Thursday, December 27, 2007

Where the hell are you, Sovereign?

I am living in my parent's basement.

It's actually pretty classy. I feel pretty comfortable bringing random men home from the bar, where they can lounge around on my parent's floral loveseat, or circle their nipples beside our family portrait circa 1987, possibly while clawing their hands in mid-air in a ferocious, tantalizing invitation to.... get herpes. Seriously, when would I ever bring random men home from the bar?

(Except for this one time when me and the girls DESPERATELY needed to get drunken McDonalds, and we met some guy in the parking lot of our hotel who offered to DD us there ... safest decision I ever made. My Chicken McNuggets tasted that much better because they were flavoured with DANGER.)

I can just hear you asking, "Parent's basement, Sarah?"

Well. Long story short I travelled here by hot air balloon* about two weeks ago, with my disgruntled cat, my dad, his Steve Brown sermon tapes and my camera whose card was full of some incredibly spectacular photos of the dashboard. It was awesome that my dad came to pick me up because otherwise I would've had to find a new home for half my stuff.... and honestly, I need all four copies of Alice in Wonderland that I own. We did a big switch with me and my cousin Mike, who is now living in Masset, and now I am diligently attempting to figure out what I'm going to do next in my life.

I am seriously thinking of becoming a trapeze artist. I've been practicing really hard. Like, mostly in my head, where I've been going over the moves I'll do when I finally get my trapeze all set up. ... In my parent's basement, but once it's up and running and I've scheduled my summer tour, it'll be AMAZING.

*Okay, not really, but wouldn't that have been awesome?

Me and my mom!

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posted by sarah, the pirate at 8:05 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Tom said...

If your parents' basement has the standard 7-foot-high ceiling, this means you will be dangling no more than three feet from a plushly carpeted floor. This is not the most convincing scenario in which to call yourself a "trapeze artist," particularly if you wish to avoid involuntary commitment.

Perhaps you could tell people you've become a giant, flightless bird. (An ostrich? An irradiated mutant bird?) In any event, you'll want to occasionally peck at some nearby birdseed to give your account the requisite "je ne sais quoi" (literally, "I have forgotten my thorazine").

December 28, 2007 12:15 AM  

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ImageHi. My name is Sarah
and I live by the sea. I like pirates and vikings and my audio cassette tape player. I am 25 years old and pretty much covered in sand all the time. Also, I like cookies. My profile.

ImageHey Sarah, what are ye listening to?
Lots and lots o' stuff, like St. Germain's "So Flute" and "Ghosts" by Ladytron. I can't believe Robyn is out with new stuff and it doesn't make me want to show her love by jabbing rusted forks into my eyes. It's actually really catchy and kind of endearing. I have been looking up the songs from So You Think You Can Dance all year, too, because it's all awesome and at heart, I'm still a spandexed little dancer ready to punch Annie in the face and show Daddy Warbucks a thing or two about tap musicals.

ImageI'M READING:
Walking Dead:

    Frigging awesome. One of the best books about the Zombocalypse I've ever read (one of the only good books about the Zombpocalypse I've ever read). I think there's something about zombies that is so hard to construe via text ... I mean, honestly, you can only use the word "purtrid" so much, and the visual, awesome aid of comics really helps.

ImageI'M SEEING:
Quarantine, a movie that's kind of the equivalent to being on the Disney spinning teacup ride, except, also, there are RABID ZOMBIES ON BOARD. Honestly, I missed quite a bit of this movie because I spent a good portion of it with my head nestled into my boyfriend's armpit attempting not to vomit. The camera movement is, at times, insanely choppy and all over the place, and those of you prone to motion sickness, you might want to skip this one. I'd give it about 2 1/2 stars out of 5, because it's decent -- I'd even watch it again if I could keep the room from spinning.

ImageBOOK CLUB!:
The Kite Runner. I love this book. It wasn't necessarily a book I'd choose to read (these days I appear to be more interested in books geared towards teenage girls.), but I'm so glad I did. Beautiful writing. Next choice... I'm going to volunteer the Bell Jar because IT'S THE BEST BOOK EVER.