Sinister: Clippity clappity caly caloo, The best part of friendship is you...

[JENOWL22 at xxx.com]

Hewwo,

Well, I've had an ok week.

When I was very small I used to stay awake till late in the dark in bed, and 
then I wuld gather all my dolls round me and we would have a picnic from food 
I'd saved, and I would pretend we were hiding out in the blackest cave from 
baddies, and we were eating our supplies at midnight, and bringing magic and 
laughter to the darkness and coldness, and playing games and telling little 
stories to keep our spirits up. I couldn't sleep last night, and I had the 
idea that I would do that again. So I did. My company was: Big Rainbow Brite, 
Little Rainbow Brite, Little Patty O'Green from Rainbow Brite, Rainbow 
Brite's Horse Starlite , a wee pink haired doll called Rosie, a wee black 
haired doll called Patch, a dog called scruffy, two owls and a Teddy bear. 
This is all the toys that live in my bed now. There ued to be so much more. 
Still, I suppose a small gathering is better than nothing. And we hid, and we 
eat a packet of salt and vinager crisps, two mini cheese things, and a carton 
of ribena. It was grate fun.


 Today was ace, though. I managed to avoid doing any work at all in school 
(though we got into big trouble in history for laughing during the nazi 
video, and then re-enacting the holocaust with Polly Pockets), then I dogged 
after-school revision and went to the town centre after school instead with 
Debs the Blonde

. We bought bubbles that you blow, from stationary box, and blew them in the 
shopping centre and pretended it was magic to cheer people up, until the 
cleaner lady started moaning that we'd make people slip, so instead we 
mooched off the the More Store (which sells cheap toys). So we bought an 
Etcha-sketch each, and an indian Bow and Arrow and Fake Bendy Plastic Indiana 
Jonesy Knife, and a packet of silver party eye-mask things (which was a 
bargian 10p) and (because there was a cheap valentines day display) we bought 
each other a single red rose, because it was cheesy, and pretended to be 
really surprised when we gave it to each other. So we galloped about the 
shopping centre, firing plastic arrows at old people and getting another 
bollocking from the cleaning lady.

When we went on the bus, we decided to only communicate using the 
Etcha-Sketch boards (which didn't work very well). So she kept writing "Ah ya 
big virgin witch" and I wrote back "At least I didn't lose my virginity when 
I was 12 to a 20 year old" and it went on like that. But it was fun. And when 
we got off the bus, we both wrote "Thank you mr bus driver" on them and 
showed it to him as we were getting off.

And she blew up a Mr Men rubber ring that she also bought and put in on round 
her and under her jacket so she looked deformed, and then said she was going 
to tell her gran she was stung by a bee. But it would have to have been a 
bluddy massive bee.

And when I got home I discovered that I'd won the Ebay bid I made (and it was 
my first ever bid) for the Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers movie  and it 
plays on UK videos and everything, and I'm so excited now, because I wanted 
to see it so badly when I was little and I never got to, and now I can, and 
I'm completely obsessed with rainbow brite. I even made little home-made 
badges for my school bag. The hard kids ripped them off today when I wore 
them, but I was cunning. I picked up the trampled remains and spent all my 
break cleaning them and re-enforcing them with selotape. 

Another thing I was not so pleased to discover though, was that the Poetry 
Parrot had got into my cupboard and shat all down my Carebears wallpaper. It 
was only metaphorical shite, because i would have really cracked up if it had 
been real shite, but I gave it some magical cake, and decided that I'd better 
post a poem. Everyone so far has done fairly deep, meaningfull things. So I 
think I'll bring some light relief. 

The Being Disaproved Of Game - By Someone I don't know

 Make being disaproved of your hobby
 Make being disapproved of your aim
 Devise new ways of scoring points 
 In the being disapproved of game!
 
 Let them disapprove in their dozens
 Let them disapprove in their hords
 You'll find that being disapproved of
 Build character,bring rewards
 
 Just like any form of striving
 Don't be arrogant; don't coast
 On your high disapproval rating
 Try to be disapproved of the most.
 
 At this point ; if it's useful
 Draw a pie-chart or a graph.
 Show it to someone who disapproves
 When they disapprove just laugh
 
 Count the emotions you provoke:
 Anger,Suspicion,Shock
 One point for each of these and 2
 for every boat you rock
 
 Savour the thrill of risk without
 the fear of getting caught
 Whether they sulk or scream or pout
 Enjoy your new found sport
 
 Meanwhile all those who disapprove
 While you are having fun
 Won't even know your game exsists
 So tell yourself you've won! 

That was it. I think it's a very good poem. Ooh, but do I now have to send 
the parrot on to someone? Well, I will teach it to say "You cannot handle a 
lightsabre you wuss" then I will send it on to the lovely (but useless Jedi) 
Ian Hatcher., who participated in my midnight picnic over the phone.

I didn't know Struan and Bel were taking a walk through the magical fairy 
meadows together (if you know what I mean. Which you probably don't, since 
it's a euphamism I only use cause I made it up. It means getting down and 
dirty.). I always thought he was like the Jem to her Scout. That's shattered 
my whole world now. But, as I have decided to use my Etcha-Sketch for 
sinister quote of the day, it has become the one about Isobel and her 
headscarves and her hair suffering a similar fate to my tent the time I went 
camping with the pyros.

I must go now, I've made this far too long and boring already.

Hugs,
Jen

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