2.21.2004

Mardi Gras!!!!!

I'm sorry to hear that lala, about the whole coffee thingy, at least you had fun though. Newaz, I woke up butt freakin early to go set up for the St. Louis Mardi Gras parade this morning. I wore tons of layers, but was still freezin my butt off b4 it started. It was so cool,,,,everyone was screamin their heads off for beads,,, and I had 3 guys flash me their man boobs for some beads,,so I HAD to give in and give em' some. I was lucky though, to only see one set of chick boobs,,ie a really big fat lady YUCK!!! But hey, at least is wasn't some beutiful chick that would have made me feel bad...I don't know how,,,so don't ask... There was one part you aren't going to believe!!! After walking for about a half hour I heard my name being called, and I'm like who the hell is that cory??? NO!!! It was ADAM and some of his friends,,,,WHAT THE HELL??!!!??? I know things haven't been the greatest for us in the last couple of months,,but I've been posting my away messages about the parade....He pry knew I was gonna be there,,but he didn't even call??!! Or im me at least sayin he was comin to st. louie.... I wanted to call him when I got to the pad and steve wasn't around,,,but I figured I'd pry look like an idiot callin him to chill with him tonight.... cuz obviously he doesn't want to be around me...But damn, that pisses me off so bad.... It really sux liking someone sooo bad who use to feel the same about you,, it sux even more knowing that the only thing that happened bad wise between us was we stopped talkin a whole lot last summer...Am I crzy for bein this upset about him not tellin me he was coming down here????

Military Ball Turnout

I... am a klutz. It appears that I do not know how to be a sophisticated woman.

The ball was a very formal event. We went with his frat brother Sarge (who is also in Army ROTC at SIUE), and his girlfriend Britannia. I wore my prom dress from Junior year, and I was worried (because I was told it was kind of an informal event) that it would be too fancy... but when I got there, everyone was wearing fancy prom dresses anyways. Well, except for those who had to wear their uniforms... and I must say, Ryan looked handsome in his. I wanted to make it look like my boobs were smaller than they are, and for more support, I duct taped my bra up and I think I may have even ruined it.

I know SOME dinner etiquette.... but come on. What direction must you really pass the water?!? Does it matter? What if I don't WANT water, and neither does anyone else on my side of the round table? Must I STILL pass it? I'm making a big deal out of this because that's exactly what happened with the coffee.... and I almost spilled it and knocked over my empty coffee cup as well.

The food was decent..... we had a salad an bread for starters, then we had green beans, rice with mushrooms in it, and this chicken stuff... covered in skin and filled with yummy mushrooms. Then we all got cheesecake afterwards. Not a fan of cheesecake but I thought I might be appreciative and eat the cheesecake.

We sat at a table where Ryan didn't know anyone so we pretty much sat in silence the whole time. (There was assigned seating.) There was this whole formal deal about bringing in the flags, saying a prayer, congratulating the graduating senior class, listening to speeches, and other ceremonial stuff. Then they took the flags away and the formal dinner became an informal dance. We didn't stay for that though. Ryan doesn't dance, trust me, unless he's drunk. But I didn't mind. I was kinda tired. I met all of his commanding officers or whatever, and they all seemed pretty nice.

The military isn't for everyone, and definitely not for me. I couldn't handle it. Formal dinners are fun if they are romantic, and you and your date thoroughly enjoy yourselves..... but I just tried hard not to embarrass my date, even though I stepped on about 3 girl's dresses (THEY GOT IN THE WAY MAN!@!!!!)

Anyways we were supposed to go to a party afterwards but I think Sarge was in hot water with his woman and so he didn't call and we ended up staying in. I had to work a 9-5 at the library today so I didn't mind. I was in bed by 1:00am.

2.19.2004

the SODA thief!!!!

Ok so... I have been drinking lots of water lately.... and not so much soda. Before work, I saw a Cherry Pepsi sitting in the fridge that I had forgotten I had, and had every intention of taking it to work with me.

I forgot to take it to work, but did not turn back because I just figured that I would have it when I got home. Well, when I got home and I was going to the fridge, I saw an opened bottle of Cherry Pepsi sitting on the coffee table. 3/4 empty. NOT EVEN HALF!!!!

So it's sitting there taunting me, and I think- well, it is mine (I checked the fridge, it was), I should drink what's left of it! I, however, am still somewhat peeved about the soda thief because it has been sitting there and no one has touched it for so long... why now?. PLUS-Erika does not take other people's things without asking- so it must have been Kate. This is not a case of one person just taking my soda. Kate doesn't even LIKE soda. AND SHE DIDN'T FINISH IT! She left it there for me to stare at, wishing that I could have tasted the cherry fizzyness that is my cherry pepsi.

By the way, what was left of the contents was extremely flat, so I ended up dumping it. What a waste!!!! I'm going to have to label my precious caffeine from now on.

Those of you who think I am overreacting may be right. But don't drink something you don't even LIKE when you know damn well it belongs to a roommate who can't live without it. Be considerate, that's all I ask. Goodnight to you.

To End Surveys for the Time Being

How much do we actually know about our friends? This
is a questionnaire to get to know your friends better.
Make sure you read the instructions at the bottom and
have fun... !
(I got this from Ashley and I'm taking a break from Library duties)

1. What time is it? 7:10

2. Name as it appears on birth certificate? Laura Minette Griffith

3. Nicknames: LaLa, Tippy... my cousin Steve used to call me Boogs. (haha)

4. Number of candles on your last birthday: none, but should have been 20

5. Pets: 2 kitties who are going bye bye after tonight- Maddie and Bella, my dog Hershey, several goldfish, and a betta names Sean Connery

6. Hair: brown

7a. Piercing: ears and cartilage...woooooooo

7b: Tattoos: Jesus wouldn't like that you know.

8. Eye color: brown and green (what else do u know is brown and green?)

9. Hometown: Godfrey

10. Town you live in: Godfrey/ Edwardsville at the moment

11. Favorite food: cauliflour spaghetti... u never know until u try it

12. Ever been to Africa: um no.... I know of a guy from there tho.

13a. Been toilet papering? sure have

13b. Get caught? nope I am slick

14. Love someone so much it made you cry? I don't think loving anyone has made me cry, unless they died.

15. Been in a car accident? yes :( the nooooooova! and on the way to Tex-ass

16. Croutons or bacon bits? croutons

17. Favorite day of the week: sunday.... the only work I could possibly have is 12-4 at Hayner Youth

18. Favorite restaurant: Red Robin

19. Favorite flower: blue phlox (native to southern Illinois)

20. Favorite sport to watch: baseball

21. Favorite drink: mountain dew with the cherry squirts from Hit N Run

22. Favorite ice cream flavor: can u say YUCK

23. Disney or Warner Bros: W.B. both are super

24. Favorite fast food restaurant: McDonalds, der

25. What color is your bedroom carpet? brownish tan.... no carpet at school

26. How many times did you fail your driver's test? well corona said once, but he would have been lying.. he did that a lot

27. Before this one, whom did you get your last e-mail
from? Rachel Lowe- blowchunks

28. Which store would you choose to max out your
credit card? target, or as altonians once called it- Certa world

29. What do you do most often when you are bored? post on this blog (im a winner)

30. Most annoying thing people ask me: so did whats his face call you? (No duh)

31. Bedtime: anytime between 10:30 and 2:30 (earlier lately)

32. Who will respond to this email the quickest? this is no longer an email

33. Who is the person you sent this to that is least
likely to respond? again..... aaaaaaand SHUT IT!

34. Favorite TV shows? Conan O'Brien, Friends, Saturday Night Live

35. Last person you went out to dinner with? Ryan

36. Ford or Chevy: Chevy

37. What are you listening to right now? the (BING!) of the checkout here at the library

38. What is your favorite color? blue

39. Time you finished this email? 7:21


I think I know how to post pics.............

ok maybe not, i'll pull the pic up, but with a big ole X in it. So sorry guys,,, I tried,,,maybe blogger doesn't support pictures. So what is everyone's plans for this weekend??? Anything good?? I have a hockey tournament, go figure, in fairview heights. Oh, by the way,, last weekend's tournament in Windsor, oh who was MVP of the tournament,,,yours truly thanks! Newho, is anyone goin to mardi gras in st. louis??? My team is walkin in the parade, so if you wanna come, you better do it!! do it do it!!! I do believe cory will be there, and Mother-Ta-Rachel as well. Just let me know so we can meet up someplace. Well, I guess I better go, I'm goin to see Miracle tonight at 7pm. bye bye

I think know how to post pictures..............

2.18.2004

Judge Judy makes me feel good...

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I get the privledge of watching a number of court cases on tv such as: Texas Justice, Judge Joe Brown(my fave), that other black judge...i can't think of his name...and Judge Judy. Man, she is a huge biznitch!! Watching her makes me feel so good! All day she gets to tell stupid m-fers how stupid they really are! Thats what I want to do. Tell people how dumb they are, and how they shouldn't even have right to breathe. Ahhh...shes so invigorating!!

2.17.2004

Noteable Quotes 2

What are they to feel? Who are they to be? What am I to do with you and me?
-Nickelback

Mirrors on the ceiling, and pink champagne on ice. We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.
-Eagles

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly... off the coast and I'm headed nowhere.
-Ben Folds Five

All I can say is my life is pretty plain. I like watching puddles gather rain....... I'll always be there when you wake. You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, so stay with me and I'll have it made. And I don't understand why I sleep all day, and I start to complain when there's no rain. And all I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away but its a great escape.
-Blind Melon

Sunlight doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day. All things must pass... all things must pass away.
-George Harrison

April 27

Is the date of the Strokes. I'm too lazy to get a pen and write it down so I'm posting it. Thanks Diane.

I surprised myself!

I'm only 60% slutty. I thought I'd be more. I'm sluttier than 81% of the world and cleaner than 18%. But that cleaner thing is a lie. I'm a very clean person. I use baby wipes when i go poo and wash my hands after I use the bathroom or touch a door knob. I also will open a public bathroom door with a paper towel so i don't get germs!! Ask laura I didn't want to open the bathroom door at that apt last week.

The lesson- I MAY BE SLUTTY BUT AT LEAST I'M A CLEAN SLUT.(according to my "clean" standards!

Mary Kate, Ashley and Diane Olsen!!

Well my mom is making a big deal about a mary kate and ashley olsen pic. So go to your local supermarket and look at the magazine called IN TOUCH. apparently there is a pic on the cover of one of them that looks just like me! Let me know what you think. Thats my destiny...I'm suppose to be a mary kate and ashley double!!!! Kick ass!!

Pictures

I don't think I am going to be able to figure out how you can post little picture icons on here with your names.... maybe you need to have some sort of html knowledge, which I don't... I'm NOT GIVING UP!!!!

Look What I Found Out

I dont think this is good:

34% Slutty

New Bloggers and A Military Ball

Kevin, thank you so much for dropping us a line.... I’m glad one of the boys has the time to say hi. I’m afraid Cory may be semi- internet illiterate (except when it comes to porn of course), and Thomas hardly ever gets online (and when he does he does not use AIM so I haven’t really spoken with him for awhile.

I believe that Jon Lasinski has joined us at What The Fu#@$%?!? But he has not posted anything yet so I’m not sure if his invite worked, although he said it was good. So eveyone say hi to Jon and Kevin.

So what is new people? How did everyone’s Valentine’s Day go? I know how Jen’s went, and Emily’s and mine.
Diane? Kevin?

This coming Friday, I am to attend a military ball with Ryan. It’s supposed to be really boring but you know I make sacrafices. Plus he says he would go with me if it were my thing, and I appreciate the time I do get to spend with him. I am going to wear my prom dress from junior year. Still looks cute! (I tried it on last week) It is kinda fancy, and this is kind of a formal ordeal, but I want to look cute. I thought I'd just not do anything fancy to my hair and then everything would balance out.

By the way Kevin, I thought you were getting a new car.... but I like black personally. Remember.... red cars seem to be bad luck with crashes. My mommy told me that (take this from the woman who had several crashes at the same post office in one week.)

Hello to all

Well I would like to say I am sorry I haven't had time to post anything yet. All I do is work. I would also like to say hello to all you lovely people. Now, you can help me make a decision. I have decided to get my car painted, but i can not decide between blue and black. Let me know what you think, even if it happens to be a completely different color. Well, back to school I go then off to work.

2.16.2004

"I ain't wastin no more time..."

....until seeing the freaking STROKES in concert with Diane in April...... GOOD LORD I have been waiting for this for forever! They are coming to the Pageant, and tickets were really cheap as far as good concerts go. By the way Diane, what was the exact date? So I can be sure I ask off for it.

Wanna see how stupid me and Jen are just for fun?

jennMFifer11 (5:08:46 PM): im having a brain fart what does USSR stand for?
Griff7997 (5:09:15 PM): russia
Griff7997 (5:09:19 PM): i donno specifically
jennMFifer11 (5:09:30 PM): ok
Griff7997 (5:09:35 PM): united soviet states of russia?
Griff7997 (5:09:38 PM): maybe
jennMFifer11 (5:09:44 PM): maybe

Laura Bob Swishy Pants says:
and what does USSR stand for?
RYAN- says:
united socialist soviet republic

Griff7997 (5:13:24 PM): i was way off
jennMFifer11 (5:14:30 PM): i know we both were
Griff7997 (5:14:40 PM): what was your guess?
jennMFifer11 (5:15:12 PM): blah blah blah russia

2.15.2004

Noteable Song Quotes 1

When the world ends... collect your things, you're coming with me.
-Dave Matthews Band

Like a flower waiting to bloom, like a lightbulb in a dark room......I'm just sittin here, waiting for you to come on home and turn me on.
-Norah Jones

How the hell'd we wind up like this? Why weren't we able to see the signs that we missed, and try to turn the tables? Now the story's played out like this, just like a paperback novel. Let's rewrite an ending that fits.

I'd hope that since we're here anyway, we could end up saying things we've always needed to say, so we could end up staying.
-Nickelback

She says that love is for fools that fall behind. I'm somewhere between... you never know a killer from a savior. We're here right now, and will we ever be again? Cuz I have found that all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade.... Too far away for me to hold, guess I'll let it go.
-Fuel

Is it me? Is it you? Nothing that I can do.... Is it a waste of time?
-Hoobastank

Don't waste your time on me, you're already the voice inside my head.

We can live like Jack and Sally if you want, where you can always find me... and we'll have Halloween on Christmas, and in the night we'll wish this never ends.
-Blink 182

Wake up naked, drinking coffee, making plans to change the world. While the world was changing us, was good, good love. You used to laugh beneath the covers, maybe not so often now. The way I used to laugh with you, was loud and hard....

Isn't it strange how we change everything we did? Did I do all that I could? Remember we used to dance, and everyone wanted to be you and me? I want to be too...
-Dave Matthews

How'd It Go??

So Diane and Cory came down on Friday night and met some of the AKLs, including Ryan. It was fun, all we did was sit at one of their apartments and drink 'n' stuff.

Valentine's Day went wel.. Ryan picked me up at 5:30 and we headed out to eat. When we arrived at the Olive Garden, there was a 2 hour and 50 minute wait... so we put his name down and went across the way to the St. Clair Cine and saw the Butterfly Effect. When we got back to the restaurant, we waited a grand total of about 2 minutes and they had a table for us. The servece was good, food was quick, food was really yummy. Everything seemed to be going well. On the way home we argues about music as we so often do, but thats routine. We went to his apartment and watched some TV and I came home and went to sleep cuz I didn't get much the night before.

Today all I did was work. I have decided I am going to post a bunch of lyrics from my favorite songs..... because music makes me so undescribably happy I just feel like I might explode (haha "an explosion...... but a good one" - Cruel Intentions, on the subject of orgasms)........