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Observations From My First Day as a Full Time Student in Zion

August 20th, 2008 · 17 Comments

A couple of my classmates got into a lively discussion about sleeping pills before class. Here are a few highlights*.

“You take Ambien too? Pill poppers unite!”
“I have such bad insomnia that sometimes I still can’t sleep.”
“Do you hallucinate when you take it? I totally think alligators are all around me and eating my legs. And last night? I saw little fairies flying everywhere.”
“Sometimes I sleep walk and eat a bunch of food.”

There was a club at a tabling event promising happiness in dating, celestial marriage and choir. (WHO WANTS TO JOIN A CULT?!) Their ticket to lure prospective club members was Otter Pops. Are we five-years-old? OTTER POPS? I couldn’t even make this shit up.

I had to drop my fun elective to take a math class so I will be prepared to take chemistry next semester. Boo. I hate being a grown up.

On the up: my math class rules. It’s like the Fight Club of Mathematics. (I’m not even kidding.) It’s a good thing my sister warned me about my teacher. He is very into math. LIKE REALLY INTO MATH. He’s the type of person that I imagine would not only understand an algebraic joke that requires solving an equation for a humorous answer: he would also fucking love it. Though I’m pretty sure he’s never actually laughed. Or smiled. Thank god my sister did an impression of him because I would have burst into laughter and started looking around for the hidden cameras when he hiked up his pants and strutted in front of the classroom, looking hella fierce.

*This was all said by ONE PERSON. So I guess that makes it more of a lecture on the joy of sleeping pills unless you count the other participants “Uh-huh’ing” as the over-share occurred.

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My Own Brand of Crazy

August 4th, 2008 · 19 Comments

Last night my mother made pie for dessert. For three people. I commented that we didn’t have dessert very often when I was a child, which opened the flood gates of denial and weirdness. Mom bossed me around for a few minutes and told me that we had dessert ALL THE TIME when I was a kid. I don’t know why this even matters, but it does. Maybe because I’m trying not to become a lard ass, but we only ate dessert on special occasions.

Insisting that my childhood was AS IT WAS, prompted my mother to harrumph, “I’m SO sorry you had such a deprived childhood.” At this point my dad and I rolled our eyes as she continued to name all of our old neighbors, who she was going to email to prove how wrong I was about dessert. Um, yeah, because all those people who were casual acquaintances, made only because of geographical ease? They will know exactly what happened in our house. For fucks sake! Half of our family doesn’t even know what happened inside of our house. Because we thrive on secrecy, denial and repression. Just like all families. Right?

I still can’t believe this all started because of pie. PIE!

The whole pie argument was very much like talking to my paternal grandmother, who remembers all six of her sons as total and complete angels. They never cried, fussed, snuck out of the house, were rebellious or acted in any sort of unbecoming manner. Especially not the drug addict or the sociopath. ANGELS! ALL OF THEM!

All this freaks me out because I don’t relish joining the land of dementia. Sure I like rainbows, unicorns and blue skies with white puffy clouds…but I also like reality. I like knowing that life is fucked up and hard sometimes. I like having conversations of substance, even thought they aren’t always pretty, and not just a forty-five minute description of a bloody Sunday drive.

I am totally not regretting my decision to live with my parents; neither are my future therapists or the voices in my head.

Categories:fucking paradise, happy happy joy joy, mid-thirties teenage angst, my dysfunctional family is better than yours, obviously crazy to leave the bay area
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These Are a Few of My Therapy Things

July 27th, 2008 · 24 Comments

My mother offered to babysit so my sister and I could see Mamma Mia. My niece has trouble sleeping outside of her normal schedule and this was the first time she fell asleep at our house, in my room.

I started the car while my sister ran in to tell our mother she should go downstairs so she could hear when the little one cried or woke up.

Mother replied, “It’s OK. I’ll hear her through the vent. I can hear noises from her bedroom through the vent.”

“I didn’t want to tell her about it so she could feel like she has her privacy.”

“BUT, I can hear noises.”

This is where my mind spun in circles and broke into a million little pieces

Categories:if anyone needs me I'll be drinking in my closet, mid-thirties teenage angst, OH MY HORRORS, too bad I don't have mental health coverage
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Back to Normal

July 21st, 2008 · 11 Comments

My family has been out of town for the last week. I was really looking forward to having the house to myself! It would almost be living on my own again!

What I wanted to do
• Walk around the house naked
• Not close my door when using battery operated devices
• Walk around the house noisily, at all hours of the night without regard to other people’s need to sleep
• Drink alcohol openly – like a real, live adult who doesn’t live with her religious parents
• Watch even more Law & Order than I normally do (difficult)
• Get myself back track, nutritionally speaking
• Clean my desk
• Organize photo album
• Mail photographs to friends
• Participate in Ubermilf’s Flash Fiction Friday

What I did do
• Walk around the house naked
• Did not close my door while using a battery operated device – only to discover my sister’s friend has stopped by to pick something up (using the garage code – whoops)
• Walked around the house noisily; freaked out the cat
• Drank a bottle of wine
• Kept vodka in the freezer that I didn’t even drink
• Came down with a horrible sinus infection – seriously, my neti pot wouldn’t even work (you’re welcome)
• Watched HELLA Law & Order, yo
• Ate a lot of chicken noodle soup
• Organized my photo album
• Mailed photographs
• Flaked on Ubie’s FFF because I like totally suck and stuff
• Grounded my cat for playing with the riff raff feral cats my next door neighbor feeds (we’ve got foxes in our neighborhood and he refuses to come inside at his curfew – scary)
• Diagnosed my cat as an Emotional Eater (he totally pigged out EVERY time I told him he couldn’t go outside)
• Ate a tomato from the garden
• Weeded and deadheaded the garden
• Took a lot of naps with my cat
• Bought yummy produce at the farmers market

I ended up feeling more lonesome than satisfied with my freedom. I surprised myself by missing my family! No worries, it took less than ten minutes for the irritation to return.

What have you been up to?

Categories:All About Pants, jack jack, list, Meow, mid-thirties teenage angst
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Nom, Nom, Nom

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

My gay boyfriend wanted to hang out tonight, but I had to pass because my big ol’ butt desperately needs to hit the gym. My mother booby traps the house with delicious treats. There are currently homemade cupcakes on the kitchen counter. Yesterday I ate three cupcakes. THREE! My sister suggested I try a new approach: take a bite of a cupcake so I can have a taste and then throw the rest of it away (careful not to offend our folks), while leaving whatever treat is around for my parents to enjoy. I’m not sure how that’s going to work yet…until then, it’s gym, GYM, GYM!

Do you live with people who set culinary booby traps? What do you do to avoid them? Anyone who spouts off bullshit like nothing tastes as good as thin feels will be cyber-kicked in the baby maker.

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The Cat Formerly Known As My Mother’s

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Jack Jack is so interested in everything I do; he likes me, he really likes me! I am considering submitting this group of incredibly awesome, high quality, barely pathetic self-portrait + cat series photos to an art gallery. Any title suggestions? So far I’ve come up with…

A Thirty-Something and Her Cat
Not So Lonely After All
Algebra: Not Just For Humans
My Cat is Better Than Your Human Baby





The next step is for us to have photographs taken at Olan Mills. Which, curiously, I’ve decided is my dream date! Though my dream date will be with a human, not a feline. (I hope.)

1. Begin with shopping trip to D.I. (Mormon Goodwill) for some fine-ass new clothes.
2. Rush off to a portrait sitting at Olan Mills (or comparable photo studio).
3. Walk through Temple Square holding hands and sipping from the same flask.
4. Frozen yogurt.
5. Make out in remote, picturesque, area where teenagers (or thirty-something women who move home) escape their parents.

Though I realize this would be more satisfying (and likely) with my BFF, Stephanie. Hopefully we can do this at the end of the month when I go to visit! I know her husband wouldn’t object…he likes me and he hardly likes anybody (SCORE ME!).

Categories:friends, if anyone needs me I'll be drinking in my closet, jack jack, Meow, mid-thirties teenage angst, things I'd rather do than homework
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It’s As Big As the Great Salt Lake

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Mom: Oh dear, what happened to your face?
Me: Uh, that would be my ginormous zit. It’s ugly, I know.
Mom: (stares at my cheek awkwardly)
Mom: Wow, it really IS big.
Me: (silence) (shame)
Mom: You’ve been cooking that thing up all weekend, huh?
Me: Thanks for noticing.

Friend: Whoa! What happened to your face? (asked from ten feet away)
Me: (rolls eyes, gives shifty don’t-fuck-with-me look)
Friend: Is that a zit?
Me: Yes.
Friend: Impressive. Did anything come out of it?!
Me: What do you think?
Friend: It must have been big.
Me: (silence)

The monstrosity on my face has to be gone by Saturday because I have a date and I don’t want him to start calling me Adult Onset Acne Girl.

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Why Does She Do This to Me? ARGH!

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

“I’m late for school, no time to wash these grapes.”

“If you’re worried about fecal matter, there’s not really anything you can do to wash them, outside of cleaning them with rubbing alcohol.”

“FECAL MATTER?”

“Oops, sorry! I forgot about your problem.”

“You know how I get.”

“All I was saying was that fecal matter…”

“STOP IT!”

“It’s just that fecal matter…”

“Why do you do this to me?”

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