some holiday

The highlight of my thanksgiving will have to be some stranger's house the day after Thanksgiving. I went to Kensington with some friends and parked in front of this house with Thanksgiving decorations that were awesome. They had boxes that lit up with holiday images. The best one of the images was just the word TOFURKEY! My other favorite was the cornucopia that showed up on the wall every now and then. Who doesn't love a horn of plenty? When we got out of the car you can here that the lights were coordinated with a song. What song you ask? Well the Adam Sandler Thanksgiving song of course. We kinda wanted to knock on these peoples' door... but we didn't.

Thanksgiving day was whatever. I worked until 3pm ande then rushed home to get my mom and go to Santee. Not a fan of east county but that's where the turkey was, not that I care about the turkey. It was really interesting to have to explain to my cousin what an economic crisis was. What's more interesting is why hadn't she heard that phrase until that day while standing right next to me?? My other cousins are old enough to know what vegan is now, so I had to go through the normal cycle of explaining my life to them and what i will and won't eat and why. This is where I sigh.

Thanksgiving evening was a little odd. I picked up The Mole and went to a friend's house. Little did we know that we would be watching the You tube for the next couple hours. There were about eleven people sitting around the t.v with the apple t.v. conmnected to it yelling out subjects to search that would hopefully give us videos that would make us laugh and giggle. It worked for a good while. I think my favorite was the evil eye baby. This is where I sigh again thinking of how much I laughed that night and what our world is coming too. I think it was decided that that would be a new Thanksgiving tradition. What a holiday. And no I did not go shopping on Friday, but I did go eat some Thai food. YUM.

why hello

my hand hurts... every day. But that's ok, because I had a good weekend for my friend Rechelle's 21st birthday. We're classy so we start at midnight on her birthday at the Waterfront. WHY? you ask? FEVERCROTCH. She's been waiting awhile for that, but it was no Monday of course so she still has some waiting to do. The next day... her actual birthday we went to Hollywood to see the Sounds, one of her favorite bands. I enjoy them as well. We had a hotel room a couple miles away which was nice beacause we're in Hollywood and well it's her 21st birthday.

But here's a fact she likes to start off by saying, "Funny story;" she had food poisoning or something on her birthday because she was ill and her stomach was too upset too drink. I think that may be every parents dream right there.

So, the Sounds was superfun although my friend grabbed my hand to pull me and my blisters, that are humongous by the way, popped. OUCH. I never screamed like that before. I wasn't screaming because it hurt enough to scream that loud but to make her stop. But she didn't stop and I kept screaming at the top of my lungs, but you have to remember that we're at a loud show where no one can here your cries of pain.

We go back to the hotel and sleep. Ashley, a little buzzed hits her leg or something on the air conditioner and says she hit her head on the wash machine. Yet, she's the voice of reason when I want to ride the skate board into the pool.

Next day was spent realizing that when we want to drive around LA we should buy a map, yet we still didn't. We first went to walk around Rodeo DR at all the stores we didn't want to walk into, probably because they wouldn't let us. This is the first time I've been in a car where we have it valet parked. Funny story: we pick up our car and as we'e getting in we happen to notice that Kelly Osbourne is dropping hers off. It takes us awhile to finally agree that's her. She became very skinny recently. Anyway, we're liek say something Chris!! Ask her for directions! because we actually needed to get to Melrose. Chris was driving and was closest by the way. So he rolls down his window and says "Excuse me!" She turns around probably thinking someone recognized her and he asked how to get to Melrose. Changing the expression on her face she actually give us directions. Too bad we were too involved with the fact that it was Kelly Osbourne to listen to what she was saying. Also, she has an accent and her dad is Ozzy Osbourne so it was hard to understand her anyway.

We were definately lost for awhile trying to find the Marc Jacobs stores. Rechelle bought two bags and a necklace from Marc by Marc for $88 and likes to brag about this. I'd say it was a good weekend and a good birthday. She was happy, though she didn't spend it like most 21-year-olds, but we're not liek most people so we still had awesome fun times.

I Will Never Be Mad...

when I'm at Disneyland!

Sunday- Ronnie won two tickets to Disneyland from his work for being awesome, so we went because I love it!!! As soon as we get there I upgrade my free ticket to a season pass. Now I can go whenever I want!!

First things first- Tomorrowland. I don't think I've ever started a day at Disney in another land. I think I just eel like it wouldn't be the same if I didn't ride Space Mountain so we made sure we got a fast pass for it right away, but the return time for it was two and a half hours later! So, we get our fast passes and then wait the less than half-hour wait and ride the best roller coaster ever. We explore Tommorrowland until we have to ride Space Mountain again. Then it' s off to the rest of the park.

Everything else is kind of all over the place. Adventureland to Frontierland back to Adventureland to Critter Country while passing through New Orleans Square, where you can find Royal Street Veranda which serves vegetarian gumbo that is delicious.

Every main ride was conquered by us, save the Matterhorn. That ride has too long of a wait and isn't too awesome. We only breezed through Fantasyland even though I think it's rides are worthy, some people don't! We made sure we took a picture with every character we saw and that they would fall in love with us starting with Buzz Lightyear. Boy did he ever fall in love with us. We made him take an awesome picture and he thought we were the coolest making sure to give us a thumbs up as we walked away. Man, those characters know how to make you feel special. Excpet for Winnie the Pooh. He was lame. But Tigger countered that negativity and danced for everyone and stole my scarf...TWICE!! Apparrently he was cold, which was conveyed by rubbing his hands together while crouching over... and wearing my scarf.

Regular street parades and fireworks can never compete with the magic that is Disney. I really don't understand why everything they do is so much better but it is. I like to think it's how they leak everything with the music, but really, it's so much more.

Warning: If you think it's a good idea to ride Splash Mountain after it's dark, it is not. If you think it's no worse in the front of the log when riding Splash Mountain, it is not. Once you hit the splash you think "oh, that wasn't so bad," and then the log settles and a wave just rolls over teh fron t of the log so that it falls in the lap of the person sitting in the front, which happen to be me. So it wasn't a surprise that I happen to be ridiculously sick the next few days. OH! It also didn't help going to see the night time water and light show, Fantasmic and sit in the fron t row so that a constant mist (sometimes a down right rainstrom) is hitting you in the face. uuuugh. I wasn't upset though, at least while I was at Disneyland. The next few days is another story though. Man alive, I love that place.

booooring.

This week was not fun. I worked one day at Barnes and Noble and one day at my other job and my car is broken so I went absolutely nowhere. I did absolutely nothing production. I put together two puzzles, one of them being the world's smallest 1000 piece puzzle. I never want to put together such a small puzzle again. By the end of today I know I will have finished Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. A video game made for the original Playstation. I'm not excited about today either. I haven't been home on a Sunday in a very long time and so far there is absolutle nothing on TV. So, let me tell you about my friend the MOLE.

Last night I had already been in bed for quite some time when I receive a message from my friend Craig Slike saying he's partying VIP with Neil Patrick Harris who happens to be a big Mole fan. I want to be happy but it just reminds me of the commercial with celebrities telling people why they're going to vote. Neil Patrick Harris said he's going to vote because he fell in love with someone and wants to be able to marry them. BUMMER. Anyway, I'm jealous cause Neil Patrick Harris is awesome and to get to my point, Craig Slike was last seasons mole on ABC's The Mole. I'm happy to say that I met him before he was on The Mole, but only saw him a couple times before he disappeared for a couple months. Where did I meet him you ask?? Why at the Blarney Stone in Clairemont. He happens to have been going every Monday long before I turned 21. When he returned from taping some another friend I had made their was like oh have you met Craig Slike and I actually had from some one else, but everyone was all excited to see him becuase he hadn't been there in months and he was telling people including me that he was in a Tijuana prison. I knew very well that wasn't true and the other people he knew were all very hush hush about something.... which was annoying.

It was just a couple days later I got the text from Mr. Slike telling everyone to watch that season of The Mole. It was kind of exciting. Mondays at the Blarney Stone would go from being Messed up Mondays to Messed up Moledays as we would all go there to watch the show together. I've never seen anything so odd. An entirely full bar on a Monday quiet facing a televesion watching reality TV. The band would play a set, then we watch the show and they would close with a nother set. It was actually quite a bit of fun.

Not too long after the show started we went on aroad trip together. Ashley, Rechelle, Craig and I went up the California coast stopping at every ridiculous roadside attraction, stopping in San Francisco and the Winchester Mystery house and ending at our sole purpose of the trip, the Gilroy Garlic festival. Have I mentioned this? Anyway, it is one of the best things I have ever done and we all tell everyone about it all the time and that was back in August. That was when we really got to know Craig and his cooooolness. We actually documented Craig's fans along the trip because we were excited whenever someone wanted to take a picture of them that we took a picture of that moment! The fans probably thought we were weird. We told them we won this road trip with The Mole on a radio contest.
There were quite a few people that recognized him and they all told him he was the mole, but of course he couldn't say anything then. We didn't even know if he was the mole. The season finale at The Blarney Stone was ridiculous. I wish I could have recorded the entire bars' reaction when it was announced he was The Mole. It was a complete uproar. (is that redundant?) I'm glad I met Craig Slike before he was the Mole even if it was just a little bit. He is really amazing and down to earth. He loves being on TV and doing things, but it really doesn't get to his head. Every time he's been on something or someone has written about him he'll tell everyone about it, but not to show off. He's really just excited every time it happens and so are the people that know him!

This is halloween

Pumpkins.
I know very well it's not a good idea not to carve your pumpkin too early but I thought a week in advance was going to be alright. Well, it's not. It took two days for my pumpkin to grow mold and it was quite upsetting. That's not as sad as Ashley's pumpkin though, that was rotten when she cut it open! She chose it for its unique stem and was perfectly fine on the outside. I was kind of jealous of its awesomeness until we saw a gnat fly out of it cause it was slowly dying from the inside out. She ended up sharing a pumpkin with her boyfriend Chris resulting in an adorable tin man. I on the other hand let out my inner anarchist and carved Noam Chomsky into my pumpkin. The pumpkin patch we went to was terrific because it had a corn maze. We went after it was dark so it was actually a little scary. Maybe more worrisome than scary. It definitely had a very Mel Gibson in Signs feeling.

ELLEN.
We got on the Ellen Halloween show and I couldn't be happier. Ashley, Chris, Rechelle and I dressed up and drove to Burbank so we can dance with this awesome woman. It was a long day but I had fun even though we didn't get any free electronics. I got to dance next to Ellen so I can almost die now. I have to wait to see Conan's hair in person to do that. Chris and Ashley were mickey and minnie (aaawe), Rechelle was Andy Warhol (it looked realy good) and I don't know what I was, but I wore and awesome wig. I'm gonna say I was two parts strawberry, one part Judy Jetson. In between commercial breaks they make people dance non stop, somethign I'm kinda use to so I was encouraged by the previously mentioned to participate in a dance contest, so I danced in the aisle and it felt weird... and I didn't win. hA! I like to think the girl her one just had super loud friends because all she did was walk up and down the aisle. I'm not bitter. Wanda Sykes was on the show. I had forgotten how funny she is. You should you tube her on this episode. Don't you tube the magician that was on it though because it was not good and we had to sit through him twice. Ellen is great, everyone should go at some time.

Halloween.
OH my goodness, Halloween at the Blarney Stone. People had been asking us what Ashley and I were going to be for quite some time, but we refused to say. Some people think it's lame to keep it a surprise but this needed to be kept a secret until the moment we walked in the door to get the effect we wanted and DID achieve mind you. We went dressed as Fevercrotch themself. They happened to be dressed as Waynes World but it was awesome nonetheless. The look on ther face when we walked in with our instuments was priceless, they even stopped playing the song they were starting. The rest of the night was a ridiculous amount of fun. I like to keep an assortment of odd things in my car so when our bar tender was sad that she was dressed up with everyone else I brought in my strawberry wig and the jumpsuit I used to wear at Sea world and she was more than happy to sport them all night. One of my favorite halloweens yet. We won the costume contest hands down. We hope we helped them feel liek they've officially arrived as a band. ;)