The Day Ginger Snapped part 22

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"Would you like to take a walk along the water with me?" Alden finally broke the silence.

I smiled and shook my head. He reached for my hand and led the way out of the restaurant and into the back courtyard of the hotel. We walked hand in hand along the path by the water then took a seat on an outdoor bench. Alden never let go of my hand.

"Ginger, what will you do now? Will you finally give up in this quest of yours?"

"No. I mean...I don't know. I just don't think I'm ready to go home yet. There's not really anything there for me anymore."

"What about your friends?"

"Oh, God, they must be so worried that I haven't called!" I jumped up and off the bench, but Alden pulled me back down.

"Calm down. They called looking for you and I answered your phone. I didn't give them any details other than the fact that you were sleeping off a hang over and that in my opinion the guy was a loser."

"Great. I'm sure everyone was thrilled to hear that I had found another one. More free drinks for them."

"Actually, they were more thrilled by the fact that I was here with you." Alden let go of my hand and moved his arm across my shoulders. He sat back and smiled.

"Alden, what did you say to them?"

"Hey, it wasn't what I said to them that matters. It was what they said to me." Alden's smile grew bigger and his eyes danced with laughter.

"Well, I know my friends pretty well, so I can just imagine what they said. I should just apologize now and cover my ears so you can’t tell me anything they said."

Alden laughed and pulled me toward him. "Too late! I'm going to tell you everything because I think you can use the laugh. Who's words of wisdom do you want to hear first?"

I leaned in and rested my head on Alden's shoulder. "I don't care. Surprise me."

Alden tilted his head so that his was touching mine. "Well, Gail thought that I should take full advantage of your drunken stupor and have you committed. Grace thought that I should take advantage of you in other ways. Linda wanted to know if I had undressed you before putting you to bed and if I had, were you wearing 'granny panties' or not. Bonnie wanted to know what my intentions toward you were.

Everyone thanked you for the free Ginger-rita and said to remind you that the scoreboard is now tied at three winners and three losers.

Oh, and some guy named Brent wanted you to know that his new blog is a big hit."

"Brent stated a blog? Is it about me?" I sat up so that I could see Alden's face.

"I'm sorry to say that it is, but the good news is that you now have quite a following. People are logging on to get updates on your adventures and then posting their own stories."

"Did he use my real name?"

"Not your last name. Just, Ginger. However, he did give details about your career and the bar your friends hang out in and the town where you live."

I leaned back on the bench and wanted to cry all over again, "That's it. I can never go home again. What am I going to do?"

Alden pulled me to him and wrapped both of his arms about me. "I don't know about you, but right now I feel like I could spend forever right here on this bench."

If only that were possible!

My life as a reality show

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On the radio this morning they asked people what TV station would broadcast a reality show about your life. The on air personalities all voiced their opinions on their own lives. One guy said his reality show would run on the Nature Channel because he likes to hunt and fish. Someone else said their's would run on the Food Channel because he liked to cook and to eat. I don't remember what the other people said.

I decided very quickly that a reality show about my life would run on the Syfy Channel because I'm living through this crap and I don't even believe it. lol!

Then, just to prove that I belonged on the Syfy Channel---I got attacked by a bird. Seriously!

Mockingbirds are mean!

I got to school and walked down the sidewalk to the main office with no problem, but when I walked back along that very same sidewalk the bird attacked. At first I wasn't sure what had happened, so I looked around to see what was going on and saw the bird coming back for round two. I quickly started walking away, but I guess I wasn't going fast enough cause he got me again.

At this point I did the only thing I could do. I started screaming, running, ducking and checking my hair for bird poop all at the same time. lol! Thank goodness there were no cameras around!

Here's hoping that bird isn't home when I get to school tomorrow!

FCAT bites!

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This is the week of FCAT testing in Florida. I hate it for many, many reasons! I won't even start explaining them to you cause I would have to write for days and days and I just don't have that kind of time right now.

My class doesn't take FCAT because we're in Kindergarten, but I fear the day of giving five year olds a standardized test is just around the corner. YUCK!

In the meantime, we all have to deal with the added stress the other teachers and students feel. My happy campus isn't so happy this week!

Seriously people, how did I not know this?!?

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I did a favor for a friend of mine and turned down the money he tried to pay me, because it was a favor. He decided to pay me anyway---he gave me a box of Godiva candy!

You need to understand that I have a very special relationship with Godiva chocolates---especially the truffles! My relationship with the Godiva truffles is so special that if I were ever forced to chose between the Godiva truffles and my Cute Fajita Delivery Guy it would be a seriously hard decision to make.

Actually, I have to be honest with you---I would pick the truffles.

I would pick the truffles and then after I had eaten all the Godiva truffles in the world I would go back to my Cute Fajita Delivery Guy.

I'm a girl who likes to have her truffles and eat them too. lol!

Anyway---back to my story. I was so excited about my box of candy! Then it was explained to me that it was "no big deal". He was there to get his free piece of candy and just decided to pick up the box for me.

FREE CANDY!?!?! No one told me about the free candy!!!

At some top secret point in time Godiva started a rewards program that allows members to get one free piece of candy a month. There are other perks too, but they had me at FREE CANDY!

I was in the Godiva store at Christmas buying gifts and no one told me about the rewards program. I was back in there in February buying myself a Valentine treat and no one told me about rewards program.

Excuse me, but you've got a chick buying Valentine candy for herself and if you need to tell anyone about the free candy deal it would be her---and that's me! So why didn't anyone tell me?!?!

Trust me, I wasted no time in getting to the mall after school today to register for my rewards and get my free piece of candy. lol! You can sign up for your free candy here.

Everyone should get free candy!

Chili Peppers BB page

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Click on the preview to head over to April's Blog and pick up this week's brag book page. I made it using her Chili Peppers Kit.

4-10-11

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What came first?

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I'm not interested in the whole chicken or egg thing.

I want to know if you have the dream about needing to go to the bathroom because you really need to go.

OR

If you have to lug your lazy butt out of bed at three in the morning because you dreamed of going to the bathroom.

What do you think?