blue moon

so today was a good day. why? i'll tell you why:

one: i didn't feel like crap for most of the day. only for the past hour or so have i been out of it, but that's only because of low blood sugar. but we're gonna eat soon so it's ok.

two: went into santa looking for navy blue pants so i can have something else to wear to school, drop off my dress at the dry cleaners, and get fabric for a shawl sorta thing that i can wear with the dress. so we walk around the mall, looking for pants. we go into mervyns, fail to find pants, but find this blue fire belt instead. in the little boys section. question: why do guys always get the cool clothes? so anyway we buy the belt and a little something for jansen's baby.

walk down the mall some more. go into american outfitters, because i've never been in there, and they might have navy blue pants. but no, i get something better: "hey, flickerstick!" (whenever i go out anywhere anymore i wear my flickerstick shirt. ask people. if they've ever seen me outside of school uniform, 9 out of 10 times i'm wearing that shirt. go ahead, ask.) i turn around and there's this guy working there, who actually knows about flickerstick. not only does he know about them, but he saw them play in ohio. and he likes them. it was the most amazing thing that's happened to me in a while. and it doesn't hurt that the guy was hot.

walk down the mall some more, go into dillards, and see all these girls getting those free makeovers. smart girls: they get their makeup for prom done for free. walk out of dillards, run into katie, irena, and rebecca. go into fye, buy alex another keychain since she lost hers (alex i have a keychain for you... and if you already got another one that's ok i can keep this one). walk out of fye, and my ma says "well we could always check out jc penny's." yeah, we could do that, even though we usually never find anything in there. but i say sure, ok. we walk in and look at the prom dresses (looking for a throw/shawl that might go with my dress), and i find this one. this blue, size 12, skirt and top prom dress. for $30. holy. fuck. batman. i try it on. it fits. but look, there's a tear in it. no wonder it was on sale. i told you that you couldn't find a decent dress in size 12. but look, there's another one, and it's size 8, and why don't you just try it on? ok. i try it on. holy. fuck. batman. it fits. it's $40, but we take it anyway. get to the register. oh look, penny's has a saturday one day only sale. make that $30. it's like when i got my guitar for $75. amazing.

so, i have a prom dress that my mother bought me. which means, yes, i am going to prom.

didn't see that one coming, did you?