This one time at the Birdhouse, I was crazy hung-over. Big surprise.

At this point in time, I still had my clavicle piercings in. This was before they got so super-infected (because of Sake and a hot tub, long story) and I decided to take them out.

My father showed up at the house and I hadn't expected him, so I came downstairs in a really low-cut shirt. The routine every morning at that house, especially during the summer, was to go straight to the kitchen after waking up, grabbing the double-brewed super-mud coffee and going to sit on the porch steps in the sunshine.

So of course, my father shows up, while I'm drinking the coffee, with ten other crusty kids sitting on the porch, with a low-cut shirt and a super-glossy inappropriately-short skirt, hung over as hell. The entire time, I'm sitting there trying to hide the clavicle piercings from my Dad, along with the cleavage piercing (which I still have), pulling up the shirt, trying to look him in the eyes, looking shitty.

This was about 11:30 in the morning.

So just when I thought that it couldn't get any worse, Dirty Dan shows up with a case of 40's. Not a couple of beers, not even a couple of 40's, but a whole case. Which he proceeds to drop on the porch table directly in front of my dad. And of course, everyone gets up from their respective positions and grabs a beer, as Dirty Dan generously doles them out for everyone.

My father, visibly uncomfortable, looks at the now-drinking squat-mates and says, "Well. It looks like you guys got a real democracy going on here."

Then, he got up and left.

Good times.

It is zero or less outside: brutal. I am going for groceries anyway, so wish me superpower non-texan snow driving skills. Thanks.

Time for a shower before it's too late. "Mommy, you do not look pretty." Mikey

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What was on screens a year ago: Clear Lake City (Houston), Texas, USA from lil_m_moses

Snow in Houston is a handful of times in a lifetime event, and especially so on the southeast side of town.

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[yesterday] [year ago]

This one time at Megahertz, our upstairs outlet started on fire.
This was caused by the dryer in the upstairs apartment. The solution was not to use the washer and dryer at the same time, which of course didn't quite work out with nine people living there.
So it happened again.
And again.

And thankfully every time it happened, someone was home, awake and able to catch it before our entire house went up in flames.

The second solution was to call the landlady, who of course, did nothing about it. She told us that if we got an electrician and paid for it, she would take whatever it cost off of rent.

This girl Courtney, who used to date two of the guys living there (weird, weird interpersonal situation, which she agonized greatly over) happened to know an electrician friend, who came and told us that none of the outlets were grounded. The entire house had to be rewired. The expense would have cost many months of rent, and so in a house meeting, 7:2 voted against it. Could you guess who the two were? *waves*

Of course, by this point, Steve and I were already making plans to vacate, keeping fingers and toes crossed that the house would not burn to the ground around us before we moved.

Last year, on Christmas morning, the old apartment on Hudson, which I'd lived in for two odd years, burned to the ground. Which is funny, because aside from the breakers going every now and then, there didn't appear to be a problem.

In any event, Megahertz is still standing, barely. Between the roof blowing off last winter, the lack of windows in the attic, the collapsing front porch, the make-shift-DIY washer drain leaking from the backyard into the foundation, and the faulty electrical situation, you'd think it would have collapsed like a house of cards. Or burned like a tinder box.

Recently, they had a mass exodus. Four of the longer-standing residents got the fuck out of Dodge, and I don't blame them. What amazes me, however, is they found four semi-decent people to take their places.

Oh, Megahertz.

Death, coils through half-parted lips,
A poisonous snake
Hissing and kissing from within,
A foreboding cloud above your head
Which you cannot see with fog filled eyes,
It lies, whispers, false promises
Ringing around your ears
Like a buzzing, diseased, fly
Away from this mad world.
It offers comfort between your fingers
and lights the way with a single flame,
To your paraffin coated heart
Held together with matches,
It latches with broken claws
As you inhale, exhale, it spirals.

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Current Location: Damon's
Current Mood: creative

I am like a rose you trapped in a tall, thin vase
Bound by a wire corset,
You cut me down to size
Removed my thorns and fed me lies,
and now I’m dancing on broken glass
Dripping red
Wines from tainted lips,
I am just another skin-coated memory
with no organs, muscle or bones…
You took away my roots
and expected me to lie still in water,
But instead we s-lowly whither and die.

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Current Location: Damon's
Current Mood: creative

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13:30h, about 28C

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[yesterday] [year ago]

totally made myself a twitter so i can stop sending annoying texts to my boyfriend and such.

http://twitter.com/lactaid

it's private because i like to have people add me. the numbers... hehe, you know you do too.

there is no intelligence without emotional intelligence. i have always thought that empathy is the key to making relationships work, now it is so evident. i feel like so many people around me don't know how to relate and sympathize and express themselves in a way that's beneficial. i don't understand how someone can deny the importance of emotions. everyone feels happy, sad, depressed, etc. deal with it and stop being a pussy. i've also noticed how terrible certain people are at properly verbalizing how they feel. "i don't feel good" does not tell me how you are feeling. neither does "i feel weird" or anything like that. how can you not know how to express yourself? being unaware of yourself and other people will not help any kind of relationship. stop letting your emotions take control of you. you are allowing yourself to be depressed, worried, whatever. i have tried very hard to get over all the negativity that clouded my brain this whole year, you can too. this year, from january to recently, has been the worst i have ever felt. with all the other shit i've had to deal with, this was the worst. i allowed myself to drink and be depressed, but i don't see how i could have made it better by myself. feeling like no one cares about you is probably one of the worst feelings along with guilt. that was a majority of my year. i've also realized that no matter how logical i am, i'm still going to do what i want a majority of the time because i'm that stubborn. when someone tells me not to do something i get so angry, no matter how aware i am of why i shouldn't do it. i quickly get over it, but why am i instantly so pissed off. like a little kid having a tantrum but gets distracted. that's why i drink all the time. alcohol has changed me a lot and as much as that sucks, it's nowhere near enough to make me stop. i don't care right now.



it's 10 am and i'm drunn and i need to go to work. excuse me.