I just got a call from Dr. H. He said that my emotional support dog letter will be ready for pick-up on Wednesday. I nearly shit myself…no joke.
THAT IS ALL.
Category: Personal
Where U Been Girl?
Every time I say I’m feeling fantastic, life kinda bitchslaps me a little bit. I don’t know why I’ve been feeling kind of blah the last two days. I passed out all day yesterday. I seriously fell asleep at noon and woke up like at 6pm and then went back to sleep at 11pm. How weird is that? I had a weird dream last night too that I can’t quite remember but that I know made me feel strange when I woke up. I haven’t even gone to the gym! I dragged myself out of bed this morning and went to the mall today so I could find something for my mom since tomorrow is Mother’s Day. I ended up getting her a perfume set since she’s a perfume whore like me. There were so many freaking people out shopping and it was pretty hot outside: it’s perfect beach weather.
I also noticed that I have a lot of comments that I haven’t responded to which makes me feel bad because I love to interact with all of you. I promise I’ll catch up today. I also haven’t even changed my nail polish…now you know something is wrong. hahaha
I am having a major problem right now: I really, really, really want to buy some Cult Nails polishes because they are on sale for $5. AAAARRRRGGGHH! Should I break my promise not to buy polish for one month?
I’m contemplating painting my nails right now but don’t know what color to use. I need to pull myself out of this funk!
Sunday Morning
Am I the only one who really really likes this song?
Anyway, happy Sunday to all. Thanks for stopping by! I am kind of exhausted right now. I didn’t get home until around midnight last night and didn’t fall asleep until almost 2 am. Then I woke up at 6 am because my friend and I wanted to go to the beach. It’s been eons since I’ve been to the beach even though it’s literally like 10 minutes from my place. It was so nice to be out that early breathing fresh air and hearing the sound of the waves. I also saw tons of people with their dogs. When can I get my dog, dangit?!
We were there for a long time. We walked along the sand laughing and making fun of each other. See, I’ve known V since we were like 10 years old. We didn’t like each other very much until we were stuck working together on a project for one of our classes in 8th grade. So 20-some years later, we’re still friends and I’m very lucky to have her in my life. I always tell people that my litmus test for friendship is to travel together. Well, we have gone on vacation twice and we had a fantastic time. The first time we went to Hawaii which was freaking awesome…even if we got so hammered we could barely walk up the stairs at the hotel. Ok, maybe that was just me but I know she was probably pointing and laughing. The next time we took a trip to Europe and went to Paris, Florence and Rome. She reminded me today of how we were freezing in Florence (it was late fall/early winter) but we HAD to have some gelato late at night. So we went to find a place that was open and walked outside eating our gelato and freezing our bums off.
Since V is a true friend, she told me that my nails looked ugly. Haha! Yeah, true biatch. (I still love you, though!) I can’t say that she’s wrong because I didn’t like my nails much so I didn’t even post them yesterday. They just turned out so ugly…kind of ghettoish. I started with Zoya Malia. I don’t have a lot to say about Malia. It just looks like OPI Do You Lilac It? to me. It is a color that I like but not terribly exciting. The formula was great, and it only needed two thin coats.
You can tell by the crappy job that I wasn’t that excited about doing my nails for some reason. I didn’t even do decent clean up! But wait till you see them after konading.
My nails are starting to look wonky to me because they are so long. However, I can’t cut them because I am going to beat Nicole at our imaginary nail competition. I just noticed a hair or fiber that got stuck on my middle nail. Can you spot it? How gross. Anyway, I need to take these things off asap and try another color.
Last night was really fun as well. I went into a sushicoma with my sil. We both didn’t eat all day so we could fully enjoy our sushi. So this place that we go to is a little neighborhood joint. The sushi is really good, fresh, delicious and reasonably priced. Their service has always been on the slow side which we don’t usually mind because we are slow eaters and talk the whole time. Sometimes it does get a little ridiculous like waiting an hour or more to get our food when they are super busy. Surprisingly, they weren’t busy last night so we were annoyed with attentiveness. We should have counted how many times the waiter came by our table or the busboy peeked to see if we had any empty dishes. It might have been 20 or more times. It was getting beyond annoying. At one point, we thought we were on some hidden camera show to see how much we could take before we told them to fuck off and let us eat in peace. After we were done eating, they brought us the check without even asking if we wanted dessert!!! So of course we had to order some out of spite (and cause who are we kidding? we love our sweets!). We laid a bet to see how many times someone would come to our table to bug us while we ate dessert. My sil said 3 and I said 5. I won. 5 times!!!!!!!!!
After that we watched The Lucky One which was ok. There really wasn’t anything else we could watch and The Avengers was sold out for the rest of the night. Is it just me or does Zac Effron still look like a baby?
I don’t know what to do right now. I want to change my nails, but I really want to take a nap. Wow, a nap sounds so good…………………
I’m A Hazard To Myself
Today’s workout left me feeling a lot better. I didn’t push myself as hard, and I thankfully don’t have a headache like the last two days. I’ve been having a really hard time sleeping since I started up with the gym. I toss and turn all night and wake up pretty much every hour. I don’t know what’s going on but it’s not pleasant. I hope it’s just my body getting used to the exercise.
This is my third day of going to the gym and every day I think I keep seeing someone that I know. However, I can’t be sure because I don’t wear my glasses when I’m sweating on a machine so I can’t really tell if it’s really him. I know he goes to my gym so that’s what makes me think it’s him. I HATE him. I don’t say this often about people, but this guy is just a fucking asshole. I fired his psycho ass at my last job because he kept undermining me and my number 2. He just had this huge chip on his shoulder; I think his midget ass had a mean case of the Napoleon Complex. (Sorry to the short people out there. I’m short too.) So if it is him, he probably wouldn’t come up to say hi to me. If he did, I’d probably throw my sport drink at his face. My only regret is that I didn’t fire him sooner.
So moving on from a waste of space guy, I was getting really irritated at the gym today because my ipod was acting wonky. It got stuck on one song for like 30 minutes: Sarah McLachlan’s Possession. That is so NOT a workout song. Then it got stuck on Blind Melon’s No Rain. Then it got stuck on Spin Doctors’ Two Princes. I was not having any luck with my ipod. It finally started acting normal and I got to my workout mix. I guess I was already pissed about my ipod and about the assholio guy I think I see at the gym so I was getting irritated by people’s gym behavior. First of all, if you’re not going to the gym to work out, get the fuck out and off the machines so that people who are there to work out can do so…especially when it’s busy. Get out of the gym if you’re just there to socialize and check out people…you’re using up my oxygen. If all you can do the whole time you’re on the stair climber is check yourself out in the mirror, I hope you fall on your face. If you stop mid-workout to take a picture of yourself in the mirror to post to your youtwitbook, I hope your phone explodes. People can be so freaking annoying and dumb sometimes.
I missed the first 30 minutes of Grey’s Anatomy because I was taking a shower after the gym. Grrrrrr. Now I’m watching Scandal. Is anyone else getting into this show? Because I’m just starting to like it so that means that it’s probably going to get cancelled. I still have not gotten over Dollhouse being cancelled…and V. I was really liking V.
Tomorrow is Friday. I don’t have many plans for the weekend…just a workout with one of my friends and sushi and a movie with my sister-in-law on Saturday. I am looking forward to both! I haven’t had sushi in a while and I’m going to allow myself one “cheat meal” per week. Sushicoma, here I come!
Do you have any exciting weekend plans?
To Buy Or Not To Buy
“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause..”
As I typed the title of this blog post, I thought of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. Yes, the title is an obvious allusion to Hamlet, but I was again struck by the beauty of it all. When I was 18, I was convinced that I would become a famous Shakespearean scholar à la Harold Bloom. Whatever happened to that? Sometimes life throws us some curve balls…many, many curve balls.
Today was a cleaning day for me. I finally got my 3 melmers somewhat organized even though my closet is still a disaster area. There are so many things that I would like to do for this blog, but I’ve been so lazy about it lately that I just finally sat down and started working on simple things. First of all, I have created a facebook page for this blog so please visit my page if you enjoy reading my posts. I don’t know how all this stuff works yet (I can’t seem to figure out how to publicize my blog and connect it to Facebook), but I guess I will learn as I go. I’d also like to change the format around, but that can wait.
I am ashamed to say that I went on some sort of polish binge this last week. Counting all my purchases, I acquired about 30 new nail polishes. My biggest splurge came when Zoya announced their Earth Day Promo. Damn Zoya and all their fabulous promos. I ended up purchasing way more than I should have because at 50% off, I’d be stupid not to…right? RIGHT?! Well, I need a nail intervention. I went to buy a new interview outfit, and I realized how crappy it will be if I end up in a stuffy office where I won’t be able to sport all my different nail polishes. That would be so stifling and sad.
Because I’ve been talking about going to the gym and working out for eons, I promised myself that I would not buy anymore polish until I lose 10 lbs. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Yes, you read correctly. I will NOT buy polish until I lose 10 lbs. I am jogging in place while I type this. Yes, it is very difficult. Last year I had a fantastic trainer that totally kicked my ass but unfortunately he is no longer in my budget while I look for work. You know, I’ve grown accustomed to having a roof over my head so I guess rent is more pressing than a personal trainer. There were days when I wanted to punch him in the face (which I nearly did a couple of times when we had our boxing days), but it was great to have someone to guide you and push you past what you think are your limits. Plus, he always commented on my nail polish which made me think he was gay for the first few months, but I love talking nail polish so it’s not like I cared. Now I have to motivate myself to get back on track which is not going to be easy. However, I think that the motivation of wanting to get new nail polish is really going to push me until I get used to going to the gym regularly again. It will be good for me. In the words of Elle Woods: ” Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.” Well, I doubt I would shoot my husband if I had one…I mean, unless he messed with my polish because that’s just off-limits.
My no-buy policy started today. I know there are a few collections coming out next month that I REALLY want so I better get my ass in gear. Literally.
Weekend Stuff
I finally got around to watching the two Redbox movies I checked out on Thursday. Yeah, I now…I’m dumb. I got The Skin I Live In and In The Land Of Blood In Honey. It is very rare that I don’t go see an Almodovar movie as soon as it comes out in theater, but I totally forgot about The Skin I Live In. If you aren’t much into indie and foreign cinema, you may not have seen many of Almodovar’s movies. He is one of the BEST directors in Spain and his movies are always twisted and absolutely magnificent.
Quick synopsis:
Robert is a surgeon who has created a new type of skin that he hopes will help burn victims. It’s burn resistant and repels insects. It is revealed that Robert keeps a beautiful young woman locked up in his house to whom he has given this new skin. We later learn that his wife was cheating on him and she was horribly burned in a fiery car crash. He nursed her back to health, but she committed suicide by throwing herself out a window when she saw her reflection in the glass. She landed right in front of her young daughter who was consequently hospitalized over the trauma.
Robert’s daughter, Norma, was allowed to leave the hospital to go to a wedding with her father. At the wedding, she is assaulted by a young man who is high on drugs. She is a very innocent sheltered girl who doesn’t really understand what his happening. When she starts to resist and scream, the young man, Vicente slaps her and knocks her out and he flees. Robert then finds Norma unconscious on the floor and tries to wake her up. When she wakes up and sees her father, she associates her rapist with him so she goes nuts again and has to be institutionalized again. Ultimately, she jumps out the window to her death just like her mother.
Robert then stalks and kidnaps Vicente keeping him chained up in some sort of basement. He then proceeds to give him a vaginoplasty–basically sexual reassignment surgery. He continues to transform him into a woman by using the new skin he invented and starts calling her Vera. The more work he does on Vera, the more she starts to look like his deceased wife. At the end, he takes Vera as his lover and she begins to reciprocate his affections. Vera lulls him into a false sense of security and then kills him and his housekeeper. Vera flees and goes back to his mother and reveals that he is Vicente.
If you think that’s weird, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. If you’re interested in watching any other of his movies, I would recommend:
1) All About My Mother
2) Talk To Her
3) Bad Education
4) Live Flesh
There are a lot of others but this is a good place to start.
Moving on from freaky movies, I went to America’s Family Pet Expo at the Orange County Fairgrounds today. It was AWESOME! I saw so many cool animals of all kinds. I was in puppy heaven! I got to pet a million dogs and I spent some time at the Wheaten Terrier booth which is the kind of dog I’m dying to get. Here’s a picture of Oliver.
Look at that face!!!! He was the sweetest dog and he let me pet him for ages. His owner seemed a little cranky so I didn’t ask him as much as I wanted. I came back later and there were a few other ladies there who were amazingly sweet and gave me tons of info and advice. I want my wheaten already!!!!!!!
I also saw the freaking cutest beagles ever. I love how the youngest puppy was going apeshit.
There were a lot of agility competitions as well, and I loved seeing the crazy jumping water dogs. It was awesome to see how far some of them could jump.
So now I’m even more obsessed with getting a dog!
I hope you all had a nice weekend as well. 🙂
A Dong
Suddenly it’s getting hella hot here in So Cal. I really despise summer so I’m not happy about it. I was working myself up this morning so I just went for a long drive to get my mind off stuff. I was going to get a haircut but I forgot that my hairdresser doesn’t work on Tuesdays. My pixie-like cut has really grown out! It’s still in that stupid in between length where I can’t do anything with it so I was just going to get it all chopped off again.
On my drive, I ended up in Little Saigon again. I really love that area because it makes me feel like I’m not even in California anymore. I found 3 new beauty supply stores but they weren’t all that. One of the stores was pretty big and I just wanted to look around. The owner was following me around and giving me the evil eye like I was going to steal. I can understand that store owners experience a lot of shoplifting, but can’t they be a little more discreet about it? I was pretty annoyed and left without purchasing anything. I really don’t want to give my money to a store where the owners follow me around as if I was a thief.
I haven’t been inside this place yet but I drove by it today and it looks pretty cool.
I also saw this place:
I really tried to be mature, but it made me giggle.
I’m going to try one of my Layla holos and will post some pics later.
I Got Tag Teamed!
Yeah, get your mind out of the gutter. I was tagged by Amanda and Nicole to complete this set of questions. I think it’s a cool way to get to know the people behind blogs that I frequent! So here I go.
11 Things About MOI
1) I am the oldest of my siblings and have two brothers. I have never really wanted a sister. When my youngest brother was born, I was 10 years old and I can still remember the second my dad called us to tell us that he had been born. It was 5:45 pm and my brother and I were watching Mr. Belvedere. Once my dad told us it was a boy (my parents wanted to wait to find out the sex of the baby), we both jumped around from couch to couch with joy.
2) I think all babies are ugly. Well, 99% of them are ugly. I think they start looking cute at around 6 months.
3) I spent my junior year of college in Paris. It was interesting.
4) One time I went to a movie by myself while I was in Paris. I thought it was some kind of artsy film, but it ended up being some kind of weird scatological porn. I only realized this after like 30 minutes into the movie and after I realized I was the only girl in the theater with 6 other weird guys. Yeah, it was scary.
5) I once went to North Africa by myself…on a whim. I spent a week in Tunisia and just looked around, went to museums and went shopping. It was awesome but kinda scary too.
6) On my second trip to North Africa, my friend and I went to Morocco. She wanted to get a picture with a monkey and a guy was walking around with one. The monkey got kinda crazy and started attacking her while she screamed at me to take the picture. I was laughing and screaming too hard to even take the picture. I went over to try to help her and I think the monkey scratched me. I had a scratch on my arm that took FOREVER to go away and at one point it looked kinda black. I thought I had Ebola or something.
7) I speak English, Spanish, passable French, can read Italian and speak tourist Italian. I’d really like to learn how to speak Arabic.
8) I love cheese. If I could eat cheese all day long, I probably would. My mouth waters to think of blocks of camembert, gruyere, cotija, sharp cheddar, parmesan, romano, gouda…ahhhhhhhhhh!
9) I hate, hate, hate driving. I wish I lived in a city where I could get around without owning a car. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen any time soon in Southern California.
10) The best gift I ever received was from my best friend. (Don’t let your head get too big when you read this, freak!) He picked items that had so much meaning: a cute little wallet to make up for the wallet that someone stole from me on our trip to Italy; a cute pillow to remind me of falling asleep on the train; some savon de marseille to remind me that our final destination was Marseille. It was totally sweet and meant the world to me.
11) I used to have a lot of episodes of sleep paralysis which made me feel like I was going crazy. If you’ve never heard of sleep paralysis, here is scientific explanation: Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes. Some people may also feel pressure or a sense of choking. Sleep paralysis may accompany other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is an overpowering need to sleep caused by a problem with the brain’s ability to regulate sleep. I had hallucinations where I thought I felt something climb on top of me and try to choke me. Has this ever happened to you?
Ok, so now that you all think I’m a total weirdo, here are the 11 questions from Nicole over at Polish Me, Please!
- When did you start your blog? I started blogging November 2011.
- What is your go-to nail look? Anything purple, actually. Purple makes me happy.One time I was working out with my trainer and he asked me what made me happy, and I said the color purple. He responded that he had never seen the movie. LOL
- Would you rather: Have your nails cut down to the nail bed for the rest of your life OR never wear makeup again? I would rather have my nails cut down to the nail bed since I hate long nails. I don’t wear make up every single day but I still use it fairly regularly.
- What is one thing you wish you would have known as a teen than you know now? I wish I had known how much my parents love me so I wouldn’t have acted like such a turd.
- If you could only have 3 nail products/polishes for the rest of your life, what would they be? China Glaze Grape Pop, OPI Ski Teal We Drop, Sally Hansen Cuticle Remover
- What is one album you could listen to on repeat and never get sick of? Alanis Morissette’s MTV Unplugged
- What is one of your pet peeves? People who say “lie-berry” for “library”
- What would be your perfect day? My perfect day would involve spending quality time with people I love.
- Do your family and friends know about your blog? Only a handful of friends/family know about my blog and they have been sworn to secrecy due to some of the very personal stuff I sometimes write.
- What is the last song you listened to OR the song currently stuck in your head? That I Would Be Good from the aforementioned Alanis album.
- Share your personal mantra or a good quote. I don’t think I really have one but the closest thing would be “Respice Finem” which means “regard the end”
Well, that was fun! I am not going to tag anyone because all the ladies I would tag have already been tagged for the most part. 🙂
Short Fingers
I’ve always wanted long fingers. You know those kind of long fingers with beautifully shaped and polished nails. Alas, I have short fingers. My best friend called them longanisa fingers. Yeah, just like that. It seems that my fingers have always gotten me into funny and memorable situations.
When I was 19, I spent a year in Paris studying abroad. Being from California, I was ill-equipped for the Parisian cold. It was a complete disaster actually. One day, which turned out to be one of the coldest days on record, I was wandering around with a couple of friends and we decided to go look for the tombs of a few famous people at the Père Lachaise cemetery. Of course I forgot my pair of gloves so pretty soon my fingers were ready to fall off. After complaining about my hands, a scene almost identical to this one played out:
I can’t watch Dumb and Dumber without cracking up and remembering that day.
So today I was out buying some gardening items because I’ve decided to take some of my psychiatrist’s recommendations to try some new things and pick up some hobbies. I bought some gardening gloves and I remembered the whole glove stuff so I had to take a picture:
My thumb is abnormally short. Look how much space is left that my brother is pinching while I took the picture. My best friend used to fold back the extra space on my gloves and laugh. I don’t have a clubbed thumb…it’s just SHORT. Anyway, I think my best friend will get a kick out of this. 😛
Let’s Celebrate!
How do I celebrate? By buying all sorts of pretty nail polishes, of course!
I’ll work on swatches for these new babies soon.
Now, the reason I’m celebrating is because I had an appointment with my psychiatrist today. I wanted to talk to him about writing a letter for me so that I can get an emotional support pet which is the only way my landlord will allow me to have one. My doctor wants to see more of an effort from me in keeping up with regular appointments and taking my meds before he writes a letter for me. While I was a bit disappointed at first, I soon realized he was right. He wants me to focus on helping myself before I take on the responsibility of a pet…and I’m fine with that. At least now I know that I will eventually be able to have a dog of my own! So much to look forward to.
And because I am in an especially great mood right now, I also made a huge batch of chocolate chip cookies.
Yes, today was a good day.
