fast and went down another random street and I completely lost him. I was totally relieved. When I finally got to the busstop I thought maybe I was late because none of the parents were standing there anymore. And the regular crossingguard was gone, and another woman was there. I asked her what time it was because it was the one week I didn't have my phone because I left my charger at my grandmother's and it's been dead since then. "4:00" she said. I was right on time. That's weird, I thought. All I could think was that Charlie was with his mom or dad and I would figure it out and then have to walk home...alone again. After the corssingguard had noticed that I was standinig there for quite a long time, she asked me if I was waiting for someone. I told her that I was the babysitter for a little boy and he usually comes about this time. I explained that I was wondering where all the parents were, and I described each parent that I remember seeing. "oh yeah theyv'e all came and gone". Oh my gosh....but I'm not late! I thought. She what school he went to. Funny she would ask...nobody ever told me.. really. ALl I kenw is that I pick him up, take him home and everythings all good from there. I gave her a name of a school that I now know is wrong, but she said she couldnt remember if they had come or not because it was her first time there and she was just a substitute. So she would'nt have known any of the kids anyhow. So She asked if I knew the numebr of his mother. It was in my phone....I felt so horrible. The Crossingguard told me I could use her cellphone, no problem. I called my house and thank goodness my knew the number. I called his mom immediately and tried to explain things. "are you serious?" she said. "y-yea.." I said. "Oh my God...Zoe you should have called sooner!" I tried to blurt out about my phone,but I didn't really have time to explain my phone fandango mess. I was so anxious. She was surprisingly calm though, for a mom. I would have been hysterical. She told me to look for a certain house that was their neighbor's house and that if charlie got off the bus and saw that I was not there, he would have gone there. So I rung a few doorbells, but nobody seemed to be home. Thats when I started to get REALLY spazzy. I started thinking, what if Charlie really did get off the bus and I wasn't there fo rhim and when he went to the neighbor's house they weren't home...and now he's just wandering around! my mind was going insane. And just in the knick of time I remembered that I no longer remembered his mom's phone number, and she asked me to find any phone and call her from it after I checked at the neighbor's. I thought about it and remembered that the parent's number's were posted right inside the house, and that I had a key. So I ran and let myself into their house and called the mom. Meanwhile The crossingguard had drove off home. The mother had called the bus company, the school, and the neighbor's. When I got ahold of her again she had told me that a little girl from charlie's school had gotten onto the wrong bus and had to stop all bus traffic to fiure out how to get the girl back to where she belonged. So the bus was just really, really, late. Charlie was safe. I was so glad. She told me that she had called the crossingguard to tell her that the bus was just really really late and that if she could, could she please come back. She came back in time, and about 15 minutes later and we met once again at the busstop, I thanked her so much for letteing me use her phone. and because I had used it ro call the mother, it was in her phone and she was able to call the crossingguard to talk to me. She had called to apologize for telling me I should have called earlier, realizing that I didn't have a phone. I thought, hey I would have done the same thing in her situation. I think any mom would. I was glad she wasn't really upset with me. Soon the bus arrived and Charlie stepped off his bus and ran toward me. I was so happy. He had no idea what happened, and he just thought the bus was late for no reason. It was now 5:00 pm. I had been outside since 3:30 and I didn't feel like explaining to Charlie what had happened. I was just happy that he was safe and that I wasnt going to be fired and or KILLED for loosing someone's child. I probably would have just died from utter saddness if I was ever the cause of something like that. I was freezing and My hands and feet were stiff from the cold and begining to hurt. When we reached his house we went in and I made us some hot chocolate and I just sat down and thought about how good it was that everyone is safe. And that I wasn't going to get my head bitten off by an angry mom. That just might have been the perfect thing to top off my day. not. Anyhow, I'm home safe now, and I told my mom the whole story. Shes going to drive me to work from now on and it's all good.
and this has been an extremely long blog.
sorry just felt like it may have been a good topic to write a blog about :D
im fine now, don't worry bout me :)
I need some icecream now.
-Zoë
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
New Years Resolutions and Night Out
Hey Guys!
So I have a new years resolution to share with you guys that I'm sure you will all appreciate. So check this: my new years resolution is TO NOT MAKE TYPOS. yess. skills right? yes. and Also I'm actually going to try and write this blog without any typos. When I read my last blog to myself It was ridiculous...it's sad really how many typos I make. Sometimes my sentances wouldnt even make sense...SO WERE NOT GONNA DO THAT ANYMORE ZOE MMKAY? MMKAY.
Anyways now for the more awesometastic part of my blog.
So saturday I hung out with people from this asian youth group (I know...amazing..) and it was pretty cool...but then we went iceskating. And dude, let me tell you: It was awesome. We drove up to down town Pittsburgh and went to the awesome ice rink there which had this really cool christmas tree right in the center. All the trees were lit up with white lights around us, and we were surrounded by the PPG building which was like shining all around us. It just felt like a dream.(but like a cool dream... because sometimes you know how you have those dreams where evything is really awesome but it's like super trippy so it just messes everythign up? yeah well it was just awesome. No trippyness. just pure fantasticosity.) Crap I have to back up for a second because I fogot about dinner beforehand. REWIND. ok so we walked over to Subway first off, and it was a beautiful night, with the little crescant moon up in the sky...just chillin there :D. SO we walked into subway and I guess they were closing or something because the dude behind the counter was just like..not really there. I figured he had like a camera in his little office in the back and he could see whenever people were coming in and came out then while he was chillin in his office smoking pot or something XD. I didnt get a sub because subway is just so subwayish. Don't question me. So anyhow, Instead of eatign a sub I talked and talked about randomness...my favorite subject.
After the subway expedition we all walked up to PPG. I was stoked for iceskating. I hadn't gone yet this year, so I was pretty exited. I brought my own Iceskates...and i had to lace them up while eveyone was just like strapping on their shiny plastic blue skates. I felt pretty lame, but hey, i love my skates :) they have this like sweet blue fur in the inside. frikkin yeaaaa. Just before we were about to get on the ice My bestest pally (wow that was gross of me to say) meg showed up. *makes a super awesome hand gesture symbolizing the amazingness of meagan's arrival* I went in with her to get her skates and all that other good stuff and then we were off, on the ice having a blast.
Just skating away woth the wind blowing across my face and the moon shining down on us, with the blur of the lights all around us just made everything magical. (uhmm.. that sounded cheesy.. ) but...I really couldnt help but smile and laugh the whole night. I havent been that happy in a while.
anyhow Im feeling a bit of distractednessosity/daydreamingosity coming so I should probably stop typing now...
Ilovecookiessooomuchhhmmmmmyay
-Zoe
So I have a new years resolution to share with you guys that I'm sure you will all appreciate. So check this: my new years resolution is TO NOT MAKE TYPOS. yess. skills right? yes. and Also I'm actually going to try and write this blog without any typos. When I read my last blog to myself It was ridiculous...it's sad really how many typos I make. Sometimes my sentances wouldnt even make sense...SO WERE NOT GONNA DO THAT ANYMORE ZOE MMKAY? MMKAY.
Anyways now for the more awesometastic part of my blog.
So saturday I hung out with people from this asian youth group (I know...amazing..) and it was pretty cool...but then we went iceskating. And dude, let me tell you: It was awesome. We drove up to down town Pittsburgh and went to the awesome ice rink there which had this really cool christmas tree right in the center. All the trees were lit up with white lights around us, and we were surrounded by the PPG building which was like shining all around us. It just felt like a dream.(but like a cool dream... because sometimes you know how you have those dreams where evything is really awesome but it's like super trippy so it just messes everythign up? yeah well it was just awesome. No trippyness. just pure fantasticosity.) Crap I have to back up for a second because I fogot about dinner beforehand. REWIND. ok so we walked over to Subway first off, and it was a beautiful night, with the little crescant moon up in the sky...just chillin there :D. SO we walked into subway and I guess they were closing or something because the dude behind the counter was just like..not really there. I figured he had like a camera in his little office in the back and he could see whenever people were coming in and came out then while he was chillin in his office smoking pot or something XD. I didnt get a sub because subway is just so subwayish. Don't question me. So anyhow, Instead of eatign a sub I talked and talked about randomness...my favorite subject.
After the subway expedition we all walked up to PPG. I was stoked for iceskating. I hadn't gone yet this year, so I was pretty exited. I brought my own Iceskates...and i had to lace them up while eveyone was just like strapping on their shiny plastic blue skates. I felt pretty lame, but hey, i love my skates :) they have this like sweet blue fur in the inside. frikkin yeaaaa. Just before we were about to get on the ice My bestest pally (wow that was gross of me to say) meg showed up. *makes a super awesome hand gesture symbolizing the amazingness of meagan's arrival* I went in with her to get her skates and all that other good stuff and then we were off, on the ice having a blast.
Just skating away woth the wind blowing across my face and the moon shining down on us, with the blur of the lights all around us just made everything magical. (uhmm.. that sounded cheesy.. ) but...I really couldnt help but smile and laugh the whole night. I havent been that happy in a while.
anyhow Im feeling a bit of distractednessosity/daydreamingosity coming so I should probably stop typing now...
Ilovecookiessooomuchhhmmmmmyay
-Zoe
Thursday, January 1, 2009
NEW YEARS
I apologize in advance for the millions of typos that will most likely be in this blog taht I am too lazy to fix.
WOAH. I've got about a bajillion different New Years stories to tell you guys. So first Off, I went over to my friend Emma's house, and we were just hangin out right, and Emma asks me to go down to the basement to get her a soda. SO, Id id (being the amazinf friend that I am :D) AND wandered down into her dark basement, fumbling for her light switch, and When I finally find it, I just about pee myself when I see this dead looking Manequin body lying on the floor and looking straight at me. SO obviously I flipped, and it basically just looked like a dead body just chillin on the ground. Meanwhile, Emmas laughing hysterically, listening to me freaking out in the basement. I just ran upstairs to see her cracking up. aparently her mom saw it on the side of the road and thought it was a waste to throww away because mannequins are like really expensive or something...so she brought it home in her trunk and put it in the basement. I have no idea what theyre going to do with it.
Anyhow, It was REALLY fun to scare everyone with at her New years eve party that night. We scared her Boyfriend, The PRIEST (who happens to be brittish, so that gives us extra points)and a lot of 12 year old girls. SO the mannequin came in handy.
After playing wii for a while, me and hannah decided to raid the dress up bin and put on riddiculous clothes, just because Were like that. SO we did, and then God all the other ppl ( like people that were our age too) to dress up, and we got one kid to wear a dress (skills). SO we went outside and started dancing in the streets, when we got this amazing Idea to go trick or treating.
So we go up as this mob of weirldy dressed teens to this door, and this old man answers and we all shout "trick or treat!!" then Emmas boyfriend just said "yeah...uh, so we missed halloween.." And the old man (whos like italion or something) just looks at us and says "what is this?...I have no treats" So we were you know, just like whatevs it's cool no problem and walked away, then went back to Emmas.
Then the girls slept over afterwards and we found some weirdass movie that didnt have ANY stars, and it wasnt shown it theatres it was so bad. (like not innapropriate..just bad acting bad movie, stupid/gay..etc.) Anyways, it was this 80's film, with David Bowie, (yeah, im talkign about the music artist..if you want to call him an artist..) and It's about some effed up girl who like speaks to goblins and gets sucked into this goblin world, and theer are these puppet goblins everyhwere.....
ok Im just realizing now that what Im talking about just s unds like some weird acid trip..so im just going to stop describing it and put a link here for you guys to check it out XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2zoY45508
anyways, THE POINT IS.. we were laughing our asses off :)
good times.
And As Im now noticing that this has been a completely crap blog..I'll stop ranting now.
HOW WAS YOUR NEW YEARS?!
-Zoe
WOAH. I've got about a bajillion different New Years stories to tell you guys. So first Off, I went over to my friend Emma's house, and we were just hangin out right, and Emma asks me to go down to the basement to get her a soda. SO, Id id (being the amazinf friend that I am :D) AND wandered down into her dark basement, fumbling for her light switch, and When I finally find it, I just about pee myself when I see this dead looking Manequin body lying on the floor and looking straight at me. SO obviously I flipped, and it basically just looked like a dead body just chillin on the ground. Meanwhile, Emmas laughing hysterically, listening to me freaking out in the basement. I just ran upstairs to see her cracking up. aparently her mom saw it on the side of the road and thought it was a waste to throww away because mannequins are like really expensive or something...so she brought it home in her trunk and put it in the basement. I have no idea what theyre going to do with it.
Anyhow, It was REALLY fun to scare everyone with at her New years eve party that night. We scared her Boyfriend, The PRIEST (who happens to be brittish, so that gives us extra points)and a lot of 12 year old girls. SO the mannequin came in handy.
After playing wii for a while, me and hannah decided to raid the dress up bin and put on riddiculous clothes, just because Were like that. SO we did, and then God all the other ppl ( like people that were our age too) to dress up, and we got one kid to wear a dress (skills). SO we went outside and started dancing in the streets, when we got this amazing Idea to go trick or treating.
So we go up as this mob of weirldy dressed teens to this door, and this old man answers and we all shout "trick or treat!!" then Emmas boyfriend just said "yeah...uh, so we missed halloween.." And the old man (whos like italion or something) just looks at us and says "what is this?...I have no treats" So we were you know, just like whatevs it's cool no problem and walked away, then went back to Emmas.
Then the girls slept over afterwards and we found some weirdass movie that didnt have ANY stars, and it wasnt shown it theatres it was so bad. (like not innapropriate..just bad acting bad movie, stupid/gay..etc.) Anyways, it was this 80's film, with David Bowie, (yeah, im talkign about the music artist..if you want to call him an artist..) and It's about some effed up girl who like speaks to goblins and gets sucked into this goblin world, and theer are these puppet goblins everyhwere.....
ok Im just realizing now that what Im talking about just s unds like some weird acid trip..so im just going to stop describing it and put a link here for you guys to check it out XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2zoY45508
anyways, THE POINT IS.. we were laughing our asses off :)
good times.
And As Im now noticing that this has been a completely crap blog..I'll stop ranting now.
HOW WAS YOUR NEW YEARS?!
-Zoe
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