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eternal sunshine of the spotless mind came out on DVD yesterday. I went to Borders at 8 am before work to pick it up. Borders didn't have it yet. Poop! They told me it wasn't out yet. They were wrong. The commericals were telling me otherwise. I was so disappointed. It really is my favorite movie in the past few years.
So, today, I went again. Jeff and I went after lunch and looked around for it. It wasn't in the new releases racks. Poop again! But then I found it in the Comedy section. I don't think it is a comedy. It is more of a drama. Anyway, I have it now. whoohoo! But Lost is on tonight and the presidental debates are on tomorrow, so it looks like I will have to wait to until Friday to watch it again.
I was counting my ninjas last night. I keep fearing that I won't have enough and then that no one will buy any at all. Haha. I will post a picture of all of the little guys tonight. It is just this massive pile of ninjas. Massive. ;)
the blimp
"there is a huge white blimp hovering over us," jeff said as he brought archie in from his walk this morning. "just turn down corcoran and you will see it. it is really low and unmarked."
so there i was, standing on 16th street in washington, dc, looking at this huge white bobbing blimp hovering above me. marvelous. it was so low, i felt like i could reach out and touch it. the capsule part that holds the people at the bottom was all shiny and flashing like a tiny lighthouse. a tiny bobbing lighthouse in the sky. what was that flashing? someone taking pictures? someone taking pictures from an unmarked blimp on a lovely day in the city. what would it be like to be that someone? is it a job or just for fun? and who let's blimps fly around this close to the White House.
I was the only one looking up. Everyone else just kept walking. It made me wonder if it was real. But I knew it was since Jeff told me about it. It also made me wonder what I am missing by not looking around every corner every day. What marvelous sights escape me. I almost ran inside for my camera, but the giant thing started to float up, higher and higher. And I thought a picture wouldn't be as good as I would remember it.
FROM THE AP about my blimp:
Security blimp takes flight over nervous D.C.
Associated Press
September 29, 2004 BLIMP0930
WASHINGTON -- Here's a head-turner for a security-nervous city: A large white object was spotted in the skies above the nation's capital in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday.
Pentagon police said the Defense Department is testing a security blimp - fully equipped with surveillance cameras. The white blimp was spotted early Wednesday morning hovering at various times over the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.
The 178-foot-long device, which is expected to remain in the skies until Thursday, is conducting a mission for the Defense Department.
Authorities say the airship is equipped with infrared cameras designed to provide real time images to military commanders on the ground. The equipment on the blimp already is being used to protect troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Army says the device will make at least one 24-hour flight in the District of Columbia area. It has been in the region since last week, and is also being used for test runs over the U.S. Marine Corps Base in nearby Quantico, Va., and the Chesapeake Bay.
I have been dreaming about people I used to know again, which makes me think about the geography of my life again. Where I have been and where I am going and who has been a stop on the way.
Last night's dreaming was very tactile. Like I dreamt of the way people used to feel. Like the softness of a hand or cheek or ripple of a favorite sweater. It was strange, comforting and exhausting. I saw a friend in an elevator in one dream and had to touch her hand before she knew it was me. And smells too. Like the way someone's apartment always smelled like something that I couldn't remember or place.
This morning, the air outside smelled of camping and hot dogs and it made me think of my years as a girlscout. Hair braided to fight off ticks. Sleeping outside with dozons of other girls. I didn't dream that far back, though. Just to high school and college.
I don't want to think that my subconcious mind is stuck in the past, but it keeps taking me there while I sleep. Does this happen to you?
On to something else: the worst thing about losing all this weight is how cold my hands are now that summer is over. My hands are soooo cold! I can't stand it. How can thin people stand being so cold?
have a first look at my new hair color. claire fisher, anyone?
it is deep cooper blonde, fish bowl and electric blue. i am not fond of the dark blue in the front, which you can't see here,...so hoping to replace it with some some lighter blue soon.
jeff said something funny about this new color... that it looks the least natural of all, even when i was totally blue (which you can see by scrolling down to April). i think he might be right. this is just tooo shiny or something. i feel a little silly experimenting with normal hair color colors, haha, but going to another blue or purple is just so bad for my hair, considering I have to bleach it courtney love style before hand. i think the two stripes in the front are good enough, though, and easier to maintain than a full head of blue hair.
the rag weed is threatening to kill me. i swear.
Did you watch Lost? I wonder if there will be a pay off for all these giant monster scares.
ok, off to watch jeff play star wars battlebattle and make more ninja necklaces.
sleep well.
I am making it a habbit of stopping at the CVS on my way to work now, not sure why. This morning, I was so happy to see the emergence of Halloween crap. No treat bags yet, but lots of skull plates and costumes. I picked out a new color to replace my blonde. It is natural reddish blonde. So by the end of the day, I will be a strawberry blonde with electric blue stripes. Bye bye my little pony hair. Hehe. I dig the idea that i change my hair colorS with the seasons. Summer was blonde and green,fall is auburn and blue.
So, I tried on my GAP winnings last night and guess what? They all frelling fit. Insane. Literally while I was buying them, I was disappointed that they wouldn't fit me until winter... but no way, even the size 16 skirt fits. I kept running around the house telling jeff to look. He was so funny, he said, "yes, i know, you are a normal sized girl" haha. Cause that is what I was saying. It made me think about last year when I worried that after pregnancy, I would be a "super sized mom" which is what women who weigh more than 300 pounds in pregnancy are lovingly called. Nope, super sized mom, I will not be. That was totally Yoda speak.
I am wearing this gignormous resin strawberry ring today and it is making it hard to type.
So, what do you have planned for the weekend? Another trip to Ikea is in my future, cause I tried to order bookshelves and a chair from the website and the Ikea website sucks cause they never have anything in stock. Belva is bringing me some children's sized shirts, so I will be silk screening again. I also plan to tag all of my current inventory with price tags.
I have been doing this weird thing... We had these panda statues in the city this summer and now they are gone. So, every morning, I walk past where one used to live and I stop there, stand there and pretend to be the gone panda. Is that weird? I don't know. I miss them. I close my eyes and think about how it must have felt to be there, on the sidewalk all summer. It is silly, I know.
So on my way back from kabob lunch with hubby-o I stopped in at the Gap. I usually hate the GAP. I hate the expensiveness, I hate the ads. I hate it all. BUT. This morning, when looking for something to wear, I was reminded that yes, I can now wear women's clothes from the GAP. One GAP pink cardigan that I got on sale in the summer reminded me. So, in I went. Even in high school, I had to shop in the men's section of the GAP. Now, the biggest women's clothes are tight on me. Which means an XL shirt and a size 16 skirt. Insane! It makes me really happy even if I don't usually shop there. The fact that I CAN is amazing. So I got a deal where you buy 5 things and get 20% off. I picked up two sweaters, a courdory skirt and 3 pairs of socks. My luck, the sales girl was yapping on the phone and mistakenly didn't ring up my skirt! I didn't notice until I looked at the receipt, though. ;) Am I wicked? Hello free skirt. Yes, I am wicked.
Anyway, this fat girl can shop at the GAP. I know you are thrilled. I am still at 65 pounds gone. But I feel this overwhelming need to push forward. The move to the new apartment will help with more exericise(another mile a day walking to work, gym in the building). So, I know that fix is coming. But now I need to push the less eating into overdrive, without being crazy. Wish me luck!
While I haven't been shedding pounds lately, I have been getting smaller... my shoulders are newly pointy and today, my size 20 pants are falling down. I know that even my 18s are loose, so I should know better than to wear a 20, but I love these pants!
Anyway, I am blogging like a girl today. I don't mean to. I really am way more interesting than this.
wow o wow, it is a lovely day here in washington, dc. just perfect.
and my banana chocolate chip muffin is hot out of the oven this morning. could i be more cheerful? do you hate me for it?
You all know I am on a "weight loss journey" haha. Still at 65 pounds gone, hello plateau, again, but no matter. So, with the weight loss, has come a totally different body shape. One of my favorite things are the place between my thighs and hips. I guess the tops of my legs, which are kinda thighs, I guess. I learned recently that they are negatively referred to as saddlebags!!! Ugh, that is a horrible term for them. Mostly cause I really like them. They make me curve-y and are now the most wide point of my body, which for me is amazing!!! Rather than saddlebags, I would like to call them wings. Haha. My wings are womanly and lovely. I think I would even rather call them hamhocks... which I was told is not a word and sounds worse than saddlebags. Funny.
Anyway, we should all embrace our saddlebags. They make us prettier.
I heard a bunch of thin women talking about their "cellulite" yesterday on the street. It was fuuny cause they were all wearing open toed shoes with toe rings. One of them had long monkey toes that were so long that they hung over the fronts of her shoes. Like monkey hands holding her shoes. I wanted to say... dude, fat is not as ugly as your monkey toes and toe rings. It is just strange to me what people worry about it. :)
I am proudly wearing my Crafty Bastards t-shirt today.
The Human Rights Campaign has the best lawn. And I hate lawns. I hate them almost as much as wigs. They just seem so false and useless. Lawns and wigs.
What are you doing this weekend?
I plan to write on some dresses and skirts, make some more ninja necklaces and oh yeah, pack and clean. Haha.
Giving notice yesterday to our current apartment confirmed the fact that we should move. When I mentioned that they shouldn't show our apartment to new renters because of the dog, I was told that they wouldn't be renting out apartments anymore. DING DING DING! So, our pre-emptive apartment changing was brilliant. I mean, we knew our building has been sold, but couldn't get an answer about that meant until I gave notice. We also knew there were 7 empty apartments in the building. Now we know why. "We aren't renting our any more apartments" Um, ok. SOunds ilke they will be "renovating" them into either luxury condos or apartments. Neither are for us. Luxury is so boring!
We are also going to go to IkEA this weekend, where I will need to try and not buy something just cause it is terrible shade of orange. I tend to do that. I need to avoid it, though.
We signed our new lease yesterday and man this new building is frelling posh. And sooo many rules! No pets on the roof. Haha. This will be our first time renting a condo that someone actually owns, like a real person... so it is insane, the rules.
While cleaning up and getting rid of things en masse last night, Jeff and I were talking about how we really wanna try to live more like adults and not like messy punks. I mean, sure we will still be cool and all when it comes to the rad crap that fills our apartment, like i will keep my rotary dial phones. But I need to stop not caring when i spill paint on the floor, ya know. And like we want to buy real plates from a store and not the thrift store. Of course, we will still have the Powerpuff girls shower curtain, although I am eyeing one with sushi on it. But we are going to try to be more organized.
Today I am wearing orange pants. I love my orange pants. It smells like fall outside and it was dark when I woke up. Lovely.
Last night, I dropped an ash tray on my head... while taking stuff out of the closet. Now I know the true meaning of blunt trauma. It hit my nose and then my mouth and while I was dizzy for a good two hours, I came away without a bruise. I thought I had broken my nose, but nope. The funny thing is, the ash tray is for an old life insurance company. Talk about a Six Feet Under ironic death scene. Also, I don't even smoke. But I used to collect ash trays because they used to be so pretty. ANyway, this must have been the last from my former collection. He is in the trash now. That is what happens to collectibles that hit you in the face. The more I think about it, the more my nose hurts right now.
I have been busily making ninja necklaces, only 3 last night, though, since I spent the whole night doing laundry and getting rid of clothes with Jeff. At at around 10, we stopped for the night and I sat down to a scary speech by the completely insane Zell Miller at the GOP convention. If the devil existed, he would be old Zell. Then, on Hard Ball, Chris has Frank Lundtz on with his group of undecided voters in Ohio. I call them the hamsters. The hamsters all said they liked Zell Miller's speech because he was a democrat and he must have had courage to speak at the GOP convention. What the frell??????
If Zell Miller is a democrat, then I am a zebra.
And by the way, Frank Lundtz's wig also looks like a hamster. I almost hope it is his real hair and that he didn't pay for that thing. eek. Mean, mean.
So, I made 3 ninja necklaces whilst watching the devil and the hamsters.
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