Tuesday, July 1, 2003 10:20 p.m.
Well. The storm is over. Driving in it sucked, but it was fun to watch once I got home.
Work is driving me insane. I won't go into detail because frankly, it'd bore you. But let's just say it really pisses me off when people who don't do their job take it upon themselves to tell people I'm not working when ever I take a break. Breaks I was told to take by a superior.
Anyway. I finally got my hands on Amplitude. Didn't really get to talk to Will. Felt the sudden urge to go home. -_- I beat Normal mode just now. Will work on Brutal tomorrow. I think I'm getting better.
Monday, June 30, 2003 12:41 p.m.
I wore my cute new emo-girl glasses today. I don't wear them often enough, so when I do it takes me a while to get used to them. My lenses give me headaches. >.>
This morning went by very quickly. I'm hoping this afternoon does the same.
I got my brand new credit card in the mail Saturday. Yay. I've got to call and activate it. Then... my first purchase... a tablet! Woo! Much thanks to Des for the hot tip. Woo-woo! I can't wait. There will be much CG goodness. Yum.
I can already tell you, Will is Strong Bad, LeAnna is the Cheat, and Don is Strong Sad. But I am Maw-zee-pan! Pwned.
I really want a glass of milk.
Sunday, June 29, 2003 09:42 p.m.
I'm pooped. Today was another busy day. After church I went to lunch with my parents and grandparents. Then immediately after I went with LeAnna, Jen, and David to the Grand where we played a few rounds of DDR. My stamina is slowly getting better, I think. But it's no where near where it should be.
We were going to leave there and go to get some food, but a tropical storm decided to change those plans. Hopefully it won't change the airport's plans so Jen and David can get back home.
I might try and get back to the arcade a couple more times this week. It's the only aerobic exercise I get these days. I weighed myself again today. It's back to saying I've only lost five pounds. But that's okay. Five pounds in less than a week is good. I can handle this.
The pool party helped to keep me encouraged. I forgot how disgusting I felt in a bathing suit. Maybe next summer I'll feel better in one. Maybe.
It's been a week since my cats been missing. I'm really unhappy about this.
I'm unhappy about other things too, but those're just me being stupid agian. >.>
Saturday, June 28, 2003 07:53 p.m.
Well the wedding last night was very nice. The bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome and the entire wedding party looked very nice. I even enjoyed dressing up myself. Will was wearing a snazzy black suit. A very dangerous black suit. The reception was lot of fun. First time I've seen Will dance without arrows. I was impressed. He can't take a hint about a slow dance, though. :p All in all, it's probably the most fun I've had at a wedding reception ever.
Afterward a bunch of us headed to the Grand in Biloxi for a little late night formal wear DDR. "Do you guys always dress up for DDR?" That was fun too. Then back to Will's for some IIDX. I fell asleep on his couch for a minute or two.
Will actually got me a copy of Amplitude. Something I was completely not expecting. Wasn't that sweet of him? He's still holding it hostage, though. Rrrar.
Today was a post-pool party hosted by the newlyweds. That was a lot of fun. Pool games turned into all-out war, which is always nice. There was much talk of splashy-splashy, but I don't know if actual "splashy-splashy" took place. It'd been a long time since I'd been swimming, so I really enjoyed it. Hopefully I got enough sun to put some color onto my pastiness. I was told that my hair looked lighter. That's good, at least.
Anyway, it's been a pretty good weekend. It was nice to see Jen again. And I'm really happy for Drew and Lisa. Rock on.
In other news, I told myself I wasn't going to get on the scale until I'd been dieting a whole week, which wouldn't be til this coming Tuesday, but I snuck a peek this morning anyway. The scale said I'd lost five pounds. I didn't trust it, so I decided I'd wait until evening and check again, because the last time I stepped on the scale it was evening. Well.. I did, and now it says I've lost seven pounds. So yeah. I'm a happy person.
New misheard lyrics, "It's hard to play hard to get, when I'm not and you don't wanna be it."
I think I like those better than the real ones.
Friday, June 27, 2003 08:58 a.m.
I never told you about the supervillian I saw in North Carolina, did I? Well, we were on the interstate somewhere near Asheville and I was looking out the very back window of the van when I saw this black Corvette speeding down the left lane followed very closely by four identical black and blue sport motorcycles. My first thought was, "Omigod. It's a supervillian."
They passed us and I could see that the driver of the car was an older man with grey hair and shades on. The motorcyclists were wearing matching black and blue outfits with matching mirrored helmets. Then I thought, "Oh yeah. That is a supervillian."
I wouldn't be suprised if you hear something on the news soon about someone trying to block out the sun or poisoning the water supply.
I'm glad it's Friday, but work is going to be sooo slooow today. No one ever comes in on Fridays and I'm on front desk duty. I'm sitting here with nothing to do and no one to help. As soon as I go in the back to do something useful, though, there'll be a line at the desk here wanting help. Rrrar.
Maybe that sorta cute summer student from Nasa will come in. He always stops to talk to me when he's here. I say sorta cute because I hate his haircut. He's got real straight blonde hair that just lays there. It's all one length. It's the same haircut that the tall blonde guy on that show Coach had. He needs to cut it short and give it some texture or something. Maybe spike it up. Then he'd be cute.
Eh. He doesn't really seem like my type anyway.
Will, you really need to write in your LJ. You've probably got the most interesting stuff going on out of all of us. When you get your superfast modem, you won't have any excuses.
I think I'm getting the hang of this Atkins thing. I'm not going insane with cookie cravings anymore. But I'm not going in the breakroom either... there's a cake there. I got really lightheaded and weak when I got home from Gulfport last night. My mom thinks perhaps I didn't have *enough* carbs. I need to start keeping a better count. My body might still be adjusting to the change too. I'm sure my blood sugar's going all funny.
I've got to be strong around the wedding cake tonight. ;.;
I haven't weighed myself yet. I won't do that til Monday or Tuesday. If I weigh myself now and see that I haven't lost anything, I'll just get discouraged. That's what happened all those other times. I should measure myself sometime too. The book said sometimes you'll lose inches when you aren't losing much weight.
Heh. I'm making myself hungry.
Thursday, June 26, 2003 03:17 p.m.
Well. Done with another day at the dentist. All he had to do was clean my teeth and fix the temporary filling in my root-canaled tooth. Now I'm not in supreme agony everytime I bite down. Yay for that.
I had a hamburger for lunch. Sans bun. I wonder if I can ask them to hold the bun when I order it. I don't want a cookie quite so much today.
I have a My Scene Barbie now. Laugh all you want. I don't care. She's pretty. And you all can bite me. :D
We haven't seen my cat since we got back from North Carolina. I'm getting kinda upset about that.
Wednesday, June 25, 2003 05:54 p.m.
So yeah. I got a root canal yesterday. I was in much pain once the novacaine wore off. It still throbs a little today. I've got to go back tomorrow so's they can do something else to it.
I started the Atkins diet and OH MY GOD I WANT A COOKIE. I had no idea how much I craved carbohydrates til I decided to deprive myself of them.
Monday I went shopping with LeAnna and Will. I should have known that three people who can't decide where to eat dinner would have trouble deciding on a single gift. That aside, it was actually pretty fun. Will is something of a bull so taking him into a china shop was an experience.
Speaking of the bull, he called me yesterday to tell me he had bought a swank new suit to wear to Lisa and Drew's wedding. So immediately dug through my closet and found the swankest outfit I have. I just have to go buy some new black dress shoes tonight. I also have to get nail polish, a notebook, a *cough*barbiedoll*cough*, and a new cell phone. There was something else... I should make a list.
I should stop by the bank too, I suppose. Mwa ha ha.
Holy crap do I ever WANT A COOKIE. They say the cravings diminish after a few days...
Sunday, June 22, 2003 06:25 p.m.
I finished Invisible Monsters yesterday. I think it's probably my favorite Chuck Palahniuk book. It's just barely edged out Survivor. I think the reason I liked it so much was that of all Mr. Palahniuk's books, it had themes I could relate to the most.
I don't identify entirely with a former model with a mutilated face, but I do understand what she felt when she wrote "the one you love and the one who loves you are never the same person" (or something like that) and her frustration with pining over the wrong guy, someone who obviously worshipped someone else. I do that a lot. >.>;; There were also some other things that I wish I could live up to... like... never being boring and changing your life by making the biggest mistake possible and then emerging from it as a new person.
I also wish I could be a nihlist. :/ But I'm too nice. I can't even be cynical.
I can't wait til Diary comes out. I love you , Mr. Palahniuk.
Oh... you haven't read this one, have you Will? I'm-a make you borrow it when I see you next.
Sunday, June 22, 2003 06:09 p.m.
Well, kids. I'm back. I always feel like I've missed a lot when I go on these little trips. And I did. I had pages and pages of LJ to catch up on. Not to mention forums and e-mails. Anyway, now it's your turn to catch up.
The trip was fun. And relaxing for the most part. I feel much better now. We left Sunday morning and had breakfast somewhere around Gautier, I think. My mom channeled Dr. Zoidberg when she pointed out that it was Father's Day. That was strange. >.>;
By that evening we had made it into the mountains just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. My ears popped. It was odd. I realized just how scared of heights I am. While the mountains were beautiful, I was scared we were going to fall off the road (and we very well could have... keep reading! :O ).
The next day we drove about an hour or so into Asheville to see Biltmore Estate, the largest residence in the US. It was pretty impressive. There were some pretty nifty paintings. Several John Singer Sergeant portraits and a Whistler too, I believe. There were also two small Renoirs that the owner of the house apparently bought before Renoir became well known. And there was a huuuuuuge Druer print in the music room. We walked around the gardens til we were exaused. Then we drove to the winery and watched them make wine. We bought a bottle of sparkling grape juice. >.>
Then we left Asheville and headed east. It was pouring rain and we had to go pretty slowly on these curvy mountain roads. It was pretty darn scary. >.> We stopped about five hours from my aunt and uncle's house for the night. As we were unloading the van at the hotel, my dad noticed that our back tires were ripped to shreds. The steel belts were exposed and the tread was thisclose to coming off. I just imagined our tires falling to pieces on those wet roads and the van careening out of control and off of the mountain. o.o;;;
Every single waiter in the Outback Steakhouse in Hickory, NC is cute. Woo.
We got to wait around the next morning while new tires were put on the van. I played a demo of Soul Calibur II for GameCube in Sam's Club. Woo.
We got to my aunt's house late. My other aunt and my grandma were already there. The rest of the week we spent visiting, looking at old family pictures, and eating dinner with various cousins. We did go into Raleigh on Friday to the North Carolina Museum of Art. It was pretty nifty. The older folks were more interested in the European art exibit that had all these French and English Roccoco paintings, a few Impressionist paintings, some late gothic stuff, and Flemish paintings. It was all nice, but I got a little bored with it after a while. I wanted to see the 20th century exhibit.
I trudged through that til we ate lunch in the swank little restaurant in the museum. It was this very classy place with mod light fixtures and that early 60s bossa nova that I love so much playing in the background. The waiter there was cute too.
After lunch we saw the Judaic art exhibit. That was pretty cool. And for some reason I felt very at home. XD
FINALLY, I got to see the 20th Century exhibit. I think a lot of their stuff was out on loan, or in the closed American Art exhibit. There wasn't a whole lot there. There was a Frank Stella that I thought was super-cool. I didn't realize how HUGE his paintings were. And it was incredibly flat. No brush strokes at all. (Is this ringing a bell, LeAnna? >.>) There was a Picasso, but everyone and their mama has a Picasso. He did heckuva lot of stuff. I'll really be impressed when I see La Demoiselles of Avignon or Guernica. There were a couple of things by Chyrssa, a huge Anselm Keifer, a strange Henry Moore and a David Salle.
I spent most of my time explaining paintings to my mom. I'm sure I sounded like an art snob, but if my brother can go around impressing people with his computer talk, I can do the same with the one thing I know really well.
I browsed the museum shop for a long time. There were plenty of books I wanted, but they were all expensive. I got to looking at all the Magritte mousepads, Barbara Kruger coffee mugs, and the requisite Van Gogh and Monet umbrellas and got to wondering what the artist would think about their work being used for such mundane purposes. (I'm guilty myself. I applied for a Visa card with Starry Night on it.) I suppose if the artist is still living, they have no problem with it... they had to give permission and all. But, what would Van Gogh say if he saw his sunflowers on a tote bag?
I think in some cases it's pretty interesting. Like... a t-shirt with an Andy Warhol print. The whole idea behind his Marylin prints was to take a commercial image and make it high art... and then we've taken that high art and turned it back into a commercial image. It's like... meta-pop. I bet Warhol gets a kick outta that.
Anyway. Enough about that. We left for home yesterday and I was sick pretty much the whole time. I had heartburn and nausea. Not pretty. I was feeling better after a 7Up, but it would still come back now and again. Aaaaand, then we got home and here I am.
This has been a massive entry. I'm sure I left something out... I'm sure I'll remember later. Nya
Saturday, June 14, 2003 08:24 p.m.
Well, I went out with my cousin and a friend last night. We ate at Olive Garden and then caught this pretty nifty blues/jazz band at a casino. The band was enjoyable, but the atmosphere and company were terrible. They were the kind of band you want to see in a smokey bar, not in a casino with gaudy carpeting surrounded by old women in tight white jeans. By their second set I was ready to just go home and sleep.
Anyway. I just got done packing for the trip to North Carolina. I'm so good at that last minute packing. I'll be in Atlanta tomorrow before I realize what I've forgotten.
Woo woo.
Nice. This mp3 skips like crazy. Not fun. Hopefully it's just the computer and it burned to cd better than this. Ick.
Woo woo.
I should have been a rock star. I could get into that. Totally.
Okay. I'm off. I'll see you fine people in a week.
Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:17 p.m.
Well. I went out and did something that wasn't DDR. :o I made Will go to Hooters. Neither of us had ever been (I was his first ^_-).
It was okay. The food was good, but the service and atmosphere left much to be desired. The seating wasn't very cozy or comfortable. Our Hooter Girl ignored us most of the night (guess she thought I'd get jealous). I never got ice in a refill and our food took forever. My overall impression? "Eh." It would have been more fun if our Hooter Girl had spent more time flirting with Will. His reactions were fun. :D
Anyway. We went back to Will's place and played Amplitude with his new roommate Adam. That was pretty fun. I got knocked out of my usual second place. I r suX0rz. I still remember the day when I was unbeatable at Frequency...
The queen is dead. Long live the king. :/ Til I figure out a way to beat his ass down. RRRAR!
I left when more testosterone showed up to play Halo. I can handle two Cool Guys, but damn. Five is too many. >.>
Alrighty. Bedtime. One more day of work before vacation. :D
Thursday, June 12, 2003 02:16 p.m.
I got past that boss I was stuck on in Xenogears. People weren't kidding when they told me disk two was a lot of talking. I was so sleepy yesterday I fell asleep during a bit of the backstory and slept for a couple of hours.
I promised myself I'd get to sleep early last night, but it didn't happen. I stayed up to watch Fight Club so I could hopefully get that back to Will tonight.
Did you know the font used in the titles and logos for Fight Club is called "Big Science?" I wonder where you can get that.
I want to go out and do something that is not DDR. Any suggestions? :/
Monday, June 9, 2003 09:19 a.m.
Okay, so the good mood I was in last week is GONE. I'm really pissed off for no good reason. Okay. I do have reasons. But they're probably not very reasonable. I'm not even sure who I'm angry at. Myself mostly, I guess. Then again, it's probably just mood swings.
I'm kinda glad I'm leaving Saturday. Maybe I just need to disappear for a week. Then again, maybe not. Seems like when I'm out of sight I also end up being out of mind.
You know, when you're really hungry, you kinda feel skinny. Not that feelings matter much in this kinda thing. >.<;
I want to go home.
Bitch bitch bitch.
Sunday, June 8, 2003 08:40 p.m.
Holy crap, this song is scary. And I like it. :d
I've been feeling kinda scary myself lately, restless too. I've been reading Fight Club and plan to follow it up with Invisible Monsters. And I borrowed Will's Fight Club DVD. The reading was meant to be for my trip next week, but I'm over halfway through Fight Club. Somedays I'd just love to let loose and beat the crap out of someone... but I'm still a big chicken. I guess I can just keep to that vicarious living I love to do.
Anyway, back to music for a second. I listened to the radio for the first time in a long while last week on the way home from work and heard Metallica's "St. Anger" for the first time. Now, I've never been a huge fan of Metallica, but I can usually listen to one of their songs the whole way through with out cringing and changing the station til it's over. This is not true of "St. Anger." It is a bad, bad song. Just... very bad. Omigod.
I went to the arcade as usual Friday night. I'm getting very bored with Max2 and 5th Mix. DDR is getting old pretty quickly these days. And I swear, if I hear Dynamite Rave one more time, people will be hurt.
Saturday was the tournament in Slidell. I didn't pay attention to scoring and whatever. Just wanted to hang around and do some shopping at the mall. I bought a sexy new black blouse. Very slinky. Can't wait til I have an occasion to wear it. I think I look dead sexy in it. Chubbiness or not. Rrrowr.
Oh. One more thing. Is there something wrong with my cell phone? Only LeAnna's calls seem to be getting through. People keep telling me, "Oh, I'll give you a call later" and I get nothin'. I've left messages... I get nothin'. Really now.
Friday, June 6, 2003 08:23 a.m.
Then... I finally get there and I'll I've got is spam. One trying to get me to switch life insurance companies and another claiming it can raise my sperm count.
I'm sure I could find a boy somewhere willing to do that for free.
OOOOOOH! Ha ha. :p
Anyway. I'm looking forward to Slidell tomorrow. Mainly because I want to buy Mars #11, Invisible Monsters, and maybe Fight Club. I've been Palahniukless for a while and I really need something to read on my trip to North Carolina. Also on my to-do list:
1. Clear out a space for my computer and scanner somewhere in the house. I want to do a CG and my brother wants a logo designed. Must have Photoshop.
2. Send out my wedding RSVP! I completely forgot about it! I feel like a dummy.
3. Draw more and buy some masonite to paint on. I've actually got ideas bopping around in my head, I just have to get them down somewhere before I lose them.
4. Salvage my hardcover sketchbook. I made the mistake of packing it with a bottle of lotion when I moved back home. It's a little gunky now. I really am a dummy.
>.<
Thursday, June 5, 2003 06:53 p.m.
First of all, I'd like to state that I really, really love this song. Kylie is forgiven for keeping that infuriating "Can't Get You Outta My Head" song stuck in my head for ages.
Secondly, I'll never understand what would posess a person to drive down the highway going 25 MPH. I go faster in parking lots.
Third, there are far too many people spelling clumsy with a 'b'. It's CLUMSY. Not CLUMBSY. Geh.
I've been suprisingly upbeat today. I've bounced back more quickly than I thought. I was sure I'd be mopey for ages. I guess I'm shaking my habit of dwelling on things. I've got too much to look forward to to cry over what I would have had to look forward to. If that made any sense.
The last thing I heard was a muttered word as he knelt above me with a rock in his fist...
Oh yeah. That song kicks much ass.
Wednesday, June 4, 2003 01:37 p.m.
Talk about your warm fuzzies... X-Entertainment just made my day. Check it out, the 1986 Toys R Us Christmas Catalog.
Omigosh. I think my whole Christmas 1986 is in that book. I'm nostalgic liek whut right now. No kidding.
It's all there. Starburst She-Ra and the Crystal Castle. I still have both. I never got Crystal Falls, but I was insanely jealous of any girl who did. I had the very same Sweet Secrets locket they show on that page. The one with the purple pigtails. Glow worms... Fluppy Dogs... My brother had one of those Inhumanoids, I think. Tendril. Big ugly thing... They even have Alphie!
Wow. All I need is Popples, Jem, and Rainbow Brite and I could relive my childhood right now.
I wonder if I still have my Popple. I should go find it when I get home. Eee hee. XD
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 10:19 a.m.
Anyway. I had a headache going into the movie.. it went away a little afterward. It came back with a vengence on the way home, though. I've never had a headache that bad, I don't think. Icky. I just crawled into bed as soon as I got home.
You know, Pinkerton doesn't make me as warm and fuzzy as it used to. I had to get my warm fuzzies from Lateralus this morning. And you can imagine just how warm and fuzzy that was...
Sunday, June 1, 2003 05:42 p.m.
I didn't get to spend a whole lot of time at home this weekend. I'm tired. Bleah.
Friday was an arcade night. Drew and Lisa were there too, so yay. We went to IHOP afterward and then LeAnna and I headed to Will's for some Amplitude. Me, LeAnna, Will, and his roommate Tim played for a pretty long time. And, just like the last time I played four-player Frequency, is disentegrated into me and Will throwing everything at each other and calling each other horrible names. Only this time he was winning all the time, not me. Rrar. We tied once, though. That was odd.
Saturday I went with my folks to do some shopping in Gulfport... the brother person needed new clothes for Senior portraits. My mom and I got to play "What Not to Wear" in the Haggar outlet. Hee hee. Then we went and saw Bruce Almighty with it's Pirates of the Caribbean trailer. :d
Today I got drug out of bed to go to Slidell for more shopping. I was hoping to get in a few rounds of DDR, but when I got to the arcade there were a ton of kids using the old "everyone stand on one arrow" method of playing. And I didn't feel like dealing with that. And I just really wanted to go home at that point. >.>
Next week is another week of work... and then the Slidell tournament on Saturday, I think. I'm-a do some shopping, mebbe. :d I get paid Friday. :D
I've only got two more weeks on this three-days-of-starvation diet I'm on. Then we're heading to North Carolina. My mom bought an Atkins diet book... so I think we're going to try that when we get back. I'm getting sick of looking at myself. For seriously. If this doesn't work, I'll try the patented hours-of-DDR-and-forgetting-to-eat diet. I hear it's pretty effective.
Background Noise: Garbage - Cherry Lips
Well well. Thanks to Tropical Storm Bill, I have to wait yet another day for Amplitude. *bite a Will* I'll try again tomorrow. Of course, it's effected some of us a little more harshly. Like those of us who can't get home til tomorrow morning. >.> And we never did get that Mexican food.
Background Noise: The Transplants - One Seventeen
Background Noise: Sahara Hotnights - Oh Darling
Background Noise: Humming Detroit Cobras' "Jackson" to myself. Cause I'm... too good for you, my Scooby-Doo. Oooh ooh.
Background Noise: The Transplants - Sad But True
Background Noise: Queens of the Stone Age - God is in the Radio
Oooh. There is something I forgot!
Background Noise: The Pixies - Digging for Gold
Background Noise: The Transplants - Diamonds and Guns
Background Noise: Sahara Hotnights - Are You Happy Now?
My life is boring. For truly. What's happened in the past few days? Well, let's see. There's work everyday and sleep everynight. Not a whole heck of a lot of time inbetween for much else.
Background Noise: Sahara Hotnights - Fire Alarm
Background Noise: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Loverman
I've spent a good fifteen minutes trying to get to my web e-mail... every time I'd load up the page, it'd be blank.
Background Noise: Nick Cave feat. Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow
Background Noise: Weezer - Why Bother
I got to see The Italian Job last night. It was pretty nifty. I need to see the original now. (Starring Micheal Caine. I couldn't remember his name last night.) "Qi est Charlie Croker?"
Background Noise: Detroit Cobras - I'm Coming Home
