I stayed home from school today. Partly because the bloggies were today and partly because I really, really didn’t want to present my Triceratops presentation in Evolution class today. It wasn’t exactly the most relaxing stay-home day ever, though. I still needed to wake up early to rush to the post office with my mother to get my new passport worked out before our trip to Mexico. I got my passport picture taken yesterday and I have now sadly joined the thousands of people with the ugliest passport picture EVERRR. I tried to make myself look somewhat presentable before going to the post office so that whoever would have to deal with my passport stuff would see that, “See? I’m not that nasty looking in person! See? You don’t think I’m that gross looking, do you?” I felt kind of horrible and insecure as she stapled the Worst-Passport-Picture-Known-To-Mankind to the form and sent it to God-knows-where to get sorted.
I went back home, tried several times unsucessfully to get into the Bloggy chat room and basically sat around doing nothing for the next few hours. I cooked scrambled eggs and they ended up making me feel sick. I cooked some pasta and made an attempt at homemade pasta sauce. It kind of made me sick, too. I watched a rerun of Ellen, a non-rerun of Martha, and just to prove to myself how bored I was, I watched Family Feud…. which actually wasn’t that bad.
At about two o’clock, I went to the Bloggy site to see why in the heck the chat room wasn’t working for the eight-billionth time and I found that —aha!— the room had been changed. I quickly logged into that room and waited anxiously for the Bloggy winners to be announced. That took like ten more minutes. Finally, some person at the actual ceremony started rattling off the winners like there was no tomorrow. I got really nervous because they were announcing the winners totally out of order so I had no idea when to freak out.
My heart started pounding and I brought the laptop downstairs to show my father. “Here. They’re on. Now,” I said and my father came into the room and watched the screen with me. Best Asian Blog. Best American Blog. Most Humerous Blog. Best Tagline of a Blog…. OMG BEST TEEN BLOG. “Oooooh, this is it!” my father said anxiously.
“And the winner is….. It’s Raining Noodles!”
“Ah, well, there’s always next year,” my father said, echoing the voice inside of my head. I was a little disappointed, but goodness, I really shouldn’t complain. I’ve spent like three years, most of the time that I’ve known about blogging, just dreaming of being nominated for a Bloggy. I know that sounds a little bit geeky, but it really is a big honor. Just to be nominated. Anyway, I thought that Raining Noodles deserved it. She certainly updates her site with writing more frequently than I do.
To celebrate me losing the Bloggy, my family took me out to Saigon Cafe, this really great Thai/Vietnemese place. I told everybody at the table to order spring rolls, because they were the best tasting things ever and I ate like ten of them the last time I was there. My sister turns to me and says, “you know that the spring rolls have meat in them, don’t you? They have chicken.”
“What? No they don’t!” I flip through the menu, and sure enough, the spring rolls have not only chicken, they have shrimp, too. “Oh, God. I knew they were too good to be vegetarian. I’m surprised I didn’t throw up. I thought that all spring rolls had no meat! I’ve been ordering spring rolls from our Chinese place forever!” I had to end up going with the meat-free (but not as good) summer rolls.
After that, we went to Rite Aid to drop off some pictures that I’ve had stored in my camera for ages. Hopefully I’ll have those online tomorrow. I really need to get cracking on my content if I want to get the nomination come Bloggy season next year!
