youre a goddamn superstar

please let me gush. just for one minute please.

so we went to the lady gaga concert tonight. i liked her music and her videos well enough that i knew it would be entertaining. the show completely blew me away. the effects and the staging and the costumes and the dancing. i cant even begin to tell you how overwhelming it all was. and i am going to list why.

1. she doesnt lip-sink. this in and of itself is amazing to come across these days when everyone has autotuned their asses off. she sang and had conversations and it was just lovely.

2. her voice is amazing. i know some of you disagree but get online and listen to some of her acapella stuff and you will be a believer.

3. she works the gimmick. yes. some of her shit is gimmicky. but thats whats so brilliant about it is she uses it to her advantage and makes a real damn show out of it.

4. the staging is beautiful

5. she can dance and does the whole time and in five inch motherfucking heels. for that alone i salute her.

6. she gives a shit about real causes, such as the gay community. every single show she has she donates 20k to a charity to help homeless people of the community. she preaches equality, and she brings religion into it in such a way that i appreciate it, that she wholeheartedly believes there is a god and that god loves everyone out there. these are principles i can get behind.

7. did i mention she does all this shit in five inch heels? i cant even walk on my bare feet sometimes.

8. she's an all around performer. it wasnt just a concert or just a play. it was the whole package deal. you were sucked in from the minute it started.

i would pay the 85 dollars for the nosebleed seats again without a question. and you know i dont get that excited about concerts. i enjoyed her music before but now i respect and appreciate the whole shabang.

i'm a little monster. *makes a claw hand*

i've been reading too much Hyperbole and a Half and felt compelled (bored by the basketball game) and decided to draw a self portrait. in paint. with explanations.







Princess needs a hobby.

ps

i know its all hipster and whatever to like Radiohead, but what i've heard of the new album blows my mind. i think this is my new favorite song and video of all time hands down end of story. i want to put thom yorke on a shelf and carry him around to sing when i need to put something into words. one day i'm going to set my life to radiohead songs. then you will understand.

i had a good day but i'm now very cranky.

yesterday for the holiday i enjoyed it the best way i know how: napping and watching crap tv. i'm fairly certain that i slept over half of the day. and i talked to mom and asked her why we were never allowed to watch Roseanne bc its a very good show. all she said was 'i didnt like it.' this is not a good answer! i didnt like broccoli with cheese but i surely remember SOMEONE having to sit at the table until nine pm bc i refused to eat it. (note: i ate it. it was horrible and i still feel bitter about this moment.)

we had our performance reviews at work and i think i successfully made myself look good. they asked me if there were any college courses or other classes i wanted to take, so i rattled off a bunch of different stuff. if i can get work to pay for it, you better believe i'm going to take it. they asked how i felt about law school, and i answered honestly that i have no desire to do that. i'd rather take geology classes and play in the dirt.

this weekend is the lady gaga concert in pburgh and i am most excited. i know her music isnt everyone's cup of tea, but i think she's entertaining. i appreciate her brand of batshit crazy and recognize it as my own. i dont think i will be sporting a meat dress or anything, but i am hoping to find some glitter and sparkles.

i dont know if you had ice last night in your part of the neighborhood, but when i woke up this morning, my car looked like a glazed doughnut. luckily the stranger called and woke me up early to let me know i'd have to go let my car heat up for half a century. i had to pour hot water on my door to even get it open, and then when i came back out later to attempt to scrape the quarter inch of ice off, i forgot that i had poured water, which had thus frozen infront of the door, and i smacked into the car. it was a wonderful way to start the morning. (sarcasms)

starting next week i have to go to pburgh for work a couple times a month. the upside of this is the office is a hop skip and a jump from the malllllll. and also food and hotel paid for. princess like this, bc princess hates that drive.

i have nothing important to say. i'm sorry my life is so boring lately.

lovelove

the life update

you all know me well enough at this point to know that my whole world outlook has been better with these last few sunny days. just a few minutes in the sunshine makes crankypants mcgooo melt away.however, my sadness for humanity has taken over. two things that have nearly made me curl up in a ball and sob are seeing an old man eat alone in a restaurant (i always create some heartbreaking story in my mind that the lone person's husband/wife/partner/whatever has died and now they have to eat alone) and seeing a bball ticket scalper with no legs sit in his wheelchair on the sidewalk of patteson drive try to hussle some money. these things break my heart and i want to scoop them up and bring them home with me.

but the sunshine. it brings a side of hope.

so i think we've found a new apartment that satisfies all our needs (washer and dryer, more bedrooms, etc etc). the complex is brand new, so new that some of the units arent even finished, which works in our favor as we finalize our decisions. i like it bc its closer to work for me but still in a quiet part of town, and it has a fireplace that you can guarantee i will nap often in front of. i just have no desire to pack and move for the billionth time. especially with the stranger who's idea of moving is throw everything away bc we dont need it in the first place. for a sentimentalist (read: hoarder) this drives me batshit crazy. so this move, it might be a battle.

this weekend i have successfully made 60+ bars of honey almond and lavender soap. i only really burnt myself once, which i call a success. next up is beeswax lipbalm. i'm all over this stuff. i love doing it but i dont think i could do it for a living. i like buying shoes too much.

also, i bought yellow heels to wear for laura's wedding. you read that right. me. yellow. heels. crazysauce.

also, i've started reading david sedaris and i dont know where he his work has been all my life.

it's time for my mid-morning sunday nap. followed by my post-lunch nap, afternoon nap, and evening rest. hey. i can be a bum today, i get a paid holiday tomorrow to actually pretend to be productive. :)

Dear mens, if you want to get something extra special for your lady friend, check out http://myaromachology.com/

I created my own perfume on there the other day, you take a sort of self evaluation quiz thingy and it's blended specially just for you. I thought it was gimmicky but I had a gift certificate, and holy balls it smells good. It smells clean, if that makes sense. It made me feel le happy and didn't give me a headache like most perfumes do.




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When we were little and aunt Beth and uncle Larry lived on the other side of town hill, they poured a tiny patch of concrete for me, Michael, and Laura to put our hand prints in. At the time I thought this was the most amazing thing on the planet earth. I haven't thought about this in years until I dreamed about it last night, that we had to go back over there and save the handprints bc the people who lived there now were going to destroy them.

Now I really want to go home and see if I can get some strangers to let me dig up their flowerbed area and have my handprints.




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Call me a cheeseball if you will, but for valentines day I just wanted to take a minute to tell all of you that I love you, I appreciate you, and I am thankful for you. You've been there for me through good and bad, and I don't think I could be in the good place I'm in, physically, spiritually, and emotionally without the people that surround me.

I hope you all have a great day and remember you are loved.




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This is the Turk, pwning the other team.





Many thanks to the strangers boss who gave us 7th row tickets for vday!

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Valentines weekend has started early at Lockwood drive! Bc both the stranger and I suck at waiting to give gifts, we went ahead and did part of valentines day.





How cool is this? It's from the 1930s and is actually a locket. You pull the wing into "flight mode" to open it. I love weird old things. And all I got him was a bunch of zombie books. Haha

Maybe this whole lovey dovey holiday won't be so terrible after all.

I hope you all have a great weekend!


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Gladys!!!




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i feel like all i talk about anymore is snow. i'm going to have to start sleeping in one of those seasonal depression light booths.

do you ever take a step back from your life and wonder how exactly it is you got there? believe me, i know this is a good place. a very good place. but is this what i pictured when i was a little girl? hell, was this what i pictured three years ago? or am i just over thinking things, like i do everything. bc i always feel like whatever i do isnt enough. but what if it is? what if it's more than enough? why am i asking so many damn questions??

this is one of those times i wish i could paint. bc then i'd paint something, and then take it to someone else and ask what it means.

i dont like that where my life physically will go in the next several years depends on what the stranger wants to do school/occupation wise. at the same time, its nice not to have to choose myself. as it stands right now, i think we will stay in morgantown at least one more year, so that the stranger can either finish his mba with some special emphasis that i dont understand and/or start law school here. after that year however, the sky is the limit, and it seems like the strangers sky is lexington. while i love the town and the friends and family i have there, we all know how well i really deep down deal with change. but the stranger isnt really happy here, and i can be happy anywhere (well, anywhere that isnt anywhere north of here. have i mentioned i hate snow?) so i'd go wherever he wants. its not the first time i've been willing to uproot for someone, but at least this time its worth something.

good things i have accomplished today: drinking the prescribed 103 ounces of water that i'm supposed to each day, not bite my nails, not taken a nap even though i wanted to. these are little things i guess, but soda, nail biting, and sleeping are all a stupidly embarrassingly large part of my life, part of keeping my stress in check. but i've been trying. now i take my aggression out on ice cubes and pistachios.

i'm in one of those moods where if i saw one of those commercials about homeless dogs i'd probably break down.

the sun will come out again. and we'll get warm and happy.

stay warm and happy everyone.

lovelove

oh monday.

so we now have a reception location. its the surf center at the beach. its ocean front, so we can get married 30 ft away from the reception. this is a good thing for my laziness. now that things make sense and i have a goal, it's all coming together so much easier. and i'm actually enjoying it.

and i've started on the spa stuff for laura's shower. so far we have lavender bath salts complete and packaged prettily. next comes honey almond and eucalyptus. and then we venture into the world of beeswax to make some lipbalm. sometimes i want to quit my job and make crafts all day. but then i remember how much i like shoes. shoooooes.

in good news, the stranger and i are finally healthy, after around what, three weeks of being sick?

also, the underwire of my bra is killing me. i want to invent something that reinforces the sides so you dont get stabbed to death. i'd make millions.

the family unit came to visit on saturday, which means it poured the rain. this is because (and this is a statistical fact) whenever my mother comes within a ten mile radius of motown, it starts to rain. maybe we should send her places that are facing a drought. at any rate, it was a good day overall. plus they took us to dinner which is always a win.

the stranger takes the LSAT on saturday, which i am sure means we are going out on the town saturday night. i think we're going to do something special for valentines day on sunday, even though it's not til monday. but. first vday together and all that sappy shit, gotta make a big to do about it all.

i'm trying to think if there is anything actually interesting going on around here. work is the same, my fish at work Gladys is not dead yet so thats always a plus. it's supposed to snow tonight, though thats no shock. the lady gaga concert is in 3 weeks and the tosh.0 show is in 4 weeks (yes, that does mean i get pburgh perogies twice!). and there is presidents day in there somewhere, which means princess gets a paid day to stay in her pjs and watch golden girls.

hope all is well wherever you are. lovelove!

I forgot that as much as I dislike sports, I get in this zone when I watch them in person. But of course, I want to watch dirty basketball. I want Huggs to get thrown out and I want Kilicli to throw some elbows in ppls faces.

This is why I could never play team sports and had to be a dancer instead.




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So we didn't get snowpocalypse 8.0 like was expected, but I think everyone else in the country did. This is me not sorry that it's pouring the rain. If it keeps this up we might be able to actually find our Christmas decorations and take them down!

I've noticed that I blog less since I started doing that Shuttercal photo of the day. Looking over the last month you can (or at least I can) recognize all my moods. It will be interesting to see at the end of the year what all I have photos of.

So after a stupid fight where we threatened to leave each other, the stranger and I have officially set a wedding date for august of 2012 at the beach. I think deciding that was the biggest pain in my ass. At least now I have something to work toward. And in the short term I have lauras shower to throw together, so there will be much crafting St this house in the coming months.

I'm going to a wvu bball game tomorrow. I haven't been to one since my senior year of high school. Some school spirit, huh?
But let's be honest. We are only going bc we got free tickets.

Today was my official one year anniversary at work. I got cake and it was delicious. Plus we got a 55gallon fishtank in our office today, and we each get to pick out a fish and name it. I'm thinking Ferdinand?

Hope everyone is staying warm out there in Internet land. Spring has to happen sometime... Right?

Lovelove

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