Ben and Bugs.

Shoes: Check!
Khaki Pants: Check!
Shake Shoppe Shirt: Check!
Red Blistering Hives All Over Body: Wait...what? CHECK!

This is insane. Ok, last night my father came into town (technically CDP or Census Designated Place, as our "town" is 2.4 square miles..lol) to drop off my brother who had been living with him for the summer. We went hiking in the woods to spend some quality country time together and we all came back with bites all over our bodies! Dad said they were chiggers since there weren't many mosquitoes, and that's just gross. I have them all over my neck, three on my face (which aren't noticeable thank heavens,) and some on my hands, arms and legs. How they got to my neck I'll never know, but it's bad!!
The worst part about it? I have to go to work in 45 minutes!! I look like I have some kind of disease! I went in to work earlier to ask what I should do and they said to come in anyway, but I'm a little worried about what people will think. I mean, when people come to order food, they don't want to be waited on by someone with band-aids and what look like sores all over them.. At least I wouldn't lol! Oh well.. there's nothing I can do. I need to work as much as they need me to work. =/

So, that's part of what's on my mind. The other part is my bubby. My [not so "baby"] bruver. I am so super glad he is home, as I've told him 5 bazillion times lol. You never realize how much you miss them until they've left for a month! I know people say that a lot. But it's so totally true, even for siblings. And especially for my brother, as he's one of my best friends! Aaand, I need to go put band-aids on before my friend picks me up for work so I'll write more tonight.

Ok back. Anyway. My brother really is one of my best friends. We understand each other in a really cool way, and it makes for some awesomely deep conversations and a lot of shared interests! A little about Ben.. He's 15, super intelligent, very mature for his age, and has a great sense of humor. He plays the saxophone in band and although he thinks he's no good at it, he is truly very musically inclined, even if not on an instrument. He has an ear for music and could probably compose music just like he draws and writes stories, which is pretty cool and something I envy. One thing that I think is so awesome that I HAVE to tell you about is Ben's computer abilities. Ben, is a computer GENIUS in my eyes. No normal 15 year old can do the stuff he does on a computer. Ok, some can apparently but very few and none I've ever met. He spends countless hours in front of the thing (like right now) writing in weird like computery language to do just about anything- including modding and making video games. He has been working on a game based off of the game Terraria, where you have a randomly generated world and tools to work with and you have to survive monsters and stuff. It's pretty cool but he doesn't have it finished. I'll post a pictures when I can. When you make a game, you have to start from the beginning--gravity and how it looks and how fast things go and how the arms move on a character and how the lighting works and absolutely everything has to be thought out and the computer has to be taught how to do it. Idk, it confuses me a lot. He also mods games like Minecraft which is pretty cool. Modding, or Modifying, is just messing with the inner workings of the game to change the game to your likings..in case you didn't know :) He also knows a lot about the insides of computers, enough that we trusted him to rip our family computer open to add a new graphics card. Which doesn't sound hard but it looked really crazy in there! He knows a lot about operating systems and can do a lot to computers to make them faster, and I bet he could go into computer repair if he wanted to to get rid of viruses and such. Ok, I'm sleepy so that's enough about my best friend for now. I know, blah blah, computer blah, I just think it's really interesting. Goodnight, Ciao :)