and today was a day just like any other

Some day I will get that tattooed on me so every day I can look at it, take a deep breath, and just remember it's a day like any other and I will survive it just as I have before.

i wake up to find it's another four aspirin morning and i dive in.
i put on the same clothes i wore yesterday.
when did society decide that we had to change
and wash a t-shirt after every individual use -
if it's not dirty i'm gonna wear it.
i take the stairs to the car
and there's fog on the windows.

I keep seeing commercials for the new television show V and every single time I go "who the hell is that girl? she looks so familiar!"

I just got it. It's Morena Baccarin who played Inara in Firefly. Also, a quick look at imdb tells me that Alan Tudyk is also in this show.

Now I'm interested.

The only thing I like about Halloween is when kids come up to you and they're too shy to say "trick or treat" and they're super adorable and they smile so wide when you give them candy and say "thank you" in the cutest voices ever! One kid tried to give me candy from his bag and didn't understand why I gave him some more. So adorable!

( pictures of my hair/makeup plus THE BEST COSTUME EVER )

I am currently obsessed with the Jay-Z song, Empire State of Mind. Oh Jay, despite how crazy you and Beyonce are, you'll always be my favourite rapper. (Apparently Blueprint 3 went to #1 making it his 11th number one album. That's more than Elvis! - thanks xsavedbygracex for telling me that tidbit of info)

Basically I am being forced into wearing a costume. Okay, that's a lie. But I work at the world's largest mall! I have to dress up! So I'm just being a 50s girl. I have a dress that fits in perfectly, I bought some red lipstick, and I borrowed a flower for my hair from a friend of mine. Now just to figure out my hair and makeup. Woo.

And I'm going to make a halloween playlist for the store. Should be interesting.


Random picture of me. My hair has so much volume if I don't comb it after I shower. Could also be because I have so much hair! (Also, I think I look so bad without glasses. When I wear my glasses you don't notice the huge bags under my eyes.)

I'm dumb. I accidently deleted this entry instead of editing a typo. So, erm, yes.

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So. I am a huge sucker for anything FOB. Which means today I bought the Go Merch Infintiy package of the BND greatest hits album. That cost me about $100 because s&h cost me an arm and a leg.

Tonight I get an email from OCK being all "oh lookie we have more packages with DIFFERENT stuff you want (and no, we know the hair thing is creepy but so is Pete and you all know that so don't even try to act surpised)." So... I'm going to buy the Deluxe Edition because I don't really need a Thnks Fr Th Mmrs plaque/lock of hair (I'm not smart enough to make a cloning machine, and even if I was I wouldn't want to make a clone of Pete. Patrick, yes, but not Pete no matter how much I heart his stupid face). I just want the colored vinyl. (And apparently I'm going to be an OCK forever if it actually gives me another 3 years of membership.)

So.. if anybody wants a copy of the album but doesn't want to pay a lot I'll gladly sell it to you for like $10. taken by xsavedbygracex which saves me on s&h lol.

Stupid FOB and my stupid hoarding.

ETA: oh, oh, you know that new picture of Jon and Ryan? WTF? Like, okay, Ryan looks fine. He's got the long, curly, skateboarding/hockey hair going on. But, JON WALKER OMG. He looks like that dirty hobo wearing the pants with only one leg that Patrick Stump chased down to buy him a proper outfit. That's my opinion. I miss stereotypical looking boy Jon Walker.

It depends on whether I'm interested in the class/meeting.

After the first lecture in a class I can usually tell how the professor teaches and whether he'll be explaining stuff that I'm truly interested in. If I am interested, I sit near the front, closer to the middle. If I am in no way interested I stick to the back so I can do whatever on my laptop.

In meetings, I usually sit in the middle because what is being said is probably important and I should know it but I don't want to look over-eager by sitting right up front or too much of a slacker but lazing around in the back.

I usually have trouble focusing if I'm not interested and don't really see a need to focusing. If it's important and most definitely going to be on an exam or I need to know the information to perform my job competently, then yes, I will pay attention if I'm not interested. But if it's neither interesting nor important to know, I won't.

And there is my tl;dr explanation of that.

(Apparently Brendon linked to some 10th dimension youtube video or something however long ago? I'm finally watching it and my brain hurts. Reason number one why I am no physicist.

Also, my internet keeps cutting out. I hate that I have to be in the basement for it to work consistently.)

I haven't been on the computer in... I don't even know how many days. I have just been so busy doing nothing.

Basically my life consists of playing video games (L4D!), working out (yoga!) and just plain working (manager!). Oh, an sleeping (zzz).

It's going to take me forever and a day to go back through my flist. So... basically, what I want to know is..

What's going on with the Pete Shenanigans? is that still going on?

ETA: So, future FOB are sending postcards to each other? And Pete got his head shaved (arma!pete, anyone?) which equals FOB breaking up? I thought we already knew they were taking a break? There is an adorable little baby who needs his dad so I thought it was just common sense?

first time in a couple days I've been on the computer for more than just getting directions from google maps. been moving and killing zombies and sleeping. busybusybusy. so very tired.

Does anybody have an mp3 of "Snowglobe" by Tequila Mockingbird they would love to send my way? I would love you forever.

ETA: And does anybody know a lot about Midtown? I've been trying to find primers or anything other than articles basically rephrasing the wikipedia article.

Thanks!

Dude, the new Clan line is so nice. I want so much. Like the iphone skin? And the argyle hoodie? And the lurker shirt? And yes, I kind of want Gabe's shirt as well, because I think it's hilarious. And the glasses. And half a billion other shirts. And the necklaces.

Damn you, Pete Wentz, for releasing an awesome line right when I decide to spent $400 on hockey tickets. Augh.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

I was thinking, trying to figure out what I was going to put for the last day, and then this guy I work with, Phan, posted the following video.



Phan always throws the best parties, and that one was probably the best. No idea how he's going to top next years birthday.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

"As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles." - T.S. Eliot

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy



Very hard to choose just one video, but I decided on picking something that isn't bandom related. So, have some douchebag Transformers, yay!

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Pictures of Walls

Basically, a website where people submit photos of graffiti from all over the world.

Took me a bit to choose one website because I frequent a couple other ones daily, so I'm going to cheat and give you links to Questionable Content (a webcomic), LikeCool (blog about weird/cool stuff being made), and deleteyourself (blog of the guy who created TBITW).

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy



Truthfully, probably one of my favourite books. I was debating between the usual choices of Perks of Being A Wallflower or Catcher in the Rye (which are two amazing books) but I am a history geek, especially european history, and while this book does embellish on events, it reads like a story instead of like a textbook and I absolutely love that. Textbooks are hard to take in, too many facts being thrown at you, but this book gets you involved. The authors use actual letters sent from leader to leader and conversations they actually had. It even contains a part about Hitler's birthday and how Hitler just sulked in the corner because I can totally see Hitler doing that. And, er, I'm going to stop rambling on about it. It's very good, imo.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy



The amount of time it took for me to pick a picture was too long. And all I can say is "nomnomnom damn, Patrick."

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Liberation Frequency - Refused

Gave blood today. Was interesting. Need to get my iron level up before next time.

Trying to figure out what I'm going to go back to school for and if I'll have enough money for tuition. (Bachelor of Arts, major in history; if I save 80% of my paychecks, yes)

I really want a new laptop. Mine runs slow and yeah I could just get some RAM added in but my mac is the old school mac and I want a shiny new one with LED keyboards and silvery casing. But that will cost me around $2000 with student pricing. Which sucks. A lot. :( If the economy was good I could probably convince my parents to buy me a new one, but alas, with hours being cut at the steelmill my father is unfortunately broke a lot more now than he's used to.

Bah, money. Bah, life.

(Anybody know what you can do with a history degree? Besides teach? No? Nothing? Me either.)