Playing ketchup

Sorry, dudes. I know how infuriating this sounds coming out of Joriel's keyboard, but i've just either been too busy or just didn't damn feel like posting in forever! my birfday was awesome, i almost puked cherry vodka, grenadine and triple sec all over the the dance floor during the social distortion concert. I didn't even know they made cherry vodka. Ya learn someting new every day. Sandcastle kicked ass. and i didn't even wipe out once! go me! Yet somehow, i always seem to get stuck under the waterfall in the lazy river. Like, every. time. My job has been going pretty good, i got ten hours of overtime one week, so my paycheck was pretty beefy. i have off mondays, which is why i am typing this now. I'm thinking about getting my hair dyed dark brown with chunky pink streaks. gahd, i can't type today. its gonna look so cool! my poor gram tho. she has 3 grandkids, one with a tattoo, one with a mohawk, and one who wants pink hair! haha. lets see...what else. oh, my god, did you read the new Harry Potter? i finished it already!!! it is sooo good! SPOILER ALERT!!! I can't believe Tonks and Lupin died!!! That filthy Rowling murderess! My favorite charachters! and just after they'd had little Teddy! oh, they were gonna be so happy! i cried. like, tears, running down my face. okay, SPOILER OVER!!! vegetarianism's been going well. i tried to go vegan, but that'll hafta wait for another try after college. as will, probably, Frankie (or Fiona) and my male parakeet as yet unnamed. I keep meaning to ask my transfer advisor about that. I'm about to beat up my keyboard, ic an't type. school starts in 3 weeks! yay, school shopping! i would move into office max if i could. i ask my mom since Chatham's giving me a laptop for college, she should get me a pda, since theyre cheaper and doesnt she wanna send me a away for this momentous occaision with something nice. she said i had between a 2 and 50% chance of getting one. i dunno, well see. god, it gets soo hot up in hurr! i'm melting! kay well, smell ya later.

Of Mice and Filched Men, and other stories.

So much to say, fingers so slow. Matt, the hot guy from my job that i like, now works in the warehouse, so i hardly ever see him, there goes the slim chance that relationship had for growth. My miserable dickhead boss put him there, just like Brain, whom he shipped off to the warehouse cause they got in a little tizzy. never mind the warehouse has enough people and the kitchen is seriously strapped. His ego takes precedence over the needs of the business, and then he preaches to me about how hard it is to run a business with losers like he employs. Miserable bastard. I hate him. steal my only friend and then my hot muscle-shirt wearing nice guy. Why cant you just get along with people? Or even just pretend to coexist peacefully? why do you have to use your power to exert force and neanderthal-like, club-weilding dominance over everyone you work over? Miserable jerk. I think i called him a monkeyfucker. :D in my head of course. but i wanted to crack his skull like a fricking coconut. And then he says shit to me like, I'm really not that bad. some people just push my buttons. yeah, i believe the term for them is homo fucking sapiens, jackass. Whew. Glad i got that off my chest. Lets see, what else? ooh, i went to my first vegan shopping trip today! 33.58, i think was the final tally. My mum was supp'd to stay home and watch Pan's Labyrinth with me, but she welched out on me. The irony is not lost on me. My own mother ditching me. It's so sad. See why i need you, Matt? I need someone to feel okay about being ditched with. By my mother, no less. But the shopping trip was soo fun. I bot mac 'n' soy cheese, soy milk, facon, more of those delish morningstar chik'n patties (yum!!), a Naked (brand) Red Machine, a bottle of truly rank acai juice. expensive, but yum. and ooh, also, i finally found Tom's of Maine and Kiss My Face brands, like toothpaste and soap and stuff. they dont test on animals. i had resigned myself to shopping exclusive and Bath n Body Works cuz i couldnt find them. Yay!!! one small step for vegankind, one giant leap for little old me!! i turn 21 in 7 days!! Social D concert this thursday!!!! you should've seen me when my mum was telling me about the place, and that the tix were still on sale. a casual bystander would've thought i was being tortured to death by being forced to hold my pee. :) (sidebar: do i abuse the emoticons? i heard some people find this annoying. sidebar in the sidebar: please email me if you read this blog, i'd really like to know your thots. iheartsk8rs@yahoo.com ) Well, i theenk that's your lot. (Sorry for the obscure Labyrinth reference.)

Some happy announcements!

Hm. Well, the job's going well. just got my first paycheck, 152-something. we ujst closed my checking accounts cause i didn't have any money, and it'll take til tuesday morning for my money to show up. So... ***starting Tuesday morning, im VEGAN!!!*** completely animal-product free. and i'm gonna buy all my bath n body products from Bath & Body Works, cause they don't test on animals. More expensive, but worth it. I get so excited imagining me waking up at Chatham and having scrambled egg replacer with soy cheese and facon on the side!! Ackk! can you imagine!! yum yum yum!! Whew. Well, lets see, what else is new. Oh, did you know Chatham is haunted? exciting! Supposedly Mellon Hall is a big psychic hotspot. I saw it on YouTube. (that really enhances its credibility. ;) )
On another note, I havent seen uncle Tim yet, but things seem fine with my uncle mark, one of the people i had a problem with in my ranting "jackasses" post. Im more worried about Unle Tim tho, cause the man is...welll... he's an ass. He follows the school of thot where, Im the man and you all must do what i say, now go cook and clean for me. But he applies that rule to everything. He just makes the rules and says what he says and that is that and don't you dare contradict him. What a mess. But I suppose we'll see in a couple of weeks. ooohh... i almost forgot... I TURN 21 IN 13 DAYS!!! WOO HOOO! Social D concert Thursday, then Sandcastle on my birthday!! WOO HOOO!! can you say blue toobalooba til my head spins, then cocktails on the lazy river?!? WOO HOOO!

Happy July 4th!

Yay, that day is come about again, t-minus 16 days til my birthday. oh, yeah, and that day when our corrupt, lovely little goverment was born. ah, well. my mom's watching this thing on the history channel, but its on commercial, one of those Billy Mays crap things. i can't think straight. maybe i schoud've chosen a more opportune time to do this. well, i'm wearing my one and only patiotic shirt, its a little semi-transparent thing with an eagle on the front, looks like the fornt of a silver dollar. we just got back from the grocery store, and now were whiling away the time til we go to moon for the fireworks. last year we went on my mom's friends boat, but its sposta rain today, so she's not taking the boat out. my dog hates the fireworks, so were not takin her. whole lot better leavin her at home, cowering under the bed. not. my job is going well. we just got back from vacay yesterday. i talked about us going on vacay to Allegany St. Park in New York, rite? well, the campsite was cramped, tiny, all-around pitiful. my mom laughed out loud when she saw the "crick"-it was barely a wading pool. i didn't see a single salamander, just these funky little crawly bug things. but we went to this place called Thunder Rocks, and climbed a bunch of huge rocks. then later, at the Bear Caves, poised for a supercool shot, we discovered the camera had died. aarrgghh! It seemed like Murphy's vacation. :) But it was fun. glad to be back, and so is Kacey. we got her outside my gram's house just in time for her excited piddles to start. it was soo funny. (sidebar: God, this documentary is sooo annoying!!) Anyways, so. that was all. just wanted to say happy Dia del Independencia. t-minus 16 days til i can (legally) drink! Go 21st birthday!!!

Ignorant hurtful beligerent jackasses run in the family

dammit i dont understand why it is so damn hard for people to just accept the way i am instead of having to belittle it and rub it in my face that meat is there and that they dont care what happens to [poor defenseless animals. admittedly, i may push it too far from ktime to time, but i'm passionate about vegetarianism and animal cruelty, and theres no reason to use this information to hurt me. Telling nasty stories and laughing about the inhumane slaughter to defenseless animals right in front of me, knowing how i feel about this, and then laughing when i get upset is not something a normal person would do. letalone say nasty comments belittling how silly and stupid my beliefs are. i dont care if you don't share my beliefs, but the least you can do is pretend you don't think they're ridiculous and stupid and not even worth pretending they matter to anyone. i donnt want to be estranged from my family, but if they refuse to let me be happy by at least pretending they suport me, i'm going to have to. i will be happy, with them or without them. the decision is entirely up to them. Goddess i wish it didn't have to be this way.

new job, old quote, puppy love??

Not sure where i left of here last. its been a bit busy around here. got a job tuesday, yesterday was my first day. i clean silverware at this party rental place. its not bad. nicer boss, .50c more an hour. its kind of boring and monotonous. and i really need an ergonomic desk chair. my back kills. the bird...i told you about the bird, right? the flasklight rig failed, i buried it yesterday. bawled like a baby. *quote alert* a hungry angry baby. That's from serenity. I heart Mal and Jayne!! Haha.. Jayne's the peice of ass, Mal's the brains... any firefly-heads will get that. and be nodding in drool-covered empathy. ;) so... i'm 120 bucks richer, for cleaning a couple thousand pcs of flatware. i might not be able to post very often anymore. maybe on sundays. i'm sure my vast adoring audience is just crushed. ;) i think im neglecting my poor mouse. I feed him and all, but... i don't know. i feel bad. he is just the cutest little thing. I love him so much more than i let him know. you know? poor Kacey's conked out. i'm gonna go get me a little peice of puppy love. or, in my case, puppy groan-and-roll-away-unhappily. ah, c'est la vie.

Well, i always said i wanted a bird...

So last weekend, i found this ginormous birds nest in my grill. and like an idiot, i called my mom, who told me to open it, hoping the birds hadn't laid eggs. and, like an idiot, i did, after a few weak protests. Well, the birds never came back. i think it was a finch tho. so later the next day (we are huge procrastinators in this family) after my mom threatened to do it herself, which i knew whould result in careless destruction of a poor little finch's hard work (the nest was almost a foot long!!), i did it myself, and found, guess what, an egg. so cut to now, where in my room there is a bit of bird nest sitting on my desk with a little white, brown-speckled egg in it, with a bulb of my medusa lamp pointed down above it. i leave the lamp on all day, and i have a pathetic flashlight rigged up to a hook in my ceiling for when i have to turn off the lamp to sleep. I emailed some people i found online, and i'm gonna do a lot of spells to help give the por thing a chance a life. i looked up some websites on how to raise a baby bird. I just feel so awful!! its my fault this poor bird's parents never came back for it, and if it dies, its all on me! does anyone know how many hours 1,420 minutes is? that's how often it needs to be fed. it said that raw meat is best for hatchlings. i hope turkeyburger doesn't make the poor thing sick. agghh! but now, i guess all there is to do is wait 2 weeks until it hatches. and do a lot of spells. i'll report back on what i try. wish me luck! oh, that reminds me. i looked for, and found, a four leaf clover in my yard, which i put next to the egg in the nest. i made a point or deflecting the luck off me, putting all of it into the egg. Goddess, i hope it lives.