you can't ignore my techno

im in a new apartment and i have way cooler neighbors because they don’t lock their internets. i’ll probably try to write more now since i dont have any excuses. starting tomorrow.

its been a while. i’ve had some good days and some bad days.

i am now the proud aunt of Thomas Masen Dyre Henderson. he’s the most perfect thing i’ve ever seen. and he’s the best thing that has happened to me in a long time.

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since i’ve found a place to steal internet maybe i’ll tell stories more often.

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(i will never be too cool for any fad.)

i think i’m going to sleep until march.

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turns out  my brakes stopped working because my brake pad fell out. well, one did. the whole thing was completely gone. and the others were all cracked and chipped it was really pathetic. and ended up costing $400. this sucks.

life lesson #17:

if your breaks make noise, get them fixed immediately. even if you don’t have money. steal some or something.

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laura: i miss you more!

colin: i’m really upset you aren’t coming this weekend.

chae: what the hell? i want to read your blog.

justin: come visit already. it snows like all the time here.

i think cher lives in my apartment building.

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it snowed here yesterday, and it was beautiful. i went outside and twirled and twirled in it. i was alone and it was past 11 so i didn’t feel self conscious about anyone seeing me. until i turned around and some guy was on his porch about 10 feet behind me. then i got real self conscious and tried to act cool.

i’ve been having some serious brake problems lately. my brakes make the most terrible noise every time i need to use them. (i’m pretty good at impersonating the sound, so if you wanna hear it, just call.)  i try and turn my radio up so i can’t hear it. i need to get them fixed real bad, but have no money. so whats a girl supposed to do? none of my options fit my moral code, so i’ve just had to deal with it. until today. i was on my way to work, they were making the usual noise, and then i accelerated. as a stop light was approaching i tried to hit the brakes…nothing. the pedal went to the floor, no noise, no nothing. it was one of the scariest moments of my life. what the heck are you supposed to do if your brakes don’t work. i thought about jumping. i certainly would have been run over. so i just didn’t gas it and hoped it would slow down on its own. it slowed enough i could turn into a gas station, and then it started catching again. they worked the rest of the way to and from work. jason is going to buy me some brakes tomorrow, so i don’t have to prostitute.

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i was up until 6 this morning rewatching the 1st season of 24. it was even better than i remember. i’m real anxious to see them all again before season 7 starts next month.

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i’m also on a wes anderson rampage. i guess marathon would be a better word.

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i had a really great thanksgiving week. nothing went quite as planned, but does it ever?

i went home tuesday night so i could spend all day wednesday cooking with my mom. this is the first year that she’s been totally responsible. my mawmaw always does the cooking. so the bar was set pretty high.

wednesday i woke up to start cooking and my mom wasnt there. i found a note that she had gone to the hospital to visit her friends dad. well i didnt know it but the man was dying and i keep calling my mom trying to ask her why the marshmallows wont dissolve in the jello.

thanksgiving day turned out really good. the food was way better than i anticipated and my pawpaw had a very good day. those are getting to be few and far between. i rode a horse. and i got to hang out with my cousin all day. hes really cool. i wish i got to spend more time with him, hes one of my top 10 favorite people to be around.

my pawpaw and i had made plans to go to ihops (or ipops, whichever you prefer) the day we got back from the cruise. well when my biography gets published the world will know why i never got back from the cruise because i never went on the cruise. needless to say we never went to ipops. so i wanted to take him friday. i spent the night at my aunts house in buna so we could go have breakfast when he woke up. usually he gets up at 7. but he was so excited he was dressed and ready and waking me up at 5.30. normally i would curse anyone that wakes me up at that time, but he was so cute in his harley hat and shirt. so we went and had breakfast before the sun got up. it was alot of fun though, i’m really glad i got to spend the day with him.

he makes up alot of stories too. i have to laugh or i’ll cry. but he’s convinced that we stole his truck and gave it to micah. (again, my biography will clear up why that isnt remotely true.) and he swears that my cousin takes the parts out of his chainsaw so he can’t work. and my cousin drains the water out of the toilet so he cant flush it. and my aunt puts trick apples in the ice box.

i got to help put up the christmas tree and then eat pizza and watch monk with my family friday, i like tradition.

if anyone is still reading after all that bore, i effectively got my friends here hooked on 24!! we started the marathon last night. and this is awesome

i really know i shouldn’t be doing this. but i can’t help it. for some unknown reason they start playing christmas music earlier and earlier every year. it’s kind of like the elections, didn’t they start all that crap before 2004 elections were even over?    …maybe it’s all the growth hormones in our food… anyway…

back on point, so what i know i shouldn’t be doing is listening to christmas music before thanksgiving gets here. but i’m doing it anyway.     sooooooo all of that was to get to this.. has anyone ever heard the song ‘celebrate me home’ (read lyrics below)   does anyone know what the hell this song even means?  i’ve always hated this song because i could never understand what he was singing. i just heard this song on the radio and decided to look up the lyrics so i could settle this score.

turns out i understood the words, they just don’t make any f*%^ing sense.

‘Celebrate Me Home’

Home for the holidays,
I believe Ive missed each and every face,
Come on and play my music,
Lets turn on the love light in the place

Its time I found myself,
Totally surrounded in your circles
Whoa, my friends

Please, celebrate me home,*
Give me a number,**
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I’ll always remember,
And I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can sing me home.

Uneasy highway,
Traveling where the westerly winds can fly,
Somebody tried to tell me,
But the men forgot to tell me why,

I gotta count on being gone,
Come on woman, come on daddy,*
Be what you want from me,
Im this strong, I’ll be weak

Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,

That I’ll always remember,
I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can make believe Ive never gone,
I never know where I belong,
Sing me home.

Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,

Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate me home

Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Well Im finally here,
But Im bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well Im finally here,
But Im bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well Im finally here,
But Im bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,

I’ve put a * by the lines that i really don’t get, if someone could at least clear those up for me…that’d be greeeeeat.

***EDIT***

i just heard my 2nd favorite christmas song ever. it’s Merry Christmas Darling by The Carpenters. it’s never too early in the year to hear that song

i really feel for the first time in my life that i have friends. i mean real friends. and friends that are mine. in the past ive had friends, but not real ones. they were friends of friends or people that are fun to hang out with. but ive never had a solid group of people that listen to me on good days and bad days. that i trust and can do the running man in front of because i know they like me the same even though i’m white and can’t do it like it’s supposed to be done.

this has been the worst year of my life, but i’ve met and reunited with people who have evolved into the best group of people i could hope for. and i wouldn’t be here without them.

they’re smart and funny and creative and hilarious and honest and real and consistent and dependable and understanding and fun. and they listen to pretty cool music. bonus.

i wish they ALL lived here. it doesn’t really matter how bad work sucks if you know you get to come home and hang out with people you love to be around. so think about that, and move here!

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sometimes i could type stuff for days, but sometimes i cant think of anything decent to say if it would save my life.

i cut my hair today…there, thats all i got.

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i probably have something at least a little more interesting to say right now, but im kinda in a hurry. so im gonna at least get this down.

maybe this has already been over used too, but i havent heard it yet. it struck me as hilarious. maybe just because my Pawpaw said it. he pretty much makes anything funny.

but my grandpa hates obama, he voted republican for the first time in his life just so he wouldnt win.

anyway, he told my aunt “This is an obamanation.” ha get it OBAMAnation, abomination… its a play on words.

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im really depressed about this whole presidential situation. i mean i was gonna be depressed either way. unless jack bauer won. or ron paul. jack bauer is probably overqualified. and ron paul was just too good to be true.

maybe this wont be so bad, i love socialism and killing babies.

plus obama’s pretty good looking, thats what i look for in a president.

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im just being a jerk, i would be trash talking mccain had he won.

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kathleen and i made an egg bomb today. it was awesome for lack of a better word.

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