posted on July 09, 2003 @ 5:10 pm
-launch cast radio
i went home thursday night after getting off work; i arrived around 3:00 a.m. after much whining i convinced my family (really only my mother needed convincing) to go to nana and papaw's house in shreveport so we could do fireworks. louisiana is so amazing�everything's legal, and i'm proud to call it home. i like that the only reason they lowered the drinking age is because the roads were becoming impassable.
doug threw into my arms a $30 package of random items and a $10 set of six rockets. mom completely flipped over the rockets and refused to buy them, so doug said next year she can't come when we get explosives. mom continued her tirade against fireworks, wherein i explained to her that with people like me driving on the roads it was much more dangerous to get into her van. she used her news statistic of like 400 people dying last year from fireworks, so i busted out with a commercial: ":singing: law offices of gary green, we're a people's practice," which tells me 16,000 are killed annually just from drunk drivers.
she kept asking, "why? why do you have to do this?"
"i want to blow things up like we blow up our enemies! we're celebrating america here!"
she didn't like that remark. nor did she like when doug and i started discussing ideas of putting faces of middle easterners on the fireworks.
so that commenced at sunset, and there were three other groups on the street doing it near. it was a regular battlefield, and we were all cheering for each other's good explosives. i even got an injury! i'm a statistic! and it wasn't even on one of the serious ones i lit; it was on freakin' sparklers. there were five left, so i lit them all at once. only, they were about 10% sparkle, 90% hand-held raging inferno. i wasn't wearing my rings, so i got a pretty big burn on my right middle finger right where my biggest ring would have been. it's gone now, though; it just puffed up red and emitted annoying pains at random. mom actually admitted to enjoying herself, however, and even lit some of the harmless ones. there was one at the stand we always buy at, a black cat set that had 16,000 pops. it was $99.99, but damn, i would have loved to have gotten it. it'd be popping for like 15 minutes.
so yeah, normal stay at home except doug bought me five games for my dreamcast: evil dead, sonic 2, max steel, south park rally, and grandia II. most of them were still normal price, as much as $39.99, but since he's the store director (of toys r us) he just marked them down to $9.90. he also found jet grind radio unopened in the house somewhere, and i took it. don't tell him, but i don't plan on returning it.
i brought sarah and jennifer's sister brittany back to austin with me, so that'll be fun. we went shopping today, $32. we got five suppers and stuff for sandwiches, so we should be good for a while. i'm returning to longview monday and going back to the dentist tuesday; i got fitted for a crown they'll put on, and i'm going to get a filling or two.
last night we went to the highland mall, and i found a ghost in the shell figure for $4.99. she's so pretty suspended like she is. they've made a mcdonald's barbie that comes with a little girl, so when i saw it i pointed and said, "hey, it's high school drop-out barbie!" i also got a copy of lain on dvd for $12.99, some sega game called ristar or something, and got syd of valis for free since i bought the other two used (wow a whopping 99 cent deal...). oh yeah, and a wolverine candy dispenser. jennifer and i went halvsies on two paper globes and a chain of lights for the living room, and i got 25 sticks of lavendar incense for $1. sarah and i spent forever in the sanrio store, but i managed to only buy three suckers for her. will power! actually, it was only my indecisiveness. one day i'll own the entire store, though, just you wait and see.
that's all i suppose. :pause: oh yeah, last night we got a large pizza from pizza hut, so i got bill and ted's bogus adventure on dvd. you know you're jealous. we went all the way to the one on s. lamar because ours was out, which i had to explain when he asked if i realized i called that one. when i got there, the guy asked, "which store is out of them?"
"the one on riverside. and they said they weren't getting anymore."
"oh yeah, they've been out since saturday i think."
"i didn't think there were actually that many losers who wanted this. i was thinking maybe me and a couple others."
"you know, i watched it last night, and it's not that bad."
"'reaping burns a lot of calories, you know.'"
":laughing: it's so wrong, but so good."
ok, that's all.