DO NOT GO TO NORCROSS EXTENDED STAY.
Upon searching my city/county for sex offenders, there are EIGHT sex offenders staying there.
EIGHT!!!
I’d seriously be scared to stay there. Unless I wanted to be molested/raped. And I dont. Usually. Jk I dont.
Child Beauty Pageants
I came across a documentary called “Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen“. HERE is a link to part one on Youtube.com. Its pretty good. Its won an Emmy and whatnot.
As you can imagine, or if you’ve watched it, it is a documentary following the lives of a few pageant children. The one the video centers around is a 6 year old girl from Florida named Swan Brooner. She lives with her mother, Robin, her mom’s boyfriend, Tommy, and her sister and two brothers. Throughout the documentary, Robin, her mother, screams and orders her to do things properly. She also smokes right in the child’s face. I’ve never seen anything like it. Anyways, Swan gets to the top on the small pageants in Florida, so her mother takes her to larger ones and she keeps losing and then finally wins one blah blah.
The sad part is, after hunting about on the internet, I found out that after the documentary came out, her mother was badly ridiculed for the treatment of her daughter in pageants. Her boyfriend, Tommy, left her. Then in 2003 she died of a heart attack. Then Swan had to go live with her father in Alaska. Then HE died of cancer.
I thought that was nuts.
Anyways, this crap is just sick. The little girls look 10 years older, are plastered in makeup and fancy costumes, and occasionally like prostitutes. Another girl in the video, a year older than Swan, is Leslie Butler. She looked like a prostitute at 8, and I found out she’s stil pageant-ing now. Here is a photo of her from a 2006 pageant from the 13-15 age range. She seriously looks like she’s about to turn 30.
Also, the photoshopping on pageant photos is creepy. Like, super creepy, and dont even end up looking like the kid at all.
When I was a year old, my mother put me in a baby contest. I won first place. After seeing the other children and their mothers and how the children were treated, my mother decided not to go any further with pageants. If she hadnt, I would be a total whore right now, Im sure.
In conclusion, child pageants are kinda awful.
So we’re finally home after being gone for 10 days.
The other day, for the first time ever, I mention to Adam that I’ve never been pooped on by a bird while walking outside. 1 hour later, I got pooped on by a bird. I am never saying anything bad that hasnt happened before again.
I finally found three of Pepe’s baby teeth. Im going to put them in his scrapbook.
Pepe still humps things even though he’s neutered.
I chopped all my hair off yesterday.
Our apartment’s air conditioning isnt working.
Pepe’s scrotal incision looks really good. In fact, it looks nearly healed and it hasnt even been a week (he was neutered last monday). He’s jumping around and playing like he doesnt even realize his nutsack got cut open. In fact, at our hotel, he even thought it was fun to jump three feet from the couch to the bed.
I bought him some cute stuff in Gatlinburg. I got him a super cute sweater for winter, a shirt that says “dog from hell”, one that says “salty dog” with a glitter boat steering wheel thingy on it, and one with a skull and crossbones (with a glitter heart shaped eye patch on the skull) that says “A pirates life for me” on it. I also got him some doggles.
During our travels, we visited my mom’s family in WV and they had a surprise wedding shower for me and Adam. During the shower, my cousin McKenna who is like two kept asking for pop. My mom decided to give her juicy juice from the fridge instead, as it was a healthier alternative for babies. She poured her a sippy cup full and then two more. As she was going to fill another cup up, my aunt stopped her. Apparently, the bottle of juicy juice was actually full of hummingbird food, but was not labeled or anything. Also, hummingbird food is red, and the bottle of juice it was in was Kiwi Strawberry, so it looked right. I just thought it was funny that my mom gave a kid all that hummingbird food, which is like pure sugar.
Pepe kept having weird sneezing/wheezing/snorting fits today. I was totally thinking he was going to die, but after I did some research, this is what I found:
“Occasional bouts of sneezing, snorting, honking and wheezing are not unusual in chihuahuas, and is sometimes called a “reverse sneeze”. This is usually caused by a elongated soft palate that is thought to become temporarily misaligned. It is a common trait in toy breeds. Pulling hard on a leash, drinking too fast or getting overly excited can lead to an episode of reverse sneezing. Reverse sneezing SHOULD NOT be confused with a different condition called “collapsed trachea”.”
Im glad he isnt going to die. I think he got excited because this mexican kid outside fell down and started screaming.
Today while I was trying to use the internet, Pepe kept biting my hands and fingers. I kept telling him to quit, but he wouldnt, so I bit him on the back.
He was so upset after this that he quit biting me and went and sat and sulked.
so ive been traveling a lot lately
Since the last time we talked:
I got married
I traveled to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg
I traveled to Ohio
I traveled to West Virginia
Pepe got neutered Monday
I got a Spiderman Mr. Potatohead
etc
Im back in Gatlinburg again and Pepe has a sore crotch
Tonight, while getting tattooed, wearing a tank top, a girl asked me if the tattoo I was getting was the first one I’d ever gotten. durrrrr
Hep hep
I went to feed Theodore and we is gone!!
Me and Adam checked his cage over and over but there was no way out. No holes, no open anything.
He totally disappeared!
He has these:
(for next winter)
(I think this is for girls, but oh well)
And lots more.
He’s pretty much the cutest dog ever.
So we took Pepe out for his evening walk before bedtime, and noticed him sniffing and trying to eat something off the ground. I recognized it as part of a chicken nugget I saw him trying to eat earlier. Immediately, he started making horrible choking noises like he couldnt breathe. He was breathing sporadically and grunting.
I went to see what was on the ground and even though it was dark, I could see a small circle on the ground just MOVING and swarming with something. Im pretty sure it was ants because we have fire ant hills all over the place.
So pretty much I think Pepe like inhaled and ate fire ants and he also got bitten by them on his snout and feet. He keeps licking at his poor little feets. He seems to be okay now. I watched him for a while before putting him in his crate for the night, and his breathing is back to normal, and he’s jumping around like his usual obnoxious self.
I also got bitten by ants on the feet. That crap hurts.
I dont know what I’d do if Pepe died. I would be heartbroken. He’s like, my whole world for realz. I love him and he is my best friend.
So our plans got changed today, and we arent getting married until Monday. I dont want to talk about it.
Today though we went to a Korean restaurant. We ended up in the korean/japanese/vietnamese part of town, and decided to try a sushi/seafood/korean bbq place. Weirdest food Ive ever had in my life. I had no idea what was going on, and our waitress didnt really speak any english. Adam ordered three sushi rolls, and I ordered one, and some chicken teriyaki. About ten minutes later, the waitress comes out with a standard little salad. Then she goes back in the kitchen and immediately gets us miso soup (also a common standard for those who dont know). Then she immediately brought out 6 little bowls of WEIRD stuff, half of which I had no idea what was. One dish had some bland potato salad like stuff in it; one had kim chi (yuck); one looked to have soybean sprouts with some sort of dressing; one had these weird clear noodles that had the consistency of what I think eating earthworms would be like; one bowl had this bizarre sea-pea greenish gelatin stuff in it with a topping; one had some kinda fried tofu with some kinda salsa stuff in it. I think thats it. Anyways, I tried all of it out of curiosity except the kim chi, cuz I know I dont like it by the horrible smell.
So, any koreans reading this, please help. I have no idea what I ate.
Overall, the food was actually pretty good. They also had this neat thing: instead of the waitress coming around every 5 minutes to see if you need anything or refill your drink, there is a button you push for any needs. Then it goes “ding dong!” and on this big board, your table number comes up so they know who rang.
Then we went to Sams Club and one of the things I bought was these cute little baked doggy cookies for Pepe.
I got him a little pink and white swirly one out of the box and smelled it. It smelled sweet like a sugar cookie. I asked Adam if he dared me to take a bite out of it. He said yes, so I did. It did kind of taste like a sugar cookie but with barely any sugar, and really really crunchy. Not terrible at all, I’d be pleased with it if I were a dog.
If any of you want announcements sent to your house, please email me with your address.
If you would like to acknowledge our marriage with a gift, we are registered at wal-mart, since thats pretty much the only major store my family has in their areas.
While I was away, I wrote blog posts about my experience so far with moving.
In short, if you dont want to read long text: I have hated it so far. Its getting slightly better though.
May 4, 2007 10:18 PM Friday
ATTENTION: PART RANT
Half of this is just mind dumping from stress and being upset at my apartment. I wrote this warning afterward and it felt good to get this out. Thanks.
We packed all day today. We finally left at three and arrived at the apartment office right before the lady left. We got everything taken care of and went to see the place.
We were not at all pleased. I have a very long list of things wrong with the apartment, as far as damages. I’m pretty sure the last people here hated it too, because they beat the place up or something. Literally. In fact, there is a hole in the bedroom door the size of a fist. They pretty much put a piece of wood in the hole and painted brown over it. This whole apartment is seriously crappy.
I trusted our apartment owners, EPM Apartments, after living in my last apartment, also owned by them. It was nice, no major problems, no repairs needed, nothing. Small, but nice. Around April 1st I got a note on my door, because my lease was due to expire at the end of May. It mentioned in the letter that they had a “coast to coast” program, and that you could transfer to another apartment complex owned by EPM without breaking your lease or paying some upfront charges. That was good for us, because we would have had to break our lease, and as you all know, it sucks and it’s expensive. It was also good for us, because there was a listing for an EPM complex near Adam’s school, was lower priced, and because it’d be convenient in general.
Now the lease manager lady is super nice. She stayed an hour and a half late today checking us into our apartment, even. She’s like either Caribbean or South American, not that it matters. She looks totally completely black African American though. Her name is Emy Delgado. Anyways, I’m going to have a lovely chat with her on Sunday about the extensive damage to the apartment. I’m going to have her actually look at the shit wrong in here, because there is no way in hell that when I move out, I’m paying for ANY of this. Seriously. Its stupid damage that all looks to be intentionally caused. It isn’t just wear and tear. I mean seriously….for example, someone has scratched off nearly all the paint off the front of the oven. You can SEE scratch marks where someone didn’t get it all off. That is not an accident. It is someone being stupid.
My next subject is probably going to sound kind of odd. I don’t mean any of it to be racist in ANY way. All day today, we did not see even one white person in our apartment complex. I didn’t even see any black people other than the apartment manager person lady. Every single person I saw was Mexican. I am having some trouble getting used to this. It isn’t the fact they are Mexican at all, I promise. It is actually going to sound kind of gay, but I’ve never been on the other side of things. I’ve never been a minority. It is usually all white people where I have lived, that notice and look at a different race. Here though, we are the odd man out and everyone is staring at us (not that I stare at other nationalities). It is bizarre. I know I probably sound silly, but I have never lived somewhere with many other races. HISTORY TO EXPLAIN: I am from a very small town in Ohio where I don’t remember really seeing hardly any other races growing up. In kindergarten through 8th grade, my entire school was white. In highschool in that town, there were like two black people I think. I don’t really remember any Hispanic people. If there were any, they were probably only Hispanic by ethnic background, not culture, or I would have remembered. Now, my senior year, I switched schools and went to a boarding school above Columbus, Ohio. It was about 40% other races other than white. I did have a bit of a culture shock, honestly. I had tons of black friends, several friends from Japan, several Hispanic friends, etc. for the first time. Anyways, the point of the story is, I guess I am just plain not used to living with another culture. The children here at my apartment complex keep talking to me and Adam and I feel stupid because I don’t know enough Spanish anymore to feel like I am not sounding dumb. Adam knows more than me, and was able to tell some little girls that Pepe is muy simpatico after he barked at them and scared them. It is just insane, the amount of children here. Anyways, as everybody knows, Atlanta is quite large and full of different races, and I guess its just going to take some adjusting to. I don’t want to be uncomfortable.
Also, I am not used to living somewhere where people don’t keep to themselves. At home in Ohio, we live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors. At my old apartment, everybody pretty much ignored everyone else. They were polite, but just left you alone and stayed in their house. Here, there are Mexicans with their doors all open singing and cooking and hanging out on the lawn. And again, there are children running around everywhere like little crazy monkeys (no racial slur of any kind intended). I am just really not a social person. I am really trying to be nice though. I let them see the dog. When I brought in the small animals, I even let them touch Theodore.
Anyways, I’m really trying to be positive. The apartment is not quite what I expected, but I’m hoping that I can make due for the time being. Adam will only be in school for 9 months after he starts in July, so if we want to, we can move wherever after that, if I don’t want to stick out the lease. Also, we need something semi-cheap right now to save money to put him through school, and at least the apartment isn’t dirty or have rats or bugs. That is what is important. I can cover up the hole in the door and the messed up wallpaper and nail holes and bad paint job and pink spot on the wall with pictures or something. I mean, seriously, if I put a poster up, they aren’t going to notice a few more nail holes. We counted like 18 on one small area of one wall in the living room. But yeah…Im really really trying to stay positive even though Im worried/upset/stressed. It is not working and I feel all sad and stuff.
May 5, 2007 Saturday
Today is me and Adam’s one year anniversary. We didnt do anything too awesome. We drove around and found stuff. We found Wal-mart, Target, Kroger, etc. All we really did is find stuff and bought some house essentials that we had thrown away (shower curtain, food, trash can, etc.).
We found an indian resteraunt we decided to have dinner at for our anniversary. It was called like Hyperabad I think. I believe thats some kinda city in India. Anyways, the place sucks, dont ever go there if youre in Norcross. We walked in and the dude (I’ll call him stupid retard indian fatty fat fat) didnt even really greet us, first off. He just said “two?” and then motioned us to follow him. As we were seated, we noticed we were the only ones there (not that this usually is a problem, but now I realize it was because it sucked). Anyways, we ordered some food (the standard chicken tikka masala cuz its our favorite) and GARLIC naan (bread). I capitalized garlic because this is an important element. When our food came, I noticed that I had gotten PLAIN naan. I said to stupid fatty indian “Oh excuse me, I ordered garlic naan.” Stupid fatty indian replies with “Oh I sorry, it is my mistake. I wrote down regular naan. My mistake, there is nothing I can do.” and walks away. He just walked away. I think servers, if it is their mistake, are supposed to like…go have the cook make the correct bread. Whatever. That fatty pissed me off.
Oh, and this morning we found bugs in the house. Little cockroach things. They are gross. I bought a handheld vacuum to kill them and sweep them up with.
5/6/07 Sunday
We were supposed to unpack today. I sat around on my butt. Adam played video games. We finally decided to hook up the washer and dryer. The retards who lived here before us didnt even unscrew their water hose from the wall; they just cut the hose and left. That means we had to buy pliers to get it off the wall. I called Bell South to transfer my services from my old apartment to here. They said that the phone would be connected tomorrow, and the internet in two or three days. I am going to die. Thats pretty much all we did today.
5/7/07 Monday
I went to give the damage list to Emy, the property manager today. I told her about the extensive damage to the door, etc. She is going to have the door replaced, the screen replaced, and wall paper put up in our bedroom. She’s also having a ceiling fan put in the bedroom cuz there is supposed to be one and there isnt. She is also having the exterminator come Thursday. That solves some of my problems with the apartment.
Then we went home to Fort Oglethrope to get the rest of the stuff out of our apartment. We didnt have room for some of it. Also we didnt have time to clean it since we had to be here in Norcross before 5. Adam’s mom and her boyfriend cleaned it for us. We also had a cookout for Adam’s dad’s birthday. I bought Pepe the cutest little hoodie at petsmart while we were in town. It happened to get chilly towards the evening, so I put it on him at the party. He was adorable.
This one, but with a chihuahua in it instead of a yorkie.
5/8/07 Tuesday
We didnt do ANYTHING. We didnt unpack or anything at all. We found two more indian resteraunts though; the first one was all vegetarian. Adam said no way, so we went to the next one. It was called Ashiana. We had the lunch buffet. It was actually pretty good. The only thing that was weird was the rice. It actually had whole cinnamon sticks in it, and was kinda sweet (sweet as in sugary like, not “cool”).
Anyways, we didnt do anything.
5/9/2007
We were totally going to unpack today. We didnt. I got up at 11, ate lunch, and me and Pepe took a nap from like 2-4:30 pm. He’s funny. He will come and take naps with me and insist on being under the covers and if I dont give him enough pillow, he’ll even like back his head against mine to make room. I like taking a nap with him because dogs naturally have a higher body temperature than humans do, so he keeps me warm.
So tonight I decided that it was stupid that the Bell South people told me it would take that long for the internet to work here, so I found the modem and such and plugged it all in AND THE INTERNET WORKS.
AND HERE I AM
IVE BEEN HAVING WITHDRAWALS LIKE YOU DONT EVEN KNOW
Anyways, Im back and updates should be regular now, just like before!
Is being featured on nowpublic.com.
Some news reporter asked permission to use one of my photographs to portray her as a panther. lol.
Apparently parents are still torturing their kids with horrible names. Me and Adam got bored and were looking at that Parkridge hospital’s newborns again.
Bad names, including parents names:
Montrial
Andrayden
Ja’Niyah LeAsia
Ozlyn
Martavis Ja’van Raa’shard
Ronta (male)
Ja’Shun Kendale
Chazz De’Jion (mustard??)
RodneyWayne
Princess Alena Bella (had to include the photo on this one…
Acquinnitta
Trammel
Jada Nevaeh Japerryna
Anjonet’
Madilyn “Choley”
Dino
Jennofer
Dymoneika
Mathewkvtty
A’nevaeh
Kae’Te’Asya De’Ari (three apostrophes in one name!)
Cormetra
Kizzie
TraGontae Jamal
Malice’ Gabrielle Oluwadamilare
Attache’
Ugliest Babies I found:
this baby’s nose looks like Worf.
This looks like Chris Farley’s corpse.
“Be sure your sins will find you out”.
