Tuesday, October 28, 2008

How Tachy Of Me

Sorry I was late in updating. Yesterday was super busy and I was very tired.

So, last night I didn't sleep, I just kind of watched movies until morning and then had a doctor's appointment at the UMC. I parked at Children's and took the tunnel to the UMC. I totally got lost on the fourth floor because I had no idea where I was going. So I ended up at some sort of OB/GYN clinic and I kept getting asked if I was pregnant or needed pre-natal care, which was sort of good, I guess since I don't look fat enough to look really pregnant...

Anyway, I found where I was supposed to be going after a while. I was like... two hours early, but I wanted to be able to go to French class later. Okay, that's a total lie. I didn't have any desire to go to French whatsoever, but whatever. Anyway, I got my stats taken and then the nurse insisted that I pee in a cup, but I was totally dehydrated and really didn't have to, so I promised that I wasn't pregnant and skipped it.

After a while, my doctor came in, poked and prodded at me for a bit, asked some questions, and then listened to my heart rate and asked if I had been drinking caffine or doing drugs or something. I was like, uh... no? why? Apparently I was 'tachy' and had tachycardia, which is fancy medical speak for an unusually fast heart-rate. Great. So the doctor gave me a prescription for an EKG, which is one of those heart scans that they do on TV where they stick the thingies on the person's chest and then connect the wires to them.

So I didn't mention that usually I have a weirdly fast heart rate when I don't sleep and am dehydrated because then I would have to go to French class. So I made an appointment for an EKG at the Cardiology clinic at Children's for 1 pm. It was about 11:15 when I left there and I had been there since about 9:30 or so. I went down to the basement floor and took the tunnel to Children's but totally got lost and went to Harper instead. I had to ask the janitor in the elevator wtf hospital I was in.

I eventually made it to the right hospital and took the elevator up to the first floor where the cafeteria is. I got a blue koolade slushie which was super yummy and vegan, because most of the food wasn't vegan and I was only really thirsty anyway. I made a bunch of poffins on my DS while I was sitting in the cafeteria sipping on my slushie. When it was just the crunchy ice stuff left in the cup, I left and went up to the second floor where the Cardiology center is. There was noone there when I got there, so I played with my DS for about an hour. A bunch of people came in and were kind of loud and annoying. There was this one guy in a joker shirt who looked frighteningly like my friend Vaun.

Anyway, this weird new episode of Pokemon was on that had this super annoying mocking bird thing on it which got annoying really quickly. I got to go in way before anyone else and I was super happy to get out of that waiting room. I had to take off my shirt, only I wasn't wearing a bra which was kind of awkward, but it was sort of okay. When I went in, I think The Wiggles was on, which was horrible, so I had the tech change the TV for me, which was good because it changed to TNT which is an excellent station.

She put sticking things all down the front of my rib cage, like, they started up at my clavicles and ended at the very bottom of my ribcage and went between my boobs, but I had a mini hospital robe on backwards, so it wasn't like they were showing, which was good. After all the stickies were on, she connected these cables to each of them. I was kind of afraid I was about to be like, electrocuted or something like that. It was pretty odd.

The scan looked pretty normal apparently. I guess the slushie helped. Because apparently tachycardia is when your heart rate is between 120 and 150 when you're just sitting still and laying down, but mine was only 75. Which might be a little fast, but I don't really know. Anyway, she took the sticky things off, which actually didn't hurt. I was kind of expecting it to be like ripping tape off or something, but I guess it's just like... ultrasound gel that they stick them on with.

After that, I got to leave, so I went to the Verizon store to get my old phone reactivated and then home. But while I was there, I spotted the price of the BlackBerry. I could totally afford one, so I went home and then to the bank to get out some money. Unfortunately, I was $600 overdrawn because the cheque my mother wrote me bounced. Great. So I just went and charged the phone to the account and I'll pay for it later.

I was super tired after that, so I just went to sleep.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

That Joker!

s morning, I couldn't sleep, so I got up at about four AM and coon tailed the bottom layer of my bangs purple and green. Then I left the middle layer alone, and dyed the top layer, along with the rest of my hair purple. Yay! After that, I had chocolate and frosting for breakfast... I'm sooo healthy!

After breakfast, I went home to play Kingdom Hearts 2. Superfun! I played for about two hours and then called Erin. I did my makeup as we were talking, and then left to go pick her up after waking up Carol. We chilled at her house for a while and then picked up Carol and headed to Clutch Cargos. There was already a line when we got there, so we went and got batteries from the gas station down the street, and then headed back to the venue, parked, and got into line.

It was pretty cold waiting in line, but when we finally got in, it was all Halloweened out, which was pretty sweet. We were about four rows back from the barrier at first, but the second Cash Cash started playing, we pushed our way up to the third row, after a while I worked my way up to the second row and stayed there, even though this bitch next to me kept trying to push me back. She was like, "You weren't here before... we were here first, blah, blah, blah," and I was just thinking, like seriously? If she had been where I was and got to where I ended up, she wouldn't move either.

So Cash Cash was good. I touched their lead singer's hand. After them, The White Tie Affair played and their guitarist was sooo hot!! Oh My God. He had the coolest tattoo ever on his chest, it said why so serious, and then he also had at least one of his nipples pierced. Which was hot. He spit water on me. So did Trace Cyrus. Their lead singer Chris was standing against the barrier and I totally had my arm wrapped around his torso, which was tres fun.

After that, Tyga went on. It was super loud and not that much fun, but there was this funny Obama thing...

Metro Station FINALLY went on and they were AMAZING!!! It was so loud and so much fun! Erin made fun vids of that. It was SOOO awesome and Trace was totally looking at me. We're like... twins... hahaha!

After that, we went to Maccas to eat. I got a ton to drink and fries with ketchup. Carol and I did an impression of Brandon playing the keyboard, because he's sooo adorable when he does it and Erin filmed it.

Then, we went home, but on the way back, we stopped off at Cranbrook for a campus tour, and then got caught up stealing McCain lawnsigns... unfortunately, I think I lost my phone on someone's lawn... haha!

I got super pissed because I lost my phone, and then Erin hit me in the upper lip.. still healing, with one of the signs I was like, AAAAHHH!!! So I stopped the car and got out, and I had a hissi fit and kicked a tree and screamed. Apparently I scared away some TPers... lmao wao.

So we didn't manage to find my phone, but I'm sure I'll get it back someway or another.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Organization 13

Yesterday I hung out with my friend Robbie, and then went over to my moms' house again for a little while, then I went to Fencing. It was kind of awesome, because I showed my tattoo to Adam, and the first thing he said was "Haha! Oranization Thirteen!" although he was probably kidding. I was like, "OMG! YES!!!" Because that's exactly what it is.



Anyway, I apparently missed the written final last week since I skipped to get my tattoo done. Oh well... Anyway, we were split up into two groups, and you had to fence everyone in your group for five touches and then go report who won the match. I won all of mine, which was fun. So after that, I got to fence Aisan Dude because we were both uber bored. Sabres a-hoy. Yuss!! Of course, I sucked because I haven't been permitted to fence sabre since Culver, and he fences all the time.

Anyway, then I talked to my friend Andrew while he was on his way in and I was on my way out. After that, I went back to my parents house and watched Grey's Anatomy with mother and then watched movies.

This morning, I didn't want to wake up. So I didn't. At about 4, mother and I went to a vegan cafe down the road, and then to fedxkinkos to buy boxes. Then we got all of my clothes and put them in the living room. HUGE. ASS. PILE. So after sorting through what I actually wanted, and what is getting thrown away, and what I'm giving to the rummage sale, I started separating all the clothes that I'm keeping into boxes and such. Obviously I have to keep some of it out, but most of it will stay in boxes to go to Toronto because I really don't require that much clothing right now.

After packing for a while, I got rather tired and decided to go to bed. I can't wait to see Metro Station tomorrow!!!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Lava Cake

I really couldn’t sleep last night, so I mostly kind of dozed and when I would happen to wake up, I would reset ‘The Golden Compass’ which I kind of had running on re-run all night. At about 4 or 5, I got tired of that and put on ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’, one of my personal favorites… naturally. At about six, I got up and had breakfast. A fake corndog, pineapples, and the five drops of my soymilk that were left since I’m pretty sure my roommates drank most of it. Thanks guys...

After that, I put some popcorn in the microwave and went and woke up my roommate because he was parked behind me, and the neighbor parks SOOO weird so I really couldn’t get out of the driveway any other way. This was about seven. So anyway, I went and brought my mom the popcorn for breakfast. On my way over, I came to realize something horribly depressing. Summer is 100% and truly over and dead. This is my 18th year and so far, it’s the best year of my life, starting from my birthday, of course.

So anyway, we chilled for a bit, then went to the health food store. I was absolutely flabbergasted to see Hillary Tamm there, because I was pretty sure she was staying at MSU until at least the end of the semester. We had a fun little chat and then my mom and I headed to the mall because I was promised 4 items of clothing and 2 pairs of shoes for my birthday in June and I still hadn’t gotten them.

We went to Hot Topic and I browsed through the gothic Tripp pants, tried some on, and remembered exactly why I don’t wear them. They look ridiculous and highly unattractive, especially on girls. So then I found this amazing bright blue pair of Tripp scene pants, which were crazy awesome. So I tried those on and decided I needed them and another pair of black ones as well. I also got a sleeveless Gir hoodie, which is totally adorable. Love em!

So after that, I popped into Forever 21 and got this sweet grey hat. Viva winter! Anyway, after that, we went to a bike store and checked out all the fixed-gear bikes. I found a totally awesome one. It’s super light and black and awesome. I won’t be able to get it until about Christmas though, but I’m super excited. It’s going to be my main mode of transport when I move to Toronto in January. That and the underground.

Anyway, after that, we came home and I made super yummy lava cakes. We ate them while watching ‘Hocus Pocus’, but I’m pretty sure I fell asleep like, half way through. Oh, and I totally skipped French class to hang out with my dorky mom. But it was so fun!

Anyway, after the movie, I took a nap until 5 or so and then we had dinner and watched ‘Sixteen Candles’. After that, I did the dishes, because I promised. I’ll probably end up staying the night, and then tomorrow Mom will come over and help me put together my dresser… finally, I’ve been putting it off.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

I Am The Walrus

Very early this morning, say… 4 or so, I discovered the most amazing food ever. Tofurkey and applesause sandwiches. What you do, is you put a bunch of faux butter on both pieces of toast, and then you put a slice of tofurkey on top of that, and then add a spoonful of applesauce, then another layer of tofurkey and so on until you get to your last piece of tofurkey, and you put the other slice of bread on top, then cut it in half and eat it. It’s AMAZING.

I woke up at like… 1 or two, watched the rest of Little Miss Sunshine, and started straightening up the house. It took a few hours, but after I was done, I got dressed and watched Law and Order. I’m so excited for Jeff Goldblum to be on that show!!! I met him once in Hollywood. Sort of… he bumped into my friend and I and apologized. He was sooo tall!

I rode my crap bike to school. I can’t wait to get another one. Fixed-gear baby, yeah! I parked it at the school, then walked to Starbucks a few blocks down the street and got a hot chocolate… soy, of course. It was bloody freezing and my legs went numb. I got back to school and went to the classroom to wait for class to start.

Overly-Religious Lady came in and I got into a long drawn out some-what one-sided conversation that I couldn’t really get myself out of, which was kind of annoying. Because I didn’t want to be rude and ignore her, but I really just wanted to listen to my music… loudly.

So far, I’m loving being a vegan, although I haven’t exactly been strict lately, I did JUST start, so please go easy on me vegans of the world. And usually, when I slip up, it’s because I didn’t know a food item wasn’t vegan.

Class was kind of boring. We watched a pretty good movie though. Half way through class, I threw my pencil at Jim and he stole it. I want it back. I have a shortage of good drawing pencils and that was one of them… and it had been in my mouth earlier.

After class, I rode my bike home, which was kind of awful. It was freezing and my legs were all numb, and I fell over adjusting the strap on my bag. So now my inner knee is all scraped up from my bike. I need one of those single strap backpacks that go diagonally and clip… My mother said she’s get me a new bike for Christmas. YAY!!! I’ll just have to pick it out and see how expensive it is. Hopefully it’s not too expensive.

Anyway, I think I’ll attempt to get to French class somewhat on time tomorrow, so that means going to sleep now-ish… or maybe I’ll order some pinapple pizza without cheese and some cinnamon sticks… I wonder if that is vegan…

Night Fever

I just went on a truly epic bike ride with my video camera. I'll upload the edited video eventually.

Monday, October 20, 2008

The Butcher, The Baker

Today I overslept and missed French class. Since I'm dropping Russian anyway, I really don't see the point in going all the way to Auburn Hills. The reason I overslept is because some idiot... *cough, cough* JIm *cough* kept me up until like... 5 this morning talking of nothing.

Yesterday wasn't very eventful. I got tired of my hair and tinted some of it purple. It's super light and hardly noticeable. I had an awesome tamale that I found in my parents freezer, but I'm not sure what I'm going to eat today... I'm still in bed. Maybe I'll go shopping for some food... Or maybe I'll go back to sleep. I'm pretty sure going shopping for food is more important, but I'm really digging the idea of another tattoo... but I should probably wait until the other one has healed, so groceries it is.

When I went outside to my car, Lilu was there, whining to be let in at the back porch. I was going to wait until I got back to let him in, but then I noticed his uberlimp and decided to take him inside and call my parents and ask if I should take him to the vet, or wait until they get home tomorrow. Mom said wait, so I went shopping. Everything I bought was 100% vegetarian, at least. I'm rather enjoying this month of vegetarianism before I go hardcore vegan next month. It makes things easier. I mean, I was a vegetarian once before so it's not too hard, but I like it.

When I got home, I was starving, so I had two huge glasses of chocolate soy milk as I waited for the oven to heat up and my faux chicken nuggets to cook. My friend Jim decided to criticize the term "chicken nuggets" if they aren't real chicken... thanks Jim. While my chicken was cooking, I got to talk to my friend Mikey who is in Iowa at college. I haven't talked to him for a few months.

Anyway, I suppose I'll blog some more later, or maybe just tomorrow. I'm pretty sure nothing eventful will happen today... although, I might go get a $25 tattoo at inkslingers, but probably not.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Potato Much

This morning I woke up at like... 9 maybe... I don't remember. Anyway, I called up Carol, who was asleep, woke her up, and inquired about whether or not we were going to attend set construction today. She didn't know, and called the theater to find out. No answer. We eventually decided to skip set construction, and I would just come over at 2 to pick her up and go to Lansing for the Forever In A Day show. So, I got some gas, watched some tv, and then went and picked her up. Brian was there which is always fun.

We left Carol's house and drove for about an hour and a half. When we arrived, we were way super early, so we went to an internet cafe down the street and got some super yummy vegan chai teas. After that, we went to the venue and sat in my car listening to Silverstein for a while. Then we went in when everyone was getting there.

First Storms In May played, but we missed most of their set because we made a run for cigarettes during the first song and got back half way through the last song, which was really disappointing because they were really good. We lit up while they were getting unset and Four Word Cause was setting up. They were really good too. After them, Farwell played. They rocked too... but best of all was Forever In A Day.

After they played, we left because we were tired and had headaches. On the way home in the car, we finally came up with a band name, The Vendeada. So check us out at http://www.myspace.com/thevendeada okay? We're looking for more band members though, we need a lead guitarist, a rhythm guitarist, a bassist, and a keyboard player. Thanks!

Anyway, we stopped at Wendy's on the way back and got some french fries, which are awesomely totally vegetarian as they are cooked in peanut oil, and I also got a baked potato.

Green Haired Monster

Bon soir

Today I woke up and decided that I want another tattoo. Yeah... I just got one yesterday, but whatever. I like getting tattoos. I like tattoos in general. I like the way they look. I like the way they feel. I like them. I'm probably going to get one of those sleek new batman symbols on my right inner wrist. Maybe my right arm will end up as a sleeve of myself. I already have XIII on my inner forearm.

I woke up at like... 10 this morning and went to my parents' house to drive my mom to the bank. We came back home, and I made sandwiches and then slept on the couch until 3, when I drove my mom to the airport. She's going to Arizona for a friend's birthday. It's 90 degrees there. I am only jealous of the fact that if I had been able to go, I would have gotten to go riding every day I was there. I miss riding every day.

After the airport, I went back home and figured out what time the Forever In A Day concert was, then called up some people to go with me, but no one could. Thanks guys. So I drove out to Waterford, which took about an hour, and then I totally flipped and didn't want to go by myself, so tomorrow, Carol and I are going to their concert in Lansing.

I went to the mall after that. I bought temporary green hair dye, key caps, the movie 'Hocus Pocus', and the Silverstein album 'When Broken Is Easily Fixed' which is actually very impressive, because I don't buy CD's. I think they are a waste of money. Why buy something that you can get online for free? But I love the CD and I'm terribly happy with it.

When I got back to my parents' house, I realized that I had left the cord to my computer at home, so I went back and got it, as well as my friend's folder that she left at my house. I watched Hocus Pocus while eating a ridiculous amount of ramen... three packages.

I'm going to dye my hair after I finish this... but I'm kinda tired, so maybe I'll just put a movie on and go to sleep.