Now Presenting Your Leading Lady

So my week started out crappy. It turned out amazing. No, that's an understatement. I haven't learned strong enough words to describe how I feel right now. The last two days have been like a dream. So it started Thursday in theater. Our director asked me if I could come see her. So I did. She told me about a show called "I Never Saw Another Butterfly". It's about a girl named Raja who was in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. It's really sad, but a great piece. So Raja is being split into two parts: young Raja, who is actually in the scene and older Raja, who speaks directly to the audience. And she wanted me to take one of the lead roles as young Raja. And my older part, who has to look like a 16 year old version of me is going to be one of my best friends Caroline W. I was almost calm at first, but when I went back to class to work on my skit, I fell down the stairs. I've been doing that a lot lately. Anyway, Caroline and I have known each other even longer than me and Stephanie! Since the diper days! I was the first one to tell Caroline, and she didn't believe me at first. Of course, it looked like I was lying because laughing and smiling. I personally don't think that huge-eyed Caroline and shrimpy me look much alike, but upon asking all the 8th graders in drama club and Cam, I guess we do. So I went to the mall with Julia Friday night and I was like "Well, this is a great ending to a perfect week." Until we went into DEB- the amazing dress store where everyone gets their semi dresses. Now for one, it's way to early for me to even be thinking about semi dresses, but my friends and I always go in anyway to try on the dresses and wish that one of our teachers would get married and invite us to their wedding so we could wear them. But the second I walked under the bubbly "DEB" sign, I spotted the dress. The dress of my dreams, that is. I slowly walked straight to it and said "Wow." I knew right away that I would walk out of the store that night with this dress. I would simply find some way and have some reason to have it. This dress was mine! My dream dress! And when I tried it on, I felt like it had been made for me! So I decided right then, in the tiny changing room, that my birthday (which is in less than two months!) would be masquerade themed and I could wear this dress. But there are only two people who know what the dress looks like and it will stay that way until the night of my party. In other news... I fell up the stairs last night! Yup, that's right, up! Since my stairs are hard and wooden, I now have large bruises on my shins and my knee doesn't like to bend. Great. At least it happened after the Christmas show or else I would have been screwed! Last night was Jen J's birthday party too! The 80s theme made it hard not to laugh at the costumes the minute I walked in. Crunchy hair, off-one-shoulder shirts, high tops, mini skirts, leg warmers, leggings, side ponytails, neon colors and loud jewelry made me realize that fashion has come a long way! Twister was hilarious, our game of Truth or Dare was the strangest I've ever seen, and I thought the police were going to come tell us to shut up when we played Singstar. Jen, you throw great parties! Oh, and if you got a prank call Saturday night... we don't know anything about it. ;)