Mysterious Skin

if you havent already watched this movie, i highly recommend it. it is quite disturbing at points and you will probably cry. but it's worth the puffy eyes and post-cry headache. netflix is such a great service.

in other news, heather got her plane ticket to come visit in september so we are pretty excited about that. nik is still rockin' hardcore at her job, the employees think so too. lately nik and i have been addicted to this online game called 1000 A.D., i swear to god, once you get started kiss your freetime good-bye. its worse than bingo for me, and that's bad.

yea i like bingo--shut the fuck up.

Lance Bass and a Sniper

is anyone not THRILLED about Lance Bass coming out?! the lgbtq community is getting more rockin' everyday. we need better role models than melissa etheridge, i mean come on. and lance's boyfriend is quite the hottie himself so kudos to the two of them.

today i needed to go to walgreens but just as i was leaving nikkii texted me and told me not to go downtown. come to find out a sniper was picking people off in a Jewish center downtown because he was angry at Israel. seattle has been having it's moments these past few months with shooting rampages. tonight and tomorrow are the capitol hill block party. nik and i are going to meet her friend tomorrow night for partying fun. hopefully all of the extremists are on vacation then.

68

the heat is gone and ive mellowed out. it's 68 and sunny. i love this weather. today i had an interview with a videogame company and i think i got the job. it has great pay, benefits, free gym membership, free internet at home, company pays cell bill, weekly bbq's, big comfy chairs and personal desks, free snacks and pop and i can wear jeans and a t-shirt to work. i also have friday and saturdays off of work. does this not sound like a dream job? everyone was really awesome. the owner played a prank on an employee which involved wrapping his entire desk and everything on it in tinfoil (stapler included). the office has an amazing 360 view of seattle and they keep the lights off in the office! im so excited about this job. it's like getting paid to have fun all day. it's also located 2 blocks away from my university. i really hope i get this job.

in other news, i also have a prospective job opportunity at a printing place near our apartment. this company does everything from screen printing, to small copying jobs, to large scale publications and binding. the employees seem really rad and i would love to know how to do different types of printing. so tully's isnt my thing. nik started working yesterday and really digs it. she has a really awesome location in the heart of capitol hill with great coworkers. it seems like things are finally coming together around here. in the next two months we will have a couple visitors and that is exciting. love, jen-

I'm a cynic

i dont like many people. i will probably talk trash about you at some point. anything you tell me, i will at least tell to nik. i dont like gifts unless they include your bank's logo and a signature. i don't care too much about tragedy, unless it's my own. if i find out you even have the slightest of a crush on me, i will probably like you a lot less (unless you're nikkii, in which case i swoon--hardcore). i like to spend minimal effort entertaining others. i like this disinterest reciprocated in most cases. i hate high maintenance guests, if you fit in this bracket, please don't visit me--you will be disappointed. i dont like girls, i dont like guys. i dont like people who think any of the following are hip or trendy:

(a) mullets: (they aren't funny or ironic, they're disgusting--get a fucking haircut).
(b) being poor: (you didn't grow up on welfare and couch surfing until you call home for a place to crash isn't poor. you're insulting the people who actually have to struggle to pay rent on an apt. the size of a closet with more cockroaches than squarefeet). and honestly, since when did it become so trendy to be poor? if you will notice, the people who actually ARE poor aren't talking it up or writing about it on Myspace, why? because they can't afford a computer or the time off of work to go use one elsewhere. quit your bitching.
(c) bad spelling: (use spell check, it isn't hard and it saves my teeth from being ground down into my gums).

im not trying to be mean, i am being honest. if this pissed you off in anyway, you probably shouldnt be friends with an asshole. i'm out for now, thanks.

Dr. Laura needs to get laid

i thought by coming to the west coast i would escape the radical conservatives. i thought that until i found myself staring at dr. laura's creepy face on the back of a bus. i flipped on her channel to see if what i remembered from my parents listening was really as bad as i recalled. i caught one of her caller's trying to figure out what to do about her personal insecurities and dr. laura told her to go to a mirror and repeat this (seriously) "mirror mirror on the wall, i'm NOT the fairest of them all. but dusty loves me and that makes me a beautiful". dr. laura's thought was that any woman who has a man love her is beautiful. so she tells this girl she's ugly but it doesnt matter since she's got a MAN. oh and dr. laura has cankles. ahahahaha.

honestly, do people actually believe this woman? or is it just for humors sake?

::shudder::

Heat.

it's 96 in seattle right now. what the fuck? i heard it wasn't supposed to get much hotter than 80! i want a refund from my landlord for saying that. especially because the building doesnt have A/C. i was so spoiled by the gas-guzzling, anti-environment midwest that i'm DYING in this heat. anyways, it's not so bad. im laying on the floor with nik in front of a big fan with water and frozen grapes. until the next...

Bird Flu & Hazmat

maybe sometimes ignorance is best. i am delighted to have enlightened myself on what exactly the bird flu is and just how much of a disaster it will cause (expect apprx. 20% of the world's population dead). for an idea of how much that is.... AIDS killed 25 million people in 25 YEARS, the spanish flu (an avian flu) killed 25 million people in the first 25 WEEKS. so now ive worked nik and i into an OCD frenzy and we are currently researching Hazmat suits and gas masks online for the best protection. considering a true pandemic lasts approximately 2+ years we have determined how we will eat/drink (with gas-mask on), shower and use the bathroom. i'm sharing this with you for your benefit. i laugh because this is humorous, but we are quite serious about it.

Organ

last night nik and i picked up an organ off the side of the road. it is so rockin'! the thing was heavy as fuck.... at least a couple hundred pounds. we couldnt fit it in the trunk, or in the backseat so...... we put it on the roof of the car and the roof didn't even cave in. but then we didn't know how to get home without taking the expressway so yes, we got on the highway with an organ strapped to the top of my car.



when we finally got home my car couldn't fit in underground parking and we had to unload it on the street. after a huge struggle with a dolly we found down in storage and not fitting on the elevator... we have it home and it works!

you can expect a totally refurbished copy of "the other side" in the near future.

I Have a Job

today i went in to fill out my new-hire paperwork at Tully's. i finally have a job! i have to go do training at their headquarters for 3 days and then i do my in-store training. the store is pretty busy, which makes me a little nervous since I don't have much experience with coffee or cash registers. but i only work on weekdays during business hours with full benefits so that makes up for my nerves. anyways, the internet gets hooked up tomorrow so we can start posting pictures again. until the next, jen-

This is for me, not you.

I just need to write down the events of yesterday because I still find them odd.

Totals:
2 police calls
1 domestic violence assault
1 hit and run
1 weirdo
1 bomb squad
1 drunk man screaming

so first, we wanted some stain for our shelves so we could finally put them up. Sherwin Williams was closed so I thought if I just hopped on the 5-N I would run into a Home Depot or Lowe's somewhere. I got off the expressway around where I thought I had remembered seeing a Target and figured big business must be everywhere near that area. After driving around I spotted a hardware store but it was closed. nik saw a wireless cafe next door and suggested we pull in the lot and figure out where we were (our computers were on us). So I backed into the hardware store lot and put my car in park. BAM! All of a sudden I'm hit and I have no idea where it came from. So I look and some old fruit in a pick-up had backed into my car. I knew I wasn't moving and his window was blocked so it was obvious to me whose fault it was. We both got out of the car and my car had no damage and his was old and crappy looking as is. Considering it was his fault nik was like, "our car looks fine, does yours have any damage?" and the guy is like "PROBABLY! What the hell are you doing here? This is private property!!" he is in my face and then nik's face screaming at the top of his lungs. I was fed up and called the police because he was writing down my plates and saying he was reporting it. So I called it in and as I was on the phone he drove off really fast. I knew he worked or owned the hardware store and had his plate number. The dispatcher said it was a hit-and-run and she would send someone out. Remember, we were fine with letting him go, we didn't have any damage. So we are standing around waiting.

nik is anxious about the guy being up in her face, we really thought we were going to scrap with this motherfucker. So she asks this kid nearby for a cigarette. No cigarettes. But he was too excited to have someone to talk to he decided to come keep us company at the car. This kid, who probably hadn't showered in a week and had nasty patches of hair all over his face begins explaining how he "punched some bitch out after she slammed into the bumper of his Lincoln Navigator that his dad bought brand new for him". I assumed he was full of shit and got back in the car and shut the door. I wasn't feeling talkative, I was pissed about the crazy old man that hit us. nik felt bad for the kid and stayed outside and talked to him. About 45 minutes pass, still no cops. Kid is still there. She asks him where a convenience store nearby is and he offers to walk her. About 2 blocks away they notice the streets are blocked up because of a bomb situation and the dumb kid walks up to the bomb squad guy who is crouched over a package with a camera and is bugging him about what is going on. nikkii takes off and tries to ditch the dumb fuck but he catches up. Now it's going on about an hour and fifteen minutes. No cops, gross blackhead kid still lingering. nikkii gets in the car and he comes up to the window and just STANDS there. She opens the window and he asks to count our change. He counts it. I want to kill him. Then he spots our camera and wont shut up about how much it cost, where we got it. He takes nikkii's phone and is playing with it. He is touching everything. Finally after 2 hours of waiting the cops arrive and in 2 minutes they write up the report and we go to leave and the kid is eyeing up the semi-automatic assault rifle in the cop car. He has his head in the car and I'm trying to make sure this cop knows we don't know who the fuck this moron is. Finally we get in the car and say bye and the kid is like "don't I get to make a report?" (remember, he didn't see ANYTHING). nik was like, I don't think you need to and he looked sad as we drove off, like he wanted us to wait forever so he could annoy the fuck out of us. We leave and go home.

after dinner we go to the cafe for internet. When we get home nik realizes she left her phone there and they close in 15 minutes. We jumped in the car and drove up there as quick as possible. Some fucker calls me a bitch because he was standing (not walking) in the crosswalk and I was stopped waiting for him. After getting the phone, nikkii wants to kick the kids ass because we are tired and cranky. Instead at a stop light we hear a loud SMACK. We look over and this older guy has hit this woman and is yanking her by the collar of her jacket. nikkii yelled "leave her alone I'm calling the police!". She calls 911 and reports it, and the two start walking down the road. The guy turns around and looks at us, grabs his balls and says "suck it bitch". We are both furious now. We stayed on his trail and then three cops pulled up. After a huge ordeal involving them calling us until 1am, they arrested him. We were both exhausted and stressed and took Xanax so we could sleep. As we start to fall asleep we both hear "FUCK YOU BITCH! FUCK YOU! YOU FUCKING WHORE!" I am in domestic violence mode and think someone is getting hit. nik looks out the window and some guy is screaming. I asked her if he hit someone. So after about 15 minutes of him screaming we go out on the patio, because we are Midwesterners and it wasn't like we could sleep anyways. Someone in a window yells for him to shut up and he responds with his original "fuck you bitch". He starts kicking signs and throws a newsstand over. Then he gets really mad and SWINGS around a tree and holds on a pole and starts swinging it back and forth. nik and I are crouched down on our balcony laughing so hard we could hardly keep quiet. So we do what every person from Michigan does, put our clothes on and went outside to watch. At 2am we are barefoot in downtown Seattle following a drunk guy down the road who is stomping around in his flipflops. Finally we went home and called it a night. Slept well until the 7am trash pick-up came for a good 30 minutes.

oh, today was good.

Life Goals

when i was in 6th grade i proudly exclaimed to my mom that i was going to drop out of school and move to seattle to become a junkie like kurt cobain and courtney love and find their house. well today i accomplished one of my goals. im not a junkie. but nik and i did drive our mopeds by kurt and courtney love's old house, something we always wanted to do. the house was like it looked on tv except the neighborhood was much more upper class than i expected. tomorrow we are going back for pictures and not on mopeds as the hills in that area proved to be more than our little 2-strokes could handle and we had to push them up a couple. anyways... today i have accomplished two of my four 6th grade goals.

move to seattle (x)
drop out of school (-)
become a junkie (-)
find the cobain house (x)

i'm on a fuckin' roll. then again my goal right before the seattle-themed goals was something about running away with the circus so maybe i should consider myself accomplished and find some new goals now.

Hives Pt.2

I went to a clinic today and the nurse said it's just an allergic reaction, nothing weird. Nik was worried that I was allergic to her since she's the only other thing that's been in my pants other than me. Rest assured, it is not her. Anyways, the nurse prescribed me an oral steroid and a topical steroid. So I guess I can't participate in the HIV-vaccine study now... hrmph. If you have taken steroids within a certain time frame you are not eligible because the steroids block your immune response and the HIV vaccine boosts your immune system.

In other news, I have a second interview at Tully's on Monday so hopefully it all works out. In the meantime I think I'm going to donate some eggs. My body is a factory for these things and I don't have to wake up early or dress up. CHA-CHING!! Medical risks, meh... this is capitalism muthafuckas: donate and DESTROY!!

Hives

I have hives. They're everywhere. And I don't even know if they are hives.

Pshhh... I'm tired. Seriously though, I am itching everywhere, but mainly my legs and butt. I think I have to go to the doctor tomorrow to see what on earth is causing it. I already changed my detergents back and used hypoallergenic everything. I'm at a loss as to what is causing this. I have washed every piece of clothing Nik and I own but I just keep itching. Maybe stress hives? Maybe the solution used to clean my carpets? But I don't have it on my hands, feet, arms or torso really... mainly my legs and ass. And no, I didn't buy new pants or chonies. This may be more information than you wanted, but you're stalking me so ::scratch scratch:: fuck off.

Food, Mopeds, Weather, etc...

It just crossed my mind that I am hungry. This isn't pointless chit chat, it's a huge step. I used to never get physically hungry, I would have to be reminded to eat by other means. Sometimes I would know to eat when other people ate, other times I just did it because I knew I had to or started to feel ill. Today, however, I feel hunger. Right now I could eat a plate of yakisoba and an entire roll of cucumber sushi. And guess what, that's exactly what I'm going to do. There is this great little sushi place in Ballard that Megan, Nik and I ventured to when we went furniture hunting. We didn't find furniture but we did find awesome food. So tonight we are going back there... possibly on our mopeds (now that they are running much better). But back to the hunger thing. I have to attribute it to the amazing chef I have. She makes me the best fucking food I've ever had. The mexican she makes KILLS me, I suppose it's the Fuentes in her. She has also gotten me to eat chicken and now I eat it like the carnivorous beast that I am. She cuts out all of the weird stuff and cooks it to the exact liking I prefer. I don't ask these things, she just does them, and does them WELL! Due to her fantastic skills I have developed an appetite for the first time since my senior year of highschool. I have an appetite, good food and a lady killa cooking it for me. I think I have reached zen.

In other news, the bitches who harassed me about moving to Seattle because of the rain will be happy to know it has been 78-82 and sunny every fucking day. I have not felt a drop of rain (not that it would bother me) and there hasnt been a cloud in the sky. All I have to say is: haha. From what I've heard, Michigan has been getting quite the storms so an additional 'haha' for that.

I hope you've enjoyed my gloating as much as I have. Rock on, jen-