carved angel

i still feel bloody awful, so this will be a truncated version of my week in o-town.

juchan and gavin picked me up on friday. we drove to orlando, without having any sort of surreal adventures. i suspect that this is because gavin was driving. we went to the grocery store, then home, and juchan and i sat around eating and talking and whatnot til kind of late, and i slept in a bed with one too many mattresses, which was interesting. then i woke up. bjork's hyperballad had been looping in my head for some time. and i missed sohei a lot.

so we watched (celebreality) tv until gavin got home from work, then went to get juchan's hair done. then went to the vietnamese market and got lots of cute snacks. and, since i'm obviously dying, i think i got sars, too. (just kidding, please don't kill me.) so now i have a hello kitty tin with grape candy within. w00t. and we went to the timeshare to meet dad. and we ate sandwiches and juchan and i stayed up all night. and played catchphrase, which is where the above title comes from. coz one of the words was "french toast." then i got "french kiss", so that was my clue. and then, later, i got the word "nature" and i said, "hippies worship this!" and juchan said, "the sun?" and i said, "no, they're not incas." though i'm not entirely sure incas worshiped the sun, either. oh, and i got presents. dad got me the jade baby doll i wanted (featured in one of the pics below), and juchan got me cherry blossom bath and body stuff. :yay:

and we did random things on sunday, i think, like going back to the grocery store. and i felt really bad for gavin, so i bought him a bag of dove chocolate.

so the next day, we went to a mall, that i forget the name of. i actually didn't buy anything. coz they didn't have the bra i wanted, and the pants were $40. oh, wait, i think i bought really cute $7 shoes. and there was a creepy guy that kept trying to accost juchan. so we started walking around with dad. coz he'll take his fake leg off and beat people with it, bitches. :cool: and juchan made good chicken things for dinner.

on tuesday, i think we vegged all day. except for when i went to the gym with dad. i went with him for about an hour every day, except friday when i was too damn sick. that's why i still looked hot when i came home, despite eating nothing but junk the whole time. and we went to macaroni grill for my (early) birthday dinner, and i ordered a very nice drink. but for the first half, dad was talking about how pitiful my life is, and for the second half, juchan was fighting with us. and i was practicing my kana on the table with crayons. thank goodness for paper table cloths, i say. so juchan went back home that night.

on wednesday, we went to millenia mall, which was ridiculous. but juchan and i bought matching hello kitty underwear, coz that's how we are. and i got a nice address book.

and on thursday, we went to downtown disney, which is free. but i bought a bjork cd. with hyperballad on it. imagine that. it was very cheap. and i also bought a new incense holder, because yume no yume (dream of dreams) makes the best incense stuff ever. (i already had the crane one.) and that i love carbs shirt i took a picture of. and these nice people accosted us, and asked for money coz their little league team was in town for a game or something. so i gave them what i had left, and told them i didn't need a candy bar. and i met gavin's friend, hugo, who was very nice, though his ideas on privatization are irrational at best.

then was friday. i'd been getting sick since wednesday, but i couldn't even get out of bed that morning. so no gym for me. i did go get some cold medicine, but felt near-dead by the time i got back. and sohei came up that night, and we had damn good times, coz julie and gavin came over, too. and gavin was pretty upset that i beat him at scrabble, coz no one has ever done that, but i'll bet he forgets about it. i hope.

and the next day, chris drove me home.

so that was orlando. lots of working out, shopping, eating, and vegging. not unlike my everyday life. and also, dad asked juchan and i if it was okay if he started dating again. coz he likes this woman at work, rosemary. but he's only asking her out now, coz she's about to leave for another job. we told him it was okay. and i grilled him without mercy for the rest of the trip, from tuesday on. he was pretty good about it. and i was really curious about her. and i like to tease people, too, i guess. juchan, gavin, and even chris wondered - when dad wasn't around - if it wasn't just a little soon. but i don't think so. as long as she isn't a 20-something gold-digger, i don't care. i don't like dad being alone. so i'd be happy if she lived with him or whatever. it'll be a year in october, and i think putting a date on that sort of thing is a little arbitrary. my father-in-law said he didn't see anything wrong with it, either. but he's given up on dating and all. rosemary seems really nice, anyway, from what i've heard.

okay, i'm tired already. so that's all for it.