once said, always said;

starcap @ 2008-05-11T15:27:00

2008-05-11T19:40:24Z

Last night we rushed (as usual) to the gallery opening. It was really, really impressive- all these New England artists walking around explaining their paintings and stuffing their faces. I had a plastic smile plastered to my face the whole time and that got old quick. But! My painting was in 'the vault room'- the whole building was once a bank and they turned the vault into an extra room. The food was amazing, too. But then there was the award ceremony where I got a $100 check, a signed print from some snobby guy that was realy rude, and had a million pictures taken. I bet I looked like such a tool.

I got out at eight though, so James came over for a bit. We realized that he didn't have a mother's day card and I needed a few more things for today so we made an emergency Stop & Shop run at eleven. It was a disaster, actually. I spilled water all over one of the machines and might have broken it, oops. And we kept dropping things and we must have looked like idiots. I know I did, since I didn't bother to change out of my pajamas.
And then since today is mother's day obviously, I helped make my mom breakfast in bed and all that. But I'm so excited- I bought Maroon 5 tickets! It's them and Counting Crows and Sara Bareilles in August. Liza and James and Dylan are going too. Now I have something to look forward to!

starcap @ 2008-05-10T07:55:00

2008-05-10T12:03:43Z

I'm up anyway because Sara had to make it back home in time for her mom to take the car to work, so I might as well update while I'm doing nothing on here. Lurking on madradhair and topicless, mostly.
But Sara came down after... I couldn't even tell you how long. A month, maybe? It's hard, but when we get together everything just clicks into place and we're talking about everything and laughing and all that. I find it amazing that we've been friends for nine years, I think, and we've never once fought. She knows things about me that no one else does, and I can really appreciate lately what a good friend she is. She'll probably be seeing this, so HI SARA UR A TEWL.

But yeah, last night. She came down and us and James went for the traditional Palio's and then CVS for a candy run. We had to go to Stop and Shop to get ice cream for my dad, so while we were there Sara bought a cake just because. Without really thinking, I wore the most awkward things there- I had on these tall, hippie slippers with a plaid hat and my skirt and I looked so out of place. Not to mention it was raining so James carried me to the car, too.
He also "decorated" the cake with a penis, so that's always um nice. We watched Scarred and started this other movie and talked a lot. I wish she lived here, she's an amazing little tool.

Tonight is the art gallery opening. I'm excited but really lazy, I don't feel like dressing up. Maybe I should show up in a short jean skirt and slippers and see what they say. The cashiers last night didn't seem to mind, but I have a feeling they'd kick me out. Oh well.

starcap @ 2008-05-09T15:14:00

2008-05-09T19:25:01Z

Sara's coming down tonight! After like, a month she's finally coming down to visit. And see my car, and she and James and I are all going to go out. I'm personally craving Wendy's, I know that much. Wendy's and maybe some Mario Kart. But anyway, James is here so we're going to go chillll. I just haven't updated lately I don't think, so there's nothing quite like a useless update!

starcap @ 2008-05-07T15:47:00

2008-05-07T19:50:49Z

So I got some personal irony from the LJ writer's block question of the day thing- "Has anyone ever done something so horrible to you that "I'm sorry" couldn't fix it?"

But moving on.
It turned out that today was a good day all around- Dylan ended up asking Liza out (aww, about time!), I got to go to the 'ice cream social' for rotating, and I don't have any make up work for being absent yesterday. I woke up and was fine Monday, but went to bed Monday night with a slight sore throat which turned into a full on cold yesterday. I was better today, but of course, had the worst cramps possible to top it off. But hey, it happens.

And later I'm visiting Liza at work because I need to go dress shopping for Saturday. And in the mean time, I'm loving this seventy-five degree weather! Hello, Cape Cod summer!

starcap @ 2008-05-05T20:40:00

2008-05-06T00:47:02Z

Oh God it was gorgeous out in the afternoon!
But first I suffered through english (The Great Gatsby), chemistry (quiz), spanish (Cinco de Mayo videos), history (notes, videos), and art (more painting). A pretty average Monday.
But today was the only day that it all of Liza's, Dylan's, James' and my schedules worked out. So we had so much fun- we left as soon as we could and went to Liza's house. We attempted to play Scattergories but that didn't go well because Dylan kept cheating off Liza's answers. Then we tried watching Disturbia, but we got hungry so drove the three minute drive to Palio's (I'd be so much fatter if I lived where she does- so close to Main Street!), got out large pizza and went back and ate it and finished the movie. We were in the front yard yelling at passing cars ("I'll show YOU a good time!") and doing cartwheels and had the camera and things. We played Apples to Apples and just talked and laughes a lot. The four of us, we're all perfect. James and Liza tease each other and we're all the uh, Four Amigos. Only we'll have to think of something cooler, eventually.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Even though it's not day of the dead, like I thought and then was corrected by Senor in spanish today- it's like, the frst time the Mexicans beat a foreign nation in a battle or something. Oh well!

starcap @ 2008-05-04T19:23:00

2008-05-04T23:34:30Z

I'm feeling better. I've been completely unproductive this weekend, but I loved it. I'd take a nap, wake up and watch a movie, muster up enough energy to go get myself something to drink (I'm ashamed to admit it, but I drank an entire two liter bottle of sprite by myself) and then text a bit. I did bake some cookies though, but I cheated and used the break-and-bake kind, which are delicious so half of them don't make it to the cookie sheet to even be cooked. I even started reading Paint It Black by Janet Fitch that Liza let me borrow. She is such a good writer, I'd recommend her books to anyone. Just the way it's written, it's so poetic. I wish I could have half the talent she does.
Like listen to this:
"On the cover that leaned against the dirty couch, John and Yoko pressed together for a kiss that they would never finish. People were always trashing Yoko Ono, blaming her for breaking up the Beatles, but Josie knew they were just jealous that John prefered Yoko to some bloated megaband. Nobody ever really loved a lover. Because love was a private party, and nobody got on the guest list. She liked the pictures of Yoko and John in their white bed, their frizzy hippie hair. They'd retreat to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside."

And now that I'm taking a break from reading, I'm having text conversations with Liza and James simultaneously, which is turning out to be a bit confusing. My bad.

starcap @ 2008-05-03T17:05:00

2008-05-03T21:22:11Z

It looks I finally caught what my parents both had. I woke up with a sore throat and a fever so I didn't end up going to the work meeting. I feel awful because Sara and I had plans to get together tonight, but sooner or later we will. I just hate how it takes sixteen times of things not working out for us to get to see each other. I miss my best friend! God I wish she'd move back.
But if I'm feeling well enough tomorrow, Liza, James, Dylan and I might still get together. She told me she found a N64 game that's called Buggy Racing and we have to try it out.

And I'm starting to freak out, my art gallery opening thing is in a week. I still can't believe I won third place, let alone anything, because I only entered it to put it down on college applications. Mr. Lopes said I could sell it- for $200. Two hundred dollars! I never knew messing around with paint would be so rewarding, hah.

starcap @ 2008-05-02T22:24:00

2008-05-03T02:30:33Z

This week blew by. There weren't any more exciting things really, except I spent Wednesday with James looking up dreams online, Thursday I (successfully!) found my way to Sandwich and back, and today was a really crappy day, complete with my car alarm going off in a crowded school parking lot for no real reason at all. I had to hurry home and babysit, but then Liza invited me to join her, Hannah, Katherine, and a girl who I think was named Jenna, maybe Jenny, at the mall. We were the loud, obnoxious girls roaming stores aimlessly and taking pictures.
Then Liza and I went to the movies and saw 21 again. We added a nice commentary that the people around us seemed to appreciate.
Before that though I visited James at work and had an interesting conversation with him and Kyle. I am so keeping my fingers crossed.

starcap @ 2008-04-29T15:05:00

2008-04-29T19:09:07Z

Today was free cone day at Ben & Jerry's, so needless to say Liza, James and I got out of school quickly and got there to help ourselves to chocolate calories galore.

And in school Liza and I made a masterpiece- tons of ahem, amusing drawings. Oh I love us, and our conversations.
"He has malted milk balls."

Edit: and I'm proud to say that I invented, and made, (successfully!) a new dessert. We had extra puff pastry so I cut it into little squares, sprinkled it with cinnamon and sugar, baked them, then drizzled it with honey. They are so good, I'm so proud!

starcap @ 2008-04-27T00:16:00

2008-04-27T04:20:49Z

Liza called me up today and said she had decided that since it was practically the last night of vacation, us and james and dylan all had to do something together. So we did- we did our usual Palio's visit of course, and then came back to my house. There was some fence climbing, soccor playing, picture taking, apples to apples playing, mario kart losing, and laughing. My dad even agreed to deal a few hours worth of black jack, and what do you know? I won! We put all our chips in the pot in the end, and I won it!
We watched some Dane Cook too and I complained a lot about gas prices. $3.49 I paid today- and that was the cheap Hess station in Sandwich. I have no clue how people with SUVs and minivans and God forbid Hummers do it.

starcap @ 2008-04-25T23:29:00

2008-04-26T03:39:38Z

It's always depressing when vacations come to an end, duh. But this one has been especially fun, going back is like, hanging over my head. Argh. At least I got my homework done. Basically. I had to read three, extremely uneventful, boring chapters in The Great Gatsby and then make a poster for my research project. It's supposed to be on marriages in the past one hundred years, but somehow I ended up on more women's rights and birth control and what was socially acceptable. Oh well. I'll figure something out.

But I had to wake up unusually early today to help with this fancy breakfast thing my mom wanted to have with my aunt and cousin. I don't even like breakfast foods, to be honest. And there wasn't anything normal, either- quiche and breakfast burritos and parfaits and stuff. That's what you get with a chef for a father- I've grown up on pan seared duck and lobster and filet mignon, not macaroni and cheese. But I'm not complaining.

But then I lounged around today with full intentions of napping because James stayed late last night (although it was so cute- he helped me make this really delicious dinner. We made broccoli and cheddar soup with this puff pastry croutons. He was so clueless, it was insanely cute) and didn't go to bed until some early hour. But then Liza called and we were talking and were both like "I don't have anything to do" so we decided to go to her house. We watched Juno and had Sweeny Todd on the background while we played the Sims. She made a gay vampire couple, hahaha. And she found a picture of Jim Sturgess in a magazine- he's going to be on the cover of VogueMen! I don't care, I have to get it. For serious.
And I still have tomorrow to do whatever, then Greek Easter Sunday. I think I need summer, now.

starcap @ 2008-04-23T15:33:00

2008-04-23T19:39:32Z

Ah, I'm about ready to pass out but I figured I might as well update.

So yesterday James and I went to the beach with my parents, and we got a scratch ticket that won 100$ so like any other responsible family saving up for college, we bought lobsters for dinner. Liza came over and was too scared of them so she had a grilled cheese instead, but oh my God do I love lobster. It's ridiculous.
The three of us went to the store and bought some cookie dough and were screaming orgasms out the window on the way home. We got a few claps and cheers, too. We played black jack and James won, even though Liza likes to lie and say she did. Then we watched Superbad and Liza slept over, and we didn't go to bed until about four. (I finally got to see White Oleander. It was so good!) And then we woke up around nine, looked up our dreams in the ever useless dream dictionary, and then played Mario Party and made pancakes. We went to Main Street for a bit too and went to Palios, where the new kid that was working there kept staring at her. Ahahahahaha, I love that girl.

So after running on like, less than five hours of sleep and tackling a mountain of dishes today, I'm about ready to crash. For real.

starcap @ 2008-04-21T22:32:00

2008-04-22T02:39:44Z

Today was just one of those days of doing nothing, really. Just being with James and having fun.
We went to Main Street though, and got Palio's and then Rite Aid and back here. He brought his skateboard and I got some cool pictures of him doing some stuff. And then we just sat there in the street, throwing rocks and talking about everything. Cars, friends, college.
We wanted ice cream though, so we went to Coldstone and then the mall where I found the Mac computers Liza was telling me about, and played garage band and took pictures. I even bought a cute dress in Aeropostale where, if it's not formal enough for the wedding this summer, I'll just wear as a summer sundress. I love it.
We saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Liza's friend recognized me and she's such a sweetheart, she was like "you're Liza's best friend, right? She always talks about how your boyfriend and you are perfect for each other!" ahh it made me smile.
Anyway, the movie was good and funny ("at least you got your daily dose of man crotch!" "I did not want to see his penis just chilling there!"), and then James even let me play a cd with lots of music I'm sure he doesn't like. I was in a really summer mood today, and burned a perfect cd. My current song obsession is California by Phantom Planet. The fact that it was the theme song for the OC kindof ruins it for me, but it just gets me everytime. I think of just like, road trips. And people laughing and driving to the beach and just all that. It's the perfect song.

I'm planning on playing it tomorrow on repeat, when we have some cookout thing on the beach. It'll be perfect. And then blackjack. Sweet!
song

starcap @ 2008-04-20T20:27:00

2008-04-21T00:37:24Z

So I wake up this morning and look in the mirror and I freak out because I swear I grew freckles overnight. But it turns out I have petechia eye- it's all these little red freckle-like things around my eyes where blood vessles burst from throwing up so hard yesterday. Pleasant, no?
But I pretend like I don't have them and went shopping with my mom today anyway. We took Lucy out to Falmouth and went to TJMaxx and Marshall's and Walmart and all these other random places. I bought a really cute shirt, though. And some coke in these old fashioned bottles. Hurray!
And then here I am, watching some chick flick tonight and hanging out with him tomorrow. I feel like it's been forever since I saw him. But Tuesday night we have blackjack planned with us and Liza and Dylan. I'm thinking we should use some real money but hey, that's just me. I'd feel bad taking all of theirs though, because I win every round.

Hah, of course I do.

starcap @ 2008-04-19T15:25:00

2008-04-19T19:29:25Z

Yesterday was lots of fun- after babysitting (which dragged on, let me tell you) I cleaned out my car, and went to Main Street with James and Dylan. We went to Ben & Jerry's, ACMoore and just drove around. And this morning I was looking for any excuse to get out of the house and drive Lucy around, so I went to the library and the mall and bought some new sunglasses. I went to Liza's for a bit and we painted our nails and looked through her Ex Boyfriend Box.
And then here I am, enjoying this amazing weather, sdufhusdfbsiudf. I have this amazing book and I'm outside reading it and ahh, I'm loving this.

starcap @ 2008-04-18T14:45:00

2008-04-18T18:48:37Z

I can't believe how amazing this week has been. Not only is it the last week before vacation, but then there's Lucy of course!
My dad dismissed me today around 12:30 and then in the parking lot, there she was! Just sitting there waiting for me. I drove around and picked James and Dylan up and they both couldn't believe how nice she was, being a 1999 and all. Stephanie met us at James' house for a few minutes to see her and gave me dandilions to put into the little vase thing. But then I had to come home to babysit, and I have to leave in five minutes. But still, this is amazing! Tonight afterwards I'm going to be vaccuuming her and cleaning and all that. I might even go to ACMoore and get some fake flowers, since the dandilions are wilting as we speak.
I'm just so, so happy I got her. It was worth waiting so long!

starcap @ 2008-04-16T16:22:00

2008-04-16T20:24:01Z

Not that it makes much of a difference, but here's my Lucy!

she's so cute. I got to go and test drive her, and I get her Friday! Too bad I have to babysit Friday night. But once I'm out at like six, I'm going to go driving anywhere and everywhere. I love her!

And tonight I'm going to Friday's with Liza, James, and Dylan. This week has been amazing, tbh.

starcap @ 2008-04-15T16:53:00

2008-04-15T20:56:50Z

OH MY GOD
MY PARENTS JUST SUPRISED ME WITH A YELLOW BUGGY:

okay so that's not really her (whose name is either Charlene or Lucy) but that's what she looks like. Like nobody knows what bugs look like.
But! I guess my dad just happened to see it on the side of the road and called yesterday, and met with the man today and I guess it was a really good price. It's a 1999 with almost 100,000 miles, but it's in great condition. We have to go through all the paper work, and then we're going to pick it up Saturday!

Talk about an amazing, amazing day!

starcap @ 2008-04-14T18:57:00

2008-04-14T23:03:59Z

After suffering through english, chemistry and spanish, it turned out that Liza was at my lunch because of her fashion class thing. So that was cool. And in art the woman from the competition where I won third came, and I was introduced and I feel awful. I only entered that because I finished it early, I didn't expect to win anything. And now that I did I have to go to the opening all dressed up with my parents, and she wanted me to go to this thing before hand where I sit with artists and paint a river and the public gets to come watch. And then part of my prize, or maybe all of it, who knows, is I ~*get*~ to go to one of the weekend workshops from this artist. I like painting as a hobby, but not enough to go to classes or college or anything like that. I only wanted to win this thing and get maybe a certificate, and be done with it. Put it on my college resume.

But then I drove James home and we had a good laugh in the parking lot, and then I came home and started researching my paper for english. The idea of weddings sounded good, but not so much anymore. I'm thinking I might be screwed.
So I went to the library and then T.J. Maxx and bought the best bathing suit I've had in years. It fits perfect, all I need now is a place to wear it!
And now, so it still fits whenever some situation to wear it comes along, I'm going to go work out.

starcap @ 2008-04-13T21:05:00

2008-04-14T01:14:18Z

I'm so proud of myself, I did three twenty minute workouts today. If only I can keep this up, I'll start getting somewhere.

But Sara came down and it was lots of fun seeing her. We went and saw 21, got late night Wendys, and watched hilarious MadTv Stuart skits. That man is my hero, no joke.

starcap @ 2008-04-12T10:52:00

2008-04-12T14:56:50Z

James came over last night and we laughed a lot, I remember that much. He liked the fact my mom bought a bunch of Ramen, just for him. And come on, you can't tell me this isn't funny. We spent a long time looking those up. But then again, everything's funnier when you're tired.

And then today I'm babysitting baby Nate, and I finally got him to take a nap. I'm exhausted myself, but Sara is coming down later and we're going to see 21. The like, fourth time for me and her first. Maybe James can come too. Hmm.
But now that he's sleeping, I'm going to take a nap too. Who needs showers anyway?

starcap @ 2008-04-11T15:38:00

2008-04-11T19:41:27Z

This day, week, everything, has been going by so slow.

But I'm kindof worried. After being drugged up yesterday because of the worst cramps, this morning I swear I'm losing it. I don't know if the medicines were still working or what, but I'm straightening my hair and need to put my contacts in before I do my bangs, and then look up and realize I already have them in. I look at my desk where my contact stuff is and my glasses are there and the container is empty and I just cannot for the life of me remember putting them in. I don't know why or why I blacked out or just can't remember, but it scares me.

Something can't be right here.

starcap @ 2008-04-09T21:01:00

2008-04-10T01:07:00Z

It's only Wednesday? I'm more than ready for the week to be over.
But James, Liza and I went to Olive Garden today, and I'm horrified this was her first time going. The waitress started telling us her life story, and some people near us were on a no carb diet. Which made us laugh, since they went to an italian restraunt and all.

But yesterday my mom and I bought an excercise machine. An eliptical I think it is? I need to start now for summer. I've become such a slob it's gross. At least I like doing this; there's no motivation quite like Jim Sturgess singing to you from the tv. So I think this'll work out fine.

starcap @ 2008-04-07T18:40:00

2008-04-07T22:47:04Z

I haven't got too much to say except I went to Honda today with James, and my hopes of owning a VW Buggy have been shattered. Lame.

Except Dylan's mom works there and told me if I told her my price range, she'd keep an eye out. But I doubt anything like that would be there anytime soon.
I'm such an optimist, right?

starcap @ 2008-04-06T00:27:00

2008-04-06T04:31:07Z

Stephanie and I went to go see 21 today, and it was fun. The only down side was that we went to, of course, the one showing that was closed captioning. It starts to ruin the movie when you see "(bluesy rock theme starts)" and "(music fades)" a million times.
But anyway we went shopping and came home empty handed, and she brought her camera and made a movie:

It's cute.
And now that I've wasted my night playing the Sims and being completely unproductive, I think I'd like to go get a midnight snack and watch some tv.