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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
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Happy Birthday Brad! He turned 12 a few days ago. Your last year before becoming a teenager is pretty big. You are in grade six and looked up to by the "little" kids, but next year you go to High School and become a "little" kid yourself again. Donna and I worked together to buy Brad an electric guitar as his main present. He has been playing an acoustic this year so he isn't a complete beginner, but it is still very different. The strings are all metal for a start, so the ends of his fingers are almost bleeding! He found the overdrive button on the amp on Saturday as the neighbors will attest to. Speaking of neighbors, Brad had a sleep over party in our tent in my backyard last night. Jake, Mitch, Ross and Brad did the whole PS3, Guitar, PC, soccer, junk food, pizza (home made!), movie thing before retiring to the tent for "sleep". Before we get to the "sleep" bit, a funny thing happened in the afternoon. There was a party going on a few doors down, so there were heaps of cars in the street. We had balloons on our letterbox and these two guys just walked straight into my lounge room with a heap of beer and asked where Prue was! When our guys went to bed they just didn't understand that tent walls are not like brick walls. I had to put my foot down at midnight as my neighbors had friends staying over and their room was right next to the tent. Jake had to leave at 7am Sunday morning to go to Launceston for a running meet, so he needed some sleep as well. They were all awake at 6:30 on Sunday morning and the fun (shouting) started again. I thought it might be best to bring them inside for breakfast. When one of the parents arrived later in the morning one of the neighbors guests came outside. We both gave her a big cheery hello, but she just glared at us and looked away so I don't think she was too happy, but the guys had a ball and you only have a Birthday once a year!
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