Basketballs and thorns

Today, not even an hour ago while I was on our laptop, when I had plugged the AC adapter in, the green light was not showing up, and the battery ALWAYS starts losing power like you wouldn't believe when it isn't plugged in, and then shuts off. Well, I thought both the battery and the AC adaptor died, but it turns out that the outlet wasn't working. BUT, there is something wrong with the battery. Right now it says the battery is not detected. So my dad was searching to find out what was wrong. Turns out that something is probably wrong with the motherboard part that controls charging the battery. Someone said that if you dropped it, you could have messed up that part, and not that long ago, someone tripped over the cord and it fell (it's partly my brothers fault, he had it hooked up to the Xbox 360 and had it in sitting in a different place then where he normally has it, so someone tripped over it and it fell). The only thing that doesn't make sense is the battery started doing that in December of 2008 maybe even before that. But I can't remember when the laptop fell, so it could be that. We do know how to fix it, but it's very complicated and it might explode. So.....
Our make-up game for soccer is April 5th, and, of course, is Spring break, so we may have to forfeit(sp?), because a lot of the girls won't be there, Coach and his family might get back in time for the game but if he doesn't, another girls dad will coach. This Sunday he said that the line-up (or whatever you want to call it) he told us is not in effect because we are playing a different team, and that if we don't beat them there is something wrong (last year, when I wasn't on the team, they beat them, and they aren't a very good team). But I'll still probably be mid-field.
Today my brother and I went searching for the basketballs. Let me paint a picture. Our yard slopes down to a creek, which is also in part of our yard, to the right side, facing the house. The basketballs fall down there a lot. SOMEONE did not bring them in the garage when they were done. And it has been raining really hard lately. We had to walk through the drain pipe (it's really big, a grown man could walk through it if he wanted), it isn't extremely long, but with how you have to walk it takes longer. We got the other side (which is across the street and behind our neighbors house) and started looking in the rest of the creek. We found them, but....there is an overgrown abundance of thorns. We certainly couldn't walk through the creek to get to them, so the other option was to walk over and through thorns. We got most of the way to them and then couldn't go any farther, so my sister (who came over to see what was taking so long, and believe me it took a while, we had to go slowly) took her shoes off and rolled her pants up and walked through the creek and under some thorns (they also grew over the creek some) and grabbed a stick and snatched the balls). I should have done what she did in the first place, but I'm sqeamish(sp?) about walking through water of which I have no clue what is in it. My brother and I quickly realized we could not go back. So we ended up going to the right and over around a lake and back through on the other side of the lake, and cross through our other neighbors yard across the street and back to our house. We also found our football which was a little farther down the creek, that was easy, all we had to do was walk up to it and pick it up, there were no thorns over that way. I have little scrape/cut marks all over my legs because I was wearing bermuda short (*hits head* Dumb, Dumb, Dumb! But then again I didn't know there were thorns), and a long one on my arm. I hate thorns. The scrapes/cuts don't hurt anymore, though. My brother and I decided if it happens again, we would do what my sister did, or buy a new one. It was not worth it. My brother didn't get hurt because he had long sleeves on.


Edit-Oh! Coach said he wouldn't put me in goal again! Woohoo!
And My sister and I are going to babysit a neighbors daughter on Friday (she just turned one and she is an angel), not this Friday but next, while she goes shopping. AND I might get to walk their dog for them. She has some problems, due to not getting enough excercise and they can't walk her like they need to, and my mom was talking to her about it today and I might get the priviledge to walk her! I would be so happy if I can (from the sound of it I will be, I'm even getting treats to train her to walk properly). I do not want payed, but they always insist on paying. I don't want payed for babysitting but she said that she is paying me no matter what. *sighs*