so we were trying to have an 80′s pop-star themed halloween party but it didn’t quite work out for everyone…  i didn’t get many pictures on my camera because i was too busy dancing it up…  but here are a few…  and i was supposed to be boy george for halloween if it’s not obvious… i couldn’t find a damn hat or over-sized vest to go with my outfit anywhere…  i guess that’s what i get for waiting until the last second for things.  i also wish i had the yarn and the patience to braid yarn into my hair…  meh.

teddy was an amazing looking prince, lol. he def. would have won a contest had we gone out.  marie and katy were hall and oates and my sister was the chick from flashdance.  her ex came up with us, he’s chucky. 

i tried to look serious in every pic.  i always remember boy george being more sad/serious looking than smiling?

my sleep schedule has been all messed up since last week – i fell asleep one night very early and woke up at some ungodly hour and finally fell back to sleep about an hour before work… which i think is going to happen again tonight… i have to be awake in 2.5 hours. i fell asleep last night at 10:30 PM watching judge judy and woke up at around 5 AM… now i’m sitting here listening to the pitter patter of rain on my air conditioner… it’s kind of relaxing.

when i messed up my sleeping habits last week, i tried to even them out over the weekend… it didn’t happen… i went upstate last saturday and my mother didn’t let me sleep longer than i should have and on sunday i had slept over upstate and it was marie’s birthday so everyone and their mother was texting her all morning (in her extremely bright bedroom) #worst

is it even worth it for me to crawl back into bed now?

…had to squeeze this last one in – even though i’m 13 minutes late, lol.

i had this stuck in my head all day and it resurfaced when i was doing the dishes before.

reminds me of living in college point and summers upstate at the pool all day<333

between this and “what about your friends” – favorite TLC songs

this weekend, my cousins and i were watching home videos from when we were kids. we’d stay up all night and bug out making the dumbest, most random videos. at one point, my cousin marie and i were having a “dance off” while my younger cousin katy and my sister (who were always joined at the hip) lip synched and dacned in the background…

at one point, my sister had a cow suit on and you could pick up faintly in the background she kept saying “milk me, MILK ME”.

o.O

just popped into my head and it made me LOL at work.

i REALLY really need to go upstate soon.

oh man!!!!! my cousins and i used to play this when we were kids for HOURS. it scared the shit out of us – creepy ass music, sneaky jason, zombies, dark cabins, getting lost in the forest… i’m sure it didn’t help that we were upstate and constantly surrounded by trees/woods and wild imaginations. ohhhhh man. if my damn remote control for my computer wasn’t stashed away, i’d be playing it right now.

<3

also: if you listen VERY closely to taking good care by yak ballz, it sounds like it’s in the background. i could swear it’s in there!

soooooooooo this is what i did:

friday: movie night with my lovie<3 a mi casa…

saturday: went to the jersey shore (long branch) for my cousin kim’s wedding… it took place on the beach at a resort… it was kind of surreal, when i looked around at the hotel behind me and the boarwalk area, it screamed CANCUN! until i looked towards the beach and saw dirty jersey water… lol. bleh. it turned out to be a lot of fun, but super tiring since we were dancing in sand all night…

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tongue piercings

when i was like 12 or 13 while i was upstate one summer vacation, my cousin marie and her little sister switched bedrooms…  while they were switching rooms, marie was having her room painted.  so basically the only thing left in her room was her mattress on the floor.  and we thought it was the best idea EVER to start jumping and doing front flips on it.

it was going well until marie was egging me on to jump HIGHER before my last flip…  i didn’t realize that i was at the end of the mattress and as i was going to flip forward my feet slipped out from under me…  instead of landing softly or at least safely on the soft mattress, i’m still flipping and land on my head.

not only do i land on my head, my neck kinda kinks over because i didn’t realize i was going to fall and for whatever dumb reason – i had my tongue between my top and bottom teeth.  so once i finally stood up after this horrible landing, i saw horror in marie’s face and wasn’t sure why…  til i tasted blood.

turns out my canine teeth had gone straight through my tongue and punctured two holes right into it.

my aunt edie made me rinse with glyoxide (sp?) for like a week – grossest thing EVER and my shit was sore for days.

worst.

so when i officially pierced my tongue when i was like 19 or 20, shit swelled up big time.  i couldn’t eat anything for a week…  liquid diet was in full effect…  so i went to the diner in my shopping center where i was working at the time for some rice pudding…  i thought maybe i could get that down successfully if i just swallowed it…  right.

so i get to the diner, and the guy who i see all the time who is like a co-owner/waiter or whatever sees me and is super excited about something… as i ask for the rice pudding he’s trying to shove his home-made baklava in my mouth…  literally, on a fork. i finally gave in and ate the small piece and realized my tongue didn’t hurt anymore and that i could have eaten it, but FUCK.  my tongue ring was stuck on the other side of my teeth.

when you get your tongue pierced, they use longer jewelry so you have room while it’s swollen.  i didn’t know that.  and i guess while i was trying to move the damn food around with this new thing in my mouth, i managed to get the bar/balls between my teeth and cheek…  and because it was such a long bar, it was just stuck.  i couldn’t bring it back.  i got so scared, i thought i was gonna have a panic attack in the middle of the diner, lol.

i shoved my finger in and opened my mouth really wide to finally get myself out of that jam, lol.

…such an ass.