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

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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