Aug 14, 2005 00:36
Today I whored out my leg hair for a mod skirt.
For those of you who haven't seen me recently, I hadn't previously shaved my legs in like...months. They'd gotten hairier than a lot of guys legs. I'm currently visiting my parents and my mom's been taking me out to do a lot of shopping since I've been home. "retail therapy" she calls it, plus she likes buying me things and she will spend way more than I would consider spending on clothes. We just think on different scales and it's worth it to her to see me well clothed. Plus I think she feels a little obliged because of how much money she spends on Lizzy's clothes. I've got to give them credit for atleast trying to be fair. So this means I've been in a lot of dressing rooms with her, skivvying down. So she's been giving me shit about being hairy since I got here, and I was like whatever, I didn't care, she can give me all the shit she wants. So today we were at Bohemian (crazy store downtownish that sells all kinda weird shit including always eccentric but occasionally cool clothes, I saw this awesome brown...hippy?...top. I dunno I can't discribe, anyway, I had to get it) so I see this little mod skirt, fairly short for me, black with little orange, bigger pink, little orange stripe on it and it was so cute and my mom was like, "you can't wear that skirt with those legs" and it was kinda true so she said, "I'll get you the skirt if you shave your legs" now these things aren't cheap and leg hair grows back and she never said I had to *keep* shaving my legs, so I was like, sure, why not, I'll shave for that skirt. I wouldn't have done it except I'd been kind of wanting to lately anyway, because I couldn't remember what it was like and just kind of had had the whim, but hadn't followed through, so I was like, for a skirt why not?
I had dinner with just my parents and we ended up talking about homosexuality, on the 5Cs and my dad talked about some weird growing demographic of Black men who participate in homosexual acts but identify as totally straight. Interesting statistic, he was trying to draw some connections about prison on the one end and AIDS in heterosexual Black women on the other, which might have some statistical merit, but I wasn't really having it, but this set me and mom off about sexuality also being a matter of availability and sighting prison and the military and then she launched into anal sex and dad got so upset. Now one of my mom and my's sick little favorite games is deRo (my dad) baiting, so I picked up the ball and took it to anal sex in christ (those weird christians who think that you maintain your virginity if you only have anal sex, so it's a perfectly fine way of dealing with the need to have sex, while staying "pure". Dude, Christians are so weird) and he just kept getting so much more upset and finally mom goes "deRo, I don't think you're very secure in your sexuality" and he goes, "I know you just think I'm big old gay guy, but I just don't think this is appropriate conversation..." (or something to that affect). My parents crack me the fuck up sometimes. They're both so gay and they're psychologists, so of course they can't help but see it in some ways, but shockingly never confront it, so they goad each other. Today Lizzy (my little sister) said something about not really having had any crushes on any guys and she goes "I just don't see me ever having a crush on a guy!" and mom goes, "Well...never say never" and I could hear her thinking, "god have a breed another gay one?" it was all I could do not to laugh out loud so I contented myself with smirking. Now the case is, I don't think Lizzy actually is gay, I think she's actually pretty heterosexual, if only because she's rather traditional and oddly conservative, she's just too driven and goal focused to be interested in romance, she's also too pragmatic, and on top of that, as my mom and I discussed today, she is simultaneously older and younger than other kids her age. She's like a 30 year old, but she's also oddly childish. I think boys her age just don't interest her. I suspect she might start dating older men in college. She's just like that.
So I wore my pretty skirt that I bought in Berkley and I had dinner with my parents and then afterwards I went out to hang with Milena. She had some god pot, so I finally got stoned and now I'm hella baked cuz the second stuff we smoked was actually really good (for SC). Sooooo, that's fun. I stayed less time than I meant to. I was baked and she was going to get her dog from her mom's house so it just seemed appropriate to leave, plus I was feeling a little anti-social and her roommate was there. Now her roommate is totally cool, but I didn't know her and I just felt kinda out of place and really baked, so I was like, fuckit, I'm going home. So then I thought I'd hang out with ashley and nicol when I sobered up a little, but I'm still mad baked and it's getting late and I'm getting sleepy, so I'll probably go to bed instead. I must see them tomorrow. I had fun hanging out with Ashley last night, but I haven't gotten to see Nicol yet, which is sad, must remedy that. Mmmm, foodies now, then bed.