sweet d life: linda.

on this day in 1983, my sister, linda, was born. today is her golden birthday since she's now 26.

when i was a kid i wanted to be just like my sister. she played basketball, i played basketball. she got a charolette hornets jersey, i wanted a charolette hornets jersey...the list goes on and on. i would always annoyingly tag along with linda and her friends. one time linda and her friend made up a fake language (which i believed was real) and they would teach me words and i would be trying to remember them all...

linda and i would always make "chop sewy" with whatever stuff we found outside. there was this one really stinky grass that made your hands smell that we used as one of our indgredients in the cop sewy...and of course linda always made me pick it.
and i remember her holding me down once and making me eat a leaf at my grandma's house.

linda and her husband don't have any babies yet, but they did have a lot of dogs for a while. three pitbulls and a minature pincher. the pincher's name is "baby", but what i really thought was hilarious is that my sister named one of the other dogs after my ex-boyfriend, taichi.

facts about linda:
-lives in illinois with husband
-does acrylic nails and bartends for a living
-has a degree in social work
-likes dressing up and bling bling
-she's thoughtful and goofy
-her and her husband both refer to each other as "pig" or sometimes "babe"
-likes winnie the pooh a lot
-has been married for almost two years
-loves horses
-she's punched me, twice

of course many of my favorite childhood memories are with linda since we often did things together. a hefty portion of our home movies are of us dancing around the living room. and we used to make up dances, a lot.
i particularly remember doing a three person dance with to this one which included linda, a friend named amy and i.
click: wild wild west.

morning drives to school:
-linda was late for everything (and maybe sometimes right on time). but i like to be early, and i had to ride with linda. she would always take forever to get ready and i would nag her. we would fight.
-on one particular occasion as we were finally getting in the car to get to school linda tried to make me sit in the back seat for no reason (none other than to be a bitch). i refused so when i got in shotty we just started fighting, arms flailing. my mom was standing in front of the house watching the whole thing go down and was screaming, "girls! stop it!"
we stopped. we drove to school without saying a word. and as soon as linda threw the car into park we both just busted out laughing about what had just happened at home. and we both went to class.
-i now know a lot of old school rap
-for a while linda had a stupid, ugly car in which we called "zamboni". and everytime it rained, it would usually die. so one way we're driving to school and it dies at a fairly busy four-way stop a few minutes from the house. me, linda and my friend tiffany all ducked down in our seats and were like, "shiiiit!". we peeked up and saw a friend of ours nearing the four-way; we grabbed our bags and jumped in leaving the car behind. my mom was on her way to work a little bit later and was wondering what all the traffic was around the four-way stop...and then she saw the car, and we were gone. she was able to get it started and drove it to a parking lot, but of course, she was pissed. i still can't really believe we just left it, but we did. ahahah. and thankfully linda got a different car.

church:
seriously, in church, me and linda couldn't even look at each other without trying not to laugh. often we weren't allowed to sit next to each other because we would be giggling too much and this seriously continued throughout high school and i'm pretty sure even today. especially when a certain priest used to sing somtimes, it was too funny.
will we ever mature? i doubt it.

click: late nite tip.

my mom and sister probably around 1983/84.