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[06 Aug 2008|04:55am] |
Oh look, another entry of my blah-blahing and oversized images to clog up your friends page... but you should know how it goes by now. :D
I totally do not even recall making the post I made this morning, I must have done it in a sleep trance. Resizing and uploading photos and writing HTML for journal entries must be programmed deep into my subconscious.
Anyway, Tuesday went exactly how I planned it out, which puts me right on schedule and I'm not feeling overwhelmed with my pre-GOTJ to-do list so far. I woke up and completed hair orders and then went and sent them out at the post office, went to Target to get a few items, and then Atom and I had breakfast/lunch at Bread Co. Then we came back home and left with my mom to go pick up the RV. Apparently the main rental guy was off today, so the people at the RV place were left scrambling around with last minute rental pickups and it was pretty hectic but everything went relatively smooth and I now have a 31 foot beast sitting out in my driveway ready to go (minus all the packing and loading I will be doing tomorrow)... After we returned with the RV Steph & Ryan came and picked up up and we went to the mall because both Steph & I needed to pick up items from MAC and Sephora. We then had dinner at Cheesecake Factory. I ATE SO FUCKING MUCH I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE AFTERWARDS... goddamn. I seriously ate more food than I've eaten ever in my life I think. I still feel like I'm going to explode. We came back here and the Steph & Ryan left to go pick up Leah from Steph's mom's house & Adrianna (Ryan's sister) from the airport. They're leaving early afternoon tomorrow for their cabin near the GOTJ location, which by the way is officially in The Middle Of The Middle Of Nowhere. Atom headed home, and I gathered my thoughts and made a list and did some laundry. Then I left and drove out to Atom's house and chilled out for about 20 minutes, and then we went to Wal-Mart by his house (which is one of the nicest Wal-Marts in the area, not that any of them are super nice but most of them are really ghetto around here. I dont even really like Wal-Mart but you cant beat their prices...) so I could by some camp chairs and groceries. So I have all of my food and all of my items needed as far as I can tell. Now I just have to pack everything up and load it onto the RV which I will be doing all day tomorrow so I can depart tomorrow night.
Anyway, I'm pretty excited. Should be a good time. Usually is. I just checked the forecast and it looks like it should be relatively nice (no rain, but kinda hot...) and hopefully that doesn't change. Weather can never be fully predicted though, but I'm pretty prepared because I'll be bringing my indestructible mud boots and giant umbrella just in case.
So yeah this is probably the last entry I'll make before leaving. I'll be back on Monday!
...and since I do it every year, here's photos of the RV:
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[05 Aug 2008|07:01am] |
Monday was busy. ...and HOT. 115 degrees with heat index, which in STL is like practically unbearable due to the humidity. I got a lot of things done that needed to be done. Went out to Requiem Monday night. It was pretty fun once I got past the horrible mood I was in when I first got there. Sorry to anyone who was trying to converse with me at that time, I probably came off as rather bitchy. I got over it though and the night progressed and fun was had. After we left, Atom & I came back here and discussed life and then passed out for a while, woke up and went to McDonalds for 4:30am breakfast hash brown time, and then came back and passed out again. I woke up and felt icky like I always do if I sleep right after eating so I'm wasting time letting my stomach settle before going back to bed.
I have to get up at like noon so I can go pick up the RV. Then begins the 24 hour hell of preparing to leave for the gathering. Making sure I have everything and triple checking that it's all packed.
I did my makeup a little crazy so that when viewed from a far distance or in the right lighting conditions it looked like my eyes were 3 times the size they should be.
 MANIAC I have better pictures of it that I'll post some other time. Back to bed for me.
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[02 Aug 2008|03:58am] |
So the other day Atom & I were at Best Buy for electronic orgasm time and I was browsing the photo printer section and I came across the new small mobile printer from Polaroid called the PoGo. I immediately wanted to buy it because it looked pretty awesome & fun but since this weekend is the "tax free holiday" in Missouri (sales tax is nullified all weekend so you can save $$) I waited until today to purchase it and saved a whole $12 by doing so. :D
 PRODUCT REVIEW TIME[I like sharing information about products I find interesting]
It's pretty radical as far as photo printers go, considering the small size and that it doesn't use ink. As someone who has been using Epson photo printers for years (Epson is a major PAIN IN MY ASS, but does produce excellent prints), I find this to be extra delightful for the pocketbook as ink costs get pretty ridiculous when you print a ton of photos + it's a pain having to replace the cartridges all the time. Actually this ZINK technology is new & this product is the first to use it. The colors are held in crystal form within the photo paper, and the printer uses heat bursts to make the image appear. Wicked. I've always been a huge fan of old school Polaroid instant film & cameras and I was rather distressed when I found out they were discontinuing the line and I think this is a really innovative way for them to incorporate a new "instant" method for the digital age. It's even more awesome because it can be totally wireless when paired with a bluetooth device. Sadly neither of my cameras are bluetooth enabled, but my cell phone is. Luckily you can hook a camera up directly via a USB port. It has a rechargeable battery so it doesnt need to be plugged in which makes it ultra portable and it's small enough to easily be carried around in my purse. Although the prints are small (2x3) they come out instantly dry (since no ink is involved), they're waterproof and if you peel off the backing it's a sticker! YAY INSTANT PHOTO STICKERS! I'm quite pleased with it.
I should host a show where I'm dressed up all crazy and do geeky product reviews, that'd be fun.
Went to the loop tonight, had boba and mini eggrolls & watched Hedwig at midnight. Good times.
In other news, it's now August which means a new month of usable bandwidth for triplesixhair.com (and I will be upgrading my hosting plan asap so it doesnt get exceeded again, I got so many messages of people being like OMG UR SITE ISNT WORKING I WANNA BUY HAIR so it was killing my sales).
Running a business is so much fun, especially when I get questions that I totally do not understand:
ceciliamorenooliva@hotmail.com says:
You dont have black hairband but with a lil of blue and a lil of blonde??!
MANDIZZLE FO RIZZLE says:
?
ceciliamorenooliva@hotmail.com says:
www.triplesixhair.com
MANDIZZLE FO RIZZLE says:
yeah i know, but what do you mean?
MANDIZZLE FO RIZZLE says:
the hair isnt attached to the headband
ceciliamorenooliva@hotmail.com says:
i asked if you dont have a headband black with lines blonde and lines blue
Perhaps she means coon stripes? She said she will send me a picture.
Anyway, I'm working on the link section of the page. Run a site and want to trade banners? I'm all for it!
I made a couple of new banners, and I still have quite a few more to do. So if anyone is bored and feel like promoting for me wherever or if you like my products and want to help me get word out by posting it on your myspace or whatever (much appreciated in advance) here's a couple of flashy attention grabbing banners that you can use along with the codes for them:
NO LJ CUT FOR YOU
Your friends page loves me. :D
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[31 Jul 2008|07:10am] |
 THE LAST THING YOU SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
Since I'm constantly asked questions about my cameras (what kind, how much, where did I get it, etc) there's all the gritty details for those of you with the burning desire to know. Something I believe about cameras (much like penises), it doesn't matter what kind you have, it's how you use it. Buying either one of these cameras does not guarantee that your photos will turn out OMGAWESOME.
However they are both fantastic cameras capable of producing excellent results.
Anyway, my last few days have been productive as well as relaxing and enjoyable. No complaints here. Thursday is the last day before the whirlwind of endless activities begins, so I'm going to try and keep it mellow. All hair orders that were pending (before the site bandwidth exceeded which halted sales) have been completed and sent as of Wednesday, so if you're waiting on your order it's on the way. So far this week I've eaten dinner from a different culture restaurant every day. Monday was Indian, Tuesday was Mexican, Wednesday was Italian. Thursday will be Thai I think.
Earlier Atom and I went on a walking adventure to Spanky's (local porn store right up the street that has a big toy/clothing/etc section) because my friend Melissa works there now and she asked me a while back to come visit her. Steph & Ryan met us there, and we hung out for a while browsing all the fun stuff they have up there. They're having a mega sale on some of the clothes which happen to be one of my favorite brands that tends to be quite expensive so I will be returning to make some purchases. They have an extremely large selection of dildos, and I saw one that I must purchase to be my new strap on because it's rather disturbing looking. I think it's funny that so many people come in there looking all uptight, while meanwhile I'm standing there balancing goatse-esque buttplugs on my head...
I have a massive amount of things planned:
Friday August 1st: Midnight showing of Hedwig & the Angry Inch @ the Tivoli (come see it!)
Saturday August 2nd: Possible photoshoot with Acid Candy & possible crazy Gary party?
Sunday August 3rd: Glo's barbecue and dying Steph's hair (Leah you want yours done too?)
Monday August 4th: Requiem (18+ GET YOU ASS THERE, K THX)
Tuesday August 5th: Pick up GOTJ RV, start preparations.
Wednesday August 6th: Finish preparations, depart, arrive at Steph's cabin & spend the night.
Thursday August 7th: Wake up and drive to GOTJ, park & set up camp. BEGIN GOTJ.
Friday August 8th: GOTJ
Saturday August 9th: GOTJ
Sunday August 10th: GOTJ
Monday August 11th: I will be leaving early Monday morning and driving home. END GOTJ
Tuesday August 12th: Clean up and return RV
Wednesday August 13th: Possible Wednesday 13 show.
Thursday August 14th: NO PLANS THANK YOU BABY JESUS
Friday August 15th: Tech N9ne/KMK show.
Saturday August 16th: Possible Underground Sound (cave rave) attendance if I feel up to it.
SHIT.
I was going through picture folders earlier to look for photos to make banners for my hair site with and I came across the pictures from the Twiztid show on my birthday. I never got around to posting the photos from that night, and by now it was a long ass time ago so I doubt I ever will but here's a couple that basically describe the situation:
 DRUNK
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[29 Jul 2008|03:24am] |
 NOT MY LITTLE PONY [LOL @ my delighted tard face]
...but my neighbor's little pony. Actually there's two of them, and they enjoy carrots. They actually belong to a guy around the corner, but my neighbor across the street lets them in his yard to eat the grass. It's kind of suiting anyway since his yard looks like a farm. Atom has been wanting to go feed them for weeks, (we even tried to sneak over last week in the middle of the night which was quite interesting and also an ultimate failure as I almost blinded myself by getting jabbed in the eye with a stick) and we finally got the chance today because they were over by the edge of the fence. Anyway, yay for horses and their funny lips & soft noses & love for the vegetables.
BANDWIDTH IS EXCEEDED ON TRIPLESIXHAIR.COM... site will back up August 1st. Looks like I'll have to upgrade my hosting plan.
( OH DEARIE )
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[27 Jul 2008|04:47am] |
So while normal people were out partying and doing drugs or whatever it is that people usually do on a Saturday night, I found myself once again with the desire to do some trespassing/photography at my favorite location for such activities. I've been a bit hesitant to return after my adventure last month or whenever it was (which I posted about in a friends only entry, so those of you who dont have me friended or read anonymously missed out on the epic tale) but I figured I've racked up enough police avoidance points by now to give it another try.
I headed out there and parked in a neighborhood a good distance away, went into stealth mode and sneaked my happy ass onto the property without incident. Then began the search for a way in since it's been sealed pretty well the past couple of times I've gone. I spent about 20 minutes circling the building, checking every window and door while having to crawl through itchy bushes and ruining spiderwebs with my face. I kept hearing an odd banging noise which had me on high alert because it sounded like it was coming from somewhere inside the building on the other side, but I finally figured out that it was someplace off in the distance and nothing to worry about. Just about when I had given up on finding an entry point I spotted a gaping hole in the wall where an air conditioner once was. It was a bit high up on the wall, but someone had conveniently placed a milk crate underneath for a step up. I peeked inside the utter pitch blackness of the hole (which was about 3x2 feet in width) and all sounded quiet inside the building. I then stood there for a minute debating whether or not I should climb through, considering once I went in this would also be my only way out. Really, only an insane person would choose to do such a thing alone.
...but I AM an insane person so I hoisted myself up through the hole and was inside. I haven't been inside in about 4 months, and since then people have really gone apeshit with stupid graffiti and generally tearing things up. I've been going to this place for 8 years now, and have watched it steadily decay. It's gone from pristine, un-graffitied, unbroken, empty hallways with everything left as it was the day it closed to a total mess of natural decay due to no upkeep and human influenced ruin. I have full documentation of it too, as I have taken photos just about every time I've visited.
Anyway, I welcomed the rush that I always get when I'm visiting. The place is just creepy, especially when you're alone. A giant building with many hallways that loom in darkness, dripping and creaking noises, broken glass everywhere. The thought of how many people were left to die there. It's a real life horror movie location and I fucking love it. I wandered around in almost pitch black (because my flashlight was on the verge of death) taking photos and a very uneasy feeling crept over me as if I had someone right behind staring at me. I tried to shake it off and continue my tour. I was sweating and my hands were unsteady. Most people would have ran out of there screaming by this point but then again most people never even make it inside as I've heard countless stories of people that approach and get too frightened to even go in. After a while a thudding noise in the ceiling started... I'm sure it was some sort of animal, but it also kind of sounded like footsteps because sounds echo strangely in there. I sat in the dark and waited to make sure I wasn't being infiltrated and by that time my adrenaline was pumping so much that my entire body was buzzing. I endured the weird thumping for about 5 minutes longer and then it stopped... only to start up again louder and that was enough to send me on my way. Exited through the hole in the wall, departed the property, and made it back to my car. Mission Saturday-Night-Creep-Out successful.
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[26 Jul 2008|08:56pm] |
I searched "triplesix mandee" on google, and this was the first link that came up. By this point there are so many fake profiles out there that I quit caring about them a long time ago but it is pretty lame when a fake is the #1 search result. This one is pretty hilarious though, but goddamn I hate being associated with such stupid banter. There must be something in the water that causes stupidity, it's an epidemic.
OMG FAKE DRAMA!  PLEASE BELIEVE ME OMGZ [I WAS AT YOUR HOUSE?!?]  OMG I LOVE YOU TOO ZAKK WTF LOL
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[26 Jul 2008|05:41am] |
Friday I was awoken by Atom standing over my bed declaring it was time for me to wake up and help him take an engine out of a car at the junkyard to which I yelped "ARE YOU INSANE?!?" and then he said a bunch of stuff but I couldn't understand him because to my sleep ears it sounded like he was speaking Russian and I was like "SPEAK ENGLISSSHHHH!!" and then he was like "you have a package waiting", which got me up and moving. For some reason I thought it was 8am but it was really like 2pm.
He was just kidding about the junkyard scenario but I did indeed have a package waiting which turned out to be the pikachu kigurumi (a full body pajama thing) that I ordered on Monday from Japan. I've been wanting one since the beginning of time, but they're not the easiest things to obtain, plus people are always selling them for ridiculous prices but I got mine for a very reasonable price brand new. Anyway I was quite delighted and I adorned it and then immediately passed out for about 15 more minutes and then woke up because I was burning hot from wearing a full body of fleece.
 I changed the picture because I couldn't stand looking at the other one. My face looked wack. Anyway, it's full body, not just a hoodie and LOOKS LIKE THIS and it's pretty amazing. I'll get a better picture of it sometime when there's someone else around to hold the camera.
Anyway we went to the post office so I could ship out hair pieces and I had to endure "Christmas in July" aka horrible christmas music being played on the radio because it was July 25th while standing in line. Christmas music is probably on the top 10 list of things I loathe in this world. Plus there's this new weirdass lady that works at the post office who screwed up postage a week ago and of course I got stuck with her again, but this time I made sure she did it right. I also received a package in my PO box which turned out to be a sweet ass pikachu backpack sent from Kittie as a late birthday present. I LOVE IT, thank yewwwz!! <3 We went and had lunch at Bread Co (mmm bagel) and then I came home and did chores for hours. Steph stopped by for a little bit but she was dying from an allergy attack so she didnt stay long. I took a shower and got ready and then Atom and I went to the loop to see American Psycho. It was raining really hard which sucked ass because I had to park across the street and get soaked and my hair got all puffy and wavy from the humidity. The movie was enjoyable of course, I've seen it tons of times but I always like viewing movies on the big screen. The theatre was sold out, good crowd besides the annoying fucks in the front who obviously attention starved and had to keep yelling things and talking loudly on their cell phone. ...but yeah, chainsaw scene in American Psycho = one of my favorite movie scenes ever.
 Pika-backpack from Kittie! My pikachu collection grows even larger. I need to document all the fun stuff that people have sent me.
Overall the week was pretty good, got stuff done & enjoyed myself. I have all of my GOTJ RV plans in order, went and toured RVs on Wednesday and picked one out. I ended up picking a 32 foot non-bus style because even though the bus style ones are bigger they actually dont have as much sleeping room. I wanted one with an overcab bunk for Chris so I went with the biggest class C style one they have. It's pretty similar to the ones I've rented in years before. I pick it up on Tuesday Aug 5th. I also figured out who will be staying on the RV with me besides Chris of course, and the chosen ones are Rachel ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nurse__zombie & Nick (Insane Ninja). Originally Laureli & Shadow were going to be going with me but they are no longer able to attend the gathering. Too bad KITTIE (Miss Girl Infected) is not going because it we has an awesome time last year, especially during strap on fest 2K7 and the hour of harassing people on the bridge. She was the only witness for my weirdest life moment ever.
Speaking of strap ons, I will have mine in attendance again this year to cause the LOLZ & mental distress galore. If any ladies need some sweet sexy lovin', come find me and I'll give it to ya good. ;D
Anywaaaaiz, I had some other stuff I wanted to blab on about but it's eluding me at the moment so some other time.
 I look 14, wtf. ...and yes I'm wearing a Tokio Hotel shirt.
I have to rep for the pretty boys in the world, and Bill Kaulitz is ultimately that with his makeuped girlie face, skinny body, gravity defying hair, & manicured nails.
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[25 Jul 2008|02:55am] |
I take special joy in causing visual pain to those people that incessantly hotlink graphics from my server. Every 3 months or so I go through the list of where my images are being used across the web and pick out the most commonly hotlinked files (which tend to be my myspace background, hatchetman logo, and mm shock symbol) and change the files to some sort of "offensive image" with an anti hotlinking message. Usually a goatse related image, but this round I used tubgirl, haha. I can't turn off all hotlinking on my server because doom-muffin.com is used solely for the purpose of hosting my images on livejournal, myspace, and some of the files for my hair site. Livejournal generates so many different pages that I would have to go and enter them all in as "safe" which would be a major waste of time not to mention pretty much impossible at this point due to the fact that I've been using doom-muffin as my image host for my LJ for over 5 years now. Luckily I have a massive amount of bandwidth (thanks e-starr.com!) because otherwise I'd be paying out the ass for huge bandwidth over limit fees. Hotlinking does use up quite a bit of my massive bandwidth though, so as a special "thank you for being a hotlinking asshole" reward to those that do link from my server I gift you with the joy of having your page look a little less pleasant for a while. A few victims this time around: http://www.myspace.com/lady_luciferka69http://www.myspace.com/thatchikadeehttp://www.myspace.com/juggalo_communityhttp://www.myspace.com/dantroxhttp://blog.myspace.com/indian_burialgroundhttp://blog.myspace.com/cojovi...among many more. That "cojovi" guy is slightly amusing due to his hatred of world dryers & his lame rant about how ICP isnt played on the radio so they obviously suck. Looks like he drives a Trans Am... and he hangs with the "hot bitches" that get it on with lesbian kissing action to cause all the awesome dudes with their sweet button up collared shirts boners while at cool guy parties LFMAO MORAL OF THE STORY: Don't hotlink from my server or you will be owned.In other news: my staircase owned me earlier because in my usual graceful manner I managed to fall down the last 6 stairs and almost break my wrist. Luckily I didnt because I'd be pretty pissed. I do already have a bruise though. Mandee + stairs = fail. Oh and this is pretty awesome: http://undecendednut.livejournal.com/1513.html <-- signed poster sold through paypal during the garage sale cam-a-thon has arrived at it's new home.
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[23 Jul 2008|05:25am] |
I was going through my 8 million photo folders last night trying to organize for my soon to be updated collection of albums on myspace and I realized that I have tons of random video clips that I've never posted. So I took a few of them (I still have many more) and complied them into the video above. Some of them are really old haha, the part where I'm eating tacos in my bathroom is from like January 2007... It took like 9 fucking hours to upload to youtube (I'm not exaggerating) for some reason. Madness.
Anyway, haven't been feeling too well the past couple of days. A few people around have had the flu so I might have caught a little bit of that because I had a killer headache, felt woozy and was a bit nauseas which resulted in me not eating very much and now I weigh 5 pounds less than I did on Saturday putting me at 105. At my height thats a bmi of 16.3, which is also madness. I feel better tonight though so hopefully I'm over whatever I was feeling because now is definitely not the time for me to be out of commission.
I need to go to bed, so that is what I shall do.
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[20 Jul 2008|07:32am] |
Saturday was an odd day but luckily it passed very quickly. Probably due to me waking up at 4:30pm. I slept in a coma and had a very vivid and strange dream about the end of the world which upon waking I could not shake the feeling of impending doom. I also was either having a severe allergy problem or I'm getting sick. I feel very congested in the sinuses and I keep sneezing and I'm a bit light headed and woozy. I had dinner with my parents (breakfast for me) and then started working on projects and before I knew it, it was midnight. Atom and I walked to Steak N Shake and got a snack and then I came back and worked on my hair site for a while.
PROMOTION TIME:
I have the fringe shop page pretty much completed (aside from a few photos and different styles I'll be adding in the future), as well as the order page, and the customer gallery! If any of you reading this have bought a fringe and you're not featured in the customer gallery and would like to be, please send me a photo of you wearing the product. I sell so many fringes but I hardly ever get any photos back! ALSO: I have a comment box feature on the gallery page, so if you feel you've had a pleasant experience with your hair piece/dealing with me please leave some "feedback" so others can see that I am actually running a business. (I get people suspecting it's fake and I'm just trying to rip people off for some reason...) It'd really help out and I'd super appreciate any kind words you have to say!
I still have work to do on the site as you can see. I need to redo the main page and the question section, add the links/banners page as well as the clip in color highlights and extension pages... and then I should be done. Anyway I'm happy with how it's coming together.
Okay onto the meaty portion of this entry:
I don't take this T PUNCH to the V threat very lightly, so therefore I am complying with her wishes. ;D Behind the cut is a massive photo collection from the event I went to a few weeks ago. I already posted the photos from my Kodak, which can be SEEN HERE, but I had to get disks of the stuff from my Canon because I transfered it onto Dorean's computer before I left the club and it erased all the files from my CF card and I've been slacking on posting them because there was so many I just didnt feel like dealing with them but here we go... I was supposed to be photographing the burlesque show and the band playing which I did a little bit but it just wasnt working for me so instead I captured a bunch of random and bizarre photos of people attending the event and my friends acting crazy, and every once in a while I'd hand the camera to Steph and she'd get some of me. No captions because I'm too tired to be witty, so you can just wonder what the hell is going on.
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[19 Jul 2008|06:42am] |
 ...AND HOW CAN WE WIN
WHEN FOOLS CAN BE KINGSDONT WASTE YOUR TIME
OR TIME WILL WASTE YOU
The past few days have been spent dwelling inside my mind, fighting for my sanity. I go through times in my life where no matter what the circumstances are everything seems to weigh on top of me, dragging me down into an abyss of loathing and general distress over nothing. Luckily I caught myself early this time because in the past it's been known to last for some time. Gloom and doom have been a staple of my existence. A bit of hatred for everyone and everything is always present in the depths of my soul. Maybe I should write some goth poetry about it. *grin*
Overall things have been pretty good though, I've been productive on projects and have spent a lot of quality time with the boyfriend doing fun things. Much like the rest of the planet, Thursday night at midnight (Friday morning) I was located at the theatre viewing The Dark Knight which was quite enjoyable (although I wouldn't call it OMGZ THE BEST MOVIE EVVVAAR) even though we were seated in between possibly the smelliest humans on the planet. I swear they reeked as if they had bathed in beef lard. I managed to somehow snag tickets last minute on Fandango for the Chesterfield Galaxy theatre, which was showing the movie on all screens. It was completely packed. Heath Ledger definitely stole the show as The Joker. If he had to depart from this world at least he can rest at peace with the final performance of his career.
On Friday after getting my ass in gear and completing all of my usual mega chores I went to Home Depot to get a rechargeable battery kit so instead of wasting millions of dollars and resources by buying new AA batteries for my super deluxe nuclear flash all the time (it eats batteries for breakfast... no joke, one night of use and they're done) I can just recharge them... well the one I wanted magically didnt have a UPC on it when I went to do the self checkout so the attendant lady told me to go get a different one, but alas I was buying the last one of the style I wanted so instead I grabbed a cheaper version ($20 cheaper at that) and used that to check out with and handed it back to the lady and she didn't say anything even though she was watching me. Good deal? Bad karma. Oh well.
Met up with Atom at the loop later, which is now the new hip spot for the gangsta crowd to hang out at on Fridays and Saturdays. It's pretty nutty, they crowd the sidewalks making it almost impassable and yell across the street at each other, have danceoffs everywhere and cruise up and down the street on motorcycles and blasting bass from their cars. It's like something out of a rap video, seriously. I got boba and we walked around window shopping and then noticed that the Tivoli was doing the first Reel Late midnight showing this weekend, and they were showing Alien which I somehow have never seen in full so we decided to watch it and it was a good time. Next week: American Psycho. I'm so there. I got the schedule sheet and they're showing quite a few movies this season I will be attending. Some of y'alls in STL should show up on Friday nights (Tivoli Theatre on Delmar @ Midnight, duh) and we can make it an event.
Came home after that and Steph was on stickam so I went into her chat and some random guys came on there, no cam but mic was on full blast... it was like 4 guys, and they started saying all sorts of rude things to Steph which I took no liking to so I started harassing them in a private message. Seriously they had NO RESPECT, somebody needs to teach these adolescent boys how to properly talk to a women because it seems like the future is doomed for any girl under the age of 20 who wants a decent boyfriend. Eventually they posted their phone number because I believe I asked for it, so I called them with my number blocked to make sure it was them and one of them answered with "IS THIS THE FAT RED SNATCHED CUNT?! while another screamed "IM GONNA CUM ON YOUR TITS!" in the background, so yes indeed it was them... I then posted their number in a bulletin on myspace suggesting that if people were bored that they should give these guys a call. Well apparently a lot of people were bored because I got over 100 replies in the first 5 minutes telling me that they were being called. So hopefully their phone exploded.
Anyway I should be getting to bed as I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow.
Oh, and by the way... I can see forever. 
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[17 Jul 2008|05:24am] |
 STORY OF MY LIFE
Chores and errands are the real story of my life. Never ending. That's been the theme for the past couple of days. So let's see... other than the daily grind of cleaning, errands, and hair piece making: I went to the tiger sanctuary on Monday with my mom and Atom which was pretty cool. It's out in the middle of nowhere (aka 573 area code) and they have 7 tigers (including one white one) that you can view from 3 feet away and they give you all kinds of interesting tiger facts. The tigers were rescued as sick cubs from some guy in Chicago who had all kinds of mistreated exotic animals and they're now 7 years old and doing very well... they have a really nice set up and look super healthy and happy. We did the basic tour this time, but they also have another option thats more expensive where you can feed the tigers so we plan on going back and doing that some time. After that we took all these crazy back roads to get to Johnson's Shut Ins and I saw like 80 abandoned farm houses and an entire super creepy looking abandoned trailer park that I must go back and photograph sometime. It was a perfect day for getting in the river and not very crowded, but once we got there I had an anxiety attack and decided I just wanted to sit there and not have any fun which was lame. Johnson's Shut Ins is really cool too, so I missed out. Basically it's volcanic rocks that have been eroded by the river to create like natural water slides and pools, you can climb up on the rocks and jump into the pools and play inbetween the rocks and hang out in the river which is crystal clear. So yeah, I'll have to go back and have fun sometime when I'm not in a horrid mood. It's like 2 hours away so that's not too bad.
Hmm... Atom and I also went to Chesterfield mall for a minute on Tuesday night and they were having a mega sale at DEB so I bought a bunch of super flares for like $8 a piece. I worked on my hair site until the wee hours of the morning which resulted in me waking up around 4:30pm Wednesday and then I completed a bunch of tasks and went over to Atom's and we watched a movie and then I came back home at like 2am. So nothing too exciting lately, just basic life stuff.
OH YEAH and when I was driving out to Atom's tonight (he lives like 30 minutes away) I was driving with my windows down and reminded of the joy of what it's like to be a blonde girl in a sports car. I haven't driven my car much at all lately like I've said before and when I do I usually ride with the windows up and they're tinted at 15% so people really can't see me too well... but when I drive with the windows down, all of the retards really come out of the woodwork. I get truckers yelling and honking at me. Endless people wanting to race me. Staring, people trying to tailgate me or block me in, guys at stoplights trying to get my number and then following me for miles when I tell them no, and my favorite: THE JACKOFFS.
...and I mean this literally. Tonight I'm driving along minding my own goddamn business when I notice a big SUV that keeps cutting in and out of traffic trying to catch up with me. Finally they do, and I look over and it's some wanksta in like a white Denali with big rims wearing a white wifebeater and a sideways hat and he grins at me and licks his lips and then lifts up in the seat to show me his erect member while stroking it. This has happened to me quite a few times since I started driving, but tonight it really pissed me off for some reason and the guy is lucky I don't drive around with a gun because I seriously would have shot his dumb ass with not a second thought. WTF does he think? I'm gonna be like "OH BABY THATS SO HOT PULL OVER LETS FUCK! !?" Yeeeeah no I don't think so. Maybe I should have pulled over just so I could have kicked him the nuts a couple of times and informed him of what a stupid fucking idiot he is. ...but no, I just rolled my window up and sped away at high speed to get the fuck away before he pissed me off anymore with his obsessive mating antics.
It's one thing if someone's doing it to be "funny", but this guy was like... serious. It's hard to describe.
Anyway, I'll have a better update later... sometimes I just gotta rant and ramble.
GOTJ is 3 weeks away. Holy shit.
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[14 Jul 2008|04:03am] |
 OMG BOOBSBest. Photo. Ever. ...or at least one of my all-time favorites. I have a ton of good photos from that night that I still need to post.
ANYWAY... garage sale was a success. Total profits were around $350 which is amazing since almost everything was priced at $2 or less. Had an awesome turnout, the people just kept rolling in. Broadcasting it live on stickam was a last minute idea which turned out to be highly amusing. Thanks for those of you who tuned in. There were some crazy moments, we tried to keep it entertaining. I'm sure there were a lot of nice shots of old lady's asses when they bent over to rummage through my bins. Nobody knew they were being filmed haha... I wonder if anyone else has ever webcasted their garage sale and had that many viewers? Perhaps I made garage sale history, but probably not since everything's been done before.
My first "customer" was definitely the most interesting. He wandered out from a beat up pick up truck and just started talking to me about all kinds of weird things. He was using a golf club as a cane and kept tapping my shoe with it to get my attention or when he was making a point. He pulled up a chair (one of the ones I was selling) and sat under my tent with me told me of his son and how they used to make homemade bombs, had an extensive knowledge of guns and military ammo, told me about his job as a high lift crane operator, and how human flesh tastes like pork and warned me of the evils of meeting people from the internet. "It's full of garbage." His name is Steve and he lives not too far from here and he has 2 goats and 30 chickens. We chatted for about 45 minutes while I sat there and sold stuff, and he left shortly after Michelle came to keep me company. Chris came by with his friend and I gave him my old ripped up Vash coat. Michelle left and Steph came and helped me out and endured the rest of the burning hot morning into the afternoon. J came and hung out for a bit, helped with loading a table into the back of a car. Fili stopped by for a minute and discussed his recent incident with cops at CFM. Steph's aunt, mom and Leah showed up. Ruben and Dez came near the end and they modeled my clothes on cam and we sold some autographed posters by means of paypal which was both hilarious and radical.
So overall it was a day filled with interesting people, great deals, friends, old ladies, grouchy mexicans, random weirdos, and one very sleepy exhausted sweaty Mandee. After the sale I put everything away, Steph helped me get the remaining items into the attic (kept and stored for future garage sale madness) and then I passed out on the lovesac for 7 hours. Woke up, made macaroni and ate all of it while watching the Matrix Reloaded and then went back to bed and slept until 1PM.
I highly recommend garage sales overall. It's fun and profitable. The best thing you can do is have a ton of great signs to direct people to your house. Advertising is everything.
Sunday was a busy day of cleaning, laundry, and hair piece making.
In other news: I have not had time to take a proper shower since Wednesday. In other words: IM FUCKING DIRTY. GROSS. That is totally against my nature and I feel like the most rancid human on the planet. I did wash myself off a bit but not like my usual daily regimen of ultra scrub exfoliate soapy silky bliss.
Tomorrow Atom and I are going on a day trip with my mom to a tiger sanctuary and Johnson Shut Ins and probably Elephant Rocks too, should be fun... I need to get to sleep because we're leaving before noon.
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[12 Jul 2008|05:35am] |
 GARAGE SALE IS GO IN 30 MINUTES
Spent all day and night Friday setting this fucker up in the horrible swampy atmosphere of STL summer. Items are ready. Signs are deployed. Hopefully the cops don't take them down as they're known to do as my house is a bit hard to find otherwise. I am still awake and will be for many hours to come. I'm grubby as shit and feelin' a bit worn out already, but hopefully it will all be worth it in the end. Its supposed to rain later, but maybe it will happen after the rush of people that usually show up at the beginning. Many thanks to Steph, Kami, Ryan, and Atom for assisting me into the wee hours of the morning. Okay well I just checked and there's already people parked outside waiting so I'm outta here to chug some red bull and put on my game face.
Here's a short video tour, it was cut short because my mom got back from the store right when I was doing it and she wanted me to get in the car so we could go put the signs up.
SUPER AWESOME? Yeah I said it 3 times.
EDIT!!!
LIVE GARAGE SALE CAM LOLZ!!!
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[11 Jul 2008|04:02pm] |
Here's the video that was supposed to go in the last entry... took all fucking night to upload because it was filmed in 640x480 which made the file size huge, and which is also why it looks like total ass because youtube like compressed it or something and it got super pixelated, oh welll enjoy:
[EDIT: if you go to the actual page for the video on youtube theres an option to watch it in high quality so it doesnt look all shitty]
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[11 Jul 2008|06:10am] |
Well another week has flown by. Been busy doing all sorts of things, mostly spending time with Atom and trying to avoid driving my car anywhere due to it being a gas guzzling v8 that requires premium grade and I cannot justify paying $4.50 for a gallon of gas. We went and saw Hancock on the mega screen after eating Thai dinner on Delmar. The movie was alright, not as good as I expected but entertaining enough. The DDR playing beforehand was radical though, especially since I had other shoes with me to play with. Playing in my normal shoes I wear every day doesn't work so well because they're huge platforms and flop around on my feet because they're a bit too big which results in inaccurate arrow stomping. We also went out to Requiem on Monday, which was a good time like usual. Have taken a lot of long late night strolls to various gas stations and eateries nearby. Been to the mall a couple of times. Got my car inspected finally so I can get the plates renewed, although it doesn't really matter since I think I've driven my car once this week... but having valid tags = not a chance for a stupid expired plate ticket so that's good. I successfully taught myself how to use Premiere CS3, so the first part of my video interview will be finished over the weekend. Been creating and shipping hair pieces like mad & have completed a bit more work on my hair site. Got the basement organized and most of my garage sale items gathered together. So overall life has been pretty productive with random moments of fun & relaxation.
So... yeah I'm having a massive garage sale on Saturday. Rain or shine. Lots of random unwanted items from my house, (clothes, videos, trinkets, electronics, video game systems) and my cousin also donated a ton of stuff from my great aunt's house. All profits go towards my half of the money needed for the very expensive ink/software purchase for our screen printing machine. So it's for a good cause because once we get that thing up and running it's going to be pretty awesome and I will be designing all kinds of shirts of doom. If you live in the area, feel free to stop by! I'll be open from 7am to 3pm. Lots of items with super cheap prices, and I might even have delicious sugary Kool-Aid available if you're lucky. If you already know where I live, you know where it's at... if not, get yourself to the intersection of Fee Fee & Old St. Charles Road in Bridgeton (mapquest it) and follow the signs for the AWESOME GARAGE SALE (yes, that's what they'll say) and you'll find it. Don't expect me to be in too fabulous of a state though, waking up that early = bedhead sleepy non makeuped Mandee all day.
Anyway, this post is already getting long, but it's even longer behind the cut as I have a ton of photos to barf upon thee.
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[08 Jul 2008|05:44am] |
 BOOGIE
WOOGIE[BTW: Mizz Twiiggy, I used the dreads you sold me to help create those monsters. Thanks again!]
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[08 Jul 2008|02:14am] |
STICKAM WINDOW WAS HERE
I went live for a little bit. It wasn't that interesting as I was slightly drunk and really tired.
I made mac & cheese and danced around my kitchen and gave hair bleaching advise and said random things. That's about the jist of it.
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