The Threadless Mist.

So, I’ve been screwing around with Threadless quite a bit and I’ve come to the conclusion that I will submit a design. However, my Illustrator skills are limited to making swirls. Basically, my life right now is trying to come up with a good design including swirls. In the mean time, Hunter and I have been submitting slogans. Vote for mine here and Hunter’s here. Also, if you look around Threadless and decide to buy something, please use this link. That way, I get points, too! /shameless plug

Also, last night I went to see The Mist with Ben. Holy Cow, strange movie! It’s set somewhere in southern Maine, so all the actors had these terrible fake accents and kept throwing in things like “weatha” and “holla” and “wicked.” The movie was so bad it was hilarious in some places, and then five minutes later I’d be on the edge of my seat, freaking out about what was going to happen. The ending was completely killer–SO good! I had a good time with Ben, too, so overall last night was a success.

What was NOT a success was my Christmas shopping. I bought two things to use for a Santa’s Bag thing, but I also bought myself a new outfit and some jelly beans. So much for losing my Carleton weight… What is also not helping with that is the fact that today was my first day back at work, and that is NEVER good for diets! It was really nice to be back, though; I really missed Lew and Eileen and Candy and Emily and everyone, plus the new people seem very competent (which is rare).

I guess that’s it for now.

It’s shrunk!

My middle school is so tiny! I went back today for a visit, and everything was so teeny! The hallway was MUCH shorter than I remember, and the chairs are little sized! How did I not notice that when I was in school!? Anyway, it was pretty cool because my principal (the one who thought that Portugal was in South America) remembered me. It was actually kind of strange, I was ready to launch into my spiel about how I graduated from the HS last year and was here to see my old music teacher blah blah blah, but he just let me go right in. It was so great to see Ms. Wheeler. She was such a good music teacher for me and really got me headed in the right direction. I’m going to one of their concerts next week and I’m super excited about that.

Other than that, I think I’m going out tonight but I don’t know what we’re going to do and I can’t think of anything good. There are no good movies out, I’m mostly broke, and there isn’t much to do around here. /bored semi-rant.

Why my mother is a better person than I am.

Every time I argue with my mother, whether it’s about money or my tattoo or the fact that I’m not very neat, it comes back to her being a better person than I am. Every. Single. Time.

Today, my second dinner with my family since I’ve been home, she and Dad start in on me about spending too much money while I’m at school. (Which is both true and not true, depending on how you look at it. I don’t spend THAT much, and it’s mostly necessarty stuff. $200 goes fast.) We go back and forth for a while, but it comes back to her saying, “When I was college I didn’t have a nickel in my pocket! I certainly wasn’t ordering PIZZA! I ate in the dining hall, no matter how much I hated what they were serving!” Well, Mom, good for you. This happens all the time. She’s neater than I am. She doesn’t have a tattoo. She didn’t argue with her parents as much as I do. She works out more than I do. (Because, you know, the fact that my back/legs cause me pretty much constant pain isn’t a good excuse for not going running.)

I love her a lot, but man. It sure was nice to be gone for three months without her all over my back about every little thing.

Boredom, take one.

Alright, Hunter, I blame you. I am incredibly bored and here I am writing a blog, all because Hunter got one and now I want one, too! (There goes my jealous nature, right there.) Anyway, I’ve been home for 1 full day and I’ve already done most of what I want to do.

Yesterday I visited DP, and I saw Lisa and Alec and Adam and Eileen, so that was good; I missed them all a lot. This morning I went to visit my high school. That was not as fun; it’s exactly how I remember it–small and boring. It was nice to see some old teachers, and I’m going back tomorrow to see some people that I didnt’ see today.

Unfortunately, that was all that I wanted to do this entire break. I’m starting work back up again on Wednesday, and Molly is coming up on Thursday, but until then I’m screwed. I don’t have any money to go Christmas shopping until I work for a couple of weeks, most of my friends are either in other states or at school/college, and my parents are at work. I have a car but not much money for gas and not many free places to go. This break is going to be long.

That said, it’s nice to be back in Maine. I love Carleton and all my school friends to death, but it’s always windy there, there are no mountains, and there aren’t enough trees. I also don’t have a car there, or a good source of income.

So basically, that is my life right now–boredom. And now that I’ve further bored anyone bored enough to actually read this blog, I’m going to sign off for now.