February 2012
23 posts
Found out my little crush is on a 30 year old (maybe 31?). I had convinced myself that he was probably only 29.
I’m 23. THIRTY just sounds crazy. Even 29 was seriously stretching it. But 30? Ah. He has lost some of his appeal. Damn.
(It was not a practical crush in the least bit anyway. Just wishful thinking / happy staring.)
The problem with losing weight (not intentionally, so a happy surprise) is that the hell-of-a-deal dress that I bought ~2 months ago for my friend’s wedding suddenly has extra space in the chest area. I decided to give it one last bedroom-fashion-show before the big day (next Saturday) and realized I really need to take it in about an inch.
Fortunately it’ll be an easy fix because of...
I’ve been “rapping” random lines of that Jay-Z / Kanye song for the past four hours.
Mothafuckas wanna find me. That shit cray. What she order? Fish fillet. If I was him, I woulda married Mary-Kate and Ashley.
God help me.
A teenager at my internship used the term ‘getting white boy wasted’ today when asked about his prior use of alcohol. He is not white. Which was his point, I suppose.
The lead therapist laughed out loud. Which is very fortunate, because so did I.
When you end a therapy session (that is supervised; as in it being watched live / recorded so it can be watched later) with a particularly grueling couple and your supervisor stops you on your way out and says “hang around a minute, I have something I want to say to you”… you pretty much feel like you’re going to throw up. Not to mention you’re starving and...
new hair
I can’t take normal pictures, let’s just face it. And it’s actually shorter than that since I’m leaning forward and my laptop is laying on my bed.
oh and for comparison; this was my hair about two months ago (and it obviously had not been cut until now)…
I just cut off all of my hair. Okay. Like, 8 inches worth. To the chin.
Pictures to come.
Dinner at Bonefish Grill.
Black cherry guava mojito. Bang bang shrimp.
Delicious.
Today I turned 23.
I went to work. And to intern. And to class. I made myself dinner at 8PM. And then ate a slice of leftover peanut-butter pie that I made for a function last night.
Basically this means that I’m officially old.
(sidenote: the people in my life don’t completely suck or anything.. my family celebrated early and i’m going out with my best friends tomorrow)
also added to my v-day
last night’s Pretty Little Liars (thanks to the lovely internet)
Teen Mom 2
I might be a little offended that my roommate and her boyfriend took their Valentine’s day dinner up to her room to eat (I’m doing homework in the living room, which is connected to the kitchen/dining area). But I’m not at all offended that their idea of a romantic dinner is picking up Dominos and a bagged salad.
Happy Valentine’s Day to myself:
- Worked at my GA from 8-10 - Worked at my internship from 10-4 - Came home and finished a paper - Made myself pasta/sauce and garlic bread - Currently eating pretzel M&Ms for dessert
I have never had a “call me the second you get there” mother. She always wanted to know where I was going (or had gone) and who would be there (or was there), but she was never overprotective. I think it was a good balance.
My roommate’s boyfriend’s mother just called him to verify that he had “made it down (here)”. An hour and a half away. He is 23 years old....
yay or nay?
This is my hair. Like, a month ago.
This is what I am considering doing to my hair.
Really, my concern is just that my hair is ridiculously thick. Obviously thick + short = poofy. I’ve always cut my own hair though. So I was hoping if I actually let a “professional” do it, they may be able to thin it out to wear I could get away with this short of a ‘do. What do we...
I had a very lazy day yesterday. I felt bad at first, but it was much needed. It was the first time I’ve stayed at my apartment on a weekend since the last week of September. Ever since my mom got diagnosed, I always drive the 2 hours to her house, stay the weekend, and then drive the 2 hours back. It’s just my routine now but I desperately needed a sit-on-the-couch kind of Saturday. I...
Why I actually LIKE working my GA hours on a Friday morning:
- I can arrive at 8AM and find a parking space without a problem. - I don’t have class/interning afterwards, so I can wear a hoodie and jeans. - My boss/professor does supervision hours, so he’s busy and cannot ask questions / give me extra stuff to do (Don’t get me wrong, I actually really like him. But I don’t...
The top half of my thumb got smashed in a door at work today. A ‘fire safe’ door or whatever that weighs a zillion pounds and SLAMS no matter how gentle you try to be with it. It still hurts. Boo.
Being born and raised in Jersey, I’m probably supposed to have turned out a Giants fan. I don’t care about the NFL though, so I don’t care who wins the superbowl either. If I had to pick a team, I would probably say Giants, mainly just because something about the Patriots is obnoxious to me.
So there you have it. I’ll say Go Giants. It’s currently 9-9 at the end of...
Channing Tatum hosting SNL? I’m willing to give that a chance. I can only think of one time I’ve really seen him interviewed (on Ellen) but he was considerably funny, and that was on his own.
(eta: Nevermind. Fell asleep during the first commercial break.)
I brought a textbook down the hall with me. I was going to, you know, read some chapters for class.
Then Blue Crush came on. New plan. Whoops.
Attending a Bridal Tea Party at 10:30AM. Really? Noon would have been too late?
Today a ~15 year old boy at my internship referred to me as ‘the pretty lady’ when I arrived.
I’m still not sure whether to be flattered that he called me pretty or saddened that he thinks I’m old enough (at 22) to be called a ‘lady’.
Not that ‘lady’ is equal to ‘old hag’ or anything, but I feel like teenagers either think you’re...
January 2012
36 posts
I like days that start off with a compliment.
Even if it was from a random girl that I didn’t particularly think liked me (we had three grad classes together last semester and never exchanged more than 20 words).
I randomly found unflavored gelatin in my mom’s kitchen. I remembered seeing a homemade face mask recipe a few weeks ago that involved unflavored gelatin. A quick google search and I found it.. bingo.
Now it’s hardened and my face is SO. FREAKING. TIGHT. It’s that super-awkward-but-kind-cool feeling. Peeling off in approximately seven minutes. My cheeks better resemble those of...
I haven’t let anyone cut my hair since I was 15… aka: seven years ago. Long layers. Short bobs. Bangs. Whatever, I cut it myself.
It started as a “no one does what I ask them to, I’ll just do it” kind of deal. Now it’s a pride thing. My hair is what gets me the most compliments. So when it’s related to the cut/style, and I can say that I did it myself, I...
October 5th: A doctor looked at a CAT scan of my mom’s brain and seriously asked “Are we sure this person is even alive?”
January 28th: Watched my mom check her email, do laundry, make dinner, and carry on with life as normal.
No one can explain what has happened. All of the doctors are shocked. Expectations were very low and no one ever thought she’d be...
Find a really cute dress on clearance for $12 and order it with low expectations.. probably too big/small, or the print will be ugly in person, or it won’t work for my body type, or the fabric will be cheap looking.
I ended up loving it. And now I have a dress to wear to a good friend’s wedding in March. Yay.
Stalking my own facebook to see myself circa 2007 with the shortest hair I’ve ever had.
I didn’t mind the short hair. It’s that in between length that I despise… when you decide to grow it out and for two months you just dream of the day it will touch your damn shoulders. I do think I look better with longer hair though. Ugh.
Pondering cutting it off again. Partly for a...
bitching about my lack of time
I have a headache… the kind where your forehead is throbbing and you just can’t stop thinking about it. The real problem is that this has been happening everyday.
Last semester I usually had one three-hour class a day and had to work at my GA for about two hours. My ‘long day’ involved two three-hour classes. I did lots of other homework and such throughout the day, but I...
wedding etiquette
Alright ladies. What’s the deal with proper gift-giving when it comes to weddings / showers / etc? I’m 22 and this is will be my first good friend to get married. She has registered at a few places and there are plenty of options.
I assumed a gift was necessary for both the bridal shower and then the wedding itself. Another friend’s mom (who has a hand in throwing the shower)...
I do my job (at my GA) well. A lot of it is rather routine so I know what I am doing. When something comes up and I no longer have an answer, I use the proper resources to figure it out. I would like to think that my boss recognizes this about me. I’m also the only person who works under him and the only person working in this particular ‘office’. So if something goes wrong, I...
I’m sure this is going to sound horrible and stuck-up but sometimes I wonder how people made it this far in life without proper manners and general etiquette.
Myself and another female started at the same Master’s level internship today. It is in the mental health field. I arrived wearing black dress pants, a blouse, and a cardigan. And flats because I just don’t do heels -...
I hate when someone says they’ll call you in ten minutes and they don’t. It has now been forty minutes. I’m more than willing to let you vent about your relationship issues, but I don’t have all night!
While going up the escalator at the mall, I passed three young teenage girls who were on their way down. One very seriously said “I’m loving being single. It’s been like a week now.” The other two confirmed that she was totally right.
Thankfully that’s as much of the exchange as I could catch. People always say “I hope I wasn’t that bad at 13” but...
Free is my favorite.
I’ve had a ‘free medium beverage’ postcard from Dunkin Donuts laying around for a few weeks. The only DD is out of the way though. I had to go over that way today to return something at the mall, so I grabbed a Vanilla Bean Coolatta. Yum. I haven’t had one in at least five years.
I love that they keep playing ‘Pretty Woman’ on ABC Family. Every family movie night oughta include a fancy prostitute.
I went to work yesterday at 2PM. I had to work an event last night at 8:30PM. I had to work another event at 7:30AM. I stayed and did my actual GA work right after. I’ll be going back for class from 4-7PM.
I’m spending way too much time on this campus.
Thanks to Pinterest, I just made two ‘birds nest’ pendants that I’ll swap back and forth on a plain silver chain. I had the beads and wire laying around from other projects.. I’ve seen a lot of the ‘nesting’ stuff on Etsy but it never occurred to me how simple it is to make the beads stay (feed the wire through them, then wrap - DUH). Just something with a...
This morning at work I had to laminate some stuff.. meaning I got to use the department’s fancy laminator. I may have been a bit too excited about this.
It. Was. Awesome.
happy tears
Yesterday I wrote about the completely miserable experience of dropping my dog off at an animal shelter, since my mom’s illness and my life no longer permitted his presence.
He only spent one night there. The family that took my cat (which was also miserable, but at least I knew she was going to a good home and just had to pass her off, rather than leave her behind) went and adopted him...
Not at all ready to go back to work this afternoon (I’m a Graduate Assistant and have been on break since December 16th).
And then back to classes on Thursday. And internship next week. UGHHHH.
Lazy for life.
Content with my $12 dress for a friend’s casual daytime wedding. Now let’s hope it’s not still freezing at the beginning of March.. or I’m in trouble.
sad.. just so fucking sad
This morning I had to bring my dog to an animal shelter. Lots of people had spread the word and several really wanted to find a way to take him, but we just couldn’t make it happen. I cried hysterically.
This afternoon I had to give my cat away to a friend. It was much easier, knowing that she was going to a good home with good people. But I cried again. Especially...
Just had to email one of the big wig professors in my grad program to inform her that she has all of the wrong dates for our class. She wrote this whole long thing about how she can’t be there for our first class meeting on X date so do A, B, C, and D online and then bring E and F to our next class meeting on Y date. Except that we don’t meet on X or Y. That’s the wrong day of...
Dog The Bounty Hunter marathon? Yes please. Happy clean-house-do-laundry Saturday.
ummm.
A friend just uploaded a big mix of photos to facebook. I was flipping through them and stopped at one of a little girl, who is probably about four years old. She looked vaguely familiar (not so much familiar; she just strongly resembled someone, but I couldn’t think of who). It was tagged as Jackie Westlake*.
Westlake? Hmmm. Definitely knew a Westlake once upon a time. But Jackie? Who is...
Thanks to the two minutes I spent on Pintrest earlier.. I made salt dough and cut out various sized circles that will hopefully be turned into a bracelet/necklace later. They’re currently in the oven, so we shall see how it turns out. Super simple though. Hopefully it’s a win!
Salt dough = 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, cold water as necessary (I used like 1-1.5 cups, I think.....