Abigail's Page

Well, look at that! Blogger finally decided to work! I thought for sure I'd get the same cockamamie error message I've been getting ever since I switched to the updated version. There's a lot I've been wanting to say!So, let's see, to recap what's happened around these parts since Easter...-I've started on-road driving with an instructor. The first one was last Friday, and it was much less scary than I…See More

That'd be Greek for "resurrection". Or, as we like to say around here, Easter.Happy belated Easter to you and yours! Myself and mine had a lovely weekend.Holy Saturday, aka "Easter Eve", we spent cleaning and cooking and enjoying the sulphurous aroma of six dozen eggs boiling. We dyed them later that evening. We had twice as many colors as we usually did what with the regular Paas dye kit and the neon Paas dye kit. Of course my dad made his traditional "EAT ME" egg, but my sister and I came up…See More

I'm feeling appropriately gloomy in the last hours of this Good Friday.   It's been a tumultuous week for my family. My dad is having severe trouble with his heart, atrial fibrillation to be exact. An echocardiogram yesterday showed signs of heart failure. He'd been taking a medicine that sounded like Toblerone since Monday, which made him sick to the point of hallucinations.I have to say, once he stopped taking it, and it…See More

I keep expecting all this time between now and when I get back to school in mid-August to be nothing but boring. And up until recently, it was. I used to dread looking at the calendar, even my lovely Glee calendar, since the vast expanse of time stretched on in so many little numbered boxes.At least there's driving school to help fill my days.Yes, driving school.Yes, I'm almost 20. Don't hate. Hey, according to Sunday's…See More

March Madness has come and gone.For me and three of my dearest dance friends, it was our very last.Unseasonably warm temps made us all wish we'd be allowed to wear our summer costumes. As opposed to the obligatory long-sleeved winter ones. After all, as a rule, summer costumes are used for the first time of the season at A World A'Fair, a relentlessly musical multiculti extravaganza held each May. Period. Last weekend, as a SPD warmup of sorts, we had three shows on a Sunday afternoon. A few of…See More