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Monday, September 15th, 2008
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4:32 pm
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I'm currently at home waiting for the Dish Network guy to come, and it's already 4:30 and I'm getting a bad feeling about his lack of attendance so far. If the bastards have shown up already and failed to knock on my door while I'm waiting here in the house, I'm going to take someone's head off. And that someone will be a Dish Network installer. I want to stick it to the cable company, and I can't do that if they won't install my damn dish!
In other, better news--I've recently discovered that an author wrote a new book in a series that hasn't had a new entry for 13 years. Despite the destruction Hurricane Ike has caused in southeast Texas, it has made the weather here in Oklahoma absolutely gorgeous. It's about 70 degrees with clear skies here. A fabulous day to be off work. Also, about a week ago I started watching Weeds. I've decided that Sanjay is going to be my gay boyfriend. Completely awesome show.
current mood:  aggravated
current music: None, just Mark Harmon giving me bitchface on NCIS
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| Monday, September 1st, 2008
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9:07 pm - I celebrated Labor Day with a minimum of labor. Yay me!
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This weekend was characterised by doing absolutely fucking nothing at all. I started the weekend out with a leisurely drive across Central Oklahoma on State Highway 9. This was unexpectedly brilliant as I got to drive through a bunch of small towns that reminded me happily of my childhood. And I think I may have found the last Dairy Queen in Oklahoma. There were old men sitting outside of dinky little cafes and places with only one 4-way stop in the whole town. I was driving through Wetumka (Hooray! Buster bars and blizzards!), and what should come on the radio but Travis Tritt's trashtacular song "Trashy Women". It was so fucking country it was almost beautiful. I remember being 10 and listening to this song at my grandmother's house while she made chicken and dumplings. I spent a few moments reveling in the massive redneck brilliance ("I like my women just a little on the trashy side...") and rejoiced in my complete unawesomeness. Sometimes I really miss home.
My mom had threatened to make me paint several pieces of furniture and her bathroom, so I was expecting to have a long day of tedious chores to do when I got home. I was pleasantly surprised that my mom had already done all the painting only to have my hopes dashed when she said that she had a few other things for me to help her do. It went okay at first. I helped her move the kitchen island and we decided it looked good and she could get to the dishwasher easier. Then she decided she wanted to move a treadmill to the back room. This ordeal involved a bunch of yelling, gouges in a door and a piece of trim, a hole in the wall, and a short argument in which she determined that we could have got it in just fine if I could have interpreted her increasingly confusing directions. In other words, ALL MY FAULT. This was short lived, though. We soon finished moving a bed and hanging a new blind and then it was off to Lowe's to buy things for my mother's new bathroom. I won't go into detail, but suffice to say if you're looking for a Roman tub faucet, you are pretty fucking out of luck. This was the most exciting part of my entire weekend.
I went to church on Sunday with my mom, and killed with a palm frond joke during announcements. The joys of attending a church with less than 30 people in attendance is the ability to provide commentary to the entire room like it's MST3K: The Ecclesiastical edition. I spent the rest of Sunday taking a nap and watching Murder, She Wrote with my mom. Angela Landsbury is a seriously classy lady.
Monday morning was watching the last episode of Psych on DVR while eating breakfast made for me by my mom. I came home after that, read fic, and saw Hamlet 2 with Beth. That was awesome. I'd have to say the Waiting for Guffman was better, but not going to see Hamlet 2 would be like getting raped in the face. (Go see it, and you'll totally understand my last statement.)
Next up--Work! Supernatural S3! Grocery shopping!
current mood:  weird
current music: Mango Pickle Down River--M.I.A.
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| Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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1:23 pm - Okay, so I've eaten and I might be slightly cheerier.
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So by popular demand (and by popular, I mean the two people that mentioned something about it), I have now wasted some more time at work creating a list of things that have made me laugh until I nearly cried.
In no particular order, here are 10 Things That Have Made Me Laugh Until I nearly Cried; and Still Make Me Giggle When I Think About Them.
10. James McAvoy dressed like Roy Rogers--if he were also Ronald McDonald--and strumming a sitar in Bollywood Queen
9. Sunil's bitchfit over his new camera battery. (Stupid fucking battery...fucking camera...fucking thirty dollars) Ahh..priceless. Cynda and I are still cracking up spontaneously over that one.
8. When Buffy and Spike renamed themselves Joan and Randy in "Tabula Rasa". "Ready Randy?" "Ready Joan."
7. Cynda getting mopped.
6. Getting a crotch shot of Diana at the Breaking Dawn book release party.
5. Watching Jesse sing "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld" on Rock Band.
4. Spending a few moments last night with Cynda listening to a vintage Polter-cow rant on unemployment and stupid fucking employers who won't fucking hire anyone.
3. Having too many legs.
2. Beth's story about her husband hitting himself in the balls.
1. Listening to anything said by a loopy sleep-deprived Cynda.
current mood:  hopeful
current music: Fabulously Lazy--Franz Ferdinand
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11:46 am - Today I feel inadequate...
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So, I knew the crash had to come sometime. I've been entirely too giddy and excited to not hit a low sooner or later. So in honor of feeling like i'm going to cry at the drop of a hat until I can't breathe anymore, I have decided to wallow a little bit and make a list of ten things that have made me cry.
10 Things that Have Made Me Cry
(Not in order of importance.)
(Beware of rampant girliness.)
10. When Landen and Jamie got married on A Walk to Remember.
9. When I got fired from my job on the same day that my best friend moved halfway across the country.
8. When I realized that no one in my family had enjoyed Christmas at my house this year.
7. When Denny died on Grey's Anatomy and I realized that not only did that suck for Izzie, but the show would return to being crap.
6. The death of Dumbledore
5. When my mother mocked me incessantly for crying over the Death of Dumbledore
4. When Edward left Bella
3. When I got booted from grad school.
2. When Jane walked away from Tom LeFroy at the end of Becoming Jane
1. When I finally forgave my father for not loving me enough to go straight and stick around.
And there it is folks, 10 things that have made me cry like my life was ending. And now to get back to work so I can avoid getting fired and adding another instance to my list.
current mood:  lonely
current music: Castles Made of Sand--Jimi Hendrix
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| Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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2:58 pm - Making friends and influencing people.
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So...I didn't realize I knew so many girls well enough to call them friends. We've been planning a get together to go to the book release party for Breaking Dawn at Barnes and Noble. Now normally, I'd be going to this shindig alone or perhaps with Peach, but it seems that I have spread my Stephenie Meyers enthusiasm to several people like mono. I have now gathered a group of six--only one of whom has not read any of the books--to go to this book release party, and I have convinced at least two of the group to wear their wedding dresses for the event (and hopefully Peach will too because she needs to have another use for it). So now i'm wondering how I managed to discover so many wonderfully dorky people. I've never been a person who just had friends wondering around that she could ask to go to the movies, or get fanfic recommendations from, or tolerate my current James McAvoy fixation, or who could be convinced to wear their wedding dresses in support of a book that's about a teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. It feels really good, and although I kind of knew that I wasn't the only strange person out there, it's nice to REALLY know.
So here's a shout out to the most interesting girls I know: Diana, Beth, Angi, Xiangfei, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) arbitrarium
current mood:  chipper
current music: Starlight--Muse
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| Saturday, May 24th, 2008
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11:23 am - Peach is here!
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exciting happy fun time!!! My bestest friend Peach, otherwise known on LJ as arbitrarium is coming home!!! Woot, bitches! It's party time for Peach and Zelda. Awesome princesses making breakfast and mimosas for other awesome people who are coming to my awesome apartment. Do I sound excited enough? I'm just really happy to see my best friend. Cali is too damn far away. Now, i'm going to get off of here and make sure my house is spotless enough for everyone that's coming. She's arriving just in time. I need something to distract myself from my unhealthy obsession with Gossip Girl. I'm 25 years old, for goodness sake! I should probably stop doodling Mrs. Chuck Bass all over everything. Yikes.
current mood:  ecstatic
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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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10:31 pm - i think i've gone over to the dark side...
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so I broke down and watched Gossip Girl last night, and horror of horrors--i kinda dug it. I'm willing to place the blame for this fully on Jacob from Television Without Pity, and the miracle that is Ed Westwick, who plays Chuck Bass, the current fictional love of my life. Normally I would hide my head in shame that I have lowered my standards so much as to watch fare that panders to the lowest common denominator, i.e. 12-15 year old girls. However, Jacob--the TWoP recapper for the show--has approached this show in a fun literary analysis way, and being far enough removed from college that i'm somewhat nostalgic, i started to get into the way he talked about the show, and enjoyed the way I could approach it like I was searching for themes in literature. Which is what I secretly adored doing during my four years of higher education. So I watched an episode. And then I met Chuck Bass. One smirk was all it took and I was gone. Sucked into the miasma that is trust fund babies going to an elitist school, partying like it's going out of style, and getting more action than a Die Hard movie. *sigh* I'm doomed. I guess I'll keep watching and sink happily into the hell that is the Upper East Side. My new favorite place where Chuck and Blair rule the world.
current mood:  dorky
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| Monday, February 25th, 2008
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10:11 pm - A New Day Has Come
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...and that will be the last Celine Dion reference I ever make.
Good news! I've been at my brand spankin' new full time job for 3 weeks now, and i like it okay. They treat people nicely at this company, and the snack cabinet hasn't hurt anything either. I also quit my Penney's job--after a scheming bitch of a co-worker stole my commission by canceling a special order I had sold and then putting the order under her user number. I tried to get the management to fix the problem before I quit, but they did not. Their solution was to split the commission. So, since they let her screw me out of about 100.00, I decided they could take their job and shove it. Now I just have to find a different weekend job, and I'll be golden. It's a new day, folks.
current mood:  calm
current music: Tiny Vessels, Death Cab for Cutie
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| Monday, December 3rd, 2007
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2:07 am - Eh?
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"Eh."
Optimism is hard to come by these days. Normally I would be very excited about the holidays, but as anyone working retail during the holidays can tell you, it's hard to get excited when you're never the one who gets to go shopping with your family, or even to enjoy some shopping on your own. Christmas presents are bought on the fly as you're walking through the mall on your way home, and you get so sick of shilling various products that you can't even bring yourself to buy them later. You never get to take some time of your own, and it sucks balls to clean up after people and listen to them bitch about you not being able to take an extra ten percent of their items. I've decided to take the time to write my novel I started for NaNoWriMo while working at JC Penney's. Commission work in the drapery department is slow, which not only makes me bored as hell, it also means I make less money. When its not slow, I'm inundated with stupid questions that could be answered if only people took the time to READ THE FUCKING SIGNS! Seriously. Reading is not only fun, it helps you not look like a stupid fool and annoy everyone.
I don't think I've ever been so unhappy.
I just keep thinking of that bible verse, briefly paraphrased as "Those that are faithful in least, will be faithful in much." Maybe if I keep this up, something good will happen. Hope is hard.
Also, how is it that I'm surrounded by crowds of people every day and I never connect with anyone? I mean, am I really that unattractive? Does my demeanor scream "unapproachable bitch"? It doesn't seem to be that difficult for anyone else. I don't make friends at work. I don't have friends at church. I don't have boyfriends ever. I paid five dollars for a massage the other day and I finally understood why some people hire prostitutes. This is a ridiculous state of affairs, and I have absolutely no idea how to fix it. I know that I can sometimes be a bit much, but how could anyone know that beforehand? It's probably just divine providence at work again. Lord knows, I wouldn't know what to do with someone even if I had them.
The lesson, folks? Try optimism or a really good book. Both have the potential to be really good fantasy.
No more self-pity. I just have to try very hard not to let my brain slide into self-loathing instead. Ugh. I'm sick of myself. I need to crash the pity party. And...possibly stop listening to Amy Winehouse.
current mood:  apathetic
current music: Love Is A Losing Game, Amy Winehouse
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| Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
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10:38 pm - Interesting, possibly good news.
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So, I was offered a full-time job at Godiva today. I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but I have interview at Bath and Body Works tomorrow. So if they pay more and offer me a job, i'll take one with them instead. Also I've decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month so I think that will be fun. I'm a little excited about it actually as I kinda have a bit of plot going on I think. We'll see how it develops.
Also fun is confiscating notes from students. Little bastards think they can get away with things all the time. Like I wouldn't notice them furtively looking up to see if I'm looking in their direction. Do they not know about peripheral vision? This one is particulary nice. I thought I'd replicate it here if only to show the horrific spelling and possibly see if anyone could translate this for me. Little punks wrote it in Spanish. Makes me wish I'd learned a foreign language in high school--especially after my jackass band director nearly gave me a heart attack and caused me untold amounts of emotional anguish taunting me with a note filled with information that should never have been committed to paper. So anyway, here 'tis.
Hey hija watz up?
Bueno pues no tengo nada k hacer so mejor te hago una nota no cres?? Bueno pues ya le hice una nota a Claudia y otra a Anjela so nomas me faltavas tu. bueno espero k me mandes una nota de regreso porque la voy a estar experando bueno pues la campana esta por sonar porque dove toda la hora haciendo notas y k la maestra no vino so no hicimos nada de trabajo. bueno pues me tengo k ir so y hablo despues I love you take care hija.
Interesting, no? Do tell, ladies and gentlemen.
current mood: calm
current music: Trying very hard to enjoy Heroes
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| Sunday, October 28th, 2007
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8:04 pm - Where there's hope...there's life.
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My grammy and my mom were in town this weekend. We had fun. We went to the Melting Pot and had an extremely good meal. I highly recommend it if you haven't gone and if you have a spare 200.00 to spend. The filet mignon was terrific, and I can't fault the cheese and chocolate. Yum. My grammy also gave me her Pentax Optio digital camera since she bought a new one and the only thing I have to do is get a new battery for it. Its a 300.00 camera though, so a 50.00 battery makes the camera a steal. I'm pretty thrilled. Also I got a new exercise machine that I'm going to try so I'm hoping that it might improve my fat ass situation some. Where there's hope....
current mood:  cheerful
current music: just trying to catch up on my shows this week
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| Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
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9:42 pm - Sweet blissful days of fall...
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Today was FABULOUS! I went to the mall and spent money I don't have on some rockin' shoes and a new dress (although i'm not sure if that's staying) and I bought christmas presents with the aforementioned money I don't really have. I got a few of those sweet votive candles from yankee candle and my bedroom smells like cider donuts. It's possible that one of my favorite Harry Potter fics will be updated soon after a long wait (if you haven't seen Missile Envy's Two to Lead and Two to Obey you're really missing something). I haven't had my air conditioning on for two days so my electric bill will be blissfully lower, and my nutty cat Spike has chewed up a letter that my step-mother sent me from jail seven years ago. At least this way I won't set off my smoke alarm setting it on fire. I might have some wine to top this whole fabulous day off. Ahh...sweet. If only more days could be like this.
Today's book recommendations (it's popcorn book day!) :
The Copenhagen Connection--Elizabeth Peters
Demons are Forever--Julie Kenner
Deadline--Chris Crutcher
current mood: hopeful
current music: christmas music, strangely enough
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| Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
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8:15 pm - Is it just me...
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...or are kids getting worse and worse every day? Was I this much of a smart-ass when I went to school, because I don't remember ever being as horrible to a substitute teacher as the kids I dealt with yesterday and today were. Horrible little bastard children. I kinda hope I don't ever have to go back to that stupid jr. high. I just don't remember being quite as obnoxious. I mean, I had my moments, but the flaming disrespect I've been confronting is insane! I know I sound a bit like one of those old people (Why back in my day...blah, blah, blah...), but this behavior is really getting ridiculous. Before you ask, no I don't have children of my own. I'm only 24. And I know that raising children is a difficult job when everyone has everything to do. But if you take on the responsibility then you need to take control of your kids. As a current substitute and possible future teacher, I just want to let parents know--discipline your children. Tell them "no" every once in a while. Take away privileges when they do something wrong, and stick to it even if they pitch a bitchfit. Take an interest in their schooling and monitor what they do at school. Let them know you're watching and that they will pay further consequences if they get into trouble. Don't let them talk to you like you don't deserve respect. Demand respect and enforce your rules. Be the adult. Don't let your children dictate to you.
*whew*
Sorry about that. I might catch some shit for it, but I needed to release some rage. In other news, I made some oreo cookie mini cheesecakes that were pretty good and I have two extremely sweet days off. I should have some fun hunting down a Wii tomorrow. Good times and God bless.
current mood: calm
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| Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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10:49 pm - *blargh*
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So.....shit has gone down since the last time I posted. I'm now working seven days a week at two jobs to make less money than I made having one job. I've submitted the paperwork to get teaching certification, but that will be a few months coming. I'm also hoping that I can get a better part-time job. This commission bullshit is jumping up and down on my last nerve. I expend a lot of energy trying very hard not to panic. It makes me tired. If anybody ever reads this, send a little hope my way. I surely need it.
Book Recommendations for the week of 10/14:
Street of the Five Moons by Elizabeth Peters
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
current mood:  stressed
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| Saturday, June 16th, 2007
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9:08 pm - The Loser Returns
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Wow, I am big loser who never updates! I guess this will have to do. Things happening lately--I went to Virginia to visit my brother and that was interesting. I spent the entire time in low panic mode because I was afraid of getting kicked off base. It was still fun. I highly recommend the International Spy Museum to anyone who is going to D.C. I learned more about the Cold War at that museum then I learned in any history class I've ever been in. Especially since the two American History classes that I took only went up to the Civil War before Reconstruction. I'll have to post the pictures, although the picture of me in a swimsuit on the beach in Virginia Beach is never going to go outside of my family (since they've already seen it before I could hide it). Also saw the Library of Congress which was cool, but not very satisfying for a bibliophile like myself since you had to apply for a card and come back and I wasn't getting a return visit. I really wanted to see some old books too. Damn. Oh well, my brother and I had a good time. I finally kicked his ass playing tennis on the Wii.
Good times, ladies and gentlemen. Good times.
current mood: chipper
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| Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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9:37 pm - AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OK, ladies and gentlemen. I know I've been a very unfaithful poster, but I have to post now. The first half of Supernatural's Season Finale was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to spoil anyone so I won't mention specifics, but there were so many cool things that went down, I just can't keep quiet. I have me a poem for Sam. I think W. H. Auden says it best, and I hope it doesn't spoil anyone. Also hoping that no one thinks I'm cliched, although it might be too late for that now.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Darling Sammy will be back, I'm sure.
current mood:  excited
current music: Marching Bands of Manhattan
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| Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
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9:08 pm - OMG!
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I think I might I have gotten some more publicity for Supernatural. I can't prove it, of course, but I think I might have done some good. Two weeks ago, I wrote a letter to Entertainment Weekly (with whom I have a subscription) and talked about how they should give some love to Supernatural instead of always paying attention to Grey's Anatomy and CSI on Thursdays. A few days later I received the magazine for that week, and then there wasn't one the week after. This week I opened up my magazine and for the first time in the two years I've had my subscription, Supernatural was featured as the Must Watch Show of the week! I'd like to think that I may have had something to do with it. If anyone else wrote in to EW about the show let me know because maybe our combined efforts helped! I'm so excited about new episodes and I really think we're in for another season. Also, I have recently become a moderator on a fabulous Buffy/Dean Crossover fiction site. Please come by and take a look--there's some awesome stuff on there! http://www.route66sd.proboards78.com/index.cgi
current mood: ecstatic
current music: Medium--Patricia Arquette is possessed!
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| Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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11:01 pm - hola!
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It's been an interesting day today. I had Indian tacos at work (yum!) and I watched a new ep of Gilmore Girls in which I was slightly disappointed. I had more fun watching House. Cameron and Chase were bitching back and forth and that's always fun. I miss when Gilmore Girls was fun and Rory was cute and Luke and Lorelai were the most awesome couple. Things have not changed for the better and honestly it was already starting to go downhill with the Palladinos last season. Maybe they were too focused on trying to get the CW to deal with them. ugh. I'm getting really sleepy now, and my energy has just went completely down the drain. I think I'm off to bed.
current mood:  sleepy
current music: Australia by The Shins
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| Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
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12:05 am - good times today
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have I ever mentioned that I hate hormones? eh. I haven't posted much lately, but it's a pain in the ass trying to get online using my mother's dial-up. For some reason they can't get cable modem or DSL, something to do with living a mile outside of city limits. I'm very happy to be at home with my happy nice cats. My mom's cat Cricket hates everyone who comes near her. My mom is doing much better now thanks to the removal of her gallbladder. I'm very happy about that; I was starting to get worried. I have a shade of an idea about what I might write a short story about, but I haven't really fleshed it out. I think the main problem is the ending. I don't know how to end something. My endings tend to be crap--maybe that's why I stick to poetry. There is no end. I'll figure something out. Good times.
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| Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
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11:14 pm - hmmm...
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You know, I really need to do something creative. I'm a relatively smart girl, surely I can write a short story or something. If anyone has any ideas, original or fanfic type, throw them out there and I'll see what I can do.
Well, anyway...
I heard from a friend I haven't talked to in at least 6 years. He was the drum major my senior year of high school, and he was a pretty cool guy. I kind of wonder what he's like now. I think he's a youth pastor now. I've been out of high school for six years now, and aside from not having severe mood swings and losing a few insecurities I'm pretty much the same. You'd think that's how all of us should be, but I don't think that's the case with too many of us. Maybe I'm just a very strange person. Or maybe I'm still young enough to not be grown-up. It could be because I'm one of the few and the proud who isn't married yet. Maybe that's where the change comes in. I just don't know, and I really hope my friend hasn't changed too much. They say things get better with age, but I kinda liked him just the way he was.
current mood:  pensive
current music: my dog snuffling in her sleep
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