It's really funny how society is nowadays. If you look it at closely, it really is hilarious. Okay so like me and Ems were on our way to meeting up people for the movies today right? We missed the first two busses because of me being late =x, but owell! my ride was going slow!
Haha, and so then we waited at the Leo & Beacon bus stop, and sat there. We caught up, exchanged info on what's happenin' at Franklin & West Seattle lately, and boys and family, all that good stuff right? We had laughs on funny things too. So we wait for practically thirty minutes, and what bus comes? well the 42 -- of course, it's the only bus that comes up to our part of the hood (AHAHAH) to our little corner of the southend, of Skyway. But it isn't the one that goes downtown. IT GOES TO HENDERSON, in Rainier Beach. GREAT, right? Haha, so we take that down to Rainier Beach and decided to take the 7 to downtown. It would be faster, because it comes like every damn 5 minutes. We need more 42's! It's been something we've wanted for years, but oh-well. Driving soon?!! hahaha
So we're on the 7. I personally don't like it a lot... it's.. how you say... i don't know. but it's.. not my favorite. Bus stories, we all have em' right? Haha, so that's what happened with us. We get on the bus, sit in the middle-ish back and we're talking about something.. then the bus stops to pick up people and Em is telling me a story and showing me how big his house was with hand gestures and this old ass man, late fourties, gets on and sees Em moving her hands. He sits right in front of us. Now this dude, was clearly on something. He smelled of alcohol and looked like a straight up home-less person. So like i said, he sees Em's hands moving.
*maybe a little paraphrasing, only because i don't remember his exact words, but i hit the main points
"Damn white girls these days is crazy, you see Britney Spears? She's out there showin' her ass to everyone. Her man is now singin' and shit, Crazy shit! And Bobby Brown, who knows what's up with that motherfucker? he was doin' good then marries that Whitney Houston lady, and god blessed him with children, blah blah blah some smoking thing"
[ME AND EMS, i do my head nods and look at the window barely looking at him, and he touched Ems twice on the leg and shoulder, IT WAS TO DIE FOR.]
"uh.. huh.. right... yeah"
"well it was nice talkin' to you ladies"
so he goes to the way back and talks to the youngins there. They beef cos' he's talking hella shit to them. Callin' himself the OG and shit. HAHA so me and Ems, we're sitting there like WHAT The Fuck.. thank goodness he's gone. AND THEN LATER HE COMES AGAIN TO ME AND HER.
"what's up baby girls? Them youngin's in the back are beefin, they dont know i'm a OG. Original Gangster, and Old Guy. Shit, people down east, you know in Chicago and stuff, they're real gangsters, mess with them and they'll shoot yo' ass in a minute, they do it hard over there, that ain't no California shit.
[looks at me]
Babygirl! why aren't you looking at me? Sorry i'm smackin' while talkin ( faggot is eating cheese, how ghetto/random) Babygirl! Babygirl! you gotta have humor in life!"
[me]
"uh.. huh.. whatever"
"well it was nice talkin' to you ladies!"
he goes back to the back, and this is where all the ghetto-fabulous-goodshit comes in. I guess he keeps talkin' shit to the yougins and they go baggin' on him like crazy. about his torn up clothing and shit, his 'NIKES', and then at one point they say "go back and talk to your white girl!" HAHAH that made me and Ems crack up hella bad. (later we got off the bus at downtown and the dude who was talkin' back there was pretty bomb, a 17 year old. HAHA) So some shit went down in the back, me and em's couldn't watch because we were facing the front, but somewhere along the lines of the old guy talkin' shit, and one of the youngin's aboutta beat his ass. i quote.
(excuse the profanity, as the title said)
"Nigga, i got 200 dollars in bank right now, nigga!" (referring to the baggin' on the clothing and shit, shit.)
"nigga's need to ask about me, you don't know me, i'm a hitter, i'll swing at you and the 32 in your mouth, old man will come flyin' out. nigga's need to repect me, nigga."
It was hella funny because his homegirl was in the back tryna calm him down:
"Nigga, calm your ass down, when we get to downtown we'll find you someone to fight. Nigga, just don't do this right now, Nigga."
just a lot of n-words flyin' around, it was crazy. So when we got off the bus (and the bomb guy was asking us a question) the other dude beefin' with the drunken bum, had his shirt off, and if i had to guess, he was hella heated. He had mad abs though. AHA, sorry i had to look.
You can't tell me that shit isn't ghetto. It's quite embarassing, actually.
Shit, raggin' on his shoes? that's so retarded. i mean yeah, hella people still care about shoes. but it's whatever right! people wanna waste their money, it's their lives! The bus business was funny today though. Some good Shit.
well, that's the blog for the day, i'd like to add more, but i'm hella tired/lazy. i hadn't updated this since the first blog, and i had been wanting to write for so long, but laziness kicked in pretty hard, actually.
Kathy, Over & Out :)
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Drama, Drama, Drama.
I woke up this morning early. - Or at least on a Saturday, my waking hour is usually 12pm-1pm. Sometimes it'd be later, if I had a hecktic night. This morning i'm actually up. I didn't do this on my own though, I had some unexpected help. Well, I didn't even know I was going to wake up early. But I'm glad I did.
Don't you think it's a good feeling when you realize that... you're still the same after things have changed so much? It's crazy how one call can change the way you viewed things, how one thing someone says to you can stay stuck to your thoughts. It's a good feeling, reassurance -- that is. I wonder if this feeling will last me my whole Saturday?
If there's one thing I've learned in my life it's that, this world we're in, live on drama. It's purely drama. There are different kinds of drama out there, but it doesn't matter, because it's still drama. Drama is what makes things more appealing to us. 'us' as in people, in general. examples, yes?
- a teenaged girl and a teenaged boy give in to temptation one day and decide to have sex. Five weeks later she finds out that she is pregnant -- the condom broke. What are they to do now? Keep the baby and become parents at age 15, or give [the baby] up and live life with it forever haunting you, sticking to the corner of your mind? Either way, this changes life for the two youngin's as they know it. There are many things tied to this situation. What will their future be like? School? Money?
WHILE...
Half-way across the world, a 40-year old man kidnaps a 7 year old by luring him/her to his car with candy. He takes him/her to his house, and locks the child in his basement. So many things can happen, he could torture this kid in so many ways. The possibilities are vast. Childporn, body part experiments, painful torment. Things that can, and will forever scar this child.
WHILE...
- A crazed teenager, who is isolated and severely depressed, takes matters into his own hands. Blaming others for his misery, he plans revenge. Revenge on everyone. Everyone who has made him feel alone. That includes the teachers who 'tease' him, the kinds in a certain clique who point and laugh, who push and shove. One morning, this teenaged boy is surfing the internet and comes across information on The Columbine Massacre. He reads about the two boys who caused it. Klebold and Harris, on April 20th in 99'. The next morning, he brings a gun to school and shoots 3 students and 1 teacher before turning the gun on himself. Could this have been prevented?
* Now the three of these scenarios differenciate vastly, but they connect in so many ways too. Where are things like these seen? In books, T.v., Movies -- In the media. Things like these don't happen to everyone, but when they do... reality hits hard. Situations as these happen all the time, and everywhere. Shit, they could be, and i bet some are, happening right now as you read this. Somewhere, someone is dying, or being tortured to death. Whereas someone, somewhere else, is learning that a new life is going to begin. Whereas, a new life has just begun. We're all stuck between life and death. Can we make it worth while?
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4/20. the people who actually smoked for yesterday, they are idiots.
April 20th isn't a holiday, it isn't a day to celebrate anything. (other than people who's birthdays were on that day, but whatever)
4/20/95. - 168 people died in the Oklahoma City Bombing. It was a terrorist attack. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was destroyed. It was the largest domestic terrorist attack before 9/11.
4/20/99. - The Columbine High School Massacre. Klebold and Harris, two teenaged boys who were bullied in school, took guns to school and killed over 10 students. They turned the gun on themselves and died after.
4/20/06. A smart girl from Vancouver, WA, Anna was stabbed and killed by a man while working at McDonalds. Anna's Myspace... -- her friends are still leaving comments and remembering her a year after...
I've recently finished a book, that i started on the same day. It only took me a good four hours to finish, I was super determined. Special Delivery by Danielle Steele. She's a great writer, no wonder she's sold over a million copies of her books. We are all hopeless romantics. Romeo & Juliet? A Walk to Remember? The Notebook? Titanic? You can't tell me that people don't love to feed on romance.
I was going to recommend these books to my hopeless romantic friends too, but I don't think they would want to really take the time to read the book. I will summarize instead.
This book started pretty well, or actually, really good. This book foreshadows plenty. I had feelings of what was going to happen, and then as I read, I realized that I was right. Jack, a handsome older man has everything he's dreamed of wanting. -- Or at least that's what he thought. After being married for 15 years, right when the start of his fashion store, Julie's, he got too caught up in his business that his wife left him. He loved her, had his two kids with her. And in the end realized that she was a total bitch. After his marriage ended, he had only tried one more time with love. This time with a lovely french woman, a woman he adored so much. She didn't let him give her shit, she was a strong, smart woman. Then came the opening of another Julie's in Palm Springs (it was becoming a hit with the ladies! business was booming, more stores were opening, and he was instantaneously becoming rich.) Dori, that was her name, she was going to meet Jack in Palm springs when a car accident took her life away. Losing the love of his life made him the swinger he became thirteen years later, when he reached the high point. He was living the life of luxury. He was having Caviar and lobster for lunch in his office everyday, he was really enjoying the finer things in life. BECAUSE HE COULD. Jack, had an alluring personality, he was a charming man. He was sleeping with starlets and supermodels, not getting close to them, but being respectful. He bought them extravagant gifts, brought them to only the best places in hollywood/Los Angeles/Bel Air and was incredibly good in bed for an older man. His son, Paul gets married to a lady named Jan, who is one of the daughters of an ex-actress who won a, was it a grammy?, who gave up her carreer to marry a rich (no she wasn't a golddigger, cos' she had her own money, she gave it up for the man she loved and to have a family.) man named Matthew. The mom's name was Amanda. Amanda and Matthew weren't very fond of their son-in-law's father, mainly because of the way he was put in the media, and known for his playboy ways. After their children (Paul and Jan) are married for 3 years, things change. Matthew dies of a heart attack in his 50's. Amanda was left single, after a 23 year-old marriage. There was a big funeral, and Amada was stuck in depression for months. Her two daughters didn't know what to do. Around christmas-time, Jack throws a big party at Julie's and invites Paul and Jan. Jan is upset with Paul because they've been trying for a baby for 2 years, but nothing had happened. Paul refused to see a doctor. So as Paul was heading a meeting for work (he was an up and coming movie director) Jan headed to her mother's house and decided to let the truth out. Jan told Amanda of how her depression is severely affecting her daughters and pursuades Amanda to go to Jack's party with her, because she hadn't been out in months. At first Amanda doesn't want to go, but after her daughter told her it would be what Matthew would have wanted (a little white lie, that worked). Amanda got up and in a dress, fixed her hair, and with looked more youthful than ever. She looked the like the movie star she was 23 years ago. They go to the party, and Amanda sees friends, her actress girlfriends, whom she hasn't seen in years. She's stunning. Jack notices and they start talking. Amanda feels bad for the way she's thought of him in the past 3 years, but they end up leaving the party together to go out to eat, because Jan goes to pick up Paul, who's car gets towed. Jack and Amanda's friendship grows and they fall in love. They love talking to each other. Gladdie, Jack's faithful assistant, who never has fallen for Jack's charm with the ladies, suspects something and finds out about his secret love. Amanda's daughters notice how her mother is happier now and Jack's playboy ways have stopped. Within two months, their together and having sex. They later tell their children at a dinner party one night. The children aren't happy with this, finding out that their parents have been having sex with each other, especially at their age. Jack's only daughter, Julie, is the only supportive one. Later on, after an AIDS test (that came out good, no AIDS for them) they decide that they are old, and they were sure that nothing would happen. So they gave up condoms. six weeks later, Amanda is having probems with her body. Smells are getting nauseating, she's getting tired easily. Amanda faints in the crowd of superstars at a Grammy's Awards event, and so she goes to see her doctor. Her doctor doesn't know what's wrong with her, and tells her to go to the hospital to get a sonogram. Jack and Amanda just suspect they want to see if Amanda has anything in her stomach, an ucler, cyst, tumor, anything. thank goodness she doesn't. ITS A BABY. It was just as i predicted. Amanda was having a baby at age 50! crazy shit, huh? So they fight, Jack wants an abortion, Amanda doesn't wanna kill it. So they break up. For a while things are bad. She locks herself from the world, yet once again, and eats only ice cream and watches T.v all day. Jack becomes GoDziLLA at work and everywhere, and starts to look like a bum. Gladdie tells Jack to just call her, or go see her, because he was driving everyone at the office nuts. Her exact words were ''You're making us all candidates for prozac here" HAHA, i find that hilarious. So Jack goes to see her and they confess that the both of them thought they would die without each other, and so they decide to keep the baby. One night, they decided to tell the children again, at a dinner party for just the family. The kids were all expecting something like a marriage, but when Amanda tells them that she's going to have a baby, hell breaks loose and Jan feels terrible because she can't get pregnant, but her 50 year-old mother can. The next day Amanda tells Jack of how she wants to give the baby to Jan, and so they tell Paul and Jan. The next 6 months go by smoothly. Jack and Amanda try not to get attatched to the baby. AND in November, a month before she was due, Jan and Paul tell Jack and Amanda,their pregnant, and that they don't want their baby. WHOOOO. weird, yeah? So Jack and Amanda get happy, and they decide to get married because they don't want their baby to have unwed parents. They get married, four weeks before she was due. I predicted that she was going to have the baby that night, and SHE DID. She had to drive to the hospital in her new husband's red ferrari, because he was too drunk to drive. Her contractions were coming fast and by the time she was in the hospital, she was over 6 inches. --to late to give her drugs. she demanded drugs though, so while the contractions came, she was on morphine. She was in labor two hours and getting to tired to push, so the doctors helped her out and out came a baby boy. HUGE BOY. he was 10 lbs, dude. So story ends with a new baby, and parents the age of 50-something (Amanda), and 60-something (Jack).
Don't you think it's a good feeling when you realize that... you're still the same after things have changed so much? It's crazy how one call can change the way you viewed things, how one thing someone says to you can stay stuck to your thoughts. It's a good feeling, reassurance -- that is. I wonder if this feeling will last me my whole Saturday?
If there's one thing I've learned in my life it's that, this world we're in, live on drama. It's purely drama. There are different kinds of drama out there, but it doesn't matter, because it's still drama. Drama is what makes things more appealing to us. 'us' as in people, in general. examples, yes?
- a teenaged girl and a teenaged boy give in to temptation one day and decide to have sex. Five weeks later she finds out that she is pregnant -- the condom broke. What are they to do now? Keep the baby and become parents at age 15, or give [the baby] up and live life with it forever haunting you, sticking to the corner of your mind? Either way, this changes life for the two youngin's as they know it. There are many things tied to this situation. What will their future be like? School? Money?
WHILE...
Half-way across the world, a 40-year old man kidnaps a 7 year old by luring him/her to his car with candy. He takes him/her to his house, and locks the child in his basement. So many things can happen, he could torture this kid in so many ways. The possibilities are vast. Childporn, body part experiments, painful torment. Things that can, and will forever scar this child.
WHILE...
- A crazed teenager, who is isolated and severely depressed, takes matters into his own hands. Blaming others for his misery, he plans revenge. Revenge on everyone. Everyone who has made him feel alone. That includes the teachers who 'tease' him, the kinds in a certain clique who point and laugh, who push and shove. One morning, this teenaged boy is surfing the internet and comes across information on The Columbine Massacre. He reads about the two boys who caused it. Klebold and Harris, on April 20th in 99'. The next morning, he brings a gun to school and shoots 3 students and 1 teacher before turning the gun on himself. Could this have been prevented?
* Now the three of these scenarios differenciate vastly, but they connect in so many ways too. Where are things like these seen? In books, T.v., Movies -- In the media. Things like these don't happen to everyone, but when they do... reality hits hard. Situations as these happen all the time, and everywhere. Shit, they could be, and i bet some are, happening right now as you read this. Somewhere, someone is dying, or being tortured to death. Whereas someone, somewhere else, is learning that a new life is going to begin. Whereas, a new life has just begun. We're all stuck between life and death. Can we make it worth while?
______________________________________________________
4/20. the people who actually smoked for yesterday, they are idiots.
April 20th isn't a holiday, it isn't a day to celebrate anything. (other than people who's birthdays were on that day, but whatever)
4/20/95. - 168 people died in the Oklahoma City Bombing. It was a terrorist attack. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was destroyed. It was the largest domestic terrorist attack before 9/11.
4/20/99. - The Columbine High School Massacre. Klebold and Harris, two teenaged boys who were bullied in school, took guns to school and killed over 10 students. They turned the gun on themselves and died after.
4/20/06. A smart girl from Vancouver, WA, Anna was stabbed and killed by a man while working at McDonalds. Anna's Myspace... -- her friends are still leaving comments and remembering her a year after...
SEE??4/20 isn't a day to go smoke weed and fucking blow your life away with stupidity... it's a day to remember.
Rest In Peace.
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I've recently finished a book, that i started on the same day. It only took me a good four hours to finish, I was super determined. Special Delivery by Danielle Steele. She's a great writer, no wonder she's sold over a million copies of her books. We are all hopeless romantics. Romeo & Juliet? A Walk to Remember? The Notebook? Titanic? You can't tell me that people don't love to feed on romance.
I was going to recommend these books to my hopeless romantic friends too, but I don't think they would want to really take the time to read the book. I will summarize instead.
This book started pretty well, or actually, really good. This book foreshadows plenty. I had feelings of what was going to happen, and then as I read, I realized that I was right. Jack, a handsome older man has everything he's dreamed of wanting. -- Or at least that's what he thought. After being married for 15 years, right when the start of his fashion store, Julie's, he got too caught up in his business that his wife left him. He loved her, had his two kids with her. And in the end realized that she was a total bitch. After his marriage ended, he had only tried one more time with love. This time with a lovely french woman, a woman he adored so much. She didn't let him give her shit, she was a strong, smart woman. Then came the opening of another Julie's in Palm Springs (it was becoming a hit with the ladies! business was booming, more stores were opening, and he was instantaneously becoming rich.) Dori, that was her name, she was going to meet Jack in Palm springs when a car accident took her life away. Losing the love of his life made him the swinger he became thirteen years later, when he reached the high point. He was living the life of luxury. He was having Caviar and lobster for lunch in his office everyday, he was really enjoying the finer things in life. BECAUSE HE COULD. Jack, had an alluring personality, he was a charming man. He was sleeping with starlets and supermodels, not getting close to them, but being respectful. He bought them extravagant gifts, brought them to only the best places in hollywood/Los Angeles/Bel Air and was incredibly good in bed for an older man. His son, Paul gets married to a lady named Jan, who is one of the daughters of an ex-actress who won a, was it a grammy?, who gave up her carreer to marry a rich (no she wasn't a golddigger, cos' she had her own money, she gave it up for the man she loved and to have a family.) man named Matthew. The mom's name was Amanda. Amanda and Matthew weren't very fond of their son-in-law's father, mainly because of the way he was put in the media, and known for his playboy ways. After their children (Paul and Jan) are married for 3 years, things change. Matthew dies of a heart attack in his 50's. Amanda was left single, after a 23 year-old marriage. There was a big funeral, and Amada was stuck in depression for months. Her two daughters didn't know what to do. Around christmas-time, Jack throws a big party at Julie's and invites Paul and Jan. Jan is upset with Paul because they've been trying for a baby for 2 years, but nothing had happened. Paul refused to see a doctor. So as Paul was heading a meeting for work (he was an up and coming movie director) Jan headed to her mother's house and decided to let the truth out. Jan told Amanda of how her depression is severely affecting her daughters and pursuades Amanda to go to Jack's party with her, because she hadn't been out in months. At first Amanda doesn't want to go, but after her daughter told her it would be what Matthew would have wanted (a little white lie, that worked). Amanda got up and in a dress, fixed her hair, and with looked more youthful than ever. She looked the like the movie star she was 23 years ago. They go to the party, and Amanda sees friends, her actress girlfriends, whom she hasn't seen in years. She's stunning. Jack notices and they start talking. Amanda feels bad for the way she's thought of him in the past 3 years, but they end up leaving the party together to go out to eat, because Jan goes to pick up Paul, who's car gets towed. Jack and Amanda's friendship grows and they fall in love. They love talking to each other. Gladdie, Jack's faithful assistant, who never has fallen for Jack's charm with the ladies, suspects something and finds out about his secret love. Amanda's daughters notice how her mother is happier now and Jack's playboy ways have stopped. Within two months, their together and having sex. They later tell their children at a dinner party one night. The children aren't happy with this, finding out that their parents have been having sex with each other, especially at their age. Jack's only daughter, Julie, is the only supportive one. Later on, after an AIDS test (that came out good, no AIDS for them) they decide that they are old, and they were sure that nothing would happen. So they gave up condoms. six weeks later, Amanda is having probems with her body. Smells are getting nauseating, she's getting tired easily. Amanda faints in the crowd of superstars at a Grammy's Awards event, and so she goes to see her doctor. Her doctor doesn't know what's wrong with her, and tells her to go to the hospital to get a sonogram. Jack and Amanda just suspect they want to see if Amanda has anything in her stomach, an ucler, cyst, tumor, anything. thank goodness she doesn't. ITS A BABY. It was just as i predicted. Amanda was having a baby at age 50! crazy shit, huh? So they fight, Jack wants an abortion, Amanda doesn't wanna kill it. So they break up. For a while things are bad. She locks herself from the world, yet once again, and eats only ice cream and watches T.v all day. Jack becomes GoDziLLA at work and everywhere, and starts to look like a bum. Gladdie tells Jack to just call her, or go see her, because he was driving everyone at the office nuts. Her exact words were ''You're making us all candidates for prozac here" HAHA, i find that hilarious. So Jack goes to see her and they confess that the both of them thought they would die without each other, and so they decide to keep the baby. One night, they decided to tell the children again, at a dinner party for just the family. The kids were all expecting something like a marriage, but when Amanda tells them that she's going to have a baby, hell breaks loose and Jan feels terrible because she can't get pregnant, but her 50 year-old mother can. The next day Amanda tells Jack of how she wants to give the baby to Jan, and so they tell Paul and Jan. The next 6 months go by smoothly. Jack and Amanda try not to get attatched to the baby. AND in November, a month before she was due, Jan and Paul tell Jack and Amanda,their pregnant, and that they don't want their baby. WHOOOO. weird, yeah? So Jack and Amanda get happy, and they decide to get married because they don't want their baby to have unwed parents. They get married, four weeks before she was due. I predicted that she was going to have the baby that night, and SHE DID. She had to drive to the hospital in her new husband's red ferrari, because he was too drunk to drive. Her contractions were coming fast and by the time she was in the hospital, she was over 6 inches. --to late to give her drugs. she demanded drugs though, so while the contractions came, she was on morphine. She was in labor two hours and getting to tired to push, so the doctors helped her out and out came a baby boy. HUGE BOY. he was 10 lbs, dude. So story ends with a new baby, and parents the age of 50-something (Amanda), and 60-something (Jack).
-The ending is why this was called SPECIAL DELIVERY, but there was no way of knowing that until i got 3/4 the way of being done with the book. It was an okay book, pretty good. Ms. Steele has her way with words, and as a writer myself, i admire that.
Kathy, Over & Out.
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