"I always beat Edward Scissorhands at rock-paper-scissors."
~ Chris
June 29, 2010
June 27, 2010
D8
This is supposed to be funny/horrifying, but the non-vintage COMMENTS make it more just horrifying. 25 Vintage Sexist Ads.
June 26, 2010
June 24, 2010
errr
Just realized that possibly the reason I like Simon Baker so much is that he looks a great deal like the teacher I had such a huge crush on in middle/high school. Um.
June 23, 2010
being told to leave
I've been putting this off for a week because the situation kept changing, but things seem to have settled down for a while. So, I'd best explain.
My parents were not pleased when I started spending every weekend (and a few nights a week) at Donald's place, but they seemed to simmer down for a while. And by my parents I mean my mother, she was really the only parent who ever directly expressed upsetness. I knew they didn't like it, but nothing really happened, so I continued as usual.
Then, last Sunday, my father informed me that when I had some time he and Mom wanted to 'visit,' which always means that I'm about to get lectured. Due to various shenaniganry on my part they didn't end up 'visiting' with me until Monday night. It was the height of awkwardness. Dad said we were going to get coffee or something, but we ended up at the McDonald's a few miles up the highway. And by 'at the Mcdonald's,' I mean we sat in the car in the parking lot the whole time. I avoided eye contact and stared at the Shrek promotional ads on the side of the building for the most part. Sigh.
The basic gist of the conversation is that I had to stop staying over at Donald's, or get out. They disapprove, EXTREMELY, as it turns out, and also they think it's setting a bad example for my siblings. I think it's a great lesson that someone can grow up in a Southern Baptist fundamentalist home and not end up believing the same things as their parents, but apparently that's not something they feel comfortable with their other progeny learning by example.
In my mom's words, "As my mom used to say, you are not making my house into a flophouse. You can't just come and go as you please." I started quietly crying to myself at that point. I'm not sure why. I've seen this coming for a long time, although I rather always thought it'd be due to my being bi :P
They said a lot of things, like how they didn't want to push me into anything (their way of avoiding responsibility for the fact that OF COURSE I'll be moving in with Donald - I don't have anywhere else to go!), and how I didn't have to leave right away (just soon) and I was welcome to stay in their home as long as I wanted (as long as I live by their rules).
The lease on the house that Donald and Calob were living in with their sister and her boyfriend ended this month, and they've got their own apartment that I'll be moving into with them soon. It's something Donald and I were discussing anyway before all this happened...this just means I'll be moving in a lot sooner than I expected, that's all.
There was an apartment they were supposed to be moving into on the 19th or so, then some quirk came up with the paperwork and the managers ended up saying they couldn't move in at the last minute. This was a problem, because they were supposed to be out of their current house in two weeks, which isn't very much time to just pick up and start house/apartment-hunting all over again when they'd narrowed their choice down to this particular one. It was nerve-wracking for me too, because where they live affects where I live. Luckily apparently the lady they were talking to liked them a lot and went to bat for them with the other managers, and got them the place after all. So, they're moving in tonight and tomorrow.
I'm not sure when I'll start moving my stuff over...I have to do the apartment application and things. Donald doesn't think I'll need a cosigner, because I'm just moving into the apartment they already have, not renting a whole new place. We'll see. I'm thinking I'll try and move stuff the week my family goes camping. When they're out of the house it'll be a lot easier to start carting stuff away and not having to deal with sibling questions and parental emotions.
It's just a big change for me.
My parents were not pleased when I started spending every weekend (and a few nights a week) at Donald's place, but they seemed to simmer down for a while. And by my parents I mean my mother, she was really the only parent who ever directly expressed upsetness. I knew they didn't like it, but nothing really happened, so I continued as usual.
Then, last Sunday, my father informed me that when I had some time he and Mom wanted to 'visit,' which always means that I'm about to get lectured. Due to various shenaniganry on my part they didn't end up 'visiting' with me until Monday night. It was the height of awkwardness. Dad said we were going to get coffee or something, but we ended up at the McDonald's a few miles up the highway. And by 'at the Mcdonald's,' I mean we sat in the car in the parking lot the whole time. I avoided eye contact and stared at the Shrek promotional ads on the side of the building for the most part. Sigh.
The basic gist of the conversation is that I had to stop staying over at Donald's, or get out. They disapprove, EXTREMELY, as it turns out, and also they think it's setting a bad example for my siblings. I think it's a great lesson that someone can grow up in a Southern Baptist fundamentalist home and not end up believing the same things as their parents, but apparently that's not something they feel comfortable with their other progeny learning by example.
In my mom's words, "As my mom used to say, you are not making my house into a flophouse. You can't just come and go as you please." I started quietly crying to myself at that point. I'm not sure why. I've seen this coming for a long time, although I rather always thought it'd be due to my being bi :P
They said a lot of things, like how they didn't want to push me into anything (their way of avoiding responsibility for the fact that OF COURSE I'll be moving in with Donald - I don't have anywhere else to go!), and how I didn't have to leave right away (just soon) and I was welcome to stay in their home as long as I wanted (as long as I live by their rules).
The lease on the house that Donald and Calob were living in with their sister and her boyfriend ended this month, and they've got their own apartment that I'll be moving into with them soon. It's something Donald and I were discussing anyway before all this happened...this just means I'll be moving in a lot sooner than I expected, that's all.
There was an apartment they were supposed to be moving into on the 19th or so, then some quirk came up with the paperwork and the managers ended up saying they couldn't move in at the last minute. This was a problem, because they were supposed to be out of their current house in two weeks, which isn't very much time to just pick up and start house/apartment-hunting all over again when they'd narrowed their choice down to this particular one. It was nerve-wracking for me too, because where they live affects where I live. Luckily apparently the lady they were talking to liked them a lot and went to bat for them with the other managers, and got them the place after all. So, they're moving in tonight and tomorrow.
I'm not sure when I'll start moving my stuff over...I have to do the apartment application and things. Donald doesn't think I'll need a cosigner, because I'm just moving into the apartment they already have, not renting a whole new place. We'll see. I'm thinking I'll try and move stuff the week my family goes camping. When they're out of the house it'll be a lot easier to start carting stuff away and not having to deal with sibling questions and parental emotions.
It's just a big change for me.
June 22, 2010
June 21, 2010
June 18, 2010
Catch a Body
by Ilse Bendorf
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last one
standing. “Tell everyone everything” is
not exactly right, but I do believe that if
your mother looks radiant in violet
you should tell her, or when a juvenile
sparrow thrashes its wings in dustpiles
and reminds you of a lover’s eyelashes,
you should say so. We are islands all of us,
but we are also boats, our secrets flares,
pyrotechnic devices by which we signal
there’s someone in here we’re still alive!
So maybe it’s, “don’t be afraid.” We can
rewrite Icarus, flame-resistant feathers,
wax that won’t melt, I mean it, I’ll draw up
a prototype right now, that burning ball
of orange won’t stop us, it’ll be everything
we dream the morning after, even if we fall
into the sea—we are boats, remember?
We are pirates. We move in nautical miles.
Each other’s anchors, each other’s buoys,
the rocket’s red, already the world entire.
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last one
standing. “Tell everyone everything” is
not exactly right, but I do believe that if
your mother looks radiant in violet
you should tell her, or when a juvenile
sparrow thrashes its wings in dustpiles
and reminds you of a lover’s eyelashes,
you should say so. We are islands all of us,
but we are also boats, our secrets flares,
pyrotechnic devices by which we signal
there’s someone in here we’re still alive!
So maybe it’s, “don’t be afraid.” We can
rewrite Icarus, flame-resistant feathers,
wax that won’t melt, I mean it, I’ll draw up
a prototype right now, that burning ball
of orange won’t stop us, it’ll be everything
we dream the morning after, even if we fall
into the sea—we are boats, remember?
We are pirates. We move in nautical miles.
Each other’s anchors, each other’s buoys,
the rocket’s red, already the world entire.
June 16, 2010
June 11, 2010
el parentals
"Are you on the Internet, Gabrielle?"
No, Dad, I'm just sitting here with the phone cord in my computer for my health.
"When are you gonna sleep, dear?"
Forgot I told my mom I stayed up last night 'watching movies' with Donald (lie) instead of sleeping at his place. Hahaha.
No, Dad, I'm just sitting here with the phone cord in my computer for my health.
"When are you gonna sleep, dear?"
Forgot I told my mom I stayed up last night 'watching movies' with Donald (lie) instead of sleeping at his place. Hahaha.
June 10, 2010
June 9, 2010
Quote of the Day
"Anime fans do not sleep. And they have all this energy. Kevin thinks they’re cutting the Pocky with meth."
June 7, 2010
i can haz books?
I might as well keep track of all the new things I'm reading here. I got three new books from the library, all of which I have not read before. American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson, whence yesterday's Quote of the Day comes, and which I have been dying to read for FOREVER, since I adore Craig Ferguson. And it does not disappoint! I have about forty pages left. I highly recommend it.
I also got Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer and Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent. I have been reading the Artemis Fowl books for YEARS and still have the book report I wrote on the first one in seventh grade. Well...I still have all my science worksheets from 8th grade and stuff as well, but I am planning on throwing those out eventually. The A.F. book report amuses/pleases me. Norah Vincent's book is about how she dressed and lived for a man as a year. I think I got the recommendation for it from the xkcd blog? I honestly don't remember because I just wrote it down on my listography as a book I wanted to check out some time ago and didn't get it until now. I'm very excited to read it, although I'm trying to keep it out of the sights of my family. As the author is a cross-dressing lesbian, I really don't think they'd approve.
Work is going well. Jeff, the guy I preclose with a lot, says I'm getting faster. Which is grand. I don't like being the slow, incompetent new person x.x Brittany is still occasionally intensely annoying to me due to her tendency to fuck around instead of doing actual work, but she's really funny/outrageous as a person, so I guess it's nice she's not boring. Bryan is very nice, but it ended up being just us two working the Sunday afternoon shift for a while yesterday and we kind of ran out of things to say to each other, I think.
Donald has taken to calling me 'baby' lately. I approve. We've also been talking about moving in together. This might be a bit soon since we've only been going out for two months...and a big appeal is me getting away from my crazy family. I also love him to death and pretty much live at his house every weekend as it is. He and Calob are moving out into an apartment in June or July. Originally Calob's girlfriend Kat was meant to be coming with them, but apparently reconsidered for family/school reasons.
If I had my way I would really rather move into my own apartment first, not because I don't think things with Donald are stable but because, I don't know, it seems a bit odd to have my first living-not-with-family experience be with a boyfriend. However I am not making anything like enough money to live on my own. Even if I had a roomie it might not be enough. I got a letter the other day, too, informing me that as of June 25th or so I'm expected to start making payments on my student loans. With that, cell phone, and car insurance/gas payments....well, it's not like I have terribly much left in the way of rent. Food, yes. Rent, no. This is a problem.
Well, for me anyway. Donald says if I moved in with him and Calob he wouldn't even expect me to contribute towards rent at all because of how little I'm making right now. ...Out of everyone I've dated, I can honestly say he's probably the only one who I can even entertain getting into that sort of situation with without him using me not paying rent to pressure me into stuff.
My mom has not brought up the appropriateness of me staying over at Donald's house again, much to my relief. Apparently she is just getting used to me...not coming home for parts of the weekend. What my siblings think, I don't know and honestly don't care to know. My parents would not be at all happy if I moved in with Donald, which is why I want to buy the car from them before even thinking about it. I also need to pay off a couple small debts I have and maybe move to a more permanent cell phone company (I'm still rocking a TracFone at the moment), plus start payments on my student loans, before I want to think about moving out. I have informed Donald that if I do decide to move in with him, he WILL be present when I have to inform my parents of what is happening. I'm not sure what would be worse, me getting knocked up, or wanting to move in with him WITHOUT being knocked up/married as a prelude. Sigh.
I also got Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer and Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent. I have been reading the Artemis Fowl books for YEARS and still have the book report I wrote on the first one in seventh grade. Well...I still have all my science worksheets from 8th grade and stuff as well, but I am planning on throwing those out eventually. The A.F. book report amuses/pleases me. Norah Vincent's book is about how she dressed and lived for a man as a year. I think I got the recommendation for it from the xkcd blog? I honestly don't remember because I just wrote it down on my listography as a book I wanted to check out some time ago and didn't get it until now. I'm very excited to read it, although I'm trying to keep it out of the sights of my family. As the author is a cross-dressing lesbian, I really don't think they'd approve.
Work is going well. Jeff, the guy I preclose with a lot, says I'm getting faster. Which is grand. I don't like being the slow, incompetent new person x.x Brittany is still occasionally intensely annoying to me due to her tendency to fuck around instead of doing actual work, but she's really funny/outrageous as a person, so I guess it's nice she's not boring. Bryan is very nice, but it ended up being just us two working the Sunday afternoon shift for a while yesterday and we kind of ran out of things to say to each other, I think.
Donald has taken to calling me 'baby' lately. I approve. We've also been talking about moving in together. This might be a bit soon since we've only been going out for two months...and a big appeal is me getting away from my crazy family. I also love him to death and pretty much live at his house every weekend as it is. He and Calob are moving out into an apartment in June or July. Originally Calob's girlfriend Kat was meant to be coming with them, but apparently reconsidered for family/school reasons.
If I had my way I would really rather move into my own apartment first, not because I don't think things with Donald are stable but because, I don't know, it seems a bit odd to have my first living-not-with-family experience be with a boyfriend. However I am not making anything like enough money to live on my own. Even if I had a roomie it might not be enough. I got a letter the other day, too, informing me that as of June 25th or so I'm expected to start making payments on my student loans. With that, cell phone, and car insurance/gas payments....well, it's not like I have terribly much left in the way of rent. Food, yes. Rent, no. This is a problem.
Well, for me anyway. Donald says if I moved in with him and Calob he wouldn't even expect me to contribute towards rent at all because of how little I'm making right now. ...Out of everyone I've dated, I can honestly say he's probably the only one who I can even entertain getting into that sort of situation with without him using me not paying rent to pressure me into stuff.
My mom has not brought up the appropriateness of me staying over at Donald's house again, much to my relief. Apparently she is just getting used to me...not coming home for parts of the weekend. What my siblings think, I don't know and honestly don't care to know. My parents would not be at all happy if I moved in with Donald, which is why I want to buy the car from them before even thinking about it. I also need to pay off a couple small debts I have and maybe move to a more permanent cell phone company (I'm still rocking a TracFone at the moment), plus start payments on my student loans, before I want to think about moving out. I have informed Donald that if I do decide to move in with him, he WILL be present when I have to inform my parents of what is happening. I'm not sure what would be worse, me getting knocked up, or wanting to move in with him WITHOUT being knocked up/married as a prelude. Sigh.
June 6, 2010
Quote of the Day
"I have an addictive personality, I'll try anything a hundred times just to make sure I don't like it."
~ Craig Ferguson
~ Craig Ferguson
June 5, 2010
just thoroughly grossed myself out
So, Rush Limbaugh is getting married again.
One of my Twitter friends posted about it, saying that the only reason she could think of that any woman would want to marry him is his money.
I responded, "I'd say 'poor woman,' but she's got to know what she's getting into...or should I say, what's getting into her?"
...
EWWWWWWW.
EW.
EW.
EW.
IT'S FUNNY BUT I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I SAID IT EXCUSE ME GOTTA GO HURL EVERYWHERE
blaaaaah
One of my Twitter friends posted about it, saying that the only reason she could think of that any woman would want to marry him is his money.
I responded, "I'd say 'poor woman,' but she's got to know what she's getting into...or should I say, what's getting into her?"
...
EWWWWWWW.
EW.
EW.
EW.
IT'S FUNNY BUT I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I SAID IT EXCUSE ME GOTTA GO HURL EVERYWHERE
blaaaaah
June 3, 2010
media, you improve my life so much
Get this text from Donald at 9:30 - "Baby, I love you so much. You are so beautiful and wonderful in so many different ways." Made all the more awesome because he gets up at or after 9 or so for work, so sending me that is pretty much the first thing he did after getting out of bed :) We have been dating for two months as of today, so, happy anniversary to us :)
Finally got the GINORMOUS collective fine taken off my library account so I can use my library card again. Proceed to check out Catch Me If You Can, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, The Society of S, Death Troopers, and The Surrogates immediately. I've read all but the last two already, but I always enjoy rereading books, so it's not a problem. Done with P., T.H.S., and D.T. already. Working on The Surrogates, the origin for the recent-ish movie, apparently. I didn't know it started out as a graphic novel. I like it so far, and am REALLY hoping it has a better ending than the movie. I don't even recall the ending that well, I think saw the first and last 15 minutes or so only, but what I did see I didn't much like. Calob rented it last week and confirms my original opinion. So, we'll see if the novel does any better.
Somehow got into a discussion with Jason about how he believes pulling out to be an effective method of birth control (STUPID). Right as we were arguing about it, "Jizz In My Pants" comes up on my iPod xD Brilliant.
Finally got the GINORMOUS collective fine taken off my library account so I can use my library card again. Proceed to check out Catch Me If You Can, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, The Society of S, Death Troopers, and The Surrogates immediately. I've read all but the last two already, but I always enjoy rereading books, so it's not a problem. Done with P., T.H.S., and D.T. already. Working on The Surrogates, the origin for the recent-ish movie, apparently. I didn't know it started out as a graphic novel. I like it so far, and am REALLY hoping it has a better ending than the movie. I don't even recall the ending that well, I think saw the first and last 15 minutes or so only, but what I did see I didn't much like. Calob rented it last week and confirms my original opinion. So, we'll see if the novel does any better.
Somehow got into a discussion with Jason about how he believes pulling out to be an effective method of birth control (STUPID). Right as we were arguing about it, "Jizz In My Pants" comes up on my iPod xD Brilliant.
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