Hmm, there's a lot of music in my download directory. I wonder if anyone would get pissed if I deleted some… Heh.. AFI is lame.
Hmm, so anyway I just got back from about four days of Aberdeen. I'm really starting to like Aberdeen. Don't get me wrong, I have in the past year learned to love Brookings, a place is what you make of it. There's great people here. Brookings is like a big warm, fluffy bed. (complete with an obnoxious alarm clock and the reoccuring nightmare/wetdream theme). The thing is, sometimes you NEED to get out of bed. That's what Aberdeen is to me. It's still outside my comfort zone (people, AAH!) and that's a positive thing. Aberdeen seems to have more things to do. The Rooster, Salvation Army, The Mall (heh..), some unsavory things to do in cars… *cough*, and a lot more. Oh, there's also the occasional show too. I like that.
So, speaking of being outside my comfort zone, I spent Thanksgiving with ~30 of Steph's relatives. (and all I got was this crappy drink cover… ha!) Actually, it wasn't bad at all. I got to see Steph's crazy aunts and uncles and stuff. I got to see her cousins. I spent some time assigning the names of my relatives to hers.. hehe. I do that. We also played cards, and the second time I won all the money. I'm rich off of Steph family. Muahahah! My $9 in quarters will rule the world! Riiiight.
Hmm, besides the family stuff, there was lots of fun. I've now been to the Rooster more times while awake than when I'm dreaming, so that's a good thing. I've gotten to taste steph's favorite CLT sandwich, hold the T and put it on a croissant. Hmm. Just lots of random little fun things. Everyone there is hilarious. I'm in a constant state of amused. I think Friday was my favorite day, most of it being spent at the Rooster. We also made a trip to Salvation Army where I got a grey trenchcoat, a red jacket reminiscent of a bad Michael Jackson video, some $2 alligator shoes, and a great shirt to show my Aberdeen Golden Eagles school spirit. Being driven around by Elizabeth of Ella in a car with Steph, Mandy, and Kristina was great. Mandy's not allowed to touch the door anymore.. hehe.
I got to eat Mexican food with God. How cool is that?!
Ooh, I also discussed some comic stuff with Jeremy. The woeball might be making a new friend soon.. buwahahaha.
Saturday was cool too. I saw Treasure Planet with Steph, and found Emma's robotic counterpart. Steph found her new role model in the form of a feline captain. After that it was to the Rooster. Oh, another highlight of Friday was watching Jesse (eh? neat dwarfish/elfish man) teach Mandy various dances. That was really pretty. Mandy rocks, and her head makes loud echoey noises when it hits the ground… Steph and I determined that Mandy and Emma are very similar. However, Mandy has the advantage of being my new boyfriend. She's the Gay Fonze! Snicker, more on that later. I also got to experience Becca. She's really neat. I'm pro-her. Oh, I also got to see Jason Kitto of ninja fame again. Luckily, there were no scary raver girls surrounding him. (a traumatizing post-camp incident last summer) Oh, Friday I also met Amber Madsen, whose brother I apparently look like. I respond with the statement that she looks like a cross between Bjork and my sister. Neat girl. Back to Saturday! At some point, Mulletman/Neanderthal/Whatever, Jeremy, Alyssa, Mandy, Steph, and I all loaded up into Becca's car to go for tacos. We ended up at the mall, naturally. Mall mischief fun! When Mandy and I were asking when the Ring let out, Mr. Kolbman and Mike in a Wig ™ walked out. All of us then went into stealth mode in hid behind a corner. Well, at least Mandy and I did. There was some incident between the group wanting to watch the finished version of Rinkle Mee and Kolb being a big dumb girl. Well, not really, but it kind of went that way. At some point we left to get tacos. Mmm, tacos. After that I was sad because I was whisked away from the Rooster kids and blarg. Luckily I was saved by a phone call telling tales of how the Rinkle Mee premeire would occur! At Clint's house. I like that I've seen this Clint person once for a few minutes, but I've been in what's been referred to as “his house” several times. The movie was a really funny/odd sort of thing. Minimal plot and maximimum pre-pubescent Jeremy, Leslie, and “Forehead.” I only say pre-pubescent because most of it was filmed two years ago and they all look so tiny. Especially when they're on tv. They're like only a few inches tall! Erm.. sorry. Anyway, it's the world's best film. I highly recommend you all see it today. The super hero Rinkle Mee as played by Leslie is fricken creepy, but in a good way! After the film Kolb and Mike showed up. Everyone seems to not like Mike, but I don't know everything, so he seems like an ok guy to me. It was weird. Kolb was feeling masochistic I think. Mandy punched him in the face. Later he told Alyssa to kick him in the balls. It was highly amusing because she did. That Alyssa girl is neat, as are most Aber-kids.
(TANGENT COMING, feel free to skip!)
Saturday also had unnecessary dramaish stuff. My heart was broken (and to think, only two nights after my first kiss!) Oh well, it's probably better this way. Or is it? They say it's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all, but I think I might disagree. I've never been in a real relationship which is one of the things that bothers me most. Everyone around me has a significant other (I don't care what you say, you DO). I really would like to know what it's like, and this thing recently was the closest it's ever come, and then my hopes were crushed and I got hurt. I was thinking of whether I'd prefer to have the few happy memories + my current melancholy state or to have never had anything. I decided that nothing would have been better, because I've had this hurt feeling before for things of lesser reality, and it hurts more each time. They say I'll find someone someday. But what do I know? I'm a teenager living in the here and now, the future is an abstract (THAT's the word!) concept to me. I feel dumb for how I feel and I feel angsty and teenagish and crap. I wish I didn't. I want to be above emotions, it'd make my wit even more effective! Ha.. crap.
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The way I originally wanted to start this was “Wow! Beck really does make everything better!” but that was temporary now that I think about it. I downloaded the New Pollution video. Very fricken pretty. And guess what, my new boyfriend was in it, yeah! There was a girl that looked and moved and dressed just like Mandy. Fricken neat.
Oh.. right, the new boyfriend thing. Joke relationships are neat, plenty of emotional attachment without the damn strings! I suggest everyone get a few thousand today. Saturday night was fricken awesome once it got past 2am or so. It was a MandyStephTopher sleepover party where everything was funny, including madlibs, and we drowned our sorrows in ice cream. Heeh, very very offkilter and.. while I hate the word, wacky!
Sorry for the long entry, I wanted to get some stuff out and tell about the loads of fun I did have. Sorry for the half-coherancy and the skipped parts and stuff, that's the way I think and journal. Bye bye all!
(confidential to rapid mandi: you're fricken neat too. hehe)
(confidential to marmar: you'll always be my favorite coping device, and I mean that in the awesomest way!)
(confidential to emma: you're neat.)
(confidential to laura: sorry for missing the play, but I'm sure you did beautifully in your pink tutu. i need to write you)
(confidential to everyone else: poof! I like you all. you're all a part of me, no matter what. I wouldn't be me without the people I know)
p.s. Ack crap, I forgot Wednesday existed. I got to see Ashton for a little in Webster. And I got to buy a neat movie poster.. haha. So that was fun too…