ok, so i'm trying out this new template...
i like that i can create the header and use my own image -
so yes - up there at the top - i stole/designed it and i'm diggin it.
i can change it out every once in a while now - kinda like dooce.
my last template just got all jacked up and i hated that it was one of the templates that blogger offered. i mean, sure they're fine, i'm sure whoever designed it spent their precious time doing and making and blah blah BLAH.
yeah.
whatev.

chyanne cracked me up today when i called her askin about the BBQ she's throwin tonight. we were talkin about how weird and crazy "Ninja Joe" was (like desperate to be in a relationship-crazy) - and how he was all about chyanne after only having a half conversation with her... so she straight up told him:
"BUT YOU'RE A NINJA... AND I'M A HICK!..."

and today's sinfest comic is genius. pure, unadulterated, genius.

respect,

yes indeedy, i have the fat marks, that turned to muscle and then bigger muschles. anyway, i can't wait to go back to tech. i don't think i'll be in debt like you think so. i checked out their VA website. apparently tech has a department that is straight up dedicated to veterans. so pretty much school will be free for 4 years, but i'll have to pay for books. the money i made here is gonna go toward an apartment for me and probably just me unless i convince seth to come join. chances are he'll be having too much fun doing manual labor on the golf course as assistant greenskeeper. i'm there to learn and learn alot. all the classes i got less than a B in i'm taking over again, cuz med schools don't like that shit. sucks huh. the whole meeting people thing will be tight. i look forward to that. i figured out how college works, and i'm not even in school yet. college is defined by this right here, you might as well write it down cuz it is bomb. College - noun. An institution for higher learning, and networking. it all comes down to networking. you've heard that saying it's not what you know but who you know, these days it's both. and i'm gonna be networkin like a mofo. hopefully not have a girlfriend for the first year if that's possible. chicks cost money. and i mean cash money. so fuck that. anyway, yeah fairbanks, doesn't that blow ass. i'll be living with straight up eskimos. last year i heard they finally built a walmart and opened up a chili's. that just sounds straight up fucking gay. so you and adam huh making a movie. about me? what's the story that involves me. that's cool. you should cast the indian guy off of van wilder to play me. that'd be cool. i figured you'd be pickin up mom and droppin her off at work and stuff. by the way how is that going for her. dad, well, dad's dad. and he'll always be dad. i figure he's getting older, the swiss watch eventually wears in and has a few defects, but that shit keeps on going cuz it's swiss you know. he's a survivor. dad is like the swiss army knife of the family. yeah it's used alot, and the tweezers always go missing and you'll never find em again. i wish i could watch benchwarmers, that shit looks funny. any movie with napoleon has to be the shit. we're kinda lost on lost too. so fuck it i'll get it on dvd when it comes out, we'll burn through that shit again like last time. maybe drink some beer. tell mom and dad i said what up. i'm doin well. and i'm still healthy. oh yeah that t shirt...i don't care how you design it, i'm sure you'll pimp it out, but i want the words "you can't fix stupid" on it somewhere and it has to be in plain sight. anyway i gotta jet, take care...peace out.your bro in arms, simon

tell all your friends what up

i'm on the phone with mital right now - and she made my night. autumn had made my day earlier by sending a text message that said, "i just belted out the elevator version of the Starship song 'Sarah' in front of all of my fam...all in ur honor". man - say my name - say my name. i'm all about when people say my name! plus the mental picture of autumn performing such a feat warms my soul. and tickles it. tee hee hee!
anyways - mital called pretty early from what i'm used to - so i wondered if anything was wrong. she simply replied with,
"i just wanted to let you know, that this weekend, there's gonna be one of the Top Ten Art Festivals in the country going on. me and valerie are gonna go." and i just laughed and laughed and laughed - and laughed some more. sorry - this might seem mean but - i don't care. no one's really gonna understand this post and it'd be really mean to lay down the back story. but this one's for mital and me and the select few who have heard the backstory. yeah - it made my night.
then she changed the subject and in her sweet voice said, "you know, i'm becoming meaner since i've been here. A little rude...and a little more crass..." LOL - yeah, i freakin love mital. seeing mital be "mean" also warms my soul - cuz really, she doesn't have it in her to be "mean." hell, what kind of a mean person uses the word "crass?!" ha - no one. ahh sweet irony.
don't worry hun, i'm moving out to you soon!!!
yeah that's about it. re-reading this makes me think that only I'M gonna think this is funny. oh well.
this is why it's MY blog - and i'll laugh if i want to.

ok - another round of quotes - because what was last night - oh yes, it was FRIDAY. i really love fridays.
you guys should love fridays too - because the quotes from these nights are just...beautiful.

sarah: why didn't you ever play videogames?
autumn: because whenever Mario jumped...i jumped too.

Carisima was tellin us about the Easter Egg Hunt/Carnival that she had to help with at the Community College.
apparently someone had a seizure outside right before they were going to hide the eggs, but Carisima went outside anyway to start hiding them.
some guy yells out to her and says, "Hey, Don't Hide the Eggs Yet!!!"
and she yells back, "Why? He's done!"
and adam interjects with, "Oh, You've Got Epilepsy? WELL SHAKE IT OFF!"

jeremy: Anybody have any nicknames growing up? (like real awkward stories from childhood)
sarah to carisima: yeah, what did you used to call people?

"yeah yeah, i used to play soccer - i came from fuckin ASA! and it wasn't about talent, it was about attitude. and i had a GREAT attitude!" - adam

T-SHIRT IDEA for the night: (front) MAKE THAT A DOUBLE... (back) Don't Listen to Me. I'm Wasted.

sarah to autumn: how can you say there's nothing wrong with clinginess?
jeremy: Hey! I'm a great guy! Who wouldn't want to cling?!

*autumn coyly says, "i have a mom/boob story..."

"No it's like...no it's like...no it's... ...god i'm drunk." - jeremy

"with a name like Carisima - how can you NOT sleep on the ground?!" - adam
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hehehe, good stuff huh? i'm going to have one helluva Summer of Awesome with these people. I love you all - you really make living life in this stupid small town NOT SUCK.

josh, jeremy, alma, and i had been to this dude's Art Showing earlier that night (thank you carisima for tellin us about it). he had put his napkin art in frames and sold it. all i wanted to do was some napkin art as soon as i saw it. so here it is. we went to Chili's and we all worked on this collectively and i think jeremy wins with the "Alien with a Fumanchu Inside a Frame."


and some quotes from jeremy much later that night. it's not the champagne that made him say these things - it was all those tiny damn bubbles...

"Leprosy soup! DELICIOUS!"

"i'm just chillin my brain." *(had an ice-pak on his head for a few hours)

"...i've had a similar experience. it was during a massive orgy."

ok, so i know i haven't been posting much lately - but... if you've read my past posts... you know that there's been a bunch of shit going on in my life. i really don't even feel like blogging anymore - mainly because the nature of my blog isn't really suited for serious stuff - and that's all my mind's been into lately. so - to bid a fair adieu for a short time, while i deal and cope with my crap - i'll post the last bunch of quotes i've got - so i can throw away all these scribblings of paper that i have strewn about all ova da place. enjoy. =)

Simon's quotes from when he called a couple weeks ago:
"Yeah, dad goes to the flea market on the weekends, selling watches and stuff. but see, he's makin money off that shit. making money, fixing watches, all of which he learned from some guy at the mall."

"From what i heard - yeah. Oprah's no fucking scientist or anything - but she said the world's gonna end in 10 years."

[about the weird stuff he's seen in iraq]
"So, you know those people born with their eyes really close together? well picture that... but their eyes are really far apart. kinda look like ducks or something. it's really weird."

then the rest are from my gang - with a new addition of "Adam" - the funniest person alive.

Jeremy: know what my goal in life is?
Sarah: to be inside TWO BUNS!!!!

*Autumn puts her hands coyly together and says, " i have a pot story..."

Adam's spotlight:
"Pot - it can be like opening doors in your mind. just as long as you close them when you're done..."

"Hey girl, stop shaking your ass - you're gonna throw your hip out. why don't we talk for a while?..."

"This sounds like a Ron Howard bathroom break..."
"I smelled Ron Howard's shit once."

"That saxophone man...it's like...crawling up your leg - that smooth jazz. 'uh hey baby, look over there while i crawl up your leg...' OH SHIT! IT'S HALFWAY UP MY THIGH!"

and back to the gang:
Sarah: they should make Vicks Vapo-Rub outta that Armani Code shit. i could just rub it on my chest and ahhhhh....
autumn: hell yeah! i'd put it on before bed and make it seem like i'm going to bed with a man. OH WAIT! IT'S ME!

"...cuz if i mix wine and martinis... I'm Freakin Screwed - with an F..." - autumn

"Ok so what? you want me to talk dirty to you? MY STIMULATING CONVERSATION ISN'T ENOUGH?!!!" - AUTUMN - it's autumn who said this!!!

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and wow. there's actually SO much more to blog about. i wanted to get our trip to Sonic in too.
ah crap. another time then. goodnight everyone. hugs and kisses and face-lickezzzzz.... hahaha

whaddup whaddup whaddup!
i'm at work. needed a lil break. decided i'd give you an update on the whole dad situation.
he got operated on tuesday - 1:00pm. they lasered his prostate because it was enlarged
and i guess he was having urinary problems. anyway, he got out like, an hour and a half
later and he had to have a catheter for the night. when they wheeled him back, he wanted
to talk to a nurse, so i buzzed one in. it took her FOREVER to finally get to his room, but
he said - " i feel like i have to pee, but with this attached, i don't know if i can, is it ok if i do?"
(remember - all in his accent too). the nurse said, you don't need to - because it's peeing
for you. it's just the catheter that makes you feel like it. and dad says, "BUT I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO PEE."
and just gives her this blankass stare - he was so freakin out of it dude (anesthesia) - it was
hilarious! but it gets better...
after a while he tells mom - " i want to go to toilet." and me and mom are like - what? like, chichi?
and he's like, "i think so." so we had to buzz again for the nurse to help him (he could barely move)
and she finally came and she and mom helped him into the bathroom. then they both come out
and all of a sudden, you hear BWWWAAAANNNN PPPHHHHlLLLL PPPPPTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(like, the most horrendous diarrhea noise you could ever hear - SO LOUDLY)
and me and mom bust into gutbusting laughter and the nurse wasn't laughing... but then she saw our
horribly disfigured-laughing-faces... she bust into laughter too. ohh man.
our stomachs hurt from laughing so much.
and then there was the burping... when the nurse came in to "walk" him a little bit - she came back
and said, "yeah - he's doing fine. he burped the whole time." his burping is outta control man. furreal.
poor dad. he said he was in pain but i think it was because of the catheter. after 2 more hours we
drove him home and he threw up halfway through the car trip. then the next morning we brought
him back to amarillo to get the catheter removed and he threw up again. violent vomiting. it was crazy.
it was a trip man. that whole experience is a trip.
so i'm trying to get my hair back to black this time - but i'm putting a gray streak in the front.
it's symbolic. with all this crazy shit happening in the family... i just need something to remind me
of how blessed we are. and everytime i see the gray streak - i'll know it's time for change. it's
time to hold on to my faith because really, that's all i am holding on to.
i gotta get back to work. love you always bro - take care and be safe.
your sis - sarah =)