LOL HARD TRUTH TO SELF, but I don’t have time to blog or read blogs right now.  It sucks, but I can barely keep up with work and graduate school as it is, and I have other things going on (website project, trying to buy a house, weddings, & just generally fucking up my love life.  I just want to have fun and not to have to bother with dating anyone right now- why do boys always want serious relationships the minute you hook up with them?  Pop culture says it’s supposed to be the opposite, but it’s all LIES.  i don’t get guys who agree they totally just want a casual relationship and then try to stealth date me.  i hate guys who turn out to be ~nice guys~ ).

Even procrastinating loses it’s appeal when you’re on the computer 24/7 anyways.  I have both a great deal of hatred and love for computers right now.

But, in less than two months, I will finally graduate with a Master’s in Information Technology and be done with school!  Forever!!!!!! April 29th, baby!!!!!!!!!

So anyways, I’ll be back for real in May.

(I did write a few posts in the last few weeks, but I never posted them because I’m lame.  ANYWAYS, my goal is to start posting 2-3 times per week. :)  )

Twenty8Twelve had an awesome, very wearable line.  I would wear anything in this collection: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-TWENTY812

It might not be the most cutting-edge%2

Today I realized I have been drinking 7 cups of coffee every morning since last month.  It’s quite a lot of coffee, very strong coffee.  I know I already had a problem, but it was exacerbated by traveling a lot, I swear.

Anyways, I have a question:  how do you keep from ruining a manicure?  I really suck at not ruining manicures (I got one the day before my friend’s wedding and ruined it within 24 hours.  It all just started to chip off!)

So I gave myself one last night but it did not turn out well:  I put the clear pink over the white tips and now it looks like I have some sort of fingernail infection.  Of course it hasn’t chipped at all and shows no signs of doing so in the near future.

It looks like I have an infection!

I think maybe the secret is to use the rubberized basecoat?

I found a really cool way to do the tips that was new to me.  First you paint the white on the tips with vertical strokes, like you would any normal nail polish.  Then you dip a paintbrush into nail polish remover and use it to do the contour, et voila!  Much easier, especially with your non-dominant hand.

But make sure to put the color on first, no matter what the instructions say >:(

I haven’t taken any great food pictures lately, but here is my yummy dessert!

Vanilla frozen yogurt wiht whipped cream, ice cream cone, and fresh blackberries and fresh currants. it's currant season!

kind of sad - there is a coffee mug in the background.

hard to believe I was just here:

Clearwater Beach was totally deserted. Had it all to myself!

There were a lot of people on boats, though.

Tampa Bay from my window

Sad fact: we were all super stoked to buy liquor in Walgreens because you can't do this where we live.

My friends’ wedding was so nice! And I got to see all my college friends again and hang out like old times.  It was just like college nights except with fancier clothing and more matrimony.

The weather wasn’t that warm, but I went to the beach and have come back with a fabulous tan, which no one here will see because it’s too cold.  After the reception we were all hanging out on the beach and some of my friends took that to mean that swimming was in order, despite it being 45ºF and very late.

That was after we hung out at the hotel bar post-reception and the bride kept threatening the jazz band to play “When the Saints go Marching In” over and over and they kept doing it because she was the bride (and the groom is a manager at the hotel).  But then the bride and groom went to bed, we went to the beach, and then came back and had our liquor confiscated by hotel security (but at least they nicely poured it into plastic cups for us though and looked the other way when we snuck into the hot tub in various states of undress.)

I’m too old to do this on a regular basis anymore.

We're not sure why the church's statue of Mary had wolverine claws. Also, it was on the wrong side of the church.

PENNSYLVANIA. STOP SNOWING. >:(

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Am flying to Tampa tomorrow for friend’s wedding on Clearwater Beach.  All my laundry currently strewn about my room, needing to be washed, folded, packed.  Suitcase laying on floor, full of laundry from last trip, needing to be unpacked.  My list had 5 pairs of shoes for a 4-day trip (sneakers for running, strappy heels to match bridesmaids dress, comfortable cute heels for going around, gladiators to wear because 70 degrees, sandals for beach).  Not going to fit.  Must downsize. but how? How do you people do it???????

I’m pretty bad at packing.  But usually when I travel no one cares what I look like because lol guys.  But this time lots of girl friends will be there, and all my friends (and all my ex-boyfriend’s friends) from college, and thusly I have lots of cute clothing and shoes to take.  Can’t even get rid of the things I’m usually forced to take out (like pajamas) because sharing room with friend and clothing not optional.

My ex-boyfriend will not be there, thank motherfucking god.  Was dreading the terrible decisions that were to be inevitably made, and also the self-loathing to follow about consciously sleeping with with such a douchebag.  I mean, premeditation on my behalf!!! :ugh: But now I’m saved from myself.  So at least I have something going for me.  Right?

I’ve been busy with work and school ALL DAY (it’s now 10:30PM) and I can’t bring myself to pack.  So am wasting time on internet, eating carrots, whining.  Maybe in an hour I’ll feel differently.

At least it’s better than what I did last night, which was to look at everything and say fuck it, and go out to a bar.

Things that suck:

• Having the flu in a hotel
• Having the flu in an airport
• Having the flu on an airplane
• Throwing up in parking garages and then having to drive yourself home

… yeah, I had the flu while I was in Orlando for work.  Lovely!  It especially sucked because all of the kids in my leadership program class were together for the last time and I wanted to hang out.  I had to go to a dinner with all the important people one of the nights and I felt like I was high the whole time and wondering how 2 glasses of wine made me so wasted.  But I wasn’t, it was… the flu.

So I’ve pretty much stayed inside playing Call of Duty:  World at War all weekend until all the video game controllers died and I had to stop because I couldn’t find the cord to plug them in.

I finally left the house to look at houses to buy today.  I found one I really liked!! It was a super awesome cape cod near the train and library and cute downtown and everything.  But sadly it’s in the one tiny shitty block of town on a narrow street with street parking, so no luck. :…:

imagine this out your back window - nah

(I upgraded Wordpress finally this morning.  LOL FAIL!)

I’m in Orlando for work right now and I think I am definitely sick - I felt pretty bad yesterday on my way down, but this morning is much worse.  I must have a fever because the room is set to 80 and I’m still freezing.

Anyways, this morning I saw this article in the New York Times where a fashion photographer is making the prediction that the economic downturn is going to mean that we’re going to start emulating 30’s fashion again - mid-calf skirts, pleated cropped pants… I’m not really buying it.  I think it will come back minorly because designers love a chance to be retro, but this is so unflattering.  They want us to be poor and ugly?  What do you guys think?

No thank you

 Ok, gotta go drag my sick ass out of bed and get dressed.  Must be somewhere in 20 mintues.  bleh.

It was so weird to be back at work after so much time off - I’m not going to work a full week for a month since Christmas.

lol worst mascot ever (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Usually at work, I, er, do work (well obviously) and I goof around with some of my coworkers.  We tend to argue about sports mascots and American history and then look up the answers on Wikipedia (we also spend a significant amount of time arguing about network protocols and computers, but we’re nerds, so that’s what we do).

They also like to tease me about being a vegetarian, or at least they do until I bring up the time the one guy became a vegetarian for two weeks because he thought I would hook up with him if he was one, too.  bwhahahaha.

For example, I think we spent about 2 hours on Friday arguing about whether the Philly Fanatic is supposed to be a bird or not.  (I say he’s not - he doesn’t look like a bird, and Wikipedia never confirms he is an actual bird thought it suggests he resembles one (LIES!), so I win this one.)

Sadly, they will never participate in one of my favorite arguments of all time:  who is the hottest American president in history?  They’re all guys, so I guess they think arguing about the hotness of other guys makes them gay and they claim to not be able to tell - but whatever, of course you can tell how hot people of the same sex (or people of the sex that’s not the one you’re attracted to) are, FFS.

I could suggest that Thomas Jefferson was the hottest (but without the wig and they made him look so old and haggard in the portraits, even though he was only 33 in some of them!  so he’s kind of not hot in his portraits) or perhaps my perennial favorite, James Monroe.  We all know Alexander Hamilton was quite hot, but he was never a president.  The more you think about this though, the uglier all the presidents look.

Jefferson: he looks like a sad puppy, but there is potential if he takes off the wig and doesn't make that face. He was supposedly quite tall and fit.

Monroe: I'd hit it. Probably.

Hamilton: without the rosy cheeks, mfy.

Who do you think the hottest US president was?  It has to be while they were in office, and Obama doesn’t count ’till next week.

It’s so weird to be blogging again after so long!  And so nice. :D  I’m going to start posting a lot more~! \o/  I haven’t even read blogs recently, which I usually do even if I can’t comment because I’m at work.

I mostly just wanted to avoid using computers for the last two weeks.  I went skiing with with a friend in Colorado for the last week - not only did I learn how to ski, I also succeeded in not injuring myself, win! \o/  I’m a pretty bad skier, but it was a fun week.

Christmas seems like it was ages ago.  Everyone though it would be hilarious to get me chicken themed items. :/

attack!

Perhaps my New Year’s resolution should be to stop posting terrible pictures of myself on the internet?

My friend is getting married in two weeks and I have to go buy shoes to match my ugly bridesmaids dress.  I really don’t understand the appeal of bridesmaids dresses (or most wedding dresses for that matter) - they remind me of ugly prom dresses, the type you would see featured in that special tacky prom issues of Teen or Seventeen magazine.  (I hated the prom.  I ended up ditching after an hour and my friends and I hung out at a sleazy pool hall/bar for the rest of the night so that we wouldn’t be subjected to the indignity of our fellow classmates slow dancing to ‘N SYNC.  we were lol edgy, what can I say.)

This isn’t even bad compared to the rest of the selection at David’s Bridal.  Most of the other colors were hideous pastels, like peach or were pepto-bismol pink.

My challenge is getting shoes to go with it.  The maid of honor wants to get shoes dyed to match which completely baffles me, as that is incredibly tacky and wtf do you even do with dyed satin shoes after the wedding?  Maybe you get really drunk and throw up on them, successfully ensuring that you will never have to wear them again?

I’d better go unpack the rest of my luggage and finish watching Star Wars and finish reading The Princess Diaries (the last book was just published baby).  Because that’s how my Saturday night is going down and I’m very happy to not go out in the snow.

NOT BLOGGING UNTIL ~ JANUARY 10. SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!! :D?