it's many hundred miles and it won't be long

OOOHHHHHH kathy.  OOOHHHHHH kathyyyy.

(Hot Rod, anyone?)

Anyways.  I'm kinda sad right now.  Feeling lonely.  I was so excited and having a great day all day and then it was just like, blahhhhh. 

I don't really know why.

Work was fine. 

So, they're re-releasing The Lion King in 3D.  I wish they were just normal re-releasing it.  3D is weird and kinda distracting.  Like, YES, I would pay to see The Lion King in theaters, but I don't want to see it in 3D.

I think they should re-release all the Disney musicals.  That would be amazzzing.

I think I'm gonna get an iPhone.  And I think I want a white one.  Is this lame?  I can't decide if the white iPhones are lame or not.  But, every time I imagine myself with an iPhone, it's a white one.  So, it might be kind of my destiny.

(Just like every time I imagine myself accepting an Academy Award, I have blonde hair and a navy blue sweetheart cut strapless dress.  Why, I don't know.)

Also, I have known for a long time that when I get my iPhone I want an orange case.  And, if I got the black iPhone, it'd be like Halloween 24/7.  Which, might be cool for a little while.

Listen to me.  Debating over which color iPhone to get.  I'm a jerk.

Two movies I watched recently:

THE ROMANTICS:  Better than I expected.  I thought it was going to be totally boring and unfunny.  But, it wasn't.  Hard to watch two people who are in love with each other, not be together.

THE OTHER WOMAN:  Nat Port flick!  As much as I hate Nat Port (for stealing my jacket that one time), I will never turn down one of her movies.  About an affair that turned into marriage that turned into pregnancy that turned into the baby dying at only 3 days old.  None of that was spoiler info.  It was very sad, but I thought all the different characters were really interesting.  Everyone was dealing in different ways with this baby dying.

I also started watching Friday Night Lights again.  I stopped watching after the first episode of season 2.  And this was like, over a year ago.  But, I just started right back up again.  Loved it.  Loved the part when Lila's dad was drunk on the floor and Tim was trying to help and Lila said,

LILA:  Don't you have a 3-way to get to or something?

Ha.  That made me laugh.  And, OH the awkwardness between Matt and Julie.  It's pretty freaking adorable.

Watched the movie, American Psycho last night.  MESSED UP.  It was so freaking messed up.  But, I kind of loved it.  The fact that Christian Bale hadn't won an Oscar until this past year is like WTF.  He was a total crazy guy.  Ohhh man it was so fascinating.  How he had so many different personalities he was UNRECOGNIZABLE to people who knew him by a different name.  Like, WOW.  And the parts where he would say one thing, but people would hear something different - loved it.

Yeah.  It was like, totally brilliant and completely disturbing.

I feel like being artsy and crafty right now.  Like, creating something with my hands.  I think because at work we are selling LED headlamps on sale for $9.99, and all the associates have to come up with different uses for the headlamp and then write them on a poster.  (yep.)  And, everyone was like, "hiking! boating! camping! camping! camping!"  And I was like, "um, these headlamps are awesome when you're doing things like arts and crafts or sewing!!"  Who wants to go camping when you could do arts and crafts?!?!  (actually, i would kind of like to go "real camping" sometime.)

And then I was like, "we should all wear a headlamp, turn out all the lights and have a dance party!"  How fun would that have been??  But, the idea was shot down almost immediately.  Actually, immediately.

What else can I tell you?

My feather extension needs to be re-positioned.  Also, I kind of want to get some more.  Also, I really wish I still had teal streaks in my hair.

Ok I think that's all.  I'm still kinda sad and lonely and blahhh.  But, whatevs, I guess.  I'm like, sick of being in this house right now.

Also, I want chocolate ice cream with peanut butter cups.

I might try doing a fishtail braid in my hair.  Excitement!!





cause all i really want is to be with you
and feeling like i matter too

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!

It's kind of a gross story, but I know how you love those... (Renee...) 

So last week, Kara and I were returning a RedBox rental (We rented Prom.... OMG - loved it just as much the second time as I did the first.) to the machine inside Wal-Mart.  It was a rainy night.  I was wearing flip flops.  I dashed from the car into the store to make the return. 

Now, this is where it gets tricky..

As I was walking up to the machine, my flip flop skidded on the wet floor and SOMEHOW my toe got injured in this process.  Like, the top of my toe scraped against the RedBox machine in just a way as to destroy it.  Graceful, eh?

So now I'm like, "crap, this sucks."  Because now the top of my toe is all bloody and mangled.

I go back to the car and tell Kara the tale.  Toe Tale, as it will be called.  Now, the toe is hurting pretty bad.  Like, REALLY bad, actually.  It's like, throbbing with sharp pain.  Upon further inspection I saw that a giant piece of my nail was ripped off AS WELL AS half of my nailpolish!!!!!  It wasn't just the top of my toe, it was also the nail and the polish. 

And we're driving and it feels just like blood is gushing out of the wound, so Kara gives me a napkin as to not bleed everywhere. 

It turns out, there wasn't actually that much blood.  Just lots of pain. 

But now it's all scabby and hurts still when I bend it.  It's been a hard week.  But, I've managed.  Hopefully the toe will be all healed soon. 

And to add to this: I just feel like I've gotten like, 75% more clumsier than I used to be.  I always feel like I'm either walking into things, banging my arm, slicing my toe... all over the place.  Seriously, I have like, four bruises on my legs right now and I KNOW one is in the works on my arm from when I banged it last night.  THAT HURT. 

I'm like living that Fergie song, 'Clumsy.'  Clumsy 'cause I've fallen in love?  Well, no.  All the parts except for the parts about boys.  Except maybe the parts about boys, too.  Mainly just the tripping and stumbling parts. 

WELLLLL OK. 

Kara and I went to the gym today.  I increased the ratio of Lady Gaga songs in my workout mix before we left.  Gaga Six - I OWN YOU.  But, I do admit it was a mistake after not having been to the gym in a few weeks.  It was prettttyyyyy hard to get through it all.  BUT - I did it. 

Other than that: I've been working all day at a NEW JOB!  Which I will tell you about soon.  Like, very soon.  I'm very excited about it.  CHANGE! 

OK.  I think that's all for now.  I'm very hungry, so I'll probably go eat something.  I don't know what yet.  Possibly some pasta and sauce. 

Hope you all are having a great night!!!!!!! 


♥♥♥♡♡♡

"and i can't keep you off my mind.... i have tried, but you come right back in again."

Oohhh hi.  Hope you all are doing well.  Blogger introduced a new blog interface... so it feels a little weird being here right now.  Like, being on Blogger.  It doesn't feel like the same old hang out spot I know.  Yep, because I'm creepy like that.

I know we haven't talked in a little while.  I've been busy!   We did another floorset at work this past week, so it was a lot of DOING stuff.  Like, moving around shelves, stripping wall hardware, putting new hardware up.  I was in charge of coming up with something to put in the decorative crates.  I spent a lot of time on this project.  ALSO!  OMG - I can't believe I forgot to tell you this story.  Actually, maybe I did tell you.... I feel like I told anyone who would listen....  which was maybe like... 3 people..  ANYWAYS:

This story happened like, maybe two weeks ago at work.  There was this olive green skirt that I was in charge of putting a belt on.  It was like, on a display.  So, at first I had this thin brown belt on it and it looked pretty good.  But, I noticed that it wasn't really selling.  So, I changed the belt to another thin brown belt, but this one had a string of gold beads also on it.  The gold really went well with the olive green. 

SO, I'm working at the register and someone comes through with both the skirt and the belt and I say to them,

JULIE:  You know, this belt goes great with this skirt!
CUSTOMER:  I know!  They have it on the display and I loved it!!
JULIE:  :-D!!!!!!!!

And that's how much I rock. 

And then last week I was redressing all the puppets in the store and the next day, one of the managers told me that someone came up and wanted to buy all the clothes on the display because they loved it so much. 

Yeah, I'm kind of a big deal.



And now, for a brief PART TWO of my Ruby Tuesday Sleeping Under Blankets post....

 

YEP.  This happened the other day while I was trying to do work.  HOWWW can you get work done when this is happening?!?!  RUBY!  She's the best.  

So, Kara and I had been waiting for the new Zooey Deschanel TV show, 'New Girl,' to premiere later on this month, but I saw last week that the pilot episode was FREE on iTunes!  So, I downloaded it!  And it was super cute and funny.  And it also stars the guy who played Officer Leo on Veronica Mars!!!  (yeah, that's a giant screenshot of him from a former blog entry where I talk about how Veronica Mars stole my teal jacket...)  Anyways - he's super cute.  And we loved the show.  Zooey is a total hottie.  UGH why does she have to be so hip and cool?!?  Unfair.  

But!  You should go to iTunes and download the free ep!  Super funny.  Plus: Zooey.  

Also!  Zooey's older sister is on that show Bones, which I had never seen until last week, when I watched it with Greg.  And now I can't wait to watch more.  

And like, I keep thinking about it.  There was this one episode where this lady was pregnant, but some other lady who was crazy, killed the pregnant woman and cut the baby out of her, replacing it with another, dead baby.  Creepy, right?

So then, the crazy lady raises the other lady's baby for a few years until the police figure it out.  The police find the lady and the baby at the playground, where they seem to be having a great day.  The baby looks healthy, happy, well-dressed, and well cared for.  But, this is the crazy lady.  So, the police just go up and force the lady to hand over the baby, because of what she did.  Now, this baby is maybe like..... a year old?  Definitely older than an infant.  But, they just take the baby, right there on the playground.  

This was very upsetting to me.  YES, the lady was a crazy person who killed another lady and then stole her baby.  THAT'S horrible and sick.  But, it was also clear that she was taking care of this baby.  I feel like in this situation, the police should have maybe not just taken the baby away.  The baby most definitely recognized his "mother," and I think they should have at least been sympathetic of that.  Maybe at least arrested the mother WITH the baby, so the baby wasn't just ripped away.  I don't know.  It's a tricky situation. 

BUT - this happens too frequent.  I had to deal with it when working at Hannah House.  Not babies being cut out of their mothers.... but, babies being taken away from their mother's.  And it's hard to watch.  

And, I can think of one instance when I needed to take a baby away for its own safety.  That was a bad night.  

ANYWAYS.  That's why I don't work at Hannah House anymore. 

ANYWAYS.  What else?

I've had a heavy heart lately.  At least, I feel that way.  Oohhhhh I don't know.  I'm trying to find the in between, as the song goes.  It's a subtle mix of melancholy and excitement.  

On a different note, I want to see the new Lars von Trier film, Melancholia.  What a great filmmaker that guy is.  I REALLY want to see that movie the more I think about it.  Somebody find out when it's playing and TAKE ME.  Actually, it looks like it doesn't come out for a few months.  

I've never cried harder during a movie than during Dancer in the Dark.  I think about that from time to time.  How it's probably a movie that I would never watch again.  How upset it made me.  

Ok.  Before this turns too somber, I'm going to go.  I think Kara and I are going to hang out.  There's a hookah lounge that just opened in Somersworth.  We want to go.  Not tonight, but another night.  I'll let you know if we go.  It looks pretty cool.  

OK.  Hope you have a great night!!  And a great week!!!!  We'll talk again soon!!!!  That's a blog promise!!!!!

lovelovelove,

JULIE