rednex - cotton eye joe

the last couple days are a big blur... i'm only getting a few hours' sleep at night, but maybe tonight i'll be able to sleep longer? friday early i got up and drove to montesano to pick up elaina.. we sat around talking to kimbrough for a nice long chat, which was fun, then drove all around the area doing random stuff. watched garden state again - i really really like that movie. later we went down to sumner to elaina's cousin's house, played with their pitbull and looked around at the glorious white-trashyness. i left elaina and went to tuey's for a little, watched her, brandon, and renee play crazy 8's. then i drove back to tacoma, and watched the manchurian candidate with ryan. and hey, this was a trip! that movie is crazy. it's the 1962 version, and the whole time we're sitting there in stunned shock at how amazingly good (confusing and funny in a way that makes you wonder just why you're laughing.) the film broke at one point, so we sat around for about 20 minutes waiting for them to fix the film. we got free drinks and they played a trivia game for free napoleon dynamite posters (yeah, i won one.) at one point while i was driving home, all the lights on those giant hills in tacoma were green. so i skipped breaking and flew my buick down the hills. it was fantastic! i was laughing uncontrollably the whole time - much like the moment on the shopping cart, now that i think about it. i'm starting to notice the little moments again, see? anyway, it was great! i came home and crashed around 3, only to have my mom wake me up for home made pancakes at 8. they were really really good. and then we went out and got pedicures and manicures, and did lots of shopping and other fun things. i actually bought school clothes! and here i thought i wasn't going to do that this year. anyway, i also found out about this really neat store somewhere in burien with really cheap designer clothes (the sales lady at nordstrom's was telling my mom about it - it's her little side project, and she sends all her customers there when her manager isn't looking.) so i came home, took a nice nap, then headed over to tuey's for a night of drinking and debauchery. the whole atmosphere of the party was great. all the lights upstairs were out, we were talking in hushed voices (most of the time), everyone was happily drunk and friendly. luke and i didn't hate each other! haha. anyway, it was a highlight of the summer. a bunch of us slept on the trampoline.