Friday Videos: Shaun of the Dead

20Nov09

I was trying to find the clip I wanted of Shaun of the Dead (the one of Shaun doing the zombie walk in the morning), and had no luck. But that got me thinking how much I love the theme song of the film.

Anyone know how I can make this my ringtone on my phone? Because that would be AWESOME.

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buh buh buh… guuuuuh

19Nov09

I’m guessing that today I’m going to be quite like a zombie today.

uuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Because I went to see Amanda Fucking Palmer last night.

 

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Happy Paheeba Day

18Nov09

I’m not posting (much) here today.

Instead, I implore you to travel over to Pajiba, where today the womenfolk take over writing duties (I wrote the Paheeba Blockbuster review!). We do this to honor our Warrior Queen, AlabamaPink. She was an awesome, awesome woman, and I for one am proud to be a part of the day in her honor today.

So go, read some awesome writing by some awesome Pajibettes, enjoy our own special brand of snark, and don’t let Dustin out before the end of the day, please.

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and Ted makes three

17Nov09

Oh man. Looks like the end of this month/beginning of December just got a wee bit busier for me. Sleep? I’ll sleep when I’m dead. (Ha, not. I’ll weep with exhaustion is more like.)

First, I found out that EA is playing the 930 Club on November 30^th. Are you kidding? OF COURSE I’m going. How could I not? It’s a Monday, and I’ll probably have to leave pretty directly from work, so I will likely not be in a corset that evening. Oh well, I’ll have my camera and a big stupid grin on.

And I’ll probably buy another t-shirt.

Then, the following Saturday, Rob Zombie is playing the same club. At least it’s a Saturday. Because damned if I’m not super psyched to go see Rob Zombie. Should be a ridiculous and crazy show. Woo!

Two shows in one week! I am a wild and crazy girl!

Then I discovered that December 1 is the first available day for me to take the GRE. I really don’t want to put that off any longer, so I’ll be all registered for that by the end of the week (which is last week to when you’re reading this, so I better be all registered already. Shit, I need a review book).

OK, so I’ll have to take off a day to go take that. I’m debating if I should take it the first or the second. I’m pretty sure I should wait til the second, due to planning on going to DC for a show the night before.

So that’s decided.

Then. AND THEN I went and checked Ted Leo’s site today. Why, you ask? Well, because I heart me some Ted Leo, and I missed him the last time he was in town. I wonder if he’s playing around here any time soon, I thought to myself, doubting that he would be.

Well, he is.

He’s playing on December 3^rd in DC.

*sigh*

Can I do three shows in one week? Without dying or crying from exhaustion, that is? Can I do three shows in one week AND TAKE THE GRE?

You, dear reader, shall find out the second week in December.

 

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dream a little dream of you

16Nov09

Do you ever dream about people that you know?

I rarely do so, and I find when I do, I often wake up wanting to get in touch with that person and start the conversation off with “So I just had a dream with you in it!”

But I think that would earn me shunning right quick.

It always strikes me as odd when I dream about actual people; mostly because I only remember my dreams at all with much variation in frequency and clarity. And I rarely dream about people I know, at least that I can remember.

Woke up from one such dream Saturday morning, early. It wasn’t a strange dream, not really. But it was incredibly vivid when I awoke from it. We had been sitting at my dining room table, just talking. Laughing, joking, having one of those conversations that you hold close to you for ages afterwards, simply because it was such a good conversation.

I can go for weeks on good conversation. Apparently even when it’s dreamt.

I suppose dreams are too personal and private a thing to share too often with the people you dream about. Or maybe I’m just easily embarrassed by the obvious admission that I think about the people I care about all the time. Even asleep. I don’t know, but there you have it.

 

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Friday Videos: Happy Birthday TO ME.

13Nov09

It’s my birthday, y’all. My favorite holiday of the year!

Enjoy:

and, there’s no video for this one, but still:

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an ode

12Nov09

An Ode to my mother’s Chicken & Rice soup.

Oh, Chicken and rice goodness, how do I love thee?

No, really, y’all. I love this soup. In fact, I’m totally in love with soup in general right now. I love the idea of it, the heartiness of fall soups. I’m looking favorably upon stews right now too.

I ate a big bowl of said chicken and rice for lunch today the other day. It was oh so good and hearty and yummy and filling and did I mention that it was made with homemade chicken stock? That really makes it that much better.

It’s funny though; this got me thinking about changing tastes. I’ve long been really weird about soup. Nothing against it, it was simply that I preferred not to eat it very often. Oh, I have to be in the right mood for soup, I’d proclaim, forgoing whatever deliciosity was waved before me for something far more mundane and probably not nearly as good for me, either.

I don’t know why that is. And I don’t know where it changed, but I find myself wanting soup of late. I’ve eaten it for lunch at least twice this week. And I’ll probably do the same next week. I’m thinking about making pumpkin soup sometime soon, and if my mother actually makes it, I think I’ll try squash soup too.

I’m not sure I’ll be able to get past my dislike of squash in that case, however. Don’t really like squash.

At least, not yet.

Beyond the soup, I’ve noticed over the past few years that my tastes have started to change. There might be a few things I no longer eat that I used to. But I’ve mostly noticed that there are things I used to refuse to eat that I quite enjoy now. Take green beans, for example.

When I was wee, I hated those damned things. Hated. With the firey passion of a thousand red giant suns. Hated green beans. Until a few years ago, when one night I decided I wanted green beans. And now I loves them. Yummy green beans. Mmm, mmm yummy in my tummy.

The same thing happened far more recently with asparagus. I never ate it as a child. Love it. All steamed with some butter on it. Yummy in my tummy.

I guess the same thing is happening regarding soup. I don’t know if it’ll last, but I’m going to enjoy yummy fall and winter soups while it does.

Why do you think tastes change? I wonder about this sort of thing. What inside of me—be it body chemistry, brain chemistry or whatever—makes me change my mind about foods in this way? I wish I could tell you. But I’m pretty sure if I could, I’d be in a lab somewhere experimenting on people things.

 

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a belated No Whining Wednesday post

11Nov09

Since I totally forgot to schedule something for today last night, I’m writing a No Whining Wednesday post on the actual day, and will post it tonight when I get home (or rather, I wrote it earlier today and posted it when I got home).

Thus, happy end of No Whining Wednesday to you, dear reader. How was your day? Did you thank a Veteran for what they did to ensure your freedoms today? I thought quite often about my dad, who served in Viet Nam, and my grandfather, who served in Korea, as well as my uncle, who served in the First Gulf War, and was career Navy.

So, if you who are reading this happen to be a veteran, THANK YOU. Thank you for my freedom. Can I buy you a beer?

It’s been a long week. Why is it that the short weeks seem to take the longest to progress? It should really be Friday by now, shouldn’t it? But at least it’s a pleasant Wednesday. I may be achey and exhausted today, but things could be far worse, so I’m not whining about either. I’m simply biding my time til I can go home, take a long hot shower, and crawl into bed. It shall be gloriousness itself.

The rest of the week will be awesome too. Tomorrow will fly by at work. Do you hear me, Thursday? YOU WILL FLY BY AT WORK. I will be busy and productive and then I will go home. I will watch The First Wives Club, and I will outline my review of it. I will probably not stay up much later than my norm, simply because I’ve got so much going on Friday, and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to take a nap.

As for Friday, I’m pretty sure I’ve outlined and outlined what I’ll be doing, but frankly I’m ridiculously excited about my birthday this year. Despite the whole getting older aspect, and the fact I’m pushing 30 now (!!), I still look forward to my birthday. It’s a day on which I can be totally selfish and don’t have to make excuses or feel guilt for it. There will be cake! I’m getting pampered and I’m not even paying for it!

And best of all? I will be spending the evening surrounded by friends, by people I love. I am filled with the warm fuzzies, and I am so happy that I am able to gather these people around me and go out and have a good time. Sure, the sushi and the drinks will be fun, but the best part is the people I love.

And there’s your mushy Lizzie post for the next three months.

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concerning the makeup i wore one day

10Nov09

so, here’s my first shot at a makeup oriented post, beyond the one wherein i talked about talking about makeup some.

last Saturday i put together a look that i ended up loving quite a bit. i have all these samples from Aromaleigh that I’ve been working my way through, only I hadn’t had a chance to test out “Prim Tweed” yet, so I gave that a shot.

<—————-The pictures kinda suck. Sorry. But at least you kinda get the idea.————–>

Anyway, I started out with Too Faced Eye Shadow Insurance, which I swear by. I don’t put anything on without this base, for reals.

I’ve tried Urban Decay’s Primer Potion, but I had problems with blending with it. None of those problems with the Shadow Insurance. Love it.

I applied Prim Tweed to my brow bone. It’s a real subtle color, very soft and lovely and neutral, with just a hint of shimmer to it. I’m going to have to pick up a full sized jar of this as soon as I can; not that the sample isn’t going to last me several more applications.

In my crease I used Morbid Curiosity, another sample from Aromaleigh; it’s from the Gothic Lolita collection, and I heart this color too. See above regarding picking up a full sized jar posty hastey. It’s dramatic and sparkly but not glittery, if that makes sense.

So that’s what I wore. Oh! Wait, I actually put on mascara, which is a new occurrence for me. I’ve got a tube of Lash Blast Luxe… who’s that by again? And I wore my current favorite gloss, which is from the Boots No. 7 line at Target. Love it. Love it enough that I bought a couple more tubes for future use. Also, the shadows lasted all day. I dunno if this is the shadow itself being awesome, or because of the primer, but either way: yay!

Thus far, Aromaleigh is getting a big thumbs up from me. I’m going to put together something on the “buy this look” that I bought as well, if I can manage to get decent pictures of myself in it.

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in which i try to improve myself

09Nov09

Monday

So, I’m starting this on a Monday, but I probably won’t post it for at least a week. I’m going to try to keep track of which of these things I keep up with, and which I fail utterly at. I’m hoping that maybe writing it down will make me feel a bit more responsible for it and actually stick with this stuff.

I slept better than I usually do Sunday night, which was nice. I set my alarm for fifteen minutes earlier than usual, because I would like to start getting up and doing a bit of yoga in the mornings. I have a DVD that I used to do regularly, and I really liked it. It really was energizing, and it helped my mood immensely when I stuck with it.

I did not do it this morning. Mondays prove to be a two-fold problem for it. I rarely sleep well Sunday night; I think it has something to do with transitioning back into the work week. And I usually wake up in a bear of a mood, which makes getting out of bed terribly difficult.

So Monday was auspicious, I should think. I didn’t do the yoga, but I did get up early enough to do everything else I needed to do. I ate breakfast (an English muffin and a big glass of milk—yeah, I need to work on that too), I even put on makeup, which is my other thing I’m trying to do more regularly. I’ve got tons of the stuff; I might as well start wearing it.

The things I’m trying for right now are thus: pack lunch in the evenings, get up fifteen or twenty minutes earlier than usual and do yoga in the mornings, eat breakfast at home, wear makeup at least a few days a week.

Tuesday

Thus we come to Tuesday. Yay for it not being Monday anymore, fo’ reals.

Monday I managed to do just about everything with the exception of exercise. I’m slowly working on eating better. I’m not going to go cold turkey, but I am going to work on it. Slowly. I started by emptying my stash drawer at work of all the worst junk in it. No more candy at work. I’ve got some fruit snacks and granola bars left, as well as a few Healthy Choice lunch things, for when I inevitably go lazy again and forget to don’t bring lunch with me. I’ve also got applesauce. So, while these probably aren’t the best things for me, they’re neither the worst, so I’m counting that as OK for now. I know I need to work more green things into my diet, hardcore. I also need to work on perhaps fiber and healthy fats.

I did, however, drink water. I like water, I just prefer soda. Which is bad. Not that I drink regular soda—hello, diabetic? also, it tastes nasty—but I still drink too much soda. So I am trying to cut back on that, again. My goal is two liters of water a day. Yesterday I made it. Here’s hoping I do it again today! Maybe I’ll do what I did the last time, and just go cold turkey off caffeine. I won’t be fun to be around for a few days, but I’ll get through it. It really helped me cut back on the soda when I did that the last time. I would just drink the occasional caffeine free diet coke. Really, I just like the taste of Coke.

I ate dinner Monday night. Did I want it? No, not at all; there was salmon and rice and broccoli though, so I ate a bit of each. I don’t know why, but lately I just am not real hungry in the evenings. I eat a bit when I get home, usually something in the way of an English muffin—again, not good, I know—and then have a snack before bed and that’s about it.

Not sure what it’s about, but I know I need to work on that.

Anyway, ate dinner last night. Stayed up later than I’d meant to, reading my first Cannonball book. Slept well again, however. So that was nice.

Didn’t do yoga again Tuesday morning. *Smacks self on back of hand* But I did get up and eat breakfast and put on makeup. Two days in a row! Go me! Now, if I can manage to come up with something a bit more substantial to start making for breakfast, I’ll be good to go. Or at least better to go.

Here’s hoping I keep it up.

More tomorrow.

Wednesday

Ah, and now we come to No Whining Wednesday. Happy NWW, y’all! I’m really feeling tired today, but other than that, things are good.

I stayed up later than is my wont in order to finish my first CR II book. But it’s finished! Now I’ve only to write the review and get that posted.

As for yesterday evening and this morning: dinner didn’t happen. I had a milkshake after work, and then an English muffin and some milk before bed. I wasn’t hungry, ok? Sheesh. I didn’t drink quite two liters of water, but almost. I didn’t make anything for lunch, but I’ve got a healthy choice steamer thingy I’m planning on eating.

I did buy a bag of fritos this morning. Mmm, fritos. But I’m already switched to water today, so that’s good. I got up and ate breakfast and put on makeup, but I’d overslept a bit, so I ended up getting out of the house late. Oops. One of the coworkers brought in breakfast sandwiches from across the street; I ate about half of one. I keep thinking that they’ll be really good, and then they really aren’t. I’ve got to avoid those in the future.

I found a recipe for a fairly easy to put together looking breakfast casserole courtesy of Fixin’ To Eat last night. I’m going to try to make that this weekend, so I have something hot and with protein in it for breakfasts next week. I get hungry way too quickly otherwise.

And that’s your Wednesday update.

Thursday

Thursday seems to have been a long time coming this week. Not that’s it’s been a bad week, or even an especially long one. It just feels like it’s taken a while to get here.

Anyway. Things are starting to go downhill. I did bring lunch today—mom made soup last night (god it’s going to suck when I move out and have to make myself meals. On the other hand, I kinda look forward to it, because I have definite goals for my food consumption once I do [namely: eat as little I haven’t put together myself as possible])—but I also brought a bag of sour cream and onion Utz with me. Oh, and I definitely bought a donut at 7-11 this morning. Not that I particularly want it right now. Maybe I’ll give it to Andrea.

Anyway. Did ok with the water yesterday. Not quite a full 2L, but close. I had a low sugar right before lunch, so that screwed me up there. Didn’t eat dinner again last night, but I did eat some ice cream before bed.

Which promptly made me feel all pukey, so it took me a while to get to sleep. So I’m even more tired today. On the other hand, I do slowly creep into exhaustion by about this timemost weeks, so this is nothing unusual. The new goal shall be sticking to the plan when I am tired: keep making lunches, keep not buying crap at 7-11 in the morning.

So, this weeks mistakes help me learn new things to do next week!

Or something.

I did get up and eat breakfast this morning. And I did put on makeup. So those two goals are going well.

Friday

So, everything went to hell on Friday. But I learned my lesson for it. I stopped at McDonalds for breakfast and it was nasty. I always think it’s going to be better than it is. Oh well, lesson learned. I also didn’t put on makeup, because I didn’t feel like getting out of bed and getting my ass in gear; instead I put on sweats and a sweatshirt and stumbled out the door.

Then I remembered that I was meeting Jessie after work for dinner/drinks, and got back out of the car to go put on jeans.

I did drink plenty of water on Friday, though. So yay for that.

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So there you have week one of me trying to start new habits and slowly work my way into taking better care of myself. We’ll see how week two goes.

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