Monday 4 July 2011

GADZOOKS, a post!!

Hmmm... It's been a while since my last post. To be honest, I kinda forgot that I even had a blog. These things slip my mind occasionally. I guess this post will be to update a bit, post a few pictures, and have a little fun :D

Well, I got a job as an ice cream counter attendant, but unfortunately, it only lasted a day because of the terrible experience I had with it. I started off pretty nervous, since I didn't have any training whatsoever, and was expecting my boss to come in to help me out a bit, since she said she would. She never showed up. I didn't even know how to open the cash register, because no one told me that it was basically a glorified cash box and all you had to do was poke one button to open it. I had to figure out the debit machine, which was pretty easy, but could have been bad. I didn't know how to properly make a milkshake, and was wary of the mixer. I didn't know which bottles of cleaning fluids to use, because there were five of them and none of them were labelled (I found out later that one of them was corrosive... Go figure. I'm glad I didn't use that one). It was a 7 hour CLOSING shift, and I didn't know how to close up the shop, so that was stressful, adding to the fact that my shift was from 6 PM till 1 AM, and ended up leaving at 2 AM. There wasn't a chair behind the till at all, so I was on my feet for 7 hours straight, and my back ended up being really sore. The next day, my wrist hurt like hell and I felt like I sprained it. It hurt picking anything up. I know some of these things don't sound bad, but you know how when a lot of little things pile up and end up just sucking big time? Yeah.. That was that. It was absolutely terrible. I NEVER thought I would be the kind of person to quit after one day, but honestly, it was ridiculous. I'm also not the kind of person who minds doing physical labour or anything of the sort - I would have been fine if I had training. The fact that she didn't come in to help out or give me any form of training was pretty horrible management, and somewhat disrespectful.

Anyway... Sunday rolled around and I was meant to have another closing shift that night. The previous shift left me in tears when I crawled into bed. I wasn't going to do this again, so I quit. At first, I was all "Yaayy! I got a job! In ice cream! Best summer job ever!" and then I was like "Yaaay! I quit my job! Worst job ever!"... Well, I guess now that I've had the worst day ever, I can move on to other pursuits and deal with the rest of life.

Hmmm... What else... I went to a costume party that weekend, and dressed up as Katarina from League of Legends. I wish I had taken a picture of it, because it was pretty dang awesome. I even drew the scar on, and made throwing knives out of tinfoil and cardboard :D One of my boyo's friends got a wee bit drunk and said "Is it weird I think you're hotter as Katarina? I want you to have that cool scar forever." and then I feared for my life. Just kidding, he's an odd ball, but he's lovely. I left the throwing knives at my boyo's place, but I really hope he kept them. They were taped to a couple of belts that went around my legs. I hope I can get them back so I can dress up again and take a pic, because I really want to. I might end up just recycling it for halloween, but then again, I also might be Polywhirl for halloween. I can't decide. In case you haven't realized, I really like dressing up. It's super fun making costumes. I'd love to go to a con at some point in my life, but I feel like I'd need to step up my costume making skills. Maybe I can take a sewing workshop and buy a sewing machine so I can do it up :) That's a pretty exciting idea (I know, it's not really exciting for most people. Shhh).

My goals for the rest of this summer are: draw more, knit dinosaur toys, finish knitting gryffindor scarves, cook more, and finally play more FPS games so I can actually be good at them.

OH, hey, I started eating meat again (well, beef, chicken, turkey, bacon... everything but fish, since I was eating fish anyway), and to start off my foray into meat again after 10 years of being pescatarian, I made shepherd's pie and nommed out on it. I originally made it for my sis, her bf, and my friend, but I decided to finally partake. Here's a picture of it :3 It was delicious. It was also my first time actually cooking meat, and it worked out really well! I'm pretty happy with it.

Since then, I've just dived back into eating meat. It's freaking delicious. The only reason why I didn't eat meat before is because I was grossed out by it following biting into a mcdonalds burger and finding a vein popping out. Before that, I had been vegitarian for a few months, and was swindled back by my mother making chicken nuggets, which are my favourite things ever. Then, I was vegetarian for a while, and my parents decided I had to eat fish, so I did (reluctantly)... I don't eat fish often because it's not my favourite thing (unless it's in Sushi... mmmmmmm), but anyway. And now, 10 years later, I am eating meat again... IT'S SO DELICIOUS. Bacon and turkey are my new favourite things. I think I may like turkey better than chicken, believe it or not. I had my first ever chicken wing a couple of days ago, which was yummy and exciting... I ate it off the bone and everything!

Well, I think that's it for now. I'll update more if I think of anything. For now, I need to go take out the trash and go to the gym. Seeyah!

Tuesday 17 May 2011

Memories from childhood, sushi, and fries

My sis just reminded me about how we used to go to swim practice when we were young, and afterwards we would have magnum icecream and thick delicious fires with mayo and shirley temples (non-alkie, of course... my parent's weren't THAT ridiculous). It was such an awesome memory; the random meal was always such a great reward after swim team practice. It was actually just the best thing ever after swimming for an hour as a kid... It would fill your belly with cold and warmth and deliciousness and mmmmmmmmm.

Mmmmmmm..... Friiieeesss...

Come to think of it, a lot of memories centre around food for me, which kinda makes sense considering the person I am... I mean come on, I would be obese if I didn't have a great metabolism. I'm 53 kg (117 lb i think, according to the scales at the gym), and I'm about 5'4", and I love food. I love food SO MUCH. It's one of my favourite things ever (regardless of the fact that I need to eat in order to survive). I love trying out foods and finding delicious flavours, and I kind of miss eating meat - I'm a pescatarian, which is a vegetarian that eats fish sometimes... I'm slightly anemic, so I need something - because of the delightful aromas that comes from meat dishes that I've been smelling over the last 9 years of pescatarianism. I've been tempted to go back to chicken, because chicken was my favourite thing back in the day. I actually tried vegetarianism for a couple of months before I ended up being tempted by chicken nuggets that my mum used to make that were always yummy. I was veggie for a couple of years, until my parents decided that me not eating any sort of meat was bad for my health, even though I didn't like fish back in the day. Now, I eat sushi, which I can't believe I like, because I used to really not like fish at all.

My faves are Dynamite Rolls and California Rolls <3


Anyway. Most of my childhood memories probably revolve around delicious food. It's true. I just love food. I love trying new restaurants, even though back in the day I had the worst luck with restaurants when me and my family went out together. I used to order things that sounded great, but then would just be terrible in that particular instance, but everyone else would be enjoying their meals and I would have to just sit there and push food around because I was a picky eater. However, that's turned around as I moved away from home. Now, I'm the one that gets the awesome meals, and my family leave the place feeling unsatisfied. I just look at it as payback for the years of sad face tiemz at restaurants in my youth and most of my teen years.

If anyone actually reads this blog, what do most of your childhood memories revolve around? Is there a theme that you find prominent or that you remember most because of it's recurring status? I'd love to hear about it... Seriously! Leave a comment, guys!

Tuesday 3 May 2011

The huntress stalks the job interviews in the night...

So this past weekend has been pretty great. My boyo came back to visit for the weekend, and while I had planned a romantic picnic to be had in a park, it didn't happen. Instead, we played beer pong with one of my good friends, and spent most of that night having pizza, watching south park, and then ending up puking. Other than that, we cuddled a bunch and played League of Legends (I like to lane with him :3). Ooh, and we also had a bubble bath! It was vanilla birthday cake scented and yummy smelling :D. We spent a lot of the time just cuddling and hanging out, because that's what we do and I'm addicted to being comfy while being in his arms, so go figure. We're kinda a low key couple. We like to cuddle and just hang out. It's mostly hanging out rather than going out, which I'm fine with. It kinda feels like we're supposed to be living together already. We've talked about it, but it's not feasible until we both get jobs and support ourselves. It'll happen at some point; probably after my sis moves away and I'll have to get a different apartment because it wouldn't make sense to still have two bedrooms.

Anyway, he had to go home this afternoon, but it was okay because I had a job interview today. I think it went well, but I only had one reference, so we'll have to see how that goes; never mind the fact that the referent isn't in the country. It was my first interview ever, but I still think it went really well. I just tried to act normal for once and be personable, and I think it worked out. They said they'd let me know about it within a week, so that will be good. Apparently, because it's a home depot, I would have to wear steel-toe shoes for safety, which I'm fine with... It just means that I'm going to have to go out and buy some steel-toe shoes if I actually get the job. Either way, if I don't get the job, at least now I've had an experience with an interview, and it was a good way of learning how to deal with my nerves in that situation. The person was really nice and she put me at ease, so that was good. It made it a lot easier to answer her questions anyway. I really wouldn't mind working there... It's such a relaxed atmosphere. Very welcoming.



It's been a pretty eventful few days for me. I got a call from Ardene earlier today about setting up an interview, but my phone kept cutting out. The person said they were going to call me back in 10 minutes (after the call), but they never did, so that was a bit sad. It was a blocked number too, so I couldn't just call back. They didn't give their name or tell me from which store they were calling from so that I could find a way to contact them again. It's really frustrating when that happens, because I really just want to get a job. I hope they call me tomorrow, otherwise I'm just going to have to call each store that I applied to online to see if they have a job opening. The funny thing is, is that I applied to Ardene and Home Depot as a whim sort of thing, just to apply because I really need a job and while I hadn't heard of any job openings, I thought it was a good idea anyway... Go figure! Anyway. I hope ardene calls me back. I would like to have options, and just maybe flaunt it and gloat to my parents that I can do something on my own, even though they think that I can't.

So anyway. I hope everything ends up good. I feel like I should call the art gallery back, and see whether they've processed my resume and if they're willing to set up an interview, but I'm pretty sure that if they wanted me they would have contacted me... Then again, everything works slow in this area.

On another note, I've been sucking really bad at League of Legends lately. REALLY bad. I've just not been having good games at all. I think I fell into complacency with the Coop-vs-ai mode, because it's easier to deal with and way more casual. It's also just a really easy game mode. I think I need to get better at this game if I'm going to keep playing with my bf and friends. My bf and his friend are lvl 20/30. I'm lvl 13. I'd love to just spend the entire day and night playing, but it's just going to annoy my sis with all of the incessant clicking of my mouse. I'm usually always playing as Annie. I used to be pretty great at using her, but now it seems like I've forgotten. I love playing as Annie. I love Tibbers. He's cute and cuddly X3 <3 I think I might end up dressing up as her for halloween this year. If I do, I promise I'll take pictures! I hope I can get a pink wig to wear. I would love to chop and dye my hair pink, but somehow I don't think that would go over well with the boyo. I personally would feel the obligation to dress like a superhero every day that I have pink hair, but hey. I kinda really want to chop all my hair really short... As in below my chin short, but above my shoulders. I've been growing my hair for a couple of years now, but I got it cut recently. It's now just by my chest instead of being down my ribs. Anyway.

You wanna play too? It'll be fun!


It's 2.41 AM now, and I'm getting a bit sleepy, so I think I'mma have to head to sleep. Good night/morning, all! Have a good sleep and all that jazz.

Sunday 1 May 2011

Trying out different blogs!

I'm always trying out new places to blog, so just so you guys know that if I find a better place to blog, I will let you guys know. Right now I'm checking out tumblr, which seems really nice! I really like the themes, and that always appeals to me when choosing a blogging place. I also really like how free it seems, in that it doesn't matter if you don't just give large blogs, or if you just wanna post random pictures.

So yeah, I'll let you guys know! If you're interested, my tumblr link is to the right, in the new links section.

If you guys have any other places you like to blog on, and would like to suggest any, please comment!

Sunday 24 April 2011

"I love you Beth Cooper" makes me introspective?

Just so you know, I probably won't have many posts like this.

You know, watching movies like "I love you Beth Cooper" and other high school movies just makes me reflect on my life. It's not exactly the type of movie you'd normally think would make you reflect on your own life, but I've been pretty retrospective and introspective these days. My highschool years were pretty... bleak. I was painfully shy and was picked on quite a bit until my last couple of years there. My last couple of years were alright; I had a group of good friends, I came out of my shell through sheer will, and I started playing around with makeup and hairstyles (finally). I started to find out who I was, what I liked about myself rather than what I just didn't like about myself. I started to find things in the world that I enjoyed, people that I liked to have in my life, people that I just couldn't stand to have in my life, and I just... stopped needing to please everyone around me.

Then came Uni. I went into dorms and had to force myself to make friends. I'm in my second year now (well, just finished it), and I'm still friends with some of those people. Some friends I fell out with, after finding out they were just using me. I've made a couple of other friends through my friends, though I still have a complex about how many friends I have. When I hang out with some people that I really want to be better friends with, I try really hard not to be boring, or I'm really worried through the hangout that I might be boring them. I'm trying really hard to break out of that habit, because I'm really proud of who I've become, even though I still have some improving to do. I got to meet the love of my life, my boyfriend (who I asked out! Can you believe it?),  who I plan to stay with for the rest of my life, so I count that as a plus! He was the man who helped me become who I am today. He's my best friend, and I wouldn't want to change him for the world. I love him so completely, and I know this makes me sound like a woman who is completely dependent on her boyfriend, but because of him I'm the happiest I have ever been in my life, and I believe I do the same for him. It's not me giving up being independent, it's just me realizing my other half and embracing that.

Today, I managed to finally get a job interview. Well, actually, it was a "pre-screening" interview, which turned out to be me showing my face and to make them know that I'm not a random homicidal maniac trying to take over their shop as a murder shack or something (yeah yeah, I know, all this introspective inspirational stuff before, and now I'm right back to being my weird self again. Well, this is my blog, and I'm allowed to speak of my feelings! so there!). Either way, even though it was the quickest thing ever, it was still my first kind of interview, and I'm proud of that. I've been really bummed lately because I've been trying to get a job for a year, and my sibling has had two (soon to be three). I don't know whether it's my resume or if they can sense that I'm a nervous wreck through my cover letter. I just really want a job so I can start to become independent from my parents and the rest of my family. I really, really want my own place - one that I can share with my boyfriend and my cat. To be honest, my family isn't a really close one. I used to be close with my brother, but then he all went and grew up, and now him and my sister are close because they like to talk about their parties and tv shows, and all I can talk to him about is games. I used to be close with my sister, but now I often feel like we hate each other. I didn't have a choice about living with her, but I accepted it. It's given me a roof over my head, and I'm thankful for that at least. We have our good times, but it's often roommate stuff that makes us fight rather than sister stuff I think. I think that when I get my own place, that hopefully we can become better sisters again... I really hope that's the case. I don't want to lose her, regardless of what's gone on in this past year, or the past 19 years before that. I'm 20 now, and I just want some normalcy. I love uniqueness, and I embrace the fact that I'm weird to some people, but sometimes I just want some stability in my life. I'm not going to talk about my mum and dad just now, simply because I don't feel like it.

So now here I am. I'm living with my sister and my cat, I have a boyfriend, I'm still job hunting, and because I'm pretty lazy sometimes I'm just getting by in school. I know it's not new years or anything, but I really want to start turning things around. I want to start getting fit, I want to be a better roommate, I want to find a job, and I want to continue improving my life and those who surround me. I need better grades, so that's one thing I need to deal with on my own.

Well... This is me.

Jobs, leftovers, and tattoos

Things have been pretty complacent these days. I haven't managed to get a job yet, so as such I haven't had moneyz to throw around and get Portal 2. This makes me sad, but I'll live. I'm just feeling pretty downtrodden about not getting a job yet. I haven't managed to get a job in over a year now, and each time I talk to my father about when I'm going to get a job, he just laughs and says I'm a lost cause. It's not like I haven't been trying; I've been plastering the town with resumes everywhere. I just wish I could make some money to start being independent from my parents.

Anyway, that's that. On other news, I made an awesome dinner last night! Those who know me don't really know of my cooking skills... mostly because I don't cook often at all. This time, I made penne arrabiata and roasted potatoes! It was awesome, and made for great leftovers for this morning. Mmmmm... leftovers.

This post isn't very fun, so I'm going to post a super cool picture!


You know, as soon as I get a job and get some money, I'm going to get that tattoo that I've always wanted. I want a small Stegosaurus tattoo on the inside of my hip, so that no one can see it (unless you're my boyfriend.. honhonhon!!), even if I'm wearing a bikini. I really want this tattoo, and I've wanted it for a while. The boyo doesn't really like tattooed femmes, but I've wanted a tattoo all my life, so he can just deal with it (SUCK IIITTT!!). 

Are there any tattoos you guys would like to share with me? Any ones that you've wanted or have seen that you love? Any ones that you actually have? I'd love to see all of them!

Sunday 17 April 2011

Beeeeeeer! Batmaaaann!!

Well now... I had an interesting time last night. It started off normal, playing a bit of Rock Band, and then heading over in a group of friends to another friends house to play beer pong. See, I've never played beer pong before, but it seemed like it would be a fun idea because me and my friend hadn't ever played before. It just turns out that I'm freaking awesome at it... mwahahaha!!


It's such a fun game! We all had such an awesome time playing, and I sunk at least 4 cups each time I was up. Oh, and I guess I haven't mentioned how ridiculously competitive I am about the most ridiculous things. This competitiveness has led me to yell "SUCK IT!" more than once to my boyfriend, who gets just as competitive as me sometimes. So it all just ended up being lewd victory dances and hip-thrusts whenever anyone at all managed to get a ball in a cup. Many curses were thrown about, and chugging was done by all. All in all, it was a sloshing good time!

Besides that, I am now alllmooostt finished Batman Arkham Asylum. I'm pretty much at the last boss battle. I'm hoping that there's a good free-play mode where I can just go around and get 100% completion, because if there's one thing that I love about this game, is that Edward Nigma (aka: The Riddler) leaves riddles around everywhere that you have to find the answer to. It's so much fun! However, if there's also one thing that I regret is that I've missed out on all of the beautiful and gorgeous graphics that the game has. It truly is an amazing looking game, with such beautiful artwork on the environments and characters, but I've spent most of it just making everything blue in detective mode.

Click to enlarge, because it's worth it to see properly

On the other hand, the detective mode is so useful, and is constructed in such a gorgeous way. The intricacy of this game in the graphics alone is astounding, and I absolutely love it. It's like it's the framework of everything around you, a blueprint of what makes the insanity of Arkham Asylum just pure lines. Other than the graphics, I love the actual gameplay and the storyline. It's so intriguing and interesting that I've just been playing it as much as I can. If you're into these sorts of action/adventure games, I suggest that you at least rent the game to get to play it. It's well worth it.

Also, if any of you were wondering, here's the site for the Portal 2 release countdown. Excite!

Saturday 16 April 2011

Portal 2 and Gears of War 3! *droooool*

So, I think this video by College Humor is worthwhile for anyone interested in Portal or the impending release of Portal 2 (SO EXCITED!! GRAAAGGHH!! It's so soon and so awesome! GLADOS!!! EXCLAMATION MARKS!)

Except the frakking video won't fit into the blog post borders and looks all stupid, and blogger is being silly because I can't find it on youtube, so I'm just going to post a link to it and hope you watch it... because it's funny.


Anyway! This is how excited I am for Portal 2:

WOAH!! Sorry, that's totally not me... Hang on, lemme find a proper picture.... Ah! Here we go:


OFUCK!! That's not me either! Oh man, I'm being so unprofessional right now, I'm sorry, I swear I'll find the right slide for the projector next time!

Either way, both of those Locusts look really happy and excited! So I'm guessing that you get the point by now, that I'm extremely excited about Portal 2 coming out  (can you tell yet that I'm excited about Gears of War 3 aswell?). It looks like Portal 2 is going to be a fantastic game. I know I enjoyed the 1st one so much that I just ended up finishing it within about a days (or two) worth of gameplay time. And then you know what I did? I freaking played it again. Right away. That's right, I forfeited being remotely like a normal human being who goes out and lives their lives for about a day or two, simply because I was hooked on Portal. I'm not proud of how quickly I can get sucked into a game, but at the same time... it was awesome.

In case you haven't seen a trailer yet, here's a Portal 2 Trailer:



Also, who's excited for Gears of War 3? The beta is out, and there have been masses of people on Twitter giving out VIP codes for GoW3, and I think they might still be doing them, so go out on twitter and just try and find the people who are. I haven't managed to get one, but it's aight. Not such a big deal to me about codes, I just want to play the game.

The multiplayer does look a lot better than 1 and 2, so I'm looking forward to that. Plus, the execution kills look absofuckinglutely AWESOME! If you haven't seen any trailers for it (or have been hiding under a rock lately), then here you go! The first link is better, in my opinion. Again, it's in link form because I can't find them on youtube (CURSES!)


Awesomeness still continues!


Thoughts, anyone? Or if you just wanna post funny pictures of locusts, I'm very open to that too.

Monday 11 April 2011

Games games games, and bridal week in NYC!

Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's been a day since I posted, but I think I've caught the blogging bug. Don't be surprised if I either leave blogging sporadically for a week or two, or if I spontaneously blog everyday. However, this bridal link is the cause of a blog post, because I think it's more worthy than just posting a tweet about it.

A warning though, this blog post lays heavily on gaming, so if you're here for just the bridal week in NYC link, it's in the paragraph underneath this one :D

It's bridal fashion week in NYC. OH MAN I want to be there! Can you imagine all of the dresses?! I would melt. It would just be so incredibly fashionable and pretty and ooooooh. Do any of you who are actually reading my blog have a favourite of the list? Or even a favourite dress that's not on that particular list? Post in the comments below! Mine is this one. It's so classy and beautiful:



On other news, according to gaming sources that I found on twitter (botchweed.com), there are rumors floating around about a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3... Neither me or botchweed know if it is true. You know how it is about games, there are always hopeful rumors from fans and different sources. Personally, I love the MW series, and I wouldn't mind if they continued it, but after MW2 and Black Ops I'm not really sure if they'd be even making a new one. Then again, Halo have milked the game cow for as much as it can give and have made as many games and spinoffs they can. Has anyone played Halo Reach? Is it any good? I like the graphics of the Halo games, but I'm more of an RPG/adventure/batman player rather than FPS games. I like COD because they actually have pretty awesome story-lines.

I haven't found anything on Activision's site about a new game or rumors of a new game, but I'll try and keep up to date on that. However, gamespot have also heard of the rumors, and has an article here about it. It seems like this rumor mill is up and running pretty fast. It's hitting forums and people are confused, excited, or blatantly harsh about it. There have been people who are skeptical, and say that they really hope it doesn't just ruin the franchise. On the other hand, simply because the past couple of games have grossed such a vast amount of money, it's a pretty high possibility that infinityward/activision will want to continue the series. It doesn't stop there though; rumors have also been whispered around that the game won't follow the other modern warfare stories. If you ask me, it's pretty exciting that they're wanting to go in a different direction, regardless of if it works or backfires. I like it when gaming producers take risks.

Currently I'm playing the batman game, Arkham Asylum, and I must say that while it has pretty great graphics, and a pretty great story, it's really hard to resist just going around in detective mode the entire time. IT JUST GETS THINGS DONE SO EFFICIENTLY! At this point, I'm surprised Batman doesn't you know, just get shocked when he doesn't see blue or purple when he turns off the detective mode. It's ridiculous, and I feel like I'm cheating on the game, but it's works so well! I can't tell you how many times I've avoided the electric shock gates in the asylum because it pops up on detective mode as having a warning sign (yes, it is true, I'm not terribly observant in this game).

Another game that I really really can't wait to play is Bioshock Infinite, but it's current estimated release date is somewhere in 2012. Provided that the Mayans weren't right about you know, the end of the world, then it should be out then (disclaimer: I don't believe we're all going to go belly up in 2012, just so you know). It actually just seems like it would be great. If you've played Bioshock 1 and/or 2, then you'll probably be jonesing to play this too. It's been what seems quite a while since the trailer came out, but I'll post it here too, just because it's fantastical and awesome. I'll put links up for B-shock One and Two too, just so you guys have some idea of what's going on if you haven't played or seen them. I believe though, that B-shock Infinite isn't meant to be a prequel or a sequel, just simply in a different setting in a different time before all of B-Shock happened. I'm really interested to see what they've done with it all. I don't like looking at plot or gameplay trailers before playing a game, I just want to experience it.

Sunday 10 April 2011

Crayons, dinos, and cake

So I hung out with the boyo's family for most of yesterday. It was fun, yet odd. Each time I hang out with them, I realize more and more how comfortable a family is meant to be with each other. Either way, my family is nowhere near as comfortable together as my bf's family is. Ah well, each family is different, no two are the same, the grass is greener on the other side, <insert more clichéd sayings here>, if you feed a cold you'll have to starve a fever!?!?

Sorry, I got a bit carried away with sayings.

Anyway, that was endeavor was fun. His step-sis is young, and has met me maybe three times now, and as such, she became quite attached (you know how kids are with new people sometimes... I feel like a shiny new toy :D). The boyo, his sis, step-sis and I all drew on the table at the restaurant with crayons (though not to worry, there was paper on the table, as it was a dinner for after a footie tournament for under-13s), and I think we all did rather well. I'll upload my drawings down below. I was tasked to draw a Bulbasaur, but it's been a while since I collected pokemon cards and played the game, regardless of my nintendo DS and my two pokemon games on that. I haven't encountered a bulbasaur there, but I DID catch Lugia! Anyway, the point is, is that I was searching on google for what the hell it looks like, and I came across this:

Full pic of it here

How awesome is that?! I don't know who the artist is, but I'm loving the anatomical explanation of what a Bulbasaur is!

My drawings. The bulbasaur is up there by the salad, just click on the picture to enlarge it.

By the way, I'm posting this from my bed (as usual), on a sunday morning. So relaxing. Also, my bf is asleep, so I can girl out and look at sites concerning girly things... and also Cake Wrecks, which is an awesome site that can usually either provoke amazement, or hilarity. Every sunday they give a post of awesome cakes, instead of the usual wrecks. This sunday is one about tattooed cakes (awesome!), but previous sundays have had ones about wedding cakes.... and I loooove them. I just want them everyday of my life. So pretty. This is the one that I want on my wedding day:

Daisy cake (by Gail Watson over at Custom Cakes)

Wow, this post is pretty picture and link heavy, huh? I think I've been browsing the internet for too long this morning. I also need breakfast, but it might just be turning noon soon, so I guess it's brunch. I might poke the bf until he's awake, and suggest we go out for brunch... mmm... foooood.... *drool*

Wednesday 6 April 2011

I have a twitter!

So I finally have a twitter. It's only taken about forever. Somehow I have some followers, and I'm not sure if they came from reading stuff over here, or if they just liked my profile pic of a dinosaur groom. Either way, thanks!

There will be random thoughts and lovely pics showing up on there. Obviously longer blog posts will be on here, and I'll try and update as often as I can (i.e.: whenever I have something actually interesting to say).

Anyway, my twitter is @lovelythingsare and you can find it here: http://twitter.com/#!/lovelythingsare
... because thingsarelovely was already taken D:

Friday 1 April 2011

Birthdays, cake, and lots of booze.

So it turns out that I'm turning 20 in a couple of days. It's weird, moving from my teenage years into official adulthood. I'm a few months older than my boyfriend, so does that then mean that I'm accidentally cradle robbing? Maybe not, since he's 19 and all. I feel old. I'm one of the oldest of my friends, and I believe one of my bf's friends turned 20 in march, so he beat me to the chase. Usually, my birthdays aren't that terribly great, so I've come to look at them with a sort of apathy, but this time seems to be different. My bf and friends have already held me a surprise party, which was really quite awesome (lots of booze and ice cream cake... mmmm...), and then I'm going to have a nice birthday dinner with some of my friends on my actual birthday. Hopefully it will just be a nice chill day, maybe also with lots of booze, but i've got a final the next morning, so maybe just a bit of booze. I'll let you know.

Well, it's also the end of school and the start of finals week... Except I'm in university and it's a lot harder than finals in highschool. Once I've done these exams, I'll have finished my second year of uni and will be out looking for a job. I've sent out so many resumes and coverletters though, that it just seems a bit hopeless... especially since someone you know sends out two and gets the job a week later. While i'm congratulatory, I also say "poop" to that. Big stinking pile of poop.

Hopefully things will go alright in the coming weeks. I'm not going home over the summer, so we'll see how that will turn out.

No photomanipulations of dinosaurs in hats right now, so I'll just leave you with this random photo i found of a zombie hello kitty cake:

Saturday 12 March 2011

Secret girlish tendencies, dinosaurs in tuxes, and wedding dresses.

So, I have a secret addiction...
It's the addiction of looking at weddings on the internet, and saving images, and loving wedding dresses and secretly planning my own one, far far away in the future. I've got some idea of where I would want it, what type of dress I want, what flavor of cake I want, what flowers I want, who I want there... Everything. I don't know what it is, but everything about weddings captivate me. Maybe it's the fact that I'm not a girly-girl on the outside, and that only very few who know me well enough know that I'm a hopeless romantic on the inside. Maybe that's why, because it's the ultimate girly-girl fantasy that one can have.

Little girls dream of their wedding day, like some sort of game that they can play to know that on that day, while they might not be of royal blood, they are still a princess. I never had those dreams as a kid. I was too busy wanting to be a paleontologist and fantasizing about finding dinosaur bones, and maybe reenacting Jurassic Park. However, over these past couple of years, it's like my inner romantic has just decided to rear it's overwhelmingly pink and flowery head full of cute things and cute stories. It's moved my dinosaur fantasies to the side, and now all of my stumbleupon needs are filled with weddings and dresses and cooking, all for ideas.


(By the way, if any of you who happen across this blog continue to read it, expect to see more of my masterpieces involving photoshop, just like the above image... Because photomanipulation of dinosaurs into tiny hats and bowties is fun.)

On the other hand, I've just stumbled across some amazing vintage dresses, the first one I really, really like. It's so amazingly gorgeous, and gives me slight chills. I shall share this with you, because while I feel like hoarding it to myself and calling it "my precious" while slowly deteriorating, I feel like I need to share this with someone who won't judge my silly secret at the same time. And thus, the anonymity of the internet is a valuable tool to let me air my girlish side out now and then.

And without further ado, here is the amazing dress. Click on the link after if if you want to have a look at the rest of the dresses!


Tuesday 8 March 2011

Early Morning Love

It's a lovely start to the day when you have your boyfriend on one side of you in bed, your cat on the other side of you, gentle light coming in through the window, and they're both softly snoring, both adorable in their realm of sleep. Occasionally, the boyfriend will sleepily open his eyes, smile sweetly and pull me close, kissing me gently, falling asleep again, but not before he makes sure to whisper a small "I love you" in my ear.

The cat, who always wants to be close for the chance of a petting or a cuddle has fallen asleep too... because really, who could resist this comfy bed?

Cuteness abounds.