Things That Help.

Experience a bad break up? Me too. Here are some things that have helped me deal.

• The Con by Tegan and Sara. I love this record and it will always be dear to me because it resonated with what I was feeling.  

Dating a Sociopath (A Blog) For a long time I couldn't understand why he treated me the way he did, I didn't know what was wrong with him. I needed some answers. After reading this blog I was sure I had my answer. I wont lie I was a little scared when I finally had a name for the problem.

• Captain EO!! I watched this over and over.
• Cutting off all my hair. Change is good for you sometimes.                                                                                         
• Totoro!!! This one is pretty much self explanatory.  
• The Destructors by (The amazing) Graham Greene. "Destruction after all is a form of creation."
• Garfunkel my goldfish. He's seriously the cutest fish I've ever seen. 
• Cheddar and garlic biscuits. They're delicious and I'm an emotional eater
• Cynthia Cruz. Such poetry. 
• Growing Radish Plants?? (Don't laugh) I decided I wanted to grow something a few weeks ago. I felt a sense of pride when my Radish plants began to grow. I don't know why.                      
• Destery. Comedic Relief. That is all. 

• I am a Rock by Simon & Garfunkel. "And A Rock feels no pain. And an Island never cries."

Well. That was a little depressing. :| 

-Liz 

Memorial Weekend Re-cap

Does your family ever just annoy you so badly, driving you to the point where you think "Living with yetis would be easier than this."? Yeah, that my friends describes my Memorial weekend.


While Memorial Day

is supposed to be about remembering our fallen soldiers/veterans and our loved ones who have gone on. I was so irritated by family that I (sadly) didn't spend much time thinking of people who I've lost only wasted my hours wishing people would "get lost" not in the sense of death, only in the "leave red haired people to their own devices" sense. While I love my family, a person can only take so much. And me being a person who likes to surround myself with "no drama mama" people, I felt like driving nails into my eye sockets when I found out that my family (Who for the most part, had traveled from the west.) had brought with them "to much drama mama". So between two cemeteries and too much argument, I feel like I need a Memorial Day do over, because that didn't feel like Memorial Day to me.

Its not okay to eat fish.

What do you guys think of the whole hologram happenings? I don't know if I should be creeped out or if I should be absolutely amazed. I think maybe for me its both . I'm so amazed that I'm creeped out or I'm so creeped out that I'm amazed I don't know exactly what to think. but those are the two initial reactions to it, are they not? Personally holograms blow my mind. You may have your own opinions.







I broke my headphones (sad face). When I say that I don't mean that I listened to music at high volumes causing them to stop working, That's not the issue here, its that I actually broke them. They are no longer headphones they're just, a broken, thing.

I've been trying to do this vegetarian deal. So that means all I've ate today is carrots, garlic bread sticks, and some popcorn.

I'm starving.

How do people do this?

I don't know how long this will last. I really don't want to eat meat anymore, I feel like such a murderer. I'd like to say I'm sorry to all the chickens everywhere, I once ate you in nugget form and for that I hate myself.

Speaking of animals. I have got to stop feeding Garfunkel every hour he's getting fat as a turd.

-Liz

Garfunkel

A few days ago, on a whim, I decided that I wanted a fish. Mostly because I'm lonely and pathetic, and because I really like fish.
I got a goldfish, (yes a goldfish) and at the time I didn't know really what I had gotten myself into. The reason I picked this specific goldfish is because he was all alone in the tank, so maybe he was just as lonely and pathetic as I was.
He didn't seem to be sick (Most pet stores take other fish out of the tank, where one is sick so to protect them from getting whatever disease the sick fish has.) he was swimming around with a lot of enthusiasm. Which raises a lot of questions about why he was alone, like "Did they sell all the other fish in that tank?" "Was he aggressive toward other fish?"
"Did he eat all the other fish in the tank?"
"Is he like Christian Bale in that American Psycho film? Did he go after the other fish with a chainsaw?"
All questions that didn't occur to me until after I had purchased him.
After getting the fish home and researching. Because lets face it goldfish die supposedly very fast. And I had already bonded with my pathetically lonely friend and wanted him to live forever and ever and never die. I needed to know how to keep him alive, and since they don't give out pamphlets on "How to keep one's goldfish alive" I searched the inter-webs for answers.
I found out that goldfish absolutely must have an air pump, if you want them to live any length of time, which I didn't have. So I had to purchase an air pump, a new tank, a bag of rocks, and a tank accessory in the form of a whale with a gaping mouth for Garfunkel (my fishes name. At first I planned to call him Achilles and then I remembered that Achilles died very young and that felt like a curse.) to go into and a hole in the stomach for him to come out of. Having to wait to get the air pump and for the water to filter I had to keep a close watch on Garfunkel and make sure he was still alive and change the water he was in frequently. It was very stressful for me and Garfunkel and wouldn't have been, had I been prepared.
Here's my advice.
1- Don't buy goldfish on a whim.
2- Make sure you research different types of fish before you decide to purchase one.
3- Don't name your fish Achilles.

-Liz