Another day...

..another...post.

With Sarah in Memphis, I was at the house all alone today (everyone had gone out to do various things). So Pip and i decided to go jeans shopping. At one point Andrew stopped by to say hi (and use a computer program...which ended up not working), and I told him Pip was coming in a little while. So Andy stayed and hung out until Mr Pip arrived. We played chess while we waited...

Man, Andrew looks pretty gnarly...


So Pip and i went to old town and we both saw people we knew. I saw a guy that used to babysit my sister and i...that was interesting. As we walked down the sidewalk Pip commented on the crowds of people around us, saying that it looked "like a hipster factory exploded". I thought it was funny...

We first went into Forever 21...where Pip nearly had a nervous breakdown because of how amazing he thought all the girls' clothes were. "Would it be too effemenite for me to say that these clothes are really, really cute?" he asked me at one point.
He even asked one of the employees where he could find an owl shirt like the one she had on.
It was pretty out of control, even for him. j/k, Pip, j/k! (j/k)
He did try on an AMAZING (men's) shirt that said "SWEET FREEDOM" on it, with an eagle and its victorious outspread wings...


(he blinked)

it was on clearance! And he didn't buy it! i was very disappointed.
Neither of us ended up getting anything, so we walked around for a while longer and decided to pursue other interests. So, jeansless, we left old town.

We drove up to Archives and looked at old used books. We each bought something there!

Then we went to Starbucks.

My coffee says "Phil" on it. I think that's funny.

(look there's my old crumbling copy of "The Robe"!)

Pip and his Chai latte...
mmm!

Pip took the camera and pointed at me so i smiled. He didn't take a picture. So i made a funny face...and he didn't take a picture. I smiled again...and he began being all strange and holding the camera at a weird angle and making funny noises so i made a questioning, amused face and began to laugh...
and that's when he took the picture.

i think that's one of the weirdest snapshots ever taken of me.


I then began taking a picture of Pip every second or so. Just for fun...
i think i took around 85 (yikes) so i'll just show some of them...

in these first ones he's wondering what the heck i'm doing. he gets all bugged. it's great...




Bob Dylan!

Colleen, that's enough.

...

no seriously...

what are you...?

(face palmed!)




funny video of Pip being his real life deep down no-good self...

ell oh ell!

Then his Cell phone rang and i took about a million pictures of him talking on his cell phone. I'll just put up a few of those...





serious news...



sip


Yeah Pip, still taking pictures...











aaaaand...hang up

oh Colleen, you're so funny!


One of those should make for a good new myspace picture, Pip, no?

Then he took me home. On the way back he busted a few rhymes...i'll try to get that video up. It's kinda long...

This evening my family and My dad's cousin and his family who are staying with us got Chinese take-out. yummers.
i got to talk to Sarah a little bit tonight and that made me happy...

yup yup.
i'm picking up Alec from the airport in the morning, so that's pretty sweet. which probably means i should go to bed soon because i'm really tired...and...stuff...
but i'm sure i won't be asleep for another 6 hours or something...knowing me...

g-nite...maybe... :P


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things

Yesterday i was super tired. I went into my room and Beau was on my bed...


Then he laid his head on the windowsill and went to sleep.


He looked comfy...so i joined him.


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Here's a picture of my lovely mom at lunch today...


This evening two of My dad's cousins and their kids all came out for New Years Weekend. There was a big ol' gathering at Tom and Jeannie's where we had Zankou Chicken and pie.
Wren, Aunt Robin and John were there, Jan and Bob and David came by, and Jeremy and Christina and their one-year-old son Elijah were in town so they came, too! That was an awesome surprise.
I don't see my third cousins very often...but it's always wonderful (and scary) to see how much they've grown up.
You know what's REALLY scary...?
These boys were about a foot shorter last time i saw them...now they're taller than me. And their voices are all deep. And they're in college. Being business majors and stuff.
It's scary.

But they're really neat guys. So that always makes it a little bit less scary. (:
Clayton, the one on the far left, does a pretty amazing Smeagol impression. His Gandalf's not too shabby either.

Once or twice i got a wee bit overwhelmed with all the people (i had no idea so many were going to be there), especially as they were all arriving (you know, with the greeting and the hugging and the talking really loud) and retreated to the safety of the hallway with my cousin Johnny. "Ooh, wow, look at all these pictures!" he said, pretending to examine photographs that have been hung in their hall for at least 20 years. I laughed...

But things got better once everyone calmed down. I got to talk to Christina, Justin, my aunt Robin and her boyfriend John. I even had the privelage of making a complete geek out of myself when someone asked me a Lord of the Rings question and i was able to answer it nauseatigly fast. (8

Now mom and i are going to watch Sense and Sensibility.


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Jellied asparagus anyone? Perhaps a nice mushy football?

Last night i had a long, winding confusing dream...of which i can recall only bits and peices.

One part consists of a series of events leading me to a picture which is pretty much impossible to describe. I remember i was looking for my dad, who happened to be a tall, rough looking black man (don't ask how i knew this). The sky is grey, and the muted hues of the scenery are in stark contrasts (like some highly stylized fantasy movie).
Coming around a wall on a dirt road, i see something like a large thatched-roof cottage, 20 or so feet high, but with a whole side knocked off of it. It is next to a long, high overhang, and they are attached. Under this overhang there is an explosion of activity. It looks like a blacksmith's shop, there is steam rising everywhere, kilns, ovens, tables, people moving around quickly and determined. The activity spreads out past the overhang and into a shallow lot around which the wall i am passing encircles. I enter the fray, wondering what is going on. Strangely, i recognize nearly everyone i see...noticing that most of them are people from school. And then i realize, surprised, that i have just walked in on one of the classes LCAD offers.
Exceedingly curious, i make my way under the overhang to see what people are making. I observe, all over the tables, various vibrantly colorful objects, sports equiptment, fruit, even a tray of what looks like eyeballs, all fashioned out of the same gelatinous substance boiling and frothing in the cauldrons and kettles all around me. It's not gelatin...because everything has to be kept hot. and it's all kind of lumpy.
People are pouring it, shaping it...i don't know how they colored it. i was immensely astounded and really really confused as to what the point of all this was. i was even a little bit disturbed by it. i remember standing there, in the middle of it all, thinking "what the heck...??" But everyone looked like they were having a pretty good time so i tried to forget it. i remember specifically seeing a pretty convincing banana split...I continued walking around the tables, examining the firey ovens, chatting every once in a while.

i never did find my "dad".


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i was right

i did hear thunder...it rained all night



then the sun came out

Tick and Sired

How can i be so sick and still be up at nearly 3 am?

Sarah just kicked me out of her room...she's leaving for a youth conference in Memphis in the morning. i'm going to miss her. i wish i was going, too. Well, i do but i don't. i don't know...

i pretty much stayed in my room all day...reading, sleeping, drinking tea...i tried to write but everything i wrote just made me sad, so i stopped. i have a secondary infection (coughing...laryngitis...lots of green gooey stuff) and my doctor perscribed me some antibiotics. i'm still trying to decide whether or not to take them.

James Brown and Gerald Ford both died in the last 2 days. weird...almost...too weird...


Today was a day of being sick and tired in both the literal and figurative sense. Extensive congestion, staring out the window, a few tears, bla bla...
So i recorded an a capella cover of "How to Disappear Completely" in my sick voice. it just seemed the natural thing to do! 9 tracks of me singing lilting violin strains with a dry and swollen throat...actually it doesn't sound half bad. Sarah said she liked it a lot. and it made me feel a little better i guess.

Pip and Andrew came to say hi this evening. i accidentally punched Pip in the stomach pretty hard. didn't even faze/phase him...the man is a rock.

grr



They're going camping tomorrow...i've never been camping before.
it's going to be a very quiet three days.

don't mind me...i just feel rotten and sleepy and...stuff.

i need to go get myself some water...


um...i just heard Thunder...?


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Christmasss

Sarah writing on the CDs of our songs to give out to people...


Sarah and i were both sick tonight...sad ):


Happy Amy (gazing at Anna's beauty)


Sleepy Jeff...


Evan, Jeff and Amy...very intent on something...


silliness...

Amy: What's going on here, what's going on here?
Johnny: I don't know what he's doing.
Amy: Well, John, figure it out and take care of it!!

hehehe(cough cough) hehehaha! (me laughing). "Some mightiness flowing in the air right there!"
Oh, man alive i love my family. A little weird, but i love them.

Reid and big brother Johnny...(Reid was listening to Joey's Mix all evening...he told us himself)


Still-sleepy Jeff


Amy happily admiring her present from Anna...pirate ship bookends


general festivities...




Cousinly love!


Trying to get a picture of cousins...



Well, almost.
Sarah, Amy, me, Johnny and Anna's head at the bottom.

s'more moving pictures...

no one mind me...i'm just filming the room...


this video is funny because every single person looks really confused as to why i'm sticking the camera right in their face. i love it.


More videos tomorrow (later today,rather) if i'm up for it...i'm getting worse (my "cold"...or whatever it is) and i pretty much feel like roadkilll. Now that's a lovely image.

Merry Christmas!


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