Saturday 09.07.02 | 8:02 pm
I hate the way I feel on Saturday.
I'm jealous of everyone being out and about and feeling alive while I sit here alone and wait my way through Saturday. Or any other day this summer, for that matter. My parents get out more than I do.
Saturday night. I'll lay in bed a little. I'll get up and pace the house and turn all the lights on and off. I'll go downstairs to drink a glass of water. I'll sit down in front of the television for six hours at a time.
Tonight I've already re-potted a plant, changed the water in Cleo's bowl and worked on my Tropical Paradise puzzle. I'm so bored. I've reached a new level of consciousness. I just feel like retching.
Sit and mope. Eat your way through a third of your body weight in one sitting.
Friday 09.06.02 | 7:30 pm
Time's up for round one!
It was a Family Double Dare morning. Watching shows like that make me nostalgic. When I came home after a long, hard day of elementary school, my afternoons were paved with Nickelodeon. And don't worry, I'm not watching the new version, pscha, it's all about Marc Summers. To think, they actually asked questions like "Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen play what sitcom character?" And hardly anyone ever wins those silly physical challenges. It was just an excuse to get messy and win funny prizes like a Casio "guitar" or a Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia. Oh yeah, there's more:
-Legends of the Hidden Temple -Wild and Crazy Kids -Clarissa Explains it All
-Adventures of Pete and Pete
Oh. The fun just keeps going.
It should be a good weekend. I'm going to brunch on Sunday. I heard there's going to be tea and scones and all sorts of junk that I love. Bloody brilliant. Splendid. Smashing!
I've been watching a lot of BBC lately... yeah. I think I need to get out of the house more.
Thursday 09.05.02 | 7:51 pm
Nobody Said
I don't want to make this into a habit or anything... but it is college. (Sigh) Cosmopolitans and Jack and Cokes make the slow afternoons vroom by!
The Virgin Suicides isn't nearly as interesting as I remembered. Kirsten Dunst isn't nearly as pretty and the plot is just down right depressing. I guess you have to be in the mood.
I wish I was better for you. You always seem so disappointed in me. I guess it's working out in that you won't have to be around this anymore... which makes me sad. But surely there are things you will miss, I hope. I know I will... terribly much. September 13th is going to be such a sad day for me and a good day for you to get out of here... all in one.
It's just one of those things that you subconsciously force yourself to believe is so far away... that day can't possibly come anytime soon. And one day, there it is, and you're completely devastated all at once. I'll miss him the most. He's like my best friend / boyfriend all in one. I'm not making it any easier... but I don't think saying goodbye could be any harder.
Tuesday 09.03.02 | 9:24 pm
Let's Go Bowling
I just spent a few minutes working on my puzzle. It's my new pet project. Today Robert spotted one of those photomosaic puzzles of Snow White... someday, I'll upgrade to the Disney collection. Until then, we'll fumble through the bargain collection of puppies and lighthouses at K-Mart. Such a sad, sad collection of puzzles. 1000 pieces of love.
Now that all my friends are filtering to college, the days are a bit slow. The only person I really see consistently is Robby... and he's moving in on the 13th. Plus he has his whole thing when he goes out with just boys. What happened to my girl gang? Anyway, the boys went bowling or drinking or something. All I got was a voicemail an hour later and that's it... no other calls. And I have no way of reaching anybody. Pretty fucking helpless situation. Meh to boys.
Today I went on a Jenni birthday shopping hunt. I think the Jenni gift is pretty much done... just needs to be primped and packaged and prettied. How I miss Jenni so.
So here I sit. I want to go bowling. And not just because we watched The Big Lebowski yesterday.
Sometimes I just lose track of what really matters. But I usually find my way back. Things are really looking up and starting to balance.
Carpé noctem. (Hi Chris.)
And enough with being vague and skirting the issues here.
jesus, it's fucking hot! I've been trying to stay inside as much as possible and as much fun as it is balancing my checkbook and paying my bills for school (it's just been staring me in the face, of course I'd rather play Twister)... I'd like some good old good times.
My oldest sister and my brother in law spent the weekend here. It's been one big happy family event after the other. We went to a banquet-style dinner last night to "celebrate" my grandpa's birthday. Technically, it was not celebrating because it's bad luck to celebrate a birthday after it's already passed... so my Chinese elders say. All I ask for at those awkward family shindigs is not to sit next to my aunt. For as long as I can remember she's been critiquing me. From my weight to my hair to my clothes to my makeup... everything seems to be wrong to her. When she's sitting across the rather large lazy susan table, she just glares and gives me "those" looks and ocassionally lets an insult fly. Now that I'm older though, I've just learned to give her my apathetic shrug/smile. You know what I'm talking about. She caves.
Lately, I've been spending my time in the bath reading bits of Kokology. Each scene is only a page long so it looks like I'm on my path to self-discovery. It's so mentally draining to discover yourself these days!