don't let the smell stop you

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

modest mouse - summer

nothing new. brent and i agree that this summer is boring and lonely. i spent all day pretty much at tuey's watching tv and doing nothing. well, we did go to decatur and register bobby... but sadly, that was the most exciting thing all day. i also took some painkillers a little bit ago so i'm feeling tired. parents are making me go to hood canal with them this weekend, even though, i promise, there will be nothing to do. hooray.

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

slow motion - stupid rap song

jessika says i have to update this when i get home. but it's late (early?) and i'm bored so i figure i'll do it now, yeah? how about a play-by-play, start to end? i guess i can try.
Wednesday! eek scary! got off the plane and idaho is still beautiful, gorgeous, i love this place. wide open spaces, the horizon stretches on forever. no trees closing in on you and blocking the sky. so anyway. i see jessika and it's this moment of nervousness. i haven't seen her in almost two years, remember? is she nice? will she be mean? do we still have anything in common? the answer to that last one is: nope! nothing at all. we're still awesome friends but this entire time there's really been nothing worth talking about, just random stuff. but it's cool because we've known each other for so long. with a new person you feel weird just letting the silence stretch on. i don't care with jessika. just sit and listen to the country music. so we were going to go float the river with some of jessika's friends, but they left without us. instead we drove all over boise and up into the back country roads (and found this GINORMOUS house that's bigger than any house i've EVER seen - even the castle on american lake - well, not as big as bill gate's house, but HUGE) and eventually we ended up at mcdonald's, where our dear friend jenny works. i can't remember what we did after that, but eventually we went back to mcdonald's and waited for jenny to get off work. while we were waiting, this little boy came over and asked us to eat with his brothers, we were bored and figured fuck it, turns out the guys were nasty but it gave us something to do. plus there was a cool older guy with a motorcycle later. eventually jenny got off work and we drove around with her nasty boyfriend and later ended up at her nasty boyfriend's house. we sat in the garage and they all smoked cigarettes and jessika and i pounded a couple beers. should've done something - no effect. it was kind of boring. jenny's friend ashley hung out with us though, and later we went to jenny's and passed out on the floor.
Thursday!! jenny's parents woke us up and we all piled into their bed, the four of us passed out again and only woke up when jessika (who never really actually went to bed) offered to buy us all coffee. so we got coffee. and we told jessika's mom we were going to ride horses and go swimming, but really we spent most of the day trying to find someone who could sell us shrooms. (we spent the whole week trying to do this. nothing worked.) later we picked up this one girl's friend and we were going to go to the lake before getting shrooms (someone actually had them!) but then jessika burned out her clutch so everyone took off and the two of us sat in the parking lot and waited for her mom and the tow truck. and the rest of the day i have no idea what we did.
Friday!! we picked up jessika's cousin max and drove up to her cabin in cascade. we went tubing for a little bit on the lake, then walked down to the store where max got some guy to buy him cigarettes. later jessika and i drove down to the store for whipped cream where we ran into this one guy who mows their lawn and his very, very cute friend with shaggy hair and a beanie. they got us out of the house so we could go see the midnight showing of the village (crap movie.) max was on painkillers and half-asleep the whole time. turns out the local cascade guys are really, ungodly boring, so we got really irritated with them and made them drive us home. the three of us camped out in the living room with lots of blankets and pillows, fell asleep around 3 am maybe.
Saturday! we went boating again! max did some wakeboarding, jessika did it too, i was too chickenshit to try again (not after the horrible disaster when i tried wakeboarding with brian and derek.) jessika and i sat on the beach and ate chips for a while. then we went tubing again! only this time max's dad did the driving, and that man is an INSANE driver. crazy fun. and then eventually we flipped and crashed really really bad and after we hit the water and tube floated about 20 feet into the air (without us. duh.) so then ummm... oh right jessika and i went grocery shopping and she baked a cake. and we watched the movie miracle with her mom. then we ate dinner. then we ate cake. then we watched more movies. then we went on a walk with max around the roads and on the beach and nothing really happened and we came back. then we fell asleep in our own beds this time.
Sunday! we drove home. and we watched the princess diaries 2 with jessika's mom. and then we rented movies and watched those, and after we watched confessions of a teenaged drama queen and (i forget what the other movie was?) and then we watched matilda! and then we went to sleep again.
Monday! we were going to go to the zoo but that didn't really happen because by the time we headed out, it was 4, and the zoo closes at 5. so instead we went shopping! and funny story time! we were walking toward the bon so jessika could buy a pretty dress when this guy at one of the mid-mall booths called us over and started talking to us about our nails while flirting big-time with us. 'cause i knew the laws about statutory rape and consent and all, this guy got it into his head that jessika was the good girl and i was the bad one. haha. so then his buddy comes up and puts lotion all up and down my arms, and he sticks around and is sweeping my hair away from my neck and talking to us in french. (basically we'd been sorted out. the french guy got me and the other guy got jessika.) so he was inviting me over for a home cooked dinner for my last night in idaho, and how i didn't need to worry, nothing would happen, he has a girlfriend and he likes guys anyway. and then he grossed us out by, when he asked him how many people he'd slept with, he said "20 in new york. but i've been all over the place besides new york." eww. so eventually we got away and as soon as we hit the bon we could not hold it any more and started laughing harder than i've laughed in a very long time. it was hilarious! oh i wish someone else could've been there. that was the most hard-core i've ever been hit on in my life. jessika too. so it was great! and then later her friends tiana and brittany showed up, and we did more shopping. and there was this really super cute puppy at the pet store that i want to take home with me but kathleen wouldn't buy him for me. she did buy me a belt though. which was cool. so then we bought lots of stuff from victoria's secret and then hung out with tiana's friend troy (super cute. gorgeous. beautiful. oh my.) we got mongolian bbq and talked and stuff and then came home and watched more movies. ta-da! now i've been sitting around talking to people online and it while the timer thing says 1:38 in the morning, it's actually 3:15. i get to wake up in about 3 hours to get ready to come home again. yayyy!