pizza, goop and things we don't understand

juliet and i just made some homemade personal pizzas. she is so stoked. we're waiting for it to cool down, and she's watching little bear, so i thought i'd take a moment to write.

it went nicely last night. beck found A NEW DRESS and it is stunning. she looks so beautiful in it, and we're pretty sure that it's THE ONE. lyzz and i tried on a few new ones. they're pretty (i even looked good, what with all my lumps and all). oops, the d is calling, i'll be back...

so yea, we just ate our wonderful pizza and some fruit salad yummy yummy. she kept calling the cherries apricots. "these apricots are yummy mommy." i was like, no the apricot is the one you hate. silly old jules.

so she's in bed almost asleep and i have so much to do (clean, mop, pack for boston, pack juliet's diaper bag for her day @grandma and poppy's, start my paper, etc.) yet my A#1 priority is to go to sleep right this second. i'm crippled w/exhaustion (what the hell am i going to be like when i'm student teaching & working?!)

oh i finally figured out how to make goop (this magnificent creation of glue and liquid starch; its like playdough but cooler.) not perfect, but close enough. juliet freaking loved it. i had a good fun afternoon w/her. she just took her bath, and now every time the water is draining, she looks at me and says, "relax" and lies down floating on her back (i do this to her in the pool) it is so damn funny!

yea so i think becky found her dress. we're going up to boston tomorrow which i'm stoked about yet sad...i'll miss andy and the baby a lot...yet so super exited i could burst. becky & i went up to boston to visit amie once when she was a freshman in college. we had a nice, low key weekend (this was before amie was quite a drinker hahaha)(seriously)although we did have a huge fight over my archnemesis (do YOU have an archnemesis? its so fun to have one!)in this quaint college coffee shop. then we saw "american history x" and we discussed it endlessly outside in the freezing winter air whilst drinking coffee in harvard square. it was a moment, all warm and fuzzy looking back on it now. although at the time i hated amie w/all my heart. but i'm looking forward to going even tho we're leaving at 7am aka the BCOD.

i am right now listening to "the smiths" because i just need to understand them and the meaning behind the band so obsessed over in "how soon is never?" have i gushed about that on this site yet? cuz i know i must have driven amy and mike insane the other night driving home from the city cuz i am pretty sure that i KEPT talking about it. it's another marc spitz book, and it is WONDERFUL. i LOVED it so much i put jPOD on hold and finished it first. so great. read it. also, jPOD is still great just cuz its ol' doug. but now i love me ol' marc, and i cross my fingers and wish on a star that someday, in fall perhaps, i'll be buying him a drink!

also last night lyzz told me that she'd succomb to having a wedding/ceremony/party type deal IF I PLANNED IT ALL. hello!? i'm so there! i have my dress picked out and hers too!

something that is odd that i was just reminded of whilst listening to the smiths: "girlfriend in a coma" is both a smith's song AND a Douglas Coupland book!!! don't you just love when things go full circle.

on a final note: why do people try to make you feel like you're worthless? like, even if you don't have a lot of $$, or didn't while growing up, don't people realize that things change, and circumstances change? don't they see that there's a reason that some of us work our ballsacks off to go to school to get higher degrees, and get good jobs and so on and so forth? its so mindblowing. it makes me spend money lavishly to show that i'm NOT a fuckwad looser.

and to make you feel even worse for me, yesterday my grandmother told me to either blowdry or curling iron my hair cuz "you're too pretty to have hair like that."