Random Cougar Life
We are back!
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Dave and I are finally back home from our visit to our families. We stayed with Dave’s dad for a few days, and got to see Dave’s aunt who is in chemo for liver and colon cancer. She looked like she was doing well when we saw her. After visiting with Dave’s aunt we got to go see April, since Dave’s aunt lives in the north west side of Houston. I had fun hanging out with April, she even treated me, Dave, and Ben to dinner! She got me chocolates and candy and some spiffy stuff! I was pretty excited. Dave and Ben ate all the chocolates that I liked though, I only have the gross coconut and toffee chocolates left 
I wish I coulda spent more time with my buds and stuff, but none of them except April were free. Susan pissed me off pretty bad, because I told her on Saturday that I’d be in Houston on Wednesday, Thursday, and maybe Friday night. And she never got ahold of me, I had to get ahold of her, and she was too busy with her other friends to come hang out and say “happy birthday”. And Friday it was her friend’s birthday so she was busy all night. Well fuck you too, I thought we were friends too. I had a goddamn birthday on Monday and you didn’t even send me a crappy e-card, but you spend all day with this other person on her birthday.
I am fucking tired of everyone ignoring! It really pisses me off! I’m not upset at Otis, because I know she has a full-time job and that was really short notice for her. But Susan and Leslie don’t work, or go to school, or anything! You’d think that people that are my friends could take the time out to at least stop by for five minutes and say hello when I’m in town! It is not like I live there anymore, I live five hours away!
Had to get that out of my system, sorry for the interruption.
That was Monday and on Tuesday we sealed Dave’s dad’s new fence for some monies and then chilled. It was actually pretty fun. I hadn’t done hard work in a long time and it felt good to break a sweat. That was about all we did on Tuesday I think.
Wednesday we woke up fairly early and drove up to visit my parents. They had just gotten back from a cruise in Alaska and had gotten me an’ Dave some souvenirs. They also got us a little bit of smoked salmon. We haven’t tried it yet, but I am excited. I love smoked salmon! They gave me my birthday gift also, a sappy card and some monies. And they had also bought me Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. The difference between it and the blue version is that it is on the GameBoy Advanced instead of the DS. But I think I like this version better so far. The controls on the DS version are a little weird and irritating. Anyways, they took us out to a movie and to eat, and I got to go to the dentist. My tooth started hurting like hell when I drank cold stuff on Saturday, totally out of the blue. I was worried it was a cavity, but it was apparently just torn tissue. So good news yey! It was a little stressful staying with my parents, since my mom is my mom. I got to visit with Jennifer and Megan though, which was pretty sweet. I had gotten a bottle of wine ’cause I thought we were going to be making fish tacos on Thursday, but it turns out my parents wanted me and Dave to pay for it all, so we didn’t. Wednesday night we watched The Rock and Jennifer fell asleep, so we took her home after it was over and went over to Megan’s to hang out. Megan and I had a glass of wine each and we watched most of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which had been retitled on the DVD release to Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark for some reason. Anyways, we left around 0130 so she could get some sleep and go to work in the morning.
I woke up fairly early for us on Thursday, around 0930-ish. Dave woke up around 1300 though, lol. We went to Armand Bayou Nature Reserve and went on a trail walk. It was pretty fun. There were tons of Golden Orb Spiders. Tons! They were everywhere! It was pretty sweet, we even saw a deer. Afterwards we hung out with Jennifer again and ate at Applebee’s. Dave and I ordered poorly. I had the French onion soup and they brought it out and the bowl was filled to less than half way!! I was pretty irritated, but that Applebee’s isn’t very competent, I have found. After that we got some snack foods and went back to my parent’s and watched some movies and finished off the wine. We watched Die Hard 3 and I don’t remember what else. They all started blurring together for me. I got kinda tired a little early so I went up to bed around elevenish, but Dave and Jennifer were gabbing about comics and were pretty loud and my mom kept coming in to tell me alcohol is bad for your liver so I shouldn’t drink it, so I couldn’t really sleep. Dave did take Jennifer home eventually and we slept pretty good that night.
Friday morning we had to go back to Dave’s dad’s place ’cause Dave had to sign some stuff that day. I took a nap and played my Pearl game some. Dave’s dad and step mom got it for me for my birthday, it was so nice of them! I really like it too, it is really fun so far. I had lots of fun digging around the Underground last night also. Whee! Anyways, Dave and Ben and I all went out to eat with Freda and Jeff and we had a good time. We ate a newish Tex-Mex restaurant that had really spiffy food. I had a stuffed avacado, which I guess is really more Cal-Mex than Tex-Mex, but it was good either way! I also got to have a few Amaretto Sours, they were pretty good too. Afterwards we went back to my parent’s place and spent some time with them. But on the way there Dave got me some birthday gifts! He got me Leaf Green and the National Pokedex and he got himself Diamond. He said he is gonna get me more things too, I’m excited. Dave spoils me! Anyways, we went back to my parents and spent some time with them. I don’t really remember what we did, I was a little tired. Then me and Dave played our games and such until we got even more tired and fell asleep.
We took Franklin with us on our trip, and he really liked it at my parents’ place. Their cat, Kichou (my old kitty but she likes going outside and stuff so we didn’t take her) did really well with Franklin and Franklin seemed to really like having another cat around. We are (I am) thinking about getting another kitty if I get a job. I will hopefully be working at a local restaurant soon, it isn’t a job in Earth Science, but it is a job that pays money! I think I wanna take a little bit of a break, anyways, and work a job with no major responsibilities and just sort of exist for a season or two.
I forgot to take pictures with my dad’s camera, but we took some with our camera phones. If any of you know how to transfer the pictures from the phone to a computer please let me know, I want to show off my kitty! I know you can email it and stuff to yourself, but neither of us have the internet on our phones. Halps!
In Lake Jackson
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Me an Dave are in Lake Jackson now, we drove down Friday during the day and brought Franklin with us. He really hates the cat carrier but he actually doesn’t mind the car. About halfway there I sat in the back seat and took him out of the carrier and he did fine. He had himself a very long nap, after looking around for a little bit. He doesn’t like it down here though, Dave’s dad and step mom got a new kitten and Franklin doesn’t like her at all. I think he will do better up at my parents. I’m not sure when we are visiting them though, they are on a cruise still in Alaska.
Friday night we went to the awful Fantastic Four movie, we saw it because it was bad and we were the only people in the theater so we could make fun of it. But afterwards as we were driving out of the parking lot we saw a feral cat with a kitten. We still had the cat carrier in the car and we stopped and got the kitten. I got the kitten, actually. Dave and Ben were trying to get me to leave it because “the cops are gonna come” or something stupid. He tried to hide up in a storm drain, and I caught him. We took him to the A.S.P.C.A. and they are gonna get him adjusted to humans and adopt him out. I feel very good about that. I saved a kitty from being another feral cat. There are a lot of feral cats in Lake Jackson, I have noticed. But they are all adults, and there is nothing that I can do about them. You can only catch them with a live trap, since they have never been handled by people before.
That is pretty much all that has happened, I think we are going to eat crawfish tonight. I’m pretty excited about it, I love crawfish!
Htown
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Me an Dave are going to good ol’ Htown today. We are the very brokes and need to go down anyways. It is my birthday on the 25th and Dave’s aunt is going through chemotherapy this week. She has the liver and colon cancer, but I think she will do just fine. My grandma had colon cancer and she went through chemo with no problems, and she was eighty-four!
We are also taking Franklin with us. He does ok on car trips, and we have him a kitty harness so we can take him out of the carrier and let him use the litter box without worrying about his safety. I hope he does ok, I’m a little bit worried about accidents since I haven’t seen him poop yet. But we have those little “weewee” pads, or whatever they are called, to line the carrier with, and paper towels to pick up messes.
Well, if I get a chance I will post from Htown, but most likely not. But my dad does have a digital camera, so lots of photos of Franklin when we get back! Woo!
Conclusion?
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Well, I stayed the night the other night with my friend Leslie. I went back to my parents at 5:30am and we actually managed to talk like adults. It seems that my refusal to come back to the house last night made my mom finally really think and stuff. Its only been like, two days, but she has totally changed her attitude and how she treats me mostly. She still nags about my drinking anything other than diet drinks, and about whenever I eat how I shouldn’t be eating. But she’s changing, which is really nice and suprising. I didn’t think that anything would change how she viewed me, but it seems like she’s finally stopped looking at me like I’m still 12 years old. We still get on each others nerves really easily, but this is certaintly improvement!
Drama
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So I flew back into Houston yesterday night and my parents picked me up at the airport. I stayed at my parents last night and for the very first time it truely felt like I was staying with them, and not living there. Even though all my things are there, they are no longer really mine. I don’t care if I can keep them when I move out or what happens to them now. This is a huge sort of epiphany for me, because as I’ve been flying between Dallas and Houston I’ve still felt that, up until the middle of December, that my parents was home. Yet at some point during the holidays being with David became more home than it had been before. And one of the exciting things that happened during the holidays was that David told me that he’d like it if we were to live together. This is very exciting for me! I am madly in love with him and I have been living with him (in case you’ve just tuned in or been oblivious) whenever I’m in Dallas.
And this is sort of why there is drama, not actually because I’ve been living with him. But because when I live with him he treats me unlike any relationship that I’ve been in before. He loves me, he tells me he loves me, and he actually treats me like a person. It is really a strange new experience for me. And because how well he treats me contrasts so drastically to how my parents treat me I can’t actually live with my parents anymore. It had been getting difficult to live with them, but now, after having spent the whole month with David I absolutely can’t live with them anymore. I had felt this way before, and I just bend over and lay down and let them push me down and don’t do anything. But I feel that I can’t do this anymore.
I’m over at April’s right now and we’re talking and such and so on. And my mom is going absoultely nuts, because I got my own tickets to Dallas for a job fair that my mom wanted me to go to anyways. She’s pissed off that I’m doing this on my own and its driving me nuts. She came home today and I finally got pissed that she almost never greets me with “Hi how was your day? What did you do?” but “Why didn’t you go to exercise with your dad. Your dad is upset with you! What are you doing we have to make a spread sheet of the jobs you’ve applied to and when you need to get back to them!” And screaming, as loud as possible. Because it is the only thing that I can comprehend. I can’t understand speech or reasoning. I have to be yelled at to obey. It drives me nuts, but now I am finally not taking it anymore. I’m going to go to this interview with Circuit City, so I can have spending money maybe. But the job is in Pasadena, and I want to live in Dallas, with Dave. I had been thinking of working there until I could transfer out, but after speaking with April and sitting down and actually discussing it. I think it will be more stress for me if I do this and try to transfer. We’ve been talking about options, because I don’t know if Dave’s apartments will actually let me live there for an extended period of time. So I’m going to apply at a few jobs either tonight or tomorrow that are always hiring in the Dallas area. And I’m gonna call Dave and figure out whether I should move in with Leslie down here and work temporarily at Circuit City, so that my parents can’t claim me on their insurance. Or if it is feasible for me to move up to Dallas.
Anyways, the thing that brought this serious contemplation about was that my parents are pissed off and wanted me to come home for the sole reason that they can yell at me, scream at me, and eventually hit me until the “problem” is “solved”. They say they want to talk it out like adults, but that never happens. Becuase this crap is always the things that happen whenever they get pissed off and I’m not there. They call me and demand I come back “home” because my mother is “having a fit” and she “needs” me. And as soon as I get there they accuse and scream and yell and do their best to make me feel like shit and inferior and like all my ideas are going to fail anyways.
Bleh, I’m going to eat crackers and jam and not go home tonight. And maybe some place with real malts is still open and I can have one.
sleepy [edit]
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Much stuff has happened since my last bloggings, but I don’t feel the energy to write a blog about it right now. Perhaps tomorrow, when I’m less tired I shall let you know how my first week of the new year has been.
Yeeaahhh about that blogging thing. Today is 01-21-2007 and I’m finally getting around to this…
New Year’s Eve Dave and I went first to Kim and Byron’s party. Only it was a dinner party and I sorta didn’t catch that. But never fear, we were not under dressed. I was chatting with Kim and telling her we didn’t have any plans for New Year’s Eve and that I wanted to wear my sexy dress. I never get to wear sexy dresses. It’s only fun when Dave is there though. Anyways, she was like, well I’m going to have a party then, bring some stuff. And I was going to bring some champaign and wine, but when Dave and I left for Dallas my mom had put it in the fridge to keep it cool, for some reason. So we forgot it and were like “D’oh” but we got some wine in Dallas, at, unfortunately, Wal*Mart. And the champaign there too. But Kim was like, what food are you bringing, so we brought canned green beans. It was the lamest food there, I was sad. Bew. Anyways, when we got there everyone else was all spiffed up, but no one else was wearing a tie, and Dave was like “I’m over dressed, its so akward, no one else has a tie on” and I was like “phbbt”. Because really, oh noes its a tie! It was a cute tie too. And he looked smexy. Rowr.
So we stayed there for some really awesome dinner, sitting down at the table and everything! It was really awesome ribs, and chicken. I didn’t have any chicken but Dave really liked it, so I’m sure it was good. And there was a delish salad, and some kinda vegetable, and our lame green beans, and really nifty dip. It was black eyed pea dip, it was sort of like a pico de gallo, but with beans added. Very nice. And there were brownies and tarts. They were both soooooooooo good. I loved those tarts, all pecan-y and fig-y. Nyom nyom nyom.
And after the diner there was supposed to be a wine tasting competition, but we had managed to be invited to 3 parties! This is the second time I’ve been invited to any party for New Year’s Eve, and this Eve we had 3! Excitement
We also left around then because it was nine and all the idiot drunks weren’t on the roads yet. So we arrived at our second party of the night, Mellissa’s party, I think it was. But it was at Nathaniel and Brian’s aptartment. There was much food to be had there also, but we were too stuffed to eat any more. We stayed for an episode of Metalocalypse and chatted, but we had another party to get to before it got too late to be out.
We went over to Jerry’s and had a little party there, and stayed there to ring in the new year. It was very fun, and very quiet. I don’t like humongous loud shindigs, at least for New Year’s. I am aware that that is stupid or something, but New Year’s just isn’t like that for me. We had some Wal*Mart champaign for the toasting and got fairly snockered. Or blitzed, I don’t think I can spell snockered, but maybe that is correct. And when we toasted was when Dave shared with me the knowledge that he would like it if I moved in with him. It was very exciting!
And then we celebrated when we got home.
And that was my New Year’s Eve, and stuff. The rest of the week was much pleasentness all around. Except it was cold. I hate the cold. Booooo cold.
Falalalala
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I’m getting ready for Xmas Eve tonight. We’re having tacos, bean soup, 7-layer salad, wassail, sangria, and cherry dump cake. Not very exciting or Xmas-sy, except for the wassail, loll.
I got over my stupid scaredness on Tuesday, because I called Leslie and was like “I’m skeeeeeered, come oveeerrrr” and so she did. I finally fell asleep, yey. But Dave came down Wednesday and I was skeered no longer. We snuggled and he kept me all safe and warm at night. Then the next day we went to Hope Village Teahouse, but it took us two hours there! They didn’t even take our order for like 30 minutes Its never been that busy when we went, I was dissapointed with it.
Jennifer gave me my Xmas gift and I still need to give her gift to her. Her gift was really neato, I got fresh local honies, a really cool little necklace perfume bottle thing that I”ll have to take a picture of. Some candy, that was nice but I think my mom threw it away. I did get to eat a milkyway though, I hadn’t had one in ages. And she gave me these hillarious cards, with stuff about bad parking, to put on windshields of cars. I’m always complaining about idiots taking up too much space, loll, and now I have stuff to share my complaints with them. And the basket that everything came it is really spiffy too, I could use it as decoration to put stuff in.
My parents came back around 6:30pm even though they said it’d be around 5:00pm. Dave stayed over again that night and my mom confirmed that I’m a filthy heathen sinner ’cause we sleep together. We snuggled nice indeed, but instead of playing Sudoku we played Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney. It is a most silly game, I like it. We usually play some Sudoku together before sleepin but this game is cool too. Dave went down to Lake Jackson yesterday afternoon to be with his families (he’s go twooo, and a whole hickville town related to him too! I only have 10 peeps in my family, me, my parents, my 2 cousins, my uncle, my grandpa and my crazy aunt and crazy cousin) And he’s comming up tomorrow, Xmas!Eve. Its convienient that my family celebrates on Xmas eve anyways, loll. After my family’s Xmas stuff we’re drivin down to Lake Jackson to spend Xmas Day with his families, I’m gonna stay down there for a little bit with them, then Dave’s gonna drive me back up on the 28th. I think he’s comming with me since the Graduation Party thing is on the 30th and he’s comming.
Then either the night of the 30th or the morning of the 31st we’re going up to Dallas again. I think we’re spending New Year’s Eve with Kim and Byron? I can’t recall if they’re gonna be up there and throwing a party or not. But anyways we’re going back around then, and my parents want me back before the 6th so I can attend a teacher thing, but I don’t really want to be a teacher at all. I’m going to sign up to substitute teach until I can get a real job. And I do need to be back before Dave’s school starts, which is on the 8th.
Oh exciting, much to do, much to do. I’ll be sure to blog when I get my gifts, so I can share with y’all. Happy Wintereenmas.
I am a sissy coward
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My parents are in San Antonio for vacation and I can’t sleep because this house is too big and too creepy. I need someone to sleep with! Not necessarily in the same but I need someone with me because I’m such a paranoid coward. Everytime the house settles or my chair creaks or someone gets into their car I jump up and freak out. ARG! I wish I was not so cowardly!! I also wish Dave was here, or online, or had a phone. I am extra lonely and miss him greatly. And I also wish I knew when I’d get to see him again, he said “see you christmas” but that could mean anything! Why did I not clarify this? Arrrrg!
Friday Night
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Friday night my parents, my cousin Jason and his girlfriend, and my friend Jennifer, and myself went to the Compaq Center. Oh sorry Lakewood Church. My. Bad. For what I told was a concert with the Houston Symphony. I love classical music and listening to symphonic performances. But what it actually was, was Joel Osteen’s shitty choir, and part of the Houston Symphony. Oh and also an ELECTRIC GUITAR and an ELECTRIC BASS. His shitty choir needs to learn to god damn sing. When you are singing with instruments YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO HEAR THEM. I didn’t go to this concert, and I use the term generously, to listen to FIVE HUNDRED persons sing poorly and loudly and OVER EVERTHING. Except the electric guitar. You could here that. And after every song there was clapping. You don’t clap after every song, you clap at the end of the performance. AND ONE TIME THEY CLAPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF A SONG. I have been to junior high school concerts of better quality than this shit event. The only time you could here the symphony was on a violin and cello duet. EXCEPT NOT ALWAYS THEN. Because the choir had an accompianment part during certain sections, and instead of accenting and emphasising the duet THEY DROWNED IT OUT. It was bad enough I was in Lakewood Church, and trying to keep myself from being ill. Not because I hate religious institutions, but because Lakewood Church sickens me. The church is in the old basketball arena for the Houston Rockets. A motherfucking church. And if that was it I would just be irritated with the waste of land, but no, it gets better. You have to PAY MONEY to attend a service. Yes, you heard me right. If you want to see Joel fucking Olsteen perform, oh sorry preach, then you have to pay him money. That is not your donation, or whatever its called. That is you purchasing a FUCKING TICKET for church attendance.
more later, gotta go to target before it closes Apparently there was no rush Target closed at 11pm tonight. Anyways, I did not entirely waste my time, as the few times I heard the symphony it was spectacular. I truely enjoyed those parts of the event.
O.K. The rest of the night:
Well, after the music fiasco at the Compaq Center, we went out to eat. Of course Oishii was right on the corner and has delishushes japanese food and sushi. Jason and Kim and Jennifer and I love sushis. But my mom and dad hate japanese food. So with reasons like “we’ll get lost” and “no one likes that anyways but you” we had mexican. I like mexican food, but Jennifer can’t stand it. Hates it. Loathes it. And when I told my mom this, she said “they serve other food there”.
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Other food at a MEXICAN resturaunt?! It upset me greatly. Jennifer hates mexican food, 4 out of 6 of us love japanese food, but we eat at the mexican resturaunt we didn’t even know how to get to because my parents are so selfish. ARG. ARG. ARG. My parents can be so insufferable!!
But it was a good mexican resturaunt, I really loved my platter and Jennifer managed to find something that she didnt’ mind eating. It was the same thing I got, actually. A seafood “enchilada” the size of a Freebirds’ burrito covered with guacasalsa(I made that word up, it might even be real) and served with rice, guacamole and really interesting pico de gallo. The pico was corn, black beans, tomato and some kind of chile with cilantro. Very delish.
It wasn’t the worst night, overall. I was with family and I got to visit with my cousin Jason, whose more like a big brother to me than a cousin. And I did get to hear a few parts of the Houston Symphony’s performance. I just couldn’t believe this vaunted Lakewood Church choir was so terrible. I mean, thousands of people pay to see this stuff. Thousands. I am not exaggerating, they are in the former basketball stadium and it is filled up with people.
I am a worry wart [edit]
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Seriously, I am. It’s terrible. I’m back in H-town, and now I’m worrying about Dave making it home safely. Jerry sent me a text message asking where we were, just a sec ago. And I was like, “I’m back in H-town” and he’s like “o, dave never showed up and ain’t home”.
Arg I hate worrying so much. He probably forgot or stopped by somewhere else first. waaaarrrg.
I was riiigghhhht, Dave was over at Nathaniel’s, playing Wii. I still hate being such a worrier though. Bew.
Also, I checked out Kim’s blog, because Dave doesn’t have it on his bookmarks, and found a cute little quiz thing. Here are my results:
