meisa's lagoon

i'm off to juliebutt's wedding. she takes me and shows me around her family's estate in the country. funny how i never knew about this place growing up. suddenly i realize that the estate is not in the country but in las vegas, and next door is some sort of sleezy dance club/heavy metal concert. it is now evident that it is not juliebutt who is getting married, but shokufeh instead. she has arrived to be married vegas style. she has no dress, but is waiting for it to come in the mail. it is strapless, hot pink, with a short poofy skirt. she seems unconcerned that she is getting married in a few hours, and the UPS man has not brought her dress. i am very concerned, but distracted by the guests that slowly start to arrive. suddenly, i'm very worried that my college roommates haven't arrived. why aren't they there yet? anne is about to get married! as the bride, she isn't there and our other roommates, cynthia and kirsten, have not arrived to relearn the dance to madonna's true blue, which we will be performing at the reception. i start to practice the moves to the dance when anne comes running in, frantic, asking me why i didn't meet her at the pancake house.

Posted by Meisa at 10:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

i stress.
i stress because of work. it's funny that i call it work, when so often, my work doesn't work.
i blog.
i blog because i stress. i stress because of work. it's funny that i call it work, when so often i am not actually working at work.
in order to remove the stress i must work. but working stresses me out more because working just doesn't work.
i suppose i can look to the light at the end of the tunnel. but i think the electricity must have gone out or something because there is no light down there. in fact, i don't even see the tunnel.
how do i get out of this mess?!?!?!?!

Posted by Meisa at 11:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

i have just managed to consume a gross amount of rold gold cheese pretzels. why can't i stop?!?!?!

oh, but if you haven't had them, i highly recommend. quite good. just understand when enough is enough.

Posted by Meisa at 12:00 PM | Permalink

so with shokufeh's help, i've learned how to show pics. i won't overload lacey's site with them, but every once in awhile, i'll share some images. i think i've emailed these pictures to a lot of you already, but this is my newly painted room!
i'm lovin' it.

Posted by Meisa at 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

THE GOOD: i parked today in a spot with approximately 2 inches between me and the cars on either end. go me! and i have no cavities! (unrelated, but still good)

THE BAD: my rent is going up by 33%. is this fair? do they expect me to be able to afford this? and especially after i just painted my room! while i really like my apartment, i don't think i like it that much.

THE UGLY: after weeks of not watching tv, somehow i ended up watching some of fear factor last nite. my only response to this show is why? why do people come up with the idea of biting into cow intestines and drinking the intestinal juice? why do people actually carry this idea out? and most of all why did i watch?

Posted by Meisa at 04:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

well, you know, she was totally bashing you the other day. she said you were an inconsiderate, rude bitch.
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how dare you slam me? how could you call me those names? i totally have your back on everything, and you say those things about me?
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you told her i said that? i didn't say those things. i said what i did in confidence to you, and i would never call her those things. you totally misinterpreted what i said, and now she hates me.
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you told her i told you? i'm sorry, but i don't tell you these things so you go blabbing them to the world. besides, i didn't say she called you a bitch. i just said that you hurt her feelings.
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i'm so sorry honey, you know i love you.
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i'm so sorry honey, you know i love you.
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i'm so sorry honey, you know i love you.
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just come out with it already. don't go beating around the bush, or pass it through a game of operator. you must know that never works in the end anyway.

Posted by Meisa at 06:29 PM | Permalink

any indigo girls fans out there? they are coming saturday, april 24th and i am determined to go since i missed out on cyndi lauper (tonite by the way, if anyone has any last minute tickets for me)
come from far if you must! i hear they are pretty good in concert. comment if you are interested! or if you pity me for having no one to go with and feel sorry enough for me to tag along.
and boys...keep in mind that they are lesbians. and while i think they are a little more on the "rough" side, i'm sure there will be pleny of attractive supporting lesbians in the audience!

Posted by Meisa at 05:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

recent compliments from coworkers and what i should have said:

CW: your shoes are...unique.
MK: you are...a moron.

CW: oh, well if you made that, it doesn't really matter if it breaks.
MK: i guess you're right. i don't think it would really matter either if i broke your body in half.

CW: your art looks like a toilet.
MK: why thank you. your head looks like a toilet.

Posted by Meisa at 05:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

i have befriended someone who hates all. maybe he even hates me, but i don't think he does. yet. he tells me that i have no clue how much hatred he has inside him. seems to me that you can't hate more than a few people because then the word begins to lose meaning. but he claims to hate most everyone he encounters, just at different degrees.
but can we say the same for love? i have tended to use love fairly loosely. by loosely, i mean i have told many of my friends, boyfriends, and relatives that i love them. because i do. but maybe i have been too free with the word. maybe, like hatred, if you love too many people the word begins to lose meaning.
but somehow i don't think this rule holds for the word love. why not? how can it work for the opposite of love, but not for love? maybe just as the the universe tends towards disorder, the world also favors love. the universe becomes a better place, the more love there is. so maybe i haven't been loose enough with the word.
in that case...i love you!

Posted by Meisa at 08:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

clean off the mess, throw the window open, splash up the colors, and pave the road for a new life.
are there things you have always wanted to do? well, no time's better than the present. is there someone you've always wanted to be? well, now's your chance. nothing is holding you back. you can be the you you've always wanted.
listen to opera, make love by candlelight, dance in the rain, and make angels in the snow.
now's the time...ready, set, GO!

Posted by Meisa at 04:01 PM | Permalink

growing up with my iranian grandparents around me led me to a certain appreciation for fruits and vegetables that other people my age did not have. not a single american kid i went to school with consumed nearly as much fruit as i did. i remember pulling out the pieces of my lunch that my mother packed for me...orange, apple, pear, grapes, carrots, and maybe one cookie. while all the other kids had kudos bars, oreos, hostess cupcakes, cheetos, and the like. while i used to push the fruits away, now i'm incredibly thankful that i wasn't given the sugary artificialness that is a little debbie oatmeal creampie or the radioactive orange "cheese" covered cheetos. i am the one now pushing the fruit on myself. going to the grocery store, not because i have no more bread, milk, or stuff for dinner, but because i have run out of oranges. and now, i appreciate fruit and vegetables in a new way. the following are two examples:

1) cucumbers. they are great in water! while i used to love eating them and putting the peel all over my face (good for your skin and very cooling!), now they can decorate my favorite drink. dirty dave, i think you should try this one. you'll really like it. just one slice in a glass will do.

2) carrots. i had been told by someone (i think maybe shokufeh) years ago that carrots are good for my vagina. and yours! if you have one that is. why, i don't know. i tried to look it up one time and found some correlation between vitamin b and mucus membrane, which i guess lines vaginas. but who knows? i really just like to tell people this fact. they are usually too shocked to ask why. spread the word! ladies, eat carrots! gentlemen, feed your favorite female those wonderful mini carrots. maybe even a nice bag of them for valentine's day? what's good for a woman's vagina is good for everyone else too!

Posted by Meisa at 09:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

what does one do with the pictures? take them down, put them in a box, pretend that part of your life never existed? no, i don't think i can do that. i never want to let go of that part of my life. throw them away? no, i know i can't do that. i've always been superstitious about throwing pictures out. i've just kind of thought that harming a picture was like harming the person. so i never throw them away. even the one of me camping from this summer where i just ran into the picture before the automatic timer went off and it looks like i just sat down to find that i crapped in my pants. but i digress. do i just leave them up? no, that doesn't seem like a good option either, just painful reminders. so i'm still left with the question, what does one do with the pictures?

Posted by Meisa at 09:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

there were some problems with my the lay-c.com family of blogs, but my wonderful blog mom fixed most everything (see entry, lacey=miss fix-it) and i'm back. my formatting of the site got screwy so that's why it looks a little different, but i saved the original. even so, i'm thinkin i might change some things around though, so stay with me and witness the rebirth of the lagoon!

Posted by Meisa at 03:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)