Annoyances and Plans for Today

First off, I would like to welcome my 22nd follower, Miss Sassy Pants from A Few French Fries Short of a Happy Meal.  She's great not only because she alleviated my OCD from having an odd number of followers, but also because she comments regularly on my blog and writes a pretty awesome blog herself.  There's a post about her calling the police when she thought the zombie apocalypse was happening, guys.  I'm so following.

I would write an entire post on how much DSHS's phone system sucks, but they give me free money, so I'll just complain a little bit (and by a little bit, I mean a lot).  For those of you lucky enough to not know what DSHS is, it stands for Department of Social and Health Services.  It's where us poor people get food stamps and medical assistance from.  Right now I only get food stamps, and I applied a few months ago for medical assistance.  They supposedly sent me a letter that I never received asking for copies of my bank statements and a bunch of other stuff I don't have because I'm poor, such as car insurance and proof of assets.  I never got this letter, but I did get the letter saying they were denying me medical help because I never sent them that stuff.  I immediately printed off my bank statements for the time period they asked for and mailed them with a letter explaining that I had never received the initial request.  They never responded.  I gave them a whole month.  So then I called them.  Or rather, I attempted to call them.  You may remember when I was trying to get food stamps and ended up eating rice sandwiches for a week because their phone system totally sucks and I couldn't reach them.  Well, it took me about a week of continuous calling to reach them again.  It's weird because if you want to talk to an actual person, you usually get a message saying that all of their operators are busy and to try again later, and then the phone system automatically hangs up on you.  Well, the one time that I actually got put on hold, I managed to talk with them.  They were very good about it after I explained the situation and told me they would make it top priority to re-evaluate my case.  Two weeks later, I still haven't heard back, so I am trying to contact them again.  Let's hope it doesn't take a week this time.

In other news, today I am going to mail the skirt to the person who bought it from me on eBay, and then I am going to Rite Aid to get some clear Christmas lights for my room and possibly random other stuff.  I still have $50 from my bank, after all.  And then I'll come back and hang the lights, and string a ribbon through my mask to hang it with, and make my jewelry organizer, and then my room will be decorated to my liking.  And then, if I still feel like it, I'll dye my hair, because my roots are showing and it bugs me.

Until we meet again, enjoy this cozy winter outfit and enter my giveaway.

Keeping Cozy by jaythejedi featuring sequin beret hats

I want some sweater tights right now!

In which I once again discuss my plans for the day

I actually don't have a movie review today, but there will be at least one tomorrow, because tonight I am going to see Rare Exports with H.  I'm looking forward to it. That's at 7:30. I only had one class today, so I am about to take a nap and then I plan to watch the newest episode of Pretty Little Liars, since for some reason it aired at 7 instead of 8, so I missed it.  Tonight is the season finale of Life Unexpected and I will watch that tomorrow, because it's on at the same time we're going to see the movie tonight.  I also plan to write my drugs and society paper, for reals this time, maybe, and set up doctor appointments/physical therapy.

I guess that I'll tell you about the dream I had last night. In this dream, I had had two sisters and they had both been murdered. I was trying to figure out who the killer was because I knew that he would kill me next.  Somehow I did some super skillful detective work and figured out who it was, but when I tried to dial 911 into my phone, it didn't work. I kept dialing 991 or 01911 or 991911, so I had to drive to the police station to tell them who the murderer was. I did that and then there was this random guy in my car who was about my age. He started flirting with me and then he got out a gun. What can I say, this guy really knew how to get the ladies. He didn't shoot me and then for some reason I found out that he was moving in with my parents and I. Somehow that seemed completely normal for me, along with the fact that he would have to sleep in my bed. After that, we were like the best of friends. It was very very strange. Then my alarm went off and I got up and got ready for class. This dream was weird for me partially because I wasn't forced to watch the murderer kill my sisters, who don't actually exist in real life, and partially because I wasn't brutally murdered. I don't even consider it a nightmare, just strange. Have I told you about my nightmares yet? If not, I'll do a post about them sometime soon.

It turns out that Rare Exports is no longer playing, so I texted H to see if he wants to see something else.  In other news, I took a wonderful nap, watched Pretty Little Liars, and set up a doctor's appointment. It's been a pretty productive day. Now to eat some lunch. It's 4:00 and I am hungry. Did I mention that I really hate being put on hold? There was elevator music, then classical music that sounded like it was being destroyed by a tornado and then I got to listen to someone describing the dangers of the flu.

I got a fruit and yogurt parfait with granola and some roasted garlic hummus with pita bread. Yum.

Carpe Diem

So yesterday I wasn't able to do my errands, but I will get them done today. I am also having lunch with one of my friends that I haven't seen for a while. She graduated recently and she's going to take me to do errands too. What I did accomplish yesterday after the post was: discovered a couple of cool blogs via StumbleUpon, painted half of my fingernails, tried to fix my shirt design in Photoshop (today I'm going to try it in Illustrator), made a list of some movies that sound really interesting, watched a movie called Brick which wasn't really my kind of movie but was pretty good anyway (3 out of 5 stars, too much drug/gang stuff for my liking), got woken up at what must have been 3 or 4 in the morning by my neighbors playing pop music way too loud, and asked H to have dinner with me.  Usually when I ask him if he wants to come over and watch a movie or something, if he already has plans, he just says that he has plans. However yesterday, he said that he wanted to have dinner with me but he has plans and would I be free for dinner this weekend. So I'm having dinner with him either today or tomorrow which I'm pretty excited about, even though I'm pretty sure it's not a date. But I want to look cute anyway, which is quite honestly something that I've never said in my entire life, ever. So I'm going to wear a long sleeved gray and white striped shirt with a fitted vest over it that is white and sort of lacy but not really (I don't know terms for fashion things), jeans, probably my brown boots because my Converse all all pretty dirty, and my red jacket that I think is called a peacoat but I'm most likely wrong about that. Also, I'm buying makeup today, so hopefully I can figure out how to use it before dinner. I have used makeup before, but just eyeshadow and I have never figured out how eyeliner and mascara work. If it turns out well, I'll post pictures of the results. Farewell comrades.

Update: I went and did my errands and had a fantastic lunch and am too full for dinner. I didn't wear a warm enough coat because my winter coat gets feathers all over my clothes and it bugs me. We went to Buffalo Exchange, which is an upscale thrift store and I found the perfect gray wool coat. The crazy thing is that it's by Tulle, which just happened to be the brand of the red jacket I was wearing. I got the other jacket at Goodwill and it is by far my favorite, but not warm enough right now. I also got makeup and I think I did a pretty good job with it. Here's a bunch of pictures I took of me wearing makeup and my outfit for dinner with H, which I think is tomorrow, since he didn't call today.

I love this hat that I got for Christmas, debating about wearing it to my dinner.

close-up shot of my eye

my white vest thing, I think that I look sophisticated in this picture

the grey coat I got today, not sure whether I want to

wear it to dinner or the red one to add some color

the coat again, trying to look modelly and failing, that's probably not even a word

And now I get to download music from Itunes with the card I got for Christmas. Yay, I love music so much.

Making Crop Circles with Al Gore

That is one of the few things that I do not need to do today. I do need to call my friend and see if she will take me to run some errands and then maybe stick around and help me do laundry. I am incapable of doing my own laundry now. It is slightly pathetic. I also need to get a bus pass, send some mail, buy the rest of my books for this quarter, try to sell back my old books, work on my t-shirt and figure out how to import a vector into Photoshop without it becoming pixelated, possibly see if H wants to get dinner with me but probably not. So far today I have accomplished the following: eat breakfast, get dressed, poke a smaller hole in my belt because it's my favorite belt that I always wear but it's too big, regain my sanity, put nail polish on the insides of my rings that I quit wearing because they made my skin change colors so I can wear them again, thought about possible plans for my birthday party, started playing Tetris Friends on Facebook and beat my roommate's boyfriend at it about six times and then he quit, and decided to start wearing makeup. So off I go to do busy things. Goodbye.

Stumbled upon this awesome video. It reminded me of when I was home for summer and it was really hot and my mom and I got a bag of popsicles and gave them to all of the people we saw doing road work. It feels good to help others. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did.


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