Was Gonna Friends-Lock This One because I Say Funny, Awful Things about My Family in It But Whatev!
You know, I don't update this thing nearly as often as I should. To be honest, I moved over to the micro-blogging wonder that is Plurk, it's like facebook statuses on crack--you earn Karma for updating your status as often as possible and getting people to comment on it. XD If anyone is interested, lemme send you an invite (because it will help me earn Karma). Helllllo, ulterior motive.
I didn't really make any New Years resolutions, so I've decided this very moment that my NYR is to update my sad LJ regularly even though I've gone all Buck Rogers, micro-blogging in the 25th century with Twiki and Dr. Theopolis. Here's what I've been up to lately (it's been a pretty busy winter break).
1) Even though I told myself that I wouldn't buy any Christmas presents and that everyone would understand, as I am so broke that I could actually financially destroy myself for the rest of my life, I went and bought everyone a Christmas present. (No, that was not for your pity, please laugh at me! XD) And I thought they were damn good presents, too, because I bought them all on our Black Friday 12-hour shopping spree. Then I paid for the gifts by selling a Toshiba Satellite on e-Bay, which I snagged at Fry's on Black Friday. Genius, right?
2) I asked a cute guy who was bagging my groceries at a Japanese market in West LA for his number and got it. Yes, I have a weakness for white boys in Weezer glasses. Sue me. And then he drove down to Long Beach the next day and we hung out and I decided that I don't really like him after all because he couldn't stop talking about himself (and is one of those people who gets caught up in pyramid schemes wtf). But I was proud of myself for doing something terrifying and gutsy, and now singlebluenote can never call me chicken. Ever. Of course, now I have to figure out how to politely turn away grocer guy's advances when I've already told him I think he's cute. :/
3) For Christmas we had a gigantic sixteen-person-one-canine sleepover at my grandparents' house, which included my uncle + his boyfriend + their new puppy Leilei (squeeeee) and also my (estranged?) dad + stepmom + stepbrother who is the same age as me + his toddler second child had by his girlfriend during divorce proceedings from his first (underaged) wife/baby-mama. No lie. I played a lot of Rock Band 2 with my cousins and now am hooked on that Panic! At the Disco song, which sucks because I have to start liking them again even though I still resent the fact that they removed the exclamation point! from their band name. Also ate a lot of ham, which is really weird because I couldn't stand that stuff before I went to Japan. Damn you, Tokyo, for ruining me dietarily as well as financially.
4) Eighteen hours after returning from San Jose for Christmas I immediately hopped on a 6AM flight to Pittsburgh for New Years. Yah, I'm crazy. But since I couldn't find anyone crazy enough to take me to the airport at 4:30AM, Matt dropped me off at Denny's down the street from LAX the night before and I sat there until "morning."
I think I'm in love with the East Coast. Pittsburgh is an amazing city. I never would have expected it to be so beautiful; it's full of old buildings, huge rivers and tons of bridges, skyscrapers, and oh so many lights. ♥ Not to mention that it snowed. I was so happy~ My friend Matt (different from the one who dropped me off at Denny's) has an apartment overlooking the river. He took the boy (his brother) and me out every night as thanks for the crazy party fun time we showed him when he came to visit us in Tokyo last spring. I had no idea that Pittsburgh had such a lively nightlife, whoa, and also rad Thursday night unlimited bowling with 80s music! After five straight nights of partying (no joke), the boy and I demanded to stay in and we all played Scrabble. I can't get over the amount of good food I ate (go figure, in Pittsburgh of all places)--Indian chicken makhani with mango lassi and garlic naan, Thai basil tofu with steamed jasmine rice and kabocha curry, and these amazing sandwiches from a sub shop called Jimmy Johns that I can't get in Long Beach because the only California branch is in Clovis (Fresno). T_T I also got to geek out because Zack and Miri Make a Porno was filmed in Pittsburgh. The boy and I watched it together and I was really happy that he liked it. I wanted him to so bad because the first time I ever watched it, I couldn't stop thinking about him. He really is my best friend and we have been through as much crazy shit as Zack and Miri have together. I just hope I get my happy ending, too.
5) I got my second braces adjustment! They are dark blue and baby blue--I was going for a winter theme, and I think it came out really cute... Also I can't believe how straight my teeth are looking these days. (Actually, they were straighter last month and now my teeth are straight but my alignment is all out of whack. The bottom and top rows don't line up anymore as everything shifts back to fill in the extraction gaps o.O) Anyway, I am now 1/8 of the way through my treatment, yay~ I will try to post comparison pictures soon for everyone. I was told that in March they're going to screw in pins! >:O This will help move my upper teeth back faster, but it still sounds kind of crazy!
6) I got a Japanese "airwave perm," and now I will have curly Asian girl hair for the next couple of months. I decided not to get another straight perm because I was tired of my hair being flat for three months, awesome for three months, and then annoying for three months. I'm kind of nervous about having curly hair everyday but I have to admit that it looks super cute. Now I totally want to wear a milkmaid costume or something. tsuzusushi, please please PLEASE let me try on one of your cute Kitchen Print headdresses~ I swear, my hair is nearly as curly as your awesome wig ♥
The sad part about getting my hair done is that at the Japanese hair salon, I started reading a CanCam magazine and felt totally homesick. It makes me want to do something stupid, like go to grad school in Japan even though I shouldn't just so I can go back to my old life and shop in Shibuya again and speak Japanese everyday until I finally actually get good at it. 'Cause, you know, that's all I really want out of life. But the right (and smart) thing to do is go to a prestigious East Coast grad school because I want to do something really impressive for I change. I have what it takes to get in, and I'm falling in love with the East Coast, and it will line me up for a brilliant career so that someday I will actually be able to afford to go shopping in Shibuya as much as I want. Only... what if I'm too old to shop at 109 by that time? I'm afraid that if I go East, I'll be farther than ever from Japan and my Japanese will deteriorate even further and... Gah, I should have never picked up that magazine. Now I totally want a subscription to CanCam just so I can pine for the glamorous lifestyle I once had.
Well, now that I've finally updated this thing with an entry so long no one can possibly read it (haha), my next goals are to do laundry, clean my dorm, get rid of my unnecessary packrat possessions, donate all my unused clothing to a charitable organization, get rid of an unwanted suitor (maybe two; there's this guy who's been texting and facebooking me a lot), and somehow do enough interesting things to update this LJ again next week. Oh, and I might go to Boston soon.
I didn't really make any New Years resolutions, so I've decided this very moment that my NYR is to update my sad LJ regularly even though I've gone all Buck Rogers, micro-blogging in the 25th century with Twiki and Dr. Theopolis. Here's what I've been up to lately (it's been a pretty busy winter break).
1) Even though I told myself that I wouldn't buy any Christmas presents and that everyone would understand, as I am so broke that I could actually financially destroy myself for the rest of my life, I went and bought everyone a Christmas present. (No, that was not for your pity, please laugh at me! XD) And I thought they were damn good presents, too, because I bought them all on our Black Friday 12-hour shopping spree. Then I paid for the gifts by selling a Toshiba Satellite on e-Bay, which I snagged at Fry's on Black Friday. Genius, right?
2) I asked a cute guy who was bagging my groceries at a Japanese market in West LA for his number and got it. Yes, I have a weakness for white boys in Weezer glasses. Sue me. And then he drove down to Long Beach the next day and we hung out and I decided that I don't really like him after all because he couldn't stop talking about himself (and is one of those people who gets caught up in pyramid schemes wtf). But I was proud of myself for doing something terrifying and gutsy, and now singlebluenote can never call me chicken. Ever. Of course, now I have to figure out how to politely turn away grocer guy's advances when I've already told him I think he's cute. :/
3) For Christmas we had a gigantic sixteen-person-one-canine sleepover at my grandparents' house, which included my uncle + his boyfriend + their new puppy Leilei (squeeeee) and also my (estranged?) dad + stepmom + stepbrother who is the same age as me + his toddler second child had by his girlfriend during divorce proceedings from his first (underaged) wife/baby-mama. No lie. I played a lot of Rock Band 2 with my cousins and now am hooked on that Panic! At the Disco song, which sucks because I have to start liking them again even though I still resent the fact that they removed the exclamation point! from their band name. Also ate a lot of ham, which is really weird because I couldn't stand that stuff before I went to Japan. Damn you, Tokyo, for ruining me dietarily as well as financially.
4) Eighteen hours after returning from San Jose for Christmas I immediately hopped on a 6AM flight to Pittsburgh for New Years. Yah, I'm crazy. But since I couldn't find anyone crazy enough to take me to the airport at 4:30AM, Matt dropped me off at Denny's down the street from LAX the night before and I sat there until "morning."
I think I'm in love with the East Coast. Pittsburgh is an amazing city. I never would have expected it to be so beautiful; it's full of old buildings, huge rivers and tons of bridges, skyscrapers, and oh so many lights. ♥ Not to mention that it snowed. I was so happy~ My friend Matt (different from the one who dropped me off at Denny's) has an apartment overlooking the river. He took the boy (his brother) and me out every night as thanks for the crazy party fun time we showed him when he came to visit us in Tokyo last spring. I had no idea that Pittsburgh had such a lively nightlife, whoa, and also rad Thursday night unlimited bowling with 80s music! After five straight nights of partying (no joke), the boy and I demanded to stay in and we all played Scrabble. I can't get over the amount of good food I ate (go figure, in Pittsburgh of all places)--Indian chicken makhani with mango lassi and garlic naan, Thai basil tofu with steamed jasmine rice and kabocha curry, and these amazing sandwiches from a sub shop called Jimmy Johns that I can't get in Long Beach because the only California branch is in Clovis (Fresno). T_T I also got to geek out because Zack and Miri Make a Porno was filmed in Pittsburgh. The boy and I watched it together and I was really happy that he liked it. I wanted him to so bad because the first time I ever watched it, I couldn't stop thinking about him. He really is my best friend and we have been through as much crazy shit as Zack and Miri have together. I just hope I get my happy ending, too.
5) I got my second braces adjustment! They are dark blue and baby blue--I was going for a winter theme, and I think it came out really cute... Also I can't believe how straight my teeth are looking these days. (Actually, they were straighter last month and now my teeth are straight but my alignment is all out of whack. The bottom and top rows don't line up anymore as everything shifts back to fill in the extraction gaps o.O) Anyway, I am now 1/8 of the way through my treatment, yay~ I will try to post comparison pictures soon for everyone. I was told that in March they're going to screw in pins! >:O This will help move my upper teeth back faster, but it still sounds kind of crazy!
6) I got a Japanese "airwave perm," and now I will have curly Asian girl hair for the next couple of months. I decided not to get another straight perm because I was tired of my hair being flat for three months, awesome for three months, and then annoying for three months. I'm kind of nervous about having curly hair everyday but I have to admit that it looks super cute. Now I totally want to wear a milkmaid costume or something. tsuzusushi, please please PLEASE let me try on one of your cute Kitchen Print headdresses~ I swear, my hair is nearly as curly as your awesome wig ♥
The sad part about getting my hair done is that at the Japanese hair salon, I started reading a CanCam magazine and felt totally homesick. It makes me want to do something stupid, like go to grad school in Japan even though I shouldn't just so I can go back to my old life and shop in Shibuya again and speak Japanese everyday until I finally actually get good at it. 'Cause, you know, that's all I really want out of life. But the right (and smart) thing to do is go to a prestigious East Coast grad school because I want to do something really impressive for I change. I have what it takes to get in, and I'm falling in love with the East Coast, and it will line me up for a brilliant career so that someday I will actually be able to afford to go shopping in Shibuya as much as I want. Only... what if I'm too old to shop at 109 by that time? I'm afraid that if I go East, I'll be farther than ever from Japan and my Japanese will deteriorate even further and... Gah, I should have never picked up that magazine. Now I totally want a subscription to CanCam just so I can pine for the glamorous lifestyle I once had.
Well, now that I've finally updated this thing with an entry so long no one can possibly read it (haha), my next goals are to do laundry, clean my dorm, get rid of my unnecessary packrat possessions, donate all my unused clothing to a charitable organization, get rid of an unwanted suitor (maybe two; there's this guy who's been texting and facebooking me a lot), and somehow do enough interesting things to update this LJ again next week. Oh, and I might go to Boston soon.