This Fourth of July was interesting to say the least. My day started off at seven o'clock when I opened for the first time at Jimmy John's as a PIC (person in charge). That week we were getting ready for this huge special we were going to have on Thursday, so there was a lot that needed to get done. And on top of that we had this gianormous truck shipment that had to be put away. Thank god Shawn was there or I never would have got it put away on time. I don't know how he made all of it fit, but somehow he did. I do know that he had to take out the light bulb in the freezer to get all the bread to fit, but other than that the day went pretty smoothly. I only made one mistake on the paperwork that was easily fixable.
After work Sarah and I went to go watch the fireworks. I made the mistake of bringing Penny with. That is one thing I will never attempt again. See, last year she was just fine at the fireworks... she was also two months old and a lot easier to control. This year she completely flipped out. The poor thing was so scared. Towards the end of the show, she slipped out of her collar and took off running away from the loud noises. I took off running after her, but she was going really fast. I've never seen her go so quick. She must have been really freaked out. Because it was at the end of fireworks, lots of people were already getting in their cars to go. I was starting to panic because I thought she was going to get hit. I'm so glad Sarah was with me. She asked for some popcorn from some guy so that when we found Penny, who was hiding under a bush by my house, she coaxed her over with a treat. Meanwhile, I was dealing with an asthma/panic attack- not fun. I'm glad Penny was smart enough to run home or else we might never have found her. After I got Penny inside and safe, we went over to Kaitlin's and she drove us around for a while in her car. Then we went back to her place and had a bonfire.
I think I enjoyed the third more than the fourth. The Hanson Christmas party was on the third and my mom and I drove out to Alexandria together. We were at Phyllis and Vern's lake cabin. I had wanted to go out to a lake so badly, and the weather was so nice that day. I went tubing and just layed in the sun for a while. I didn't do much swimming though. It always takes me a while to get used to natural bodies of water... it never used to. On our way back my mom and I stopped at a casino and I won eighty bucks. I thought that was a pretty good deal. It got me gas money that I desperately needed.
That night Annie, Sarah, and I went and shot off fireworks. I had never actually done that before, so I was a bit nervous. The only ones I could actually light were the fountain kind that I knew weren't going to blow up in my face. There were times I panicked when ones were lit too. I was already way far enough away before Annie would light it, but once it started going off I'd take off running more. I'd get out about twice as far as Annie and Sarah were. Better safe than sorry I guess, but it was still pretty funny. The only thing I'd change is picking a different spot. We were on a hard gravel road with lots of bumps and divets on it. So we'd go to light something off, turns to run, trip, and then have to get up and run for our lives.
Once we ran out of fire crackers, we just sat on Annie's car and talked about whatever nonsense popped into our heads. I got to learn a lot about Annie. We watched to stars, even saw a couple of falling stars. I thought maybe there was a meteor shower or something that night since there were so many. All in all it was a really good night. I felt at peace with everything while we were just sitting there under the stars, the lake in front of us, tall grass all around while fireflies lit on and off. I think it would be well worth it to spend the night there sometime.
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