don't let the smell stop you

Saturday, June 21, 2003

i drove today! i can never do that long enough. tacoma to home. and then it rained lots and there was thunder and lightning! so i ran outside and jumped in the puddles and got soaking wet in about 15 minutes.
other than that, went to brent's graduation, that was... fun... i guess.

Friday, June 20, 2003

okay. the hulk was long and boring. alex and emma was a very cute movie. but someone please, remind me why i don't like to go anywhere with my dad. today he goes into a huge rant about how (short, less annoying version) we're young and we can still fix things and if we feel pain we should get it checked out and we don't know everything but the doctors do. just because brent mentioned how his knees were stiff from sitting in the theater for 2 and a half hours.
ugh. i don't know if i'm pmsing or what, but lately i just can't stand to be around my parents.

heyyy. i've had a blog thing for over a year now! go ahead and read the other one before this, http://jengoody.blogspot.com it's kinda fun.
today, well, nothing's happened so far. but i'm gonna go turn in my stuff at zumiez soon, then go off and watch a movie with my mom. tonight me 'n my dad 'n brent are all gonna go see the hulk. for now, music.

Thursday, June 19, 2003

oops! got grounded again. don't know for how long, but probably for a while.
yesterday scott came home. i figured it was something serious 'cause my mom and dad were being all hushed about it, and they went into the den to talk. i was bored out of my mind, of course, so i went out and sat on the lawn and drank soda and listened to my new cd. i would've brought my bubbles but i was lazy. so scott comes outside, pauses on the sidewalk, and asks if i want to come on a walk with him. duh!
so we drove down to the bpa trail, and it wasn't enough. we ended up making any excuse not to go home. i saw his apartment up in seattle, watched some anime at his friend's apartment, walked around redondo, and ate at denny's. came home around 2:30 am. so when i woke up this morning my mom was really, really pissed off and bitched at me about not calling and such, and voila! i'm grounded.
it's hard to get me to care, though. i haven't spent any quality time with scott, ever. last night was one of the best nights i've had in a long, long time. no matter how many friends someone has, it's never the same as being able to talk to a sibling. it also feels really good to know that there's someone else in my immediate family who isn't a perfect clone of everyone else. it's tough living with brent and my parents. i always figured scott was like them, but just refused to admit it. and he's not. he's like me. it's cool.
it was really funny, actually. we got to his apartment and he introduced me to his roommate, paul. "paul, this is my sister." paul: you have siblings?? later, when paul was talking to this guy on his cell phone, he's like "scott's here with his sister... yeah, i didn't know he had siblings either."
anyway, it was just a really good night. i enjoyed myself, and i think scott did too. now, i'm just trying to finish filling out the employment forms for zumiez.

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

guess who got a job at zumiez?? haha, that's right, ME! i had a lot of fun, first with the interview then when i ran into liz and we wandered around the store. i bought some cd's and liz played video games while i passed out on the couch.
um, now, today i'm really not doing anything. listening to the cd's. filling out the employment form. i'd clean my room but... nah.
funny. i don't like this music as much as i should. warped tour 2003 and punk-o-rama. i love punk, right? so why isn't it gettin my blood flowing and waking me up?

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

today is dummmmb. haven't done jack. tried tanning for a little bit. it's really sad if this is all i'm gonna be doing for the next week.
evan and josh stopped by for a while, i love those guys! sure they didn't stick around long, but it was nice to at least talk to someone. got their cell phone numbers so now i'm supposedly going to change and start calling them.
watched cky and cky2k. ... weird. but i like them. brent's bitching about my bad taste in movies now, though.

been up since midnight, didn't feel like going back to sleep. started reading this book, got scared, felt like sharing a paragraph with everyone.

I grimace and try to understand. I tell her I'm her friend and I want the best for her and she's got to trust me. I tell her (and here I keep my fingers crossed) I respect her and Adrian's relationship, but a relationship should make you happy and I don't think she's that happy. I ask her if he's hit her recently and she tells me he hasn't hit her in a long time. But something in the way she says it alerts me, and I ask if he's done anything that he wouldn't do if, say, I was in the room.
Which is when I find out that last night, after Lizzy's phone call, Adrian took a plastic spatula from Tina's kitchen drawer, a plastic bag from under the sink, locked Tina in her flat (saying he might call at any time, so if she rang anyone he'd know), sauntered down the road to the park, shoveled three fresh dog shits into the bag, returned to the flat, donned a pair of yellow rubber gloves, then smeared dog shit all over Tina's face and into her mouth while hissing, "That's what you are."
Apart from that, he's been a real dear.

... scary, huh? completely unexpected, too. anyway. my alarm's gonna go off in half an hour or so. i should probably just start getting dressed now but... nah.

Monday, June 16, 2003

so! i got an interview at zumiez. wednesday. wish me luck! i really want the job. best case scenario, i get the job at the aquatic center, and the one at zumiez. 3 hours a week of a job i love that pays well enough, not long-term at all but still good. and one that pays well, will pay better, and is more stable, though much less enjoyable. it's perfect! i really really really hope it goes like that. if not, well, oh well. i can always try again.
lay outside and tanned for a while today. i'm getting a late start this summer, but oh well. i need to figure out which pieces i'm gonna use for the best tan lines. i'm thinking right now i just need to find a rubber band to... never mind, not important. i ran into joey at the mall today! can you believe it, he's leaving tomorrow?? i didn't get to see him at all! oh well, he sat with me while i filled out my application.
oh! and i cleared out my locker today so i have a bunch of pictures to put back up on my wall.

Sunday, June 15, 2003

lots to add today!
let's see... i'm grounded for a week, and my parents have lost all trust in me. it's back to the days of the used concert. but it was worth it! ... haha, see, just the same!
anyway, yesterday was one of the better days in my life. started out pretty bad, first aid class and costco and just sitting around at home. jon called 'round 4:30, went and saw dumb and dumberer with him, then just wandered around the mall for hours on end. saw some people we knew, got kicked out of the smoking spot, and went to arby's for about 2 hours. walked home around 10:30, got bitched out by my mom when we walked in the door at 11. ohhh well, it was good clean fun, the thing was my parents were watching some program about teenaged girls getting raped and it was all really bad timing. i should've called. too late now, though. it was worth it! jon is seriously one of the coolest people i know now. he's like... oh who am i thinking of... ryan? umm... yep, ryan. ha, i was looking at all my pictures trying to think of who of all my friends i connected with on the first day like i did with jon... no one, not even close, except for maybe ryan. which is really cool!
other than that! this morning, skipped church and slept on a sunny patch of grass out in front of a motel. only after i got kicked out of the reception room and chased by the minister who was trying to convince me to actually go to the service.
so today brent and i went over to fred meyer, real quick-like, to buy some cards for father's day. the one for my dad is hilarious! front: it's father's day! look, i got you a card!! inside: this is the inside of it!! back: here's the back!! we were just walking out when brent stops and shhh's me, telling me it's gonna be really funny. he walks up to this kid, stands right in front of him and goes "hey eric!" really loud. conversation went like this:
eric (paniced, startled, confused): huh? oh.. hey brent!
brent: what are you doing here?
eric: um... i don't know...
brent: well, why did you come to fred meyer?
eric: to, uh.. buy batteries?
so they start talking and this kid (eric tavares) has had 6 hours of sleep in the past four days. stayed up late thursday, got up early friday, worked after school, went to the graduate night thing federal way had on friday night, then went straight to work saturday morning. it was really funny! he followed us all the way to the doors and was like "why am i here again?" me: "to get batteries. they're back there, by the cards" eric: "oh, um... thanks" and he wandered off.
sooo other than that, elaina and all them folks got mip's friday night when they went out drinking. some naselle punks broke into their cars, stole their stuff, then called the cops and got them all in trouble. their licenses were taken away and they've all got fines. looks like i won't be going down there next weekend after all.
oh, and friday, ryan came over for an hour! he just ran crazy in my room, flinging stuff around, hiding my clothes in the bathroom, and i duct taped his hair and he stuck the hairy duct tape to my ceiling. saw umm. hollywood homicide with tommy, brandon, liz, tuey, and this guy chris friday night. ran through the fountain with liz. got wendy's and stuff, then sat on brandon's car and talked to him, tuey, and chris for a long while. it was fun.