Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! I just yesterday was chit-chattering with Jeanette, asking stuff like "so how'd your SS package turn out? did you mail it off already? man, i still don't know who your person is! i don't know who my SS is! THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!"

Oh how ironic it must have all seemed to her at the time...

JEANETTE I LOVE YOU YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

LOOK AT HOW AMAZING THIS PRESENT IS!!


What's this? A present?!


How do i open this darn thing?


So many goodies!


Oh my freakin' omnomnom!


Mmmmmmmmm....


Apparently my cookie-enduced ecstacy face also doubles as a retarded eyes in different directons face as well! Multipurpose!


The cookies are DELICIOUS! Just the right combination of hard yet chewy, and so scrump-didily-ump!



SO MANY CHOCOLATES! I loooove these raspberry dark chocolate squares! SO GOOD!


Holy shit holy shit holy shit is this what i think it is?!?!


Omg it is omg it is omg it is snorlax!!!


Look how round and cute and awwwwwwwww


*hugs forever and ever*


What's in here?!


Yes, I cut open all my presents carefully with a knife for no reason at all. Then sometimes, after I'm done, I'll take the neatly-preserved wrapping paper and tear it all to shreds just for fun :D


Check it out -- even the inside looks cool!


Dino-win!


It even came with DINO FACTS!


I will be the luckiest man ever! And hehe @ the waving cat :D


They forgot you're supposed to make a wish whenever you see 11:11 (or it's similar varieties) on the clock!



OMG THIS LOOKS SO NOM. Once again, treats make my ees roll back into my head, rendering me into a delicous-enduced drunken stupor


BAD MOVIE WIN!! I've never seen this movie, so I can't wait!


Looks impressive, does it not?


This looks so cool!!! The card (pictured later) said these were done by her sister, so whichever sis is the one that drew these, YOU ARE AWESOME!!


Detail shot!


Holy. Fucking. Shit.


OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG IT'S A BRUSSELS GRIFFON!!!! IN AN OLD MAN JACKET!!! WITH A MONOCLE!!!! HOLY OMG!!!!! Seriously, I am going to frame this. No joke. Consider it framed!


Goddamn that's sexy! My webcam for some reason refused to a) pick up the cool texture on the coat, and b) pick up the brown coloring of the fur. Who knows why, but I assure you it's there and looks awesome.


IT'S A WHALE!!!!! More specifically, it's a Sperm Whale! Look at that hilariously rectangular nose! :D :D Jeanette makes the coolest cards with cut-out stuff


This is me doing my victory happiness dance, complete with motion blur!!!


I'm trying to give you a big thank you you are amazing hug, but instead it just looks like I'm really happy to be fondling myself. Either way, HOLY CRAP THANK YOU YOU ARE AMAZING OMG!!!!



OMG THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

god, i still owe you a birthday present that i haven't finished making, and now this! i will (slowly) try and somehow make it all up to you :D !!!

isn't she beautiful?




sorry, sometimes i just feel like bragging.

ps, look at this while you're at it.

at the gym today i overheard the following conversation, which i will now recount for you word-for-word:


guy1: "yup, sometimes i make applesauce"
guy2, amazed: "whoa, how do you do that?"
guy1: "you basically just mash it up until its a sauce"
guy 3, also amazed: "whoa, applesauce"
guy1: "and then other times i make pear sauce"
guy2, even more amazed: "what?! how?!"
guy1: "basically the same way as the applesauce"
guy3, just as amazed: "pearsauce?!"
guy1: "one time i made plumsauce"
guy2: "PLUMSAUCE?!?!"
guy1: "yeah, that didn't quite have the same consistency as the others, though"
guy3: "HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"
guy1: "again, i just kinda mashed it up. i bet it would be a lot quicker if i had a food processor"
guy2: "those make plumsauce?!"
guy1: "they make anything-sauce. they basically process the food until it's a paste"
guy2: "plumPASTE?!"
guy1: "anythingPASTE"
guy3: "ANYTHINGpaste?"
guy1: "ANYTHINGpaste"
guy2: "APPLEpaste?"
guy1: "we already talked about applesauce"
guy2: "i said applePASTE"
guy1: "i know"
guy2: "but you said"
guy3: "you said appleSAUCE"
guy1: "it's the same thing"
guy2: "but they're different words"
guy1: "right"
guy2: "right!"
guy3: "RIGHT!"



then as i walked past a row of lockers, i foolishly turned and saw a fat old naked man with his legs spread as wide as they'd go peering downward and fervently picking at his taint.


discuss.

so i had a strange dream last night that inolved annaomega!

so as the story goes, anna and i were at this big log cabin lodge thing in the woods with about 30 other dudes, almost all of which were burly and looked like lumberjacks. we were there because we were going to go on a big expedition to hunt down some moose. now don't get me wrong, we weren't going to shoot the moosies or anything; it wasn't that type of hunting. it turns out that scientists had recently discovered that moosers actually thrive way better on a diet of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and so we were trying to track down the meese in order to give them some cereal. we got there reasonably late at night, and the big mooseter egg hunt started early the next morning, so i decided to take a shower at night (i normally shower in the morning). i wandered over to the bathroom, and when i opened the door, anna was already in there, naked, about to get in the shower. i was all "ruh roh, sorry, i didn't think anyone was in here" and she was all "don't worry about it. same time? i'll wash your back if you wash mine! and we'll use less water!" and i was all "your smart thinking will save the environment!". so then later we were walking through the woods to try and find this big bonfire the lumberjack dudes had talked about, and these two huge dogs came over, and i tried petting one. it licked my hand, and i was all "he lingered a little too long on that one. i think he wants to eat me." anna yelled out "THAT'S NOT A DOG, THAT'S A WOLF!" and immediately the woods were filled with bright flashing red lights (like during Red Alert emergencies on Star Trek) and the there-is-gonna-be-a-fight-soon music from Kill Bill kicked in. the wolves pounced at anna and i, and we started wrestling with them. somewhere during the fight the wolves transformed into large pumas. it wasn't that they were transformers or that we even were aware they had changed, my subconscious just made the alteration because pumas are softer. we rolled around and tumbled through the woods, dueling with the pumas as we went, and finally we happened to reach the bonfire. i had one of the pumas pinned down on the ground with his arms outstretched, and i just started rubbing my cheek all over his furry back because it was so soft. he started giggling because apparently that tickled him, only i was giggling too because his fur was tickling me right back. he kept saying "I'MMA EAT YOU ONCE YOU LET ME GO", though, so i was still panicking. anna said "LETS SCARE THEM AWAY WITH THE FIRE!" and the lumberjacks were like "HELL YEAH!", and so we got up and tossed the pumas over to the lumberjacks. they held them up close to the fire (so as to scare them only -- they weren't going to hurt them) and yelled "FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE", and the pumas started to squirm around and panic and freak out. the lumberjack with anna's puma tossed him into the woods and he ran away into the night. the lumberjack with mine tossed him right back at me, and he landed on my face and wrapped his paws around me, hugging my head. i freaked out, but then i realized the puma was more scared than i was, and so then i got scared that maybe he'd pee himself, all over my face. so i peeled him off me and drop-kick punted him into the woods, where he scurried off as well. i turned back to the lumberjack and yelled "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR? YOU THREW HIM RIGHT AT MY FACE!" and he said "what do you expect of me? i'm Danny Tanner!" and he pulled off his mask, revealing Danny-Tanner-era Bob Saget underneath. we all threw our hands up in the air making one of those "whatcha gonna do" gestures, and we all had a hearty laugh.


tell me about your dreams!

yup, in just a mere two hours (for us east coast people), the glorious powers that be will grant us all an extra hour of sleep, drunken halloween debauchery, or, in my case, frustrated, demoralizing school work.

and also, yup, it's Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time, like most people like to say.

quoth this delightful snippet on grammar:

Spelling and grammar

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.

Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.

Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, and Daylight Time Shifting more accurate, but neither is politically desirable.



*insert alarm clock clipart*

for reference, i live on the 3rd floor of an apartment building housing college-age people, and there are virtually no families nearby, so i wasn't expecting any trick or treaters period.

but i just had a grown man dressed as michael jackson and carrying a half-full grocery bag knock on my door and say "trick or treat! do you have any candy? .... or food? ... or spare change? or.... i'm homeless"

he looked happy and friendly and surprisingly convincingly like michael jackson, considering he's supposedly homeless.

i didn't have any candy for him. i felt bad.

where does a hobo get a michael jackson costume?

it is official, margo is no longer a teenager, and officially, i am now officially way less of a pedo!








it's time to post pictures of things she likes!!!!

curious minds want to know!





feel free to answer anonymously or leave a comment saying what you chose :D



in case you really have no idea who i'm talking about

this is driving me insane.

i have my window open and someone outside is grilling something (which is odd 'cause it's basically dark out and pretty chilly), and the most glorious smells keep wafting in through my window. my room keeps getting filled with the pungent, savory scent of grilled onions and some kind of herb thing and omg, some kind of amazing steak smell.


seriously, every three seconds or so the wind blows and, completely involuntarily, my eyes roll back in my head as i draw in a long whiff and moan hungrily.

and the thing is, i'm not even hungry. in fact, i'm pretty darn full. this is killing me.

they have a big poster sale the first week of classes each year at OSU. i went today in hopes of finding something worthy of putting on my as-of-now barren white walls.

lol @ they had this up on display as one of their featured posters:



i guess it's actually a fairly common poster already, so this is probably old news to some people, it just made me laugh at how ripoff-ish it is.


btw, i got these posters for my wall:






i also have a few chirashi (japanese 7x10" mini movie posters) waiting to go up:





etc


i also have a few lovely photo prints from margo to put up as well:





in chicago i got a big monochrome canvas print (that i can't find a pic of) of this at Renegade:

and the lady liked my whale enthusiasm so much she gave me a smaller print (of the spermwhale) for FREE! (regularly $5)



i also have these really badass art prints of a bear and a deer that i got in portland with margo, but i don't have any pictures of those just yet


WHAT DO YOU HAVE ON YOUR WALLS?!?!
(pics or it didn't happen)