July 2004

BLAH

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It’s summer. Yay! Even though I am extremely happy to finally be out of school and have a pretty good report card, there is nothing at all to do. That is, besides sitting on giant pillows on my floor watching episodes of Will & Grace over and over again, and eating way too many Raisinets and Doritos.

Every day, I keep wanting to make some sort of plan, some sort of resolution that the next day, I will get up, get dressed, and get my act together…. but I don’t. I’m just so BLAH.

I know should really be out doing something or else the summer will go by waaaay to fast, like the way it did last year, but I just can’t do it. Does saying that there’s nothing to do because I have no money make me sound spoiled and shallow? Hm….

I can’t even go anywhere since my bike seat was stolen on my birthday. Who on EARTH goes into somebody’s yard and steals a BIKE SEAT of all things? I can just imagine how my poor bike seat feels, being sold to some ten year old for two dollars by some heroin addict. I totally need to disinfect my bike, but we’re sort of out of Lysol and Clorox disinfectant wipes.

So. Here I am, typing into my blog…. waiting for my packages I ordered on eBay and Amazon to come….. even though I just ordered them today. What should I do? What’s there to do? …..I could start my summer reading, but for some reason, even though there is like *nothing* to do, my attention span for that kind of think is, like me right now, BLAH.

I’m sixteen, as of two days ago!

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Photo Friday: Father

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Happy Independence Day!

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Crazy Me

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My family thinks I am completely insane. It’s like every day that they find more evidence that I should be locked up in some mental institution, being fed anti-depressants all day. Just a few minutes ago, my mother came up to me and tells me that I must be agoraphobic. Why? Because I won’t go up to the DVD store and rent movies since we have some deal where we have unlimited rentals. The conversation went a bit like this:

Mom: Why don’t you go up and rent some movies and return the two that we have now? You’re so agoraphobic that you can’t do that?

Me: I don’t have agoraphobia. I just don’t feel like walking up to the DVD place.

Mom: You can’t even go outside, can you?

Me: I went outside to get the mail today, didn’t I?

Mom: Well, you did, but then you scurried back inside quickly.

Me: No, I didn’t!

And if I did scurry back inside, it was because I went outside not wearing a belt and my pants were falling down. Are all parents this anxious about their child’s mental health? I mean, who on earth sends their child to a psycho therapist and spends the entire session complaining that their child doesn’t like their clothes machine dried? -That actually happened.

It’s so aggravating to listen to my parents completely exaggerate what I do. “You must take two or three showers a day! Look at how many towels you’re using!” – “Stop washing your hands all the time! All I hear is that water running!” Okay, I know that I can be a bit obsessive about my cleanliness, but I don’t think I do it nearly as much as my parents think. I wish they’d just stop worrying so much.

Summer Time

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time is a strange thing.

it passes shortly briefly

but it lasts eternally

forever

all the time in the world

seems to stop

compressed

into a summer

the days seem to stretch

like elastic or clay

pulling on the jaw of

the tired

sleepy hours spent lying in bed

stretch on over the horizon of forever

never ending, ever sleeping

time stopped forever

then when forever is done

time snaps back

it breaks and the pace

is fast again

the summer that seemed so long

so eternal and hot

was gone and seemed like

nothing.