this is the story of your red right ankle
i'm in a bad mood.
today was actually pretty depressing. edges of it were good--like that i got to see jessica, and eat indian food and see napolean dynamite with ben and his posse. but mostly it was too hot, too full of grouchy people, and too lined with unfortunate events.
the most saddening, though, was the death of scarlett chipotle stevens. this may sound really stupid and lame to most of you, but i am infamously attached to my pets. and scarlett was so perfect! she was even potty trained, sort of [she never committed an offense while i was holding her--not once!]. anyway, i have this innate ability to feel almost one hundred percent better if i can talk to a rodent because, let's face it, rodents are particularly good listeners. the cats mutilated the poor thing. she was lying with her little bloody feet up in the air; her little, perfect mouth open. i was a total wreck. the only one who understood was ben, because he was totally enamored with her too. we both kind of cried for about a half an hour, and the day never really improved after that. i had to pick her up with tissues and put her in a cardboard box--her body was cold and hard... i had never really had to feel a dead thing before and i was a basketcase doing it. then we had to put her in the freezer so she wouldn't rot because we couldn't bury her in my yard due to construction. [sighs.] it's useless to be depressed about it, but, admittedly, i still am. jessica kept talking about "hamster heaven." yeeeeah. "hamster heaven" exists. sure.
rest in peace. eh.
on a happier note, ben stevens is EIGHTEEN! we went to castle yesterday, which was great. i was glad to see that they still had many copies of "bridget the midget has sex with girls" [although you'd think they could come up with a better title. oh well.] i was so good to ben, too. to start, i made him the. best. desserts. ever. well, actually, emma and i made them together. but we did make them. i have to save some for em's tea party tomorrow, though, and they're just so good that they're practically flying through the window. although the weather was, like, a hundred and six, and we were BAKING. which was... really stupid and almost not worth it. i also got him a wonderful :four huge packages of twizzlers, enough popcorn to last him eternally, office space on dvd, the coveted "movie hounds guide to movies", a signed copy of shawn levy's latest book, and the MOST AMAZING MOVIE SCRAPBOOK OF ALL OF TIME!!!!!!!!!. anyway, i photographed the desserts. don't drool on your keyboard, though..
[from left, clockwise: devil's food vanilla dribble cake with blackberries; lemon bars; bumbleberry pie; double chocolate cookies with powdered sugar.]
i also went to the zoo today. although that was pretty stupid. the zoo was the hottest place in the whole wide world. it did, however, make for some great viewing of hot animals [not the kind at castle, either]. for instance: the polar bears were fucking swimming. i mean, how often does that even happen? that's right, i forgot. it fucking doesn't. the polar bears are so lazy. they're always sleeping. all the time. but today? nah, too hot to sleep. so those bears were rompin' in the water like olympic swimmers. or polar bears in water. also seen bathing today: the elephants. awwwww. jessica lea thompson and i got to go because her mom had free tickets from an office party. the party also came well-equipped with free popsicles. it was a gooood day for popsicles.
and then ben, brandon, daniel, alex, jessica, and i all went to swagat and ate indian. many people, i learned tonight do not like indian food. for example: jessica and daniel. jessica finds it too spicy, and daniel thought his curry looked like vomit. alex may or may not have liked it. i, however, loved it. and ben ordered this huge crepe filled with curried potatoes. it looked terrifying. when i photographed him eating it, it looked like he was deep throating it. he wasn't, though.
and then we all went to see napolean dynamite, which was fabulous. the little girl who was in andre was it in! does anyone remember that movie? it's the one where there's a seal and a little girl. she was also in corinna corinna with whoopie goldberg. yeeeeah, i totally own corinna corinna if you have yet to view this cinematic masterpiece. anyway, i'm glad we went.
heh heh. "i caught you a large, delicious bass." hysterical.
although, there were people right behind us who had seen it already and were talking the whole time. it was god awful. they were like, "OHHHHHHH! THIS PART IS SOOOOOOO GOOD! WHOOOOA! YOU HAVE TO... WHOOOA! YES! SEE HOW GOOD THAT WAS!?!??!?!?!!!!!!!!!" one girl kept saying, "yessss!" the whole time. like, even when it was totally inappropriate, or when nothing significant had happened. and then, toward the end, one of them was like, "i'm hungry." and this launched this entire conversation about what they were going to do afterwards [go to the roxy, they thought, but maybe denny's.] i wanted to go with them and gauge out their eyes with blunt forks. i hate people who ruin movies.
i'm listening to the leak of rilo kiley's new album, more adventurous. go there and listen to the first song, "does he love you?" it's pretty. and because i am depressed it is making me cry. jessica was crabby today, too. i think i'll go over to her house in a few minutes, but i'm making sure ian isn't going to call. he's probably having, like, three million friends over or something. because he has a social life.
oh yeah. ian's been really nice as of late. and that's improved my attitude.
so, in summation: goodbye scarlett, look who's legal, ben, and the zoo is hot. the end.
today was actually pretty depressing. edges of it were good--like that i got to see jessica, and eat indian food and see napolean dynamite with ben and his posse. but mostly it was too hot, too full of grouchy people, and too lined with unfortunate events.
the most saddening, though, was the death of scarlett chipotle stevens. this may sound really stupid and lame to most of you, but i am infamously attached to my pets. and scarlett was so perfect! she was even potty trained, sort of [she never committed an offense while i was holding her--not once!]. anyway, i have this innate ability to feel almost one hundred percent better if i can talk to a rodent because, let's face it, rodents are particularly good listeners. the cats mutilated the poor thing. she was lying with her little bloody feet up in the air; her little, perfect mouth open. i was a total wreck. the only one who understood was ben, because he was totally enamored with her too. we both kind of cried for about a half an hour, and the day never really improved after that. i had to pick her up with tissues and put her in a cardboard box--her body was cold and hard... i had never really had to feel a dead thing before and i was a basketcase doing it. then we had to put her in the freezer so she wouldn't rot because we couldn't bury her in my yard due to construction. [sighs.] it's useless to be depressed about it, but, admittedly, i still am. jessica kept talking about "hamster heaven." yeeeeah. "hamster heaven" exists. sure.
rest in peace. eh.
on a happier note, ben stevens is EIGHTEEN! we went to castle yesterday, which was great. i was glad to see that they still had many copies of "bridget the midget has sex with girls" [although you'd think they could come up with a better title. oh well.] i was so good to ben, too. to start, i made him the. best. desserts. ever. well, actually, emma and i made them together. but we did make them. i have to save some for em's tea party tomorrow, though, and they're just so good that they're practically flying through the window. although the weather was, like, a hundred and six, and we were BAKING. which was... really stupid and almost not worth it. i also got him a wonderful :four huge packages of twizzlers, enough popcorn to last him eternally, office space on dvd, the coveted "movie hounds guide to movies", a signed copy of shawn levy's latest book, and the MOST AMAZING MOVIE SCRAPBOOK OF ALL OF TIME!!!!!!!!!. anyway, i photographed the desserts. don't drool on your keyboard, though..
[from left, clockwise: devil's food vanilla dribble cake with blackberries; lemon bars; bumbleberry pie; double chocolate cookies with powdered sugar.]
i also went to the zoo today. although that was pretty stupid. the zoo was the hottest place in the whole wide world. it did, however, make for some great viewing of hot animals [not the kind at castle, either]. for instance: the polar bears were fucking swimming. i mean, how often does that even happen? that's right, i forgot. it fucking doesn't. the polar bears are so lazy. they're always sleeping. all the time. but today? nah, too hot to sleep. so those bears were rompin' in the water like olympic swimmers. or polar bears in water. also seen bathing today: the elephants. awwwww. jessica lea thompson and i got to go because her mom had free tickets from an office party. the party also came well-equipped with free popsicles. it was a gooood day for popsicles.
and then ben, brandon, daniel, alex, jessica, and i all went to swagat and ate indian. many people, i learned tonight do not like indian food. for example: jessica and daniel. jessica finds it too spicy, and daniel thought his curry looked like vomit. alex may or may not have liked it. i, however, loved it. and ben ordered this huge crepe filled with curried potatoes. it looked terrifying. when i photographed him eating it, it looked like he was deep throating it. he wasn't, though.
and then we all went to see napolean dynamite, which was fabulous. the little girl who was in andre was it in! does anyone remember that movie? it's the one where there's a seal and a little girl. she was also in corinna corinna with whoopie goldberg. yeeeeah, i totally own corinna corinna if you have yet to view this cinematic masterpiece. anyway, i'm glad we went.
heh heh. "i caught you a large, delicious bass." hysterical.
although, there were people right behind us who had seen it already and were talking the whole time. it was god awful. they were like, "OHHHHHHH! THIS PART IS SOOOOOOO GOOD! WHOOOOA! YOU HAVE TO... WHOOOA! YES! SEE HOW GOOD THAT WAS!?!??!?!?!!!!!!!!!" one girl kept saying, "yessss!" the whole time. like, even when it was totally inappropriate, or when nothing significant had happened. and then, toward the end, one of them was like, "i'm hungry." and this launched this entire conversation about what they were going to do afterwards [go to the roxy, they thought, but maybe denny's.] i wanted to go with them and gauge out their eyes with blunt forks. i hate people who ruin movies.
i'm listening to the leak of rilo kiley's new album, more adventurous. go there and listen to the first song, "does he love you?" it's pretty. and because i am depressed it is making me cry. jessica was crabby today, too. i think i'll go over to her house in a few minutes, but i'm making sure ian isn't going to call. he's probably having, like, three million friends over or something. because he has a social life.
oh yeah. ian's been really nice as of late. and that's improved my attitude.
so, in summation: goodbye scarlett, look who's legal, ben, and the zoo is hot. the end.