Cookies & Cream, Chocolate syrup, Eddie Izzard LEGO videos and Full Metal Panic! equals awesome sleep over at Joys house. :p

For reeeeeally cheap, today I got Vicki Pettersson's The Scent of Shadows, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and Jeff Buckley's Grace CD. Went for Kim Harrison's The Outlaw Demon Wails (hardcovers for $6, but had only been shipped that day, so won't be on shelves for until Friday or Saturday- doom!) and Karen Marie Moning's Faefever (which I thought came out in June, but apparently doesn't come out until July 28th), and left with completely different books. It's fine though. I've wanted to read something from Neil Gaiman for about a year and have never gotten around to it, and have been hearing AMAZING things about Vicki Pettersson (which I'm 50+ pages into her first Zodiac book and it's sooo good). Basically, no harm no foul.

I saw Michelle later today. We hung out with Emily for an hour or two until she went to sleep, and then we tried out a new hookah bar down on Adams. It's called Shisha, and it had such a great enviroment. Their coal guys- Emery and Cory were such sweet hearts, and their hostest was a beautiful girl names Narissa (reminded me of Ivy Tamwood from the Hollows- seriously, if I could be lesbian for a day- she was obscenely schmexy!) Shisha had great music and kick-back sofas and a crazy mural of an giant eye reflected over the water that stretched clear across the back wall of the lounge. It was out in the open, while still keeping that element of privacy. I like to know I'm not on display when I go out.

It was such a good night! I hadn't seen Michelle since before she moved into the new apartment. Bless her for spending time with her bestie.

Last night, Julie and I didn't get to sleep. I had a complete emotional breakdown and we found ourselves talking until nearly 8:30am. *whoops* Long story short- I'm exhausted, and I haven't really caught any Zs. G*night ya'll. Hope everyone's enjoying their summer!

I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
and be what I want to be
When I think more than I want to think
I do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you...

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me... I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she coming to me nearly here?
Lilac wine is sweet and heady, where's my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love?
Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?
Lilac Wine, I feel unready for my love,
feel unready for my love.

-Jeff Buckley

I can't really say why, but listening to these lyrics makes me get all teary eyed.

Finished Hollows #5. Now, onto Ink Exchange. And I'm loving Francesca Lia Block's myspace blog. She has videos from her book readings, and they really transport.

Work tonight was the most stressful night I've had since I started working there. Justin and I didn't get a break. Well, he did (he needed to take a 45 minute lunch). It was slow while he was in recovery, but the moment he came back out, it was non-stop chaos. Scotty came in twice while the store was jammed. He didn't have a chance to talk to us.

Anyway, it's been stress. I'm wearing my Rolling Stones shirt to bed tonight. Thinking of the Venice boardwalk seems to calm me down.

Michelle is moved into the new apartment, but they haven't finished unpacking. I haven't seen my bestie for nearly two weeks and I'm getting various dimensions of lonely. Miss my goddaughter's voice and watching her feed the ducks in central park.

I'm going to go down to Bella Terra tomorrow, turn in some ap.s, deposit a check, get Hollows #6 and Fever #3 paperbacks. Summertime = 50% off at Barnes&Noble with my GameStop ID. Outlaw Demon Wails for four bucks? Cha-ching!

The Hollows #5 is so good. I haven't finished it yet, but it's definitely my favorite book in the series so far. Book #3 was excellent, but this is better.

Rachel was playing security and a bridesmaid at Trent's wedding (that's right, she's wishing him and Ellasbeth an unhappily ever after).
She shows up late, in the wrong dress, has muted conversations with Takata and Piscary in the aisles, and to top it off her cellular device goes off mid-service. Now here's the kicker- It's Glenn calling to tell her he got the warrant for Kalamack. She actually arrests Trent at his own wedding... Hilarious! I'm seeing a pattern in Kim's writing. Regardless of the situation, chapter 33 always turns out to be my favorite.

Now I see what John and Julie meant by Rachel fucking Trent over BIG TIME. That's about as bad as it gets without anyone dying. *secretly, fingers still crossed that they hook up eventually*

My fourth of July pretty much rocked. How was everyone else's?

Boys clearly don't have a clue how often a girl focuses on the ". . ."

I love subtext. I live for reading between the lines, but if you ". . ." when there's nothing beyond the surface, it gets really old really fucking quick.

No one ever told you 'loose elipses sink ships,' did they?
It's annoying.
Stop it.

I went to Kim Harrison's site last night. She has excellent taste in rock. My musical horizons have widened and darkened- both pluses in my opinion. My play list on myspace is about twenty songs longer, all thanks so her. And some of the songs she listed I knew very well, but when I really listened to the lyrics- I realized just how much she used other people's work for inspiration. Jeff Buckley's "New Year's Prayer" is going on my list right next to NIN's "Closer" for Songs Equal Sex, and Garbage's "Never Be Free" makes me purr.

Anyway, she has a journal on WordPress called the Drama Box where she talks about writing. Granted, it probably sounds boring to the general public, but as an aspiring author- it's on a par with the Indiana Jones ride at D*sneyland. Her entry on 'Ugly Ducklings' changed my whole perspective on the writing craft. I'm addicted, and now I can't tear myself away from the computer because I just can't stop typing and chipping away at my latest work.

XD It's exciting, and I'm itching all over because there are ants in my bathroom again. I hate having to kill those little fuckers.

P.S. Figs pretty much rock. It's like eating candy.

Happiness!!!

M. Night Shyamalan and Jackson Rathbone... oh... yes!!!




FUCKING AVATAR!!!

Wow, this week has disappeared.

Work is work. Jarrod and Naeshell came in on Friday. I miss them so much! It's ridiculous. And Naeshell said she saw one of my pieces on facebook. She's such a great artist, I was just flattered that she wanted to take a look at it.

I've dyed my hair again. Black, of course.

Finished reading two books: A Fistful of Charms and A Wind in the Door. It was pathetic- A Fistful of Charms made me cry like a boondock saint cuffed around a toilet.

Michelle, Elias and Emily are moving to Huntington Beach. We'll see how that works out. *fingers crossed for them* They came by earlier today and left me a present: 6 shot glasses from a Reservoir Dogs collectors box. I've got Blonde, Brown, Pink, Orange, White (love Harvey Keitel as White), and the last glass just says Reservoir Dogs on it. Why they decided not to put Mr. Blue on one of the shot glasses is beyond me.

Last night, Hunter escape from our house... twice. John and Julie bought a screen door  today to keep the cat inside. I was running around in my pajamas in the middle of the night, shaking cat treats and calling Hunter's name. The little bastard was under dad's truck and James's Eclipse the whole time.

Mozart and/or MUSE if memorizing text, or forced to deal with numbers.
The Doors, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, or Donovan for creative writing.
The White Stripes for essay writing.
Rob Dougan, or Jeff Buckley for psych.
Static X and Disturbed when I'm closing up the store (but only with Scotty).

My cat- correction... John and Julie's cat- is being a freak.

I've never seen a male from any species execute the bitch-face so well.

And he's getting fat. lolzzz... I love it!

Stephanie and I hung out for a couple hours and watched FRIENDS (finally into Season 4). Our days of marathon-ing are coming to a close! What with her driving out to Texas on the 1st of July to be with Pepper. She brought tacos and chocolate chip cookies over and we plowed through two discs. Pepper called while we were hanging out and it's confirmed that once they have enough money to fly me out there, they're going to buy me  plane tickets and make me come out to Texas to visit them!!! Seriously loving Pepper. He asked me if I liked cowboys, and I told him I was definitely a fan of an ass in chaps.

James and I drove down to Huntington Beach around six o'clock. We took Bill out for a Father's Day dinner. I know that Father's Day is tomorrow (well, at the time I'm writing this, it's actually today), but I didn't want to hog up the actual Father's Day since he'd probably rather spend it with his son and grandson. But Bill was honored that I wanted to treat him to dinner at Mario's. I've been going to that restaurant with Dad since I was in a high chair, and now that he's gone we thought it would be a nice way of honoring Dad by eating there and swapping stories about him. I think Bill almost started crying. God, we all miss him so much. But most of the night was spent laughing and just enjoying being together.

Bill let me know that he didn't tell Adam I was treating him to dinner. I think he didn't want his son to try to tag along- which is perfectly fine by me! It was hard enough scraping up the money to treat both him and James.

Anyway, afterwards I hung out with Stephanie a little more. She brought over a bunch of her old clothing and let me pick through it to see if I wanted any. I only took one top- this sheer pink victorian shirt with lace. The rest I handed over to Michelle.

Michelle and I went down to the hookah bar around eleven o'clock at night (even though she has to wake up at five in the morning for work. I called Dan and he swung by and chilled with us down at Alwaha. He hadn't seen Michelle since high school- and now her hair is dark red!! She dyed it a while ago, and it looks sooooo good with her freckles. But Dan kept on saying things to her about how "when RJ and I have kids..." blah blah blah. To which I replied with "Yeah right!!!"

But here's the kicker. The frosting on the cake, as it were. Michelle got in her car to leave my house and she was backing up as I was hugging Dan goodbye. She was so not paying attention (more focused on watching Dan and I hug), and hit Dan's car! It was fucking hilarious!!! No damage- thank God, but she was totally embarrassed. Hehe, perfect ending to the night.

Hey, I just realized I haven't done a fandom rant in a while. And I don't think I'm all that bad, but I'll allow others to be the judge of that. DevArt is disturbingly low on Hollows artwork. I felt like complaining. That's what LJ is there for, right?

I just started reading this hilarious comic on DevArt by AsheRhyder called ROOMMATES. Jareth (Labyrinth) and Erik (Phantom of the Opera) live together, Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Javert (Les Miserables) live together, and where I'm at right now in the story it looks like Legolas (LotR) and Sweeney Todd are becoming roommates. It's completely anti-CANON and it's seriously making my sides hurt. Just the whole Javert carrying a fruit basket thing is enough to make me cry. Of course, Sarah, Elizabeth and Christine have all made guest appearances. And GAVROCHE (Les Miserables)!!!! <-- the coollest little homeless kid EVER!! Lots of movie trivia themed jokes, which is probably another reason why I like it so much.

Anyway. Fandoms I'll ship (though I'll be hard pressed to read any fics):

( Addictions with Pics )

Jarrod's last day at store #3331 was Friday. I'm going to miss the guy. He's at the Alameda store now, but I hope to work with him again someday because he was such an awesome guy to work with. Buuuuut... Scotty came back!!! I'm so excited! Last night was my first shift with him since his transfer, and it was a pretty good night. 1 sub, 3 GPGs, and a PRP for a PS3 (no Reso's, but you can't win them all). After we lock up the store to clean up, he always puts music on. I forgot how much I missed it when Naeshell and him did that.

Anyway, someone's going to get promoted (and I heard from a strong source that it's between me and Frank). I'm sort of hoping, yet dreading that it's going to be me. Frank is probably my favorite G.A. in the store, so it's not like I'd have a problem with him if he got promoted- and I'm nervous about the responsibility. We'll see how this goes.

I came home from work yesterday (in a good mood b/c I got 4 reserves and a subscription) to find that the electricity had been turned off. James "missed" a payment. It "slipped his mind" he says. We got it back a couple hours ago, but I was so disappointed and confused by the whole thing. I give my contribution to the bills every first of the month, John and Julie make rent... we don't do our shit so he can forget to do his.

Anyway, I was upset for John and Julie because they shouldn't have to pay rent to someone who can't even keep the power on- and I was EXTREMELY upset because of my dad's fish. I've been feeding them, making sure they have enough water and cleaning their tank since dad died, and they need their bubbles to stay alive. I told John and Julie that I don't expect those fish to last, but I'll be damned if I allow them to die out of neglect. I just... ugh, I just can't let that happen to a living creature. And to think that James just forgot is complete bullshit.

The power's back and the fish are fine, but I'm still stressed over the situation. Really, really bothered.

Michelle and Elias took me out for breakfast down on Main Street in Huntington Beach to cheer me up. Elias works at the Ruby's on the pier. When he left for work, Michelle, Emily and I hung out on the grass and played with the other little kids (well, they did. I stood back to take photographs). Then Michelle and I dropped Emily off at the babysitter's house and we went to the hookah bar for an hour, chatted with Sue over mandarin sodas, had a grand ole time...

Amy, I'm still working on concepts for your faerie but I'm really scatter-brained about giving you what you want!
The lastest faerie (I know it's not what you want, but I thought it was worth posting):

I've had a great past couple of days.

I spent all of Thursday with Michelle. We went to Venice Beach, where Jim and Ray first met up and decided to become famous. We saw the building Jim's painted on and walked up and down the boardwalk.

Later that night, Michelle and I went back to her apartment and I got to see my goddaughter Emily and her gma, Ann. Here's some footage of her dancing to some Reggae:



Saturday was Hauk's farewell concert. I took a bunch of pictures of the band and the belly dancers.


That's right, there were belly dancers shaking their stuff in front of the stage, and by the time the show was over all the band members were shirtless. I drank my first schooner- something called a Shock Top, and I liked it so much I had to get a second one. I was fucked up good and proper by the time I started dry humping people (but no one really needed to know that).

Here was one of my favorite parts of the evening.


Stephanie spent the night last night, and we watched Labyrinth. We both know EVERY SINGLE LINE of dialogue in that movie. Unhealthy? I like to think so!

And tonight I was at work until 11:00 doing inventory with my boss. He gave me an Orange Fanta (which I thought was pretty awesome, since I had the Orange Fanta chapstick Amy sent me from England in my purse)

( Amy's meme thingy... )

NOT impressed with the CGI wolf, but it looks better than the crap CGI werewolf
 they had in Van Helsing so I'm NOOOOOT going to complain too much. Jacob is ho-o-ot!!!