Will I ever get sick of writing happy lists? No.
Things that are amazing in my life right now:
- I DO NOT HAVE TO WORK FOR A WEEK!!!! And when I go back to work, it's just for one day, I can wear jeans, almost no one will be in the office, and so it will still be fun and relaxing.
- I get to see my fambly tomorrow!!! We're going to order in Chinese food and watch some movie let's not lie, we're going to watch "It's a Wonderful Life." This has become a family tradition in the past few years, and I LOVE it (even when it's not a necessity because my parents have no kitchen!)
- Tonight I went to the mall to buy presents (yes, yes, I am late, shutup, and yes it's inadvisable to go to the mall 2 days before Christmas)... and also bought things for myself. First was a bunch of Victoria Secret Pink underwear. Normally, I'd hate the whole "Pink" marketing thing, but it essentially works out to me being able to buy underwear with my name on it.* Then I TOTALLY ransacked the Urban Outfitters sales' rack. Normally I don't go in there because the stuff's too expensive, but I have been searching for the perfect black sweater vest for months and not finding it, so I was ready to look pretty much anywhere. And? Not only did they have the perfect black sweater vest (and for only $10!!!) but I also found a $10 pair of guys' jeans that fit me wonderfully, and a $20 Canterbury rugby jersey!
- I've been reading The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend and OMG. AMAZING.** "Nancy Clue," famous girl detective, doesn't seem to eat anything besides the olives out of her martinis; her new girlfriend, Registered Nurse Cherry Aimless, is chipper, clueless, and easily flustered by strong, capable women; Bess and George have discovered they're not cousins and are almost as cute a butch/femme couple as Nancy's new friends Velma and Midge, who are the only people in the entire book who seem to realize how ridiculous everything is but are more concerned with getting two seconds alone to get laid - which they can't because sixteen-year-old orphan Lauren is too busy following them around and copying everything Midge does.
And everyone wears really fantastic clothes which they change constantly, and Midge is mistaken from one of the "Hardly boys: (who live across the ridge with their Uncle Nellie). Oh, and also there is a mystery. Kind of.
The point is, this book is THE MOST FUCKING AMAZING BOOK EVER. The dozens of Nancy Drew books I read as a child were clearly just preparation for appreciation of this book.
In short: Christmas vacation. Family. Underwear with my name on it and cheap boys' clothes. Ridiculous lesbian novels.
Life is good.
* Yes, I admit - I cannot WAIT until I am in a situation where it is appropriate for me to present someone I love and cherish with a pair of underpants with "PROPERTY OF PINK" on the ass.
**The Amazon review of it is pretty great, too: Let me be the first to state plainly that Miss Mabel Maney is a pernicious influence on American boys and girls. Her dangerous spoofs of the 1950s surely threaten the morale of impressionable young people, who must learn to accept and appreciate their proper places in life. Nancy Clue, the famous girl detective, may be able to solve exciting mysteries without displacing her shiny Titian locks, but why does her friend Midge dress like a boy, use curse words, and smoke cigarettes? And why does Nancy's sweet new girlfriend, Cherry Aimless, tremble under her starched white nurse's cap as she admires the bulging biceps of police detective Jackie Jones? I suspect that in her private life, the author freely mixes plaids with stripes and wears white after Labor Day. As for her devilish success at demeaning the finest epoch in American manners, I can only say, "Darn and double darn." --Regina Marler
- I DO NOT HAVE TO WORK FOR A WEEK!!!! And when I go back to work, it's just for one day, I can wear jeans, almost no one will be in the office, and so it will still be fun and relaxing.
- I get to see my fambly tomorrow!!! We're going to order in Chinese food and watch some movie let's not lie, we're going to watch "It's a Wonderful Life." This has become a family tradition in the past few years, and I LOVE it (even when it's not a necessity because my parents have no kitchen!)
- Tonight I went to the mall to buy presents (yes, yes, I am late, shutup, and yes it's inadvisable to go to the mall 2 days before Christmas)... and also bought things for myself. First was a bunch of Victoria Secret Pink underwear. Normally, I'd hate the whole "Pink" marketing thing, but it essentially works out to me being able to buy underwear with my name on it.* Then I TOTALLY ransacked the Urban Outfitters sales' rack. Normally I don't go in there because the stuff's too expensive, but I have been searching for the perfect black sweater vest for months and not finding it, so I was ready to look pretty much anywhere. And? Not only did they have the perfect black sweater vest (and for only $10!!!) but I also found a $10 pair of guys' jeans that fit me wonderfully, and a $20 Canterbury rugby jersey!
- I've been reading The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend and OMG. AMAZING.** "Nancy Clue," famous girl detective, doesn't seem to eat anything besides the olives out of her martinis; her new girlfriend, Registered Nurse Cherry Aimless, is chipper, clueless, and easily flustered by strong, capable women; Bess and George have discovered they're not cousins and are almost as cute a butch/femme couple as Nancy's new friends Velma and Midge, who are the only people in the entire book who seem to realize how ridiculous everything is but are more concerned with getting two seconds alone to get laid - which they can't because sixteen-year-old orphan Lauren is too busy following them around and copying everything Midge does.
And everyone wears really fantastic clothes which they change constantly, and Midge is mistaken from one of the "Hardly boys: (who live across the ridge with their Uncle Nellie). Oh, and also there is a mystery. Kind of.
The point is, this book is THE MOST FUCKING AMAZING BOOK EVER. The dozens of Nancy Drew books I read as a child were clearly just preparation for appreciation of this book.
In short: Christmas vacation. Family. Underwear with my name on it and cheap boys' clothes. Ridiculous lesbian novels.
Life is good.
* Yes, I admit - I cannot WAIT until I am in a situation where it is appropriate for me to present someone I love and cherish with a pair of underpants with "PROPERTY OF PINK" on the ass.
**The Amazon review of it is pretty great, too: Let me be the first to state plainly that Miss Mabel Maney is a pernicious influence on American boys and girls. Her dangerous spoofs of the 1950s surely threaten the morale of impressionable young people, who must learn to accept and appreciate their proper places in life. Nancy Clue, the famous girl detective, may be able to solve exciting mysteries without displacing her shiny Titian locks, but why does her friend Midge dress like a boy, use curse words, and smoke cigarettes? And why does Nancy's sweet new girlfriend, Cherry Aimless, tremble under her starched white nurse's cap as she admires the bulging biceps of police detective Jackie Jones? I suspect that in her private life, the author freely mixes plaids with stripes and wears white after Labor Day. As for her devilish success at demeaning the finest epoch in American manners, I can only say, "Darn and double darn." --Regina Marler