if it wasn't for date rape I'd never get laid

So Ben Folds is shanking me again. Really, I wish I loved a more considerate artist, instead of someone who's constantly making mild changes to things and re releasing them to torture me. I have every track on that, and have paid for all of them except the one from Over the Hedge (which I may or may not have bought if I hadn't gotten it as one of the few reasonably not horrible promos from work I've ever come across). I don't want to pay again for mildly re-worked versions. But I waaaaaaant them. I hate for my Ben Folds collection to not be complete.

In other knews, I know I've said it before, and I know that I am biased, but the 'phew is seriously the cutest kid ever. Apparently he has a strange love of water towers right now, so as we drove past one, my sister was pointing it out to him. But then when we passed by it, he was sad, and she was like, "we'll pass it again later. Say goodbye to the water tower for now," and he was all, "Bye bye! Call me!"

Then later, there was an airplane, and my mom went, "Da plane! Da plane!" and the 'phew copied her, and it was the most hilarious thing ever. And then afterwards when other planes would go by, he kept saying it. Small child yelling "da plane! da plane!" = comedic gold.

I also taught him how to do the Rock 'n' Roll sign, which he did quite poorly. But the funny thing is every time I said "yeaaaah!!" later, he would try to do it. Again hilarious. Utterly cute. And I don't give a fuck if you people don't want to read about how cute my nephew is, I need to write all this stuff down for the future when he's a no good punk ass teenager, so I can remember good bits about him.

Me: we went to noodles and I annoyed everyone by getting the phew excited about chopsticks even though he lacked the fine motor skills necessary to operate chopsticks
Ryan: did he just stab things with them?
Me: yeah. That or try to have one chopstick in one hand, one chop stick in the other hand, and like, hold them together that way to bring food to his mouth and not succeeding and dropping it all over
Ryan: haha
Ryan: nice
Ryan: it's like he's turning japanese
Me: and then he got mad if we tried to feed him with our chopsticks, or encourage him to feed himself with a fork
Me: if poorly attempting to use chopsticks makes one japanese, i know a lot of japanese I never suspected of being japanese
Ryan: Hey, even the japanese have to start somewhere
Me: I just had not eaten with chopsticks in years, and then awhile ago I was in noodles and someone else got chopsticks and I was all excited and used them and I decided to do it again
Me: I don't know why, but it is fun to eat with foreign utensils
Ryan: hehe yeah I like using chopsticks on appropriate foods
me: I don't know if pesto cavatappi is really appropriate
Ryan: Probably not, but hey, if you had fun then go for it : )
Me: oh yeah
Me: I should just randomly carry some around with me and start using them at italian places or mcdonalds
Me: I'd like to see someone try to lift an entire burger with chopsticks


Me: I also semi-worry that he thinks I'm a stoner because for whatever reason I said some stonery things on the phone
Ryan: he'll confirm that when he sees your desk
Me: LOL, I forgot about that
Me: maan... between that and my heavily cigarette smoky clothes
Ryan: haha yeah
Me: haha, jesus, this desk
Me: even people who know me worry when they see it if I haven't warned them first
Me: "You like Phish?" *disgusted look*
Ryan: haha