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So, had an awesome birthday.
And an awesome birthday dinner. Barry made an amazing shepards pie.
Thanks for all the awesome birthday wishes: Barry, Mandy, Katie, ect....
Megan and Macy showed up and hung out at the apartment for a bit. Macy got a little drunk, but it was amusing.
Was having a good time at the party, until someone insulted my relationship with Sam. Don't even think she knows she insulted it either. But it hurt nonetheless. We've putten so much into this relationship, just to have someone dismiss it is just insulting.
Going to bed. Part two of birthday party continuing tomorrow.
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| Summer essentials |
[16 Jul 2009|07:20pm] |
Keep cool this summer by wearing this tacky piece of crap! Designed by New York Couture of course. Totally worth 50 bucks for some leftover string, and obnoxious bows.
( +++ )
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| Too good to be true |
[16 Jul 2009|07:09am] |
I'd been suspecting for quite some time now that my mom had been having an affair.
Turns out I was right. Fuck.
Dad called me this morning asking who's name was on the registration for the car, and then told me he confronted mom about it last night.
I'll bet it was Joe.
I don't really know how to feel about this right now. Other than I want to cry. I really wanted to believe that my parents could be like those couples who stay happy and devoted to each other forever.
I'm always wrong about these things.
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[15 Jul 2009|09:44am] |
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So I don't update too often anymore, mostly because I work allllll the fucking time so I don't do much of anything interesting.
Heather and I went for sushi at the new Japanese place on route 6, right on the Seekonk/EP line. I'd highly recommend it. I'd really like to go with a big group sometime.
I've been eating a lot, and clumsy and in mad moods randomly so I'm obviously PMSing, but it's pretty annoying. At least I'm not preggo. But I do have much less patience with Joe being a boy and such. It's not even 10am and I'm already frustrated. lol
I really neeed to remember to stop by seadra (I mean, seabra) and get lots of eggs and peanut butter and some bagels and cream cheese. And potatoes (already?). We're sort of lacking in breakfast food. I've just been eating random leftovers every morning.
So I'm totally NOT doing lunch next summer. No fucking way. All I do is sit there and play scrabble, pour iced tea, get angry at the cash register and have my mom yell at me for the waitresses' incompetence. At least sometimes I can yell at them and get away with it, like when they try giving me their cash for a charge slip (wtf is that? lmao). We've been serving lunch for over a month now...it's time to learn how to wait on tables. When it gets busy, my sister will take orders and I'll serve their drinks and write up the slips. So we work as a little team and split the tips. She's not that great of a server, but my dad will only give her parties of little old ladies that know she's his daughter. But yeah, never again. Fuck lunch. Next summer I'll just learn to wait on dinner tables and work every night. Or try to find a bartending job, which I'm working on currently.
Ugh. I need to get Joe out of bed and go to work.
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| Oh, Etsy... |
[12 Jul 2009|04:27pm] |
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Hi, first post here.
Now, I like hair falls. I like dread falls. I don't mind cyber falls.
BUT WHAT THE HELL ARE THEEEEESE?
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php
Seriously? Seriously? $45 to look like "a snow plow drove right through you lush pale snow locks"?!
She has multicoloured ones, too. And hats that have apparently been inhabited by goblins. Uh...
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[12 Jul 2009|11:09am] |
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I was searching Etsy for a necklace with a really big pretty stone pendant and realized searching for "nursing necklace" would probably give me exactly what I was looking for. Little did I suspect what else was in store...
oh merciful heavens...
( D: D: D: )
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| A head for music? |
[10 Jul 2009|09:27am] |
Oh, dear. I was going through a photo highlight on Yahoo! because the very first one was cute and I felt it needed to be put in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) splodefromcute, but this photo requires to be posted in this community!
It says:
A model presents a creation during a hair show in Budapest June 20, 2009.
REUTERS/Karoly Arvai (HUNGARY FASHION IMAGES OF THE DAY)
I mean, I've heard of having an ear for music, maybe even a head for music, but what were they thinking here?!?!?!
(There's too much violins!)
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Bleh. Waiting for laundry at Mom's.
I've been really grumpy today. I didn't have the patience to deal with anyone. I got really angry at the waitresses for being incompitent, and angry at Aly for taking 10 minutes to spell a three letter word in scrabble.
I had a fun time with Alyss and everyone last night. But waking up this morning was blahz. I woke up around 7 and really couldn't get back to sleep. I was afraid I'd fall back asleep and not wake up in time to bring her back to Warren.
So I logged online to find out that Amber and Rob broke up, which made me really really sad. I'm not too close to Amber, but I know exactly how it feels, and I hate to see anyone go through shit like that, especially when they've got such a big heart and care so much. People are stupid sometimes and forget about the wonderful things that are right in front of them. Amber - I wish you the best in everything. I know you're strong and talented and you're going to accomplish great things. I'll really miss your curly red locks and bohemian skirts around the media center this year! I hope to hear good things and happy posts on LJ :) (I was going to comment on your blog, but I thought an entry would be more meaningful).
So after being sad and finally getting myself dressed, I drive Alyssa back to Warren, hung out at grandma's and ate some pork pie, and then headed to my mom's house to clean out my car and do laundry. Well, I cleaned out my car and found an empty booze bottle that Augustus left behind, and I was FUMING ANGRY. It's been in my car all week. I've commuted to work and back at least 10 times. And given rides to my siblings, DAD and other family members. How fucking disrespectful can you be? I'm not even fucking 21 yet, and he didn't even ask me if he could drink in my car. And if he had asked, the answer would have been no.
Blah blah so I go into work all grumpy and deal with incompitence. And my mom getting angry at ME for their incompitence, saying that I should help them out...even though I did by going to tables and taking drink orders. But apparently I have to babysit two girls that are older than me. Ugh. I just want to run lunch by myself. I'm probably capable. I just wanted my dad to fire everyone today and let me do it myself.
Now I'll probably get stuck in traffic on the way home. And rear end some asshole who doesn't know how to merge.
I think a nap is needed as soon as I'm back in prov. But maybe a nice Kahlua milkshake beforehand. nom nom.
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[08 Jul 2009|12:02am] |
AAAAARRRRRRRUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.
Goddamnit Jimmy Choo! I am revoking your design privileges right fucking now.
( Prepare to claw your eyes out )
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| Jackson ripped off on the charts |
[07 Jul 2009|11:27am] |
I was actually shocked to hear that Michael Jackson had died. When the news first broke, I thought it was some kind of “fake out” or he was ill and the story got blown out of proportion. It’s a sad end to the life of a talented guy who had a rather tragic life.
In the aftermath of his death, people have been flocking to stores to buy his music – as fans have done in the wake of other deaths like Lennon and Presley. No surprise that the sales have been brisk, but the big story is that he got ripped off by the rules of the Billboard charts.
While he broke chart records, he’s been denied the top spot. Here’s what happened:
The main album chart is called the Billboard 200, but they have a rule that when an album is older than 18 months and falls below #100, it gets listed instead on the “Top Pop Catalog Album” chart – never to return to the Billboard 200 again. For seasonal albums, they get the one season, rather than the full 18 months.
So in Billboard’s own words:
Catalog albums are ineligible to appear on the Billboard 200 albums chart, though they can chart on the all-encompassing Top Comprehensive Albums list. On the latter chart, Jackson's "Number Ones," "Essential" and "Thriller" are at Nos. 1-3, followed by the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." at No. 4
The King of Pop's "Number Ones" will fittingly lead the pack at No. 1 with 108,000 (an increase of 2,340%) while "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Thriller" are in the Nos. 2 and 3 slots with 102,000 and 101,000, respectively.
Jackson himself has a record eight out of the top 10, while a Jackson 5 compilation also finds its way into the upper tier. The lone non-Jackson-related set in the top 10 is a reissue of the "Woodstock" movie soundtrack, which bows at No. 10 with 8,000.
Collectively, Jackson's solo albums sold 422,000 this past week. That's extraordinary, since his titles sold a combined 10,000 in the week that ended June 21. Of the 422,000 total, 57% were digital downloads.
Okay, so he gets the record for Catalog chart and it looks impressive, but the real Top 3 on the Billboard 200 should be Jackson. It just isn’t fair that Black Eyed Peas get the mantel. The “Top Comprehensive Albums” chart is not the “definitive” chart, and Billboard doesn’t even publish it in the print version, only online.
Yes the rule has been around forever, but I never agreed with it when they put it in – partly to get “Dark Side of the Moon” off the chart after 700+ weeks. If the old rule still applied, “Dark Side” would have 30+ continuous years on the chart. This Christmas I will bet that Josh Groban’s album will storm back, and instead of being Top 10 will be relegated to the Catalog chart. The rule is wrong – and not even because of Michael’s situation.
I don’t see why it can’t be a straight-up sales chart. Yes, there will be anomalies, but shouldn’t we be seeing what actually sold best rather than trying to smooth things out to help other artists achieve higher positions.
With sales like he did last week … he was and forever will be “The King of Pop”.
Rest in Peace Michael … the chart may not show it, but we all know you were #1
[EDIT] Forgot to add that the same thing applies to singles... when older songs get massive downloads these days, they aren't eligible for the Hot 100 even if they out sell current "hits". WTF?!
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