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I'm flying to LA tonight! See you suckers on Vine (and Hollywood).

And Lastly!

I forgot to mention a few days ago that the thing I liked best about new movie Juno was the part when Cat Power's cover of "sea of love" came on. That's the song I listen to most - just ask my itunes.

By The By

I had ANOTHER dream that the world was ending! Not ending so much as like, all the computers were going to fail and we were all looking at mass starvation and an undoing of society at the cost of dying violent deaths. But then during the dream, I was like "but becky, y2k didn't actually happen. So maybe this won't happen." Then I woke up before it happened.

This was a few nights ago. Last night I apparently had food network on all night. I woke up temporarily to watch bobby flay (married to the old ADA on SVU) make chicken cacciatore, and then later on the naked chef (now with a different name) made squash cupcakes (for his daughter?).

This movie looks so dumb, but check me out:
david krumholtz
paulo costanzo
woody harrelson
alicia silverstone
thus I must keep watching you, Scorched, you complete b-hole. "whoa whoa whoa I'm that girl from She's All That only now I'm all punky and the only redeeming thing about my character is that I had a cool dream sequence where I was this ninja girl who beat up my friend's boss!" But enough of quoting actual lines from the movie.

Let's talk about my day.
well it started out with the bobby flay/naked chef episode. Then I think I watched The Soup by the time I was actually awake, which did and always does make me feel a little more losery. Then I got a chicken biscuit and ATE IT and during all that, I was making some peppermint coffee that I subsequently drank and still am drinking.

Later on I plan to babysit two VERY cute babies for five hours. Before that, I'll go to walmart just for kicks, and wayyy after that I'll hang out with sweet sassy tullassy, trash biscuit, bread toucher, earth girl, and I think that's it. Maybe trash biscuit's cousin.

I AM SCORCHED AND YOU WILL WATCH ME!!!!!!!

No Offense, Gabe

but all I'm saying is if I could have the car of my dreams, it would look like this


and I think it's because I had a barbie cabriolet when I was little.

Les Enfants

whatever happened to those x-rays where you could stand behind a thing and then see inside yourself?

Weird dreams I keep having:

-I'm a soldier in Vietnam and I keep crying because I don't want to kill anyone when it comes down to it, and then some old Vietnamese sage is like "then maybe you should let yourself be killed. Take the warrior stance, then don't shoot."

-I'm swinging on something and suddenly my legs run into a very hard door and my shins crack apart.

-it's like I Am Legend but there are more normal people still living. I'm at a family party, and suddenly we have to lock up or the zombies will attack our house. A huge group of zombies from Portland or Seattle comes to our house and is like "why is your main guy bombing us?" and it turns out we live with Will Smith, and he's trying to fix his mistake by bombing zombie communities in the pacific northwest. We convince the zombies not to attack us, and then during the day it turns out they're just normal people. So someone from our group falls in love with one of the zombies, and the main zombie (Professor Jeremiah Lasky from saved by the bell the college years) and I get into a very candid talk and end up basically solving our problems (which is great because of the new lovers), but then it's nighttime and we have to lock ourselves inside without the portland zombies.
THEN someone in our party is like "there's a zombie in the house!!" and we're all looking in closets for it when someone knocks at the door. It's some non-zombie girl who's carrying a pizza box. Will Smith is like "to see if she's a zombie, we'll ask her to drop the pizza box, since zombies can't move their hands very quickly." She drops the pizza box, but underneath it turns out she has a rifle and she holds us all hostage to rob us. It takes all night, since there are a lot of us, and I eventually escape to get the cops, but there aren't any cops left, and then I'm on columbia campus and I have to run to beat sunset.

-there's a snowman competition and one of my teammates takes a photo booth picture with our snowman without me.

-I keep hemming some dress, but I'm doing it really stupidly.


What's crazy about these dreams it that they're all bad. Bad dreams. None of them were really nightmares, but come on. That zombie one lasted for hours!

Right now I'm in the middle of watching Amelie for the first time ever. I'm at the part where she just decided to set up the asshole regular with the hypochondriac who sells cigarettes there. I like this so far. It walks the fine line between quirky and annoying, but manages never to really put an entire foot on annoying. WE'LL HAVE TO WATCH THE REST AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

Welcome to your worst nightmare, colin! I'd recommend reading some of the way way early ones. They're very innovative. These recent ones are like blah blah tv tv blah.

Amelie is only one year older than me.

She Does Drugs Probably Every Hour

PAST
-Laura K visited
-gabe got an oil change
-I ate two old biscuits
-and slept on the couch again

PRESENT
-there's a season of America's Next Top Model I've never even seen!
-I'm naturally still on the couch
-I just found out from mom that you're supposed to microwave old biscuits with a damp paper towel so it won't get hard
-too late now, I guess

FUTURE
-get totes in shape
-hopefully there will be a nap, but Lord knows that never happens for me
-get tons of calls from all my friends and whatever
-look/be/smell fierce

DREAM
-some jerk woman who worked at Ham Del (only it was different) was all in my face about needing to buy a bluetooth earpiece for my phone since I was being indiscreet on my cell phone. Then I started yelling at her and I think I wanted to punch her but it didn't happen because then Josh showed up and was like "look! I showed up early!" Then, WITHIN THE DREAM, I realized I was dreaming! But instead of turning into a lucid dream, it was more like in tv where you wake up a trillion times and each time it's a dream. Only mine wasn't exactly like that.
-long story short, I almost had a lucid dream.

AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN
-I didn't think this show was still on the air!!
-the guy has a cow model in his kitchen whose various cuts of meat are painted on.
-where could I get one of those?
-WHOA MEATLOAF?

MEATLOAF
-awesome!
-they're putting cheese in it but first they're freezing the grated cheese so it doesn't clump when they mix it with the meat oh man America's Test Kitchen is a genius.
-ingredient that changes texture of meat: saltines.
-gelatine?!!

CHARGER
-laptop needs a charger!

Dance Too Much Booty In Your Pants

Last night, this little lady right here knitted those little sushis up there. IMPRESSED MUCH? I figured. Don't freak out or anything though - I can't eat it. So I'm not that lucky.

Laura K's visiting, if her plane ever gets here!! We're going to do everything there is to do in Atlanta! World of Coke, chik-fil-a,...uh, the olympic village? Yeah whatever we're going to have a blast. We'll see if Gabe can still do 90 (he definitely can).

This movie with the kids that hear a voicemail of their own deaths used to be scary, but ever since I convinced myself to watch the whole trailer, I realized it's pretty dumb. The death-apparitions look as fake as that tree monster from Ernest Scared Stupid. I can see the seam in your costume, stupid tree monster!! I'm not afraid anymore!

Maybe I should try out other forms of dance, such as ballet or african.

One January Two Thousand Eight

Welcome, 2008!

So far today, you've helped me buy root beer and turn a pair of busted corduroys into a tres a la mode miniskirt. Also we used fabric softener for the first time. What a great year you're turning out to be!

On a sadder note, we finished How I Met Your Mother season 2 today. What a blow. Now what are we going to watch? How about 1 1/2 episodes of Dinosaurs and an entire dvd's worth of Arrested Development? That sounds great. Let's watch those in the immediate past.

Additionally, you and I have discovered kroger-brand gorgonzola & apple frozen pizza. We've already baked it, but we're still waiting for it to cool off before we slice it.

Laura K's coming to visit tomorrow, 2008! Could you possibly be as excited as I am? Not sure. But if I had to guess, I'd think that on your first day, you'd be as excited as possible. Other than on my birthday. I think you're going to get pretty excited when that rolls around.

So without further ado, here are my predictions for the ten most significant dates of your already amazing 365 days, 2008:

29 January
5 February
23 March
10 May
30 June
4 August
13 September
12 October
3 November
30 December

We'll keep a close eye on them, without a doubt.

I never knew these America's Next Top Model girls could be so horrible to each other. Did you know? PS 2008 this is what we watch. No surprise. But seriously, were you seeing this? The blind girl was accusing the eventual winner of steal her negativity-absorbing crystals. What a weirdo!!

Things are going swimmingly so far for us, 2008. Let's keep it up. You're going to be even taller than me someday! Probably by February.

Have a blast, 2008! Confatulations for being born!

sincerely,
becky