Friday, June 23, 2006

Anime! Gags! Excitement! W00t!
Quite a bit's happened, even since just a couple of days ago-

BTW, thanks, DarkeAngel, for your comment ^_^ (You're the only one who does comment anymore *glares at Flueky and Min-chan*)

Well, yesterday Mitzy and I went on an anime-fest. There was a sale on manga at the bookstore, which we took advantage of (three for two ^_^) though we haven't gotten to read them yet, and then we stopped by our CD store, which also has DVDs and we found all kinds of anime that we'd not seen there before.

Long story short, we bought two full series (I think they're the entire things, anyway)- Last Exile, a box set for $99.99, and Shrine of the Morning Mist, which looked pretty good, for about... $45, I think. So tax included, we spent $160 at that store alone.

At work that same night, I scared the crap outta my manager and Mindy. They were closing down the store and had just turned out the lights. I was gonna go scare Mindy- I swear I didn't even think about my manager- so I went dashing through the dark store to hide behind some clothes racks. When they walked by, I jumped out and screamed. My manager yelled and Mindy jumped, and it really was hilarious. My manager promised to get me back, though... <.< >.>

So Mindy and I went back to my house for a several hour long anime marathon, after which we slept til about ten. Or I did, anyway.

We got up this morning and got everyone together to head for the pool, which was tremendous fun. We had Mitzy, Flueky, Brittany, Shadowtiger69, Ryuu-Kiba (my sister), and Alexia with us. I don't think one of us managed to avoid getting dunked, and I've got myself sunburned again. Oh well. Worse things could happen...

Shadowtiger and Alexia had to be home by six so me and Mitzy hopped in the car and stopped by Sonic to get something to eat before we took them home. We had onion rings, fries, a cherry limeade, a Butterfinger shake, and some French Toast things with syrup. Lots of messy things in Mindy's poor car ^^;;

And then...
SLAM!

That was basically how it went, anyway. We were laughing and eating and just generally minding our own business when Mindy stopped at a red light... and the car behind us didn't. It was raining- we think he skidded or something, but he hit us going at around 30 or 40 miles per hour, which caused us to slam forward into the car in front of us, which bounced us back into the car behind us again which ping-ponged us back into the car in front of us again. And each time we hit the different cars, we were thrown forward toward the windshield or back into our seats. We all screamed, and by the time we finally stopped moving, I was screaming, "Is everyone alright?", Mindy was screaming, "I can't believe this!", Shadowtiger was just screaming in general, and Alexia was sitting there all wide-eyed.

We moved off to the shoulder or the road with the other two cars while Mindy called her mom, then 911. I saw the guy in the car in front of us get out to check damage, so I got out to make sure everyone was ok. Keep in mind we were on the side of a busy, busy road in peak traffic hours, and we had just gotten out of the pool. So here I was, in the rain, still in my bathing suit, on the side of the highway, asking a random stranger if he and everyone in his car were alright.

He said they were all fine, so I went around to look at Mindy's car. The front decoration plate thing was in the road, so I picked that up. Her hood was kinda funny shaped, and her headlights were pointed in weird directions, and in the back her spare tire had absorbed some of the shock but there were still some dents. All in all, the car had seen better days. Luckily, it was still drivable.

The police came and cleared Mindy of any blame, and was very nice and patient about everything and let us go. Shadowtiger's grandma came to pick her up before we left the scene of the accident.

We finally got back home and tried to have a normal night, which has worked so far. I got a laptop from my parents for my b-day/graduation, and we watched Monk. Well, most of us watched Monk. After all the adrenaline and our animefest last night, Mindy flopped out on my bed at about 8:00 and she's still there. It's 11:00 now. I can see her from here. She's got a kind of funny look on her face...

Anyway, point is, we're ok. We had fun with anime and the pool, and if nothing else, that wreck will make this a darn memorable birthday!
Hope you guys are having fun too!


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