BEDA 2013 #29: Some people...

Two more day of Blog every day April!!!  I am sad, but oh so relieved.  I am starting to run out of things to talk about, and I feel like I am repeating a lot of stuff now.

I have a story for you all tonight.  I was at work, and this couple walks in.  The girl in the couple was wearing a shirt that had the Hogwarts crest on it.  In my mind I was saying "Yes!  A fellow Potterhead!".  So as she was walking up to the usher stand, Me being a Potter fan, I asked her, "Which house are you in?"  She starts freaking out looking at her ticket probably thinking that I asked her which theater are they in.  I thought she misheard me, so I replied with, "I was referring to your shirt, which house are you in."  She grabbed at her shirt so she could look at it and said, "Oh I don't know what this is, I just thought it looked cool."....... WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  You bought a shirt of something you know nothing about.  I should have asked her if she had ever heard of Harry Potter, or said something along those lines, but I just let it go because I felt like it was a wasted cause.  I could have taught her the wondrous ways of Harry Potter, but they probably wanted to watch their move.  They also went to see Pain and Gain, so I lost hope.  I don't get how people could just wear something that obviously has a story behind the picture, but not know or not want to know what it is about.  The fact that she had no idea what Hogwarts was, just made me sad.  The worst part about it is I know where she got that shirt.  She got it at Kohl's, and it is hanging right underneath a Justin Bieber shirt in the juniors department.  Yep.  That's my little rant.

Moving on.  We got a Star Trek Into Darkness Standee in today, and Cooper, Katie and I got to build it.  That was pretty fun actually.  It is probably the easiest standees I have had to help make.  It was tall though, so that was the only problem.  It was funny because Coop was trying to flip it would be easier for us to attach the 3D effect piece on, and he started to walk backwards.  He got really close to the back piece, and I thought he was going to miss it, but he stepped on the first flap that was closest to him, and stepped right on the other flap causing it to rip in two places.  It was funny because he was like where were you two at.  I said, you said you had it, so I thought it was safe to think you had it.  It is too funny working with him.  Me and Katie were laughing.

Today's song is "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" by Motion City Soundtrack.  I need to start getting ready for Warped Tour and listening to the bands I want to see, and this is one of the bands I am super excited about seeing live!!!  I hear amazing things about them live, and I love their music, so it is going to be a blast seeing them!

Well until tomorrow, and the very last day of Blog every day April!

DFTBA

:)

BEDA 2013 #28: Eh.

Today has been a pretty lazy day for me.

I slept in until 1 o'clock which I normally hate, but I felt like my body needed the extra rest.  Why, I don't know, but I woke up feeling great! :)

I just read a lot!!!  I got a good chunk of the Legend of Zelda Hyrule Historia taken care of, and I got about sixty more pages of The Great Gatsby out of the way.  I was usher tonight at work, so it helped me get through the Great Gatsby.  I love being able to read at work even if it is a couple of pages.  It helps me to not get cranky at work when I work with people I don't like.  I tend to have trouble reading at work when I work with people I do like because I am having conversations and just enjoying the company.  It is very rare that I don't work with at least one person that I like, so it is very hard for me to read anything unless I am put up at the usher stand.  I tend to breeze through books when I am up there.  And to think that I used to hate being usher.  Though of course that was when I wasn't aware that I could have a book up there, and that was also at the time when I liked all of the people I worked with.  I also had a big thing for not wanting to be alone at that point as well.  It was weird.

Anyway.  I just got home from work, and I need to edit a video for tomorrow, and I also need some sleep.  Patrick and I will be going to the insurance place to figure out if anything new has come up about his settlement.  He also has to call the towing company, and have his car towed to his garage, and then we have to go and fill out his graduation forms.  After that I am hoping that we will get to go to the Greenville HPA meeting at the library!  I am excited that I have finally been able to find an Harry Potter Alliance group in the area.  I tried making one in 2010 in Easley.  I asked a bunch of people if they would be interested in joining, but nobody responded, so I gave up on the idea for a while.  Apparently it had formed just a couple of months ago, so I am not too late in finding it.  Again, I am super happy!

Since I talked about the Harry Potter Alliance, I thought it would be very fitting to play a Wizard rock song for today.  It is "The Weapon" by Harry And The Potters.  This song is basically one of the songs that embody the Harry Potter Alliance as a whole!  It is one of those songs that make you want to sing along once you hear the opening chord.  I love it, and I always look forward to hearing it.  It is one thing to hear a recording of it, and another to hear Harry And The Potters play it live.  It is an amazing experience hearing it live, and if you ever get the chance to see them live, DO IT!!!  They have an amazing live show, and it is by far one of my favorite shows ever!  I got to see them at a library show, and it was cool because it was right before Leaky Con, and I got to go see it with my friend Jordan who I was in the Final Battle with, and it was awesome getting to hang out with her before the con!  I also got to see my friend Keith before the con, and Harry year four had a red and gold saxophone, and it was awesome!  This version of the song is from Prophecy.

Until tomorrow, Just know that the weapon we have is love!

DFTBA

BEDA 2013 #27: Read-A-Thon Fail

My skin is still really really soft from yesterday!

I am kind of failing at doing to read-a-thon.  I haven't even started, and I only have a couple of hours before I go to work, so I might only get a little bit of reading to do.  I wish the read-a-thon happened on a day that I wasn't working.  I might just have my own read-a-thon on my next day off.  I can read for 30 minutes, and take a break to either clean, or figure out my make-up for Misti-con.  I hope to get a couple of pages read at work as well when we hit some down time and I am finished my top of the shows list.  I just need to read!  Besides The Hyrule Historia that I read at night before bed, I have started the Great Gatsby.  I am enjoying what I have read so far, and I am hoping to have it finished before the movie comes out.  If there is ever a movie to come out that is based off of a book, I like to read the book first if I can.  I sometimes wait until the last minute, and miss getting to see the movie in theaters which sucks, but what can you do.  This time I started it a couple of weeks before it comes out, and since it is only one hundred and eighty something pages, I should be finished before it comes out.  I would also like to be finished with it before I go to Misti-con as well, and if I am super motivated, I would like to be finished with it before this month ends.  That is my ultimate goal for it.  That way I have more than just two books to showcase in my book wrap up video for April.  I have kind of slacked off with my read.  It's not that I am getting tired of reading, it is just that I have a lot on my mind with Misti-Con, and getting ready for that, and also helping Patrick with various things related to his wreck.  On days where we both have time to do things together, I would rather drive around in my car, than have him drive the Bronco that he is using until he can get a better car.  I don't want to make him have to pay 70 dollars to fill up his gas tank.  He has helped me a lot, and I want to help him as well.

Eric is very sore from the seminar last night.  I am glad that he had fun, and that it was worth going.  It was definitely worth it for me, and I am pretty sure if you read my blarg yesterday, you know all about how I enjoyed Lush.  haha  I think I might be annoying my mom with how much I am talking about it, but it was awesome, and I really want to take her to one of those stores, so we can get free facials and hand massages.  I think she would love it.  She has a problem with harsh smells like I do, and it gives us headaches when it is too strong and bothersome.  I feel like she would love it because the smells are natural.  There are no harsh chemical smells in that store.  It was very pleasant, and not over baring to my senses.  She would love it.  :)  Mom, if you are reading this, I am taking you and soon!

Today's song is "Walking on Air" by Kerli!  I love Kerli, and this video was my first time ever seeing her.  The moment I saw the video, I had to get her album, and it is still to this day one of my favorite albums!  She is an amazing songstress, and has a dreamy, soothing, and enthralling voice, and her songs just make me happy.  I get hints of Bjork sound in her voice, and that is what made me so interested in her, and it just makes me smile.  It is just so awesome to know that there are honest hard working people in the music industry making amazing content and putting their souls into the music and on the line for their art.  She is one of those that use her talents for good, and it is just awe inspiring.  I also love her style.  Whoever tries and say she is trying to copy Lady Gaga need to check the dates.  This video came out two years before Lady Gaga was ever on the music scene.  I hope you all enjoy the music video as much as I did when I saw it in 2003.  I am a moon child for life, and maybe when you watch it you will become a fellow moon child as well.

Until tomorrow

DFTBA

:)

BEDA 2013 #26: Lush-oholic!

Today I officially became a Lush-oholic!

I went in there and all of the employees were super awesome and friendly, and it was probably the best customer service I have ever had (Thank you Rebecca and Sammy)!  All of the things smelled so good, and felt great on my skin.  Rebecca gave me a hand massage and let me try a bunch of the body and hand lotions, and Sammy gave me a facial.  All of the things made my skin feel great.  I am the kind of person who will put on lotion every once in a while.  I will start seeing that my legs or arms are ashy, and then start to use lotion, but I quickly remember why I never get on a lotion routine.  The lotions I try all are either too heavy, or too oily, and after a couple of days I quickly just don't like using it because it feels like it just doesn't work.  There are also times where I feel like the smell is too much for my senses, and I start getting a headache.  The smells are also never what they claim to be either.  The lotions that Rebecca let me use made my skin feel so amazing!!!  They absorbed into my skin really quickly, they didn't leave an oily residue, and they left a pleasant scent, and it smelled like it was suppose to!!!  She put this strawberry massage lotion on my arm, and it smelled of strawberries, and it made me think of picking strawberries (Which I am excited for strawberry season!!!).  She also put this rose body conditioner (which I will have to come back and get sometime in the near future), and it smelled like a rose garden, and felt so good.  I tried a body salt scrub and it made my skin soft.

Sammy gave me a facial, and she used a face wash, a facial mask and some facial lotion, and my skin feels so amazing, and looked brighter and healthy!  I have never seen my face look that healthy in a long time.

I might be speaking too soon (But I have a feeling I am going to be right), but I might not go back to any other type of face wash.  I got myself a hunk of the face wash she used, and I am going to try it out.  I might make a video on the stuff I use in the future.  I know that it takes a while for stuff to take its course and actually work, but I feel like I have found my cosmetic best friend.  I do wish there were a closer Lush store though.  I might request one, and if we do get one, I will work for it!!!  I would love to work there.  I can see why my friend Lena loved working for them!  I spent almost two hours in there, and one hundred dollars in there.  I have never spent that much on any cosmetic product before, and I feel foolish for doing so, but I love the way this stuff feels on my skin.  It feels way better than anything I have ever used, so to be honest, I do not regret it one bit.

I feel really bad for being bitchy about having to take Eric to his Wing Chun seminar.  It was really worth it.  I smell nice, and my face and hands feel amazing!

Anyways.  I am sitting right now outside of the Starbucks because they had tables and wi-fi.  haha  I have a couple of more hours to kill, and then I need to start heading back to where Eric is.  They are going out to eat after the seminar.  I hope we go somewhere good.  I love going to a city that is nowhere near where I live and eating someplace that is unique to that area.  It is really cool.  It makes me feel like I am expanding my horizons!  :)

Well.  I am tired of sitting, and I still have a whole mall to explore.  I would love to go back to lush, but I would be really tempted to buy more stuff.  I just need to get away from the food court as well.  I might be tempted to eat something before dinner.

Today's song is one of the songs that were playing while I was getting my facial.  It is No Doubt's "Don't Speak"  I do really love this song.  It is a sad song, and I don't know if I have mentioned this before on my blog, but I hate sad and slow songs.  There are a few exceptions to that rule, and this song is one of them!  I love the music video!  The song and the video expressions the feelings that were going on in the band at that time in their career.  It was at that time that No Doubt was starting to get big, but instead of magazines and media wanting to showcase the band as a whole, they really only wanted to push Gwen out into the spotlight, and that almost caused the band to break up.  Thank goodness they didn't break up!  They are still one of my favorite bands, and I am glad they are still around!  I was super happy when they released their new album!  So here is the song, and I hope you all love like I do!

So I did get to post after all.  I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to!

Tomorrow, I am going to be participating (until I go to work) a 24 hour read-a-thon.  I just found out about it this morning, but it looks like fun, and I need to catch up on my reading anyway by a LOT!  Here is the link to that!  http://24hourreadathon.com/

Alright Love you all, and until tomorrow!

DFTBA

:)

BEDA 2013 #25: All Is Well.

I needed to rant yesterday because right after I posted my blog yesterday, I felt twenty times better.  I felt like a weight was lifted, and Patrick was able to cheer me up to my normal happy self.  I have figured out a couple of things to do in the four hours I will be alone, so everything is perfectly fine.  The good thing about posting blogs is that it is kind of therapeutic.  It allows you to get negative feelings and thought out of you, and you can heal from there.  It might not be great to read, but you can also tell who is real with their writing.  I really do put my heart out there for the world to see, and sometimes it is pretty and sometimes it isn't.  That's just one of the things about being a human, you go through rough patches, but it is how you go through it and how you turn out in the end that really matter.  You will either come out of it not learning a thing and falling back into that kind of situation, or you come out a better person learning from your mistakes, and avoid those triggers.  I like to think I am the latter, but I know I sometimes don't learn everything that needs to be learned.

Onto what I will be up to while I am in the Atlanta area.  It is kind of boring, but I am taking the opportunity to do these.  I am going to two different malls (I looked it up, and apparently the area is chalk full of malls.  It is rather weird how many there are in just one small area.), and I will be going to both of the sephora's (Hopefully I will find what I need in the first one) to look for a Soap and Glory face wash that I recently have fallen in love with, and one of the malls I am going to has a lush store, so I am definitely going there!  I have always wanted to go to a lush store especially since I found out about them when I went to infinitus and they had a booth set up.  I wish I could have gotten something when I was there, but I was flat broke, and only could afford the bare essentials.  Luckily I get paid tomorrow, so I will be able to buy a couple of things.  I won't be able to go crazy because I still have Misti-Con coming up in two weeks (God time has gone by too quickly), and I still have my insurance on my car to pay for next month and I have to pay my taxes on the car as well.  It sucks how quickly money can deplete.  It's insane!

Anyways.  I probably need to get some rest so I am not tired when I am driving tomorrow.

Today's song is a good one.  It is Cherri Bomb's cover of "Pretender" by the Foo Fighter's.  It is really great cover, and it just shows that women can rock just as hard as men.  Another great thing about Cherri Bomb is that they are all under seventeen!  They kick so much ass, and sound way better than a good number of bands that have been out on the music scene for years and decades even!  It just shows that you can do anything if you put you mind to it, and that age is but just a number, and should not keep you from doing what you really want to do in life!  I know that Julia is no longer in the band, and that they had creative differences, but things happen, and they are still growing up, so they still have a lot to learn about the music industry.  All of the members will be great musicians, and regardless of if Nia, Miranda, and Rena  are still Cherri Bomb in the next couple of years, I have a feeling they will all go really far, and be magnificent.  I wish them all the best, and at least I got to see them at Warped Tour.  They were by far my favorite band of the day.

 

I hope you all have a great night, and I love you all!  I am not sure if I will have a blog tomorrow due to being in atlanta a good majority of the day.  If I can find a place that has wi-fi, I will definitely post something.  We will see what happens as it happens.

Good night, and until next time

DFTBA