Books and Crooks

Today was a better day. I wake up in better spirits and less swollen. After breakfast, I decide to do something calm. My choice is to read. My English teacher has dropped off a book for me to red while I am away. It is a very quick and enjoyable read. It is a book about the relationship about a daughter and her mother written entirely in the form of notes left on their fridge. When I am finished, I decide to begin to do some work on my Hamlet homework.
All the reading has put me in a maternal mood. I am suddenly especially appreciative of all that my mother and my grandmother do for me. I decide it is time for a chick flick, so I choose Definitely, Maybe which is a very sweet story about a divorced father telling his young daughter how he met her mother. My mother and grandmother watch it with me, and we have some girl bonding time. Having my younger sister Maya there would have made it perfect, but she went to the Art and Soul festival, which I had been hoping to attend. She was very nice about it, and even brought me back a souvenir.
After the movie is over, I get a call from my singing teacher Libby. I am so touched that she called me. She is a person who makes my confidence about my abilities as a vocalist skyrocket, and is just a good person. We have a nice chat and I am already anticipating my next lesson. My good mod turns in to stress when my sister announces that she is bringing three of her friends to our house for a sleepover. About thirty minutes later, I get a text from Forrest asking if he can come visit me. I warn him of my sister’s sleepover and give him the option of coming over tomorrow when there would not be four crazy pre-teens, but since Monday is Labor Day, he has made plans and cannot do it tonight. So he plans to come over despite the other company.
Forrest arrives with a stuffed moose and some tea from his recent trip to Canada. After chatting a while, my mom decides she would like to rent a movie. While she runs over to blockbuster, Maya and her friends put on an impromptu concert for us. Maya and her friend Sam, both quite skilled at guitar and mandolin begin to play a song that I have never heard, but both of the girls know. Maya and Sam both write songs, and I cannot tell if these are songs that were made famous by an obscure indie band or an original composition. Then Maya’s other two guest begin to dance in an odd yet slightly seductive manner. I find it quite amusing and enjoy the performance thoroughly, but I can feel Forrest squirming uncomfortably beside me. My mom arrives and the concert ends.
My mom has chosen The Bank Job, which is based on the real story of a group of thieves who robbed a bank of millions from the safety deposit box in the basement of the bank. It was not as bloody and violent as I was expecting, but it was certainly not a G-rated romantic comedy. By the end of the movie, Forrest, my mother and I are all practically asleep. Forrest leaves and we all tumble into bed. I realize that tomorrow is the first day of September, which means the new season of my favorite t.v show, Gossip Girl, premieres. I fall asleep in anticipation of the return of Blair, Serena, Dan, Jenny, Nate, and of course, Chuck Bass.