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Happy 15th birthday Joanne!
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008So, that was a really prolonged absence. I got incredibly caught up with the busy-ness of everything.
Anyhow, it was my sister’s little little sister’s birthday today. Last year, I shook her awake at midnight and was all “HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY!!!” and she was all like “Doode, I’m 14.” But this year I remembered how old she was. We celebrated by buying her a lovely cheesecake, which looked a helluva lot better than the one she and I made our mom for her 47th birthday.
Other than cake eating, we didn’t really do much except for take hilariously embarassing pictures. I promised her I wouldn’t publicize them, so instead of posting them here for an untold number of strangers to gawk at, I’ll just upload them to the “Just to embarass Joanne” album I have on Facebook so all her friends and people who know her can see them!
Happy Birthday Mommy!
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Today was my mom’s 47th birthday. Although I have the photos I took today saved in a folder called “Mommy’s 23rd Birthday.” We didn’t do much special since she hates birthdays, apparently, and she doesn’t like spending money. So we had lunch at a cheap buffet and then we ate the cake that my sister and I made her!
It looks a little gross in that picture, but it was chockful of love so it tasted great.
Spamalot
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Although the train to NYC was over an hour delayed and we had to wait at Penn Station until 12:42am because my dad had the only set of keys for the car, my trip to NYC was a lot of fun! Spamalot is crazily hilarious; I’ve come to realize that I really enjoy a bit of dry British humor.. It was a bit weird to hear Reverend Camden of 7th Heaven saying bastard, though. I definitely recommend Spamalot to anyone who’s thinking of seeing it, although I would probably suggest Mammia Mia before it because Mamma Mia is just amazing!
Another mishap that happened was my mother telling me that I looked like a hooker. I’m not sure that means much because my mother thinks that anything red is the mark of a hooker and any sort of tights or footwear other than opaque black tights or sneakers are symbolic of prostitution, but it is a little upsetting. I suppose I understand her reaction, because I was wearing vertically striped tights and all. She acted as though we were 16th century Puritans and I was screaming God’s name in vain while cavorting with several infidels.. on a Sunday.
I wore it with the scarf in the second picture, because I kinda liked how the horizontal/vertical stripes looked together, but I’m kinda liking the way the red pops. I’ve been feeling a lot of black lately.
Dress (As shirt): American Apparel
Skirt: Forever 21
Tights: Sock Dreams. These are actually thigh highs, but since my legs have a combined length of a foot, they go all the way up to my crotch. They could go farther, if my legs were longer.
Red Scarf: Grandmother’s
Striped Scarf: No idea
Then Buy The House!
Friday, August 15th, 2008
John Nash, a schizophrenic mathematician Nobel Laureate and the inspiration behind A Beautiful Mind, lives in the same area as me. Apparently, he and another man who won the Nobel Prize (whose name I can’t recall and/or don’t know) both lived in the same house. Upon hearing this, my grandfather got that look on his face - the look that a kid gets right as he’s connecting the dots - and excitedly said to my mom, “WELL THEN GO BUY THAT HOUSE ALREADY.” Because if my sister and I were even to walk across the same floorboards as these brilliant men, we too would undoubtedly win Nobel prizes as well.
Mini golfing!
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008My mum and I went mini golfing around noon yesterday.. TERRIBLE idea, obviously, it was so incredibly hot, and we both wanted to get the hell out of there as soon as we finished out 18 holes, haha. I think my fave thing about mini golfing would have to be all the bright colors of the fake grass stuff!
(I wore that scarf with my outfit, but then I took it off because I didn’t want to get a tan line around my neck, haha)
