16 posts tagged “outings”

Chuck and I went over to Brittany Rose's house today and we ate a lot. There was a bunch of meat but I ate vegetarian baked beans, a baked potato, some of the kick-butt sweet potato casserole that Charles and I made to bring and some other stuff I don't remember. Cordell and his crew were there, too, making a taser out of a disposable camera body and playing some jams. Pretty normal acoustic guitar stuff until the guy in the corner (behind Cordell in the white shirt- you can't see him) starts beatboxing. I got it on (admittedly low quality) video out of boredom.

Tonight Chuck and I are going to lay around and probably eat more food yay.

So.. I got my tattoo yesterday. I don't want to take a really good picture of it right now, though, because I'm supposed to keep a thick layer of ointment on it and the bird is pretty bloody. Expect good pictures in a few days. :)

The experience was awesome, too, even though the actual process of putting ink into my skin took an hour and, no lie, it hurt. It ended up being $300 even, but I guess that's a good price if slightly over the top. I'm completely happy with it, so I guess it was worth it! The sparrow at the bottom is gorgeous. The black-and-gray shading is way amazing. Again, I'm just waiting for it to heal, because the artist said that the shading would look more developed when I don't have to keep it moist 24 hours a day.

Anyway, this weekend was cool. I got to hang out with some pretty awesome people, like always.

Hello peoples. It's totally been snowing (almost) all day. Charles spent the night with me last night and we went to get breakfast at 10:30am, followed by a quick trip to the Hobby Lobby. When we walked into the parking lot from the store, it was snowing. :D So we screwed around and took pictures and got Japanese food for lunch and went to Cookout for milkshakes!

Oh yeah, last night we saw Cloverfield. It was pretty good for a free movie. :)

I never really said how the party went, did I? Well, it went fine considering my hair is a mess. I have also realized this new-found love for dancing. So much a love that it makes me want to go to prom. I mean, apart from the cute dress that I would have no reason to buy otherwise. Either way, the party was fun and I saw the DJ like three days later working at Edward McKay's.

Today I'm hanging out with Kearstin and I should probably be getting ready right now but I'm totally not. I've also started a journal, which is a new thing, but it's a lot cheaper than therapy and prescription medication. It's almost addicting to write in, but after you just write so much, there's nothing left. Oh, and, Phantom Hourglass rocks my socks despite the fact the rom file I have on my DS has a tendency to freeze when you least expect it.

I'm kinda tired from last night, considering the only sleep I've gotten in the past ~29 hours was from roughly nine until noon this morning. I had a really good bagel with goat cheese and coffee earlier, though, and that was pretty much worth it. Not to mention spending time with three of my (sometimes) favorite people ever, Double A- Alcoholics Anonymous, birrychrist, and Chuck. To be honest, I was feeling pretty horrible earlier, but I think that's just because I was tired and my uterus was aching something fierce.

Anyway, I'm kinda scared my dad is horribly mad at me and is going to inquire as to what my exploits last night were and why exactly I didn't come home until eight in the morning. I mean, it's not like I was doing anything out of the ordinary, but I feel so guilty when I don't call him and just shake all responsibility. We have to ride in the car together to see if we can get my non-functioning cell phone fixed and I don't want to face his questions.

Wow, a moderately interesting post for once! Well, okay, it's not all that interesting, I just have some actual pictures instead of celebrity news or music. I've actually attempted to do something with my life today instead of what I usually do: gripe about not doing anything! To be honest, yesterday, I did a butt-load of laundry which, although strange and unusual, makes me feel totally awesome. It's motivated me to do other things, too, like other people's laundry! And towels! And bedsheets! It helps that we have 1) a new washing machine and 2) awesome laundry detergent. I was thinking about cleaning up, too, but since there aren't clothes everywhere there's not that much to clean.

Anyway, while I was hanging a bunch of towels out on the line, I walked around the side of my house and saw the hugely overgrown back door to the garage. You can't really tell, but it's right next to the back porch, and that area is beautifully overgrown with ivy and roses and sunflowers and lovely things. I looked at the door, and it really reminded me of some British mystery show or The Secret Garden. Pretty awesome.

I made some cupcakes last night at about 11pm, and they are the most delicious yet. It's just your basic chocolate cake with this amazing solidified dark chocolate ganache topping. I think my family has been scared to eat them because they're both vegan and dark chocolate, but they are delicious. I promise. The middle one even looks like the symbol for Pi! If you squint. Kearstin's coming to visit tomorrow, so hopefully she'll try them and like them.

Also, there's my dog, Pepper.

I kinda lied about there not being any music, but think of it as a side dish rather than the main entree. I finally downloaded Our Love To Admire and I like it. Just more of the same from Interpol, though, but it's a nice refresher after hearing the same songs on repeat forever. :)

Brittany has also asked me to gather my boyfriend so we can go on a double date with her and her boyfriend. I generally feel a little guilty about inviting people on Charles and I's dates, but they're a couple, so after the movie and dinner, they'll be wanting to go back home just as much as we will.

This is a new favorite: War Of The Robots, an Italian movie from 1978. I bought the kinda messed up VHS tape from a used bookstore and that stuff's crazy. The video on the left is an "abridged" ten-minute version of the ninety-nine minute film. It's sad, but I really don't remember what's missing. Also, Chuck, your hair is starting to look like the robots' hair. For real.

Anyway, I'm on spring break now, which is amazing. It's also amazing how fast the time has flown by but I guess that's what I get for actually doing things outside of the internet (curse you real life!) so I'm hoping today can be a pretty chill, sit around and wallow in your menstrual cramps kind of day. I've totally had enough excitement crammed into this week already: the weekend was amazing (yuh erzo you know what's up) and then on Monday and Tuesday, Samia and FLIGHT and Double A- Alcoholics Anonymous and I hung out. We had pretty fly times on both days, even though we really didn't get anything productive done (okay, well, Nyssa bought a bra!) and I ate a lot of junk food.

Yesterday, birrychrist and his girlfriend and Double A- Alcoholics Anonymous and Chuck and I went cheap-tattoo hunting for Billy. He ended up getting some design done on his upper arm, but I have yet to see it because him and his girlfriend had to go back to her house before he was supposed to take the bandage off. After that, Aaron and Charles and I went and bought lottery tickets and played on an elementary school playground. Charles went home, and Aaron and I just kind of hung around doing nothing at my house until Star Fox 64 got boring (that last level was killing you, dude) and got enought change together to get two gallons of gas for my car. We just kinda randomly picked a highway and drove.

Earlier in the day, I had drunk like three medium-sized cups full of coke mixed with strawberry minute-maid so I kinda had to pee really badly while we took 52/8 north and then 77 west. We stopped at this freaking "mall of the highways" with... everything. Gas station, arcade, diner, lounge, everything! After I used the bathroom we played a game of.. well, some aliens-from-mars pinball game. Aaron and I totally owned it, really. About a mile down the road we crossed into Virginia. This picture is of a telephone booth at the "Virginia welcome center" rest stop area, and there was also this really cute (and obviously lost!) cat that I wanted to take with us but she wouldn't get close enough. There were beautiful mountains, too, and I can't even begin to describe the view of the lights from where we looked down on some huge city.

About an exit later, I saw a sign that said "to 52 south" which was totally the way home, because.. that's the way we came before we got on interstate 77. Of course we got hellishly lost, and ended up running out of gas like thirty? minutes from home and Chuck (eventually) came and brought us gasoline. We just ended up hanging around doing nothing, though. I finally got home... pretty late in the morning.

Anyway, we're at the present now! I really don't know what I'm doing the rest of the week! I mean, Charles and I are probably going to do something Friday (lol sups @ two month anniversary) and Kearstin and I were supposed to do something today, but I was a total idiot and I said I'd call her but I forgot her cellular was lost and didn't call her house until this morning. We haven't spoken so I don't think we're going to do anything. I'm also kinda worried about my dad getting onto me about coming home late last night, and I don't have any way to rationalize that so.. yeah I suck.

erzo and I went picnic-ing today! We traveled to this large, open garden (Reynolda Gardens in Winston-Salem) and ate a bunch of healthy vegetables, fruits, and... soda. Oh, well, whatever! It was delicious!

When we first got to the garden, they were having some sort of festival or something and there were all these cars parked in the grass. Very environmentally conscious, those folks. We found a parking spot easily on the pavement overlooking these cars.

We found a nice spot, overlooking all these people who were unable to get a kite flying. Although, it was obvious that one has to run to get it into the air. We ate, discussed how dirty the word "phalanges" sounds (which isn't at all, am I right?) and started walking around the nature trails. We're also planning on having another picnic, next Caturday, but this time at my house. We have about sixty acres of land, most of it forest and some pasture, and I wouldn't be worried the whole time that eating's not allowed. But, anyways, Erin stepped in dog poop and had to wash it off.

Later we saw a snake crawling into this old building and it was pretty cool. I was trying to convince Erin it was a jumping snake but she didn't believe me. :(

Speaking of frowns, Kearstin and I got into an argument and she won't accept my apology so I'm looking forward to awkward silences tomorrow. Whenever we get into arguments, she's so unhuman and takes everything as completely final. I mean, friends go through all sorts of things, and I think the best thing is just to keep on living and trying to remember that we've been through worse things. I'm especially the one at fault here, and I realize that, but that's not good enough for her. She says that it's not worth it just to be hurt again. Well, then, nothing's going to change at all and I guess she can look forward to riding the bus to school every morning if she wants to do that. But, I think people are full of faults (well, I'm full of faults) and she's not completely perfect either. It's not worth ending our friendship over.

It's kinda depressing when you initially plan to go to a free Chris Daughtry concert in downtown Greensboro and end up roaming the streets instead. I guess it was kind of an excuse, because there were people walking around everywhere and I'm afraid we might have gotten accosted by someone if it was just any regular night. I don't even watch American Idol, and I've still never heard any of his music, so it's really not a big deal, to me, that we didn't stand around getting felt up by a bunch of people.

This is a picture of "the Mummy's tomb" at the Guilford County Courthouse. We (Chuck and Double A- Alcoholics Anonymous and I) went to sit on the steps near the building, and Aaron eventually found this weird spot. It was especially strange to look at in real life, because all of the area around the entrance was really dark.

After going back to the concert area and finding birrychrist and his girlfriend, we headed back home via business I85. The token eighteen-year-olds went to this porn shop that I've always been admiring in downtown High Point, and bought me this penis-shaped sucker. That was very considerate of them, am I right?

Really, after that, everyone had to go home so Aaron and I just ending up going to two different parking lots in Kernersville to talk. It was about two am at this time, and I needed some things from Wal-Mart, so we went inside and bought the following items: one cool pink and green toothbrush, male deodorant, a piece of poster board, and this hair cream I'm dying to try. Very run-of-the-mill stuff. On my way home, after dropping him off, I saw this car flipped over with tons of people standing around. It was about four in the morning, but there's still nothing on local news websites about it and I'm really curious.

To the right is my lovely gift. Sailor Moon Clock is doing a great job of holding it for me. Also, just a small silly complaint: I have this massive project due on Tuesday and I'm just not feeling it. A 1500 word paper about mercury compounds as toxic waste with an accompanying poster. I can't draw things for school-related projects well, and the amount of differing sources for the paper is annoying. Kearstin is also coming over to my house this evening, so I have to clean. Not cool. :(