I have had a nice day.

I have also decided that from now on I will refer to my friends simply by name without having to go "my friend whoever", because generally if I'm going to talk about them on my blog, chances are that they're my friends. So it just makes sense. And if it gets confusing because you don't actually know these people personally...well, just leave your questions in the comments.

It was Alex's birthday today, exactly a week after mine (that's how I remember it) and he had a barbeque and it was nice. Even though he didn't have any veggie burgers or anything because his dad, who has known me since forever, was convinced that I still ate fish. Even though Alex kept saying, "No she doesn't, Dad, she really doesn't", he insisted that I did. So I just ate bread and salad. It was fine. There were Doritos too. I coped.

And loads of people were there so we played volleyball over the washing line (which fortunately didn't have any clothes on it, because we weren't as good as we thought we would be at getting the ball over the line) and my wrists went really red from trying to do the proper volleyball technique rather than just slapping the ball. Both ways hurt though, because it was a really heavy ball. Then we played a weird version of Piggy In The Middle which involved 12 boys and 5 girls playing on teams. Basically, rather than one person being 'in the middle', there was one team in the middle. But it wasn't really in the middle, and basically ended up as an excuse for everyone to rugby tackle each other to get the ball back. And then we all gave up and sat on the grass and ate some more. By the way, Alex's garden is HUGE, which is why we were able to so all this. There'd be no way you could fit that many people in my garden, let alone do anything even vaguely exercise-y.

Then the people I knew well went on to a different party and all Alex's mates from the brass band he plays with turned up and it all got a little awkward for me because I didn't know these people very well. Also, it was getting colder and my shoes were in a bush somewhere. But I stayed curled up on a plastic garden chair and tried to make conversation with people who were a few years older than me and obviously thought themselves way superior. Especially when one of them turned to me and went "Do you play an instrument?" It is a well-known fact that brass players hate string players. Oh, and woodwind players hate string players. And string players just hate everyone. So when I went, "Yeah...violin and viola" they all took it as an opportunity to start mocking string instruments. But I sat it out for a little longer because there was the promise of cake if I waited long enough. And then I had cake. And then I went home.

That last paragraph might seem to put a bit of a downer on the day, but even that bit was alright. And the bit before was awesome. And then I got to eat pizza and watch Eight Out Of Ten Cats, which is always good. And now I'm tired and need to get up in the morning to watch the last two episodes of Torchwood before going to see Harry Potter again.

Oh, and that video finally uploaded which made me happy.

Bye

<3