Awkward: Pronunciation: \ˈȯ-kwərd\ :a : lacking social grace and assurance b : causing embarrassment

15 09 2009

Sometimes the awesomeness of being me totally overwhelms me. Is being awkward awesome? Oh. Yes. Read the rest of this entry »





The return of HC

12 08 2009

Oh come on, ya’ll. I’m not working today. May as well entertain us both.

A few weeks ago I got a text from HC. He does this. I don’t hear from him for months and then he’s all up in my face with the “I miss you” and “we need to hang” bullshit. We met when his band played at my college, sophomore year. The first night he told me he was going to marry me someday. He’s been chasing me ever since. I was knee deep in Douche McGee at that point, so I told him he was crazy. Most of the time I ignore him, sometimes I indulge him and flirt. It’s fun. If he didn’t have the most beautiful blue eyes I’d ever seen, I’d probably just write him off. The fact that he’s also my height ain’t working in his favor. I’m borderline midget territory, ya’ll. We are eye to eye.

The last time I saw him was at his band’s show up by where Totoro lives. I’ll tell the story of that epic weekend some other time. His band is awful. Just awful. Just hardcore shite. But, he’s an adorable little man and I amuse myself with him. I don’t really think he’s serious about wanting to actually be with me, so I’ll often ask him if he’s bought my ring yet. Today’s response was “I don’t know what size”. Ha. I am supposed to head back up to where he lives next weekend. Maybe I’ll actually grab some dinner with him or something. I mean, it’s the least I can do for the only man stupid enough to want to marry me. Right?





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6 08 2009

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My heart aches for no one

5 08 2009

I’ve been thinking too much lately. It was so hard not to call Douche McGee this weekend and scream “do you know what your fucking baby sister did??” into the phone. She always belonged to him, not me. She even looked more like him than me, lanky and dark. She took our split the same was she took her parents. Silently. I know it was hard on her, she’d grown up with him. When we started dating she was only 7. I could still carry her on my hip. I felt guilty for a long time. I felt like I failed her. I still do, just for different reasons now. I just wish we were closer. In every sense of the word.

I’m going through a phase where I miss him a lot. I hate these. I know it will pass and I usually combat it by spitting venom at his memory. It’s just hard sometimes. I always want to talk to him when I fail at a new relationship. I think he holds the key or something. In a fucked up way, he does. No matter what, part of me will always love him best. That part gets smaller over time, but it’s still there and it makes me madder than fish grease. (Shout out to Michael K!)

I’ve been thinking about that boy I met down south this spring a lot lately. I’m hopefully going down again for a visit soon. I know it’s probably nothing, but he hit something in me and I can’t quite shake it. I just want to see his face again.

Speaking of faces, holy hell. My sister introduced me to the piercer at the shop by her house. Textbook my type. Tall, skinny, beard, sleeves…fuck me. Gorgeous. He also shares a name with my favorite uncle. And then there’s the accent. That awful accent. Still, when he walked out of that piercing room my heart stopped and I looked at Totoro and gave her the “you should have warned a bitch” look. Melt. Why can’t I find a nice boy like that?

Ok, fact of the matter is, I’m really not looking right now. I wasn’t before, but after the Toast debacle it ruined it for me. I want nothing to do with the dating scene right now. It both bores and terrifies me. It was nice having someone to lay on, and I know he exists somewhere, but I’m just not in the right place. He’ll find me when he’s supposed to. Hopefully it’ll be when I head south for good. Some nice southern gentleman, perhaps? Mmm. A girl can dream.

Going a step back, speaking of piercers…mine would be absolutely horrified if he knew what I did to my body tonight. I went to run errands with Savannah and ended up buying a pair of stainless steel tunnels on our adventure. Ever since I started gauging my ears, my goal has been to have tunnels. I am at the smallest gauge I can be and have tunnels. Getting them in? Well, my lovely enabler and piercer would have bitch slapped me if he could have seen me with my homemade stretching taper. Hey, a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. Or in this case, whatever she damn well pleases.

Next segue – things that please me. Space Cowboy penned a fantastic article about his first tattoo experience. I’d link to it when it goes up, but then ya’ll would know the BNB’s true identity as well as Space Cowboy’s. We can’t have that, now can we?

I borrowed Blood Meridian from the BNB last week. I’ve been plowing through it since Thursday. Holy shit. This book is slowly killing me. I kept falling asleep the first day I was reading it. The prose is antiquated and there are no quotations when people are speaking. It’s full of untranslated Spanish and half of the contractions don’t have apostrophes. It hurts to read. I have to read paragraphs two or three times to figure them out. My Spanish is rusty so I have missed chunks of those parts. Oh, and then there’s the violence. I can see why people walk away from this book. It is a bloody battle both on and off the pages. It has my sweat and tears staining its blood filled pages. I refuse to give up on it with only 121 pages to go. At only 337 pages, this should have been a long afternoon read for the girl who doesn’t read, but devours books. It’s really pissing me off, ya’ll. It’s a fight to the death and no book is gonna best me.

One last thing, wait…two. First of all, one more new blog search that made me roll my eyes. And I quote, “facebook quizes scare me”. Yeah, well people who can’t spell quizzes scare me. Next…Brand New released a preview of a new track on Amazon. Today Spin had the track listing and artwork. I am not crazy about the song. I pray the album gives better face than that. As for the art…le sigh. Fucking foxes.





I still don’t get the internet

2 08 2009

Blog search round up!

  • Hello Kitty ring 2009
  • www.lowercasesandcapitals.com (seriously. you had to google that?)
  • roofied girls (at least once a week)
  • pof people bailing (ha!)
  • you think your smart your not its plain to see (obviously…or you’d have used YOU’RE)

So whenever I get weird searches that lead to my blog, I google them to see what possibly could have lead here. I googled, yahooed and binged Hello Kitty Ring 2009 and got nothing on any of them. It confuses me. POF people bailing lead to a comment on my blog. Our grammatically challenged statement up there lead to this entry. The person that googled the entire blog address is in the running for my favorite. I think Jenny Jones Naked will always hold that title, but seriously. SERIOUSLY.

I am spending the day with Knuckles. We’re going to my FAVORITE childhood eatery and checking out the beach. Yes, beach. I was born in a town with beaches. I kind of miss it. I’m curled up in bed right now in my childhood bedroom. We recently repainted it an icy blue and it’s so bright and airy in here. I still remember when I was four and I had purple walls with ballerina bear wallpaper. A Hello Kitty cutout hung from the ceiling and there were framed pictures of unicorns on the wall. Yep. I was such a girly girl. Now I try to make my bedrooms as beach housey as possible. My room at my other house is turquoise and white. I miss it and my cat.

I haven’t talked to Dinga yet, she’s mad at me because I am clearly siding with Knuckles. Magellan is taking his usual role of good time Charlie and let her tell her side of the story and is blaming her for Dinga being a shithead. I called him out on it, so now I’m on the shit list too. Fun.

Once again I started this blog in the morning and then was interrupted by life. I spent the rest of my day being dragged all over creation by Knuckles. We visited a bunch of people I don’t know and ended up spending some time at the beach. That was awesome. I love being on the water and it sort of recharged me after all the bullshit this weekend has been full of. All I wanted this weekend was to go to fucking Warped Tour and see Bad Religion. Do you think I got what I wanted? Hell no. I got everyone else’s grief, drama and bullshit. Totoro is at some other music fest today with her friends and I’m a little irritated. I know she couldn’t get off work, but still. Jesus. Just once I’d like to not have to take care of my sisters and get to do what I want. Totoro is mad at Dinga for doing the same shit she pulled on me. God forbid I ever have a daughter, I’ll end up killing her.

It’s 9:00 and I am ready for bed. That’s really sad. Today was a beautiful day, perfect weather and the beach. I spent about an hour looking at this. I guess I can’t complain.

beach





Last one standing

2 08 2009

So, I started this at about 10:30 Saturday morning. It is now 2:00am. You see, in the middle of writing the epic blog below, my middle sister (Totoro) comes in and tells me our baby sister (Dinga) is missing. She is 17 years old. Totoro is panicking. We have a very strict rule that only one of us is allowed to panic at a time. Her phone is off and no one knows where she is. Knuckles and Magellan (my stepmom and father) are driving around town looking for her and calling all her friends. One of them finally breaks and spills that the little shit drove 2 hours in the middle of the night to a lake for a big ass drunken beach party. Totoro and I are now LIVID.

Dinga turns her phone back on and texts me the simplest truth ever told, “I’m fucked”. Totoro can’t get out of work, so I have to drive an hour home, fuming mad, alone. I stop in to see my piercer. He gives the best. hugs. EVER. I also love him to death. He is a very special person in my life. We end up piercing my left tragus and right rook. It’s now 4:30 and I haven’t eaten anything. I drive the 20 minutes left in my journey. As I’m on my way, Magellan calls. Dinga is missing. AGAIN.

Now I’m really fucking angry. I am swearing and threatening her with bodily harm. He tells me to meet him at his favorite bar and we’ll get a bite to eat. He really is a shitty parent, but I am starving. I meet him there and promptly order a Jameson and ginger ale to calm myself. We eat and Dinga calls, she’s home. I now get to go play buffer between my very angry Knuckles and Dinga. This is exactly how I wanted to spend my weekend.

I haven’t had a chance to talk to Dinga alone yet, mostly because I’m afraid I’ll choke her out, but I need to. She doesn’t understand what she did and why we’re angry. She has princess syndrome something fierce. She doesn’t like to be told no, so she does whatever she wants anyway. I talked a long time with Knuckles about everything. She told me some things I didn’t know. My favorite? The dog found a pregnancy test in the trash and fished it out and brought it to Knucks. Seriously. Best story I’ve ever heard.

So anyway, tomorrow I’m going to spend some quality time with the Knuckles and then head back to Totoro’s, probably with my father in tow. This week started awesome, I should have known it’d end in a flaming ball of shit. Anyway, after the jump is what I was going to write about today. Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »





Monkey turtle bird – aka I like mojitos…with blueberries

1 08 2009

So I drank a very large mojito. I mean a pint glass full of mojito and smoked a lot of hookah. I apologize for any misspellings that occur. I’m slightly buzzed.

I hung out at the place my sister works tonight for awhile and people watched at the bar. The bartender happens to be one of my favorite people in the world. We’ll call him Sweet Pea, because he just is. I walk in and he sees me and I get a big smile and then…”Your hair is blonde!” I forgot it was dark the last time I was up here. Then I got a big hug and an “I’m so happy you’re here!” He’s one of those people who says things like that and means them 100%. I adore him.

I texted another mutual friend of ours, The Ninja, and asked him to come hang out. He did and we just sat and listened to this craqzy guy at the bar. It was all sorts of awesome. He came back to Totoro’s with us to smoke hookah (pink lemonade, yum!) and make fun of me for…well…being me. Totoro made me Pokemon mac and cheese and he mocked the new Pokemon and I ended up calling him a monkey turtle bird and threatening to break the other side of his jaw. He has a metal plate in the one side. He’s part robot. ROBONINJA!

Totoro and I got up early today and went to Nordstrom and I found a dress. A $300 dress. I am wearing that shit every day for a year. Seriously. What the fuck is it made out of that it needs to cost that much? We went to Nordstrom Rack after and I found cute shoes. Not for the dress or the wedding, just because I wanted them.

The rest of the day I spent trying to read Blood Meridian and napping. That book makes me tired. It’s not an easy read. BNB said it took him a week or two to read. I feel like it’s going to take me a lifetime. I like it though. I listened to Last Pale Light In The West the whole time. Then Totoro’s neighbor decided to build the entire Ikea catalog or the Taj Mahal or something.

It’s not even 1:00am and I am exhausted. I slept in and slept most of the day. There is something wrong with me, or I really am getting old. I’m going to try and read now. I give it ten minutes.





Don’t look at me with those mitten filled eyes!

30 07 2009

Where did I leave off? Oh yeah, we tried to shave the cat and hung out with MFEO.

The rest of the week was really low key. Monday we sort of ended up hanging out with the BNB all day by accident. I went to see him at work and get my present. He forgot it at home, so we went over there and played with the puppy. I also managed to steal a book and season one of Full Metal Alchemist. When we walked out of the shop, Poprocks looks at me and makes some comment about he could see why we were friends or compatible or something. After a whole 10 minutes. I’m glad every one else can see it. Whatever. If it was meant to be, it would have been.

Tuesday we didn’t do much, Banky came over and hung out and smoked some hookah and drank some beer. I got a text from facebook telling me Toast dumped me again. Via facebook message. Yep. I’m not even sad or angry this time. Just annoyed. So over it. When Banky left, Poprocks’ comment was “I can see why that went where it did”. I didn’t ask for elaboration. We spent the rest of the evening playing Mario Party on Gamecube and cracking up. We used to stay up until dawn playing that shit with Douche McGee and we’d all fall asleep in the same bed, like a bunch of puppies. I miss those days.

Wednesday we ran errands and were lazy. We decided to graduate to Mario Party for Wii. I kicked his ass in everything except boxing. We both almost had massive coronaries from boxing. He beat me and I cracked up because in the course of our 10+ year relationship I have given him at least three bloody noses. Irony. We has it.

I gifted Poprocks back to his family today. Then I left town to go see mine. I drove what felt like days, and I finally hit the border. I stopped in to see my sister at work and get a bite to eat. Everyone decided to bail on us, so we’re laying in bed reading/writing and smoking cotton candy flavored hookah. This was after and epic adventure at the grocery store. We shop for food like pregnant stoners. We got everything from english muffins to pizza and chips and salsa. It still doesn’t beat the night we bought a pie and stuff to make guacamole.

We are not going to Warped Tour as previously planned, Totoro couldn’t get off work and Dinga has to save her money for senior pictures. So Totoro and I may go shopping tomorrow for a dress for me for the wedding. It’s in September. The same day as the Lucero show. It’s in the city that Douche lives in though, so I think that’s just me being looked out for.

I am going to start reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy this weekend. I am excited and scared. I know it’s going to be really bloody, but I am excited to put it to the soundtrack Ben Nichols put together for me, in my head. In fact, I’m going to go listen to it now and perhaps start my book. Or go to bed. I am so old and tired.





Killing me softly

27 07 2009

I can’t sleep. Probably because my sleep pattern is all fucked up now, and maybe because there’s a lot on my mind.

First of all, I can’t even put into words how awesome it’s been having Poprocks here. Even just sitting on the couch all day watching SVU together was awesome. I can just look over my shoulder and he’s there. It’s blissful. We have laughed so hard over so many silly things.

Friday night we went to the fair with Savannah. It was an experience. I outlined all the highlights. I got my picture taken with a tiger cub. It was the best thing ever. I ate a corn dog and heard Free Bird  and saw lots of farm animals. We invented a new word. Nurpa. It’s a fopa on your neck. We got hysterical over the definition of fopa on Urban Dictionary. I had to call MFEO and leave her a voicemail. I cried the whole way through it. I could not stop laughing. I think it was the combination of hookah, cider and massive amounts of sugar. Fantastic.

Saturday we hung out with MFEO. We ran around town amusing ourselves and then went to dinner. Savannah joined us and again, we all laughed until we cried over stupid shit. I love my friends. After dinner, we went back to MFEO’s where her husband and I attempted to shave her cat. That’s not a euphemism. We really shaved her cat. Or tried to. We failed. Hard. Enre

Mr. MFEO and I were crying by the end of it. MFEO was not happy, but she should have been since Mr. MFEO and I bonded.

Today we laid around and watched SVU all day and I completely forgot about Clark’s wedding shower because I am a crappy friend. I feel like shit. I keep apologizing. My brain just got all caught up in Poprocks being here. I forgot. I fail. Space Cowboy called tonight and we talked it over. I will figure out a way to make it up to him. Read the rest of this entry »





Thinking on things you wish you hadn’t, things you wish you remembered.

16 07 2009

I know I say it a lot, but I don’t usually mean it like this.

I am an asshole. Seriously.

I have done nothing but piss and moan about how people need to man up and come to me if they have a problem and not talk about it behind my back or hid behind anonymous screen names. Then I was set straight today by a friend I probably take for granted.

I was pissed off last night. I was hurt. I felt judged and attacked and frustrated. I thought I was doing the right thing by working through it on my blog. I never meant to be passive aggressive or call anyone out. But I did just that. I saw myself as venting about something that upset me. I use this blog as a tool to work through my (many) issues. I am surprisingly non-confrontational. I wasn’t mad at anyone, so I didn’t think I was directing my frustration at anyone. I’m slow.

I am lucky I have friends in spite of all the stupid shit I do. I am thankful that this one took me aside and called me on my bullshit. I needed a reality check. I should’ve taken the problem to her first, not here. For that I apologize. I wasn’t even mad at her, so I didn’t see what I did wrong or how much of a hypocrite I was being at first. We had a really good talk today. As I said before, I know it comes from a good place and I put myself in her shoes. I’ve been there before. I was being an idiot. I had no idea how hurt or angry I was until I re-read what I wrote. So, to my beloved girls…you know who you are, I sincerely apologize and promise not to suck anymore.

That being said….

My life is so predictable. The men in it are anyway. Banky texted me most of the afternoon. It started off as him telling me he bought his brother sunglasses but he was afraid they may be female. I confirmed. We argued about that for awhile. Then he told me The Dead Weather – Hang You From The Heavens was his new favorite song. So I went and listened to it.

I am trying this new thing, called DON’T FUCKING READ INTO EVERY LITTLE THING. But after the conversation we had yesterday and him being back to his old ways (I know, I know. I’m stopping it now.) it is hard not to. But I’m not. I’m really not.

While I am not that into them, blasphemy according to some, that guitar is sexy. The lyrics… His favorite? I like to grab you by the hair
and drag you to the devil.
I need new men in my life. I told him my new favorite song was Jon Snodgrass’ cover of Wild One. Seriously. It does something to me. Born Apart is a close second. I am counting down the milliseconds until I get to see him live. I want to kiss him on the cheek.

So yeah, all afternoon is back and forth bickering with Banky. I get home, relax and am starting my routine of falling asleep on the couch while watching NCIS reruns with the dog. Phone rings. BNB. You. Have. Got. To. Be. KIDDING.

He found me a copy of Chasing Amy and picked it up for me. Awww, what am I supposed to say? Hey kitchen dick, thanks for getting back to me a month later, now that you’re single again. Dick. So he wants to tell me all about his break up with the scrap pile from The Creature Shop. I tell him about Banky and Toast. We laugh at each other and I realize I have shifted so drastically in my feelings towards him. He is like a big brother, not the dude I spent all of my adult life head over heels for. Progress, no?

Totoro had called, so I called her back and said BNB had called. “What, is he single again?” Damn. Predictable. They all are. I love them in my own way and they love me in theirs. If they didn’t mean anything, they wouldn’t be around. Plus, BNB is one helluva artist. I’m not walking away from discount tattoos either.

I thought a lot about what I was told today, about making the best of what I have. I don’t like advice. I rarely ask for it. Mostly because it just turns me into a dick. Especially unsolicited. I am trying to get better about it. But, I was given some things to think about today. I’m going to try writing short stories maybe once a week. They may even show up here now and again. I need to break this writer’s block. I’m also going to start posting things that inspire me. I discovered Imgfave today. If you’re curious, you can browse through the things I’ve saved so far here.

I think this is all I need to say today.

terrible/perfect

I lied. One more thing.

Impatient








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