it's the last day of august, baby
("september's coming soon/i'm pining for the moon")

here we go.

link of the day:

best toy ever

i admit it. i'm still laughing.

it's rainy

i'm reading and listening to Coltrane (A Love Supreme). the light in here is nice and warm, and i have cinnamon rasin toast. it's kind of a lonely weather though, if ryan were home form work it would be cozier.

which Tori accessory are you? find out @ snowcanwait.org

here's a story 'bout jelly man kelly
he loves jelly the most
oh, but most of all
jelly man kelly likes jelly on toast

(i love this song, it reminds me of when JT was on sesame street singing this song and it was one of my favorites then - it is "jelly man kelly" by james taylor :))

recommended downloads:

ben folds - the luckiest (which made me teary, but in the good way :))
the corrs with bono - when the stars go blue

you want these songs. you'll thank me - and in response to that, you are quite welcome. ;)

jaemi and i on monkeys, not-so-real:

(20:54:29) azomi kezossa: i got a monkey :-D
(20:54:35) sarahmchinchilla: whoop! :)
(20:55:28) azomi kezossa: he's a cute little black spider monkey
(20:55:53) sarahmchinchilla: you are so lucky to have a monkey :)
20:56:04) azomi kezossa: you know he's a toy right
(20:56:30) sarahmchinchilla: yeah :)

skippy on:

his son: "The boy is getting huge and walkin and talkin up a storm."

my starting school again: "I'm glad your getting back to school, you really need to keep up with your smarts"

my learning to drive: "As for you driving i believe it's in your best interest to avoid any kind of automobile(cause women cant drive and they belong in the kitchen not the highway)...just kidding I know you'll do well on the test."

i missed you, mister lasarso! :)

whoa, i just checked my hotmail and i hadn't in a while: :)

Mail from Ally:

I HEART YOU TOO

LOVE YOUR HUSBAND
AKA WIFEY
AKA ALYSSA

love you too, baby. ;)

© What's your Inner Goddess Color?? © Jen

it's a good morning, baby

cinnamon raisin toast with vanilla caramel coffee (coffeemate ;)), new short hair, a nice lengthy shower, chrome blue fingernails, and good conversations (ally, john michael, jaemi, ryan :))

staying-upbeat-so-the-PMS-will-not-crush-me playlist: ;)

Imani Coppolla - Naked City
Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle
Counting Crows - Why Should You Come When I Call
Britney Spears - Boys (Co-ed Remix)
Disney - Lilo and Stitch - Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride

:)

I also have a SKOR bar and water and new chrome nail polish to try out tomorrow, and my thrift store shiny pants got washed today...so they will be ready for wearing when it is cool enough outside! :)

*banana*


What fuzzy creature are you?


(heck yeah! ;))

i have shorter hair. it's a bit odd. i think i like it, but i'll let you know when i am a bit more used to the idea. :)

oh my lord....stopped at home to put away groceries we bought, next i'm going to get my hair cut (!!) and i'm having a snack of coffee frappucino and a pepperidge farm tahoe cookie. i do not usually like store bought cookies but this is quite an exception.

mmm. :)

we got a cell phone plan for when ryan has to travel and stuff, and also so i can have mine in the car iwth me when i am driving, since i will be newly licensed and driving myself to school and so on...and the stuff came today! it is sort of exciting. the phones are charging right now and then need to be activated, but as soon as we have all this straightened out, some of you may be getting test calls or being asked to make them (kj, ally, rubytuesday/nellie if you ever read this, this means you! ;))

i can tell it is a lot cooler out (well, duh, but :)) becuase a hot shower felt really good for the first time in a while. and it did not make the apartment into a sauna, either! :)

today i read through the focus on the family site (family.org) and got really good and angry. (it's a christian newletter type thing, christian in the sense that they believe homosexuals can change their orientation, not even just their behavior, and that think hate crime laws are dangerous because they lead to gay marriage rights).

There is one advertisement for a video on the evils of porn. And the paragraph underneath it says "Think pornography doesn't hurt anyone? Watch this video featuring an interview with serial killer Ted Bundy and you'll never view it as a "victimless" activity again."

So we are supposed to infer that TED BUNDY LOOKED AT PORN THEREFORE IF YOU LOOK AT PORN YOU TOO WILL BECOME A SERIAL KILLER!

They also published a Q&A with a doctor in which the doctor claimed that comprehensive sex education leads to higher teen sex and pregnancy rates, which is simply not true. It just isn't, I know that, and I did a ton of research on it last year. And yet otherwise intelligent people read this and buy it and raise their children accordingly. :/

yesterday i played in my SARK journal for a long time.

i filled the big star with positive words about myself. i made a list of things i want, and filled a bubble with people who love me. i looked at old mini-magnetic poetry that i had written down there years before.

it felt really good. it was calming and it made me happy. i should do that more often - and i think everyone else should too. :)

there is a piece of music in my head. this doesn't usually happen to me, though it happens to ryan all the time - if i knew how to compose and i had the stuff to do it with, i would record this music in my head and play it in the mornings.

songs competing in my head on the way to the beach (on a bike, in the sun)

duncan sheik - on a high
and
matchbox 20 - girl like that

(they fit so well in my head at the time that i wrote them down when i got to the beach :))

humorous spam from this morning:

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I know I want a night with a richly boy of las vegal! ;)

ally,

if you lose important stuff from the bank, you call and say "i lost important stuff from you help what do i do? if you lose your credit or debit card you can also call visa or mastercard or whatever you have, and they will freeze the account so that no one charges a bunch of crap wthout your permission. if you lose your keys, call a locksmith and get your locks changed and get new keys. if you lose your social security card, call the nearest social security office and tell them and i think they will probably give you a new one. if you lose your student ID, it is replaceable by going to the people who gave it to you. if you lose your whole wallet, call the police, and then call everyone who had a card or anything in your wallet (the bank, credit card company, SS office, and the student ID people).

if you lose your head, i don't know what to tell you. but good luck with that. ;)

ps - driving for an entire day like i just did does a *lot*. you just need more practice! :)

(and because i've freakin' lost my internet connection, i'll be posting this later i guess! :P)

lazlo bane - superman (download this :))
tori amos - birthday song (thanks soph :))
lilo and stitch - hawaiian roller coaster ride (to get me in the mood for beaching later today)

so yesterday, i took of my shoes and stood on the bed to look out the window at a bunny in the driveway
and when i stepped down i forgot my shoes were there, and i stepped right on one of them, which flipped over and threw me on the floor.

my ankle got twisted, and while it doesn't appear to be sprained or anything, it hurts a lot. my hip hurts from landing on it, and my back is whacked out more than usual. then today, i got up in the morning and sat down here at the computer, and as i was getting into the chair i hit my knee on the keyboard tray.

i think i am out to destroy myself, or something. :)

"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine" :)

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

mini theater playlist:

Dreamgirls - And I am Telling You I Am Not Going
Chess - One Night in Bangkok
Rent - Seasons of Love
Rent - Santa Fe
Where's Charley - Once In Love With Amy
Evita - Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

:)

i'm itching for new pencils, fresh paper, new stickers for my binder,
the beginning of school where i like to take perfect, tidy notes and drink juice or ginger soda at my desk and write brilliant papers. i'm getting a new haircut, redying my hair red, buying some new warm clothes - i'm getting ready baby, even though i'll miss warm weather. :)

actually, i feel like telling the story of how i do not like 8 o'clock classes. I had them every single day I had classes last fall, as do many others (but I still like to complain about it, even though I am not alone. :)) Here is how it went:

the alarm would go off at 6:30, so that Ryan and I could both shower and eat something and be out the door by 7:30. I would never even hear it, and Ryan would have to coax me awake. I would be very grouchy up until the time I stumbled out to the car. At that point, I would fall semi-asleep until we got to campus. Then I would get out of the car, hear the 8 o'clock chimes, and start running up the sidewalk inorder to catch my firt professor before she started class (and she was evil, always started class a few minutes *early*.) Then I would struggle to remain concious while she recited statistics on dog and cat ownership in this country (it was a class on animals and society). The other days, when I had art in the morning, I would just come in and get meditative over some art, and that made being sleepy okay. But I am not so lucky as to have an art class this semester, so I will be starting the day at 8am with....

"Social and Cultural Aspects of Media and New Communication Technologies". Followed immediately by "Great American Speeches".

But remember - I am excited for school to start. Yes. Excited. Even with that sort of a grim start to the morning. :)

I haven't been able to upload to corknut.org lately, and I have a bunch of pictures waiting for when it gets fixed. Except I just found out that the guy who maintains our server is out of a job and may be shutting the server down! So we will have to move corknut.org, and there will be more downtime and waiting around.

But eventually, there are many pictures to be posted... I felt bad for not updating my photoblog in so long, you see. The poor thing!

.....


this weekend, i got a softie thermal-y shirt that is blue, and a white stretchy camisole for sleeping in that feels like heaven :), and grey sweatpant-y things for doing yoga in, granted i can sign up for the first session of it at URI. :) I am excited. I am also excited about school starting, for the most part - although I am really totally not excited about having to be awake for 8 o'clock classes, but that's another story! :)

songs of the evening:

duncan sheik - on a high
norah jones - don't know why
ani difranco and the indigo girls - midnight train to georgia

sophie,

please do, and i promise i will ;) *giggles*

these stars are for you

From an email from Ryan's mom (this was so cute I had to post it :))

"Dear Ryan and Sarah,
I think I forgot to tell you that the CD you made for us is
my favorite CD of all time! I listen to it whenever nobody
else is home (like now) because I don't want them to think I
have OCD !"

I like, totally know the feeling of obsessive compulsive listening. :)

playlist:

Dave Matthews Band - After Her
Duncan Sheik - On a High (thanks allybaby)
Michelle Branch - Drop in the Ocean
Michelle Branch - Something to Sleep To
Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
Norah Jones - The Nearness of You
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Tori Amos - Famous Blue Raincoat
Burt Bacharach - What the World Needs Now
Sarah McLachlan - Mary
Miles Davis - Freedom Jazz Dance

I just found out that Ani Difranco is releasing a new album in September. This album is a 2 disc set, and it is entitled "So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter".

It is a mix of new and old songs. One disc is of angrier songs, one of lighter songs. Where have we seen this before?

I like Ani, but I just saw that and groaned. And I like Ani, but I've noticed a problem with her, a problem for me anyway: I find that she really romanticizes things like being used and abused, and making the same mistakes over and over, and things like that. I don't really think that jives with her being a feminist, although I think it's supposed to. And a lot of younger girls really take her to heart, and I think it's something they romanticize and sort of emulate - like being unhappy is somehow poetic, more so than being joyful. ( But I'm not saying Ani doesn't sing about joy too, or that joy is the only thing one should sing about!)

Right now though, I'm listening to "Fuel" and thinking of singing it on the swingsets with Kelly. :)

sophie, i'm asking for the story behind the quote. ;)

"your kisses lift me higher
like the sweet song of the choir
you light my morning star
with burning love"

(a little elvis to start the morning - thank you lilo and stiitch ;))

rachel,

when kelly was visiting, we would wake up in the morning on the days we stayed home, have some cereal, and watch mister rogers.

and it was really amazing. I'm serious. The man is amazing, and every word meant something. In one scene, the little tiger guy (I can't remember his name right now) asked Lady Aberline something about how the world works, how everything came to be, and she said "Well, let me tell you what *I* believe" and she sang a little song about how she believes God made the world, and she referred to that God as both a He and a She. Then another person sang the song, only he sang about Love instead of God.

I had no idea that Mister Rogers was that forward thinking. :) And every word he said encouraged curiousity, honesty, acceptance, and self-love. I never realized when I watched him when I was little, what a big thing that was. I think a lot of adults could benefit from watching Mister Rogers once in a while. People forget to love themselves, and they forget to feel their sense of wonder. Maybe Mister Rogers could remind even them.

:)

"so sad/ so sad/ it's a sad sad situation/ and it's getting more and more absurd" (ally, you made me think of elton john)

Kelly:

(15:15:47) MikeFreebern: Are you picking up what I'm laying down? :)

(12:06:08) Al0929: i heart you!! AND BRITNEYSPEARS TOO BUT NOT AS MUCH AS YOU DO WINK WINK

oh my lord, i am the star of ally's info! well, sorta. :)

sarahmchinchilla: SHUT UP YOU BIG LIE :-)

sarahmchinchilla: bajeezus

sarah, professing her love to britney spears:
sarahmchinchilla: ONE DAY SHE WILL LOVE ME

sophie,

wanna come walk by the ocean with me? we can talk and wander and we can go get coffee or sit in the park afterwards. The rest of you girls, come too. I think we'd make a nice picture, sitting by the fountain with fruit and giggles and sparkley eyes. (;))

love (love),
sarah

oh my, we got back from camping last night, and it is nice to be home. i am clean and comfortable again...although today wouldn't be a bad day to be just feet from the lake. or on the boat. :) kelly, ryan, ryan's parents and i all went for a ride on chris' boat the other day, and kelly and i sat way in the front and it was so much fun. that flying feeling you get when it's going really fast and you hit some waves and bounce...wow.

i want a boat. :)

i think i'd like to try hang gliding. i was saying to kelly that it seems like it might be a similar feeling.

allydoodle,

it was fun to talk to you on the phone yesterday - imagine! ;)

and thanks.

love you much!

and now i am camping for a few days - be back sunday night. :)

i'm not really dead, in case you were wondering...i'm just busy having fun with kelly and ryan too. :)

today i drove on the highway for the first time! Because today I also finally got my RI permit sorted out. Yay!

License, license, here I come!

Which Ani DiFranco Album Are You?

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I don't think I ever really want my life to resemble an Ani album. But hey. :)

Ryan is not supposed to work over time at his company. He accidentally worked a couple extra hours and wrote them down on his time sheet without thinking. His boss called him down to his office and reminded him that he wasn't supposed to work overtime. Sorry, said Ryan, it was an accident. Okay, said boss.

In the *next sentence* he said "other people here work more than 40 hours a week. Why don't you work more than 40 hours a week?"

"well", explained Ryan gently, "I do work more than 40 hours a week. But I only write down 40 because if I wrote down more than that, you'd be paying me over time, and you just told me you don't want me to do that."

ARRRGH.

this is among the funnier things I've seen today

of course, it is only 9 in the morning. But still. :)