Mrs. Pigglewiggle

 Dear Diary,

I went to the mall today with some of the girls from Girl Scouts, it was fun! We went to the arcade and I did REALLLYYY good at the quarter game. You know the one where you have to drop the coins so they get pushed the right way? I am normally not very good at it, but I was today! One of the girls that I don't usually talk to, Lisa K. was playing a game close to me and saw how good I was doing and came and stood with me. It was cool, I hadn't talked to her much before but she has always been nice to me. She is in my class, she sits in the back by the pencil sharpener. She's really pretty, and my mom likes her mom. She's from England and her dad is from a different country in Europe, but I can't remember which one. How cool is that?! I wish I had parents from another country. I would also be ok with having parents who hung out with me like Lisa's parents do. They just got back from a vacation to see her grandparents and was telling me all about the stuff she did with her family. She saw the ocean and she said that everyone spoke her dad's language and she could only understand some of what they said, but that everyone was nice. I think maybe I made a new friend! At least I hope so! Her house is in The School neighborhood where lots of other kids (and even teachers!) live and I would like to see what it looks like. Making new friends is fun because not only do I get someone new to play with, but a new house to explore, and I like spending time with their families too. 

I have played in that neighborhood a few times with different kids from school. I thought maybe they wanted to be friends too, but I was wrong. Like last year with Jessika S. I was so excited that I had been invited over to her house, she is one of the popular girls who is really good at sports. She told me she plays on a soccer team after school sometimes. I went to her house twice in one weekend and it was awesome! She has a whole playroom in the basement and bunk beds in her room. We played school and house then went upstairs and pretended we were in Saved By the Bell. She got to be Kelly though and pretended she was married to Zack Morris and I had to be Jessie and marry Slater. That is not too bad, I suppose even though when I play by myself I ALWAYS get to marry Zack Morris. But Jessika is prettier than me, so she said it made sense that she got to be Kelly. At least it wasn't Screech! I thought we were friends after that, but when I tried to talk to her at school to see if she wanted to play next weekend she acted like she did not know what I was talking about. :( And anytime I tried to call after that her mom said she was too busy with soccer practice so I stopped calling.

I signed up for a soccer team once, but I only went two times. Jessika plays soccer, and there's another boy, Devin who is new at my school, who plays. There is another boy too, Brian L. who plays, and the other Jessica, Jessica G. and they all talk about it. I thought maybe if I signed up for soccer I could make some new friends and I would be able to talk about it with them too. But turns out I am no good at soccer and the other kids are already way better and the boy from my class that I thought was nice is not nice. I told mom I did not want to go back. She was mad because she had just bought me lots of soccer stuff, and made me go back. She said we do not have money to spend like that, and already had to ask Grandma for help. But I told her I thought Grandma likes to help because she does all the time but she didn't say anything and went back to her room and closed the door so I left her alone. When we went back the next time she stayed to watch and saw everything so she let me leave early and we went and got McDonalds and she let me get a Happy Meal and then to the book store to pick out a new Mrs. Pigglewiggle book. I am happy that I don't have to go back and that I got a new book. I would rather read anyway, the people in the stories are always better friends.

Love,

Billie

Dear Diary,

I forgot to tell you about the stuff I got from the arcade with all the tickets I won from the quarter push game! 

Okay back! Sorry you don't know because I didn't have time to write it, but I had to leave for a min. the phone rang and it was the special ring mom uses so I know it's her and I didn't want to get in trouble for missing it. Her and Step Dad are both at work so I'm home alone. I have gotten pretty used to it and am starting to like it. At the arcade I got two gold rings and they are so pretty! One is twisty and kind of bumpy and fits my ring finger very good. The other one has a big circle on the front and there is a lion on it. Like how you can see George Washington's head on a quarter. You can't see it from far away, but I can feel it when I run my finger over it. I like the way it feels it's very smooth and I like to pretend that it is a magic sort of ring like in The Magician's Nephew and it just needs to be talked to or rubbed the right way to take me away. Or how cool would it be if it was like a magic lamp and if I rub it a genie will pop out and grant me 3 wishes! I wonder what my wishes would be?