I really need to get a digital camera. I was going to get it before my trip but decided to use up a few funsaver throwaways I still had in the house. I wish I could be posting my journal from vaca right now but have to wait until I get the photos developed. Soon...

Last night at a honky tonk, I back handed a cowboy across the face by mistake and feared for my life..........i 'll post my pictures and more about my trip when I got back

So me and (e:jill) leave in like 5.5 hours to go visit our friend jen who lives in Kentucky but on the Tennessee border. I should go to bed but I just am not tired yet. I can not wait to go. I think it will be really fun to just get away for a few days. Plus from talking to her, her little town and its craziness sound interesting. Lots of "get er done" plastered across windows and other such things.

As anyone who knows me knows, I hate flying and traveling. I have my bonine, and my sea band bracelets and my gum and everything ready but I still generally feel bleh. I seriuosly always need like a day to recover but I have been getting better as I travel a little more.

I also have a problem with overpacking as (e:maureen) will atest too. I tend to bring everything I own with me because I fear not having it. This time though I have packed rather lightly. At least for me. I'm sure in the mroning I will panic and throw in 10 more things but everything right now fit in a relatively speaking small suitcase. I am quite proud of myself!!! I seriously get crazy when packing. I honesty had to debate whether to bring my confirmation ring which I have virtually never worn since I got it like 10 years agao but what if this is the weekend I want to? I hope it doesn't get too cold there in the next two days as I brought virtually no sweaters!!! Well I hope I survive!!!

We didn't realize we were going the weekend of the Kentucky Derby but then when we realized we wanted to go but could not get tickets. It is also like 3 hours away from Jen's house. So we aren't going and then today I find out the Queen is going to be there. The Queen of England that is!! HOw did i not know! I read royalty websites like eveyrday though I do favor other royal familys over the English which get the most play. SO I COULD HAVE SEEN THE QUEEN AND NOW I CAN'T! THIS COULD HAVE BEEN MY CHANCE TO BECOME ROYALTY!!!! eh maybe we'll see her at Target or something while we are there.

Well I will see y'al again Monday night. Have a good weekend!

I just talked to my friend Diana who works for Disney and takes pictures of people which they can then buy at the end. It is hilarious to talk to her about Disney stuff. Some tidbits from our conversation.

1.She is debating what to do on Friday. Does she go to princess karaoke with the princesses or a Barbie Party. Lumier's (from beauty and the beast) ex -b/f is hosting the Barbie Party and she knows everyone will be like ARiel Barbie while she is skipper and she wants to be friends more with Lumier than his ex b/f so she isn't' sure what to do.

2. Riding into Disney often involves sitting next to a man in a full fur costume eating a cheese stick.

3. The inner politics of Snow White versus Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty currently only gets like one day a week in the princess tent but she is starting to fight back and Snow White is gonna hve to be the one who loses time b/c everyone knows Cinderella ain't going nowhere, her castle is like the center of the park even though she is just princess by marriage while snow white and sleeping beauty are princess by birth. That money grubbing ho. You know the other princesses who were born royal hate her trying to take their glory.

4. Why is Beaty even a princess , her beast like husband was merely a duke. She is really just a bestiality loving slut living in sin. They never got married in the end.

5. Most of the MIckey Mouses are like 80 year old hispanic chain smoking women. I love that image!

6. She was talking about how she is good friends with Peter Pan, well a almost all of the Peter Pans.

7. She has a crush on

8. Walking around the backlot she often sees
- Pluto flying by in a golf cart
- 2 prince charmings making out
-other crazy half dressed characters

Ok so maybe it doesn't soudn as funny ytped out, but it was a really fun conversation to have.

First of all my title made me think of the old stores Odds and Ends which were seriously amazing. They had the most random things. Way more random than any dollar store or .99 cent city. They seriously were the random to end all randomness. When they were going out of business I bought everything they had basically. Anywho that is not what this post is about.

First of all , the Susan Lucci of the Artvoice awards, (e:paul) has lost again. Next year we are gonna run a hard campaign and win that mofo. At least there was lots of good food. I really love pasta con vodka sauce and don't have it nearly enough.

Next up, Congratulations (e:chris) on officially owning the pet store. I was at the Eastern Hills today and saw the old bird was gone. I figure that means you guys are in.

My search for jeans has come to a temporary end. I have after all my searches found a pair of Levis that I really like, make that 2 pairs. I bought two pairs and it was only 55 dollars all together. That is cheaper than the pair I almost bouth at Express yesterday and didn't' even like as much. Who buys Levis anymore. But I love them. I also feel a little exposed now because in the fitting rooms at Macy's it say they are watching you. Well like everytime I was taking off my jeans my underwear kinda came off with them, giving those viewers quite a show.

Also, does anyone know of a person who does bowling ball sculpture work around here? Just wondering....thanks

So cleaning my room yesterday, I actually got sidetracked and started reading all these old cards and letters and stuff from my friends. WE were so ridiculous,partiuclarly me and (e:mk) I think. LIke when high school was ending and college was beginning and writing to each other about how things will never be the same and we hope we keep in touch and stay friends. And though we won't ever be the same again , at least hopefully we still talk sometimes. It was seriously crazy funny rading it now. Cuz um it is like 6 years later and we still see each other at least once a week, often more than that. We were so overdramatic about everything. (i know hard to believe a kid who made a 3 hours slideshow memory extravaganza oculd be overdramatic about going away to college). Is it unusual to still be so close with your highschool friends. While other pople have become my friends, my core group has been similar since like 9th grade. That is uncommon I think, but maybe not, I don't know. It is strange. I often feel at this point I am the glue holdikng eveyrone together, like I still am friends with and talk to everyone and so they stay friends through me but I like it. I guess we were just the right mix of poeple, or we are just really bad at making new friends and so are sticking it out with these ones, haha.

I also found this journal from like second grade. I might have written about this before but it is hilar I think. Here it is (with mispellings corrected)>.....

Today is February 28
Today is Erin and Mellisa's birthday. Erin and Melissa both got a magic nursery baby for there birthday. Last night the war ended. I'm very glad. Last night I went to cub scouts. TOmorow is a half a day. On Saturday my brother will have a sleepout for the homeless. On Sunday is the spaghetti for my brothers scouts.P.S. Happy Birthday Erin.

I love that journal because the end of the Gulf War took second billing to Erin and Melissa's birthday and got as much play as cub scouts. At first I was thinking I wish life was like that still and then I thought about it and it kinda is. How often do I really think about the war. I don't know it is weird.

So i went to the interview for the Real World today. I am so not as crazy as the other people so I am sure I didn't make it but we'll see. You find out at 9pm today I think he said if you make it to the next round. Even if I don't, at least I can say I tried!

So this afternoon I wasn't in a great mood as Sundays sometimes get me down. I really wanted to go out for lunch or for a walk but everyone was busy so I decided to go for a walk by myself which is fine and fun sometimes. I parked on Bidwell kinda near elmwood and then walked down elmwood to allen, then down allen to like the Days Park and Kleinhan's area and walked around there, and then back up Allen til Pearl, then down Pearl and down towards downtown more. And then back up Franklin/Linwood and back to my car. It was quite a long walk , maybe like 2, 2/5 hours which would have been fine because sometimes you just need that when you want to clear your head. Here's the glitch, I was stupidly wearing a new pair of flip flops. By the time I realized the pain I was as far as I possibly could have been from my car. My feet were sooo torn up and full of blisters and in pain now. It really really hurts. Thankfully I got a little respite when I stopped at the 44 and (e:carey) was on the porch and so I was able to sit for a bit and go in and get a glass of water (and my wallett which I left the night before). The wallet actually became an issue and I had to carry it instead of putting it in my pocket, because as some of you may know, My wallet has about 1.2 million cards in it, and my pants are a little big on me which equals pants falling down every two seconds when wallet is in pocket. So I had to carry it. Did I mention my feet hurt so bad?

Then spent some quality sun catching time lying at Delware park with (e:beast) and (e:maureen). I relaly realized I need glasses when (e:beast) pointed out a cute dog and I was like oh he is so cute, and then she was like um you aren't looking in the right direction. As it turns out what I saw as a cute dog was actually a little kid. Eh..it happens.

Then me and (e:jill) went to see Vacancy tonight. It was really scary though my threshold for really scary is really low. Reeally I waould classify even a jack in the box as really scary. Anywho we were completely curled up in our seats just from the preview. We don't know why we always go to scary movies as we always get terrified and keep our eyes closed for the majority of it.

It got us thinking about why cell phones never work around scary remote places. And then we were tlaking about how how they have things that block cell phone signals and some theaters and churhces have them. And then we thought what if killers started carrying those around and so you couldn't use your cell phone to call for help. Terrifying isn't i?

And i'll leave you with this pearl....on Nick at Nite right now they have a spoof called Ugly Betty White...and I love it!

How random? As you all know I do not partake in the 4/20 activities as I was the DARE poster child at one point in my life. But randomly my mom bought me the book Puff the Magic Dragon yesterday at a book sale. She was like I remember you used to have this book and loved it and so she bought it yesterdray. And isn't it all about smoking pot. Do you think it is a secret signal that she thinks I am a pot smoker because I am not!

Anywho, Why do I always have to take a situation that I have made super weird over the years and then take it to that next weird level. just the other day I was talking to someone about how I don't think I could make it any weirder but guess what...I FOUND A WAY. A few of you might know what I am talking about....why do I hav to get so creepy sometimes....

They are having an open casting call in Buffalo for the Real World. They are looking for people who want to live in a big city and work in the entertainment industry such as fashion, television, movies etc. OMG i think i have to go. I have always wanted to be on the Real World. I am sure I won' tget on cuz I am not interesting nor exciting or crazy but how can I let this opportunity pass me by. What will I say? I'm sure I will come across as really boring but maybe not. Maybe I shouldn't have posted it here cuz now my competetion might increase.