Sunday May 27, 2001
Last night sucked really bad. Was probably worse than the smoke out from Friday night. Mikey got bored so he started fucking with me. I mean really irrating stuff like unplugging the phone to disconnect me, hitting the esc key in the middle of me trying to type a message to Amy, running up and pinching me, putting the baby on my head, and getting Elijah involved too. He even went so far to tell Elijah he didn't have to go to bed at bedtime and completely trashed any authority I might have had because who do you think a 3 year old is going to listen to in that situation? I don't know why he was acting like such a dick, but I swear to you that I was ready to kill him after about 2 minutes of that shit and it went on for about half an hour. The fact that I'm writing in my journal rather than rotting in jail is a testiment to my admirable self control.
Why are men and women so different? I don't understand how that can be possible since we are all the same species and all. It really amazes me that we manage to reproduce at all. All I can think is that there must be a lot of alcohol involved to make a guy seem worth the trouble. I wasn't drunk when I got married, but maybe I should have been so that I can at least make sense of what motivated me to marry a man again. You would really believe that I had learned my lesson the first time around. I have thought of a good analogy though...
When I was at AIT, we had those little cartons of milk like you get back in school. Add one of those mini boxes of cereal and you have a well balanced breakfast. I sat down one morning with my little thing of milk and my little thing of cereal. I was busy bullshitting with Farny, so maybe that has something to do with what happened next, but I took a big ole bite of that cereal and it tasted so bad that I thought I was going to throw up. I didn't do that. What I did instead was take another bite just to make sure that I wasn't mistaken about that rancid taste. It tasted just as horrible as before. Why did I take that second bite? I really couldn't tell you. I also can't tell you why I thought getting married again was going to make me a better wife. I'm a bad wife because I've lost my sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh when your husband puts a baby on your head or pinches your ass, but all I could think was "My God, I've married my brother".
I mentioned that I was talking to Amy last night. I finally got to really sit down and chat once Mikey went to bed. It turns out that she submitted Pam's picture to one of those ranking sites. You know, like amihotornot.com. I think this one is called rankpeople.com or something similar. I can't say that I think that Amy has any right to do it, but I'd do it myself in a heartbeat so who am I to judge? Pam is doing quite well, I believe. I haven't checked on her since last night and I don't have access to the actual votes, but Amy does. She asked me if I had voted for Pam yet and I said no, I hadn't had a chance. It turns out that within like 4 votes Pam got a 10. Not too shabby. The only thing that I think might mess her up is that picture turned out pretty fuzzy. When I vote on one of those things, I vote low on pictures if I can't really see what they look like. It's automatic and has nothing to do with what the people actually look like.
If you are interested in giving Pam a nice vote, you can visit her fan page here and see her little stat tracker thing. It provides a link so that you can go vote for her. I'm also accepting fan mail in her behalf, so if anyone wants to get in touch with her, I am more than willing to do that for you.
Update on the picture thing!!! I just went to check on Pam's page and the stat tracker was gone. I think that maybe Amy pulled it. Anyone going to visit Pam's page right now is going to be a little dissappointed. I'll be back with the finally word on it as soon as I hear something.
I was thinking about some artifacts from my childhood thanks to a few threads at 3WA. I started thinking of cartoons I used to watch and then ended up following links to sites featuring 80's stuff. The 80's are horribly over rated I think. I mean I can't really feel any nostalgia over the decade because I was a child and I don't remember anything except stuff that would appeal to a kid. Everyone in my generation talks about the 80's in the same tone of reverence that my parent's use for the 70's and my kids will use for the 2000's (or whatever they end up calling it). I sat there reading all these posts about movies that these people thought were just brilliant. I'm not saying that they aren't, but people make it sound as if they experienced it all first hand, when I know that isn't the case. Consider that I didn't even start kindergarten until 1985. I was 6 at that point. With that in mind, how much could I have possibly understood?
I'm the first to agree that you just don't find the same kinds of toys or movies or cartoons or especially music anymore. I just think it's a bit much for people to longingly pine for the good old days like an 90 year old man. I mean come on, did you forget the way people dressed? One decade is solely responsible for depleting the ozone with aerosol hairspray. I'm personally kind of glad that the 80's are behind me. I've seen the pictures of myself and I tell you that it wasn't a great time for fashion.
