Our Fondoo Fiesta, Nonexistent Starbucks, and Urban Sass

Mod Break has been rather successful thus far. Thursday and Friday I spent at Ambrose. It was wonderful chatting with all the teachers and parents. Mrs. Cataldo is, uncontested, my personal hero. She can do absolutely anything.Joanne hasn't shown up since we fired her, on Wednesday. She was supposed to continue until the first of March, but she's called in "sick" every day. My father thinks that she's going to show up at our door, drop off all of our belongings she is still in possession of, and speed off into the sunset. I can't say that I'd be surprised.Ah, yes, and then (rather indirectly), we arrive at Saturday. My father went out with friends this evening, so I was left to babysit Ben & Caroline. We invited Goo over, for a small party, and.. well.. let's start at the very beginning.We watched some home movies with Goo first. Jill Halperin at age 10, and Val Daum stumbling over grass at age 5. We then got rather involved in the Bruins game (they won 6-2 vs Tampa Bay!). Byron DaFoe was injured, but Girard and Joe Thorton scored big time. We also talked with Jacquie and Katy por el tel?fono. Ultimately, we piled into the car to pick up Julia.Julia gave us the worst directions ever in the history of the entire universe. An utter catastrophe! She told us to get to Park Avenue, although then sent us in the wrong direction. She didn't realize that we weren't coming from Route 2. Goo made 3 U-turns, to take us back to Arlington Heights. "We're at Trader Joes... Walgreens... can you relate these locations to your house?" "No... look for Starbucks." To make a long story short, after many humourly exasperated phone calls, we ended up in Lexington, oddly enough, in Toby's driveway. He did not seem... pleased... when we asked him for directions. In his most gracious "Leave Me Alone" manner, he gave us a 5-second ultimatum.Julia AND Toby both mentioned a so-called "Starbucks." These Starbucks is allegedly located right next to Trader Joe's and Walgreen's. So when we mentioned to Julia that we were at Trader Joe's, shouldn't that have clicked with her, to say, "Oh, yes, turn there"? No. No, why would life be that simple. THERE IS NO STARBUCKS, much less an imaginary fork in the road that Julia oft mentioned.Julia has some intense urban sass.Luckily, we did arrive at Julia's house, all body parts intact. It was more of an adventure getting home from Star Market (where we picked up all the necessary ingredients to make some serious fondoo). We ended up going the wrong way down a one-way street... Route 3, actually. Cars plodding along at 45mph, heading straight at us. Goo assured us that this is a rare occurance.Again, we arrived back at my house safe and sound, and in riotous fits of laughter. I'm not sure if "riot" can be used as an adjective, but I'm going to do my best to try. At any rate, I always laugh until my face turns purple when I'm with Goo.Fondoo was another... adventure. I still have cheese all over my kitchen. I did manage to clean up most of it, although the smell lives on. The cheese wasn't exactly pretty. The chocolate strawberries were finger-lickin' good, however. I'm going to turn into a strawberry someday. My father's friend, Ravi, told us that for every chicken we eat, we're going to be reincarnated as a chicken, and slaughtered. Have I already mentioned that story? I'm going to spend the next millenium being all those chickens. I'm then going to spend the next eon as a strawberry. Being a fruit is not as interesting, but so it goes. "Day 52: I sat all day in the sun. I think I'm going to be ripe soon. The end."One more day until Mod 5. What a crazy world we live in.~Jenn