"You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." --2 Corinthians 3:3

Gray-Ink
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Ink is at the Beach.

Be jealous.

So, we got to the beach house at about 3-ish this afternoon. The rest of the family arrived around four. So now we're all just settling in and getting food cooked and debating lounging at our awesome pool. Life is good.

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I bought the last volume of Fruits Basket yesterday. Got a little teary-eyed in Barnes and Noble... I've been reading Fruits Basket for about four years now, it's weird to see it end. I'd read the scanlations online, so I knew what happened, but there's something about holding that final volume in your hands that's really, truly sad. I didn't want to put it on my shelf. It made it really feel like THE END.

My sister dyed my hair for me yesterday. I got this crazy idea to take the purple dye I got and the blue dye I have and do streaks of both colours. It has officially turned my hair rainbow. I kid you guys not. I took pictures of it, but my camera was dying so the pictures are really crappy...

We leave Saturday morning for the beach! I knnow I've said that before but I'm super excited!! I should probably start packing today...

Stage One. Complete.

Went to the hair salon place this morning to get my hair bleached. It turned out good, despite having the wierdest trip to the salon. Ever. My mom and I got in there and the stylist lady is a well-known gossip in town, so she's telling us about this crazy lady that was in the salon yesterday...and we weren't in there for more than 10 minutes when the crazy lady walked in. I was so freaked out. She rambled on and talked and takled about random things and she got really upset about stuff. It was creepy. Thankfully she wasn't violent. But it still freaked me out. Scaaary. Despite it all though, I now have one chunk of my hair bleached yellowy blonde, ready to be dyed purple and blue.

And Now, for Something Completely Different

So now that my family has gone back home, things are rather boring and uneventful. Which is good. There are only 4 more days until the BEACH WEEK. If I haven't said it before, I totally love the ocean. I could live there. I adore it. I like waking up really early to watch the sun raise and then staying up really late, or watching thunderstorms roll in over the later. Ah, I can't wait. Also, supposedly, this year we're renting surf boards and we're going to teach ourselves how to surf. Only like 3 of us probably will [because the Dad's of the group would probably get hurt if they did] so it'll probably just me my sister, my cousin and I that try it. But it will still be fun.

While we're waiting to go to the beach, I've decided to dye my hair. I'm going to bleach a huge chunk of it and then dye it light purple. I'm tired of having mundane hair. I couldn't do it earlier in the summer because of Mexico, so I'm doing it now. Hopefully it will turn out how I want it. I also want to get my ears pierced again...but there's no place to get them pierced here in my podunk, little town. It sucks. Whatever.

Sleep. I don't has it.

So, my cousin and her boyfriend did in fact come up to see us last night. So, cleaning my room wasn't a complete waste of time. I slept in my sister's room [on a futon mattress on the floor, I felt very Japanese] and am now suffering because I have this awful crick in my neck. Great. My sister has some volleyball tournament today. She's a beast at volleyball, it's actually kind of scary sometimes how good she is. Anyways, the church that we attend youth group at is having this tournament to raise money for the childen's ministries. So Twin is going over there to do her part. [rolls eyes] She's on the 'competetive' team. Seriously. If you ask any of the 7 or so people on her team how the tournament is going to end today, they're all convinced they'll come out on top. They probably will, the only competetion they'll probably have is the Mennonite team...because the Mennonites kick major butt when it comes to volleyball. But the other teams, not so much. I only know of two other team's playing. A team lead by none other than my ex-boyfriend, and then a team of 'old folks' as it's been put. But it should be fun. Hopefully.

We're going out for our collective birthday dinner tonight. Because we were supposed to go out in the middle of May for this birthday dinner, becuase it would've been in the middle of my sister's and my birthday as well as my cousin's; but she couldn't come up anytime in May, so now that it's July we're celebrating late. It's also a couple days before my mom's birthday, so it's an early birthday dinner for her and late for the three of us. We're going to the Japanese steakhouse, so I'm not going to complain. It's one of those restuarants with the grill in front of you. God, I love that place.