sucks to suck.
in Funny Stuff, Thoughts and Feelings
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Last night was a tough one.
And then I finally got home at 2:00 am and was all ready to trade the real world for the dream world, but before that could happen, I had to open up a door to my parents’ house to, you know, get inside.
deep breath.
Cause that was the kind of sentence that you swear must be a run-on. But it’s not. It’s just lengthy. It’s just a stop-and-take-a-breath-girl! sentence, is all.
But the door was locked.
Well, every door was locked.
And I literally thought: sucks to suck! when I realized this.
Sucks to suck.
This is my sister Jenna’s latest favorite phrase. She says it a lot. She said it to Strider the dog the other day. He had managed to steal one of her starbursts, but then didn’t like the flavor and so Jenna was all, “SUCKS TO SUCK, STRIDER!”
It made me laugh.
But being locked out of my parents’ house at 2 am when I am already feeling what one would classify as rough?
That did not make me laugh.
Until I thought SUCKS TO SUCK! to myself and then remembered how Jenna said that to Strider. And then I did laugh.
But I was still locked out and wondering what to do about it.
I decided to drive my car to someone’s house. I had just said good-bye to a bunch of people who were heading to Shane’s house to eat food. I wanted to eat food. Plus, I knew his house would have doors that were not locked, so perfect.
I got in my car.
But my brother had just borrowed my car and, instead of leaving the key inside the car (which is what I always do. But if you’re a car thief, I’m just joking. I never do that. Never ever)–but instead of leaving the key right between the two front seats, my brother had put the key on the key ring inside my parents’ house.
The one that was currently locked.
So I couldn’t drive my car anywhere either.
AWESOME.
Then I decided to do something crazy. I vaguely remembered my mom giving me a key. Luckily, I was using the purse that I had not used for a while, so maybe it was the same purse I had dutifully put the key in and then promptly forgotten about it.
I looked for it with no faith at all.
And then I found it with what could be called very modest rejoicing. As in: For once that evening, I did not think: SUCKS TO SUCK!; I thought something more like: I wonder how this thing works…
Well, okay, not totally. But I did not grow up with keys, see. I grew up in the legit country. We didn’t lock our doors. Nobody even came to our house for candy on halloween. Well, almost nobody. And when one kid did manage to brave the half mile country lane into the woods to climb up our deck and finally figure out which door to our dome house could possibly be considered the front door and then ask for candy, my pop managed to find some old forgotten piece, probably left over from one of our Easter baskets or something.
I hope that was the best candy of that kid’s life, considering what he did to get it and all.
But keys make me nervous and I don’t trust them and I always kind of doubt they’ll work.
But this key worked.
I was a lucky duck.
And then I was a sleeping duck.
And then Darby felt really badly about locking me out of the house.
But I didn’t care; I actually thought it was kind of funny.
lots of little thoughts tonight.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as al queda, backside, contact, half, Huh, Jess, mini van, monster, monsters, name, practice yoga, sister, sister jenna, slap, someone, teenager, time, way, while, Yep
Sometimes on the way to the dream you get lost and find your way to a better one.
I don’t know who said that, but I like it.
And I agree with it.
Well, it doesn’t even matter if I agree with it or not–it’s true. I mean, it happens.
———————-
“You’re finally a teenager, Jess,” my mom told me tonight.
“Um…huh?” I asked.
“You talk about boys now–so much! You didn’t even talk about boys like this when you were an actual teenager.”
“Pop!” I got his attention–”Do you think I talk about boys ‘so much,’ like mom said?”
…Pop thinks…
“Yep,” he said. “More now than then, because you were so focused on dance then. You just didn’t have time.”
Little do they know that I did talk about boys then. Just not necessarily to them. I think that’s what’s changed so much.
Um, and the fact that I am single again.
For the first time in a while, you know.
————————
I now have someone stored in my contacts as Ben The Israeli.
(don’t ask)
“At least it’s not good ol’ Ben Lawden,” my sister Jenna says.
Yeah, Ben Lawden.
At one point, I thought that was the name of the head of Al Queda.
Boring old Ben Lawden. Sounds like he could be from Jersey. Like he has two and a half kids and a mini-van to tote them around in.
———————–
It’s weird to be in Pennsylvania during the week. My schedule feels all wrong. Today was Tuesday but I didn’t train with Capoeira Brasil at 6:00. I didn’t practice yoga at 7:30. Strange.
But.
I did play with a bunch of wonderful kids who share my last name and who were just begging me to PLEASE! BE A MONSTER! JESS!
And I did.
Turns out their favorite defense against monsters are a sound slap on the backside. I hope they understand that that particular form of warfare is only to be measured out against monsters who are also your aunt.
lyrics.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as beautiful things, beauty, double edged sword, embrace, eminem, everything, intimacy, Kanye, kind, leona lewis, Line, love, lyrics, radio play, risk, rush, sister, sister jenna, song, time
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oh, it’s late.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as 3am, birthday, Cause, clean clothes, heap, home, idea, joke, kind, lunch, midnight, red velvet, self, sister, sister jenna, suitcase, tomorrow
When you are exiting your home at eleven pm, it might not be a good idea to leave the sheets in the dryer. Because what will probably happen is you will get back at 3am and try to go to bed, only to realize that the sheets are still in the dryer. Shoot. And also–it’s [...]
when life is good and you feel it.
in Funny Stuff, I Lift My Eyes Up, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as car, deep sense, denim leggings, dj tanner, Fame, friend elizabeth, Full, full house, GRE, life, love, mock seriousness, new castle, pair, sister, sister jenna, squiggle, way, weather
I have a pair of denim leggings, though my friend Elizabeth referred to them just tonight as jeggings. And the weather was cool enough this evening to wear them. So I shimmied them on. I mean, they’re tight, you know; they require a dance just to pull them all the way up. But anything that [...]
grateful.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Loved Ones, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as aloneness, California, fun, fun thing, God, hand, jenna, life, Ollie, Pacific Ocean, picture, role reversal, sense of togetherness, sister jenna, thing
One fun thing about leggings is that they have no pockets. Okay, so that’s not like the most fun thing, but bear with me. Because see, since they have no pockets, that means that I hand my camera over to other people to store in their pockets for the day. Thank God not all of [...]
journeying
in Loved Ones, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as bamboo forrest, brother, brother jason, geocaching, glorious triumph, God, hunt, Jason, jenna, nieces and nephews, outdoors, pennsylvania, sister jenna, strider, today, treasure, yeah
Being well is really great. It means that your husband stops with the water intake interrogations. That you are once again allowed to clean your house. That you can hug your nieces and nephews. And oh yeah, that you can go geocaching. It’s alright, until my brother explained it to me, I didn’t know what [...]
