5/9

So I think I've changed my mind about the whole mermaid thing. Swimming around weirdo looking fish and seeing myself glitter underwater would be pretty cool, but then I could never get a pedicure and fulfill my dream of being a foot model. Unless having a groomed tail could be a job then maybe I'd reconsider. But I mean what happens when my eyesight starts going bad? How clumsy would I be then, swimming into jellyfish and knocking over plantlife? And I'm sure underwater glasses wouldn't help. I might as well glue wax paper over my eyes.
So I tied my sister's purple ribbon around my ponytail today and she pretty much had a conniption. It's not like she asks to use my toothbrush when she goes to the bathroom in the dark. She said she had a right to be mad about the ribbon because she's on her period. Believe me, I know all about that. The school nurse told us all about growing up and having periods in our maturation class last year. And I can't help it but for some reason every time she says that "she's on her period" I imagine a bunch of words floating in space and there she is just sitting in mid air on this big black dot at the end of a sentence. And she's just straddling paragraphs by sitting still, just staring at the word in front of her like it's one of those magic eye puzzles and she can't figure it out. And there's just all these words floating behind her that have already been pronounced and she doesn't even turn around to remember what they are. It's like she has it all memorized. I imagine that is sort of what life probably looks like. So I think that when she is finally off her period means she moved on and kept reading.