Quickie Post #02

I know, I know. I've been a terrible blogger lately. *hangs head*

Damn school, job, internship, etc.

Internship is over now. I'm really sad that it's over but also kind of happy as it means it's one less thing I have to worry about. Going to miss watching games though! And running into hockey players here and there, though one of my fav players is now gone. :(

Job... still sucks. My coworkers are the only reason I can stand it. I'm just super lucky that they rock or I would go insane.

School... oh school. Wanna hear the news about school?

My Van Wilder plan has officially expired.

I will *knocks on wood* be graduating this fall. Those who follow me on Twitter know that I was totally freaking about it the day I finally turned in my major change form (I was still listed as Art Ed not just Visual Arts with a concentration in photography) and I was freaking out about graduating but also freaking about not graduating. Dumb right? Well now my fear is finally just not graduating. Life will be better when I'm done with school. I'll have more time to do the fun stuff I want to do. Yeah I'll still be working but full time classes AND working makes me wanna stab myself in the eye on an almost daily basis, so I am, ultimately, excited that the end is near!

So... uh there's a quick update. I'm off to read and write though... so for now that's it until I find more motivation to write a proper post.

Sorry all... my brain is fried. We're working on moving (and the lease isn't signed yet so I'm freaking we're going to lose it *knocks on wood for the millionth time*) and I just finished a paper and am so behind in photo studio it's ridic... so yeah I promise to try to write soon!

My Pride's Nutshot

Today my pride took a shot to the nuts.

Warning: I will likely offend someone with this post.
Any PETA members should turn around and walk away now.
You have been warned.

I can't believe I'm actually going to blog about this but seeing as I only have like half a dozen readers so far here we go....

My hubs and I are moving to a nearby town. A guy he knows is renting the place to us and the previous tenant just left. As in "left most of her shit" left. So the place is trashed but we're getting free rent for cleaning it up.

Now... why does my (as a female) pride have nuts and not lady parts?

Well my explanation is that I was raised by a single mother, who happened to be a tomboy and raised me to fix shit on my own. I can hook up a car stereo (and I refuse help in doing so & pushing your way in will only end in wire cutters protruding from what used to be an eye socket), I helped my Gramps remodel the house, I can change my own oil and look down on boys who can't (sorry boys who can't I'm sure you're great and all but yeah....) and so on.

Don't get me wrong I am girly, but this love of stilettos is a new development. I never fell in love with shoes until I was 21. That was only 4 years ago, pretty damn late compared to most girls. Same with makeup. Hell I still don't even wear it every day.

So I pride myself on being tougher than most girls (yeah even though I whine about poor ol' chivalry sitting in the corner of the room rocking back and forth from being beaten nearly to death by the feminist movement and crying for it's mommy). Well except when it comes to spiders.

Spiders are my kryptonite.

Anyway... So we're cleaning this house today and we're moving this lil set of drawers when Cody tells me to get ready to kill a mouse.

Armed with a scoop shovel (srsly this is how we're cleaning this cow's junk out of this house) I am ready to kill.

Cody moves the tiny dresser and the assault begins.

All until this furry lil guy gets in the corner of the room and gives me puppy dog eyes. I "aww"d like a freaking girl and then Cody yells at me and I remember the job at hand.

Until the little bastards runs at my feet.

I jumped around like a freaking pansy and screamed like a girl.

*facepalm*

At this point I give Cody the shovel and guard the door (like I'm going to be that much help now that I've gone pansy). So he gets the nasty lil bugger and then laughs about how I was fearless 'til I got the puppy dog eyes and such and I laugh too, 'cause looking back at it it had to look hilarious. So I decide to take my mind off of the embarrassing moment by moving the set of drawers the rest the way through the living room.

I was a foot away from the door when another mouse ran out of the drawers at my feet.

The first display of girly squimishness was nothing compared to this round.

I danced around like a damned fairy screaming at the top of my lungs.

At this point I felt my pride take one right in the nuts. It was curled up on the floor in the fetal position gasping for breath as I tried to catch my own breath and my throat burned from screaming.

In just over a week my husband and I will have been married for 3 years. We've been together for a total of about 5 years or so. So there should be no embarrassing moments left to be had right? WRONG. I was utterly mortified. Still am. Even after confessing to Cody at the hockey game that it was probably the single most embarrassing moment of my entire life. Even after he said it was fine and not that embarrassing I'm still like "omfg when did I become such a freaking girl?!?"

So yeah... today was the day my pride took a nut shot. We've still got ice applied to the area in question and he's popping vicodin like it's candy. Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to put the incident behind us, move forward and hopefully procreate some day.

Blogger Award?!?

Wow... it has almost been an entire month since I blogged. I fail. >.< So yeah... Even though I fail as a blogger my bestie KatOfDiamonds gave me an award. Awesome ne? Thank you girl! There are so many reasons we're besties!! Srsly. I love you for so many reasons. If only I wasn't married. ;)

Here are the rules for the Beautiful Blogger award:

1. Thank the blogger who gave you the award.

2. Paste the award on your bloggity blog.

3. Link to the person who nominated you for the award

4. Share 7 interesting facts about yourself.

5. Nominate 7 other bloggers.

So here are 7 "interesting facts" about me

1- I have 5 half sisters and 1 half brother.
All from my Dad's previous marriage. The 5 sisters I've always known about but I didn't find out about the brother until I was like 23. He died shortly after birth. I talk to four of them though not as often as I should and feel very lucky to have them in my life even though there's about 16 years or so between the youngest of my half sisters and I. The youngest though is like my twin though, lol. We laugh the same and everything. We even snort when we laugh hard. Oh and we both blame our sis Kim for taking all the boobs before we even had a chance to be born, lol.

2- I LOVE body mods.
Piercings, tattoos, etc. I have 17 piercing and 9 tats... and that is only because I lack fundage for more. & though I swore to my auntie I wouldn't, I'd also like a scarification. One of my favorite sites is Deviant Nation which focuses on models with body mods (and is a million times better than Suicide Girls.).

3- I love Playboy
I love the magazine, I think Hef is one of the luckiest bastards on the face of the earth , I love their merchandise and when I was younger I dreamed of being a playboy bunny. I feel like the magazine is beautiful. There are articles (few of which I truly read, lol) and I think it's very classy in the way it shows women. *braces self for feminists to come uncorked on my poor lil blog* Yes they're shown as sex objects but I also don't think that is a bad thing!! And as for the feminists about to go nutzo... you are why chivalry is not dead but laying in a corner crying for it's mommy.

4- I want to be a model
Remember Deviant Nation from fact 3#? Yeah I hope to be a model there soon. It's one of my reasons for wanting to drop some lbs. No not because they want me to (they have a very diverse group of models including many that aren't the size 0, 2, 4 etc. model) but because I don't feel comfy being naked in front of a camera until then. & YES I have talked to the hubs about it, and he approves. Trust me I prodded to the point of annoying just to be sure he was cool with it.

5- I love things from before my generation.
I was raised on M*A*S*H*, BeeGees, old game shows and so much more. Srsly. You know who Spike Jones is? Didn't think so. I was raised on older tv, music and comedy and love it. I was the kid who would rather watch Laugh In than play house.

6- Through most of school I was a geek.
I was always pretty good at school and ahead in reading levels and more. Until hormones came into the picture anyway and even then I was still the kid who asked the longest a paper could be. If it was a story? Yeah I struggled to make it shorter.

7- Photography is my passion
Not a hobby, not a job, not a major, a PASSION. Photos are a moment captured in time whether it be glorious or horrific, candid or planned. I fell in love with photography when I developed my own roll of film and then developed my own print from that negative. I can't articulate the feeling I felt when I developed each for the first time in any other way than it being nothing less than a spiritual experience. *wipes tears from eyes* Srsly. It was one of the most beautiful experiences I've ever had. Honest.


Now for my nominations... (Sorry if joint blogs aren't allowed to be nominated but these peeps ROCK & haven't been nominated as far as I know)

7 Beautiful Bloggers:
1- My bestie Margie @ Onyx Hikari's Unreality
2- Ginger @ Journey to Family
3- Ginger & Spank @ The Spank & Ginger Show
4- P.C. Cast @ P.C. Cast's Blog
5- Sam @ The Broken Wire
6- Sarita @ A College Girl's Days
7- Rain & Meadow @ Whimsical Fic-ery

Begone Sad Post!

New post to get rid of my last emo post. I hate emo posts and I rarely do them so now I will write something worth reading.

So I've been working with an awesome photographer here at the Univ who is doing head shots for the theater dept. I've only assisted him one day (was supposed to today but the shoot was canceled) and I will be helping tomorrow. It's Peter Konerko who does head shots for actors and actresses as well as his own work, all of which can be checked out at his website. He's pretty much amazing and I feel so blessed to have this opportunity. I've already learned so much from him after just one shoot. I'm going to be way bummed when this is over.

As you can see in my sidebar--->
I finished Lover Awakened of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and it was AH-MAZING. Started Lover Revealed and just a couple chapters in was already struggling to not cry. Damnit. Lol. I still love it though. ^w^ I should be reading Matsui's Story and I will but damn it's hard to put these books down. Like tortuous to be away from them. #truth

Plus they have very well written sexy time. Yay for sexy time. ^w~

I am having a terrible time concentrating on homework. Srsly. It's ridiculous. I would rather read anything but a text book. Especially if it's my Asian Civ text. BO-RING!! I like history... just not reading about it via textbook. I did however do the reading and do my workbook for Nihongo (Japanese) though. I'd have what she assigned today done... if I didn't suck at kanji. Seriously I am TERRIBLE at remembering kanji, it's ridic. I know less than a 5 year old I swear, lol.

I got an order from Sephora today. I've been a member of their points thingie for like a year or so and just finally ordered. I got the Urban Decay Complexion Primer Potion and the Eyeshadow Primer Potion. The Eyeshadow UDPP was the XL and came with a UD lipstick, lip gloss, mascara and eyeliner...

The verdict?

I'm in LOVE!

Urban Decay is my new favorite makeup and I'm thinking there are going to be a lot more UD purchases in my future. Srsly. My eyeshadow is just as perfect as when I put it on at around 1pm. Oh and the color is so much more brighter and what it should be.

Okay... I'll shut up about it now... I'm just so damned excited about it hahaha.

Oh and Lady A's new album comes out Tuesday... I'm DYING. I can't wait for more songs sung by the ever so sexy Charles Kelley. Srsly anything he sings is a #pantydroppin'song. #truth

Warning: I am about to get on my soapbox and rant about politics.

I'm thinking about getting more involved in elections, more than just my usual voting. Those who know me know that I am neither Republican or Democrat and I pretty well hate those parties because I feel like they have too much power. Most voters see their ballot and only pay attention to the candidates everyone hears about and ignores the fact that there are plenty of other candidates from other parties. I'm not saying I'm gung ho for the communists but everyone goes for the "lesser of two evils". Ummm no. Vote for who you truly support, not who you think is the least amount of trouble.

I voted from who I really supported. Later my G-parents (who I love dearly but we have WAY different political opinions) and I were having a convo about voting and I said that people need to realize it doesn't have to be the lesser of two evils and my Gramps said that if you don't vote for one of the two "main" candidates your vote was wasted. I replied with "Well I'd rather my vote be wasted than to vote for someone I don't fully support." He kinda caved a little with that. Which was awesome because he is stubborn (as am I) so to get him to even lean a little is something, lol.

So yeah that turned into a bit of a novel but what I'm saying is that I want to get more involved. Mostly in getting people to realize that in order to get away from this bs we gotta start paying more attention to ALL candidates and what they stand for and voting for who we truly support.

George Washington warned the country over 200 years ago about the negative effects of political parties in a letter he wrote to the nation just before leaving office.

“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public counsels and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasional riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.”

Our main political parties no longer care about what is best for the people and the parties are too busy slinging mud to focus on the real issues at hand. I think it's time we do something about it and make a movement for a REAL change.

*steps off soapbox*