Andrew and I went to see Lord of War today. We were able to see it during the day because Sonny Perdue closed almost all public schools yesterday and today to save gasoline. Hmm...

Anyways, the movie made me think about a lot of things that I know goes on in the world but don't and don't want to think about. It was basically about weapons and how distructive they are, who sells them, who buys them, and the people whose lives are cut short because of them. It was depressing. I was thinking that the movie would have more action than drama. I mean, it's good to be reminded of what's really going on in the world once in a while, but to sit through 2 hours of it, it was a little too much for me. It really makes me not want to have children. It makes me realize even more that adopting would be the better choice. I don't want to bring an innocent life into this fucked up world, and by adopting, I can take a child that is in a bad situation out of it, and give them a fair chance at life. Or maybe I'll just convert and be a nun.

After the movie, Andrew and I went to Barnes and Nobles. I spent $20 on cooking magazines. Isn't that sad? Can someone just get me subscriptions to a couple of these? Or you could send me to culinary school (see? I'm not THAT manly...).

I'm sitting here, waiting for my fantasy football points to show up...it's sooo slow! And no, just because I like fast cars and watching football doesn't make me a man. Arrrgh...remind me to never do this again.

I was going to write a piece called "Ode to my Left Foot," but something went wrong with my computer and it got erased. I'm not going to bother trying to remember what I wrote. It was beautiful, let me tell ya...with all that my left foot has suffered in the past week, I think it deserved a dedication like that.

Anyways, I went wedding dress shopping with Natascha and my new friend, Caroline, last Saturday (Caroline's James's new girlfriend...she's cool). Let me tell ya, I'm never doing that again...wedding dress shopping, I mean. Here are my reasons why:

1) There were too many dresses to look at, and half of them were UGLY. And then there was this whole thing about, "to train or not to train? to bustle or to detach? straps or no straps? sweetheart neckline?" BLEH.
2) They weighed about 40 lbs each. Why the hell do they have to weigh so much? I'll tell you why. Because there are layers upon layers of shit that you have to wear underneath the actual dress. First you have to put on a corset, and then this weird looking under skirt thingy, and THEN the 40 pound dress over that. How can anyone get around in something like that? I think that if a girl has to go through something like that, the guy should too. Either he wears a dress like that also, or he wears that thing that knights wore back in the day.
3) They're ass expensive. The dresses that Natascha was looking at were like, $900-ish. Almost a grand for something you only wear once?? Oh, hellllll no, bitch. And then the owner guy came by with a tiara that went with the dress. Guess how much that bitch cost - TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLAS. I was like, "Umm...is this real? Because it better be for $250." I mean, daaaamn.

So after that experience, I told Andrew that I was going to order my wedding dress online, and he freaked. I told him that I don't understand why girls care so freakin' much and spend so much money on a dress that they're only going to wear once, when they could be spending it on the reception. I'd much rather have a nice reception site with awesome decorations, good music, an open bar and a kick ass menu for my guests than a Cinderella dress that weighs and costs a ton. He said, "You want to look good on your wedding day, don't you? You're only going to get married once. Besides, you shouldn't care so much about the money. It's something that the bride and groom deal with once they're married." Eh...I'd rather not worry about paying off my wedding after I get married. I mean, I guess buying a dress online would be a little out there, and I probably won't do that, but I'm definitely not going to spend a fortune on a dress, and it's definitely not going to weigh 40 pounds.

Anyways, wedding stuff have been on my mind for the past few weeks, mostly because of Natascha and Tiffany (she's getting married in less than a month! I can't believe it!). It seems like everywhere I go, I hear news about someone else that I know or knew in high school getting engaged or married. It's a bit crazy, really...to think that we're at that age. I honestly can't imagine myself married or engaged anytime soon. Besides...from what I've experienced through my friends, weddings are a big pain in the ass. And I don't need anymore big pains in the ass...work is enough.

Here's a couple things:

1) Chelsea, Dorothy, Barbara, Amanda, Kimberly and I had girls night. It was like, the first time we had done something like that since high school. It was FUN. We ate pho (mmm...pho), then we went to Kroger. Kroger was interesting. After watching Dorothy and Kimberly do the three legged race down the meat section (which involved Kimberly first chasing Dorothy with two plastic bags from the produce section, finally catching her, and then tying their legs together[hehe...you should've seen the look on Dorothy's face...but surprisingly, she didn't resist]), we ventured into the unknown. At first, we were looking for anything. And then, once we got to the frozen dessert section, Kimberly had to bust out the nutritional value of something, and everyone FREAKED. 350 calories and 48 grams of fat in a slice of what?? Oh helllll, no. But in the end, we got 1/2 fat French Silk from Edy's (which we pretty much killed after we got back to Amanda's).
We stayed up till 5am painting nails, talking, putting on Mint Julep face masks and playing poker (I won! I cleaned almost everyone out while giving myself a french manicure[that shit's hard...hats off to all those asian women in the nail business]). It was fun! Yay for girls night!

2) Emeril made something called "red eye gravy" the other day. It's called red eye because it's base is coffee. Ew. It "made me hurt on the inside" as Andrew would say.

3) Natascha is getting married FO REALS. I went over to her place yesterday, because we hadn't seen each other in forever, and...sigh...she dragged me to Inserection. She dragged me to a porn shop where promptly made friends with the cashier, and he gave us free batteries. Only Natascha...

4) Tiffany and Ross are getting married next month! WOW. Why are all you bitches getting married? Makes me feel old or something. She was telling me this morning about how she's a little bit nervous about saying the vows. She said that she's afraid that one of her older relatives might loudly comment about how they can't hear them saying the vows. Hehe...that's something that'll most likely happen when Andrew gets married. I can totally see his grandfather saying, "WHAAT?? What's she saying?! I can't hear what she's saying!" in the middle of the vows. Maybe they can use a microphone or something...

5) Cobb salads are the worst salads in the world.

The End! Shank you bery mu-chee! You come back and reed, okay-ee?