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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The next few weeks are fabulous for romance, love affairs, vacations and just plain fun times. Party your face off. Let your hair down. Sure, it's good to work hard -- but you have to enjoy life, too. After all, the purpose of living is to be happy.
Damn straight. It's good to see that my horoscope agrees with my plans to quit my job to have an amazing summer off. As someone said at lunch though, hopefully in two weeks it won't be telling me that work is the most important thing for me right now. Four more days until "Valerie's Best Summer Ever" commences.
Went to lunch with Glen, Jen, Isla, Joe, Alina, and MK at Giordanos. Quote of the day:
Waiter: Are you ready to order?
Us: Yes.
Waiter: Too bad, I'm not.
hehe. Glen figured out that he could in fact pop my trunk through the window of the restaurant. SillyGlen. I had to run out to close it. :(
I organized my room the past two days. Not just cleaned, but organized. Cleaning involves shoving a bunch of papers and miscellanies into a drawer. Organizing involves taking everything out of those drawers and putting it into some order. I just couldn't start Valerie's Best Summer Ever as a slob. It's bad karma. Plus I am much calmer when everything is tidy. The last time I was unemployed, one day I decided to completely organize my room. Within the next week I found something that I'd been looking for for 5 years on ebay and found a job. The ebay thing might sound silly but I had this ballerina music box that my parents bought me when I was a kid after my first dance competition. The ballerina wore the same blue tutu that I had. It was destroyed in the fire and I'd always wanted it back. And I got it for only $5.
And holy shit: FRAGGLE FILM! and NEW DARK CRYSTAL due in 2007. The Dark Crystal is by far one of the bestest movies ever! If you haven't seen it I am so making you watch it some time. The new one will even have some of the same voices as the first which is totally cool.
What, did you really think I'd go all of May without dying my hair?? Sillysilly.
I did manage to hold myself off for a month (last time was April 29). This is color number 7 for 2006:
I'm trying to gradually lighten it (even though I know that after the wedding I might try some crazy reds). Up close in person it looks like a dark blonde. Perhaps I'll try one more in two weeks. :)
In more news, if you are reading this, you're invited to:
Valerie's Unemployed and Ready to Celebrate Celebration!
That's right y'all! I quit my job!! June 2 is my last day of being a real estate bitch, and what better way kick off (hopefully not much more than) three months of blissful unemployment than going out and getting wasted? I certainly can't think of anything.
So, come join me in celebrating my independence (or to buy me a drink, 'cause I've got no income).
WHERE:
The Kerry Piper (7900 Joliet Road, Willowbrook, IL 60527)
Scott recommended it, so if it sucks blame him. If it doesn't suck, I promised to do some table dancing.
It also looks as if there's a band scheduled to play - 3 Men in Kilts! Now, how can you go wrong with 3 Men in Kilts????
WHEN:
Friday, June 2, 9ish
Let me know if you plan on coming so I know to look for you!
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
While I'm at it, 6-6-06 is approaching. Since no one wants to marry me on that day and since it's a bit too late to have a baby on that day, I'll settle for going to see the new Omen. The original is one of the most genuinely creepiest movies EVER so the remake will invariably suck, but you should go on 6-6-6 day anyways. Anyone interested in going with me??? Anyone? Let me know!
1. I just realized that Monday is a holiday. I had no idea. Therefore, my count has been completely off. FOUR DAYS TO GO!
2. Ever have one of those moments where you feel so incredibly amazing? Yesterday near the end of work I got an email (I will share that in a few days...) that just made my year. Then on the way home I put down all my windows and turned up the music. It had just stopped raining and there was a faint rainbow out east, so I spent the ride home driving into a rainbow. You can't beat it.
3. On the radio this morning they were talking about the air guitar championships. They asked if it was a deal breaker in a relationship if your boyfriend announces that he competes in air guitar competitions wearing a loin cloth and having a whole routine down. While overall the vote showed that it was not a deal breaker, one woman called in and said that she broke up with her boyfriend because he liked to play Guitar Hero too much. So, Sidalicious and his posse best watch out. Or, start competing in air guitar.
4. Went to bw3 for lunch with Jen, Joe, and Glen and ate garlic parmesan wings and played wet nap memory. good times. While I was waiting for everyone else to get there a guy walked by and told me that he liked my outfit because "I look like summer is here." hehe
5. Went to bulk mail and the guy there just took my check and didn't bust out the ruler to yell at me for not having perfect bar coding or whatnot. Score! This probably doesn't sound like exciting news to anyone else.
6. I almost forgot to wear underwear to work today.
1. I really need to learn not to drink 4 cups of coffee before I go to bed. I can fall asleep, but it's a jittery sleep that makes me too tired the next day. But coffee with Brandana is much better than sleep anyways.
2. I watched 8 episodes of the O.C. this weekend since the end was ruined for me and I wanted to catch up before it was ruined even more. I also watched Once Upon a Prom on MTV. What's with all these girls dressing like skanks now? I wanted to look like a princess:
See, I even lost my glass slipper running from the ball.
3. 7 more days of work, 1 more class then the "Summer of Val" (phrase stolen from joejoe who stole it from seinfeld). And no, they still have not hired my replacement.
4. I'm watching the finale of American Idol. Shh, don't ruin who wins. I drove home from school with the radio off so no one would ruin it.
5. Sitting at your computer right now and not sure if you should play games or look at porn??? TRY THIS!!!
we went to the salt creek wine bar tonight. its bigger than parallel with a longer wine menu but the food isn't as good and the waitstaff is clueless. but i had 3 glasses of good wines. i think they went straight to my head and made me dunkish which is rare because i never get drunk without getting sick but my vision was a wee bit blurrified. the past 2 weeks adam and josh both had birthdays so we celebrated. continuing our tradition, jennifer dragged us all into the bathroom to read a poster. umm, there was more but i probably forgot. the kiwi tasted like rubbing alcohol.
edit: thought I'd add a few things since my wine wore off.
1. I bought Adam a card that said on the front "Happy Birthday!!! I bought you a card!!!" Inside it said "This is the inside!!!" on the back it said "Here's the back!" I thought it was hilarious and laughed outloud when I saw it. Adam said he liked the Garfield Pez dispenser I gave him more than the Sox tickets Jenny got him. Hehe.
2. The was one wine billed as "Yes, the wine from the movie Hitch." What??? There was another billed as highly quaffable. Another was made by a tattoo artist. Jennifer had that one. I had a sip, it was good but I don't like red wines because they are too warm.
3. Jenny and Adam may have an apartment in July. Shameshame for living in sin by living together before getting married.
We workshopped my story on Wednesday in class. I was actually really proud of it for many, many reasons. First, it was probably the first fiction I have ever written that actually was not based on my life. Second, I wrote it in third person, which I never really do. I also was also on one of those kicks when writing it where I'd keep coming up with more and more information about the characters lives, and that feels amazing.
My teacher thought that the writing was good, but the story was confusing and he had to read it a couple times to formulate what he thought was maybe going on. He basically got it right though. I knew it was confusing. i guess that's kind of how I often write. Like where the characters have some secret but I don't want to give it all away right away. I do that in my novel and in my essays too. He said though that a lot of the writing was good and that made me happy. Although he probably doesn't like me because I never talk in class.
Only 2 more weeks of school and ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS OF WORK!
Of course, I still have to polish up my resume, design a professional website for myself, put together a portfolio, and well, find a new job. Hopefully I won't be unemployed for much longer than three months.
And, of course, there is still no one here to replace me which is making my job even more miserable since I have tons of work and people calling constantly who I don't want to talk to because my mind is definitely not at my job.
Oh! And DAMN YOU MSN FOR RUINING THE O.C.!!!! Seriously, I haven't watched it since vegas, but have like 7 weeks worth of that show on tape. I planned on catching up this summer. I hate when they put big headlines about who dies and such that are unavoidable when checking your email. :(
I also hate shaving cream because the can gives you no indication that you are about to run out of it until you have one smooth leg and one hairy leg and nothing left.
I wanted to come home and write that he saw me. That he hugged me. That he told me his reasons for not calling and not telling me that he was in Chicago and that they made sense.
I didn't want to write that he came out and stood behind be talking to some other group of people and didn't even acknowledge that I was there.
I just left then.
Nadia and I went to see Mat's play tonight. Imminent Dangers of Love and the Afterlife. It was pretty interesting and pretty funny, about a guy who accidentally kills himself to try to attract a woman's attention, then is stuck in a waiting room because he doesn't know what afterlife to follow.
It was odd to see Mat, since he hasn't even spoken to me since December. He was standing in front of me and talking but not talking to me.
I guess I maybe thought that I'd be the first to know. And he didn't even tell me. he seriously must have put me on a plane and hopped on the next one to the same location and not even told me. Not even once cared enough to pick up the phone when I called. I thought I'd be the first and apparently I'm the last and he wasn't even the one to tell me and I had to read it in a fucking newspaper. And now I feel like shit.
1. my nails will never grow if I keep accidentally shaving them off.
2. my hair is getting so long that it keeps getting stuck in my armpits.
Fisch5881: i still owe you lunch for movies
faeriewingtips: i still owe you movies for lunch
A long, long time ago, I told MattH I'd give him Friday the 13th parts 1-3 (I had bought those then they released a box set that was cheaper to buy than getting the rest of the series individually) in exchange for lunch at Portillos. Today, we finally ended up getting that lunch. Mmmmhotdogandfriesandchocolatecakeshake. I enjoy eating lunch with Matt because only he seems to understand the value of ketchup in the same way I do. I think he kept a line waiting for a few minutes as he filled our tray with about 10 paper cups of ketchup (or perhaps it was catsup). We had a good talk too. It feels good to be at a place with someone where you can be truly happy for where they are.
Now, what would be a val update without some fun links?
Link #1: Play-Doh Perfume!!!
best perfume ever? I want this so much!!! Who doesn't want to smell like play-doh??? It's by far the sexiest scent around.
Link#2: Durex Dickorations
Umm, yeah. You know you want to click this. And you know you want to print it, cut it out, and try it on...and take pics and show me?? Eh? Eh?
If a movie bills itself as being based on the only recorded case of a spirit killing someone, shouldn't somewhere in that movie, a spirit kill someone? Just a thought.
Went to see American Haunting today for mothers day. Yeah, sucked. Sucked by MY standards of a horror film, so you KNOW it had to be bad. I did, however see a trailer for the new Omen. The Omen is one of the most kick-assiest movies EVER. Hopefully I can drag someone to see it with me on 6-6-06.
Earlier in the day I was in my mom's room and saw her barbies in her bookcase.
me: your barbies look like lesbians
mom: they are lesbians
me: OK
mom: why do you say that.
Me. the way they are positioned. They are looking at each other longingly.
Yeah, you decide:
After the movie there was one of those drug commercials where they say to parents to talk to your kids about drugs. My mom the proceeded to tell us (me-25, Nat-31, Jen- 34) not to do drugs. We then got into a conversation about how she never talked about anything. She sent Nat to talk to me about sex my freshman year of high school before I went to homecoming with a guy who was so-obviously gay. We both just laughed.
Jen said: "You taught us the wrong things. Like that you had to have LOVE to have SEX."
We then ate LOBAMASTER. Boy did we eat lobamaster. Last fathers day we gave my dad a gift certificate to lobstergram. He finally used it and we ate lobstercakes, lobster bisque, and lobster lobster. Giant succulent tails. Yumyumyum.
Oh, and Jenny on Mat:
Jenny: hmm. Jerk! :-)
Me: i know!
Jenny: better yet, booger nose. Thats what i like to say
me: hehe, he is a booger nose
Trying to keep my mind off the fact that Mat hasn't called. I was supposed to go out tonight for Josh's birthday, but no one called or returned my calls. I really needed to get out. And now my mascara's all over my face. So, to keep me semi-entertained, here's some randomness.
a) I have now seen two tv shows in the last two days where a person is wearing the same exact Target sweatshirt I own. First on some HGTV design show last night, and just now on Tiara Girls (this show is horrid. The mom is yelling at her daughter for eating crap like doughnuts and pizza because they are so bad for her...so, why is the mom buying them in the first place then?) Anyways, it was just odd. I love that sweatshirt and wear it too much. I wish I had bought more colors.
b) Random conversation with JoeJoe:
faeriewingtips (1:35:00 PM): ooo, i saw that this weekend is going to be the most exciting weekend ever in baseball!!!!
MMartian33 (1:35:16 PM): it is?
faeriewingtips (1:35:28 PM): yes
MMartian33 (1:35:39 PM): are they all wearing pink jerseys or something?
faeriewingtips (1:35:51 PM): wow
faeriewingtips (1:35:53 PM): http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5594322?GT1=8192
faeriewingtips (1:36:00 PM): do you know me that well?
MMartian33 (1:36:03 PM): oh my god
MMartian33 (1:36:11 PM): that was seriously a totally out of the blue comment :)
faeriewingtips (1:36:13 PM): haha
MMartian33 (1:36:33 PM): it was either that or 'are they taking the weekend off?' ... i picked pink
faeriewingtips (1:36:37 PM): hehe
faeriewingtips (1:39:23 PM): pink always makes sports more watchable
MMartian33 (1:40:00 PM): i respectfully disagree
c) Random conversation with Rob:
faeriewingtips: thre is one wearing a mask
faeriewingtips: the facial features look very much like a dude
faeriewingtips: http://www.ultimatesurrender.com/wrestlers/redninja.php
faeriewingtips: that one
faeriewingtips: http://www.ultimatesurrender.com/wrestlers/toni.php
faeriewingtips: that looks like a man too
LordPalleon: oh god
faeriewingtips: i ruined your masturbation for life
LordPalleon: :-(
faeriewingtips: hehe
d) I want to do a suicide suspension because I want to fly like a fairy, but I really don't.
e) I want my Kurt art but I don't want to be a pain and keep asking him about it, but it's been over a month since I last emailed him.
f) 3 more weeks of work. Still no one new hired. I am reluctant to tell most people that I am leaving because they will probably try to get me to do big projects for them before I leave, which I won't have time for.
g) I only have $81.16 left on my $500 target gift card. That makes me sad.
h) The gay dog shampoo people emailed me thanking me for mentioning them on my website. I found that funny.
i) the 16 year old across the street is having a birthday party. My car just missed getting hit with one of their beer bottles they threw by a foot.
j) my dad may have witnessed the other guy across the street dealing drugs the other day.
k) This site made me giggle: Romance Novels. It may just have been the fact that I hadn't slept at all the night before I saw it, but "This Book Costs More in Canada" made me laugh for ten minutes.
l) this also made me laugh: Mario Live!
I guess that's all the randomness I have right now.
Every time I called I thought I was calling two hours later. I guess I was wrong...
So, I get home from work. The local paper is sitting on the coffee table. There is a small picture on the front and I think, "hehe, that kind of looks like my ex-boyfriend." I look closer, it...is?...my ex-boyfriend. My ex-boyfriend who hasn't talked to me since December. My ex-boyfriend who might have picked up the phone 2 weeks ago and definitely called without me answering the other night. Who, last time I talked to him, lived in Los Angeles. I open up the paper. There is an article on him. Yeah, so, he apparently lives in Chicago and is starring in some play. Apparently he's been living here since January and apparently I'm not important enough of a person to tell.
My dad said that he saw it and was tempted to throw it away. I am freaking out. And kind of pissed. And, I don't know what. What?
a) I bit off all my nails. This makes me very sad as I have really not bitten them in a year and a half. I finally had really nice, long nails, then recently they started peeling and chipping a lot, so I decided to go without polish to try to subside that (I blame all the polish and strengtheners and removers) but the bare nails were just too tempting. I hope I can grow them back.
b) Baseball is Going PINK! They finally figured out how to get me interested in sports, dye everything pink.
c) I saw a car the other day that looked like the Nash Rambler I wanted. But it was all black and apparently a police car. It had a white police written across it and a little bump light on the top. I wonder if the guy driving it was really a policeman.
d) There is seriously something wrong with the voting system in America. Chris Daughtry was voted off AI???? WTF??? He was the most talented AND the hottest. Now they are stuck with an old looking gray haired guy who can't dance. If Jade wins ANTM next week, I think I might have to boycott reality TV. (although I might have to watch the dance version on AI just to see if I know any of the contestants).
e) I started telling people I was leaving. Mostly if they are asking me to do big projects that I know I'll eventually have to pass on to someone else. Hopefully someone new will be hired soon as I only have 3 weeks, 2 days left.
Musings from my professor:
"She was a bitch...I think she needed more Prozac."
"I love a world where poetry can pay the rent and get you laid."
Short story is done in the sense that it is turned in. I guess its good that its not great because it can now only get better in the rewrite. I don't like the ending though. I basically had one paragraph that I really liked and then another paragraph I really liked with a big ole blank spot in between where the guy was supposed to say something brilliant. It sat like that for 2 weeks, he never thought of anything. We'll see how it goes in workshop.
And wtf? I was so totally fine and then he calls and now doesn't call back. He was probably drunk or high or something and didn't know what he was doing.
Today I woke up singing Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten," even though its not really my kind of song, but they play it a lot on the radio so it gets stuck in my head. Then I checked my horoscope, which is the first thing I do every morning and I see this:
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The stars encourage you to do a freestyle dance. Make it up as you go. As the Natasha Bedingfield pop song goes, ''Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.''
Weird, eh? Kind of appropriate though as I spent my lunch break writing a paper and then after work a few hours at Caribou (mmm, campfire mocha) working on my story for class.
Oh, and this is a really cool site: Pandora
While watching the Kentucky Derby:
Me: So when the horse wins, who gets the money? The rider, the trainer, or the horse?
Scott: Some to the rider, some to the trainer, but mostly the owner.
Me: Oh, so the horse doesn't get anything?
Scott: The real money though is from the stud fees.
Me: Oh! So the winning horse gets lots of sex! That's a good prize.
Joe: Imagine if that was the prize for the Chicago Marathon.
Me: Oh man, I'd run.
I got together with Scott and JoeJoe today to plan some more of the trip. We booked two hostels: one in Interlaken and one in Florence. Yay! I want to stay here in Venice because it seems to be owned by a parrot. Who doesn't want to stay in a parrot-owned hostel?
Hmm, I just looked up the Interlaken hostel and it says: "We welcome guests from every confession. We are Christians and we try to share God's love with the people we meet in a natural way." Oh man, they are going to try to convert me. I am now scared.
I called him last night (It's been over a week, I've gotten better) and he didn't answer because he never answers.
He called me back an hour later, the first time he's called since early December.
The phone woke me up because I had it set on "way too loud."
I didn't pick up and that was the first time ever I heard him call and didn't answer.
Today was my dog's birthday. He is 62 in dog years and therefore retired. My dad made him cherry turnovers:
and gave him presents:
I was tempted to buy him some Fabulous and Gay Pet Shampoo because he is a closeted homosexual (he also is very into Frog toys sometimes, hmmm) but I never got around to it. He did get a doggy cell phone though, so he can at least be metro.
Oh! Only 4 more weeks of work!
So, my day didn't go to badly. I was quite productive and got my to do list down to less than 20 things! Woohoo! Now if my work was just as productive at hiring someone new...
At 4, my boss walks by and says "go home." I gladly oblige. At 4:30 I am halfway home taking my normal route of straight down ogden and think to myself "I'm making really good time." Um, yeah, that's when I come to a halt and crawl forward for the next half hour. After crawling, for so long, I finally come to what has been causing the backup: an overturned truck or something that caused them to block off a huge section of the road with no way to get past. They managed to block it so that with no warning, your only option was to get onto 294S. Now, as most of you know, I hate highways, I avoid them at all costs. They confuse me and scare me. And because of this, if I get onto a highway, I will have no idea where I am or way to go to. So, as I veered onto said highway, I immediately began crying and shaking. I picked up my phone and called my dad. No answer. I dialed someone else who I didn't want to call because I was not speaking to them but had no choice. Luckily, he picked up and guided me to safety. After leaving an hour early, I managed to make it home at my normal time. :(
After that ordeal, it was time for a girls night out of dinner, shopping, and a movie. We decided to go to Ed Debevic's because it was right near the theater and Jenny has never been there before and I haven't been there since after homecoming my senior year of high school. It was, well, kind of lame. So, the hostess was all, NICE, and NORMAL. What's with that? And it was swarming with little kids and the waiters weren't that MEAN or anything. Seriously, if you go to Eds never go to the Yorktown crap version. Go downtown.
Afterwards we walked the mall a bit and almost got trapped in the Carson's but managed to escape in the nick of time! Then we went to see the best movie I've seen all year (and I am probably saying that because it was the first movie I have seen)... STICK IT!!!! It was good, but not as good as Bring It On (although I seriously doubt any movie could be as good as Bring It On).
That is all because I am tired now.
so, it's one in the morning and i have been working hard for hours. On what? my reading homework? the paper i have due? the story i have to turn in? nah. i've been teaching myself flash over the last few weeks and decided that i had to make a dorky movie, so, ladies and gents, my masterpiece:
FLASH!
Umm, I have no life right now to report on (insert tear here). Umm, I watched three hours of wedding planning TV last night, that's exciting, right? I want a wedding but Rob says I need a boyfriend first.
I just wanted to update on that Kaavya Viswanathan case I wrote about a few posts back. So, first she denied having plagiarized Megan McCafferty's novel. Then she said she read them in high school and loved them and must have "internalized them. Then the publishers said that they would change it for a reprinting. Then they pulled the book off the shelves. Then it came out that there are (at least) two other books that she has similar passages to. Now they (finally) cancelled her book deal.
Seriously, this is why high schoolers should not have book deals.
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