gabe sucks

we're all american girls.

hmm

i've been having all sorts of urges this morning. first i wanted to delete my blog. then i wanted to get my nose pierced again but the place nearby doesn't open till noon. then i decided i wanted to dye my hair but i can't decide on a color. now i kind of want to do all those things and drink some water.






don't worry erik, my minutes start over today. feel free to leave 6 minute messages again.







this fascinates me

gravy

my roommate still sucks. i just heard her yelling at my roommates cat. yeah, he might be a bitch, but still....she sucks.

i spent the weekend with my mom and brother. one of my brothers. it was nice to see them. slightly stressful and anxiety provoking, but nice. they got in on saturday and we all went out to dinner......i ate pizza.....it's been a whole year!! i felt pretty terrible afterwards but i think i needed to do it. i've been thinking about it and whenever i think about something for a few months i can usually eat it once and never want to eat it again. it's out of my system. it's only happened a few times since i've been vegetarian so i don't feel so bad. i'm going to fast for the next couple of days so i can cleanse my body of the terrible cheese toxins. at around 10:30 we went to navy Pier to watch the fireworks show. it was hellllla crowded and the show was mediocre at best.

my brother and i came back to wicker park that night and decided to go out. we got some alcohol and started drinking at around 12:45 or so. we didn't head out to the bars until 2:30. whoops. we went to the bar a couple blocks away. we were already drunk. i bought a drink and he ended up drinking half of it even though he was way more wasted than i was. the bar closed at 3 so i was going to send my brother back to the hotel. after a couple of failed attempts to give him very confusing/drunk directions for the train, i decided to just shove him in a cab and send him on his way. he refused because he didn't want to waste the money. so i forced him.

i wasn't ready to go home so i headed to a 5am bar. somehow i ran into a guy i knew on the way and we chatted briefly about where i'm working now. when i finally got to the bar it was hella crowded, as usual. so i bought myself a drink and sat next to this guy. he told me if i was going to sit there i needed to tell him a joke. i told him the only joke i knew was a distasteful joke about jews. he was ok with that.

we talked the rest of the night. he told me he was 80% gay. then he asked for my phone number and said he wanted to hang out soon. i don't really remember anything we talked about but i remember we got along really well. he gave me a ride home and by that time the sun was up. he and his friend invited me back to their place to read trivial pursuit cards but i declined saying i should probably sleep.

sunday was hangover recovery day. i was soooooo hungover but i had to go back downtown to hang out with my family again. my mom was in conferences all day so my brother and i crashed on the hotel beds and watched bad movies all day. i watched legally blonde twice because i was too lazy to find the remote. hangovers suck.

today i woke up and walked around the city by myself for a while. it was really nice. i got to see some places i've never seen before. the city is really beautiful. slow people are annoying. i don't think i can go there very often because it's infested with tourists. slow, gawking, tourists.

i've blogged enough, here are some photos.




my mom and i at navy pier



navy pier again. i love the city at night.



lame ass fireworks show


i thought it would be cute to change the lettering of the elevator sign in my mom's hotel. it was.



waiting for the train


my brother an i peed in this tricked out mcdonalds. it was really modern and it looked as though they might have actually put some thought into the design. weird.


more mcdonalds



this was about the only picture my brother would allow me to take of him. it was in the mcdonalds.



tonight we ate at my ideal restaurant. ESPN zone. the place was covered with TVs. ALL playing sports. mostly baseball.




and if the 15 TVs on the wall 10ft in front of you aren't enough, there are also TV's on the table. you could choose the team you wanted to watch and adjust the volume. now i know what heaven is like.......surprisingly they had a salad i could eat there. i had to make a bunch of modifications to it but it wasn't bad.....for a fucking ESPN restaurant.










i really feel like watching twin peaks right now but i don't have the money to rent it. can someone plllllleeeeease buy me all the seasons for my birthday??? i will love you forever.

the sun is rising

i just got home from the continental. it's the 4am bar here. they played the best dance music i've ever heard at a bar. it was amazing. i had a really good time tonight. despite the fact that i've never felt so violated by sleazy assholes in my life as i did at this bar. i guess that's what i get for going out dancing alone. being groped by strangers sucks.



if this blog doesn't make much sense it's because i'm still drunk and the sun is coming up. i guess i should go to bed.




my date sucked tonight btw.

#1 reason why my new roommate sucks

i woke up this morning around 7:30 and of course the first thing to cross my path were the cats begging for food. except this time there was no jasper. sometimes he gets trapped in one of my roommates rooms so i didn't think much of it. as i sat down to breakfast i noticed my roommate had left the kitchen window cracked about 4 inches. i stopped and immediately started crying. i knew he had gotten out. i know my cats. jasper has this amazing ability to fit through very small areas. i walked out to the deck area and looked around a little but i knew he was gone. he's not the type to hang around. so i got my bag and set out to look for him. still crying. i walked to the alley way and called for him. during this time i was trying to figure out which picture i would use for his LOST poster.


after a few minutes i heard a little, pathetic meow. it was jasper. it took me a while to figure out where he was. he was hiding under a motorcycle that had a weather cover over it. oh and did i mention it stormed like a bitch last night. poor thing. he was a little shaken and has some weird grease on his back (probably from the motorcycle) but other than that he was ok.



i confronted my roommate about it later and this was her response: "oh really? what a dummy."


i really wanted to punch her in the face.

wow....

i've already had to flip off 3 different people today and it's not even 5:00.








i think that's a new record for me.




i love this city.

tiles

i just got bombarded by cats. whenever one of them figures out how to open the door the others follow and they craw all over my bed and smell things until they get bored about 6 minutes later and decide to leave.

i rarely get the desire to blog anymore but i figure i would update those of you i don't talk to on a regular basis. i've gotten some urges lately to discontinue my blog because i feel that if you really give a shit about what's going on in my life you would contact me some other way. blogs are cheating. but then i had a late night conversation with erik about this and he told me i was over thinking things. which is probably true but i can't exactly control my brain when it comes to my thought process.

i have an interview on friday at a super hip bakery down the street. they're always playing good music when i'm in there so maybe i'll like the place. if i get hired i'll have 3 jobs....ooppsss...i guess i might quit the stupid one and keep the thai restaurant. i've made some friends there and i make really good money when i waitress. the other job can suck it.


i've been drawing comics lately but i'm too embarrassed to show anyone except ilenia. i've given her a couple (a new one is in the mail for you!). i really enjoy doing it but i lack any sort of drawing ability so i'm working on that as well.



my mom and brother are coming in a few weeks. my mom will be here for business so i wont get to see much of her. her company is giving her free tickets to the lionel richie concert and she wants me to go with her. UNFORTUNATELY i work tuesday nights. durn. i'll probably hang out with my brother a lot. which is good because we haven't spent much time together the past year. he wants to hang out in wrigglyville (aka "bro"ville). i said hell no. i'll stick to wicker park even if it is overrun by boring hipsters.


blaaahh i have to go to my other job now so i've got to cut this one short...not that my blogs are ever long or meaningful...

i miss you guys

suck it

sorry i haven't updated in a while. i'm on my hour break in between jobs right now so i hope this makes you happy....gabe. i'll be typing while i'm shoving my face full of lettuce while i try to finish my meal before i bike off to my next 6 hours of serving assholes. i've been very busy working and haven't had the urge to blog. i thought of something i wanted to blog about yesterday but i decided it would offend almost everyone that probably reads my blog so i decided against it.


i'm watching montel right now. it's about violent tweens. yeah, tweens. there are some albino twins on right now and thier mom is all upset and shit. all the videos they're showing don't seem that abnormal. they just seem to be average boys but whatever. maybe that mom needs to get some balls and take charge.

my new job is really great. i make really good money and the people i work with are nice. i ended up hanging out with the guy that trained me on my first night until like 2am. i was crazy tired when i got home but i had a really good time. i finally found someone that appreciates my dumb humor.


my old boss from the vegan restaurant called me yesterday for no reason. he just wanted to "see how i was doing". it was a really awkward conversation. i think he wanted to hang out that night but i told him i was really tired. weird.




all i can really blog about right now is my work so it's probably a really boring read. which is why i have no desire to blog. maybe when my life starts getting exciting i'll have more to say. everything i think of to blog about seems to be offensive in some way so i think i'll keep my opinions to myself.

shucks

i came across a crumpled piece of origami on the sidewalk today. it reminded me of an assignment i had in fifth grade once. we had to learn how to do something and then teach the class. i decided to learn how to make a jumping frog out of paper. you folded up the paper, like origami, and if you pushed on the end it was supposed to jump. most of the class got it from what i remember. there's always a few dummies out there who fuck up, but overall i think it was a success.




another kid taught us how to tie a tie.....like on a business suit. i don't remember how to do it anymore but every time i try i think back to the fifth grade. i wonder if he still knows how or if he even needs to.





someone else taught us how to make a stuffed snow man out of a sock. i think that was my favorite. mostly because it was something larger than a tea cup i could acutally take home and stare at until i got sick of it or "too old" to care anymore.



i wish i could be 10 again.

grand

the other night some guy told me i had an old soul. i don't know what that means. or if it's good or bad.




i drank too much caffeine tonight. i hope i can sleep. sorry for talking your ear off tyler. you know how i am on coffee.




erik.


i want to see you.



oh yeah, when the fuck was that pic taken of me and channing on your myspace?? i don't remember that at all. i look wasted.





sally.



you can pick me up friday evening. my bus gets in at 7:50pm. so get there at 7:49:56pm central time. it's in KC at 10th and main. don't ask me for directions cuz i don't know. mapquest that shit. and bring all my bitches with you. oh, and i might need a ride back monday morning around 10ish.......so.......um......i would give you gas money......i love you.......or i guess i could hitch hike. i'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to see you. i have gifts and lots of love.




ilenia.



get your fucking phone fixed.



neesa.


call me bitchass.




stephen.



suck it. i'll see you in july.








here are some memories


























































i miss you guys.

check it

i got my real person job!!!!!!



it was all in the business suit. guaranteed.



for those of you who don't know about this job, it's with americorps. americorps is kind of like the peace corps minus the 2 year contract and living in a foreign country. i'll be working in chicago public schools with kids. yeah, kids. i know nothing about kids. i hated them for a long time, actually. so you might be wondering why i want this job. it's because i love things that challenge me and i think this might be a little challenging. i also get payed next to nothing so i'll probably have to have a second job on the weekends. most likely waitressing. they offer food stamps if i didn't want a second job but i think i'll need money for traveling throughout the year. i get the same school vacation as the kids so i'll be going to kansas or miami or new york. hopefully all three.



it starts in september so i still have 4 more months of working a shitty job 6 days a week. yay!!!! i think this will be great because ive been thinking about doing ESL in japan next year. i'm sure having this experience would make me hella qualified for ESL which would be really exciting. hey neesa we should do it together!!!! that would be insane.



oh, and i also got my 300 big ones from our lovely government so i bought my plane ticket for new york today. i'll be there in early july for 5 days. i'm soooo excited!!! neesa i know you dont check my blog often enough so i'll post the details on your myspace.


ilenia,


it was your last day of school. i'm so happy for you!! i just got your message about the email from the ra ra riot guy. thats pretty rad. it's because youre so awesome and god wants you to party. if i could i would send you 10 dollars in the mail to buy yourself a cheap bottle of vodka to get wasted off of tonight. live it up. you only finish school forever once. i don't even know what i did on my last day of classes. got wasted i'm sure. we'll celebrate next week. 7 days!!!!! i'm counting down. i have a present for you. you're going to love it. over and over.
kisses.

beef tips

i quit my job today. well....one of them. i gave them 7 minutes notice. whoops. i made some rice and watched maury. guess what the topic was???


i had my "big person" interview yesterday. i was pretty nervous. yeah, i wore my business suit. two people interviewed me and it took about an hour. about 20 minutes into it i began to think about the vegan cookies i had back at home. i had forgotten about them so i got pretty excited. i think it went well. i should hear something within the next 2 weeks, so i'll let you know. i hope i get it so i can finally feel like i'm doing something important with my life.







i don't know what i'm going to do the rest of the day. it's my last day off before i come to lawrence so i feel like i should use it wisely. cut copy is playing here tonight. i would like to go and dance the night away but i think it's sold out. bummer. neesa, if you were here we would have bought tickets last month and we would already be wasted right now waiting until 10 came around so we could dance until we dropped.



good memories.



i think i might walk around and take some pictures.



oh yeah, i cut my hair too.

i like your scarf

why is it that the drunkest asshole in the room is always the one that hits on me. do i really look like i would be receptive to that shit. gawd.



i went downtown today to explore and find something proper to wear to my interview. i got off the train and started walking. i came across this crazy looking amphitheater in millennium park. there were hundreds of people and some weird band playing. so after walking around staring at people i realized it was a polish festival. that explained why everyone around me was speaking another language.


i'm such a dummy sometimes.



afterwards i walked to the lake front. it was cold and kind of rainy but it was really beautiful. i regretted not bringing my camera on this trip otherwise i could have posted pics!!!! whoops. looks like ya'll will have to visit me in person to see that shit.



after that i finally did it. i bought a business suit. i thought about my mom when i was looking, and what she would have to say about all the things i was looking at. too shiny, too tight, too trendy. the funny thing was, she called me during this. for some reason it just pissed me off so i didn't answer. i found something i thought my mom and i could agree on so i spent 50 big ones and decided to go back home. i listened to her message later while walking back to the train. in the message she told me she had bought me a business suit. i swore very loudly.






considering my interview is in 3 days, i have no idea what she was thinking. is she going to fed ex it to me overnight or something!?!?! wtf?!?!





stress...


i finally uploaded some pics of my apartment. they don't really do it justice. it looks to be really boring and lame but its super cute. so suck it.




























have fun at the party tonight kittens!!!

because i can

i'm getting really tired of the boys i work with. the other day they made a pussy out of tofu. then decided to smother it with cucumber sauce. after countless attempts to get me to look at it i finally told them to fuck off. i think they got the message.


good news though. i have another job. not that it will allow me to quit the other one yet but at least i can have some breathing time.


all i have done the past 2 days is eat, get strong uges to cut my hair, and get sad for really dumb reasons. i think i'm PMSing. this hasn't happened for a long time. maybe i dont want my period to come back. fuck this.




my mom sent me a check for 50 big ones for a business suit and in the memo line she wrote 'think conservative!'





i almost vomited after noticing that.





for those of you who know about the current mother situation, you should know how i feel right about now.



so when i went out to look for something to wear to my interview next week i was attracted to the trashiest things. hmm, i wonder why that was. i think i'll go to the ghetto thrift store down the street and spend $10 and spend the rest of the money on booze. that'll show her!! right? except she'll never know and if she actually found out i would feel really bad. maybe i'll spend it on cat toys instead.





neesa didn't answer her phone so im going to watch some weird science now.

my pillow smells

my mom called me this morning. i had just woken up and i was hungover. she told me about this business suit she found at macy's that was marked down from $280 to $80 but she wasn't sure if it would fit me. that's really the only part of the conversation i payed attention to. i don't even know if she ended up buying it for me.




i really want some orange juice right now.






i think the words "business suit" will make me cringe for the rest of my life.

i'm really surprised

i didn't get mugged last night.





i'm such an idiot sometimes.

yeah, i know

i haven't posted in a while. so what.

i've been on the phone with sprint for the past hour trying to get my bill figured out. i'm hella annoyed so this post might be bitchy. my roommates have had like 3 people over in the last 45 minutes to look at the apartment. they are all potential roommates of mine for the next few months but i really don't care to meet them. i just want them to leave so i can take a shower. it's kind of funny to listen to their conversations. all fake and bullshit. "yeah, OMG, it's so cute", "oh so youre in school, thats cool, blah blah blah blah".

heres some other childhood videos i was thinking about today.






i'm bored and poor.

this one's for my ladies

ah, the good ol' days

little slut

i was thinking about this video today. i probably haven't seen it in 12 years.



it's pretty badass.

peanut budder

why did i post that?





i should somehow make my blog inaccessible when i'm drunk.

pound for pound

it's almost 6 in the morning......i guess adderall was a bad idea. whoops. erik just called me. i guess he didn't expect me to answer. i did. we had a nice conversation. sorry erik, next time you call me at 5:30 i probaby wont answer, unless i snort some adderall. but i don't plan on doing that again for a while. it's kind of lame.




my tummy hurts.

rubber bands

.......i think i got stoned last night







i just snorted some adderall. shit, what's chicago doing to me.





someone from lawrence, he'll remain unnamed, forced me........ok, not really.





i think i'm drunk right now. it's only 10. damn.




















kittens.

i could be at neon right now

i ripped a hole in the crotch of my pants today at work.

that was cool.

i also just ate like a cup and a half of cashews and almonds and now my tummy hurts.

i think i might be allergic to wheat gluten which sucks ass because it makes up about 2/3 of the menu where i work. the rest of it is fried. and i don't eat that either. but there is one salad i can eat.

i took a trip to the whole foods market today. it was a rainy walk to the bus stop but it felt really good. the whole foods market here is actually cheaper than the merc. so the merc can suck it.

i accidentally bought a lot of heavy things and didn't realize i had about 20 minutes of walking to do in the rain. then i was a really big idiot and bought coffee. there was no way i could carry that shit while walking in the rain and successfully drink my coffee. i ended up spilling most of it. it was shitty coffee anyway. not worth the 1.80 i spent on it.

i'm beginning to like my job more each day. my boss lets me choose which music to play so i just bring my ipod and play whatever i feel like. but i have to avoid depressing/offensive things. so that rules out about 72% of what i listen to.

it's interesting to see the kind of people that come into a vegan restaurant. i would never guess some of these people were vegan. it's actually really awesome. whenever someone gets excited about being vegan it makes me excited all over again. then i end up blabbing for like 5 minutes until i realize i should probably shut my mouth.

the people i work with are interesting as well. they're all totally different, but we all get along really well. i'm trying to teach the mexican boys that work in the kitchen to teach me spanish but i don't think they understand. one of them just calls me honey and sweetie or bonita, then he gives me the sexy eye. i remind him of my name and then shake my head.

i still don't think he knows my name.

i took pictures of my apartment to show yall but i'm too lazy to upload them right now. it would probably only take like 4 minutes........but.......i just don't feel like it. maybe tomorrow.

sometimes i feel like the new kid at school eagerly waiting for someone to invite them to the pizza party. too bad i'm so shy. it's ok, i'm keeping myself too busy to be lonely.

holy shit. did anyone ever play this game when they were little???!!!! i fucking loved this game. my brothers and i would play it all the time!!!!

anyway

happy birthday sally. i miss you. i wish i could be there to take "a few" birthday shots with you.

i hope this makes up for it.

sometimes i think i can melt into things, but i know i can't. you know, like alex mack, except i wouldn't turn into mercury or whatever, i would just take on the properties of whatever i melted into. i think that would be cool.

that was weird. i'm so high right now. you believe me......right tyler?

i wish, so i could fall asleep. i guess coffee fucks me up for 12 hours. should have thought about that around 11 this morning. whoops.

i noticed tonight on my walk home from work that my neighbors are currently prepared for every major holiday. they have christmas, halloween, easter, and the forth of july taken care of. i think i'll do that when i'm older and acutally give a shit about littering my house with holiday decor.

i'm done.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxxxxxxxxxxx

sloppy seconds

hey friends

i think today was productive. i job searched for about 5 hours and then came home and passed out for another few hours. this shit is exhausting. then i decided to take a walk. a long walk. out of hipsterville and to the city. it's about 3 miles from where i live. it was really great. there were a few sketchy areas that creeped me out along the way but i didn't get mugged. success! i decided to take the train back home instead of walking another hour or so.

i also ran into an old friend from lawrence randomly on the street today. weird. i like him but the only downer is that he used to be kind of obsessed with me. every time i would see him out he would beg me to marry him or he would tell me that he hated me. so........yeah. not really sure i actually want to hang out with him. but, hey, better than nothing. right?

i got the urge to go dancing tonight but i don't have anyone to go dancing with :(

where my bitchez at??!!!!

there are many hotties here. it's nice.

i think i've only seen 3 sorority type things walking around. that's also nice.

wayyyy too many hipsters. not so nice.

good vegan places. very nice.

here are some photos from sunday night when i hung out with baby birds. it was a good night.

this is my friend willie. we used to work together. somehow his roommates know people that know baby birds and other lawrence folks. strange connections.

this is my friend amanda. i met her last time i visited. unfortunately she doesn't live here. thumbs down to that. we have some good times together.

this is amanda's BF katie. she was fucked up. she was also really nice.

too cool for skool

too cool for TV

this was drew's first bus ride. EVER. well, he probably has ridden on a school bus at one point. but he was real excited none the less. i let drew and luke crash at my place cuz all the other shitfaced people were crashing at the other apartment. my roommate was awake when when got home making some weird puff pastry with her boyfriend thing. i hope i didn't freak her out by bringing home 2 guys on my second night there. whoops.

here are some pics from my going away pot luck. i had a fun night. i thought i took more photos than this but i guess not. too much alcohol.