I drew myself

Somehow it seems that I can only do these things super late at night.

Derby Girl

Tomorrow I'm inquiring about how to be a roller derby girl. Might as well do something with my time!

I'll never understand why I'm still treated like a preteen

How this morning's conversation (right after I woke up) could have gone:
Mom: *knocks on door*
Me: Come in.
"How was Chrissy's?"
"It was good."
"What movie did you guys see?"
"Inception, it was pretty good."
"How's her mom doing?"
"She seemed to be doing fine."
"That's good."

How this morning's conversation (right after I woke up) actually went:
Mom: *walks in without knocking* "What time did you get home last night."
Me: "Like around 3."
"You shouldn't be staying out that late."
"Okay well we were just at Chrissy's..."
"There are weirdos out on the roads that late."
"Um there was no one on the road."
"It's hot in here."
"...okay?"

So now I have a curfew again. And I'm a month out from being 22. Get me the hell out of here.

In other really good news, I lost three job opportunities because I was on a bullshit vacation. COOL.

Observations from today

1. Leggings are not pants, especially if they're sheer. No one wants to see that.

2. I hate children. Mostly because they are just tiny people, and I don't like people either.

3. To elaborate on #2, people are either oblivious or rude. It's likely both.

4. I cannot wait to move out of my house.

Double post: Because I like to talk about weddings

Last night I happened upon My Hands Made It via Ruffled (which I also found, through a "vintage wedding" search. Both blogs have a lot of pretty pictures and sound advice about planning a wedding and not being overly stressed. Caleb and I had been talking about how long I wanted to be engaged (he asked! I didn't even bring it up this time!) and then I got to minorly obsessing about weddings after we got off the phone. Not that I haven't always obsessed about them. I remember Cori Jo and I sat at the front desk of Stuen and planned our fictional dream weddings on The Knot for like 4 or 5 hours, maybe more. Then I got my roommates last year to get accounts so I could talk dresses and engagement rings with them. Endless fun! I even from time to time buy wedding magazines just so I can get ideas. So needless to say, I'd be pretty well prepared for a wedding, being that I've basically been planning for like 5 years. The only problem is that now I have too many ideas. I know I want some part of the wedding to be in or around a barn (check out THIS barn!), and something vintage themed (I'm really liking the whole Americana style), but as far as everything else, I suppose it'll fall into place. I should probably get engaged first, lol.



Oh, and I want this lady to make my dress. She has some drop dead gorgeous vintage designs.

Another Vacation? Um, okay...

Got home from San Diego on Monday night, fully intact, although I initially got on the wrong train. All in all, I like the train. But am I willing to do another trip? I mean, round trip, Napa was something like 20 hours of driving, a week later, 9 hours on the train, and now hours upon hours in the car. I'm kind of traveled out. My mom told me that we're going to San Francisco this Thursday and not coming back for a week. I'm considering telling her that she can't complain about me not having a job (and zero dollars) if she's telling me I have to go on trips with her that I can't afford. I think the best part is that she's going to a conference, so my sister and I kind of have to just hang out because neither of us has any money. Plus, my mom tends to get overwrought about going on trips.

AND I'M GOING TO MISS YOGA FOR ANOTHER WEEK :(

Besides all that, San Diego was a TON of fun. I hadn't seen Caiti since like graduation and I finally got to meet her long-term boyfriend. And I visited my aunt and cousins. My aunt got me two really cute photo books for graduation with a whole bunch of pictures from the times that she came up to visit me.

Nothing on the job horizon. Still futilely searching.

-Mx

Going back to school?

I've been told by a lot of people over the years that I would make a good nurse. Now, I've never been able to figure out why in the world they'd say that, but I'm thinking that I may try to get my LPN in order in improve my job pool. For some reason it sounds really appealing to go back to school and study a bunch of science and math. I must be desperate. The only problem is that if I'm registered in California, I have to re-register for Washington. Dumb. So I'm looking at going to Clover Park Technical College because they offer Mental Health programs, which sounds super interesting. And I can take some of my classes online. Moorpark doesn't really offer much in the way of getting your LPN, just refresher courses and stuff to get your RN. PLU has a 5 day course on becoming a Parish Nurse, which is kinda cool. I've never heard of something like that. In any case, I'd have to either find a job to pay for tuition or ask for money, which I hate doing. At least if I find a job I can take night classes at Moorpark to get my prerequisites out of the way, but once I have to do clinicals and stuff I won't have any income at all. I need to think this through.