thongs and fireworks...

whadda weekend.

my sister's home now, the wedding's less than two weeks away. Friday night we had her bachelorette party with two of her friends from college. i had so much fun, she and her friends are hilarious and we had a blast. we took her out to dinner and ate ourselves silly on great pasta and decadent chocolately deserts. yeah, so my sister got a few pairs of "butt floss" and other miscellanious presents (some more x-rated than others) from me and the girls. we had a great time.

carrie's fiance flew in from norway saturday night, which made carrie practically bounce off the walls. Too bad Leif's luggage is MIA... but the 4th of july was lots of fun with him, even if it was reaching a nice level of the traditional disgusting south jersey summer swelter. monday night we watched fireworks over the lake (there's a "lake" in my town, it was the first superfund site in the US, and until it got cleaned up perhaps a better name for it would have been Alcyon Fetid Pool of Toxic Pollution instead of Alycyon Lake). but anyway, fireworks = good. of course, it seemed like everyone had someone special to snuggle up with, and me, well, my digital camera just isn't that snuggly. (don't you hate that? i hate that. being single and it seems like everyone around you is in love. bah. it's like every once in a while the universe needs to rub it in your face).... ummm, yeah. the fireworks display was good. i like the sparkly ones.

found out a girl that i went to high school with is now Miss New Jersey... yeah so I guess I'll be watching the Miss America pageant in sept. Go New Jersey! Woot! yeaaaahhh...

so i was at the gym working my tail off (and trying to ignore all the hard-core completely in shape people running or crunching right next to me) and i saw on the news about that u.s. marine that was kidnapped. the good news: he may have been released. . . the bad news: the reports are sketchy, and he may have been beheaded. ugh. i want this war to be over. i wish our *fearless leader* could have given some thought into what he was doing when he decided to bomb the shit out of a country that didn't do anything to us. i wish we had a way to get out of that mess. will a different president make a difference? will this new kerry/edwards team even be able to win the election? i know most people my age.. and most academics.. seem to despise Bush, but then, he's got huge support in the South, and the whole republican establishment is uniting behind him. i just want him out, and i'm not sure kerry's the man to do it.