First the thunder, then the storm...

Not entirely sane, but thanks for asking.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

snigger

Right. So. The whole hair streaking thing turned out to be a total disaster. Is anybody surprised?
My friend, B ( my accomplice in operation Mulberry Bush) was under house arrest because her mother has this irrational concern about her actually passing her exams ( don’t ask me why, people worry about the strangest things) so………….. cue the creepy music………I decided to do it myself.
That’s right ladies and gentlemen, I did it myself, alone and unsupervised. Well, not completely alone, my cousin R stood a safe distance away and laughed his arse off ( he did the same thing that time I started a fire in the kitchen and that other time I poisoned the dog and that time when I fell off the custard apple tree and that time I thought it would be a good idea to wear my roller-skates while I cut the salad and that unfortunate incident with the…. never mind) - but he has chicken pox now so it just goes to show….. I have connections. Mwahahaha. Ahem. Anyway…….
My mother has decreed that from now on I am not to be allowed contact with any sort of dye ( hair or otherwise) without adult supervision and said adult supervision is not to be conducted by my father who once let me paint his toenails purple and then went to the club wearing sandals.
But I lurve my mommy!!!!! Wanna know why? It’s because she comes up with the most amazing ideas. Allow me to explain.
I have really short hair at the moment, so I didn’t need to use all of the hair dye and my mother comes home, takes one look at my head, sees the left over dye and says- get this- she says “Why don’t you use the rest of it on your brother’s hair?”
So I’m standing there, thinking did I really just hear that? Is it Christmas already? What on earth did he do to piss her of this much? ………….. And when did my mother get this evil? ………. Hmmm.. I wonder if its hereditary….
To properly understand my enthusiasm, you must bear in mind that I have wild, brown curls and my brother has straight, jet black, SHINY hair that I have envied my entire life. Get the picture?
So she convinces him to go along with it and he sits there with his eyes closed ( I think he was praying) and actually lets me dye his hair!!!!!!! I kept cackling like a bloody maniac and he still let me do it!!!!!!
Well…. He sure as heck regrets it now. Mwhahahaha. Ahem.
I’m alright now.
And you know what the best part is, we’re in the same college ( he’s 2 years older than me) and I got to see him walking around all day wearing a cap! Lol.
Well, he had to, to cover up with big orange patch in front ( hey, is it my fault he panicked after I was done and washed it off too early?)
And I swear my mother is evil…… she stood there and took pictures. Wow. I just can’t compete with her. My brother must have rrrrrrrrreaaaaaaaaally pissed her off.
Anyway, after I dyed my bro’s hair, poor virtual chameleon was treated to yet another phone call from a seriously hyped up me and he was kind enough to inform me that I was a cruel, cruel woman……….. though that didn’t stop him from asking me for the pictures. Sorry to say, VC, my bro’s not that crazy. The pictures have already been destroyed.
So that concludes that story……………. Please send your blessings to my brother, the poor guy really needs them *snigger* and your sympathies to Virtual Chameleon. The boy has been through so much ( midnight calls from me when I’ve had too much coffee and a shopping excursion for “female products” with my friend Babs and I after which he had to carry them around in a transparent bag among other things) and yet he refuses to cave under the pressure and off himself.
His continued existence is a tribute to his patience and belief in the human race………. Not to mention his dream of someday being involved in my slow and painful death.
So carry on people and hope to the Gods you never piss me off. Mwhahahahaha. I’ll sick my mum on you and she’s descended from a long line of warriors ……….. and quite a few poets but we don’t talk about them.

I just re-read this, and I really do need professional help, don’t I?
Everyone who thinks I do require the services of a licensed psychiatrist say Aye!

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

The Orange Crap

You know what? The whole world seems to be in two minds about the whole O.C thing. Now, when I say the whole world, I mean the sad people who have nothing better to do with their lives then watch third rate teen dramas and when I say in two minds, I mean the sane people who hate it and the stupid people who love it.
I’m telling if I hear one more girl squealing about omg! That Amazing New Show With The Really Hot Guy one. more. time… bad things are going to happen that would probably land me in jail. Hot guy? Are you serious? From which angle people?!?!
Of course there is a third category of people… the completely insane people who think the show is hilarious and watch it simply to ridicule it. Guess which category I belong to. Go on, take a wild guess.

And now… for your reading pleasure, I give you… The O.C!

Stick insect (a.k.a Marissa) - Oh my! My father is finally getting a divorce from that cow he married and the creep I used to go out with is finally shacking up with someone else leaving the way clear for the guy I’m really in lust with. Oh I am sooo afflicted! What can I do to get more attention? Oh I know! Let me overdose on these pain killers because I’m 16 years old but I still can’t distinguish between physical and emotional pain!

Summer- Oh no! Marissa is missing! And so are my painkillers! Gosh! What could this possibly mean?!?!

Seth and Ryan- *blinkblink*

Stick insect- Ok so here I am in a seedy bar being stared by seedy people about to overdose on painkillers. What can I do to make this even more ridiculous? Oh! I know! Why don’t I wash them down with alcohol!

The dream team- *run around like headless chickens before stopping to scratch their heads* What were we looking for again?

Stick insect- Now that I’m properly drunk I finally have the sense to realize that I should get out of this bar. Wait! That was a sensible thing to do! Now I have to do some other stupid thing. Oh I know! I’ll leave the nice, safe crowded place and go lie down in a dark alley!
Oh! I’m so tired, I think I’ll take a nap.

The dream team- Ok look there she is in that alley! What a perfectly normal place to be.

Summer- Oh my gosh! She’s covered in *gasp* sweat! Oh I cannot look! Hold me Seth!

Seth- Guh!

Ryan- You guys stay here! I’ll save her! I’m not afraid of sweat! You stay there and hold on to the weak woman and instead of the two of us carrying her I will pick up the stick insect and strike a dramatic pose at the end of the alleyway.

Is this the end of Marissa’s stupidity? Are we finally free of the mindless angst?

Well duh! No way!
Next episode- The stick insect is sitting 50 ft in the air with a very nauseous Ryan who is afraid of heights and thinks to herself – oh this would be the perfect time for me to stick my mouth over his! Bleargh!

The entire cast of O.C- Oh woe is us! We’re all extremely rich and live at the beach and the weather is perfect all year round. Lets sit around and grumble about how miserable our lives are!

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Some people never learn...

This is beyond funny.... My mother is so desperate to keep me from shaving my head that she actually suggested I streak my hair. lol. After I streak my hair, I'll have no choice but to shave it off.
You'd think she learned her lesson when I dyed my hair purple the last time.
No, not purple streaks... I dyed ALL of my hair purple.
Oh man, people called me the Mullberry bush for a month.
And you know what the best part was?
I spend way too much of my time in the sun and waay too much time swimming in chlorinated water at noon and no, it is not an indoor pool.
Can you say recipie for disaster?
I went from being the mullberry bush to being the Burning Bush which wasn't nearly as much fun.
Ha! I'm telling you.... this will not turn out well.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

right now....

The last thing I ate: gooseberries

The thing I most want to do: swim

The thing I most want: a back massage

Books I’m in the middle of: Post Captain- Patrick O’Brian, Hogfather-Terry Pratchett, An Ideal Husband- Oscar Wilde

Last movie I saw: An Ideal Husband

Last serial I saw: The O.C

Last song I listened to: Gotta get thru this- Daniel Beddingfield…I’ve no idea why I was listening to that. I plead temporary insanity.

Last phrase I really liked: ‘in curls and claws and sleek sinuousness’ … The Manticore’s Secret- Samit Basu.

Last book I finished: Small Gods- Terry Pratchett

Plans for the next hour: try and fail to study, try and fail to stay awake, try and fail to care.

Well, I'm off.