Taste My Beat

So, this little bit has been floating around the blog world: Ladies, post a picture of your purse and it’s contents. Share the love.

Okay, I’ll play along. So, here’s my lovely purse and everything I lug around all day, every day. Everything is essential, from the two cell phones to the bottle of Coco Mademoiselle Chanel parfum. Even the mp3 player, hand lotion, and Burt’s Bees peppermint lip balm. Okay, so the parfum and lip balm aren’t essential. But what’s a girl to do when she’s to meet up with her squeeze when she smells like the mall?

So, starting with the top image, we have my actual day-to-day purse. It’s a lovely velor Juicy Couture number, purchased a few weeks ago from the Juicy Couture at the Westfield Valley Fair mall. I love that mall. It has a Louis Vuitton, Nordstrom, Tiffany’s & Co., and even a Sephora. Heaven on earth~!

Now, what actual lays inside the bag truly tells you about the person. No?

Top Left

Betsy Johnson make-up case (contains Bare Escentuals mineral veil, Sephora’s Atomic Volume mascara, Estee Lauder Pure Color liquid eyeliner, Lacome Color Design eyeshadow, and Lancome Color Design lipstick in “Trendy Mauve” with a cream base)
Creative Zen Vision:M Mp3 Player
Burt’s Bees Peppermint Lip Balm
Louis Vuitton Multicolore Monogram Wallet
Philosophy:Grace Body Butter

Bottom Right

Tons of receipts
Sidekick Slide (personal)
Blackberry 870e
Gucci Eyewear (prescription glasses, ugh!)

Not shown: Category 5 Dark Tanning Accelerator (5x bronzer with henna) by Designer Skin/Planet Beach, Car & house keys, tanning goggles

So, now it’s my turn to tag people! I’m tagging… Angie, Ashhh, Bonnie, Mist, and Jessica ~!

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Holy fucking hell. The trusty external harddrive I’ve been using since 8th fucking grade has just crashed on me. What a piece of shit! As they say, the hardware crashes first…

Well, the past few days certainly have been interesting to say the least! Within the past few days my mother has bought another *new* car, I’ve reconnected with a friend I haven’t spoken to in months.

It’s August 1st here, Breaking Dawn is about to release and tension at the my local Borders is high. Last night I went to buy a paperback copy of Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, which coincidently lain right next to the costumer service desk. The phones rang non-stop about the upcoming release party (apparently starts at 9:30 PM, Pacific Standard this evening) and when the book would be available for purchase. I didn’t want to bother the haggard-looking and stressed staff anymore than I had to, so I made my purchase in haste and left quickly. The guy at the front desk looked like he wanted to rip his hair out!

Despite this drama over the book, I personally am going to buy a copy tomorrow morning after I get a Starbucks and go tanning (Planet Beach = my second home.) After that, I plan to lock the door to my room and dive into the last, and incredible book in the Twilight Series. Stephenie Meyer, I hope you’re happy. You’ve turned the majority of girls under the age of 90 in the US into Edward-junkies! As much as I love Edward and his nemesis (or simple annoyance?) Jacob, my fangirl heart still belongs to Anne Rice’s Lestat.

Now, have you ever heard anyone say, “I love my Mercedes — when it runs.” ? I bet you have. If any of you (or your parents, maybe) own a Mercedes, you’ll know that these beasts cost major mullah to maintain. Between high octane (premium gas, in the US) petrol, tires and annual maintence, you’ve spent a bundle. I love my mother’s Mercedes — when it runs! My mother bought this car LAST SUNDAY. Yesterday on our way up to Planet Beach (it’s up a steep grade, the closest one), my mother’s car just STOPS. Cold. Dead. The lights on the dash shut off, the power, an the electric steering. We were in the middle of a 5-lane highway when this happened. I was so sacred, I could barely breathe. And if you live in California and drive on the freeways, you know my reason for freaking out!

So, after we pulled over onto the shoulder, my mother called AAA and got a tow truck, and we ended up towing it back to the dealership at the whooping cost of $218.12. $12US per mile. That’s robbery! Well, it turns out that one of the electrical wires had fired, literally dissolved or melted. I don’t know which. The dealership replaced everything at their cost, and covered the towing bill.

Don’t buy a high performance car unless you’re ready to take on the cost and responsibility. D:

In the meantime, please feel free to join my Twilight fanlistings!

• Werewolves: Leah Clearwater
• [+] Male Characters
• [+] Werewolves
• Relationships: Edward, Alice and Bella
• Relationships: Bella and Rosalie
• Relationships: Bella and the Cullens

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Today I won’t bother you all with unsolicited rambling on how I hate internet bitches and their cameras. Today is for Avatar. The best damn thing to come out of America since Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series.

I’ve been a huge fan of this series since it’s initial 2005 release. I was still in public school at the time, and their was nothing better to do than to site around and watch this lovely crap. Back in the day, the most “mature” thing to come out of this show was a peck on the cheek. Even a blush was risque! Well… things have changed, and the Avatar has grown up. Since I’m in Poland, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to watch the season finale. I hear it’s gasp-worthy.

Aang no longer looks like the child he did, Katara has grown into a woman, and Sokka has become a pimp. What else is new? We even see Toph go through her little crushes — Sokka, now Zuko? Aang was never in the cards for the Blind Bandito. To Zutarians: Sorry kids, Kataang is cannon. Put that in your pipe an smoke it.

But it’s not just the show that’s changed. It’s also the shows online fan community. I remember, back in the day, we I used to run an Avatar fansite. I no longer, of course. Mostly due to fanlistings, and a minor tête à tête with Asian pop music and Sailor Moon. I still haven’t forgotten those sites I worshipped, and those that slightly annoyed me. I remember having a constant grudge against the slightly better pages, the ones with the beautiful designs and talented owners. Ah, the good ol’ days.

Must-visit Sites

• Distant Horizon: During it’s heyday, it was THE source for Avatar. Jade is one of the nicest people you’ll ever met. Her designs are lovely as well.
• Avatar’s Hangout: Minty… where to start with her? We’d affiliated sites way back when. She’s had a few problems with her page and domain, but her skills are some of the most remarkable I’ve seen. Her abilities have grown so much, which garners huge respect from me.

The sites listed above aren’t necessarily the cream of the crop, but they are amongst the most well maintained, and have the friendliest owners. Bigger sites like Avatarspirit.net are nice for reference, but have an overall cold feel and an impersonal quality. If you want to be amongst people who’ll be warm and nice, why not drop by?

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Powitanie do jak plamić camwhore tutorial !

Again, I’ve been M.I.A. No official excuse here, just sheer lack of motivation to post. What else can I say? When I do post here, I turn everything into a rant. I can’t help myself with that. What can I say? I’m just a hateful person. *shrugs*

However, I can’t help myself from bitching about this: Useless crap some girls include on their webpages. Here’s a list of things I don’t want need to see/read/or know:

• Massive “about you” pages: Don’t you think the webpage is a giant enough vanity project in itself? We’re all vain, but some people know how to be a little more subtle about it. (Not exactly including myself in this one. I’m vain. I know this.)
• Tutorials: If I want to learn CSS/Photoshop/PHP/how to feed my cat, I’ll go to Borders and buy a self-help guide. Most of these are crap anyway.
• Cutenews: It pains me to see great websites use this script. I know it’s simple and it’s free, but that dosen’t mean you need to use it!
• Free graphics: Likewise with the tutorials. Stolen images of celebrities don’t interest me. Maybe they do the majority of your traffic, but you need to know that these are not yours. I’d love to see a few bitches slapped with a lawsuit.

This bitchrant isn’t directed towards any specific person, but towards the group of prepubescent girls who think they can design. I don’t want shit graphics of Britney Spears or some anorexic Asian pop star. I don’t wanna know what you had for breakfast, what you’re wearing at that exact moment, or when the last time you’d changed your bed linen was. Hell, I don’t even want to know what you look like. So please, spare me us the details.

Tutorial: Signs you’re a camwhore

• You’ve bleached your normally dark hair to a comefuckme blonde.
• Your tan makes you look like you’ve slept in a vat of artificial tanner. Can anyone say “TAN IN A CAN!”
• The first thing people see when they look at your images is your fake cleavage. (Read me: It’s free advertising! Like a billboard saying, “I take it in the butt!”)
• You have a stupid moue of a pout.
• You actually post pictures of your fugly mug on the internet.

..The “Happy Little Fairy”-Another common Livejournal pic, this one is favored by underage cutesy girls. Taken with the photographer lying on her back, camera pointed down at her face, wearing a dreamy, shit-eating gaze.

-Courtesy of Urbandictionary.com

Yes. I’m still on my Inuyasha binge. I even went as far as to purchase two season box sets. o_O Don’t ask why. I just had to do it. XD As to why I haven’t blogged… laziness? Yup, that’d be the proper prognosis. And the fact that I haven’t had much of a blogging spirit lately. =_=;

Ehh… I really haven’t been doing much, just hanging out around town - fanlistings - fanlistings - cook pirogies - fanlistings - eat a Tostino’s pizza (or two, but who’s counting?) - watch Inuyasha - beg for fanlisting approvals - receive fanlisting rejections - did I mention fanlistings? I think so… Damned fanlistings have once again taken over me.

I’ve also been sucked into RPing again. This time with some freak-ass results. o_Ov *points down*

THAT *points at teh profile* is the spawn of my character, Honey Kisaragi/Cutey Honey (not on OC) and this other dude I’ve been RPing with. You see some pretty weird like this. o_O I didn’t think our characters’ plots would progress further than the simple “friends with benefits” stage. Oh, but how wrong I am. Or maybe aforementioned character *points up* is the love child? XD

Now that I have that out of my system, I’m going to ramble on about nifty little thing I’ve come across. It’s called the “WonderSwan”, and apparently it was a gameboy-like device released in Japan during the late 90s. No, I don’t actually have one, but I do have an emulator for it installed on my Macbook.

Currently the only game I’ve played on it is Inuyasha: Kagome no Sengoku Nikki (Inuyasha: Kagome’s Fuedal Era Diary). It’s a fun little game.

This week I’m going to be out of the country, and thus unable to access my blog. I’m going on vacation to visit family and to relax — I wish you all a good week!

Diese Woche werde ich nicht mehr in das Land, und damit keinen Zugang zu meinem Blog. Ich gehe auf Urlaub Familie zu besuchen und sich zu entspannen - Ich wünsche Ihnen allen eine gute Woche!

The further I get into the school year the more I realize that my best friend Katherine and I are drifting further apart with each passing day. Don’t get me wrong - I love my friend - she’s a good person; albeit her priorities are really screwed up at the moment. What I’m talking about is what happened today at our only break and lunch period of the day…

As some of you may or may not know, but on Monday I leave to go to Florida to visit my Grandmother, who is now in hospice. Two years ago she had a major stroke, leading to her now current state: cognitive abilties gone, unable to feed herself, or even speak; and she can’t use the left side of her whole body — it’s majorly depressing for me to think of my Grandmother in this fashion. She practically raised me — and now this is how one of my role models and closest and most beloved family members ends up. It literally tears me apart to visit her in this place she’s in — it’s dim, the smell is horrid, and I feel like I die a little inside every time I go.

I expressed these feelings to Katherine, and I all got was her attitude and self-riotous words: “You need to be more sensitive — they can’t help the way the home is.” Like I don’t know that already. “Think of how those people suffer — every day. You live a priveleged life — you have your health, your money, and your whole family. You have no room to complain.” I think I’m aware of these things, thank you.

This whole bitch session was about me wanting to wallow in my self pity for five minutes, but no… Ms. Perfect has to come over, shine her beacon of purity and light on me and make me feel like shit over feeling like shit. Thanks, Mother Katherine, for reminding me that we can’t all be as pious, dutiful, and selfless as you. Thank you so much.

“I’m a demon, not a comedian!”
-Inuyasha <333

Well, this week my current fad is Inuyasha. A few years ago I was a HUGE fan of the show. You know, the imitation-Asian-girl. Wapanese, you could say. I was a total Inuyasha freak: Freaking huge wallscroll above my bed, every fucking action figure Tsunami toys ever released had a place on my manga-laden shelf, I even taped every episode that aired on Adult Swim during the summer. Then I just fell out of love with it. Being Wapanese is HARD WORK. Jesus — I could’t keep up with the steady stream of new manga, episodes, toys, trading cards, and other Inuasha-shiz that flooded my town and local mall… So I packed up all the crap I DID BUY, then I put it in the garage to mold.

It’s still there.

But that’s beside the point — my main point is that I still love the show, and it’s been recently revived due to late-night channel surfing and Adult Swim. Gotta love Adult Swim. Any who, I went on an icon binge. Nothing really, extrodinary special — just my favorite moments from episodes I downloaded the past couple of days. Notice how I choose socially awkward moments between the characters — they are just so much fun! XD

Teaser:

When it comes to the current generation of webbies today, namely the girls with the fucked-up looking blogs (I’ve been guilty of it too, in the past…), I just wanna make one thing clear: Just because you know a few CSS tricks, don’t assume you’re hot shit. I’ve been on the web way longer than you whores, you with your Audrey Kitching LiveJournal Icons and your blinding layouts — you who have been the bane on my existence since you figured out how to boot up your computer.

I’m TIRED of 12-13-14-15-16-year-old-girls taking over the web like parasites — you dumb bitches don’t serve any purpose, nor do you give us anything relevant. Stolen images of celebrities and glitter graphics DO NOT COUNT.

HEY CHIPPIES: GET OFF MY INTERWEB.

/endrant

Now, as many can see I’ve changed the formatting of my blog — no more cutenews, no more shitty layouts, no more custom content with the exception of my about pages, 3D portfolio, and the LOCKED LiveJournal Icons page. Those with registered accounts will have access to the page, the general public will not. Sticky fingers seems to be a problem with me.

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