I would have done it five minutes ago, but Ivy had to post a blog. :evil: :lol: :idea: (does anyone use that last one?)

I wanted to do the movies/music/tv summer update first but I didn't want to do a music countdown b/c youtube sucks.

I want to also say thanks to everyone commenting. I have consistently had totals that were higher than when I left.

I want to invite everyone to the fun n games forum where my 2nd is the First Loser game is starting again and it's in the nomination phase. Check it out for the details.

I now want to tell the story of the Fourth of July.

As you should all know, I don't have the best relationship with my older sister, the hutt (our nickname for her b/c one time when me and Ryan bought a buttload of food, she came and ate a lot of it so she is the hutt). I was invited to my uncle on my dad's sides house for 4th of July. I wasn't doing anything so I figured I'd go even though I didn't have to. This was right in the midst of a buttload of tension between me and the Hutt so I figured I'd be kinda mean to her. First, my dad and his gf picked up me and the Hutt. I was out to the car first so I got in the back left seat (there are three in the back two in the front) b/c I knew we were picking up my grandfather and either way he would have to get in on the right side, thus pushing the Hutt into the middle and having no room. It worked almost perfectly. As we picked him up, my dad's gf moved to the back, letting him have the shotgun seat. As the Hutt had to move over to let my dad's gf (now going to be just called gf) into the back seat she muttered, "Bob should be in the middle, he's the smallest." I just smiled and gf and the hutt were discussing it. Eventually they both started saying they had big butts but it ended up with me still on the end and the Hutt cramped in the middle. :D We get to my aunts house and they were nowhere near ready. I like their events b/c of tons of food and their pets but I hate it b/c of their drunk friends and drunk antics. It was so fitting whenever I got to the pool area and Amy Winehouse's song "Rehab" came on. I lost it laughing. I eventually made my way to their kitchen and started helping them with food and sampling. People started to arrive and I kept helping. They had this awesome salsa. It's organic and made by Giant Eagle ( a grocery store for those who don't know) and it's perfectly spicy but good. It has a great texture also. Eventually, I was forced out of the kitchen and went back to the pool area where everyone was congregating. This is when it started to be a boozefest and I started to check out. They were making drinks I had never even heard of. I sat down and started texting people. I texted my little sister who wanted to hear about the Hutt drinking, two of my friends who I spent a lot of time with the summer, and one friend I graduated with but lost touch throughout the school year. People caught on to it and would come up to me saying "what are you doing" and "how could you spend so much time on that thing". I wanted to give them the answer, "Because you can't stand up straight and I don't like you" but I restrained it to a "because I'm awesome" answer. While texting, I also kept a keen watch on everything going on. Then, it happened, the Hutt's ex-bf arrived. He came with a bunch of friends and they all got to talking. I slyly kept watch and perked up my ears. The party kept going on, me still aware of everything whenever they point out that the Hutt has what they call "the Asian Flush". It's supposed to be whenever someone gets red in the face from drinking and named b/c it happens to Asians, I don't know. She was definitely getting tipsy. People still came up to me and were looking at me the whole time until the best part happened. My dad and gf started talking. He all of a sudden says I don't like him, I don't like that. Me, I'm trying to get on it, but eventually he just makes it known. He turns to the hutt's ex-bf and says, "don't you dare ever lay a f**king finger on my daughter or say anything about her, or I'll f**king kill you." I'm sitting there with my mouth open and the biggest cheeser ever. I was like what???!!!! the ex laughs and my dad continues with his threats. Everyone at the party got that awkward, no eye contact expression on their face with me still beaming. We went to leave, but the hutt didn't want to. She wanted to stay and hang out with everyone. My dad then said to gf "if she doesn't come with us, I'm not taking her to (where she lives now) to look for an apartment next weekend." I start walking up the hill to our car and I get stopped by the gf saying that the Hutt and my dad needed to talk it out as they were both at the car. The Hutt's big argument was that she liked the people, not her ex-bf and that my dad didn't tell her how he felt, but rather bellied it up. In my dad's defense, A) the hutt didn't do anything to tell the ex no. If I were him, I would have been pursuing her b/c she kept flirting B) the guy was a total tool. She stays and I go, still beaming from ear to ear. I get home and tell my family the news. I get instructed by my stepdad to say Hi and nothing else to the Hutt when she comes home the next day (she got a ride from my cousin) b/c she's 22 and can make her own decisions. Me being the complete a$$ that I am, as soon as the hutt comes in, I say, "Hi and nothing else". She says, "What does that mean?" and then she says the big one, that made me almost flip, "What did dad say when he took you home?" I wanted to tell her, you were mad he didn't come straight to you, but you're doing the exact same thing now but I didn't and just said you don't want me to get into this with you, you were in the wrong. She pleaded for me to explain myself but I didn't citing my stepdad's instructions. The next few days were awkard.

Next update, Kennywood trip!!