it's better in the matinee

BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

it's the abc's 75th birthday so mum took em, hannah and i to the special party. it was beyond awesome. they had the kids bit first and we got to see captain feathersword and bananas in pyjamas! then we went into the abc building and got stickers and stuff. then we found a line. the line. the line to see elliot spencer, presenter of rollercoaster!!! so we waited with all the under eights and their bored parents watching the teddies (who were on stage) on the big tv. then elliots was on there and he cut the cake. the tension in our little crowd was palable. our feet burned, our legs ached but still we waited. and then, as if out of no-where there he was. in his tight red jeans and bright yellow jacket. with high-lights in his spiky hair. and after signing seventy gazillion things for the pint-sized populous (he wrote something personal about each of them!) he turned to us and said "i'll do you three now". so he signed our stuff and chatted as we gaped speechlessly. it was incredible. it was better than the day harry potter seven came out.

the rest of the day was punctuated with loud and rambunctious "we met elliot!!!"s. so we had lunch at jaws then visited daddy in hospital, he's coming along nicely though bored out of his mind. the girls and i left early and tried to find our way to borders, taking a short detour to dirt cheap cds. i got franz ferdinands first album and inside in inside out by the kooks for twenty fucking bucks. then to borders where i spent most of my book vouchers on the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera (mainly because there was a quote by ian mcewan on the front cover) and the rose of sebastopol by katherine mcmahon (yay! crimean love story). then on the car ride home i discovered why the cds were dirt cheap. apart from the lyrics, all the text on franz ferdinand was in spanish and the kooks, japanese. still wonderful though. but i'm a tad sad that there was no bloc party. i'll have a better look next weekend. but bugger, school tomorrow. at least i can crackie watch.