1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Kathy just reminded me of Key Club Convention @ the Long Beach Convention Center. (Muy hilarioso.) & all of that Key Club stuff is harder than I thought it would be when I got into it up to my neck. Being at the mercy of Justina.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make ( Read more... )

Accomplishments: As many as there are crumbs left at the bottom of a potatoe chip bag after Dad's been through it.

Memories: There are barely any, probably none. I'm trying to remember anything funny or interesting but nothing's coming to mind except for how much the words "homework," "due date," "exam" seared into every single cell of my ( Read more... )

The first one on our block went down a little over a decade ago. It was the one next door. The remains were towed away by the government, you know, for evidence, probably cremated somewhere or buried in a dump. What was left was a stump.

After the stump sat on the lawn unused for a few years and our miniature mental institution neighbors were ( Read more... )

This has been one of the most sterile beginning of a new year ever. I woke up at noon to find the everyone half-way through lunch in front of blaring television screens each emitting their own signature channel of noise. By the time I finished breakfast Dad and Tristan were making their afternoon trip to drop Michelle, our little cousin, back home ( Read more... )

( Another reason why I wasn't made for the kitchen. )

Did I tell you that I also watched Howl's Moving Castle in which Christian Bale (double-swoon) was the voice of Howl? Well, at least Tammy agrees with me this time but his voice, is to die for. If I could just have that voice for my alarm clock I probably wouldn't have half as much trouble waking up each morning as I do now. (I woke up literally at ( Read more... )

Christmas is as palpable as what empty talk is made of.

It practically hasn't arrived at all! No trickle or inkling or even hint of that warm, furry spirit clothed in such (opposing) festive colors of red and green. All we have is chocolate and sweets, so many of them filled with creams and nuts that are making be grow fatter and fatter into the ( Read more... )

"Oh my gawd," I must have sounded like some vain, blond, celebrity. I would have laughed at myself too had I not been where I was, seeing what I was seeing, in the restroom of Souplantation, in the first dank stall the second you made a left upon pushing through the heavy lockless door marked "WOMEN."

It was gross.
"You should have seen it," I ( Read more... )

Do you feel (a) unnoticed? undervalued? rejected? left out? and yet annoyed with attention?

Have you ever felt (b) like a failure? idiot? retard? clueless stinking slice of crap?

Ever struggle with (c) self-confidence? self-worth? stress? or shit you shouldn't have to deal with?

Think you (d) take yourself too seriously or not seriously enough? Or ( Read more... )