silly bandz.

let me just get this straight before i begin this blog post. i am not, repeat, NOT a fan of silly bandz.

silly bandz (i am adding the z because i like it, i dont actually know for sure if the correct term for these ridiculous wrist adornments contains a 'z' or not) are, as i stated in my aside just then, ridiculous wrist adornments.

you wear them around your wrist until someone asks you what it is. because someone WILL ask you what it is. and then you remove said silly band with pride and tug at it for a certain period of time until it resembles an unidentifiable blob, then tug at it some more until it becomes the silhouette of a random animal, vegetable, mineral or unknown.

kids these days barter silly bandz as if they were actually valuable. but keep in mind, one silly band is not equal to the next. silly bandz that glow in the dark, are tye dye, or resemble the shape of toy story characters are considered to be the most precious. as in, YOU BETTER HAVE SOME COLD HARD CASH IF YOU WANT MY BUZZ LIGHTYEAR SILLY BAND.

why have i gone on this rant about silly bandz, you may ask? because i myself have recently had a revelation, a change of heart, if you will, about silly bandz.

im a really good person. and wasting things just irks me. thats why when i noticed there was a water bottle in jessie's bathroom trashcan with a hair elastic around it, i was going to inform jessie. because i was either going to be a good person and let jessie know that she was accidentally going to throw away a hair elastic, or, if this did not alarm jessie (AS IT SHOULD) i was going to be nonwasteful and save that hair elastic from a premature fate.

i informed jessie. she reacted as i feared, and was not concerned about the hair elastic. but eureka, jessie spotted something ELSE on this water bottle which she decided she DID want to retrieve. choosy little bugger.

this much smaller and less prominent object turned out to be.... a silly band. i was not interested, because, as i have already told you, silly bandz are not liked by allison.

i climbed into my adopted jennison bed and was snuggling in, ready to catch a good solid 5 hours of sleep before a day of stage explorers and into the woods-ing.

and then i saw it. a glowing beacon of light slowing floating towards me across the room. i was instantly mesmerized. my eyes followed its every move, watching in awe of its simple but stunning beauty.

TO JOANN.

needless to say i was alarmed when the mysterious object floated upwards towards the blinds and then two legs plopped beside me in the bed. it was jessie closing the blinds. not exciting. but what was exciting was that the beacon of light was clinging to her wrist.

jessie dropped the beacon on my face. for a few minutes, i was fearful to touch it. then i gathered my courage and grabbed it, then held it up in the air. it was a glow in the dark unicorn silly band, and i was in love.

if you put it on your wrist and then madly wave your arm, the people across the room can see what your arm is doing! and if you put it on your nose and then sit up, the people across the room can see your nose! and if you put it around your eye, the people across the room can (so they tell me) SEE YOUR EYE!

i put on quite the show for meg, jessie and kaki.

this unicorn silly band that i have named fernando is still on my wrist and i never plan to take it off. we'll see how this goes with the run of into the woods. i think that little red would be the trendsetter of the show, the first character to wear silly bandz. ITS A CHARACTER CHOICE OKAY.

a kid at stage explorers asked if she could have it. i said no.

i also saved that hair elastic.