Jen and I have started doing this thing where we try to do something fun every saturday morning. by started i mean like...we started this weekend. But we have done this before it's just that it's especially necessary right now when it looks like this outside of my window and thispretty beautiful huh...like death. So anyways in this kind of weather it's very easy to start to feel bummed out and just go to the movies for like 8 hours and eat tons of popcorn and get fat. So anyways we were gonna go cross country skiing as discussed before but when we woke up it was snowy and dreary so instead we went strip mall shopping. WE hit up the beauty supply store and marshalls and as I was buying a fruit rack i was like "dude fuck this! let's just blaze and go anyway!" so we rented some skiis for 10 dollars at a local store and drove to the arboretum which, no lie, is like 2 miles from my house. I act shocked because i basically live right next to this really cool hilly beautiful river forest. you will see the pics but i'm just saying, who knew i lived so close to "nature."
So first we had to put on our outfits, of course. despite not looking warm at all i was quite toasty in my performance wear. I had 2 pairs of wool socks, runners tights, with reflectors (as seen) in case we got lost in the middle of nowhere at night and someone flashed a light on us. I had my helix under armour top, another helix looser running top, a fleece, and my REI windwall thin jacket. All topped off with some waterproof gloves and some ear mitts and a hat. For seers guys i cannot believe i own this much good clothes! aren't you shocked? Oh i almost forgot, i had a neck gator on too.
here i am going down a hill that was like, ridiculously small. Jen in motion look at all the trees! doesn't it look like we drove to tahoe or something! but we didn't, we drove down the street! So basically it's like walking only with skiis so you get farther faster. The only bad thing is you have to take the skiis off to walk like up hills and down big hills and shit. all in all it was a good time and i only fell twice. I'm pretty sore still but i realized it's not from physical exertion but it's more from straining muscles when i'd get really tense as i was about to fall. I think we're gonna try real skiing in 2 weeks. exciting! next week we are gonna go kite flying, photos to come.
Speaking of this weekend (and week) there is so much going on!
1. California democratic election. Go Hilary 2. Lost premier. I really never thought i'd be this excited for a Lost premier but I AM! IN HD!! 3. Ski Lodge party this saturday. I'm tired of having to dress all cute and skimpy and then layer up to go out to parties and clubs. So fuck that. we're throwing a long john/ski lodge party where you can wear all your warmest shit and just come and drink and dance all night. 4. super bowl, which i could give 2 shits about, BUT i'm going to use this as an opportunity to go to Mexican town in Detroit and buy the ingredients for posole, which trusts me looks alot grosser than it actually tastes because it's fucking delicious.
so i just read (and commented) on my friend's blog and like....what is this tax refund thing, guys??? I confess i almost never know what is going on in politics unless it relates to racism, sexism, or educational inequities. I mean, these are my things, ok, so sue me. One can only keep abreast of so many things and with all my celebrity gossip blogs and such, what is a liberal to do? So my question to all of you who are much more knowledgeable than me is...am i getting a $300 tax refund? is this in addition to my other tax refund? do i qualify even though i'm technically "under the poverty line"? isn't it sad how i don't actually feel under the poverty line since liek i travel to thailand and buy expensive things and stuff? Imagine what it would be like to REALLY be under teh poverty line, not just technically. Also if you are out there and had not heard about this tax refund thing please speak up and don't make me feel liek the only ignorant one in the blogsphere.
My friend and I were going to going to go cross country skiing today (I KNOW!) and it was going to be like this but it's snowing and there is no sun and it "feels like 12 degrees" outside. So like...we may be relegated to being stuck in the house. SUCKY!!
also i saw 27 dresses on Thursday night which was like...seriously guys not that awful!! i kind of liked it even. and they gave her really cute clothes and james marsden has crazy cheak bones and is kind of like waht a grown up "sad boy" from gossip girl would be like. i'm just saying that i think emily and belton and sara would really appreciate it.
So i went to an allergist and i got prescribed yet another allergy medicine. This time it's singulair which is for sinus rhinitus or something. The uselessness of many doctor's never ceases to amaze me. Anyways i'm kind of excited to be taking it and hoping for some good results. Anyways despite being poor in every way the university at least gives us pretty awesome insurance and so we can get allergy shots covered. So in 3 weeks i'm having a skin test to see what exactly it is i am allergic to and then possibly starting a 3 year treatment of allergy shots. wooo hoo!! i am not joking. i am legitimately excited about this. The doctor thinks i might have an allergy to flax seed or soy products. hmm. Also i am still waiting on some test results to see if i have a gluten allergy. finding out that i actually have something legitimately wrong with me would be kind of awesome because it would mean that all of my health problems could go away with the simple act of not eating gluten. But then again it would mean i couldn't eat sandwiches...which is like really sucky since i really love sandwiches.
PS all this babbling was basically so i could avoid admitted that i'm kind of disturbed by heath ledger's death like in that way that i'd be disturbed if I were to hear that someone in my freshman dorm had died.
guys, so i'm 11 episodes into buffy season 1 and seriously i am quitting. This shit is stupid. Seriously the humanizing aspects of the show (relationships and such) are few and far between and it's really not smart and i'm sorry but it definitely did not stand the test of time. And maybe this is just a season 1 thing but seriously very rarely do i not care what is going to happen on a season finale, but i have one episode left of this show and i could give 2 shits. As i was watching though some stuff seemed really familiar and i remembered that i had watched 1 or 2 episodes when it first started and i remember thinking it was lame and it turns out that 10 years later i agree with myself.
My big beef is that it's that genre of serialized show where each episode is self contained but then answers some overarching theme question. these types of shows tend to bore me like CSI and law and order and shit like that. What is there to make me keep watching on a weekly basis? And i finally realized what show it kind of reminded me of. It reminded me of Veronica Mars in the sense that it has that format but overall V. Mars is like a WAYYYYYY more awesome show and is smart and i actually care what happens to the characters and some of the plots were stupid but it was such an awesome show that i didn't even care! THAT is the mark of a good show. I mean i couldn't even relate to the nerdy Willow, which never happens! i always relate to the nerdy reject girls! And i could make some broad statement about not liking shows that have to do with supernatural things, but that is a lie because i really liked smallville. ugh just whatever. and fuck, i really love the buffy movie.
so in conclusion here is what I have learned about myself.
1. there are buffy people and non-buffy people. I am not a buffy person. 2. I am not as inconsistent as I think myself to be.
**** if someone can convince me of why i should keep watching this show given my above feelings I am open to starting the show up again and giving it a shot. But for now i'm gonna spend my time watching "Rescue Me."
So nothing really exciting has been going on in my life. It's winter which means that we have all become slaves to SAD and our couches. Luckily we have HD which makes it all a bit more bearable. But seriously i live with some very social people and we have all just been spending our last few weekends staying in and channel surfing...sober. I also have been going to bed at like 11 and waking up at 7. kind of sucks but instead of using the morning to be productive i use to to watch all of my dvd's and shows that i have rented for the week. yes, i am efficient.
Today I took one of those days where i get my life in order so i like cleaned and shit. there is nothing more disgusting than realizing how much hair you shed on a regular basis, mainly because it is all over your carpet and it's not liek you can see it with the naked eye but rather you notice it when you get down on your knees to do the floorboards and there it is like black cobwebs all over your cheap carpet. so vacuuming my small room took like an hour cuz i did it all with the detachable suction head so i could assure that the hair was gone. I do this monthly.
I got my new humidifier. woo!! yes i have only used it for 24 hours but i really FEEL like my nose has cleared up. wishful thinking for sure but i will go with it.
two of my roommates turned 30 and 29 respectively this week but as we noted, they are men so it doesnt' really matter how old they get. But all this aging around me made me start feeling young, or like i should embrace my youth and try to hold onto it. so my response to all of these "feelings" was to buy eye cream. I have never been an eye cream person since my facial regime consists of some neutrogena wash, the occasional exfoliating scrub, and ponds facecream twice a day. I figured eye cream can't hurt so i bought some kiehl's avocado eye stuff.
but now for the purpose of my post. So i finished disc one of buffy this morning. Like i said i woke up at 7 so i got that done pretty early. My initial thoughts are like this. I really don't know what to think. It's weird in that time warp way....like when you watch "she's all that" and you are tripped out that you ever found that movie smart or freddie prinze jr. attractive. It's a totally weird time warp to the 90's. The acting is not very good but i feel like they are totally aware of it so on one hand it's kind of ridiculously lame but on the other hand what makes it cool is that it is aware of it's lameness. I mean obviously i will keep watching because i feel like i owe it to society and bloggers and stuff, but i'm not totally sold yet. It's also weird because the whole show is filmed in old town torrance so i am pretty familiar with a lot of the locations. trippy
It reminds me of something that i currently watch but i can't place my finger on it. When it comes to me i will let you know.
so i've been sick since getting back from Asia and so my sleep schedule has been totally fucked...like for instance i am writing this at 4:30 cuz i woke up to pee and now can't go back to sleep. A few random things i've done and noted this week
30 Rock: Is kind of an awesome show. Not as awesome as Arrested Development but kind of in that same vein. Who knew?! You all should watch it. It takes a few episodes to get into cuz you'll be like...this is kind of lame but then the characters grow on you and stuff
Netflix: I rejoined due to the writer's strike. I figured i had some extra cash (and extra time) since i'm not shopping. I guess the point was to save money so maybe it's not that i shop too much but rather that i spend too much money. I am going to start watching Buffy finally after all these years. I'm not really sure why i never got into it considering how i got into like 90% of what was and is on television. But for some reason i just assumed it was gonna be lame and so never watched. I will admit...perhaps i was wrong. The only problem with me watching shows is that i like REALLY watch them....like over a 3 days span i drop everything and intensely watch...case in point, i watched 30 rock's 2 seasons over the past 2 days.
Top This Party: is an awesome show on lifetime. I'll give you a sample...crazy blonde asian woman yelling at a gay man who can't throw her safari themed yacht party with a fire pit and won't let her drop into her OC backyard from a helicopter. watch it!
Peru: We're going next december and we're fucking hiking that shit. bam!
The Writer's Strike: officially sucks! man this is like throwing off my whole life! i can't believe we're losing a year of tv. pay them!! please for the love of God pay them!
Humidifier: i bought one...i'm really excited. This does not count as shopping since as hugo put it "that has to do with your health." I did some research (googling) and settled on Slant/Fin GF-210 Germ Free Warm Mist Air Humidifier. Why didn't anyone ever tell me that a humidifier might help with my ailing sinuses in this cold dank weather?! I'm super excited...i'll let you know how it works. it's supposed to be a bit high maintenance in that you have to take lots of care of it but a bunch of humidifier geeks said that if you do take care of it is truly bomb. And finally product alert for all you ladies out there with frizz tissues.
Straight Sexy Hair (Cost about 18 dollars online...20 dollars at Beauty Supply Store) when i was home during thanksgiving or whenever it was that i got my BANGS! my Tia Irma cut my hair and was like "and check out this new product our salon has started using. it's awesome." And guys...it really is. If you spray this shit right before your hair is done blow drying (preferably with your Bespoke Ionic dyer...it works like crazy well AND it has rhinestones!), use your straightener (let's keep it real, if you don't have a chi then no amount of awesome product is gonna change your hair. I got mine 6 years ago and it was the best investment i have ever made), and then mist it over your hair one more time when you are done. Your hair will look shiny, silky, super striaght without looking all limp and feeling gunky the way so many straightening products can make your hair look. seriously guys, as anyone who has traveled to humid climates with me can attest, my hair is not naturally awesome. It takes a lot of work but let's keep it real when my hair looks good IT LOOKS GOOD! now all of these things cost money...but guys if straightening or drying is something you do on a daily basis than why would you do it with products that are going to damage your hair? We spend so much money on things like make up and face creams and body lotions and high heels and things. why not spread that love to your hair? I have never used their other products but based on this one i would guess that their curly sexy hair and voluminous sexy hair lines are equally awesome.
So i guess that was your consumer alert of the day.
this picture is kind of the story of my life...surrounded by 4 gay men on a remote island in Asia...wearing a headscarf because asia couldn't handle my tourmaline blowdryer and chi. how fucking awesome is this pic. this was taken after ivan and i (mainly ivan) kayaked like 2 miles to this remote beach and then we all jumped in the water and just focussed on the sheer awesomeness of the situation. I will do a full thailand roundup as soon as i get all the photos together and have enough time and energy to do it justice
guys i am wicked jet lagged. like Asia FUCKED ME UP. i have been sleeping non stop and i generally feel like crap like my body is so confused and doesn't know what the fuck is going on. On a bonus note all this sleep has prevented me from eating so it's like...the best diet ever. Also the best diet ever, as discussed by ivan and i in Thailand...Typhoid and Malaria.
I’m having lots of tissues with the whole presidential things. It seems that everyone I know is voting for obama (clearly i only know liberals so this is scewed), which I am ok with but I get a little annoyed when I hear why people are not voting for hillary “I juts don’t like her personality." "i think she's cold." "i don't trust a menopausal woman." "She's not emotional enough." "what emotion she does she is fake." All of this makes me really upset because i don't actually think that she is being judged by the same standard that all the men who are running are being judged by. She truly can't fucking win because everything she does is viewed as being too much and too little and it really pisses me off. I mean basically what it comes down to is she’s a woman and therefore whatever she does will be judged in that way.
And now the whole tearing up thing.
The truth is that if she were to be president and Obama her vice she would fucking regulate this country like no other man has done. And if barrack were vice he would be awesome cuz he could be the face of our country to the world since he’s all charming and shit. But if it were to be the opposite way I don’t think Hillary would be a good vice president. so all in all i think if he doesn't win these primaries she will not be in office and no one will ever know her potential. part of me just wnats to tell people...give someone new a chance. Just because obama is black doesn't mean he's not a man, ie ever other fucking person we have had in power for our entire history.
I mean in a lot of way I think for democrats this is becoming a vote about “character” more than a vote about beliefs. It’s coming down to “who do I like more.”And the truth is people like barrack because he’s charming and they don’t like Hillary because she is, well, not. And people say that a president has to be charming but in all honesty if a woman were to be charming she would be considered silly and flirtatious as opposed to in control. To be in control a woman can't be charming in the same way that a man can be. But if we judge the qualities of a good president by the ones we have had in the past then really we would just be judging them by a male qualities. so any woman who ever runs can never compete in this male character oriented world. They will always fall short.
I'm not asking people to vote for someone just because she has a vagina but i'm saying that we should really look at why we are voting for someone else. i think that if Hillary were to win, anything bad that would happen would be blamed on her being a woman. But if Obama were to win anything bad would be blamed on his character. But as a woman our characters are inextricably tied to our womanhood, and this makes it really hard to get anywhere in a male oriented world.
i'm just real annoyed is all i'm saying because basically this is all some fucking sexist bullshit.
So I just got back into LA/America last night. The flights were long and fairly awful although thanks to china airlines we were fed ridiculous amounts of foods which included rice porridge, various deserts, dim sum, steamed dumplings and other Asian delicacies. Take that stupid north american airlines! So anyways I’m catching up on my celeb gossip (don’t worry, ivan and I heard about Britney as it was happening since it appeared as a news story on aljizeera!!! What the fuck!) but all I keep seeing in the news is “storm watch 2008!” Basically it’s raining in California and people are seriously freaking out. Schwartzenegger is calling it like a disaster zone and it’s just crazy. But I’m looking at images on the news and I’m like..oh this looks like a Tuesday afternoon in ann arbor. Seriously people, chill out!The world is falling apart but leave it to LA local news to focus on Britney and rain. speaking of britney, what a fucking mess.
All my friends seem to be talking about new years resolutions and such and the thing is I was so busy kayaking around islands and frolicking on the beach that I didn’t even think about new years. Nor did I think about the fact that basically when I get back into AA at 6am I will have to jump right into winter quarter. So I think I will take some time today to think about what I want from myself this year.
The one that I have officially decided upon is that I am not shopping this year. I know…I might die.But if I could survive the writer’s strike I am sure that I can survive a year of not shopping. So basically I am only buying what I need and what I need does NOT include a cute new dress to wear on Friday night. I want to pay off my bills and visit my cousin in munich this year and backpack through mexico and generally just spend my live living instead of spending it looking cute. Plus let's be honest, i am a bit disgusted by the amount of clothing that i have. it's disgusting how much shit i have in my room. time to downsize!
So this girl I know got engaged along with everyone in the fucking world. I mean obviously these are not real people that i actually know because these people would not invite me to their weddings but I mean like people that i am in contact with via facebook or office proximity. I mean this is the marrying age, i suppose.Anyways this girl started an engagement/wedding blog like the next day and I just don’t get these things. People like freak out and like day 1 start planning their nuptials. I think of myself as the kind of person who doesn’t care about such poppycock but I also fear that if and when it actually does happen to me I may be THAT kind of person. You know, the kind of person who puts a countdown to my wedding on facebook or the kind of person who makes my facebook pic a couple pic, or the kind of person who “we’s” everybody because I am no longer a “me.” I mean what if I ‘m the kind of person who cooks and cleans for my man and like lives in the suburbs and had babies and drives a mini van! Like what if this is who I am and it just has not be activated yet!
Well the past 3 days have been truly enyoyable to the max.
Friday: Gingerbread house party Guys, this was actually super fun, like more fun than i even imagined, and trust, me i had really high hopes for this. Cathy of course got too drunk to actually build a house and ended up passing out but ivan and i blazed on thusssssssly. Our theme? Christmas with Jane Austen. I made a Tudor style cottage with thatched roof while ivan made the town vicarage. Basically we were trying to recreate Sense and Sensibility meets Little Women, which was not at all british but i wanted an excuse to make a gazebo in which Meg March could get married. candy cane gazebo! dah!!pretzel cross! double dahhh!! note the archway under which Marianne and Colonel Brandon can walk under after their wedding!! favorite quote of the night, Ivan's response to someone accidentally kicking the table: "My Vicarage is not tectonically sound!!"
Then we decided to watch "just friends" which is not a great movie but is an enjoyable movie if not for this scene alone
We all passed out and woke up with coconut shavings on our asses, and then went to eat In n out. so in conclusion...good times!
Saturday night, family christmas party (2 days before actual christmas, stupid yes, but fun): My uncle has like a totally pimped out game room with a pool table, gigantic tv, monster sound system, chordless magic mic (with 2 mic's for harmonizing!!) and guitar hero with 3 dueling guitars! like HELLO!! Anyways all this technology made me feel really old since i had to do super easy mode to "hit me with your best shot" while my cousin was doing like the highest level wiht some Green Day song that she thought was "a classic." i was all like "what are all these buttons?!" We did some karaoke where i dazzled these kids with some Celine. ummph! But then my cousin's friend started singing that five for fighting song about living to be 100 and being 53 or something. i was like...laaaamee! It irks me how some people just don't understand karaoke. the point is to sing fun silly songs not real songs! Then Alix and i did a rocking rendition of My Sharona where we went so crazy with the dancing that i think i lost 10 lbs. Then everyone left and my other gay cousin and I just sang this really heartfelt version of "i wanna know what love is" by foreigner with full on harmonies. It was so intense that we didn't even have to stand up. We just sat on the couch and just rolled around while belting it out. i looked at him after and i was like "ok seriously, that was kind of amazing." He agreed. We turned around to see a group of 15 year olds staring at us like we were crazy. us singing Whitney "greatest love of all" which we both agreed was a ridiculously dramatic song. look at the words and you will understand. Can you feel our eeeemotions!??! I'm wearing skinny black jeans and a flowy top AND my bangs are out of control. Seriously, who am i.
me and my nephew and my mom in the corner who is probably saying something philosophical. dahh!! what is it about baby onesies and trumpette socks that just makes me want to romp around Sunday Annual movie marathon: so my cousin and my mom and i usually take a day during christmas daycation to just be gluttonous and go see like 3 movies. We don't sneak in, we actually pay, because my mom thinks it would be sad for a 57 year old to get caught sneaking into a movie. She says we'll understand someday. Anyways yesterday we decided to include my aunt, who i worried wouldn't have enough stamina to hold out the whole day, and my other cousin Fanny. people, we seriously BLAZED like we have never BLAZED before!! we saw 4 movies!$#!
1. The Savages: an altogether depressing movie, but well acted. Oscar worthy but not like the best movie ever. But like i said...totally depressing
2. Juno: awesome and really cute and makes me love Michael Cera even more even though i think he might be underage or like 18 or something. Movies like this make me dream but also make me pissed because guys didn't care about girls like this in real life high school so stop FUCKING WITH WOMEN'S YOUNG MINDS AND MAKING THEM THINK SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPENS!! Anyways it was reeeeeaaaal good
3. I am Legend - my cousin wanted to see it so we had to appease him since we had made him watch two female oriented movies. It was enjoyable and a blockbuster. obviously not gonna change the world but you know...it was will smith
4. Atonement: guys this surprisingly awesome. I had seen the preview and kept thinking, either this is the lamest preview ever or this movie is actually lame. But it was not! It was really really good. We all agreed it was the best one we had seen all day, which says a lot. And I think that the love scene in the library was quite possibly the hottest love scene i have ever seen. I mean you can't just fast forward to the love scene because what makes it hot is the sexual tension and build up of the first hour or so of the movie. They didn't even show much skin or like titty or anything. but seriously...i don't fantasize much about things like that but, man, it made me think!
All in all we only lost one soldier in the whole battle, and that was because she had a baby she had to go home to. legit reason. Also another reason why you should not have children for a long time because then you can't go see 4 movies in a day, because you have like, responsibilities and stuff. how sad. 4 of us went to dinner afterwards and i was like "guys i feel like i just got off of a night of binge drinking and now i have the munchies." because that was what it felt liek! i was tired and incoherent, but laughing at everything and i was soooo hungry. so we feasted and then drove home.
The most awesome part of the night, and perhaps the weekend, though occurred during our drive home. I looked at the moon which was surprisingly bright for an LA night and noted that there was a weird star like dot like a thumbs distance to the right of the moon. Seriously it was right on the moon. I let everyone know and because i had been watching too much Battlestar i was like "do you think the cylons have found us!" my cousin responded "maybe it's Galactica and they have finally discovered the lost 13th colony of kobol!!!" then my aunt said "guys, maybe it's santa!" We all were a little weirded out, but agreed that if it was indeed some kind of alien spacecraft of a meteor or something that was sent to destroy us at least we knew how to survive as the last people on earth after watching Legend. We all got silent...and fanny goes "hey guys, that's kind of freaky." my imagination started to get the better of me and we all started worrying that maybe while we were off watching movies the world was somehow going to end in 13 hours or something. I told my mom to turn on the radio station to see if like...maybe this was something bad, but the raeggaeton was blazing on so i assumed that it was not the apocolypse.
We got home and quickly googled "astronomy" where low and behold we discovered that this red dot was actually Mars. I guess every 10 to 20 years it hits a spot on its orbit where it reflects off the sun and then you can see it right next to the moon!I mean I don’t really know if this is how it works but this is the dumbed down version of what my 13 year old astronomy geek cousin explained to me.
Anyways the whole moment was really very magicarrr and i'm glad i go got to share it with the ones i love. And now i share it with all 4 of my readers. If you look up tonight you will not regret it because tonight is when it's supposed to be the brightest.
so i'm in la which means that i've been listening to american and spanish top 40, NON STOP. it's kind of ridiculous. I just love how in LA you can shamelessly listen to this shit. Anywhere else people would mock you, but here it's like "you don't know the new Kanye song?" and i don't!! But i do know that i love the enrique iglesias "ping pong song" love it! i mean it literally has ping pongs hitting a table in teh background. waht the fuck! and yet, so catchy. Or that one about apple-bottom jeans and fur boots. And dont' even get me started on Fergie. She i like my herpes. I can't get rid of her. She just makes me want to dance while drunk.
So since i'm here i spend a majority of my day in a car. I miss walking down the street in the snow. what is wrong with me! anyways in between all this shit music i've been listening to the christmas music station which just really bums me out. I have decided that 2 singers who can make me weep no matter what the song content is are Karen Carpenter and James Taylor. Seriously how they have this effect on me, i do not know. I used to think the carpenters were happy but after seeing the behind the music on karen carpenter i just hear such sadness in her voice. Adn james taylor....just very pure, too pure, like tears pure.
the point of this post was to inform you all that in between my bouts of traffic and shopping malls i have been watching battlestar galactica NON STOP! seriously i started like 4 days ago and i'm already pretty much done with season 2. that's liek over 20 hours of television. But it's so good! It's like star wars with really hot people and contemporary topics.
no just to end this i leave you with my all time favorite christmas song. wham! why do you sing to my soul??? That synthesizer is just so good. Cathy once said that if she has kids she won't make them learn violin or anything. She's just gonna have them take synthesizer lessons so they can play wham! songs for her.
my favorite parts: 1. when he whispers (time stamp 1:29) "merry christmas...I wrapped it up and sent it!"
also when he says "crowded room...friends with tired eyes." I just feel like he paints a picture of an awesome party that i totally want to be at.
cathy and i plan to recreate this party on Friday night when we host our first annual "the christmas i never had as a child" party. We're gonna make gingerbread houses and listen to this song on repeat and as she puts its "once we get drunk, we can sway to that depressing charlie brown christmas tune where the children go "la la la, la la laaaa..." this is the plan
so i have good news and bad news. The good news is I GOT A NEW CAMERA so consider this the official return of the photo blog. the bad news is i'm back in LA which means i have done nothing but go to malls which means this post is gonna be all about my buys.
A few observations. Forever 21 is taking over the world...and i love it!! So if you all didn't know they have this new spin off store called "heritage 1981." it's like the american eagle version of forever 21, so like retro preppy. it's very cool and a few of us discovered it in michigan. V. random that we would be that our malls would include such a store but they do. But today i discovered something even more awesome. They have another spin off store called "forever love 21" which is all accesories. EEEEEMAGINE!! how many times have you said "god i love that i can just run into forever 21 and buy $2 earings or a $5 necklace." Now imagine a whole store of that. you would die. I died. So this all leads to my observations
1. Fish are the new owls of jewelry. And i'm talking like really cool greek looking fish. 2. African jewelry is the new plastic jewelry. What i mean is that the way big plastic things were in for a while, wooden and raw metallic tribal things are in now.
All of this excites me immensely.
So the purpose of these shopping trips was two fold. I needed to a) buy a few things for thailand. woo! and b) buy some cutish winter clothes for when i go back to hell.
a couple of sweaters i bought. They have some angora in them and have that really worn, comfy look. perfect for my exploration of jcrew prep, sans the actual jcrew brand. I love jcrew's ideas and i often model outfits after what i see in their catalogue, but let's keep it real for a second here. I am not a 5'10 nordic blonde girl, and their clothes just does not fit me. so i have to blaze on to more petite pastures. let me set the scene for this next pic. I'm walking down the beach in phuket looking fabulous.. that is it. that is the scene. Speaking of which i am not going to be able to do my hair so i have decided i am going to just wear lots of head scarves and it will be awesome. dress print up close new lacoste tennis shoes. I have been a big fan of their shoes since i bought my first pair when i was studying in florence. they are way awesome and more comfortable than all stars but same style. Also they were 40% off. bonus!! this is the print on the thermal bottoms i bought. cute and a half sweater. it has pearl buttons now bare with me on this next one. I was planning on wearing it with my skinny black jeans since i need a bit of flowiness on the top area to compliment the tight bottom. yes, it's a bit school teacher meets my mom in 1986, but i'm ok with that cuz my mom was hella in style. now here is something i have been wanting for a while. There are so many days when i walk outside and think "this is perfect puffy vest weather. if only i had one!" They tend to be so expensive and i just can't commit to paying that much for something that i will probably regret buying so i opted for the cheap version. But i dig it cuz i'ts kind of shiny retroish and it has a detachable hood with sheerling lining! now for the jewels awesome purple earings i plan on rocking see what i mean by the tribal inspired necklaces this has shalacked on sequin. love it! don't know how i will wear this yet since i haven't envisioned it but i'm excited nonetheless the fish i spoke of earlier. I like it because it has movement. ps, i love the macro function on my camera. thanks cathy, for introducing me to it a while back. and finally, in conclusion, "Hi, i am ridiculous!"
Guys! i have such good news and i have to share it with the blogosphere, ie my 4 friends who read this! ok drumroll....
MY DAD JUST PASSED HIS CITIZENSHIP TEST!!!
yes, my father is officially a US citizen!! finally just 6 days after this 58th birthday, after exactly 40 years in this country he can officially call himself an American. these are things that people with American roots never understand. LIke talking about politics is kind weird because you can't really say "who are you voting for" since they can't vote. And when you go on vacation your family has to split into the citizens and non citizen and you say "we'll meet you in baggage claim." I think my father has always had this romantic view of Mexico as being like his real homeland. I mean, this is not to say that he doesn't love the US because he might love it more than your average middle class American. But people often don't think about what they would do in those situations. They criticize and say "well just go back to (fill in blank for original birth country) if you love it so much! how ungrateful!" The truth is though, that if i moved somewhere else, no matter how much i loved it i would still have a really special place in my heart for the United States. And i'd probably dream of someday movign back when i get old. And i'd have a really hard time giving up my citizenship because that's like giving up your name or something. So when he finally decided to apply for citizenship early this year I asked him waht had made me change his mind. He said that he was driving by the Staples Center one day on his lunch route and they were having a swearing in ceremony. He said he saw all of these people who looked really, basically fresh off the boat, and i mean like they looked real foreign. He said he looked at them and thought to himself "i am more american than these people! this is silly." And he decided to go apply the next day.
and now i just feel so happy that he passed. I also feel really sad that i wasn't there to take him to his test, or to help him study. I didn't even remember to call him for his birthday! i feel like a terrible daughter.
guys, confession. i tend to eat really weird, bland shit. I mean like i will just throw wahtever is there in a pot and MAKE IT WORK! well today i was quite surprised to find that i made something decent. I have this goal to not buy food but rather just use up all the shit that is currently in my freezer or pantry until it all runs out. aside from buying a few bananas, apples, and soymilk weekly i have been doing this for a month. Yes, i had that much food in my pantry. gross. Well I'm hitting the bottom of the barrel now so i was pleasantly pleased to have made something edible tonight.
so it started with some boiling water. I looked in the fridge for some flavoring and found some miso paste, a surprisingly good thing to have in your fridge...Also found an egg, that was probably old but still edible. don't judge me. threw it all the pot to hard boil. Added some chicken broth for flavoring. Then went through the pantry for some sort of protein base like a noodle or something. Soba noodles. done! And then i went into the freezer for some veggies. spinach and soy beans, check. at this point i just let it all sit for a few more minutes and put that shit in a bowl and bam! delicious! The only thing that would have made it better would have been some tofu.
so i have a few recommendations to the single ladies out there who want flavor but not fat and who don't really want to cook. These are excellent things to have lying around your fridge. as mentioned before, miso paste. useful in many ways for fishes and stews. stalk obviously, but this is something i discovered liek 2 years ago since I didn't really grow up in a stalk using house so i wil ljust throw it out there for peopel who have not used this product. Frozen edamame beans are liek SO AWESOME! i throw them in some boiling water for liek 3 minutes and throw them in a tupperware, throw some salt on it and BAM, delicious snack for later in the day. Frozen spinach has also turned out to be surprisingly good. I mean i feel like i eat the way that parents feed their babies, where it's not about flavor but about getting all of their nutrients in. So sometimes i'll just boil some veggies and throw them atop some rice. Tofu. Seriously throw that shit in some boiling chicken stalk and in like 2 minutes you have something that is healthful and edible. serioulsy guys, try this shit out. My soup would have been awesome with some real asian spinach based ramen and not soba.
so i guess the saying really is true. necessity truly is the mother of invention. Now what to do wiht the left over eggs, shallots, and can of garbanzos
So i just got back from seeing Wicked. Now I don't want to be one of those musical geeks that is like "Oh my God! wicked is like the BEST SHOW EVER!!" But seriously, it kind of was. I've seen a decent amount of broadway shows that have come through LA and SF (i'm an andrew lloyd webber girl myself. gay!) but this was seriously awesome. sheer awesomeness. I think part of the reason i liked it is that they had an ugly betty episode a few weeks ago where they go see wicked and show clips of the music and it kidn of got me all eeeemotional.
can i go off on a mini rant about how i hate people who think that rent was teh best show ever and walk around singing "seasons of love" all the time. I didn't actually get to see Rent because my mom isn't into rock musicals and i managed to miss it both times it came through LA and SF but i saw the movie and was like....i mean i guess.
but the point of this was that wicked was really good and if it comes into your city you should spend the 100 dollars with the ticketmaster extra charges and see it.
OMG Mary Kate his a kidney infection! no joke! shut up perez because even though i love you, seriously you do not even know how much kidney infections suck more than a lot of things in life. so to you, MK, i say
"get well, get well soon, we want you to get well."
It is not totally uncommon for Emily and I to sit around (and by sit around i mean chat online) and talk about how we could be friends with various celebrities.some that come to mind are john mayer (why are we not friends and even more, why are we not lovers!!) and the go fug yourself girls.But in a recent blog entry Emily noted that she started reading Kelly Kapur’s blog (from the office).And I don’t mean her office blog but I mean like her blog blog where she is like a real person.And now 3 hours later I have officially read her entire blog and decided that I should be friends with her too Hello we’d totally be BFF in real life.This girl has no shame, and neither do i!how often to I make lame confessions about how much I love uggs or shop at forever 21 on a weekly basis or spend $100 on a hoody!!Shame is so overrated.And her favorite movie is you’ve got mail.!!!!!!!!!!hello! I would die!I fucking love that movie and it’s actually not a very good movie but I just get so much pleasure from it.
“never marry a man that lies.”
Words to live by!!Ugh so the ultimate question is, if celebrities are so similar to me should I really have been famous OR should I just somehow find a way to be friends with famous people? And no offense to you all but why are you all not famous in some capacity so that we could share a blog together and people would see via you how awesome I am? also why do i still have this high school mentality where i want to be popular? will the uncool fat girl inside of me ever die!
A quote from a post she wrote where she categorizes different shoe brands and concludes what her favorite brand is
But if I was a twenty-something crazily consumeristic comedy writer-performer who wants glitzy bad-ass shoes to wear to red carpet events, and then keep them on later to prance around in at 3AM when I'm only in a bra and underwear singing Gwen Stefani's "Luxurious" as a striptease for my boyfriend...I would wear Christan Louboutin.
This just made me laugh so much because whenever i think of "luxxxurious" i imagine ivan doing some kind of ridiculous dance in our dodge caliber while driving through the rainforest of Puerto Rico.
PS I just reread what i wrote and thought to myself "oh you spelled 'imagine' wrong. it's supposed to be with an E." what is wrong with me!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Tonight my mom showed me how to make pork in a salsa stew type thing and lentil soup.This shit was BOMB!So good.But my mom and I both agreed that I was made to suit my pallet, which is to say it may have been very bland.She said that when I was like 6 if something was too salty or savory I would say “this is too flavorful.”It’s one of those funny things to me because I could easily imagine myself saying this right now since I tend to like bland foods.
I've taken the jump into full hipsterdom this past week when i decided that i'm taking my parents record player back to school with me. I mean who am i? in reality i'm not that lame because i didn't go seek out some record player on craigslist or something but rather it was lying around the house unused but i'm probably an equally lame person as those other people. But i think it needs a new needle or something. Maybe i'll start wearing headscarves and oversized glasses too.
On another note I’m completely and totally addicted to hard tail products.They make pricey lounge/yoga wear.I don't do yoga and if i did (which i have) i most likely would not wear actual yoga wear. I hesitate to call their products overpriced because I find their stuff to be totally worth what you pay.That being said I own a couple pair of $50 sweat pants which I completely acknowledge as being ridiculous considering my income.But i also buy $300 shoes so really it shouldn’t be that shocking to anyone who knows me. I just really value my relaxation time and rationalize needing nice, flattering comfort wear.
I went to see "before the devil knows your dead" or something like that. It was pretty stark and depressing but very well acted. I"m not sure i recommend it though. But on Sunday my mom and i saw "dan in real life" and it was surprisingly excellent. I laughed, i cried and it touched me. i definitely recommend that. Tomorrow we're gonna go see wicked so we'll see how that goes. We're also spending time iwht my 14 year old cousin. teen angst!!
so i'm back in LA and as usual my regression into high school mode continues in full force. It nearly culminated tonight when i almost went to the movies with my 16 year old cousin and her boyfriend (their names are actually Alex and Alix. And they are artists and do creative my space pictures of themselves and they started a club at their high school called the happy hippies where they make tie dyed shirts and sell them for charity. Kind of awesome me thinks but also ridiculous in a way that only members of my family can truly be). So anyways as if it wasn't bad enough to go to the movies with 16 year olds I was going to have them pick me up in their car and drive me. I contemplated just getting trashed in my dad's office and having them be my sober drivers to make the experience all the better but alas it did not happen and i spent the night chatting about "women and the bad choices that they make" with my mom and aunt.
Maybe it's that's my age is allowing me to see things in a new way but man, women make some stupid choices. And you can either live with it and as carrie once said "choose your choice" or you can spend your life being miserable. We got to talking and it came out that my mom has actually spent a lot of her life trying to live happily with the shitty choices she's made in life and in reality she kind of could be miserable because she hates her job and stuff. But in the end she lies to herself and chooses her choice and seems fairly ok with it. This is a lot like the time last summer when i realized my grandpa really was the big asshole that my grandma always said he was, and it got me seeing her POV that she was just a woman trapped in a bad situation and not the bitch i always thought her to be. Point being those are two examples of choosing your choice and not choosing your choice and being miserable.
this is all relevant because lately i've been wondeirng about grad school and considering what i would do if i dropped out. I mean, i haven't quite made a choice yet but it's pressing on my heart, this feeling like maybe this is not waht i want to do. And i can really only equate it to marriage. I mean i've never been married but i hear people talk about and sometimes it's liek you wake up one day with this guy you dont' necessarily like and you have a baby and a house payment and a car payment and a job yo u hate and it's like "oh my god is this my life!" And at that point you have to decide if you want to blaze on or just freak out and focus on all the things that your life is not. so i feel like in many ways school and my pending career have become this marriage that i cannot quite get out of. And sometimes i wake up and i'm liek "shit i could be out in ny city working at an ad agency or i could be doing ANYTHING BUT THIS!" But i have put more than 18 years into this marriage and i can't just walk away. And on a less deep level this is a lot like my relationship with grey's anatomy. But point being i used to think that having all these degrees and being "passionate" about my job would prevent me from making the same mistakes all the women in my family have made ie hating their lives. but in the end i could very well just end up repeating them.
annnyways on a lighter note I GOT BANGS!! yes, for reals bangs. But as i told cathy, if this were a chapter in the book of my life it would be entitled "the truth about bangs: what no one ever tells you." Like how when you wake up you look like a hot fucking mess. But i still like them. Speaking of catherine we attempted to be super cultured and take a "walking tour" of downtown la so that we could come to knwo the city we have spent a good majority of our lives in. We had great hopes for this walking tour which included libraries and art and shit. the reality was it ended up being filled with sangwhiches, pupusas, and being chased off by a korean women in a botanical shop for trying to open up her jar of "cat nails." The most interesting finding of the day was learning that st. Clare is the st. of television. I almost bought the st. clare medal but felt liek i cant' wear an ironic saints metal cuz THAT would be taking it too far. So in the end we threw in teh towel and thought that perhaps a trip to the mall might be a bit more appropriate. there was this realization as we roamed the streets of downtown that despite teh fact that we had been raised in LA county there is a big difference between city Angelinos and suburban angelinos. And in the end, we felt that the people from the suburbs of LA had a lto more character. I cant' quite describe why but it must have something to do with shameless commercialization or something. if anyone can think of a better way of putting it please do. Then we drove out to fullerton and i got all hipstered out with my new BANGS! we went to this dueling piano bar which was truly good times, except for the fact that the resbian piano player would not honor our $5 request for "always be my baby." yet she knew the killers. What is wrong with this picture.
so anyways my mom and i are doing the womanly bonding where she is teaching me how to cook, not for a man but rather for the sheer fact that once she dies all my grandma's recipes will die so the giant albondiga of burden lies on my shoulders.
well i think that's enough for now. Stay tuned perhaps for some pics and stories of our first annual Acosta/Hernandez family guitar hero championship....another of the many ways my cousins have attempted to occupy our time at family events.
So tonight Jen and i went to see this brazilian singer/guitar player named Caetano Veloso. He was AWESOME!! and we managed to get tickets for 10 dollars because we are students. This guy seriously goes on my list of top 3 live performers i have seen in my life. This list includes paul mccartney and josh ritter. Random, i know. But what i always say is that they are teh kind of people who could be playing in your living room or in a giant ampitheatre and they would still manage to have the same kind of stage presence. and i tell you, this guy could turn a dead audience alive! anyways it was real fun. He does this style of music called tropicalismo which incorporates all these brazilian styles like bossa nova with a hint of beatles rock and roll. real cool shit.
so anyways i have this really profound love of bossa nova music. It's so damn sexy and makes me want to sway, especially teh song "the girl from ipanema." One time after a 4th of july party at my uncle's house we were all sitting around the firepit, and my cousin alix put on the girl from ipanema and we all started swaying and laughing and stuff. and out of nowhere my dad goes "wow i havent' heard this song in so long. I remember when i was young i used to hear this song on the radio and i would say to myself 'wow, what must this girl from ipanema be like? she must be so beautiful.' I could not even imagine. And then i met Graciela and as i saw her walking i remember telling her 'you are like my girl from ipanema." EEEmagine if someone said that to you! liek for reals!! cuz my mom was all tall and tan and young and lovely and shit. but still liek eeeemagine! ugh.
so i started listening to the song tonight when i got home cuz i was in a swayey mood and i had this other fond memory of Joteria 2007 (aka, the disaster that was Puerto Rico). There was one magical night when we had decided to stay in a really fancy hotel to make up for all the shit of our trip. so we were in this awesome hotel wiht beautiful decor and we had just watched the sunset. And Cathy decided to turn on the girl from ipanema. I'm almost 100% sure we were drunk. We listened to the girl from ipanema on repeat for about 3 hours while we all danced and swayed and eventually passed out and took a long nap only to wake up and eat the greatest spare ribs of all our lives.
so i confess that sometimes in my room at night i turn on the girl from ipanema and i just sway a little especially at the part when he says "and whne she passes each one she passes goes....ahhhhhhh" umph!!
Monday, November 05, 2007
i have an ann arbor reader. reveal yourself, my friend. If this person is not revealed within the next few days i may be forced to shut down this whole thing for fear of being discovered.
I wrote this on thursday night and i feel it is quite relevant given that i did not actually go to new york. in retrospect it's kind of funny given the complete and utter unfabulousness o fmy weekend which included a car wash, a trip to home depot, and a bowl of ramen. will discuss that later today.
guys i'm taking my first trip EVER to new york in a day. And who better to guide me on my first time than my main homosexxxxxxual, ivan. I think we shall romp and frollick and shop til we drop. Or we could just look at window displays and eat soft serve from mcdonalds. whatevs. So in honor of this trip i've been catching up on my fashion mags and making a list of "things to buy in NY." I was falling asleep in class yesterday and decided that i should draw my ideal outfits and write this list in various colors. It's the little things that make my life livable, really. so here it is!
- puffy vest - shameful but true. i have always wanted a puffy vest and yesterday as it was 50 degrees and not cold enough for a winter coat but not hot enough to not have some kind of wind resistance i thought "today would be an ideal puffy vest day."
- Black flat leather boots that go 3 inches below my knee - finding boots is always really hard because despite having my moments of feeling fat and what not the truth is proportionately i am normal to any person but size wise i am mini so things are not made for peopel of my stature. Boots tend to be too loose on my calves making my legs look like i'm swimming while walking, or they are way too tall. But i really think that in order to explore my new fall look of opaque tights and mini dresses and skirts i really need black flat boots.
- Mini denim skirt - i mean this is not a necessity but a nice dark wash one would be nice. I imagine wearing itwith black tights, black boots, and a white/cream colored turtle neck AND a tartan headband
- mini skirts either tweed, tartan, or knit. I was contemplating even knitting my own skirt in the next few days. I mean basically all you need is a hoop which i have. i shall look at patterns and consdier this option. what color should it be? grey??? Basically i want it like this only way more awesome. - pleated formal shorts. guys, i know. who am i!! but seriously i have this magical outfit i've been dreaming up in my head of some wool pleated almost poofy cuffed formal mini shorts (shoot me please cathy) that i could wear with black tights and black boots and some kind of top and a flowy scarf and i think it would really kind of be ridiculous enough to be awesome. when i find a pic i will post it
- cream colored or grey knit hat like this - also i need new urban tennis shoes. maybe i'l ljust bite the big one and finally purchase some all stars. i have so many issues with shoes that i used to pay 20 bucks for in junior high now costing 45 dollars. what the fuck. Well i saw some grey ones that i like and i might just say fuck itand
So a few of us had dinner tonight and watched the office (heart!) and then beauty and the geek. I tell you, sometimes this show throws me. There were some questions that we didin't know! we are phd students for fuck's sake! example "what are the first 7 words (or some number) of the gettysburg address?" now clearly somehwere in my plethora of knowledge that info is stored up there with how to spell things and do math. But at the moment we all looked at each other and were liek "fuck what IS it!" And then i was liek "wait wait wait, forescore and seven years ago....thank GOD we know it!" And we all breathed a sigh of relief. But i find it a bit sad how our knowledge becomes so specialized and in order to store the new knowledge our brain but finds ways to shrink and push back the old knowledge. There is a cognitive term for this that i also know but can't think of right now so i'll just call it "the more degrees i have, the dumber i get."
So I'm pretty much broke because all of my money has gone toward my orthodontic bills to pay for my TMJ treatments. Now i have a plastic piece in my mouth that acts as a cast making my jaw sit in a different place from where it usually sits so as to relieve my tempo mandibular joint pressure. Yes, very awesome. Basically i have a plastic retainer on my lower teeth and i have to eat with it because eating and sleeping is when the most pressure is placed on the TMJ so blah blah. I look like a geek wiht food stuck in my retainer and it's kind of disgusting and i brush my teeth like 6 times a day. to top it off it also exacerbates my lisp. it's ok though, cuz i'm on hiatus.
Oh in other news i have to make a confession. so i don't sleep very well. Part of me thinks it might be my stress but i guess it might also be this whole teeth clenching thing. but anyways i decided to say fuck it and just go buy one of those "serenity now" sleeping cd's. I went to the new age section at borders and there were so many options! i was like....hmm should i get ocean sounds or should i get "pure moods" the 5 cd box set. In the end i opted for some cd called "peaceful: music for sleep." but being a consumer whore, this is why i bought it. check out what the cover says.
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson's clinically proven musical system helps you fall sleep, stay asleep, and wake up feeling rested and refreshed. Meditative melodies, flutes, piano, guitar, and strings, embedded with Delta Wave Pulses irresistibly lull you to sleep
tell me you would not have bought that!! hello it sounds awesome. i dont' know what the fuck delta wave pulses are but i can imagine that they are useful and shit. so anyways i've been using it for the past week and i find it all very embarassing and this will definitely go into my folder of "shameful single behavior" that i will surely hide from my future significant other. But seriously i kind of love it!! Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has other ones too liek "ambient: music for sleep" and "serenity: music for sleep." I'm thinking i need to mix it up and maybe get a few of these cd's and just rotate them. If anyone would like a copy of my cd it's a 1 hour clip. i will send you that shit because i am a good person like that.
So i leave you with some poetry
But my heart, is a house Will you come, and move in Leave a space, for us to give .... It's the sound, that I want It's the low, belting cough It's the size, of my heart, It's the house, can we start.
No i didin't write it because i don't write poetry. but i like the song and the words are very, how you say....i don't know. I just like them.
So i was watching the Hills today (last night's episode) and there was this brilliant editting moment. Let me describe. So they justapose this scene of LC at Brody Jenner's birthday in Vegas chilling at the pool and drinking and being fabulous at Pure along with Heide and Spencer in LA eating at Don Antonio's. The reason this scene cracked me up was because sometimes i feel like i wish i was in a serious relationship and engaged or married or whatever shit like that. but then there are moments when my life is so fabulous, like LC in Vegas. And i think to myself "my life would not be this fabulous if i were married and had a house and non Ikea furniture and didn't have roommates." Instead my life might be like Heidi's, no friends eating second rate mexican food with my douchebag fiance. But my life isn't like that. My life does have it's moments of fabulosity. So what i'm saying is, there are pros and cons. clearly this is all subjective and someone else might have watched the show and thought "wow LC's life is lame. Heidi's life is awesome!" But for me heidi's life was my worst nightmare.
oh want to see something funny. This is some guy that came to our house party a few weeks ago and found it racist. What makes me laugh is like...hello we are in michigan. liek how mexican can a party be? if i could have made mole and hired a mariachi band and drank don julio tequila and done el grito at midnight i would have. but instead i had a pinata and mexicans flags and virgen mary candles because that is what i can get in Michigan.
so amidst all the parties and fabulousness it's been difficult maintaining this blog in any real way. So we had another little shindig at my place because Big O's girlfriend is moving to paris for a year. yes this is very sad, but sad occasions are also excuses to drink a lot and dance very late into the night to Sean Paul "i'm still in love." this and r. kelly's "Step in the name of love" are my house's official theme songs, and we like to play them when everyone but our key friends (who will eventually pass out on the couch) have left and we are drunkenly slow motion dancing in the living room. good times, indeed. so before making an appearance at my own party I had to make a little cameo and a homosssssexxxxual festivity.
this is me, a gay and a rrrresbian. Or maybe she's bisexual. She also reminds me a lot of janeane garaffalo in reality bites. we were trying to do Tyra's "deconstruction of the human body" pose. failed, me thinks. this was another drunken attempt at the same pose I think there isn't enough death in my body langauge. PS look at my new fabulous shoes. patent leather mary janes = awesome! "but why are you wearing glasses, xtina" you may ask. Well my backup plan was to go to this theme party called "the bang" where the theme was back to school. I was going as a sexy teacher and i was gonna have an apple in one hand and a ruler in the other. i ended up not going so as usual i just looked a little oddly dressed. To be honest though this is not very different from how i would normally dress on a weekend.
then i got back to my house and continued to spread the fabulousness around that house my friend kristen was visiting town which was very exciting to everyone but the frenchman in the background, as you can see. so i live with the guy in the front, big O, the sour frenchman Bert, who is actually really nice and seriously eats nothing but cheese, bread and pasta. like the stereotypes of european diets is no lie. And i also live with the indian girl, A. yes, we are so multicultural. All we need is a black person. So at one point the girls got together for a Vagina picture and i had this brilliant idea that since Minayo was moving we should carry her across our arms. in my head this would make for a great picture. this is me coaxing her "come on, just the tip." the result was a disaster. We dropped her. Fernando was taking pictures of the whole thing and he was cracking up because me and A are standing there cracking up not even trying to help her. Note my fabrrurous legs. now here is an important topic for discussion. I am on hiatus and i'm never really the kind of person whose friends set them up with people because i think i am just a bit too particular or something. but anyways big O and minayo have this friend Mike and they think that i should date him. this is mike. No, he's not the guy in the front. He's the goofy white guy in the back. The reason they think i should date him is because he is fun in a weird alternative way. what do you all think? i don't really find him all that attractive but he is a nice person. And jen said she ran into him at the library and he had fallen asleep on his highlighter and had highlighter all over his face and didin't know it. does this sound like my type??? there is a sort of napoleon dynamite quality to him. and he's not latino or a poet or a med student or an engineer so he has the potential to not tell LIES. i guess he does web design or something. i don't know. sounds like potential LIES to me. oh speaking of computers, i reformatted mine and it keeps asking me to activate the finger print scanner. Trust me if i could have gotten the comp without it i would have but for some reason IBM insisted on this damn finger print scanner. So i ask the blogosphere, why would a normal person like me need a finger print scanner? i'm not sidney bristow. I do'nt have the mock list of spy names stored on my harddrive. what is it's purpose.
Fall is in full effect, falling leaves and all, but we've been having weird weather. bouts of hot and cold and rain and humid and all of it is making a mockery of this rat's nest atop my head. So i would like to thank whoever at garnier fructis finally decided to sell a line for curly hair. I mean their sleek and sheen line is decent but it also leaves build up which is not cute. but their new curly hair line is pretty decent. I've used lots of shampoos expensive and cheap and i gotta say Fructis is pretty good for the low low price of 2.99. coming from a family of beauticians i have have tried my fair share of saloon products in my life. Pureology and redken and frederik fekkai and bliss and shit but in the end i think i just have really good hair because it looks just as good when i use this stuff as when i use Fructis. I have always said that my favorite physical quality about myself is my hair, and i stick by that. Actually what i think it is is my new ionic blow dryer that my aunt got me which reinfuses moisture as it dries. ammaaaazing. And it has rhinestones on it. fancy!
and this
pretty beautiful huh...like death. So anyways in this kind of weather it's very easy to start to feel bummed out and just go to the movies for like 8 hours and eat tons of popcorn and get fat. So anyways we were gonna go cross country skiing as discussed before but when we woke up it was snowy and dreary so instead we went strip mall shopping. WE hit up the beauty supply store and marshalls and as I was buying a fruit rack i was like "dude fuck this! let's just blaze and go anyway!" so we rented some skiis for 10 dollars at a local store and drove to the arboretum which, no lie, is like 2 miles from my house. I act shocked because i basically live right next to this really cool hilly beautiful river forest. you will see the pics but i'm just saying, who knew i lived so close to "nature."
despite not looking warm at all i was quite toasty in my performance wear. I had 2 pairs of wool socks, runners tights, with reflectors (as seen) in case we got lost in the middle of nowhere at night and someone flashed a light on us. I had my helix under armour top, another helix looser running top, a fleece, and my REI windwall thin jacket. All topped off with some waterproof gloves and some ear mitts and a hat. For seers guys i cannot believe i own this much good clothes! aren't you shocked? Oh i almost forgot, i had a neck gator on too.
Jen in motion
look at all the trees!
doesn't it look like we drove to tahoe or something! but we didn't, we drove down the street!
