I don't have any photographic proof, but my hair had gotten quite long, nearing nipple length. I've decided that my hair sucks when it's long, so it is now about 3" long, at its longest. I'll have to make a point to take a picture of it soon.

Jordan is currently in the midst of recording a new demo with his 'pop' band, which is now in a bit of turmoil. Their singer was discovered to be on crack, quite literally, and they're debating whether to boot him or give him the opportunity to clean up and get his shit together. When I first met him he looked exactly how one would imagine rock n' roll Jesus. His instrumental band dissolved some time in the past couple of months, and he doesn't seem to know why, or care for that matter.

Jeff got a job at Borders, working directly with Jordan, which I completely expected to go terribly and involve not much working. I've been proven wrong, though, and apparently they're kicking ass. After work they've started a workout regime, and Jeff came up with the most Jeff-y form of motivation for them. They made RPG stats for themselves, and each week as their stamina grows, they 'level up.' lol

This post is primarily about Jordan because I haven't had time to have a life of my own lately, so I have to live vicariously through him. Off to run errands..

Edited to add this: I bought Jordan an original Megazord, still sealed in the box for his birthday. Who's a nice girlfriend?

A meme about your significant other.

( Jiordano )

Jordan likes making up his own expletives, and reassigning new meanings to words. Here's a small portion of his current lexicon:
Farm -Fuck
Bears - Crap/Shit/damn
Legos -We're not sure what it means, but Will has made it his goal to make it a bad word of some form.
Yahtzee - To be assaulted in the junk. This is also shouted directly before a person intends to smack someone in the testicular region. I believe this was inspired by the Venture brothers.
Here's how these might sound in context.

Friend A "Jeebus, work is really farming me in the ass this week"
Friend B "That sucks, man. At least you weren't here last night when Friend C was dishing out the Yahtzees."
Friend A "Oh bears, I'm sorry you were around for that."
Friend B "Yeah, that guy's a fuckin lego."

Books I've read in the past month:

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer (I know, I know..)
The Wizard of Oz - Frank L Baum
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The first Harry Potter book
The first Series of Unfortunate Events book
Coraline - Neil Gaiman

All but The Secret Garden and Breaking Dawn were books that I've already read and reread a number of times, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm a junkie for childrens' literature.

Work has been worky, and I'm beginning to recalculate exactly how much money I need before I can quit. That's all I really feel like talking about that.

Corsets have been going well, I've finally almost caught up, and I'll be making a massive postal run tomorrow. I'll probably be spending about $100 in shipping. Yowza.

On to more interesting things, Jordan and I saw the Dark Knight! It was everything people said it would be, though I was still surprised by how creepy it was.
OMG WATCHMEN. There was a preview, and it made me immensely happy. Nite Owl is in much too good of shape, but everyone else looks pretty passable. Rorschach's mask bugs me, though. The mask's description was something like "two viscous liquids between two layers of latex." It looks like opaque cheesecloth. For those who don't know, that looks nothing like latex. I'm very mixed over this movie. It has the potential to be amazing, as the preview is leading me to believe. But good god, this could go terribly awry and be so bad. I'm going to be eagerly waiting in anticipation.

Oh yeah, I totally went to San Francisco last week, and it was great fun. The temperature never got above 63 or so, and it was beautiful. Dollectable was good, and I actually won something! This may not seem terribly interesting, but I have the worst luck in the world, so I was genuinely shocked. I forgot to bring a camera, but I did manage to find a picture of me on the web. It shows off my fabulous new Vivienne Westwood knockoffs, and the back of my head. I honestly had no clue my skirt was that short. Cerise is two people to the left/back.


For future reference, packing only rockinghorse shoes to walk the hilly streets of San Francisco was not the best idea I've ever had.

I'd forgotten until late last night that Jordan and I went to the zoo back in May, and I took quite a few pictures that turned out pretty good. I forget that, with gratuitous amounts of natural light, my digital camera is pretty decent.
Jordan was assaulted by sheep.

( More Zoo-tacular photos here! )

Also, I'm leaving tomorrow to go to California, I'll be back sometime early next week.

Today I finally got another day to get to spend with Jordan. It's was very easy to forget how awesome he is to me when I was with him so much. With us both working, his band practice, and my corset orders, we only get to see each other once or twice a week now, and it's really been depressing.

On to more generic and fun babble, we went out thrifting today. After reading mela_chan's post about classic books, I was suddenly inspired to begin reading more of the classics, so I bought a bunch of them today. I feel like I stole something, I bought all of the following books for less than $10, and at least half of them are hardback.
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
The Giver - Lois Lowry (My favorite Young adult book ever, probably.)
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
The Red Pony - John Steinbeck (I've honestly not heard of this one, but I already own so much Steinbeck, that I felt obligated to get it, too.)
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Silmarillion - J.R.R Tolkien
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Whirlwind - James Clavell
Gai-jin - James Clavell (I already have Tai-pan and..half of Shogun..)
I also got The Last Command and Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn, but it turns out that I already had Dark Force Rising, (crap!,) but at least the one I bought today is in better condition than mine. I still need Heir to the Empire to finish up the series. I also got the player's guide to Diablo II, (lol,) a little kiddy star wars book, and the first volume of some manga called Orfina.

Tomorrow I go back to work, then come home and work on some more corsets. Hopefully I'll make some good headway and get ahead of schedule, we'll see how it goes.

My body has decided to rebel against me, and it's starting to really piss me off.

I was on Depo for about 5 years, and with the exception of a few strange mood swings and some weight gain, it worked perfectly for me. I only had 2-3 peroids throughout this time, which is also very alright with me. Last winter a mean side effect reared it head, and made me decide to finally get off of the shot, (loss of calcium, which resulted in terrible joint pain and generally feeling 80 years old.) I've now been off of Depo for about 3 months, and still have not had a period, BUT I'VE BEEN CRAMPING FOR 2 MONTHS. Obviously, this is quickly becoming very annoying.

Remember kids, for every action, there is an opposite, equal, (and sometimes very perturbing,) reaction.

Somehow life got a bit hectic while I wasn't paying attention. I've been busy working and sewing so much lately, tonight was the first time in quite a while that I just sat down and chilled with Jordan. We watched Master With Cracked Fingers, which was really fun, albeit bizarre and very, very, badly edited.

I need to relax tonight and regain my composure before I have to go deal with all of the old ladies again tomorrow. Working customer service is eating my soul. Poo.

More and more, things have started evening themselves out. I "accidentally" got another corset order, I'd completely forgotten that I still had a listing on etsy, until someone bought it. XD So now I have a real job and another corset to finish. Working at Joann has been a strange beast. People seem to be trying to be nice, with mixed results and much social awkwardness. Only two people there seem comfortable talking to me, the others are all the quiet mousy girls you had in your middle school, that talk only when asked direct questions, and seem shocked that you notice their existence. My boss is a man, which is very bizarre itself, given what the store is. He's the epitome of a camp counselor, and is very quick to quip things like "keep it up!" and "great job, rookie!" All phrases really do end in exclamation points, it's no exaggeration.

A week or two ago I noticed that the lilies of the valley were blooming, so I picked one. It somehow ended up in my ear by the end of the night. As seen here.

Well, now that it's 1am, I should probably think about going to bed, since I work tomorrow morning. Pfft.
Sleep is overrated.

Guess who is is now amongst the ranks of the employed? That would be me, thanks. I figure I'll work retail at least through the summer and fall, long enough to work my way out of debt and make myself a cozy little cushion for emergencies. I applied at a Hancock fabric and the Joann etc, expecting them to tell me my work experience left more than a little to be desired, but lo, they both want me. I'll have to call Hancock and tell them 'no' next week. They pay in peanuts, to those concerned. Bad peanuts, at that.

Jordan is beginning to not like Borders nearly so much as he once did. The manager position he was lined up for was cut out, and his boyfriend left with it. Ever since said friend left he's been all angsty about working there, and is beginning to talk about school again, I honestly don't remember what for this time. I wish he could figure out what to do with his life to make him happy. He's been repeating this cycle for as long as we've been dating,(about 5 years, give or take.) He goes to school, hates it, skips his classes, drops out and gets a job. He decides that school is just not for him. A couple of months later he doesn't like said job and decides to go back to school for a different major. Rinse and repeat.
I just want him to find what it is that makes him happy, and I feel powerless to help in any way. I've just decided to be patient, he'll figure it out eventually, or we'll live in the gutters. So long as we have each other everything will work out somehow.

I think I'm finally working my way out of whatever emotional funk I've been in for the past couple of weeks. I want to do slightly more than lay in my pajamas and read, at least. Cerise seems to think I'm terribly depressed and is concerned, but she reads into things a little more than she should, probably. I'll be hanging out with her tomorrow evening, so I should be able to convince her that I'm not planning on jumping off of a cliff or anything.

I'm still trying to figure out how to paint a boy doll faceup, and I think I'm pretty satisfied with my latest attempt. I haven't decided whether to keep the septum ring or not yet, though.
No septum ring
With septum ring
None of it is sealed or glossed, and no upper eyelashes are attached yet. I'm still trying to decide whether to keep it. I hate those eyeballs, btw. Yeah.

Off to read some more, and get ready for all tomorrows parties. Jordan is wanting to get his lip pierced tomorrow night. I pity the poor person that has to fight through all of that beard to find his lips. May the piercing gods smile down on them.