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happy/sad

First, the good stuff:

Missouri by numbers:

Number of planes flown in(past 6 days):4

Number of airports strolled through: 3 (MCI, Atlanta, BWI)

cities visited within the past 6 days: Kansas City, Mo. Columbia, Mo.

Number of times my jaw hit the ground when looking at other people's houses while damning my own bad luck to live in a city where they even charge the cockroaches rent: 468 (give or take a couple of dozen)

number of alcoholic beverages consumed: um...no idea. man. i was v.v. bad.

number of alcoholic beverages consumed won through a game of 'Jukebox roulette' (which is a game where this bar picks a song on their jukebox at random and they give you clues and if you play it, everyone in the bar gets a drink on the house.) 1

number of times seeing the lucksmiths play in the past 5 days: 2

number of mornings i woke up to see them on the floor: only 1 (sadly)

(note to self, i gots to get me one of them aussie boys. it was cute hearing them say 'gud nyyyyyte' to each other. le sigh)

number of records purchased: 4 7 inches (two working holiday calander singles, an SF seals single (tee hee, i just typed 'wingle')that has 'don't underestimate me' on it, and and and and the saints (i'm)stranded. which was way more $$$ than i wanted to shell out for it, but i've been looking for it for about 10 years and it was 15 % off. so....yay. 2 records ('you're soaking in it' which was a comp with philly and NYC bands on it, including baby flame head, but alas, it's not 'amy' by baby flame head, which is another elusive song) and a wicked farley's album (i don't know why, but i can *never* find any wicked farley's in DC.) 2 CD's The new rainer maria, and sleater kinney's the hot rock. and plus the stuff jj gave me. i'm up to someone taller's eyeballs in great great great pop music.

great new friends whom i love: 6 (jj, mac, beck, ryan, erin, barb) plus, maybe the lucksmiths. actually, i'm just pretty much in love with mark. he's the cutest boy in the entire universe. i'm pretty sure. i mean, i guess we can take a vote on it or whatever, but i bet i'm right... i bet his live-in girlfriend would probably also back me up.

now, the not-so-good stuff. when my friend dropped me off at home, there was a black couch and some dresser drawers sitting by the curb near my apartment building. now, i've lived here long enough to recognize an eviction, so i think, well, it couldn't possibly be in *my* building. they put an eviction notice on the hippie girl's door upstairs a month and a half ago, and she's still there. shit, it took the girl, like, two weeks to even take the notice off of her door. so, i open my apartment door (after realizing that my deadbolt is not locked, just the door knob, and anyone with a safeway card and 45 seconds could have gotten into my apartment)and am greeted with the most god-awful stink. sadie is ok. she's alive. she seems perturbed, so i check the coffee can of food i left for raymond and the bags marked thrusday and friday are still in the can. her waterbowl is completely empty.and the stink is coming from my garbage can. i guess raymond fed her half a can of salmon or something and the rest of it has been sitting in my apartment for the past 6 days.

There's some stuff in the hallway of my apartment building, like one black sock, a flier for an elementry school, an envelope and an orioles ticket stub. i turn over the letter, and it's addressed to my neighbor, raymond's mother. i look at their door, and i see it's missing it's door knob. all of a sudden, i just feel sick and my heart starts pounding and i can't find anyone home who can answer my questions, that i feel pretty silly asking in the first place. it's pretty obvious tina and raymond have been evicted and i just sit on the stairs in my hallway and start to cry.

i never pick up stuff from someone else's evicted belongings, because i really believe that just brings bad luck (items thrown away, however, are a different matter. that's just being wasteful) but i pick up photo album off of the pile. one cover has been torn off, but i locate it. it's all pictures of tina's family from the late fiftes- mid 80's. or whenever 'who's that girl?' was released, because there's a picture of raymonds older sister standing by a madonna cardboard cut-out dressed in her 'who's that girl' ensemble. i also pull out a kid's book called 'lucky cat' that someone has inscribed to raymond along with 'good luck!'. i think i know where his step father works, so i'm hoping i can return these things to him.

when pete got home, he told me tina was 5-7 months behind in the rent and the landlord had given her a 'heads -up ' because she had kids. there's also stuff involving tylenol and vodka and the police and the fire department and ladders but i wasn't there, and quite frankly...it all makes me so sad.

12:01 p.m. - 2001-07-08

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