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This diary entry is part 5 of 30 in Lily's diary dated 11 - May 2022

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today is Cinco De Mayo!  I have no idea what that means.  It’s some Mexican thing.  But people celebrate it by eating tacos and wearing sombreros and… and…  um.  Something.  Mexican music?  Shrug.

Dave, of course, celebrated it by putting a jar of mayonnaise in the sink.

Of course he did.

We got storms today!!!  It kind of spat rain on and off this afternoon, most of the storms went to our north.  But then we got lots of boomies and it rained pretty hard!!!  And then it stopped raining and the sky was really pretty!!!  Clouds that looked like my floppy bits!!!  Well, more like Sabby’s floppy bits!  HAHAHA!!!!

I hear that Allison was sick!  Awwww!!!  But she’s better now.

Sabby’s thinking of what to do for our final exams.  They’re not going to be like real final exams because she already knows what we’re learning and how we’re doing, but I guess we gotta do something.  So she’s going to give us projects based upon what we’re learning.  My recital is going to be a final exam, but also I’ll have to do something for Japanese, maybe write something.  And Dave wants us to build an electronic project of some kind.  Maybe involving LEDs.  I love LEDs!  They’re so bright and pretty!!!  He got us each a spool of those, what do they call it, WS2812B? and we have to make something with those and an arduino.  Seems like fun.  And I have to change the oil in my car without help.

I’m not the greatest at electronics and programming but they’ve taught me the basics of how to solder and I can write a basic arduino program, so… I guess I can do that.

David’s really getting into the electronics, but I’m not too interested, though it’s nice to understand it enough to make projects if I want to.  Like a big flashy sign that says “my top stays on!”  hahaha!!!!

I’m looking forward to meeting Liz’s boy.  I hope I like him.

Okay it’s bedtime!

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 4 of 30 in Lily's diary dated 11 - May 2022

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

So it’s May the fourth!  It’s Star Wars day!!!  I watched Star Wars a long time ago but I forgot it!  haha!!! So we watched it again tonight!!! We watched episode 1 tonight! It was really good!!!  Darth Vader is SCARY!!!  hooo haaaa hooo haaaa  HAHAHA

Dave breathed into a coffee mug and scared the CRAP out of me!!!  So the pranks are back on, are they???  I thought that was over when he put cheyenne pepper in chocolate pudding!!!  Hey, wait.  I still owe him for that!!

I hear the first three (earliest) episodes are really good and the rest stink.  Oh well.

Tomorrow it’s supposed to storm!  YAAYYY!! I like storms!! As long as they don’t drop ice or tornadoes!!!  Tornadoes suck!!! Literally!!! But I wouldn’t have met Diana if it weren’t for the tornado, so… yay?  No.  I like Diana, but I’d still rather not have seen a tornado.

Jack likes Star Trek better than Star Wars!!! I like them both!  They’re different!!!  But Picard is pretty hot!!!

Don’t tell Jack though!  hahah!!

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 3 of 30 in Lily's diary dated 11 - May 2022

Hi! It’s me!  Lily!

So Sabby’s doing a bit better.  I got her a chocolate shake, and Dave worked his “magic”, and she seems a bit happier this morning.  We suggested she make some cookies.  That always helps too.

It was a weird day.  Sabby taught us about the court, and why she was so angry.  I guess I understand a bit better now.

Oh oh oh I get to meet Liz’s boy on Friday!!!  She’s going on a date with him and I’m invited to dinner anyway – I guess they’ll do other stuff after dinner.  Like kiss!  Hahaha!!!  But Liz wants me to meet him.  They had a second date over the weekend and she’s just sooo besotted!!!

It’s funny!  It would be more funny if I weren’t the same way with Jack when I met him!!!

His name is Kevin and he’s about our age.  He’s not Chinese but she doesn’t seem to mind.  He’s pretty respectful of her heritage, and as she explains it, “He, umm… likes my body type.”  Guess that’s not a big deal, as long as that’s not the only thing he likes.  She assures me it isn’t.  She says he’s really smart and plays piano.  I guess we’ll have to have a piano-off someday!!!

Speaking of piano, the recital is at the end of the month, just after school lets out!!!  I… I’m a bit nervous.  I know I can play well enough but there are so many rules!!  Stand up!  Bow!  Sit down!  Act natural!  Act unnatural!!!  Shoot people who cough! HAHAhAHA!!!  Not really.

Oh remember that space that the “Texan Tinkerer” guy has a lab in?  Sabby’s buying us memberships!!!  We get to learn how to use lasers, and do woodworking, and all that kinda stuff!!!  That should be fun!!!

Anyway, gotta go now.  Marie needs walked.

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 2 of 30 in Lily's diary dated 11 - May 2022

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!

And Sabby is PISSED!!!

Not at us this time, thankfully.

So it looks like some important ruling is going to come out at some point from the Supreme Court.  I don’t really understand it, so I’m not going to go into details.  And this isn’t a political diary, so I won’t say what Sabby or Dave’s opinions are, though they’ve got some strong ones.

But the opinion LEAKED!!!

Sabby tells me that never happens, and she is angry.  She hates the fact that someone was willing to do that.  Something about integrity.  I don’t really understand it.  The way Sabby explained it, is that the courts need to be above the fray of public opinion, and this puts them squarely in the fray, and it’s wrong.

I guess I understand that.  You want judges that don’t care what people think, just about what’s right.

She’s going all Claire Huxtable on it now, and Dave’s having to calm her down.  I think we might have to pull out the big guns.  I haven’t gotten her a chocolate shake in a while.  I guess I’ll go tell Dave that we need to “shake her up”, STAT.

I understand her getting angry, but really.  I think it’s better if she gets angry with things that she can do anything about.

Well, gotta go.  We might need to pump Sabby full of chocolate.  And maybe there’s a little, umm… magic… that only Dave can do.  Hehehe.

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 1 of 30 in Lily's diary dated 11 - May 2022

Hi! It’s me!  Lily!

I can’t believe it’s May already! Only two months until Lily Day!  I asked Sabby if we’re doing Lily Day this year, now that we know what my birthday is, and she said yes, because I was going to celebrate it in New Years, and then I found out before then.  So Lily Day!  A day where I can do whatever I want!!!

I don’t know what it will be, but I know it’ll involve CHOCOLATE somehow!!!

And in September is my real birthday!  YATTA!!!!

At the end of the month is Memorial Day, and that’s the last day of school too!!  SUMMER!!!  But that means I’ll be working more.  BUTTT…  even though I’m working more the owner has promised that I can have time off for things I need to do.  Like… like have a family vacation!!!  And… and maybe see Jack!!!  And in August I get my real license and maybe can drive up and see him by myself!!!  That would be fun!! and SCARY!!!

Assuming the economy doesn’t get too bad.  I mean, we’re doing okay, but you can tell things aren’t quite the way they used to be.   Even at work there are fewer karens, but the ones that do show up are somehow worse.  It’s like their karen sense is set off.

My recital is in a month too!!!  I asked my teacher about the black dress.  She said it should be okay if I’ve got nothing else, but…   and the way she said it told me she wants something a bit more formal.  Well, we’ll see.

Marie is whining.  She wants to go out for a walk.  Guess I’d better do that before bed.

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 29 of 29 in Lily's diary dated 10 - April 2022

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!

So after the movie we all went up to play games and get ready for bed, but I noticed Crystal wasn’t there.  So I went downstairs and she was huddled on the couch.  I sat down next to her and asked her what was wrong.

Poor girl just threw herself at me and started crying.

After she had cried herself out, she sniffled and wiped her eyes, and said “I… I just thought I’d be happy.  Now that he’s going to jail.  Now that he can’t hurt anyone else.  But…  but I’m not happy.  It doesn’t fix anything.”

I stroked her hair. “It doesn’t fix anything,” I said after a moment.  “I mean, you can never really fix anything, right?  But…  but we’re all here now.  That’s… that’s all we can do, I guess.”

“Will… will any boy ever want me?”, she asked.

I sighed.  “Of course they will.  You’re breathing right?”

She sniffed, but a giggle escaped.

“The right boy won’t care,” I said.  “It’s not like you chose to anyway.  You’re a pretty girl.  Someday you’ll find the right boy and he won’t care at all.  He’ll love you for everything you are.  Even the bad things.”

She sighed.  “I hope so.”

“I know so,” I said.  “Maybe it won’t ever completely go away, but it’ll get better if you let people love you.  Do you want to come up and get your hair brushed?”

She wiped her eyes and trudged up the stairs with me.  We went into Beth’s room, and everyone was sitting talking quietly.  I told Crystal to sit on the bed, and made an announcement.

“Girls, this is Crystal’s night.  Let’s brush her hair and give her hugs and…  and show her that we all love her.  She needs that tonight.”

Crystal started to tear up, but the other girls took it to heart.  Allison crawled into her lap like a kitten and let Crystal cuddle with her, while Beth brushed her hair and the rest of us just talked to her and told her we love her.  Even Marie got in on the action and sprawled all over the two of them.

I… I guess it helped, because soon her eyes were drooping and she had the biggest, most happy smile on her face.

Otherwise it was a quiet day.  I worked, came home, played with Marie, and here I am.

Life is about people who love you.

And speaking of which,

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 28 of 29 in Lily's diary dated 10 - April 2022

Hi! It’s me!  Lily!

It was really short notice, but Sabby told us to get dressed this morning, we were going to take a “field trip”.  So we did, and we piled in and went to the courthouse.

Crystal’s attacker got a trial today!!!

Quite honestly, it was a bit anticlimactic.  We sat in the seats, the jury came out, they laid out their case against him.  Thankfully Crystal didn’t have to testify, they already had her deposition, and since she’s a minor, it was deemed unnecessary.  There were some witnesses, and they described what they saw… it was disturbing.  Poor Crystal.

After the prosecutor rested his case, and the defense put theirs forth (all they had was “the evidence is circumstantial”) the jury deliberated for about an hour, and came back…. GUILTY!!!

He gets sentenced later, but for that charge?  Dave says it’s 20 years, probably.

Crystal came over tonight, and everyone told her the news.  OMG she just started bawling!!! Poor girl!!!  We all gave her a big hug and told her he’d never bother her again.

And we got pizza and ice cream, and Diana, Liz, and Allison came over, and we had a HUGE party!!!  We didn’t tell Allison what it was for exactly, but we said someone hurt Crystal and he’s going to jail for a long time.  Allison seemed very happy.  And she should be!!!

I guess there is some justice in the world.  Though these days you’d barely know it, would you?  I don’t keep up with the news too much but there’s this war going on, and I don’t get it.  People just… kill each other?  Why?

Anyway, happy thoughts.  Crystal gets justice and the pizza was delicious.  We’re going to watch a movie now.  Crystal gets to pick.

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 27 of 29 in Lily's diary dated 10 - April 2022

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!!!

Today was a pretty boring day.  I ran, did schoolwork, did more schoolwork, played with Marie, ate dinner…  Sabby made lasagna tonight!!!  OMG is it good!!!

After dinner Sabby sat us down and started learning about business.  Notice I didn’t say teaching.. this time she was the student along with us.  We learned about a basic business plan, accounting, that kind of thing.  She’s getting kinda serious about her cookie business, I guess she thinks she has a winner.

Y’know, I kind of agree, I think she does.

I guess it’ll be a long road.  All she’s got is the product, and she still has a few more products to come up with.

David was whining that it was boring, but she said he needed to learn it anyway, and if he still thought it was boring, she’d put him to work in the kitchen.  Given the mac and cheese fiasco, I’m not sure that’s the greatest idea, but I guess anyone can learn.  He has learned to make a passable mac and cheese, at least.

That reminds me, Sabby said she’d teach me to cook too, and she hasn’t.  Oh SAAAABBBBYYYY!!!!

Love you all!!! ❤

This diary entry is part 26 of 29 in Lily's diary dated 10 - April 2022

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

Sabby struck gold!!!

I don’t know what she did.  She won’t tell me.  But she made a cookie that is the best cookie I’ve ever tasted!  It’s chocolate, but it’s got a kind of tang to it that I can’t quite place, but it’s really really good!  She calls it Sabby’s Spectacularly Scrumptious Scookie!

… she might have to work on the name.

But I think she’s going to start her pastry business!!!

And she wants us to help!!!

But I’m not sure what our jobs will be yet.  We can’t work full time obviously, but I’m sure she’ll find something for us to do, and it’ll be part of our schooling too!  It might be fun!

We’ll see.  I’m sure she’ll be a good boss, and maybe it will help David learn some responsibility, too.

Speaking of responsibility, he got in trouble.  He let Marie out and forgot about her.  We caught her halfway through digging under the fence.  David got yelled at pretty badly for that one.  He said “But it’s Lily’s dog, why should I have to take care of her?”  Sabby just said “I got her for Lily, but she’s a family dog.  We all take care of her.  And if you ever do that again I might just leave you out for a while.”

He got the message.  I think.

Kid’s really got to learn some responsibility.

And Dave’s out putting some mesh under the fence so she can’t get through.

Sigh.

Love you all!!! ❤❤

(you get an extra heart today because I feel like it!)

This diary entry is part 25 of 29 in Lily's diary dated 10 - April 2022

Hi!  It’s me! Lily!

You know, I’ve never actually experienced real school.

I mean, I did zoom classes, but I never actually set foot in a building.  When school was about to go back to in person, Sabby took us out.  I don’t know if I miss it.  Lessons are okay, I mean.  Sabby’s an okay teacher, and we’re learning a lot of useful stuff.  Like electronics, and mechanics, and math and science, and the lessons are always topical.  Plus I get to learn Japanese and take piano lessons, and maybe I wouldn’t be able to do that in “real” school.  So that’s nice.  I don’t feel like I’m missing anything there.

In fact, given some stuff I’ve heard about, I’m kinda glad I don’t.  How challenging would it be, being half-Japanese, and living in a mixed family?  I mean, I don’t mind at all!!! But there would be, well, expectations, you know?

But I think I do miss sports.  I like to run, and I think I’d like to play sports, but I don’t have the chance now!  I just run every morning and that’s it.  Would be nice to play volleyball, or maybe even cheerlead…  I bet Jack would love me in the uniform!  But maybe… that just won’t happen now.

I gain some things, and lose some things.  Is what I gain worth what I’m losing?

I don’t know.  I really don’t.

Speaking of piano lessons, my recital’s coming up.  I’m playing alright, but my teacher is teaching me how to be an actual performer.  You know, bowing, being demure, that kind of thing.  I’m not a demure girl!  I’m going to model my nice black dress for my teacher, maybe it’s good enough, but I might need a formal gown.

I bet I’d look so good in a formal gown!!!

And you know?  I don’t really know how to walk in high heels.  Mid heels, okay, but not high heels.  I need to learn.  Oh Saaabbbbyyyyyy!!!! hahaha!!!  I don’t think they’d be comfortable most of the time, but for special occasions… would be good to know.

Or maybe I already do.  Don’t know until I try.

My teacher tells me that being a performer is as much about being what people expect of me as being who I am.  I don’t think I like that.  But I guess it’s like the YouTubes I make sometimes.  That’s me, but it’s not!

Love you all!!! ❤