Jesus fuck I love having a day.
Requirements for having a day include:
1) totally unplanned
2) probably hungover
3) two or more persons, at least one of which is displaced from their normal residence by at least 500 ft
4) hilarity
It's not necessarily that you are hilarious (although I'm always hilarious, natch) when you're having a day, it's more that, like, when you're having a day, everything is hilarious. Having a day is something we invented. A term we assigned? No, something we Named.
When we have a day we tend to speak in primitive basics: "We are people and we are having a day."
It's never "Hey, can we have a day tomorrow?" It's always "Come play! We are having a day." Sometimes we try to plan it, but whenever we plan we fail.
Sometimes we can see having a day up ahead like a silhouette at sunset, our terrible, inevitable future: "Uh oh, Rassles. We're going to have a day tomorrow aren't we?"
"Yes, Schmee. I'm afraid we might."
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| Bloomingdale Trail. I found this on the google, I have no idea who took it. Rad though, yeah? |
Sometimes we go see a psychic who tells us that throughout our childhood our usually-absent father, with whom we do not get along, had a secret family in Georgia, and because of his sins we are cursed to never find love unless we pay the psychic $45 a week so she can light giant candles and meditate and cleanse us of our misfortune and woe. Sometimes that psychic describes, in detail, our damaging miscarriage (????????WHUUUT??????). She says we have good business sense, we love our job cuz its what we do best, we do not enjoy reading and are not terribly creative. Sometimes that psychic also says that no man will love us because we are too ugly and intimidating (it was 6pm and I smelled like PBR and my soft pants had schnauzers on them) so we might want to consider settling with a woman just so we aren't so lonely anymore. Sometimes psychics are stupid fucking cunts that try ruin our day, but they fail, and do you know why? Because we are having a fucking DAY, that's why.
Nothing can ruin a day. Spending $25 on a shitty tarot card reading is worth it, and plus? Awesome. She did not list a single accurate or recognizable trait of mine. It was like the exact opposite of a psychic, treading water in the toilet of lies. Seriously, did this witch divine vibes from a stranger on the sidewalk? Who was this stranger? Can I meet her? Would we be friends? I doubt it, we have nothing in common, and half of my apartment is books. Also, absent father? You kidding me? My dad worked from home. I saw him every day. Too ugly to be in a relationship with a man? Foolish, fuckeyed, gypsy harpy, your mystic science is stuh-rate up slander.
But none of that matters, because Sara and I were having a day.
Sometimes when we're having a day we buy all of the champagne at CVS and drink on the porch and yell at people on the street so they'll join us in our day. Sometimes we stay in and turn off all the lights and drink bloody marys and watch Buffy. Shooting the shit, being an idiot within the safe confines of your friends.
It occurs to me that the majority of them when I'm having a day, Schmee is there. Well done, Schmee. We are people and we are good at things.
Love,
Rassles
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6 comments:
1) Stunning picture.
2) The tarot card reader said what? Aren't they only supposed to tell you good things about your future. I've had the opportunity to have my future read (in New Orleans AND India), but I've always chicken out. I reason that I'm too "logical" and "analytical" for that bullshit.
I've had my cards read twice, and both times it was awesome. The first time the psychic basically told me I was the greatest person on the planet, and this last time, obviously, she told me I was the worst. Both were very, very, very inaccurate. I regret neither.
Here's a link to the first time: http://www.rassles.net/2008/07/tarot-and-interdimensional-travel.html
Also, think about it like...you're going to see a movie. I don't believe what they tell me in movies, either.
On my bucket list is walking by your porch when you are outside drinking and yelling at people. I will have to visit your psychic to find out where you live. Hopefully she will realize this and send me her card.
we call these moments 'pop-up parties', and they cannot be planned. they are often best when golf carts are stolen for 'official business' at festivals... and yeah, i was driving.
i want to be walking with chris when you are yelling.
At least this year you won't have to worry about a Blackhawks Stanley Cup parade ruining one of these days for you.
I stop drinking and the Kings keep winning... ain't that something.
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