weekend recap: re-revival edition

so i read my last post and laughed at myself. here i am sick again, smoking again, but at least i really have been creating quite a bit. go me.

friday
-dylan and i did a shoot for johnny lloyd rollins.
-well, dylan shot it, i "styled" johnny and made some somewhat helpful suggestions.
-we visited a cemetary, a pile of rubble, a sex club, and made johnny splash in huge puddles.
-if there's any way to accidentally visit a sex club, it's with your ex and a mormon. totally.
-headed back to plano for a SLEEPOVER with a bunch of boys.
-at this point i should have rested....

saturday
-avoided the greenville st. patty's parade because a) i'm probably too cool, and b) i was still cold from our outdoor photo shoot in 40 degree rainy weather.
-headed to blake and dave's for an afternoon par-tay and enjoyed laughs and food and rock band.
-highlight of the day was when batman (leaving a child's bday party) made me a balloon animal. in his underwear. from his van. it was just as creepy as it sounds.
-sometimes being the only sober person is hard....i don't wanna struggle through a conversation with you if you can't focus your eyes....i think that's fair....
-i actually drank a little, gave up pretty quick, god i hate drinking, i CANNOT BELIEVE how much i used to drink.
-realllllllly should have rested at this point....

sunday
-jon jon arrives and we play and talk shit to each other in that special way that only siblings can.
-head out with alex to the bath house cultural center to see a new piece a good friend shayne had in their natura fragilis.
-the show was AMAZING, lots of really cool art by women, shayne's piece was great as usual, and they had the best snacks i've ever had at an art show. cream puffs, lemon cookies, chocolate swirl pound cake, and coffee.
-then we went to the sold out (!) adele show at granada.
-IT WAS SO GREAT. i cried when she sang 'melt my heart to stone'
-actually i cried a few times, it was really nice.
-still no rest, i had this coming.


some adele for you, if you don't love her yet:

guess what i found?

my old video camera from back in the day. now if i can just find the power cord, i will soon be able to show you footage of berry's 21st birthday, new year's eve 2002, and the beer-lympics (also 2002, i believe). get ready to be embarrassed of your younger self. especially you, bogan. haaaaa.

other happenings, i quit smoking. it's pretty much all i'm thinking about, but i know it will get better. and i can't bear the thought of NEVER again enjoying coffee and cigarettes, so i think i'll still allow myself to have one when the mood strikes. yeah....that always works...

i'm producing a ton of work this year. get excited. cakes, crafts, photo projects, styling, etc. they will be documented thoroughly here. but some of them are secret so you'll have to wait.

my health is better than its been in awhile. i feel GOOD. turns out that vitamins and excercise are freakin magic. who knew? oh, right. everyone.

so this is what's happening

i haven't had my phone since friday. i've been sick since saturday night. i haven't driven anywhere since then. i haven't slept more than a few hours at a time. on the other hand, i haven't been able to stay awake more than a few hours at a time. i haven't smoked until today. my stomach only want french fries with copious amounts of ketchup. i throw up at least once a day and threaten to do so much more often than that. i've spent my days in hospital beds, waiting room chairs, and curled up in my sheets. i have ice packs and juice boxes delivered to my room regularly. i'm not complaining, really. it's not bad, and i'm really well taken care of. it's just annoying and turns your world upside down a little. it's weird to be cut off from the world, be on a different schedule, your life revolving around one thing, your shitty health. i haven't even played with my clothes for days AND i have tons of new dresses to play with. that's how sick i am. these meds make me feel crazy and have weird, innappropriate dreams. we haven't had thanksgiving yet, something about a football game, i don't know, i'm sure it's stupid though. i can't think of a legitimate reason to postpone a holiday having to do with football. jon jon gets here tomorrow and i can't wait. he takes good care of me. my hippie, political protesting, guitar playing aunt also arrives tomorrow to celebrate the holiday with us. she annoys the shit out of my parents with her liberal ways so that's always appreciated. she's also terribly witty, which i enjoy being around. so we're having a late thanksgiving which is fine because holidays just make me all anxious anyhow, what with expectations and all, i mean, isn't that the quickest way to be disappointed? yeah, it's probably best not to have expectations. that's why i never make big new year's or birthday plans. hello, plans? meet disappointment. oh, you've already met? of course you have.

what the hell is my problem?

check me out! i don't know why i do this, but i recently realized how many pics like this i have accumulated this year....i'm wondering how many in my lifetime...i've being doing this since i was about 12 or so...isn't that when beavis and butthead was on tv?

honorable mention for 'huge jerk that flips the bird in public all the time': kari (duh)

i feel that hers are more sincere and heartfelt than mine. something to work on.

next week: super drunk pictures, mine and yours

weekend recap: "i don't understand you, art!" edition

let's replace friday with thursday, cool? cool.



thursday
-jackie and i TORE IT UP at putt putt
-batting cages, we each did 90 pitches, rocked it, sore the next day
-played tons of video games
-jackie is inexplicably amazing at skee ball
-we played some really cool zombie killing game where you have plastic shotguns and it got pretty intense (i was sweating) and now i kinda want to shoot a real shotgun...
-dance dance revolution is fucking fun but tiring, we are old maybe, song choice is also very important
-we scored big time with cool prizes including friendship bracelets, fortune telling fish, and plastic lizards
-i highly recommend being 12 again and making a visit to putt putt
-do it


saturday
-jackie and i lay out, shop, eat, and beautify ourselves all day
-we get ready at her house and her dad teases me about seeing me in 4 different outfits throughout the day...yeah...i do that
-cathy comes over and makes mojitos, sort of
-we head off to pick up adam and friend for the night
-things start out at space for thank you
-got to see fred and jordan and john and valda and dee and sherry and others, yay
-space was the hottest place on earth that night and we were all dying, dying i say
-we head out early to escape the hotness and death and go to cosmos in lakewood
-we run into all the gals from work, they are already wasted, awesome!
-adam sure was a good sport, attending weird art things, with me running off to talk to someone new every 2 seconds
-hilarious conversations here are some quotes:


"only pee comes out the pee hole."


"is your 'medical research' really just porn?"


bike dude #1: "you need to get over leah."
bike dude #2: "sigh..i'm not gonna get over leah, she's my girlfriend."


"so i was getting fresh with this guy and he untied my dress and then i got shocked by an electric fence..."


"ok, that's enough, kids. hey, get off my friend!"



-jackie likes adam so that's good. i like him too. he is very yes. so far.

sunday
-wasted the day away napping and eating and watching tv and putting together outfits, not too shabby

*don't miss the new post below*

weekend recap: (super late) girls weekend edition

so i was lazy and didn't do a weekend recap of girl's weekend. until now, after another weekend has passed. i suck. but hey, now you get two recaps. lucky.



friday
-sarah, jackie and i (and moco, sarah's furball dog) head down to austin in my car
-the car ride is one of my favorite parts of the trip
-we smoke a joint and laugh at jackie
-stoned jackie goes from zero to ten, normal to retarded, it is so awesome and funny
-the hills and trees and views in austin make me so happy
-at the house sarah pulls out a box of old notes from high school and we read them and laugh at what we thought was SO important, so dramatic
-the highlight was an IM convo between sarah and zach, a dtr of sorts, omg so hilarious
-went out for dinner at trudy's, jackie was appalled at our 11 pm dinnertime, she's a square
-food was AMAZING, my inner fat kid loves austin so much
-drinks and stuff and good times and no one gets crazy and there are no disasters


saturday
-we headed to the river in our matching tie dye t-shirts
-it was kind of an ordeal, late start, parking far away, waiting forever for tubes, walking super far to the river, crashing and spilling the cooler, ehhhh
-once we got to floating, things were cool
-jackie totally fell in front of tons of people, one second she was standing, the next she was not, so funny
-we tricked a guy into thinking we were all british: "wow, that's so cool, i'm floating with people from england, whoa..."
-the float seemed to last forever and we were certainly ready to get out when it was time
-we went to "the shanty" a dive-y looking place that promised "drinkin' and dancin'" inside, but were turned away due to a wedding party being held there
-seriously? the shanty? for your wedding? come on.....
-had a most delicious dinner again, at rudy's this time, jackie gave her compliments to the chef she liked it so much, this place is connected to a gas station
-leaving rudy's, shani insisted that this series of speedbumps was actually an optical illusion, and maintained this assertion even after driving over a few of them, they were bumpy, she finally gave in...gotta love shani


sunday
-one more incredible meal before we were headed back north, kerbey lane i love you so much, i would weigh 500 lbs if i lived in austin, i'm sure of it
-i want some coffee and pancakes right now just thinking about it....god...
-john joined us, with audrey and dillanger of course, they are off-the-charts cute
-audrey told us about her recent tea party, her new backpack for kindergarten, and the new word she just learned: androgynous
-my heart goes out to john, doing it on his own, doing it well, putting them first FOR REAL and not even making an issue out of it (teacher alert, i'm watching and appreciating and learning)
-the drive is so fun again, i wish shani could have been there for all the giggles
-we get high again, and stumble upon this convenience store that was frozen in time about 10 years ago
-i first discovered it back in december with jackie and hass, this place has candy you only remember from your childhood but haven't seen since, it probably is actually that old, oh well...nostalgia is awesome
-sarah downs a red bull and falls asleep, who does that?
-thus concludes girls weekend '08, can't wait till '09

girls weekend '08

was totally fun and cool. more soon....