from the floor up

hey guys ! i have a meeting in like 30 minutes so i have to be quick ! we have a billion hour long meeting this morning, and then we're taking my boss out for a surprise lunch (thai food !) because her birthday just passed. that should be fun, but i'll probably have to work late since i'll be fucking around away from my desk for three hours.

when i got home from work yesterday, some random people were planting a tree in my yard ! i didn't say anything to them about it because i don't actually care why they were doing it. i asked them if they wanted a drink and they declined, though !



they were working in our neighbor's yard, too, so i assume it has something to do with when our neighbor's tree fell in our yard during the blizzard. that's all conjecture, though, cause as i said, i was too lazy to ask them !

later, mouse and i went to the park for awhile because it was super nice out. he uh, mostly talked about urban dictionary sex stuff because i accidentally inspired a purely academic interest in him on this subject by trying to figure out what a carl's jr would be while i was in california.


a carl's jr. is when you poop on a hamburger and lou reed eats it

when i got home, i decided to begin my first sock. the pattern i chose is really cute but it has all this hard shit i don't know in it ! like, for instance, i don't know how to make a sock, and i haven't done much colorwork, and toe up socks start with all the hard shit.



for some reason last night i was really having trouble with the magic loop? like, i know how it works, but my brain wasn't processing it, so it took me like 30 tries to get it going in the right direction. also, knitting something tiny hurts my eyes and hands and now i totally understand why all grandmas are blind and arthritic and crazy. i had to use christina's special lamp thing and i also kept having to take my glasses off and put them back on because i hold my knitting ALMOST at the point where i can see (i'm farsighted) but not quite. ugh !

i'm also very nervous because christina is going to boston tomorrow so if i have any questions she will be incommunicado ! well, actually, she will be... communicado cause she has a laptop and an iphone, but i'm going to try not to bug her. anyway, here's my toe:


i should really start using a real camera for blog pictures

my plans for the rest of 2010
- ride my bike and walk around for the summer/fall
- never wear a bra again (this will be tough in the summer- right now i'm wearing a tank top that seems like it will get gross in the heat)
- travel at least one other place (possibly outside of pennsylvania?!)
- learn to knit better
- eat at least 4 meals a week outside
- be less crazy

time for my stupid meeting ! bye.

girl fuckin friend

dudes ! i had so much stuff i want to talk about but we have two events at work today and i've been, uh, hustling to get some stuff done !

yesterday i worked a little late, and then mouse and i went on a walk in clark park.



clark park is the park in our neighborhood where they have farmer's markets, a little kid's larp, some outdoor fests, and big flea markets. plus, it has the world's only statue of charles dickens is- dickens made it very clear in his will that he never wanted a state or monument to him erected, and someone made this as a gift for his family without knowing that and his son got PISSED, so it sorta got lost in shipping crates for years until it made its way here and apparently we don't give a fuck about the last wishes of charles dickens



we were going to SIT in the park but we got started late so we just did a few laps and i explained some urban dictionary type gross sex stuff to mouse (when i was in california i kept saying 'carl's jr' sounded like a gross urban dictionary chest-pooping thing, so i looked up "hot carl" and um. it's like one of the worst things my brain knows now. don't look it up !) and he told me about a no-grunting gym in south philly. also he told me about his gimmick suggestion for the uh, dodgeball team he's on- the baseball furries.



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this is gonna be a neat weekend, maybe. i'm sort of bummed because there's a cool thing at laurel hill cemetery that jeanne is going to, but it's tomorrow and not sunday like i thought ! which means mouse can't go, and also i have a car reserved to do my grocery shopping and errands and stuff and it's important that i stick to that junk for ED stuff.



but saturday night i'm going to mouse's mom's with him to meet his new nephew, scott the baby, and on sunday i think jeanne is coming over and we're going to try to make sweet potato salad (we got the idea yesterday and were like, 'oooooooo'-ing at each other. roasted sweet potatoes, green onions, and maybe some kind of honey mustard vinaigrette? something with lemon? not sure what herbs would go with that).

oh yeah. hey. how do you wear stockings without getting a run in them? i wore them today to dress KIND OF nice for work and i ripped the knee on my way in and now i basically look like ramona quimby. i will end this entry with some important facts about me..

important facts about me
- i made it through the 90s without ever hearing "send me on my way" by rusted root or "laid" by james
- i don't have stereoscopic vision
- in the late 90s, i was interviewed by planned parenthood for their teen website about ONLINE JOURNALS (because i've been doing this since 1997 before "blogging" was invented !). that isn't interesting, but the guy who interested me did production and electrical work on the phantasm movies !
- i have eaten rattlesnake before. it's sort of like turkey neck, but it tastes like a snake smells. D:

p.s. big ups to the ladies in my community whose efforts to get the band drunkdriver to stop touring with a rapist were successful, and the dudes who supported us. despite seeing a bunch of men say a bunch of vile shit about rape and rape victims in the process, i was extremely heartened that the ladies never backed down and that some dudes actually are vocal feminist allies (and not the type who agree with us in private but won't stand up for us in public because he doesn't want to upset his bros).