311 - love song

i am queen!
today's story time, starting at midnight: brent and i playing pool with chanel and mike. chanel takes off because her aunt was going crazy, and mike treats us to some excellent taco bell. we sat around his grandma's house for a while, looking at empty bottles and such. he showed off his pimpin' sound system that weighs down the back of his car. so then brent and i went home. and sarah went crazy psycho on his ass (well, she thought she was talking to me) about certain life choices i've made. and he told her off good. oh, how i love my brother.
anyway, then i called up pat to be an insomniac with me, and after a bit of shuffling about and making nice with the older ogre brother, i made it outside unnoticed and found that pat had brought friends! so. it was a cool night. we went down into this ravine with a trail going all through it. i was having horrible flashbacks to this summer at dead man's cove. yeah, the trail was like that. endless! except it was dark and cold, too, so it was a real adventure. coming back home, my dad was up and right next to the door when i walked in. smooth, oh yeah. well, i think i'm okay, i was just out a little later than usual. so i slept for 4 hours or so..
up bright 'n early when sarah called to hang out. i took a nice shower and made myself pretty, but i was feeling slightly nauseous from the mix of red bull before bed. so i met her at the mall and didn't feel very social around her.. she's not very exciting. a very negative and judgemental person. people like that are hard to be around. i had her take me to the bank and hairmasters.. 'cause those assholes cut it unevenly yesterday. but this cool gay asian guy did it this time, and he did a great job! a few snips and trims here and there and it's perfect! so then i just kinda got towed along as she went store to store trying to find an x-box for ryan. eventually she found an incoming shipment at gamestop, so she was planning on sitting around the store for the next hour or two until they came in.. and i gave up. i walked my ass across 320th back to my car, and went grocery shopping instead.
so.. not sure about what time it was when i got back, but i was feeling pretty lousy. i guess trying to run on very little sleep + caffeine for the last 3 or 4 days was catching up with me. so i crawled into bed while brent used my computer, and took a nap. oh, baby, that was the best. that was the highlight of my day up 'til then.
woke up groggily around 5 or 6. ate my last solid meal for the next few days - mm, chicken curry and rice! it was fantastic! headed off to work, where i had one of the easiest days in work history! absolutely no one came to public swim. i sat behind the counter and talked to alyson and jamie, rob was off painting something for his mom, and god knows what trisha was doing. but hell, when we can actually pull off having all the lifeguards totally obsorbed in something in completely different parts of the building.. i dunno, it was just awesome. i was getting that giddy feeling you get when you break the rules and don't get caught.
so after. mike called me to watch a movie.. and no offense to him, he's awesome and fantastic, but no. just no. so i went to jamie's where we made a gingerbread house! and played DDR. heh, i feel like an idiot now. at kenny's the other day they got me to try it.. i sucked ass and said i'd never play again. then i was sitting there watching clark play. and clark, he was on one of those tournament DDR teams that compete and win lots of money and do all these choreographed moves and stuff, before he joined the military. so he was going nuts doing all these turns and neat jumps and psychotic fast footwork.. so i gave in, i tried it again. and i guess everyone's right. it really is fun once you start. so jamie and i were fighting over the second mat for a while, before lindsey got bored and decided she wanted coffee.
so we got coffee! me, her, ryan, and his new boy eric all piled into lindsey's huge ass truck, and drove to starbucks. more about the truck later. but i love it. so yeah, i didn't know what to get... ryan finally got fed up with me and ordered something like, a peppermint mocha with an extra shot of chocolate and a triple shot of espresso. i'm not sure about anything except the triple shot of espresso. hell yeah! i loved him. so i'm wired again, from drinking all that. we got back to jamie's, but she was being kind of testy with everyone for being loud and obnoxious. so lindsey and i looked at each other and had one of those brain-connection moments. we were going for a drive!
and this is where i became queen. lindsey let me drive her truck!!! oh baby! i almost died. i named it hank the tank and drove him all over the place. the gas pedal is really touchy, so you press it to the floor and fly. we took him down through the neighborhoods by redondo, around dash point, over to norpoint and into the twin lakes neighborhood where lindsey used to live. but i am so hardcore, i got her lost! at one point we ended up at the ravine where i'd been earlier. but then we got lost again. so finally lindsey and i headed back to jamie's, but i gotta say, driving the tank around is the highlight of my break. out of all the things i've done, people i've met, rules i've broken, stupid stunts i've pulled... driving that truck around set me free. i feel powerful and confidant and invincible! nothing can take me down now. of course, when i crash from this caffeine high, i'll feel a little different. but pretty soon i'll be too drugged to care anyway.