mall of america

tonight lief and i are having a sleep over at hoolie’s. we will be sleeping here tomorrow night as well, on account of our bedroom floor being refinished.

then, finally, we may be able to start unpacking some of our things at the new place. there is still some painting to do (the insides of the closets are now being ripped out and repainted in favour of erecting good-quality shelving/ storage units). the closet doors (to the storage room, hall closet, bedroom closet) all have to be painted as well.

in the meantime, lief finished the ungodly process of melamine-ing the cupboard doors and will be attaching *new* hinges and *new* pulls on them in the next two days. the kitchen is finally starting to look like a kitchen. i am nearly peeing my pants with anticipation of actually *cooking* things there.

today, chold, lief and i went on a road trip to the united states of america.

the highlights and lowlights:

- lief and i fail to realize to ‘fall back down’ and get up an hour early. i call chold at what i think is 10:10am saying “where are you, duder?” and he is all “chill, it is only 9:10am... i will be there in 45 minutes - as planned”.

- breakfast at mcdonald’s. don’t buy the horse shit that “supersize me” sells you. sometimes an egg mcmuffin with no meat is *exactly* what you need to do to maintain good health.

- dicknose at the border asks us where our passports are, when the canadian gov’t web site clearly indicates that you *do not* need your passport to cross the border by car - until january 2008. dude treats us like twats for 10 minutes and then tells us, vaguely, that we may enter his country.

- ‘bed, bath, and beyond’. chold finds sheets. lief and i find pant hangers. it’s not even noon and we have already spent $60 USD.

- we accidentally run into a hotrod show. in the very, very cold and rainy weather, we all ooh and aah over some deliciously pinstriped cars and trucks. chold takes pics. maybe i will post some.

- taco bell for lunch. run for the border. choke_hold eats two 7 layer burritos. apparently, my ridiculous appetite has not yet waned.

- more items purchased: tattooing magazines, hot rod magazines, crafting magazines, DIY magazines, *two* pairs of shoes for choke_hold, some hexmas prezies, boxes of ‘good and plenty’.

- lief tries on some tapered hipster pants at ‘hot topic’. laughter ensues.

- we try to find out what the store ‘lovers package’ actually is. we arrive 1 minute before closing and the woman reminds us three times as we enter “we are closing very, very soon”. for future reference, ‘lovers package’ is a cheesy, zellers-style store for crappy lingerie and sexually-related products. bet there would have been some cheap and predictable naughty-nurse and naughty-schoolgirl outfits there. too bad we didn’t have the chance to make chold try them on.

- more grease at an american red robin. jalepenos are consumed.

- oh god, you thought it would stop - - - but we go to krispy kreme and eat a free donut. then we buy 6 more. none of the donuts are eaten on the way home. we have all reached maximum united states of america food consumption levels.

- canadian border guy is so friendly and laid back that we all cheer silently as he waves us through onto canadian soil. i am pretty sure we all liked him so much at that point in the day that we would have gladly given him a handjob. separately or as a group.

okay - it’s late. me and miss missyfuss are going to bed.

why am i already thinking about hexmas? what the hell? i have already bought half my presents. i get so excited sometimes.