I've severely underestimated the spiritual healing powers of starburst....mmmm.

;?

That last entry was boooooorrriiinnngg...'cause I wrote it laaate at night.

Man, I slept sooo much last night. It was kinda nice, I slept fairly well.

Except now my parents are fighting. Boo. And they're going away today....that can't be fun.

Also, I want to go downstairs, but do not want to go downstairs if they're fighting...grar...

K, going to go see if the coast is clear...wish me luck...

Did you know Mari can shake it like a polaroid picture?

So I had a rather lovely birthday, which was nice considering I thought I would have a bit of a crappy day.

My mom woke me up singing happy birthday and carrying a plate of chocolate chip pancakes. We all ate on my parents bed at about 9 in the morning and it was nice and calm and also tasty. My parents got me four shirts and two skirts. Three of those things were from Anthropologie and I'm totally in love with them already. :-) I decided to dress up and wear the new outfit I'd gotten. I kinda looked like I was getting dressed for church since it was Easter since I was all purple and flowery, but I felt pretty. Hehe.

We went to visit my Grandma at the nursing home. That was kind of creepy. I hadn't been there before. We went down to the room she was sitting in and it was like some odd David Lynch type experience. It was just loads of old people sitting in their wheelchairs around tables in this cafeteria like area all staring into space, completely silent. No one talked or even acknoweledged our presence when we walked in. I smiled at some of the people my grandmother was sitting with and they just stared at me. All of this was going on and "Young at Heart" was playing over the sound system. Very very odd.

Meanwhile, my Grandmother looked different...skinnier...and she had just taken a shower so her hair was laying flat on her head. I didn't recognize her until my mother started talking to her. It was weird and a bit scary. We took her into this little kitchen area, we'd brought her cake and other goodies. We got her to eat some cake for my birthday. At one point this woman walked in as my dad was showing my grandmother all the stuff we had brought her, like some cookies and pretzels. It had all come from her temple for Purim. Anyway, as my dad was showing her these things, this woman walks in, smiling, and goes "Ooh, can I have a pretzel?". So my dad opens the bag and hands her some pretzels and the woman then puts her hand on my back and started rubbing my back and smiling at me. Not in a creepy way at all, let me just say that, it was weird 'cause I didn't know her but it was oddly not really that awkward at all with her because she seemed really motherly and sweet. She did it like she was my grandmother, just rubbing my back and smiling at me all comforting. I just smiled and let her stand there with her hand on my back until she finished her pretzels and left. Poor woman probably misses her own grandchildren. I think most of the people who were sitting in the cafeteria were sitting there because their families weren't coming to visit that day. Sad. Also, I think maybe it wasn't that creepy that the old woman rubbed my back because I guess I kinda missed my own grandmother doing that. My grandmother hasn't been able to be sweet and motherly in a long time. And I guess I didn't ever realize that I kind of missed that, my grandma who would take care of me when I was sick and always just wanted to make sure I was okay.

Anyway, on to less depressing things! We left after a little while to go to my aunt's house for a family birthday party for me and my cousin. His birthday is the day after mine, so we always celebrate together. My aunt made us each a cake! My cousin got pumpkin cake (his favorite), and I got chocolate (my favorite) :-). My aunt is cool. She said she made two cakes because she was bored just making the pumpkin cake. She makes it all the time for my cousin. Anyway, she got me some more clothes, a shirt and a shrug, both very pretty. And apparently my uncle and grandmother both ordered some cool things for me off amazon. Garden State Soundtrack (yes!), The Incredibles (another yes!), and the The Sims 2 expansion pack (woohoo!). I have to finish playing fallout 2 first, or at least get sick of it. Holy crap that game is addicting, haha.

Later that night I went to Starbucks with Mari and Linda!! That was lots of fun, we sat and just talked and talked at Starbucks and Mari gave us both Cadbury Cream Eggs (I still haven't eaten mine!! Oooh, yummy) and it was lots of fun. And Mari drove! It was so cute. She's a good driver, and she got scared that these people were crossing the street in front of her....like two blocks in front of her...haha...Mari, I love you. And I love Linda. I love my friends. :-)

I got lots of birthday calls and IM's from friends, some of whom I hadn't talked to in awhile like Philippe and Miles and Alicia called me while I was at Starbucks, and Dave IMed me and Joseph gave me a happy birthday on his blog and it was just very nice and made me feel special, hehe. And this morning I got a message from Laurel!! From South Africa! She's on Semester at Sea and called me from Capetown! That's the second time she's called to say happy birthday to me from way far away. Once she called from China. Laurel is awesome, she is totally my adopted sister. Not just for that, but still, that is way sweet and unnecessary of her. Sucks I can't call her back and say thank you. Oh well. I shall e-mail her.

Anyway, now I go. I fell asleep at like 7 this evening and just slept through till midnight. Crazy. Night. :-) And thanks for all the birthday wishes and fun and happiness. <3

Happy happy

We had to take my dad to the emergency room! He came upstairs after trying to assemble some shelves in the basement saying that he felt dizzy and had ringing in his ears and was a little queazy. It was kind of scary, I was afraid he'd had a heart attack for some reason. So after trying the urgent care center (which was closed...huh?) we ended up taking a trip to the emergency room. It actually wasn't so bad, I've never been to an ER before. There weren't many people there and only one woman came in who looked really sick (poor girl was clutching her tummy and looking very much in pain...she had a whole bunch of people with her, too, her boyfriend/fiance along with a bunch of women and some man. A couple of the women kept chattering in some language I didn't recognize, it was kinda weird.).

My dad got an EKG and blood work. He was hooked up to the EKG for awhile and my mom and I kept watching his monitor. Whenever he'd move around or laugh or anything the patterns would go all wacky. It scared me at first but after awhile we kept trying to figure out what would make the lines do silly things. We tried making him tell lies (he picked "I like cottage cheese"...hehe). Once when we were talking about his mother the lines started getting a little silly, ha. At one point he said "I feel like I can make the heart rate number go down by looking at the monitor..." which I thought made him sound like a stoner, but he actually did it! He was looking at the monitor and the numbers went down a whole lot, it was weird. He said it was probably something about bio-feedback or something.

Anyway, my dad is alright, thank goodness. He's got some kind of virus in his ear that made his ear drums inflamed and made him dizzy. They gave him some medicine to make him less dizzy and hopefully that will help. I'm just glad he's okay. :-)

After that we went to Olive Garden for my birthday and to celebrate my mom getting into some program she'd applied to for teaching. And then Josh called me at midnight to say happy birthday. :-D

And now off I go....I'm just glad my dad's okay. Phew.

Night. :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSEPH!!!

Sunday is my 20th birthday :-O

Just so you all know.

It's also Easter, apparently. Nifty. Colorful eggs and bunnies and chocolate. Not really of the proper religious persuasion to celebrate Easter, but can I celebrate colorful egg-bunny-chocolate day?

Californiaaaaaaaa Californiaaaa (kinda gets old after awhile, no?)

Great news!: Josh got into a summer research program at Stanford! Because he's smart and awesome! Congratulations, Josh!!!

Not as great news: Josh got into a summer research program at Stanford...which is in California...on the other side of the country....for most of the summer.

My happiness for Josh is for the most part outweighing my bummed outed-ness over the fact that he's going to be far away for most of the summer while he's already away most of the year as it is. It sounds like something he'll probably enjoy, so yay, and good experience and all that stuff. And hey, really good excuse to take a trip to Cali, no?

I am still a bit sad, though, 'cause....far away....long time... Maybe if I think really positive happy things perhaps I will not be too sad?

But like I said, good reason to visit Cali. And I'm way happy for him 'cause it's a cool opportunity at a great school and a good way for him to put all that damn smartness to good use. :-) (Must end on positive note!)

Off I go....wheeeeeee.....

Stankonia

OMG I AM SO BORING TODAY AHHH

I've restarted this entry like 4 times!!! What is wrong with me? Where is my spunky writing style? It's still on vacation. Yes, indeed.

Ha, spunky writing style. What am I talking about?

Had an awesome weekend, back at school waiting for my hateful English class to start. I did the homework (take that, bitchy English teacher) but who knows if she'll be in the mood for giving me credit for it since I'm not sure I did it right. And I can't say to her, "I might have done this wrong," 'cause some kid said that to her once and she yelled at him and made an example of him by telling the whole class that "If you think you're doing it wrong, why are you doing it that way?!" What a bitch! Obviously you didn't think you were doing it wrong when you did it, you did the best you could. Grr at teachers who take no consideration into people's effort on an assignment.

Guess who hasn't taken a shower since Saturday!!! Mm, minty fresh.

My orange sneakers are starting to break a little. I could cry.

Also, I hate having to wear a shortish skirt in class for a scene. I felt like such a skank, I had this short skirt on and heels and felt like total eye candy. But not in the fun way, 'cause directing class is not the place to show off my sexy sexy legs. Which are pretty sexy, btw....when I shave them that is....Oops.

I am way stanky today, huh? Must go, hateful English class in 10 minutes. Boooooo.

P.S. I saw Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle this weekend and I continue to be highly amused by the "love stains" line. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing.

On the off chance that he reads this sometime soon:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MILES!!!!

See, I remembered! Have a good day, Miles! You're 20....creepy.

And Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone else...oh crap, must go find some green. Adios, muchachos. ::muah::

You know what's fun? When you're not sure how you're doing in a class and your teacher e-mails you going "Hey, you got an 82 on that test, good job!"

I feel happy now. :-)

I am entirely too fond of Taco Bell Chicken Quesadilla's....

I'm going away tomorrow on a plane! Eep. Wish me luck.

Did anyone else have a crush on Dimitri?

Holy crap, does anyone remember The Brave Little Toaster? For some reason I remember watching this with my parents when I still lived in New York (so I was WAY little) and it making me really sad 'cause I felt bad for the toaster and all the appliances and I got scared 'cause they were all in danger and almost getting squashed or something. Yep...I cried 'cause I felt bad for a toaster...and you wonder why I'm the way I am?

Also, I completely want to watch Anastasia right now. I am on such a cheesy movie kick. Although Anastasia is definitely a quality movie.

Seriously, I will watch one of those critically acclaimed Oscar nominated things one of these days. But, c'mon....talking toasters and singing Russian royalty?! How can I resist?

Joseph - Quit whining.

I had a really odd dream last night that I got drunk off my ass at some party, started hooking up with some random guy, and then Linda and Mari came and took me home because I was drunk and acting badly. Weeeiiirddd.

In other news, I just cleaned a piece of my grandmother's jewelry with toothpaste. Who knew toothpaste was so versitile?

El Pus band member - I believe you!

Josh got me a bunch of chocolate as part of my Valentine's Day gift....a man after my own heart....mmm, chocolate.

I am so the man! El Pus posted a comment on my blog*! Or a member of El Pus....still...pretty sweet. So El Pus, if you're reading this, thanks! And I'm definitely getting your CD!

Josh is sitting in my really messy room watching Drawn Together. I can't watch. There's bunnies getting fucked up. Seriously.



*Yes, I realize it's possible that it's just someone saying they're from El Pus and trying to mess with me (Jersey girls ain't no fools), but why would someone do that? I prefer to remain optimistic and happy in this situation. And I'm still totally getting the CD. 'Cause it rocks.

This is so not what you were looking for....

I can't sleep. Mutherfucker.

Earlier this week in directing class I had to do a scene that this kid made up that was basically like...soft core lesbian porn..without the nakedness, of course. But seriously...I had to wear a Xena-esque costume (that belonged to the kid directing the scene, thank you) and pretend to be "secretly attracted" to this other girl. But afraid of the attraction. Seriously. And there was something about her feeding me medicine and it "dribbling on my lips"...um....I feel dirty. Really. This kid also decided to use my leg as a pillow later in the class, which, whatever, I don't care...but then he bit me. What?! Okay, it wasn't like he really bit me like I need a rabies shot, it was over my pant leg, and he didn't bite down, really, he just sort of made like he was about to bite down...but it hurt! I yelled at him and made him move, but I'm not sure he got it. And I was all freaked out the rest of the day. It wasn't a sexual thing, I'm pretty sure, 'cause I'm pretty sure this kid is gay. But seriously....if he tries any shit like that again he is definitely leaving class minus a ball....and I don't care if we have midterms, I will stop mid-test and deliver an ass kicking.

Also, I hate having to put movies back into the dirty section at work. It's so gross. I made Kaity go with me today 'cause it gives me the creeps. I've only had to do it twice, but still. I don't want to touch communal porn. I don't want to touch ANY porn. And seriously, it takes way too long to put a movie back because it's hard to figure out where it belongs considering you're so distracted by all the nastiness staring you in the face. Yech. But whatever, it's the only rather yucky thing about my job, and it's not something I have to do TOO often, so...but still..yuck.

Man, I am going to get so many hits on this entry of people looking for very dirty things. Oops. Sorry to dissappoint.

I'm gonna try and sleep now...again. Sigh. Good night.

Did you know I have this weird thing for Anne Hathaway movies? I am having such a craving to watch Princess Diaries 2 right now, you would not believe!

Today is March 5, and I did something brave.

Gotta go ahhh

I got paaaaaiiiiddd. Yes!!

Seriously, I've had about..I dunno...4 bucks for most of the week? If not all week....I think all week. I'm so glad I can actually afford gas this week and to buy some lunch at school if I want. I love having a job, hehe.

And my job is pretty awesome. I spent five hours tonight basically hanging out with Kaity and Clay and I GET PAID FOR IT!!

Also, I yelled at a bunch of 16 year old girls tonight. Here's what happened:

Teenage girl at counter to other teenage girl at counter: "Hey, put that down, that's candy, you're on a diet."
Robin: "What?! You do NOT need to be on a diet. Seriously. Eat the candy, none of you need to be dieting. How old are you?!"
Girl: "16, how old are you?"
Robin: "20"
Girl: "Wow, you look young."
Robin: "Yeah, well, whatever, you don't need to be dieting. Eat crap while you have a fast matabolism, wait until you're older and fat to worry about dieting!!"

So they left and were kinda laughing about it and kinda like "Eek...girl is yelling at us!". But then one of them told me I look like Mischa Barton, so I guess yelling at them to not diet was actually a decent idea? Hehe. Unless she doesn't like Mischa Barton, and then, well..screw her! Just kidding.

Maybe I shouldn't yell at people to stop dieting when I'm a bean pole? But I mean....I can't help it...and I don't think teenagers who are absolutely not overweight should think they have to diet. Bah to that.

And I just realized right about now that I told them I was 20 when I won't actually be 20 until the end of the month. And I didn't even realize I'm not actually 20 until just now. Oops. Weird.

Off I go. Byeeee.

In other news, Voltron got totally served...

Or: Ooh...did I say sexonds?

For some reason no matter how many times I flip it around, my comforter always gets twisted and turned so that the tag that goes on the bottom of the bed is now at the top and in my face when I get up. I must do like....sleep tae bo or something to have that happen. Crazy.

Robot Chicken is nifty.

If the link to the El Pus video for Suburb Thuggin' didn't work you should go to their website and just find it on there, it's pretty well labeled, I think. Seriously people, it's awesome.

My 20th birthday is in about twenty-three days, I think, if I'm counting right. Eek!

And here's something kinda sad, I have no reason to wear my "Kiss Me, I Vote" shirt for at least another 3 and a half years. Damn. Oh well.

Stuffy nose. Sleeping time...maybe.

Pull yo pants up...

The perks of being a radio geek are getting to hear new stuff like this before everyone else. El Pus. Check out their video for "Suburb Thuggin'".

Suburb Thuggin'

Watch it. Love it.

Whoa, wait, did he just say "Retahded"?!

So Monday was actually a pretty good day. I hung out in the radio station a bunch and had a really hilarious time. Thom is way cool and one of the only people there who I can stand to talk to for more than five minutes (besides Dave, that is). We definitely spent way too much time being evil and making fun of everyone else at the station. Here are some highlights:

Thom: I found a condom wrapper in the couch the other day...and it confused me because....it's not mine...and no one else here is ever having sex....

Robin: Yeah, I don't like to hang around here for too long. I'm afraid I'll become someone's masturbation fantasy.
Thom: Ahahah, it's funny 'cause it's probably true.

People keep bringing in stuff to decorate the studio. We already have a few of those spinning lights with different colors and a black light. One of the new things in the office on Monday was this little paperweight type thing that's like a squishy ball filled with fluid on a little stand. And when you press a button on the stand, the fluid swirls. But it really really looks like a boob. A blue squishy boob.

So the advisor, Fenwick, came in and was talking to us:

Robin: Yeah, that thing looks like a boob.
Thom: It's already got a hole in it, I shook it around and it shot water at me.
Robin: Yeah, who brings that crap in...
Fenwick: I did!!! You guys broke it already?!? Oh man, you people lick nut!
Robin: Please don't say nut, teacher saying nut, ugh. ::shudders::

At one point we got really bored and found a DVD about dealing with kids with learning disabilities. So we started watching that but had to turn it off once the host said "Retahded" because we were laughing so hard it was getting difficult to breath.

I dunno...maybe you had to be there...but it was pretty hilarious.

My dad came home early yesterday with an "I don't feel good". When I asked he wouldn't frickin' tell me WHAT didn't feel good, but whatever. He went to bed. I went to my room as I was really tired.

Of course now I've had a sore throat since last night. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal if Josh wasn't coming home on Friday or Saturday.

::cries::