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I cleaned out my car on Thursday night.

See, I had the choice of hanging out with Joe and his friends OR watching Grey's Anatomy - they were watching the baseball game(s) so watching of the Holy Grail and drinking some Buds with the boys couldn't happen simultaniously. Of course I chose Grey's. So I get in my car to drive home and it smells like nail polish remover. I know for a fact that the bottle of remover I bought for my copper patina-making project was in my apartment foyer and the smell was DISTINCTIVELY acetony... so somewhere in the annals of my Cavi was a slightly opened bottle of Cutex.

So I stopped at the creepy Sunoco on State and James (right across the street from the sex offender brothel), bought some garbage bags and parked my car in the empty lot on Pearl Street - because there was no way in hell that I could clean out my car whilst parallel-parked near my apartment.

I found lots of fun things.

Nail polish remover wasn't one of them.

Here, revel in my artifacts with me:

- A take-out box of sauercraut (oh thanks Eva's)

- Enough change to feed the meter for a week

- My leather bomber jacket

- 6 GARBAGE BAGS OF CLOTHING

- 3 DUFFEL BAGS OF CLOTHING

- My Rome Savings debit card

- A can of chicken

- A box of Kleenex

- An entire pirate costume

- Six canisters of lip gloss

- Unopened pantyhose

- Three pillows

- A retarded stuffed dinosaur from a crane machine game

- A FOURTH OF JULY CAKE MIX

Um so I'm a grimy person apparently.

I dropped off the garbage at my apartment and the six garbage bags of clothes (and pillows) at Salvo and was astonished to find, hiding in the corner of my trunk under those bags, my CD case. Back when I was with Matt, he bought me one of those plushy CD carriers to put all my music in and I guess I forgot about it completely. So I opened it up and it was a goldmine of CDs I didn't even realize I was missing. One by one I've been going through that case and listening to my long-forgotten music...

- Friday's trip to and from work: Foo Fighters "Echoes Silence Pain and Grace"

- Saturday's journey to Rome: The Damnwells "Air Stereo"

- Saturday's journey back to Syracuse: Good Charlotte (Self Titled)

- Sunday's errand-running: Jimmies Chicken Shack "Bring Your Own Stereo"
- Monday's drive to work: Everclear "Welcome to the Drama Club"

Yes... I actually listened to GC's first disc. And I really enjoyed it like I did when I first got it. And I still remember all the words.

(As well as being grimy, I'm also apparently a prepubescent punk rawker.)

...Let this be the last time I fail to clean my car for over a year. I'm afraid that if it happens again, I'm going to end up finding Hanson's self-titled disc and wind up with Mmmbop stuck in my head for days...