| 10 things that have happened in the past month |
[15 Dec 2009|12:47am] |
1. Met up with the delightful ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ichbinkelsey as she was traveling through bound for eastward climes. Thank you for putting up with my social awkwardness, Kelsey! I never know what is the appropriate level of eye contact for casual conversation, do you guys find that as well? I either end up boring a hole into the back of the poor person's head or staring at the ceiling the whole time.
2. I am now a community college student! EXCITING. My dad could not believe the cost of tuition. I tried to explain to him that $500 was not going to pay all of my school expenses next semester and he did not believe me.
3. Today was my last day of work! For a month. I am taking a leave of absence and going to Texas where I will either console or congratulate my little brother who is finding out about his non-/admission to Yale tomorrow. I wish I could hang out with him tonight and we could each smoke a pack of cigarettes and venture nervous speculations about our futures.
4. Today I worked from 6 am to 9:30 pm. Why did I do that. I really don't even.
5. I am totally done with Christmas shopping, even though I kind of despise myself for giving into the materialistic urges of blah blah etc. I bought my mom a spoon because she hates everything so she may as well hate something she collects.
6. I lied about my weight on my new drivers' license. (I'm not going to get arrested for shaving 15 pounds off, right?) I feel weird about how I automatically deducted from the actual number when the girl at the DMV asked. I want to erase that kind of behavior in myself. On the other hand I became an organ donor. Maybe that tips the scales of my body image slightly more in favor of "healthy"?
7. Oyasumi Punpun is the best comic I've read in a loooong while.
8. I can't think of number eight because I am tired
9. Tomorrow I go register for classes (technically not the past month but w/e) and it's going to be a struggle, UTD is being super douchey about releasing my official transcript. I am even paying them money to overnight it except I have to email (not call, email) 3 different people to set up arrangements for overnighting it. It has been over a week since I began this process. A WEEK IS NOT OVERNIGHT.
10. I am going to dye my hair with Kool Aid. And then I will post photos. Probably. Also contemplating getting second lobe piercings for myself for Christmas... Probably a waste of money but I've been wanting them for a while and I suspect they will heal more easily than a brow piercing which I am still ambivalent about. I might wax my brows into princess brows too depending on how much drink gets poured into me in order to make me think that would be a good idea. I'd look even angrier all the time! It would be great!
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| Kaleidoscope |
[14 Dec 2009|10:09pm] |
I'm just reposting this wonderful piece by Ray Bradbury here to note down some thoughts I've had. Lou and I were also watching some documentaries yesterday, and I kept thinking about this. I think it's one of my favorite short stories. If you haven't read it, I obviously recommend it. I'm sure most of you have read it, by now. :) Another thought because I've been feeling guilty about it whenever it drifts back into my mind: I feel bad for reminding Lou that he never gave me a promise ring. I was teasing him, but he looked hurt and explained softly to me that since he quit his job to concentrate on school... well, yanno. I just felt awful after. The topic came up when he said he'll wear the ring I gave him on his ring finger when he's in the Philippines. I also brought it up because we've been talking a lot more (joking/discussing?) about a future together, and we're both really comfortable about it. It was kind of on my mind beforehand, then-- but not directly as, "Lou agreed that we could get promise rings." I-I really would like a promise ring! That would make me very happy. But it's not something I want to force out of him at all. I do know I was speaking out of desire, but it only means something if he wants to give it to me. I know I can be impatient, and it wasn't something I was expecting. It was a thought. He already said before that he would give me a ring, but "it's not the time for that yet."
I'm sorry Lou! I didn't mean it the way you thought I meant it! D: Don't feel bad or pressured or anything like that!
( Kaleidoscope, by Ray Bradbury )
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| Posted using TxtLJ |
[14 Dec 2009|11:33pm] |
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huzzah! It finally worked. Look out livejournal. imma be spamming you with random nonsense a lot more from now on!
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[14 Dec 2009|11:28pm] |
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friends (more texting tests) now let's see if I can post froends only...
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[14 Dec 2009|11:23pm] |
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so I added LJ Text to my phone. This is just a test to see what it does.
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| Special Mushy Entry Yaaaaay? |
[14 Dec 2009|02:56am] |
Because I was sad, Lou latched onto my chin and sucked on it, leaving a hickey on my entire chin. It was pink when he left this evening.
I posted this picture on Facebook about an hour later, along with this note:
"Lou, the mark on my chin darkened and now it looks like I have a soul patch... D:"
Two days ago we had Open Sesame, which was really good. It was so good we stuffed ourselves full, then fell asleep on the car on top of each other while his mom and sister went around getting ready for his sister's birthday party. They took some photos, and said we snored. I also batted at Lou a lot, because it was our ten month anniversary (for Santa Monica) that day and he said, "Whoops, I forgot. This does not bode well for our future." I think he was just joking though, because he called me on the eighth to wish me a ten month anniversary (for when he confessed that he liked me) and we had a sweet conversation. Aw. But I am happy, and so is he-- but today we were both depressed on the couch while watching tv. He said he'll miss everything, and I said so too. I pointed out that we still have a week left, and he said a week passes by quickly. Hopefully the seven weeks that are coming up will also pass by quickly-- or at least painlessly. I have things to do while he's gone, of course. It's just a bit jarring, because a lot of people are leaving this season so it's going to be very empty. It's kind of like rubbing salt into the wound.
He said a lot of sweet things, even sad things, and happy things... and honest things. But I think it's best to keep most of these personal things on private. I don't think people like getting swarmed with all this mush. ;) I need to catch up my journal after I finish this semester. Then embark on my month and a half long break. College is pretty sweet at times.
Lou said that maybe this spring break we can do something. Last year, his spring break came a week after mine did. I guess I'll check again to see if they fall on the same time this year. I had brought up with him that I was pretty bummed that we haven't been able to spend a break together yet-- aside from the blissful few weeks after he finished summer school. (I remember seeing him for almost two weeks daily, and we never got sick or bored of each other and parting was one of those painful things that was hard to forget. D:) I don't think it's atypical at all that the more time we spend together consecutively, the harder it is to part. I remember how I saw him for four days a few weeks ago, and he was so sad when he left. He sat in his car and said that it felt like a normal weekend, and was frustrated that he couldn't remember all the details. But most of all, sad that it was over. That's why I'm sad that once he's back, we'll be doing school full swing again. I want to come pick him up, for instance, but that's on a Tuesday and if it's late at night I don't even know if I can make it because I have class at eight. And I'd like to see him. When I got back from Taiwan, I didn't see Lou until almost a week later. :,3 And he was also the first one to bring up me picking him up. At least in the summer, he and I aren't going anywhere this year.
He comforted me again by saying that he'll be back right before the one year mark, but what really matters is that he'll come back. That he'll miss me. That he'll long for me. That'll he look forward to coming back to me. And that I wasn't alone in how I'm feeling.
I know that seven weeks is nothing compared to people I know who are dating their high school sweethearts and are separated by oceans due to college-- then can't see each other for more than a few days when they come back to California because of busy lives and family that they want to see too. As Lou kept saying... seven weeks is nothing if he has me forever. "Don't you want to see what forever is like?" he asked. Forever with him? Yes, I would like to see what that's like. I told him that I'll miss our Sundays too, and he said, "Don't worry, you'll see me everyday in the future."
I had a discussion recently with a friend who feels like marriage and commitment takes away her independence. I told her that it doesn't scare me-- but gives me a sense of security, companionship, along with warmth, trust, and certainty. I'm not thinking of marriage right now, of course. But knowing that Lou plans for a future together in some shape or form-- may that be marriage or even just living together-- and that he's comfortable with the idea of me in that context puts me at ease.
I told him to take care of me, but I didn't know how to explain. He said, "Don't I already take care of you?" He's told me before that he needs me, and that he doesn't want to let me go (while he's hugging me), and I said, "If you take care of me, I'll never go." He then said that he doesn't feel like he's doing a very good job of it, and that he wants to do more for me. I rubbed his back and kissed his head.
"Take care of me" is a sense of security I feel when I'm in the right hands. While I am capable of handling myself, being in a relationship puts me in a position where someone else is also very involved in my life-- and I need to feel that it's okay. That it's fine, and not intrusive, and that it's good and right. That's what "take care of me" is. I feel like that a lot with Lou. It doesn't mean something material, or something that can be measured by the number of phone calls. So it's difficult for me to explain to him...
Anyways, I have a final today so I better hop off to bed. I think I'll do an ADIML with Lou in it before he goes. Then he'll remember what he did, instead of getting frustrated from forgetting. :)
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[14 Dec 2009|01:40am] |
Random PM I received from one of my art accounts that I haven't checked in a while:
"hi
when new batman/superman art?"
I think I have only drawn two things of that nature, and they were both just cute tongue in cheek things (like the one of Bruce and Clark as kids).
Huh. Also, I haven't updated that account since April, and before that I hadn't updated since February. I'm a bit perplexed, I guess. If it was something like, "When new Young Justice art?" it would make more sense to me. Huh. It's a recent PM too, so I guess I'm not too late to reply with, "Probably not for a long time, I apologize."
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| Storytelling |
[10 Dec 2009|11:22pm] |
MAYBE I WILL DRAW SOMETHING TO PRINT EH? Actually... um. Hrm. Okay, so whenever I feel like I'm kind of done with something I always want a last huzzah. I'm not done with DC at all but I think the fandom (on LJ) is kind of done, and I want to do something nice because it really is a really nice fandom to be apart of. Before I forget to scan it (since I'm going to be throwing this out soon), I went and snatched up the only cute drawing of Bart I've done in ages.
I remember a long time ago, m33ks said that she noticed the filenames I wrote when I sent her images over AIM. This one is "onlyrecentbartever.jpg."> It says "younger" on the side since I drew him older on the side, but I think that you guys would like the younger drawing of him more.
Tadaaaaaaaaaaaa! (Sorry, so sad.) I don't know! I just... I've been talking about it for ages but then the place I was going to print it at (who didn't really care about copyright as long as it was personal, and it is pretty personal) went away... so I'm a bit scared, which is deterring me from drawing it. I'd like to do something solid, since I am always happiest when I have something printed. But I was telling Lauren about how I pounded out a thirteen page thing in two days (though I was SHAKING while I was finishing). I think I could feasibly make something over the break if I don't get a job. My only plan right now is to hit the gym more because I haven't been too good about it and I want my money's worth. I'm considering cancelling my membership... maybe. My schedule next semester is 8-2, and I have lunch inbetween. I could probably just gym after 2 and get home by 4. Then I can finally try out some of the cool, free classes. Could get into yoga, cycling, steps... Sounds so fun! They have them at LA Fitness too, of course. But I wouldn't mind saving that pretty penny for now. It would only be inconvenient during the summer when I would have to drive allll the way down to use the gym. So I'm still thinking about it.
Oh yeah, comic drawing. I still love drawing comics. I drew a lot of them freshman year when Angela, Marc, and I drew comics all the time in math class. It kind of became a thing. It was really fun when Marc got into it, since he's not bad at all! I still draw a lot of comics. I have one about Lou and I that I meant to post on our blog, but I haven't been able to ink it because... tablet doesn't work with laptop.
Hrm. I've cleaned up my desktop some, and it's still really horribly laggy. It took me forever to do commissions because of the lag, but I tried my best.
In short... I'd really like to do something this winter break. I had an entire anthology of short stories written out, actually. Last year I finished laying out the Christmas thing, but got tired of it (it was too ambitious to do in a week...). Since it's all laid out, I might go back to it. I'd have to redraw the first page though, which I really like. That's stopping me. But it's too obvious that it's an older piece, sadly. The anthology I planned was that I kind of wanted to spend about a year doing small short stories that highlighted the thing I liked most about DC-- the relationships between the characters. My favorite one was a short about Wally and Dick meeting up to catch up, and Roy partycrashes them, disses Wally's greasy shoes, and then they go shoe shopping. Wally is reluctant, but Dick and Roy are totally cool with it. I like Wally and Roy as foil, by the way. Linda's pregnant and Wally was pretty damn nervous about being a father for many issues, meanwhile Roy's had Lian for ages and... is a solid dad, though unconventional. There's a bit more to that too, but it's just a few pages. Everything I wrote was just a few pages.
Did I ever mention that I have a fondness of short stories? My favorite writer is Ray Bradbury because of his short stories. I'm pretty vocal about cutting out crap in storytelling, being straightforward but elegant, and the value of simplicity. I do not dislike circular, elaborate, ambitious stories by people like Gaiman. Those are magnificent. But there is such a sweet thing about short stories to me. I told this to Ty before too, and she knows about my many short story ideas and pressed me to publish at least one anthology of original short stories.
I'm not one to write out epic stories with five hundred thousand twists and eight million characters. This is not A Song of Ice and Fire. No, that's not me. There is a lot of beauty to that, but I'm not that kind of writer. I'm sorry that I'm always too painfully embarrassed to post up my writing, too. I'm too comfortable with being seen as an artist and I feel horribly uncomfortable with others reading my writing. I always feel like they won't see me as a serious writer, so I just hide it. I know that I ramble like crazy here, too. I'm sorry about that.
We'll see what happens. Maybe nothing will happen, in the end. The most likely thing is an anthology of original works... I won't doubt that, but that is going to take a few years to be as long as I want it to be. Which is at least two-hundred pages.
I'd just really like to give back a bit-- and because I really like products, I'd like to print it. The other thing up in the air is if there will be enough to cover the costs, but I'll think about that after I've done the drawing part of it.
I hope you like the cute Bart drawing. I do.
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| Lime Crime; Study Program |
[07 Dec 2009|08:34pm] |
I am so slow on this stuff but the Lime Crime Outrage is kind of boggling. Reading up on it does have me interested in mineral makeup. I don't do a lot of research with my makeup but I mostly use Majorica, and I love it. Hrm.
Anyways, hardcore Calculus study mode again this week. I'm not studying for Chem until next Monday, because it's easy. I'll tuck in a bit of Biology here and there because it's pretty simple. I'll be more sparse than normal. :,3
Edit: I put too much jam in my bagel and it's all gushing out. I have wasted so much good jam. D: (This all tastes so good with coffee.)
( Also, this morning was bittersweet. )
Two more weeks.
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[05 Dec 2009|10:12pm] |
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
If anyone needs me I'll be drowning my sorrows with Mr Ben and Mr Jerry...
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[05 Dec 2009|04:34pm] |
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THE (_____) TO MY (_____) MEME
Click the link to reply with an analogy that describes our relationship (i.e., “you’re the peanut butter to my jelly” or “you’re the harry to my ron.”)
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| EPIPHANY |
[05 Dec 2009|04:41am] |
PUNCH THAT PAUNCH.
I don't really know why I'm awake right now. I think tomorrow I will ask my mom to take a walk with me because she is so upset over how much weight she gained. I'm also back to my old gym schedule, which is really nice because it means I sleep great and my body runs smoothly. It really does. Now, about my skin... it's an endless battle.
Nrhghgghghghghghhh. Also, I pulled out my favorite mules-- a pretty silver pair I received as a present a few years ago, and put them on. My legs look great. It makes me laugh when Lou tells me that my legs jiggle less, but it's true-- there is less rippling. Ho ho ho.
"Punch dat paunch" is stuck in my head right now. Maybe it's a battle cry. Also, I'm scared because the heater is making thumping noises and I get spooked easily.
kiwimangoodness it was nice to enjoy your company for a few minutes after I finished Biology lab. I did not know that you were buddies with my sister's friend Hans, but it seems like he knows everyone and everyone knows him-- probably because he's super nice. He did not know that banjocatbanjo went to CSUF for a really short time and when I told him he got super excited too, but we talked about JAB because it is impossible to not bounce topics from you to JAB. :3
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| Aw, Parents; Google It!; Jewelry; Watches |
[05 Dec 2009|02:56am] |
Short and sweet, but I really liked it. Aw, parents. I do think the art looks a bit sloppy compared to normal, but it is a bit of a random one-shot... so whatever to that. It's a bit all over the place with storytelling too, I think, but it gets the message across. Then again, all of Octopus Pie is a bit all over the place until the last two or three pages of each arc-- like with the last one about Park getting his job. I liked how it started and ended. Everything in between was... nice, cute.
Octopus Pie is so pleasant.
Ty offered to give me some money to start me up on saving for a new tablet, as my Wacom Intuos 1 (!!!) doesn't work with my Harbl, the lappy. I could get a serial converter, but I think maybe it's time to move on. But it still functions. What I would like to do is borrow a serial converter to see if there's any lag, but from what I heard from one person-- there should be no lag? I should google this.
Nowadays, my mom says, "Google it!" a lot. She knows what it means, but she has huge expectations for google. OR DOES SHE? Google does seem to surpass itself all the time.
By the way, I was a bit surprised today. Lou told me a few days ago that he'll be tied up in Torrance because of a debut-- and I didn't know that meant I was coming too. I'm pleasantly surprised though, because I don't mind going to nice events and definitely do not mind going all out with makeup. I don't get to do that very often, but it's always so fun! So it's a nice excuse. Plus, spending time with Lou always makes me happy. (I sometimes ask him if he's having fun when I see him really immersed in something such as Need for Speed, and he'll turn around and said, "I always have fun with you," and then kiss me. I never get sick of hearing it, and I actually never expect it either.) It's always darling and fun. I don't know if I should bring my camera, as that may seem rude or touristy since I'll be the stranger in the bunch. Nevertheless, I was speaking to him on the phone and said that I'll see him on Sunday since he's not coming down for Marc's birthday party (he had plans with his friends-- and I didn't catch him early enough) and he corrected me. "We are going to the debut." Oh? Oh! My mom is happy that I have an excuse to use my nice jewelry, for once. Speaking of which...
I'm curious. What kind of jewelry do you guys wear?
I wear my necklaces for months, but swap my earrings, bracelets, and rings almost daily. Right now I am wearing a bright ruby in the shape of a heart. I felt it was in tune with Christmas, and I like a little charming spot of color on my neck. It's a bit flashy, but that's how I roll. Actually, it's small so it's not too distracting. Before that, my mom gave me an overwhelmingly valuable piece of jewelry-- and I felt odd wearing it because I'm not Catholic like her and Ty. I know that it's her sentiments, and that as a gift I should just be happy. But I don't feel right at the same time. It's a huge cross covered in diamonds with a white gold chain. Beautiful. Very, very beautiful. I wore it for about three weeks before my mom decided that it would be best to keep that for special occasions because of my active lifestyle (with people like Marc grabbing me by the necklace sometimes just because he's rough with all of his friends... by the way, we don't think it's okay and he knows that, so he's being less painfully physical). And also because it was huge and she didn't think it quite fit my style, yet. I treasure it, despite everything. My mom's presents mean a lot to me.
Before that I swapped between two heart necklaces and a shoe necklace for a while. My earrings are usually matched with my ring. I usually wear a little crown ring with a heart-shaped CZ on it. It's really bright, and people usually don't expect it to be a cheap little piece of CZ. But I like it for its design. It's so sweet. Sometimes I'll wear a small band of stars circling my finger, or a beautiful ring with a delicate band and a cluster of colorful stars in different sizes on it. It's my favorite, but I worry that the stars will pop out. They can be moved a little, but this is something I noticed the day I bought it and with all the other ones that I could try on. It still worries me, though. My mother gave me two rings a few weeks ago, though. They are meant to ward off losing of wealth, if that makes sense. One is silver, and the other is gold. It's weird that she took it right off her hand, because I'm used to seeing her wear it. The gold is bent a bit because it's soft, which makes me want to obsessively bend it to be less of an oval and more of a circle. But it just bends again later. Recently, my mom was going through my casual wear jewelry boxes that I keep on my drawers and noticed a chunky jade ring that I thought was for me. It fits me a bit large, but she said it was a ring meant for men and immediately told me to give it to Lou. It's a fine piece of jade, though the metal is nothing special-- just normal. He wears it, and it makes me smile a bit. I think it adds character when you wear really noticeable jewelry like that!
Bracelet-wise, I usually have some kind of jade on me. I had a chunky one my aunt gave me in Taiwan, but my mom recently replaced it with a thinner one that's more powder-y in color. She assures me that the worth is a lot more... and after wearing it for a while and noticing that it hasn't lost any luster, it looks a lot nicer than the old one. The old one looks a lot duller, and the light doesn't shine through it as prettier. A lot of the women in my family have jewelry either as an occupation or as a hobby, and this includes my mom. I guess I should trust her experience. The problem with this one is that it's... permanent. It's super hard to take on and off, and it bothered me for the first few days. Now I forget it's there. I also started wearing a good luck bracelet given to me by my aunt recently, and it is hardly trendy-- but I need the luck. It has five beads on it in different colors that represent earth, fire, sun, water, and night. That and the two rings are not very fashionable or anything, but they mean something. Also, I like to bust out the simple bracelet made of shoelace that jill_calico handmade and sent to me years ago. It's adorable.
I could go on and on about earrings, but they don't hold much meaning aside from one gold pair with very tiny but beautiful crystal stars attached to the hoops. My mom gave them to me this summer and said she had been keeping them for me, because she saw them and knew I would love them. I do! The stars are too small for people to notice the shape, but I feel happy wearing them.
You know, I actually don't think I have that many accessories. It sounds like a lot, but it's really not that much. I told Daniel and Marc today that if they have a hard time shopping for gifts for me, jewelry would be great. Not anything expensive! Just something sweet that I can wear and think of them for. I love wearing things that people give me, because it makes me think of them. If Lou gave me jewelry I would wear it all the time, probably. I didn't do that with his grandmother's bracelet because... well, it snapped. :,3 I wore it for two days, though. But even before that happened, I was thinking of just putting it somewhere to keep safe because it's something valuable to him transferred to me. I'm still pretty upset that it snapped, and I repaired it lightly so that it could look better when displayed. Lou said it was a bad omen to snap, but made worse that I repaired it. Ouch! Anyways, back to Daniel and Marc. They were talking about gifts to give each other when we're all twenty-one and possibly... better off because of working of whatever. Daniel was talking about getting me a super complicated compass so I won't get lost, but I think that might confuse me when I'm panicking. He was talking about how pretty all the glass would be. Then I mentioned the jewelry, and both of them said that they wouldn't be able to tell what was good or bad jewelry-- they would purchase something unsightly by accident. We had a good laugh about it, but I need to remember that they want Fossil watches. This is something I already knew, because Daniel, Vince, and Marc often spoke about how if they start a business together the first thing they'll buy from the profit (they're a bit cocky and sure that they'll succeed) are Fossil watches. The good thing about today is that I got a good look at what kind of Fossil watches they like.
Actually, a few of the watches I saw really caught my eye and I thought about all the nice watches my aunt and mom got me when I was a kid. I don't really have a nice watch right now, because I politely declined when my aunt was getting me one because I didn't want to be like the scam artist in-laws of my cousin Stacy. They were faking that they "just arrived" in Taiwan, though they lived there for months, and my aunt was treating them as guests. She wanted to get them some nice things to bring back to the US so that their stay was good, and she bought them brand name watches. They do this every few months by disappearing and then coming back as "freshly arrived and jetlagged!" It's disgusting. So when they were leeching money off of my sweet aunt (at the time I did not know that they were scamming her like that-- I was just disgusted by their money-grabbing behavior) I refused to take part in it. The daughter (who is just months younger than me and was seventeen at the time, which surprised me because her mother is nearing her sixties) of my cousin's mother-in-law griped about not watching a watch and wanting to take it off after it was paid for and firmly on her hand. I felt this was very rude of her after receiving a very pricey present from the generosity of a stranger. She was being openly thankless and was complaining loudly to everyone! I said, "If you truly did not want it, you could say no. As you can see, there is no watch on my hand." She did not speak to me, but I am not surprised at that. :/ I may not have been the better person for saying something poisonous, but I was appalled by her behavior-- which made my well-meaning aunt sad.
Anyways, that was the last time I was offered a nice watch. I do not regret my decision, but thinking back on it... it was the only time I was offered a nice watch after maybe early middle school. Which explains why I don't have any watches. What I do have are two watch display boxes given to me by my aunt, who told me that a watch is very important. "The first thing anyone sees when you extend your hand is a watch-- that is why you must always wear a beautiful watch so that you can make the best impression. Imagine you outstretching your hand to your future mother-in-law, and the first thing she sees is a classy watch on your slender wrist. You need to learn these things." She wanted to encourage me to start a watch collection. I will fill those boxes someday, Aunt Irene. Thank you.
Looking back on this entire thing, it seems like I am surrounded by wisdom. From "google it!" to lessons on first impressions. My aunt also coached me on having better posture when I was in elementary school.
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| From One Hamster To Another... |
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I got kind of bored today at work. This somehow resulted in the following email conversation between me and one of my co-workers. I just had to foward it to my personal email address so that I could share it with you guys, because it made me laugh so much.
( From One Hamster To Another... )
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| Body and Exercise Talk |
[02 Dec 2009|02:38am] |
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I came back from the gym today all sweaty and exhausted to see this:
悪魔の騎士 says:
:3
I bet you're at the gym being all sexy as you are x3
Keep up the good work woman :3
I wuvvs you
♥ If that isn't motivation, I don't know what it is. But it sure as hell made me feel really good about myself. :3 Lou also mentioned that he's going to try to go back to going to the gym almost daily. It kind of feels nice to know that he's going regularly again, for some reason. Like... comraderie? I don't know. Daniel is going more too, which is nice. Justin keeps going in the morning so he doesn't gym with us enough. Also, I measured everything yesterday and basically lost one to three inches off of everything. It was pretty amazing. My hips, my waist, my thighs, my calves, my arms, and yes... my cleavage. :,D Oh well! I also took a good long look at my before pictures, and how I look now... and the difference is so noticeable. I'm surprised that it's just a few inches, because it seems like so much more. I've been doing a bit more weights. We'll see what happens, but I'm having fun with keeping up with Sparkpeople more again too-- though, I didn't fulfill my goal of eating two pieces of fruit a day from it. Definitely got enough water, though. And I'm getting my at least eight hours of sleep. I got one apple in today but when I got home I really didn't feel like doing anything other than plopping down and relaxing. A second fruit was one my mind.
Also, the replies.
Chien says:
<3 <3 <3
You're a pretty good gambler, stranger.
I wuvvs you too. <3 <3 <3
悪魔の騎士 says:
:3
Feeling good and looking good too, I guess. Hahaha. I'm concerned over my mom's health too, so I asked her today if she wants to go on a mile walk everyday during my winter break (I initially suggested two miles, but she said that was too much). I told her to get ready, because I don't know if she's mentally prepared for it? She's a quitter when it comes to getting exercise, but her doctor really wants her to get in better shape to up her chances of surviving the cancer. She said yes, and maybe Ty will come too-- which will definitely motivate mom more. So that's good. I don't think I'll ask her to jog-- that's maybe something for way later, because her legs are weak.
I also might seriously just walk to the gym, like Daniel suggested. Then I'll just do two or three miles, some weights, and a few other things, then shower and meander home after a stretch. My car is not going to be fixed for a while, so why not? I was joking to my labmates during dinner that when they see me in Spring semester I'll be "dark chocolate" from all the sun exposure. But of course I'll just slather on a lot of the sun protection I put on daily when I bussed and walked home the many miles from my high school.
PS: I loved watching the Victoria's Secret show today and looking at all the beautiful women with their strong bodies. They looked very, very toned. In fact, muscular, but in an empowering yet feminine way. I eat that physique up! It's so beautiful to me. I gushed to Daniel about how I really love the more mature, curvacious Victoria's Secret women in comparison to the thin, lightly toned young girls (who are pretty too-- but they're not my type). I know that the Victoria's Secret Angels are still very thin, but there is no denying that they are extremely powerful looking women with their tightly muscled bodies wrapped around their frames. Beautiful, eyecatching full, swingy hips with thighs and calves that have so much form and meat and muscle to them-- and nice, shapely backs that curve into firm everything everywhere. It was just a fun show to watch, though I didn't care too much for the search for an Angel-- though it's good on her for making it, too.
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[01 Dec 2009|02:50pm] |
I don't even know, man. Things are fine. I had Pancake House again because Katrina and Marc are addicted to it. They were mega hungry and scarfed their food down in ten minutes. Katrina basically attacked her half of the omelette! Then again, I did have some breakfast? Hrm. It was fun, though. I think Katrina and I talk too much compared to Marc, but that's okay.
I found Lou's shirt tucked into my bed yesterday and put it on. Then I noticed that my bed smells like him. :3 Nice, comforting smell.
Test this Friday that I'm actually a bit worried about. I really want to get a super high grade on it, or else my pride will kill me. Something like that. Finals are coming up and I'm still a bit wishy washy with Calculus, so I might go back into hardcore math study mode again. Biology I continue to not be too worried about, actually. I hope the experiment today goes by quickly, since it seems like we have it pretty streamlined at this point.
Things are fine. I have some things I need to tell Lou before I forget, so I sent them to him when he was offline. Still planning things for Marc's surprise birthday party. I feel weird that I'm planning it since... isn't Daniel his best friend? And he's closer with Crissy, too. But his dad asked me probably out of familiarity, because I'm a lot more talkative than Crissy. Maybe. Hrm. I'm going to ask Vinh again if he can come for lunch. It sounds like Marc wants to go to AI at night, and I don't really see a point in hanging around too much after lunch in the afternoon. Katrina helped, which is great. She has work at two so she can be there for lunch. Marc just had sushi and Korean BBQ, so I know where not to go for lunch. Just a few more things I gotta check, and I need to ask Lou if he wants to meet up with us for it too-- but he gets out of class at 12:30 and probably can't get here until pretty late. Hrm. Daniel also wants to invite Lou to Cars and Coffee, but that's super early in the morning on Saturday.
Just some things to think about along with school.
I watched "Castle" while at the gym and I... kind of like it? I'm a bit drawn to it, but I can't tell if I'm watching something good or bad. But it's a really nice looking series, even if it's ridiculous. Maybe I'll watch more of it. The new "Scrubs" is starting up and I'm thinking of getting caught up with it-- though I did watch the "last" episode from the season before while at the gym too. I also want to get back into watching "House" but I have a lot of catching up to do. I recently explained its premise to Daniel and he said that it sounds like something Jon would like, and he'll check it out. Especially since in Taiwan he'll be busy with hospital visits, since he's going there for health check-ups. The problem is that I don't really have the time to watch all these things even though I want to. I guess I could download them and put them on my Zune for when I go gym. Might as well, I guess.
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