O M G. Baby Skates

Muttpuppy commented and I read some of her posts. Especially this one! I had this doll and I freakin loved it. I remember loving her whole costume and feeling bad when she'd fall down.

Jump break!

It's possible and easy to do!

Why so chatty, SD?

I'm getting a sinus infection, I'm pretty sure. All the classic signals. Might be an ear infection. No appetite and feel sort of floaty yet down at the same time.  It's nice having no appetite, I wish I felt like that more often. Of course the ear and face pain are downsides.

And my knee hurts! I think I have a bit of torn cartilage that occasionally gets in the way of normal knee workings. It happens every so often, and it's not so terrible.

I want to find something to blog about, for my own amusement, other than me, me, me. So dull. I think I'll be self indulgent and work out the me-stuff and hopefully then can look for better topics.

Mascara

I purchased new mascara this fine evening. It's called "The Falsies Volum'Express" by Maybelline. On sale 40% off at Walgreens, if you're interested. A coworker said she found the results too natural looking, which is surprising based on the name and marketing of the product. She also said she was picky about such things, and looking for a certain result that this didn't supply. So perhaps I won't be entirely disappointed, in spite of having delusions of crazy, show girl lashes.

Package says: More visible lashes -- Fills in the gaps -- Instant volume (emphasis theirs) -- SPOON BRUSH -- False lash effect -- With Pro-Kera + Fibers.

Fellow bloggers....

Do comment if you'd like to promote your blog here. It would likely be promoted to just me, but hey, one reader is something. I used to have a column on the side here, back when I was all blog-happy, not sure what happened to it.--- Now I've added it back.

How fun are all the little gadget thingies? Pretty fun.

No more anonymous comments

To cut down on spam comments, which are almost all that come in since I so rarely post, I have done away with anonymous comments. I feel very post-y tonight, though, might add a bit more. Please feel free to comment if you see anything you like or do not like.

Online dating

... is weird. I don't want to go into too much detail but probably will. I had this date about a week and a half ago. He hasn't communicated much with me. I'm not sure if he's uninterested or just shy. Probably uninterested -- who'd be that shy if he was really into someone? But I emailed him, to see if he'd respond. Always gotta push it. It's better than not knowing, I think. And I don't believe I'll be truly hurt if he's just uninterested, right? We'll see.

I also have a few gentlemen I'm interested in hearing more from, others that seem more dubious.

Watching Hogfather

Excellent so far. Gorgeous to look at, and so fun to see the characters and settings come to life. Almost as fun as the first Harry Potter movie, and I feel guilty saying 'almost'. I just know there are some bits I won't like, things that happen towards the end.

I don't really love the look of Death, I feel like his face/skull should look different. His voice and dialogue are fine. Albert and Ponder Stibbons and Death's granddaughter Susan are all fabulous so far. I do not like Teatime but I suppose I'm not meant to. Everything looks the way it should from my mental impressions of the book. I wonder if I listened to the audiobook, if it could change the way it all looks in the mind?

I don't see why her hair should go so bouffant to stop time, seems kind of silly. Binky is awesome. Well, he's just a horse. Getting tired, not sure whether to stay up and finish it. Might as well at this point.

The oh-god of hangovers is nice. Anthill inside! :) Random comments, sorry. 

Wailey wailey waily!

Feeling sorry for myself. Moving along!

Check it out

http://voixdemichele.blogspot.com/2010/11/h-is-for-holidays-single-persons.html#links

Great post from Voix de Michele. About what it's like to be single during the holidays, what we don't want to hear.

thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful to have enough to keep me busy but not quite out of trouble.

Watching the Lost Boys

Not as interesting as I remembered, good as background noise though. Now that I've had a few days of working two jobs again, I am starting to remember what it felt like. Stretched out, or like watery soup. I am watery soup.

I figured out how much I'd need to make per hour at one job to equal what I'm currently getting at two. It's not a huge number.

Started reading the novel The Help, I'm almost halfway through. Hopefully today at work will be quiet enough that I can make some more headway. It's intriguing, problematic maybe on some levels. I think I'll look up some reviews or criticisms after I'm done reading it.

Bonne chance

On my iGoogle homepage I have a little French phrase-of-the-day widget. Bonne chance, meaning "good luck", was today's.

Yesterday I reorganized my bedroom and the bathroom a little bit. The day before I was looking for a different hairstyle. Today I was investigating possible future careers as a pharmacy tech, paralegal, IT person, and maybe even healthcare (if only I could get past my issues with blood).

Tomorrow I might even take action to make some sort of significant change to my life. It could happen. The room reorg is pretty big, for me. Opened up a little floor space. Getting rid of old stuff I don't use or need, to make space for New! Exciting! Things! I've been winnowing away the junk for a few years now.

I would like to think I've made some progress, and that I've slowed down the influx of new stuff. It doesn't look like that to the naked eye.

Oh dude.

I thought I had something to say, but what it was escapes me. Recently read books include Atonement and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Or Something Like That). Both had those authentic feeling WWII experiences that just make you not want to trust Germans. There, I said it. I don't like the filthy Krauts. Don't trust 'em.

Whatever I was originally going to say, it probably wasn't as awesome as this. I sometimes think about starting up this ol' blog on the regular again. I have a lot to say that, in all honesty, nobody around me gives a shit about (nor should they). My, that last sentence was a masterpiece. So a blog seems like the thing. So whatever.

Both of these books were very good. Atonement is the more literary, while Guernsey was at its heart, cutesy as shit. All of the 'good guys' have a talent for adorable, pithy notes, for one thing.

If you happen to read this, let me know what you think about the new design. I'm not sure how I feel about the transparency behind the blog posts. Whoa. That could mean a lot of things. But you know what I mean.

I like this one too

Fancy Advice Blog

Wish they had more posts. I need me some fancy advice, and I love advice columns.


For something completely different, a beautiful craft blog from the UK. Life is a Fountain
Pretty pretty stuff. But I didn't want to steal any of her pics, so if you like crafty stuff click over.

Blog readingses

Just found this blog. BridesWhoMeanBusiness If you are looking for wedding advice from someone who is not afraid to say fuck a lot, and probably hates you and everything you stand for, this is the blog for you! Advice like this caption under a groom's cake fashioned in the shape of a Coor's Light can: "Kill yourself."

I got to this blog from a link at the bottom of Postcards from Yo Momma, which I got to by way of a link from some fashion blog I found by hitting the Next Blog a bunch of times, starting off from one of those crazy couponer/frugal people blogs that I got from a search for Fargo/Moorhead coupons, which was for some reason that I don't recall. This is a great way to spend a lovely summer afternoon, n'est-ce pas?

What was I going to post about again?

Wow. Something.

Good things: Adam Savage's speech

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh

I thought it was high time for my first blog post of 2010. Speaking of "high", the hallway of my apartment building smelled of marijuana and gravy. Cool neighbors I have.

In other news, for reasons yet to be determined, every month or so a new spam comment shows up on a really old post of this blog.

Not much else to say... I haven't blogged much because it seems like Facebook eats up all the energy I used to have to blog with. At the same time there isn't much I can say or want to say there. I have family, friends, schoolmates, and past/present coworkers all up in there. I'm afraid I look like enough of an ass with what I'm already posting there - links and reposts of other people's links.

I had an idea for a short story today, not sure if it's any good.

I'm not sure if I like my new hours at work. I thought I did, but they seem to be affecting me badly. I would love it if I only had to work something like 1 pm to 5 pm each day, and could somehow still afford to live.

Borrrring. This post is boring.