There's nothing funny in Hinckley

I talked to my friend on Tuesday of last week. She was feeling pretty down. Recently, she's come on some hard times. She moved herself and her four kids an hour and a half from the city to live with her mom in a small town. This will be temporary until she gets some finances straight as well as her head. It hasn't been a happy time for her.


As of last Tuesday she had been there for two weeks. After laughing to her on the phone she said, "I haven't laughed for so long. There's nothing to laugh at here."

After hanging up I decided to take Friday off and drive up there for a surprise visit. I talked to her a couple more times to make sure she'd be around ("So, what do you and the kids have planned for Friday?")

I knew she had to be at the house between 10 and 11:30. I left at 10:20 for the hour and 20 minute drive. As I got closer and saw signs saying "Hinckley 42 miles... Hinckley 8 miles... Hinckley next two exits..." I was so excited. I exited with cell phone in hand waiting for the right time to press "send". At a stop sign I called "what are you doing" and so on. She set it up perfectly, "I suppose you're on your way to lunch?"

Me: Yeah, I was going to go to Hinckley for lunch.

D: Oh yeah! (laughing)

Me: Good, I'm two blocks away.

D: What? No! You are?

Me: Yep!

D: Ohhh! I'll meet you on the driveway!

I pull in, she comes out smiling and we hug and it's all good.We laughed all day.


Hinckley is a funny place.

Where's my bazooka?

Why can't this world be only me and the select few that I choose to live in it with me?

I can't stand ignorant people who are allowed to work in with the public. Some people shouldn't be allowed to answer phones, make calls or breathe in general.

Why can't everyone be perfect, like me?

For Good

Wicked song of the day (this one is stuck in my head)

ELPHABA

You’re the only friend I’ve ever had.

GLINDA

And I’ve had so many friends. But only one-- that mattered.(sings)

I’VE HEARD IT SAID

THAT PEOPLE COME INTO OUR LIVES FOR A REASON

BRINGING SOMETHING WE MUST LEARN

AND WE ARE LED

TO THOSE WHO HELP US MOST TO GROW

IF WE LET THEM

AND WE HELP THEM IN RETURN

WELL, I DON’T KNOW IF I BELIEVE THAT’S TRUE

BUT I KNOW I’M WHO I AM TODAY

BECAUSE I KNEW YOU...
LIKE A COMET PULLED FROM ORBIT

AS IT PASSES A SUN
LIKE A STREAM THAT MEETS A BOULDER

HALFWAY THROUGH THE WOOD

WHO CAN SAY IF I’VE BEEN CHANGED FOR THE BETTER?

BUT BECAUSE I KNEW YOU

I HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR GOOD …

ELPHABA

IT WELL MAY BE

THAT WE WILL NEVER MEET AGAIN IN THIS LIFETIME

SO LET ME SAY BEFORE WE PART

SO MUCH OF ME

IS MADE OF WHAT I LEARNED FROM YOU

YOU’LL BE WITH MELIKE A HANDPRINT ON MY HEART

AND NOW WHATEVER WAY OUR STORIES END

I KNOW YOU HAVE RE-WRITTEN MINE

BY BEING MY FRIEND...
LIKE A SHIP BLOWN FROM ITS MOORING

BY A WIND OFF THE SEA

LIKE A SEED DROPPED BY A SKYBIRD

IN A DISTANT WOOD

WHO CAN SAY IF I’VE BEEN CHANGED FOR THE BETTER?

BUT BECAUSE I KNEW YOU...

GLINDA

BECAUSE I KNEW YOU...

BOTH

BECAUSE I KNEW YOU

I HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR GOOD...

ELPHABA

AND JUST TO CLEAR THE AIR

I ASK FORGIVENESS

FOR THE THINGS I’VE DONE YOU BLAME ME FOR

GLINDA

BUT THEN, I GUESS WE KNOW

THERE’S BLAME TO SHARE

BOTH

AND NONE OF IT SEEMS TO MATTER ANYMORE

[They sing simultaneously]

GLINDA
LIKE A COMET PULLED FROM ORBIT

AS IT PASSES A SUN

LIKE A STREAM THAT MEETS A BOULDER

HALF-WAY THROUGH THE WOOD

ELPHABA
LIKE A SHIP BLOWN OFF ITS MOORING

BY A WIND OFF THE SEA

LIKE A SEED DROPPED BY A

BIRD IN

THE WOOD

BOTH

WHO CAN SAY IF I’VE BEEN CHANGED FOR THE BETTER?

I DO BELIEVE I HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR THE BETTER

GLINDA

AND BECAUSE I KNEW YOU...

ELPHABA

BECAUSE I KNEW YOU...

BOTH

BECAUSE I KNEW YOU...

I HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR GOOD.

Wicked!

That's right. The time is finally here. I'm going to see Wicked.

I went last June in Chicago and have been obsessed every since. I've had these tickets since November and I can't believe the day finally here!

I just hope it's as good as I remember and I hope that the people I'm going with love it as much as I want them too. I've been really trying to pump them up. They haven't been jumping up and down when I talk about them. I, however, bounce off the walls when I talk about it! :)

True embarrassment

My friend and I were 90 miles from home in a smaller town Walmart. We had just spent over two hours at the beach. We're burnt to a crisp and looking tired. She is wearing some cut off jean shorts and her swimming suit, boobs smooshed flat, no make up, hair in a ponytail. I'm wearing a swimming suit, jogging shorts, and a short sleeve jean shirt and some old, ugly sandals from K-Mart. I'm 60 lbs more than I was in high school, I have zero make up on, eyes are puffy from the sun and heat, and my hair is messed up from lake water and in a bun on top of my head. We've got six kids with us ranging in age of 13 - 3 and they're running wild.

We're walking down an isle and we run into someone from high school. My friend that I was with used to have a serious crush on him. He's there looking great with his pretty wife and nice looking kids.


I don't think we could look as bad as we looked if we tried! This was just pure bad looks at it's best. You always think your safe when you're miles from home. Here's proof that you're never safe no matter where you go! We turned down the next isle and laughed so hard and just couldn't stop.

Body Worlds

Yesterday, I went to the Body Worlds exhibit at the Science Museum. It was pretty interesting for the most part but some of the body displays got a little too bizarre and it all started looking the same.

The process of plastination is really amazing. There were displays of entire humans and animals made up of only blood vessels. The real deal. There were many many organs displayed. Healthy lungs, smoker's lungs, cancerous lungs, livers, bones, arteries, ovaries, fetuses, embryos. I think the best display I saw was a pregnant woman laying on her side belly and baby exposed. Yeah, it could be considered disturbing by some but there was something beautiful about it.


I think it's worth seeing. It's something that gets a bit boring after a while (it took two hours to go through) but looking back and remembering everything is making me like it more.

What was THAT about?!

6/6/06 - The date was apparently in my sub-conscious.

Lots of lightening and thunder last night. I couldn't get my condo cooled down. I went to bed on the couch to be right under the AC. I tossed and turned until about 1 a.m. I think I woke up every hour or so - wide awake.

My dreams were scary. I was at a house, your typical suburban rambler, it was a nice sunny day. I had an object... what was it? I can't remember. I was trying to throw it away. I threw it in the garden and it came back at me. I threw it at another garden and again, it came back at me. Finally I was able to get it to stay. I went inside, sat near the window, opened the curtain and the object was sitting outside on the window sill. This was terrifying.... for obvious reasons, right?

I ran into a bedroom to tell Gabrielle and Carlos Solis (yes, from Desperate Housewives ). I told them all about what happened. We started packing things up to get out but some force in the house was pushing us back and locking the doors.

Suddenly I'm with my mom and step dad. We're all heading out to go to work. I told my mom I couldn't stay in this house alone. Also, I had to get my cats out. . Next thing I know I'm doing some kind of exorcism shit yelling at the house "In the name of God, get out! In the name of God, you are not welcome here!" I was screaming and crying as yelling this over and over. It was the kind of thing where I wonder if I was talking in my sleep.


I woke up scared to death and it's stuck with me all day. I think I need to stop watching so many scary movies.... and Desperate Housewives.