nine hundred and one
the last entry was my nine hundredth entry since 2003 (August). THat’s pretty crazy. I should get it updated all the way through freshman year when I first started my opendiary. That would be so intense and I’d be super happy if I could have it all together so I could perhaps get it published into a more permanent copy in whatever form. Does cafe press still do that? I think so.
i visited my parents tonight. it was a lot of fun, but i feel bad cos i hardly ever get out there. i used to make much more of an effort to see much more of them but now it’s like all of my time gets eaten up by all of the things i am involved in. i’m hoping that i can spend more time with them in the near future. summer should make this pretty easy.
the weather is so incredibly nice. it was around 85 today, according to the banks. tomorow is supposed to be 91. i love spring so much. it just makes me so happy that the sun stays out and i can do things. i adore it. i played with sammie in the yard for a while today but she’d been out quite a while before i got out there to play with her so she didn’t want to do too much. i threw a ball to see if she’d fetch it cos usually she’s really playful and she just went and sat down by it. what a lazy dog! i went and sat down with her and pet her in the yard. it’s nice because she recently got a bath and you can tell. her fur is all soft and actually white. she’s really pretty when she’s clean but that’s hardly ever. i guess she really is her sister’s dog. lol.
i also painted my nails. they’re pink. with a base coat and top coat. mom said thta she didn’t have the patience for it, which i believe, but i just did it in shifts. it took forever though because i had to shift colors in the middle. i just hope it’s an alright color. its like a dark mauve-y pink. i think it will match all three of my suits that i’m wearing at nationals though and this should be good enough news. fantastic. even.
speaking of suits: I spent too much money yesterday and i don’t regret a dime of it. joe decided we should go to lawrence and i couldn’t really argue with his logic and it meant driving highway fourty with the windows down so of course i went. we got into lawrence around 4 and went to borders so we could legitimate our claim to their parking lot. next we went to the third planet where i decided i should try to buy more sarongs. i think they’d be fun in the summer and they’re so cool. the problem is that they’re hard to tie on. so i just bought a ring instead cos i know i’ll wear that. it’s just a pretty simple white stone with some flowers in the silver its set in. very cute, very matching everything, and very simple. i want lots more rings.
then we headed toward love garden. joe had never been. how can this be? is it even possible for someone to date me for that long and never be exposed to all of the glory that is love garden? apparently. i took him in. and now i understand why he likes kiefs. of course you would like kiefs if you’d never been to love garden. excellent. i bought Isobel Campbell’s new album. It was recommended by Jerrod and seemed like a worthwhile purchase. It turns out that I was totally right in my assumption. Oh man, it’s like Tom Waits meets Leonard Cohen with Isobel Campbell (It’s a project with a man whose last name I can’t remember, Mark Something). I love it!
We grabbed some dinner at Qdoba and still had enough time when it was done to casually wander back down Mass toward the car. We went in Wild Man Vintage and I found a suit for 12 dollars. Fucking awesome. It’s a mint green color and I like it a lot.