Joie de vivre

First of all I must note that it seems that if you are male and attending a Blitzen Trapper show, in order to fit in you must sport either a messy overgrown mop of hair a la Neil Gaiman, an impressive set of sideburns, a mustache of some type, or a very healthy beard. Or all of the above.

Ya'll, I have never seen so much facial hair in one place in my life.

Also I saw a dead ringer for patrick___ and also a lovable-teddy-bear version of David Duchovny, who I covertly watched throughout the evening (he was with a woman he obviously ADORED and therefore it was adorable d'aaw).

And ... And ... oh my gosh you guys I have never been to a show before where you just pack the house (or dimly lit and slightly smokey music hall, whatever) full of people who stand shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the (small, crowded) stage for 2 1/2 hours and listen to music so heart-stoppingly loud you walk out with aching eardrums also I got a purple lip-print stamped on the back of my hand that proved I was over 21. This seems important to note for some reason.

Also now that I have seen them, I like Venture Brothers and Batman Begins (Christian Bale FTW).

ALSO we went to a huge and rambling (and ramshackle) antique mall which was apparently the hangout for local teens. I find this an interesting social commentary on the town.

Oh and hey I took these pictures of, well, in Missouri apparently people have Mergencies. Also low-budget movies for kids don't seem to spend money on proofreaders.

( MERGENCY! MERGENCY! )

Also here have a link, it made me laugh and laugh.

The End. :)

In the category of Things I Just Don't Understand:

People who drive around in pickup trucks with the tailgate down for no apparent reason.

After a week or two of carrying around both phones, and after spending half an hour on hold today with AT&T, I have finally canceled my old cell service and am officially a Verizon girl now. :)

Also, I was very surprised to wake up and realize that today was the second of May. Yesterday I was convinced that it was April 29th. I even looked at the calender multiple times and determined that I was correct.

My brain is addled.

If anyone would care to explain to me why I have a packet of instant oatmeal* in my purse, believe me, I would be all ears.

*Apple and Cinnamon flavored, if that helps.

Tonight is the night of Random. I have been eating random food and reading and writing random emails (*waves to ransomedsea *) and randomly cracking up about random stuff (like a random story involving a random man and six McDonald's hamburgers [*waves at kiwiria *])

Speaking of kiwiria , I have these three things to say:

1. She is made of awesome
2. Lately I seem to always mistype her name on the first go 'round as wikiria, probably because I have been playing with our work wiki for weeks on end, and
3. Whenever I go to my userinfo to find her among my friends, I always look for her in the list of "Ljers I've met" even though CLEARLY I've never been to Denmark.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

I will never read the book The Underneath because it contains (perhaps starts with?) the above sentence, which I somehow find too sad to be born.

/ random

After I bought my Christmas stamps, I remembered that I find nutcrackers incredibly disturbing.

Oops.

Saturday I received a call at work that began with an ominous voice intoning This is the voice of DOOM calling...

Somebody gave me a pound of bacon.