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Jan Feb. 1
YESS!!! FEBRUARY!!! And it is SUNNY FOR ONCE!!! SUNNY!!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?? Sunny! YESS! We get to have a
picnic today at the park, what could be better????
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Feb. 2
Joan is complaining AGAIN about Monday. She says that she’s
forgotten everything, that she has no idea HOW in the world to do pre-
Algebra in Mrs. Howard’s class, and that her book bag has a hole in it.
Which is true. But she is disturbing my reading, for heaven’s sake!!
Feb. 3
I keep on forgetting it is February!! But I am very, very, very glad that
it is!! I thought January would last forever, and a good thing it didn’t last
that long!! Because I am tired of FOUR WEEKS OF ONE MONTH!!!
Jan. Feb. 4 (Why do I keep on doing that???)
It’s Arthur’s tenth birthday. I hate when he’s older than me!!! (Well, he
always was, but STILL!) Whenever he’s older than me, he always bosses
me around and seems to think that he’s in charge!!! Aunt Millie and Uncle
Herman did buy an excellent cake, though—chocolate, my favorite!!! We
all joined together in a “Happy Birthday” song, although I was crossing
my fingers behind my back and very quietly muttering under my breath
“ugly toad” instead of Cha Cha Cha like everybody else was doing. Arthur
gave me an evil eye-he was standing right next to me, and probably heard
me.
Feb. 8
We have just gone on the BEST vacation to Oregon. I forgot to bring
the journal—I remembered it just as we were backing up—but the door
was locked anyways and it would be too much trouble so we just left. It
was pretty fun, despite the fact the journal wasn’t with us!!
Feb. 9
Back to regular writing. And also back to lessons. The cousins went
back to their house in Rolla, Missouri. They had a rental house here for a
while. Unfortunately, there is nothing to write about except Joan’s recent
complaints. Which is very, very, very, very, very, very boring!
Feb. 10
I guess there is something to write about. My trip to Oregon. The
hotel we were staying in on the border of Washington and Oregon (The
Bonneville Hotel or something like that) had a really good swimming
pool, and I floated a lot on my back. Dad did laps, Joan sat in the hot pool,
and Mom just stayed up in our hotel room, reading or whatever. After two
days or so in that excellent hotel, we moved on to Eugene. Eugene has
this really delicious ice cream place called Prince Puckler’s, and it is just
heaven on earth. The heater in Prince Puckler’s was all nice and warm—a
relief after walking around in the cold weather. It was so nice and toasty
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that I even took off my sweater. (I had to put it back on when we went
back outside, though.) After Prince Puckler’s, we went to this game shop
(I forget what it was called) with a ton of cool stuff. Dad got this game
called Cranium. He seemed to have heard about it before, and so had
Joan. It looked all right, though. Dad said it was the special Turbo edition.
I looked, and it did say that. So that’s what we did on our vacation.
Feb. 11
Writing in this journal is getting more and more and more and more
tiresome!! Since Dad reads to us from The Return of the King from the Lord
of the Rings, I don’t really have much time to brush my teeth, do youknow-
what on the toilet, rush across the hall, change into my PJ’s, sort out
my covers, and whatever. I’m sneaking this entry in-Mom thinks that I’m
writing about parrots and their life cycle. I finished early, though!! Ooops.
She spotted me.
Feb. 12
Urrgh!!! I had to sit in the chair until my bottom got all sore, listening
to Mom droning on and on and on about this and that. As if that weren’t
enough, Joan made tons of snide remarks. I HATE THAT
DESPICABLE SNOB!!!!!!
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