suicide machines - i never promised you a rose garden

ahhh, yesterday. i am truly a girl, for there's no thrill quite like finding the perfect pair of jeans, cheap, and promptly buying them. after work i ran into kolbi, who is having a hell of a time with the staff at work. everyone's ready to rip each other's throats out, and she's the cause of it. it's completely unreasonable, and i really wish i'd been there to see what happened this morning. anyway, we walked around the mall, shopped a little, and she gave me a ride home.
i think it's becoming some kind of habit - every night brent and i go out and do something around 10. last night we went shopping. it was hilarious! i guess it's hard to imagine grocery shopping being fun, but there were just a bunch of little things that made it all great. you know how they mist the vegetables? well someone put up strobe lights and a speaker that plays thunder music, which comes on right as they do that. and of course, the fact we had a credit card and could buy whatever we wanted helped a lot. lots of soda, pizza, bread, and cereal. and apples. it was nice.
last night the dream was actually really cool, a new one and one i've had before mixed together. i don't remember quite exactly how it started, but this guy was in a helicopter being taught how to use a grenade launcher. then, in the middle of some ceremony for the enemies, he walked right in and belched and sat down next to the leader and started cracking jokes and causing a disturbance and confusing the hell out of everyone. then someone died, and he went down to the house and found the daughter of the couple who lived there. she was old-ish and slightly crazy, and kept talking about her brother swimming and his secret. so the guy went down to the water where she said he'd been swimming, and looked up at the stars and notices something wrong with the constellations. there was a star next to this other one that shouldn't have been there. there's like, an elephant constellation or something, and around the head is a clump of 3 stars in a triangle. and this time there was a fourth in the middle. and there was just this feeling of incredible excitement and... then liz called and woke me up, saying she made cookies for me. that was actually the third time someone had called this morning, but so far i'd been able to fall back asleep. not this time though. so now i'm up and i guess i have to start the day.