Archive for July, 2009

She’s My Cherry Pie

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Thanksgiving a few years back was fun. My mom and dad has just remodeled their living room and got new furniture, including a new, very lovely sofa. We all ate Thanksgiving dinner. What follows dinner on my favorite Thursday of the year?

Dessert. Cherry pie.

Ben and I were dating at the time. I fixed him and myself a large slice of pie and brought it to him in the living room. I jokingly hassled him about making sure he didn’t get anything on my mom’s new couch. And when I say hasseled, I mean I didn’t let up. I told him my mom would be soo irate if he as much as dropped a crumb, which was not true…I just wanted him to think that. We were all laughing and having a good time. I went to get up to get another glass of milk…

And my freaking piece of cherry pie plopped right on to my mom and dad’s 2 week old couch.

A hush fell over the whole room for what seemed like eternity. And then everyone bust out laughing and yelled for my mom to come see her lovely cherry-stained couch.

I guess that’s what I get for poking fun at him.

I posted this particular story to pay homage to my dear friend Ben Brown. This is the only time I will post any real names.
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EBRSO is looking for 28-year-old accountant Benjamin Brown who was last seen on surveillance entering his office at 8550 United Plaza Blvd. Wednesday morning at 5:20 a.m..

The surveillance does not show Brown leaving the building. His car was found at his office, with no signs of forced entry or any suspicious activity. Detectives also located his personal belongings inside Brown’s office. According to one of Brown’s professor’s Brown did not show up for his class that afternoon.

Detectives did a systematic floor-to-floor search of the building and its grounds to no avail. Detectives have also checked with all area hospitals in an attempt to locate Brown. Detectives also tried to locate Brown on his cell phone, but there was no answer.

Brown is a white male, 5′7″ in height and approximately 170 lbs.

Anyone with information as to Brown’s whereabouts is asked to contact the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office at 225-389-5000, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at (225) 344- STOP or (225) 344-7867.

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Something’s Fishy

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Esteban. Omar and I referred to him as our ‘love child’. And he was. We loved our little blue fish dearly. Dusty (Om’s brother/our roommate) trained him to jump out of the water and eat fish food pellets off his finger. Esteban was like our very own circus animal.

One day, I was sitting at work and got a text from Om. He said Esteban died. I was so sad. Omar then goes on to text me that Esteban died because Dusty fed him a dead mosquito off the tip of his finger.

What the hell?! Why would you feed the fish a dead mosquito in the first place, knowing that mosquitos carry disease. It’s still beyond me.

About a week or so later, we got a second ‘love child’. Jaundis. He was yellow. Jaundis unfortunately was not able to come along for the trip when I moved out. However, Omie was nice enough to give me a ‘housewarming’ gift when i moved in my new condo.

A new fish.

I, of course, thought it was odd to have a fish that was given to me by an ex as a housewarming gift floating around in my condo, but that’s just me. No, wait…everyone that I told the story to thought it was odd as well. Some said I should flush the fish down the toilet- ALIVE. I would never do such a thing. So I kept him and named him Sebastian (as in Belle & Sebastian).

A few weeks later, I had a male friend over. We stayed up the whole night talking- we talked about music, families, what we were/weren’t doing with our lives, what made us happy and what we could do to be even happier with ourselves. The night was quite ‘uneventful’ aside from the talking, but I was content.

The next day as soon as my friend left, he calls me and tells me that one of our mutual friend’s sent him a text that said, “Did you see her fish?”

At the time, I was pissed that nosy people existed in the world. But if anyone asked me today if he saw my fish, I’d say, “Yes. Why, yes he did see Sebastian.”

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Cheeky Rags!

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

This past Halloween, Zack and I planned to go camping with some of his friends. Now…Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because I like to dress up. I like how costumes make me feel like I’ve transformed into something new for a change. However, I’ve always wanted to go camping, so I was semi-content.Then Zack told me that everyone else was still dressing in their costumes anyway-SOLD!

I drive to NOLA after work one Friday, meet up with Zack, get into my gear- I was Raggedy Ann and I looked pretty darn cute. We leave NOLA to go camp  somewhere in the middle of nowhere (aka Mississippi). We arrive at the camp site. Zack and I walk up to everyone huddled around the fire. 

And no one else has on a freaking costume! I had been had! 

 

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