he's a wicked little critta with a sissy bar

Weirdness. I was all cringing, waiting for the 5 year anniversary of 9/11 and.... it just passed me by, I didn't even realize. I guess it's because I don't watch much TV since I moved, and never have the slightest idea of what date it currently is. All I knew is that we had the buildup of the 9/11 books in the store. And of people buying them.

In other news, today my parents gave me a lighter so I could light my Ikea candles. They also gave me this thing that apparently helps boost the signal you get from your TV antenna to counteract how having a VCR weakens it or somesuch. They gave me Dots! And taped two TV shows for me! My dad agreed to come and help me put up my weird coat rack.

I went to the used bookstore and was able to 9 dollars worth of books, I have even more that I plan to go back with sooner or later. Profiting off of bad books I bought back when I had money is enjoyable. Part of me knows I should save it, but since it's kind of an unexpected windfall, part of me is all, "DUDE, GO TO NOODLES!" and/or "DUDE BUY THAT EXPENSIVE SODA YOU LOVE," and/or "BUY MUSIC EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE A TON YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO LISTEN TO NOW*," and same for books I'd like to read.

My sister and I went out to lunch today too, which was friggin' awesome. I bitch about her a lot, but she's actually pretty damned cool if you can manage to get her alone. She's one of those people who is very serious 90% of the time, but the 10% when she's goofy is like five times better because you never see it coming. On top of that, she has way more money than I do, so she bought me lunch at Potbelly AND a pumpkin spice latte at starbucks. Which... now that I can't afford to eat out often anymore, and when I eat in I don't usually cook anything that great, I truly appreciate a good meal out way more than I used to.

So what I have to say, I guess, is that I appreciate the money AND effort that has been expended on me by my family today, and am pretty happy about having a little spending money on top of it. And lets face it, you can't not be happy while listening to TMBG. Which I am right now.



P.S. I also am happy because I just discovered a video on Youtube of Ben Folds doing a Rock This Bitch for Steve Irwin with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and I don't think a bitch has ever been rocked harder. The video's kind of crappy quality, but the music is freakin' awesome.

And I decided yet another reason to love Ben is that if you search the phrase "Rock This Bitch" on Wikipedia, an article about Ben automatically comes up. Yes, I did know what Rock This Bitch is, but I needed a way to explain it to you ignorant losers.

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* Especially since right now I never want to listen to anything that is not TMBG. Which Opt gave me. Which is another nice thing that happened to me recently.