Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Second Installment of MIDNIGHT SHOWERS!

This is the second installment of Midnight Showers are NOT Cool! except I didn’t take a shower at midnight. More like 10:30p.

Anyways, yeah did just take a shower pretty late. So late that I cant blow dry my hair without waking everyone up. I’m just going to blog as I wait for my hair to air-dry.

So, I finally decided to convert my trial version of Microsoft Office to the full version, which I just installed right now. Soundtrack the installment of MS Office: Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” (I love this song so much)

Today was a relatively productive day: I woke up, ate breakfast with the fam, went to church, practiced my saxophone, and went to Best Buy, which was actually a fun experience.

As usual, I played RockBand, some Wii game, and some Nintendo Ds game. I didn’t get to play with DJ hero because a couple of kids beat me to it.  I got the MS Office, then went on to browse the movie titles.

I could not believe my eyes. They had the one movie I’ve been looking everywhere for, well everywhere except Best Buy apparently. Which movie? ACCEPTED! I’ve been to flea markets, movie rental joints, movie catalogs, everywhere! It was at best buy this whole time. AND IT WAS ONLY FIVE BUCKS. That was TEH WIN of the day.

On my way home, I stopped at a movie rental place to see if it was there, just for laughs (it wasn’t), and I ended up buying 27 Dresses for another five bucks. Not bad.

The remainder of the day like this: Got home. Ate leftover Chinese food. Watched 27 Dresses. Took a shower. Started Blogging.

Oh, and my fortune from the leftover fortune cookie is: Beauty in its various forms appeals to you. That’s not even a fortune :/

Well, my hair’s not dry yet, but I have run out of things to say. Except for I love Rivers Cuomo. And Weezer, of course!Rivers Cuomo rivers3

Friday, January 29, 2010

Mystery Song…Revealed!

Have you guys ever seen the Palm Pixi commercials with the awesome music? Well for a long time I didn’t know it was a real song or just one that they made exclusively for the ad. Just recently, though, I found out it is a real song. The song is “Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit. Check it out:

My favorite part starts at 1:20, which is actually what hooked me in.

And if you haven’t noticed, there’s a link to see the actually commercial!

Fri Fav: Drum n Bass!

frifav Feelin a little chill tonight. I don’t know what it is. It might be because I’ve been listening to drumnbass all night.

Pictured above, from left to right: Funki Porcini, Mr. Scruff, and Hexstatic. Some of my favorites.

I recommend checking out their beats if you’re into Techno, more specifically, drumnbass, or ninja tune and even acid jazz.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A couple of More Things for the List

So last week I went to the movie rental place and they had a sale on old dvds. I only bought two. I still havent seen them. The movies are just sitting on my dresser waiting to be watched. I might as well put it on my list of to-do’s.

#3 Watch Wassup Rockers and Deck Dogs

Sorry guys. Short post. :/. Not really feelin it.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Midnight Showers Are NOT Cool

Huh? What? What’s with this title?

It’s me, complaining about taking showers at midnight or near-midnight. It sucks. I can’t blow dry my hair because everyone is sleeping. I can’t go to sleep with my hair wet because the last time I did that I woke up with a migraine (was it just a coincidence?) So now I have to wait til its kinda dry.

So in the meantime, I thought I’d share something with my audience (a mid-week saturday-spotlight to make up for last saturday)

So this morning I was in a rush to take the 8:30 bus to school, so I totally skipped breakfast (Oh, Lucky Charms, how I missed thee!).  Somehow, taking the bus 15 minutes early made me thirty minutes early for my next class, so I decided to take a detour.

On my detour, I passed by the new smoothie joint named Starfruit in the mall, Block 37. It’s a pretty cool looking in hangout. Their smoothies and parfaits are made with Kefir, a yogurt-type treat with active probiotics that are good for your digestive system (for more info, click here).

I thought I‘d try a smoothie in my favorite flavor, mango.  It went down so smoothly in my mouth and it lasted me til around 1 o’clock in the afternoon. I recommend it to anyone who wants to venture away from the Jamba Juice crowd!

For more info on Starfruit Cafe, or to find a cafe near you, click here

Looks like my hair is nearly dry. Guess I can go to bed now :D!

Monday, January 25, 2010

Dust Bunny Free!

My day in a nutshell:

Got out of school. Went to work. Got out of work. Went home. Found a bunch of old crap in my room.

My mom decided to clean under my brother’s bed today (which used to be my bed) and put all the shoeboxes and giant candy boxes (you know, the kind they use for fundraising) full of old junk in my room. Five boxes total. I looked through it and came to the conclusion that I hold on to the most useless things ever. Some of them include:

easy4 (1) -Easy bake oven mix. Sugar cookie and chocolate cookie!

-My high school acceptance letters

-Fish Fortune Teller

-An autobiography I wrote in third grade

-Notebooks and folders and papers from high school

-Eighth grade field trip pictures!

-Huge box of Crayolas

-Some old Wendy’s menus??

The list could go on and on. Seriously, how was I supposed to get rid of all this?

Well, I read somewhere that a good strategy for getting rid of junk is: If you haven’t used it/thought about it in the past six months, its garbage.

I’ve managed to reduce five boxes of junk to two small shoes boxes of mementos that I could not part with.

For me, that’s a mission accomplished.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

In Other News…

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Today was the day we had our first cook-out of 2010!

Well, technically, it was a cook-out-eat-in type of thing. It’s kind of self explanatory: cook the food outside, eat the food inside.

What was  the point of the cook-out-eat-in? Well it was also one of the first days in 2010 when the temperature was above 40°. So it was warm enough to stand outside but still cold enough to avoid picnicking in the back yard.  We were also craving the taste of grilled steak you can only get on a grillmaster.

Note: The above photo is a file photo from August 2009! 

I've been MIA

Sorry, peeps. Busy weekend. Didnt have time to post yesterday or the day before. Yeah, sorry, that means no Friday Favorite til next week :/. I'll also have to pick up the slack this coming week.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Another Rambling of Goings-on in My Head

So I was reflecting back on this past week and realized it went by so quickly. It's already about to be FRIDAY. It was like just yesterday was monday and I was down in the dumps but now that its friday my mood has turned around for the better.

I dont know what it is, but I feel great. Smug.

Actually, it might be because the week was great, I got paid today, and the weekend ahead looks promising. Classes are going good, I'm reconnecting with old friends and even making new ones.

Some of you may already know this but this is what I call being high on life. You should try it sometime.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

To-Do list, Continued

I have terrible news. If you haven't noticed, I broke my streak of posts yesterday when I DID NOT POST ANYTHING. I was kinda busy doing homework. Well I guess thats what I get for procrastinating (I was supposed to start reading the novel on Wednesday to finish it by today but that never happened xD)

Which brings me to my next thing to put on my To-Do list (or not-to-do):

#2. DO NOT EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, PROCRASTINATE!
your blog readers will be very disappointed when they dont
see a new post because you decided to wait til the last
minute to do your homework!!!

Haha. I'm joking of course. But seriously, that needs to stop haha.

I think I should still add something to the list...

THE REAL #2: Learn how to make Tapas (Spanish snacks)
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I went to a restaurant north of the loop where they specialize in tapas (click here for more info on restaurant) and they were delicious!

I imagine they are easy to make. And I bet they would make a great treat at kickback! I just need an excuse to make some.


Is making food for the sake of making food a good reason?