July 17, 2009, 6:26 p.m., P.D.S.T.~

Dear Journal~

Hi!  This is your friend, Philomena Rose Graves of Sonora, California, writing!  I told you I'd write to let y'all know how the concert went!  I saw the Jonas Brothers last month when they came here to Sonora, and let me just tell you this:  by the time the show was ended, I was completely hoarse:  I screamed until I had no voice left!  It was awesome!!

I also got to meet the Jonas Brothers backstage during the show (my mom arranged it); I got so excited I fainted!  Boy, talk about mortifying; I just wanted to die!!!!  They were really sweet; got their autographs, even had my piccy made with them!  Yes, ME, Philomena Graves, with the Jonas Brothers!  Yay!!!!

I have the piccy hanging up on my wall, right by the door!  Boom! I can look at it first thing when I wake up in the morning; it's really cool!  My friends are really jealous that I got to actually schmooz with the Jonas Brothers!!

I also saw Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus); she was with them, and she was rockin', too.  Got to meet her as well!  So now I have some serious celeb encounters I can brag about!  Yay!!!!

I am still in a state of shock about it.  I can't believe I actually met these people; yet I have the proof, right on my bedroom walls, in my photo album, and in my autograph books!  I got to meet them in person!!  Me!!  WOW!!!!

On July Fourth, we went to our city's parade and July Fourth doin's; it went on all day.  I got terribly sunburnt, so much, I nearly got sun poisoning.  I was sick!  That was not fun, but by the time the fireworks went off, I was feeling a little better, thanks to some anti-nausea medication mama gave to me.  I was in a lot of pain; I looked more like a boiled lobster than a teen girl!  LOL  I was in some horrible agony!

Never again; that's what I get for forgetting the sunscreen!  D'oh!!  Stupid me!!  I should have known better!

I am still getting over that stupid sunburn.  I am peeling and itching so bad it keeps me awake at night!  This in addition to my arthritis pain!  GRRR!  I am not a happy kitty at all!  No, siree!!

The weather here has been hot:  the other day it got up to 105 degrees.  105.  Hot.  Degrees!  Oh, it was horrible!  I stayed in the comfort of my central air-conditioned bedroom; there was no way in double hockey-stick I was going to go outside and risk getting cooked like a hard boiled egg!  I may be stupid at times; however, I'm not that dense!!

My brothers are driving me crazy!  They are brats with a capital B!  I can't stand them at times; all they do is make noise and find ways to annoy me!  I am so fed up with them I'm more than ready to send them to Alaska, to be eaten by the polar bears (or, perhaps, swallowed by a whale)!

Why couldn't I have had a little (or older) sister instead of two mischevious brats for brothers??  I think I was robbed!!

Well, I am going to go; time to take my evening round of meds, then going to go to the mall with my mama; think she knows it's time to get me out of the house, away from my brothers.  A very good idea; I'm about ready to murderlize them!!!  Take care and may God bless you always; I'll write in here again another time!

~Love, your friend in Cali, Philomena Rose Graves.  :)