hangovers

apparently we lifted the ban on smoking indoors. on tuesday woke to a smoggy living room covered in a fine coating of crushed up popcorn, several empty bottles of whiskey, enough beer bottles to keep our homeless lady fed for a week and lots and lots of cups and mugs filled with cigarette butts. that's a dora the explorer paper cup filled with ashes and cigarette slime. the floor has been mopped and the makeshift ashtrays thrown away or washed, but there is still the faint smell of chain smoker.

FOUND: other people suck at life

enough footage from our ever-trashed apartment. we were at a party on monday (that's right, WE PARTY ON MONDAYS) and found this evidence during a pee break. there were no less that 6 beers strewn in and about the bath tub. there was also a giant tub of bleach on the ledge of the tub, that obviously had not been utilized in a very very long time. ah, good intentions! the bud light poised next to the caribbean cocktail home fragrance spray is particularly poignant. although, i will admit, that 40 in the paper bag was mine.

trash day

and we forgot to bring out the barrels

CNN Acknowledges Re-teening Effect

Around here, we know all about going out on your own for a while after high school and then having to run back home with your tail between your legs when you realize your live-in boyfriend is a douche, or that your part time job cant pay the bills, or you'd really rather just save some money so you can buy your first place instead of paying rent throughout your twenties. We affectionately refer to this phenomenon as "re-teening" (thanks, Dirty D.)

Although it seemed like a grim prospect at first, this life style choice has some decided benefits: no (or low, if your parents are assholes) rent and access to a stocked fridge. In my experience there were some drawbacks as well: as an adult, the fact that my mother is a lunatic was even harder to ignore than it was when i was an angsty teen and i couldnt bring boys home. not just one night stands, no steady boyfriends, either. no boys allowed! period! your parents hear you having sex once and they turn into christian fundamentalists. sheesh.

CNN had an article (or rather an expanded ireport, which is annoying, but i digress) today about this increasingly popular phenomenon. Apparently with this downturn in the economy, people are sucking at life now more than ever.

click the link to see the article