Valentines et al.

What a fantastic Valentine's Day I had this year.
I think this was the first year in a long time that I haven't actually HAD a "Valentine" in my life. But, there is a boy out there that I think is mega cute. We talked a bit on this day, and it was VERY fun. Whenever there is a new person in my life it makes me look in the mirror way more than I already do. It's like....me? For real?

I also went on a pseudo-date with Evan Parker. I have mentioned him in this blog before, but to jog your memories, Evan Parker is a boy from Westwood, MA who I have known since I was maybe 17 or 18. We met through tonyandpals.com. Pretty much EVERYONE thinks he's the biggest creep in the entire universe but I just think he's hilarious. He lives in Orange and rides a motorcycle, so he rode up to my neck of the woods (note: I just typed "weeds" by accident. Floridian Slip.) and we went out on the town.

It was super fun. I had never ridden on a motorcycle before! I was scared, but it was so awesome. It was beautiful out and we rode across Los Angeles to get to the Griffith Park Observatory which is up in some hills. The sun was setting as we got there and I tried to take a picture of the street and some palm trees from the back of the motorcycle but it got deleted :-(

While on the back though I did manage to snap this picture of Elmo hanging out at A Million Milkshakes:


It kinda looks like he spilled milkshakes all over himself, doesn't it? Or maybe it was one of those fucking brats who did it.

So yeah, we got to the park type place but we had to walk up a GIANT motherfucking hill to get to the observatory. It was incredibly steep and long and it was very tiring. BUT once we got to the top we could see the entire city. It was really cool.



I took these pics with my crappy phone.




"We're almost there.....sort of...."









The inside of the observatory had a really crappy "museum" with "exhibits" but they were really just dumb pictures, stuff that didn't work, and like 2-frame animations of "how the tides work" and bullshit such as this. But that's okay.

Me and Evan trekked back down the hillside which took us like 1/4 of the time it took us to get up. His motorcycle was still there, which we were psyched about so we high fived. Then we came back to my house, picked up my brother Ryan, went to In N Out Burger, got Burgers, then came back and watched the "Flamin' Moes" episode of The Simpsons. Amazing.

Then Evan left and I got high and looked at pictures of a naked boy. !!!


Something that is ALSO fun is that Joe Butler is in town!!!
I met Joe when I was a freshman in college. He also attended Umass LOL but dropped out or something before we actually met. I went to see the Ataris with him on his birthday without ever having met him before, and he was really surprised that I didn't think he was going to rape me. We have kept in touch ever since, but I haven't seen him in a couple of years. He is extremely hilarious so I was excited to hang out with him. I met he and his friend Casey, who is also from Boston but now lives in L.A. on the beach a few days ago.
It was super fun. We sat near the water for a while next to the pier and I smoked a joint which I rolled out of tampon paper because I sent the rest of my ZigZags to Danny I.D. as a present.
Then we ate Hot Dog Sticks. Delicious.
Then we played in the arcade for a bit. I played skeeball, Whack-a-Mole (YES), Feed Big Bertha, and Joe and I played air hockey. He kicked the shit out of me. I won a colorful bouncy ball. OH! I also played a really fun game where you try to win a big gumball. I won TWO gumballs, so I ate one and gave the other one to Joe (as is evidenced in This Picture.). These gumballs were HUGE, I am telling you.
Thennn we walked down the pier a bit, Joe tried on some silly hats and he and Casey did nerdy things on their fancy phones. Then we walked to Casey's car, and he gave me a ride to MY car. Free parking for me all the time!
Then I drove around and got lost for like 2 hours while listening to "Raw Romance" by Nobunny. That album is fucking perfect. I also listened to Milo Goes to Compton. Those are the only tapes I have in the car at the moment.



Here's Joe standing near the peep machine. You pay a dime, just like in the old days, and see a nudie picture of a sexy buxom lady. I peeped. The contents of this machine are four plastic naked woman-shaped figurines laying on like....a very small beach towel or something. Cute. Real cute.



I like to play. You can kinda see me in the mirror. Well, you can see my huge flowery skirt. The one that Blarry gave me.



Here's Joe and Casey playing an extremely fun game. You put quarters into it, and try to win as many tickets as possible.



The End.

more and MORE pictures!

Here's my buddy Jed wearing an awesome shirt. I would like to heed its advice.



This weird dude was frantically sending Nate progressively more and more upset texts and was gettin' all aggressive so instead of answering any of them seriously we decided it would be best to just send him a txt of this picture with the caption, "Chill Brah." It's small but you get the idea.



Awwwwwww yea. When do I move in?



Here is a picture of my friend Jose's bedroom wall in Oakland. Me and him painted these sharks this one time. Mine is the hammerhead. I like his better. I painted the crazy little fishies as well.



Here's a picture of Nate, Jose, and Kayla sitting on Jose's bed.



Here's what I stared at as I sat on Luke's porch in San Francisco by myself while Storm Troopers practiced inside.



Here's a shot of me, genuinely ecstatic (read: high as shit), standing in front of Erica's Christmas Tree.



Poor little pup :-( Her little green cast was SO FUCKING CUTE. :-( Awwwww!!!!



STORM TROOPERSSSSSS!



Here's Nate in Jose's room wearing his silly hat and not playing guitar.



A pretty window at The Stud in SF.



Shannon and the Clams! A really nice crazy lady who I guess is called like, The Cookie Lady or some shit, gave me a REALLY fucking delicious cookie at this show, cuz I asked her for one. I Fucking LOVE COOKIES!!



Buncha losers. Well, cept for Allie.



Hi there. I'm Big Daddy.



HOTT DAXX!!!!!



HAUNTED MICROWAVE!!!!!!!

Here's me with Jose's giant bong. Some weird guy came in while we were hanging out (i.e. smoking mad weed) in here and was like, "OMG JOSE! LOOK AT THESE GIRLS ON YOUR BED! WHY AREN'T YOU TAKING PICTURES OF THESE LOVELY LADIES! WHAT ARE YOUR NAMES? WHAT DO YOU DO???" And then we were like, uhh what do you do? And he was like Oh I'm a photographer.


Nate and I went to a weird art show in a big warehouse. Here's Nate trying to do an impression of this sculpture. Pretty dead on!


here's where I had my first Doctor's appointment ever in L.A.!


Ballz R Fun!


here's the statue of liberty trying to tell some guy that no, he doesn't have a quarter.


Here's Erica in a laundromat, stoned out of her mind.


Here's a picture of Grand Ave. in Oakland from inside Lynn and Lu's Escapade Cafe. It was a very rainy day.


Jose and Erica! They are both so good looking!


Some art.


Dicking around can be fun. Acid.


It all just makes me think of Kayla.




This guy kneeling makes me think of Lost for some reason.


PICTOTIT. Can u see N8?


Nate standing next to a huge sculpture man.


Hemlock Tavern.

The beginnings of a delicious chili.


Colombia.


A bunch of trees or something.


Me, Kayla and Erica hung out on a really comfortable couch at Costco sipping sodas for a long time while Steve O got his eyes checked. Then we got up for like one second and some huge bitch stole our seats....all 3 of them.


Pair a' cuties.


Sunset over Oakland.




This area was called a "bowl", which I'm into. We smoked a bowl here.

And here.


...And here.


We trekked through the woods, and Nate made Jose smell his hand or something. No but really what is Nate doing to Jose????



Hiking is fun!


I saw these two green vans and I was like, "WOW COOL TWO GREEN VANS!" Does anyone care?

Nate and Jeff on New Year's Day.

addendums

1. Nate got punched in the head at McDonald's.
2. Lilly got attacked by a pit bull and her shit got JACKED UP. she is okay though now and still the prettiest puppy you've ever seen.
3. I really just wanted to say that Nate got punched in the head at McDonald's.

January.

It's been a long ass time since I updated last. I apologize for that. Wait but why am I apologizing to you? I DON'T OWE YOU ANYTHING.

So on December 31st I woke up at about 9 AM and decided after all that, yes, i DID in fact want to go to Oakland to spend NYE with all my bestie testies instead of flopping around on this dirty couch by myself and going to bed at like 10 PM.
So I jumped up and made Ryan drive me to a hostel in Santa Monica where I caught a bus to San Francisco.
These kids on the bus were talking about how they had to run to get the bus and had to leave all their stuff with a friend including "all their drugs". This made me want to talk to them sorta, but then I realized they were probably norm pieces of shit. I had a seat to myself. This was a silly bus complete with a silly driver who tried to tell us we were all on our way to Vegas, baby, Vegas. They also for some reason played the movie "The Blind Side". It was touching.

About 8 hours later I took the BART over to Oakland and from there I walked to Nate's house. I met a very nice man on the street. He liked my pillow. He disliked unnecessary gun violence on New Year's Eve.

The night was pretty great. There was a party at Apgar, some bands played, I didn't care, Dan and Kayla came, Jose came, we smoked weed all night, we ate mushies, and I think my friend tried to have a threesome with me and this other dude at one point. Then we walked to Ghost Town because we thought the Dashing Suns were gonna be there. We tried to get in for free but it didn't work, shit was fucking legitimate, which I think is really, really dumb. So then we walked to Connor's house and saw so many friends! The Dashing Suns were all there, Lo, Jeff and Leslie, and my main man P which fucking blew my mind. I started to freak out a little, and Kayla had to sit with me on a staircase, but when I saw Lo's smiling face all was well and stayed that way. Then me, Kayla and Dan walked around Oakland looking for food but since it was about 5 AM nothing was open. We walked back to the Full House House and Dan "I'm gonna stay up until the Donut Shop opens, I don't even give a fuck" passed out immediately after walking through the door. But I stayed up. I was hungry. They should have opened at 6 AM, and I waited, and I went, but they were closed! No! I could even see the donut man inside making donuts! Donut Man! I said. I know you're in there! I can see you! Please let me in! But he did not. I went back at 6:15, 6:20, 6:30, still not open. WTF mate? I finally gave up and passed out in Anabel's bed.

I had been keeping a very detailed log of absolutely everything I did while in Oakland, and planned to post it all here when I got back, but I wrote it in a magazine and someone threw it away. So I'm just gonna have to wing it for the rest of the month's activities.

New Year's Day was special! I woke up and got my croissant breakfast sandwich. Yum. Then me, Dan, Kayla, Nate, Steve O, and Nate's friend Ariana went to Jeff and Leslie's for a potluck. Jeff and Leslie are from Alabama and in their culture they believe that eating black eyed peas and various typed of cooked greens will bring you money and good luck and shit for the rest of the year. I had never tried any of this crap before but it was SO GOOD! They even had cornbread that looked like little corns on the cobs. Leslie told me this was called "cornpone" but I'm still not sure exactly what that was all about. Dan made a pasta salad and it was a big hit. There was even a large human pyramid at one point. And fucking delicious apple pie. AND!!! I met the girl who used to own my green sweater! Her name is Talulah and she is nice and a babe. I was glad to see that the sweater went from one hottie to the next. We were there pretty much all day long and by the end of it we were all trying to curtsy in the kitchen while playing ring toss. After the potluck, we went to hang out with Barker and Caitlin who had JUST arrived in Oakland from Boston. They moved into a house about 2 blocks away from the Full House House. Then we came back to the Full House House and hung out some more, ending the night with a Mariah Carey dance party. Then Barker said, "I don't know where I live :-(" so me and Steve O walked him home.

The next morning Kayla and I took resin hits and decided to go get breakfast at Rudy's. We stopped by Barker's new house and invited him and his friend Metro, but they had already eaten breakfast as it was close to 4 PM.

It was pretty awesome feeling like I lived at the FHH again. For about 2 weeks I had my own room and my own set of keys because Anabel was in South America.

OHMYGOD, I wish I could recount every single day I spent in Oakland. So many fun things occured. I remember very little of it at this point.

There was one morning where me, Jose, Erica, Kayla, Nate, and Steve O all went to breakfast at Lynn and Lu's Escapade Cafe near the Lake. It was a beautiful day and we sat outside. Our waitress was really nice. I ate the fluffiest fucking pancakes on earth with blueberry sauce. Everyone was so happy.

Erica and I went back to this place too towards the end of the month because it was SO GOOD. We ate fruit, drank tons of coffee, and talked about a lot of things. My symptoms came back during the last week I was there. It sucked hard, but I'm better now.

I got to spend some time in bed with my main Oakland jam. It was really fun. I hadn't seen him in a while. I like him. He is cool. Yet he still remains one of the strangest dudes I've ever interacted with. That's totally fine by me.

Dan, Kayla and I went to the Hemlock to see The Splinters!! It ruled! They are fucking awesome and sooo pretty. I was thinking, it's kinda weird, all the bands in Boston THINK they are good, but they suck. And all the bands in Oakland are actually REALLY good, but they dont give a shit because they're too stoned all the time. This night turned out to be interesting and fun. I saw Justin from Nobunny and I was all, "HEY I KNOW U" and we chatted and he was like "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY LET'S SMOKE MY BIRTHDAY WEED" and I was all haiiilll yeah. We went outside and he smoked up not only me but Kayla and Dan too, and on weed that was given him as a gift. Whatta guy. Then we all realized we had no way to get home so we walked across San Francisco to take a bus across the Bay. We missed the bus by like 5 minutes, so Justin paid for us all to take a cab home. I sat in the front seat and had an in depth conversation with the Cab Driver. He was kinda a freak, but apparently liked my skirt and thought i was a good girl.

I also saw some other shows including Shannon and the Clams (twice! at least!) Prizehog and Wildildlife, Nobunny, The Dashing Suns, and Hott Daxx EVEN played a private show for us inside Jed's room cuz I asked them to. I love those boys. Joe showed me a preview of the new issue of New Realms and it looks fucking incredible. He told me that the new ones are going to be a lot more dirty and perverted too, which I am so into.

I went to San Francisco and watched the Storm Troopers practice in Luke's bedroom.

We all went on a long nature hike as well, it was pretty cool but very tiring as we were all INCREDIBLY stoned and also kept stopping along the way to smoke more.

Nate and I also went to this art show type thing in a fucking GIANT warehouse. The art was pretty okay. I have pics.

Sigh. I dunno. It was so great being back in Oakland although a lot of people were confused by my presence there. Most of my time was spent smoking weed and hanging out with Erica, Kayla, Nate, Dan, Jose, and Steve O. The way it should be.

I always have these crazy new ideas but right now my plan is to go on tour in March, come back to L.A., get a job with health insurance, make some real money and then move back to Oakland. I gotta be there. Unless for some reason in the time being I become an actor in stupid movies. Now that...that would really be something else.