HAHAHAHA. oh my god. the greatest moment of my LIFE occurred today. every time i try to write about it in here, i start laughing just thinking about it and i can't even type. hahaha holy crap. i was totally attacked by ninjas today.

haha seriously. listen. my brother chris and i were driving to office max. not interesting, and definitely not the most exciting way to spend a saturday evening. we took some back streets because chris claimed "there's gotta be another way to get there that no one knows about." whatever. so we stop at a stopsign on this dead end street, and there is only one way to turn (left) because the next street is a one-way. as we stop at the stop sign, we look in front of us and there is a group of perhaps 10 teenage boys, all wearing black. chris jokes, "what are those, ninjas?" upon closer inspection we realize hell yes, those ARE ninjas. the group of boys (is there a name for a group of ninjas? a flock? a gaggle maybe?) were standing silently, watching our car. some of them were crouched down. all of them were in their rehearsed ninja stance. for a second, i dont think either one of us wanted to turn left, because we would have to drive right past them and they knew that was the only way we could go. they were just standing there so menacingly that a part of me wondered, "what the fuck is wrong with these crazy kids? why are they looking at us like that and why are they WAITING for us???" but the other part of me took over, and as chris slowly turned left i dug my camera out of my purse and began snapping pictures of the kids. that was when they began running after us. we realized, "holy crap, they are going to jump in the back of the truck bed!" by this point chris and i were both laughing hysterically, that is, until we realized we had to stop at another stopsign and those kids were NOT letting up. one of them was almost to the car when chris sped up and the kid finally gave up. what the heck had just happened? what were these kids doing? most importantly, what did they think they were going to do if they caught up to our car?!?

there was nothing else to do except call mike and chrissy and tell them to meet us up at office max so the four of us could go find those ninjas again. as we were driving down broadview road to find the sidestreets we came from, suddenly, there they were! half of them on one side of the street and half on the other. standing on a bridge watching traffic go by. one of them on the right side of the street by me was even up on the railing to the bridge, crouching! we turned around and both cars pulled into a parking lot. as we passed them again, they were running down the street. i yelled, "come on, let's go get pizza!" once we were in the parking lot, i got out of the truck and chris warned, "don't get out erin! you're crazy!" i went over to mike and chrissy's car and was yelling about seeing them when all of the sudden, i was surrounded!

they silently appeared from nowhere and got in their positions around me and the car. i felt an arm go around my neck as one of them snuck up from behind. i couldn't stop laughing! chrissy yelled, "erin! get in a picture with them!" they all ran over to the lawn of betty brite cleaners on broadview road and posed, some crouching and some standing with their arms out like they were ready to fight. a few of them motioned for me to get behind them, and i jumped into the perfectly posed group of ninjas for a picture. i turned around, laughing at one of the fat ninjas running to catch up with the group. "come on, get in this!" i yelled. suddenly i was tackled from behind, and another ninja had his arm around my throat. my head was almost in the road but all i could do was LAUGH. i had no idea who these kids were and yet they were jumping on my back like we were pals playing a game. i would guess they were maybe around 14 or 15. chrissy asked, "so what are you guys, like a gang?" true to form, they didn't utter a word. the only time i heard one slip was when i said, "ok, there's pizza hut, let's go get pizza!" and one of them asked, "you payin?" i told them hell no, and they all went running away. IT WAS THE BEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. it was dark so the pictures didn't come out well, and they uploaded shitty too. oh well. hahahahaha.

so...it's hard to follow up with an opening like that. ha. HOT TRASH is coming to you in two days. oh man! be sure to add hot trash as your friend on myspace. the other day when we hung out at open house at the station, my parents came up to see what it was like. herb, our favorite dj, told my mom and dad that i am very bad and that i set fires and let little lizards run loose up in the station. haha he rules sooo much. i didn't think anyone knew about the lizards, though.

lately all i have been doing is papers for school and hangin out with the fam. one day beth and i decided we needed chipotle real bad, and then mike decided he should come over so we could all bake cookies. beth and i played our setlist for him to test its "rock" factor, and he is the only one who is allowed to know what we will play on monday. he gave us the thumbs up.

still nothing from my imaginary boyfriend. i guess i spoke too soon. last week's improv was really great. angie and dana came with us and they admitted they loved it so much they want to come all the time now. haha. i was really sad that we had to miss the adicts show, but it was worth it just to see nate act like the bear whose paw passes over cody when he sleeps, and to watch nate dance like a girl at a 7th grade dance. priceless. only one of the guys left that time, but i guess next week the other two will be going. so sad.

for those of you who shop there or care, assworld is going to be moving in the next few months. somewhere by 130th, i think. by sears. or something. this isn't exciting to me, but i guess some people at my work care. i can barely get to this one on time in the mornings, and its 5 minutes away. at least i have gotten things to make me forget about how much it sucks there, like a briefs shirt, a misfits shirt, and a goonies shirt with a picture of chunk doing the truffle shuffle. ha.

thanksgiving was pretty decent. i got to hang out with the family a lot, which was nice. after dinner, we all played board games and during trivial pursuit chris kept insisting he would bet me a rumproast that he knew all the answers. i dunno where he would get a rumproast, nor what need i would have for one. i slept over because mom is always trying to get me to and i haven't since last christmas. i woke up in the morning from a dream where i was dating the man-crush man. for the whole rest of the day, i was incredibly depressed to find it was only a dream. lately i keep having weird dreams where i am making out with friends of mine. what does that mean?

i got my hair cut the other day and now i have bangs. i haven't had them since i was like 9. i am slowly getting used to them, but i still don't think i like them. ew.

i can't believe i got attacked by fuckin NINJAS! hahaha.

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