Saturday, July 31, 2004
cat? i'm a kitty catbwahahaha! i am wearing my octopus shirt! what, you say? "arden, what the hell are you talking about", you say? you're asking that because i forgot to post about this when it happened. i think i wrote about... ah yes, that was the one with daniel's er.. vacation monologue.
moving right along. so some amount of days ago, myself, katherine, jenn, aditi, harry, trevor, stevie, and one of their friends named rob were going to astroworld. all the guys got there at one, but none of us girlies had a ride until 4. on the way to astroworld, it is learned that there has been a chemical warehouse fire. across the street from six flags. exciting, no? so our parents were all "no, you can't go! you will become mutated and then we will have to give you over to the corrupt government!" ok, so they didn't say that last part. but they were all worried, so we called the guys and told them we couldn't go, and how dangerous a situation they were in. their response? "no, we payed twenty bucks to get in here for the day, we're staying!!" so they stayed, despite all of our attempts to reason with them. so we went to the movies instead, to see I, Robot (which was actually good!). but on the way there, i was being weird and such nonsensical nonsense and i say "look! there's an octopus on my shirt!" and katherine and aditi looked at my shirt. and use your imagination as to what part of the shirt the octopus was on. so i get all "offended" only not really. then, as we were walking into red robin, i was like "ocotopus!". and aditi looked at my shirt again. i guess you would've had to have been there. it was hilarious. i think we scared the crap out of our waiter, starting when he brought us water and i asked if it was on the house. then we came up with the cracker hand movement thing. then we did that in a wave around the table. then we were dancing... and i got jenn to tell the waiter it was katherine's birthday... and then the managers removed two of the tables directly to our right (there were already people sitting on the left). when they brought out the cup thing of icecream and made katherine stand up on the chair so they could sing to her... that was priceless. about the same level of pricelessness as kevin when he saw katherine at matt's house. but anyway, so we were all really full from the milkshakes and fajitas we all got (katherine was the black sheep in this situation, she got vanilla and had better sprinkles). so katherine tried a few bites... then took my milkshake refill container thing and started trying to get some of the icecream in there so it looked like she ate more. this was even more hilarious. she made a mess... what else... oh yes, i got my picture taken with the chuckie cutouts (you know, the one that has the head-hole cut in it). it was funny. katherine took it with her phone, so i don't have it as of now.
so yes. that was funny.
and then yesterday, chris told me a most disturbing story. i mean, it's funny in a weird sort of way and all, but only goes to further my knowledge that someone in our generation is going to find some way to kill us all with mass amounts of pie.
ok, so this is a story from ozark, the camp chris goes to. he said that some of the older guys *coughwilldavidcough* sprayed bug spray up one of their asses because they got a bug bite. they soon found out that it stung badly when you got bugspray up the ass. you want to know what they did? they all sprayed bugspray up their asses. very smart, aren't they...
well that is enough for now. i have to go... eat breakfast. or something.
and i dance dance dance, and i dance dance dance
Thursday, July 29, 2004
i like chinesefirst off, i just wanted to say that on my computer, the banner isn't working. and i'd have to assume it's not showing up properly on your computer, either. stupid free image hosting... *shakes fist*
next off. the ray business is over, ray has been uncovered. i would reveal that secret to you all, but i think i will make him feel bad a little while longer. and he thinks i don't hold grudges...
well. it is now a bonafied fact, i really suck at magic. but apparently i drafted a pretty good deck (i call that good luck. they had pretty pictures...). and i won! a few times. out of more than a few times. it took me a long time to sort of understand what was going on, and then jon and kevin ended up doing most of it for me anyway. but it was fun. {edit} i forgot to mention that matt did help me draft some of my cards. and jon taught me some magic slang. like swing and mise. and that i think i should make a pirate card, which will read "steal all of your opponents shinies. and then slit all of their creatures' throats. and then you win."{/edit}
becca is back from france, finally! and now... almost everybody is back for good. except silly people like jenn who have camp. this means that my life will pick back up where it left off before summer started, and that you will probably see fewer and fewer posts.
which brings me to announce that i have had more than 1000 hits! how much you wanna bet at least 75 of those hits are me, checking to see if everything is working right. but still, that's pretty good, don't you think? of course you do. everybody knows how interesting my life is, don't they? or... uninteresting, mostly.
AHHH!!! i almost forgot! but i didn't!! my baby came (see post below)!!! it is so beautiful. *drools* and it is in tune! i am so happy.
{edit2} oh. i almost forgot. i want you all to see something very pathetic, because you deserve to know the truth: the following is a part of a chain of comments from a few days ago.
except you might. I'm ray...i don't take chances like that.
Ray | 07.24.04 - 11:14 pm | #
*cries*
arden | 07.25.04 - 1:23 am | #
Poor arden...who do yo think you are ray? I bet you're one of those people that listen to EMO and critize the world. You're one unhappy son of a bitch..i pity you.
Harry | 07.26.04 - 1:09 pm | #
guess who ray is.
they only come up to your knees
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
cafes full of peoplei actually think i might have something of substance to talk about it! mwahaha. it's amazing, i know. so anyway.
tomorrow we are having a delivery to our house. it is very special, as it is my "baby" (hahaha daniel...). we have purchased a 5'10" baby grand!!! so do not be surprised if tomorrow i am gone for long amounts of time. or the next week. alli described such a wonderful item as "finger candy", and i do say, i have to agree with her. but i know some of you are probably sick of hearing about my piano. but that's what you get for ignoring me! it makes me ramble. and repeat stuff.
went to matt's house with katherine and harry today. to learn to play magic. katherine properly schooled me in the ways of such games, and apparently you are always to play the third card from the right. who woulda thunk it?
and for the most important revelation of the day! i promise you, oh viewer of this gushing of my incessant ramblings, that it will change your life forever. here it goes: jello is a salad. yes, i know, it is crazy. and doesn't make much sense. by all means, jello is not some leafy green bowl of stuff or a marshmellowy potato variety either. it is jello. gel with an o.
i will try to think of some logical explanation for this mind-boggling classification. until then, seacrest out (mwahaha julia...)
dressed up as spies
Monday, July 26, 2004
you're pretty good lookini would like to start off today's post by wishing a very special friend a very happy birthday!
happy birthday danielle!
and as i would love to dedicate today's post entirely to this friend of mine who has been here through times of excellency and unexcellency alike, i do have some entertaining stories of my driving expiditions to relate. but i would like to start by mentioning some times danielle has been there for me.
~when she came over to my house one late night because i thought somebody was trying to break in (it actually turned out to be just the ups guy delivering a package late)
~any time something bad has happened
~any time when something good has happened
and i would like to expressly thank you, danielle, for listening and actually hearing the words.
i wish you all the happiness you have given me on this, your 15th birthday.
and now, so you all who don't have the pleasure of knowing danielle will not be uninterested, i will just share that on my first driving experience, i ran into a ditch. but it was so totally my dads fault.
if that isn't enough to get your mind making mental pictures, there is no hope in this world for you.
*edit* i would just like to make it known that this is my 150th post (not counting those i have deleted and such). you should give me chocolate for supplying such an uninteresting way to relieve your boredom!
for a girl
Saturday, July 24, 2004
stand by for another breakdownwell, these past few days have been, in lamense terms, positively insane.
and for lack of want to publish anything about them for the general public at this time, here's a conversation had between daniel and i after he got back today from his cruise:
daniel hey
me: hi
dan13l4u: how are youz0rz
anonymousarden: i'm goodzorz! and you?
dan13l4u: same
dan13l4u: i just got back from my cruise
anonymousarden: i know
dan13l4u: fun fun fun
anonymousarden: where all did you go?
dan13l4u: cancun
dan13l4u: cozumel
dan13l4u: rotan honduras
dan13l4u: belize city belize
anonymousarden: wow
dan13l4u: yea
dan13l4u: cozumel we rented a jeep
anonymousarden: we were going to do that in cali, go up in the mountains, but didn't have enough time
dan13l4u: aww
dan13l4u: when did u go to cali/
dan13l4u: ?
anonymousarden: week before last
dan13l4u: coolies
dan13l4u: or
dan13l4u: c00l13s
anonymousarden: <
dan13l4u: OR
dan13l4u: c00l135
anonymousarden: <
dan13l4u: haha
dan13l4u: yea and then we went snorkeling when we drove to the beach with the jeep
dan13l4u: it was pretty
anonymousarden: you went snorkleing with a jeep?
dan13l4u: no
dan13l4u: haha thats why i said such a complicated sentence
dan13l4u: because i knew it was gonna sound like tat
anonymousarden: hahaha
dan13l4u: and then i bought a 2.5 liter of this wierd tasting sprite
dan13l4u: in mexico
anonymousarden: its weird tasting because they make it with real sugar
dan13l4u: and then we drove around and i found a coconut
dan13l4u: and it was rotten
anonymousarden: oh d00d i want a coconut...
dan13l4u: and smelled like a portapotty
anonymousarden: HAHAHA
dan13l4u: and then i ran away
dan13l4u: and then in roatan
dan13l4u: we got attacked by hobos
dan13l4u: they were like
dan13l4u: YOU NEED TAXI???
anonymousarden: hahaha
dan13l4u: and we stopped
dan13l4u: that was a bad idea
dan13l4u: like 8 of them surrounded us
dan13l4u: and we were like AHHH RUN
dan13l4u: and this one guy followed for like a mile
dan13l4u: so we let him give us a taxi ride
anonymousarden: hahaha
dan13l4u: and then we rented mopeds
dan13l4u: and i got to drive for a while
anonymousarden: <
dan13l4u: SKARYZ
dan13l4u: i was like
dan13l4u: OOOH I AM A MOTORCYCLE GANG
anonymousarden: >_<
dan13l4u: GRAWR
anonymousarden: well, i'm glald you had... fun...
dan13l4u: yar
that's all for now, i have to go get dressed so my dad and i can go piano shopping.
sound off the alarm
Thursday, July 22, 2004
maybe the stars know why we fallwell, finally done. i hope. the music might be changed at one time or another. not like i need to tell you.
yesterday we went to the mall... to iceskate... but they had hockey. fie! so we hung out instead. and it was... fun?
and i'll have to write more later, as i'm a little busy right now.
i just wish they were thinking out loud
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
over the hills and far awayso, most everything is done, except blocking out that little sliver of blogger banner between this and the navbar, which lauren so kindly pointed out.
i went to see harry potter yesterday with anna and jenn (the later i haven't seen all summer, crazy, isn't it). it was good, except for the ending. which sucked. and the guy who played dumbledor. who sucked. but the scores were great, i think i shall buy the soundtrack. it reminds me a lot of ffcc. which reminds me. i still don't have my character back... *tear*
i've been reading some other people's blog/xanga/ljs, and i've notticed that mine are sufficiently lacking in content. that and i'm the only one so far who has a huge eye banner. which harry seems to think is scary. so i have decided to keep it for a while, and katherine agrees.
lets see. *tries in vain to think of something interesting*
drivers ed... nobody wants to hear about that.
health... is almost done!
family... is leaving this afternoon for new orleans, as my grandfather has been in the hospital. my dad and i are staying, he because of work, and i because of drivers ed.
spoons... michael and i agree that they should make spoons with sharp edges, so that eyes don't pop when you try to get them out (like they would with a regular spoon), and that they wouldn't leave little holes like sporks would.
red robins... they can't split the price of two milkshakes three ways. we tried. he laughed at me for asking.
old men... shouldn't go see movies. why pay eight bucks to fall asleep?
milkshakes... can actually come out of a person's nose. so can chocolate, by the way.
houston... i hate smog. smog=bad/nasty/gross=the need to move somewhere else. like france.
california... stole all the french tourists. and hot guys in cars. and waves (even though it was depressingly flat when we went). and superior small towns.
kite surfing... is somethign i really really want to try. it's like surfing. only actually more like snowboarding. while attached to a small parachute.
chocolate... something else california has kicked our butts with.
blur... whoo hoo!
that's just crazyŸ (my new punctuation mark for going after hahahas or other such exclamations that aren't really exclamations or plain old boring sentences)
now i'm rambling. again.
oh well.
that was weird. nick just went ERAGHAAAAAWAAAA really loud. downstairs.
it's not even 11 yet. in the morning. so scary... nobody's here. but me.
i'm all alone.
except not.
because, of course, you're reading this right now.
and if you're not, well. that doesn't make much sense now does it.
all in all, the lesson of today is that for some bizzare reason people have the hardest time reading my name. i think i should start a course to properly educate people of how to say people's names correctly. though, i would probably end up melting or worse because the only kind of people who would take the course are the people i ha-er.. strongly... dislike...
strongly..
oh, and a few notes about the revampedness:
* yes, that is my eye. and yes, as jenn pointed out, it is pixely. it's supposed to be like that. i wanted it more pixelated, but i was too lazy to do it again.
* it's best viewed in 1024x768 mode
* the links have not yet been updated, but they will be sometime soon (maybe)
* the song, if you're wondering, is one thing by finger eleven (or was, if i've already changed it). but i might change it soon.
* um... thats it pretty much. like you really care about any of this anyway. it just makes me feel important, ok?! hahaha...
well, i will leave you now to indulge yourself in other things, as reading too much of this at one time might do harm to the brainular region of the mind.
for 10 long years he'll count the days
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
i think i mightlike the new look? i'm still working on a lot of the details, and thinking about changing the layout a bit. i'm pretty happy with it so far. seeing as i've had to do it twice now (i was almost done and my stupid computer had to go and shut off right as i was about to save..)
which is why the details are still not yet done.
more later, i have to go commence in such things as health.
be losing my mind
Monday, July 19, 2004
it's all too familiarwell, i'm back from california. and it was lots of fun. i bet you're expecting me to ramble on and on and on about things we did. well, i probably will sooner or later but, having just related much of the experience to anna, feel no need in repeating it at this current point in time.
i started drivers ed this morning, and it is almost as boring as health, which is a sad, sad thing. oh well. it's actually entertaining sometimes, as almost everybody in the class is an incoming freshman, and i remember some faces from middle school. apparently the girl next to me remembered me, and spend the whole class glancing at my answer sheet for a roadsign pretest. well, actually that's probably just because she was trying to cheat off me, but whatever. hahaha...
one of the girls, when reading out the answer she had been told to read, said that the speed limit signs indicate the speed of how fast you are supposed to drive at minimum... >_<
the youth of today just keep getting stupider, no?
well, probably not, the smart ones don't give stupid answers, so you never really hear about them.
i have finally decided how i want to revampt this site, and it will be prettified within the week. maybe. probably not. but you can still hope for it.
hm. i just reread that last post. it's very depressing sounding. i was thinking of deleting it, but then again, that's the point of a blog, right? to publish your deepest darkest feelings online. or it isn't, because then there's the chance that somebody will decide to stalk you, or your parents would find it, or worse, your brothers would find it and then use it as blackmail. and that, my dear friends, is why you should never ever put anything that could get you in trouble on a public thing. well actually, it does make it more interesting. but. no.
back to what i was saying (i have such a problem with rambling.. anna thinks its funny). the site should be something new to look at hopefully sometime soon. if not, just whack me with something blunt until i do.
wait. on second thought, don't do that. to me, anyway. do it to somebody like chris
(silly little brother, has my site bookmarked... that, my friend, is what happens when little boys have serious trauma to the head from being whacke-um. i mean, that's what happens when they have mental problems).
on one final note, i'd like to wish a happy late birthday to trevor (it was yesterday) and an early birthday to danielle (it's exactly a week from today).
more later.
i've been here before
Saturday, July 10, 2004
if i traded it allyes, pretty music. it's one thing by finger eleven.
you know, i'm beginning to think nobody really knows me. and that makes me sad. but what's worse, i think it's my faulth nobody does. i'm not sure i even know anymore.
but i guess everything will feel better in the morning.
if i gave it all away for one thing
why can't i breathe
*sigh*
i leave tomorrow. at 6:30 in the morning. whoopie. right when people started to get back, too. you know, all summer i've been bored out of my mind, and then i'm going out of state and everybody decides to do something. not that it's annoying, they'll still be here when i get back (most of them). it's just so ironic. and funny.
kevin got me to take some stupid ass alignment test thing last night. apparently i'm neutral good. ha. maybe i used to be...
anyway. i've been thinking way too much again. usually this is where i would ramble on for endless paragraphs about things that i've been thinkin about. but i really don't feel like it. and now you're probably sitting there not thinking anything, reading my words. and now you've stopped to think about how you're reading my words. and i sit here, only not any more. right now? i'm probably somewhere else. maybe i've left for california already.
one question. does anybody beside me think it's a little sad that people today are so pathetically bored that they create such pointless things as blogs, and then how sad it is when people actually religiously read them?
like anybody really cares about anybody else's life.
whenever i think about you
catch me
*edit* for some reason that pic didn't show up right, and i'm too busy fixing up the entire site, so i decided that you wouldn't miss this too much.
just a little something to keep you occupied. its only about midnight thirty, and i'm pretty tired. i leave sunday morning at 6:30 for california, be back next sunday night. i might update tomorrow, or i might not. depends on how late i decide to start packing.
while on vacation, i do believe i might try something extra-spiffy just to keep all you losers who are sitting on your fat butts reading peoples blogs because you have nothing better to do with your life busy. and entertained.
as i fall
Thursday, July 08, 2004
when you're standing on the edge*sigh*
i haven't posted in... about a week? or. something.
you know what i hate most about houston? the sky. especially at night. at the beach, that's one thing that is definately not lacking. the sky is beautiful at night. looking up at the stars from the beach, you seem to have a broader perspective on things. it makes you feel so small. but not really in a bad way. another thing about the beach is the wind. i love the wind. i hate stale rooms, they're so depressing. or stale anywhere, for that matter.
enough about me.
silly that i should say that, when this blog is all about me.
sort of.
now that i think about it, a lot of the content of my blog (especially the earlier stuff) is having nothing influential to do with anything, including the price of cheese (most of it, anyway).
so i think that i shall add something to better us all and make my blog a little less hopeless. here goes.
*blank stare*
oo i have an idea...
but i'll have to get back to it. it's going to take a while. or, i'm just lazy... but it's not that. it requires much effort and involves... mayonaissey. is that spelled like that? i think it should be. as an afternote, this idea also requires that you send me a dollar for every time you've ever written the letter "e". and "q". just because q deserves to be right up there with the most-used letter.
and it looks like you might fall
Friday, July 02, 2004
there were virgins in my backyardi'll be at the beach all weekend... with my mom's side of the family. this should be very exciting, filled with incredible amounts of drinking and good cooking. i, personally, think it would make a great horror movie. either that or some really stupid horror movie that just turns out to be very funny. which is most of the horror movies i've seen. but then again, i'm such a chicken i refuse to see any other ones. it could be called... the night of the cajuns or something. or not. mwahahaha... and the catfish and shrimp would come alive and... do.. something...
did i mention it's wayyyy to early in the morning? it's only 10, and i've been up for two hours. scary, isn't it...
i pity those who have to do this every day during summer.
chasing angels with firesticks
Thursday, July 01, 2004
take a sad song...free...
well. i'd be enjoying myself, but apparently nobody gets online anymore... hmmm...
went to see stepford wives for becca's going-away gathering thing after venture this week. it was.... weird. very weird. and then afterwards, roland and justin were being all crazy on the stairs and with the popcorn on the escalator. those are some tall escalators, no?
harry's back from china! go see katherines xanga, she wrote a song about jet lag. its quite entertaining. but apparently we're having a welcome back harry party at my house... i figured we'd celebrate his return, but maybe just not in my house. nobody ever comes to my house except anna, really. you'd think there'd be a reason...
which reminds me. anna gets back monday! i will be happy. if she brings me some german chocolate.
HAHAHAHA... lauren lauren lauren... i know you're probably reading this right now. you read everybody's journaly things. well, you were the first person i talked to after my ungroundingment... is that a word? i really don't think so.
my blog is so boring looking now... i think i shall devote my days of boredness to updating it's fashion. hahaha... my blog has a fashion. anyho...
i use wayyyy too many ...s, no? hm... ack! there i go again...
...
i think i have some sort of elipses-using disorder.
so. but i will be busy for a while now. it's awful, isn't it? the way i'm out of commision during the month of summer where nobody's doing ANYTHING. and now, everything starts getting really busy and i'm liberated. but i think i will work on updating this old hunk of junk today. or not. maybe i'll just go finish watching conan.. yes... that sounds very good.
and make it better