Archive for the ‘My Life’ Category
Massage man
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Shirt: Dad’s
Blazer: Vintage via eBay
Skirt: Forever 21
Tights: Target
There’s this man who often visits the store I work at. And by often visits I mean that he comes in every single day to use the massage chair for 15 minutes. I get a distinctive creepy vibe from him, and I always not-so-discreetly try to edge away from him whenever he tries to strike up a conversation, but he seems to be oblivious to or chooses to ignore my obvious uncomfortableness. So I was having an awkward conversation with him today when another customer called me over and was all like “I have a question!” So I went over and the other customer said, “I just wanted to save you from that conversation.” And then she raised her voice so that the massage man could hear and was like, “Is there something you need to find out that only your manager will know? Maybe you should go talk to her.” I almost hugged her before I ran off, - she saved me from the creepy massage man!
Licensed!
Friday, November 7th, 2008I got my driver’s license today, WOOHOO!!
I nearly failed the test though, I think. I failed at parallel parking twice and missed every single turn single after getting all flustered and nervous because my tester was like “you don’t want to ride the brake through the turn, the people behind you will think you’re going to stop!” and I panicked and thought I was going to fail. But I didn’t apparently, which is perhaps a miracle, but I’m not complaining.
I’m not sure if there’s anything more relaxing, since I drive far below the speed limit and only to the three places I know how to get to, which are my school, my job, and the post office. I may need to add The Boyfriend’s house to that list soon, because I usually make him come to me, but we’ll see if I can handle memorizing the routes from my house to four different places.
Anyways, I didn’t post what I wore for Election Day 2008 because I was being all emotional and caught up in the moment, but here’s what I wore. I tried to go for all blue, since I’m a super liberal, like basically every other young person in America, but I didn’t own enough blue things and just went for the primary colors. Not sure how I feel about that yet.
Blazer: Vintage
Dress (As top): Forever21
Skirt: Forever21
Tights: Taiwan
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to begin planning my 48-state road trip!
Obama!
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I’m proud to say that I donated $5 to his campaign, because although it really is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, it makes me feel even more part of something amazing. And by something amazing I mean change, man. America is way overdue for some change. I’m beyond ecstatic right now, because even though my family is going to get taxed more because we’re apparently part of the 1% that controls 34% of the wealth, I can taste a better future.
Barack Obama makes me super, super proud to be American.
Love.
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Happy two year anniversary, sweetie.
I love you.
Aruba, how I miss thee
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008I can hardly believe that only 8 days ago I was in Aruba. Basking in the sun. Snorkeling daily. Defining the time by how close it was to breakfast, lunch, or dinner. During my trip, I learned that there are few things funner than asking for “a virgin sex on the beach,” that I rather enjoy cocktails, that I really can not pull off cornrows, that being the only sober person among a crowd full of drunk people singing karaoke is probably one of the greatest experiences one can have, that being hit on by creepy-drunk-man-who-looks-like-my-mum-boss-and-has-cute-sons-in-their-twenties-who-all-get-drunk-together-as-a-family is a combination of amusing and awkward, that little blonde British children dance a lot like Elvis Presley and are insanely adorable, that when my grandmother loves a restaurant, she loves it enough to go there three nights in a row, and that peeling all over both arms, across your back, the part of your scalp that was exposed by cornrows, and your cheat makes you looked diseased… The list ends because there’s too many things and I’ve forgotten.
Here are some pictures accompagnied by my commentary. And by some pictures I mean so many I don’t know what to do with them - I took over 900, after all.
Wow, look at that pasty-ness. Please especially focus on the blinding whiteness of my scalp. I accidentally got cornrows the first day I was there; I thought the lady said hair-wrapping..
My sister and I saw a gigantic chess set and immediately saw the need to recreate that scene from Harry Potter.
I limbo intensely…
..but not as intensely as this man..
The four hour horseback ride I took to the natural pool right around the corner of this picture under the VERY VERY intense Aruban sun is what totally totally burned me.
I bought a floppy straw hat and played some shuffledboard
I danced with the most adorable blonde British child, Alfie. I wanted to steal him.
I went parasailing.. And was upset because it didn’t go high enough.
If you look closely, you’ll be able to tell that I have my legs crossed. That’s how I roll.
I also went windsurfing…
…not always that lamely..
And then I got rescued when I went too far out. I kinda love how I look like a pompous bitch in this photo.
The beautiful sunset
It’s a little reminiscent of the Lion King, no?
My mother fails a bit at making hearts, but this is cute nonetheless!
And this is also ridiculously cute, for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on.
If you want to see even more photos, you can click here for the set on Flickr.
Bottom line is that I was very near depressed when I came back home, and I’ve been so busy for the past week that I’ve only just had the time to sort through the photos!
