Quote of the Week
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. -Pete Seeger
I took a small hiatus from blogging for awhile. I wasn’t feeling much like myself and instead of writing about things that had absolutely no meaning (as expressed to me by some douche bag who sent me a lovely email expressing how lame my blog is) I just decided to abandon the idea all together. After a little thinking (mostly about whether or not it was lame) I decided to say fuck it all, and come back guns a blazin’ to this little ol’ blog of mine.
So if you don’t like that I write about my shopping excursions, makeup, people I dislike, things that annoy me, bad dates I go on, or whatever else comes into my mind…well then fuck off and take your internet reading somewhere else.
Now that I’ve said that…we resume our regular scheduled programming.
Have lunch with a friend.
Buy tickets to see The Hangover.
Crack your shit up while watching the movie.
Decide you want to see the movie again, so you sneak into another theatre to see the same movie again.
Grab some dinner on the way home to enjoy while sitting on friends couch watching the Food Network.
Perfect Sunday.
My only excuse for not blogging in what seems like forever is that I had a very stressful two months trying to find a new place to live. I won’t touch on it heavily but the jist of the deal is that my former roommate lost her job, couldn’t afford to live in our house anymore and our douche bag landlords decided that they would rather kick me out than let us sublet her room out.
I went from calm to stressed out in less than 1 day. There was lots of crying, complaining, yelling, and freaking out in the weeks that lead up to finding my new house that I am absolutely in love with.
Living Room
Entry
Kitchen
Bathroom
Dining Room with deck views
Den
All things considered, this move couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m happy again. I feel good about coming home. I’m not stressed out about my house being dirty (for the record, it’s not dirty because I clean it!). It’s a fantastic peaceful place to be.
Did I also mention this is what I see every night?
Dear apartment gods,
I know this is a lot to ask you right now, but will you please send me a decent apartment that won’t cost me $1200 a month? I’m not asking for a penthouse suite, I’m looking for something clean, without shag carpeting, and possibly absent of scary neighbors who blare music at all hours of the day and night. If I’m asking too much, please let me know. Otherwise I’ll await the arrival of my new apartment.
Thank you,
Sarah
I apologize for my absence lately. I’ve been going through a little bit of a rough patch. Turns out that when you move in with someone who you’ve known since college, and helped through several hardships they often forget that and screw you over.
Case in point, I’m getting booted from my house at the end of the month. Because my roommate can’t pay her rent. Since she’s breaking the lease, they are kicking me to the curb. If you happen to find yourself with a two bedroom, one bath house or apartment and you need someone to take it off your hands for you, let me know.
Walking into a MAC store is pretty much my happy place. My friends question why I buy so much makeup, I explain it’s my heroine. Minus the track marks, and twitching from withdrawal. Not long ago I went to the MAC release of the Hello Kitty line of makeup. Since we were heading into spring, I picked up some fun bright colors.
Some of them are a little to bright to wear for everyday but I figured why not give it a go. I was home a couple Fridays ago, and was playing around. I busted out my Hello Kitty pallets and a few other eyeshadows and created what I felt wasn’t a half bad look for a night out.
I first brushed the lighter color (yogurt) all over my lids. Then I took my shader brush and blended the brighter pink (romping) into the crease.
Using the same shader brush, I took a little bit of this grey blue (scene) and blended it into the ‘v’ of my eye. Starting the brush in the corner, I blended up into the crease, around the corner, and into the upper lash line. I did this to add just a little bit of smokey color.
I lined my upper lashes with two different liners. First I used Penultimate eye liner (rapidblack) making a line starting slighter thicker on the outside of my eye and getting thinner as I got closer to the inner eye. Taking a liner brush I next used this dark blue (knight divine) to line just over top of the rapidblack.
Just for fun, I used the liner brush to put a slender line of green (mood ring) above the rapidblack and knight divine, and brought it down onto my lower lashes. I finished up the look with two coats of mascara (dazzlelash) and a small swoosh of color on underneath my brows (dazzlelight).
Here’s how it all turned out:
This is the new pigeon that has taken up residence on my house since Simon’s untimely death sometime yesterday. I opened my garage door to find a dead pigeon laying on the ground. I thought all my prayers had been answered. But alas, another pigeon has come to watch over the nest. According to animal control, this is a common practice among the bird species. One leaves, another comes to fill in.
Still taking suggestions on how to rid my life of these evil little buggers….
Does anyone know how to get rid of a pigeon without killing it? There is a pigeon living in the awning above my bedrooms windows and the cooing has driven me to brink of insanity. I looked up animal control and they won’t come out to get it because it’s not a domestic animal, and wildlife control laughed at me. Their response was that I should leave it be and it will go away eventually. Eventually? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAKES ME UP AT 4:15 EVERY DAMN MORNING????
The lady on the phone suggested I look to see if there is a nest, because that’s most likely why there is a steady stream of pigeons. I’m 5′1″, I can barely see the top of my front door let alone an awning 35 feet in the air.
